Litchfield enquirer., 1837-09-21

OWCCt UC tHy utSuUto-uic SFottOuS ltiStNS
 With skies that smile, and stars that shine,
 Bends like a thing of love and light
 . Above those folded lids of thine.
 Dream on of heaven-thy vision high
 Should wear of earth no dark'ning hue
 But since thy dreams are of the sky, -.s ~irg would were an angel too m# a5 That thy pure thought, ere midnight flee,
 Might dream single dream of ME.
 Palatine, W. Y. Sept. lS, 1887. a SEDLEY.
 ,y. MAJOR DOWNING'S LETTERS. Emr Ia r .. .asf.ssa NO. 3.
 To the Representatives of the People cf the Uni-
 ted States of North America in Congress at
 Washington.
 8'5 ila RosKAwAY, Sept. 4th, 1887, }
 Near the vreck of the T'Uo Pollies.
 HONORABLE GENTLEMEN,- have been waitin for this day to come ever since the Two Pollies was run on shore by Captain Jumper, so that could lay the case right afore the hull people in one swing, for there is no way of gettin any matter we'll attended to, that belongs to the people, till their repre- sentatives all git together at Washington in Congress. look upon you jest as 1 would on a barrel of cider billed down to a quart for the hull barrel is in that quart, and jest so the hull people are in you.
 suppose you all know that the Two Pol lies is on shore, and that owin to that condi- ton she is in considerable peril-both masts are broken off, and very leetle more than her hull is left. It ispretty well known how she got in this snarl-and the next thing is to see if some plan can't be fixed on to get her out ont. You have the power to do this, and as every body knows and feels that there is not and never has ben and never will be agin, any vessel afloat that can compare with the '" Two Pollies,'-it is your duty to see that some means are taken to get her off shore.- Every body who has been off to see the hull of this vessel, says there ain't nothin that floats that comes any way nigh her for beauty and strength-for tho she has now ben thum. pin on the beach for a considerable spell she is as sound and as strong from her keel to her deck timbers as ever she was--this is owin mainly to the xnGnrer she was first built flor you know-and if you don't know, now tell you, that she was bilt jest at the close of the last war, and all the timbers in her was carefully taken from every State of the Union-and she was bilt by the nation every State sendin a carpenter to see that evry part on her was we'll put together-and evry carpenter too brought timber from his own State to put into her-live oak-locust- pitch pine-4cedar--and all kinds used in ship buildin-and a completer job never was lanched into the water. So long as she be- long'd to the nation all went on we'll enuf- she could do a coastin trade and foreign trade-shc has been round Capes and Pints of all names and natur--ss Cape Horn," "Cape ot Good Hope," "Cape Haterass," Pint Look out" |" Pint Judith," and "Pint no Pint"-and every body at home and abroad that know'd any thing about sich kind of craft, has been hearn to say there warn't sich vessel in all creation. We'll, it turned out in an evil day, that The Government" haul'd down the national flag, and said it warn't accordin to the constitution to own such vessel, and that States only should own and sail 'em. No sooner said than done, all the States turned to and built in e hurrya hull batch of vessels pretty much after the fashion of Mir. Jcferson's gum boats-but cold Pennsylvany," a aknowin old critter, and well knowin what the 1.-Two Pollies" was composed on, struck in and bought and hois- ted her flag on the "Two POllies." She knew as things was goin, if all hands went on shore, the Two POllies" would stand the best chance of gettin off with least damage and as things now stand, don't see but she was about right-for the |" Two Pollies" is as sound now as ever she was, and only wants lytsnover the sand bank behind her and once afioat will be as good as ever she was.
 The business now is-how shall she be Eif- ed of? On this pint there is a good many opinions Some say she ought to wait and take the chances for high tides and low trades, and go of with all the rcst-and that if Congress makes any appropriation it ought to be sifted round among all the vessels now ashore but this is pritty much like the con dition once tell'd on about the wagons in the mud. Now my notion is, we had best try an " experiment" with one-git her of if we can-and then with her aid, try to git the rest of-for there ain't power in all creation to lift 'em all cf together. have great H. kin must say for the Two Pollies" l know what she is built of-for tho she has changed flag. she ain't changed owners, and her keel and knees and plank and fioor-tim- bers-they arc all the same-and she is worth savin for the good she has done and can do yet. And this is my .plan-Congress owns Q considerable pile of empty hogsheads layin round at the Navy Yard, at Broollyn-All want is to have fhe use of few on 'em for Q speil-it won't cost the country dollar for them empty casks aint worth nothing till pinch or q war or some sich kind of thing comes-and promise to return them all aiore they are wanted for ether work.
 Some on you may say that empty e0sks sound too much llke crsQit-and you won't lot 'cm Do used, unless they arc tll'd with stones or iron or golh or sand or ellvoror wa. ter, or something that sounds solid or mtialie --put nil I've got % say ubcut lt Is-lhat kind or work won't 70 any thing oR ahoro--glvo mo mo use of tho ehply cashs Co do the lyiin. end coll t eredA of what you will I'll promise lo gli tho 1.-Two pollies" afoat with 'om--