Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-12-14
For the Delaware Gazette.
&c Clionian Society"

By your kind permission mot
.sse desire 10 notice, very briefly, the
9 grandiose /" criticisms which appear in the
eolumns of your sexeellent paper under the
above caption, and signed q u. ~ i shall Ger
tainly strive to treat Mr.. w. with as much
kindness aud courtesy as ne has extended to
Es CLEoxIAs,I IL So -
! School girls" sometimes learn from their
| rigid, critical teachers. TO be somewhat criti-
cal !; aud Mr. w will not wonder that his
criticisms are little tempting to some of the
'' fair members, who are 10 some degree -tenar
ciOas of 8 ladies rights = IL -
If Mr.: w. designed all his language indi-
cates-aud one learned in the French and
English, presume knows how to express his
enleaning -7he is certainly very unjust in
some of his criticisms and insinuations.
Let US take him IN order y
1 The g Saiasary," lSaldtusofy / presume the
esntlema1 means-or perhaps he uses some
new French appellation if SO he will please
pardon my ignorance, :" only know few
French words y was purely, an original pro
-duction as If claimed TO be, and not ~ selec-
fion as our critic seems to think But we
shall notice more of these insinaations as we
proceed. go = .'.g g. eiit
As to the criticism on the Evening Star, ,
I have no comment other than Mr.. w is no,
very cleas in application of "uarietgof style ?
seeming to refer entirely to the manner q
reading. .=l a.. '-',' I Z
Memory Bells " If the gentleman was
greatly charmed . with this performance he
must have had a great advantage over the
rest of the company present. or be would moi
have been able to hear whether it treated ol
bells or Of bellies. I don't know what Our
tcritics' views of I" Mental Philosophy " are
but he seems to think that the :. Imagination
is the seat Of the souls feelings. At amy rate
is net generally considered, I believe, thai
gloomy, dark clouds" are very pleasing
| to ann department Of the mind
/ Next, the Discussion IF our critic could
detect, so easily, so much OF sell fqssttrance
In the mild, unassuming mien Of the first lady
certainly must have method Z" peculiar r
ITSELF of reading human character. AND
notwithstanding the objections he has to the
1 argument, the whispers of "good good >
that ran through the audience, told the preya
1 lenee of very different opinion from his. A
1 long, close, incontrovertible argument does moi
suit one SO web, 1t Is true, when it sweep.
away ones faTorite doctrine. He thinks the
4 first negative made the strongest points in al
/ the discussion" Dear Sir, be Kind wha1
I were they ?oj A three minutes speech on such G
resolution He then passes lightly over the
T "a AT and brings the I'd Neg, /" to the res
c's" who, he says, |" brings Milton to the res
cue Of The negative" then he brings himself tt
the rescue and attempts d:scuSsion of III.
Res. himself on the negative @
aG o CRTrIGi CRrrIc !-Titar him, once for all
We advocates of truth, and then disperse and
leave a lost, lost field &c -. q; .z'L' ~
E" Is not the poet writer OF fiction? Wha
can charm the senses fthat is the sense 70
Fouch, Sight, Taste, Hearing, Smell -tht
" senses " you know SO much as ihe strains O.
Shelley and Wesley" We'll we'll! the ole
infdcl Spiritualist had George Washington
and Tom Paine, together in the spirit world
our Critic classes MIR. JFssiey and Sislley to
getber5! - '''s ~. 49,"
But docs the poet necessarily write fiction
Wh:chare some of MI. Rssbeg,. works Of fic
iion? i's*z
"a" 7uo Worlds. - The ".broad a sound is
very mysical 4" to our critics; ear. As to fhs
very&' Btdbd Il +" and omission sof 5, I know
they make delightful music to the ears of some
! Critics. IT they will go South they will fms
I 4 jcttJ class thai win supply them with eDougE
1 Of this sort. - '.i' aF--: -].ais
: 4 Our Fnture. This was" arorthy on &C
count of IFS strict originality" Here. again
the language conyeys an insinnaiion un-'' ~or.
/ thy "a place in poltntary pubic roiticism.
=" NY Bfother." Given as o rseafafton iner'
iy. Our Critic says he I" thinks This. was the
best defamation. hat is 'tlie best of al.
both-for he heard only fno.
:" The Coloquu." Here again as in the dis
cussion, our critic takes particular "A}ne,
as we sometimes says TO Miss Gossip. | am
afraid that personal charms influence our friend
too much TO I've good CRITIC, But he takes
occasion In this connection. to make little
STRIKE for hrmset. lie gave DIS before. an OK
ample Of his extraordinary powers in debate,
and sow attempts TO show that he has some
| thing Of the gentfne scit withal He says
q A friend remarked II was after the style of
| Vanity Fair. We told him VIC saw the Fair
but didn't sec the" Vanity" Well now, that
/ 'cns right cute little remark. l think it was,
if any difference, superior to the siarps" OF
Miss Gossip in the Colloquy. -
"The Talcditforg" Our Critic thinks the
touch exhibited in this production is not
usually kept by School Girls" Since he
speaks only Of the AZ imagination y and the
@ senses" this must belong to The one or the
other Of these, or else what can II possibly
mean? I infer ii rfeans the sense of touch
from the fact that he says before this, that The
ladies of the Society nnnst have good "taste, y
-thoagh they have lost their touch
yet-they selected an audience of good per-
sons and solid"
I I remember, now seeing the same principle
| involved here, treated of in Mental Science
Our Critics view, in common with that Of
other Philosophers, is that when persons lose
one sense they cultivate and develop more safly
some ether, to compensate for the Toss OF this
! one "
Then to :" cap the climax" ne pays bis
tribute of respect to our worthy Professor of
music. This accomplished pianist, and excel
lent teacher, prepared for the occasion some of
| his grandest pieces, which he executed with a
master hand, TO the delight of the admiring
audience. But now our Critic says, The
whole was interspersed by little snatches (0 of
Pipno music, adding somewhat (somerhat . 10
the entertainment
But I wish to be exceedingly ienient to
our friend the Critic. He says, to him the
pleasure of, hearing the exercises was a rare
pleasure" That is, 1 take IT; he receives but
few such tickets. l hope he will not have
such occasiOn to complain in future.
~ ;" LIGHT, MORE LIGHT"
Del, o., Dec, 3, 1860.
At a meeting of the Neptune Hose Com
pany, held in their Hall on Friday evening
December I, 1860, the following preamble and
resolutions were passed:
WHEREAS, It has pleased Divine Providence