Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-06-17

'u'S ID "v'ses coutu carry ,neIh Strapped on their
coats, rolled up their sleeves, and went to York
like good fellows, to provide tor their wives, and
their children. As the Jerscyman said, they get
their breadb by hard knocks, and they must look af-
Ter the plough. Not ~ with the courtly friends
o! the second Adams. Law showed them the WAY
TO destroy Jackson's popularity. The eating eau
Gus at ashiigton issued IT. bulls, and forthwith
the whole Adams party brandished their knives
and forks, and were determined to cut their way
to Office through all the opposing hams and legs OF
mutton In the country.-W hen Colonel Stone and
a few rfgmaroieS turned the Passaic into mutton
broth, we did not think them worth noticing.
Their toasts were dull as the dinner sas
ihSipid. but new scene has now opened upon
our aStonished optics. ligh, bas 6ieu from the
east has risen up iii the midst of canvass backs aud
cidss.ques. The great Daniel Webster has dinell;
therefore, the hard working jackson men through
out the nation, may 30 to their pork and greens.
Mighty and muliitudinous the preparation.
Tor that superb occasion. The Essex Juiti bcstil-
red itseit-Bos;on was in q conmo ion--,, Oh. T.
land kicked up a duSt--o!d Harvard talked in a
hundred languages-Salem was in disorder-o,,,-
tor Eminons was huinbied in the dust, and Major
Ben Russell touched the top-most skies Fanueil
Hall, the Prytdnewni OF Boston, as the classic Eve
rett calls IT, decorated with ten thousand orna-
mens. The iferdfi, with the ex professor at their
head, anu buckingham at their tail, ST. arched tn
library at Cambridge for safe precedents in feast
ing. Every treatise Oh cookery pored over
from Egesippus to Caucus, in Greek, down to
CoiuineIla and APicius, i'll Roman. The mos; elias
seal recipes in the arr oil gorinandzing were cui-
led and copied. Ude and Glasse were modern
and despised. New difficulties occurred. The
committee of arrangements were thrown into a thou
sand opinions. Shall we make tia Nome CGpr0-
ttnc? said one. File said Junior, it ought to be
Ltpercaitd, a feast of iustration TO wash Danel
the great clear Of his sins, and send hiA to grass
another suniiner. No, said IA learned Tarifl-man
1t shall be an OSchophOria with a bough bound
about with wool for signal. By no MEANS said
5ne ch'fd oil the new union, it shall be SGtu,na-
ia; we must dine down the vulgar jackson party,
drink them dry, and eat the country into war,
pes,ilence and famine"
For three whole days not Goldfish or picked
mackereI was touched in Boston. Fathers I'M
needed their children, husbands forgot TO embrace
their wives, lovers sighed not a murin,r trade
was stopped, and the whole city poured into Ia
ne uil Hall, TO see it i'll the day ol its third gor,i-
cation. Never has the world seen such wonder
iui dinner Here was the beef, and there the cod
ilsh; at one corner the boiled chicken and the
other the 'imlnered asparagus. At last, The great
the important moment arrived. All were seated
arouhd The tables-od Faneul was silent, ike the
cataconbs, and the city OF Boston was breathless
Tor The onset The g godic man opened his
mouth, and every one cried 90 hushi let us hear
his mighty wisdom."-"Let me have - said he i'm
peals OF thunder let me have a piece of corncd
beet-a whole piece, and nothing but piece
IL was sout-stirring-it was terrific (as the Massa-
chusetts Journal has it, No words could rise or
descend more dismay into the soul-The admira-
non which every one felt for the 6 idol' of New
England, was overwhelming. Never says an
eye witness, shall find another nan, in
these degenerate days, asking for corned beef
win such dignity, such eloqucnce, so much in
the style tho old Roman. fine dinner went on
Every man who had genius for eating, now ex-
hibiied its originality. In time they reached the
speech. VI this, the Boston papers are long and
loud in its praise. The Mass Journal that mink
OF eloquence says, " he gathered hi, strength ike
i tempest, which rises from the lakes and reach
es the Atlantic; grief, Indignation, disdain, Offend
ed dignity, and wounded pride were struggling in
his bosom, and in his aspect" We're there no wine
ana Canvass backs struggling there also!
Several other gentlemen made speeches, but in
consequence OF the sudden illness of an English
Stenographer from Piccadilly, they were lost 10
poSter1ty MIR. Everett made speech full of wit
and hunonr No doubt OF it; ne Is one of the wit
uest men OF The age. and can make p,ns as fast as
others can pudding. Tristram Shaudy was also
there from Rhode Island. The vulgar and Hitter
ate Jacksoni,es OF Washnmton said he, (,ueanina.
tue kentucky and western members) were men to
" whom 1t was impossible for civilization TO be ci-
WI For the benefit of the American system
there were several English guests present.
Judge, Bishop, Sc. The regular toasts, we regret
to say, are the dullest things ever read. There
was tat al de ra OF an original song, which was
string of the vilest puns on the Iale session or
Congress that ever million of pick pockets accor-
dins 10 Dr. Johnsons theory, could invent.
now this dining and drinking oil the Adams par
~ Is one oil the most singular signs Of the times
G
dacity until the corrupt times of The Emperors-
imperator Max:men eat forty pounds of corned
peel at a lunch, and drank i'll proportion How
different with the farmer Cincinnatus Bu,
the new Romans have risen up in the east
Inc age OF icdcTa! Sormandising has commenced
" Lee Us eat, dins, and be merry" say they, {" for
Tomorrow we de
La serious political point OF view this dinner
IS a more important affair than many imagine II
IS reviviticdtion Of the old spirit which guided
the federal Qualifications, during the age Of JET.
iersoh and Madison. The same class Of choice
spritS now congregatc round the great idol as
III these days. tho doctrines aud the same
sentiments prevail. During the first term OF Jcr.
ferSons presidency, they cat as gloriously; drank
confusion TO Kentucky and the west; and attenpt-
Ell 10 drown the democracy OF the country in their
iiDations. At the last war, they used to meet in
le saline hail, eat as ravenousiy, and pour forth
their wine in execration of the barbarians of Ken
lucky aud Iennessec. III the present day, they
are tame and subdued from the giooniness of their
prospects; but the same spirit of hostility, to demo-
cracy and the western states, breaks forth iris
tram Burgess, one OF the midnight judges of old
Adams, comes from Washington, where he had
been abusing Kentucky, and takes up the same
tale III boston. On the floor of congress he rep
resented the western republicans as cut-throsts
ana ruifians, and he Ienews The same th me in
aneuil Hall. Now, we like dis It will open
the eyes OF the western states 10 the real danger
OF the coalition leaders. The organ Of Mr.. Web
ster, with a Haivete ndescribable, fears that the
democracy OF New England will separate itself
iiom the a'tSf0cTdcy. They have reason for these
alarms. m. Y. Euo
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
The committee appointed 1T the late meeting of
The citizens OF Augusta, TO open corresponde1ce
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Comp,nv
&c addressed the following letter to the President
MIR. Thomas, and received from him the answer