The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-06-30
From the Home ] ournal
Old Times i'm New York.


tors. completed my fitt7.ninth year in
New York. | was in my twenty. second
year when | landed. When | look ON
our country now. compared with what i.
was then, the thought is overwhelming
Perhaps some faslidious Doctor OF Laws
will smi at the words, "Our c5untry p
Why says he, Laurie is a true.born
Scotchman frae the guide tocn o. Edin-
burg Well, now, my college. bred
friend, hope you won't infer from this,
that if man is born in stable. he there
lore must, OF necessity. be venerable
horse. Besides, when Washington was
President. WAS nautralized. and also
mar led twa bonnie Yankee lassies. which
| thiuk. in itself. is being naluralized
enough. in all good conscience. II you
20 10 Scotland, and catch one of those
bonate LaSsies Dha play amang the heath
er on the hill tops, Immediately you are
entitled 10 all the privileges Of British
SUI ject!
Then. no man looked on an American
coin. Spanish dollars, halves. quarters.
elghths. and sixteenihs. with city corpo
ration bills. oil one to twelve pennies. con.
>thuted our whole circulating medium.
Now, we have gold dust thrown in our
eyes at every corner Our copper, sill.
yer. and golden eagles are soaring above
the clouds. The gold of Ophir is pour
ing into The lap Of the Goddess Of Lib.
erty. and American funds are the safest
investment in the world. We have food
for ourselves, and enough left 10 feed
starving world. and gather up seven bas.
kets OF fragments besides. Therefore.
let US love one another. be thankful and
courteous, and, in the strength Of the God
oil Washington. we'll defy the world.
At that time there lived on the south
corner of Pine and Nassau streets. an
old man his head was whitened by the
Irosts OF one hundred winters. In plea
sant weather. he sat Oh The stoop from
morning TIL night. 1t was an old Dutch
house. built with the same kind of stone
as The walls OF the present post office, and
was the farm house of his father, whose
acres extended from Nassau street to the
East River, and from Maiden Lane TO
Pine street. | loved to hold converse
with this man. about the men and man
ners Of by.gQne century. He remem-
bered the Negro Plot lie saw the ferry
boats from Paulus hook Jersey Cily)
land their passengers on the corner Of
Broad and Garden (now Exchange)
streets. He helped the fishermen TO haul
in their Shad nets on the beach-now the |
corner OF Thames and Greenwich streets
lie had seen mill Tor grinding corn. |
whose wheel was driven by the waters
rom big spring near the head OF Co.
entes Slip. Mill street took its name
rom this circumstance, and near this
spring the Jews erected their first syna.
Iogue in New York-the water being
much used on the Days of Purifcation
In 1898. he saw roach and sun.fsh
taught in the Collect Pond-now a part
,t Elm and Centre streets.
He remembered the ancient City Hal
Stadt. Huys.) at the head of Coentie
Slip; he said the hall was used as for
n Leiser's civil wars against the ole
)utch tort on the Battery. A ball. shot
rom the Battery. lodged in the wall oil
ne house belonging to Tunis Quick, OIL
he southwest corner of Pearl street anO
;oenties Slip. SAID ball was lodged i,
hat wall, in 1859. | saw it in 1927, rest
ng in its original bed, having slept one
undred and thirty eight years without
urling any one. The house was re
moved and the ball given to the venera
lie lIr. Mitchell. to keep as relic.
In 1898, when trenching in broadway
. lay the pipes for the Manhatten water
he | borers struck on large piece Of
mber. three feet below the surface, at
he corner oil Wall street. The yellow
ever was sweeping the streets at the
me, and the passers by were "iew and
IT between About dozen of US were
ollpcied. wondering what this block
ould mean: an old man. who had seen
igaty five winters, remarked he heard :
is father say, that the gate which led !
ut 70 the field. stood on the corner oil 9
all street; and no doubt this was the G
pmains ofone of the gsie.po Is. i
GRANT THoRNBURN. ,