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VOL. 54.
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March 31. 1376
MARK TW AIN S DUEL
IIlS WONDERECL ESCAPE. ,
Mark Twain contributes the fol
lowing to Tom Hood's Annual;
'The only merit I claim for the
following-narrative ia that it ia a
trao story. It has a moral on the
end cf it, feut I claim nothing on
that as it is merely thrown m to
OTrry,av$r "with the religious ele
ment.
vlfter I had reported a couple of
yeare'on the Virginia City (Nevada)
Daily Enterprise, they promoted
me to be editor-in-chiel; antli last
ed just a week by the watch. Bat
I made an uncommonly lively news
paper while I did last, and when I
retired I had a duel on my hands
and three horse-whippings promised
me. ' !
The latter I made no attempt to
collect; however, this history con
cerns only, the former. It waa the
q14 and -'flush' times' of the silver
excitement, when the population
was wonderfully wild and mixed;
everybody went armed to the teeth,
and all slights and insults had to
be atoned for with the best article
of blood your system could furnish.
In the course of my editing I made
troublewith a Mr. Lord, the editor
o a! rival paper. . He flew up about
some little triSc or other that I
said about him I do not remem
ber nXw what it was, I suppose I
called him a thief, or a body-snatcher,
or an idiot, or or something like
that; 1 was obliged to make the pa
per readable, and I couldn't fail in
my duty to a whole commuEity of
subscribers merely to save the ex
aggerated sensitiveness of an in
dividual. Mr. Lord was offended
and replied vigorously ir. his p-iper.
Vigorously means a great deal when
it refers to a personal editorial in
a frontier newspaper." Dueling
was all the fashion among the up
per classes ia that countrv, and a
very few- frentlemen would throw
gvray the opportunity of fighting
one. To kill one man in a duel
caused a man to be even more look
ed up to than to kill two men in
die ordinary way. Well, out there
f you abuse a man and that man
did not like it, yea had to call him
but and kill him, otherwise you
would be disgraced. So I challeng
ed. Mr. Lord, and I did hope he
would not accept; but 1 knew per-
ectly well that he did not want to
fight, ani so I challenged him in
the most violent and implacable
. -I., T 1 J
manner. Ana tneni sai uown ana
snuffed till the answer came. --Ill
the boys the editors vrere in the
office 'helping' me in the dismal
business, and tellinir about duels
and discussing the code with a lot
of aged ruffians who had experience
in such matters, and altogether
there was a loving interest taken ia
the matter that made me unspeak
ably uncomfortable. The answer
came Mr. Lord declined. Uur
boys were furious, and so was I on
the surface.
I sent him another challenge, and
another, and another, and the more
he did not want to fiht the more
bloodthiisty I became. But at
last the man's ton began to change.
lie appeared to be waking up. It
was becoming apparent that he was
foin? to fis'ht me after all. I ousht
D O O
to have knon how it would be he
was a man who could never be de
pended upon. Our boys were jubi
lant. I was not, though 1 tried
hard to be.
It was now time to go out and
practice. It was the custom there
to fight duels with navy six shooters
at fifteen paces load and empty
till the game for the funeral was
secure. We went to a little ravine
just out of town and borrowed a
barn door for a target borrowed it
from a gentleman who was absent
and we stood this barn door up,
and stood a rail on the end against
the middle of it to represent Lord,
and put a squash on the top of the
rail to represent his head. lie ws.s
a very tali, lean creature, the poor
est sort of material for a duel;
nothing but a line shot could fetch
him, and even then he might split
vour bullet. Enaggeration aside,
the rail was, of course, a little too
thin to represent the body accurate
ly, but the squash was all right. If
there was any intellectual difference
between the squash and I113 head it
was in favor ot the squash.
Well, I practiced and practiced
at the barn door and could not hit
it; and I practiced at the rail and
could not hit that: and I tried for
the squash and could not hit that,
1 would have been entirely dis
heartened but that occasionally I
crippled one of the boys, and that
gave me hope.
At last we began to hear pistol
snots near by in the next ravine.
We knew what that meant ! The
other party was practicing too.
Then 1 was in the last, degree dis
tressed, for, of course thev would
hear our shots and then send over
the ridge, and the spie3 would find
my barn door without a wound or
mark, and that would simply be
Friday,
end to me; for, of course, the other
man would immediately become as
bloodthirsty as 1 was.
