The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-09-11

"S'Su'T nav ne lUlned.alely gained his pres
;i ence OF mind--lor be was no c0ward--an,
then he frowRed until his shaggy brows me
like the coil Of serpent, bnd demandei
sternly:
'Beggar, who are you, 10 banter gentle
man thus rudelyT .
lam James Bowie, Of Texas the olhe
answered with ringing laugh; and you az,
I John Lailte, q bastard of lie old piraie.'
The gambler reeIed in his chair as if h,
had been struck with thHnGerbolt, but re
Towering again fIom the shock in moment
asked in firm tone:
'What game do you wish with me7'
Poker first, and pistols afterwards. if yo
lplay FOUL replied Bowie.
very WE'LL rejoined the other, and the,
took, their seats,at the table.
For time the success. seemed about e
lqually balanced; the gain and loss being al
lernate. AT last the gambler venlured on,
Inf his skillful manGuvers in dealing, Bowie
smiled strangely as his quick eye detected
the trick. lie said nothing, however, bu
looked, and bet FIVE thousand dollars, stalking
the money in ten large bills. The gambler
went five thousand dollars higher, which re.
suited in 'call,' Bowie held -four Jacks;
but with his habl'uaI 6endsh chuckle; his an,
lIagonist showed -four Queens exclaming
as he did so: ,.....r
'By heaven! the pile is minen
Not YETI shouted Bowie, as with his hands
he roked heap of noIes TO the tune Of
twenty thousand dollars into his own pock,
let.
Choking and purdle with rage and shame,
The gambler roared:
80 the hurricane deck, and lei pistols be
trumPs this turn!'
Good as goltI replied Bowie, and the
two hastily assembled the stairs AID assumed
Their separate positions, the gamble over the
Istorn, and Bowie over the bow.
Al thatlnstant the sun was just rising in a
cloudless sky. Nature looked sublime. The
woods and waters appeared as parts of one
divine picture, with lhe boundless blue ol
heaven for its background. The broad
bosomed river rolled away like an immense
sheet Of Furnished silver, speckled here and
there with the flash of golden bubbles
Shining fishes gan35Oed in the sparkling
wave and all the bright birds, those sweet
singers, whose life is dream, and that dream
only music; chanted their wild anthems to
the new day; while The two great duelisls,
The most deadly ever known in the southwest,
stood with cooked pistols, eye to eye, and
their fingers fixed on the hair Triggers, pre-
pared and waiting to sIay and be slain,
Iam ready. You give the word cried Bo
vie, in his clear, ringing voice, and with that
nsePerable smile OF strange emsaning playing
upon his lips,
4 am ready. FREY shouted the gambler,
in tones murderous as death.
The two pistols roared simultaneously -
Bowie did not move, though he barely es-
capped with his4ife, for the bullet Of his fue
had cut away one Of the golden locks of his
yellow hair. The gambler was shot through
the heart, and dropped upon the brink Of the
deck, had almost tumbled htot the river. lie
was buried by The squatters at the next
wood yard. Aud thus perished, justly, bas
Inrd son of the great pirate Laiue.
There never was jury empannelTed in
1.-The west who would have brought in verdic
against any man for killing him, aHc more
Especially under the circumstances, because
public opinion pronounced that he ought 10
be killed. And such we're the desperadocs
that Bowie commonly extermma,ed.
The generous victor Immediately proceed
ed 10 The ladies' cabin, and restored the win
nngs of The gambler to the young merchant
and his beautiful wife; who both received
The boon as gift from Heaven, with much
10y aa '''..s'
five should write volume concerning
the exploits of james Bowie, his character
could not be rendered more transparent than
it is revealed in tho foregoing anecdotc. lie
was always tie same--lhe friend ofIhe feeble
the protector of the oppressed, and tue sworn
enemy Of tyrants. He was brave without
Fear, generous without precedent; and al
though he had faults, gigantic ones, too, he
atoned for all the errors of stotmy life b,
the splendor of his magnificent death. Hi
tomb is The Alamo, his epitaph the Texas,
and his fame will fill an humble though safe
mich in The temple Of freedom through al
lime. lie can never be forgotten ill hs
bowels of the earth cease 10 furnish metal fo
the fabrication Of those bright blades Of stee
which bear his imperishabe name.
I. I.
! UNAccouNTA BLE Sickness. The CITY o
Zlnesvillehas been visited by a malady whicI
is entirely unncconntable, and surpasses ev
cry thing heard ofn The annals Of sickness
In particular part oflIe city,generalIy fe,
hours after meals, number, phd often III
whole Of a family, wiIbe taken with a sever
vomiting and purging, and oiher inlisposi
ton. IL yields, however quiie readily, I