Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

ARLINGTON SHEEP SHEARING.

6th Anniversary of the Arlington Institution, was celebrated on Monday last, in a manner worthy the occasion, and highly gratifying to every real American.

The Premium offered by Mr. Custis, for the best Ram Lamb of one year, a silver cup, value fifty dollars.

For the best pair of Ewes of the same age, silver cup, value forty dollars.

The first was obtained by Daniel McCarty, of Winchester, Esq.

The second by John C. Scott, Esq.

MANUFACTURES.

For the best 5 yards of Cloth, yard wide, composed of cotton and silk, the silk to be derived from articles which have been worn, as gloves, umbrellas, &c, fifteen dollars--

which was adjudged to Mrs. William Sowden, Prince William county.

For the best blanket of common size, ten yards; which was decided in favor of Mrs. Ann Berry of Alexandria.

For the ball of wool yarn weighing one pound, which shall be spun to the greatest fineness on a wheel, to be ascertained by weighing any ten yards in the ball; five dollars, was adjudged to Mrs. Ann Stuart of Fairfax.

To that family in the county of Alexandria who shall make it appear that they have made greatest quantity of wearing apparel of domestic manufacture, and used the least foreign importations, the largest fleece; which was decided in favor of Mr. John Bogan.

A number of pieces of excellent cloth, of different kinds, stockings, &c. were produced and sold at auction at good prices. Some samples of waistcoating, &c. of superior quality manufactured in the City or vicinity, and equal to any imported, were exhibited, and met with the highest approbation.

The company were generally dressed in the manufactures of their country.

Charles M. Scott,
William Payne,
J. A. Dangerfield,
E. Mead.

Swift,
John C. Scott,
Abraham B. Hooe,
George Slacum.

Judges of stock and fleet.

Judges of manufactures.
At five o'clock the company sat down to an elegant dinner under the tent of Washington, which being extended by using its wall-tent curtains and appendages, contained a table of ninety six feet in length, with one hundred and twenty plates. The portrait of the chief was suspended at the upper end; surrounded with a wreath of laurel, and the whole canopy being hung with Festoons of the same, it had a most impressive and picturesque appearance.

The honorable John Campbell, member of Congress from Maryland, R. M. Scott, and Swift, Esquires, Vice Presidents.

After dinner the following toasts were drunk:

By Mr. Custis,

Agriculture, the basis of our strength; commerce, the patron of our labor, and Manufactures the resource for our wants: May these important interests ever be united with generous sympathy, in support of the wealth, industry and independence of the republic.

By Mr. Custis, (Which was drank standing, and with all the homage due on the occasion,)

To the memory of Washington, the Roman father of his country, whose virtues could once adorn the chair of state, and grace the humble walks of private life. May the remembrance of our departed benefactor, his maxims, his precepts and example arise, like kindred spirit, to guide the destinies of that nation, whose happiness he lived to accomplish, and whose fame he has rendered immortal.

By Mr. Campbell,

The state of Virginia, the strongest link in the federal chain.

Mr. Custis and the Arlington institution.

Mr. Custis arose and thanked the company for the honor they had done him in drinking his health, and in an appropriate and elegant speech, expressed his determination to persevere in the system he had begun, and to observe that day, (his birth day) in a similar manner to the end of his life.

By Dr. Stuart,

The patriots of Spain, brave, but unfortunate, may their glorious efforts be crowned with success, or if doomed to suffer the expiring pang of European freedom, like the Sampson of old, may they grasp the temple of rational liberty, and crush with its ruins the oppressors of mankind.