... .... No. 61. LEATHER, INDIA RUBBER GOODS, &c. do do do Discretionary. Best horse collars, Nicholson & Magee, Utica Best pair horse sheets, W. H. Duvall & Co., Utica... No. 62. CABINET WARE. The committee on cabinet ware find no entries in that division. Trans. There was on exhibition a folding arm or camp chair, entered by Dann Bros., New Haven, Conn., which is worthy of a special notice, being a very easy and comfortable sitting chair, and capable of being folded in a very small compass for transportation. We recommend a diploma. No. 63. CARRIAGES. Best single top buggy, S. O. Rockwell, New York. No. 64. CLOTHING, HATS, FURS, &c. Best exhihition of men's hats and caps, Hammond & Hill, Utica.... Dip. Dip. Dip. Dip. Best exhibition of children's hats and caps, do Discretionary. do do ...... Dip. Dip. Stewart & Lee, Utica, case cloaks..... W. Williams & Co., Utica, case cloaks.... A. Albrecht, Utica, ladies' and children's furs.... No. 66. SEWING MACHINES. Dip. Dip. Dip. Best family sewing machine, Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company, New York............. Dip. Best machine for manufactories, Scofield & Simmons, Utica.. Dip. Dip. Best single thread machine, Wilcox & Gibbs, Elmira.. Dip. Best sample of work on sewing machines, Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Co., New York .... Dip. No. 67. PIANOS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Best parlor grand, W. B. Bradbury, New York...... Dip. Dip No. 68. DOMESTIC PURE WINES, &C. Best Isabella wine, J. H. Read, Utica .... Dip. Best Catawba wine, Pleasant Valley Wine Co., Hammondsport.. Discretionary. E. W. Sylvester, Lyons, domestic wines. grapes.. No. 69. Discretionary. Dip. .... . Dip. Trans. .Trans. H. A. Crane, Whitesboro, milk cans.... S. S. M. F. S. Pease, Buffalo, improved engine oils, improved signal oil, improved armor oil, improved sewing machine oil, naptha, mineral turpentine, extra winter lard oil, extra refined petroleum, paint oil, machine oil, lubricating oil. These oils are made from Albertine coal, and are certified by men of well known reputation to be most valuable contributions to the arts. We have no doubt of the truth of their statements, but, as we had no opportunity to verify their statements by our own experiments, we refrain from awarding a medal, and refer it to the executive committe. [These oils, as manufactured by Mr. Pease, having been thoroughly tested in the industrial exhibition in London, and proved of very great excellence, the executive committee awarded the large medal of the society.] Oneida Community, Oneida county, steel traps, very good, strong article..... Oneida Community, Oneida county, traveling bags, neat and conve nient..... ....P. O. R. .Trans. John Wright, Utica, gilt frames.. H. Richardson, Brooklyn, triangular spring brace, designed to keep the springs perpendicular. They answer this purpose remarkably well, and we have no doubt they will be extensively introduced..Trans. W. F. Rundell, Waterloo, carriage jack-an excellent article..................... Thomas on Implements. S. A. Post, Durham, Greene co., model shaving machine, designed to shave hickory into narrow shavings, as a substitute for hair in cushions and beds-a very good machine, and serves a very useful purpose ... Dip. ....Dip. and S. S. M. Mooney & Howe, Utica, tobacco and segars.... .. Dip. T. A. & W. J. Turner, Utica, set of light wagon wheels; workmanship good, but made of worm-eaten wood. J. E. Ambrose, New York, coal oil lamp, to be used with or without a chimney. This can be carried in the hand, without smoke, and can withstand currents of air without being extinguished. This meets a long felt want of the community, and is of great value. It is the best article of its kind we have ever seen. Sold for 25 cts..S. M. J. E. Ambrose, New York, coal oil car lamps-a very good article, and extensively introduced into railroad cars... .. Dip. J. H. Chapman, Utica, wagon skeins, whiffletrees-centering strength, security and convenience in an eminent degree. Also, neck yoke and whiffletree irons Dalton's Shell Grove Skate Co., Utica, shell grove skate. There was no exhibitor present to explain the article. It is a decided novelty, and it appears to us to be an improvement, but in the absence of Dip. explanations or trials, we abstain from pronouncing an opinion on its merits. Philo S. Felter, Cincinnatus, Cortland county, combination door