The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1855-01-12
letter from Nj. .iOr Downing.

Letter Of Instruction to President Pierce and Cabno
OAsTENp; October IS, 1854.
| DEAR GINERAL We are all prowlin rount
mere, and doing the best we can, though W,
hant made out to fetch matters to heat
yet: but guess We are in Il pretty fair way
for it, Our teams got grit enough and, by
lingo, .hey'I haul the load they hitch on to
Or somethn's got to give way. Mr. Buchan
IN and Mr.. Mason isn't quite spry enough
they are u little on the old fogy fashion, ana
not always ready 10 come up to the scratch;
but with Mr.. Sickles spurrin up on one side
and Mr.. Sanders sourrln on tolher side, and
Mr.. Souley drivn up behind, we make out to
get pretty good pull out of the.n sometimes.
We have got things so far ahead here that
Mr.. Sickles and Mr.. Sanders thinks | had
better write despatch 20 you and the Ca5i-
net to7home and give some Instructions how
to go on. .-...... .
I'll tell you what It's, Gineral; (when call
you Gineral sometimes eenamost feel as if
was writin to 6 Gineral Jackson again;) | say,
Ginerai, I'll tell you what tits, them three
SIS (Sickles, Sanders, and Souley) arc the
three smarlost chaps that ever growed in
North America. They make Europe stan
round, and no mistake. Mr. Souley holds
old Spain between his thumb and finger. and
whisks her about jest as he's mnG to,
Qdeen and all; Mr.. Sanders lays down the
Dem cratic law to France, and STAINS a pret y
! fair chance to be chose President of the new
French Republic after Napoleon goes out
and as for old John Bull, I'll be kicked if
think the critter dares to stir an inch while
Sickles holds him by the horns, ...
| | suppose you've seen them letters-how
Mr. Sickles snubted Peabody, the great mer-
chant-banker about the 4th of July dinrer.-
I Capital, wasn't it! Ye see, Mr.. Peabody gin
| a 4th of July dinner He's always doing sich
things, or giving money away for somethin
or other; for they say>he's got money enough
to buy Kingdom. Wall, he invited Mr..
Sickles to come and jine the r,st Of US and
| have good set down. But ye see Mr.. Pea
body didn't know how much patriotism and
real Democratic grit there was slowed way
! in Mr.. Sicke's breast; he had no idea ont;
and that was the rock he split on. You'll
hardly believe me ,Gineral, when | say it, but
it'sa fact, Mr.. Peabody had Englishmen
! choly fact, but it's true. Ii he had had halt Il
table full of cannibals we could all stood it
and fit our way through: but Mr. Sickies
couldn't stand Englishmea. He had too much
Democratic blood in him for that. To mix
up Democrats and Englishmen at the same
table was awful But that wasn't the worst
oft. When Mr.. Sickles got there he couldn't
hardly believe his own eyes; for there was a
portrait Of the Queen hung right up in the
same room with Gineral Washington! Wasn''
that stumper! No wonder Mr., Sickles'a
Democratic blood billed over. But that wasn't
the worst of it. When they come to give
the toasts they toasted the Queen The
rest of the folks stood up to drink the toast
But Mr.. Sickles grft bis teeth and sol down
as hard as thousand of brick; aud he felt st
| disgusted he couldn't eat another mouthful.-
And when the music, to increase the insult
struck up "God save the Queen" Mr.. Sick