Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-05-28
Winter in New York. 1880.

York of century ago. 1t was the cold
winter. Both rivters were frozen, and
the bay was solidly closed, so that mer
and teams and even cannons passed
ever tho ice from tue city to Staten
Island. and the British were in constant
fear that the daring Yankees would
steal over from Paulus Hook, (now
Jersey City, and attempt the capture
of the city. Lord Sterling the American
general, with two thousand men, did
cross the Kills, or straits between New
Jersey and Staten Island, but the island
Tories were on the alert. and the Amer.
leans were baflied. Judge Jones, in
his Tory history of New York, says
that "no man living ever before saw
this bay frozen up" and adds that two
hundred sleighs laden with provisions,
with two horses to each, escorted by
two hundred Lighthouse, passed upon
the ice from New York to Staten Island.
Rivington's Gazette. of the Goth of Jan
uary, 1850, says that this day several
persons came over on the ice from
Staten Island" aud on February LIST a
four-horse sleigh crossed over. Stow
fell upon the 10th of November, and
lay almost continuously until the mid
die of the next March. In the woods
it was four feet upon a level.
New York was then city of thirty
thousand inhabitants, and the "hard
winter" es it was afterward called, Wa,
not only one of intense cold, but OF
famine and of fire. But the city, of
which Hanover Square was the literary
canter, in whose book-shop, as Mr..
Lawrence narrates, Miss Burney's Exc
lima AID DR.. Johnson's "Tour of the Heb
rides, and the works of "the great DIR.
Goldsmith" were advertised, was a com
pact community with a distinctive
character and spirit. 1t was, in fact,
an English colonial town, with certain
popular independence which was still
evident, however suppressed in ex-
preston. Many of the inhabitants took
the oath of allegiance, but their hearts
were with the blue and buff while the
scarlet made merry around them. For
the town in which Sir Henry Clinton
held his mimic court was gay with the
careless revelry of a military society.
Amid the cold aad starvation and i'm
Llense suffering of the city, the officers
cry was "On with the dance let JOY be
unconfned." The soldier must not
think, and the festivity at headquarters
would, perhaps, strike the patriot as a
reflection from the brilliancy of the
British prospects.
But the r1u.s AMI the rovelry were
no m ne agreeable to loyaiist GROWERS
like Judge jones than to the patriots.
He spent that winter in New York, and
complains that for wood which cost
nothing to the barrack masters, or
which could Ee bought by them for six
teen shillings u cord for oak, and TWEEN
ty.eight shilliHgs for hickory, he was
forced to pay q and sc l0s.; and the
indignant old Tory exclaims that it was
well known that 1.-The little misses and
favorte Dulcineas of Clinton, Robert
son, and Birch were all supplied with
large quantities of wood by their orders
out of the wood yards in New York,
and were RECALLING themselves in routs,
dinners. little concerts. and small par
ties over good, warm, comforta BILE fires
and enjoying all the ease and luxury,
in life, while t.e poor soldiers, for
whom the wood vas provided, were
with their wives and children perish
ing in the barracks in the severity of
winter"
When the fashionable promenade
was "the Mall in front of Trinity
Church, and when John street was up
town, when the journey to Philadelphia
and to Boston was counted by days,
and when Europe was weeks away over
the ocean, New York was shut up with
in itself, and had "local flavor
which is long since gone. Every gen.
tleman in town then knew of the "ine
Roman purl that could be drunk at
the Kings Head tavern and London
Chop house on Brownjohn's wharf, aud
the story of tho little town, now grown
into the vast and various metropolis. in
which civic pride and ambition are,
judging from the City Hall, extinct, is
as quaint and entertaining as that of
"Our Village" or of Crawford. EASY
CHAIR, UWper's.
President Patton, of Howard Uni
versity, Washington, relates how his
father, the late DR.. VIM. Patton, once
preached a sermon with a single nearer
loI u SohShC6atiohs A pCNCI0 DIV"
storm kept nearly every one ut home
but DIR. Patton went through all the
service except the singing. with no
audience but the sexton aad one stran-
ger in the front gallery. A few days
afterwards the stranger called on the
pastor, saying that he could not rid his
mind of the truth heard on the Lord s
day. He soon united with the church
and was for many years useful mem
Der.
Brown BREAD.-One pint corn meal,
pour over it one pint boiling water, a
teacupful molasses. shorts or graham
flour enough to made stiff batter. two
eggs, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in little boiling water steam three
hours by putting in pan in a steamer
over pot of hot water keep the water
boiling all the time.
No man can lift himself above the
world unless he takes hold of some
thing higher than the world he can't
lift himself out of himself, unless he
grasps something higher than him
self.
eve had short-cake for tea," said q