Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-30
FIGar.-we hear that Yesterday afternoor

FIeHr.-We hear that yesterday afternoon.
shortly after the House adjourned, the Hon
Mr. Rust, OF Arkansas, (who was in the com !
pany ot. Messrs. Bocock, of Virginia, and
1reenwood, OF Arkansas,) was overtaken in
Greeley, of the New York Tribune, who, in
mat journal of Monday last, had published
letter over bis initials, in which he had re-
ferred to Mr.. Rust in the following terms
have had some acquaintance with hu-
man degradation; yet it did seem to me to-
day that Rust's resolution in the House was a
more discreditsble proposition than had ever
body"
Mr. r. thereupon stepped up to Mr.. Gree
ley, who was walking between two friends
and accompanied by more, and taking him by
the lapel Of his coat, remarked to him, ''You
are a non combatsnt? Mr. Greeley replied
| that he did not know. Mr.. r. then asked
him whether he would resent an insult? To
this Mr.. Greeley replied, "Well, I don't
know" Mr.. Rust then slapped Mr.. Greeley
with his open hand, and the latter returning
the blow, received several blows from Mr.
Rust before the bystanders could stop the
| collision. After they were separated, Mr..
Mr.. Greeley repeatedly said he did not
know that man. ere Mr.. Rust moved down
the Avenue. He was subsequently again
overtaken by Mr.. Greeley, who, as he was
passing within foot or two of Mr. R., the
latter, on his approach so near, asked him,
Do you know me now '' He replied eyes !;
L understand your name is Rust, and you have
treated me very ungentlemanly." Upon those
words being uttered, Mr.. r. struck at him a
blow with stick, which being parried with
| Mr. Greeley's arm, was shivered (the stick
by the blow Some of those with Mr. Greeley
protested that he was not fighting man,
when he replied that he did not shelter him
self behind that plea" Mr.. Rust approached
bad nothing to fight with Mr.. R. then
said ''Get something, sir" Mr.. G.. rejoined,
"No, [ don't Tor WON'T fight" Mr. Rust
then left him.
We understand from a gentleman to whom
Mr.. r. communicated his purpose, origi-
nally, that he stopped Mr. Greeley to remon-
strate with him against making insulting COM
ments on him, (Mr. r. y while he was a pre-
fessed non-combatant, and that he was induced
to make the assault, by what he regarded in
Mr.. Greeley's answers as an intimation that
he was ready and willing to repel any attack
that might be made on him. We hear that
the blow on the arm with the stick bruised
and famed it very severely, and that one Of
MIR K g blows on the back of Dir. Greeley
head, with his fist was, also, very severe in its
| effects. We abstain from making comments
Il
| with an account Of it derived from a gentle
man who witnessed it from first to last.
MRS. ORDwAY was very much scandalized
yesterday, by what she deemed very irreye-
entexpression made by oockney Englishmau
lnow resident in Washington who asked al
the Star counter, to have the paper left at hi,
house "on Seventh street, between HI and
M" The Britisher' meant to say between
and NJ, no doubt, but did not seem aware
OF the glaring improperly of "exasperating'
| the CHI In pronouncing the 81"
POSTPoNENENT.-It will be seen by notice
in another column, that as a mark of respect
| to the memory Of Commodore Morris the con-
templated Naval Ball at Annapolis has been
indefinitely postponed.
| 'LET 1T SLIDH. The banks at the western
extremity of Pennsylvania avenue are eaving
| in a. the frost comes out. A gentleman who
was on his way to Georgetown late last night
narrowly escaped having been buried beneath
a small ayalanch.
WATCH KEIURNs.-John Scrivener, found
drunk in street, dismissed with an admoni-
ton Bedely Carroll a middle aged woman,
dressed in black, was brought up for drunk
| enness in the street. She asked TO be let of
on the ground that she had n daughter only
nine years of age, but Captain Birch seemed
to think that this was an sggravation Of her
| offence, that she should set such an example
to the child, but he finally let her go on pro-
mise of good behavior. A man thinly clad,
and with his fingers frozen, came in and asked
to De provided for, or sent somewhere that he
could be provided for. He stated that he was
an Englishman by birth, and a sailor by oc-
cupation; that he was employed in running
oysters upon the Potomac until the boat was
laid up by the severe frost. He was recon
meDded to make application to some marine
hospital. There are continued applications at
the guard house of this description, and even
In cases of absolute distress there seems no
place to send them, since there are already
some one hundred and fifty persons at the
poor and work house