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FROM SKINNER’S AMERICAN TURF REG. FOR OCT.
Wild orses— he Game and
Sports of the West.
Fort Gibson, Aug. 1, 1633.
Mr. Editor.—Although the “ blind god
dess,” in her capicioua dispensations, lias not
deemed me worthy a high place among that
spirited and jovial fraternity yeleped “sports
men of the turf,” an inherent fondness for the
horse, and the interest awakened by a recital of
his gallant achievements, have made me a re
gular reader of your excellent work.
1 have observed the polite reception given by
you, to all sporting notices und papers contri
buted by di'b.rent gentlemen, on tire subject of
hunting, and the various animals with which
(hey have come in contact.
I laving very recently visited the Grand Prai
rie, south-west of us, where the lovers of genu
ine field sports will find an inexhaustible source
of amusement, among game of almost every
variety, and of the noblest species, I have em
ployed a leisure hour in embodying a brief re
lation of the tour, which is submitted to your
discretion, as the proper depository of sporting
intelligence.
A detachment of itifnnjry and rangers, amoun
ting to about three hundred and eighty men,
left this port on the Gtti May Inst, chargee with
the duty of scouring the Indian country .to the
south west, with the double object of preserving
the friendly relations existing between the tribes
in alliance with the U. S. and of preventing the
hostile incursions of their enemies the Pawness.
On the 7th of May we left the bank of the
Arkansas, and advanc d on our line of inarch
in a. south-west direction, across the northern
branches of the Circadian Rivei.
The season of the year was most propitious
Io the purposes of hunting, as well as of military
operations. Nature had (airly unfolded her
vcneral beauties, and wo were triversing a
lovely region of undulating prairie, mantled
with green and diversed by “lull and dale, cops,
groups and moun its deep solitudes occa
sionally enlivened by herds of dem whose timid
glance and airy bound, as the stirmg notes of
the bugle fell upon tneir ear, bespoke a fear and
distrust of their civilizi d visiters.
It was not until we had advanced some nine
ty or one hundred miles from Fort Gibson, that
wo fairly resulted the g ime country. As wo
were now on a»ncutial ground, between the
Pawnees and the tribes friendly to the United
States, and as the danger of hunting operates
in some measure as a check on all prairies, in
resorting there it results that the game (partic
ularly the deer) is more plentiful in dial section
than it otherwise would be. The buffalo was
here first encountered—a striking proof of the
rapidity with winch the animal recedes before
the advances of civilization. 'l’en years since
they abounded in the vicinity of Fort Gibson;
and in the summer ol 1622, the writer of this,
with Maj. Mas< n of the army, and «i partv of
keen sportsmen, killed a considerable number (
of them near Fort Smith, about forty miles east
of us. They have rece led, it w ould se-em, one
hundred miles westward in the last ten years ;
and it may be safely assumed, that thirty or
forty years hei.ee, they will not be found ue irei
to us than the spurs of the Rocky mountains,
unless the numerous bands of hunters vs the
t'haetaw Chickasaw,Chrokee and Cre< k tubes,
< stablished in this counfiy, should relinquish th*
chase for the aits of civilized life. On the 29th
May we reached the mam Canadian river, near
the p *mt where it enters the umber bordering
the eastern verge of the Grand Prauie, in its
flow from the west,
lhe Grand Prarie extends to the Rocky
mountains, amt presents to the eve a boundless
< xtent of rolling champaign county, occasionally
interested by small streams thinly bor .cred bv
dwarfish timber. A formidable herd of about
100 buffaloes was here discovered ; and, as the
command needed fresh meat, h halt w as ordered,
r.nd forty horsemen detatched to attack them.
They gadv moved off in a gallop, armed with
rifles. As they neared the herd they qui< kened
their pace to half speed, when they were dis
covered by the graceless butfulm s, wu > started
otf as fast as they could scamper, with their pe
culiar bobbltng, bouncing gait. The hunters
now pressed them closely, and penetr.ted the
• moving mass at full speed ; when each man
selected bi'’v’ct n. The shnrn «iuick report of
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the rifle was now heard in rapid succession—
while the rush of the horses and buffaloes, the
shouts of the party on the heights, and the flash
es and smoke of the guns, presented altogether
one of the most animated spectacles I had ever
witnessed.
