The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-02-10

rage and Is shot Dead.
tFrom the New Xoft Timrsl
Mr. Toomhs, OF Georgia, rests his hopes
Df victory for the South in the great civil
war for which he longs, upon the prompt
ness Of his countrymen IN "dolendining
heir HONOR We must, therefore, CONF
mend 20 his immediate and e0rncst attcn-
lion little proceeding which has just
taken place at Columbus, Mississippi
In that happy city lived but the other day
Z gallant gentleman, DIR. Sheppard by
name, once Secretary Of the Texas Navy
under Gen. Houston's Presidency, and
more recently In the Amer
lean s0rvioe in Mexico. This gallant
gentleman has just been shot dead in tho
public streets by a chivilric and high-ton-
ed person named Blair, In the following
circumstances;
An agent for some Northern business |
house CHANGED TO be driving his bargain In |
Columbus. Whether Blair was or was
not his debtor does not appear, but Il is
very probable he was, for the agent huv-
ing been obliged to leave Columbus for a
day or two on business, Blair appeared in
the hotel at which he lohcd, denounced
him as an Abolitionist, aud proposed a
search of his room The hoy was pro-
cured, and accompanied by few more
chiviric and high-toncd persons like him
self Blair proceeded to "detcnd the hon
or" of Mississippi by first breaking open
the absent Yankees trunk, and then alb
straoting the absent Yankees private
letters, which nc duly opened and began
to read aloud for the benefit Of the "pa-
triarchul institution which breeds so
many nice aud honorable instincts, aud
makes all meonness of thought or decd
impossible. The letters were common
place enough for while, till on taking
up a sheet half.flled with the absent
Yankees own hand writing, Blair came
on the words, "Ifs al right bctiBeeR me
and NE Broign f0milyw Gracious heuv-
onsl here was an escape for Mississippi,
and for Blair immortal glory To think
OF it-a correspondents Of John Browne
| In Columbus, under the very noses, Os il
were, Of Jefferson Davis and Senator
/ Brown-with RnBl The interest grew
intense, tho chvalry crowded upon the
reader. Since that famous lettor which
/ Lord Monteagle couldn't understand, tho
King Jamie could, history had known no
such moment. Nothing in fiction Np-
preached il snve the instant in which
| Sergeant Buz-mE laid Mr.. Pickwicks
subtle demand for "chops and tomatoes
sauce" before the indignant British jury.
Blair could not 60 on with his task. The
letter dropped from his hands, and he
started up, says the report, "groatly excit-
cd Reioro burnt feathers aud Bourbon
had restored Blair to himself, another
chivalric and high-toned person, of strong
or nerves, took the epistle up, continued
the perusal and found, o shame and vex-
alton! that the Browns of the absent
Yankees writing desk were after all only
innocJnt Mississippi Browns, and that
there was lady in the question, whom
the absent Yankee hoped soon, il being
call right with the family," to espouse.
The revulsion was severe: but the chiv.
airy could not give up their prize. They
took out all the loye-lettcrs Of this low
commercial Yankee, and went at them
with great dash and gallOntry. Shepherd
now comes on the scene. Attracted by
the crowd, he entered the room, and be-
ing a soldier, and eccentric, protested
that the whole proceeding was "sncak-
ing outrage" Blair, Of course, robukcd
this presumption, and sworo at Shepherd
} as no better than Northern agent him
self, and here wolf in sleeps clothing
{, However, seeing mischielin Shepherds
, eye, Blair discreetly abscondod and lell
! town. "A few days after, he came back
for he was an apotheoary and must live
, though his customers died for il. Shop
herd invaded him instantly, and with
calm decision, begun to give him a SOUND
? Gaming. Blair, on this, drew pistol and
, shot Shepherd three times, ill he fell
. dead, Gaming his murderer stoutly to thI
b last. And thus Blair avenged his honor
}. What the people Ur Columbus have don,
: Ia, tlfs matter, we do not yet learn.
= Had Blair been poor Irish laborer,wh,
s had thought out loud, that il was bette
: to be white, and earn a dollar a day, thai
d to be black, and be padded once a week
8 Of course he would have been treated
e long before this, to a coat of tar an
: feathers. Being an Opothecary, trunk
g opener, reader Of other peoples letters
It spy, coward, murderer, and defender Q
d the "institution," all in one, We suPPos
If Mr.. ToOmbs will Pronunce hiR' quite
type Of manly Hobleness shd worth