Jast this moment a little bird no
larger thin a sparrow flew by and
ilit on a bus a about 30 paces aiy,
aM bay little second, teteve tniis,
vvht'waa a dead shot with J a pistol
much "better than 1 was snatch
ed out'bis revolver and shot the
bird's head off! We all ran to
pick up tfie game, and sure enough,"
just at this moment, some of the
other duelista came reconnoitering
over the little ridge. They raa to
our group to see what the matter
was, and hen they saw the bird
Lord's second saV"-- - ;. Vs V
That wa? a splendid, shot.' How
far off was it f ' v-' . -
Steve with some indifference
'Oh, no..' jreit, . distance. About
thirty pacts.' .
'Thirty paces ! TZeaveus alive!
Who did it!'.
'My man Twain.'
'The mischief he did ! Can he
do it often V -
'Well, yes.. He can do it about
four times out of five.'
I knew thelittle rascal was lying,
but I never said anything. I never
told him so. He was not of a dis
position to invite canfidence of that
kind, so I let the matter rest. But
it was a comfort to see those people
look sick, and see their jaws drop
when Steve made that statement.
They went off and got Lord and
took him home; and when we cot
home, half an hoar later, there
was a note saying that Mr. Lord
perempterily declined to fight.
We found out afterward that
Lord hit his mark thirteen times in
eighteen shots if he had put those
thirteen bullets into me it would
have narrowed my sphere of use
fulness a good deal. .Trat, they
could hive put pegs in the holes
and used me for a hat rack; but
what is a ha?.-rack to a man who
feeh he has intellectual powers ?
I have written this true incident
of my history of one purpose only
to warn -the youth of to day
against the practice of dueling and
to plead "with them to war against
it. I was young and foolish when
I challenged the gentleman, and
thought it very fine and grand to
be a duslist and stand upon the
"field of honor." But I am older
and more experienced now, and am
inflexibly,, opposed to the dreadful
custom. : I am glad, indeed, to be
enabled to lift up my voica again3t
it. 1 think it is a bad, immoral
thing. It is every man's duty to
do all he can to discourage dueling
Cor Washington Lstter.
Washi: gion, D. C,
March 25lh, 1870.
Editor Southerner :
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION TO BE HAD.
I sec that the Republican pol
iticians of the Empire State have
decided, in convention, to support
Senator Conklin for the presiden
cy, in the Republican National
Convention. Some ofhi3 suppor
ters and admirers will bo surprised
to hear that their favorite will soon
be invited to appear before a Com
mittee of the iiouse to answer a
few questions regarding a transac
tion which was more profitable than
honorable, if even legal, to the su
percilious Senator. There is no
attempt at sensation in thi3 para
graph. When the facts are laid
before the country, Conklin will be
universally pronounced unworthy
to occupy a seat in the Senate,
although it may ba as impossible to
pur-isb him according to his deserts,
as it will be, apparently, to punish
Belknap. There need be no sur
prise at the announcement I have
just made. Has not Conklin always
been the friend and confidant of
Grant ? Should wo be surprised
that the amie intime of a jillc de
joie should be found to be herself
unchaste r Would.it not be nearly
beyond the possibilities that she
should be otherwise? ialkin? ot
Conklin and New York, reminds
me that many democratic papers in
the South and West favor the norn
ipation of Samuel J. Tilden, the
great Reform . Governor of that
State, for the presidency. The non
partisan papers also speak kindly of
him. liiuen is a nfe-Iong, uncom
promising, dyed-in-the-wool demo
crat, but is more favorably and
widely known to the country at
large as a man who has reflected
honor on his party in New iorK,
as well as on himself, by ridding it
of its dishonest leaders. The un
tiring industry, dogged persever
ance and sterling integrity of the
man, and the fact that, in pursuing,
year after year, to conviction and
punishment, the Tweed Ring and
the N. Y. Canal Ring, he entirely
ignored politics, and, Washington
like, refused compensation for his
professional services to the City
and State, have created a strong
impression in his favor, and attract
ed thj attention of politicians to
him as uq easy mnn to elect.
blaine's strategy (?)
The republicans are crowing loud
ly over what they call Blaine's
strategy on the bill to prevent the
collection of money for political
in the service of the United. States.
