Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-07-27
From the Washington Union
HOW IT Is DONE.


have seen your lion and your tiger and
now, gaul darn you, show me the grand car
raren.-Mrs. Squeers.
1t is important for every inquisitive mind to
understand the why's and the wherefores of
this much abused and toIerably dusty world.
Eve ate spanking apple from the forbidden
tree. that she might know as much as his
snakeship and she gave Adam the core, that
he might know few of the mysteries also.
Adam YVES asleep when sin entered Eden and
being suddenly aroused, he ale the core OF the
deadly fruit with such avidity that il stuck in
his thorax; and his descendants, who have all
his deformities, have bunch about the wind
pipe which is known as Adams Raule'
even unto this day. This bunch is larger or
smaller, as men come nearer 10 or recede from
The standard OF Adam after his fall and wher-
ever it is found TO perfection, look out for
craftlness, and sly reynard's other valuable
qualities. We could point 10 individuals who
hold high places at the seat of the general GO
vernment to prove our assertions; but a wink
is as good as nod, and those who want faith
may look after it in the Post Office.
Ii is great thing to know how to do
thing. An old purser of our acquaintance
used TO say that he cared but little how much
man drank, provided he carried his liquor
well. That is it Cesar we believe, took
great pains to arrange his cloak and die grace
fully by Pompey's statue; and celebrated cri-
minals, whose names have made them a kind
Of mouldy Immortality, take particular pains
TO mount the scaffold without tear, and to
die without groan. Some people have their
gifts; some men are cut out 10 be marshais of
the day, seaters at funerals, captains of hun
dreds, and foremen of grand inquests. Spokes
men, and fuglemen, come not by observation,
but are born for their stations. ssOrR TRU
MAN." for instance. never could have perform
ed the duties of fugleman of the Rough and
Ready Club of this city, even at $40 day
and found, unless he had been created for
such an occasion nor could he have acquired
such omnipotence with the Octemviri, unless
he had been possessed of congenal spirit,
and an amiable faculty for woTming in and
out of very small hole, like that beautiful
specimen of animated nature known in the
western forests as the sc Hoode Bug
/ {" have often heard of crevices. but never
before of such an one as they have at New
Orleans" said Mrs Darlington and we have
often heard of keeping pledges, but never Of
such way of keeping them as has been adop
ted by the Second Washington and his per
feet band of admirers, in this heroic age
their choice medley of discordant tunes, and
we'll may they keep the great king-maker un-
der constant pay TO do them those little servl
ces which tell when the account is rendered,
like the items of the bill of Mr.. Morris Brown
in the pages of the Dsowned."
But we set out TO tell how it is done Well,
then, we are advised that the cabinet seldom
meets the Old Hero as a cabinet without hav-
ing first had private consultation al the State
Department, for the purpose of uniting upon
, the questions which they know from the cor
respondence that reaches them must come
up for consideration and decision on the sue
ceeding day. In the old wainscotted room
where Forsyth, Webster, and a Calhoun
have written themselves up or down to pos,
, terity. as Providence disposes, the stormy seq
Ell meet to equalize favors and regulate pat
ronage: their watch WORD being, as we have
been informed, =" each one for himself, and
the devil for us all''
Here, after wrangling, log-roIing, hair
r splitting, and sweating, with much hard swear.
ing, deeds are said to be determined upon
, verdicts are made and judgments agreed upon
which are entered the next day at the green
table of the Second Washington, as though
, they never had been thought of until the mo
ment of recording. And the best of the joke
|
, caucuses, and thinks that he has the mos
amiable. conciiatory, and unanimous cabne
of any President, not even excepting his co
temporary and humble mitator, Louis Napo
leon of France
The appointment of Mr.. Fenton, publisher
of the late National Whig-the epitaph o
which reads in this wise:
"Sihce was so quickly done for,
/ wonder what was begun for
gives great satisfaction. 1t is said that it wa:
determined upon after the loss of the Generals
favorlte cow-he having heard that the Isle
of Wight was famous for " Cotres and a mar.
Eet," and that F. knew new milk from skim.
milk as well as the best of them. We are
glad that he is over the &c Hill of difficulty al
last; and if he could only give the editor and
the original subscriber, who seem to be foot.
tied upon the borders of Canaan, a gentle
shove, we think it would be a glorious con-
summation. and one we'll calculated to ease
the mind of this community
The way the great political disappointment
has operated upon the clique of Georgetown
OF last, is melancholy and distressing. We
understand that it has occasioned the cutting
down the pole of whigery I" smack and cean;''
and that the previous relics have been distrib-
uted, ike the hairs OF Old Whitey's tail, among
Inc !althini, with the charge TO remember
the Mill-boy of the SIashes, and put no conf
dence in men of Belial again. for. as the Sc
. cond Washington justly observes, in this
administration every thing goes down and
then comes up.' .. ---
The late letter of Mr.. Premier Clayton to
his friends at home, appealing 10 the vicinage
TO sustain him from the indignation of an in
censed and outraged people, is gem, and
when put beside his speech in the Senate Iau-
datory of General Taylor as a candidate for
the presidency, in which he says the Old He
70 will have no friends 10 reward and no ene-
mics to punish. presents such splendid spe
clmen of inconsistency, uncertainty, and alb
surdity, that we think, if he did nothing else.
he would go down to posterity, like Lord Tim
othy Dexter, remarkable for his simplicity
and his luck
/ For eonciseness, however. the Secretary of
the Navy has borne off the palm from all an.
| tquity Or futurity. He might, however, have
saved some few words in his letter to the COM
mittee of Delaware on the state of the Union
generally, and American independence in par
ticular. He might have said. IS have recev-
| ed your letter." This would have embraced
the sense of his despatch, and would have
equalled celebrated despatch once written
by learned gentleman TO learned constitu-
ency in New York, to wit:
"Weni, widi, wic