The whole chase was visible for a long dis
tance to the command, halted on the eminance ;
and so great was the interest it excited, that
numbers were unable to resist it, and dashed off
at full speed, to join in the work of destruction.
The pursuit terminated in the death of a large
number of the buffaloes, whose huge unwieldy
carcases lay strewed over the plain, like heroes
on the battle field.
The buffalo is, when wounded and excited,
a very dangerous animal; and there are many
instances related of hunters, who, relying too
far on their seeming stupidity and unwieldiness,
have falcn victims to their ferocity. On one
occasion, during our trip, two rangers, in the
impetuosity of pursuit, drove a buffalo into a
narrow pass; where, finding himself closely
pressed, he made battle, goring one of the hor
ses in the thigh and overturning him and his ri
der. The horse of the other ranger stumbled
during the conflict, and threw his rider on the
back of the buffalo ; which, becoming alarmed
at this new mode of attack, now set off at full
speed, carrying the ranger with him about twen
ty yards, until the latter finding the gait not very
easy, and likely to continue s me time, rolled
oft the buffalo into the dust—each party mutu
. ally willing to dissolve the connection.
This reminds me of the anecdote related to
me by A. S. C. of St. Louis, a gentleman of
veracity. While -ci: a trading expedition to
Mexico, he had in his employ a motley, but dar
ing set of fellows, consisting of Frenchmen,
Spaniards, half breeds and Indians, who were
in the habit of bantering each other, and boas
ting of their individual feats of prowess. On
one occasion, a Spaniard bold J v wagered that
he would ride a buffalo ; which being taken
up by one of the party, a suitable place for
mounting was accordingly found on an old trail
that had been deeply worn by the buffalo; and
having secreted himself, a fine old bull, of “gen
tle mien,” was encircled and driven into this
passage, and as he passed slowly through the
defile, the Don made a spring and lit on his
hump, clinging w ith both hands to the hair of
the shoulders, and pressing his knees to the
sides in true jockey style. The old bull soon
got into open ground, and commenced a series
of curvets and caracoles, such as man never
saw before, to the great edification of the spec
tators, and trepidition of the rider. The Don
tor a little w hile kept his seat like a knight of
the olden time ; but finding that bully posses
sed both wind and bottom, and he was getting
a Utile “tired of the sport, ” called out to his
tickled companions to shoot the buffalo. They
replied, they were afraid of breaking his leg.
“Break the leg and be ,” cried the impa-
tient Don, when a volley brought down bully
and his rider together ; the latter resolving that
it should be the last attempt to ride a buffalo.
Progressing south-west from the Canadian
river, we reoched the head wat* rs of the Blue
\\ at* r river,—a beautiful limestone region of
<1 vated prairie, abounding in game of all kin. s.
I'ufihloes were astonishingly numerous here;
and 1 shall not fear contradiction in saving that
I saw, m one view as many as two thousand
heads. The country lying between the head of
Blue W alcr and Ouachita rivers is particularly
noted forth« abundance and excellence of the
wild horses which roam tn its fertile prairies.
In one drove I estimated as many as one
hundred and twenty head, most of them large!
and well formed. H hat struck me as peculiar
ly remarkable, was the predominance of the
gray color; by wuich I mean to say there was
‘more as I thought, of that cob* r than otany oth- I
er single color. the same observation has
been made by oriental travellers, of the far fam
ed stock of Arabia. Several horses were caught
by the rangers: but they w ere not of course the
best class, which is seldom if ever ovi rtaken;
it being a natural impossibility that jaded hor
ses, on a journey, can carry one hundre*. and
sixty, or one hundred and eighty pounds weight,
and outstrip a naked and untried animal of the
I same species as itsc’f.
At our encampment on the Canadian, an in
cident uecuried winch very fairly tested the cn
durmg qualities of the wil horse, und will en
able us to f**rm a pretty correct estimate of his
. < neral powers. There was a fine looking
•iiinn'il discovered near the camp bv a party of
rangers, and several of them gave pursuit.—
i hev run him alternately a distance of about
iwo mill's, when the> relinquished the pursuit. j
A third horseman then gave chase on a fresh i
horse, naled for speed and bottom in a company ‘
o| one hundred men. The issue proved the
vast superiority of the prairie horse, w hich at
first ran before his pursuer at his ease, but,
being at length pushed for the distance of a
quarter of a mile, evinced such prodigious speed
mid wind, that, in the words of the ranger, he
“just stood still and looked at him.”
i'he wild horses and mares taken by the ran
gers, though small, were remarkable for deep,
haid, ba lek hoofs, flat, sinewy limbs, full fine
eyes and large nostrils—four of the car.anal
attributes of the courser.
