The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-03-06
Correspondence.
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NEW YORK.


Historical AsSociations-Poiats of In
terest-7He Aeademy Of Design
Skating on Central Park-Dr.
Chapin and Beecher.
have never head visitors speak of
the points of Historical Interest in and
about New York, and yet they are
neither few nor unimportant. We
Americans think very little of old times
or old places as we press on ardently
towards the great things that are be-
fore. In the West this is excusable, be-
cause there, history does not go beyond
the memory of the present generation !;
but in the East these relics and men,
ories of an honorable past ought not to
be forgotten.
The lower part of New York is near
ly all historical. At the foot of Broad
way, facing the Battery, stands the old
Kennedy House, No. Broadway, oc-
cupied during the Revolutionary War
by CORVALLIS, Clinton, Howe and
Washington, and by Arnold when he
concerted his treason with Andre. In
house built in the old garden, Fulton
died. A little further up, on east side
of Broadway, is Bowling Green on
which stood the leaden statue of George
Ill, which the indignant patriots cut
down and melted into revolutionary
bullets. Just south of this enclosure
were the old Dutch and English forts
of the earliest settlers. On Wall Street,
where the U. S. Treasury Building now
stands, was Congress Hotel, in the gal
lery of which Washington was inaug-
urated first President of the United
States. Washington, with his suit of
dark velvet, small sword, powdered hair
and silver buckled shoes, taking the
solemn oath of office, would look
strangely out of place in Wall Street
now. Hamilton, when Secretary of
the Treasury, wrote the Federalist at
house on Wall Street, and is buried not
far from the tomb of brave Lawrence,
in the cemetery of Trinity Church.
Benjamin Franklin used the steeple of
an old Dutch Church, on the site now
occupied by the Post-office, as an OBJ
servatory for electrical experiments.
On the City Park, just one hundred
years ago last March, some patriots met
to celebrate the first anniversary of the
repeal of the Stamp Act, and erected a
Liberty Pole in honor of the occasion.
(The Liberty Pole, by the way, is an
American institution.) On the follow
ing night the British Soldiers cut down
the pole. The next day new one was
erected, covered with iron bands and
efectually guarded for several nights.
Soon after, on the Kings birth day,
the patriots run up the Union flag,
planted cannon, and fired gun for
gun In answer to the salute of the royal
batteries. On the site of the present
Post-ofice stood the old Sugar House
Prison in which the British confined
American prisoners during the eight
years the city was in their possession.
1t has been standing till within a few
years. An old Pear Tree, 213 years
old, which was planted in the garden of
old Peter Stuyvesant still stands on
the corner of Third Avenue snd Thir-
teenth Street, and is the only living
relic of the old Dutch Government. InI
the wall of St Marks Church is a mar
bic slab, with an inscription in memory
of placid old Peter, which is worth the
of the relic-seeker.
Aaron Burr once lived on the corner
of Cedar and Nassau Streets. Whit |
field used to preach in a brick Meet
ing House, now standing on Peekman
Street, and .Talleyrapd lived on the
site Of the Metropolitan Hotel, But
what cares thrifty. moe e,..eay-makipg New
!. ork for the past! She is busy max
ing herself a wonderful history for the
future.
Last Sunday attended Dr. Chapin's
Church for the morning service. Hor
ace Greeley was absent from his aecus-
.omed seat, but the congregation prob
ably contained as many men and
Of culture as any in New York;
Dr.. Chapin looks like successful man
If the world. There is no can't about
lin, and no dyspepsia. Although
Jniverasalist he rarely breaches doc
rine, and his sermons are full of relig- :
GUS feryor. DR.. Chaplin does what very t
ew clergymen can do, he reads with {
cal power. Henry Ward Beecher's
eading is boys performance com :
Jared to Chapin's. His deep, rich |
oice, without an element of weakness g
n it, fills the church, and every word a