Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . abroad and at home. Not a steamer arrives but we heraldthe news. And then, as the folds roll out with an indig-nant flap, they seem to flirt out that the last news fromEurope or Washington was not to their hking; then theystop, and leave us to search in the papers they severally UoSTOX AND ViriMIV. 1 i> represent for particulars ; and it is no easy job to make aselection ; for there is the Journal, Traveller, Transcript,Advertiser, Post, Commercial Bulletin, Herald, and Iknow not how many others, whose shadows do not fallon the hundre
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . abroad and at home. Not a steamer arrives but we heraldthe news. And then, as the folds roll out with an indig-nant flap, they seem to flirt out that the last news fromEurope or Washington was not to their hking; then theystop, and leave us to search in the papers they severally UoSTOX AND ViriMIV. 1 i> represent for particulars ; and it is no easy job to make aselection ; for there is the Journal, Traveller, Transcript,Advertiser, Post, Commercial Bulletin, Herald, and Iknow not how many others, whose shadows do not fallon the hundred-year-old windows of he Old State I CHAPTER ni. OLD SOUTH CHURCH. HIRTHPLACE OF FRANKLIN. CITY COURT HOUSE. STONE CHAPEL. CE5IETERY. The Old South Church stands on WashingtonStreet, not far ilom the Old State House. So much his-torical interest is attached to this time-honored buildingthat we must be pardoned if we are rather minute in ournotice of it, for which we are indebted to a sketch inGleasons Pictoral. During the first of the seven years war, a church ofthis then town of Boston of ten thousand inhabitants, thatexternally appeared much as it now does, internally pre-sented a strange scene. The sanctuary was profanelyconverted into a riding school for Burgoynes pulpit and the pews, all halloAved by devotion, hadbeen taken out to light the fires of our enemies, the libraryof the good pastor being used for kindlings. Hundredsof loads of dirt and gravel were carted into the church,that it might better answer the strange use to which it wasput. A box was suspended four feet fiom the floor, over 22
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