Os ail the varieties of sporting in which I have
participated, I have certainly found nene so
animating as the chase of the wild horse.—
1 here are two modes of taking them : one bv
I throwing a running noose around the neck,
| from a cod held in the hand, and the other by
| fastening on* end of the cord to the pummel of
'{the saddle, andjhe other to a » : ick about eij-htj
LITIIPRIN COUNTY, GWWIL 71 2, 1834
feet long, in such a manner that the noose is
always open and ready t* * put over the horse’s
head. The first mode requires great practice
and address. It is en ployed by the Spaniards
■ of Mexico and Sou’h America, who can, it is
said, * atch a horse by any foot which may be
named.
On the head of Blue Water, a party of four
of us determined to take a run after a wild
? horse. Having equipped ourselves with a
no use and stick, tightened our girths, and tied
up our heads, we rode forth into the prairie and
soon discovered a large herd of about one hun
dred head, quietly grazing, and unaware of our
approach As soon as we app cached near
enough to be seen by them and were gradually
recognized, the whole body began to nicker,
and was soon in commotion, stamping the
, ground w : th their four feet ; while a few of tne
bolder spirits moved up towards us, slowly and
doubtingly, eager to ascertain our character.
Each rider now stooped on his horse, laying his
head close to his horse’s neck ; and m this
| manner we silently advanced, watching < lose-
J ly the movements of the herd, and making each
a selection of such an animal as pleased his
fancy. i his part oi the sport was very fine ;
and in the present instance, so many elegant
forms of both sexes and all colors and sizes,
’ presente < themselves, that it required not a lit
j tie promptitude to form a decision. We han not
I long to deliberate ; foi', by the time we were
• within one hundred yard -, the increased nicker
! ing and confusion showe they had winded us;
[ and the whole herd suddenly wheeled round and
dashed offover the plain, close! pressed by
their eagei pursuers. We ran them about two
miles, but the rocky nature of ttie country, and
, the number of deep ravines crossing our track
in every direction, prevented our coming up
I with such as w re Could we nave
had a clear run the whole distance, we should
doubtless have seemed some fine animals ; as
their numbers pr venteu them running to advan
tage —caused them to crowd and impede the
progress of each other, by which the disparity
as to weight, previously referred to, would have
been neutralized. On our return towards the
main body of the troops, we saw a large stal
lion, whose fore I- g had be* n broken in the
I chase ; yet, in spite of this, i.emanaged to hob
ble oft on the remaining three very cleverly.
Nothing in natural scenery can surpass the
beauty of the prairie w hen we visited it ; ana it
may be imagined with what delight we stood on
a moun , on one occasion, and took into on<
view the wild horse, the buffalo, die elk, the
deer, and the antelope, m their native str* n«th
and beauty, roving tree aim untrammelled as
the air they inhaled. Os each of these uiffer
ent species, with ti e exception of tin elk, a
number were killed and taken by the party ; in
addition to bears, wild turkeys, one wiki hare,
and a number ol prairie dogs.
From this point we made a short detour
southwest, and thence turned north-east, on our
return route, as our provisions ot every kina
were nearly exhausted ; and we were a short
time afterwards, compelled to subsist on wild
meats,- part of the time without salt, — tor tie
period of thirty-five daj s.
ith what a prurient sane did we conjure
up in our minds the delicate viands, rich sauces,
and ruby wines ol your northern Barnums and
Niblos. In our reveries by day and unams
by night, we invoked the spirit of lhe immortal
Ude, to gift us with the art ol transmitting the
odious buffalo jerk into som* thing palatublr
and digestable.
Long privations had, by the time we reached
■ the point of departun , sensibly affected our
i rotundity. Our clothes hung ingrac* less folds
on our gaunt and famished limbs, ano we were
nearly circumstanced like Falsiatftroops— al
most without a shirt among us; the “cankers ol
1 a calm world and a long peace.”
A Reader.
M AJOR DOU NI NG.—We again welcome I
our old and valu* d friend to our columns, and
present our readers wi,h one df his most graph
ic productions. His last letter containing lhe
Story of the Setting Hen, has betn publish< a
in editions a mtist numberless, and read by
millions of our countrymen. Even amid the
present unusual ext iten ent of the city, we are
persuaded that all classes will most cordially
welcome this renewal of his correspondence.
