The Arkansas banner., 1849-08-28

| forward among his messmates, who asked him what hsthonght of the head of the sea lions. "A damn'd pretty fellow Is he," said tie offended dignatary "not to know q boAtswain from the captain of line-of battle saip." Things, however, went of very well until the official wen, forward and looked down the main hatch. As tAis extraordinary hole gaped before him, he seized tle captain by the arm and exclaimed in voice of treiAuIOus astonishment By Heavens, she is hoow!" ana echo, down in the deep vortex, in the shape of fhe captain of the hold, .aaswered, ''ShS is hoiiOset" and the man on the royal yard heard 1t, and, sith smile upon his btonzed eoantenance, unwttipgy shouted. "she is hollow" And blessed be God, she toas hollow An hourof equally amusing occurrences transplred and then the old of the sea departed. wonder ing how much faster the ship would 20 if she had larger wheel. and whether she required such large sheets, seeing that her slowed themselves away in hammocks, and were no respecters of cIeSn linen.
 The manner in which derks have been dismissed from public offices and their successors appointed, conyinces that luck is everything in official af- fairs al the present day One of our concieutious heads of department deermided tha:, so far as his office was concerned, everything should be done decentIy and in order. He submitted list of his subordinates to a committee of citizens, supposed to have been of the ROugl and Ready Club, with the request that they woud mark the objectionable ones detail their faults Oences state their pc. cuniary condition, and give the names of those who had families. This list, after undergoing full in- vestigation, was returned, with lis. of some twenty | or thirty names marked as fit victims for the i slaughter. A committee of two of the accepted office holders with the head of the department, 1 then revised the list thus prepared, and after searching investigation few were struck of of 1 the black list, and the balance were removed Tie result of this operation was that one-half of the best clerks in the department were removed, and lot of poor clerks put in their places, many of whom did not know how to indte official letter, and al of whom, like scholars at district school were on-
 y valuable in their stations after they had acquired their daily lessons. It is curious to see what luck had to do with these cases. Many poor devil who knew he ought to go, aud who never expected to stay, found himself promoted: while those who had been efficient attentive, capable, honest and faith tui. were dismissed with little ceremony as u lot of charity scholars at the cad of a term
 The Second Washington was lucky in going to Mexico to fight the battles of his country He was lucky in getting back from Fort Brown to Point Isabel without being forced to fight battle without amunitiOn He was lucky ia fighting the battle of Buena Vista against orders, and, as he said, with halter about his neck, after te extraordinary edpit- Elatioa of Monterey. He was lucky iu having men fitted for the servce-he was lucky in havihg q WORTH WooL, and CHILDs to aid him. He was lucky in getting back from SatiIlo to the field of Buena Vista without being eat oh by the Mexican cavalry. He was lucky in having his letters well
 ndited; in having his pledges short, sweet, and comprehensive; in having weak opponents in the whig ranks in Phadelphia; and iu having demo- cratic friends in the country, who really thought him better democrat than General Cass, and tFuer patriot than Washington; and now. when the affairs of State begin to press heavily upon him, how lucky he is in having A cabinet who desire to do all his business for hin, and nonopoze all his patronage and power.
 We respect alucky man he is the indvidu al for uor money; like a cas thrown out of chamber window, he always drops with his feet down. X man may be lucky without finding sofl-soap mine, and re- spectabie without having the dyspepsia, and as is sufficiently shown in the model organ, may be witty without spark of common sense. By the way, in future years, when the Genius of Liberty shall plough about the high places of the republic, We should not be surprised if the savans of Europe should be called together by the horn of science to examine the relics of the past that burden the soil and which will then be known by the appeilaiion of the organic remains of the .' HEROIC AGE"