. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York . was demolished ; and you will re-member that they erected a Whipping Post, where criminals, for small offences,were stripped and flogged in public. What old Yorker will forget the JailBell ?~\ts peculiar sound, known from all others, for a fire ? I remember itssounding for a break-out by the prisoners, about the year 1800. Old Peter Lo-rillard,the tobacconist, was shot by a prisoner, whom he tried to arrest. It was 591 some months before he recovered, and made quite a consternation at the tobacco-box, I suppose, saved him! I could
. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York . was demolished ; and you will re-member that they erected a Whipping Post, where criminals, for small offences,were stripped and flogged in public. What old Yorker will forget the JailBell ?~\ts peculiar sound, known from all others, for a fire ? I remember itssounding for a break-out by the prisoners, about the year 1800. Old Peter Lo-rillard,the tobacconist, was shot by a prisoner, whom he tried to arrest. It was 591 some months before he recovered, and made quite a consternation at the tobacco-box, I suppose, saved him! I could mention many incidents of the olden time, but you, of course, are fa-miliar with them ; such as the Doctors Mob, the Bedlow Mob, the Destructionof the Old Wooden Fort on the Battery (given to the poor when wood sold for$15a load, and sleighing lasting three months during the winter); but I havenow, I think, given you a tolerably long yarn ; and,as old men are apt to be gar-rulous, you must try and wade through my crude sketch, and ruder
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