The New York herald., 1845-01-14
WASHINGTON. Jan. IL, ls45.

WASHINGTON, AN. IL, 1916.
Confined to our room and the church to. day, we
are loss TO the intelligence from those tru-
ant Hotspurs of the South, Messrs. Clingman and
Ylncy, which may have been received since last
night Mr. Beser, who, with his colleague Mr.
Chapman, of Alabama, had gone Oft yesterday
morning to Baltimore, TO enter into negotiations
with ths belligerent gentlemen, returned.as we un-
derstand from another gentleman, with me report
III last nights train, that he had met with one OF
the parties (Mr Yancey) at Barnum's-that all ef-
forts at pacificaton and compromise had proved
ineffective; and that both the Carolinian and
the Alabamian had left the city, resolved upon
the inevitable alternative ot war. The police had
been despatched in pursuit-but, OF course, their
chances of apprehending the refractory absentees
are altogether dubious. Mr. Huger, son OF the
Senator we have mentioned as the second Of Mr..
Y4ncey-a son of DR.. Jones, OF this city, we are
further informed. the friend OF Mr. Clingman
II il said too that the worthy Doctor was OF the
depuation yesterday TO Balumore, and also Mr..
Mangum, President OF the Senae Nothing deci
sive of course, will have occurred to-day. The
wounded honor, therefore, OF Mr. Clingmin, VINO
was indees most severely handled IN the caustic
and scorching spe ecn of Mr. Yancey,w ,wil probdbl
as hope, be modified by concllldiory app'lca-
rion, or, we fear, insiantaneousy healed by the
infallible prescription of coffee aud pistols for
two U,, to yesterday nothing more than infor
m ii understanding had passed between the parties
the essential preliminarlest to dehauve arrange
ment.
Nov, why cannot the gentlemen mutuallyconcede
that their provoking or personal dsparagrments on
the floor Of the House, were intended only in the
Plckwickian sense. This, we think, would be pre-
ferable to a breach OF the commandments OF God,
and the laws Of their country. Decidedly, too,
more honorable, in the srictest definition OF that
mis,nterpreted and bloody word-honor We had
hoped that the march Of the great progress of the
l9h century had nearly ext,Dguished this relict of
feudal barbarism-the duelo's code OF honor We
drew largely our conclusions TO this end from the
last and tiaal defeat Of Mr. Clay. We still believe
tha, this resort to powder and lead is an outrage
TO the moral sense of the country. The fact lie,
there ought TO be special civil Judicial tribunal
estab -hed for the adjustment of all cases of preme
Sitated assaults upon the abstract honor OF gentle
men We hear Of innumerabe rumors from the
seat of war, " herrver that may be; but as the
amable and erudi e DR. Hammett observed yester.
day, s'one half the reporters 90 off half cucked,
and half of the other halt are mere flash In the
pan" We shall endeavor, by nice discrimina-
lion in our official memoranda, to escape cassi-
ficaton upon either horn of the category.
The Baltimore papers will doubtless give you to-
morrow more copious particulars The anxiety
upon the subject here engrosses every other cons-
deration: and matters which otherwise would be
estimated as curious and interesting. forgotten
in the suspense upon the issue pending between
the champions of Rip Van Wrinkle and Nelly
Rdwma w.