VOLUME 2. Seventh Annual Fair OF TIIK Butler County Agricultural Society, To in BI TI.K.K, on The 4th and sth of October '65 The Kntry Books will be opened on the 18tli day of September, and continue open until the 4th day of October, at 1 o'clock, p. in., at which time they will positively be closed. Admission to the Grounds. Ad-eusfricm to the Grounds to be as follows, to wit: Nrnlicnblpiiiut Competitors for pre mium« 1 9'* SlnClr *•» c'iilldre* under IO year* old lO i>Ki;niin LIST. OLA SS A.— drain 6'lover, tfv. Best 2 acres or more of white wheat 84 00 Second best u " " 200 best 3 acres or more of red wheat", 200 second best " " " 1 00 best 2 acres or more of medt. wheat, 2 00 second best " " " 100 best 2 acres or inorc of rye 2 00 second best 1 00 best 2 acres or more of corn, 2 00 seeond " " " 100 l)cst 2 acres or more of oats, 2 00 second best " " 1 00 best 2 acres or more of barley 2 00 second best " " 1 00 best 2 acres or more of buckwheat, • 2 01) second i>est " " " 1 00 best 2 acres or more of hay 2 00 second best " '• " I 00 best 2 acres or more of clover*. 2 00 second best " " " 1 00 best J acres of potatoes, 2 00 second best " 1 Oil best J acre of broom corn, 1 00 host } acio of flaxseed, 2 00 best J acre of beans, 1 00 best .1 acre of onions, 1 00 Milton Maxwell, Centre Tp., Henry Buhl, For word, Tp.. Abncr Hartley I'enn. The following are the rules under which competitors for premiums in the above class must be governed : Ist. To havo the grounds accurately measured by not less than two disinteres ted persons, whoso statements must be verified by affidavit. A statement of the kind and condition of the soil, the variety and quality of the seed planted or sown, and the mode and expense of cultivation must be presontod in writing before a pre mium will be awarded. 2d. The whole amount of roots, grain or grass produced on the amount of land specified, must bo measured or weighed; root crops divested of their tops and esti mated by their weight—sixty pounds to Tie considered a bushel—and grain crops to be weighed or measured according to the usual standard. CLASS JS —Seeth, Vegetables, Fruit* and F ! ')i errs. Host bushel of white wheat, SI 00 second best " " 50 best bushel of red wheat, 1 00 second host " " 50 best bushel of mediterranean wheat, 1 00 second best " " 50 best bushel of corn in the car, 50 best bushel of oats, • 50 best.bushel of buckwheat, 50 best bushel of barley, 50 best bushel of flaxseed", 50 best bushel of timothy seed, 50 best bushel of kohl rabbi, 50 best bushel of stowe 11 evergreen, 50 best bushel of castor beans 50 bost bushel of sow beans, 50 best bushel of millet seed, 50 best bushel of hungarian grass seed, 50 best bushel of potatoes, 50 best bushel of onions, 50 bost bushel of turnips, 50 best bushel of rutabaga turnips, 50 best bushel of tomatoes, 50 best bushel of parsnips." 50 bost bushel of carrots, 50 best bushel of beets, 50 bost bushel of sweet potatoes, 50 best bushel of summer apples. 50 best bushel of blue stem wheat 1 00 best bushel of winter apples, 50 best bushel of pears, 50 best bushel of apples of any kind, 50 best bushel of peaches, 50 best bushel of quinces, 50 best half dozen of cabbage hvads. 50 best half dozen of common pumkins, 50 best half dozen sweet '• 50 bst half dizen of squashes, 50 best specimen of grapes. 50 dest display, varioty and quality of flowers, 1 00 best floral display of liviug plants, 100 best floral ornaments, 50 best pair of boquats, 50 best aranged basket of flowers, 50 best display of cucumbers, 50 best display of radishes, 50 best display and greatest varioty of apples, 1 00 best water mellons, 50 best musk " 50 best citrons 50 Hon. Thomas Stevenson, Slipperyrock. Jas. Mitchell, Summit, Jas. Norris Clin ton. CLASS C—Stallions, Ttrotters d'c. Best blooded bullion over 4 yr's sls 00 2d best " •' " 10 00 bost " " 3 yoars 5 00 2d best '' " 2 00 best " " 2 years 800 best common " " 1 50 best " " 4 years 5 00. best " " 3 years 300 bost li " 2 years 200 beat draught " 4 years 500 2d best " " " 2 00 beat trotting stallion of any age, 4 00 AMERICAN CITIZEN. best racking or pacing stallion uf any age 4 00 best and fastest trotting horse or mare. 4 00 second " " " 2 00. best find fastest rack tig or pacing htrse or inare, 10 00 second best " " 5 00 J>. R. Kennedy, Muddyercok, Thomas Moore Slipperyrock, Lewis Reed Zclieuo plc. t 'las* !>■ —Il'jri'-s Mures Colts U best mare colt 1 year old, 15 (til 2d best " " best mare colt, spring, 2 00 best jack 2 00 2d best 2 00 best ?cnnet, 2 00 2,1 best " 1 00 best pair of mules over 3 years old, 8 00 2d best " 1 "0 best mule colt, spring, 1 00 John K. Kennedy, l'rospect, John IWthett, Pcnn, Henry Kohlmayer. Class I'—Blooded and Grade Cuttle. Best durhain hull 3 years old, 5?5 00 2d best " " 3 00 best dut'ham bull 2 years old, 4 00 2il best. " '• 2 00 best durham bull 1 yoarold, 8 00 2d b st " " 2 00 best durham bull calf, 2 aniel Converry, Oakland. CLASS 11.