The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-08-23
.ts From the National Intelligencer
LETTER FROM MAJOR DOWNING.
Private Despatch to 60 through the Organ. to Gen
Pierce.

LETTER FROM MAJOR DOWNlNG.
Private Despatch to 60 through the Organ. to Gen.
Pierce.
DowN1NGvILLE, estate OF. MAINE,) ! M
m July %, 1853. s1e
Mr.. GALES g. SEAroN: My dear old friends,
when | am in dilemma always feel sure l
shall be safe if throw myself into your
hands. And am in dilemma now, cause I've
got to send little private official dispatch TO
Gieneral Pierce, and can. lind out what pa
per is the organ to send it through. I've been
hunting and hunting over the papers from all
parts of the country that came to Uncle JOSH
uas post Office to try to find out what paper
is Gineral Pieaces organ; but the more hunt
tho worse am off, and the darker and moro
puzzled the question grows. Some of the pa
pers says the Washington Union is the organ,
and some says 'tsn't.
Sometimes the Union comes out with fust-
rate dimoeratic leader, loaded down with true
solid dimocratic principles that COWS Tito tho
ground clear up to the hub. Wal, then the pa
pers says, that's by authority; the Uuion is the
organ of the Administration, and no mistake
it's just os clear as preachn." Then the next
thing, may be, it comes out with another dim
ocratc leader pnliing the dimocratic Govern
ment of Russia sky high. Wal thon tho pa
ders goes into fiu.teraton about it, and says
the organ of the Government,any more than a
toud wants q tail, every bit and grain.
But tho Union says lis the organ, and the
n. Y. Evening Post and some of tho rest of
EN- eenamost swears up hill and down that
'tesnt the organ. So they have it; and how
are we away down East here to toll which is
what? And then some of the papers said the
Republic was TO be the organ, and was cut
down nearabout one-half in size to suit the
times; and some said q truo blue dimocratic
organ was going to be moved up from Now
| Hampshire; and some said bran new organ
was going to bo made right up out of whole
cloth, and an editor was going to be brought
up from New Hampshire TO edit it. So what
tho upshot Of the business is cant find out
I'm most afraid the Gineral hasn't appointed
any organ yet, and ifhe hasn't that's very bad;
for tho organ ought to be tho very first appoint
ment made. But know the Gineral has had
very hard time about somo of his appoint
ments, so L can't so much blame him. 81
here you see was my bother that was in:
had to send to the Gineral something that
ought to 90 through tho organ. Finally, ar
ter consulting Uncle Joshua about it, ho said
I'd better write TO YOU, for youwoud know as
much about it ae any body, and if their was an
organ you could send by despatch to it, and il
there wasn't you could put it in the Intelligen
GER, and for his part, he always thought the In
telligencer was about as good as an organ t.
put any thing into.
So now Mr.. Gales & Seaton, if there ISM
no organ in Washington nor nowhere else in
America, l shall hi tvo to depend on you to gel
dispatch along 10 the Government the best way
yon can, and I'll try to do as much for you any
time.
To Gincral Pierce President Of America, ana
again 10 be (ihdtis, II GiRerdt Gushing ism
| Y,,Eo III asfss r 70
DEAR GINERAL: I'm afraid you've thought
strange of it that haint writ to you afore now
for so long time past but / coundn't. I've
been 80 busy cruizing round among tho fish
ermon down to New Brunswick, and Nova
Scotia and the Gulf of st. Lawrence, that
couldn't get no time to write, nor couldn't fine
no post Office 10 send it, You see Gncral,
didn't accept your invitation TO tako seat ir
yenr Cabinet, cause, I'm one of them sort tha
can't bear setting great deal. can't stan i
without I'm up and knocking about pretty
much every day, and understand the Cabinet
had to sot nigh about half the time, so told
you l should good deal rather have some
foreign appointment, whore could stir myself
And you told me tho foreign appHtment'
were pretty much oil spoke for, twenty times
over, but you would give me commission o
Minister Gineral, and might go round anC
look after the interest of the country where
ever thought best Now that was Jest wha
liked; you cOudent gin mo no appoint
ment that would suit me better.
Wal, my first cruise, Gineral, has becn away
down Baet, end Ettle oyond, for 7 thnnah
twas high time them fishermen Of ourn dowI
there was looked arter, heard they was got
ting wrathy; and the Brtishers was flockir
J in there with their armed vessels again, anC
there was pretty likely TO be muss if 'twan
; lco nd / la1 nfi
/ went all along the coast and boarded the fish
ermen, and talked with tho skippers and CAV
em good advice. I'm sorry to say Their back
is up pretty round. They swear they'll neve
stan that straight line 'from hcadland to head
land" no way you can fix it. They say tn
cod fish and the mackeral are good dea
thicker inside tho line than they are out, an
7 they arc bound to 90 whore there's tho bes
fishin, let who will stand in the way. Wal,Gin
; eral, since most all our poliiitons and Office
seekers is doing the same thing and sitting o
'em the same example, | coulden't find it i
, my heart to blame cm much, for who is ther
I, among 'em all, polititans and office-seekers
that stans much about any straight limo iron
headland to headIand when they think there
any better fish;n tother side of i;l
However, guess you may calculate the fish
ermen will remain quiet this summer, if the
/, are allowed to fish where they arc mind to
and tho British vessels don't crowd them {,
hard But il they do, you must look out for
regular row that'llstr the whole camp of Youn,
America. ! got homo last week, and her
been overhaulng the newspapers and havin,
talked with Unclo Joshua, and larning hoy
: things arc getting on. l see that you an,
some of the Cabinet have been on to New
: York to SEQ the openin of the Crystal Palace
and had good time. I'm glad to find you
Administration is getting on so swimminly
and that you have got such fust-ratc Cabine
round you. like Mr.. Marcy better and bet
ter; he's such prudent man and fust-rat
I Dimocrat | always heard no was prudent an,
savin and wasn't ashamed to have his clothe
. mended as they was decent before he woul,
1 90 into any extravaganza to get now ones-