Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-07-09

better, than the doubtful moralizing that came
afterwards
That story about the deacon, the minister,
and the confessional, is decidedly the best thing
Of the season. OF course, it is mainly work
Of the imaginaton--a "fction founded on fact, +"
but as such it indicates genius Of high grade,
and capable of being turned to great use in this
romancing age. WESTON
There, now, reader, is unsophisticated simpi-
city of character so impressble, and so unap-
precotive, that Il becomes the luckless victim of
all the pitfall ofthis wicked world With such art
tlessness, ordinary perception and foresight such
as is practced by the "children of this world, us
not in harmony A "trotting matcP - mile
heats "-"Jest three in .fUe" - purse Of $50"
&C., is never suspected to mean anything but
display Of the noble powers Of noble ANIMAL
such as every agricultural fair presents, and u.s.
ually without objection. IF that is an attempt
at deception, it is most miseral bungls, and
shows pretty concusively that this rugged world
is an unfit place for such unsuspecting purity and
innocence The righteous indignation shown at
the advantages taken of this artlessness, is as
commendable as the ingenuity displayed in roll
ing the responsibility to the door of our sport
ing friends, and then making fair and suitable
distribution Of it TO the editor for advertising,
without note Of warning to the unwary, so
insidious a snare. The angelation thus adj
ministered to our back, we shall bear incom-
plainingly, in the exercise of lively conception
Of the honesty and seasonableness Of its innc-
ton. But we would like to molify little Of
the manner and temper of the chastisement of
those poor fellows, who are charged with the
direction and management of these turf sports.
In our structures of last week, n which the
evils usually inseparable from these amusements,
were inveighed against, we lascerated the feel
iDgs of some citizens, who we would not will
ingly wrong, because they pertinaciously appro-
priated all these evils to themselves, and nsis
ted, as their manner indicated, in being person.
ally responsible for them. Now, these sores
bad scarcely begun to heal, ere our unsophisti-
Gated friend, puts the rowels in afresh, and to
their full length, and in a specific manner, bring
ing all the turpitude of horse racing down upon
their devoted heads, and presenting himself as
a bleeding victim. We say we would mollify
this thing, for though we plume ourself upon
our prowess independence, the terrible scath-
ing we have suffered is wildly before u.s. and
though, we are not willing to admit that we are
at all shaky, or that our pluck is of the Bob
Acres stripe, we would not have the ordeal re-
peated intensified as it must needs be without
alittle oil, in this way, cast upon the troubled
waters.
The quiet humor, as we'll as keen satire of
the concluding paragraph of our correspondent,
is excellent, though we more than half suspect
it will be considered little out of keeping with
that type Of artless simplicity which runs thro'
the other portions of the communication. and
we fear, may expose the writer to the insinua-
tion of an undue cleverness and facility of char
acter.