M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-02-25
LETTERS FROM MAJER JACK
DOWNING.
SECOND sEHIKs-No. ".
WARRINGTON, Jan. 30, 1864.
To tie Eaitsrs cfthe Dabook;

~ L"S L0tSFs y Iie DdOu"h
SURs: lspoHe yOur ruadrrs think
I'm dead, or mebby they think lve
rUn away with o pile of greerbacks,
az that is kinder fashions5ul noU n
days, but aint in neithur fix. The
fale truth is that after | writ you my
last lattur got completely disgusted
! aud cum nitey nigh goin back hum
to DuWningviiIe, and vowin ! would
"rvcr return to this sink Of sin agin
! Put the Kernel Ct ct ne and begged
| ! wouldn't think OF it teilcd him
J couldn't STAY it, the White lIousr
over New Years and see the knaYes
and iDuls that would be there ;hen,
80 jest Leiorc Christmas, as good luck
Happened, old Fatlar Blair eyed nc
t. 80 dowr 10 hi, place a 6iIyur
ISprinIa and stay ovur the holliiays.
! tell y'u was ra!o glad, fur the Old
mar has got fire place, eud | could
have it 20 quiet md coay there a.'ur
nv hard work ovpr TIE message
When ] go tloge ! wa9 Ink down
with the IJua'iz ml hpl 10 keep my
Irnon for morg tAan AN two weeks
H9vcvnr, the Kernel feu: me some
prime cid rye, and hat, together with
come oior.iIdock that old Amt H.
isiah WigSloton sert to ms by my
neiu Zeie put me on my pins asin
iOId Father Blair and | had long talks
Intuut Gincral Jackson and the Kern
lei, 'he war, mig trs, the next presi-
dcrcy, and so on. My ola trend
Blair WINS a grate man in Gireraj
Jackson time, but the trnbbel with
bin now is that he dou'I move along
with the world 10 actually thinks
that he lie yet fisin Calhoun, M hayin
got in tho horo with tho A bolis shern-
iots, lie don't know Aow to git cu,.
Last week ] cum back to see the
Kernel srd have been looking Gronrd
for few days to zee how the land
lay. | tnd that the p'incipel ides IN
erefy 5o,iy's bed IS whose TO DO the
ncxr President I But I tell yuu when
/ look at the cohdishun o! thu conn
TRY II makes me sick to talk about a
President. What is the use Of q Pro.
sidsDt when there's y s'an1in army
What is the nae OF Il President whun
the balbox nint Of half 90 much ac-
count as tho cartridge box 2 The first
day ! got back 10 ibe White House
there was q lot OF Lpyii Losers and
shoddy contractors cum to tell the
Kernel that they had nominated him
ior PRECEDENT. After thoy went out
Liukin Soa to NE scs he. "Majar, what
do ycu think Of them fellows r.
Wa" sos !, "!hcy lock 20 mean
cnong to 'tea. nigggrs.' The Kernel
did not say anything, but looked
kinder cross eyed at me. Tha Kernel
and then Lad 4 long talk oboEt mat.
ters and things, aud after taking q
coed swig Of old rye, went to bed.
That nito hsi II wonderful dream.
Tho next mnrnip. when | went in he
room where the Kernsl was, says he
"MFier, you look uncommon serions
this .mornin; what'e the matter!'
l"Wal," srs |, Il had wonderful
dream last nito that eenRmost fright
ened mo to de,h." "Wal," sas he,
("wbat on elrth was it ~ "Wal," "
seq !, "lt tell you the hull of il Jest
40 it appeared TO me you mustn't get
mad" "Oh,' sea the Kernul, 81
don't keer no;hin about dreams, for |
alters interpret them BY contrares. {"
"Wal," Ees |, "you Gin cypher ont
the meanin OF it yourself to emit your
self, but III tell il to yon jes. a, it
|appesred TO me, and it seemed as
plain as ii ii was broad day light"
WAL" ses |, II though! | was in a
grave yard, and there was a great big
grave dug, large enoush to hold four
Or five cofiinS, ard while was stand
in their wouiorin what on earth the
grav was for, saw a big black hearse
ccmin and Staniin was drivin it.
Tha: kinder startled ; me bur | look
ca agia, and see it was bein drawn
by them War Diumycrats, Dickiu..
son, Butler, Meagler, Cochrane, and
the hear8e itself was marked "War
Dmmycracy." When Stsntin druv
up to the grave scs he, "My jackasset
had a heavy load, bu. they pulled is
through brayely," for the poor War
Dinm mycrats had heads of men on the
bodies of mules. wondered what
on sirtb could be in the hearse, for il
seemed to be heavily loaded. Right
behind the bearse wakin along were
you and Sumner, and Greeley, and
Chase, and Beecher, and old Grand
father Welles. Pretty soon you all
went to work !akin out the coffins and
gstiiu ready TO put them in the grave