They would have you believe that
Blaino forced the House t 'accept
his amendment including members
of Congress, against tho will of the
majority, nnd. that the democrats
were cleverly outwitted. The facts
are just the reverse. The Repub
lican party maintains a regular bu
reau here for the collection ofmons
ey from government employees, . at
the head of which is the notorious
Judge : Edmunds, Postmaster of
Washington. He sends letters to
every officer in the country, levying
upon them regular contributions io
the machine not only toS officers,
but to all those who are,' in aay re
spect, dependant upon, tbs-.adminis-tration
for the .positions they -.b-qld.
Evansr the cpost-tradcr,- whj,-)ai(l.
Marsh 12,000 a year for hia place,
has just testified that he was "asses
sed" 300, at one time, by the .Re
publicans, for party purposes, and
that he sent the money to Wash
ingtOH. So extensive has been this
system of official, blackmail, that
hundreds cf thousands of dollars
have beeD collected, each year,
ostensibly, for political purposer
but of which a large portion has
gone into the pockets of certain fa
vorites ia Washington, cither in
the shape of the salaries as secreta
ries of Campaign Committees, &c,
or as direct stealing.
The democrats were determined
to put an end to this abuse, if possi
ble, and Mr. Bernard G. Gaufield
of Illinois, reported a bill from the
Iiouse Judiciary Committee,- n
Tuesday 1 st, making it an offense
punishable, by fine and imprison
ment, for any persoa in the employ
of the United State to collect or
contribute any money whatever for
political purposes. The Republi
cans were seriously alarmed, and
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, offered
an amendment to permit the col
lection of money for the purpose of
sending out printed Campaign doe
umefcts. Other- amendments were
offered ; and, it becoming-' evident
that tho Republicans were anxious
to encumber the bill and delay
action, Mr. Caulfield, who had
charge of the bill, moved the pre
vious question, and it was ordered.
It then became evident that the bill
would be possed unless something
could be done to kill it. 1 At this
moment, Mr. Blaine," whose ability
as a manager, and transcendent skill
in all kinds of parliamentary trie
cry, are generally acknowledged,
sprang to the rescue. He asked
Mr. Caulfield to yield to him for a
moment, which was done ; but when
he proposed to offer an amendment
to the bill, Mr. Caulfield declined
to yield further. Mr. Blaine then
moved to reconsider the vote by
which the previous question was
ordered so that he might offer an
amendment to include Senators and
Representatives of the United
States ; and on this motion he de
manded the yeas and nays, in or
der, as he said, that every man
should jro upon the record. The
sole object was to defeat the bill, or
to place the majority in a false
posit'on, by inducing them to refuse
to allow tho amendment to be of
fered. But in this, Mr. Blaine was
defeated. The previous question
was reconsidered by a vote of 205
to 4, and the amendment was of
fered. On Wednesday the Bill,
with Mr. Blaine's amendment, was
passed ; so that instead of killing
the bill as they had hoped to do,
the Republicans have succeeded in
making it much more fatal to them
selves than it was originally; and
they arc endeavoring to hide their
chagrin at the democrats having
accepted Mr. Blaine's amendment,
instead of rejecting it was expected
they would, by calling it a victory
for Blaine, when it is the worst de
feat that gentleman has met with
for some time.
The bill now goes to the Senate
where the Republican majority will
haveiVi choice of rejecting it, and
takinb -tbe consequences of such a
course ; or of passing it, and thus
cutting oil the supplies ot meney
winch are necessary to Keep tneir
party in power. If there had been
such a law a3 this, the money used
so successfully in tho last election
in New Hampshire could not have
been obtained. Pass this bill, and
the corruption fund, never more
necessary than it will be in tho com
ing campaign, will cesc to exist.
Refuse to pass it, and they have to
meet the indignation of a people
fully aroused to the necessity of
doing away with that system of ad
ministration which renders the whole
machinery of the government tribu
tary to a political faction or clique,
and makes it possible for a few
shrewd and dishonest men who hap
pen to get into power at Washing
ton to extort money from every
servant or dependant of the Gov
ernment. BELKNAP ilARSII.
Within the last few days the tone of
the Kepubhcan papers here has
changed regarding the Belknap
matter, and there is a strong dispo
sition manifested to stand by Belk
nap and defend him, making Marsh
the scapegoat. So long as Marsh
was safe in Canada, they professed
to be aDgry with the Committee for
letting him go, thus losing the only
witness who could convict the ex
Secretary ; and argued that the
prosecution must therefore stop.