lock. It appears to us to contain admirable precautions against the efforts of burglars, either by picking or powder. We confess we have often been disappointed in the capacity of locks to resist burglars' efforts, but, as we think that many difficulties have been obviated in this lock, we award a..... .... Dip. J. Kidder, New York, Kidder's electrical battery. It may be so arranged that either battery can be run separately or both together, at pleasure. The vibrations can be made uniform under different degrees of battery power, by a peculiar arrangement of the apparatus. Coils are combined so as to be concentrated or diffused in their physiological effects. The helices are so arranged as to neutralize each other's currents to any desired extent. We are of opinion that these are improvements, and that the machine is a very useful one.... Herman F. Demell, Athens, Greene county, ice tools, which seem to be improvements on previous ones... Dip. . Trans. ..Trans. ...Trans. G. T. Hollingworth & Son, Utica, bone dust... Thomas' Farm Implements. Theodore D. Roberts, Utica, patent buck-saw frame. The frame is continuous, and is distended by a right and left screw in the center brace.. Dip. ...P. O. R. Stephen W. Smith, New York, anti-propeling horse.. Bryant & Stratton, New York, Commercial College text books...... Dip. Dip. .Trans. J. M. Hurd, Auburn, paper, muslin and tow-cloth grain bags. The paper bags are of great strength, and are sold at $12 per hundred for half barrel sizes, and $6 for quarter barrel sizes; while muslin bags of corresponding sizes are sold for $17 and $9. We think these paper bags a very excellent article, that deserve to be much better known... .. Dip. Wm. Griswold, Bennington, New Hamp., apple parer, "White's pat." -operates on a semi-circle, and seems an excellent article.....P. O. R. Jules Dowe, Utica, specimens dyeing, very rich colors... H. Stanton, New York, electro-magnetic machine.. Stephen Thorn & Co., Utica, kerosene oil and Togliabue's oil tester. No exhibitor present, and no opportunity to examine the articles. W. W. Ballard & Co., Elmira, machine-made barrel-very fine workmanship.. .Trans. .Trans. ... Trans. J. D. W. Wemple, Albany, crutches. These are extensible to vary the height. They have springs to make them easy to the arm. They can be made portable by folding, and are not liable to slip on the ground. They are worthy of special commendation..... Dip. T. B. Bishop, Utica, metallic silver polish. This is a small article, but it is greatly superior to anything of the kind that we ever saw, and is emphatically the housewife's friend. It polishes glass and metals almost instantly, and with little labor, without staining wood or stone... Dip. Miss Nellie L. Maguire, Fulton, Oswego Co., indelible marking pencil. The cloth is prepared by soaking in a solution of soda, and is then marked with the pencil with great facility .... ....Trans. Mrs. Susan Hoffman, Russia, Herkimer county, a reel in a bottle.... Trans. Wolcott & Campbell, New York Mills, shirtings-the yarn and weaving of the very highest character..... .... Dip. M. S. Hovey, Petersburgh, eight varieties new twine-very fine and good, and showing a great advance on previous manufactures..... Dip. H. E. Gable, Rochester, window shades-a very ingenious arrangement for elevating the whole shade or any part of it, covering any part of the window which may be desired.... ...Trans. W. W. Horton, Herkimer, turbine water wheel. This is a model of a ....Trans. Thomas Bruton, New York, Monitor burners for kerosene oil, without chimney-was easily extinguished by currents of air and smoked some. Thomas Bruton, New York, Costar's rat exterminator...........P. O. R. Thomas Bruton, New York, Ridgewood pipe case-very convenient for smokers. .P. O R. ....Trans. Thomas Bruton, New York, Drake's, plantation bitters.. G. F. Jerome, Minneola, Long Island, improved tether. This is an unpretentious article, but, in our opinion, of great value. It consists of a pair of swivel rings, which traverse on a line suspended over a pulley high enough to be above the animal's head. It seems impossible that any accident can happen to an animal thus tethered........... Dip. G. B. Smith, Chicago, Ham's beater hay press, on the spile driver principle. Price $450. The bale is 22 inches square on the end, and 4 feet long, and weighs 400 pounds. The weight falls 24 feet, and weighs 300 pounds. As we did not