Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-07-23

CAUSE OF THE STREET FIGHT IN LOUISVILLE, Ky.
BETWEEN PRENTICE q DuRRET.-Wc have receiv-
ed by last nights mails, the Louisville Courier
of Friday, which as our Geographic dispatches
of yes terday stated, was the cause of the street
rencontre between Prentice and Durrett Prem
tice had been dealing pretty roughly with the
characters of two Observation-Disclosures Talbot
and Elliott-saying among other things that
Talbot was an abo!itionist. Durrett of the
Courier retorted as follows:
For an imported wooden-nutmeg Yankee, who
edited an Abolition paper in Connecticut before
emigratiug TO Kentucky, and who, since his
residence here, has declared in his paper that
"aH men hare a right to liberty matter trhGt
rJloT;'' who has repeatedly uttered other AbO-
iition sentiments equally us vile; who advised
the Know Nothings of Indiana last year to vote
for Morton, the Black Republican candidate for
Governor, over Willard, the candidate of the
National Democrats and Old Line Wings; who
is now supporting Humphrey Marshall for Con-
Gress who last year declared that he would not
give the toss of copper for choice between
Fremont and Buchanan; and who never omits
mn opportunity to exhibit his sympathy for the
Black Republicans and nigger-steRlers Of the
North-we say far such an individual to charge
another with being an AbolitioniSt, exhibits a
ldlG ucEIGt Ol lll1uueuCc. IlC put
kettle black was nothing to it.
This was pretty severe, but the Courier has
not done yet. Prentice had been saying that
Eliot was drunkard and one thing or other
that was disrcputable, and the Courier goes on in
the course Of its reply to say that were the char
Ges against Mr.. Elliott, true in all their length
aud breadth, isl not in the most wretchedly
bad taste for them to come RON the quarter
whence they emenateg The Plug Ugly editor
who makes them is notorious drunkard. He
not only takes his sprees, but it is patent to
every man, woman and child IN Louisville Mt
all familiar with his habits, that he is a regular
daily drinker. He takes his toddy as regularly
Is he performs any other of his daily avoca-
lions. We ourselves, have seen him on the
public streets within the last few months so
beastly intoxicated that friend ON each side
supporting him had as much as they could do
TO enable him to navigate homewardS 1t is on
ly short time since, that while going to Indi-
ana on lecturing tour, he was so deeply in
liquor, that in endeavoring to walk plank from
the ferry boat to the shore, he fell into the river.
lie was fshed out and taken to the hotel in
.ieEersUnville where he was put to bed until he
became sober and his clothes were dried. And
he is now supporting for Congress-, in this dis
triet Hon. Humphrey Marshall. who, 1t is well
known, spent much more Of his time IN the
drinking saloons aud gambling hells of Wash
ington, than in his seat on the floor of the
House of Representatives, or in attending to his
duties; who now gets drunk whenever he feels
like it (which is not by any means unfrequenO
and who, at the last May election for Magis-
trates, was knocked down and whipped At Frank
linton, Henry county, for insulting man while
he (Marshal) was drunk
This is the quiet "undemonstrutiye' way, as
John Mildmay would say, in which politics are
being done up in Kentucky this summer
Duels in the rural districts, street fights in the
cities, and such like "amusements for the mil
lion