The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-08-23
ISletial Correspondence Of the Penny Press.
,ETTERS OF A NOMAD.
YELLOW SPRINGS, o., Aug.

YELLOW SPRINGS, o., Aug. 20.
il is related of John Randolph that, at one
tme, having occasion to visit lady Of Vir-
ginia in neighbOrhood that had recently been
agitated on the subject of missions to Greece,
he found her sewing garments, as she told him,
"for the poor Greeks" As he left the house
he found the yard alive with half clad negroes,
and rushing back, be exclaimed, MADAM, the
Greeks are at your door !" This is an old story,
but intend to give it novel application.
Why should people who have at their doors
such places as Walnut Hills and Yellow Springs,
rush off to Saratoga, Bedford, or the Virginia
Springs 2-or even, unless health demands
salt-serf bathing, to Newport or Rye Beach !?
The next time L see folks preparing elabo-
rately for a summer retreat to those fashionable
summer resorts, | shall be sure to cry, "Miss |!
Madam! Saratoga and Newport are at your
doOrP Any and every place Of resort in New
England may be safely challenged to produce
spots of such rural beauty and healthiul COOL
ness as those around Neff's Hotel, or Of such
wild attractions as Clifton and the grounds
about the Water Cure House. Every interest
ispresen geological, antiquarian, aesthetic.
And the time must come when the citizens of
our Queen City will take refuge from ther-
mometer ranging Tor raging) from ninety eight
to one hundred and ten degrees, and infected
water, in these pure airs and beautiful shades.
On Thursday we went over to Netf's to see
the grand jete champetre, which drew together
four or five thousand of the fun-seekng
youth Of the adjacent towns and cities; and
really it was o scene which, as my friend
Grandiaora would say, "united Eastern
splendor with Oriental magnifcence." Gay
circles of dancers, and Of those luxuriatng
in the newly revived antique game called
Copenhagen" the interest of which turns
on kissing your girl, if you can catch her,
foot-racers and those disposed to cut up what
Mr.. SwiDton respectfully calls the "ancent
Henry" made the park alive and restored
the age of fauns, nymphs and satyrs. The
hospitable trees looked benignantly down on
the gambols of the children, whether of six
or sixty yearsO and the day passed off to the
satisfaction of all.
The speculation and caucusing affecting
the selection of q successor to Horace Mann,
as President of Antioch College, seems to be
as rife in its sphere as that in the country at
large, where so many self-sacrifcing patriots
are so willing to surrender themselves for
four or eight years to their country's good.
The Trustees were to have met last Wednes-
day, but the wires had not been sufficiently
pulled, and the meeting has been postponed
TO September. Of those whose names have
been mentioned in connection with this i'm
portant Chair, have heard of three-Rev.
A. P. Peabody, D. D., of Portsmouth, n. H.;
Rev. Rufus p. Stebbins, of Boston; Rev,
James Freeman Clarke, of Boston. DR.. Bel
lows was, we believe, addressed on the sub
ject, in accordance with the wish expressed
by Horace Mann on his death-bed, that he
should be called to the post-but he has, 10
my knowledge, positively and decidedly de-
clined to be considered in connection with it.
This seems to me much to beregretted. The
Doctor has just the qualities which would make
fine college president lie has fine manners,
and cheerful, elastic spirit, which always
makes him popular with the yonng; he has tho
eloquence to subdue and elevate them; he knows
how to reform the discipline Of an institution
where any error may have crept in; he knows
moro of the history, difficulties, needs and i'm
portance of Antioch than any man living; TAX
Ing oil sfwhich into consideration, tbs pity be
has refused. The only one of the three others
named, who could possibly fill the place with
honor to the college and himself, is James Free
man Clarke. Mr.. Clarke has long been known
and loved in the West; in Louisville, the scene
of his earliest labors, in Ct. Louis, 10 Cincn-
natl, in Chicago, in Milwaukee, he could 60 to-
morrow and find large church of loving
hearts around him. His friends are not Of any
sect-they are Christians, Methodsts, Quakers,
Presbyterians, Unitarians. He has not given
to any religious party what was meant for
mankind. He has long been associated with a
band of earnest worshipers and workers in Bos-
ton, known as the "Disciples," ," who have incor-
porated with their observances some of the prac.
tices Of Medodists, Quakers, &c.
Though he is an earnest believer in super
naturaism, tho rationalists love to listen to
him. Ho has mind stored with varied and
rich learning, much eoquence, and, suppose
never spoke word Of nonsense in bis life
His printed works, his sermons, works on Eu.
rope and on Prayer, are widely known and ap.
preciated. He would be God-send to the
Westl
Dr.. Peabody, the editor of the North Ameri.
an Reuie,o, and author of several controversial
works in favor of the Unitarian Theology, is q
writer of some stiffness but much ability; q
man of wide reading but not exactly scholars
of earnestness but with no address; he would
be valuable assistant to the more serious and
elderly students of the college, With the large
mass, however, of lively harum- scarum young
men, wO can scarcely imagine that his influence
could be strong, any more than we can imagine
that to the aforesaid young men, for literary en-
joyment, could be the old files of the North
american Repicv. DR.. Peabody has also lack
ofattraCtiveness in the pulpit, which unless the
young folk Of Antioch are such as, like Mr.
Choate, "g go to their pews as they 60 to their
beds. for ropose," would prove dreary defect
OF the other parsonage spoken of, the less
said the better. N0MAD.