The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-20
lgions In the States are dot
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tgt0nS In the States are Not
rrox a1nD0Whi Pudkington way,
--'eligion with = chapdaliari
"A oh .iyIl.1,j,sia Shic itiIe' c9fshb3 Hu-
I;asm pa PilH baary' officiAtes 'hss one. That
s.felfrfon hasa ben and. b weather cock. and
~HiEhf 'of steps Of General Buffum's patent
. A0Aeaiois sd mznt, and columns with CORN
ss<AiNa fixings outside-bright and handsome.
There's anotherl religion there, though tnat
has no better chapel than loft formerly USED
for warebousing dry goods and our citizens
have to go TO worship up a ladder and through
. trap door. Elder Peabody Eagle proposed
? that thew should have q crane outside the
building as was the case in Baggby Brothers,
the form, propriesors' time and so hoist the
coupreeaii6I up like cotton or molasses !;
but the pop psition, though practical. was
thought irr weren't, and came to nothing.
Reverend Doctor Nathan Fowler, who Off
ciated over the dry goods, was very poorly
of. Indeed, people said that he had nothing
under his black doctor of divinitys gown
but shirt and pants, and thst his whole IN
come did not amount to two hundred dolls.
a-year. whereas Reverend Rufus T. Pilisbury
had q clear seven or eight hundred; beside
store of silk gowns as stiff rs boards and
that r,stled beautifully; white cambria han
kerchiefs by the whole dozen; real dia-
mond ring starched collars and bands by
scores; and better than all the run of all his
congregations sympathies and houses, which
was worth 1 don't know how many corn
cakes, cups oftea every day; and comforters,
over shoes umbrellas, gold watches, silver
teapots, self acting coffee higgins and select
libraries of theology, given or sent to him in
the way of testimonials in the course of the
year, without end. Folks do say, too, that
when Reverend Rufus was in the ministry
down South. before he came to Punkington,
he was even still richer in worldly goods,
for that he owned something mentiona BILE in
niggers But you know how folks will talk
Punkington is in Buffum county, Mass.
There are good many religions there.
They don't quite hate each other; strive,
speechify, write and talk against each other,
as seems to be indispensable with orthodoxy
and heterodoxy in Britain. Each religion
gets along pretty we'll as it can: some grand
~. some poorly, from Reverend Rufus P
Pillsbury, with his chandelier stiff silk gown
and diamond ring, down to Reverend Love
JOY Snowdrop, who is quite black, and
breaches to the coloured people they car
sing, some-coloured people can) down in g
little crazy affair sot up with planks and sail
cloth down close to the wharf that is NOR,
like q wash house than q chapel
=, 1t may be ten years ago that there was
religion in rather small way in Punkington
called the Grace Walking Brethren They
had originallybeen called the Punkington %
ceders; but, coalescing with Reverend Py
Coonopoiis, Ga, where he had slight diff
Guilty with the citizens on the Freesoil (wholt
+ ticket question, which ended by his being
riden on rail out Ofthe state, and repor1
being spread abroad that the darkness of biz
complexion came from his having been tarr
ed; and that under his clothes was feathereG
like bird-coalescing with this prosecuted
Testiier. the amalgamated ticket was thence.
forward known IS Grace Walking. They en-.
countered some little opposition at first. The
BaatPeor congregation brass band connec
tion) felt it incumbent upon them to denounct
and repudiate the Grace Walkers as Eras
tisns, Arminians, Socinians, Niger, saviors
money diggers, and traders in shin plasters
Reverend Lysander Spboon published a car,
in the Punkington sphynx and Commercia
Advertiser, in which he accused Reyeren
Barley Baggs Of the Grace-W Walkers O
whiting in the pulpit, chewing in the vestry
and having q Dust of Tom Paine over hi
bookcase. Reverend b. b. retorted By an
other card in the Huntington Sibyf AM
North and South Butfum Oracle in which h'
alluded to the well known story of Reverend
L. Sphoon having been in early life in Sing
Sing penitentiary for picking up things or
the wharf adding some little anecdotes con.
corning whathe had done subsequently, in
the wooden nutmeg trade, the clocks that
wouldn't figure trade, the school teaching
trade, the tarred oakum imitation India rub
D.
itory trade, and the whiskey selling trade
He regretted that his sacerdotsl chsracte,
precluded him from cOwhding Reverend |.
Sphoon the first time he met him in town: bu,
offered to match any one of his lay-elders a.
gainst his opponents deacons, and to forfeit
fifty dolls if the former left strip of skin
broader than finger on the body of the
latter after half all hours clicking
This was the only feud Of any CONSEQUENCE
(which the Grace Walking Brethren were
concerned. They were peaceful, decent
harmless bodies enough, minding their OWE
business not interfering with that of any
body else, and our citizens took to then
kindly Their congregation soon began t,
multiply in number, aud they had chapels a
Marathon, Squashborough, Lower Whittle
Thermopyla, Jeffersonville and East Halle
lula. Within year from their establish
ment they had five circuits within fit,
miles circle of Punkington.
Now circuit you must understand. ma,
comprehend five, ten, fifteen, twenty con
gregatioas; and, the religion not being quit,
rich enough to entertain a minister for eacl
separate congregation, there are so man,
Observation-Disclosures beats in fact-each O,
which is assigned to a different clergyman
who goes the round thereof in turn Punk
ingtOn circuit, including as it did the town
ships of Eggnogville, Bunkum, and Beershe
ba, together with Rapparoarer city and the
villages OF Snakesby, FiscopOlis New ar.
settles, Globbs and Ephesus, was very pop
ular circuit indeed There were always
dreadful handsome girls at preachinps and
camp meetings, and plenty of comfortable
farm houses where the ministers were en-.
tertained with such delicacies in the way Of
pork hixngs, mush, hominy, iohnnycak es,
canvas backed ducks, pumpkin pies, SQUASH.
whitepot curds, molasses, York hams. tur.
kies, and apple pasties; with elder wine, and
perhaps a SLY drop of peach brandy or Mo-
nongshela whiskey, that would have brought
water into the mouth of London alderman
all cloyed and soggy from tortoise dinner
at Guildhall. or proud British nobIeman
surieited with the Injuries of a regal ban.
quet at the court of Saint James's. The
country around Puukington was pretty and
picturesque and the brethren walked in
grace with meekness and devontne.s " IN
There was but one thing wanting to MI O
the whole circuit one real land 81 mill an =
honey; or, rather, there was one tbin1 , III
turned it into Z land of gall and worm roa 'aa'
Of soreness of flesh and bitterness Of ~.
) and that thing was an individual, and thu =.
dividual was Colonel Quagg.
A dreadful man, q skeery man, man %
Il Ill.