Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-11
Ths Patch on Mr. MarcY's Rceeches

( "Whle he was Governor of this State
he was visiting Newburgh on some pub
lie occasion, and with a party of gentle
( men, Wings and Democrats, was at The
Orange Hotel. = Good humor was nre.
vaillng, and one story suggested another.
The Governor always enjoyed story.
and could tell one with excellent effect
a Whlg lawyer was present, and the
Governor recognizing him, said:
''Ah, yes; I'll tell You good story of
| Spooner. The other day he came no 10
Albany, on his way to the Whig conven
ton at Utica, and so he took il in his
way to call on me to get pardon for
convict ut Sing Sing. | heard the case
examined the documents, and being salts
fed tha, all was right, agreed to grant
the request. Spooner handed me the
! paper to indorse, and wrote: LET par
don be granted W. l.. MARcY;'' -
when Spooner cried out "HoId hold, Gov
error! = that's the wrong paperl" And
sure enough, it was Vino SPEECH THAT
| He WAS GOING TO MAKE AT UrIcA, ab-
using me the worst possible way. But
had granted pardon in advance, and | sup
pose he committed the otiense afterward. ;"
The story was received with great ap-
| Plause, and Spooner, being looked to for
a response, instantly went or with the
following, which, for an extempore story,
certainly is capital:
eyes, gentlemen = yes, I did And
when the Convention was over, we went
to Niagara Falls, and as we were drag
gfng on by stage over miserable corduroy
roads, banging our heads against the top
of the coach, and then coming down as
if we were to so through the bottom, the
stage came to lad lad heii.. hei. the driver dis
mounted, opened the door, and requested
us all to descend. We did so, supposing
that some accident had occurred. when
we were all out, standing on the ends Of
the logs Of which the road was made, the
driver took off his hat and said "Gentle-
men, we always stop here out of respect
for the Governor; this is the identical
spot WHERE Marcy TORE HIS PANrA-
LooNsr'
The story was heard with great jolIifc-
alton, which no one joined more heartily
than the Governor himself.
That pantaloon incident deserves to be
recorded in every history of this great
man. He was sent ont to hold special
sessions of court to the anti Masonic par
ties charged with murder. He was to re-
ceive a salary and his expenses. With
that nice regard for details that belonged
to his sterling character, he kept a min
ute account of all his expenditures, and
handed in the list on his return, without
thinking 1t necessary or proper TO revise
! and strike out those items of a private
nature, which other men, less scrupuIous
IN great matters, might have carefully
suppressed. There stood the lailor's
charge for Inendng. The political foes
of the Judge, when he came to be a can
dIdate for Governor, found it, aud par
AIDED II before the world in the news
papers,; aud making an efligy of Mr.
Marcy, suspended it in the streets of Al
bany, with a great patch on the panta-
looms, and the tailor's charge on the top
of that. - But an obscrvant people saw
| through the patch and the charge into the
heart of an honest man, and in that very
deed of his they recognized frankness
and transparency of character that com
mended HIM to their warm approbation
1t Is not probable that the pantaloon
charge lost for HIM single vote, while
it IS doubtless true that ii made him multi
tudes of friends. He was never ashamed
of 1t, and never had reason to be.
! The NATION WoLr HUNT-Wc
gave some time ago the Mattoon Gazetts
announcement of wolf hunt for the 18th
Of July. The Charleston Ledger, gives
the following account of the affair:
AT last we have the particulars Of the
great wolf hunt which came off in the VI
cinity Of NATION on the fourth, which
was inaugurated under the auspices Of the
editor Of the Gazette. The hunt was
modelled after some of the old English fox
hunts, where Raynard is carried to the
ground in a meal sack, and there turned
loose TO escape if he can. In this case
f the wolf was carried to the ground in q
stone jug. Another distinctive fea'ur,
was that the party were mounted on ene
steed Ca fine spirited animal called Black
Horse, and on arriving AT the ground st.
Iected for the hunt, the wolf was passed
e round in a circle, the hunters remaining