The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-05-23
The following gentlemen have been ad
miited TO the practice of Law:
Dueling.

Two or three months ago, We promised
to give some extracts from Mr.. Sabine's
book, in relation to dueling. The following
which we take from the Charleston Mercu-
ry, furnished by its intelligent literary
correspondent "Lorris," will he found inter-
esting.
Our next subject is Col. Henry G.
Nixon. Of this State. Sabine reports his
case in the following terms:
Nixon, Col. Henry G. In Georgia, in
1920. A friend who accompanied him
to the ground wrote lis father thus:
There was an inciIent in the occurrence
Of the contest cannot fail TO record. A!:or
your son received the most deadly and
severe wound, he fired his pistol, and
keeping erect, grasping his other pistol
and died in the attitude Of manly resis-
tance and determined purpose OF character.
IN life and death he WAS noble, brave,
magnaniinous. / shall at Il more leisure
moment publish such notice Of oui
friend as his high claims to distinction
demand, and my own feelings would
dictate"
A gentleman at Augusta said in a
letter TO a correspondents:
ave had show here two or three
days ago. A party from Camden came
here to fight duel; and after preparing
themselves, went to the ground at noon
day, through Broad street. with as much
parade as if Lafayette had been coming
Carriages, gigs, sulkies, aud horsemen
following to witness the bloody deed
One Of the combatants was killed in
stantly; the other ran as hard as he
could to the river and crossed. The
magistrates were close after 10 arrest
him, and contemplated petitioning Gov
ernor Forsyth to demand the gentleman
from the Governor of South Carolina.-
The late Governor Of that State was Sc
cond to the deceased"
Nixon was one Of the most promis-
ing Of young men Of his day in Caro-
lima. think he was a Camden man.
His second was John L. Wilson, ex Co
vernon Of the State. l forget who was
his antagonist. am not aware that VIII.
son ever published the promised notice
Of Nixon, but in the Southern Liter
airy Journal" Magazine, published in Char
lesion, there was an elegy Of his upon
Nixon, which was very tolerable verse
for Governor. Wilson by the way,
has given US new edition Of Gurney,s s
paraphrase Of the "Cupid and Psyche
from the Latin original supplying the
portions omitted by Quincy -and they
were considerable--and the portions thus
supplied are quite as clever specimens
of verse-msking as the rest OF the per-
formance. Wilson, himself, fought sew.
eral dnels. He was man o. ability
a good lawyer-author of several pam.
phlets, ali exhibiting nerve and intell-
gence, and, as / have already mention
ed, q compiler Of q body of laws for
the dpello, as it has been practised from
time immemorial in the South.
Our next subject is q person of re-
markabIe Revolutionary reputation
William Clay Snipes. Sabine thus des-
patches one Of his g6aires d'honnsar:
Simons, Colonel Maurice. and Major vii.
liam Clay Snipes. In 1876, in the United
States. Snipes was the challenger. Smons
had given testimony. in Court Of justice
which otfsneed him. Simons wac killed.--.
Spipes was tried for murder, and consicted
Of manslaeghter At the trial one Of the
Judges said, that the challenge was fof 4
"most unwarrcntnble cause;r and another
that BE- eonsieered Sihe. crime as sn,dnntipg