Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-12-12
ANOTHER mULRooAEY Story.

How Peter " SOid'' the Politician.
EY sYLvANus URBAN, THE YOUNGER.
Il may be readily imagined that so
great bIunderer as my friend Peter Null
rooney did not long retain any one par
tcuIar situation. Handy as he undoubt-
edly was at any kind Of work particularly
demanding the use of the shovel, his cx
ploits in general farming made even the
"naygurs, the haythens," who were his
peculiar aversion, stand and look on, at
times. with open mouthed wonder. 1t was,
therefore, no surprise to me to learn that
shortly after Peters uulucky attempt to
give black PhiliS the bran mash intended
Tor the black tilIy, he had quilted the ser
vice OF my old school fellow, Stanley, "dis-
charged the young masther - as he sub
sequentIy called it, and had accepted the
superintendent of a gang Of workmen on
a lailI oad, at that time in course Of con
struction through the election district in
" hich reside. l say Through the cleo
ton district" in preference to indicating
the locality of the work i'll any more pre-
else way, because the incidents am about
to relate refer solely to the politics Of the
ncighborhood.
In his new position Peter was in his
element, for not only were the labOrers
along the line his countrymen, but, bet
ter still for Peters pugnacious disposition,
they were divided into those two rival fac
LionS which SO long agitnted our part of
the country, under the names of Corko-
mans and Fardowns. OF this latter body
Peter became the acknowledged leader,
and it is but Justice to say that the post
in his hands was no sinecure. Brawls
and chickering's multiplied with singular
Iapidity, and in the faction tights which
followed, Peter was always the first to
commence, and the last to leave OFT.
But if this condition of things was fun
for Peter, it was a serious annoyance to
the contractors, who, after vain cxpostu
Iations with the belligereuts, had more
than once been compelled to call upon the
sheriff with an armed force of militia, to
quell the disturbance. How many heads
Peter broke on the grand occasions for
displays, it would be difficult 10 cnume-
rate. Certain however it is that, if bold
undauuted exposure and vigorous person
al exerton be worthy OF honorable men
ton, Peter Mulrooney's heroism should
be ranked with that of Harney's at Cerro
Gordo; Rileys at Contreras Quitman's S
at the Garita Belen; and especially with
| that Of Walker at Huamsntla. But as
Sampson was shorn Of his strength by the
loss of his long locks, even so was Peter
finally reduced to condition Of compara-
tive weakness by dismissal from office,
and separation from his companions, who
were transferred to a distant section.
1t was about this time, and before my
friend Mulrooney's loss of authority was
generally known, that an election app
preached for various county Offices, and
among others for that of district attorney
AS the latter Office was rather lucra-
tive one, there was, naturally enough,
quite an array of eager candidates, who
were far more respectable for their nuns
bers than for the scope or profundity oI
their legal attainmenLs.
Prominent among these hungry aspi'
rants was pOmpOus, pragmatical, petit
Jogging limb" whom shall take the ii.
berLy Of calling Jones. This respectable
young gentleman being, in his own esti
nation, admirably fIted for the Office
took the liberty of blowing his own trum
pet, and with no stinted breath, at the
various preliminary meetings which were
held during the progress of the canvass.
Jones, however, was not disposed to re
lily wholly upon the popular opinion Of hi