He was anxious to unroll the paper, expecting to find ten half joes enveloped, but he restrained his impatience until out of sight of the wedding folks; then, to his surprise and disappointment, he discovered ten half dollars! Vexation could not long retain its place with him, and soon gave way to the opposite feeling. He determined, if he could not put a fee into Mr. Blair's pocket, he would get some fun out of him. So, on his return home, he drew out a regular account thus: The Rev. J. D. BLAIR, To the Rev. J. BUCHANAN. To hire of a carriage two days, at $5, To horse-feed and other expenses to and fro, By wedding fee received from Mr. Balance due to J. Buchanan, The memory of these good men is enshrined in the hearts of their survivors. A contemporary of these Reverend gentlemen was the Abbé Dubois, a Catholic Priest of talent and distinction, and, like them, free from intolerance, so that they enjoyed each other's society. The Abbé escaped from France during the reign of terror, and came to Richmond at the close of the last or early in the present century. He obtained permission to perform the services of his church in the court-room of the Capitol-the present Senate Chamber on the opposite side of the hall to that in which his Episcopal and Presbyterian friends officiated. The Abbé taught a French class in Harris's school, and also gave lessons to a select few at his own residence, in the small wooden-house which is supplanted by the new Custom-house and Postoffice. When the Abbé left Richmond, a farewell supper was given to him by a brother teacher, Mr. Dunn, at which his clerical friends were among guests. He closed his career, years afterwards, as Catholic Bishop of New York. One of his pupils, now almost an octogenarian, to whom I am indebted for this, speaks of him as a learned, accomplished and amiable man. the The humble residence of Mr. Blair yet stands at the north-west corner of Leigh and Seventh. The not less simple one of Mr. Buchanan, at the northeast end of Mayo's Bridge, has disappeared. Since those primitive times, I have seen many churches built, and many of them converted into tobacco factories, bakeries, concert halls, dwellings, &c., but only to be substituted by larger and better edifices, and now Richmond contains as many and as handsome places of worship as any city of its size. Within the last two or three years, in walking round little more than a square (now sub-divided), one would pass these various places of worship—a Campbellite (Disciples), a Baptist, an Episcopalian, an African Baptist, an Unitarian, a Methodist Episcopal, and a Presbyterian church, and a Synagogue. It may be interesting, for future reference, to enumerate the places of worship in Richmond, and their pastors at the present time-May, 1860. EPISCOPAL.-St. John's.-Grace and 25th street, Church Hill, Rev. J. T. Points, pastor. Monumental.-Broad, below 12th, Rev. Geo. Woodbridge, D. D. St. James.-Marshall and 5th, Rev. Joshua Peterkin, pastor. St. Paul's.-Corner of Grace and 9th, Rev. Charles Minnegerode, D. D. Grace.-Corner Main and Foushee, Rev. F. Baker. BAPTIST.-First.-Broad and 12th, Rev. J. L. Burrows, D. D. Second.-Corner Main and 6th, Rev. L. W. Seeley. Grace Street.-Grace and Foushee, Rev. J. B. Jeter, D. D. First African.-Broad and College, Rev. Robert Ryland. Third African.--Leigh, near Brook avenue. METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Trinity.-Franklin, east of 14th street. Rev. J. D. Blackwell; about to be transferred to corner of Broad and 20th. Centenary.-Grace, near 5th, Rev. W. H. Wheelwright. Broad Street.-Broad and 10th, Rev. Jas. A. Duncan, pastor. Clay Street.--Clay and Adams, Rev. J. J. Waggener. Union Station.--24th street, Union Hill, Rev. W. W. Bennett. Oregon Chapel.-Oregon Hill. Wesley Chapel.-17th, near Venable, Rev. Mr. Bellman. Sidney Chapel.-Sidney, Rev. J. M. Saunders. Rockett's Chapel.-Rockett's, Rev. Mr. Bellman. African Methodist.--3d, between Leigh and Jackson, Rev. G. W. Nolley. PRESBYTERIAN.-First.-Capitol and 10th, Rev. T. V. Moore, D. D. Second.--5th, near Main, Rev. M. D. Hoge, D. D. United.--Corner Franklin and 8th, Rev. C. H. Read, D. D. Third.--Corner Broad and 25th, Rev. Mr. Mitchell. Duval Chapel.--Corner Duval and Adams, Rev. J. J. McMahon. ROMAN CATHOLIC.--St. Peter's Cathedral.--Corner Grace and 8th, Right Rev. John McGill, assisted by Rev. J. Teeling, D. D., and Rev. J. Brady. St. Mary's.--(German.)--Marshall, near 4th, Rev. Jos. Polk. New. Not consecrated, Church Hill. HEBREW SYNAGOGUES.--Kaal Kadosh Beth Shalome.-(Holy house of Peace.)-Mayo street, Mr. Geo. Jacobs reader. Kaal Kadosh Beth Ahiba (Holy house of Love).--(German.) 11th, near Marshall, Rev. M. J. Michelbacher minister. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.--Corner Cary and 19th. DISCIPLES.Sycamore Church.-11th, near Marshall, Rev. W. J. Pettigrew. UNIVERSALIST.-Mayo street, Rev. Mr. Shrigley. GERMAN LUTHERAN.--5th, above Jackson, Rev. Mr. Hoyer. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN.--Bethlehem.-Between Clay and Leigh, Rev. Mr. Gross. This chapter commenced with "ne'er a church," it con cludes with nearly forty. CHAPTER XII. CEMETERIES. "There the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.” THE old church-yard of St. John's has been fully tenanted for a number of years, and its tombstones are memorials of many worthies, whose names might else have passed from the present generation. After an absence of some fifteen or twenty years, I re-visited it, and obtained the melancholy recognition of the names of more of my old friends and acquaintances, inscribed on the tombstones, than I found on the door-plates and sign-boards of the living generation. It recalled "the memory of past joys, pleasant but mournful to the soul." This sacred spot has not been exempt from the barbarous desecration of the idle and worthless. The perpetration of such sacrilegious mischief is one of the most disgraceful traits of the basest characters. Tombs have been mutilated, if not destroyed, but many of them have mouldered or toppled over from neglect. One of the oldest, however, dated 1751, almost coeval with the church, remains unimpaired, except being cracked |