Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-11-17

LA rAfETTE. GENERAL La Fayette has
lately come into possession of large
property under the indemnity law, being
the fortune of his own and his wife's FAM.
", OF which the revolution had deprived
him.-Patriot.
DOMESTICK NEWS.
Honour thy father and thy mother. that thy dav,
may be long in the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee"
Soon after the decease of the venerated
John Adams, we mentioned that in his will
ne had, among other liberal requests, given
large legacy to aid the erection of new
house of publick worship in Quincy. Since
that time beautiful church has been built
OF Quincy granite, in style of architecture
credltable not only to that town but to the
Commonwealth. During the past summer
ex-president John Quincy Adams directed
the-construction of an appropriate monu-
ment to the memory of the venerable John
Adams, and his excellent consort, to be
placed in the Quincy Church, as the most
appropriate locality for memorial of one
rwhoselife had been devoted to his country,
and whose purse had ever been opened most
literally to aid the sacred cause of social
improvement, true liberty and independence,
and moral and religious instruction.
On the 2lst ult. the monument having
been completed, was placed in its appropri-
ate place in the church. 1t is a plain and
simple design, consisting of tablet, having
recessed pilasters at the sides, with base
moulding and cornice the whole supported
by trusses at the base. The material of
which it is made is Italian marble, and the
whole is surmounted by bust of fine Car
rara marble, from the chisel of our promis-
ing artist, Mr.. Greenough, now at Rome.
The design for the monument was fur
nished by Alpheus Carey, of this city, and
the work executed by Messrs. Carey and
Dickinson, in manner which does them
much credit. The erection of the monu-
ment was superintendent by Mr.. Dickinson,
and appears to be put up in neat and per-
manent manner.
The inscriptions, copies of which are an
nexed, are unusually well executed. They
will amply repay any one for pilgrimage
to Quincy. He who visits these testimoni-
ais to departed worth, placed in the temple
of the Great Oliver of good, who peruses
the memorials which FILIAL PIErY has in
scribed upon their tombs and who feels that
in the good they had achieved, they have
left monument more perdurable than the
skilfully executed marble that he admires,
must 60 home better man, with his affec-
tons purified and his patriotism more ele-
waited and devoted:-
IJRERTATEM AMIcrTIAM FInFN1 prr1Nr
BIS.
DOM.
Beneath these Walls
Are deposited the Mortal Remains of
JOHN ADAMS,
Son Of John and Susanna [Boylston] Adams,
Second President Of the United States,
Born 1890 October, 1875.
On the fourth of July, 1776,
Hepledged his Life, Fortune and Sacred Honour
To the INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTRY.
On the third of September, 1888,
He affixed his Seal to the deinitive Treaty with
Great Britain
Which acknowledged that Independence,
And consummated the redemption of his Pledge
On the fourth of July, 1926,
He was summoned :.
To the Independence of Immortality,
And to the JUDGMENT OF HIS GOD.
This House will bear witness to his Pety
This town, his Birth place, to his Munifcence:
History to his Patriotism:
Posterity to the Depth and Compass of his Mind.
At his Side
Sleeps, till the Trump shall Sound,
ABIGAIL,
His beloved and only Wife,
Daughter of William and Elizabeth [Quincy] Smith
In every Relation of Life, Pattern
Of Filial, Conjugal, Maternal and Social Virtue,
Born ll-22 November, TIA,
Deceased, z October, 1878,
Aged IA.
Married. 25 October, 1884.
During an Union Of more than halfa Century
They survived in Harmony of Sentiment, Principle
and Affection
The tempests of Civil Commotion;
Meeting undaunted, and surmounting
The Terrors and Trials of that Revolution
Which secured the Freedom of their Country;
Improved the Condition Of their times
And frightened the Prospects of Futurity
To the Race Of Man upon Earth
PILGRIM.
From Lives thus spent thy earthly Duties learn;
From Fancy's Dreams to active Virtue turn;
Let Freedom, friendship, Faith, thy Soul engage,
And serve like them thy Country and thy Age.
The capitals D. o. NJ are the initials of three
Latin words-Deo, Optimo, Maxine To God, the
Best, the Greatest.
Upon the marble tablet, the inscriptions are plac-
ed parallel to each other, divided by plain line
To accommodate them to our columns, we are oblig-
ed to give them in type different arrangement.
Boston Patriot.
CorroN CANVASS. 1t is estimated that
forth thousand bales of cotton, per year,
would be required to equip our Mercantile
Marine with Cotton sails. 1t is easy also
to imagine that Cotton sails, if they can be
advantageously used by US, will soon be uni
versally adopted, in every part Of the world.
How vast source of wealth will be laid open
to the Southern States by the immense con-
sumption oftheir staple The time is not
distant,-it is indeed at hand,-when this
new market for Cotton will be opened, pro-
vided the present expectation that Cotton
sails are both cheaper and better than hem
pen sails, should be fealized.--PGlladiam