The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-18
A Singular Affair Of Honor.
from the N. Y. Commercial. !

There arrived by the Edinburg on Satur-
day, from Europe, Captain q. Lee Moses, of
Saco, Maine, late United States Astronomer,
Aa., who is yet the sufferer from the results
q singular and not unromantic affair of
honor, which was fought on the Seine, near
Paris, on the 18th OF August last.
The particulars of the affair are us fol-
lows
Capt. Moses, although a South Carolnian
by birth, is II strong and devoted adherent to
the cause of the Union, and airing his Jour
ney through France made no hesi tation in
expressing his sympa thieS and feelings for
he United States Government and his alb
norrence OF the Southern traitors and rebels
Hon. F. G.. Farquar, of Virginia, meeting the
Captain at Il hotel in Paris, and knowing his
parentage, reproached him in opproorious
terms as renegade from his native State.
He charged him with being a traitor to the
South, and man of no honor because he
abandoned her when she needed all the ser
vices of her sons, particularly her seamen and
navigators. He took occasion in his yituper-
alton, also, to cast impntations upon the
character of Northern ladies, which, as the
Captain had married New England wife,
was resented by a tremendous blow, entirely
doubling up the chiv;tlrlc Nirginan and law
ing him in ordinary for the remainder of the
evening.
Farquar was taken in charge of by his
friends, and when he had gathered his scat
tered faculties sent a challenge to the Gap
tain by the hand of his friend Mons. Ste
phanie. The challenge received prompt
response, and not twenty y-tour hours from
the first meeting of the combatants they stood
ON the hanks OF the Seine, prepared TO take
each others lives. The weapons selected
were Derringer pistols. The distance ten
PAGES the com batan IS being ordered to wheel
and fire at the given signal Farquar was
boastful and coarse in his manner and re-
marks. The Captain was calm, though de-
termined.
All being ready, Captain Moses handed Two
letters TO his second-one addressed 10 the
American Consul at Liverpool, and the other
his wife at Saco, Maine, TO he delivered in
aged back the hair from his eyes, and took his
position. The word was then giVensand with
"A sim ultaneous report of both pistols the COM
batants fell 10 the ground. Both We're shot
through the head. Farquar received a NOR
tai wound, with which he fingered several
DAYS finally dying ut IL hamlet few miles
from Paris where he had been removed to
avoid the noise of the city.
Before dying he solicited an interview with
Capt Moses, made acknowledgment OF
his base conduct, and solicited the latter 5
forgiveness which was freely granted. The
Captain, escaping from the French police,
took refuge at Liverpool, where he was con-
ceaied by the American shippers of that city
and sent on to New York by the Edinburg.
He is now at the Stephens House, in this
city, where he lies in Il very critical condi-
tion. The ball of his adversary passing iIa :
mediately under the ear, caused Il severe con-
cussion of the brain, which was more danger
Gus from the fact that the Captain had received
a severe wound in the head in The Mexican
war He bleeds frequently from the ears,
and remains in Il condition constantly threat
ening apopiexy.