Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-07-31

". Tor " " once gets ncised round that n
newspaper has the truth IN Il, most ev.rv
body viii be running after II. =
And then mean TO put in considerable
light literature. aud stories, and poetry.
u and anecdotes, and so on. for folks love
10 read them are things A good many
Of my folks up 10 Danaingvile will write
! lbrme Uncle Joshua Is first rate at figu-
lin, and he's agoing to take hold Of the
Post Otlicc Report and see if he can cy-
pher 10 the bottom Of IT, And cousin
Nahhy has promised TO write about one
thing and another. and sometimes a little
poetry jest to GIL up with.
And along in the course Of the year.
shall Try TO put in once in a while some
pretty cute picters 10 please the women
folks aud the children.
Well. now. about the farms. | shall
make my paper ahont half as large as u
comm on newspaper. and charge dollar
cash do,ra The Editor of the Portland
Courier is going to print for me. and take
care OF the money matters. So fanr bo-
dy wants il hey must send him a dola r.
then the paper will be sent TO 'em year.
What don't take 'em year can have 'em
FOE fonrpence piece.
Ifmy friends a good ways off. say in
New York, and Philadelphia, and Wash
ingtop, and all along shore, should want
any of EN-, they better club together as
many as they can and send the money in
one letter.
~ hoping for better acquaintance, l
subscribe myself the puhlie's humble scr
want, MAJOR JACK DowHIss,
MAJOR JACK powNING's NOTION.
AT tue recent celebration OF the Fourth
Of July hs The w higs ol the Third Con
gressauai District OF Pennsylvania seva-
raj answers to iav latlons b., the commit.
tee wefe rrad am CuA wtleh was the fol.
lowin@ from ogr old friend Major JACK
DowhtNe, OF the DoWnin sylilc Militia, I'd
Brigade:
WARRINGTON. Jnly /. 1854.
Gentlemen II VI ItI got your letter that
YOU sent 10 the care oi IN, old friend Mr.
Dwight. up there m New York Tor me,
lnuling me TO cat dinner VITA you on the
4th July
Wen now this il reilly kind in all on
ye, and ! an right down sbock,n proud
0n't-and II | wSrn't so bus, here III put
ting things 20 rights, atttf sicb a tug as all
on US have bad, Id gregAe my boot. sud
start right oil, and be with you al dlnner
time. aud thank you for your knd INVITA-
ton, aid cat a good diuber IN the bargain
- but | can't glt off from here no huv,
and another th,ns, partly promised to
jine few folks here Ia eating some GIN
ger bread, and taking glass OF .wnc he'll,
with little New t.aglaad in u, ~ The
House Of Representatives., on lDdepend-
an.a day - Innura4s ,v.II h. IN tE.~
and there haint been a mite OF indspend.
enee 10 that ere Hall for good spell now.
feel desperate grateful 10 you for
the kind manner. ia which you have
invited me TO jlne you in Phliadel.
ply and seeing that ! can't go my.
self would like TO sena you sentiment
as YOU request, but | can't do moth.
ing at that business, for all my sentiments
are. as you know, plagy long stores, and
i, would never 90 TO keep folks waitIn TO
hear one afore drinkin to IL.
There is one thing tho'--li any on ys
IAN put IL lito short meter, | would like
il and that ~, consuming this pesky DIS
pute betwixt the General and his folks,
and Squire Biidle and his folks. have
had notion all along ever since this war
began, that though IT would he better IT
things had gone on accordln TO law, aud
as before, yet as things go now
a days, its psgy deal better for the pco-
pie. than II the Squire, and the Gineral,
and all their folks, Cabinet and Direc-
tors) had been all the while shakin hands,
and cbinkiD pockets and purses together.
and goin snacks.
My notion is, that the peoples interest
don't suffer nigh as much when folks in
office and their friends arc all the while
growing and grumblln agin them, who
nave the keeping Of the peoples money
Dags-as when public Office holders, and
public money holders are all the while
each others elbows. and all on
EN- whis,lin the same tune about glory
and splles, and sich like.
II any one don't understand the nature
Of this notion, he best look at the Post
Office accounts, and the Treasury ac-
counts In the pet banks and if that don't
give him any light. | would like 10 tell
him a story about an old farmer ofmy ac-
qualntanee who used to send his grain TO
mill. and about his getting less and less
meal back every time, and he never knew
The cause ont, I'LL one day ne passed into
line mill himself, aud there he sees his man
ana me mtiief as coy as TWO nHi stoness
drinking mint juips together.
But ! hainl got time TO tell the whole
on't now, and il bad. would have no
room 10 tell you, and all the folks in Phi
adeIphy, that ava their true ii,end and
Irllow cItlzen.
J. DOWNING, Major,
Downingville Militia. % Brigade:
To Mr. Joseph Ptiasagson, and others.
Social Hitereourse We should make il
A prlacipie 20 extend the hand OF fellow.
.h,n In every man who discharges faith.