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To Mr.. Drsag-.N,r York Daily advertiser.
WARRINGTON, August -, 1883.
My good old friend-Ever since We got the !
Government back hero from the Rip Rap., |,
we have been as busy rs IL we was al on Us
cooking hay jist aforc shower.
tclrd you some time ago that I and the
Gineral was fittin and ,ointin the beams and
raters OF the message, but almost every day !
some plagy new notion comes In from Mr..
Van Burcp, and some other Of our folks, and
we have 10 chizzle new mortices, and run ne w
braces and striag pieces, 30 that begin to
think IL will look curious epuf when its done
The Gineral says he don't care how il fronts
only he is determined TO show sharp corner
To the NulliGers. We shall have n good deal
TO say about tho Grand Torer; there Is mo-
thin since the 9Th Of January at New Orleans
tickles the Gineral half SO much. Every time
we talk about il, the Gineral gifts right up,
and says he, Major, I ony wish was 50
years younger, and them says he, give rae
the yankees east Of Horse Neck, and I'd like
no better sport than TO have nulli6c alton all
over tho rest Of creation
When things don't 20 right, and the Cine
raj gifts little wrathy, IL ! ony tell him the
yankees are ready TO back him, he is rs firm
rs granite. II would make you crawl all over
10 read that letter we writ 10 France, when
We come 10 hear that the King there kinder
| shuflled round that bill we drawed on him.
lie wont pay it, wont he y Says he-'Ma-
jor, what do you think OF that;' why says
I, Gineral, think its a nasty mean action
and darnation mean one too, saysl. well,
says he, that's enuf, and then we writ the
! ietter,-its justlike Zekel Bigoiow's speech
il cuts, shaves, and makes the hair fy-and
! ii 1t don't bring the money I'm mistaken.
/ ..a Ill
longer in York. the Gincral was for sending
me right out, and Captain Jumper was geitln
the Two Pollies' ready to take me.
The most curious part Of The Govern.
menr here, is TO manage the Office seekers
You see, things Amt now as they was afore
Mr.. Van Buren's time; then it was kinder
divided round among the Departments.
The Post Master Gineral appintcd all tho
Post Masters, and their folks. The Secreta
1 ~ Of the Treasury appinted all the folks il
the Custom Houses, and all the folks Who col
lected money. These two had an evcrlastin,
batch Of fellcrs 10 apPiut, and made then
War Secretary had n good slice in appintinG
the cadets, and Indian Agents, and all tn
contracts was kinder sifted round among Tia
Departments and so by the time n new Pre-
sident was 10 be made, some Of these Secrc
taries was ieetlc bigger than the Presiden
himself. Now this is the way they kinde
jockicd Mr.. Adams, who got 10 be the small
est man ut Washington, by letting other folk
plant his corn, and do his huskin; and afor
he know'd II, his own field was all 10 weed
and theirs well bowed, and rich and clea
I, as q whistle.
But things Amt so now, we've got only on
crib, and that's whappin one too, and we'y
ony ono door to it; aud when we she'll ou
our corn, we take good care and know we
who gets it, and where l,e is going to take i
and where he is going to plant IL; and tina
Amt alive make en- agree about the HuSki
J. Erolie,' for that's tho best ont ar,cr all
: The longer ! am in the Government IN
: more larn. But I must allow, that Of a
the Inventions I've hearn on Of Nr. Van ID
rcn's this is about the sliekest.
> There is ony one thing wantin, and that
Is tryn for pretty hard--and that is the DanI
II he can ony git that in the crib too, Virgin
= ny fences wouldn't stop our cattle.
: OBy think what sVsElastinu raft Of &c
y lers we should have-all the Presidents, Al
= Cashiers, and Clerks, and Money Counter
; about the crib, from DowBingville 10 Ne
y Orleans and that Amt tho best ont "
z would have 4 branch alongside every poe
2 Office TO keep our postages safe.
should like this well cnuf if was sart
Y I and the Gineral aud SIR. Van Buren, was
/, OC ucEo III t1o WuhSt 10 hcop kDou ioN
i out on the crib door. But the Gineral tall
a Of going hum TO put the Hermitage TO right
Q and ! am in the notion Congress is n leet
o too strong for the Government,' whom n
~ Ginerai aint IN it--aDd shall 60 with him.
- am eny most fag'd out my self; and begin
! think with the Gineral l have done enui &
:" the country.
y We are lookIn for Amos Kindle now, eveI
J. hour. tie writ the funeral tOlhcr day, al
+ teli'd him my Bank Report" waTnt tru
= aud that must have got loan from Sgu
D, Biddlc. Nov that - JIst the way with son
y folks. What they doa't know they guess Z
"a and its iisl so with old Miss Crsns, vino kee
q the tavern this side DOWuingy ille--jist A. su
Al as any ons goes By WithOut stopPin, the o.
- . critur ssys, there goes 50 and 70, and has
70 money too and he knows wOuidA't tTu
p him.
10 HowsumevsF, no one can make the Gin
raj wTathy with me. he knows } am q
20 best friend about him whenever they 3
- things IN aay kind of twist, or snari, "a
" he, Major. do you unrayel that. I'm the b
. wheel, and you are the smasher,' says b
sad tnea We list gig0 Psieg uissei's chuTn
~ turn or two, add all - right
70 You don't print my letters Fight--yOu !
Pc sonse words wrong, and spoll eui most infa
% nally Jist 70 the printers saryod Tie Gin
. rails letters too, and folks thought b dIdI
ls know Dotbib till be got 10 Cambridge " be
~ they made Doctor on ham.
~ Your ffioDd
er ,. DOWNING, Major,
% DoWningviilo niiilia, "a bFisade.
=, 'The MsiOr, we prcsanps, means he Eiectior
OF 49,