Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-10-27
For the Ashtabula Telorraph

Mr.. Editor First Impress ions, If pleasant,
have fragrant remembrance, and a salutary
influence on the heart They retain living
freshness, and the delightful souvenirs of after
life. We love to look back over the pleasant
scene aud remembrances of life, and 10 their
reproduction on the pages Of memory, we ind
many of tho noblest pleasures. In their purity
and richness they bless the soul, enrich the So
cial affections, and increase our love Of life and
all its privileges and enjoyments.
Spending day or two, including Sabbath,
in your pleasant town, and having the opportu-
nifty Of meeting large number of your citizens
in christian and social fellowship, Icarry away,
very pleasant impressions of the intelligence,
christian, order, aud kind hospitalities of the
people of Ashtabuls 1t was my FIRST visit, and
entering it stranger, was greeted with gen.
erous welcome by all whom met, and spent
two very pleasant and profitable days.
The Sabbath was spent in meeting, at three
different times, good audiences 10 the Congrega-
tional place of worship, and joining with them
10 the delightful services of the sanctuary. The
ence manifested by all, gave pleasing evidence
of the christian culture Of the congregation,
and their appreciation of Divine Service. The
singing by the choir, accompanied by the music
of fine melodeou, played skillfully by blind
man, was executed 10 excellent taste, and fine
effect. Nowhere, scarcely, have heard finer
church music As good music, vocal and in
strumental, is a most important and delightful
part Of the public worship, the Congregational
Church, in its opening organization, have great
reason to congratulate themselves on their well
trained and excellent choir The church seems
to be awake aud earnest, and to have prosper
Gus and useful career before them. The church
edifces of other denominations, with their spires
and neat appearance, and filed as understand,
with good audiences every Sabbath, revealed a
healthy religious condition and progress.
A morning walk through the town enabled
me to see the many tasteful and comfortable
dwellings, and yards filed with flowers and
indicating that the occupants had
comfort taste, Intelligence and christian culture
The fine school buildings where the children aud
youth are educated ON the Union plan, under
the able superinteudencs of Mr.. BRUCE, gave
evidence Of great attention to this important in
terest underlying all others. Your churches
and educational buildings revealed the secret Of
your prosperity, and the appearances of comfort
aud competence, and christian civilization
which abound throughout your place. A cur
sorry perusal of the Eel egraph, the only paper
in the town. evinced that it was a line Republi.
can paper, ably edited, and doing much good in
the great aud good cause of freedom and Re-
publicanism. have noticed in my travels that
where a community literally supports paper
Of the right moral and political stamp that the
people make rapid progress in prosperity and
improvements.
A ride in the country presented continued
line OF farms, under high state of cultivation,
with houses aud barns bright with paint, and
all in excellent order. AshtabuIa cheese is fa- |
nous in the far distant region of my home, and
had often tested its superior excellence, and |
low saw the farms and cows whence it came. |
Thanks to the Republican farmers of old Ash
abuG, for the good cheese which they send to
'avory mouths all over the land. Hearing
hat they exported more than million of dol
ars worth of cheese, annually, was a little TO-
'redulous, bat as every body said it was true, my
inbelief yielded. Surely, thought 1, the farm
'rs Of Ashtabula, must be busy set, and Iich
IS cream Well so long as they build the
he nice school houses and churches which
a"' the more cheese they make aud sell the
better.
my unexpected visit 10 your rural town and
ne nrS' impressions, so favorable and pleasant
will be cherished, in sacred remembrance with
much qualification, and, IT, in my winding ways
through life should chance to come again. NAV
ny second sOjourn be as pleasant as this and
may find all the people even moro prosperous
md happy. VIATon
Ashlabuls, Oct. 23d, 1860.
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