Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-04

I the execution that some Of the presses Is
sued the same next day. Surely this is >
wrong state Of feeling; the appetite tol
death groaRs and struggles is morbid.
St, Valentines day is past. How ma
ny determined, on that day, to enter The
matrimonial state, and how many have
grown fat from much laughter, is not easy
to determine. How st. Valentine came
to have anything to do in love matters, !
cannot say; true il is, however, he does q
large business in that way DOW. Would
You have tho't h? your correspondent was
on that day, the recipient of one Of the
good SITS missiyes. brim full of sentiment.
I Now TO send a sentimental valentine TO
such man as your correspondent, is use
less; because every body knows, or ought
to know, that a bachelors heart is as bard
as tortoise's upper shell. Bachelors think
themselves as handsome as handsome as
Paris of TrOyj and should q lady look at
them, they think that she, like the Grecian
Helen, is smitten. Making due allowance
for this feeling, still your correspondent
could not help thinking whoever sent that
Valentine did wish TO make at impression.
But why try to make animprossion on ad.
amantl The only explanation | can see
is given in the words ofan ancient maiden.
at is, saws she, sin matrimony as in all
other diseases, while there is life there is
hope"
The choir of the First PRESBYTERIAN
church in Allegheny gave concert for
the benefit of the poor. 1t was one of the
finest affairs of the season. The piece for
the evening was the cantata Of Daniel. in
three parts composed by Geo. + Root,
and W B Bradberry. 1t thrilled one
with delight to hear the chorus sing loud
aud clear. "By the rivers of Babylon" aud
then the quartette set IN, 30 Zion city of
our God" and so throughout. 1t was
truly charming. There was not less than
two hundred dollars taken in, which when,
exchanged for the necessaries of life, will
make the heart of many poor widow
bound with JOY, more perhaps, than the
music gratied us.
We are now in & midst Of the lectu-
ring season. Last Saturday evening, Geo.
D Prentice Esq, of the Louisville Journal
was greeted by full house. His subject
was "The present aspects and tendencies Of
American politics" He said we bad no
great state, men now. They were among
the dead. He spo&e feelingly Of the cor
ruptions in Congress; of the hostile posi-
ton of the members; and of the seeming
want of moral principle. He said that 10
Greece, long ago, Pericles tho't first Of
the State and thea Of himself; but Alcibi-
ades tho't first Of himself snd then of the
State, but American politicians, unlike eli.
ther, think first of themselves, and then
of nothing. Mr. P. is a fine writer, as ev-
srybody knows, but has bad delivery -
he is no orator.
Rev. DR.. Black, who recently returned
from Europe, where he was sent dele
gate to the Evangelical alliance at Berlin,
delivered an address before the students
of the Western Theological Seminary and
the public, in the chapel Of that institution.
The address referred to the alliance. He
paid the Germans high compliment, and
spoke of the King of Prussia as an excel
lent man. He said the Germans made all
the long speeches, while the English were
the business men of the alliance; that the
English want everything, and think they
ought to hare everything, just as we yam
KEGS think we can do everything. Wen
dell Phillips, Gov. Pollock, Rev. Dudley
A. Tying, and others have delivered ad-
dresses during the season.
The societies that invite these men, pay
them a specified SUN for each lecture, and
then charge an admttance lee After pay.
ing all expenses. they sometimes realize
over hundred dollars from the proceeds
of one lecture. | have been looking in
your local and advertising colums, expect
ing to see notice of your Lyceum having
engaged some one to lecture for its benefit.
]. W. H.