The Arkansas advocate., 1833-12-18
for more than 10 minutes--an awful time

for more than lU mlnuteS--an awful time to stand so.
 So to rights the Gineral he spoke, and says lie, Major what are you thlnkin on why, says 1, Gineral, was thinkin says I, if you had kept your spectacles in your side breast pocket, they would be on your nose iiow but, says l, that aint the worst ont, Pm afraid, says 1, Gineral, we've got too many pockets for our money, and when we want it VIC shall have to come to our shirts and boots before we find If.
 The Gineral got as hornity as all nature at tihiis, and says he, '.Major, 1 wish now you was only Calhoun, or Riddle, or Clay Clay, or McDuffy, or Don Pedro, or Black Hawk, or any one but Major Downing--for feel as if 1 should like to give some one thrash ing" Why; says l, Gineral, you ain't mad nor nothing, be you, for am too. says !; and every time look at the accounts, says l, | feel as if would like to git hold of some one--and so we stoInped about spell, GUS sin and discussin most things, till we got cool agin-but 1t was a considerable of a storm, tell you.
 Your friend, J. DOWNING, Maj.
 Downingville Militia, 2d Brigade.
 Beauht and Bootg-It will Dc renaen- bered that several officers of the British army, who were under Gen. Packenham, at the battle of New-Orleans, have publish ed statement, denying unequivocally, that .sBeauty and Booty' were the watch words of the British army, on the day of the battle. The gentlemen, if men of honor, as perhaps they are, may be entitled to credence, but the fact stated is by no means sufficient to show that 1t was not the intention of Gen. Packenham, in the event of success, to pil- lage and sack the city--in other words to despoil it of its "Beauty and Booty" We have lately become possessed of in- formation which establishes this point be- yoIld the possibility of denial, we having unimpeachable testimony on the subject.-- 4 friend of ours was few days since, a fellow passenger in stage from the West, with gentleman who belonged to Gen. Jackson's s army, at the time referred to- He, in the course of conversation on the subject of the denial of the British officers, stated that he was severely wounded, and taken prisoner in the battle fought near New Orleans, on the 23d Dee. 1914.
 While prisoner he was frequently visit ed by several of Packenham's officers, and he recolects distinctly, that common sub- iect of remark with them was, in case they obtained possession of New-O Orleans, the city was to be given up to three daIs pil- l laee, by the army. One of the officers in question, went so far as 10 ask the Ameri- can gentleman, what he would be pleased to have from the city, promising to bring him quantity of tobacco. This same of ficer, few days afterwards, was brought in from skirmish, wounded, but without the tobacco he had promised.
 The gentleman who made these state- ments to our friend, is respectable and prominent individual, a member of the le- gislature in one of the Western States.- After the battle of New Orleans, he filled an important station in Gen. Jacksonas ar- my. Of the correctness of his assertions there is not shadow of doubt.
 The truth of the matter is probably this {: that no such promise was publicly or expli- citly made to the troops, but that IS was ta- citly understood that they were to be per- mitted to exercise the same license in New Orleans which they had used in the captured cities of Spain, and by which they had pre- viously disgraced themselves in several parts of our own country, particularly at Hampton, Va.
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