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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ls. Nor Graham regimen. •No tinkers of the currency Had altered bad to worse.For healthy infants then, you see, Were not put out to nurse.We quarrelled not bout public lands, For they were wild anil new,As everybody understands, When this old house was new. The evil days have come at last, In which few joys I find ;The morning of ray lite is past— Im lame, and almost blind.The keepers of the house now shake As palsied porters do,And my strong limbs obeisance make Where it was never due. ,: The smallest weight a burden seems,The curbstone is too high ; How different from my former dreams.When I could almost fly ! My sight is dim, my hearing dull,For musics tones decay ; And ah ! this dome—I mean my skull-Is thatched with silver gray. But though my sight be dull and dim, My Saviours love was prized ;In youth I placed my hopes in Him, And now theyre realized.Yea, though He slay me, still Ill trust ; His promises are true ;Though this old house decay, He must Rebuild it good as new.
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 30: the mind of the unfortunate prisoner with the idea that who entershere leaves hope behind —a sort of Bridge of Sighs. It was thisgloomy aspect of the building that gave it the name of the EgyptianTombs—the Tombs—where the worst felons and murderers are con-lined, and where the death-sentences of criminals are executed in thepresence of the limited number of persons required by law. Before the erection of the Halls of Justice there were five public-prisons in the city, one of which belonged to the State. These werethe Debtors Prison (now the Hall of Records), east of the City Hall ;the Bridewell, the Penitentiary, the State Prison, and the House ofRefuge. * The Bridewell or old City Prison was devoted to the temporaryincarceration of prisoners, where they were held until discharged asinnocent or convicted as guilty of charges preferred against them.The building was constructed of stone, and consisted of a central edificeand wings, three stories in hei

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