The true Democrat., 1856-10-28
Duel Prevented.

| The telegraph has noticed the arrest of Mes SITS. R. A. Pryor and B. B. Bolts, of Richmond, in Washington-being suspected of an inten- tion to engage in duel. The Washington Star of Tuesday says:
 "The mayor and police department of this city were actively engaged yesterday in taking measures to frustrate the contemplated duel. Officers were dispatched to meet officer Tyler, of Richmond. (who it had been telegraphed was coming on in pursuit of the parties, at the Southern boat on its arrival in order to afford him every facility; and during the day officers were dispatched to the three different points at which it was apprehended the meeting might take place.
 Information received at late hour last night, led the officers to believe that the arrangements for duel, at an early hour this morning. had been completed Accordingly, at 4 O clock this morning, officer Tyler of Richmond, and off cers Reese, Yeasman and Reynolds, of this city, started towards the suspected point of meeting By a ruse, they succeeded, without exciting sus- picion, in keeping within sight of the carriage of the surgeon of one of the parties, who pre-. ceded them, in the direction of the pine woods in the vicinity of Francis P. Blairs residence Separating and surrounding these woods, the
 
 chase, succeeded in arresting the friends of Mr. Pryor, (who had arrived first on the ground and finally MT. Pryor himself, who for time succeeded in eludng the pursuit of the officers Shortly before o'clock, (the hour at which the duel was to have come otf) hack drove up with MT. Bolts and friends, who were also arrested, and both parties were brought back to this city and taken before Justice Goddard, where they bound themselves not to commit breach of the peace in this district, and to de- liver themselves in charge of officer Tyler at the Southern boat this evening
 Mir. T. P. Chismond acted as the second of Mr. Pryor. and Mr. Francis J. Smith as the second of Mir. Botts'
 The National Intelligencer has the following account of the arrest-slghtly differing from the above:
 "Officers Reese, Yeatman and Reynolds, armed with United States warrants, and ac- companied by officer Tyler, from Richmond, kept in the track of the medical gentleman.- Their faith in his cognizance of the business afoot was considerably augmented when he was observed to turn off from the main road to- ward the spot, on the right of "Slver Spring." that has of late become famous as the ground whereupon "honor,' put out of its perpendicu- lar, seeks to set itself right again. The officers managed their business so well that they came unperceved within fifty feet of one of the par ties-that of Mir. Pryor-and succeeded in mak- ing arrest of that gentleman himself and some others, but not of all, for several be;ook them. selves to the adjacent bushes. That the off, cers were correct in their judgment of the na- tnre of the meeting was evident in the plenti. tude of revolvers that were lying about on the ground and exhibited on the persons of the gentlemen.
 Thinking justly enough that the legal as we'll as the other risks attendant on the affair should be reciprocal, the party under arrest were not unwilling that the other division should share with them the surveillance of the off cers of the law and whatever consequences might ensue therefrom. It was determined therefore, that the Bolts party should be al- lowed to drop into the meshes. Tat party had gone to Rockville on Monday, where they passed the night, and were coming down to the spot appointed when they, too were arrested