The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-24

| HE NEW YORK HERALp.-JAMEs Cor
! DOS BESYErr, who il now the principal tr,ira
peter of the old United States, and is dc.
! coursing blood and thunder every day. is TINS
| described in the Diary Of the late Captain
| IARHrATT, L. Y:
| lie hiss oeen horse whipped, kicked, troa-
! de1 uf.ueT loot spit upon. and degraded ia
| every possible WY; bns AZ tbs he tourts,
cocaGse II Lrines money. Horse whip him,
md Ae will lend his back To the lash ana
II INK yoa: for every blow is wOrta 80 many
AollaIe kitk him, N lie Wiz remove his
oAt-tIlS, III II on may have Il better marx
Spit Gpon him, and Lee pr4zrs il pre- ious
clutilclt. On the Gay aIier the punish ment
IA /, dishes u 1u1i and particular account OF
now many hichs, tWe.hs OF the nose, or
i.shes lie may have receiveo.'
That tAis account is In some penicuisrs lite
rally true, is shown i'y the fast that on tie
list or ed Of January, 1886, BEHSsTr a5so.
.utely Published Il circumstsntial account Of u
dru5bing which lie had received on the pre-
cetlng day hom JAMS WATSON WEBB; and
10 gives the details with seif-sutisfed and
compendiUus trevity, as follows.
Willie l was y ,ssing along Wall s,ree1
yesterday fiitsEEoou, 1T twenty five minutes
post thr.e O'Clock, I was assaulted by )
Watson webb, VINO came up behind nae, ana
with al Caken cudgei cut gush Ill nv head
out Inch and u half i'll lengih aud through
The intee uments OF the ll1uil. TIE fellow.
80 dou Oi, " nted to Let out The lever fiijinr
supply of wit and good humor which has
Created eacn Il reiJu tation tor the HtrGld and
appropriate HE contents TO sum Nv the
emptiness Of his own thick skull. lie did
iot succeed, io viewer, in ripping none of ny
IDEAS, as neither my crdhiuln nor its encio-
sure sustyiheI any serious danage. NV
iGe e. III trw days, VIII dow as r.shly AS
ever, rs Webb Wi and 10 his cost
Nh BENNETT occupies nearly column OF
the Herald with hs own aecoun; of tho fra.
cas, every particular of which is aceuralel,
narrated. His biographer exultantly declares
that ui,ss thousand extra copies of the Herald
were Sold merely on account of this interest
lng aud dienided narrative, and the implica-
ton is that the journalist was well re,nune
rated for bis broken head. The assault, it ap.
pears, WA provoked by a paragraph in the
Herald, which charged WEsn with lending
the editorial assistance of his paper the Con-
,1er aud EnYairsrJ TO the operations of Ger
tain stock jobbers in Wall street
Iu three months after the above atfray, the
Wsps for another display of his prowess 49,
Wall street was again the theatre of the war
like exhibition, and very nearly the same spot
where the Same persona encountered each
ether before, In the Herald, Of May 10th,
Mr.. BENEFIT thus describes the ARRAY:
AS was lcisureiy pursuing my bushes.
ysst rday, III wall srert, collecting tho in-
formation thai Is daily dissent at+d IN the
Rerali, James Watson WeDo came up TO me
on the northern slds OF the street, said some
Thing that could eot hear distinctly then
pusiirQ ne down tic stone Steps lie aoing TO
ous oi LIE oroa~r's offices, AID commenet d
nghtine with Il species OF brutal and demo-
LI,c deept rAiIoa characteristic OF fury.
s. NY d-'ti;iee Is Il scratch, about three
quarters OF All inch III length, on The third
niger OF the lett EAnu, which / received IRON
the iron raiAlng which ! Was forced az I..st
ana lures Dattons torn iron my vest, Which
any t.,iior VIII reiusta.e tor sixpenoe His
loss is Il rent IRON top 10 bottnsl of a very
beautiful black coat, which cost the ruifan
forty doilars, aud>a blow ia his face which
may have Knocked down his throat some OF
Ills initrnai teeth, tor anything that l know
10 the conTery. BalaEce In my favor, sS3 So
Tue description OF WEBS "Ge:noniac
decoration and the scaniy results theresrola,
resembles the bulletins Ia the same paper from
the oattie.neiGs OF tai, war, III which the eue-
my poured d terrible storm OF shot and shell
np9u tie Cniei. camp, causing the destruction OF
two lives" However, BENNETT must have
deiitsd lnaen pecuniary consolation from his
vaAcas assaults and batteries. Enceuragedhy
the success of NEls, every editor in New
York who had money enough to pay the dam
ayes in ia action for aseanit ami battery, pur
Chased u reputation for lighting qualities, BY
cutting aud kieking old BEssxrr, whescupon
nc published an account of the scene, which
bfoasat him a. ieas. as Elany eoppers ~ kicks.
aud .hsn brought suit in court, and obtained
n verdict for something handsome. This kiad
oi eSefeies seeas to have been for many wears
matter of mutual accommodation between
aSssEsT AID saeh beliesrsnts Of the New
ios2 Papers ss had mosisy 70 spend Ia iaxu.
ries
Ana yet lais miserable old man 10, day after
gay, wi'h all the force Of Lis lungs CRYING
havoc, aud ist slip the dogs Of war; He, 40
deoased aad lost to shalne that no ,aan would
| strike him who Is not az great i coward !.
himself, is the loading war organ Of tlls LIS
COILS despoiism, nrges ON the Invasion and des.
citation Of the South, ind denounces AZ ,yhita
Feather TRAITORS" every man in the North who
dsrss % breathe syllxbls for pr.a~
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