A Blue Time--The Major Wins a Hat of the President--The Richmond Expedition of Gen. McClellan--Mr. Lincoln's Trick on the Major--A Letter from Jerusha Matilda Jenkins--She gives her Experience in Negro-Teaching--Priscella Huggins and Elder Sniffles--Cloe, the Negro Girl who "Could not be Good unless she was Licked"--A Negro Meeting--Dancing and Singing--The Unpleasant Odor--Negroes Steal Miss Huggins' Clothes--They Purloin Jerusha's Petticoat--It is Thought that their Religion is not "Very Deep"--Mr. Lincoln Hears the Letter Read--He Declares that Port Royal is a "Cussed Hole" --Deacon Jenkins Shocked--He Proves it by the Scriptures. 48 LETTER VI. The Question of the "Contrybands"--Lincoln and the Major Discuss it--The Major tells a Story--Shows Mr. Lincoln That the Government is out of Order--Says it's a "Dimmycratic Machine," and that Seward and Chase don't know How to Run it--They are Like Old Jim Dumbutter and the Thrashing Machine--The Major Tells Another Story--"The Kernel" Gets a Joke on Seward--Tells a Story about the "Giascutis." 59 LETTER VII. War "Noose"--The President's Anxiety--Mr. Lincoln Determines to Apply "the Principle"--The Story of Zenas Homespun--The Major's Views on Negroes--Poetry--The Emancipation Ball--The Major going to "Cifer" on the Finances. 67 LETTER VIII. Matters get Confused--The "Kernel and the Major" Compelled to go to Fortress Monroe to Straighten Things Out--Mr. Lincoln takes his Revolver--The Major Sticks to His Hickory--Arrival at Fort Monroe --They go on a "Tippergraphical Rekonnisanze"--A Night Alarm-- Secretary Stanton tries to get on the President's Pantaloons. 75 LETTER IX. The Major Figures on the "Nashinal Debt"--Horse Contracts and "Abolishin Preechers"--Banks Defeated--The Major Suggests a New-Fashioned Shield, expressly for Retreats--A Wheelbarrow for every Soldier!--Excitement in Washington--The President not Scared "a Hooter." 82 LETTER X. The Major Troubled with his Old Complaint, the "Rumatics"--He Examines the Finances--Mr. Chase Frightened--The Major Figures up the Accounts on His Slate--Returns and Shows the Result to Mr. Lincoln--He is Astounded--The "Kernel and the Major" take some Old Rye--The Major Proposes to Return to Downingville to Spend the Fourth of July. 88 LETTER XI. The Major does not go to Downingville--Loses His Hickory--Gets a Bottle of Whiskey by Adams Express Co.--The Major declines to Sign the Receipt at First--Whiskey and the Constitution--"The Constitushinal Teliskope"--A Magical Change--Mr. Seward's Trick-- The Major discovers it--A Negro in It. 99 LETTER XII.