Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-01-12

BEECHER AND BROOKLYN.
a REAL ESTATE MANS REAL VIEWS.

Ign is also pretty generally understood. But that
Beecher actually constitutes Brooklyn 10 o truth
at which few people have arrived. 1t is a truth,
nevertheless. lie is q necessity to Dtooklyn,-not
n luxury, Brooklyn without Beecher would 5e
like one Of the ferry boats without an engine
like our City Hall without q cupola.
1t is possible to live in Brooklyn without own
Ing a pew in Beecber's Church, but it is not re-
spectacle. Your butcher will not trust you unless
you do, and you will find it impossible to run up a
bill ct the bakers. Pew-bolding in Plymouth
Church is the great guagO of respec,ability and
responsibility; by standing regularly in the porch
Of a Sunday you can gain the privilege Of loupg-
ing around 10 the purlieus of society, but you can
not assure yourself Of admi,tance to private per-
lors without owlipg on undivided interest in n
box.
The foregoing remarks are general in their ap-
plication. l do not live in Brooklyn, aud am not
q church-going man. i have a partner, however,
who is. We deal in real estate, and find it neces-
sary, for the interests of our business, that one of
US should attend church. For while tst one half
Of our customers will not believe a mans repre-
sensations in regard to property, unless he is q
church-goer, the other half will not believe him if
be is. And thus we partition duties. aiy part
ner goes TO church regularly to cast up The profits
of the week. 1 do the anne thing at home.
The confession is %candidly made; it is intended
for YOUR ear alone, my dear friend with the green
glasses; please do not let it become public, as ii
might rebound to the discredit Of the firm Of Lot
& Pot.
1 have remarked that l, myself, do not live in
Brooklyn. But l have a friend that does. 1t IS a
f.Dala friand md ito nonna ia IouPa Matildn
Perhaps the name is familiar to you. Her mother
keeps a boarding house in BroOklyn--I beg par
don, it is not a clearinghouse. Laura Matilda's
mother has moro room than she requires, and so
takes a few friends for sociality's sake. She makes
che friends" pay puncIually at the end of the
week, however, and unless they have baggage,
they are compelled to pay in advance. Rumors
are abroad to the effect that she does not feed the
''friends" SO well as she might, and a distant con-
nection Of mine, whom she has kindly consented
70 make an inmate of her family, tells me there
are grounds for s~omplaint in the coffee; that be
suspects the purity of the hash; and has strong
reasons for d~isiking the butter. lie tells me that
he once limited these things at the breakfast table,
but that the only reply was a remark on the vita
ting influence which tobacco exercised on the
taste. For a week thereafter, Laura Matilda's
mother helped him always to the smallest piece OF
pie, and Laura Matilda herself refused to take a
pleasure excursion on the horse-railroad with him,
or to hold converse with him in anything but
mouosyllables. Peace is now restored, and he
has never made complaint since.
One thing is certain, Laura Matilda's mother
has made considerable money since she common
ced housekeeping, and Laura Matilda is an heir
sss and a young lady for whom entertain senti-
meats Of esteem--not to say affection. She owns
several shares in q fourishing religious daily
newspaper, and large interests in several other
paying Institutions. l call upon Laura Matilda
quite frequently. l respect her for her virtues,
and admire her on other accounts. AS she never
attends operas, and could not be induced to enter
o theatre, she is always ready TO go to Barnum's
and see The Anaconda family, and the fortune
teller, and the great moral drama of "Joseph and
his Brethren" or anything else which is instruct
i've and entertaining; but she will not lend her
presence to any prOfane plays. From Joseph and
bis brethren" she says, much may be learned in
regard to the manners and customs of the ancient
Egyptians, and as relates to the Court Of Pharaoh
especially, many interesting facts may be gathered
which are not recorded in the Bible. Laura Ma
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whom l entertain sentiments of unmitigated es-
TEEN, not to say affection. The only thing that
oalum1y has ever breathed in relation to her char
acter is, that she is indiscreet sometimes with the
syntax, and hampers occasionally with language.
II is highly probable that before Christmas comes,
Laura Matilda and myself will enter upon a little
domestic arrangement, commence housekeeping
and take a few friends to board with US for social
ity's sake-the real estate business is getting poor,
Of late.
In accordance with q request from Laura NATL
da, / prepared to accompany her to Plymouth
Church the other Sunday. 1t was new late
before l got started. Our firm own a Sunday suit
and this had to be divided. My partners boots
gsped in several places and l had to assist him in
linking the stocking substratum. 1t is not often
that my partner and myself attend church on the
same day, ard when We do, there are always
some little preliminaTies TO be settled. HoWbeit,
Laura Matilda and | got around moderately early
There was still room for several more in the
porch, the railing around the pulpit was wholly
unoccupied, and there was no one sitting upon the
organ bellows. As Laura Matilda is somewhat
diAhdent we took seats in the porch, although ar
usher pointed out to us that a window still was. un,
tonauboSt thob u vi W mOAO mlbht pb VI
the pulpit steps, without much inconvenience
Our place, was quite comfortable, however, and VI
retained il; 1t is true that we could not tell wheI
the services begun, bu. then we knew very wei
when the hymn was given out, by the congIega
tion's rising. / have said our seats we're comfort
able,--they would have been had it not been fo
some late arrivals, who evidently owned pews, ant
pushed forward into the body Of the Church
crushing Laura Malilda's bonnet and cruell,
bruising a rather tender corn of mine. Laurt
Matilda murmured an audible "%brute." as a port
ly old gentleman climbed over her chair, and l an
afraid that swore audibly as he alighted on m,
eorns. There are some churches in which yoI
can swear without having the profanity general.
known. In the Episcopal for instance, they thinl
you are making responses; in the Methodist, they
think you are exercised; and in Beecher's thos'