Southern shield., 1840-09-18

llng. NOV Serjeant Joel tells us that he intends, waile he is on his travels, to send at cl leasto one etter week, and as he has
 letter oi recommendation from Gen Jack 5 lson,we' e@pectto hear all about the Sub fItrealarY snd few of the secrets of the lp Hi! sndy'e hope, with what we have to ; ,Isay abtpE. 1 mos Kendall; and what he ,lcanie 4ss bout the party and "old Tip" Di aiEi 1Sl & Dgaen's Sub. Treasury, twill make tie Pilot { favorte of the people. Dolrningeile State of Maine, June, IS40
 To Gineral Duff Green, that prints the Pi- lot, away off to Baltimore, pretty near
 to Washington.
 Dear Sir-I hope you wont think strange nor nothin, because I send this ere letter to you. fused to take a considera- ble of liking to you when you and lived together at Washington, and fit under Gineral Jackson; but l didn't know what had become of you late years, till few days ago was in uncle Joshuas post office, and found the Pilot that you print way off to Baltimore; and I sot down and chawed upon it while, and I liked it so well told uncle Joshua meant to set right down and write to you and try to scrape acquaintance again
 1 wonder if you remember what become of me when Gineral Jackson went out of office; if you don't I'll tell you When my cousin, the major, lay on his death bed here in Downingville, jest before the Cine eral finished his Presidency. he writ to me at Washington, to stick to the Gineral, and | take care of him as long as he lived, and when his presidency was done, to go with him to the Hermitage, and comfort him; for he knew he must be lonesome, and he could mt bear the idea that he should be left alone, without any of his old friends round him. So did as cousin Jack wanted me to and when the Gineral went out of office, l went off with him clear to the Hermitage, and lived with him ever since, till this sum- mer and used to tend his fires, and light his lpipe, and take care of his garden, and go ] to the post-oflice and get the naners. and ffedo ,he news 10 hna, and so on And we lived pretty quiet, comfortable sort of a life of it, till they begun to git up such a fuss all over the country, about Gineral Harrison, or Old Tip, as they call him.
 At first the Gineral used to laugh aboutit and said they might as we'll set out to make President of his old hickory cane. He said, if the Wings had mind to take up Webster or Clay, or Calhoun, they might get two or three States for either of 'em, but if they went for Harrison, they'd be etarnally oshed, and wouldn't get single State. But as the papers grew more full of the mater, the Gineralgrew more arnest to see lem. He used to send me to the post office every day as soon as the mail was in, and make me set down and read over and over all the news about the pres idency, and when got hold of a new paper that come out for Harrison, he would catch it out of my hands and clap on his specta- cles, and look at it for a minute, and then he would slap it on the floor, and say, there was another editor had made fool of him self And then he would take his pipe and go to smoking, and tell me to read on; and the more read, the faster he'd smoke And when the accounts came out pretty | hot for Harrison, he'd start up out of his chair, and walk back and forth across the room, and taake his pipe go like steam engine. And once more 1 was readih 2 paper that raised Old Tip up to the skies,
 and told him all about the Battle of I'ippe-
 canoe, and Fort Meigs, and the Thames
 and said Harrison had done more for his country than any other man living, the
 Gineral threw his pipe out of the window
 as much as six rods, and dashed it all to
 pieces.
 Now, says I, Gineral, there's no use ir that If the folks take nation to choose
 old Tip for President, they'll do it, and
 you and 1 can't help it, no way we can
 fix it.
 Says he, Sergeant Joel, you're fool.-
 Didn't put Mr. Van Buren into the presi
 dency to stay there eight years? And didn't
 he promise 10 follow in my footsteps? And
 has mt he got four years more to serve after
 this years out? And by the Eternal, he
 shall do it, too if have to go to Washing
 tor to see to the business. This talking a
 bout making Harrison President is nothing but etarnal stupid nonesense?
 T The morning he was expecting the mai to bring the account of the great nationa , Whig Convention that met to nominate { : President the Gineral got up rather airlie than common, and see he looked kinder ! ldgetty and oneasy all the morning. Ant when WIS sot down to breakfast he brocheC ! the subject and says he; Sergeant Joel what shall we get from the Whig conven ton this morning2"
 5 We'll, says l, General don't know, but expect we'll geta nomination.
 : Well, who will it be2' says he don't know, says I, Gineral, who d : you think2
 ) "Tll bet you hundred dollars" says h it'll be Clay But the fools may say