The Arkansas banner., 1847-02-24

|a UOVAf atkhou9n tilefc uosA<fs8 " @ WuAfo the same authority ,vouehes, !" It's pieasdni, sure, io see ohe's same in print" Let us begin with the beginning, the quotations be- ing all from Mr. s.Coon Hollow :''
 "DEAR BoRDkN: We had most terrific thunder storm on tho 29.h ult., accompanied with hail"
 How etrange! and how very strange - Coon Hollow has certainly been favored, for we Herer have thunder storm here; nor, So far as we can learn, anywhere else.
 uT'he dull roll of distant thunder in the northwest gave warning of its approach"
 Did iti Wonder if they never hear the .sdull roll ofdistant thunder in the northwest" .. Cooa Hollow, without its being followed by ''most terrific thunder storm, accompa- nied rifh haill" En passani, le. us mention that we have seldom heard of one's being accompanied wih anything, or anybody; ; however, Coon Hollow, no doubt, is suffi- cient authority on this point. ssT'he caps of the dark clouds, that hung like pail npon the margin Of the horizon, were ever and anon frightened with liyid light, that gave evidence of the fierce light ming that played beyondn' Pray, friend Coon Hollow, what sort of caps' Nght-caps, or day-caps; silk, or wool- len; cloth, or paten. leather! ".Margin of the horizonr Pray, what Is the margin Of lin,i Coon Hollow friend, you mus, be printer: for printers rejoice in margin, and often try to make it where it is not. tLirid fghts'' What's that? We have heard of, and even seen, men who were pale, even ghas.ly pale; but never have seen any light ming of the same complexion.
 "More near it approached! The dull con- iinuous rumbling has now given place to the distinctive peal! The electric fluid may now be seen on the Erebus-like surface, in thou sand forms! Now in straight line. At another point spral-like, and again zig-zag threatening annihiiation! In quick sue cession the lightning. flashed, converting the inpenetrabfe darkness into broad day, Crash on crash came the deafening thunder, ren~ dering inaudble the roam of the driving tenn pestm
 Humiliation of what; Sweet potatoes, or the cotton crop; San Juan D'Ulloa, or the ''army of occupation;" Really i, is impor- tant that we should know. < Impenetrable darkness!' Pray how did the lightning get in. and pray what sort of vegetable is the "roam'' of driving tempesG
 '.It was sucl. night as that which Kent describes in King fear:
 "sThe wrathiuL skies galIow the very randerings of the dark, and make them keep their caves Since 1 was man, such sheets of fire, and buIsts of horrid thunder, such groans of roariag winds, and rain, 1 never remember to have heardp"
 Shade of Shakespeare Thy magnificent poetry thus transmogrifed into prose. Rest, if thou canst, rest per,urbed spirit, while for the ediicatlon of Coon Hollow, we rectify his error, and, with pa,ernal kindness, bid him go, and sin no more. Thus, then, wrote the lmmortal:--
 "The wrathful skies Gallow the very ,randerers of the dark, And make them keep their caves: Since was man, Such sheets Of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roarfng wind and rain, 1 never Remember to have heard"
 There, now, fiiend Coon Hollow, that is the way to write your quotations, in the which we take tine trouble to instruct you, lest you once again commit "murder most foul'' upon the tex. of Shakespeare.
 'IIe will prove bright star as any in the galaxy"
 What ''gaiaxyi" Is it in the Heavens, or on the earth, CT is it only a milky-way you have of writingl
 ''Mr. Speaker takes it more philosophical ly. Like the boy in the loii, says nothing -consoling himself in private. no doubt, that although now conquered. he isnot van- quished. That his defeat will now afford him time and leisure to put his political ar nor in perfect order for the approaching con- test, when, like an unconquered knight, he will issue from his castle, with political shield and claymore, 'sto do or den"
 Allow US to remark, friend Coon, that this paragraph is very Hollow. Shield and clay more, never go together; and those who wear armor, wield the sword, the lance, and the ba.,le-axe, or mace; but never the claymore, which is a Scotch weapon, and the Scots never wear armor. Read Scott's novels.
 "To be, without opposition, elected Bank Attorney for the State Bank, and now the of. flee of Receiver cast upon himl''
 "Oh! most lame and impoient conclusionr' However, it is not worth while for us to waste more time upon an opponent so utter ly incapable of resistance.
 Yours, B.
 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. Washington correspondent of the Baltimore A. Il