New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-29
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
,,rv yopy AND NEW-ENGLAND.

Tur SCARLET 1FTTrR-A COMPANION PICTURE
To LoNGFHLLow's TORQUEMADA-AN ErIiAfh'
DIED OF A BROEEN HEART.
: A banker looking out on Trinity Churchyard from
q lofty building opposite, SAID 10 Inc yesterday
Jobnnv the most religious argument left IL that
.burchyard in the heart of New-fork, only three
hundred feet from the Stock Exchange"
How do Won account for that, Midasp
Because il is 80 rare to see church or clergyman
nowadays not willing to realize on as vaIuaoie "
niece of real estate as that, which PROBABLY is worm
five millions of dollars leaving the church euihco
out But they allow il TO play more IMAM re'ieo"'
mart in the desert nakedness OF business eN ine
green trees birds the graves OF our iclIow-fhe' 'o
monuments of men more useful than r'ch' ana inc
bells of heaven 10 the most sordld region OF our
country Yes. Johnny, it is really a mission houSc
like that in the Five Points"
Here the quarter of the clock, scarcely above our
heads struck music out Of the open stoncwork,
ata.rala-bimp The sparrows flew from the req
scnptures of the tower the spire like the spine oil
great fish. trembled with melody up all It's caruI-
ages and the sycamore trees IN the deep graveyard
below lsped as out of prayer-books AZ service
congregation repeat and turn the leaves. Inc
Lord is in his holy temple" they seem to say . Let
all of Wall Street hear Him"
PEEP INTO NEW ENGLAND.
The essence of two ages at once can he had oy
leaving New-York at o'clock for bridgeport aS
did during the week. and connecting there with the
railroad for Stockbrdge, Mass. which Is reaene"
about o'clock and then riding in carriage AFTER
dinner through Stockbrdge and LenoX to flttshelu,
md after three hours rest there, crossing 10
ALBANY The whole ride along the Housatohlc ana
hack by the Hudson, is river and mountain seen cry
and New-York can be reached for carly business
the second day At Pittsfeld, saw the modest
home of Senator Dawes, and his office IN yellow
block upon the public green, and heard WARM
neiphborly words of him. AT Albany iouhu 'ho
hotel at midnight filed with that species OF 1ro"sy
statesmen who regulate governments and morals on
,ho hass Of tobacco smoke and small invectiye yet
get their names as regularly the papers as If they
were public opinion, all discussing Mr. Conkhng
In one State the peace of accomplished ana rSttuI
government existed in the other were the coarse
asperity and bullywOrship of the Indian frontiers
Yet Dawes's home is only an hour and nail from
Conklings capital. Ten years ago Massachusetts
had Senator also eXasperating ana Der met'ie-
some whose injuries Mr.. COnkling delighted TO ruo
raw. He saw Mr. Sumner turned of his ancient
committee of the Senate by Executive demand ana
intrigue without qualm but with gloatlng APP
proysl and mimcked his pronunciation, ana
cbuckled with the Presidents aide-dc-camp. Upon
the insuted mans grave the blossoms drop soft as
the kisses of spirits, and man feels tender rs he
passes by because he was buteted by TINS poiltlca
class and almost deserted by his State, yet only
added forgiveness to his more on-like virtues. The
prosecutor ruars on. because he cannot have the
lions share of all the fresh meat and says he must
resign and be reelected and keep us all nervous all
midsummer. and that it is grievance of interna-
tional possibly nterstelar consequence.
thought would have liked to lead Sumner back
again to the world and through the Delavan House.
10 realize the dignity of death as contrasted with
New-York live politics under his victorious enemy
Alas for those who survive their death and fuss
along posthumously, like shapes and declaInatlohs
in Bedam!
At Stockbridge | went into the wash-closet. ms II
seemed where Jonathan Edwards wrote The
Freedom of the WILL" and also rode round the
ANAL hill.elubosomed lake where Hawthorne lived
three wears and composed many things. is called
the Stockbridgc Bowl The lake is mile or less
from the small green. almost sombre town. Our
driver said it was full of fish, but permit had 10
be obtained from the three selectmen TO hsh there
and they generally sent somebody along to watch
one. Fancy fishing under jailer's eye whose cold
suspicion would scare all the Is ak Walton out of
one! Was it lsaak who said: " If you don't swear
YOU won't catch any fish
Stockbrdge is beautiful the scenes betwixt
death and heaven in the Pilgrims Progress" Its
broad flat street with precise walks In the grass
and sanity Gins stiff and elbowy, yet weeping for
The fall of man. and wdowy houses weedy in
humid humility, and noseless perfected every
thing made me long for totally depraved boy TO
awake the sheriff by screaming, Shine yer boots
Daily Nevis, one cent" There was the inn, built
IN IVA. where once the Albany stages stopped and
on Sunday nights the deacOns drank rum flip ard
laid plans to entrap unbellevers and Tories, and 1t
is now decorated after Ruskin's own heart with
gold paper and rugs and black cabinets and its great
oak beams are smart as old maldens about to be
married in their scores. The site of the church
where Edwards preached in dogmatic and feminine
searchingness now holds o sort of campanie raised
by our fellow citizens the Field brothers. to COM
memorate their father also. who. as citizen told
me, preached gloomy world indeed which perhaps
accounts for Cyrus putting so many sparks through
it, David fitting code to its ankles, Henry keep
ing stern eye OH it, and Stephen resisting internal
machines.
Dudley Field aged sevcnty-sx. hut straight as an
elmowns l. 400 acres they say hereabouts His house,
near which is his brother Henry s. commands noun
tain view peacefully grand as to suppress silly
comparisons. Between the brothers is the frame OF
the old mission house where Edwards and his pre-
decessors taught the Indians. This part of Massa-
chusetts not settled till 1928, and was most
readily entered from Connecticut hence the pre-
ponderancc OF Yale Caynisin mp this way. Laid
out IN l79 in this very month Of May, as an Indian
mission village Stockbridgc had 400 Indian settlers
and pupils in time and teacher for tho mission, a
pastor for the church, and dozen white mems
homes. perhaps, made the nucleus for these impure
blooded aboriginals Prom 1850 to 1858 Jonathan
Edwards and his wife Sarah Perrepoint, and many
of their ten children lived in this wilderness OF
Berkshire while his fame was already highest, poor
as the Indians, poor as authors have 10 De- ana he
was fifty, his third daughter, Esther was twenty
when along came the Reverend Aaron Burr at the
age of thirty-six, who had thought Of everything