The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-02 00:00:00

A STREET FIGHT IN MIS-
SISSIPPI.

(From the Correspondence of the New York Herald.)
Since my last, a duel has taken place opposite
Vicksburg, between Mr. Fall, pro. tern. Editor of the
Sentinel, and the " jintleman" whose big whiskers so
alarmed the sensibilities of Mrs. Foley. Mistress F.
knew that he was a " b— jeweller"—and she was
right, as the ladies always are. I was not present,
but am told it was a very interesting affair ; but to
make amends for my loss on that occasion, I had the
pleasure to witness a very pretty street fight here on
Tuesday last, between General H. Stuart Foot
(Henry S. Foote)'' and a Mr. Fitzpatrick. You
know General Foote ; you must know him, at least
you ought to know him, all the world ought to know
him, for if they do not it is a great pity, and he has
lost a world of labour in striving to make himself
known. He is a great lawyer, a great politician, a
great biographer. and a great historian. He com-
menced here as a great Jackson man. When Jackson
and Calhoun quarrelled he took the turn of the tide,
and was a great Calhoun man. But this tide did not
turn ; so he turned back again, and became a greater
Jackson man than ever. Then the Anti-subtreasury
tide began to flow, and he made another great mistake.
But there is no mistake in him as a fighting man. He
has fought, let me see—one duel in Alabama before
he came here, when he was wounded in the shoul-
der ; two duels with Prentiss, wounded each time—
that is three; one with on Pearl River, makes
four, one with Claiborne makes five, and the present
street fight makes his sixth affair ; pretty well for a
young man of thirty-five or thereabouts. This last
(panel originated in some severe remarks which
General Foote made last summer, in a criminal
cause, where he was defending the prisoner, and
Fitzpatrick was the prosecutor. It is not true, as
is generally supposed, that old women, over the
tea table, are legally privileged to slander and
calumniate their neighbours. None have a legal
right to do so, but lawyers—and they only in the
face of the Court and Jury. And here they generally
take the full benefit of the privilege—but most espe-
cially when their cause is weak—when little is to be
said for their own clients, they make up for it by
abuse of their opponents. Foote abused Fitzpatrick,
it is said, and Fitzpatrick, knowing that he had no
legal redress, determined to take a little illegally; so
arming himself with a cane, a bowie knife, and a
pistol, he took post at the door of a tavern where Gen.
Foote was, and as the latter came out, struck him a
heavy blow with his cane. Foote, though taken by
surprise, rushed forward, and a scuffle ensued, and
both fell Fitzpatrick coming off second best. They
were separated by •the bystanders, and Fitzpatrick
being told that Foote was unarmed, demanded a fair
fight over the river. Foote refused to acknowledge
him as a gentleman, but declared his intention to be
prepared for any further attack. This, in common
parlance, signifies "I will give you a street fight."
Now, I doubt whether you unenlightened savages
of the north understand what is technically called a
street fight. You may think, for instance, that they
had already a street fight. No such thing. That
was only a rencontre entirely unexpected, at least,
by one of the parties. But in a street fight, as in a
duel, both parties are prepared; they go to seek each
other, generally in the most public place ; but, unlike
a duel, each party arms himself according to his own
fancy, and they skirmish, as they please, dodge be-
hind posts, advance, recede, videlicet, run—in short, a
street fight has neither law nor gospel.
Well, after the separation, each went to prepare
himself according to his own notion, and, in about
two hours, General Foote made his appearance in
Capitol-street, ostensibly going about his own busi-
ness to the Court House. Just as he was passing a
little shanty, known as an " Eating and Oyster
House, by Samuel Watts," whiz came a bullet, not
very well aimed, it seems, for it missed its object,
and lodged in Sammy's sign-board. Thereupon, Gen.
Foote stopped, deliberately drew a pistol, and pre-
sented it at his opponent. A bystander called out
to him to take a rest. He did so, on his left arm,
but the cap snapped. Fitzpatrick, who had been
standing rather suspiciously near a pillow, now ad-
vanced and threw his pistol at Foote's head. This
was better aimed than the bullet, for it took effect,
but not so effectively as to prevent Foote from drawing
and firing another pistol, the bullet from which struck
the sheath of Fitzpatrick's bowie knife, glanced,
entered the iliac region, a little below the umbilicus,
to the left of the linea alba, perforated the abdominal
muscles and fasciae traneversalis, entered the abdomi-
nal cavity grazing the sigmoid flexure of the colon,
emerged at a point corresponding to the superior
spinal process of the ilium. In the excitement of the
moment Fitzpatrick seemed unaware that he was
wounded, and attempted to draw his bowie knife,

