Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-07-21
zinc New Pieture Boob.

The canvass for General Scott has
started grandly for the children, By way
of making easy the studies and amuse.
ments of the nursery, the publications oil
the Scott committee promise to be, in the
works of the quack medicine lpuffs, "a
real blessing to mothers. One of the
showiest of these Scott picture books has
been sent to us by friend as an cleo
tioneering curiosity. 1t is called "a Life
OF General Scott" and is said to be writ
ten, in so far as its "pictured page" can
be said to be written at all, by Mr.. James
s. Pike, the abelitionist correspondent of
the Tribune, which journal puts at the
head of its columns q stereotyped puff OF
the picture book, demanding that at least
a million copies shall be forthwith put in
circulation.
,g This remarkable production contains
thirty two pages, rather more than one
picture for each page, and, so far as we
can perceive, not single political idea
from beginning to end. The wood-cuts,
which fill about one-half of the space on
its pages, quite battle our powers Of de-
scription, They are made up of dead
soldiers, of guns and feathers. of swords
and field pieces, of ships and churches, Of
horses which look very frisky, of Indians
who look very savage-and among them
all towers tall figure Of man, now in
a cooked hat, now in a plumed hat, now
in a " shocking bad hat" now without
any hat, but never, so far as we have OBJ
served, in common citizens hat. or
even slouched hat. These two last
omissions are unfortunate, and should be
corrected in subsequent editions, to in
crease the political merit and value of
the work, This tall figure, SO variously
costumed, we are told, is General Scott
He is presented in an astonishing variety
OF situations. Sometimes it is "Scott on
the log," then Scott attacked by two
Indian Chiefs" then Scott in the hands
of the enemy" and so on TO the end Of
the-rigmarole.
We must make room for two spcci-
mems of the reading matter. BY the side
Of one of the pictures representing very
burglarious looking individual, with q
dark lantern, kneeling down upon some
money bags before bank safe, and look
ing at a miniature, We have by way OF
explanation, the following
"ANECDoTE OF THE GOLD MEDAL AND
THE RoBBER.-A singular incident is con
nected with the gold medal presented to
General Scott by Congress. 1t was at
one time deposited for safe keeping in the
vault of the City Bank of New York. A
noted robber, breaking into the safe, car
ried of from thence every thing that was
valuable, but spared this token Of public
honor, in evident respect for the brave
soldiers only wealth. The case Of the
medal was found open, but retaining its
precious contents untouched. Not even
a whole life of crime had been able to eX-
tinguish in that felon's breast feeling of
patriotic admiration for his country's best
soldiers"
Can any child under seven ycary of
age read the above conclusive appeal
without coming to the conclusion that
Gen, Scott, il elected, will make most
wise, safe, and statesmanlke President :?
But should anything more be wanted
70 convince the little people," they have
in the same historical work. the follow
ing thrilling passage Of private history,
"ANEcnoTR OF SCoTT AND THE PICK.
PocKET,--Long after the foregoing occur
renee. Gen. Scott, in travelling by steam
boat from Albany to New York, had his
pocket picked of purse containing eight
hundred dollars in gold,--On arriving at
New York the General advertised his
loss. His money was sent back to him
by the HEAD TnIEr OF THE CITY, WITH A
RESPECTFUL ASSURANCE THAT NONE OF HIS
PROFILE would have touched the Generals
purse If they had known his person."
We beg our reader to observe that this
IS a Wing anecdote as to the circles OF
society into which the Generals popular
hos
without venturing to endorse it, We have
been told something about the {" Galphin
tail'' which may come in with the new
administration in the event OF Gen. SCOTS
election but we beg leave 20 say dis
tinctly that this JOY OF the pickpockets, ~
in suchea result is Mr., Pixies affair en-,
tirely, and not ours.
Altogether we commend the picture
book to all such patriots as may be fond
OF childish things,'-- Washington Union