Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-01-16
MAJOR DOWNING's CORREsPON.
DENCE.
WAsHINGroN, 27ih Dec. 1888.

DENtEs
WAsHINGrON, 9th Dec. 1888.
To my old friend Mr.. Dwight, Of the New-York
Daily Advertiser.
My last letter To you tel'd you Of that
trouble the Gineral got in about the but.
tons, and II it hadn't ben for me he d ben
in pretty scrape with that Tailor. The
Gineral haint forgot that yet, and wont
So long as he wears buttons.
You know I've hen tcl,n you along a
bout my fears of money troubles well
it's bad enmi.-and is goin to be worse
yet or ] know n"hin Aud the Gineral
Is beyinnin 10 think sotoo. All our folks
about us here don't feel it Tor they have
all got fat "nices-bui know the people
feel il who haint got fat Ohices-and
until they speak up, things will GO worse
and worse-every letter git now is full
Gneral tother day, says General, we
must look int" this matter now tell you
why, says he, Major, the Government
aint to blame-evcry man about me says
it aint his fault Well, says ], some one
dld it Pm certain-things went smooth
enuf, says ], till we got dablin and ned
lin in money matters and the Bank, and
now its all heads and pints, and when we
say it aint our fault, says /, it's pretty
much like a man putin long pole over
fence on swivel--and after pviin one
end round with jerk If he noces over al
dozen folks with the other ems say it aint
his fault-now it's pretty much j'st so
with the Bant, says ,nd IL you can't
see it, all can say is can.
Well Major, says the Gineral, some-
thing must he done any how, for l begin
to think that politics and money matters
don't always work together. III call all
our folks together, says the Gineral, and
wen have a full Cabinet and look into
this matter, and do you Major, prepare
yourself, for Tam goin to turn over new
leaf, that Pm determined on-and with
that he issued orders for every man to be
at the Cabinet Chamber the next day
Just after breaA Afast-and went to work
putin down all my notions in writing, fol
l expected rough time and n pretty
sharp set Of fellowsto be at off-and thinks
j as it is the fashion nowadays to reaC
papers to the Cabinet, Pll give 'em one
that will be worth reading, and guess
it will be the last one that the Senate
will ask an official copy of in one while
1t took nigh upon all night to write it ou
and sprung to it, for think the time
is come to let some folks see they hahn
got a green horn to outwit when they try
me.
And so the Gineral had 'em all up II
the Cabinet Chamber yesterday, ant
such overhawlin ! never see-I sat al
within a piece Of shingle-and the Gin
eral was walkin round among Fem, teIlir
about the troubles in money all about the
country, and asking how we are to gl
out Of the scrope-l kept an eye on mos
all on 'em, and both ears on pritty much
the hull on 'em, and such winzin ant
tangle | never see since the day al
Downingville cum over to the Jackson
side, and that was jist arter his election
They thought ] was d determin'd the frs
90 off to say nothin-And 10 rights
heard one chap jist hehind me- tell tn,
Gineral "thcre was one Major in tn.
Cabinet who made pretty much all the
trouble, and that he was writin letters
that went all the while agin the rest or
'em-and il it warn't for him they coult
make the people believe Just what they
wanted-that it was his fault that tn,
Cabinet was obliged to shift their groun'
about the BAN aud cross tracks ever,
day. Iii hadn't been for him the de
posites would have been removed becdus
there want no "Saiety Fund" in TIT
Bank, and the People been content ed
and il il warn't for him the Government
could now make the people believe tha
Biddle was the sole cause Of their beiI
no money now-a-days, and so on. jes
stop'd within a mint and cast my eye
over my left shoulder, and the fellow
dodg'd behind the Gineral in fash
and when | look'd round the ring foun'
pretty much the hull on'em lookin at m'
and there warn't word said. And e
rights the Gineral he walk'd up to M
and stop'd right in front and looh'd M
strait in the face, says he, Major, yo'v'
hearn all that is said-and ! should Ike
to know what you have 10 say in repI,
no man shall leave this room, says th'
Gineral, I'LL this trouble is cleared up
"Major," says the Gineral, land his lip
began to quiver ] tell you,I Hlajor, say
he, it would take q good many men L