Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-12-15
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ling multitude, may see church, an old rem
N. nant of our Dutch forefathers. Description is
'uanot my forte--if it were, j would hesitate
before attempting to delineate this incongruous
\ pile in which shape, bricks, roof, and win
adows an rconsPire TO make one wonder.
never yet could understand why the roof was
so strangely fashioned, why the windows of
the spire are all boarded or bricked up, or why
the clock never goes. For long time
v,I thoGght the church was massive stone build
ing, but upon inspection it turns out mere
brick. IT. '
sac. But what has this church to do with the
,0iNew York Post Office / Why, to tell the
truth am one of those conservative people
who never imagine that a person can pass
from the holy innocence of infancy to the ca
ger passions of manhood. - " 4ac'-I
Nj I still call this post office building church,
remembering the time before the revolution,
when the peaceful old burghers heavily strobe
into the high backed pews and soundly slept,
while the fat Dominic drawled ont the genu-
Inc Dutch, fully confident that he would come
out all right at the end however he might
stray in the middle. Fuller had not then
lived to croak " 1t is shame when the church
itself IS a cemetery, where the living sleep
above grOu0d as the dead do beneath En-
viOus John Bull, however, intercepted these
weekly maps, and not only told the honest civ
ilians that they must not thus waste their life
IN slOth, but even determined that the " houSeof
rest" should be Of some service. Having no
other use for it, and finding the sturdy wor-
shippers refractory, he made it prison, and
shut part of the citizens of New York with
necessary to take the afflicted under his pro-
lection. as we chain madmen to prevent their
lnjuring themselves. This benefaction not the
less praisewOrthy that the prisoners had often
such good appetites as to run about crying for
food Ike children. Now it must be apparent
to all that no clearer evidence could be ad-
duced of their childish simplicity and unitness
for the world-and consequently it was sheer
generosity ia the English to assist them in re-
firing from and getting out of it as soon as
cOnhding, sleepy, and totally unfit they were
for enjoyment of free indiscriminate liberty,
and foreseeing that they would be robbed by
European rogues, kindly spared them this dis
grace by putting fatal drugs in their cups. 1t
must have been pleasing for the dying to know
that the heirs to their watches and silver buck
les would be the kind keepers rather than ras-
cally Frenchmen or knavish Italians. And in
addition to these kindnesses, the Britons adop-
ted the principle that close confinement makes
one morose, and consequently the more in
prison the merrier 1t is true that one could
not be mOpy when he had his sides continually
gored by some hundreds or thousands of ell
bows. Such generosity is only to be equalled
in the annals of history by the sending by the
Abolitionists Of flannel shirts to the negroes of
Georgia, or piling of Africans three tiers deep
in slavers in order that they might be kept
nice and warm as well as never grow lonely.
In short time, however, England tired of
this charitable course, and growing very mer-
cenary, turned the asylum into riding school.
To the lover of history this is an interesting
episode. lis pleasing to think that where the
.choirs had SO frequently gaIlopped along in
fuges, the Dominic intricately wound through
the sinuosities of doctrine, and the very sleep
.ers (not beams) applauded in trumpet tones
through their nasal alorgans. sTis pleasing, ex-
sceedingly so, repeat, to think that these GER
emonies should be celebrated in new way
that the riders initiating the choirs should
Practice retreats (they found that style of rid
ing most in fashion during the wal, ,)-should
commemorate the meanderings of the preacher
In magnihcence, and that the trumpets should
keep the dreamer in kindly remembrance
AS if to note also the fact that the christian
church was distinctly separated by the bar of
religion from the world, they stretched pole
across the interior and Ieaping over it with their
.steeds symbOlized the facility with which per-
sons jump over their week day crimes into
Sunday purity. ....
soon, however, the riders left, as they said
in despair of teaching the inhabitants of New
Amsterdam better manners, as well as in dis
gust that g Mr.. Washington . should SO Wig
erously persist in attempts to deprive them of
these, innocent amusements. 1t is said that
before their departure they had come to blows,
ana their enemies silly insinuate that they
were beaten and compelled to leave. As it is
not my business to decide, let it suffice that
they went at 10 ei bla afl-i Aaal ut
Just as one sees crowd of little bows col
lect about an apple stand the moment the wo-
man may chance to leave it to get change, the
lowers of this house Of God returned 10 His di-
lapidated mansion. instituted repairs, caused
ito be re-dedicated by DR.. Livingston, and
tor yearsdweat on the same way as Of old,
preaching, singing, and sleeping till 1914.
Then M they commenced to tire of the old FASH
Toned church and .longed for one more comfort
able and more fashionable So the war-worn
veteran was leased to the United. States gov
eminent for IL years at an annual rent of $5,-
600. This, immense sbuilding with its 70
clerks working night and dayis Insufficient
ritslpurposey and loud are the complaints ut
tered against it. / cannot refrain from think
ing that among its 10000 letters and twice
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