Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-11-01

his health than his servant announced a
visitor with black patch. He had to
take another walk and received a second
wound Another circumference was cut
off the black patch, and the proceeding was
renewed till it was reduced to mere speek.
have finished with my plaster, SAID the
officer, on going cut for the last time. and
he killed him on the spot. Tie black
speek was. we suppose, the concentrated
point of honor r.- .r ..e sF
The Duke of Brissac adopted strange
but successful device in putting down duel
ling in his regiment. He pretended to
countenance the proceeding hut requested
that his officers before fighting, which they
did almost every day, would report the
circumstance to him. They agreed to this
joyfuily. Mkt day two made their ap-
pearance The Duke inquired the cause
Of the quarrel. AS usual it was matter
of mere contradiction. Certainly it is
worth while fighting for such matter, OBJ
served the Duke. And he gave them their
congo. Next morning at parade the two
officers were present What said the
Duke, The affair had no results then?-
Excuse me, Col, said one. holding up his
arm in a scarf, received sword wound.
Pooh ! a scratch, and question of eti-
quette, too You must fight it out. So
the officers had to fgh, again. and one of
them received wound that kept him con-
fined three weeks to BIS bed. In the in
terral several others applied fer permission
to fight, but the duke wmld not grant it.
They must wait. he said till the first quar-
rel was settled. One, day lie met the
wounded officer taking flesh air, and lean
ing on the arm of friend, What be
said, on one foot again =? Capital! Tomor-
row you can fight again, and let this affair
be flashed with. Tie two officers met
again and both fell de,d. The duke then
summoned before him those who had re-
qucsted permission to fight, and said he
would grant them then wish, but it must
be to only two at time, and in each case
he was determined to see the quarrel set
tied as in the Instance that had just occur
red The lesson had It's effect The duke
received no more requests for permissionto to
fight. ..
NJ. D Marcellus wa a pious man. Be
ing grossly insulted heappIied to Richlieu,
saying that some one Ind spit in his face.
Gu and wash yourself, simply observed
the indignant minister But the matter
did not stop there. NJ. de AIareellus was
elected one Of the nntables, and he found
that no one would sit near him. He, had
not the courage to reman firm to his reli-
gious principles, he feltthat he must wash
off the affront il blood, md he challenged
one of his deputies onlyto be slain On the
spot. ..z. I'LL. -.
Under the Assemble Natienale bat
talon of chasseurs took N oath to consid-
er every attack made upon the patriotic
members a personal affont. Boyer, on
his side organized kind Of guard, who
were designated as the jattalion des, spa
dassincides The revolution deifed reason
and legalized spadassinctle. But it soon
found other cats to whip than duellists,
and combats of man to man disappeared
in the mele that FOLLOWED, till the empire
arose, when all Frenehren being turned
into scldiers, the entractes of war were
filed up with duels Ofcers fought mere
ly to keep THEN hands in and that in the
face Of the fact that Nbolcon held duel
ling in the greatest Contempt. He pun
isbed Gen. Destaing for laving killed Gen.
Raynor in duel. ''-''
At the restoration scrcely day pass
ed without meeting letween royalists
and imperialists The insults principally
took place beneath the wooden gallery of
the Palais Royal, where tread on the toes,
or push With the elbow suficcd. An old
impcrialist fire eater, ertain Col. Dufai,
thus took in hand one dy a youth Of her
culean frame, Raoul Dynamo, who wore
the uniform of the loyal Guard but
barely eighteen years o age he was not
much practiced in the Use of arms. The
parties merely adjourned to a street close
by, that led upon Louvn, and the combat
began, but SO great was the inequality of
the parties. Col. Dufa' having disarmed
dis antagonist several tines, that, to bring
an impossible combat tc a conclusion, he
made the extraordinary proposition that
they should be tied to one another with
the exception of the right band, in which
should be dagger, aid they should be
thus placed in hacknly coach, with or
ders to drive twice around the carouzsal.
Two Of the witnesses lrove. the vehicle,
and two others got up behind. First one
cry of aonony wa. he,rd, then another,