Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-08-10

appointed, convinces as that tuck is everything
in official affairs a. the present day. One Of
our conscientious heads of department deter
mined that, so far as his Office was concerned,
everything should be done decently and in or
der. He submitted list of his subordinates
10 committee of citizens, supposed TO have
been of the Rough and Ready Club. with the
request that they would mark the obJectona-
BILE ones, detail their faults and offences, state
their pecuniary condition, and give the names
of those who had families. This list, after
undergoing full Investigation, was returned,
with list of some twenty or thirty names
marked as fit victims for the slaughter. A
committee of two of the accepted Office hold
ers, with the head of the department, then re-
vised the list thus prepared, and after search
ing investigation, few were struck OH the
black list, and the balance were removed
The result of this operation was, that one hall
OF the best clerks in the department were re-
moved, and lot of poor clerks put IN their
places, many of whom did not know how to
indite an official letter, and all of whom. like
scholars al district school, were only valua-
| BILE in their stations after they had acquired
their daily lessons. It's curious TO see what
luck had to do with these cases. Many a
poor devil who knew he ought TO go,
and who never expected TO stay. found him
self promoted; while those who had been eff
cient, attentive, capable, honest, and faithful,
| were dismissed with as little ceremony as lot
of charity scholars are at the end of a term.
| The Second Washington was lucky in 60
| ing to Mexico to fight the battles of his coun-
try. He was lucky in getting back from Fort
| Brown to Point Isabel without being forced to
! fight battle without ammunition. He was
lucky in fighting the battle of Buena Vista a
gainst orders, and, as he said, with halter a.
! bout his neck, after the extraordinary capitu-
lation of Monterey. He was lucky in having
men fitted for the service--he was lucky in
having a WORTH, Wool, and CHILDs to
aid him. He was lucky in getting back from
Saltillo 10 the field of Buena Vista without
being cut off by the Mexican cavalry. He
was lucky in having his letters well indited
in having his pledges short, sweet, and COM
prehensive in having weak opponents in the
whig ranks in Philadelphia; and in having
democratic friends in the country, who really
thought him a better democrat than General
Cass, aud truer patriot than Washington
and now, when the affairs of State begin 10
press heavily upon him. how lucky he is in
having cabinet who desires to do all his bu-
siness for him, and monopoliZe all his patron
4 age and power. .-..
We respect lucky mamie is the individ-
ual for our money; like a cat thrown out Of
a chamber window, he always drops with his
feet down. A man may be lucky withou
finding soft-soap mine, and respectable with
out having the dyspepsia, and, as is sufficient
y shown in the model organ, may be witty
without a spark of common sense. By The
way, in future years when the Genius of Lib
erty shall plough about the high places of th'
republic, we should not be surprised if the sa
! vans of Europe should be called together by
the horn of science to examine the relics o
the past that burden the soil, and which vii
then be known by the appelIation of the or
ganic remains of the
m5 "HEROIC AGE"