Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-10

A GES7rE1Ax THAT NEEDS TIE JUICE LYNCH
CoDE.-Tlne impudence. Of some men beats that
of the old devil himself We think that De
Riviere the Zouave- Frenchman, who induced
some old, rich, weak-minded fool of a mother
and her daughter, down in Alabama, to run off
with him to New York, where, as all the
world knows they had nice series of family
scenes before poor old Blount could get his
model wife and charming daughter back to the
South, out of the clutches of the struggling
''furriner." OF course the papers have been
down on Monsieur, justas they usually do on all
such fools and diddlers, when they bring their
scrapes within public notice.
This Zouave-F renchman doesn't like tho
American method of ''doing up" men of his
style. He, no doubt, prefers the French style,
where they either Inuzzle editors or guzzle
them, or else assassinate them sthey did Pene
So he sends a billet of honor to the editor ofthe
Sunday Times, which we find reads as follows :
HorEL DE DEuoRs, New York,
Sept 3, 1868.
SLR-Your remarks about my. character and
conduct despise. Yourself, since you are no
Frenchman, it pleases me to treat with contempt.
But your scurrilous verSiicatiOn about coats
of mail" and "coats of female" touch my pro-
fession, and intend to hold you, as Journalist,
Irresponsible. Yours resolutely, De RrvIERE.
I p. ST. prefer small swords.
Being n citizen somewhat remarkable for
obedience to the law and arepugnance TO both
cold steel and warm gunpowder, we at first felt
inclined to send this miSsive over to Mayor
Tiemann, and beseech him toput its sanguinarY
author through course of Blackwell's Island
regimen, as heI did Mr.. Branch. On more
mature reflection, we concluded to treat the car
tel as ifitwere really hoax, and therefore pen
ned, in ZOuave-French, the following response
SUNDAY TINES OFFICE, 1872 Nassau St,
New York, Sept. 8, 1858. q:
| SIR:-Your polite invitation to sup on small
swords was duly received; but, as confirmed
dyspeptic, object to putting anything int0my
stomach so indigcstiblc. However. us you seem
exceedingly anxious to do something in the do
tUline, shall not be cruel enough to baulk
| your humor. As the challenged party, name
the time, place, diatances and weppons-viz:
time, on Monday next, 2 P. NJ; place, the boat
house, "Atantic Garden" Hoboken; distance,
800 yards, or thereabouts; e0eaponS, gnger.pop
bottles, not less than three to be considered a
dose. To my friend Major General 0'Whitley,
(more commonly known as Justice Whitley,J
of llOboken, to whose fatherly attentions think
you have, ere this, been indebted, refer you
ments of the occasion.
Yours cffervescently,
EDITOR SUNDAY TINES.
To Capt. De REVERE, Hotel de Dehors.
About o'clock P. NJ, the same day, two
amiable French gentlemen entered our Office,
atfectionately Inquired for US, and took pains to
indicate that they considered themselves friends
of Monsieur De Riviere. We presumed their
object was to object to duel so near the Hotel
Napoleon, in Hobokcn, as the landlady Mrs
Huncke, is considered by the "boods" of that
enlightened region very pretty woman, and
very pretty women commonly have nerves.
But, not u word was uttered in regard to the
proposed meeting, and proper delicacyscom-
PEELED US to maintain a studied reserve on the
subject ff,-7e te
Monsieur De Riyiere's friends, on the contra
ry, desired to express the Zouaves particular.
dislike to our comments upon his characteristic
performances and in his name to demand re-
traction, or ssthe satisfaction ola gentlenan.s
We entertained very natural doubt as to the
propriety oflookingso NJ. De RiyieUe in aslght
so honorable, but we contented ourselves with
declining in very concise terms, either to retract
or to combat This refusal on our part, to
oblige De Riviere either by making target of
| ourselves for his convenience, or by making him
subject for Greenwood Cemetery to suit our
very much, and being good natured we at length
consented to let De Riviere take a shot at US
through the columns of this paper instead of
the tube of chair trigger" Ia concession
which seemed satisfactory.
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