Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-04-21
rHE POTTER AND Pryor DUEL.
WAsHrNeroN, April IL.

Notwithstanding the various rlmors to
the contrary concerning the Pryor and Pot
Ter difficulty to this time, note has pass
ed, and Mr.. Potter has not determined on
his course. He will not recede from his
position assumed yesterday in the House,
nor compromise hiniself by apologies,
having neither given nor intended affronts
iustifying the peremptory demand. 1t is
said Col. Lander is acting for him, bit the
advice of others has been taken whose
haines are withheld to prevent interference
or arrest.
Mr.. Potter is within convenient reach,
though without access 10 any persons but
those Immediately concerned, His family
are ignorant Of his whereabouts. No fur
theF action ct { ). <Sind will be taken until
tomorrow, and alb statements to the con-
tray are merely speculative.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The following is believed to be correct
statement Of the Potter and Pryor affair up
to noon to-day. Immediately after the oc-
'currence in the House, Mr.. Pryor dispatch
ed through Mr.. Hindman, Of Arkansas, a
note to Mr.. Potter asking him to leave the
District to receive written communication.
Mr. Potter replied as Mr.. Pryor's note con-
templ.ted, avoiding the anti-dueling penal
ties in the District, and as his (Potter's)
disqualification was contained in the Con-
stitution of Wisconsin, he co,tld not leave
the District on this. Mr.. Chisiam, sub
stitute of Mr.. HindmaD who was obliged
to leave for Arkansas, handed Mr.. Potter a
peremptory challenge from Mr.. Pryor, and
dating his note Virginia. Col. Lander,
who has been designated by Potter as bis
friend, handed, after a lapse oftwelye hours
a note to Mr.. Chislam accepting the chal-
lenge, and naming commo1 Bowie knives
as the weapons, and to fight in open air,
with two friends each, armed with Colts
pistols.
Mr.. Chislam protests against this form Of
weapons as absurd, barbasous and vulgar,
and offers to construe the code in the most
liberal way, provided other arms are sug-
gested.
Mr.. Potter authorized Lander to decline
any other terms, and Mr.. Lander offers to
substitute himself for Mr.. Potter with 9th
er weapons, to both of which propositions,
without consulting Mr. Pryor, Mr.. Chislam
replies, that the first is vulgar and inadmis-
sable, and while approaching Mr.. Lander's
zeal for his friend, they have no cause OF
quarrel with him, and consequently no de
mand to make of him.
Mr.. Pryor is stilin Virginia, and has NOT
yet heard of the action of bis second in the
matter. Tie latter is believed to have act
ed after consultation with Messrs. Miles,
Keitt, Mason and Hammond
Foa THE LADIEs.-As the ladies arc
more particularly interested in whatever
improves or Injuries the complexion, wecom-
mend the following, which we clip from
the Philadelphia Ledger, to their attention.
They may also find in it some profitable
suggestions in relation to bread-making
If our Western friends can in any way
teach their wives, daughters or cooks, to
keep pearlash out of their bread, all the yell
low people, especially the yellow children,
who are supposed to be turned yellow by
the fever and ague and bilious feyers, will
soon be turned white. 1t is great mis-
take to suppose that the yellow countenan-
ces Of the West come from bile, when it is
only the enormous quantity of pearlash eat
en- in the bread that's reflected through the
skin. Bread is the staff of life, ii. is said
and so it is-but it is the staff Of death, too,
in this country.
Bad bread kills about as many people
here as bad rum. So many people eat
poisonous bread that they die by inches
Dyspepsia, that great monster disease ofthe
country that deranges the liver, brings on
costiveness and thus finally kills the human
victlm-is half the time spearlash.' Here
in the East--out of New England-we
have nearly driven off the pearlash-saleratus
cooks. but not quite.
'Pearlash lives here yet in bread, but in
cities and towns we have nearly whipped
cut the murderers. In the distant western
towns, beyond the good hotels Of the lakes
and rivers, pearlash, under the name of sal
eratus, is king. It's pearlash for breakfast,
pearlash for dinner and pearlash for supper.
1t is not any wonder, then, that the people
of the East turn yellow West, and sicken,
not of fever and ague, bilious and conges-
tive fevers, but Of pearlash three times a
day
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