The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1867-11-06

The lowing of kline near by nEi8 q fnH
That drowsily stand by the purple mere, i.a
Waiting the milk maids cry. ~ !, 8 81. Sig
The top of the hills all glittering is IDS
In the suns first rosy beams,
A thousand birds all twittering9 e9F3afBs :
Adown by the meadow streams. ~ 49,. -.
Swiftly the shadows are lifting Sasi b. Iffs
From the heart of the valley fair, :. & lts
And the tide of the sunlight drifting ~
Leaves an impress of glory there. = p.e5.,....
Brooklyn, 1867. 9iiMa9 % 4isp
From Recollections of a Busy Life, by Horace
Greeley, published in the New York Ledger. W
GREELEY'S FIRST APPEARANCE. IN NEW
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MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN. NEW YORK.
Reaching Schenectady from Buffalo
by line-boat-my sixth and last jour-
ney on the "raging canal lp--I dehark
.ed.about 6 P. NJ, and took the turnpike
for Albany. ] think railroad between
the two cities first and last named was
completed soon afterward but, not q
mile of iron track was then operated i'm
the State, if Tin fact) anywhere in
America, save the littla. affair con-
structed to freight granite from the
quarry at Quincy, Massachusetts, to
Boston. Night fell whenI was about
half way over; SO sought rest in one
of the many Indifferent taverns that
then lined the turnpike in question, and
was directed to sleep in an ante-roomi
through which people were momentari-
ly passing 1 declined, and gathering
up my handful of portables, walked on.
Half mile further | found another
tavern, not quite so inhospitable, and
managed to stay init till morning, when
I rose and walked to Albany
Having never been in that city before,
l missed the nearest way to the day
boat, and when / reached the landing
it was two or three lengths on its way.
to New York, having left at i A. N.
I had no choice but TO wait for another,
which started at 10 A. NJ, towing a
barge on either side, and reached next
day the Emporium, where /, after.
good view of the city as we passed it
down the river, was landed near White.
hall at A. NJ. :i.e i - = 49,. ~
New York was then about one-third
her; present size; but her business was
not gone-forth so great as now and her
real size, counting her suburbs, and
considering the tens of thousands who
find employment in and earn subsistence
here though sleeping outside of her.
chartered limits-was not one-ffth that
of 1867. No single railroad pointed to-
ward her wharyes. No line of ocean
steamers brought passengers to her
hotels or goods to her warehouses from
any foreign port. In the mercantile
world her relative rank was higher, but
her absolute importance was scarcely
greater than that of Rio Janeiro OF San
Francisco is to-day. Still, to my eyes,
which had never till yesterday gazed
on a,city of even 10000 inhabitants.
nor seen a asea-going vessel, her miles
square of mainly brick or stone houses,
and her furlongs of masts and yards,
afforded ample Indictment to wonder
and admiration not unlike to awe. ".
1t was, if | recollect Alright, the 18th.
OF August, 1881. / was twenty wears
old the preceding February; tall, slen-
der, pale, and plain, with ten dollarsifiin
my, pocket, summer clothing worth
perhaps as much more, nearly all On
my back, and a decent knowledge of SO
much of the art of printing as a boy
will usually learn in the office Of couii-- u.i
try newspaper. But knew no human,
being within two hundred miles. and !
my Enthusiastically rustic manner and
address did not favor that immediate
command of remunerating employment
which was my most urgent need. ! aeiie'
However, the world was all before
me; my personal estate. tied M, in q
pocket handkerchief, did not at all EN-
cumber me; andI stepped lightly of
tne boat and away from the sound of
the detested hiss of escaping steam
walking into and up Broad street in
quest ola boardlng-house. Ifound and /
entered one at or. near the corner Of
wall but the price of board given me me
was slxsdollars per week, SO l did niotgl
need the giyer's candidly kind sugges-,a
ton that would probably prefer One One
where the charge was more moderate
Wandering thence, cannot say az, how. @
TO the North River SIDE, i halted next |
at i6S West street, where the sight Of
Boarding Ion ahnmbler edifice 'fixed |
my attention. | entered, and was of.
tered shelter and subsistence at sa.5ol
per week, which seemed more rational. 4
and l closed the bargain. ias 9ia IigIs'
MY host was Mr.. Edward McG Glor;;cjk ;jks. /
sis place quite as much grog.shop as |