Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-05-20

.,..,,sss even ,be trembling slaves of Turkish
,.s,ol In such times as these, The post Of
lam, IS a ,riTrte station'- snd all who are re.
ID c-om Office should rejoice that they are
n,.eeJ beyond the reach OF The foul eontemi
IT,, which, in an agency under such an ad-
....;.,ra,iou. il is SO difficult TO avoid.
tn. Figtt' The Fight Our readers were
an. time since made acquainted with the fact
...,I;su,enant James Watson Webb. the Van
R.,enite Jackson editor of the Y. Courier
had threatened TO inhict personal eha,iisement
-. General Duff Green. the Calhounite Jack
.oo editor of the U. S. Telegraph, in conse-
oneoce of some ,e,y tender passages between
,bsm. Well; the long agony is over and the
,.oy maiden, Victory. has alighted upon neither
=, ,be;r crests. We had devoutly hoped that
I'll, nee,;np would have been a second edition
of the far-famed battle between the Kilkenny
,ots which, as the legend goes, fought, unit
lido nor hair of either was left on the field. TO
.,es, their desperate yalor. But, Instead of
this, 10 not feather of either Of the bellige'
rents was ruflled, how much soever their tenn
pers may have been. Fastaf's Villainous
.an.netre" doubtless prevented all mischief by
a timely interposition of itssul pbureous smell.
The Lieutenant, too, il is yer, clear, was so
,yell convinced of Duf's " cowsrdice, )" that he
,horebt il would he u,isldnly TO strike him with
ha nod Mi bnt Io,b cd ,ia
,ol in his hand. According TO the logic of the
lieutenant, Duff clearly proved ,hg' he was a
coyard by refusing to lay down his pistol and
10 Weld his proboscis TO the gentle pressure of
the Lieutenan,'s fore-hnger aud thumb 1t was
snch n reasonable request, and made in such a
trapsdv style, that we wonder Duff did not COM
NV with il. IL surely is the height OF co1cdrd-
,ce TO defend ones nose and cheeks from ms.
sault, By the use of powder and BALI
As faithful ch,oncers of the events of the
dav, we feel bound TO give the official accounts
of The battle as drawn up by the respective
parties comhatant. In the language of the Ia
,,e,ious Editor of the n. Y. Commercial Adver.
User !" il is right and proper that in all matters
of high import aud magnitude, that this course
should be taken, that the sovereign people,
hearing both sides, with all the lights and
shades dsly depicted, may arrive at correct
conclusions. The intelligent reader will per.
ee,ye tina, there are few condolences in the two
bulletins /; but, in great movements these dis
crepancies are not unusual. Officers in oppo-
site and contendng ranks do not see with the
same ewes, and the same objects appear diffe-
rently from different points of Observations
Thus, it remains disputed point, to this day,
whether it was Wellington or Butcher that
whpt the French at Waterloo and Count
O'RcilIy never distinctly understood whether
he took Algiers or Agiers took hip.'
Taking all the circumstances into considera-
ton. the Lieutenant certainly came out at the
g little end Of the horn" But, we take NJ
part in this family quarrel. To quote the Com
mercial again, /" the whole affair reminds us OF
She battle between the hawk and the snake. A
farmer, who saw that interesting combat, swore
by lingo, that it vas the frs, fight he ever saw
in which he could not take sides"
But we will no longer de,an the reader from
the Official Bulletins. And. first ia order, comes
che bombastic. theatrical
STATEMENT OF LfEUT. WEBB.