Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-30

To wit: that we are to have, as stated by
your musical critic, this morning, a series Of
symphony concerts, under the direction of
Ritter2 Or is the announcement only meant
to be startling, and to be contradicted next
day, like the telegraphic column it stands so
peTilously near2
Yet while the bright illusion-ifsuch, alas !
it is TO be-and as Poe said to the raven,
"Other friends have flown before"-lasts,
permit an old friend of music and the Press,
and other religious engines, to indulge the
images which the bare announcement has
awakened.
The American people have been particu-
larry troubled of late and the people of
Cincinnati, living on the border-line between
the conflicting interests of the country, have
been, undeniably, nervous for some time.
The amount of vital energy given off by
lOO,O 900 people (the number which may be
supposed to. read the news and brood over
it) may be estimated foF the last four months
10 have amounted to an exhaustion of
100000 pounds, or one for every slave in
the Un-in SlaveowniaE All this is a loss
OF vital electrical matter. 1t is sensational.
Undoubtedly the last tornado is to be attrib
uted TO this cause. If any one smiles at
this, let him read Wilkinson on the EruD-
tons Of the Public Skin.
TIT doctors are going about the social
web like shuttles.
Ministers doors and prayer-meetings ere
besieged by those who desire to be prayed
for.
Fires are becoming numerous.
Thieves are multiplying.
Other things are happening.
Now, simply from habit, people run to the
doctor, the divine, the fire engine, the Po.
lice Court 10 remedy their evils. But is it
not written of King Asa who had a disease
of the feet that he took to the physicians:
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written put not your trust in ehariots (steam
FIRE enginesG nor in horses (polieel nor in
princes (cabinet)2
The a~ncients relate that when a NOR
tai had to 60 through hell, he paralyzed
all the powers thereof with a Tyre lie held in
The German ~prOverb tells US that music
and medicine 60 hand-in-hand.
The opera AkessdRdrO StTddeJld, lately
/ performed at the National Theater, describes
how a young minstrel disaFmed int par
alyzed by sweet music the assassins employed
10 wsylay and murder him.
The Hebrew account is still more touch
ing: ut came TO pass when the evil spirit
from God was upon Saul that David took a
harp, and play ed with his hand so Saul
was refreshed and was well, and the evil
spirit departed from him"
Now, we say, if L. Ritter will call together
no muslCldnSi WIN tuOu luShTuuuouIS III W
will give us what Beethoven, Mozart and
Mendelssobn haye to say to the crisis; if be
will bring the fresh and pure breath of music
to the fevered brows of our people; if he
will overawe discords with symphonies, he
will be a more important parsonage to. us
than the President, or even the Mayor and
his orchestra will evolve better laws than. thu
late Senate.
l feel more serious than when I began
Surely we have not yet begun to unseal thl
musical fountains about US. The clear skies
aud winds pass over and about us, day By
day and we needless people, work-worried
do not remember that each breath contains
a sweet and subtle note that would compen'
safe for the sigh with which il is drawn
Labor is drudgeHy, because uner0wned BY
Beauty. Art was meant to accompany tot
through the eayth, to administer the holy
balsam Of beauty so, said the ancient myth
the lame blacksmith, Vulcan, was welded Il
Venus. rH 7la 'i1 AAARI.