Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-07-01
Old Times in New York.

Old lines IN New Ork.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HOME JOURNAL.
On the 10th Of June, 1853, Messrs. Editors,
completed my filty~nnih year in New York.
was in my twenty-second year when landed. |
When | look on our country now, compared
with what 1t was then, the thought is over
whelming. Perhaps some fastidious Doctor OF
Laws vii, smile at the words, "Our country :"
tWhy," SAYS he "I.aurie is a true born Scotch
man, frae the gude ioGR q EdinJrgh." Wei,
now, inv college. e.bred friend, hope you dnn''
infer from this, that if man is born in il STA
Tile, he therefore must, OF necessity, be vet-
liable horse. Besides, when Washington was
President, was naturalized, and also mar
RED tlod bOnnis ldHkee iaSSieS, which, think,
in itself, is being naturalIzed enough, ia all
good conscience. II you 20 to Scotland, aud
catch one Of those 6ganje idSSieS Vha play
an.ang the heailcr on the hill tops, Immediately
YOU are entitled to all the privileges of d Drt-
lsh subject!
Then, no man looked on an American coin.
Spanish dollars, halves, quarters eighlhs, and
sixteenths, with city corporation bills, ni one
to Twelve pennies, constituted our whole circu-
latin! medium. Now, we have gold dust
thrown in our eyes at every corner. Oar cop
per. silver, and golden eagles are soaring abov"
tie clouds The gold OF Ophr is pouring into
the lap of the Goddess OF Liberty, and Amerl-
can funds are the safest investment in the
world. We have food for ourselves, and
enough left to feed starving world, and gath
or up seven baskets OF fragments besides, -
Therefore, let Us love one another, be thank
tu and courteous. and in the strength Of the
God Of Washington. we'll defy the world.
A. that time there lived on the south corner
Of pine and Nassau Streets an old man his
mead was whtencd by the irosts Of one hun
dred winters. In pleasa nl weather, he sat Oh the
-ronp from morning I'LL night. II was an old
Dutch house, built with the same kind OF stone
A. the walls of the present poat-oihce, and was
tie Iarm-houSe Of his tliher, whose acres eX-
tended from Nassau street to the East River,
aud from Maiden Lane to Pine street. loved
to hold converse with this man, about the men
and manners q! by-gone century. lie re-
wcnbered the Negro Pot. lie saw tie terry =
boats from pauIus hook (Jersey Cily) land
their passengers on the corner oi Broad aud
Gaidtn (noW EXchdnge) streets. lie helped
the ii.herBcn to haul IN their ehdd nets on the
beach-uow the corner of Thames aud Green
WICh streets.
He lIad seen Il mill for grinding corn, whose
wheel Wts driven Uy the waters from big
spring near the head Of Coentles Slip. Mil
stree, took It's name from tbs circumstance,
and ne.r this spring Ike ,'ews erected he:
first synagogue IN New ork--the water beng
much used on the Days Of Purtcaton. 1T
1893 he saw roach and sun-tish caught i'll the
, collect Pond--nOW part vi Elm and Centre
: rcris.
lie remembered the ancient Cty Hall
fStadt-lluvs.) at the head Of Coentles Slip: he
,lld the hill was used as IA fort in LeIser's
,,,u wars against the cid Dutch fort ou the
Battery. = Bah, shot troni the Battery, lodged
,,, ii ,vnIl nf the houSt. bplOnulnu TO IunlS