The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-11-15
From the New York Caucasian.
Letter nom Major Jack Downing.

WASHINGTON. August lj,h 1862.
To the Editurs Of the Cawcashin -SirS:
Ithas been jest about the hottest wetrer,
sence writ you last, ever did see The
Kernel SEES he feels as limpSey as an eel,
an tell you it has taken the starch out
Of the hull Of US. Ef don't write q letter
this time worth Printn, it will be because
my idecs have all kinder ouzcd out tArU
my skin. One day the Kernel ses to me
scS he, 'Majer, what do you think about
McClellan's new base on the Jeemes Rlv-
er:' WAL ses I, Kernel. it reminds me
for all the world of old TruXton Miller's
Il bar hunt, away up in the north palt of
Maine, when was a boy The Kernel
likes TO hear story as we'll AS to tel one,
so he insisted that | should tell him all
about it. So | proceeded: Ses !, Old
Truxton was the most noted bar hunter in
all that part, an it wlrnt often when he
got started after a bar that it ever got
away. lie could yell an boiler equal 10
wild Injins, an he generally scarf away all
the varInin,s for several miles around -
One spring the bars had been very trub-
belSOmc, carrvin off his sheep, lambs an
even calvs and yrar,ins, an Iruxton vowed
he'd 60 and attack the bars in their dtn.
So off he started with his dubbed barellvd
shot gun an his big dog, IlarculeS for n
regular bar hunt. He soon got on their
track an he followed them To their den
jest as one was goin in he LIT 60 his gun
al took one OF EN- in the thigh; thus o,ly
male matters WORSE, for out com. tSn or
fl,Vnn nf hnrL III. ,,,,l L., ! 49,
tackled on all sides. lie felt prrlt sale
with larculeS, but soon the bars mad for
the dog, All they torn him to pieces in II
litfy. TTnxtOn shot one Of EN-, but that
put The infarnalS il n passion, an the Old
Teller had to 'skedaddlc,' as they say in
these days. Seeing tree handy by he
started to go up, but powerful beast
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OH the seat st tuA tr",WsgEs , ,.le.got awny
an that was all, an looked down on t,r
bars in dISmay. Now. seS !, Kernel, |
think that McClellan's new base is some.
thing like old Truxton'S. Bat all MS
ncighbOrS turned out, an finally got the
Old teller out of his danger, an when he
come down he made this remark, Sc> tie,
'neighborR, it's one thing to hunt bar,
out it's quite another thing when the bar
hunts you !
So ses l, 'KerRel, it, one thing to hunt
the secesh, but it's quite another thing
when the seceSlI hunts you, an it appears
to Inc as If Mcclellan is freed IN his 'new
has ~
Wal, Majer, SEES the Kernel, How are
we t. get him away
WAL SIS |, do jest as old Truxton's
nei.hborS did-scare off the bars! Scare
off the -secesh Get around 'em OH all
sides an make them believe you are gon
to attack elm from every quarter, an they
will soon scatter SO that the Ginneral can
change his base again. Call it "A great
piece Of strategy and the people won't
know the difference
WAL says the Kernel, that's jest what
has got 10 he done, and though lisa nifty
dangerous movement, rite in the face of
the rvbils. yet it must be done. or all the
troops viii die Of diSintsrry where they
sre.'
Before this letter reaches your readers
the telliegraf will announce the hull move.
ment.
The other day the Kernel had call
from some Niger preachers. He sent for
'eIn to have a talk about seem whether
they wouldn't consent to go to Centril
America, but they didn't seem to like it
much. Fhey sed they would think about
it an report. told the Kernel that when
be got niggers to immigrate that the next
thing he cnull .lo would be To get the
kinks nas of air hair. SEES he, why
ROs; Kej"EY' Wa, roe !, K~rRel, you !