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Jerome. " Wm. T. Blodgett. " Fletcher Harper. " Lloyd Aspinwall. " Wm. Scharfenberg. " Levi P. Morton. " Chris'n E. Detmold. " Henry Chauncey. " Charles A. Bristed. " Thomas Acton. " C. Godfrey Gunther. " Henry S. Fearing. " A. R. Macdonough. " Francis A. Stout. " James A. Roosevelt. " Le Grand B. Cannon. " Edward Delano. " John F. Kensett. " James F. Ruggles. " Moses Lazarus. " Joseph G. Heywood. " Philetus T. Holt. " Uriel A. Murdock. " Elliott F. Shepard. " Edward Matthews. " S. B. Janes. We have deemed it best thus to gather together from all available sources all the information we could glean from the circulars, etc., of the Metropolitan Fair, with the names of its officers, and the addresses of the Executive Committees, that we might give all possible information to our widely spread circle of readers. We give, from the excellent article in the January number of the _North American Review_ already quoted, a vivid description of scenes occurring in the great Northwest, upon a similar occasion. 'In Chicago, for instance, the Branch has lately held a fair of colossal proportions, to which the whole Northwest was invited to send supplies, and to come in mass! On the 26th of October last, when it opened, a procession of three miles in length, composed of wagon loads of supplies, and of people in various ways interested, paraded through the streets of Chicago; the stores being closed, and the day given up to patriotic sympathies. For fourteen days the fair lasted, and every day brought reenforcements of supplies, and of people and purchasers. The country people, from hundreds of miles about, sent in upon the railroads all the various products of their farms, mills, and hands. Those who had nothing else sent the poultry from their barnyards; the ox or bull or calf from the stall; the title deed of a few acres of land; so many bushels of grain, or potatoes, or onions. Loads of hay, even, were sent in from ten or a dozen miles out, and sold at once in the hay market. On the roads entering the city were seen rickety and lumbering wagons, made of poles, loaded with a mixed freight,--a few cabbages, a bundle of socks, a coop of tame ducks, a few barrels of turnips, a pot of butter, and a bag of beans,--with the pr
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