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MAI. DowNIma's IETrERs.

The Fourth Auditors idea of the essence of
SoNernnenti - happily buriesqued in the follow ing
extract OF one of Major Jack Downing's letter.
originally Published in the New York Daily Al.
vcrtiser:
RIP Rars. l7rH AUG. 1888.
My Good Friend The Gcrernmenfn will
leave here on Saturday, SO you must tell all
our friends to stop sending any more letters
mere. We 60 straight to Washington, to put
things to rights there for winter
aud The Gineral have got things now prct-
" considerable snug and II is rally curious TO
see now much more easy and simple all The
puoiic affairs go OH than they did spell ago.
when MIR. Adams was President. II itwarn't
Ior Congress meetin we could Jest go about
pretty much where we pleas'd, and keep
Things strait too; and ! begin to think now
with the Gineral, that arter all, there is no
great shakes in managin the affairs of the ma
ZION. We have pretty much all on US ben
Josgih about now since last grass and things
are jest as strait and clear now as they w as
,heh- The Gineral has nigh upon made up
ms mind, that there is no use TO have apy
more Congress. They only bother us-thcy
wou'd do more good TO stay at home and write
letters TO Us tellin what is going on among em
a. homo. ~ would save a considerable sum
oil money too; and I'm also sartin that there
Is play rait Of fellows on wages that dom
earn no,h'D' However, We are going on
making things more simple every day and
we once IN a while mock oil a pretty conside.
raoie number Of cogg wheels and trunpel
heads.
The gincral says he likes things simple as
mouse trap. But what I like most In. ne
wont haze no one about him who outrapk,
ne, so there Is me, and Major Barry. and
Major Smith, and Major Earl, and Major
Donaldson, and Major Lewis, and Major Ia
ton and the major part OF a pretty con-
SIDERABLE OF a man TO do the printing, and
tel the folks where we be, and once in
while where the land sales and contracts be
too. There is enuf on US TO do all that,.
wanted. Every dag jest after breakfast. the
Dinerai lights has pipe and begins to think
pretty bard. and and Major Donaldson be-
gan 10 open letters for him !; and there is more
uian bushels every day, aud all the while
coming. We don't git through more than a
bushel day and never trouble long ones
unless they come from Mr.. Van Buren,. or
Mr. kindle, or some other Of our great folks.
Then VIC sort 'em out, jest as Zekel BigeIow
does The mackerel at his Paekin Yard, for
mo 'hore are many more sorts than he finds
among tsh, We only make three sorts, and
Keep big baskets, Ops marked "aOf rcd. -
another " red and worth nothin, +" and another
. red and TO be answered" And then ALI the
GiBeral has To do Is TO say "Aiaior, Z reckon
we best say so aud so TO that" and I say
= jest So" or not, as the notion takes me
and then we 60 at a.
we keep ell the Secretaries, and the Vice
PRESIDENT and some district Attorneys, and
good many more u our folks. and Amos
hindle, moving about ADD they tell as ir.t
bow the cat jumps. And as : sand afore. n n
"arnt for Congress meeting once q year. we'd
put the government IN a one horse wages,
md go Jest where we liked.