The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-05-05

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TIM avCI0ARr Bown KxEE-A story has
been going the rounds Of the newspapers, giving
On account Of duel fought with bowie knives
in 1885, 1t Natchez, between Col. Bowie-after
whom this murderous knife Il named-and : cit
izen Of Louisiana, In which fight twenty on each
side finally became engaged, and many were
killed. The Richmond WAY Dispatch says that
story u ! fiction almost entirely, but that paper
gives what it vouches for, % being the true his
! tory Of the bowie knife fight on the sEand Bar
1t Matches, in 1928, in which Col. Bowie was
, engaged:
There Was ! feud between Col Bowie and Col.
: Crane, each having partizans, and producing
frequent collisions and deadly ones Finally two
!. young men, one Of each faction agreed TO fight
on the Sand Bar, and the two parties hearing Of
!. it, resolved 70 be present The Dispatch says:
The two duelists had exchanged : couple Of
shots without injury to either party-a reconcile
alton had been effected by the seconds--they
were sitting under tree, drinking julep-when
up from the river came one party, headed by Col
Crane, and down from the woods came the other
party, headed by James Bowie. They met on
the spot where the duel had just been fought,
and Col. Bowie said to Col Crane, or Col Crane
said to Col. Bowie, There are different versions
Of the story,) this is % good time to settle
our difficulties as any other" The reply, We
presume, signiticd assent, for Col Crane imme-
diately drew two pistols, and, holding one in each
hand, fred with the right upon James Bowie.
wounding him severely, and with the left upOn
Gen. Cuney-who was standing by Bowie-stri-
king him in the thigh, and cutting the fcmoral
artery, 90 that he bled to death before the sur
geon could get the tourniquet on him. Bowie,
~Nol ls.Anl II. n.
Crane, being greatly inferior in strength, and
having no other weapon, retreated. Bowie pur.
sued swapping his pistol At Crane, until the lat
ter suddenly wheeled about and threw one Of his
discharged weapons at Bowie, striking him in the
forehead with such violence that he fell. At
tempting to rise, the sand being very deep, he
sank into it, and gave time to one Of the other
party to come up and shoot him through both
thighs before be could get TO his feet. The fight
having BY this time become general, he was shot
q third time, but had risen to q sitting posture
when he saw DR.. Wright approaching him with
a sword-cane. As Wrikht was his mortal enemy.
and had attempted to kill him once before, he
very well understood his object now He lay
down, therefore, on his back, and Wright stand
ing over him, endeavored to run the sword
| through him. In this he did not succeed, Bowie
drawing himself up so that the weapon passed
through his clothes, and sunk deep into the sand
| without doing him any further injury than in |
6ictng mere scratch on his side. A Wright |
was STOPPING, in the act Of driving the sword |
| through Bowie--as he had hoped-the latter |
seized him BY the collar, drew the knife We have
described, and, with the speed of lightning, |
plunged into his heart turned it entirely around
in the wound, and drew it out. Tradition in Al |
exandria, twenty years ago, said that the blow
was so violent as to cut several of the ribs en-
tirely in two The fight around Bowie, whom it
was the object of the other party to kll-con-
tinued ter some time, and several other persons
were severely wounded, but Quincy and Wright
were the only persons killed on the spot. Two |
gentlemen were pointed out to US in Alexandria
twelve years after the occurrence, shaving been
wounded in the great fight on the Sand Bar.
Col. Bowie, shot through in several places and
wounded in others with drks and swort-canea
was carried to Natchez, where he lay some time
at the point of death, and when he was recover
ing ne was taken with violent spell Of bilious
fever. He survived, however, and moved to ,
Texas, where he was killed at the Alamo, April.
1886.
The SrkAIGHr-ANERIcAN Party HnEp nv
THE DENocRAcY.-It has been charged thou
sand times, that those calling themselves |.
Party in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, &c. ~.
were in the pay Of the Administration. Although
II was known that the leading organs Of that
party, IN this State, were drawing money from
tle National Treasury for advertising and Post
Omce blank jobs, awarded them BY the Democra.
cv. the fact was not susceptible Of legal proof
" = nov, however, distinctly established, 90 far
% iennsyiyania and New Jersey are concerned.
and susceptible Of demonstration in regard "a ;
our own State y
), hessrs Wendell and Megargee have been en-
'igntenlng the Congressional Investigating Com 8
mittee. The latter swears that he received mo.
ney Of the former for political purposes,n OF
the disbursement Of which he says:
Some of the money ,cas used for bird partv.
eh'cA vas orycaisd % dsert potes from ,nas ,cas
tnosra AZ "Ne Peoples party rid 10 fin Penn V
'ylyaRial the . Peoples party" was in opposi-
ion to the Democratic party we did not know
here, the party organized as the Republican y
party" the opposition to the Democratic party q
vas called = the Peoples party, AND ri Di- u
VERT VOTES FROa THAT PARTY, he bird g
,arty was organi-ed: THE OBJECT WAS 10 =
DIVIDE THE PEOPLES PARTY
Q.-Was such third party organized?
A.-Yes, sir. th
Odd You believe that was necessary to the | an
ucccss Of the Democratic partye
Ave- certainly did, o. sAonld not ka,v g;,va
hem Gae money.
Q-what vas the third party calledr *
A-zAs Straight Anseriosa tie straight Z. q
1fs. =,
The money thus distributed was derived from
be enormous prices allowed for the Government q
'rintng; and the same influences which control. ~
I'd the action Of the " Straight American Partvp
> Pennsylvania and New Jersey, controlled il
ction here The leaders were bribed, and The
AK and file were humbugged. II Albany Jour-
a. -
Who Will ~ PREslDKxr? Of course that win !,
epend very much upon circumstances: hut look a.
y a. inc thing from 0Mr sonctum, way out here
mite one-horse town, in the midst Of the u