Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-03-06
From the Brother Jonathan.
JACK BOW MING ESQ.

became so thorough party man, and even de-
serted his old friend Jackson, refused to follow
in the footsteps of Mr.. Van Buren,, and has, ac-
tualIy become a conservative member of the
Wing party, and an attache OF General Harri-
son, no party newspapers have been obliged to
play shy of him. We cannot, however, resist
the temptation to copy portion of his letter
from Philadelphia, in. the Express of Wednes-
day; and if any of our friends find political
sqtint that "don't Jest exactly suit them," they
mast remember that Jack is Wing, and ex-
cuse his politics, while they admit his wit
banks don't thrive better for pOking. I'll.
+ | and the Gineral was drifting along down
from the west, and bowling and shaking off the
the everlasting crowd of folks all the way from
the Ohio, till we struck along the edge of old
PennsylUany, when we heard folks beginning
to talk about hard money, and paper money,
and resumption, and suspension, and things of
that natur, when says |, ''Gineral, you may de-
pend there is trouble brewing somewhere's
along here, and if you say SOP says I,"I'll Just
quit you for spell and take turn down to
Philadelfy, and look into the matter little, and
line you at Washington" "Well," saws he,
"Maior, seeing as how folks begin to thcken
amazingly around US, my caklation is you
won't be much mist, but see that you Git to
! Washington as soon as possible, and in mean
time let me know all you meet with worth
hearing and SO quit, and as the Gineral new.
er wants to knownothing more than the PEG
pie know themselves send you this letter tc
print, and you will please send a copy ont tc
| the Gineral, so that he will know as much a:
other folks do about it.
! | got here last evening jlst arter lamp light
! ing and took a run round to most all the banks
to see if | could find any on 'em open, but
! found em all locked up and bright lamps burn
ing afore the doors, and good strong broad
shouldered watchmen standing at their post:
with clubs and rattles jist for all the world as
tho the banks was as full of specie payment!
as ever, and not a mite of difference. '
| stopt and had a leetle talk with one o
! these watchmen, and says |, stranger is there
no Citing in here to see folksl" Not tonight
says he, call the banks are shet up" CHOW
/ you talk says /, and so streak'd it round to
Squire Bidde's PREMISES, for | had notion i
! could only git fair talk with the Squire,
would larn pritty much all about the matter
! found the Squire to hum. and he was anna
Yin glad to see me; and he and went rlgh
up into room alone, where found gOot
a0arm Lehigh coal fire burning, and tabl
kivered with papers; and he took one chan
and another, and we went at it straight of
49," says |, esquire, you are all SuSpendet
t again,I arn. ""Yes,'' says he, "Maior, the folk
who wanted hard naoney have got all the Bank
had to give them; and as the Banks can't coil
hard money, and can only git it from the folk
: who owe them, it turns out that, as the Bank
have not got the same power by the law t
make folks paw them as fast as the other folk
want it, the pond must run dry for spell"
"But," saws J., esquire, how on airth is
that things work so that one set of folks kee
drawing out of the spiggot faster than othe
folks pour into the bung-hoe! Now how
it," .-. .-.. a.ear.a a- -.a
This set the Squire scratching his head an
Fthinking-and to give him time. to answer
took the poker and began poking up his ehig
cool fire, to see if there was any bLeze in 1t; an
to rights says he, "Major, what are you pol
ing that fire for? Do you expect to make
burn brighter! If you will take my advice
says he, "you will let it alone. Amt the roo
warm enufp' eyes," says |, .t'it's warm emu
but little poking wont do any harm will it
q ''Well," says he, "you go on pokimg, an
you will see,"-and sure enut, the more POI
ed, the darker the fire and coal got; and bim'
lby it all went out. "Well," says |, "Squir
g this is pagy odd kind of fire of your'n," sa.
!. /, "Yes," says he, 'it's Pennsyloany coal;
won't stand poking, Major,-if you let it alor
! it will burn slowly(and surely, and give Of
comfortable heat,-but If folks go TO pokln
it, it turns and looks black at them, and Civ
} them cold shiver."
Let his politics be what they will, Jack
certainly happier in his instances than an
body else. Mr. BIS lecture upon the coal fl
and the banks, will be easily guessed at. I
IS starts the fire again and by preventing Il
= poker from being inserted, cheerful blaze
given out, and Jack and Mr. Biddle induls
themselves in mug of warmed cider, and
a roasted apple. Jack in conclusion. recor
mends all creation TO "put cross on all croa
ers, and especially the pokers.''
, We do not feel bound to seek out exact
who Jack means by erodkers and pokers.,