— Su-inc. Best boar over 2 year old, $4 00 2d do " » _XOO best boar pig froui 0 to 12 months old, 2 00 2d best " « 1 00 best and fattest barrow, 2 00 2d best " » 1 00 best brood sow, 4 00 2p bost " " 2 00 best litter of pigs not less than 5, 200 2d bost " " 1 00 Milton Maxwell, Butler; George liei ber, Butler, Andrew Alber, Centre "Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it"-- A - LINCOLN. BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 1865. CLASS J-— Poultry and Dairy Ptvditcts Best pair of turkeys, 50 do pair of ducks, do do pair of geese, do do pair of black Spanish chickens, do do pair of brama pootra chickens, do do pair of cross breed chickens, do do pair cochin china cliickeus, do • do pair dorking chickens, do do pair shanghia chickens, do do do bantam chickens, do do pair poland chickens, do do pair game chickens, do do pair sprucy chickens, do do 5 pounds ofbuttcr, SI 00 second best 5 pounds of butter 50 best a pounds of honey, do do 5 pounds ot maple suger, do do 10 lbs of bread, do do 3 loaves of bread, do do choose, not less than 10 pounds, do do galion of apple butter, do do gallon of peach butter, do do quart of sugar can molasses, do do quart of maple do do six bottles of tomatoes, do do scap or palace of bees, 1 00 do exhibit 8 kinks of pickets, 5 0Q do exhibit of preserved friut, do do cured ham and manner of curing do do lot of light cakes, 25 do pound cake. 25 J; i Riley, Oakland, John Q. A. Ken nedy, I'cun, Dr. . McMichael, Millers town. CLASS K.— Agricultural Implements. Best harrow, 62 00 best fanning mill, do best com shcller, do best horse rake, do best corn cultivator, 1 00 best grain cradle, 2 00 best * dozen hay or manure forks, do best reaping and mowing machine, 3 00 best threshing & cleaning machine, 500 best threshing machine, 5 00 best straw cutter, 1 00 best half dozen hoes; do best half dozen hay rakes, do best field roller, do best stump extractor, do best two horse plow, do best one horse plow, do best seed drill, 2 00 best corn planter, do Thos. Green, .Jefferson ; John Martin, Connoquenossing ; Jas. Anderson, l'oiiti. Class Ij.— Mechanical Arts. Best two horse wagon, $3 00 best two horse carriage 8 00 best one horse top buggy 2 00 j best one horse open buggy 2 00 best sulky 2 00 best wheelbarrow 1 00 best double sot of wagon harness 2 00 best, double set carriage harness 8 00 best single set carriage harness 2 00 best lady's saddle 1 00 bijft man's saddle do best bridle and martingale, 1 00 beet calf skin, 1 00 ] best side of harness leather, 1 0(1 j best side of upper leather 1 0(1 best side of kip leather 1 00 best assortment of oastiugi 2 00 best cook stove 2 0(1 best parlorstova 1 00 best common stovo 1 00 j best photograph 1 00 best ambrotype 1 00 best pair of men's boots 1 00 be pair of lady's boots 1 0(1 best pair of men's shoes, do best pair of lady's shoes, do best gent's coats, pants and vest 300 j best rocking chair 1 0(1 j best set of chairs 1 00 best dressing bureau 3 00 best stone waro 1 00 best earthen ware 1 00 best tin ware 1 00 best rifle gun 1 00 best blacksmith work 1 00 best marble work 1 00 best penmanship • 1 00 best thousand oak shingles 1 00 best leather trunk 1 00 best steam engine 2 00 best bool* printing 1 00 best card printing 1 00 best portrait painting 1 00 best Grecian oil painting 1 00 best specimen of graining 1 00 best clothes horse 1 00 best hive or palace for bee* 1 00 best mattock do best washing machine do best dog power for churn do best display of cigars and tobacco do John Humphrey, Worth ; A. D. Wicr, Buffalo; A. B. Tinker, Butler. Class J/. Domestic and other Manufac tures. Bost 10 yards of cassimere, S2 00 « " « cloth, 200 « " " satinet, 100 " i: " barred flannel, 1- 00 " " " rag carpet, 1 00 " " " woolen carpet, 1 00 " " " flax liuen, 1 00 " pair of blankets, 1 00 " pair of coverlets, 50 " pair of gent's woolen hose, 50 " pair of' ladies woolen hose, do " pair of gent's woolen mittens, 50 " 5 pounds of woolen yarn, 1 00 soft hat, 1 00 " barrel of wheat flour, 2 00 " ball-dozen linnen bags. 1 00 " linneu thread, 50 " pair of linnen table cloths, 1 00 Robert' Story, Parker, Maj. W.C. Ad ams, i'airview, Patrick Mcßridc, Murrins ville. Class X.— Ornamental and Needle Work. Bost gent's shirt, SI 00 " ladys' bonnet, 2 00 " lady's head dress, 1 00 " lady's collar. 