Phenix Gazette

Extract of letter from a Lady in Quincy, (Mass.) to her friend in Alexandria, dated July, 1826.

"Our town did all it could to honor the National Jubilee. I stayed at home. The noise and bustle of the day were just over, when a messenger came to tell us that the spirit of our revered and beloved Adams had taken its upward flight,—attended by the prayers, the blessings, the thanksgivings of millions. This was, indeed, a consummation devoutly to be wished. There had been a thunder storm; and the moment the great, the good man breathed his last, there appeared, in front of his chamber windows, an uncommonly perfect and brilliant rainbow. It seemed as if all nature gave witness that no common spirit was travelling the fields of air to its high abode. There is every thing in the life and the death of this benefactor of our race, to give energy to the pen of the historian, warmth to the language of the orator, and to encourage the boldest flight of the poet. He had been sinking for several weeks. In the morning he noticed the day—said it was a GREAT AND GOOD DAY; and was heard to say "Jefferson survives!"