Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-07-03

Cchutc cant Hnu out the null matter;
they can ony find what /" the Govern
ment" can't hide; but there is a good
deal yet to be search'd up. don't like
to guess about it, for that aint my natur;
but as far as can calklate, you'll Sc G
alore long, that this Post Office business
aint nothing worth thnkin on, when you
come TO see what a plagy hole "GIory &
Reform" has made in some other Offices.
l telPd you two or three times afore,
IN some Of my letters, the notion got in
my head why the Gineral was so keen
in gittin hold of the deposites, out of
Squire Biddle's Bank, and shillin 'em
round among a good many Banks
You see "The Government has been
don a good deal in the way of "Glory
and Reform" and a good many folks
found that was the easiest road to travel
on; but the worst ont was, Con gress
couldn't make no appropriation to pay for
Glory, and Squire Biddle kept his ac-
counts so snug, "The Government -
couldn't git dollar out of his Bank with
out the peoples KNOWN on't--and so the
ony way to git at the chink, was to set
folks to work first yelpin like all natur
agin "the MONSTER" and when they
thought the people would agree to it ,
slap dash! "The Government went
right at the Bank, and took the money
out ont, and put it first in the pet Banks,
and then begun to hustle and shuttle il
about from one eenG Of the country to
the other; and calculate by this time,
a pretty considerable share ont has gone
to "Glory," and the rest ont has gone
along with some Of the other lost rights
Of the States, that MIR. Van Buren, used
to tell about, spell ago.
l hear good deal said here, but
don't know sartin yet, my self, that there
is rale trouble among some folks, about
"The Government" and "The Govern
ment" itself, aint over and over quiet
There is ony one way to git the Cine
raj and all his folks out Of the scrape,
they have got in, and that is for Con-
gress to pass a law right of, sayin,
"That no man shall be allowed to flyer
up, or examine into any secret made out
by "The Government" but to take it
all for law and gospel, so long as the
Gineral puts bis name on one eend ont,
and Amos KindIe puts his'n on tother; ;
and If any man in, or out Of Congress,
should dare to snook into such accounts,
the Gineral should be allow'd to try him
under the I'd section"
If the Senate had been like tother
House this session, do rally believe
some sich law would a ben past, and
every thing now about "The Govern
msnt" would "a ben as strait as a bean
pole, instead Of be:n all turn'd upside
down, and as erook'd as rams horn.
In your last letter to me, you want 70
know how things are workin in the Cab
met. and how things are goin to work.
Well, that's pretty hard tellin-and
don't believe any mortal can tell yet; il
will begin to work one way or 'tother,
pretty soon now; but which way, or what
way, is hard 10 say, though / have my
notion about it. l was pretty much so
once, when l was a boy. / went out
huckleberryin, and not bein very partic-
ular, / suppose / eat leetle too many
on 'em, and afore got home, l was a.
mazin sick. could jist reach home,
and that was all. My poor old mother
was desperately frightened, and she
went right out and scrap'd some Elder
bark, to make tea ont, and took good
drink as hot as could swallow it; but
this only made things worse, l roll'd over
one way and she tumbled me back 10th
er way, and to rights she sent for Doc
tor Parsons, and in he comes, and says
he, Miss Downing, what on earth's the
matter, says he' and so she tell'd him
all she know'd about the huckleberry's 5
and about the Elder bark tear.
Well, says he, Miss Downing there is
nothing in all creation, so good as Elder
bark tea, says he; but stop says he, Miss
Downing, how did you scrape that are
bark? for you know, says he, if you
scrape it from the root upwards, then the
tea makes good vomit as ever was; but
if you scrap'd it 'tother way, then, says
he, its all wisy worsa; and with that my
poor good old mother drop'd the tea pot
right out Of her hand Well, says she,
Doctor, then l see jest how it is, and
why my dear boy is sufferin so shockin,
for, says she, scraped that are bark
both ways.
Well, then, Miss Downing, says the
Doctor, all | can say about it is, there is
no tellin right off, what will be the eend
on't;" and that's pretty much all taat
can be said about the Cabinet troubles
at present. From your friend,
j. DOWNING, Major,