Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-07-16
From the New YORK Hone journal
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From the New Yerk Home journal.
Fourth of Jntv, 1794-
/ arrived ia New York, for the first tine,
On the sixteenth Of June, in the year 1894.
! had no acauaintances in the city then, SO
I RESOLVED TO spend the anniversary in a way
TO please myself. Al sunrise she bells reng
out a merry peal from the steepies pi the
old Triuity, Middle Dutch, and ST. deerges
/ churches. St. Paul had then neither bell
! nor s,eepIe, It's present one~as then
ia process of erection, and Was Completed
ia tbs iaIl of that year. There were thIr-
teen guns-one for each State-hred from
7 the Battery. a company composed OF Tor
i " OF fifty OF the old veterans, paraded the
] streets with muskets, aud fred a salute at
i u NJ. they wore old cooked hats and tat
tered uniform in which they had fought by
the side oil Washington. There was now
and then one with only a single arm. In
/ 1867 a number Of these aged and noble
soldiers OF the RevoIetioH were removed
from Aha Custom House and other ofhces,
aud their places filed by teasdtess and
bluodless patristsi At two p. n, twelve
OF fourteeHsof as pushed off in a boat from
the feot cs the old Fly Market: a Passen-
ger tovA the heltp. wl.iie two bestmen COM
.aeneed Co sus Us esef the river to Brooklyn.
A strosg tide seas running in, which carried
Ger traii bark as high as the Wallabuui be-
fore we made the Long Island shore. Being
NOW in slack wafer we reached Brooklyn in
ten minutes. having nude the passage in one
hour and a qharter-a thing which often &C.
CURED in those days This wac the irsi
time 4 ever was on Lang Islaad. ! stood a
few IHofnents on the wharf ieukiHg in all
Adireetiens abos. me, and do .uot think
I could have couuted thirty houses wax
ed. forward ia fhe ulidaie Of lbe street, ul-
Till eaane ~ the old Dutch Church, about a
ehalf mile from The ferry. A thaHleF shower
coming upsI sought shelter in a cottage BY
the wayslLe. a daEel negress ai,d two or
three bali breeds were i'll pos5essiun eli
the hus. AS she soaId speak neitheE srotea
iiorsl Dntel, ~ any extent, oug words were
.siew aedia "a between The s,erml passed
over in a hall hour, and | took 10 the street
IagaiB. here / saw for the FIRST Time a field
OF Indian corn. Il Was eight feet high,
fall OF leaf aud tasseI, and the raiii-dreps
sparkled over is lilte diameHdss under the
glaneiug Fassef The setting sen-I mount-
ed upon the rails sof the fence tu see this
beautiful siaIAl-it booked Ike u 6eld that
HE Lord had blessed. 1t was a1od tide
when we ~relrrRed-so we crossed in twenty
minutes. | thiBk il was in 1871 that Fal-
ten eonsrneneed running his steam boat from
New York to I~arookiyn. Now the passage
SIS made With an unlimited quantity of
freight and passengers. in from Eve To ten
minuies. Fultva died in needy e;Feumssan-
. -. t.-, ( .,.flrI ,,x ~,
market on The soruer Of " ateF street. and,
hearing q shout coming from tie South, !
followed the sound. II proceeded from a
multitude assembled in front OF lire old Ex-
Echange EpfFee House, on the corner Of
Val and Water streets. The soriely Of
the Cincinnati were drinking toasls, and at
every toast a salute was fired from a sin
FOUNDER in the street, and all the people
shouted with joy. | think il was in 1898,
| when General laiterwards GoFeFnor) Lewis
dwelt in ~Iiberiy-streets opposite the Middle
Dutch church. My ~ house was near by
SO we were on soslalierms. On the Fourth
of July in thai ycafk The Cincinnati Society
dined in " asiingtam 1atb which then stood
on the spot where Stewards raable store
now stands Abett shve Y. NJ, a letter-was
Elelt at the Generals hnuse, which the fanl-
Iy Thought fequlred an immediate answer
Il being Indepeua, nee day, the servants
had q qaua bier din gait, SO his daughter
STATED the case to s.s, and | carried the let
ter myseIt To hin being glad Of the opPor-
tanity Of seeing so many OF Washlngtohss
officers ~assepabled together. An orderly
sergeant s,ood by ti.e Feom door in the pas
sage, dressed in full Continental Uniform
The General answered the call, met me in
the passage, opened the letter, glanced al
hte signature, placed It in his pocket, and in
vited me to the hoh1r of entering the room
I shook hands with a dozen Of tiiose hoary
headed veterans, drank to tie health OF
w a%shington, made my best bow. and re-
tired. think there were about one hun
bred and fifty setting around the tables
Among them were Generals Hamilton.
Giles, Gates, Lewis, Stevens Van Court
landi, Schuyler, etc. In the room were al
SO. Colonies Varirk, Duer, Turnbull, Nc
Comb, Majors Fairly, Lamb. and others
whomI did not know. All Of that compa-
ny never met together ogain-two weeks
after that date, the yellow fever came in np-
on the city like a flood, and thinned their
ranks most woefully. 1t has been many
years since the last of them died, and we
will never look upon their like again.
Yours truly, GRANT THoRBURN.