In other Tvord3, Belknap could nei
ther be impeached nor convicted.
But the Judiciary Committee of tho
House demanded that the President
should procure the return of Marsh
by granting his immunity from pro
secution, and Grant was forced to
comply, or stand convicted before
the country of desiring to shield
Belknap from criminal prosecution,
as ho has'already attempted shield
ing him from impeachment.
From the Kaleigh Sentinel.
. State Democratic Committes
Official., Report of Wednesday's
''Meeting State Convention to
Jfleet in llaleigh, June 1L
Rooms of the State Ex. Com
of the Con. Deji. Party.
Raleigh, N. C, Mar. 15 187G
:
Pursuant to call, the Executive
Committeo for the State at large of
the Conservative Democratic party
met this day.
The chairman, Gen. W. R. Cox,
called the meeting to order, and
explained the objects embraced in
the call, whereupon the following
proceedings were had :
After a full interchange of opin
ion as to the proper place far the
State Convention to meet, a ballot
was had and Raleigh selected as
the place.
The proper time for holding the
Convention was then thoroughly
canvassed, and resulted in fixing
the time on Wednesday, the 14th
of June :
The following resolutions were
then unanimously adopted :
- llesolved, That this committee
in issuing the call for the State
Convention cordially invite the
heart. co-operation of all, without
regard to former distinctions or
p:rscnal estrangement, who are
opposed to the reckless extrava
gance, glaring corruptions aud
dangerous usurpations ot Cxq Radi
cal party.
llesolved, That the chairman of
the different county organizations
be requ:sted to put themselves at
once in correspondence with the
Central Executive Committee, and
where there arc no county organi
zations, pvoruincnt members of the
party will notify .the committee of.
the fact, and recommend suitable
persons to constitute such commit
tee. Hesolocd, That the basis of rep
resentation in the Stato Conven
tion, subject to its ratification, shall
be the Merrimoti and Caldwell vote,
and that one delegate be allowed
for each 100 Democratic votes and
an additional one for each fraction
over 50 votes.
llesolved, That the nominations
for offices should be made at a rc:
ular convention called, far that pur
pose, to meet at some central point,
oi wuicn tiue
shall be given.
ind timely notice
llesolved, 'That the accusation
against W. R. Cox, chairman of i
this committee, of conspiring to de
prive R. N. Norment, of Robeson
county, of his right as a citizen at
the election for delegates to the
constitutional convention is, in our
opinion, utterly groundless, and
that the itsstigation of proceedings
for his arrest so long after the al
leged offence, and on tho eve of the
meeting of this committee, is a
wretched attempt at intimidation,
and but an illustration of the vile
prostitution of law and legal pro
cess to the purpose of manufactur
ing political capital, so generally
practiced throughout tho South by
the Republican party.
liesoii'ed, lhat we doubt not
that all good people of whatever
party affiliation, will 3ee the base
r . i n it
purpose oi tins untoun led prosecu
tion, and that its instigators, who
ever they may prove to be, will rc
j I 1 l r
ceivc tueir merited reward oi con
demnation and contempt
A. J. Galloway, of Wayne, was
i f . t
appointed a memocr ot this com
mittee, vice Lot W. Humphrey, rc
signed; and James Shepherd,
ot .beautort, vice k . li. Satterth
waite, deceased.
W. R. COX, Chairman.
J. J. Liichford, Secretary.
A SUEAL KUISAI7CZ.
llr- Eutt:rv7ick'3 Esoslisnt Eca:ons
for Moving.
'I m going to move,' said Mr.
Buttcrwick. 'I can't stand those
Thompsons next door to me any
longer. They're the awfulest people
to borrow taings that 1 ever saw.
Coffee and butter, and sugar, and
flour I don't mind so much, although
when a woman borrows high-priced
sugar and Java coffee, and sends
back sand and chickory, a man nat
urally feels biliou3 and mad. But
they've borrowed pretty near every
thing in the house. First it's one
thing, and then it's another, from
morning till night, right straight
along.
'Now there's the poker. A po
ker is a piece of machinery that
you would think anybody might go
around and buy, or, if .they couldn't
anord it, taey might use a fence
. - . ; i
paling to shake up. the fire. But
Mrs Thompson seem3 to hanker af--ter
our poker. She borrows it fif
teen or twenty times a day, and
last Saturday she sent for it thirty
four times. She pays a boy two1
dollars a week to run over and1or- !
row tb,at poker; and she used it so
much that it's all bent up like a "
corkscrew. '
, 'Now, take chairs, for instance.
