Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-10-11
despatch srs. MAJOR J.sk psva,as,

bAWsASs UNIV SVS0 tabhCi SS6Stseos W. Hau
safety, a. on account Of his long silence.
they have not known whether he was in
perils Of war or Of sickness, or ideed il he
were in the land Of the living Al ell. The
Msjos's silence however il satisfactorily ac-
counted for BY the fact that he has been on
duty 10 the secs surrounding Cuba; but from
a despatch to the Government. published
in the National lnts9i9sncer, it appears that
he thinks. he has been rather badly treated
and not supported as he shoul ID have been.
We extract the material portions Of the let
ter. The Major writes from aboard bis
schooner the Two Pollies, --"sailin' round
Cuba and up the Gulf";-
The truth is. Gineral Pierce, don't feel
satisfied with my treatment, TO be lett here
/ alone oil summer to bear the whole orunt
OF this fllibuster war, sailu' about IN these
hot climates, where We light our pipes by
the sun without matches, and exposla our
lives oil the time; and two out Of our men
has died with the yaller fever, and not a
soul sent out to back me up and help me
take Cuba-not a single war-ressei, nor
steamer, nor private hllibuster, nor even
so much a. Bill johnson on pine log with
a fowliu'-piece.
What did you expect me to do! Was to
pitch into the Moro Castle alone! The
whole English feet, the greatest feet IN
the world, was afraid to pitch into Cron-
s,adt, up there in the Baltic. Tie Two
Pollies is brave and sure fire, but don't
think it's hardly reasonable TO match her
alone agin the Moro, though I've sometimes
almost swore | would do it, hit or miss, get
ting so out Of patience waitin' all summer
for achievements. And sometimes Id
have a real time thinkin' Of Gineral Jackson.
and .sying to myself, If Old Hickory was
only at the helm-I don't mean the helm OF
the Two Pollies, but the helm OF Govern
ment-I guess things wouldn't go on at
this rate There wouldn't be no backin'
and film then; it would be plain sailin',
straight ahead, and every body would know
where they was goin' to fetch up. II Old
Hickory put his foot down on fisty -four for
~, i, would be there, and you needn't look
for il on for,y-nine. II the Spanish folks
had a took the Black Warrior steamer under
his Administration, and he had demanded
three hundred thousand dollars to pay the
damages and wipe out the insult, the money
would have to be planked right down on
the nail. or the hair would fy somewhere.
And If he had fairly made up his mind. as
our Congress did at Ostend and Ax-la-Shap-
pie, that Cuba was as necessary TO our Gov
eminent a. airy one Of the States. and that
we couldn't get along without 1t, and there
fore, "by every law, human and divine, we
had the right TO take il ii We possessed the
power.n the whole business would been
done in three weeks, andC Cuba marked down
on the map Of the United States. But
baekin' and ilin' and wrigglin' policy never
will fetch any thing about; and don't rally
believe we are so near having Cuba now as
we was six months ago.
II Mr. Buchanan had only been at home,
| know he wouldn't have lei, the whole bu-
siness on nv hands alone without sending
me help; but you have kept his hands tied
all this time in London, So he couldn't do
nothin' And poor DIR. Mason, he's been
sick nj Paris, and he couldn't do nothin'.
And Mr. Souley has had 30 many other fish
10 fry, he woun'd 20 nothin'. And as for
Sanders and Sickles, hear they have gone
Oft to Russia TO see about setting up new |
Democratic Republic there, or else annex
in Russia TO the United States. They say
there 10 no reason in the world why Russia
shouldn't belong to US, there is such good |
chance to run telegraph wire across Beer |
ing's Straits. So there wasn't nobody left |
10 back me up in this Cuba business bat you
and the Cabinet And how have you and |
they done it! Yes, Mr. President, how have
you done it. must speak plain, for have |
had my feelings good many times badly
worked up. ! hope there hasn't been any
,reachery in your Cabinet, and no pullin
the rope over the roof Of the house at both
ends But things has looked VERY dark and
foggy 10 Inc sometimes. You haint sent
me no dispatches, and I've had to keep the
run of things by the newspapers that pick
ed up here and there from vessels goin'
back and forth. And when see Commo-
dore McCauley was coming out with a
force" sufficient to blow every Spanish
cruiser to thunder, and knock the Moro into
a cooked hat, We had jolly time aboard
the Two Polles. Itell ye We threw up
our hats and hoorah'd about an hour right
out strait.
Wal, arter a week or two, when we got
most tired Of wsitin', the feet came along.
| bore up under the Commodore's lea and
hailed him, and asked him where the Two
Pollies should hitch on. As soon "a he see
il was me he was very polite; but he said
the Two Pollies better keep dark and lay
low little while till he went into Havana
and reconnoitered round, and then he should
know exactly what to do. So We waited
patiently week or two longer; and then |
hailed Psnobscot sloop, Capt. Gilman, an
old acquaintance, who had been into Havana
with load OF lumber and was homeward
bound with a little cargo of molasses and
sugar.
Says I, "Gilman, did you see any thing Of
Commodore NcCauley !"
..See hint Yes, see him every day.
"Wal, what's he about all this time. Has
he took the Moro. and The city, and the war.
vessels without giving me chance %
"No, don't think he has took anything !
sad Gilman, "but the Capt. Gineral has |
took him.
Ny dander was right up, Itellye. Says |
/, "Yo1 don't mean TO say he has took our |
Commodore and shut him up in the Moro |
Ii he has l'Il 60 right in with the Two Pol
lies and blow the old laundering into the |
ocean"
"Oh, no." said Gilman, with little puck
cry laf creeping round his eyes and mouth |
shes only took the Commodore into his |
great fine carriage, and see them most
every day riding about together, cheek by |
,nuyl md hnyiao a Ioity time of n