1 00 " ornamental work, 1 00 " tabic cover, 1 00 " staud cover, 1 00 " ottoman cover, J "0 " patch work, 1 00 " patch work quilt, quilting to be considered 2 00 2d best " " " " 1 0(1 Best crotchet work, 1 0" " cruel work. 1 "(I " artificial flowers, in wax, 1 Ofl " artificial fruits, iy wax, 1 00 " embroidery on silk, 1 00 . " embroidery on lace. " embroidery on muslin, 1 00 " embroidered lamp mat, ' " embroidered slippers, 1 00 " fancy chair work, 1 00 " ornameutal shell work, 1 00 ornamental leather work, 1 00 " ornamental pillow-slip, " fancy basket, 1 00 " pair worked under sleeves, 1 00 '■ tidy, 1 00 " bed spread, 1 00 " cradle quilt, 1 00 J. lledick, Harvey Colbert, Maggie Campbell, Ella Cunningham, A. W. Mc cullough, Elvira Breiin. CLASS ().—TROTTIN T G MATCH- Fastest trotting horse, mare, or gelding, of any age and from anywhere (mtry fee, 810), 100 00 Best stallion, of any ago from anywhere (entry fee 85), 50 00 The trot will take place on the last day of the Fair, and the judges on this class will then be selected from those present. GRAND MARSHAL. MILTON IIENKY, Boro. Butler. CATTLE MARSHAL. IIK.XRY BUHL, Esq., Forward tp. MARSHAL FOB SIIKI.I' AND SWINE. JACOB WALTER, Butler tp. IM LCS AXD Itl.Ui I-VI IO.VS. We invite the attention of the public to our premium list. It has been revised with great care, and with direct reference to the liberal encouragement of all class es of industry and commendable enter prise. Look over the list at your leisure; note the premium you wish to draw and see to itthatsouieof your neighbors don't go ahead of you. BAND OF MUSIO. A good band of music will occupy a prominent stand on tho grounds during the fair. THE ADDRESS. An address from somo distinguished .speaker and friend of Agriculture may bo expecied. jyCEIVr3B3iI"R,S. Each member of the society will be fur nished on the payment of the annual fee of <>nr dollar, with a certificate of member ship. This certificate will give the per son whose name is written thereon, to gether with his family accompanying him, free access to the grounds during the fair. These certificates can be procured from the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. (NITOHM will be furnished with single tickets of admission at any of the ticket offices for twenty-five cents. Children under ten years old, ten cents. These tickets must be delivered to the keeper as you pass n. DIRECTIONS TO COMPETITORS Competitors are requested to enter all articles for exhibition in the Secretary's books on or before the first day of the fair. No article will bo entered after 10 o'clock on the second day. Cards will be given to each competitor, which must be attached to the animal or article you may wish to exhibit. A committee will direct you as to the location and arrangement of anything you may have to exhibit. There is an abundance of water cpnfe nicnt to the grounds—liny will be furnish ed free of charge—other feed to be pro vided by the owners of stock. :U t7f, :-IS <\;w O ■ _ 'i. 1 coMH.t'o,/t/imnH. Ist. You arc respectfully requested to report yourselves to the managers' teuton the first day of the fair if possible, and in no event later than 10 o'clock of the second day. 2d. At 10 o'clock of tho second day your names will bo called at the mana ger's tout, and all vacancies will then be filled. 3d. You will receive your class books atid enter upon tho discharge of your du ties immediately. The class books will refer you to the number affixed to the dif ferent animals or articles submitted for your examination. In these books ymx will also write out your roport. 4th. You will not he permitted to serve on a Committee in any class in which you may be competing for a premium. sth. You will in no case where there" is no competition, award premiums to ar ticles or animals that are not meritori ous. oth. Pay no attention to animals or articles that have not a numbered card and class attached. 7th. You will take into consideration the symmetry, early maturing, s:zo, age, feeding, and other circumstances connec ted with the auimal you may judge, but give no encouragement to over-feixliug Nth. A majority of the members on each committee will constitute a quorum. t)th. Permit no persons to interfere with your examinations or to be present at your deliberations. 10th. Eeach member of the Board of Managers will have the supervision of a particular Jpcartment on the grounds— and to this member you will apply for any instruction or information you may wlrnt. (JKMRMIs BXMES. Ist. Members of the society must pay the sum of one dollar annually ou or be fore the first day of the fair. 2d. Competitors for .premiums must bo members of the society. 3d. All animals or articles placed in competition for premiums must.be twned in the county by persons offering the same, or by members of their family under twenty years of age—except in class O. 4th. Products of the soil or manufac tured articles must be produced or manu factured in the county. sth. Members of the society will be entitled to exhibit any number of ani mals or articles in any class but in ease the same article is entered to compete in more than one class, twenty'fivo cents ad ditional will be charged for each entry after the first. > oth. Animals or articles notwithstand ing they may be exhibited in more than one class, can draw but one premium. 