.V. F. Daily Ade.
To my old friend Mr. Dwight, of lhe N. Y ork
Daily Advertiser.
Senate Chamber, Washington, |
April sth, 1634. |
I suppose you’ll be all pretty considerable
i struck up, when tou cot-ie to s* e where 1 n >w
be; unci so I’ll jest tell you in as short older ns
i possible, how it nines about.
Ever sin* e I wrote you mat last letter about
the Rakoon Story the Gmeral te'lled me, and
the Old Hen Story I tolled him, the folks about
the Gmeral bamt giv me no tune to eat orsle p,
and I have had nigh upon the hull (»ovt rnin* nt
to beat off; but so long as I had the Gmeral on
my side, I md'nt care nothin about it. But
tother day the Gmeral he bt gan to shake in the 1
wind a leetle, and this about the cause on’t. '
He and me was sittm talkin over matters alone,
and firein red hot shot at the opposition folks, 1
and especially at Squire Bi iale, when I telled !
the Gmeral, says I Gmeral, ns well enuf tor u
to talk sc among folks who come to see us, for
it is the natur ol people to give one credit for
honesty at least, though he is wrong, it he ony !
seems warm and determined, jest as you was
when vou cut down that old man’s Bee tree,
■ but snvs I. mv don’t to’’ me that the pres-
> f ent trouble ail about the country is owin to the
> | bank crampin folks. And with that I reached
• | down my slate, anu I showe*) the Gineral. Now
i says I, here we see th..t the bank a< tually ha*
i been lendiu more uoney since w to tk the de
i posites away from it, than it iiad lent afore that
time. The Gineral he looked over the figers,
and sure enuf there it was, why says he, Major
I how is this? Vhat on earth then, says he, are
i the people grumblin at? All our folks tell me,
I says the Gineral, that Biddle is crampin th;
people all over creation, and here now you
■ show as clear as day light, that the bank haint
screwed at all. And with that the Gin ral he.
began t< count on bis fingers, and though he
can sometimes figer out a pretty considerable
tuff sum that way, this puzzled him amazingly.
So t.i rights, says he, Major, what then is the
cause ot all this trouble? Well, says I, Gineral
I suppose we shall know now pretty soon.
Th' re is a cog out some where says I; and as
the Senate isoverhawlin tne mill perhaps they’ll
find it, and let us know. And lhe words varn’t
more than out of my mouth, when in come
Kindle and Blair, lookin as though they had jest i
been snaked through a gimbiet hole, and they
telled the Gmeral that the Senate had jest past
Clay’s resolutions, it w*>nt do no good to tell
what followed, but the Gineral was hoppin
mad, and it was more than an hour afore he got
threw slattin things about. And as it wa- about
the time when folks would be comm to visit lhe
Gineral, I jest step d out to tell <*m they must
call again, for the Gmeral was hard at work in
“Cabinet Kounsel.”
U hen I got back I found the Gineral with
pritty nigh all the steam blowed off, and them
other two cr tters writin somethin to come out
in the Globe nxt Jay. I telled the Gineral
right off, now s <ys 1, Gineral, we better ke< p
an eye on what we say in print, for we have
trouble enuf with what we sav here to folks—
but says I, if we go to abu-in the Senate .md
put it in print too, the people may take a stand
ag.n us and puzzle us hereafter most pl gdy.
And with that the Gineral got his steam up l* a
mimt—and he told me if that was my noti* n I
betler pack up and quit, tor the time had come
now for every man to take his own sid* , and if
1 thought the Senate had more w isdom t an he
had 1 must < lear out. Well, says 1 («me<al,
had’nt we best call the hull Cabinet together on
this bus ncss. Cabinet? says the Gineral, what
more do I want? and with that lie turned and
pinted at Kindle and Blair,and give me a look
as black as thunder. W ell sajs 1, that’s < nus;
and as 1 had kept my bundle rea *v fora move
tor some days past, all 1 had to do was to stick
my slate in if, and poke my ax handl* thi* ugli
; lhe uppei knot, and 1 slung th ; hull c ncern
i over my shoulder, and was back agin m th*
C abinet afore you could say Jack Romnson.
