Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-01-31


YOU git SIGH odd notions about public sentinen,
/ know can't be mistaken, for every Ietter :
have time to read tells me am right: and rood
the Globe from one eend to t'other every da,,
and that paper tells every thing, and see No
thin there thattells me am rong. Well saws
| Gineral, you know you hahn got time to ra.S
more than one letter in hundred that come
That's true enuff, says the Ginera, but then on~
folks do and they tell me every thing Tell Won
every thing? says but no matter--and 81 I
whistled Yankee Doodle spell. No. no NJ.
Tor, says the Ginera, the opposition folks tbrou,
dust in your eyes; you don't see things as cloox
I as the rest of our folks about u.s. Jest was oo,
to speak, but finding my dander was lifting
had to goto whistlin agin, and it took me 6iob
upon fifteen minits to git right, and | expecteS
every mint would have to get my ak and Snii,
hickory spell in the bargain. Now saws
Gineral, you are the oDy man on earth I'd loot
at mint, and let him say so to me. got dust
| in my eyes? says /. ] not know what is coin o.,
| in doors and out of doors? Why, says |. how.
you talk Now, says /, you jist sit stll min,
and Ill show you something, says |, worth look
! ing into; and wentinto room where Mr.. Van
Buren, and Amos, and some more of our folks
! git together every once and while to MANAGE
and talk over matters; and I've seen so nonSb
Of the games play'd there, and bein NATURALLY
curious in most matters, can play some on ien
| nigh upon as slick as Mr. Van Buren, himself
! but he is master hand at it. The game thew
had been playin most at, latterly was about ma.
nagn the public money among the new Demo.
| site Banks, and shown how to use the " trans.
fer checks" and g contingent drGftS' so as n
puzzle folks in time ofneed. 1t was done with
parcel Of cups and balls, and little strips ofDa.
per, and did tickle me amazingly; and for
! spell puzzled me too; and SO thought Ia list
show the Gineral, and see fit wouldn't tickle
/ nd NM 10 nCrbt IL, 81
Gineral see if there warnt leetle dust in his
/ eyes too. And so brought in a hull arm fun Of
! this machinery. And as soon as the Gineral
saw me, why, says he, Major, what on earth
have you got there? Why, says l. its a trife
and III tell you all about it to rights. And 50
| placed the cups bottom up, all along in row On
the table, and then | gin the Gneral handful
Of small balls. Now, says !, I'm gOin TO show
you about as 'cute thing as you've seen in ma
nya day. Them cups Wen call banks, and them
balls is the money we took from Squire BID
les Bank. The next thing is to show you nov
things are goin to work, now that we've got our
money from one pocket, where We always
knoW'd where to find it, and divided it round
among twenty pockets, where may be you may
or may be you may not, find nothing at all ont
and here says |, are some leetle pieces Of pa
per that Pm gon to make use on TO throw dus!
with. Now says |, Gineral, look sharp, OF you're
gone, NOOK ana HiIe says l. dts d piggy IuA-
ming game, and don't know sartn that can
payit as well as Mr.. Van Buren, and Amos, and
some more of them are folks, and especially the
Treasury folks; for they have been at it now Of
and on. ever since Eve been here; and Mr.. Van
Buren, tePd 'em unless they could play this
game well, there was no use in takln away the
deposites Now, says I. Gineral I'll begin. You
are saftin, says |. there is ball under every cup
yes, says the Gineral, for jest put 'em there
A i hocr, ,,cIi< fha1 htn oh nth
and miXin on 'em, and kept talkin about GlOY
and Reform and the Sth January, and the Pro
clam alton, and Veto, and Notification, and some
folks ben, like old Romans, born to command
and others TO obey. and so on; and jest as TIE
Gineral took his eye off the cups and lookd a.
me, and was goin TO say somethln, sl3p'd some
cups together, and call'd out hocus pocus, allcM
pain, presto, epluribuS unum, sine qua non, SIT
ry factious, says ]. There, says !, GineraL thats
the eend ont Well, says the Gineral, d0ni
see much in that, Major Didn't you? saysE
then so much the better for the game sup
pose, then, says |, you think the balls are undo
the cups, jest as you put them. To be surel@
say the Gineral; suspected what you was Or
ter, and l kept my eye on the cups and no baI
ever get from under 'em without my seem en-
I'd stake my life ont, says the Glnera!; ana
what's more, I'll stake the fastest horse IN ny
stable, that every one ofthe cups has got 0al
Ailuci eil. w Gil, says L, ocutl o.; u "o''S,
be fare bettin, and so do you go to work AID
look: and the Ginerallifted up one cup, and there
warn't nothing under it but piece OF papa !
The Gineral, he was stump'd; he look'd attn
and gin his face a twist and then he lOokGD I
the cup and shook it. Well, says he, N9jI;
that is plagy odd, what has become OF that 0a. I
Well, says |, guess the paper will tell you a1
the Gneral took up that, and rub'd bis spec%
and read, Transfer draft No. 101" WellMa
Isuppose, says the Gineral, its all right-(ioLag5
jist began to take the notion of the game) an1
instead of one ball in the next cup there IS W.
balIs."-I'm not sartin, says |, and you Del'
look. And so the Gineral lifted the next Guy
and there warnt no balls there nother---ony ony
Their piece Of paper. The Ginera look'd asrf.
at me and opened his mouth, and then he sClaI g
ed his head, and took OFF his specks, ana a. lu ors
them agin, and then he read the paper oI vi on
side was "Contingent check 5000 OO----ahau. y.
tother side was written "Marques OF Ca .nas5
them $3.50, 0oO--6 per ct.PoSt Office loans .o ao
all kiver'd up with tigers, you could moi ta 81
bit Of g White" on the paper---the Gillel ,rb,
blinkd at it SPELL and says he, MAJOR 3ln wy
does this mean-well, says |, Gineral, CON It 6r
actly know myself but suppose its all l Tgsn5S0
see here on one corner I" An0s ht'ate Ia:
very well, says the Gineral. if that paPPeS,
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