The herald., 1837-02-27
lCowespeadsnce Of ths HsruA.l

This city is beginning 70 be crowded with strangers
on business from curiosity. Every tavern and al
most every ,arding house Is filled. desire to see
the Inauguration of the new President has brought
crowds already to this seat of fashion and legislation
Where those who may come hereafter, will be accom-
modated, l am unable to tell My landlady daugh-
tiers, of whom spoke in my first letter. have been
singing and humping on the piano for several days,
to the great delight of several new dodgers from the
country who have come the next President in
stalled, and perhaps to get Offices One Of them baws
out, in most delectabe squlknlnl style,
"Come rest this BOSOM"
which her rustic beaux pronounces exqusite-and
looks unutterable things. He declares she IS the
sweetest singer he has ever heard and the prettest
"gal" he ever "seed"-and so my charming young
friend is likely to gain husband at least by this IN
Her sister has not been quite so fortunate as yet,
though think one of the middies has sneaking
kindness for her. which, hope will soon npen into an
open avowal of love. His rival however is an old
member of Congress, who sits and listens to the very
discordant Of her instrument with great rapture
land says it beats the banjow all hollow. How
these rivals will settle it, time must determine, tor
cannot.
Yesterday the whole world was in motion, to par
take of the bounty of the President who had caused
it to be officially announced, through the Globe that
the big cheese was to be distributed among those who
please to visit him on the birthday of the eat Wash
ngton. The Senate, that grave dignified and patno-
tic body, adjourned at early hour to pay Their re-
spects to the big cheese and the House for two
hours endeavoring adjourn till A O'Clock, that Its
members might also show their patriotism, and love OF
eating The volunteer companies turned out IN their
finest uniforms and the inhabitants of the three cities
of this District male and female of all ranks and
dtions repaired to the Palace, to feast this copia
pressi lactis. Wallace and wended our way, in the
crowd TO see of course, and not TO eat The Presl-
dents Mansion was literally crammed, and such col
lection has not am assured, been since the building
was completed.
"Black spirits and white
Blue spirits and gray"
mingled in one beautiful confusion. The Secretary
and shoe black-the Senator and scullion-the belle
of the fashionable world and the belle of the country
the wife of the SENATOR and the cartman-were all
mixed up toget er like the ingredients in the caudrOn
Of the werd sisters
Double, double, toll and trouble.
Gen. Jackson took the precauton to abstract 200 lbs.
of the l400 lbs. for his special USE to be conveyed to
the Hermitage and fed his calves on the remainder.
"It is curious" said my companion, "to observe
with what eagerness the rats approach this great
cheese, and how they gulpt down the precious NOR
sci, worms and all, to please their MASTER"
"But he mas been feeding them on cheese during
his whole presidency, and they cannot but take the
last bit he has to leave Ihem"
The cheese was certainly enormous, and about
to Jefferson. 1t had been surrounded by a belt on
which had been painted the words applied to Jackson
by Branch, the Greatest and besr'-and his own
sentiment, "The Union must be preserved"
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coarse merry mind and heart, and pantaloons that
came down to his caves-taking an enormous mouth
fu ofcheese: "by the powers it may be the greatest
but by the Dvls mother, its far from being the best
so it is. Och i wouldn't give good pratere and a
nosgin of mlch for the houl of it."
"The Union must be PRESCRIBED" said P. Q--the
lmporsonation, as he is called, of the previous ques
ton in the House-cutting of large slice and filling
his mouth with IT,
"Ils an odd way ye have, of preserving the Union,
yer honor'-sad the Inshmnn, 81 should call that
same dssolving it."
"And what's that to you srrah p said P. @. look
ing very contemptuously at the poor Hbernian, and
mastcating his brothers and sisters by hundreds
Know your place and keep IT,"
my place, did ye say retorted .hepoor Irishman,
do; but you and the likes o -ye will let no honest
man kape his place Hav'nt been discharged and
turned away from place, because said 80 did, that
We were all pack O. hungry wolves-dsvourng the
fat o. the land and laving sich min as me to starve
Och by the Powers, yure cheese eating pack alto
gether."
"The previous question:" cried out an Honorable,
amused with the bluntness of the Hibernian.
"lfs carried" said another, and the Irishman was
hustled out of the neghborhood Of old p. q.
"What horrid looking animal is that intended to
represent on the cloth the tablet" said Miss ', OF
NJ Y. to her escort who stood near u.s.
"That" replied the gentleman, smlling us spe-
cimen Of the fine arts that accompanied the big
cheese"
"The fine arts, and what's that7 never saw any
thing like it in New York. Ii resembles hedge hsg,
stuck oa the proboscis of an elephant"
Nevertheless it is said TO be likeness of General
Jackson executed the covering of the cheese by
oil your New York artists" said the gallant.
"Ysu Jest il is perhaps the representation Of the
COW from the milk Of which the cheese was made"
"Thc COW 4! Bless me, how little you know Of its
history The dsnor in his letter to the President, said
il was made by 260 cows"
"Then he, as well as his artist must have been a
great calf and what must they be who squeezing
forward so laborously TO get nbble"
"Rats, suppose," replied Miss
aThat old white headed rat there" said the gallant,
seems disposed to lay stock sufficient TO last him
during the succeeding administration perhaps
that's all he'll get for his automaton services in the
House in calling the previous question"
"But that trim looking little gentleman with his
bald crown and bushy locks, smiling so condescnd-
ngly on all who approach, and who seems TO have
had a surfeI what is hep
"That is the king of the rats" said another young
beauty on his left, "the President has fed him on
cheese I'LL he eat more and he intends to dole
il out himself hereafter TO the mice who follow in his
train"
The old President stood shaking hand with and re-
cevlng the salutatons of his vIsers long
as he could stand. The ladies' and gentlemen were
all hudded up together, and the hustle and confusion
were any thing but agreeable. The east room, splen-
ddly furnished, and looking like fairy palace,
equally crowded, and no longer served as pro-
menade-thc company was emphaticay mired, and
the crowd 80 dense that tobacco chewers were obi
eed to swallow their saliva deposit II in the pocket
Of hhoyao ou droaa af tha ph0