Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-02-03
SATISFACTORY SATISFACTION

"'6" oSH6S'e"' Pofhes VINO oDey Inc SUM-
mons Of honor 10 the field All the 'chi-
valry' is not confined to the south Of Mason
and Dixon. II has not yet, as has come
TO be generally supposed, become ridiculous
among US TO fight duels. Gentlemen 10
search 81 satisfaction and tie picturesque,
may sill find both articles over a, Hobo
Ken. The glory has not all departed
Yesterday afternoon one Of those thrill
ling tragedies was again enacted on that
memorable fe {. The parties were two
Of the printers employed in the office Of
our neighbor, the Tribune-French and
Hickox the names in which they rejoiced
before they went out, and still more cor
daily rejoice in now that they have come
safe back. The proximate but unconcious-
ly moving cause we presume to have been
the general state Of acrimonious and beli-
cose feeling they had gradually absorbed
In their own composition in their labors oil
composition upon the articles Of their e.or's
composition since the late election. The
imme late cause was that one so far out
ragged the manly sensibilites Of the other
as to call him &c freside soIdier"-ahades
of Alexander and Julius Cesar, a fireside
sodiero YOU'RE bladder!' was the
spirited and sodierly retori;-a "bladdcr,"
or some word there or Whereabouts, which
being novel TO our ear in The vocabulary of
our vernacnlar, we do not trust 10 print,
for feur of exposing SO gallant q hero 10
an insinuation Of a want of perfect ele-
gance and purity iE his English Two
such beings as a ''bladder" and a .fireside
soldier" could not reasonably be expected
to co-exst on the same continent. Argal.
Ho5oken and muskets Of course.
Another cemposi,or in The same Office,
"MaJor Moulton." went out in the capacity
Of surgeon We presume, from the mill.
tary title, II was an army surgeon. The
two principals represented the two great
military interests which were united in one
toast IA, the Democratic supper on The
Eighth, the "Army and Militia of the u.
States" Hickox being a member of the
City Guard. and French having been in
the regulars and covered with glory a,
Lundy's Lans-at least so say the impair
,ial voices Of his:ary and himself.
They met-not with their desc rts exactly.
but with each other. Seconds, ETC., all en-
rcgle. Twenty PAGES. Muskets loaded.
powder, wadding and aIl-aH but Lullets.
This little circumstance was known to the
seconds and one Of The parties. The other.
Mr.. French, was alone in state Of igno-
rance on that head, which did not quite re-
alize the poetical idea that IGNORANCE is
bliss" IL not bliss" however, it at least
afforded him signal opportunity of DIS
playing virtue which sits with peculiar
grace on the laurelled brow-piety. Mr..
French kneIt down, like the Swiss at Nor.
garten, or the Skotch at Bannockburn. or
the Puritans Al Marston. With a singular
felicity of logic and consistency, when on
he point Of fighting duel, TO murder or
be murdered, he knelt down, $50 the story
is told and prayed to Heaven,-we pre-.
sumo for its blessing on his aim, or its kind
consideration for the feelings Of a gentle
man. if the aim Of the adverse mu.ke,
should go true. He rises. All the for
mality is complete. Back to back. The
word of command. They wheel-a shut
ting Of eyes-a pulling of triggers-and
the two muskets go of-the one with re-
port. the other with reporter.
! Hickox's aim hits French on the hand
with his wad. Had the bullet been in COM
| FuHy WIN VIC Sooo
would have been lost 10 the craft in gene
raj, and the Tribune Office in particular.
Enough. Satisfaction is satisfied. Feel
lngs are appeased. Honor is again "riph,
end up, with care" Mr.. French is not a
"blddder," nor any thing there or therea-
bouts and that Mr.. I1ickox is not .fre-
side soldier" considering the state Of The
thermometer yesterday on the river, in
crossing the Barclay street ferry, is now
conclusively demonstrated, to the satisfac-
ton of the human race al large, as well as
that Of our two heroic Typos in particular.
MUD BATHs.--The Russian journals are
filled with accounts OF tho marvellous
cures effected by the mud baths Of the lake
Eupatoria, in the Crimer. This saline
water, only six versts from the Black Sea
and torty-five from the Russian town Of
Eupatora, dries up during the summer
heats, leaving thick s,agnant slime, in
which the sick, whom medicine has failed
TO cure, plunge ,heif afflicted bodies, and
| IE lis no, mire thar pores distend ahsor.