7th. Exhibitors arc required to have their animals or articles entered on the books at the Secretary's office, and arran ged in their proper places on the first day of the fair. Bth. On the entry of animals or articles cards will be furnished by the Secretary with (be number and class as entered at the office, which must be attached to the animals, or articles, otherwise the judges will pay no attention to them. oth. Competitors must exhibit to the Secretary certificates of membership be fore he will make any entry for competi tion. 10th. Stock of all kinds entered for competitions must remain in the stalls un til called fir by the marshal. 11 th. Premiums must be called for within three months after the fair or they will be forfeited to the society. 12th. The Board of Managers will take every precaut on in their power for the safety of the stock and articles on ex hibition, but will not be responsible for any loss or damage that may occur. 13th. Intoxicating drinks of all kinds are strictly prohibited on the fair grounds. 14th. disorderly conduct of every kind is forbidden; those indulging there in will forfeit their right to remain longer on the fair grounds and will be promptly ejected. 15th. No person will be permitted to engage in any kind of business on the fair grounds without a written permit from the Secretary and Treasurer. lGth. No carriages, buggies, sulkcys, wagons or other vehicles will bo admitted on the fair grounds during tho exhibi tion except those entered for premiums. Order of Arrniigoinrnls. FIRST DAY —General preparations, en tries and arrangements of animals and articles. SECOND DAY. —General ' exhibition ; examination of blooded stock and fast trotting and pacing horses; address, nnd report of judges. W.O. BItACfcENIIIDGE, President. POLITIC ALTROSPECTS, llcw shall wo vote in the autumn elec tions ? Every honest man will ask himself this question, and he will answer itbyde termining to which party, in so import ant a national crisis as this, political pow er ought to be intrusted. For although no is as yet distinctly made, a very grave issue soon will bo, that of reorgan ization—and he uiust look to the antece dents and composition of parties to infer what their probable action will be. The Uuion party comprises the great body of enlightened American citizens who have always faithfully striven for greater justice, for universal liberty rogulated by law, and for freedom of speech and the press every whero in tho country. They have unfalteringly asserted the rights of the whole people against privilege and ar istociacy in every form, and have claimed fair play for all men, rich or poor, for eigner, whatever their complexion and condition, and to that end have boen con stantly zealous for popular education and every method of enlightmeut. They hold that tho Constitution is not a com pact between sovereign governments, but is a fundamental national law established by the people of the United States; and that the Union is not a confederacy but a nation. They believe that this National Government is supreme, that the States are properly subordinated to it, and that State rights are purely local and seconda ry. Therefore they have been steadily faithful in the great and successful strug gle. They have never tampered with rebellion. They have never justified treason nor excused traitors ; and in the death-grapple with rebellion they have wisely used every power af the Govern- conscious that nil extraordinary powers were exercised by magistrates un der the immediate supervision of the people, and whose nets merely recorded the popular will, as the election of 1861 triumphantly proved. This is the faith, and theic are th men who compose the great I'nion party.— Have they forfeited the confidence of the country? On the other hand, the Democratic party is composed of those who have al ways excused .the most appalling crime against human nature, and the most fatal treason to the Atnciican principle of equal rights, under the pretenso of State rights; who persistently connived at the extension and perpetuity of that injus tice which has soaked the land in blood and necessitated the debt. They have been the assailants offree speech and free press, and have justified the murder and maltreatment of citizeus who claimed to exercise those rights in the Southern States. Their influence has beeu adverse to general education and wise progress and reform; and their predominance ha» been and is always most marked among the debased part of the population, and in the least intelligent portions of