Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-05-04

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| Fond pride Of mcmorys train
| And thoughts Of ye, xhereer ream,
Shall bring my youth again.
Duel Between jackson and Dickinson.
Dickinson's second won the choice of po-
sition and Jackson's the Office of giving the
word. The astute Overton considered this
giving of the word matter Of great impor-
tsnce, and he had already determined how he
would give it, il the lot fell to him. The
eight PAGES were measured off, and the men
placed. Both were perfectly collected. All
the polteness Of such occasions was strictly
and elegantly performed jackson was
in some degree the extreme slenderness OF
his figure. Dickinson was the younger and
handsomer of the two. But Jackson's tall,
erect figure, and the still intensity of his de-
meanor, it is said, gave him superior and
commanding air as he stood under the tall
poplars on this bright May morning, silently
awaiting the moment Of doom.
"Are you ready 7" said Overton.
81 am ready" replied Dickinson.
81 am ready" said Jackson.
The words were no sooner pronounced,
than Ovcrton, cried with sudden shout,
1
i Dickinson raised his pistol quickly and
4 fred Overton who was looking with ankle
!. ty at jackson, saw puff Of dust fly from
the breast of his coat, and saw him raise his
left arm, and place it tightly across his chest.
He is surely hit" thought Ovcrton, and in
bad place, too; but no, he does not fall.--
Erect and grim N fate he stood, his teeth
clenched, raising his pistol Overton glanced
at Dickinson. Amazed at the unwontcd
failure of his aim, and appalled, at the awful
figure and face before him, Dickinson had
unconsconciously recoiled pace or two.
i "Great God ~ he faltered shave missed
himy'
4 Back to the MARX, sirP' shriekod Over
ton, with his hand upon his pistol.
1 Dickinson recovered his composure, step
ping forward to the peg, and stood with eyes
averted from his antagonist. All this was
the work of moment, though it requires
many works to tell it.
1 General jackson took deliberate aim, and
pulled the trigger The pistol neither snap
4 ped nor went off, He looked at the trigger,
and discovered it had stopped ut half cock
lie drew it back to its place, and took aim a
second time. He fired. Dickinson's face
blanched; he reeled his friends rushed to-
wards him, caught him in their arms, and
gently seated him on the ground, leaning
against bush His trowsers redeemed
They stripped off his clothes. The blood
was gushing from his side in q torrent
And, alas here is the ball, not near the
!, wound, but above the opposite hip, just under
the skin. The bali had passed through the
body, below the ribs Such wound could
] not but be fatal
! Overton went forward and learned the con.
dition o,r o. .ihc wounded man. Rejoining his
principal, he said, He wont want anything
more Of you, General" and conducted him
, from the ground. They had gone an hund
, red yards, Ovcrton walking on one side o.
! Jackson, the surgeon on the other, and neith
cr speaking word, when the surgeon OBJ
served that one of Jackson's shoes was full o.
) blood.
!. "My God! General jackson, are you hit p
} he exclaimed, pointing to the blood.
"Oh! believe" replied jackson, :" thai
' he has pricked me a little. Let's look it,
But say nothing about it there" pointing t.
the house.
He opened his coat. Dickinson's aim had
been perfect. He had sent the ball precisely
where he supposed Jackson's heart was beat
, ing. But the thinness Of his body and thu
, looseness of his coat combining to deceiv,
, Dickinson, the ball had only broken rib o.
two, and raked the breast bone. It was some
} what painful, bad-looking wound, but neither
severe nor dangerous, and he was able to rids
to the tavern without much Inconvenience. :
! Upon approaching the house, he went up t
: one of the negro women who was churning
y and asked her If the butter had come Sh'
said it was just coming. He asked for soms
buttermilk. While she was getting it for hin
she observed him furtively open his coat ant
look within. She saw that his shirt wal
soaked with blood, and she stood gazing II
blank horror at the sight, dipper in hand.
lie caught her eye, and hastily buttoned hi
cost again. She dipped out . quart measure
full Of butter-milk, and gave it to him. H,
drank it of at q draught; then went in, tool
of his coat, and had his wound carefully ex
amined and dressed. That done, he dispatch
ed one Of his retinue TO DR.. Callet, to inquir,
respecting the condition Of Dickinson, and Il
say that the surgeon attending himself wnuli
be glad to contribute his aid toward Mr.. Dick
inson's relief. A polite reply was returned
that Mr.. Dickinson's case was past surgery
bottle Of wine TO DR.. Cailet for the use Of hi
patient.
i But there was one qualification which Jack
oOu Cou10 HUI CVCtI HuGAA IJSGuuntNalCc9
grant him. A very old friend Of Gen. Jack
! sons writes to me thus -" Although ths
General had been wounded, no did not desir,
it should be known until be had left thu
neighborhood, and had Therefore concealed i
at first from his own friends His reason fol
this, as he once stated TO ne, was, that q
Dickinson copsidered himesk the h6st shot Il
the wosld, and - certain e hnlnG him y
; the f1rst Are, he ID MT unnk hin 10 have til
gratiflcafion even Of lDetinx Dat ~ haf
touched him - Parton's ~ ~ JaafsOs. &
4 One dry last week James KILLER Of Breme,
county ~ ssdenly dead While walking b
1 his wagon.
4 One hundred yards Of the rsw six Of Ii,
silk-worm does not weigh grain,