Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-08-12

will ge, prinred ny Mr.. Binns, of Philadelphia,
and charged to the contingent fund.- in your
pockets, to distribute gratuitously among the
spec,ators. You will then come To Washington,
and be taken care Of. With assurance OF my es>
TEEN. SC. Yours, sc. --,
SAM PATCH, ESQ.
SAM PATCH, ESQ. TO Mr.. CLAY.
Sur. | got yure note, but most h4Af ont was
tore off. l shall jump accordin 10 yure wishes
s. transackt the buzziness l trust, to your taste.
All | complane's of is your not being suphish'
entity konphidenshal. But that we can settle
hear aughter. | twigged the money, and got
! rid OF il without, any discount.
Yours, sc.
Hon. Mr.. II. CLAY, ESQ.
The events o, Patterson, and the base uses to
which they have been put by the, "by authori-
ty'' presses Of the coalition, all have Witnessed
or al least all have heard about them. But
we cannot dismiss the affair at Hobnken so br iet
~, Tor when the gates Of corruption are unbar-
ed, il is The duty of the conductors OF the press
TO stem the torrent, lest it overflow and over.
whelm, and submerge the land, the people, and
their institutions, buildings, archives, aud
tombstones, in the dreadful gulf Of consolida>
ton. Long before the houl appointed FOR Sam
Patch's leap on Wednesday, it appeared that a.
gents had arrived, well supplied, no doubt from
tine contingent fund, and foreslalled every boat
| and wherry upon which they could lay their un>
hallowed hands; so that honest Jackson men,
who Generally have no businers to attend to, *
who were therefore anxious TO spend an hour
agreeably in seeing the grand jump az Hohoken
-(they at the time not knowing that The whole
was a coalition schemel-could not oblaApspasa
xapes oves JSesusrs-o tn:re, asain the coalition
| people had the advantage they having the com
mand Of he contingent fund Aud as the fer
riage is one shilling apiece, it isn't every man
who can afford il these hard times, when our
merchants and manufacturers have all been obs
liged to shut up snop on account Of the tariff.
However, the friends of Jackson succeeded in
chartering the steam boa, Congress, at a shil-
ling a heads for the whole "trip. But here again,
we were doomed 10 encounter another obstacle
thrown in our way BY Clay and Adams. They
had sawed the posts which supported the upper
deck of the boat, by an exac, calculation, so far
through, tina: they would bear The weight Of the
Adams men, women & children. up 10 the pre-.
else time when il was TX pedient for them TO fall
down on the honest Jackson people, and no
longer. And ii so turned out, that after this
steamboat had gracefully * ma es'ically swep'
round the sloop from whose mast Mr.. Patch
was 10 jump, In the presence OF a great con.
course OF spectators on the green, and In boats
on The water, the upper deck gave way; and all
the Adams people, Patch included, came down
with great force and violence upon the republi.
cans below; one Of whom had his face badly
scratched, while another had the pa ches torn
off from both h is elbows. When order was
restored after this abominalion, Patch got on
board OF the sloop and soon made his appra,
ance, climbing up the shrouds in an awkar'.
manner, which proved that he was implicated
in an unholy conspiracy. He then made an ad
dress to the assembly; and though j, was inn
possible to hear a word Of what he said, to the
hes. of our belief it was as follows: "Ladies and
G,n;lemen! now you see me standing on this
bill Of timber. Presently you will see me jump
ing cf OF 1t. / am going down, bu, | shall
come up again incontinenIly. Jis, look al here.
You all seen how clumsily | climbed up 10 The
top OF this here mast; now you shall all see how
slick III jump off emf. Honest Jackson people
amt 10 be drownded, for divers reasons; so,
here it goes, darn III"
All this while Sam seemed to be uneasy, and
looking beneath him with much apprehension.
Atleng'h he made his Jump, and was Instantly
taken cut Of The water by a boat, chartered by
some body, and paid for out Of The secret SER
vice fund!
Time would fail US should we attempt to give
the evidences of the infamous bargain in>
volved in this foul affair. We carno, forbear
TO mention, however, one very striking circum-
s'auce Among the thousands Of Adams men
who swarmed over to Hoboken on this occa-
air of deep and solemn mystery was OBJ.
throughout No one would frankly
confess wha, he was going for. All affected
10 have business, yet none would tell honest
Jackson men what il was. But i is
qui'e sure they did not 60 over for nothing, and
- We are not officially informed of the actual CAPT. {
alton tax levied on the citizens who took passage in !
he Congress, but have every reason to believe that
he damage sustained by each was what we mentioned
n our text We understand that when Gen. jackson
$ called to fulfil his high destiny by the unanimous
uffrages of the American citizens, he will reduce the I
are for crossing the North River to s~ixpence and all Z
must be transported gratis. II