Now say- 1 Gineral, 1 and you art going to
quit—but afore 1 go I should like to tell you a
story—and the best on’t is: it aint a long one
says I. And so ti ll’d t e Gmeial that story
you’ve hearn me tell afore. How 1 w<«s walkin
tn a field down then in Downingvtlle, and hear
in a clatter, and se< in no one, t.ut to rights fin
din that it all come from a Lig black snake more
tba*. half a roi long, the tail quarellm will the
head about t king the lead, and saying the lit
bad led long enuf, and the tad ought to try its
turn a sp< II and st* the head gave up a i< •
ttie tail have its way—and i followed on to s
how things work that way—and so after gon*
agin the scales a spell and making tmn. s gti,
v nsideraide, the tail tried to gotuiew a stone
fence, and g* tun pirn’ti, riggled and fwi- ti a ana
screwd and ouhi’i go on, aid i.ie h• i i of tne
sn.ik* wanted to know what vas tie matter,
and why it did’nl go threw, an** that he ha • gone
threw tine same fence twenty firm s— th ini g t
a little rathy, and a little asham’o an . i ’nt Ilk*-
to tell.
When 1 got so far m my store, the Cineral
who La * been all the while sittm an * looking |
right at the fire, turd round i*n* gm me a plag* y J
iiiqiiirin I ok, and I stopp’d sn. rt off—w, 11, says I
he, v.l.at was th e< nd on it? Why, says, 1,
Gineral, 1 l> unt got time now to t* II you, but,'
sa . s 1, the next tint* we meet I’ll fint. ii the t*.>
rv, and with ti.at 1 made the Gim rul a rale cab
inet b< w, and I walk* d strait out of the white
house feelin pretty muc u , 1 suppose like a good
many ii Iks afore im, who have na th ir sav ,
there and then < leared out. As soon as i got
outside, I was a leetle stump’d to know which
way to steei —1 had some bread and cheese in
mj pa* k,but I want d a place to go to f r the 1
night —and there was so nany < ommitlee folks
in H ashmgt<*n, every tavern was chin k full— i
but Ji t then I sue the flag go up at 'the rapitul,
ana thinks I I'll go t.iere and try my link; an*,
up 1 went- but owii to my bemstopn’d -*>often
on the way, by folks all wan in to know whit
had happened, by the time i reach’d the capitol
all Congress km w it, an I al) parties was tn a
! takiu about it. 1 went first to th* House of
Representatives, and I let cm know there that
all i wanted wasjist to be allowed to stop there
ovt r night; and then came sich km>< king of no
ses— Mr. Adams spoke for moie than half an
hour in favor ot havrn a cot put up for m* right
j off—Mr. Camb rleng from York City .-ani it
was altogether a go at party qu -stiori, and mu t
b<- min led carefully, and he wanted time to
1 consider on’t. 1 ask’d Mr. Lawrence, a* uth r
N* w York member, if n could’nt give me a
lift—firs he thought he would, and he puk’d nrs
teeth on one side, anu said he’d jist s* e his
friends about it—when he g<*t back, 1 found
be was pickin teeth on tother side, and said he
was now a candulate for Mayor up these in,
New York, an I h< must go with his party.
' ‘ • kers go ’
i a chance, and some on ’em was just beninnin
to speak a second time, Mr Beardsly said “if
Congress and credit, and banks, nndcanals, nli
perish d he d vote agm it; and to cut the matter
short,he moved the previous question—and Mr
Vanderpool from Kinderhook, (who I
was the one who wrote that Dutch Lcfter"fo
me) he said it was all a “humbug,” and he ser
onoed the motion When they come to count
over the names, there was a tie, and the Snen»
ker had to untie the hull on’t; and so he got tm
and made a considerable of a speech about r
and wound up by saym the Cheer had never
been ca t d on to decide on a more important
pint, and though the Cheer could give 9000
reasons right off, for the vote he was about to
give, yet he would give but one, and that wag
mat the Major could not have a bed there—
he knew the bank and Biddle had a hand H
sendin the Major there, and that was enuf for
( him; and so the Cheer decided that the Maio*
must tote his bundle out. Well, thinks I, that
was a pretty tight vote, any how, and I wen»
over to the Senate Chamber. There they
j were all at it too, as soon as I walk’d in Mr
Van Buren call’d Mr. King of Alabama. tJ
take his place, and I could ony get a glimpse
on him now and then, dodgin about, and no
critter could tell whether he was tickled or not
Mr. Grundy wanted to have the hull matter
refer’d to his committee on the Post Office.
