The Arkansas banner., 1849-08-28
From the Washington Union. FisheFman's Luck.

lQGiney arAig.
 " Such junks of meat they crammd into 1t,
 AS big ss my two thumbs bs"-Ssygeaat.
 "What have you caught, Pairick1"
 By the holy poker, it is an ALE.'
 ''An eel, Patrickl why, il is a water-snake.'
 "WeIl, ifit Is, Jamie, it is as fat butter, and will ate well at fry."-Mrs. BarbaUd.
 Luck is everything in dry time; it is better than riches or marriage A man with luck Is always in town; and, If he has whole pair of inexprsssibles, can go through society without feeling as General Scott felt when he took nasty plate of soup and started for Mexico, excIaimiDg, " For Marcy sake, don't fire upon my rear."
 The present age is notorious for luck. Monsieur IIsudebert, the French cook, who was made consul Co nation of cooks, tths French being great on v.ew,) is living evidence of luck. When he was at WOodViIIe, aud kept un OysteF-house there, the New Orleans Delta informs us, he had Creole from New Orleans to dine with him. The Creole wanted oyster soup. Monsieur Heudebert had a taste for oyster soup that would have done honor Co the cook at DslmOnico's. He therefore prepared majestic tureeu full of the fattening fluid, and left it in the window to cool. wag who knew the sighting prOPensties of Monsieur Heudeberts guest, and being desirOus of raising muss in the quiet little village. put sIiyly handful of young live toads into the tnreen and departed. Soon dinner was served, and the Creole. with eyes of vain de- sire, the was lifted. plunged his lade into the soup. The toads were hopping about right merSy. (not being fond of pepper tea red-hOt J and the guest perceiving uncommon commotion, Foared out. [" Monsieur Heudebert, your oyster is alive, sacre damn" N'Ts not pOssible,' cried the landlord. grasping the ladle and fishing up minor tsad in extreme agony. One long. good look was sufficient for him to death and destruction before him, and the horror-strcken Frenchman rushed into the streets, with the Creole after him. exciaim- ing, at the top of his voice, Frog soup. morbIeau am dead man!'' As the clap of thunder follows the lightning, so followed the Creole upon the heels of Monsieur He udebert, bowie-k nife in hand. The freachman's knowledge of localities served him at this pinch, and the pursuer, after swearing for two days, departed for home, leaving the unfortunate oyster vender at liberty to return to his business wiser and better man. The appointment of the son of tbe Hon. John Davis, of Massachusetts, as secretary of legation at the court of St. James, was strange, considering the manner in which the sec. retary of legation went out upon his mission. We are informed that he sailed last month as the fore runer Of Mir. Lawrence, bearing MT. 5ancrofts letter of recall. Of course he acts as minister ad iaterim, and will get 5000 outfit and minister's full pay, until Mir. Lawrence presents himself al the English court with his credentials. We under stand that this wIi be the upshot of the matter Acting Minister Davis will get 5000 outfit, and bORG Jide Minister Lawrence will get So, 900 outfit, and Uncle Sam will have to foot the bill; and this too. to enable the MAN who has no friends to re- ward aRd no enemies to punish to recall George Bancroft, and exaIt the high tariff cotton spinner of Lowell. No more forty shilling shawls will now be seen at Queen Vietoria's court, and no more Americans will gQ without bird dinners at the Amer- can ambassadors house, while Lowell twirs her spindles and Abbot twirIs his thumbs. Said we not that there was luck under the deueel If we did not say so, we say it now; and those who do not believe us had better look again at the thermo- meter.
 IL amuses us to a little dog snarl at the foot os an elephant, little leopard growl al the whs- kers of grave and eonsiderate lion. The ll,tIe filings of the " Republic" al the Heroic Age" written at Washington, sent abroad, and copied in- to ihe classic columns of the ORGAN expressions Of popular sentiment at large. puts us in mind of Pop Emmonsis inimitable impromp,us. which took three weeks .to prepare for preparation, and four weeks thereafter for publication. Everything re- qairss management. and il is to be expected that those who wrote Zachary Washington into office will do their best endeavors to prevent the ndepen dent press of our country from writing him down an ass before Congress meets.
 We rscoiect of once hearing of little boy who suspected of being hdLf witted, and who was d- Teeted by his mother, when he went with her ta a dinner party, to keep seient during the meal and thus prevent the guests from discovering his tal weak ness. True to his lesson The little fellow ate what was set before him without comment, and when addressed by those who sat next him. he made nc answer. It las; one of the gentlemen who had been very attentive to his wants. and who had used every exertion to draw him out. exclaimed Why, the child is a fool.' At this the little fel- lows eyes brightsned be dropped his knife and fork, and halloOed to his mother who sat at some distance from him" Mother, they have found me out, and havn't said word.'
 The whig party, embracing Truman Smith X Co, NN"NuuSc tic 0tutOCIdhC eultOfs Tor hHdlnV fault with the administration before has done anything to stamp 1t in any wayi and the pretty boys prate of faction. and quote the dictionary upon us with remarkable iooseness; but, like the people in the neighborhood of the half wiled boy, we have found the soft Tommy out. notwithstanding he has been as silent as a clam at low water, and as grave and reverent as Harrison Gray otiss owl, tha, brOoded over chaos. But this is lucky administration. It has discovered more defaulters than few in public office; and when called upon to declare the amount of the dealcatiOas it admits that il has no, settled the accounts struck the balances of one of thsm; but that il has vague suspicion that the fellows are in Hocksrty. from the manner ia which they pay their honest debts to the people.
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