Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-02-02
THE ARKANSAS HERO.

THE ARKANSAS HERO.
Some three or four years after the ad>
mission of Arkansas into the Union, a
young man, whom we shall call Arthur
Granger, native Of Ohio, went to Little
Rcck to set up the practice of llw. He
was then about three and twenty years o!
age, small, slender and effeminate looking,
with light hair, almost beardless face, an0
dark blue eyes. His dress, though not ex-
ac'ly fnppish, was altogether too fine, neat,
and precise, &c suit the taste Of men who
| always seemed prepared for roughing it in
the back ocds as most of them had done
at one time and another; he was, moreover,
a stranger from the North who had per-
haps come there to display his learning,
and pick up their money, so that from the
very first he was regarded with con:em.t
pnl aversion,
The first six or eight mouths be hot o
practice whatever, notwithstanding he IVES
regularly at his office, or the court room,
waiting and hoping; he was about to give
up in dispair and bctake himself to snrth-
er lno0lHty, when one day tall, lank in
diyidual came scufhng into his apartment.
and after surveying him keenly from head
| to foot, said, as lie helped himself to
| sea-:
See here, young bop thumb, is there
anything in yuu?'
Yes, my treakfastP replied tie young
lawyer.
The other stared at him few moments
and seemed undetermined whether to con-
slider the reply ike or an insult. lie
finally grinneo and prUoo,J-I.
L mean do ynu know anythine?'
oh, yes. scmsthing. answered the other
pleasantly. i know the difference between
a horse and horse block
Can you writer
4 have wrote nv name before now
The s:rauger drew newspaper from
his pocket, opened it deliberately, pointed
out an article, handed it to the young man,
| and then saIC:
| 'RCad thatv
! 'AlUud?'
| 'Yrs.' a.
The yourg man comIl lied. and read a
TRADE Of the most scandl:ng, scathirg.
nature against one Miles Gregory the
temO. tic candidate for the legislature.
Well demanded the stranger, 'wha: DO
you think of that?'
i, is pretty severe
i b. lieve you. Do y u-thirk there is
another man in the state of Arkansas that
can write Os screening thing again the
whig c,,nd:date 2
IF ilert wert facts to justify it, doubt
cot such an article could be Produced
To thunder with your facts = cried the
stranger, excitedly facts heint got nothing
to do with politics; thars no facts in that;
IFS all lies from beginning to end. I'm
that NJ les Gregory, and ought to know -
IN give fifty dollars to anybody that will
write as savage thing agin JJe Perrin
When do you want itf
To-day
Without regard to facts?'
They hain't got nothing to do with it, /
tell YOU
Very well; 10 couple of hours if you'll
call in I'll show you something to match
it,
If you'll do it, or the half on't' said
Miles Gregory, IN put you in a way to
make furtuue.'
|. He went out and returned at the appoint.
ed time, and the young lawyer had the ar.
tice ready. Without descending as lvW
as the model in vulgar epithets, 1t was
even mure terrible in its whitening sar-
casm. Gregory could scarcely contain him.
self while the young lawer was reading it,
and as soon as be was done he bounded
from his seat with yell of triumph, and
seizing the delicate little hand of the wri-
ter, almost crushed it between his great
bcny fingers.
You've done it = he cried, with an oath
and you'll have something to do better
than staring at flank walls. Here's your
money-the only difference is, I've con
cluded to make it q hundred instead o
City; but that's my business, so none o.
your nonsense
He rushed out with triumphant laugh
leaving the young lawyer to ruminate up
on his first fee, and the possible conse
Quence Of becoming conspicuous Individ
ual in that fighting region.
The next week the article appeared i
the democratic paper, and created grea
sensation. Ole political party was delight
ed with it, and the other chagrined. VIII
Il was the author? Nobody knew. Th
\. squed names was duly considered br
N something in the article differed from eacl
Could it be that new Junius had com
among them. The Democrats were anz
ious to fDd out, to do honor to their chan
piOn; a1d the opposition that they migl
= coutrive a way to silence him. Nobod
)" suspected the beardless lawyer. 10 fact,
E. he had openly avowed 1t, the chance WI
that he would have been kicked for
boasting liar.
Three individuals only knew anytbir
II about 1.-THE proprietor Of the paper
y which it appeared. To the last, indee
was due the fact that the secret had bee
v kept so close. The moment be first read Il
e article, be acknowledged the power of IL
writer, and demanded bis name. Oregon
gave it without hesitation. The Journal
Il was surprised. He had seen the put
lawyer, he said, but never dreamed the
was any such stuff in him.
in How did you find it out, Gregory2'
BY blunder. + got into his Office
mistake, and then something just kind
struck me to try the thing on--a sort
!. experiment you know
" Does any one else know anything abo
ID itS'
Mary one.'
: Then see hers---this must be . secret