Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-12-25

Il "e VIC kooPci Saii"oH~S
below" II it is Boston, its walls are
of mud, though built at liberal ex-
pense." The logs of the houses are
"chinked" between with earth, and all
the roofs are thatched with beach grass
The lower story OF the houses is a lit
tie over seven feet high, the upper lit
tie NOR. than Elk. Here and there the
upper projects over the lower,-lf the
building is of the larger sort,-It is a
convenient defence against the Indians.
The furniture is partly Of massive old
English, partly Of rough pioneer make
When the table is folded there lies upon
it King James Bible, English print, and
also the Bay Psalm Book, the first book
printed in America, the first edition OF
| seventy. When the table is spread, it's
furniture is mostly pewter. No forks ;
they are hardly known in the mother
country TIL generatio later. OF sill
yer spoons, the Governor has four large,
nine smaller. II there are half a dozen
IN the family, there is COW grazing
outside, and two goats and several hogs
in the pen. The garden Is enclosed
solidly OF hewn plank as if for military
purposes. The householder and his sons
have by agreement OF ali, twenty-one
acres of land for cultivation. His neigh
| bors all have the same. A house and
land for homestead is wor Ia some TWEEN
| ty bushels Of corn. The wages of labor
ing men, Of such have to BE- hired, are
six pence per day those of mechan-
les sixteen pence, with meat and
drink. Ii it is seed time and the
third year,--this partition Of the COM
mon stock having been made--the wo-
men are in the field, their little ones
having been taken also ''to set corn II
it is Plymouth, the men oring fish ON
| the trelliscs III the stream that runs
through the village, to dress the land.
"The maze will not grow" without
them Out in the bay blows at
times of those lcviathans Of the sea,
whose haunts are now far away.
Out in Boston harbor hes ship
Of one or two hundred tons, with oranges
from Bermuda or one of sugar from
Tencrliic, or cotton from the West In
dies, or iron and wool from Malaga.
When training day comes, the manGu-
vers of the militia are introduced and
closed with prayer. AT Boston 1t may
continue two DAYS, twelve hundred mil
TIA men reviewed, ono man dunk, no
quarrel, not an oath sworn The cor
: poral, "a thriving Boston merchant
writes down in his diary his religious
gratitude for his election, and his
prayer for wisdom IN his office. Part
Of the militia carry match locks, part
Of them pixies ten feet long. When
there is a marriage to be soIemnlzcd,
the civil magistrate does 1t, making
the prayers duly, before and after
When there is "A funeral the bell tolls,
but there is neither sermon nor form
the neichbors bear the sleeper solemn
Iy to the burylng ground, the minis
ter among them, and stand IN silence
while he is lowered to his last rest.
When the Sabbath day comes the
event will be duly and Affect ely
noticed. In Connecticut colony The
holy day has begun over night at sun
: aud elsewhere, at midnight. There i:
no slgn OF secular occupation TO be seen
\ flag hat . out ST the church window
at the hour Of worship, or horn blows
At Plymouth and Cambridge, drum
bea,s. Wealthy Salem has bell t
mag. (Rcv.T. W. IIlsglnson $ lecture
, The GA Puritan Clergyman Other
; details in this skctch are from the his
torians) The men who bear arms, come
to the door OF the military commander
three abreast, Sabbath morning. leach
with his mu>kct or tirclock," "without
uc,t Of dram" they cal for the GOV
cruoI also, who comes ont in "A long robe
when they reach the house, built at til.
: public charge, OF the minister, he takes
his lace at the GOVERNOR right hand
The Captain is on his lea, armed. AZ
the wariikc days pass away, the sextol
calls to escort the minister to churci
instead, and the firearms gradually dis
appear, aud the sentry before the church
; door. he minister Is not respected fol
his Geneva cloak, or his cap,or his ring
Of ANY solemn!ty OF dress. More Is more
rcycrcucel thau Brews tcr OF Plymouth
whose coat is of blue OF violet color, ant
7 is waistcoat Of green. AS the churcl
i the nuc6.s about which the town i
> gathered, atd a "plantatlon is granite,
o. ~ to those who can first of all build
: meeting house aud support minis or
AMI Is the municipal government ant
: the congregation embrace the same pc
: sons aud are virtually one, We need no
be startled that those evil institutions .
i mother England, the stocks. aud tn
wooic cage, and the whipping pos
for offenders against the laws stan,
c close hy the church, and the heads O
( wolves, ior winch the court has offered
| bounty of four bushels OF com are al
Il fixed 10 It's wal without. Within. tn
u deacons sit beneath the pulpit, facln.
u The people- they read the hyms i'm
d by hEe-and give out the tunes. Tn
y congregation are impsrtally :" seated
= = upon the benches not pews, by Com
y mittee OF the church. The BOYS 81
AZ apart with u tlthing man or coGstabl
y to keep them in order. There is no fir,
- In tue house. Stoves are not vet in
vented. (Some invalidor wealthy lady
&c perhaps, brings foot stove to church !,
rs her hand.) There are two ministers i
!. the pulpit the pastor and the teacher
is One expounds the SCRIP lures, the othe
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