The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-11-04
H.cs.I.ctis.s OF S.w York I'm the Last

Nsnturys
The following letters, written by an old gantsmAa
has spent over eighty seven years IN or shout 'o 0'
viii be found extremely interesting by those Oh 'n'
sent gene ration who love hear stories about Yea
in olden ,imes before she had grown 20 be the great
powerful and wealthy mercpo,.s which she now Is.
Mr. Grant Tnorburn rela'es his recoiectons simple
pain s'yie, which very plear!pg We subon the nrss
instruments from TIE venerable oc'ogenarians-
TIVE DOCTORS MOB IN lTSs,
In 1896 there dSet in Cedar street, between Nassau
street and Broadway, worthy citizen navii Grim he
was said 10 be he most ancient in the city AZ tn
period dwelt forty years under the tick Of the Middle
Dutch clock, the Post Office; spent many happy
couversins about the Nesre t the Prison SIP a.
tho Wslisbout, ano the Sugar tonse Prison ~ Loerv
street, next lot " the present Poet oiboe -,
Mr. Grim cetcrioed the doctors mob az follows -sali
he one morning. about dozen Of boys were pay"g ms
bles under the windows Of the New York Hospal-nnan
time the professors we're osseciipg the corpse OF
woman student brought one Of the arms bod ever
arm Among The boys was whose mother died the
es prevous his father brckltyef, and at work
pl mates ran TO the building and told the father what
they heard and The father, with all the wot
bearing spsd.e end shoves repaired 70 The mothers
grave; they found the coffin empty Toey returned to
ese hospital breathing threaenDgs and slaughter rne
doctors fed the mob ransacked their houses took
refuge the Jail others fed the country. The mob
threatened to break jail the orderly citizens turned out
in its defence jay Hamilton and Morris adiressed the
mob from the steps Of jail they peltet with
nearly proved fatal After three days and three nights
the uprosr ceaed. GRANT rHoRBuRS, sr,
aged eighty seven year, and six months.
''TALEs OF THE PRISON SUGAR HOUSE IN LIBERTY
STREET NEW YORK;
Here many pined In want and dungeons 81 ,om-shut
| from the common air and common use OF their Limbs
when ages shsl have ngled with those before the
nocd the spet which this prison will be song
for with than antiquarian interest," the demolition
OF this building blot State escutcheon was
built the and OF the material as the Post
Office, and with reasonable might have stood a
thouscnd yearsa 10 future Of the
pains peIaltea, srerngs and deaths their fathers met
| in procuring the blessings thee now inherit.
ltwas foun ted In 1850, and occupied susar rein
rg mandatory I'll l716, when Lord Howe converted u
into q place Of confinement for the American prisoners
At the cloae OF the for Independence the business
svgar refining was resumed and tin 1882 ~her
was removed storehouses for broadc,th and toS
cloth reign in Its stead God Every feeling
nced 70 gold Many willing 70 walk in dark
vded their eyes full OF gold dust; have their sku
cracked, provided the bar Of CalHorns gold
If my life Ii spared will do what in me lies TO rescue
II from oblivion II stood the east Of the MID
die Dutch church (now Post oace) A board fence di
| vded the sugar house ard from the churcnyard.
On the 18Th Of June 1894 began to reside in Lbert!
street. whore between Broadway and William street 20
ourned forty years As the events recorded in this his
tory had but recently transpred had frequent oppor
tuntes Of seeing the men who had heen actors In tn
sceles Some OF the anecdotes heard from the lips o
Generals Hamilton Morgan Lewis Norris Colonies Rich
ard yArick, John Pntard and other Revolutionary
thief, then in the prime Of life but all numbered
| with the dead.
TIL within q few years past there stood In Liberty
street dark stone bodinR grown grey and rusty with
age, exhibiting dupgeonike aspect, and transporting
the memory back 10 of former days. when the
voution poured It's dcsoatpg the fsirest por
tons Of the country II Ave stories high each story
divided into two dreary apartments with ceilings
low and the light from the windows dim that stranger
would ly take the place for jail 10 the stones and
brickr the walls still TO be initials and
Gent dses as IL done with apenknie or natl This was
the work Of many Of the American prisoners who adopt
ed this among other 10 while away their weeks and
years OF long, monotonous confinement For thirty year,
after settled In Liberty street this prison OTTER
waited by and another OF the veteraus-
men OF whom the present political world are not worthy
One morning, Ia 1892 when returning from the old Fly
market NJ the foot OF Maiden lane noticed two OF thes
old foders In the sugar house ysrdone Of them having
wooden leg Said j, gentlemen, do either OF you 70
member this bulidiIgs "Aye, indeed, shall never
get IT," replied he Of the leg "For t~elve months
that dark hoe, pointing TO the cellar, "wss my home
and at that door the corpse OF my brother thrown
into the dead cart among heap OF others who had dea
in The night Of ailsever Seats had none; beds
OF straw, inermixed with vcrmn, and lay the
floor There continued he pointing with his 10
brick In the wall, i.is my kiI timework: "A. " S.
Abraham Van Seeker, 1779-which ! sc 'atched with
old matt" When peace came many learned the fate Of
their relations by ending their initials In the wall Ny
house being by, asked them to step In (hey
poor) Over crrst OF bread, cheese and Albany ale,
hard the story OF the Lost log but long for tn,
present sitting and too good TO break in twoso leave
/ Il for next week