Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-11
Editorial ARrau

The following is the account g;var
 Louisville Democrat of the affray wbich y the red Tn that city on the 21st inst hat,, occur frentlce of the Journal and Mir. Dur,ett as Mr. Courier: ON''ett 1.-the
 The meeting occurred in Jefferson bo,
 Fourth and Fifth, about 8 o'clock in tbo boo'weeO noon. The affair grew directly ont of a''ef' paper controversy. the following extract tu "e"s- leading artlcein In the Courier of yesterdo,ha ',oh Ing, containing the personal ofense to uorl' l Mir Prentice took exceptions: "AIcA We have no doubt but this chargo
 gotten up just on the eve of the elect;oa ITS: ot the falsehoods with which the "ohe mint Is always well supplied, and whi"Lua | produced as circumstances or the exioar,"9 "9 a case may require There is not moro Fd lar (and deservedly so, toO,) man in his toPO' than MT. Elliot, and the overw helminy roa: st:'Oa
 ne will receive Tn August next, will h.aNy ed rebuke of and proud vindicatioD fro,. ''ert- scandaIous assaults of bitter and unscr," SucA 1 partlsans puous
 But even were the charges against NJ. r, liott true in all thelr length and bread,h HE not in the most wretchedly bad taste for ,l to come from the quarter from whence 'l ,t emanate? The Plug Ugly editor who r,a%y them is a notorious drunkard. He mt "aNss t takes his sprees, but it is patent to eyerv vuy
 woman and child in Louisville, at all f,nrH1 ua1 with h habits, that he is regular daily dr,nt
 He takes his toddy as regularly as he no,f ,rN''' any other of his daily avocations. Waaus selves, have seen him on the public street. ,n;l ! in the last few months so beastly iptovio,'I that friend on each side of him had as ,onT as they could do to enable him to no,,;.. | hn,r I., r. al,
 while going to Indiana, on a lec!uripg to',
 was so deeply in liquor that in endeayorr,.
 walk on plank from the ferry coat in ib' shore, he fell into the river. He was fsbaj out and taken to the hotel in Jefersonv;No
 where he was put to bed until he became snh.1. and his coitheS were dried And he i, no,n supporting for Congress, in this district Hon l Humphrey Marshall, who, it is well-known spent much more of his time in the drinkir, saloons and gambling hellS of Washinu,m than ln his seat on the floor of the House of | Representatives or in attention to his dutas. who now gets drunk whenever he'feels like ii, | (which is not by any means uulrequent) and who, at the last May election for Magistrates was knocked down and whipped at FrankIn- ton, Henry county, for insulting man whiIa he (MarshalD was drunk.
 Ioters of Me .Sirth District! is not the elitO- of the Journal nice man, indeed, to give yol advice and instruction as to how you shall vos in August?''
 It Is generally understood that, at an earIr hour yesterday morning, MT. Prentice opeuei a correspondence with Mir. Durrett, one of tle accredited editors of the Courier, with the view to induce Mir. D. to di5claim the sentiment of the article, or to meet him in a street atfray.- We are of course, unacquainted with the mtr. of the correspondence. About o'clock in the afternoon, however, as Prentice was standing iD the door of Col. Andrew Monroe's otlice Dur rett came up the street from the direction o his residence, in the line of his own office, and immediately towards Prentice W hen within some ten paces of his adversary, Mr. D. started up the steps which enter the building occupied by Col John 0. Bullock, G. D. IIinkle es1. and perhaps others, and about tho time A[r. b reached the door at the head of the steps, Mr. Prentice addressed himself to Mr. D., from tht vicinity of Col. Monroe's door, ard smultane ouSly W lth the recognition the firing cummenC ed. Parties who witnessed the airdy disagree as to which fired first and also as to the num- ber of shots fired. It Is perhaps correct to state that Prentice fired four or five shots from a revolver, while Durrett's pistol failed him afer the second shot. Prentice recieyed sG.a. wound in the ieshy part of the leg, below the knee, while Durrett escaped entirely
 Alter Durrett had fired his last shot from the door, MT. Ilinkle, from whose door Mir D. fred approached the door from his chamber to quel tue disturbance, when he received shot in the bony part of the leg, also below the knee through mistake, from Prentice's pistol A. though the ball is supposed to be embedded h the bone, we are pleased to announce that tht wound will not be serious. Mir. II. had noth ing at all to do with the afray, aud was mol warned of the difficulty.