Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1824-12-03

CHAIR, on the LEFT Of IT, the Capitol OF the United
states, and On the right, the purse, hung upon a
pole, containing, 5000 dollars per c1num -
The area is filed with spectators frou, all parts
of the Union, all real lkenesses, of some of the
prominent partizans of the different candidates,
IN The CHARACTERISTIC costume of the different
sections OF the country TO which they belong
The several candidates are all Iikenesses in the
face, and equal If not superior, 10 any we ever
saw, the peculiarities Of each being laid in bold
making observations according TO their several
| partislites. The first is a Kenf,,cktan--" How
| IS Clay :" Curoiinian, with the most exquisite
superciiiousness replies, d" O, dog cheap" "D-n
1t, says Clay, g l can't save my distance-.o /
may as well Syaw up " Well don't distress
YOURSELF" says one in racers habit, "there'lI
be some serubbing by and by, and then you'll
have a chances q Hurra for old Kentuck. !"
says another "D---n my leather breaches, says
an old Jolly soldier with hs'breeches torn 10 rags,
and n bottle of gin al his hand, if won't all
why's stand up for the GIs-eral' fYou needn't
ne SO cldmorous there says one, syour OLE! Ken
'eck's come to standstill', D--n me if he
SHIRT, he'll deal-ish quick take the lead of the
whole pack Here sweep, between spruce
french officer with snuff box and an exquisite
oil the frst wafer, folds his arms sets his chin in
10 prim order, in his rufles of SCOT, and says
!" toho cant be a dandy, All hah = says the
's"Sn ohCer, as NraW1Ord hltcheS his spur in
Edwards rear, Mons NEDDY, tink dat kick on
dc 6ack Of ye,tr side is worse don have no din
nsr de fourt of July.
The foremost fellows sho,cs fine bottom, SAYS a
Jockey; ay, but the hindmost has the best bone,
says Tennesseean. " Blast nv ewes" saws
Virsinian with one eye gouged ont, (" if don't
renter small horn of rot gut on that Bald iey
IN the middle DIN my wig, says bald-head-
ed yankee, &c if don't bet YOU" A little bit of
curly nosed Philadelphian peeping under the
legs OF others says, now old hickory cuts dirt
That inner:rack fellow" saws consequential
Experimentation we suspect lives about the En-
qurer office in Richmond -" goes so we'll, that
l suspect he must have got the better of the bots "
Like enough" says green mountain Phlsi-
can, hut between you andI-I don't think he II
ever get the better of the QUINCY" Crawford hits
Edwards IN the rear with his Edwards cries
oh my honor,"-"I II serves -ou right, Won stu
pd NIsNY an so it does, for trying TO stop him."
says prim looking old woman A broad
cheek'd, cornfed Tennessean, looking through
the crowd at old hickory, exclaims "well that's
not slow But we cannot give our readers any
thing like view Of this exquisite performance
here is something inexpressbly humorous
throughout the whole piece, so characteristic,
and so true to nature, that we feel our power al
description absolutely deied. The eneraver
has done Injustice TO Ciay--he has not &c drn,cn
up; on the contrary, he is determined to " save
his distance" and we must do hun the Justice to
say, that he keeps The course well Adams
however, takes the lead. 20 shows fine bottom. -
and is destined TO stake the purse" on the 18th of
March next.