Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-12-15

CllnlUeu lulO upper hlOileSs came uOWu I
again, assembled other heights, descended, |
dived into Easements, traversed passages, I
grouped through labyrinths, ever asking >
the same question, and ever receiving the
same reply, in various degrees of civility.
NO He walkel ten times as many miles
as he needed, for he was not aware that
nearly all the printing offices in New York
are in the same square mile. He went the
entire length Of many streets, which any
body could have told him did not contain
one. +!
He went home on Friday evening, very
tirel and little discouraged.
Early on Saturday morning, no resumed
the search, and continued it with energy
till the evening. But no one wanted
hand. Business seemed to be at a stand
still, or every Office had its full com de-
ment of men. On Saturday evening he
was still more fatigued. He resolved to
remain in the city day or two longer,
and then, if still unsuccessful, to turn his
face homeward, and inquire for work at
the towns through which he passed. Tho
discouraged, he was not disheartened, and
still lees alarmed.
The youthful reader should observe here
what a sense of independence and what
5 fearleSsnesS dwelt in man who had
learned the art Of living on the mere ne
| cessalies of life. If Horace Gleeley had
e after another day or two of trial, chosen
: to leave the city, he could have carried
e with him about four dollars and with
that sum he could have walked leieurcly,
: and with an unanxious heart all the way
= back to his fathers house, six hundred
: miles, inquiling for work at every town,
= and feeling bimself to be free and inde
c pendent American citizen, travelling on
It his own honestly earned means, undergrad
). ed by an obligation, the equal in social
;. rank of the best man in the best house he
n passed. Blessed is the young man who
is can walk thirty miles day, and dine con-
= tentedly on half a pound of crackers !!
: Give him four dollars and summer wealth
e er, and he can trayel and revel like prince
J. incognito for forty days.
r On Sunday morning, our hero arose,
9 refreshed and cheerful. He went to church
is twice, and spent happy day. In the
ot morning he induced q man who lived in
lie the housa to accompany him to small
l. Uniyersalist church in Pitt-st., near the
" Dry Dock not less than three miles dis
n tant from NJ Gorlick's boarding house. II
Il the evening he found his way to a unita
r. rian church. Except on one occasion, he
h had never before heard sermon which
+ accorded with his own religious opinions
ID and the pleasure wirh which he heard the
he benignity of the Deity asserted and proveC
as by able men Was one of the highest ht
had enjoyed.
d. In the afternoon, as if in reward of tht
ne pious way in which he spent the Sunday
t. he heard news which gave him faint hop'
to Of being able to remain in the city. Al
,et Irishman, friend of the landlord, cam
at in the comse of the afternoon to pay hi
v usual Sunday visit, and became acquaint
ed ed with Horace and his fruitless search 70
work. He was shoemaker, | believe
id but he lived in house which was muc
ce trequented by journeymen printers. Fror
these he had heard that hands were want
ou ed at Vests, No. 81 Chatham-st., an
he recommended his new acquaintance t
make immediate application at that o
lid fee.
is Accustomed to country hours, and e'
of ger to seize the chance, Horace was
Chatham st., by half-past five on Monda
er- morning. Vests printing office was
an the second story, the gronnd floor bein
his occupied by McElrath & Bangs as bool
ice store. They were publishers, and We
iv was their printer. Neither store nor o
rd- flee was yet opened, and Horace sat dow
md on the s2eps to wait.
the Had Thomas McElrath, Esquire, hal
It's, pened to pass on an early walk to the B,l
Ugh terry that morning, and seen our hero 81
ich ting on those steps, with his red bund
cap on his knees, his pale face supported ,
mt, his hands, his attitude expressive Of dele
elk, tion and anxiety, his attire extremely u
the ormental, it would not have occurred
and Thomas McElrath, Esquire, as a prob
and BILE event, that one day he would be t
uld partner OF that sorry figure, and proud
the connection Nor did Miss Read,
DIS Philadelphia, when she saw Benjam
Franklin pass her fathers house eating
ore large roll and carrying two others und
his arms, see in that poor wanderer al
ok, likeness Of her future husband, the hr
test band that made her proud and immo
fast tai wife. The princes of the mind {
ap- ways remain incognito till they come
re- the throne, and doubtless the Comil
Man, when he comes. will appear in
an strange disguise, and no man will knc
ene- him.
>me 1t seemed very long before any o
lore came to work that morning at No. {
on The steps on which our friend was seat
but were in the narrow part Of Chatham
,ap- the gorge through which at morning a
he evening the swalthy tide of mechan
ces, pours. By six o'clock the stream has
ling strongly down-town-ward, aud it grat
60 ally swells to torrent, bright with
5 he kettles. Thousands passed by, but no {
,rn- stopped till nearly seven o'clock, WI
the one of MI. Vests journeyman arriv
l to and finding the door still locked, he
md, down on the steps by Horace Greel
pri- They fell into conversation; and Hor
< a stated his circumstances, something of
ress history; and his need Of employme
ws Luckily, this iourneyman was a v