The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-08-11

1904
dence Of the financial talents 4folecast the
great man That it says Amen. And % the
thing is done and the great Palace with it's
exhibition Of Che industry Of Nations is no
g.
] The chief attractionof the city just now
IS pair oftWin colored children united in the
back, These present curiosity that thou
sands go to see. AS the Crystal Palace
has been pretty much deserted, Barnum
will save himself BY the exhibition Of
these little darlies. They are at his muse
um ofeOurse.and With the Ourang Outang,
the live serpents. and white haired LADY
are drawing full houses and full pockets ior
Mr.. Barnum.
Late the otherafternoon as was retprn-
ing from visit passed through a cross
street where stood an old time honored
Presbyterian Church. It was built SO the
inscription said in 1850. All was quiet
around me and / leaned over the gate 70
contemplate the shot where the followers Of
Calvin and Knox had prayed to the God Of
Armies IN the sorrows and troubles Of our
National birth--for the Presbyterians were
all Whigs-and many oftheir clergymen put
on earthly armour and fought through the
whole war in defence Of their fresides and
civil and religious liberty. There were no
Royalists or Tories among the Presbyteri-
ans.
I was turning away when the solemn
strains Of the organ came soflly stealing
through the apetures Of the closed blinds
and doors, and then knew for the first
time that service was going on. It must
have been some weekly stated meeting. /
went in the enclosure and sat down on the
stone steps as | was tired and needed rest
The choir was singing that beautiful Church
composition Golden Hill / could not hear
the words but my feelings prompted me to
think what they ought to be and / followed
the msuic with the plaintive and favoreit
hymn which is found in most the church
collections;
30 where shall rest be found,
Rest for the weary soul!
'Tis vain the oceans depths to sound
Or pierce to either pole.
The world can never give
The bliss for which we sigh;
'Tis not the whole Of life to live
Or all Of death to die
In going along the streets one is frequent
" stopped by little boys who sell ballads
and songs. have seen a dozen different
Gordon songs. Everything that turns up
to startle the public, such as railroad fraud
exposure. money stealing in high places DC,
is celebrated in doggerel verse. Messrs
Schuyler, Belmont GCo have all figured in
the sheet Poetry and songs Of the day
Not long away thele was proposition made |
in meeting Of the Directors of the New
York and NeMHaven Railroad company to
run Sunday train for the benefit of such
travellers who were imperiously obliged to
break the Sabbath. Mr. Robert Schuyler,
he President, who was afterwards found
tut to have oyerissued The shares of the
.oad to the amount Of some two millions of
IolIars, objected on the ground that he had
scruples about Decorating the
OF course this furnished new
yerse Of "Jordon." am no bigot. but
10 think the charch or something or some
BODY ought to speak out against the song
makers for their indecent liberties with Scrip
ure worthies. While l have been writing
his letter . boy Of nine years old has pass
ID my door singing,
Master David had a banjo, he kept it well
strung,
And ranged the music occordin,
ae played one tuue called" Go it while your
young
And they danced It on the other side Of
Jordon.
Now, ! should like 70 know who can, after
his ad the Psalms Of David withoutihink-
ng Of his Banjo?
I hope my dear readers will excuse me for
iuch long letter, and abuse the printers if
{ has no sense in it. H.NP
r. The estate Of Matrimony' has at
ast been bounded and described BY some
out West student who says 1T IS one Of