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Genoa (Italy) (search for this): chapter 7
terance, is the shabbiest and most broken-down looking large town, I, the present writer, an individual not wholly untraveled, ever saw, in a free State of this Confederacy. The shores of the lake there are bluffy, sixty feet or more above the water, and the land for many miles back is nearly a dead level, exceedingly fertile, and quite uninteresting. No, not quite. For much of the primeval forest remains, and the gigantic trees that were saplings when Columbus played in the streets of Genoa, tower aloft, a hundred feet without a branch, with that exquisite daintiness of taper of which the eye never tires, which architecture has never equalled, which only Grecian architecture approached, and was beautiful because it approached it. The City of Erie is merely a square mile of this level land, close to the edge of the bluff, with a thousand houses built upon it, which are arranged on the plan of a corn-field—only, not more than a third of the houses have come up. The town, however
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
; and the solitary camper-out could hear them breathe and see their eye-balls glare, as they prowled about his smoldering fire. Mr. Greeley, who had brought from Vermont a fondness for rearing sheep, tried to continue that branch of rural occupation in the wilderness; but after the wolves, in spite of his utmost care and precautiothe paper on which he worked, as a Jackson paper, a forlorn affair, else I would have sent you a few numbers. One of his letters written from Lodi to a friend in Vermont, contains a passage which may serve to show what was going on in the mind of the printer as he stood at the case setting up Jacksonian paragraphs. You are aware d I, running my eye involuntarily up and down the extraordinary figure, did you ever work at the trade? Yes, was the reply; I worked some at it in an office in Vermont, and I should be willing to work under instruction, if you could give me a job. Now Mr. Sterritt did want help in the printing business, and could have given
Erie (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ey Astonishes the draught players goes to Erie, Pa. interview with an editor becomes a journeyman in the office description of Erie the Lake his generosity to his father his New clothes no ok a bee line through the woods for the town of Erie, thirty miles off, on the shores of the great l still lives who saw the weary pedestrian enter Erie, attired in the homespun, abbreviated and stockthe same old stick. The country frequenters of Erie were then, and are still, particularly rustic ibeautiful because it approached it. The City of Erie is merely a square mile of this level land, closs to the best advantage, is worth a journey to Erie. Two sides of The Park are occupied by the prin land at either extremity, forms the harbor of Erie, and gives to that part of the lake the effect s. It is said, by one who worked beside him at Erie, that he could tell the name, post-office addrer his personal expenses during his residence at Erie, the sum of six dollars! Of the remainder of hi[6 more...]
Great Lakes (search for this): chapter 7
, cows, and sweet-brier bushes occupy the unenclosed ground, which seems so made to be built upon that it is surprising the handsome houses of the-town should have been built anywhere else. One could almost say, in a weak moment, Give me a cottage on the bluff, and I will live at Erie! It was at Erie, probably, that Horace Greeley first saw the uniform of the American navy. The United States and Great Britain are each permitted by treaty to keep one vessel of war in commission on the Great Lakes. The American vessel usually lies in the harbor of Erie, and a few officers may be seen about the town. What the busy journeyman printer thought of those idle gentlemen, apparently the only quite useless, and certainly the best dressed, persons in the place, may be guessed. Perhaps, however, he passed them by, in his absent way, and saw them not. In a few days, the new comer was in high favor at the office of the Erie Gazette. He is remembered there as a remarkably correct and reli
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Chapter 7: he wanders. Horace leaves Poultney his first overcoat home to his father's Log House ranges the country for work the sore leg cured gets employment, but little money Astonishes the draught players goes to Erie, Pa. interview with an editor becomes a journeyman in the office description of Erie the Lake his generosity to his father his New clothes no more work at Erie starts for New-York. Well, Horace, and where are you going now? asked the kind landlady of the tavern, as Horace, a few days after the closing of the printing-office, appeared on the piazza, equipped for the road— i. e., with his jacket on, and with his bundle and his stick in his hand. I am going, was the prompt and sprightly answer, to Pennsylvania, to see my father, and there I shall stay till my leg gets well. With these words, Horace laid down the bundle and the stick, and took a seat for the last time on that piazza, the scene of many a peaceful triumph, where, as Poli
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
