Year: 1873

TOmbS PriSOn---Grace Church

 Again--A Notable Funeral--Cen-

 tral Park--The City Generally--

 Justice to the Regular Army.

 NEW YORK, May 1.-The exhibi-

 tion of drunken and broken heads at

 the celebrated Tombs jail in this city

 of Q Sunday morning, is one of the

 sights to be remembered. l was

 there early this morning. Whether l

 had lodgings there last night IS none

 of your business. Architecturally

 the Tombs building is worth seeing i;

 it Is as quaint as any old Egyptian

 tomb-according to reports. It is a

 downtown institution and is more

 noted for business than pleasure. But to describe 1t and contents in detail

 and do 1t justice, both Dickens and

 the devil would have to be called in.

 The brute who acts in the name of justice there is worthy of passing

 curse. I would like to have Captain

 Jack 6 Co. stationed in this old lava

 bed about one Saturday night. Next

 to this I would have him make g. raid on Grace Church while the present Rector is wearing his shirt on the outside,' as the distinguished pris- oner of the Tombs, (Train, says of the Episcopal chaps. I told you l had been looking for Christ at all the fashionable resorts of this great fraud, but he of Calvary don't show himself where we would naturally expect to find him. Who knows but he is in the Tombs, like John Bunyan, biding His time? Hope so; a new Pilgrims Progress is sadly needed. But that Rector-he has less humanity and the real manners of gentleman, than the Police Judge, and thousand times less cause for impatience toward poor human nature. I called early at the Grace Church theater so as to get a free and easy look at the last of James Brooks in this fault-fnding world. The coffin was Ca thing of beauty" if not a joy for ever, and the contents despite the credit mobilier scandal, may be both in the eyes of the Lord. The old Rector strutted about, suggesting orders and changes in the programme with all the gruff- ness of an old army sergeant to batch of drunken recruits. As rule I like preachers; but give some of them chance and they can put on more beastly dog than anybody else. When you come to New York however don't forget Grace Church. But for 8 preacher go to Beecher. He be- longs to the human family; doesn't put on any religious dog, and is sure to say something that you will re- member till you next hear him if not longer; and you can't say that of but 8 mortal few of the most original of mankind. Acting on Sancho's proverb -" to the grave with the dead and the living to the bread"--I proceeded to do Central Park about as fast as horse flesh could carry myself and friend. The Park is justly the pride of this people. What mostly praise this city for is its great variety of first class amuSements at all seasons theaters as we'll as churches are in cluded in this good word. Those best informed say that New York eclipses any other city in the world in this respect. First on my list of good things is the oyster. It is re- ported that there are larger and quite J as good oysters in the Gulf of Cali 4 fornia, not far west of Tucson; but while l was at the Arizona capitol Cachise kept us apart. But for all practical purposes there is no discount on the oyster in this latitude, and if I could afford to fight out the bM- ance of life on this line, would perhaps join church here at an early day and say good God, (good Devil, | like an average Christian. The Aston Library, New York Historical So-V ,iety's building and several Art Gal \ leries are subjects of continual inter- est to me; and altogether I hate to leave this place fully as much as [ hate to stay in it. With less H. l1c .,;I1;on howovor |, ,,.