'1‘ H E N ORVVALK GAZETTE. E31 mother, and could not deal a death blow upon a helpless child. She surveyed the carnage ground by the light of the fire, which she stirred up after the deed was done; and catching a few handfuls of roasted corn, she commenced her journey ; but on reflecting a moment, she thought the people ofHaverhill would believe her tale as the ravings of madttess, when she should get. thome, if ever that time mightcome; she therefore returned, and scalped the slain: then put the nurse and the English boy into the canoe, and with herselfthey floated down the the falls, when she landed and took to the woods, keeping the river in sight, which she knew must direct her on her way home. After suf- fering incredible hardships by hunger, cold. and fatigue. she reached home, to the surprise and joy of her husband, children and friends. The General Court of Massachusetts examined her story, and being satisfied with the truth ofit, took her trophies, the scalps, and gave her fifty pounds. The people of Boston made her many presents. All classes were anxious to see the heroine ; and they found her as modest as brave. NOTABILIA. I -._______,_______________________ __ CARRYING THE JOKE T00 1-‘Aa.—Some gentlemen toad ent- ers to Gen. Jackson, and recipients of the public bounty, have _ attempted a new mode of glorification, by which they hope to secure to themselves the fruits ofa property speculation in the old hero's name, which they tell him is “the property ofthe na- tion”—but which would have been more properly styled the property and trading capital of the party, upon which specula- tions in stocks, men, politics and office have been made to a vast amount. The proposed city is to be built within the District of Columbia, an a piece of mud called Mason's Tract; and the sycophants, in addressing their idol say :- “Considering your name as the property ofthe nation, and of posterity, they appropriated it to the contemplated city, and have called it JACKSON CITY. They are well aware that the enterprise, as presented, does not exhibit a grandeur corresponding with the splendor of the name, but they equally know that great results are from small beginnings. and they cannot but feel sanguine that at no distant day JACKSON C‘ITYwill not be unworthy oftts name. It has appeared to us also as peculiarly proper that the SE- COND MAN or THE NATION suoum) HAVE HIS NAME PLACED in’ THE SIDE or Title FIRST, and we trust. that by the efibrts ofonr- selves and successors. aided by the strength ofthis great coun- try, Jackson City will grow in happy union with \Vasington City.” The annals of the world present nothing to excel the baseness and injustice of the above sentiments. To place the name of this man by the side of thefirst—the pure, the great, the benig- nant, the mild, the pious, \Vasliington. The name ofa man ‘whose life has been marked by every excess of violence, by pri- vate brawls, duels, contumaceous dereliction oflaw and duty—i5 it not an insult to the good sense and morals ofthe people! ‘ ,And then to mark the ‘self complacency with which the ful- some—the grovelling-—epistle is received. — “I duly appreciate the honor paid me by the name given to , the newcity. and trust that its pr‘ospertty, as the neighbor and . fiend, 7_,f not a part qfthzs, whtcn bears the name ofthe gener- ';' ated Father ofonr Country, may equal your expectations. . After this, let us take down our emblazoned picture ofthe De- l claratiou of Independenee—-let us strike out from the list of its '1 signers, the names of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Hancock—— .let us, in short, erase the whole luminous catalogue of those who lpledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, to se- _ cure to this age the enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of lha‘ppiness—eand then let us write there the name of the author of the Protest! the first Spartan‘ Agis who introduced gold in- 73,0 the state, and corrupted the sources of public opimon—the i first Lothario who abducted another man's wife:-.-the first states- man who slandered a senator to a bevy of hostlers at a public inn—the first president who bribed the speaker of the house of representatives with the promise of a foreign mission to secure a vote in favor of a violation of the faith and laws ofcongress— the first president who appointed forty members of that body to office in the force of his own declaration ofits corruptingiuflu- ence—the first President ofa party—and the last demagogue—- passionate, ignorant, vindictive. who has filled the presidential chair. And how will that picture look, with the name of the great Brawler smeared over it! PALACE LITERA'1‘URE.——C0l Meacbam’s great cheese has reached the palace, and has been the cause of an another ef~ fusion ofthe noble muse. The expounder of the law, as he un- derstands it, remarks in this wise :— “Taken in connection with the National Belt, which accorno panics it, and which displays with somuch sincerity those pledges of patriotism and union, which in every criszs of mar country’: hz':;tar‘_2/, have vindicated and elevated its character, I cannot too /rig/tly value it.” A No doubt the great cheese is sincere in its “display of those pledges,” for which the great man will "value it ;” and there is still less doubt that the great ra£* of the Globe will soon be unit- ed to make a great hole in it. The letter goes on in the same turgid style:— “I beg you, sir, to assure those who have united with you on the preparation of these presents, in honor of the Congress ofthe United States and myself, that they are truly gratifying as an evidence ofthe prosperity of our hardy yeomamy in the State of New York, who are engaged in the labors of the dairy. That such prosperity should be attended by the possession of the sen- timents and feelings which belong to the good citizen and patriot. could never have been doubted. It is among the greatest bles- sings of our free and equal institutions, that the honest laborer in every branch of useful industry. is not only entitled to a voice in their administration, but is qualified to guard and preserve them.” The ‘farmer of Tennessee’ must have become a. little oblivi- ous upon the subject of managing a dairy, when he compliments the ‘hardy ycortzaizry,’ for being engaged in the manly business of slcinzming ntilk. But, like his commendation of ‘the cottagers ofonr country,’ nothing is good that is not democratic; and, as the women don’t vote, it is not to be supposed that, in the manuv facture of such a cheese, they have presumed to meddle. It will no longer do to question the capacity and qualifications of every man in this country-—though he may not have been in it five minutes—to “guard and preserve” our “free and equal institutions,” since the existence of those institutions confers that qualification spontaneously, in the same way that the sun gives light to the blind. This is the reason why the imported demoe- racy in New York give such a “qualified” vote. As a contrast to the foregoing foppery in language and affect‘ edrepublicanism in sentiment, we give the subjoined letter of Daniel l'Veb.ste-r, to the same Col. Meacbatn, upon the reception ofa like present. Every man of sense.will mark the contrast. There isin it no far-fetched eulogy——.no irrelevant prating-of the democracy—uttered in a jacobinical spirit, which forces evo- ry little occurrence into a connection with the institutions of the country. It treats the matter upon its true merits, as one of doé mestic economy; and entertains no idea of making a cheese a pledge of the ‘country's patriotism and union.‘ New Yorut. Dec. 8 1835, M'r. Thomas S. Ikleac/2am- Dear Sir—I accept cheerfully and gratefully the cheese which you have presented to me. Together with those others which
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