which, in consequence of the indentation by
the ball, he was unable to do, he struck
Foote several times with his heavy cane, and fell.
The blows on General Foote's cranium were nu-
merous and severe, and produced laceration of the
scalp, with excessive sub-cutaneous effusion, symp-
toms of compression of.the brain, were superinduced,
and the professional attendants were for a time doubt-
Fill whether these symptoms were the result of a frac-
ture of the left parietal bone, bordering on the sagit-
tal suture, with consequent depression of the bone,
Dr the effects of cerebral sanguineous effusion pro-
duced by simple concussion; doubts were also enter-
tained whether the severe blows on the posterior
portion of the cranium had not complicated the in-
jury by a separation of the lambdoidal suture. The
more favourable opinion expressed at the time has
been verified, namely, that the symptoms, at the time
30 very alarming, were merely the effect of simple
concussion of the brain, uncomplicated with fracture.
General F. has now recovered, and attends to his
business as usual. His coolness and bravery have
acquired for him general sympathy and respect, and
even his enemies have resolved to forget his political
mistakes.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY I.—We have had
a quiet market this week, demand moderate; prices, in
some instances, in favour of the buyer.—Arrived since
our last, the Barbara, Jamaica, 460 hhds.; the Eliza-
beth, Jamaica, 670 hhds.; the Ann, Trinidad, 151 hhds.;
the Lucy, Antigua, 350 hhds, ; the Mary Marsden,
Mauritius, 3,461 mats.—Bristol .3fereury.
RENTS.—We are informed that several of the land-
lords of shops and inns in this town are about to lower
their rents,—a measure which is felt to Le necessary, in
order to prevent the ruin of the shopkeepers and inn-
keepers. The landowners would do well to follow the
example.—Leeds Mercury.
A young gentleman, of good standing in this
neighbourhood, betted very heavily on the late Derby
race, for which Coldrenick, Mr. Trelawney's horse, was
the favourite. Ha lost several thousand pounds, and to
the last shilling of his fortune satisfied his engagements,
but his mind became so much affected that he is now
insane, and in a mud-house, near Plymouth.—Plyntouth
Journal. _ _ _

Measures are now in progress for the holding of
an Eisteddfod in Carmarthen next summer. The Lord
Bishop of St. David's has consented to become the patron.
—Shrewsbury Chronicle. _ _ _ _

A NEW RACE.—At a meeting of the Royal Geo-
graphical Society on Monday, Mr. Murchison, the Chair=
man of the evening, stated that a gentleman emp!oyed by
Government in ascending the river Juba, in Africa, from
east to west, had fallen in with a considerable tract of
country, inhabited by a race of pigmies, not exceeding
four feet in height, with very curious views of religion
and Government, and exactly resembling the type of
Herodotus.—Brighton Gazette.
'The Plymouth races will take place on the 9th,
10th, and 11th of August. There are 31 subscribers to
the Saltram Stakes.
Mu. FENTON SCOTT.—We are sorry to hear of the
serious indisposition of Wm. L. F. Scott, Esq., the
Registrar of the 'West Riding of Yorkshire, and one of
the Magistrates of the Riding.—Leeds Mercury.
CURIOUS FACT.—Upwards of sixty years ago, a
large earthenware stone bottle was placed in the cleft of
a plum-tree, in the front of a house at Ox Bridge,
near Stockton, occupied by the late Mr. Thomas Cal-
lender, for the purpose of being dried. A pair of
Bluecads (Parus ceeruleus, Linn.) commenced carry-
ing in materials for building a nest : the bottle was
'allowed to remain ; and they hatched and reared a
brood of young ones. This has been repeated ever
since with the exception of three years. The birds have
this year repeated their annual visit, to the great grati-
fication of Mr. Callender, son of the before-named gen-
tleman, whose family have had uninterrupted possession
of the property for that period, and who takes great
pleasure in relatng many little vagaries of his feathered
" stock," to the numerous visitors who at this season
honour him with their presence, to witness this curiosity
in natural history. The original bottle is still built in.
—Durham Chronicle. _ _

The Independent of Brussels announces the arrival
of Marshal Sebastiani in that city on his way to Germany.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

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