Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-10-16
vR SAM PArCH's LAST JUMP!

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correspondent, of the New York CONNER
-, ,r,ongs, many other marvellous things,
eve, an account Of the last srea, Jump by Mr..
p.,,b-lown the Niagara Falis-which was
,,.,ouea in yesterday's Gazette. We sub
-, !, for the amusement Of our readers, and
r., ,5e OBLIGATION Of all future Jumpers.
Yesterday morning came, and with il sue
,.,,;o, Of heavy showers. But Sam was de-
,,rmnyd to have his jump. His reputation
g,,a, stake. True, the people were gone: bu
sam was 10 Jump for glory, not for filthy lucre.
WIS arranged that he should leap from 4 LAD
lsr erected al the foot OF ,h- precipice below
Go, Island midway betwse en- the British and
American falls 4 boat was TO De manned. 10
III, among he whirlpools, and pick him up,
!, if he did not go off subterraneously, after
he manner Of poor Morgan. At abou, eleven
o'clock, the lidder, one hundred and twenty f,e
i.sl in length, was completed, and half erected,
when down i, came, by the parting Of chain,
sih crash which broke off hfeen feet Of lis
ear'h. This was a damper-io say nothing
4 rhe rain. Mr.. Patch wspt. This is no joke.
Mr. Pa'ch was visi5Iy AMI very sensiby affect
ID, insomuch that the big tears did roll down his
nlsly clerks in pearly drops. Indeed ii mus
5e conceded that Mr.. Patch carried himself
y.i throughout. have some where read Of
aSniimen,4I tailor, whose perceptions Of the
sublime were almost equal to those Of Captain
Hath aud who, after the first emotions on be-
holding these s,upendous falls were over, broke
a,ace BY the eloquent aud memorable excia,
nation, " . what fine place TO sponge a coal"
I 81, .E sole,
pause WHEN he frs, beheld this tremendous ca
lrlc,, exrllim in an ets acv of d ght, "Whal
darGsd fine place 10 lump." But am di
crossing The friends ot Sam-aTd he was the
ion Of the day-Geclarcd he should not be dis
/ pponIed and f he would jump, he should
/ Ths hour was changed from e to 4; and the
hdle1 va, mended, aud erected before the APP
p,a;ed time. At : o'clock precisely, he was
| hr', and 90 Ia shores were sprinkle with peo-
| pL, while the trees and cliffs Of Goat Island
bore respectable testimony 10 the public curi"-
ay II noW came Oh to rain furiously, and
Sm nho is more Of wag han most people
akt him to be. concluded tha, il was not pru-
| dent TO Jump in the ram, lest he should get wet
Ba With lhc mos, good humored patience the
audience endured the peitings OF the pit'less
HOrmto an hour--until they were all as wet
as So many drowned rats. !, now broke par
Tally away, and Sam crawled out from cleft
IN rock, d esSed in wh'lc, and quickly ascend
ed the ladder, amidst cheers so loud thai they
Toatd h1,e been heard far abroad, had it not
been Tor he roaring of the iurbulen, Niagara.
hhrGth he reached the pinnacle, where he
N'or mome', like a sea-gull upon The cor
lef OF cloud Now he stretched himself 10
hS tnll lengrh-bowed as gracefully as he
eOaid 10 The genllrmen, Kissed his hand to the
@ler sex, aud made his fearful leap. "Wha'
tall was that, my oounlrymen!" He sank
nHH sen'et'ly. and disappeared in the whirl-
ny caaldron, which closed upon, and boiled
over him He has made an everlasting leap,
a'd IN old man, wiping away a tear. won
Yer ne was told to lock fur The bong OF Mot
en- iqllrcd little old man who looked as
hoosh he wanted TO go to TIE Assembly -
"a some said one Thing, and some another.
O' Sam heard none Of ,hem-he being " tui'
I've hthom deep, down below" II was indeed
wonderful prodigious jump snch as nor
nan had never made before; aud the fishes
uW Nave started, reckon, when he popped
." suddenly upon their unvisired kingdom-
province which even Neptune himself, nor
~ 81 MS tri,ons, had never yet dared to visit.
"@S now time 10 iDok about Tor the new mes
',er 10 the deep; aud the boat pliedi brisk,y
'na The eddy 20 seize him by the crown as
should rise to the surface. But Sam didn't
'OC% 10 favor them with his custom, aud he
.'iasrd 10 scull himself ashore unperceived
'Ay Body, and the next tha, was seen of him
"H discovered clambering up the rocks like
"aNed muskrat He was received with
''N Cheers, and the people all scampered
'% 10 dry their clothes and talk grandilo-
.l'y OF the hero of The day. A, our house,
vas voted mem. con. tina, Sam Patch is but
name Tor The hero who was The first TO
= me Cascade, and lave in the basin OF the
cara and that henceforward ne shall be
.S" 'g The more appropriate Cognomen of
,Vti oCArAnAcT, ESQ. y. B. There is
=, hanging at Niagara next Tuesday week.
VT cataract is to jump the day afterwards
- 4" elevation OF two hundred feet. | am
"'s'nen yours, SC.
HIRAM DOfNy T1''rI Jr