The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-19
The Pa tcaa GA Nsr Marcy's
Brooches.

Harper's weekly relates the following
anecdotes of Mr.. Marcy.
While he was Governor of this state,
he was visiting N ewburgh on some public
occasion, and with a party of gentlemen,
wings and democrats, was at the Orange
Hotel Good humor was prevailing, and
one story suggested another. The Gov
ernor always enjoyed story, and could
tell one with excellent effect. A wing
lawyer was present, and the Governor
recognizing him, said;
"Ah yes, I'll tell you good story of
Spooner. The other day he came up to
Albany, on his way to the wing conyen-
ton at Utica, and so lie took it in his way
to call on rue to get q pardon for con-
Wet at Sing Sing. | heard the case, OK
amined the document, and being 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, it
was 'rhig speech that he aoas going to
make at Utica, abusingme the worst pos
sible way. But had granted pardon in
advance, and suppose he committed the
offence afterward. Asses
The story was received with great ap-
plause, and Spooner, being looked to for
response, instantly went on with the
following, which, for an extempore story,
certainly is capital
ayes, gentlemen-yes, did. And
when the Convention was over we went
to Niagara Falls, and as wewere dragging
on by stage over miserable corduroy roads,
banging our heads against the top of the
coach, and then coming down as if we
were going through the bottom, the stage
came to dead halt; the driver dismoun-
ted, opened the door, and requested us all
to decend. 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 dri-
yer took off his hat and said "Gentlcmen,
we always stop here out of respect for the
Governor; this is the identical spot where
Marcy tore his pantaloons."
The story was heard with great jollif-
cation, which 30 one joined in more hear
tily than the Governor himself.
That pantaloon incident deserves to he
recorded 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. He was
to receive salary and his expenses.-
With that nice regard for details that be
longed to his sterling character, he kept
minute account of all his expenditures,
and handed in the list on his return, not
thinking it necessary to revise or strike
out those items of private nature, which
other men, less scrupulous in great mat
ters, might have carefully suppressed
There stood the taior's charge for men
ding. The political foes of the Judge,
when he came to be candidate for Gov
enor, found it, and paraded it before the
world in the newspapers; and making an
efigy of Mr.. Marcy suspended it in the
streets of Albany, with a great patch on
the pantaloons, ana the tailor's charge on
the top Of that. .....
But an observant 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 common
ded him to their warm appreciation. 1t
is not probable that the pantaloon charge
lost for him q single vote, while it is
doubtless true that it made him multitu-
DIES of friends. He was never ashamed
of it, and never had reason to be.