Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1854-08-02
THE TiOlWA CAPITAL RTER
New York Ccrrsspondsnce.
| We make the interesting extract below IRON
the correspondence Of George CONWAY, the ed
| ucated Indian with tha DUBUQUE Observer.

We make the interesting extract below from
the correspondence Of George CONWAY, the ed.
ucated Indian, with the Dubuque Observer.
i. Dsairous to hear some good preaching !
made my way to the most noted church and
Lo the iron gates we're shut aud the accumu-
lation Of dust on the door handle told that the
creed Of the world had pronounced sentence
90 natural and 90 desired by the money ma
king world: Jxiy l. too hot to serve our Maler.-
On 10 apotleE direction went my way. There
is one faithful godly soul used to know, ne
will be thersset his church III 60. A Baptist.
and passing along saw people going TO- the
same direction. and sure enough The dvors
were wide open like the arms Of willing an
gel And, then, in that pulpit stood man
with his puny finger, points out in the plain
est English the necessity Of Tie Sabbath. have
heard him before often. but to-day i saw. the
deep wrinkles on his face; aud his pale cheek
speaking e.: wa walking sgn Of death As #
warn of the approaching cholera In the year
of the last cholera in this great city-he at.
tended more funerals than any minister know,
in long succession Of unending funerals. !
heard him pray, heard him sob, with the af-
ficted, and he still just lives; his house |
passed to day-grey and old, his appearance
in the pu'pit was the FAC sim'le OF ms wig.
wan, said to myself there is some good in this
,coyld.
Our lacest and most commdious churches
are generally shut up for the summer season,
and, the more Of Wall street we have, the less
the poor can have the gospel preached them
Fashon-fashion il the deity who IS worship
ped next to the mighty Dollar BY the suppos
ed aenslb!e, .apd the sober Fwe-sCater woney
those who have no brains.
citizen tn; ID die. q. ysssss s.s - -. church
was flied The feinSins of Mr.. Haight was
consigned to the mother earth. owell on
grace subjects in my letter. Not that believe
in the creed of him who says the longer face
you carry in this world The better you will BE-
so,ne-yes good deal Of truth in the remark
Of DR.. Valentine the comic delineator-he says
THAT there are three nerves ~ open the mouth
and, only two to shut t,-from which inter
God intended We should laugh of,ener than
we should cry"
Some people cannot help being woeful and
gloomy. A dvspeptic religious enthusiast, il
next to Greenlaad's white bear. But a smi.
ling christian 10 like the. American Eagle
whose pinions bear aloft the sad hearts from
this world to the regions OF light and day.
For instance Alta ~ o'clock again wa.
on my way TO church and just as j was pass
ing 23rd st. and Broadway, a slow moving
crowd was on each side of the payments o
this grea, streets jolly and comic looking ,nar
was just crossing tne street, COY IN his DeiIu
Another more comic than himself JUS. comiEs
from the other side-a cOuntryman Just from
the woods no doub', and as they met just hal
way
':Wil you please tell me where can 60 t,
get to Broad way" said country. 49,
"Yes said the other drawing it out so SLOW
and almost bursting with laugh er; and turn
ing around. just then was near aud couls
hardly keep from laughing. !,
You follow that street. the Esd ST. on 4
the East. and when you get to the docks GU
jump win bring you up 10 Broadway"
The crowd laughed.
"Tarnation. them Know. Nothiags are try.n
to quiz me-" said country. and away he Wen
down 23rd Street, and one ran after him an,
took his arm and for laughing gesticulate,
to him down the very street he was enqurin,
sbout.-thsre. these people am sure had som
benefit, physically this country and city NEE.
ing.
o how narrow. small. hackneyed, every him
appears to me just now, after seeing fields q
corn in Illinois aud Iowa of 900 acres, an
wheat fields Of 600 aud S0U; the vastness q
everything in your country. your prairies riv
ers. all. ali, on the grandesl scale. But. her
To 1--we in rooms. whose windows have ueve
seen the sun and where rats hold their council
over the morsel Of cheese Of some poor Bach.
lor. And here, where human night owl, pla
heir scheme. of plumber.