Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1857 — " Marcy’s Pantaloons." [ARTICLE]

" Marcy’s Pantaloons."

Among the an ecdotas lold of Gov. 1 Marcy, since his death, the mendjjgjg jot hit pantaloons at t|iQ eipensd I the State is not lorfJLofr. Harper’s Weekly gives the story as 101-j | lows : | “ That pantaloon incident deserves | ;to be recorded in every history ol ! this great mail. He was sent out to hold special sessions of court to try the anti-Masohic parties charged with murder, lie was to receive n salary and his expenses. With that nice regard for details that belonged !to liis sterling character, he kept a minute account of all his expenditures, and handed in the list on his return, without thinking it necessary or proper to revise and Btrike out | those items of' a - private nature, which other men, less scrupulous in greater matters, might have carefully suppressed. There stood the tailor’s charge for mending. Thp political foes of the Judge, when he come to be candidate lor Governor, found it and paraded it before the I world in the newspapers ; and making an etligy of Mr. Marcy, suspended it in the streets of Albany, with a great patch on the pantaloons, and the tailor’s charge on the top of that. Bat an observant people saw through the patch arid the charge, into the heart of an, honest. -HtattyTrmTTrrrhat very deed of his they recognized a frankness and transparency of character that commended hi in to their warm approbation. it is not probable that the pantaloon charge lost for him a single vote, while it is doubtless true that it made for him multitudes of friends. He was never ashamed of it nor never had reason to be.” The pantaloons were mended at Lockport, N. Y., at the time he was holding a special term of court to try the alleged murderers or kidnappers of Morgan. The tailor who tlius'.put on the patch, was living a short time since, and we presume still lives, tottering on the verge of the grave, an old man.with whitened locks, but with fprin erect, and with a degree of energy seldom possessed by young men of this generation. He delights to tell about the pantaloons, and has claimed lbs years that he made Mr. Marcy Governor, and gave him his greatest “ boast ” in life. He is a Democrat, unflinch Trig’ aficPuTlkwerving, and until past seventy years of age, was wont to travel over every part of Niagara county on foot and horseback, visiting from house to house, a faithful Democratic colporteur, 'previous to every election. Under Mr, Polk’s administration, throioh the influence of Gov. Marcy', he held the. position of Light House keeper at Fort Niagara, but was removed on the inauguration Of Gem Taylor. When Geii. Pierce came into olfice, a petition was signed fly hundreds of his fellow Democrats of Niagara county, that he be reinstated into that office, but tfle board having the appointing power, decided against him, probably in consideration of his Urtrsr ager~*Had they kttdvvi* A-lv-un Buck, however, as his neighbors knew' him, that would have been no objection.— Toledo Commercial, \., —Li i-i —. * The Modee Lady.— r The model lady puts her children out to nurse and tends lapdogs ; pinches her waist; gives the piano fits; forgets t-o pays her milliner ; cuts her poor relations ; goes to ehurClKivheti 'she Ims a new bonnet, turns the cold shoulder to her husband, and flirts with his * 4 friend;” never saw a thimble; don’t know a darning needle from a crow bar ; wonders wherfe puddings grow ; eats ham and eggs in private, and dines on a pigeon’s leg ifi public; runs mad after the last new fashion ; dotes on Byron, arid adoriea any man who grins behind a moustache ; arid when asked the age of her youngest child, replies, *“ know indeed—ask Betty !’ ’ .... _— : ... OCpThe Lexington Statesman says: In view of the attempted use of Mr. Clay’s name to arouse.the longsburied animosities between WHigs and Democrats, the Statesman deems it not inappropriate - to. mention the last vote, fever recorded by the old statesman. In the first State election under the new Constitution, sixteen officers rvere -to be chosen Twelve Los those caudate* had Democratic oppositions,, and;.be tween these ttv/efeve MfvCflay’s name stand* recordeiPon.the poll bonks as follows; For Democrats, 7 ;for Whigs, 5. 1 ——. ■ BBj——•—J—— : 9 ed ! icDtecrSfKK of SoiMß.l—.W khe-bity a 1 New York on the «3d ult., sates were made at a Jus*ubt s3op«r boghead. With the immeped in the Spring, am) the* abundant crop of l the- South the article must decline very tn/aterialy. Woe to the speculators 1 whotexpect to make for-1 tpnee by holding on.