see the machine in operation, we cannot assert that it is superior to others...... Trans. John W. Combs, Ogdensburgh, two medallions executed in marble. It is the first attempt of the artist, and they are very well executed.. Dip. Thomas Baily, Utica, cabinet of minerals, mainly illustrating the copper ores of Lake Superior..... Dip. Charles Oysten, Little Falls, fire engine nozzles-throws seven distinct streams. Dip. Luther Clapp, East Hampton, Mass., marble-faced burial case, air tight. Dip. Walter Wager, Little Falls, marble-faced burial case.... Dip. ...Trans. H. O. Armour & Co., Milwaukie, American Castile soap-good article. Trans. James Pyle, New York, dietetic saleratus, cream tartar, baking cream tartar, soda, O. K. soap, blueing powders, enameled blacking, C. L. shaving soap.... .....Dip. and Certificate. John G. Henderson, Salem, Iowa, Henderson's planter's loom. This is a very simple machine, and meets a real want in the farmer's family. It works by simply shoving the lay backward and forward, which throws the shuttle and works the treddles, lets off the web and takes up the cloth....... C. F. Powers, Utica, transferred pictures..... do preserved flowers-good. do Mrs. J. S. Douglas, Watertown, Parisian pomade.... .S. Medal. Kemp. .... Dip. .Flower Garden. J. Morgan, Oneida Depot, Monitor gun. This is a model in wood of an invention for which the following advantages are claimed: 1st. Accurate and speedy method for the direction of the telescope. 2d. For speedy and thorough wiping. 3d. For certainty of explosion. 4th. For the readiness by which the gun can be made useless to the enemy. 5th. For great danger to an enemy in handling the gun; 28 successive explosions are made if certain points are touched. 6th. For easy and rapid adjustment in a vertical position. 7th. It can be kept cool however frequently it has been fired. 8th. The recoil is diminished by the adjustment of India rubber springs. 9th. A shell that will certainly explode. Your committee are not practical artillerists, and therefore are unable to form a correct opinion respecting its merits, as they think it a very ingenious invention and award it an honorable mention, for the ingenuity displayed, without intending to express an opinion with respect to its practical value in the fortress or the field. Wm. Hurlburt, Forrestport, specimen of whittling by a blind man. P. O. R, J. Henderson, Cleveland, Ohio, specimen of horse shoe and anatomical preparation of a horse's foot and leg. The shoe is beveled on the hind quarters, reversely from the usual direction, and has a support for the frog which is claimed to prevent the contraction of the heel. We are of opinion that it is a decided improvement on the usual form, and award it a..... ... Daniel Sager, Albany, self-acting wagon brake, but fails to secure the wagon when going up hill; a good thing and much needed.. Rev. C. E. Goodrich, Utica, for his valuable investigations in culture of the potato..... Dip. Dip. .$100 T. J. Stratton, Geneva, Stratton's yeast, at 10 cents a paper. Was not tried by us, but is certified as a very valuable article, by men known to us, and worthy of full credence.. Trans. D. T. McFarlan, Yonkers, Fitzgerald's patent bier for lowering coffins into the grave... T. J. Stratton, Geneva, Bissell's patent boot leg turner. leg of a boot in fifty seconds in our presence... Dip. Turned the .....P. O. R. Dip. C. H. Bruce, Lancaster, Erie county, N. Y., combination bridge-a very excellent article... ... American Bell Co., N. Y., steel composition bells, fair in tone.... .Trans. do do mountings for bells. The bell revolves at every stroke, and can be rung better by an inexperienced ringer than by previous contrivances.... Dip. L. & W. B. Dean, Utica, iron grape settee, vase, bedstead, swan, music stool, fence, fence and posts-all good workmanship, Trans. and Thomas' Farm Imp'ts. Committee. Solanum preparation from common potato-E. C. Frost, Havana.....S. M. E. C. Frost, St. Catharines, near Havana, Schuyler county, N. Y., Solanum condensed food. This was not received until after the committee had concluded their examinations. It was put in charge of the chairman, and will be thoroughly tested and a special report made. J. B. Stanton, Buffalo, Stanton's transportation case, was entered after the committee had concluded their labors. It was examined, however, by some of the officers; and, from its appearance, and from the |