, 1874-10-10
SALISBURY POINT, MASS;
A Visit to the Poet Whittier.
The Old Church on Rocky Hill.

.a'potnts "oJo"!'",' ~ aottlea IN 4oaoi ne"t'S
."o con'oflos aua ia't aRo, and IL now famous
tisno on 1sooky lIill.-in thoao later days nj
o1>,ent M ;o,nro., ,o c,r,oa,.v.,oI,v., -, ,lo
a,noat, nrno,ata, 1,oa,,.,, ~ .,,o 1'a.', W -, ts
| ss sfaS.1', a"a4,'lou poa".s o. Liz oauKs OF 'no
tho town touchoa tho son; ita three ministers,
afl bearing tho nnmo, Of .Wripht.-ono of whom,
lives IN tho ,,ppor part Of tho town. mn In, to
1owor mari ond ,1,a t,,,., W w .,so I'm. 1 w.
naturally enough they arc called by everybody,
Upright, downright, .and Nillright. II,
! under such ;. spiritual gui{,ea. TIM /, nopulo
arc not all right. tloy nro without oxcnsc., And
horo ls tic r,luco where thoy 1uild r. hints rnr
ueh' bnt'esa lr1onoa' anu ne'ehbots," the
isl,ornson Of Gloucester md all along shore.
They build them. 1;shonld say, at, the rate, Of
about lalr-a-milo nor day. md pa,y thcn, mr. n
~ aa IN nna,tftics to snlt w ,rov @ IN ] rn roo"nt
IN eau' III Iaansl','s ~ SUIT 1nss naSo seeeht-
! " sent blip-load OF them 10 Franco. Across
tho river, on tho aum,it Of lofty swelling hill,
| commandipE a grand Wow Of occau and river
stunds tho summer residence Of Sir Edward
| Thornton, tho British Envoy. Tho structure is
castic-lka in itB proportions, but sufroru from
ucnr inspection, boing built Of wood nnd rather
el,abbi1y atthat. Tho location aud Its s,rrout,d-
| ings urs superb. - = -,
THE rosr WHITTIER, ..
Oh this side Of tho riyor. u1l ubolit milo ts-
TINT, arross tic lnlosb,iry lo, is the cuttago of
Whittier plni, oItl-fa5hipnot lio,lhe Of lu0cst
Dimensions, Will notljug to attract tho atteutIot,
Of nnsaerp.py. simple front yaru. M I without Or
namantatior saso Tow, trees. two OF tareo lilac
pusIaa, and yaBo Of. towcrs -tLis il all thoro
is externally OF tho abode Of the Quaker poet.
In company With mr. Old friona, J; N: c., who
liz 19o
gayo NJ : very corGial greeting, considering wo
woro both strapgori,, md without letters Ho
ai,. A..
roont. direct 10 bis charming little utudy. whonco
las iggr1cd Ills im,nurtal ycraos a cheery. oppt,
hroplaco with tho old-fabl,ioncd BRASS untiirois;
small talie, thckly scattered With manuscript
aud writing materials 4 TOW wc-iillod slo!ysa
Of books tllco or four uhairs nicturos OF
sumner md Lincoln. with n few nl,ntoryun nhn of
Lis literary atlti personal friends, conpitutp tic
place. where he writes. rto poet himself is n
curb. i,rlinuG to tic Oualicr cut an eyo fSrI;
nu1,d piercing but siueuarly mild md Kindly in
his Elunce,, Wtlilo iiy whole couutauauco beams
viii. ar isoxprosi ibc beniyuity. 1Io at onco
whit lle termed our wonderful city Of tic Wost
SAVING l1o had, fMyor boon IN Illinois. Wf,ct
/ atoko Of: the thousands wllo would
ciye linn n loving welcome TO their Wentarn
uircs he said th"y wore uuly too kind. md thnt
e hoped Ut sou,a tina to Witt Cllcugo, aid re-
;sottcl l,a was not a,o to atlond tuo reunion Of
| t!io old Abu1,t,,n,Bt, In Juuo layt. lIo then
Apul:c Of his ca.ly cxpurisces in phllatelpi,in,
when llr. Garta5n and others, Including lin.
