Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-08-01

selfshness and the heartessness Of another |
and greater one, is marvel ,--lustrating no
less the ingenuousness Of the writer than the
real vanity of the imposing aufcialtics by
by which he was surrounded. Col. ScnoULER
is a true man, and "long may he wave !"
Editorial Correspondence of the
Boston Atlas.
New York, July 9Th.
For the last three days have been enjoying
myself in this great city, and the immediate
neighborhoo1, and although shall not be able
to interest my readers by II recital of my sight
seeing, 10 the extent that have been Interested
still nope to say something that may properly
take the place Of political article, in these
warm days Of July-tnr politics. like heavy
tragedies, are only good in their season.
Although my eye, did not first open upon the
| light in this city, yet here it is where | first
recolIect that there was such being upon
earth rs myself and here it is that first learned
by way of Buffalo, that had gone out OF it.
Ihe first ten years Of my life were passed here,
and one of the chief pleasures | enjoy, in com
NJ here at intervals Of leisure, is to note the
wOEdrous changes which have occurred, and
are daily occurring, in the city and vicinity.
There are landmarks left, which tell OF other
4 avs, anu lttl dllfCICu W JitH from ear
ssocialion. A. the city has extended its por
ais, the character of the buildings has i'm
roved in like proportion. True, however, It's,
/ hat the CITY Hall, the Park, the Battery the
Bay, do not appear so large and imposing as
formerly.
! In my boysh DAYS the City Hall was to me a
Talace, unsurpassed in nagufcence, and have
cten wondered where all the money came from
to build il. A walk around the Park was
Sabbath days Journey, and sail from White
all dock to Staten Island was like voyage
o." Europe. These things appear to have
twared, because they have remained station
: ~. They have not changed but | have.
With these few exceptions, every thing has
grown, and grown, too, out of all calculation.
Where tie green fields were, and the black
berry and hazel bushes, among Which, of ii
school holiday, we wandered and where the
| skating ponds aud the coasting hills, which, in
the winter days, when snow and ice abounded,
= ~ ere covered with boys, with skates and seds,
| row paved streets and blocks of splendid resi-
= dences appear. The hills have been eyelled
= and the ponds have been filed up. There d es
: not appear tu be any out OF town" in New
t \ ork now, for the school boys tu 90 of Il hoi.
g ay. The old school house in Hudson St, or
! po,jte st. Luhe's Church, where Il venerable
tutor taught me the rudiments" appears more
= dlngy and worn. The trees which were set
j out there md which the "bjg boys " watered,
= BY order OF tie master, from neighboring
= pump, have become quite venerable, and look
i AS il they were big enough to get along with
out help from any body, and draw their own
water with their own roots, without the friendly
z offices of the boys, and without the aid Of their
It neighbor the pump aforesaid.
;, Notwithstanding the tlnggnGs which in our
J primitive days were freely administered to the
- unruly aud obstinate, yet the recollection
Il Of the school house is always pleasant
And yesterday, while going up in an ON
= nlbus, got ont, though not half way to where
:, | was gong, ust to have look at the old spot
- tried the gate, but found it locked, and wa.
- therefore disappointed in not being able TO wall
/ once more around the old playground; but
. looked through the fence, and found that it:
bounds had been diminished, and in place Of the
e greensward and the gravel walk winch deckp,
It twenty five years ago, lha. II was paved witt
~ bricks. The children playing under the tree
IS were all strangers to me-perhaps the sons q
= some Of my old school fellows The trees
e however, knew, and | claimed them as o
= trien's, and in INV fancy ! thought they wavet
r their branches towards mo, in token Of frendl'
d recognition, and OF an old familiar acquain
lance. ! thought as | passed along, that tn,
u story OF the prisoner who, after a conHnemen II
r in prison Of some thirty years, returned to hi
III native village and found that his companion
aud relations had either died or moved to dstan
II parts, 50 that he was "A stranger in his Owl
5 home, returned back to his prison, preferrinr t
- dp there rather than among strangers, whelhe
y fiction or II truth, was at leaS, lrue to nature
. There is something cXqusitely touching il
." these re.visits to childhood's old places. Som
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