Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-07-17
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
SENATE CRAMBER, 2
W ashington, 18th June, 1884. (

4 A0tos Hh~tO u WCbt W UUCtS tCGttlt SUM
Of them Pet banks, as tell'd you IN MI
last letter. have got more than so letter.
from folks, all wantin 10 know when wa.
comm out with my report" But you sc,
II amt my way TO blab right out 10 all Gre
alton all the information git. especial,
when IT IS plagy tough work 10 Il, it--yo
know teiled you when was ia N. York
that YOU mus'nr be sharp set on heauu
! any thing from me about the Examina,
| ton of the pet banks until | had telIed
the Senate all know'd, and let them TAX
| II up first. as am in their service now
When 8 back here found The hull Se
nate busy with the post office acconnts
And there haint ben no room yet for n,s
to wedge in my "Report"-and | don't
see that there will be room yet for good
spell--for as soon as the Seuate got threw
the Post Office consarns, some on 'em
turned right TO and are goin to look up
the Land office, and the Ingin affairs, and
the Contracts-ano the Custom house
business
There is ugly work We, to git threw.
and If The people only know'd as much as
] do. what plagy tutf time some of the
Senators have in tracking out this bnsl
ness. they'd tbink il wsfnt an amazin ca
sy office TO he in--its bad enuff TO track a
fox over clear open field when the dogs
are all well trained-but to follow him
threw all manner of doubles aud
twlstins, and biiers, and marshes, some
times over rivers and creeks, and then
gain crossin swamps and stubbie, and a
parcel Of dogs belongin TO other folks
yelpin and barkin on wrong tracks, just 10
misIead the true noses, then | tell you il
is plagy hard work But we have got
some raie good leaders now, and they
have got their noses on the right track,
and though they may be puzzled q spell.
they'll go on till the old fox is driy rite in
to his last hole; and if there is a brush
left to him they'll have it.
see folks are good deal struck up q
bout the Post Office business; it want no
thing new to me, and suppose TO you
mother; for in my letter to you Of 10th
January last. you'll sec them accounts Of
the Post Office made me split up more
than three and half cords Of hickory
one night, Jest tryin to strait 'em for the
Ginerai The worst ont is, the Senate
can't find out the hull matter, they can
ony find what "1'he Government" can't
hide; but there is good deal yet TO be
scratched up. don'i like TO guess about
it, for that amt my natur; but AS far as 1
can calkulsh You'll see afore long that
this Post Off business aini nofhin worth
ihinkin on, when yoa come TO seer that a
pIagy hole "glory and reform" has made
10 some other offices.
telrd you two or three times afore, To
some of my letters. the notion got In my
head why the Gineral was SO keen. in git
ten hold Of the deposites out of Squire
Biddles Bank and siltii. EN- round among
a good many Banks. You see The Go
yernment" has been doing good deal 10
the way Of Glory and reform. and good
many folks found that wasthe easiest road
TO travel on; but the worst ont was. Con
gress couldn't make no appropriation to
paw for Glory, and Squire Biddle kept his
accounts so snug : The Government"
couldn't git dollar out OF his Bank with
out the peoples known ont--and SO the
only way TO GIT at the cbink, was TO set
folks 10 work first yelpin like all nalur agin
.the monster" and when they taougbt the
people would agree to it slap dash "1he
| Government" went night at the Bank, and
took the money out emit, and put il first in
! the net banks, and then begun TO hustle
| and shuttle il about from one eend Of the
country to the other; and calculate by
| this time, a pri,ty 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 Mr.. Van Buren,
used 20 tell about spell ago.
hear a good deal said here; but don't
know sartin yet, myself, that there IS rale
| trouble among some folks about The
Government;" and "The Government" il
self amt over and above quiet There is
ony one way tc cit the Gineral and all his
folks out Of the scrape they have got in and
that IS for Congress to pass "a law right oil
sayin, THAT no man shall be allowed to
flgur up, or examine into any account
made ont by "the Government" but Il
take it all for law and gospel. SO long a:
the Gineral puts his name on one eend on
and Amos Kindle pots his,n on tothel
and if any man in, or out, of Congress
should dare 10 snook into such accounts
the Ginerai should be allowed to try him
under the second section.
1.-THE Senate had ben like tother house
this session do rally believe some SIGH a
law ould ben past, and ev'ry thing nov
about 1.-The Government" would been a!
strait as bean pole, instead Of bein al
turned upside down, and as crooked as a
rams horn.
In your last letter to me you want ic
J know how things are workin in the Cab
met and how things are goin 10 worh
f Well that's pretty hard tellin; and don
believe any mortal can tell yet: il will be
gin 10 work one way or tother pretty 500
new; but which way or what way, is bar
TO say, tho have my notion about il !
was pretty much so when was boy.
went ont a huckleberryin, and not bel
very particular, suppose eat a leetl
{ too many OF em. and afore ! got home
| was amazin sick could just reach hom
e and that was all My poor old msther wa
{ desperately frightened. and she went OF
and scraped some Elder bark TO make te
;. ont, and took good drink as hot as
= could swallow il, but this only made til
a 4 rallfd arar one Nav