Litchfield enquirer., 1833-08-22

Maior DOwniEs.-We know of no man iu these United Stales, Who.has SO many and st strong inducements tO write for the newsPa- uers as Major Downing. NO writer Ot mod ern tinies has met with such decided success M S,or do gva recOlIect Oue whose popularity has heen sD SEtensive, and we may almost say un'- versal. We are not speaking of such writers as Sir Waltcr Scott, who made s0 many nov- els. nor Lord Byron, who write sO much Po- efrv,. The Major has never, to our k1"wI- eflTe. written bo0k, either in prose or verse. Nor does he deal in works of the imagination of anv description. His object appears 10 be ainnnie narration--a mere historical account of what occurs before his own eyes, and about which he cannot make mistake, unless t be what is sometimes called q aCilfMG one. The Major is aboye such sofdid practice asthat nf writing fiction, merely for the purpose of amusing the idle. and the inqnisitive. Hts QO- feet is 10 record facts for the future historian and that they may not be lost, he puts mem in print with as little delay as possible: well knnwine. that when the chronicle of passing events is entered in the grand registers of his forical truih--the enewspapers--the copies be- come SO multiplied. that there ls not only no danger of their being lost. but there Is an ab- svlnte certainty that they cannot t's corrup- ted or perverted, without being detected. This is his great iaducenent Q publish his works in inc newsrapefs. He is perfectly as. sured .hat they will be preserved pure ana unsullied, for the use of the future writer of history.
 And ihe wisdom of his plan is already man. fest. His works. and particularly his 0tilcial report on the bank. has already been -repub- lisiled in SO many papers, that any serious at tempt to pervert his sentiments. ar mlsrepre- sent his language. WOnld be fruitless. We be- leve that article has already been inserted in atsleast 6fty different papers, and it will pron- ably go into nearly asinany more. Apd n 's highly creditable 10 the taste aDd principles of tho country that there is such general Felash tor sober, unvarnished. nnsophistieated frnin ---fef simple nnornamenfed narration. We hone the Major will continue his labors fOv the pubiie good. We feel highly gratifed at be. ing selected by him as his original publishers. and shall always be pleased at being able to give Oair readers inc products 0f his tntertain- ing, aswell as instructive pen.--N Y. Ado. : 10 Ansos Kimdte, soaResckers North GanORg tke
 1" Safty Fnnfs Banks.
 RiP RATS, 7ih August, s8SS.
 Dear AmOs-NGt knowing where you be exactly, write you this letter through the papers. for they 30 every where. and you'll faost likely gif 1t that way snonesf. The Gin. eral is tn some trouble. for since you Jeff Washingf0p, he and have been looking into ihe Law Bools. and the Bank Charter. and he says he thinks we shall be snag'd.sR we don't look out pretty sharp how we meddle jist yet with our money in the U.' 8. Bank. = And ever since have been tellin him about my examination of Biddle's Bank. he don, seem to feel 90 wrathy aein it. And he is rla gy ftaid if lie takes away any of our RaO1ey from Riddle, we shall have Co take away al the 'cOunts too; and we have enut now tt make us sfagger. The Gineral would likt you to ask Riddle # he wont keep the 'counts and let us have the money. If he won't d. that. then he thinka you had hest d0 nothing fOr 0n lOOkin into the Treasury and 6atin tha batch of state paper there, that aint wOTtl Roifin. and seein that them blasted French men haint paid that hill yet, and . good ma ny things little singed by the fire last Spring we haint got quite ar much cash as VI thought On.
 There is another thing too puzzles ns con. siderable. When the United States Bank was chartered, it was agreed that selss 1t paid pretty considerable round sum for keepin our money, we made em also agree to dO all our business in tlse money way-receiye and pay, and take resates for all the oll sogers, and pay the interest 0n the public debt. and s0 0D; and then we agreed tO take their mon- eyjn payment of alt debts comin to us. The Giaeral thinks he cant well git round this and we have looked through all the Law Books. and regulationsef the army, and cant fnd nOthin there to help us. So says he. Ma jor, we shall be suagged if we don't look out sharp. for as soon as we put our counts in ether banks, that critur Riddle won't let any thing like q bank bill go ont of his bank tha, we can use where we want ir. Nav in York they'll shell out New Orleans, and St. Louis, and Mobile branch notes to pay bonds with, and away South we shall git BnlfaIn, and down east branch paper. and We shalt have to luz them about ourselves, o.git the dollars for them. And then, says he, after all, Ma Jsr, we shall run the risk of gitlin our wallets iilled with some more of them Safety Fund notes. don't like the looks of it tt ali--I wishs shgs he, Amos was back agiu in Wash ingt0u. and let Congress do with the Bank as ik pIeaseg. won't be pestered win It any m0Fs, hy the Eternal! says he. land he was only just beginniu tO thlnder.l when l.. iusl tO turn the cloud, tell,d him Calhoun was in Georgia. And then teil'd him wo,,ld write to you. and tell you to come hame. The Glusfak says you may @ so Saratogue, and as'he got us Into the serape. tell him to kit u out of it as we'll as he can but you must al on you lse in Washington pretty soon. for 1t giiiin kinder windy down here. Take car how yon write and talk te seme ofthe Bank in York. them fellows have got their eye iees cut. and know pisgy nigh as well as we