the coun try. Even now their Conventions, vague ly as iu Maine, distinctly and openly as in Ohio, reaffirm the principles of the Vir ginia and Kentucky, resolutions of 'OB which are and always have been pleadod by the rbels as their justification, as they were by South (' irolinia for nullification in 183.1, and which will always afford an ambush for treason until they are utterly and expressly overthrown ; or, as in Penn sylvania. their Conventions deliberately declare that the practical recognition of the truths of the Declaration of Indepen dence is a high crime against the Consti tution of the United States. The}-are those from whose ranks came tho chiefs of the rebellion; whodenounced the peo ple of the loyal States as really responsi ble for the war; who incessantly thwart ed the Government in its efforts to sub due it; who incited riots and directed mobs ; for wlnse success at the polls the rebel chiefs and editors openly prayed in the midst of the war; who solicited thro' a foreign Minister foreign interference in our contest; who a year ago, in their Na tional Convention, declared the soldiers conqured and the war a failure, and who sneered at President Lincoln as helpless ly weak, or denounced him as a murder er, tyrant, and harlequin. These are they who compose the Dem ocratic party. They arc now busily en gaged in praising the soldiers, whom last year th"y slandered,and in eelebating the re-estabishmcnt of the Union. They are even eug;.gcd in the pleasant process of eating the Chicago platform. 15ut what has this party, in whose Ohio Conven tion Vail indigham was chief orator, in whose Pennsylvania Convention Julge Black was an applauded teacher, who said, as Puchnunau's Attorney-General, that the war would legalizo secession and dissolve tho Union—what has this party done to bo intrusted with power by the American people who condemned it so overwhelmingly last November? We speak of a party, not of individuals. We do not forget with what absolute sacrifice, widi what blood and money, many Dcm ocMt.s stood by the country. Put neith er do .we forget as that party, that tho Democrats voted against emancipation, and that in the States which they con trolled the amendment was defeated. We do not forget that if the Democratic par ty had retained power in 18G0 they would have compromised tho honor o!' the country without permanently avoid ing the war; and we remember, nor will the American poople soon forget, that in 1804 they proposed acquiescence in na tional disgrace and ruin. These are the two parties who now so licit our votes. Lot every man who loves a Union unobscured by the "resolution of '08," who loves his country and be lieves that equal rights for all men before the law are essential to her permanent peace ami prosperity, ask himself which of thes parties ought to have his Vote. — Harpers Weekly. —A pretended refugee from Miss issippi opened a broker,s office in Springfield. Ohio, married a rich man's danghtcr, swindled the banks out of £IO,OOO, deserted his wife, a was caught in St. Paul in company with a wife lie married in New York, disgorged ?2,400 to one of his cred itors, and put off to parts unknown with a fast team. NUMBER 39 A l'laiilerN Gxprrlenre. "Will the freedmen work ?" is a question of the gravest moment, now receiving several answers, much ac cording to the mood or tho prepos sessions df the testifier. The thous ands who have been educated in the faith of negro worthlessness—of tho impossibility of getting work out of the Black rascals withjut the help of a horsewhip and pair of revolvers —"will aot be persuaded, though on# rose from the dead." They must bo expected to insist for years that the South is ruined by Emancipation —that there will be no more Cotton, Rice or Sugar— that the fields must rolurn to forests and the "Jiands" re lapse into tho lowest paganism and barbarism. He has been hearing and repeating this for tho last fifty years,and must not be expected to change his tuna in a moment, (live him time. On the other haud, there is danger of unreasonable expectations. Blacks, as a rule, arc less energetic, less persistent than Whites. They are contented with less than we consider essential to com fort, provided they may thus live easily. They have been trained to associate idle ness with freedom and buna fide hard work in the field and tho gin-house or sugar-mill with Slavery nnd its unspeak able degradations. Tell them they aro free, and they want to test tho aasuraneo by taking a trip to the nearest city and having a few days leisure. And then there are among Blacks,as among Whites, many who fancy themselves smart enough to get their living without work and who at all events will try tho experiment..—' We have not those ten years had less than One Hundred Thousand Whites in this