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argument by speech for the elevation of the colored people, would listen to a song containing an arguments equally powerful. I may be pardoned for adding by way of comment that such a thoroughly drilled musical organization (not however for exhibition abroad) in the University bearing your name, would be a worthy accession and could be easily secured from the variety of talent and good voices in the institution. In this connection I may mention the fact of my arrival in Nashville past in time to visit the last day's exhibition of a fair held for four days under the auspices the Colored Tenn Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Davidson Co. This association at an expense of $15,000, secured grounds north of the city limits and have fitted them up for this purpose. The fair exhibition more largely to results of Agricultural and domestic industry, tow Mechanical, and, as a beginning,  reflected great credit upon those who prospected it. The entries were numerous, the attendance large, the premiums valuable, and the influence exerted cannot fail to greatly stimulate the industry and efforts of the colored people. In Kentucky there is a shadow of a State School System, but except in a single city on two, it resembles in no practical benefits to the colored people. Under certain conditions they are allowed only the taxes accruing from their own