The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-03-24


took trip 10 the Ea stern cities Of Philadelphia
and New York accom- panied by my son, T.. L.
IL. Jun, for Princeton College. As YOU kindly
noticed In your paper some time ago, Thomas hal
graduated at the Ohio University, but hc had
commenced there too Young being only ii years
old, to do Justice to the college or himself lie
was anxious to carry his studie les further under
the celebrated instructor Dr. McCosh. Prince,
ion Is bout half way between Philadelphia aud
New Y ork, and about three mites from the great
railway leading from ono city to the other 1t
Is a town ofabOut 1000 people, besides the stu
dents, aud appears to be devoted exclusively to
the education Of young men. There are two cx-
tensivc colleges in the place, the New Jersey
College" under the presidency OF Dr.. Jam "a
McC0sh, and the chronological Seminary" in tile
charge Of the celebrated Divine, DIR. Charles
| Hodge. The college has some 400 students, and
increasing fast In number, with corps of some
eighteen professors bes ides lecturers. ILis now
competing successfully with Harvard aud Yale,
drawing The sons 0 some Of the best families of
the land into It's halls The buildings are exA
tensiYe, covering large space Of finely laid ont
ground. They have Just completed gymlr-
Stun that cost forty thousand dollars; aI5oa tiIe
observatory worth some SlU0 900 with n first
class telescope worth $40, OOO more from Ger
many. The little town has an air Of cOnfortand
ncOtness about II far above auy place have
seen In this country or England. Thcre Is not
as much us grist or saw mill near the place
Education appears to be the one great Idea OF
the people, "0'. t."
! The town is surrounded with fine dwellings
/ built on out .Ots ofilyc aud ten acres and nhab-
! tied by retired merchants and professional men
with their families, from the great cities OF Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New York. They all
appear 10 be men Ot taste and reGnemcn', and
! tOcklng here for the sake Of good society; 80 the
place has all air Ofrt iinrment very advantageous
| lOr Aeedlcntlng Of Young men. callod with
q large number Of the Professors olboth the Col
lege ahd The Seminary, and they Invariably re-
cUlyed me with rcspcct aud kindness, and | en-
tered Into u long chat with several Of them In re-
gard 70 Wales lis history and It's progress.
They nll appeared to have the warmest feeling
towards Welsh people, knowing that they were
heart and hand In favor OF liberty IN the Late "un-
pleasantness, "and that many brave Welsh boy
was killed in the awful struggle .a'.
The graveyard at Princston was intensely In
tcresllng to me IN one part Ot IL. There Is n.
space hedgcd In by dwarf eVergreens, where all
1 the prcsl ldents of the College are inferred Tho
first In (he row Is Aaron Burr SEN. the first Pres.
deut, and next to him the Rev. Jonathan Ell.
wards the Prince of American Dlyines. then
samuel Davies, an author OF great note There
| are four or five more Of less celebrity but rood
men in their circle and day. On the graves of
the presidents are grey slabs OF granite y lth
Latin mscript ions, the stones raised frcsn the
! HfOuOu ABOUT TWO lcel WIN Nb0ulOn masonry,
The stone on President Edwards Is clipped OH
piece by piece by visitors anxious TO have some
token In memorial Otlhe great and good man.
At the foot Ofhis fathers grave lies the ashes OF
the noted Aaron Burr, so well known in history.
Some kind hand hns raised tine marble mon
umcnt on his dust, lie appears to lie there rs
still aud quiet as any Of the good men that sur
round him. On one side OF the fine graveyard
there are about q dozen tne marble monuments,
all in good order, aud In reading the iuscrlp-
tlOus found they were over the graves Of stu.
dents that had come there for learning and had
dropped lpIo their graves In the bloom of youth.
Every one of these monuments were raised to
their memories by tholr classmates In the Col
legc. IL Is melancholy but al the same time u
beautiful sight.
After teeng. Princeton through, and leaving
my sou Ihero, left for New York, the great
Babylon, aud met there my dear friend Rev d.
Harris Of lronton, who had come there TO sup
ply the pulpit of the Welsh Pcsbvturan Church
on 18th Street Mr.. Harris Ind been there for
como weeks and had got the run OF the city
pretty well, and we set IN IN earnest to see the
sights for the few days had to spare. We had
OF course TO see aud hear the celebrated Henry
Ward Becchcr. We did see him, aud were per.
fectly satisfied that he Is a most mastery orato'
but poor evangelist. Our next object was, the
great Bible House IL stands on whole square
and five stories high. We called ut the office
and got guide, who took us through every
rOon from tho cellar where the great engine Is
stationed up ~ the attlc We say tho whole
process OF making Bible from the wettmg o {
the paper to fine finishing aud wrapping up of
The holy, precious volume. The concern em-
plo,s over 400 hands, and have % power press
es running continually. so YOU may be sure
that they tnrn out OF that building an immense
quantity Of The bread of life every day our
next place Of visit was Wall Street, where Nam.
mon rplgned In his glory. But as neither Mr.
Harris nor myself had any gold to trade, We
pushed ON to the celebrated Fulton Street pray-
er ermtetlng, which las been held every day at II
o'clock without missing single day for near
fifteen years. We found In this church q con.
grcgalon OF some three hundred persons nf all
k lnds olloOk ing people from the sleek we'll
dressed merchant aud banker, TO the most poor
ly clad mechanic, aud old people, oil intent on
their great erf0nd there OF praying aud wUr-
Shipping God. IL done US good TO 60 In aud mix
with these dCyOut wOrshlpers Such people
are ccltamly the charots and horses of the land,
Us the Prophet Elisha said on the ascent of his
august master IN fiery chariot up TO Heaven.
They ATE better defense TO our beloved coun-
try than all our armles.
Oyes. must not forget the stone man thai
made such q noise In the papers some time ago.
We saw him. He ls great reality after all, MIR,
Harris, who Is good sculptor himself, being
ofoughtup 10 that business assured inc aftei