The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-09
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Henry WasD BsECafA FAR ING.

IEEKSEfrr- Sept Z, 1868.
We descended from tie Allegheny Mountains last
week like an avalanche and came up here to see the
Peekskillers and drive dull care away. We drove
out one morning to see Farmer Beecher We found
him farming In the parlor with his wife, men SER.
wants and maid servants about him, surrounded by
vegetables, fruit trees, grape vines and tobacco.
Commend us to Plymouth church farming in our
profitable production thirty, some sixty and
some hundred fold In the luxurious parlor, filed
with the odor OF banks OF flowers, you could see the
large and liberal collections made In Plymouth
church on the Lords day. Goodness Is profitable
for all things,n especially for farming. Brother
Beecher was suffering from catarrh. We prescribed
pennyroyal, and he said he would try IT, but we saw
he had not faith, as o grasshopper and, OF course
he will neglect IL and go on and be punished lie
seemed patient and resigned, ruminating probably,
the great harvest which will I'LL the granaries OF
the Lord with sturdy farmers ana believers like
Yesterday was the Lords day: so we wandered
into the woods overlooking the village, river and
Grants Island we stumbled az MONDAY on an
OF satlnct affair. There were four very black men
in the pulpit, fat and we'll fed. One was addressing
the mixed multitude OF two or three thousand. We
drew near, took OF our hat and listened like one
ready to perish. He spoke emphatcay and i'm
pressively. He made an error IN quoting portion
OF scripture and we came away. How often do
clergymen In the pulpit commit such errorss We
attended q camp meeting In Virginia In 1880 and
another in Ohio in 1885, but this coored camp meet
ing ut Peekskill Is the most orderly and well con-
Quoted Of the three. IL will continue, the Lord willing,
through tne WuOle Oh tnlS week, so III Tile "WlCkeu-
est Man in New York" or any Of the weak trans
gressors Of Wall street wish to be saved they have
chance.
Here is high school or seminary of learning on
an exceedingly high hill, where the sons OF General
Fremont are preparing themselves for obscurity.
Grants Island Of grapevines, opposite this pic.
turesque village, languishes and yields no great
future promise. The harvest Is past, the summer IL
ended and all the rurallzlng bellies OF the city are
packing up their bandboxes TO return TO the gayetes
OF city life. They look fully ripe for any and all
kinds OF mischief
Grant and Colfax will run slow in the river coun.
ties, but In the rural districts and the great West
they VIII carry sii before them. Horatlo VIII run
like funeral procession.
THB ACCIDENT TO A DAUGHTER OF GENERAL
SHERMAN.-A correspondent Of the Chicago journal,
at Cheyenne, August 20, gives the following account
OF the accident to General Shermans daughter:-
Generals sherman and Augur passed up on sunday
evening TO Fort Saunders on trip to Idaho springs
Colorado. General Sherman brought with him two
years aud son. on Monday the little girl took
horseback ride escorted by Lieutenant Male, OF the
twentieth infantry. The horse was thought unsale,
but lady who was skilled In horsemanship had
rode him. and the party left In high spirits TO explore
the beautiful scenes near the Black. Not long after
both horses came into the fort rderess The General
with Generals Gibbon and Potter, being out hunting
In an ambulance were soon apprsed OF the circum.
stance, and started In pursuit OF the riders About
and Lieutenant Male supporting her head. The horse
had run away and the girl Jumped OH, striking on
her head and hands. The lieutenant dsmounted TO
succor her as he best could She was convey ed In
the ambulance to the post, and medical AID was s0on
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