The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-04-01
Sftest Tate.
AN ARKANSAS HERO.

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Some three or four years after the ad.
mission of Arkansas into the Union, q
young man, whom we shall call Arther
Granger, native of Ohio, went 10 Little
Rock to set up the practice of law. He
was then about three and twenty years Of
age, small, slender and effeminate look
ing, with light hair. almost beardless face
and dark blue eyes. His dresss, though
not exactly foppish, was altogether too
fine, neat, and precise, to suit the taste
Of men who always seemed prepared for
roughing it in the backwoods as most of
them had done at one time and another +;
he was moreover, a stranger from the
North, who had perhaps come there to
display his learning, and pick up their
money, so that from the very frat he was
regarded with contempt and aversion.
The first six or eight months he got
no practice whatever,i Notwithstanding he
was regularly at their office, or the court
room, waiting and hoping; he was about
to give up in despair, and betake himself
to another locality, when one day tall,
lank individual came scuflling into his a
partment, and after surveying him keen
ly from head 10 foot, said, as he helped
himself to seat:
"See here, young hop-thumb, is there
anything in you %
"Yes, my breakfast !" replied the young
lawyer
The other stared at him few mo-
ments and seemed undetermined whether
to consider the reply joke or an insult
He finally grinned and preceded:
II mean do you know auything7
"Oh,yes, something answered the law
yer pleasantly. 81 know the difference be-
tween horse and a horse block"
"Can you write %
II have wrote my namo before now"
The stranger drew a newspaper from
his pocket, opened it deliberately, pon-
ted out an article, handed it to the young
man, and then said:
"Read that !"
"Aloud p
eyes"
The young man complied, and read a
TRADE of the most scandlng, scathing ma
ture against one Miles Gregory, the De-
mocratic candidate for the Legislature.
"Well," demanded the stranger, "what
do you think of that ?"
ut is pretty severe"
81 believe you, Do you think there is
another man in the State of Arkansas
that can write as scorching a thing agin
the Whig Candidate -
"If there were facts to justify it, l
doubt not such an article could be pro.
duced "
"To thunder with your facts p cried
the stranger, excitedly Z; "facts haint 6 1T
nothing to do with politics thars no
facts in that, it's all lies from beginning
to end Pm that Miles Gregory, and
ought to know III give fifty dollars to
anybody that w Il write as savage thing
agin Joe Perrin"
"When do you want it ?"
"To. day"
"Without regard to facts %
"They hant got nything to do with
it, / tell YOU"
Every well in couple of hours if you
will call in I'll show you something to
match it,"
"If you do it, OF the half ont" said
Miles Gregory, "I'll put you in way to
make fortune" ....
He went out and returned at the ap-
pointed time, and the young lawyer had
the article ready. Without descending
as low as the model in vulgar epithets, it
was even more terrible in its withering
sarcasm. Gregory could scarcely con.
tain himself while the young lawyer was
reading it, and as soon as he was done,
be bounded from his seat with yell Of
triumph, and seizing the delicate little
hand of the writer. almost crushed it he
tween his great, bony fingers,
y you've done it p he cried, with an
oath. "and you'll have something to. do
better than staring at blank walls. Here
is your money-the only difference is,
I've concluded to make it a hundred in
stead Of fifty but that's my business, so