his bundle and his stick in his hand. I am going, was the prompt and sprightly answer, to Pennsylvania, to see my father, and there I shall stay till my leg gets well. With these words, Horace r, but without result. He heard about this time of a famous doctor who lived in that town of Pennsylvania which exult in the singular name of North-East, distant twenty-five miles from his father's cro seemed the very embodiment and incarnation of the rustic Principle; and among the crowd of Pennsylvania farmers that thronged the streets, he swung along, pre-eminent and peculiar, a marked person,ay boys—Erie, which boasts of nine thousand inhabitants, and aspires to become the Buffalo of Pennsylvania—Erie, which already has business enough to sustain many stores wherein not every article know clerk, with his heels in the air, administer, 'twixt sleep and awake, the tremendous oath of Pennsylvania, to a brown, abashed farmer, with his right hand raised in a manner to set off his awkwardnes
Rutland (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
this hour, they do not tell the tale of his departure without a certain swelling of the heart, without a certain glistening of the softer pair of eyes. It was a fine, cool, breezy morning in the month of June, 1830. Nature had assumed those robes of brilliant green which she wears only in June, and welcomed the wanderer forth with that heavenly smile which plays upon her changeful countenance only when she is attired in her best. Deceptive smile! The forests upon those hills of hilly Rutland, brimming with foliage, concealed their granite ribs, their chasms, their steeps, their precipices, their morasses, and the reptiles that lay coiled among them; but they were there. So did the alluring aspect of the world hide from the wayfarer the struggle, the toil, the danger that await the man who goes out from his seclusion to confront the world alone—the world of which he knows nothing except by hearsay, that cares nothing for him, and takes no note of his arrival. The present wayfar
Joseph M. Sterritt (search for this): chapter 7
eekly paper, published then and still by Joseph M. Sterritt. I was not, Judge Sterritt is accustoJudge Sterritt is accustomed to relate, I was not in the printing office when he arrived. I came in, soon after, and suction, if you could give me a job. Now Mr. Sterritt did want help in the printing business, andhree weeks after this interview, continues Judge Sterritt—he is a judge, I saw him on the bench—an aHe would do the best he could, he said, and Mr. Sterritt right pay him what he (Mr. Sterritt) thoughMr. Sterritt) thought he had earned. He had only one request to make, and that was, that he should lot be required to luded the condition that he was to board at Mr. Sterritt's house; and when he went to dinner on the opinion of him in the following terms:—So, Mr. Sterritt, you've hired that fellow to work for you, is strange journeyman drew no money. Once, Mr. Sterritt ventured to rally him a little upon his perhough he had never seen it before, You see, Mr. Sterritt, my father is on a new place, and I want to<
Horace Greeley (search for this): chapter 7
me about twelve days: it is now done in eighteen hours. It cost Horace Greeley about seven dollars; the present cost by railroad is eleven doleir eye-balls glare, as they prowled about his smoldering fire. Mr. Greeley, who had brought from Vermont a fondness for rearing sheep, triesuch a result will be highly satisfactory to your humble servant, H. Greeley. It was a result, however, which he had not the satisfaction of ng, and a day or two after along he came. The terms on which Horace Greeley entered the office of the Erie Gazette were of his own naming, e of the present year is, of course, not the Erie of 1831, when Horace Greeley walked its streets, with his eyes on the pavemeant and a bundleuff, and I will live at Erie! It was at Erie, probably, that Horace Greeley first saw the uniform of the American navy. The United States d to his place, and there was, in consequence, no more work for Horace Greeley. Upon the settlement of his account, it appeared that he had d
Perry (search for this): chapter 7
keep him three days. In three days she had changed her opinion; and to this hour the good lady cannot bring herself to speak otherwise than kindly of him, though she is a stanch daughter of turbulent Erie, and must say, that certain articles which appeared in the Tribune during the war did really seem too bad from one who had been himself an Eriean. But then, he gave no more trouble in the house than if he had'nt been in it. Erie, famous in the Last War but one, as the port whence Commodore Perry sailed out to victory—Erie, famous in the last war of all, as the place where the men, except a traitorous thirteen, and the women, except their faithful wives, all rose as on man against the Railway Trains, saying, in the tone which is generally described as not to be misunderstood : Thus far shalt thou go without stopping for refreshment, and no farther, and achieved as Break of Gauge men, the distinction accorded in another land to the Break oa Day boys—Erie, which boasts of nine tho
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