The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-04-04
From The National rntelligenoer.
News from Major Jack Downing.

News from MAJOR JACK Downing.
sniyArE pispArcErs TO GENERAL PIERCE.
Not Q Be- gipe up 10 coagffs i! thy caH
.fwa.
Atcasd tho Ellibustcr schooner Two holliea.
OF the .Hols in tho WALL" near the middle
Of March. forget the day Of the month.
1855
DEAR GENERAL: We are skuddin
round here and holding on to the slack,
waitin for more help 10 come up. and
YOU may depend ont Cuba's got to take
it. We don't never give up the ship.
A fast little clipper Jest come along,
going to Baltimore, and the skipper
said he'd take my dispatches to you
in three DAYS. Aud YOU can send to
me by the skipper your notions about
things, for he's only going to stop long
enough to wood up, and then he's COM
ing rite strait back TO jine us. He
made me promise to hold on and no;
take Cuba till he come, tor lie WAS very
arrest to be in at the death.
That Cuba's fine country. We've
been having glimpse at i once IN
awhile with our glasses, through the
"hule in the wall" and round the cur
ners. and its rally fine country !;
.twould do YOUR heart good to look at
il. And you shall have chance be.
fore long. Tor its got to come down;
it's got to knuckle, aud no mistake.
I've got my commission To 60 ahead
from Mr.. Buchanan. MIR. Mason and
Mr.. Souley. And the nub Of the whole
thing is, we've got to take Cuba /" it
we have the powers" and | know We
have, as Sally Giles said to her sweet
heart. Says Sally, says she, "you
shant kiss me unless YOU are stronger
than | am. and know you be-"
Jest before we come out | see BY the
papers that Louis Napoleon was no
ton Of goin TO the rlmea to see Sc
bastopol fall; and so | thought may be
you might like to come out here and
see US take Cuba. Now if you du,
Jest say the word, aud tell me in your
letter what day you will be down on
the pint Of Floriday, and I'll bear up
with the Two Pollies and take you of.
You mustn't feel hurt because | did
not come to Washington to see you be-
fore starting on this. cruise; but the
fact was | hadn't time. Our country
was in SO much danger it wouldn't do
to wait. Our Congress in Ostend went
over the whole ground and examined
it carefully, and come to the conclu-
sion that it was neck or nothing with
Us. We must have Cuba or our whole
country would 60 TO rack and ruin, and
"the Union can never enjoy repose nor
possess reliable security as long as Gu
ba is not embraced within its b0unda-
RES"
sent you despatch last fall about
the duins Of our Congress at 0stend,
where we took up the affairs Of Eng
land aud France and Spain; but iinally
concluded we couldn't make ANYTHING
ont Of that business yet; and should
have 10 wait little longer. Well,
then them three S.'s-Souley, SickIes,
and Sanders-said there was one thing
We could du; we could take hold Of that
Cuba business and finish it up brown.
And. for fear that Louis Napoleon might
have spies round us there al Ostent,
We concluded il was best to hitch a
little further of. So We went to TX.
le-shaPple and finished up the busi-
ness.
The upshot was, We concluded We
would have Cuba by hook a. BIZ craak ;
aud that Mr.. souley should go rish;
back to Old spain aud tell the Queen
81. II sle'd mind t. give il Up qai-
etly and make no fUs. about il, he might
promise to give her semelhin pretty
handsome in tie way of money; We
didn't care nothin about that, as we've
rot plenty Of money to hume. II she
refused and told Mr. Snulev to mind
his own business, and we shouldn't have
Cuba no how, then We tnld him be
mustn't be mealy-muuihcd. nor mipee
matters, but pick quarrel the best
pay be could and clear out.
Well, Mr.. souley went back TO Ma.
drid with stiff upper lip aud begun Ia
Try 70 decker viii, the Qlcen', Spikes
man for bargain, somethin 10 tais
wsy:
sorIEY. Oh, now think Of il,
there's that little Island % tuba oset
there near our coa.t; we'd like to have
that little island. il its all tie same Il
yuu. ! spnsr YOU'VE 10 objections Il
isn't the least use in tie wufld TO sou,
and il might be some liiilr account Ii
~. 81 il sou say 80 vel just mark
Cuba down on the map Of the United
States.
sPoKEsSAN. Not by jug FULL. Mr
SouIey tuba is the most valuable
patch II ground we've GOT. Cant spar,
IL no how.
SouLEn Oh, nonsense; - no To-.
tnme al all 70 you, aud nothn bu,
bill q expense. It's 50 near 90 Us u,
might took after and maybe make some.
thin oct Of IL; but its 10 more use q
yOu than The fifth wheel &c 1 coach.