Mr Clayton said he would’nt agree to that, so?
that committee would never report in creation
and When they did, perhaps they’d find the
Major’s name scratched out and some one else
writti n in the place on’t.
Mr. Calhoun said he was glad the Major had
come there, the “conservative principle” says
he, is now getting to be better understood--
States shoo’d stick to it with reference to the
General Government—Counties to States—
Townships to Counties—Families to Town
ships, and individuals to families, so that phiL
osophicallly, and metaphysically, and, above
all, politically speaking, the Major had as good
a right to the of the Senate chamber, as the
General Government, and here says he is the
butt end of my notions of nullification, and I
hope the Major and every man will now fully
understand me—at one end of the avenue, says
h■, stands the white house, and at the other
end the Senate chamber. “Consolidation”
th* re— “Conservative” here—and he wound
up by saying that for his part he was ready to
contribute his chair and desk for the Major to
spread ins bed on. Mr Benton was just goiu
to begin, and 1 was about swingin my pack on
my s c'Huer, mr when he gits hold he hangs on
like a inoth-flche, and wou’d a talk’d all night
ano s they call’d the question like all natur,
and h. took his seat. Air. U ebster he got tin
l* xi, and was just agoin to tackle on and taken
pull upon Air ( olhoun’s conservative notions—
but he bad’t gone far when he took out his watch
and suein ’twas gettin late, he said he wou’d not
tak« up the constitutional part of the question—
to; if he did, and seein that he must sift the hull
prii iple ui consolidation and conservative no*
Hods, the Alajor might loose his night’s lodging
an* so m .ved that the application, along with
th. Aiajcr, his ax and bundle, be laid on the
til-te l*»r that nigh , and if the table warn’t big
enul In’d push his’n along side on’f; then come
-i lc< ti kind of a tussel, and pritty nigh the hull
ou 'em had somethin to say. When Mr. Clav
a chance—he is a master hsnd you know in
quietlm n alters when th” v "'•* '
said th* it was no dbiTift a large majority of the
. ..—. ... ii..-. the Alajor a place
io lay his head, but the great difficulty was to
decide whether it w<*uld be an act growing out
; the conservative principle, or the principle of
< oii.'u.tdation, so ably stated by the gentleman
ir**m ouili-4 arolina; and as tegarded the con
stitut tonal tty of the measure; he was desirous
to hear the gentleman from Alassachusctts at.
<*n early Lour the next day, and he had no doubt
that g ntlemen would ably expound it, and that
In for one was sure he should not differ with
him— but, says he, the Alajor wants a bed, and
it'- now almost bed time, and 1 therefore, sav?
tie, offer the following n solution ;
Whereas consolidation is known to exist at
cne end of Pcnnsylvuny avenue, and the “con
seivative principles” sometimes call'd and un
justly c il’d nullification nt one end.
Then for , Resolved, That until the Consti
tutio sbail b? distinctly and clearly expounded,
it is safest for the Major to take up his night's
longing just half way between those two e.v
tre es.
'1 he resolution was then ptft and carried, 29
to 18- A committee was then appointed t<
measure the Avenue, and reported that Gads
i y's Hot 1 was just half way, but that was ftili.
i tie Senate tnen adjourned, Air. Clay come
round tell’d me that as Lis resolution had got
me iii this diff’i. ulty, he couldn’t do less than
put * p a bet. for me m Lis own lodgins, tight in
a 1 ne witn Gadsby’s ; and J might slctp there
in welcome, til! the constitutional pints w’hs nil
s* ttie*., and so here! Lb now at Mr. Clay’s
boos <tud knock about through the day as we’l
■*s I * an, and most of the time in the Senate
( amber, when 1 find upon the hull, I've got <*.
thumping majority, an afore Congre-s gees Jo
home. I calculate th vote in tuthe.* house will
change to*?; a good many there I hnd sbnkin
in their shoes already, and as soon no they seo
y*-ur elf.-lions ami the V irgiuny election* go as
I hope they will, 1 calculate on gitten a t\»o
tiiir vote on ev'iy pint agin the folks who ba v e
got the Gin* ra! in keepia now.
Yours, 8;c.
J DOWNING, Alajor.
P- • 7-' i”? Militia. 2d .
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