The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-08-27
ed) has thus sung the praises of our beauti-


full towD;-
F" have re- visited thy sylvan scenes
Brooklne IL this, the summer Of my day.
gain have Tevsls in thy lovely vsles,
A nd feasIed vision on thy glorious bills
As once r,v.iled, Toasted in the spring
OF careless happy boyhood And I've bowed
Again within thy temple and have heard.
though times football had these years bee hushed
Thy patriarch PASTORS lips like dew, distil
G.utle instruction. And the same is he,
As 10 youn love and reverence he was,
My ch, erfu friend benevolent, and good.
The came thy hills and deils those skies the same
OF rich October; such as only bend
Over New EnglsDd's infancy, are those
which charmed imagination. Thou are fair,
And beautiful as ever. Fancy deems
Thy sweet retreat excused the common doom
CAUSED by the tall as II the Architect
Were willing by such specimen, TO show
What Eden In its primal beauty, was"
A singular sentiment was expressed by a sea
mems preacher, short time since, when, on a
hot summers day, alter regdling himself in a
beautiful grove behind the first church, in the
course of his services in the house OF worship, he
suddenly exclaimed. 81 know not, my friends no "
you can help being Christians for you already
live in Paradise"
This town is the summer residence of various
wealthy families of the city. The Perkihs's, AmO-
rvs, Appletons, Doctor Warren, the late Hon.
gent, Esq, The Lees, Benjamin Guild and others.
A novel inducement for the purchase of house
lots has been lately held forth in the advertise
ment of a wealthy speculator and auctioneer Of
in New England where paupers die, leaving money
in the bank; an old lady having recently died here
leaving several hundred dollars in the bank, who
had been supported by the town, and whose wealth
was not known until after her decease. There
are scarcely any poor here. Taxes are nothing,
partly because so many Of our wealthy people
prefer pay ing their large estates here and leave
Boston just previous to the first Of May, to avoid
the city taxes. All this makes land worth from
ia to 70 cents per foot for building.
Tell the New Workers to ride through BroOklne,
not by cars, (for they do not ramble about and
only 60 TO it, and not through it,) but in carriage
when they come this way, and have leisure for re-
ladies do not understand Gas your Saratoga friend
says,) "the true philosophy of Dress" at least,
that we understand arranging the robes of nature
with philosophy rarely equslled, and OF dressing
its surface in the richest msgnihcence.
/ was interested in the communication signed
can Englishman," published in the Herald, and
would like to see more of his commune tons
from the hooks and corners of old Somcr tshire.
IL was from his county that my ancestors came to
this country, about 1886. They might have had
some supe rsttioDs, but not like that described OF
the Princeites" Oar Puritan ancestors had
good qualities enough to overcome all the evil in
gradients OF any superstition that might have been
in their belief Old Somersetshire suppose to be a
glorious place. II is represented by Campbell, ia
his survey of Great Britain, as being exceedingly
fertile, especially Taunton Dean the scene Of the
Prince superstition and that this fertility is only
equalled by the industry of the inhabitants. Old
Fuller gives this maxim as belonging there, and al
expressive Of the pride the inhabitants have of their
own county," Where else should be born thar
equal TO it. Fuller says, :" God make them worthy
of it," This does not agree with Campbell. Which
is rights Will IAN Engishman" tell? l sead q
private letter TO him, to your care. w. K. d.