American Republican And Baltimore Daily Clipper

[Correspondence of the Baltimore Clipper.]
WASHINGTON CITY, June 6th, 1846.

NATIONAL FAIR. It is thought there will be a great number of purchasers on Monday next, when a major part of the valuable and beautiful goods exhibited at the Fair, are advertised for public sale at auction by Mr. Homans. Of the number of those beautiful and excellent manufactured articles which were exhibited without any view to the sale at the Fair of such articles, were some superior specimens of "Mechanical Dentistry" from Baltimore and Philadelphia. The Loom, a neat and useful little sheet, edited by Mr. Hewett, formerly of your city, inserted a communication on the 30th ultimo, lauding the specimens of "Mechanical Dentistry" exhibited at the Fair by Dr. R. T. Reynolds of Philadelphia—specimens which the writer, who says he is "One who Knows," exhibit "an uncommon degree of interest." Allow me to remark, and in doing so I have no desire to contradict "One who Knows," that I think the Monumental City has exhibited specimens of "Mechanical Dentistry," and Dental Surgical Instruments of her own manufacture, which have not been excelled by any other city in the Union.

Your compositor, proof reader and Washington correspondent, have been more than once, guessed to be, one of Ireland's genuine and good natured sons. For myself, without meaning any disrespect towards "Ould Ireland," I desire to "deny the insinuation." Yet in my very last epistle, I am made to say "that the Laurel, Mount Vernon and Philadelphia (read Triadelphia) sheeting, as well as the other cotton goods, exhibited at the Fair—compare most favorably with kind red goods from other sections of the country." In view of the above and other similar bulls, well may your readers here exclaim "O Tempora! O Mores!"