Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-04-04
story Of a Brave Man.

The TELEGRAPH briefly announces this morning
Tho snicdeSai Jackson, Miss OF Colonel Alex
sndsr K, McOluns, 0urnanusctpt Dispatch reads,
WCOi. McCiupg, f4s DuslHsiip, but he was other
wise distinguished IN avery eventlul life " Tie
Southwest, than for his proves under the bloody
nCole OF Honor" and deserves, IN death, 10 he
remembered as well fot The good which be did, as
fof jhe evil which the telesFdnhIc record would
cause 10 live after him. lie was brave man iof
his county In war, as desperate one ID defence
OF his own perhaps loo sensitive honor, ~ peace
liz ~ prompt, gallall, and distinguished " ihe
Volunteer Seiyice In Mexico, in 1877, under Gen.
Taylor. lie wOs the lFsI 10 scale Tug Black foFt
oil Monterey, and for his inrepldty In placing tue
Stars and Stripes on It's captured wells, was mark
eli aud pierced by the enemy with wounds under
which he suffered The most agonizing pains lVr
Ilye Or six months, and clafed that be could mt
lie lid OF them 10 bear his part on The field Of fin.
eua Vista, within few miles Of which he was
invulijed.
Tie personal story Of Colonel McCIuNs, though
saDSulniaTy one, Is not without It's telisls. tis
was called desperate Luelllsli not that lie was
by nature OOd.thifSly, OF loved the practice LOT
lie Iloot reIlnw II brought him, but because when
lIe did ieht in this way, which wus moi ollen, llg
made no compromises fOt The chances OIL lie; anu
tXaCtetl oS well as gtnnteti, The eSlteme teTnS OI
ths code, ns ptaclised IN Mississippi fifteen or
twenty years ago, when extravaganza nnl deSpe'
ration III every department Of life, oppeaFel Tot
season run riot It's fist meeting was IN 1883 OF
1881, with man 10y tho name u Allen. The
weapons, pistols, 10 be fired Of len PAGES, OF while
advancing ucntt 10 each Olhrt, and tie use Of The
buwiy.kHifc. Allen fell, The second meeting
wsS five years afterwards, OF more, with young
Mennlee, al VickSbnrs lie brother Of lNchaTd IL
AIennilee, member VI COnS;tss from Kentucky IN
IS3S-'39. The weapon, lie rillei both parties
excellent SLOTS, but Alcnnilee fell al the secOm!
fife. yherc may have Oeeu other ALLEGATIONS III
which lr was engaged, but they nTe mel now re-
Ultmbcled, These Two fatal Transactions gave
uotorteiy 10 the man which lie was TAT from being
plUud Of, and the public recollection Of which he
rIeayOIed 10 elIaCe, IN his ripper yeaEs, by Polll'
cal aud military service, FIRST ns The head VI The
Wlis pIcsS IN Mississippi III The Presidential cA'll.
paign Of 1910; then US Marshal Of The United
States for llu Notlhrt District Of Tho State, and
afterwards ASA volunteer 10 Mexico, Tue Lleuten'
ant. Colonel OF lis regiment. Alter tue war llv
was Tue political friend Of Genetal TaylOI mol lC
The exclusion Ut Mr. Clay, Of whose neigbboihood
| In Kentucky Mc0luns was q native, but IN de-
fault Of his nomination nj Philadelphia. Unde1
his Administration liz was appointed 10 diplO'
matte station us Charge d ABdirts 10 lIolvIu,
South America, lhe Capital Of which, far in iIle
interior OF the county, he no doubt had too much
difficulty to find 10 bv impressed by its sreOtness Of
capivated by liz social OF political attractions. III
returned 10 the United STATS after two yeats
residence near the Bolivian Government, III The
year 1852, since when we had Heard lille Of him
until the present dreadful announcement Of death
by his Ona hind, Ills age must have been about
ii years.-N. T. Times, March u.