Best Horse Colt, George Parish, $25.00 Best Filly, J. Staplin, 20.00 Best Brood Mare, A. Blunt, 25.00 Best Bull, Wm. Johnson, 25.00 Best Heifer, A. M. Rogers, 20.00 Best Cow, C. Baker, 25.00 Best Stall-fed Beef, J. W. Taylor, 10.00 Best sample Wheat, Wm. Ottley, 5.00 Best sample Flaxseed, H. Weir, 3.00 Best sample Timothy Seed, E. S. Hayward 3.00 (Highest) Best Team of Oxen, Hiram Converse, 50.00 (Lowest) Best sample Sweet Corn, L. Marshall, 3.00 ------ Aggregate amount of twelve premiums, $214.00 An average of $17.83 each. WHAT SLAVERY DID. At the Rowan County Agricultural Fair, held at Mineral Springs, in North Carolina, on the 13th day of November, 1856, thirty premiums, ranging from twenty-five cents to two dollars each, were awarded to successful competitors--the aggregate amount of said premiums being $42, or an average of $1.40 each. From the proceedings of the Awarding Committee we make the following extracts:-- Best Horse Colt, T. A. Burke, $2.00 Best Filly, James Cowan, 2.00 Best Brood Mare, M. W. Goodman, 2.00 Best Bull, J. F. McCorkle, 2.00 Best Heifer, J. F. McCorkle, 2.00 Best Cow, T. A. Burke, 2.00 Best Stall-fed Beef, S. D. Rankin, 1.00 Best Sample Wheat, M. W. Goodman, 50 Best lot Beefs, J. J. Summerell, 25 Best lot Turnips, Thomas Barber, 25 (Highest) Best pair Match Horses, R. W. Griffith, 2.00 (Lowest) Best lot Cabbage, Thomas Hyde, 25 ----- Aggregate amount of twelve premiums, $16.25 An average of $1.36 each.