Delaware patriot & American watchman., 1828-06-17

discipline with a facility truly crediable to the
different corps. Captain GlLLls is a most gem
tlcmanly man and an experienced officer ;-laving
served under Bouaparte in his European cam
palgus, he displays truly the gallant air of SOL
der, with the accomplished knowledge Of yete-
ran. We hope that the offer Of Delaware hospi-
ta,ity was as we'll pleasing to our visitors their
sentltmanly department and soldierly conduct
was 10 US.
Tie Dinner. The facctious Major Noah. Of The
New York Enquirer gives an account, from which
max the following extracts,o the wonderfullin-
uer lately given in Enaton to the Godihe man y
"IEe great Daniel Webster has diaed there.
fore the hard working jackson men throughout
the nation may 60 to their pork and green's
Mighty and muititnsinous were the preparations
for that superb OCCASION The Essex Junta be-
stirred itself Boston was ia commot;on-Rhode
Island Kicked up a dust--old Howard talked in
hundred languages was in dsorder--ora-
tor EnmoIs was humbed in the dust and Ben
Russell touched the topmost skies. Old Fanueil
Hall, the Pryteneum of Boston, as the classic
EIVeTclt Cailo II, was ueCOTdteu Will teH lousahu
ornaments. TIE literati with the ex-Professnr
at their head, searched the Cambridge library for
safe p.ecedents in feasting. Every treatise on
cookery was pored over, from Egesippus to Glau-
Gus in Greek, down to CoumalIa and Apicius in
Roman. The most classical recipes in the art of
gornandizing, were culle,l and copied; Ude and
Gassc were modern and despised.
Il For three whole days not a Goldfish or picked
mackerel was touched in Boston. Fathers un-
heeded their Children; husbands forgot to en-
brace their wiyeS lovers sighed not murnur,
t.aie was storped, and the whole city poured into
gAuuc Halt, it in the day its third glorf
cation Never has the world seen such wonderful
dinner Here was the beef and there the goldfish
smmered asparagus. At last, the great, the i'm
, portant moment arrived. All were seated around
the tables-old Fanuel was silent, like the cata-
combs and the city of Boston was breathless tor
the onset The godke man" opened his mouth,
and every one cried /" hush let us hear his nigh
i; tv wisdom" :. Let me have" said he, in peals
: of thunder" let me have piece of corned beet
e "A whole piece and nothing but piece" IT
was soul stirring--it was terrific (as the Massa-
e chusets Journal has it, No words could rise or
. descend more dismally into the soul. The admi-
, ration which every one felt for the idol OF New
, England, was overwhelming. Never, says ar
= eve witness, shall find, in these degenerate days
another man, to ask for :" corned beef with such
dignity, such eloquence, SO much in the style
i, the old Roman The dinner now went on /; ant
= every man who had genius for eating exhibited
ii its originality In due time, they reached th'
N speech; of which the Boston papers are long an'
loud in their praise. The Massachusetts, Journal
of that pink of eloquence, says, he gathered III
or strength like a tempest, which rises from tn
n lakes and reaches the Atlantic grief, Indignation
al disiain, offended dignity, and wounded prid
ne were struggling in his bosom and III his aspect
IT. Were there no wine and canvass backs strugglin
un there also !"
10 Hobe! appears from the last Journal that the Edi'e
nc the Village Record such faithful adherent OF IN
nowers that be- as 10 say, Even in Pennsylvania we
ICE not despair"
nu Can be possibe that the is in earnest? 1t SO, h
ia sight have become SO much impaired ana ms
ote so greatly that even the evidence OF the sense
ck ia lost on him! Or il not more probable that ne u.s.
spcb language merely russo de gnerre; and IN do
So is wsntonly shining against light and knowledge
J.. Hope, we know, when once II mas oeen eAe'eu, - ~
70 ,nger to the last But in Pennsylvania the Adams s
but haSe never vet had solitary hook, which % hang
ems hepe'