Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-04-29
For the Arkansas Intelligencer.
MO HOAX.

10 account for all the inconsistencies and nh
surdities of human nature, the writer docs not
pretend. But some, like comets, which carry
along with them, their immense tails, show TO the
naked eye, without the aid OF microscopic power,
what they are; well their causes ard effects
Whilst the great world have been astonished at
the magnitude of the celestial visitor that appear r..
ed to US mundane bipeds sthe nalives'' of the lit
tie world near Fort Gibson, have been equally
astounded at a succession of dazzling creations of
the Mighty Powers of that region. They have
been filled with awe and extravagant expectation,
they are now daily, agog, on the tptoe Of expecta-
tIon, and expect momentarlly, to be struck blind.
by the dazzling brilliancy, of far brighter and
q more luminous phenomena than has ever vet ap-
peared to their astonished Visions
The object of this communication, is not to
speak OF what expected, for there is no limit to
expectation, IN that reg ion, snow days. but to
tell OF the sublime Inconsistencies and absurduies
of the past. To the unnitated these tbinos
would appear inexpicable, but little explanation
Will make them understood by all. 1t will be re-.
membered by many of your readers that some
time last fall, a writer signing himself 'T. H."
made accusations against Col of Dragons, then
commanding Fort Gibson, chargng him with the
use OF public property for private purposes &c
The President ofthe U. S. directed a Court of IN.
curry to examine into these accusations. The
court met at the Post aud proceeded to the nyesti
CATION, but like the. Dutch magistrate, who could
not ind detenddM M"guilty Of drunkenness, be.
cause, IKE himself, ne only got drunk on Black
StroP," could not find this Col. guilty of having
used public property for private purposes, because
he only done what they assumed was the rim of
all commanding officers, viz the use of public
horses, pioughs, mules 'cagons and teams for pri.
vate purposes, for the reason that little s.gentle
ere'cdse" does this kind of public property, ser.
vice. The brilliancy of this idea, is unequalled-
and "the Court" entitled to the thanks of the world
generally, nrp1 of the wagon and plough makers
especially, for noac they knop that when they have
on hand n large lot of wagons and ploughs, they
cap loan to their good neighbors, who wiIlbe rea-
dy at any time to use them in their farming opera
tions, TO Keep them in repair, until they are Sold
When it was ascertained that the Court could not
find the Colonel guilty for aforesaid reasons, it
cannot DO imagined how the natives were astound.
ed-how 1t puzzled the practical .shard sonse''
mon of the country, TO find out by what logic the
Court arrived at this conclusion-and it cannot be
conceived, the obstinacy of the stupid codpo,es,
who still believe in despite of the opinion of the
honorable and Impartial Court, that a 1u6lic ,ra-
gon is a public ragon and that using it for pri.
rate purposes was using ii for private purposes!
II perchnnce this article meets the eye Of keep.
er Of Livery stable, he will no doubt, rejoice at
the information shed upon his craft by this encht.
ened Court, and he will from that moment. daiiv
seek, not customers, but kind, accommodating per.
sons who will give his horses gentle erercise. bv
riding them 'about the neighborhood'' and ia cases
Of great need, make journey of some eieM or
nihe hundred miles. % -
Truly, that is region peculiar for its inconsis.
tencies and absurdities. Some time last summer
an officer Of that post decoyed citizen ins;de Of
e t'ne ot sentsnels, and there in the presence Of
ms oro'her officers, maltreated him. This ou,.
rage was not committed in an open and fearless
manner but j: was perpetraied like ali d.rk and
cowardly deeds are, under cover, within The walls
OF the garrison to where he was decoyed: and in