Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-01-21
JACK Il ATTLE
re q BROTHER / AR.

mt mex. 81 here's at you, jaS' as 'h'0Ss
.om. noozrmas,. dom, IKE this George
,o,rr very well, its such muddy waking
&bn, tAen ,hsy sav the streets are paw d. D"i
#vha, good DOES that DO WHEN there 81
&nu1h mud that you CANE get down 10 '''e
- >. surn,s without digging Tor en-: A"a
&f,,ere's Dcnit-n,iarv, and if any body puts
IA le,ssr in ,he pos, Office for the Mayor hetl
t.ke felix, up and put 'em there, SO that
xtbxre'. no liberty here, aud body must
'Slook sharp and not do nothing that they
wan, 20. Ouc of the bridges is butt upon
great setting poles, and ~ railing 10 ihe
eausryay. 90 that if you're little how.
come YOU so, overheard you go 10 DaEy
JeaSS's.
Las, Moudav BiIl and went to the Ma
|rr.Y4d. There's white marble statues
there, p7r,,.ca;ed on some oi the boys that
Slot an ir wind like brave fellows among
TIRE Tri?oIi folks and 4 !gerinss~-He 'h"t
Cages put 'em ,nzre, bat twas not, twas
done by their comfad-s; not them hat was
billed. W. AK, why Congress dir! not do
i il, aud they told rs Cnngress was mig
gsrdly gang an,l guess they are too, tor
thew don, pay the old seldisss. nor dna't
Day fnr the horse told you about that shed
his blood in the wars. and what's worse,
Tom, they LEI cen. Nsshinstnn's bones lie
and ro, at Mount Vernon, because they
wont build monumens to pu, 'cm in
Old one arm Nelson was brave fellow,
|bu, no, equal TO Washington, and what did
the English do 10 make folks remember
him? don't doub, but what it's true tia
Cangrrss benz much, for they look like nc
|sreat ,hings.
SO VIII n we come from The Navy Yard
~, bore away for Congress. l knowed the
wsv the second time. We go, a snug birth
! in the gallery ,ha, told vou-Fhe same
ko,d admiral as in the high scat---They say
his great man, and lae saw he weighs
fcso -Thrv said something about funds
B liar hospitals for sramen 10 foreign counir'ts
1--WE begun 20 like I'm, for folks told Us
4thry did no, care damn tor sailors. aud
Eyou ksow they passed an embareo to rum
ahe msrchants aud DO nobody no good.
They talked about having New.Oheans
|suA Louisiana come among us and JON
|{cur company, and all the mulattoes and
&nsCroes. There was one was against IT.,
zhnd talked Ike the commander Of a squad
Ion, no, bi, afraid Of the whole on 'em,=-
Saws he, if YOU let '-m join US, twill break
H. The company, and you've no r'ghs 70,
Bad The Yankees will be OF, and then you
([faay shrk for ourselves. He didn't say
Yankees, but they said that was what he
tnrani. WtN what does a scrubbv looking
Fellow, that's got such sharp face that
YOU'D think twas only made co let the wind
gn both sides OF II; what does he but
jumps up and tells foiher 10 hold his jaw,
hOd ax'd the old admiral it he was no, say
inc what he should not -And then there
was dozen smoke all at onee. And then
here WAS another tina. ioek'd Ike a gene
al, but they said he was only ma or, he
anted to- know what business the sharp
"ccd man had to bother peopir when they
Here taking. The old Admiral sad the
aNkce man WAS wrong win that nc SAID
hS'd have il ou;, and let the Housr say ;
10 abevs ball the whole crew On 'en took
'de against the old fellow, and the Yatkee
pan went Oh. SO whrn We SEED things 60
ng right again We cone away.
Nen dsy We wsns sgain-Thsre was