Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-01-02

while snonn like north wester. As
soon as | took up the Message, and
look'd at it, | couldn't make head nor
tail ont. 1t seem'd TO me list for all
the world like one of them show box.
es-all the letters and tigers was eoin
round and round, and look'd all the
While like some of them crouds we see
last Summer on the grand touer,
THROWN up hats, and cryin huzza for
the Gineral, and Major Downing, and
Mr.. Van Buren,; and then agin, there
was great glare, and it seem'd list
as if the Gineral was in the middle
ont, and Mr.. Van Buren,, and Major
Barry, and Amos Kindle, and a raft
more of our folks, all seem'd to be
standln round, firing off rockets; they
would squirt up over the Gineral, and
! burst, and then shower down stars (iist
as folks tell on tother night when the
stars all did git to caperin) land iist
as they would come nigh the Gineral,
these stars would get together and
burst agin; and then you could see
nothin but, "glory," and not mite of
the Gineral.
Well, thinks /, if the Gineral can
read the Message with these specks,
its more than | can. But | stuck to
it, | kept turnin over the leaves, till
got 10 the Treasury accounts and the
Bank business, and the depostes, and
matters of such nature--I had read
over so often before, with the Gineral,
| had it all by heart. But when |
came to look at it through them specs,
it was no more like it than | am like
Mr.. Van Buren,. The accounts was
all jumbled up, and then came another
spell Of "glory" agin; the letters and
tigers all turnin into crowd of folks
and thrown up hats; and there was
squire Biddle standing at the door of
his bank, and Clay, and Webster, and
Calhoun, and crowd more of such
chaps about him, with clubs in their
hands, keepin off our folks, who all
seemed to be tryen to get into the win
dows; and some had got in and was
jist comm out with bags on their backs,
and among EN- | could see the cashiers
Of the new deposite banks, with as
much as they could stagger under, and
all carryin a label with "glory" and
huzza for Gineral Jackson" and then
agin up went another batch of rockets!
and there was the Gineral in another
blaze Of "giory" and jest as fast as |
turn'd over the leaves, and look'd
spell, every thing would get to caperin
agin, and end in blow up; and | could
jest git a glimpse of the Gineral all
kiver'd up in "Glory."
Well, thinks l, if things look so to
the Gineral as they do to me threw
these specks, don't wonder so much
that he don't always sce'em as other
folks do, and then | went to work
looking into the contrivancc; | give
one screw twist one way, and the
glasses flew round like a flash, and |
took up the message agin, and another
look, the letters and tigers would all
Jump about spell, and change sides,
and when you come to read'em, they
warnt nothing like what had written
'em, so | kept on turning the screws,
and slippin the springs, and every
time I'd try another look, things kept
all the while looking different-and by
and by | got 'em so that things look'd
Jest as they are, and as they look
threw most spccks. Well, thinks |, if
this don't beat all natur. And the
more look'd into the contrivance OF
them arc specks, the more | began to
think that they knew thing or two
in Albany. And now, thinks |, I'll
leave these specks as they now are,
and let the Gineral take look at
things as he used to, before Mr.. Van
Buren, give him a pair of spectacles.
And so the next morning, when the
| Gineral come in the cabinet room up
chamber, the first thing he said, says
he, "Major, I'll take good care how
| put these specks in my pantaloons
pocket agin." And he took 'em out
of his side pocket, and begun rubin
'em; ''now," says he, "Major, Jest
let me take another look at that Mes
sage. | want to see says he, how the
Treasury counts, and the Bank mat
tiers look once more, for do you know,
says he, Major, don't know much
about tigers, and every time ] read
that over I'd git puzzled. But | sup
pose it's all right, and as soon as git
puzzled with such matters, or any
other matters, ! seem to think the
people understand it, if ] don't; for
can almost swear | can see 'em jest
as glad, let me do or say what | will,
as they all was on the grand toacer,
and that's enuf."
So | turned over the message &c
that mart the Gineral wanted to see