Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-07-31

TAe Esns1iu nogsdp
letter from Washington the Enquirer gives fuller
detail Of the circumstances attending this melancholy trans
action than that published in this paper IL is sabioined.
The personal eud Of which this painful affair has
grown. is be deprecated OF any OF which we
have ever read The parties both sides VI the high
est responsibility. and many OF them very blood rela
lions (which circumstance. instead OF sbsng the feeling
OF enmity, appears To add fuel the flame. The
the who could successfully inercede. and heal these
painful ieuds would achieve task richly merng public
and private gratitude.
"wAsulNGroS, July IS.
1.-The from rsuquier is very dreadful | have seen
MIR. --, who witnessed the whole affair. MIR. Robert
+. Lee has been killed lie shot yesterday in the
streets OF Garen,on. the midst OF crowd, by Mr. Rich.
ard Moore the OF Thomas L.. Moore. IL seems, Mr..
Lee and Mr. Alex. Marshall had had fight days ago.
on Observation-Disclosures injuring the other much. When
Mr. Lee returned to Waenion he spoke OF it, and said he
had given Marshall whppinghst he had bought
the whip for Thomas l.. Moore. This reached young
Mooro's ears. and he said he would take Mr. Lee task
about it. Lee put his guard, yesterday morning,
when he armed himself with pistols Al ! o'clock,
they in the MIR. Moore asked Lee II he had
said he bought the whip for T. L. Moore. One it,
that Lee said IS that he said yves Al he insults
me-" Richard Moore then said. "t you had attempted IT,
would have horst. whipped you Lee then cursed him
Moore struck hm-brcakng stick over his head. Lee
stepped back. drew pistol and street.-The ball missed its
AIM Moore then drew pistol, and fired. Lee drew
Their pistol and walked Moore, who. being unarmed
tried TO pick up Lees pistol would 60 OIL, al
1t had gone off, Moore have been killed the spot
At this tmc Mr. T. l.. Moore the father, handed another
pistol the Lee then retreated, finding his pistol
would 20 OIL Moore took um and pulled the trigger
but the pistol snapped. Mr. Lee then fall, and
exclaimed, 1.-The fellow has killed me- IL seems, the first
fire of Moores pistol had been fatal The ball passed
through the centre of his body yet he seemed not
OF II Tor some time. lie was carried into the Clerks Office
and died in fifteen minutes, great agony causing him
shrek aloud All this happened yesterday Court. Mr.
- on his way the Bedford Springs. bring Mrs Lee
Nl iS in dol haa 4 10 nbc tila
affair"
Since the foregoing in type the National Inellgen-
saturday, containing the following article has
to hand.
To the Editors of the National Inteliigencer.
The account re published in your paper yestes-
day from the Richmond Wing of the tragic affair at
Warrenton, in which among the most high
minded and honorable young men came to violent
death on Monday last, is materially erroneous in
several particulars is almost invariably the
with the first reports of such affairs, however pau-
sIblc their source may at first sight appear ANY
full and circumstantial statement however correct
in its details, of this horrible event would be i'm
proper at this time and under existing ciTcumstan-
ccs. But the correction of two wcll-asCcrtaincd
mistakes in the published account is due alike to
the living and the dead, and most especially TO the
feelings of one surviving friend and near relation,
whose eminent name has been introduced in con-
neNion with the unhappy dispute that has ended 50
fatally, and so much to the horror OF every we'll
constituted Withdrawing nothing of the private
grief with which il has afflicted the hearts of
wife, mother brother and sister, and other near
and dear relations.
The statement in the Wing incrs that the quar-
rel was occasioned by certain evidence given by
the elder Mr.. Moore before the committee of in
quiry to whom was referred, at the last session Of
the Legislature, a memorial exhibiting charges of
official and personal misconduct against Judge
Scott, on the par of two individuals who had long
been engaged in virIlent and open controversy
with the Judge, which has been made sufficiently
notorious by their several publications in the form
of pamphlets. Now, cap undertake TO assure
you, upon what deem unquestionable authority.
that the quarrel, in which an ineStimablc life has
been sacrificed, originated in a cause exclusively
personal To the immediate parties and had no con-
nexion whatever with the evidence given 10y the ell
der Mr. Moore before the committee of inquiry, nor
with any part of the procedure in that case. The
threat which Mr.. Lee is said have uttered against
the elder Mr.. Moore, and which is also said to have
been avowed by him when questioned about it by
MIR. Moore's son, had reference exclusively TO a
personal affair of Mr.. Lees, in which he conceiv-
ed injustice had been done him by some misrep-
sesentation of his conduct, reported to have pro-
ceeded from or TO have been repeated and circuIa-
ted by, the elder MIR. Moore.
The inaccuracy of the statement published in
the Wing is also well ascertained in another point
where it is said pistols drawn upon Mr..
Lees having ayowcd his threat against the elder
Nlr. Moore, when questioned about il by the
OF the latter. The fact is, no pistol was drawn
till after Mr.. Lee had received blow on the head
from Mr.. MOOre's cane.