Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-08
:" THE DTSBANDED VOLUNTEER. At
CAMP MEETING.

The following description of a camp mest;n,
IN Schoharie county, n. Y, by " the Disbandod
nOlunteer, appears in the New York Sunday
lines, which truly remarks that il is one of the
Dlsbanded's g palpable hits" 1t seems rather
irreverent, to be sure, but the old fellow means
all his covert satire for fanaticism and hypOcri-
~, not for genuine religion:
SAINT NIcKALAs HOTEL, Aug IA.
EdSytmre Of Sunday Times returnt yes
terday from SkOharry county, whar hev ben
witnessing the extrordinery and frantick capers
of relidjin turnt out to grass. In uther wurds.
I've ben to 5 ee that specious of the rooral ele-
fant called camp meetin. 1t was all moo to
me, never hevin pardissipated in wun of these
precchin and prayin bees afore 1 persoom
thar was about FIVE hundred sinners on the
camp ground, and mebbee fifty or sixty saints.
or less, kwartered in tents and shanties. The
sinners, as L was informed by wun of the
Watehmen OF the camp. had cum to be born
agen, and the saints, L spOse, attended as n
kinder relidjis acc0OsherS to assist in that N.Y.
raekalus operashin. The preachers, as was
material, Ockypide the best shanty ON the
ground; and this hedkwarters of holiness was
amply purwishined to stand weeks segc from
the enemy and all his imps, which was material
also, the labOrer bein wurthy of his hyer
Skrimmaging with Satan at ninety degrees of
Earinhcat in the shade, is blazin wurk, and rs
thar was four sarmints, six hms, two sans and
twenty-five prairs got off doorin the day and
mite was on the spot, lime villa to admit that
these hevinly bush filters airnt thar grub and
the c0lleckshuns, witch was freauint. The
mummy, hOwseyer, was for the salyashin of the
canDyballs of Madagascar, who is literilly
staryln for Bibles, and hes recently ben COM
pelled to etc two misshinnerries in order par
shIily to gratify thar pious appetights ontil the
arrival OF cargo of the bred of life. In coarse,
Onder setch suckemstances cOntribushins was
liberal, and l hope when the savidges gets the
Bibles and the Testyments it may do EN- good.
The run pine stand in the senter of the camp
was Tiled doOrin the hours of wuship with indi-
wldyals in black suites, white chOkers and strait
SreeSy- hair AL thar faces peered to hev been
sot arter the same pattern-eyes thrown up-
pards, mouth corners pulled down, and a gen
eraI expression as of they was under the galIus
had bid adoo to thar friends, and was goin to be
turned Oh in the full exploitation Of an eyerlas-
tin briie. They didcnt feel that way, line awar;
quite the reverse; but appeerinces is so deceit
Well, these specimens of the salt of the arth
tux 1t In turns to preech and pray and sing
until they'd all had shy at sin and inickity
Thar principal tropics was onquenchable fire
and birthstone, and the Tarus modes of applyin
the same to the squirmIn pOppylashin Of the
lower reJlns. Sum was deskribed as swimmin
on llckwld cOmbustables sum as feedin yOra-
shusly on red hot coles and bein everlastingly
refused a drink of water to cool off with; others
as bein continually surrounded with flames with
out bein consumed, like one of Herring's sala-
manders All the time this was goin on, them
as he'd cum to get relijun, and was bound to
hev 1t, speshilly the wimmin on the frunt setes,
kept screechin - Glory!'' - Hallylooyer," And
the hotter the preecher heted TOft, and the
more airnestly he declared that they were all
bound in that direkshun, the more they yelled
Glory, glory
Arter gettin throo this interestin part of his
discourse. the minister genrally went in for
the new birth, upon which the females who
he'd hOllered " glory and hallylooyer' over
the fre and brimstun passiges, begun to grone
and slthe and pray to be delivered, as eff they
was IN the greatest Ggenny Sevral drapt of
the benches and was carried in kickin convuI-
shIns into thar tents and shanties, whar they
afterwards received spiritual cOnsolashin from
the brethren. When they cum out of the fits
they was considered as hevin experienced relid-
Jun, and bein a fair way for the new birth.
Not bein trubbed with emmy simtums Of the
preyalin spiritual epydemick, / KEEP my wether
eye skinned, and watched what wus agOin on
along the outskearts of the camp, as well as on
the lnteeryur. While so dooing, seen good
menny brethren and sisters wandering off inter
the bushes, Whar they Sumtmes renamed as
much as an hOur-prayin | persoOm Also, |
wunst or twict lOOkt inter the shanties whar
young wlmmln just convinced Of sin was re-
cevin relidjus instrukshun frum the preachers
never seen setch brOtherly luy-it was truly
eidifyin.
AS L wus ridin to the ralerode stashin in the
mornin, rehectin on the marcies of Providence,
and comparin the preechin and the praying in
Skoharry to the manner in the wilderness, 1
cum upon a board nailed to ire by the rode
side, heyin this inskripshun
4" THIS is THE WAY TO THE
SCAMPMEETING"
TUX quick larf, thinkin to myself chars
menny troo word Sed in jest" ....
Yours, alters,
DIsBAyDgD VoIUyTEER