Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-05-24
PROM THE NEW YORK EVENING STAR.


PROM THE NEW YORK EVENING STAR.
We have had occasion frequently to
! rccur to the writings and sayings Of various
individuals, who wrote and spoke Of events
that were to follow in the event of such
and such curses being adopted as were
urged at the period when they thus wrote
or rspokc. But we have rarely met with
any production that seems to cover so
much ground, in the shape of prophecy,
rs the following extract Of a letter written
by Major Mck Douning to his old friend.
"llle Ginerdl," as long ago as September,
1888, now nearly four years ago.
The Major, it seems, mad come on TO
New York from Washington to ascertain
or ':ihc Gincral'' how things would work
case the dcposi;cs were taken away
rom the United States Bank, and given
,mong sundry State banks. He fell in
With lis old friend ZEKEL BrGELow, and
hey together entered into the inquiry, and
he Major thus writes:
ezekiel says there is ist about so much
lard money all the while, and it keeps
.oin round and round and all about crea.
ion, and they git the most ont and keep
it, who are the most industrious and cute
in inventin things. He says that paper
money is just as good, and leetlc better
than hard money, if folks don't shell out TOO
much ont: and it is The nature of paper.
money makers 10 cit off as much as they
Can: and if it warn't for somethin to check
il. it would soon be as bad as old continen.
tai times.
"Zckcl says, on the hull, that money
matters, and banks and trade, are all as
curious as one of Pelcg Bissel's clocks, and
folks hadn't ought 10 meddle or aItcrin
ont without KNOWN all about it. And
now says he, 'Maior, Pm of good mind to
give you notion; know it will spile tho
Old watch, but | want to show you my
notion why l think trouble will come, if
the Gineral insists on knocking down the
L. S. Bank
"Zckel was one Of them sort Of folks,
and always was, who are determined 'to
make a spoon or spilc horn, and with
that lie out with his old watch, nigh upon
as big as a tea-cup, and wound her up, and
then clapt her to his ear, and then to mine.
sShc is as true says he, 'as the tidcs.'-
He then opened her. Now says he, Ma.
jor, do you sec that are big chain pulling
all the while? and then do you see grist
of little wheels and springs and screws?-
Well, then look here: on top is big whesl,
that is all the while goin round one way
and back again, and jist so fast and no fas'
ter-that (says hc)is what call the Kick.
CT, and ifit warn't for that you would sec
trouble in it righ, of, and III show you; but
know i. will send the old watch all to
smash However, he twitched out The
Kicker or balance wheel, and the old
watch did mhi= for spell, tell YOU
Some of them little wheels went so fast
you couldn't see no,Lin on en- for spell.
One at last kecled up, and another got its
teeth knocked out. She stop'd a spell,
then spring snap'd, and she uhis' again,
and the splinlers flew, and by and by the
hull scrapc on en- stop'd. Zekel slick'd
his cue down and look'd at me, and says
he, 'MaJor, We have split the old watch,
but | don, valley the loss on it an atom,
seeing that you have got a notion by it,
And with tha, he scraped it altogether and
wrapped it up in the Washington Globe
There says he Major, DO you send that
to the Government, and tell the Gincal there
is more there than some folks think on
who want to mcddic with banks and mon-
ey-mattcrs without KNOWN Ill about 'em;
and with that we took glass switchc'
and went to bed