Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-02
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
GLIMpsEs OF MEN, THINGS. AND pLAcEs-No ls
Qu1scI, (MAss.) JuII %, 1851.


farms on every side. A CLEAN of the ocean on one
side gimpses of villages and village spires around,
and the State-house dome and Bunker Hill Monu-
ment in the distance give beauty and variety to the
scene. golden last night from this spot worthy
Of Italy and the bright morning need not TO have been put
to the blush BY sunrise the Alps That this is good
farming region the rich farms around abundanty testify
The land rather hard and rocky, but bears good crops
The industry Of the farmer clears the soil Of the rocks
near surface which him for permanent fences and
for building purposes and leave him productive and tidy
looking The fields Of grasa nd small grain look WE'LL
but the Ids especially Oactive There are few
more pleasant sights in landscape than ourshIng hed
Of Indian and that object is now presented here on
every side in high perfection. The corn forward, TALL and
rank and much of it out in spindle and its thick and long
leaves of dark glossy geen waving in the breeze one could
never be tired of behoding. God made the country man
msde the town." friend has taken me to ride few miles
this morning. which carried through parts of Brain
tree Quincy, and Weymouth and yet have not met IN
this ride nor this vicinity single mark of uncomfortable
poverty, sign Of poor person or poor family destitute Of
the comforts of life no, not one When contrast this
spectacle with the painful amount of wretchedness and
verify pent up in the large commercial cities, cannot but
feel the of the quotation already made that God made
the county, for there, in pre-eminent degree
"He sends his showers Of blessings down,
"To cheer the plains below;
st He makes the grass the mountains crown,
!. "And corn in valleys grow"
have dated this sketch Quincy, and yet have said
am writing from Of the pleasant bills Of old Bainree,
which without explanation would perhaps subject me to the
charge Of Irshsm. WE'LL then, It 10 literally true that
might be in Quincy, and at the time be one OF tho
hills Of old Banee, for Quincy formed part Of The
ancient of Braniree But if 1t not so, my date
might be considered but fair poets license, inasmuch
as the most designed to say has reference to Quincy.
have three times been whed through that old and
interesting in railroad cars, but till to-day have
stopped TO make its acquaintance.
The village Of Quincy is eight miles from Boston.
I'LL -
pleasant The dwellings are mostly built Of wood There
sa substsna dookng church, constructed of granite,
and very and commodous "town house. Of fesher
ook, also con.r1s.sd Of granite The famous granite bill.
village and xend in ranges for three or four miles,
We went ON to one OF the nearest quaes and witnessed
the gangs at their work. and listened to the cnk Of ham
mer and the drill and The wedge, and them oieuvo tho
gray rock into square blocks, the woodman splits his g
of WOOD and behsd the slow teams with their ponderous
wagons hesvyaden, bearing these blocks, wenched from
the everlasting ribs of the earth, away to the marts Of
erce The use, convenience, and comfort Of the busy
busting world Quincy granite is spread less
the whole Atlantic border Of the States and yet the quantity
taken away is but the drop in the bucket compared with
what remains. They are now quarying and sending off
large quantities Of the rock for the custom house at New
Orleans.
could not leave Quincy without visiting the venerable
old house of ADAMsEs associated is with
50 many historic and patriotic recoleclions On calling
the door shown into the principal parlo " east
room," where the Hon. CHARLES F. ADAMs son of the
late Presden, JoHs QUIscr ADAMs appeared and po
itey received me- Mr.. ADAMS owns fine dwelling of
modern construction bill near by, known as "Mount
WoastoD" but he preers and WONDER to reside in his
venerable ancestral hastbe anliquated mansion where
President JoaN ADAxs lived and died the honoed old ed6ce
where President J0HN QUHCY ADAMS born, and which
was his homestead till the close Of his long and evenu e
"ThI is the east room," said Mr.. ADAMS, "and the
furniture and the pictures which you the same that
wers here in the days Of my grandfather and they remain
very much he left them. Those pictures the wall
ponng the portraits of bis grandfather and gandmothe
lave been hanging in their present positions since
remember. That is portrait Of their only daughter
and that the portrait Of her husband COL SMITH, OF New
York. There is portrait of JEFFERSON, and here is
of Gen. WARRxx."
These paintings, the eye Of the artist, would probably
only be called respectable, but to the eye of the patriot with
all their clustering associations, how beautiful JoHN ADAMS
and THoNAs JEFsERsos, long and bitterly opposed to
each other in political warfare became friends before their
DEPARTURE and here their images look forth from the canvass
upon each other with bengnity and Kindness trust
they themselves do in the sprtword to which they have
gono
Mr. ADAMS took me into the middle room" where hung
an ancient portrait Of WASHINGTON, large engraving Of
the death Of Lord CHATHAM, and other pcures
and then into the "west room" the old wood work OF
which had recently been refreshed with paint and varnsh
Leaving the old mansion, repaired 10 the ancient buryng
ground nearly half mile Distant and directly opposite the
stone church The elder President ADAMS Is entomhed be
meath the church, and tablet and inscription his
memory erected within the church. The Of the
cond President ADAMS in the buyng ground close by the
roadside, but fronting from the road The only inscription
bears is the name cut in the granite cap above the doo
z. ADAMS 'h
In wandering among the tombs and grave, GO other
several inscriptions of historic interest you'd have
bile monument, enclosed by iron railing, ws,r of Ho
JOSIAH QuIScr, jr, born 23d Of February, TIA. sne
10Th Of April, l775. And ABIsL QUIscr, his wife, b62rn
NC. "To their united and beloved memory THU
monument Is erected by their only surviving child"
This surviving child, suppose the present aged
cIscr, the first Mayor Of Boston, and late President
Harvard University He now resides in Quincy, little
distance from the village.
Another inscription upon a marble slab Let into a heavy
granite block, read as follows:
"In memory Of JosEPH ADAMS son Of JosxpH sen;o, and
grandson Of HsERT and Of HANNAH his wife, whose uadsn
Bass, daughter Of THOMAS Bass and Ruru
ALDEN, parents Of JoHs ADAMS and grand Of law
yer JoaS ADAMS"
This lawyer JoRs ADAMS, suppose, the elder Pres
dent ADAMS.
Another inscription read follows
Rev JouS HAxcocK, fifth minister of the fret conare-
gaiona church Of this towp, and father of JvHN HANCOCK
patriot Died May y l744, in the AL year Of his ago.
Another record Of the ADAMsEs, heavy horizontal
b probably erected BY the elder President ADAMS read
follows
In memory Of HEsnr ADAxs, who took his flight from
the Dragon persecution in Devopshre in England, AID
aghted with eight Noun, Wolsston. One Of bis
the country four removed 10 Med6ed and the reishboing
so~ns to Chelmsford only, Josrrx, Who lrshere