Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-08-20

ton, as in duty bound, reciprocated the kind
ness, by going to Newport, and voting there.
Here again, was another "large and respectable
mcctingn composed of the i,ahdbitdnts of New
port.-This is the way 10 count noses; and must
be about as successful in promoting the election
of jackson and Clay, as has been that other
Kentucky Observation-Disclosures flying ma
chine"
Uho pays he Piper Pit is a notorious fact, tina,
the whole county swarms with political emissarcs
and that newspapers gratuitously distributed in
every direction, all for the good of the people, md
to promote the election of w lillian III. Crawford.
This is all perfectly fair, but then this question
turally arises who pays the expense, 1t is not to
be credited that should pcrambulate the cou,l-
try from eud of the Union the other on poll
teal missions, without remuner alton III shape or
another, nor is IT probable that newspapers should
long persist in "A course which, every day, reduces
the number of their subscribers, and dimnshcs their
| advertising patronage, (for Chwfordisn is dele
FERROUS To newspaper as the srocco is To animal
ife) and that they should, moreover distribute
considerable portion of what they publish gratis,
less they had some pledge of restitution for their pc
cuuiary sacrifices. 1t matters not whether the re-
ward is to be given in money, in offices of trust
and profit, whether the obligation is direct from
the head of the treasury himself, or from those who
arc sufficiently in his confidence to guarantee what
they promise. 1t is equally corruption, and alike
repugnant TO the spirit of institutions, and dam
scrous to our liberties.-.Hcss. Spy.
The following auecdote, illustrative o the nober
qualities which have often distinguished
trywomen, is given in the Boston Gazette from an
unquestonable source.
A good ady-we knew her well when she had
grown old-in 1115, lived the sea board, about
a days march from Boston. where the British
my then was. BY some unaccoun,able accident, n
rumOsr was spread, in town aud country, in and a.
bout there, that the Regulars a full march
for the place, aud would probably arrive in three
hours fa rthcst. This af,rr the battle of Lex
inston, and all, as might well be supposed, in
sad Conusion-somc were boiling with rage
full of fight, with fear and confusion, some HI
ding their treasures, and others flying for life. In
TINS wild mument- when most people, In some way
or other, were frightened from their property,
heroine, who had two sous one about nineteen yeats
of age, and the other about sixteen, seen by
our uiormant preparing them to discharge their du-
ty.-Thc eldest she able to- equip III fine style
she took her husbands fowlimg piece, ''made for
duck or plover,' Qhe good man being absent On u
coasting voyage tn Nrginia) and with it the pow
der horn and shot bag; but the lad thinking the
duck and goose shot quite the size kill rcgu-
lars, his mother took chiSel, up her pewter
spoons, and hammered them into slugs, and put
them INTO his bag, aud he set off iii great earnest,
but thought he would all one moment and see the
parson, who said well done, my brave toy-Ciod
preserve yrn-and on he went IN the way OF his
duty. The youngest was impurtunatc for his
equipments, but his mother could find nothing arm
him with but an old rusty sword; the boy seemed
rather unwilling to risk himself with this alone, but
fingered in the street, of hcsitaton, when
his mother thus upbraded him: "You John H****Hf,
what will father say If Ire hears that child of
his is afraid to meet the British, go along; beg or
borrow gun, you will find one, child-some
coward, dane say, will be running away, then take
his gun and march forward, aud if you come back
and hear you have behaved like n man, ]
shall carry the blush of shame my face to the
grave" She then shut the door, wiped the tear
from her eye, and waited the issue; the boy joined
the march.