Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-07-13
From the Washington Union.
OLD Whitley.

"And the war-horse he crieth hay hay ant
paweth up the ground" Dickey BOylstOn's neo
reading Of Job.
"Mr. Speaker, Hans Van Splitter Splutte
wants Ter legislator to organize ter MALTA, doe
he? Well den, I think ter trums and ter fife
are better as ter organs. shall vote against thu
bellows music. Harrisburg Debates.
The arrival at the capital of the first nomi
nee of the wing convention held last July a
the Philadelphia slaughter.house, for the high
in the shape of the old battle charger of the
late General TAYLOR, is an event not to be
sneezed at by the American people. The Ro-
man Emperor, when he made his horse con-
sui, had just appreciation of his subjects ;
and the cabinet of the Second Washington,
in bringing Old Whitley on TO the seat OF gov
eminent, for special consultation, bear am
pe testimony 10 the character OF the horse,
and the capacity of his two-leggsd associates
We understand that at a cabinet mass meeting,
short time since, the Postmaster General in
the chair, the Second Washington asked per.
missions TO visit his Louisiana plantation, to
see Old Whitley and count his slaves but
was denied by those who have him in charge,
upon the ground, that if he stopped at Ken
lucky, he and MIR. Crittenden might recognize
the cabinet, and thus, to use the classic Ian
cuage of the immortal Shakespeare, J." play the
devil will their mothers monkeys" AS Ma
homet could not 60 to the mountain, the noun
tain therefore came to Mahomet, and all was
well.
AS in the vision of mystic prophet of Pat
mos, Death and the pale horse have come up
on us together-to wit, the death. political
and official, of over one hundred democratic
clerks, and the aforesaid white battle charger,
with his fetlocks red with Mexican blood,
shed in Mr. Ashmun's unrighteous war This
arrival will, in our opinion, enabled the Sec
Old Washington 10 infuse some strength into
his present rickety cabinet, without waiting
for the arrival of the governor of Kentucky ;
and as the gallant animal can druV drafts,
ISLAND to the rack, fodder or no FODDER and
negative with tremendous neighs the votes Of
the Home Department, we presume the trea-
sury would be the most appropriate sphere
for him, that building resembling the royal
stables at Kew more closely than any other
public building in the land, and having back
door through which he could trot into his green
pasture. Circumstances as Mr.. Parting
ton quantity remarks. "realy TO pucker to-
gether at this nip, to place the remarkable
beast on stable footing in the treasury"
The ancients represented man and horse
united, under the appellation of a Centaur.-
We have no doubt but that the horse is one
of the noblest animals of creation. Adam, 1t
is true, did not ride neither did the shepherd
kings ride; but there was famous trooper,
DAM" who sprung from the loins of Israel,
and rode scrub races to Beersheba-that is, TO
Mrs Sheba's beer-house. This Dan is sup
posed 10 have been the remote ancestor of the
No1I;,o nopIol he opA hn
brought up his children to be exceedingly
partial to fish and other wild game. The present
generation, however, have ridden bareback so
much, that they now confne themselves TO
hackney coaches, and such pebeian convey
ances. The appointment of foreign ministers
by the present green dynasty is enough to
make cat laugh her jaws off Such seIec-
tons, and for such reasons? Abbott Law
renee is sent TO England $50 says New York
correspondent of the Pittsburg Gazettee) that
Mrs Lawrence may wear at court shawl
worth more than forty shIIings; and that he
may feed American citizens who come 10 see
him, at his own expense.
In the old ''heroIc age" when BEN amin
franklin represented the land OF Washington
and freedom at the court of France IN drah-
cOlored dress, with blue Woollen stockings
and pewter shoe buckles, nobody asked him
what he paid for his breeches, or whether he
had any on, even; for Franklin had a soul to
make itself respected by the lightning of hea-
yen, and a name to live as long as the eyer-
berations of thunder.
1t is, however, to be expected that cOurtaeTS
and cotcrtesans will be picking the jacGdaws
dressed in magpie plumes, and will sooner or
later lay the skull of nothing open, as one
would crack a rotten walnut.
Wethink oar country representatives should
90 in citizens dress to the courts of the Old
World, with simple eagle worked in gold or
their breasts To see them and their country,
men now at court, dressed in faxen wigs
with tight breeches, and coats covered with
coach lace and furnished rbands, one would
swear that it was Baron Ragfair and suite on
a special visit to the Queen. We recollect
seeing or hearing (Which is pretty much the
same thing,) of the visit to the English cour
by Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, ano
Aaron Vanderpoel of New York-one sen
ator, and the other representative of th'
American people. They met in an ante-roon
each in sorrel-tailed wig-each in lack
ev's coat, or one similar in constructon-eacl
in tight breaches, with swords and cocke
hats, feathered round the edges with whit
down; and as they looked at each other, tn
tears of mirth ran down their majestic and eX
tremely open countenances. At length al
USHER, with a white rod, advanced. and beck
oned them into the presence of majesty
The constitutional codfSher made straIgh
lunge, and, with his sword between his legs
paid a salute to her Majesty with the handle
which caused much innocent mirth to sprea
over the painted faces OF the female crow
around while my Dutch friend got his swor
tangled in the farthngale of fat dowager {
German extraction, and got off from the three
decker by an apology in the language OF tn
Netherlands. No; let our minister go to cou
at Franklin did, and our minister's wife an
daughter appear at the levee as the daughtt
OF Mr.. McLane appeared at the Court of
James-wearing the wild flowers of her nativ
country in her hair We have nothing TO
with the Lord Verysofts and the Marquis
Waerfords, the Count d'Orsays and the Lad
Blessingtons of the Old World; we desire
feed England, smoke England, chew Englan
humbug England, and visit England, as oil
Yankee would visit another; and when v
do arrive at ST James's, or any other coul
we want the Queen and her litter of corone
and stars to look at US as Georgia landlo
looks at Connecticut tin pedlaE-with fe
and trembling.
The old White Horse is sent for, to drag t
Uerdant administration of the Second Was
ington from the Slough of Despond and t
mry Clay. Mounted upon the old charg