Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-11
The Paris Duel Between Captain Moses
nnd r. G. Faranar. Of YirRInIa.


Among the passengers by the steamer Ed
inJyg was Captain G. L. Moses, of Saco,
Me-, whose duel with the Hon. F. G Farquar,
of Virginia, has previously been referred to.
He is still suffering from his wound received
in that affair, the particulars of which are
thus given in the Commercial Advertiser:
Captain Moses, although a South Caroi-
nian by birth, is a strong and devoted ad-
herent to the cause of the Union, and during
his journey through France made no hesita
ton in expressing his symDathies and feel
ings for the United States Government, and
his adherence of the Southern traitors and
rebels. Hon. F. G.. Farquar, of Virginia.
meeting the Captain at q hotel in Paris, and
knowing his parentage, reproached him in
opprobrious terms as renegade from his
native State.
He charged him with being traitor to the
| South, and a man of no honor, because he
abandoned her when she needed all the
services of her sons, particularly of her sea-
men and navigators. He took occasion, in
his vituper0tion, also, to cast imputati ms
upon the character of Northern ladies, which,
as the Captain had married New England
| wife, was resented by tremendous blow,
entirely doubling up the chivalric Virginisn,
and laying him him in ordinary for the re
mainder Of the evening.
Farquar was taken charge ofby his friends
and when he had gathered his scattered fac.
ultes, sent challenge to the Captain by the
hands of his friend, Monsieur Stephanie. The
challenge received a prompt response, ant
not twenty. four hours from the first meeting
of the combatants, they stood on the bank!
of the Seine, prepared to take each other's
lives. The weapons selected were Derriugel
pistols, the distance ten PAGES, the combat
ants being ordered to wheel and fire at tn,
given signal. Farquar was boastful anC
coarse in bis manner and remarks. Th,
Captain was calm, though determined.
All being ready, Captain Moses handed twt
letters to his second, one addressed to th,
American Consul at Liverpool, and the othe
to his wife at Ssco, Maine, to be delivered il
case he fell. He then removed his coat, ban
dagod back the hair from his eyes, and tool
his position. The word was then given, an(
with simultaneous report of both pistols
the combatants fell to the ground. Botl
were shot through the head. Farquar re
ceived mortal wound, with which he ling
cred several days, finally dying at a hamle
a few miles from Paris, where he had beel
removed to avoid the noise of the city.
Before dying, he solicited an interview
with Captain Moses, made an acknowledg
ment of his base conduct, and solicited tn
latter's forgiveness which was freely grant
ed. Ihe Captaln, escaping from the Frencl
police, took refuge at Liverpool, where h
was concealed by the American shippers O
that city and sent on to New York by tn
EdinbuTg.
He is now at the Stevens House, in thi
city, where he lies in very critical condi
ton, The ball of his adversary passing i'm
mediately under the ear, caused sever
conclusion of the brain, which was NOR
dangerous, from the fact that the Captai
had received severe wound in the head i
the Mexican War. He bleeds frequsntl
from the ears, and remains in a conditio
constantly threatening apoplexy.