Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-04-19

/ | told him then that b. Wa dead he threw up
/ his hands and exclaimed, % God, no - anu
showed 20 much feeling, was induced to deny II
and rushed out of the room.
Cross BANNED think Il. was Il mneh
stronger man than {. think he was the most
powerful man in the eorps.
Mn. VIM Law suddenly examined.--On sat
urday evening, ! 18th January, Dir. Christian came
mp to my room. A short time afterwards Mr..
Morris came in. L. asked me if had heard that
Aiss A. had declined his company to church l
told him had not. but that he had told me OF his
engagement TO take her to church. lie then toll
me tint Miss A. had written him a note deelln-
ing Ia go: that he did not think much OF 1t then.
but had called 10 see Miss A. afterwards, and
that she refused TO see him. Thought then that
some one had slnndered him to Miss A.; that he
had then written her a note, asking her who had
illuminated him to her, and requesting her 10
tell him or 10 send his note back; that Miss A
had done neither. That few moments before
that time, Blackburn had come up to the tavern,
and asked him To walk TO one side; that Il. then
told him he had seen the letter he (C.) had writ
ten Ia Miss A., and that he OBJ was the person
spoken Of us Il calumniotor; that he had advised
Miss 4. not to go with him to church, and that
he had done so ON account of the character he
(C.) bore in the town; that he CO. then asked
him for his author and that b. replied he held
himself responsible for his advice to Miss A.; that
h CO. nude no reply except: " Let 1t pass Tor
the present" Il. then turned and went out. /
asked him CO. why he did not fight him at the
time. lie said Il. was too strong for him, and be-
sides, he had loaned his stick to cadet, who
was in the bar room. lie then asked Morris and
myself what he should do. advised him tn
write note to Mr.. b. demanding his author
Mr.. {. assented and asked US to write and send
the note. Morris then left and went to his own
room for that purpose. then asked G. what h.
meant by saying, "he was responsible for what
he had done" Whether he meant he was re-
sponsible for the advice given to Miss. A. or re-
sponsible Tor the SANDER &. replied that he was
uncertain. C. then left my room and went INTO
Morris room and found he had written the note.
| read it over and found it appropriate. {.
came in shortly and read the note, land did not APP
prove of it; but thought it would do. Morris
then remarked, that if b. meant to say that he
held himself responsible for the SANDER, it would
be useless to send the note; that it would be a
mere farce;that e. must do one of two things,
fight him street fight, or challenge him. G.
said ii would be useless to challenge; that Col
Smith would not let him leave the Institute, and
that he CO. out of money, though he might
get some in Lynchburg or Richmond, il they
should go to North Carolina c. then said he
would see b. and demand an explanations and if
he would not give it, he would tell him what he
thought of him, that he was no gentleman"
and if b. made an attack ON him. would defend
himself. After that time started out to take
walk, in company with another gentleman, and
went by Mr.. Striblings room. Mr. {. was III
| there, and he and Stribling were examining some
caps. &. asked me if had knife. | told him
| had one that my brother carried when he was
travelling in the west. Mr.. Mason asked
me to let him see my knife. | told him it
was in my trunk, and that he would have to
go to my room. They all then went to my
room, aud took out the knife. They all
looked at it, c. among the rest. c. put the knife
under the waistband of his pantaloons, and said
he would keep it. | told him did not like to let
any one have the knife and to hand it to me. lie
said he would keep it, and Immediately walked
out of the room. | saw c. again after night he
told me that "B was adding insult to injury"
that he telling ii about that he (C) was Il
coward then told him | wanted him to give
me my knife; he insisted ON keeping it; but said
he would not use it except III eXtremis; that he
was afraid when he met b. he (B.) would have n
crowd of cadets with him, Judging from the man
ner in which he first came and if he did not
have some weapon with him, and no friends pre-
sent, the cadets would beat him to death On
Sunday evening, after tea, | was i'll Chenowith's
room Christian there also. Had been there
but short time, when c. remarked that he was
going to church that night; that he would proba-
bly, see b. and wanted us to go with him, in case
any difficulty should occur. Chenowith and myself
both told him that both the time and place were
unsuitable. Mr.. Chenowith declined in positive
terms to go with him. told c. he ought not to
see Is. on that evening; that 1t might prejudice
him in the community, and that b. would prob
ably come with a lady. c. replied that he would
not again have opportunity of seeing b. for
n week. Chenowith told him he could go TO the
Institute and see b. ON Monday c. replied if
go there, | will have 100 cadets on me- if go to
the church will only have 30, and my friends
could prevent foul play. told c. ! would cheer
fully go with him, any other time than ON Sun
day. Mr., c. soon went out. | remained in Chen
with's room. In about 20 minutes, c. came run
ming into the room; his face was covered with
blood; his clothes in front, his shirt especially,
covered with blood shirt sleeves also very
bloody. We both exclaimed, 'swhat is the mat
ter!'' He replied that he had Just had fight with
b. that b. had him down choking him, and that
he cut him in the face, to make him let go. C..
then said to US, "go and if b. is hurt serious
| ly." Il hope he is not" | told him then to
come into lis own room and wash and put on
some clean clothes. | locked the door, and he
did attempt to wash his face; but his face and
hair were still full of blood Just then some one
knocked opened the door and a cadet entered;
g. said to him pray go and see if b. is much
hurt.' Sewers soon came in and c. asked him
also to go and see If b. was much hurt: Sewers
went. locked the door, and he told me the cir
cumstances of the fight. lie said he saw b. and
two other cadets standing in the yestibulc: he
(C.,) stepped up to b. and told him he wished
10 nave some private conversation with him
the two walked out together and turned up to-
wards the Baptist church; when b. said if he
! Cd had any thing 10 say to him, he had as well
say il there. That he Co then said to him that
he wanted him to explain what he meant by the
remark, that he b. held himself responsible ioI
what he had said to Miss A.. and that he CO.
thought he ought to apoopize that II ranIind no