1861. 



THE ILLINOIS TAKMEK. 



335 



Brighton. 



Ed. Republican & Telegraph : — A great deal 

 has been said about the locatioD of the State 

 Fair at Brighton this year, and the discomforts 

 attaclied to the f&me, but it should be generally 

 known that the Society had no other otfer from 

 the citizens of Chicago, which was in conformity 

 ■with the established usage of fitting up the 

 grounds and placing them at the disposal of the 

 Society free of charge, notwithstanding the eflFer- 

 vescing of newspaper men and other tiired blow- 

 hards who are wiling to break down the Society 

 because they have been foiled 'n their attempts 

 to secure the location in their own particular 

 back yards. The receipts on two days of fair 

 weaher demonstr ted another fact, that had the 

 weathei been such as might have leen reasonably 

 expected at this season of the year, there would 

 have be^n no fault found outside of Chicago at 

 the lociUion of the Fair at Brighton. The grounds 

 were well fitted up — the buildings were large, 

 commodious and judiciously arranged, and, with 

 the exception of the scarcity of water the first 

 ft?w d■^y^^, everything was satisfactory to exhibi- 

 tors and visitors ; but three heavy rains within 

 one week, are unprecedented in the history of 

 Fair weeks in the State of Illinois. * 



A little to fast, friend Telegraph, we know of 

 a large number who would have been exhibitors, 

 but lool<ing up to the board roofs of the build- 

 ings, wou'd not risk their goods under them. 

 One large lot of paintings were brought on the 

 ground, and fortunately the owner took them 

 back to the city, or he might, and probably 

 would have lost them. 



The builings were not ample, but they were 

 ample for all that could reasonably have been 

 expected. For this no one was to blame, for no 

 one anticipated such an extensive show of stock 

 and machines. The stock of water for drinking was 

 short through the whole Fair, in fact, we did not 

 see but one cask of water on the grounds for 

 this purpose throughout the whole t'me. 



Had the weather been fine, we do not think 

 there would have been any complaint on the score 

 of w iter fcr stock But our friend gets at more 

 of the truth in the following : 



The weather during the past week ha« been 

 unfavorable in the extreme. With one or two 

 p easant days only the officers of the fair have 

 labored under disadvantages unexampled in the 

 histdry of this fair since its organization. Its 

 location has been sufficiently discussed anu suffi- 

 ciently regretted, and from the nature of the 

 grounds, the uninviting scenery on the way to 

 and from it, its distance from the city, an.l the 

 prejudices prevailing against it. we are surprised 

 at (he selection, by the Executive Commttee of 

 the Society, of the ••Brighton Coutse." The re- 

 sult will be perhaps but a slight injury to the 

 future interests of the State Society, but such 



an advertisement of the mud, slime, and disa- 

 greeable fffluvia of • Biighton," and the way to 

 and from it, to all the people o*' the State, that 

 no man in his senses will ever df^sire to visit it 

 hereafter. The officers of the Society put forth 

 every exertion for the advancement of i's inter- 

 ests and to mtHe the Fair attractive — Mr. Van 

 E, ps, the President, showing more than his usual 

 energy and skill iu his department — and if the 

 Fair has not been an entire success it cannot be 

 attribu'able to them, or to anything over which 

 they had control, but rather to a train of unto- 

 ward circumstances and outside influences, all 

 operating against its interests, which could not 

 be prr vided against, among which the bad state 

 of the weather had the greatest influence. Chi- 

 cago, at whose request the location was made near 

 the city, showed a cold shoulder from the first with 

 a remaekable unanimity, simply because it was 

 located at Brighton, and not at Cottage G'ove, 

 and on every other vacant piece of ground in 

 and around (Jhicago, for the expreess convenience 

 cf every seperste intere-it in the city. 



The officers ot the Society would be just fied 

 in t ot allowing another Fair to be held at Chicrgo 

 for all time to crme. We know not what course 

 will be adopted in reference to the future; but 

 this we know, that the people of the State at 

 large, who expected much from the good tase 

 and arts of that city, were sorely disappointed 

 with the result. 



Cotton in the Sandwich Islands. 



The cultivation of cotton is to be tried on a 

 new field. Late advices from the Sandwich Is- 

 land state that King Eatnehamaha has retired 

 to his country seat at Kona for the purpose of 

 devoting himself principally to experiments 

 with cotton. The Honolulu Commercial Ad- 

 vertiser says: 



''The King has recently purchased some cot- 

 ton seeds and intends to appropriate a portion 

 of his land to the cultivation of cotton, so as to 

 give it a fair trial, though he says he has not 

 much faith that th<i islands are to be suddenly 

 enriched by this branch of agriculture, but is 

 ready and anxious to take the lead, and give the 

 force of his example. Like every other new 

 branch of industry, money must be expended 

 and lost in experimenting; and when the neces- 

 sary experience is gained, some one will succeed 

 in making cotton-growing profitable." 



Bryant describes the splendors of our 

 woods — "as if a gorgeous sunset had fallen 

 from Heaven to earth, and were reposing among 

 the masses of summer foliage." The descrip- 

 tion is particularly appropriate at this season. 



"Boy, how is your sweetheart gefing 

 ;?" "Pr.tty well, I guess; she says I 



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