Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-07-31

ally careful in what we say about the
personal difficulty in which we were en-
gagged on Tuesday. We feel constrained
to say, however, that tV,' the author of
Ia special telegraphic dispatch from this
city to the Cincinnati Gazette, is lying
scoundrel, and that the editor of that pa
per, if he read the dispatch before publish
ing it, is no better. In the first place we
did not waylay Mr.. Durrett, but stood
lopenly upon the sidewalk; in the second
lplace we did not shoot until we had been
shot at; and in the third place we were
not surrounded by crowd Of armed
friends. Mr.. Andrew Monroe was the
only person present when the firing COM
menced.
The statement in the Democrat Of yes
terday morning is not true, though we do
not know that it is Intentionally false
Mr.. DIS pistol did not, as stated, fail him
after the second shot; at any rate it went
off every time he snapped it at us. The
only person from the Office of the Demo-
crat who saw the affair was the regular re-
porter Of that paper, and we know him
well enough to feel perfect assurance
that he did not make and will not endorse
the statement given in that paper. We
hereby ask the Democrat to obtain astate-
ment from him and publish it.
We are reluctant to publish the follow
ing correspondence, and certainly we
should not do so but for the very busy
circulation of false and infamous reports
in regard to it through the city:
LOUISVILLE, July %, 1857.
GEo. D. PRINTIcE, ESQ.,; find in the
Journal Of this morning publication Of
the correspondence between us of yester-
day. To that publication are added two
!, notes intended for me but not delivered,
.4nd of which did not know the contents
until this morning.
II is evident from these notes that you
desire to take my life. am perfectly
willing to afford you an opportunity to do
it at such a time and place as will insure
a fair meeting between US without inter
ference on the part of others. My friends
advise me that in their opinion such a
meeting ought not to be had upon the
streets Of Louisville. It also occurs to
me, sir, that as the difficulty is between US
and US alone, that our meeting should be
hadein such . manner as not to jeopardizc
the lives Of parties unconnected with the
affair. The fact that you shot an innocent
person, G.. D. Hinkle, during our encoun-
Ger yesterday, evidently by mistake, should
admonish you that the street is not pro-
per place for the settlement Of our diff
Guilty. l shall stand upon no punctilio,
either as TO duel or rencouRter, but if you
seek the latter as you did yesterday, l
trust that you will appoint rendezvous
whore we nay meet alone, or at most each
with but single unarmod witness. In
that event, 1 hope that you will consider
yourself pledged in honor not to reveal
the time or place even to our witnesses
until we approach the ground.
1t occurs 10 me that this will effectu-
ally secure your object of yesterday with
out imperilihg the lives of innocent per-
sons or subjecting the survivor to misre.
presentations. II, however, any other
: plan should suggest itself to your mind
for the accomplishment Of fair and pri-
vate meeting, I am inclined to crafty you
and accommodate myself to your wishes.
+, have the honor TO remain your ob't
r servent r. T. DURRETT.
LOUISVILLE, July %.
r. T. DUREETT, ESQ: have received
your note of to-day. You say if desire
: to take your life, you are willing to afford
me an opportunity,
After your wretched conduct of yester-
day, it is perfectly immaterial to me wheth-
CT your life is taken or not. At sight Of
me you retreated into house; shot at me
from behind door made your escape by
climbing high and difficult back yard
i fence, which / am sure you could not have
climbed under ordinary circumstances
and kept yourself, SO far as 1 can learn
! out of town all night; and, of course,
care nothing now for your life or death
You stand or lie disgraced before the com
munity, and shall do nothing to relieve
Q you from your position. If you want any
4 thing of me, tahe it. You can see me al
4 soon as you wish.