Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1835-12-10
Prom Ia Dpspninr Gazette.
from nu Washington Correspondent. }


WAsllEoToE CRY, EAST ROom.)l
Monday, Nov. 16, 1885.
To Cousin Major Jack Dow ming, Editor Ut
the Downing Gazette, Portland, away down
east, in the State of Maine.
Dear JGck-CUngress 10 close aboard OF Us.
and we are all as busy az three rats IN stock
ing gettin ready for 'em. They begin Con-
gress now in about two or three weeks. and
some Of 'em have got here already. ! met
Mr.. Quincy Adams to-day 10 PennsylvaoIa
Avenue, and felt almost as glad to see him
a. should be to see Uncle Joshua himself
| stept right up to him and shook hands, aud
says /, Mr.. Adams how are ye? am right
glad to see yOn--how does the folks all do
down east ? 33
They are all SO as to be stirring about. says
he. how's the Gineral!
The Gineral's nicely, says I. and he wants
to see you more than little. He was in
hopes You would get along before the rest Of
Congress did. because he wants TO have
long talk with you. It's about that letter Of
yourn to Mr.. Dntee J. Pearce. guess the
Ginerars read that letter over more than tweO-
~ times. It's been a real pnzzler to him, and
he wants to talk with you and see if you
Veaat jest what you said. He says Il you
did, and have actually come over on our side,
Eair and square, he'll send you out this win
ter, Minister TO England.
Well. says he. you may give my respects
% the GineraI. and tell him I mean Jest 40 l
said, and shall hare the pleasure to call aud
see him seon. Rs
Says /, Mr.. Adaas, how could you talk %
hard as you did in that letter against your old
Wing friends 10 Massachusetts, aRd reund
there?
Why. says be. they deserved it oil, aud
more too. for treating mo a. they did last
winter when they dominated me for Senator
to Congress. aud then deserted me and didRt
elect me. No party that would do thar could
have any principle Of henOr or AOOesty about
'em.
So I bid hsn good morning. and asked him
Go call and see Us at the Ginerars n sDOO as
be could, and he made me q very polite bOws
and went along. a..
They've been fxin up the Congress house
this sometime, and have got It about ready.
We've concluded it1s not best to have women
in the Senate chamber any more; IL makes
SIGH crowding work, and prevents the Seua-
tors from bearing the speeches that are made.
for they look at the women three times as
much as they look at the speakers. SO they've
had a gallery kxed up for the women, and a
door for them to 60 into il.
The Gineral grows more and more uneasy
for fear Mr.. Van Buren, will get worked out
Of the Presidency. And Mr.. Van Buren, him
self Is as restless about it as 6sh out Of wa
ter. He staid here few days and talked the
matter over with us, bat he couldn't set still
but little while TO time, and so he started
of to Virginny to see Mr.. Rives. and find out
what they are likely TO do with old VirgiOny.
He says IL he can only get that State to come
out for him this winter, he thinks that he shall
be able to go it. notwithstanding he has to
carry Col. johnson ON his back. He hasn't
got back yet, bat we shall look for him in q
few days. -
We have pretty critical job OF It to OK up
the Message :s. , ssaF beBB h ki6 esias Tho
Gineral wants that part Of It about France to
be all pepper aud mustard. tell him it's all
nonsense to 70 to getting into snarl again a.
long with France about that money. Tor il we
should have to fight il It wasn't more than
three months, il would take ten times as much
10 we ara quarrelling about to pay ths bills.
Mr.. Van Buren, talks 40 cool as cOwcum-
her about II. Tells the Gineral he wouldn't
hash about it in the Message. and then he'll sc,
down and tell over the whole story, about the
French keeping US out of the money in sich a
kind Of way that the Gineral will get in q
rage and he'll jump up and almost swear he'll
recospmend 10 Congress 10 his Message to
declare war against France. Then Mr.. Van
Buren, will say, we'll Gineral you must Of
course 10 rs you think best, but really cant
advise y0u to take any hash measures.
That MI. Van Buren, 10 q curious crittur,
amt hsf Iremain your loving Cousin,
s-.gs SARGENT JOEL DOWNING.
The description. from Silliman's Journal,
Of the nature aud formation Of Coal will pro.
baby be new to many So
The immense beds Of bituminous coal
found 10 the valley of the Ohio, an the mind
with wonder and surprise, as il reflects on the
vast forests Of arborescent and sandstone. un-
til the whole series had accumulated plants |
required in their formation. Age after age. !
successive growths Of plants, spriuging up in |
the same region, were entOmbed beneath thick |
strata Of shale to the depth Of more than !
thousand feet; while beneath the whole lay !
the bed Of an ocean foored with fossil salt
Indications of coal arc found ut intervals, n |
cross thu great valley. from the Allegheny to |
the Rocky Mountains. 1t 10 fosnd near the |
surface 10 Kentucky. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, |
and Missouri, and without doubt. may be !
found beneath the extensive tertiary depOsits,
which form the substratunn Of the great prai- |
ries in the central and northern parts Of the
wcstern states. Al low down 40 New Mad
rid on the Mississippi, coal was thrown up
from beneath the bed of the river, by the great
earthquake Of lB12-a sufficient proof Of ito
continuation in the most depressed part Of the
great valley. 1905 stf.t #f}ft snapsE