The Arkansas banner., 1849-08-21
From lAs Ualen.
N4otes and mcanas.


 Msks good roads and good hasbors, take the Re- pahlie end keep your heads cool, your bowels open and your feet wSFm."--Dr. Taylor on h CoHst~a' tsgn
 "fEsd yoa seen but these rOad' before they were
 made, You would have held up your hands and Oles''d
 General Wade" btA EAsV'ss'.
 Ia the early days of Christianity, it was Ascsrtan- a llsat he who was the most particular 10 onsetve mote ln inc eye of his neghbor had eontsunded large beam iH bis own eye, which n nisnlsneies'- ed kenevolenca towards hts fellow ne haa never been able lo discover. This extraordinary eienhn- etanee is still apparent even to the the noSa cal at fine present day, when the Second W ashang- ton is king. and ay.iime is the "lseroie agc." s
 S,leakiSg Of aotes, we Feeoect once to bave heafd of Dutch farmer who went opt to nov. About Il o'clock In the day, alter good piece ot timothy had been laId as fat as the hopes oi kgiers oi tne Exeisiag Mirror came very near being made mersh.i of New York, and missed it--the Dutch man repaired 10 the springhouse to take dunk ol hattersnik Soon he received from the hands os hls wife stone crock which contained gallon or more of the tears of butteT, and raising n to hts ps m hasly adoFation. drank quart before he took breath. At this moment, however, his eye Tesieh unom the surface of tke buteTmik in the crock, aud he started sith asioRishment. exrlaiming, "Moty. what s this in the butteFmiik }" "Why, Ia, Hins, said she, ...yoa are always seeing notes in every thing" n.
 v "A o0mue0 pf9tIy Uo8 t0tS t3s SNth uSp NPuHh"A out green huit-frog that would weigh pound,) to sis oa his hams and look man in tre lace"
 Such naofe as the old Datchrnan saw ID his crock we have seen about the White House al the present hour; and unless something Is speedily done to de. siroy the nuisance, there will be terrible hopping next winter in the whig buttermilk- By the way, the term ..wHIes took It's from Ichsg and that
 .ex. ssaE G ss and ib. st,er ai eA.sssr A1s But to proceed with the eanonicais. The praclkt ss hunting atsr oies not only unproftable, but IS impestfa.ss. and unISss speedily stopped, will play the ducs with soEe-eyed. people. IL the deinocra- tic eefks u the service ofthe United States at ash ington would throw up their appointments on day certain, ai.d leave the Second Washington and his cabinet 10 do their own business in the best way they could, the wheels of government would be stop ped at once and those who would rejoice over soiitaiyssmova fnr opinions sake, would laugh out of the othsr corner ot their mouths when convinced that the experience of years had been sWapped ior bevy of young wings whose names could m up the rolls, and whose hands could grasp the salaries on payday, but who could more perform the duties og their offices than the devil could ofciate at the government church in the Presidents Square on a feast day.
 The acute action of the iicer and Eyhs of Taylor. ism-the Lnieiligeneer and Repubie-satishes Us thatour medicine has been properly applied and that it was greatly needed. They howl like spaniels suddenly scaided, and streak II through the ranks of the American people like the aforesaid animals with tin-pots filled with gravel-stones tied to their as- triUus tails. Their gruinbng is delight. Their endeavor 10 pull out notes from eyes while their own are fnll of beams, is supGemely ridiculous. Their saarling is music to our ears, and the biting is pleasant irritation to the skin in these days of condensed persprstion. What" say they, "find fsult with such general as Zachary Washington How mendaeioasi His ilias,rous name is too sac cred even 10 be mentioned by democrats and his honesty being purely whig honesty, (aof rttri,) is of such nature that it cannot be handled without AnfN ffnfn "a all nUhf fhora sOmeihlng tender about the peace administration of the Geneml ot two bloody waTs--that it would not do to De over-nice in inquiries as 10 his fitness for the chief magistracy; but we did not think the American press had becone so vile as to advocate the mu2zling ot an independent paper, because 1t was persevering enough to ascertain the truth and bold enough to proclaim 1t.
 We presume that the Generafwill soon dress him. self in lambskins and green shoes, and attend the Peace Convention in Paris, as delegate from the western empire. How pretty he VI Ill look there, sitting between Friar Tuck and Boernerges Cid dings, swearing like Sir Peter TeazIe, that hen be dd he is in passion, and if he Is not friend ot peace We would give month's salary to see aim sqaatGng among the peaee-makers hke old Butcher smid council of bufgomasters. sucking his finger nails, and growing like bear with the eryspelas
 shnpla sha 6..-.-A uf-.L.~ra~. .IsiS rzuIu,'~, ue had better get letters of introduction iros Daniel Webster and Senator Seward. He will thea be known at court, which IS great thing for a modest man who never travelled, and who leaves everything 10 his advisers The papers of the aeuieT gender ei ihe United States, which for the most part believe in whiggery, and petend 10 be passive are respon- sibe for the election Of the Second Washing ton. They made him by JdRcy sketches and II Is not strange that they should feel sad when they see the tinse glory pulled o from him like the plulnes from the silly jack-daw of he isbie
 We are sick of halfway men and measures Give us something sweet bitter, something cold or hoi; bat away with this iukewaim administration, which anla tfxas. k as neither hot nor cold
 But Il Is desecration to attack the follies of the Second Washington; u is unrigheous to expose the faisehoods and the frauds perpetrated in the nsme oi the convention held st The slaughter-house in Phils- delphia on the national Sabbath. Let Us recur to the past When Andrew Jackson became the Pre-. sideht of the United States by the unanimous voice ci ihe American people, who censured him. his persoa, he acts, his policy-who pulled his sose- who oeat un pans and cieaveTs under his windows -"ho eahestafed nun as hog and an ape, roasted him upon grldrons, defaned the character Of has dear wife aud harried her to an early grave--who were the Jack DownEgs and ihe X Y Z's the Aris- hdss and the tibdexes, who 6ied the papers of the county with their vile siandels their foul Asehoos the's diaooieai hints, and their dsmhabie Az, the nen who could throw sones al us when we were in power wan. the bullets s#eed which we fire back al them now that they are on the stand ol the repablic.
 We will not boil the peas for these sinners to nut m ther shoes on their pilgrimage to the shrine of Iruth. They must take it rough and tumble. aud nc who sfies etaos, ought never to cry qass. We estsen. the Second ashiogton for ali his virtues end oil his good deeds. but we cannot syallow his presideHt'af io'iies, even if he has seven men in bsck gowns to help him out of or iuto dificully.- The nBsnner Ia which he made the Secretary of the Interior s enough to sisksn his best friends of his ssaepeHaent aeaoni and the manner la which he lets the cabinet optsots hm--for votes have been taken there, as we are informed lis enough to condemn she eammisiee Of the whole. We could smile If i, was not apan such a serious occasion The preseat standardization is eDs continued ioso consdg from day to dsy aud If Europe does not laugh bersef iato A- At car performances. its because she has basy time regulating her swn AGamiies, and caltipx ths tbroats ot her most energetic children There was arsmosal ef second ieatsnant of the revenue ser- siee the esher dsy--Mf J. Ross Brown The Rs. paese insiaiaiss shat he was iandsuian or fresh. wasss sailor. Nov, the American people know