The Arkansas banner., 1849-10-02
From the Washington Union. PUMPING THUNDRR,

l | ne joys 0t earth
 1 Have little worth
 l Unless you dance the pOkal"-Gungl.
 Afar off upon the solitary plains of ocean, when the tempes's have died away and the stOrmy petrel sits upon the uhruflied pillow hachiug her egg der her wing. the superstitious salof he sits up the main crosstrees hears far down in the csYes of the deep the thua of the great sea-organ peal
 ing amid the coral sepulcbres of ages, mingled with the voices of Mermads who pour fourth strains of gushing music that shake the slernest spirits and 1 unlock the fOant of feeling aud of tears. Though ! charmed for a few moments with the anthem of the I great minstrel he TemsmbsFs that the storm begins in the lowest of the empire of waters, and that the music of the ground swell will | soon become the bowling of the upper tempest, and away he glides to the deck, to his comrades. to put the staunch old ship in order for the elemental | war.
 i Oh! it ia glorious upon inc scowling pillow to battle with ihe surges and to bid defiance to the gae Then, mind walks in light upon the night of waters, and amid thousand perils ride the tempest i down.
 | The present hour, though calm as the summers cloudess eve, is but the precursor of time of tu mutt and of strife; and though men. armed 10 the teeth with the whole panopiy of war, may net meet 1 in the field
 "Where streams the life blood warm aud wet Upon the giitterng bayonet'
 still, there are elements of discord at work around
 
 dence and fortitude of the gallant sailor. may wreck our glorious Union upon the midnight deep, and cast her star gemmed banner like sea weed upon a wave washed shore.
 We have written thus much frst because we felt | it; and second, because had no fourth of July oration to call out and therefore kept patriot ism upon our stomach until were afraid of its growing sour. Having thus happily prcked what | Mrs Burlington has quaipuy termed the boil of | sympathy, and uncorkea~ bottle of eloquence, shall proceed, for brevitys sake, to our subject, by dividing it into fifty heads: and firstly of the first, the devils to pay in Charles county, and Ha gerstown too and unless John Henry retuTna from his post in the Generals train to his own political stamping ground, he will find but few there to raise their eyes with joyful recognition, and excaim, in tones of melting thunder, Mud Mud Mud! It is an easy matter for man who has never felt the sting of hornet 10 laugh at the dminuye size of the yellow Jacketed insect, and to wonder what people afraid of wno make strait coat tail ! from his paper houses bat when once spiked by the interesting animal, he is ready to excaim, with the i lrishman who caught the yellow wasp for fly, |" By S: Patrick, how hot the dear little creatures foot is!
 The country at the present moment is infested with much yermin, and polluted with vast quan- tty of foul arh odOr of arstOcractic nationality good thunderstorm is therefore necessary 10 clear the moral atmosphere and to kill off the creatures who breed in slimy pools. and grow fat upon decay cd matter IL will be our duty, therefore if possi | bIe 10 pump up respectable shower, and to ride like the eagle upon the cone of the whirwind, and mark the course of the storm. The elections last 1 year placed parties in positions ridicuously fuse ] As it was when the owl brooded over chaos, so IS l 1t now in the land of free institutions and liberal sentiments True, the alien and sedition laws are longer in force, and the prison doors of liberIy's dungeon have not grated harshy upon the ears of an incarcerated freeman for telling the truth for many years; but still, among the party of federal ! ism, who never can forgive fathers for making this republic and the Senate elective there exists the tyranny of the elder Adams and the illiberaity of his day of iron letters and prison walls. The people, however, have d way of curing these evils which is as effective as it is unparliameDtary and 1 unfashionable Sometimes they take the brawers up and rub their ears and then sit them down with no easy jolt 10 legislate again for their country; sometimes they make them undo their dirty work, and then return to uuenviabe repose among the l things that were-the broken croekery of Lib | erty's back kitcheG; aud sometimes they spriug d mine of indignation under them that blows them so high among the Lighthouses of the sky that they come down so singed and altered that they remain political Eunuchs in the harens of the decency par ty forever afterwards.
 | Cuba is 10 be taken, not by, the few struggling II soldiers of liberty that have crepl into that island
 but by the home squadron of the United States and
 the mock abduction of Key is to be the prete&t of
 our peace ITeSutut TOT tillS lnVasl0n; and 10 keen up decent appearances, and to luii Spain and the
 rest of Europe into security, the proclamation
 written in the State Department and dated nowhere e was issued. This is our opinion, after consulting with slndry Dutch farmers of Lancaster county . who it is supposed know everything about such matters, and who undoubtedly communicated freely with the Second Washington upon State affair.
 on his grand tour. If this is true, the correspond. cut of the Journal of Commerce, who, like 'ritu.
 Oates, knows there is damnable plot on foot ha, , made slight error in his inferences and will have , to hold another mountain top conversation with the hero of two bloody (not blood -hound) wars up the blue peaks of Bedford and in the vicinity 1 it's magic well.
 The home squadron have long since received or ders to demand Key beneath the walls of Moro Gas tie, with the men at quarters, the guns double
 ted and the matches lighted; and the iite steamer Aieghany has been seat cut arrest the invasion , of Cuba and preserve the fa;h of treaty stipula tions. Ho ho. ho! Ina! ha. ha! Well, this Is di I pIomacy with vengeance, which it takes some { thing green to appreciate
 But there must be thunder storm-a respecta be thunder-storm-or we shall all be smothered il the infected cloud of pollution To do this we pro- pose 10 explode little sulphur, and to stir the wilt animals with a tarred pole, until they make thei
 official cages ring again.
 | There have been more little falsehoods, more } mean insinuations, more dirty work done in tn,
 last six months and less thu nder, than have eye ) known before in any age. We hope, therefore that everybody will see the proprety of helping us To blow the bellows, and raise the wind. II is
 matter pro bono pnhlieo, and cannot be acceptable to all. dirty man is better for being washed, evei if he is to it himself and he who amputate.
 diseased limb, even without the of the pa tient is beneiactor of mankind. Wewish the Republic would say something atou the Denby case and Patrick Collins This neglect
 of such great mares nests is crime, indeed Can't
 you dance the Pokal Won't you dance the Polka
 but, fore Heaven, if go al this rate, we shal
 never keep sober face long enough to let it thun-
 der. Boy, put in the sulphurc acid, and let it fig -
 the people expect something terrible; and, by ber l tvs cap and pole, they shall not bs disappointed ] The city Is full Of cholera bonbs-which are
 called, for short, water -mittoas-and perhaps we
 can use them to some advantage in the grand dis charge!
 The circulation of the Republic is some. We saw
 gentleman who did not find a copy of it in wes- h