an incident ll,al huIpalisd not ioug aiscr Tho Wnr,
wirl! e mel somewhere .;o Virginia lwlicy. vho
Eail to- Lia "M:. W,,t..or wo should be 'i,up-
pr to sea you IN ls!cl,Hand, and will mako YOU
welcome to our Ilo:.tcs !" 10 wsrl, ha replied
s' 1ln lal to lloar TIVE ray tll.a bit how II
had nludo ll,ao g. visit in, 1862 Z"
speaking; CT ,lr. 1.neoi,,, lso 9 said:
~ received tho 1tw;A Ut his frat
Hon'lnatiou-hob bains then unknown to iac-wl
RI ann r,.,;}
by the deupur grief fcl: Ut the ilrNa uf his tie.t
whep llaa conn TO love min 40 Well" LIZ alluded
10 tEo trontio5 u t.o'Ia1a;ia, a:ll said With ens-
pssis tat wllilo he supposed the President lad
Le copuido.es the kellogg Goser''lnept :. fraud.
l9eyo'ay 4uhnsona letter, fnyorsl'y keoEg'a res-
guatoi. un.l . now o!cetion, l,o thought, a q wiso
| susgos:or: Unoa lining to 80. ho Eavo lis u
our iaRse, altnr X wit which to me was q raro
! ircat, and will NOT BOON bo. forgotten.
THE OLD CHURCH on 1socKY HILL.
1Ialf-a-mila iron, tho river, OIL tho brow OF
EocEy lll1. sta'lB tue old Hluaic cllurcl, just au
it stood century ago. innocont Ut paint, or
Bpire, orchlnloy, III neiGhborllood Ut country
houses scattored along winding lauos and marrow
rosds bor1crod by stono walls, Now thnt this
old church mas boconlo famous, tho pnriSjl hag
wtgely detcrmlnod TO- permit Ito clango it, its
atlucture outside or in, but to }reHotye it in iH
pri1ni,iye state as !. memorial Of tho venerable
last. Externally 1t is lnrgo, gqnaro. two
htQEH, Ht0Heu uultdl11E Will dUnD!o roWB Of Wll-
luws NIL uround made Of 7-by-0
glass. It is without column, or cor,lce.
Or the nligllteat projection Of u11y yors,.-a
great Square wooden box. now dark n1d au,ost
n,oEs-covared With aso. We ontor, nnd find our
selyos within tho saorud prceilctn Of IL house
which, iu respect to its internal iittugs has out
lived. think, all It's Ncw-Euglaud contonlpo-
| rarics. The buanla md posts OF its solid onkeil
frame stand out at the BidcH and anglca OF tho
room and, III plaee Of our modern slips or
pows. you lind the old-tn1e, square, unpaintcl
ponB with narrow, e1shionloss, wooden goats,
Antl perpendicular, high bucks over tho tops of
which you barely catcl glimpse Of your neigh-
bors' he4da. These !seats, aro hung at tho back
cdge with od-sylo irun hinges, AM! nro lifted
up during tho hour Of prayer (WHICH in
70 ol!ea time, was literal hour, 10
the worahipor. The broad gallery extonds
around tlroo silos, aud is also divided up into
Hsiunlc pous us below, Except tue seuts for tho
Hingers But tho chief object Of i,,torogt il to
two.Btory pulpit, surnou,,tcd by tho old-timo
souudne-bouru, wiliuh romans in ai itY prilni-
1.-Two glory. Tliis Inns no s,ual prototaions to or.
na,uenLation, aud, as compared viii, tho seating,
iy quite royal In itB canopy-like nppointuontg.'
Hard benches and STRAIGHT backs wore good