The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-19

which | regarded as offensive. In another
letter gave you the specification and reitera-
ted my demand for a retraction- To this lac,
letter you reply, acknowledging the use ofthe
offensive language imputed to You, and NOT
making the retraction required. This courss
on your part leaves me no other alternative
but to demand the satisfaction usual amono
gentlemen, which accordingly do. Mr.. Ben
ham will make the necessary arrangements
Your obedient servant D. s. TFRRy
San FRANCISCO, September 8, 1859.
Hon. D. S. Tsrry-Sir Your note of the
above date has been received at o'clock A. N
September 10. In response to the same.
will refer you to my friend Hon. J. c. Nc
Kibbin, who will make the satisfactory ar.
rangement demanded in your letter.
remain etc. d. c. BRoDERIcK.
The following brief sketch of the career of
the deceased Senator is copied from the n. o.
Picayune:
lie was born in the District of Columbia,
in 1919, of obscure but respectable parantage,
and of Irish descent. He had few early ad-
yantages ofintellectual culture His boyhood
and early manhood were passed in the city Of
New York, where he was for some years no.
ted for the active part he took in politics, be-
ing working member of the Democratic par
ty. In the list Of the pioneers Of California,
we find his name set down as having arrived
at San Francisco in 1919. Here he. from the
start, became a warm and earnest party poll
tician, and took an active part in every cleo
tor with an activity and zeal which always
characterized him. In 1857 he took his seat
in the Senate of the United States, where he
distinguished himselfrather as politician than
as legislator. Elected as Democrat he was,
nevertheless an opponent of the administration
with whom he disagreed on the questions aris-
ing out of the subject Of slavery ex enslon. In
the recent political campaign in California, he
took an active part, and appeared often before
the people, in advocacy of the antlS 'ecohlptoh
candidate for the GovernOrship. TRe-eanHasS
was carried ON, as our readers know, win
great acrimony and personality
Among those to whom Broderick foundN
himselfn the attitude ofopposition, was Judge
Terry. This excited him to such an extent
that in a moment Of irritation, he publicly de-
nounced the Judge (who, it seems, had alluded
to him Extensively in political speech during
the canvasS) as an migrate, and as one OF whom
he had thought well, but had found out to be
as bad as the rest Of those whom he had de-
nounced as corrupt. The canvass over, he
was challenged by Terry, and was killed by
| him.
! Judge Terry was born and reared in this
county and is a nephew by marriage the late
/ Gov Runnells. OF him the correspondent Of
! the Crescent writes:
At one time it was thought that Judge Ter
ry intended to leave the State, but he simply
/ retired to his farm near Stockton, where he
was arrested on the 18th His wife, who had
engaged state-room on the steamer of the
Goth, gave it up and remained with her hus-
band. Judge Terry will probably remove to
Texas after his trial.
Judge T. was defeated in his candidacy for
a denomination to the Supreme Bench, in the
Democratic Convention, but made speech in
behalf of the nominees-of which the lorego-
ing, in reference to Senator Broderick, is an
| extract.
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