The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-17

country. You express yourself reservtdly as
well pleased, and the Western man at once asks
il you were not astouished.
"Ohio's did well IN the war" he says; "were
mighty proud of our ree.coTd.n ...
After five or six hours you reach tile place
where YOU are 10 speak, and sec, a group of
young gentlemen anXiously regarding the pas
sengers as they descend. They at once hit upon
you as tue Especial Correspondent" and come
forward in a body:-
"Mr. Trample, l belieye"-in a glad sort
of voice. "Mr. Trample - Mr.. Coolidge
Mr.. Gath, Mr. Jehocolt" You speak to ali these
in turn, and are set in a coach in no time and
away you go up the street, to see your name
posted on every corner, and the committeeman
explain all points of INTEREST,"
"There is our Masonic Hall You see the
spire of the Female Seminary over the black
smiths shop; the young LADIES will come out in
force TONIGHT; this edfce is the residence of
Congressman Ingot; he made his money on the
railroad; we think him very sound man. Our
hotels, as you see are very neat, though not
imposing; this is the village market.n "Does
the town improve?" "Well no but it ought
to, for we have got the best harbor on the
lake"
You dismount at the hotel, and the landlord
hears who you are, he has fire made by the
colored boy in his best room, and while the
committee judciously retires, he says:-
"A lively little town this, sir; but it ought to
grow laster, tor we've got the best harOor on the
lake"
The eolored boy who makes the fire is named
Philip, and he has confused ideas of the functions
OF a lecturer. He thinks you may combine saw.
dust and maglc-lantern, and looks at your
muscles to see ii you are the Massachusetts
Hercules; but, Judgment beng adverse, con-
cludes that you are great humorist, and
says:-
'D'r. All. Burnett was hyah last week; bat he
had opposition VII the Infant Orator, an guess
he come out shawl"
"a lively town is Glucksburg, Philipo
We'll sab dey don't grow. someho ", do dey
say dey got de best harbor on de lake"
Directly the committee sends DELEGATE back
who ntlmates his desire to further develop the
beauties OF Glucksburg. He covers you with
warm woltskins, and is a most intelligent cice-
rone respectful and spirited, ana, as you listen
to him, pride develops that you never felt
before III the young men OF the republic. He
misses no lane, alley, cottage nor hencoop. He
is highmnded and reverential in his graver
conceptions, and while Jealous in the interests
OF his town. comprehends the claims of all the
country, except when he AYERS, in q quick and
docped cOrollary, that 'We'ye got the best har-
Oor on the lake" -
From Buffalo to Toledo there is no settlement
OF any description that does not claim natural
superiority. OF the merits OF these claims l am
not informed; but in this village pride lies much
OF the individual energy OF the country. You
can never make great nation out of people
who are ready to admit any thing against them
selves
The devotional character Of the American
people can never be fully understood by one
who is lam liar with the Eas, alone. The young
tltterdteur who does not stir out of New York
may write fashionable skepticism for his own
little circle with some applause, and esteem the
highest appreciation that of rationalists and
materialists. But this is q country OF religious
people; and in those parts OF the West wnere
we dimlY hear OF strange sects and gospels the
orthodox preacher Is most powerful. | think |
never lectured belor9 any audience where two
clergSmen were not present, and they repre-
sented the most progressive intelligence OF the
town. AS a specimen of the extreme piety of
the Northwest, may refer to my experience in
Gllboa applied for me very early in the sea-
son, and looked at the map in vain TO find il.
Concluding 1t to be very little place, l half
made up my mind to decline the Invitation; but
the Gilboaites manifested so obliging, iorgiving,
and accommodating spirit, that could not
finally say nay. Therefore, one afternoon in
February, got out of Michigan Central train,
and while looking lugubrinusly at great, cold
stage-coach which was marked "Gilboa," a
young Indian OF the Chippewa tribe introduced
himself as the Secretary of the Gllboa In
Giute. He and two of his associates put me
IN 'Gumper,", and, we followed the snow
bells over wild and vaguely peopled hills,
in the midst of which, ever and anon, a
frozen lake hung suspended. The winds
were piercing; the skies we're cold as marble;
the farms, hewn out of oak, showed vet the
| tusks OF their primal wilderness, driven under
| ground but still defiant. Twelve miles of abo-
riglnal travel-the reins held by this son of
Chippewa Ohet, which made even sterner and
mole savage the gallop towards the Poles
| showed us on bleak hilltop, where a few
| indomltable oaks held picket against the storm,
q scattered settlement, which reminded me OF
| jesuit Mission Post, such as Pere Marquette
! established In the middle a great brick cot
| tage stood, three stories high, hanked across
| the road 10y an academy of framed plank; and
| every res dencG in the town was either proies-
! sors, or that Of some family which had re-
moved hlther to give IT'S children an education.
A Congregational minister founded it. Lost
| one day IN the woods in the winter OF 1857, he
came out thrice on this hilltop, and at last said to
| himselt: God is in this: he means me to found
school here" Another cottage in Ohio had pre-
| viOusly been reared by This Protestant jesuit;
but he again went zealously TO work, preaching
at Gilboa three hundred men, girls, boys, and
women-black, red, and pale-taced and town
without tavern, which does not desire itself to
be the county seat, nor to have railway
within ten miles of it. The whole faculty called
upon me, all OF them, l think, being clerg, men,
and one of these said that every resident of the
town OF accountable years was processing
Christian" 1t very naturally occurred to Our
Own Correspondent that he had reached the
wrong camp, and the impulse was formidable
to hide myself in the woods. This dispuIing
with doctors in the temple was at least novel;
and when | took my place in the pulpit OF the
church, was not a little alarmed by the choir,
elm mbing to my side, and rehearsing, Behold,
the Bridegroom cometh." Then we had PRAYER
the true charity and intelligence of which aOated
its lormality, and the choir thundered:-
fisherman is coming; seek the Union lines:
Brothers, the Tree flag ows."
My fears were gone two minutes after began
to speak. They all laughed heartily, and put
their heels down IN the right places; and though
| nearly troze the next morning as | returned,
have lieht kindly love of everybody in Gllboa.
THIS town is q sample settlement of the great
principles which have triumphed in this coun-
try over all opposition-devotion and education.