Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-10

,rs the editor oil the ~ 4 ii'e' 'S, -
~, ~ Wv character of a singular adventurer
u" y me interest of the public, we give
no' no.. - i. Withholding only the writer's
l'r without any injunctions TO do
WIndsor, Conn. SlSt .4ug.
-, rI;,ors pfthe n. Y. American (;
. p ps proper respect for the doubts
4, ,bs cool people of Albany, and having a
;'IIow.ieeling with the doubters, 1 Will ena-
10, # YOU see fit, to inform them, that
~o.,or Jackson is a swndler yet. as far as
80 only charming rri ton of minnow
',,n,cs-but with the power Of change. The
.Io,s of day, early last spring, brought him.
4 0sIos,r;,n 10 nv house and before he
~ time to make known his wants--a sup
"ar and lodging-I had allotted him my best
toom and had prepared to give him my best
/ ,yantion--he was directly at home with me,
,,d those about me; and in that way, which
'howed him the travelled gentleman. For
many DAYS nothing was known OF his BUSH
moss. though il was evident he had taken up
he abode with us for some time. lie left
The house, from day TO day, Immediately al
| his very late breakfast, and would return
bn, in season for his very late dinner: and
would hear of him, about mile distant.
um6ing from bog to bog, and beating through
h,sbe,! Why-no one knew. At length
was told his name was, Boeiford, from the
north Of England, and that ne was IN treaty
with one neghbor for 4 mercantile establish
ment; With another for a water privilege, on
which he wished to erect a calico manutacto-
~, fora nephew then at Boston, sick, but
conyalescing--and his UaikS had been to the
sources of the stream he was wishing to pur-
chase After driving hard bargain for a
bout three weeks, he contracted to purchase
sloreand water privilege-went with me to
Hartford consulted Mr. about the safest
way Of conveyance, he being an alien OBJ
aimed the required advice, withdrew with me
10 the Mercury Office which Office left for
moment; returning found his compli-
ments for me, and heard of him four weeks
afterwards from Waterbury, where under
another name he had purchased a wOollen fac
tory, homestead, and dwelling house, had a
greed with the landlord to give him seven
dollars per week for his board, and left him
10 Illuminate on the profit and pleasures Of such
aboorder, had he stad and paid him, and, to
examine trunk the gentleman left, contain
lnS broken and ,iilapdated shoemaker's kit.
next heard OF him at New Haven, with yet
another name; he had been there week,
the eStaey ofthe landlord and delight of all,
when, mentioning at the dinner table that he
had spent some time in Windsor, ana with
me, gentleman present told him he knew me
ana had seen me lately: two hours afterwards
ne was seen in a corn field-having, in his
hurry, LETT ms cloak TO pay his bill and next
and last he appears in the American, as having
Inquired largely at Albany. AT Vernon, from
winch place, after having talked of buying
largely, and (strange enough) after paying
MS olll, ne took up his line Of march for
Windsor, where he announced himself as
Doctor Jackson, from England. While here,
no one oil his associates-and they were ma
ny-ior single instant suspected him of i'm
posture. The only object he effected, or at
tempted to effect, during his long stay, as it
respects gain TO himself, was few weeks
ooard Hewas either with, or was the au-
NOR OF, letter which was published in the
caledonia Mercury some time since for he
weut the route there described-told me Of
us ride to the Lake-stated his embarrass-
ment when he discovered his driver to be high
S0erlh OF the county---mentioned his Sunday
accommodation ofthe free thinking landlord,
anu related with great humor the difficulties
OIL MS hrst attempt to master an ear Of boiled
corn, weeks before the appearance of the let
Ter IN the Statesman. With face not hand
some but highly prepossessing, good mind,
nehly cultivated, manners digni6ed, yet ur-
zane, conversation winning and instructive,
literally hater of the bottle, singularly abste-
NOUS IN diet, regularin all his habits, appear
hs 10 possess every virtue, and erpressireiy
hating vice and vulgarity, in all their shapes he
$ certainly dangerous to society in his pre-
vent character; and The fear that he may
use sight ofthe comparative safety whic h his
present course ofpetiy annoyance affords him,
anu engage in some large and ruinous scheme
d vllhany for which he is eminently fitted,
las induced me to trouble you with this &C.
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