Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-11
The RroderIeIL and Terry.DneI.



We published in our telegraphic columns,
yesterday, the melancholy tidiugs of the death
of Senator Broderick, of Cal, who fell at the
first Gre, inn duel on the 16th5ult., with Chief
Justice Terry.
The following are the particulars current at
San Francisco up to the time of the meeting:
The excitement here, siuce the election, has
related to an expected duel between Judge Ter
ry, of the Supreme Court, and Senator David
G. Broderick. In June last, soon after the
meeting Of the Democratic State Convention,
BIZ. Broderick, while sitting at public table at.
the International Hotel in this city, got into
controversy with Mr.. Perley, ian intimate per-
sOna friend Of Judge Terry, 6y=harsh remarks
concerning the latter, who ina speech before the
Convention, had spoken disparagingly Of the
senator in his present attitude of hostility to
the Democratic Party. A1r. Broderick, the
time, told Perley ,thathe expected him to. carry
his remarks to the Judge, and intmateds his
readiness to hold himself responsible for his
language.
Out of this transaction correspondence &C.
Cured between Pcrley and Broderck, of which
II gave you an account ct the time. You willre.
member that Broderick declined Perey's ctal-
lenge, assigning as a reason that he, aSenator
of the United States, could not have such an
issue with the party challenging, but intimating
that after the pending canvass was over, he
would accept an invitation from Judge Teny.
himself.
1t appears that on Thursday last, soon as the
result Of the election was ascertained, Terry
sent challenge to Broderick, but up to this
hour the entire affair has been conducted with
so much secrecy that nobody can give US any
reliable particulars. Ii is known, however, that
the acting seconds are-for Mr.. Broderick, Hon.
Jos. O. McKibben, and for Nj. Terry, Calhoun
Benhan, Esq. These, and other confidential
friends have been laboring in vain to effect
reconciliation; but the Judge will accept no
terms of settlement other than an uncondtion-
al withdrawal of the offensive remarks made by
MIR. Broderick, and an .apology therefor. 1t is
well known that the Judge some time since de-
termincd to pursue this matter to the bitter end,
soon as the time arrived TO which Mr. Broder-
ick had postponed the adjustment of these per,
sonal matters, and it is presumed that he will
not yield
Among the rumors of the warning which
seem to come from probably informed sources,
is one to the effect that Mr.. Broderck's friends
sought last night to change the issue, aud set
some other party than Terry to meet The Sena-
ator upon the ffed Who that other party is
we do not hear; but the impression is that it
may be PerIey. The friends of The principals
in this affair arc filed with livclicst aPprchen.
sions as to the result. Broderick has the rcpu~
tntion of being man Of physical courage, and
at the present time his defeat in the campaign
just closed, has converted his general condition
of misanthroPy to that of desperation and reck-
icsSncss of life. On tho other hand Judge
Terry is a man Of great coolness stcadiness of
nerve and decision.