Sullivan Cox, New York City; Hon. J. H. Wade, Cleveland. Ohio; Hon. George F. Danforth, Rochester; Hon, James C. Smith, Canandaigua; Hon. George B. Bradley, Corning; General C. D. MacDougall, Auburn ; Dr. F. B. Hough, Lowville; Hon. Elias W. Leavenworth, Syracuse; Hon. M. C. Burch, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Hon. William P. Letchworth, Buffalo; Hon. James A. Briggs, Brooklyn; Hon. E. W. Foster, Potsdam; Hon. Horatio Ballard, Cortland; Hon. John B. Linn, Belfonte, Pa.; Hon. Abraham Lansing, General Frank Chamberlain, Colonel John D. Van Buren, Hon. Neil Gilmour, Hon. George R. Howell, Hon. Richard Varick DeWitt, and Dr. S. B. Woolworth, Albany; Dr. D. H. Bissell, Geneseo; Jared Sandford, Mt. Vernon; W. S. Sayre, Bainbridge; Rev. Daniel Leisenring, Livonia; Benjamin Young, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; B. F. Woodruff, Rockwood, Michigan; and a number of others.

The exercises at the Grand Stand were concluded with the Benediction, pronounced by REV. PULASKI E. SMITH of Tyre.

While the Programme of Exercises* for the day, was in the main observed and carried out-the rich musical treat-both vocal and instrumental, which had been prepared, was unavoidably omitted by reason of the rain storm, and the consequent necessity of somewhat shortening the programme.

*See Appendix.

THE COLLATION.

The audience at the grand stand having been dismissed, the Officers of the Day, Speakers, Invited Guests, and many others, repaired to a large tent, provided by the local committee, upon the Fair Grounds, where an elegant collation had been prepared, which was served by the ladies of Waterloo.

RESPONSES TO SENTIMENTS AND TOASTS.

The cloth having been removed, the President of the Day, Judge Miller, announced the following sentiments, for the several towns, in alphabetical order, which in each instance, was responded to, by a resident of the town named:

COVERT.

The home and covert of a frank, industrious and frugal population-the banner agricultural town of the County,-whose inhabitants, while honoring the name of an early settler. cannot be charged with covert behavior.

Responded to by REV. L. HALSEY, as follows:

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:

From its covert, yet kindly metaphors, we might suppose this sentiment to have been drawn, not from the Wells of plain and practical truth, but from the poetical and fanciful imagination of the Junior member of the committee on toasts.

If there are any covert allusions to that celebrated can

non,

*whose boom has been heard so often in this Centennial Campaign, I beg leave to assure the committee that that cannon is Covert,-covert so deeply that it is never a gun to return.

But, Mr. President, this poetical sentiment partakes of fact, rather than of fancy. As the "banner agricultural town" of Seneca County, Covert is ready to compare products with any State in the Union, even with Vermont, renowned as it is, for its good-looking girls, its horses and its maple sugar, although

"The first and the last are extremely sweet,

And all are exceedingly hard to beat."

Covert congratulates the executive committee and the citizens of Waterloo, on the perfection of their arrangements, the beauty of their decorations, and the success of the celebration. Both the assembled multitude and the monument at Skoi-yase withstand the fury of the elements and the flight of time.

The town committee of Covert has done its work well. Especial honor is due the chairman, Supervisor D. C. Wheeler, for his untiring efforts to ensure a full representation from the town, most distant from the battlefield of Skoi-yase. The history, has been prepared with great care by Major Orlo Horton. The town Vice-President, Mr. Ira Almy, the Marshals, Messrs. I. H, Stout and Homer Boorom, entered heartily into the spirit of the celebration. Mr. J. L. Ryno aided in securing for the historian the list of soldiers, and Mr, L. B. Parshall in preparing the civil history. Other towns may boast of the public offices held by their citizens. Covert has sent some of her strongest men to the legislature, and is ready to do it again.

England has had her revenge upon America; for,look

*According to tradition, General Sullivan buried one of his cannon in a ravine east of Seneca Lake, and one of the town committees, in facetious mood, offered a reward for its recovery.

ing upon her inhabitants as barbarians, and remembering that music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, she sent another Sullivan, in the ship Pinafore, to celebrate, by conquering the Americans, this Centennial anniversary of General Sullivan's expedition against the English and the Iroquois.

Look back one hundred years. That may appear to you to be a long period; but look back ten years; to many of us that will seem to be a short span. Ten years ago! Why, it seems almost like yesterday to many of us, so swiftly the car of time rolls on. Yet think of it! only ten of those short periods have passed by, since this country was the hunting ground of the Iroquois—the home of the red man-only nine such periods have passed since the first white settler was peering through the underbrush to see if the Indians were really gone.

Only ten times ten years, and how wonderful have been the changes. No more the canoe, the paddle, the well-worn trail, but the steamship and the railroad car. No more the wigwam, but the stately buildings of Willard and Cornell.

The history of the pioneers of this lake country is one upon which their descendants may look back with pardonable pride.

By their strong arms, the forests were swept away, the seeds of civilization and culture were sown in the wilderness, the school house and the church were built above the Indian's wigwam.

They were men, stalwart in frame and strong in purpose. Lacking, often, the learning to be gained from books, they had studied nature and the Bible. Rude,in

a sense, they may have been, yet they were reverent in spirit. They sought a home in the wilderness, but they thought of another home further on. Hence, soon after providing a shelter for their families, they felt the need of a place for publie worship. At first they met from

house to house, then they assembled in some large barn, then in the log school house, but ere long they built a rude temple, which, with solemn consecration, they set apart for the worship of God.

It is my privilege to speak to-day, as the representative of a town in which was built the first church edifice in the county, and the church then organized has been the mother of twelve daughter churches, the little one, as it were, becoming a thousand, and the weak one, a strong nation.

The hardships of frontier life, can be properly estimated only, by those who endure them year after year. The pioneers of Western New York came to a region which was not figuratively, but literally, a howling wilderness. Far from neighbors, far from the church, the school, the physician, they were deprived of many of what seem to their descendants, to be the essentials of life.

Many of them were soldiers who had been with General Sullivan in his successful expedition against the Iroquois. They remembered the sparkling Seneca, the bright Cayuga, and the fertile cornfields of the beautiful lake country, so beautiful, diversified as it is, by glen and lake, and forest, that it has been called "the Switzerland of America;" so fertile that it tempted even the Indian to the pursuit of agriculture. No sooner was the war ended, than one by one, or in little companies, the Continentals retraced their steps, coming now, not with the sword, but with the plowshare. One of these soldiers turned the first furrow between the lakes.

As we look about us, we see the truth of the adage that the triumphs of peace are greater than those of war. The pioneer seems to do more for us than the soldier, but the soldier must precede the pioneer. The axe, the bayonet, the torch of General Sullivan cleared the way for the plow, the spade, the anvil, of the early settlers. Much has been done for us; may we do much for others, inspir