She asks us to-lend fcer.our chairs
three time3 a day at every meal,,
and she borrows the rocking-chair -whenever
she wants to put the baby '
to sleep. "
'A couple of times she sent' over ;
for a sofa, and whea the boy. came
bt-ck with it ho said Mrs Thompson -w
as mad as thunder, and she kept
growling around the house all day,
because there vere no castors on it,
Last Monday she' borrowed' our
wash-boiler and we had to put off ;
cur washing until Tuesday. She
did her preserving in it, and the
consequence was all our clothes
w;re full of preserved peiches. I've
got on an undershirt now that I'm
mighty doubtful if I'll get it off, it's
stuck to mc so tight. . '
'Every now and then she has com
pany, and then she borrows our
hired girl and all the parlor farni
ture ; once, because I would not
carry tho piano over for her aud
take down tho chandelier, and told
our girl that there were rumors a
bout town that I was a reformed
pirate.
'Perfectly scandalous ! And they
think nothing of sending over after
a couple of bedsteads oa tho entry
carpet; and the other day Thomp
son says to me :
Buttcrwick, does your pump-log
pull up easy V
And when I said 1 thought it did
he said :
'Well, 1 would like to borrow it ,
for a fw days till I can get one,
for mine is all rotted away.'
'The only wonder to me is that
he didn't try to borrow the well a
long with it.
'
'And then on Tuesday, Mrs
Thompson sent that boy over to
know if Mrs. Butterwlck wouldn't
lend her our front door. She said
theirs was away being painted and
she was afraid the baby would catch
cold. When J asked him what ho
supposed we were going to do to
keep comfortable without any front '
door, he said Mrs. Thompson said
she reckoned we might tack up a
bed-quilt or something. And when
I refused, the boy said Mrs Thomp
son told him if I wouldn't send over
the front door, to ask Mrs Butter
wick to lend her a pair of striped
stockings and a horse hair bustle
and to borrow the coal scuttle 'till
Monday.
'What in the name of Moses she
is going to do with a bustle and a
coal scuttle I can't conceive.
But they're the most extraordi
nary people ! Last Fourth of July
the boy came over and told Mrs.
Butterwick that Mrs. Thompson
would be much obliged if she'd loan,
her the twins for a few minutes.?1'
Said Mrs Thompson wanted 'cm to
suck off a new bottle-top, because
it made her baby sick to taste fresh
india-rubber ! Cheeky, wasn't it ?
But that's her way. She den't
mind it any more !
'Why, I've known her to take off
Johnny's pants when he's been a
playing over there with the children
and send him home bare-legged to
tell his mother that she borrowed
them for a pattern. And on Thomp
son s birthday she said her house
was so small for a party that if
we'd lend her ours we might come
late in the evening and dance with
the company, if we wouldn't let on
thut we didn't live there !
'Yes, sir ; I'm going to move, I'd
rather live next to a lunatic asylum
and have the maniacs pouring red
hot shot over the fence every hour
of the day. Indeed I would.'
Mormon Courtship-
On Saturday a Mormon by the
name of Fulmer, who had been
chosen among the faithful to go on
a mission to Arizona, called upon
Brigham young.
'Married?' queried the Prophet.
'Not any,' said Fulmer,
o er
whose brow forty years had
left
their imprint.
'Must marry, Brother Fulmer,
before you go to Arizona, to build
up the Kingdom.'
'Don't know anybody who will
have me,' wa3 tho reply.
'I'll find some one. Do you
know Brother Brown, in the Seven
teenth Ward ? Well, he had sever
al daughters; you go to Brother
Brown's and tell him I want you
to marry one of his daughters.'
Fulmer left and obeyed counsel
to the letter. Knocking at the door,
he was admitted by Brother Brown,
who, upon learning what was wan
ted, called in hi3 several daughters
to be selected from. Eulmer tak
ing nis choice. Brown told the
girl to get ready in fifteen minutes.
I'll do a3 you say, dad,' was her
meek reply, as she walked out.
'That's the way I raise my
daughters; if they disobey, there's
war in camp.
The wedding festivities take
place to-night.
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