New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-24

Where this deity il -hgi1ed
Who gives the seas and sunset skies
Their urspeut beauty of surprise
And, when It lists him, waken can
Brute and savage into man;
Or, if IL thy heart be shine,
Blends the starry fltes with thine,
Draws angels nigh to dwell with thee
And makes thy thoughts archangels be
Freedoms secret wOuldst thou know -
Right thou leeiest rashly do.
"A Day Spent at Playord Hall" the family residence OF
the late Thomas GARRISON is the title Of interesting pa
per By Mrs Beecher Stowe from which take the fol
lowing paragraphs
Ployford Han is considered think the Oldest Of the
fortified houses in England, and is, am told the only
one that has water in the moa The wuer which is
grdng the wall in the picture, is the moat; Il surrounds
the place entirely leaving access except across the
bridge which is here represented.
After crossing this bridge you me into green court
yard, filed with choice plants and Towering shrubs, and
carueted with at thick soft velvet like grass which IS
to be found nowhere else in perfect state as in
England.
so sluggish scarcely to be percepble but which yet has
tie vitality of a running stream.
1t has dark and CLASSY stiffness of surface only broken
by the forms Of the water plants whose leaves oat thcky
over it.
The walls of the moat are green with ancient moss and
from the crevces springs abundant Towering vine,
whose delicate leaves and bright yellow flowers in some
places entirely mantled the stones with their graceful
drapery.
The picture have given you represents only one side
of the moa The other side is grown up with dark ana
thick hrubbery and ancient trees rising and em0 )werins
the whole place adding TO the retired and singular effect
of the whole The place is specimen of sort OF thing
which does not exist in America Ii is OF those sig
ncant landmarks which unite the present with the past
for which must return to the country Of our o1gn
Payford Hal is thing peculiarly English and Thomas
Clarksop, for whose sake visited u was as pecaery aS
EngshmeD-a specimen Of the very best kind OF English
mind and character as this Of characteristic hnghSn
architecture. -
The old stone house the moat, the draw bridge, all
Ia of dava of violaraa by. when man
was safe except within fortified walls, and every man
house literally had to be his castle.
To me il was interesting the dwelling Of conqueror
az one who had wrested with flesh and blood merely
but with princpaes and powers, and the rulers OF the
darkness OF this world and who had overcome as ms
great Master did before him. by faith, and prayer and
labor.
We were received with much cordially by the widow of
Clarkson row in her eighty fourth year She has been
of great energy and yigOr and an efficient CO.
laborer in his plans of beneyolence
She is quite feeble. was placed under the care of
respectable female servant who forthwith installed me
in large chamber overlooking tho court yard which
had been ClGrksOn's own room; the room where for
years many OF his most important ibors had been coz
Quoted and from whence his soul had ascended TO me re
ward OF the just.
The servant who attended me seemed to be quite
perior woman Ike many OF the servants in respectable
English families. She had grown up in the family and
was identified with it lis ruling aims and purposes had
become hers She had been the personal attendant Of
Carkson and bis during his last sickness che had
evidently understood and been Interested in his plans and
the sanction Of intelligent appreciation
daughter Of Ciarkson, who was married to neigh
boring clergyman with het husband was also present on
this day
After dinner we rode the old church in whose
incosuTe the remains OF Carkson repose. IL just
snch still quet NOISY old church y0u have read of
In story books with the grave yard spread all around it,
like thoughtful mother who watches the resting of her
children
The grass in the yard long and green and the sisy
which in other places lies like little button the ground
here had richer fringe of crimson and salS about six
eches high 1t is well know the vital lad lence tom
the sumbering dust beneath which gives the richess 10
this grass and these flowers but let not that b. piaf
thought let 1t rather cheer that beauty shou sprng
from ashes and life smile brighter from the near pr ssence
OF death The grave OF Cakson was near the church,
inelosod by railing and marked by simple white mar.
BE slab; it carefully tended and planted with Ao~
In the church old book of records and among
other curious inscriptions recording how a pious
committee Of old Nols army had been there knocking
OF saints noses, and otherwise puging the church from
the relics Of idolatry.
Near by the church tie parsonage the home Of nv
friends neat pleasant sequestered dwelling Of about the
sly l. OF New England country parsonage.
The effect OF the whole together nexpress;bly beau
tini TO me- For wonder il a pleasant day. and e
thing always to be thankfully ACKNOWLEDGED in England
The calm stiffness Of the afternoon the seeason of the
whole place the silence only broken by the cawing of the
rocks the ancient church, the messy graves with their
nowers and green gra the sunshine and the tree hsd
ows, el seemed TO mnge together ia a kind of hazy
dream Of peaceulness and How natural it Is TO say
OF some place sheltered simple cool and retired here one
might ind peace, peace from without and not
from within. In the shadiest and stest places NAV be
the most turbulent hearts and there are hearts which
through The busiest scenes carry with them changing
peace. As We were walking back We passed many Gotta
ges of ihe poor.
noticed With particular plea uFe the invariabe flower
gbIcen attached TO each. Some panses in OF them
attracted my attention by their peculiar beauty 80 very
large atd richly e0ored On being introduced TO the
owDr Of them She with cheerful alacrity offered me some
OF the finest do not doubt there being suffering and
misery in the agricultural population Of England bat still
nere are mulilIudes oil cottages which really very
peasaut Objects all these. The coitarers had
that bright rosy look Of health which we .edoul SEQ in
America, end appeared 10 be both polite and self
respecting.
In he evening we had quite gathering Of friends from
the Observation-Disclosures sensible earnest n.one
who bad grown up in the love Of the ansaye-y caus a.
into religion. The subject OF the conversation wa % Tha
day Of English people to free themselves from sny mar
neipaiion IN American slavery. By taking means to
encourage the production Of free cotton In the B-dsb
prOvinces.' w D'i''0H
III no more impossible or improbable that sone.hjnc
ehteuve may be done IN this way than that tie save
ace sno9ld have been abolished Every great
seems an oty az first There is no end 10 the nun
Set q thiS- declared and proved inposs bic which
zen cone Already 80 that this may do vet
ns' cmiAsoh h1d retired from the room eery after
ne stit Tor me- TO her siitngro0m The arhfh at
Ibea' 81 "h' N spoke was with her, She wshei 10
she" ne some relics of he husband i ys. o,J - a.
sSne OF biz peptr end malf1ts. oraoag fhee W. .h8
st -4 .-e e4say ~ gii-l he began lit career anl
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