From a Virginia paper.
Major Jack Downing is becoming decidedly more popula
than the Gineral himself. The Major has had an axe presented
him in York State, and forwarded on to him at Washington,
while the Gineral has had a broom in Alexandria for more than
a month, and none so kind as to deliver it to him. This looks
squally. What a pity the axe and broom had not been received
at the same moment!—the Major might have chopped the K.
Cabinet into mince-meat, and the Gineral done “the sweeping
out.”
