The County Fair

The 13th Annual Fair of the Washenaw County Agricoltaral and Horticultura! Society - is to bo held on tlio jrounda in tb is City, on Wednasday Thursday, and Friday of next weck. The in angemonts, so far as tho officers aro concornctl, are f ast being completed, )ut it remains with the pooplo to make ïio cxhibition a sucecss or a failuro. Chis tho offioers can not be beid rcsjonsible for. The pooplo must como up to the vork, come out thomsolves, )ring thoir boraes, stook, shoep, swino, oultry, vegetables, fruit, grains, raochanieal and agrieultural imploments, domestic manufactures, ote. Ñow is ,he time for farmers and iartaers wivea ,0 cast about Ihom and solet somothin I to briug to the Fair. ÖP Skirmishes have boea of daily occurrence opposite Washington, and on i ,he llth, a rebel battory was captnrod ncar tho Chain Bridge, with a Union !oss of aoven killed and sixtcen wounded. A general action was anticipatcd 303terday, and eannot be delayed loi:g. ESP The Maine eleetion on Monday resulted in a Ilcpublican vietory by the usual majority. in ui L1" Lieut. Col. Duffield, late of the 4th Regiment, has been appointod Colonel of the 9th. J. Gr. Parkiiürst, Esq., I of Coldwater, has been appointcd Lieut Colenel, and Dones M. Fox, of Lyons, Ionia Co., Major. The regiruental rendezvous has not yefc been aunouneod. S2JL' The friends of Col. Brodiiead gave him a coniplimentury dinner on Friday evening last, at tlie Michigan ]]- cliange, Detroit. During tho evening Judge Douglass, in behalf of the company in a neata;idvoll-tiin2d speech, prcseiitod Col. B. with a magnificont Sword, which was acoepted and the thauks of tho Colonel returned in his usual happy and eloquent manuer. After full justioe had been done to tho substantiala and luxuries provided for the occasion, sevcral appropriïitc sentiracuts wero announccd and reapongCB made. rW The ílf h Regiment, Col. Tbrry, eft Detroit on Wednesday evening, for the seat of war, via CleveliiBd, Pittsburg) etc. lts rnnkfi wcro nearly full, and the number lucking will ba recruited and sent on.