He was considerable riled; and says he, major, this looks mighty like your game of hocus pocus, that you larnt me to play with the cups and balls. What does Swartwout mean by being flunked? Why says I, that’s a Wall-street word, and means that he has been outwitted, in tryin to make up the money he was behind. And the ginral riz right up, and says he, major, I knowed Swartwout in New Orleans, in Burr’s time, and I know he’d stand a shot with every one of them fellows in Wall-street, as quick as he’d wink, if they tried to play hocus pocus with him, so dont tell me any more of your stories, major, and as you know, says he, that to-morrow morning I’m off to the rip raps, you must send Swartwout an answer, but remember, for by the Eternal,[4] and then he ketched off his specks with one hand, and he smashed the other hand down on to the table so, he broke his pipe in ten thousand shivers, and his eyes looked like coals of fire, and I looked round to see if the door was open, and just then Woodbury came in, and the ginral, was quiet as a lamb in a minit. But I warnt in sorts to talk about the treasury then, so I went to bed, and the ginral he was off afore day-light this mornin. HIS PASSION—AND OPINIONS. The ginral always said you did right in payin for printin things agin Biddle and the bank—because says he—as you say major, what is sass for goose, is sass for gander, and the only discounts, I’ve lately heard tell on by the bank, is to pay for printin things agin us. When he was in York, he was a good deal consarned to know that you had been obliged to take money, that ought to gone into the treasury. And I raly believe, if it had’nt been for that, he never would have moved the deposites, without Congress to back him. But when I tell’d him that you could make it all up, and three times over by speckilation on the money, he was as chipper _as a bird, and says he, major_, seein as the deposites are moved, we can play them double game. JACK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MISCHIEF. In respect of the loss you made, by the bank stock, that I recommended you to buy of my cousin Zekiel Bigelow, in Wall-street, I did’nt tell the ginral any thing, because the deposites bein moved that proved a bad spickilation. But in respect of the Apalachi land co., I advise you to vest more largely, for the ginral says, that if I think best, he’ll establish a knavy depo there, and then it will be worth double. J. DOWNING, MAJOR 2nd brigade. CAUSE OF JACK’S DISGRACE.