Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1837-09-21

ing, in the shape OF Treasury Notes. We
expect now 10 hear from the Major on the
matters introduced in the Message, and as
Inc president very frankly asks free discus
SION, we shall no doubt soon be able 10 see
through the "fog bank" il we can't through
other banks.
10 the Representatives Of the People of the
United States OF North America. in Con-
grtss at Washington.
RocKAwAY, Sept. 4th, 1887,
Near the wreck OF the Two Psllies {
HONORABLE GENTLEM ,-Ihave been
waitin for this day to come ever since. the
! wo Poilies was run on shore by Captain
jumper, so that could lay the case rio hi a
fore The hull people in one swing, for there is
M way ofgettin any matter well attended 10,
that belongs TO the people, ill their repre>
se"taIINes all git together at Washington in
Cong ress-i look upon you jest as would
on barrel Of cider billed down TO a quart
Tor the hull barrel is in that quart and lest SO
the hull people are you.
suppose YOU all know that the Two Pol
lies is on shore, and that ow in tn that condi-
Ton she Is IN considerable peril-both masis
are broken off, and very leetIe more than her
null Is left. IL is pretty well know how she
got IN the snarl-and the next thing is to see
u some plan can't be fixed on to get her out
as every body knows and feels that there is
net aud never has ben and never will be a
GIN, any vessel atioat that Can compare with
the Two PoliieS"--it is your duty 10 see
mat some meals are taken TO gel her off
shore. Every body who has been off TO see
The hull If this vessel, says there amt moth
ing That floats that comes any way nigh her
,of beauty and strength--for tho she has now
been thumpin on the beach for considerable
speil-she is as sound and as strong from her
Keel 10 her deck timbers as ever She was
ms rs own mainly 10 The manner she was
hrst ouilt-ior you kncw-and il you don't
Know, j now tell you, that she was built Jest
al the close Of the last war-and all the tim
bers IN her was Carefully taken from every
State in the Union-and she was bill, by The
nation-evry State send:n carpenter 10 see
that evry part on her was well put together
and evry carpenter brought timber from
his own State 20 put into her-iive oak--io-
cust-pltch pine cedar-and all kinds used
IN ship buiIdn-and compleler job never
was launched into The waller
80 long al she belonged 20 the nation all
went on wei! enuf-she could do coastin
trade and foreign lrade--she has ben round
Capes and Pints of all names and natur-
Cape Horn, ""Cape o. Good Hope, ''"Cape
Haterass. Pint Look out "'s Pint judith
and Pint oPint, and every body al home
' va '"' iilat hHO" u any iDlnp about SIGH
kind OF craft, has been bern 10 saw there
warn'i SIGH a vessel in all creation. Well.
1t turned out in an evil day, that "The Gov
eminent hauld down The national fisr. and
SAID II warn't according TO the constitution
to own SIGH vesssl, and that States only
should own and sail 'em. No sooner said
than done, all the States turned 10 and 5uiIi
an hurry hull batch of vessels pretty much
afer the fashion of MIR. Jefferson's gun boats
but "oid Pennsyivany," known old crit.
Ter, and well known what the "Two Poilies''
was composed on, struck 10 and bought and
hoisied her flag on The "Two Polies" She
knew as things we're gone, If all hands went
on shore, the 1.-TWO PolIies" would stand The
best chance getting off with least damage-
and as things now stand, don't see but she
was about Fight-for the "Fwo Pollies" is as
sound now as ever she was, and ony wants
l1tin over the sand bank behind her and
once afloat i'll he as good as ever she was.
The business now is-huw shall she be
lifted Oft? On this pint there is COED ma
ny opinions Some say she ought to wait
and take the chances for high tides and low
trade, end go off with ali the rest-and that
n mo L.