Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-04
Characteristic Anecdote of the late MT
 Marcy

We find the following in the course of well written sketch of the late Secretary of State in Harper's Weekly newspaper:
 An anecdote, hitherto unpublished may serve to illustrate his pleasant humor. While ne was Governor of this State, he was visiting Newourg on some public occasion, and with a party oi gentlemen, whigs and democrats. was at the Orange hotel Good humor was pre- valllng, and one story suggested another The Uovernor always enjoyed a story, and could tell one with excellent effect A whig lawyer was present, and the Governor recogpizino him, said:
 "Ah, yes: I'll tell you good story of l Spooner. The other day he came up to AL. | 6any, on his way to the whig convention at Utica; and so he took it on his way to call on me to get pardon for a convict at Sing Siuo
 | heard the case, examined the documents and belns satisfied that all was right, agreed to grant the request. Spooner handed me the paper to indorse, and wrote, Let pardon be granted. w: L. Marcy when Spooner cried out, Hold. hold, Governor! that's the wrong paper!' And. sure enough, 1t was a whig speech that he was gong to make in Utica, abusing me the worst possible way. But had granted pardon in advance, and suppose he committed the of. 1 fence afterward."
 The story was received with great applaus. and Spooner being looked to for a response, in stantly went on with the following, which for an extempore story certainly is capital: es, gentlemen, yes, did. And when the convention was over, we went to Niagara Falls. and as we were dragging on by stage over miserable corduroy roads, banging our heads l against the top of the coach, and then coming down as if we were to go through the bottom. ha ct apo to O bol. mounted, opened the door ani requested us all to descend. We did so, supposins 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: "Gentlemen, we always stop here out of respect to the Governor; this is the identical spot ,0iere Ma,cy tore hjs pantayoons." The story was heard with great olifcaton, in which no one joined more heartily than the Governor himself
 The pantaLoon incident deserves to be record ed in every history of this great man. He was sent out to hold special sessions of court to try | the Anti Masonic parties charged with murder lie was to receive salary and his expenses- With that nice regard for details that belonged to hls sterling character he kept minute &C., count Of all his expenditures, and handed in the list on return, without thinking it necessary or proper to revise or strike out those items of private nature, which other men, less scru- puious in greater matters, might have carefully suppressed. There stood the tailor's charge for mending. The political foes of the Judge when he came to be candidate for Governor. found it, ard paraded it before the world in the newspapers; and making an cf1isy of Mr. Marcy, suspended it in the streets of Albany with great patch on the pantaloons, 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 the honest man, and in that very deed of his they recognized frankness and transparency of character that commended him to their warm approbation. It is not probable that the pan taloou charge lost for him a single vote, while it is doubtless true that it made for him multi tudes of friends. He was never ashamed of it., aid never had reason to be.