Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-02
ALL J.

am happy to be able to inform your
readers that the Collector Of the Port Of
New York, who bears the uncommon
name Of Smith, though he has attempted
to disguise it by the substitution of "y"
for an al" in the middle of it, and the
addition of an entirely useless "e at
the end, is all hunkey dorey." an
nounce this pleasing fact on the author
ity ofthe gentleman himself, in a second
hand form, it is true, but for all that
fact, as good rs if it was new, for it was
proclaimed that he said 80 BY a member
Of Congress, or the, floor of the House
on Friday. | am not able to give you q
precise description of what "hunkey-
dorey means. 1t comes, | presume,
from the old Saxon word chunk"
which some time ago was used to ex-
press the idea Of Il condition e%minently
satisfactory. To say that an individual
wal all hunk" was to assert that he
was successfully engaged /" in the pur-
suit of happiness. The ey" was ad-
ded to give the word a pleasant and
familiar roll, and dore," corrupted by
the barbarians OF this coast into "do-
roy" was employed to impart to it n
Spanish flavor. assume, then, when
Mr.. Smythe, Collector of the Port of
New York, told the gentleman, who told
the member Of Congress, who announced
it on the floor Of the House, that he
/" was all hunkey-dorey," he meant that
he had t~riumphed over the malice Of his
enemies-thst his head never set more
firmly on his shoulders-that he was on
the best possible terms with himself and
the world, and that he was in a state Of
the most delightful financial and polit-
ical beatitude.
He has been employed, as you are
aware, in conducting tho Customs bust
ness at the port Of New York for the
General Government, but it has ramif-
cations of which people residing on the
Pacific Coast never dreamed. Thus it
is reported that Mr.. Smythe once said
that she was id sorry that he ever
undertook to carry the Presidents
daughters" what that means do not
know. Is it part Of the duty of the Col
lector Of the port of New York to carry
around on his back the Presidents
daughters? If so, did these ladies
prove to be too heavy for the o%ver-conti-
dent Smythe? Then there is a Mrs.
Perry in the case, who, it is said, was
to have oue-third of the general busi-
ness What general business? The
peanut and apple business conducted on
the steps of the Custom House? GER
tainly can imagine no other. 1t is due
to this official to ssythat he asserts that
Mrs. Perry is a myth-that he never
made any contract to crafty whatever
whims the Presidents daughters might
conceive on the subject Of locomotion-
that he never gave anything to any lady
but "forty cents worth Of candy to Mrs.
Senator Patterson" and that all these
stories were manufactured by the Com
mittee appointed to investigate his con
duct, because he would give them the
offices they wanted. We will have the
whole story out, however, by and by,
for q resolution has been introduced in
the House for another investigation and
an impeachment-a rather unusual
mode Of proceeding in the case Of Col
~lectors, if the facts will warrant it. 1t
will thus be seen that it yet remains to
be proved whether there are, or are not,
solid grounds for the confident boast Of
Collector Smythe-that he WAS all
''hunkey dorey.'-N. Y. Cor. Alta.