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WASHINGTON, Nov. 80, 1871.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 80, 1871.
To Editors Of New York E1prcss:--,he
same paper my old friend Mr.. Dwight
printed spell ago.
Mr.. Ediors,-We have ben, all hands on
us, as busy as beavers for the last ten days
getting the Message ready for congress, and
If don't miss my guess you will say, when
you come to read it, that it is about as COM
ple'c national paper as ever left the White
House and if any man can find a hook
about it to pull any part ont down, you may
depend he is no sound Amcrican-but one
who would rather see the country runated
than not, just for the sake Of grumbling and
complaining of Gaping Tyler. The Cap
ting goes on the principle that there may be
something good even in Sub Treasury or
in a Bdnk-and so he takes the notion Of
only chopping off and cutting out the worst
parts of both systems, and hammering the
good ofbotli into one lump.
1t is pretty hard matter to please every
body, but this is wide and long country,
and folks living in one corner ont must re-
member that there are a great many corners
to look to and take care on. suppose you
would like TO know exactly what the Mes
snge.says and mean to let you know word
Tor word as soon as Congress lets Captng
Tyler know they are ready to hear what he
has got to say. We don't do things here
exactly as they used to do them few wears
ago IN these matters. When anything is
told, il is told to all creation at once. All
can say is, whatever it does say is intended
to do the most good to the greatest number !:
and the Secretaries Reports about the Army
matters and the Navy matters-anJ the
treasury Report and the Postmaster Gem
erals Report are about as complete things
as you have heard tell on for a good MANY
years. And when the people in Congress
ana other folks outside comes to talk about
thlngs-and you hear any one grumblc and
growl, you may be sure it is because he don't
think he has got, or is likely to get in his
basket a lectle more than his share. Some
folks always have that notion. Especially
party folks, who think that having made
most noise, they have earned most and ought
to have it-and these are the kind of folks
that Gaping Tyler thinks ought to have if
possible, leetle less than their quiet neigh
bors and sartinly not more.
About the money and currency matters
of the Message | suppose good many folk
will disagree and honestly disagree too !; bu,
1t is one thing to fuid new house on nep
q4artersection, where things are as they were
left after the world was made and it is an
other thing to build a new house in the mid.
die of old ruins and close neigl,bors. In one
case you can dig as deep as you please, and
spread out as ride as you please, and pile
up your materials whcrc you please, where
all is your own for acres around, and no one
can prevent it; but in the other case YOU
have got to see that you don't dig under your
neighbours foundation, and not pile your
lumber before his door, or annoy him moro
than the lar alloms-and you must fix your
chimbly SO that you don't smoke him out.
This makes all the difference in the world
and folks (reasonable folks shoud keep their
eye on this. And lastly, you will find afierrea-
ding what is going TO Congress that matters
and things in gencra!are no, so far down hill,
as some croakers have tried to make them.
and that like foggy and rainy day, folks
should remember that the sun is shining
above that fog, aud will shortly show his
face thro' it, and that tho we have all been
compelled to use umbrellas and over coats
and over shoes, we shall soon be able to
hang them up and walk out without them.
Your friend and fellow citizen.
J. DOWNING. &c. &c.