The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-10-18
The Paris Duel Between Capt. Moses
and F. g. Farquar, of Virginia.

Among the passengers by the steamer
Edinburgh, was Captain G. L. Moses, of
Saco, Maine, whose duel with the Hon. F.
&. Farquar, of Virginia, has previously
been referred to. He is still suffering from
his wound received in that affair, the par~
ticulars of which are thus given in the Com.
naercial advertiser:
Capt. Moses, although South Carolins
ian by birth, is a strong and devoted adhe-
rent to the cause of the Union, and during
bis journey through France made no hesita-
tion in expressing his feelings and sympa-
thies for the United States Government,
and his abhorrence of the Southern traitors
and rebels. Hon. F. u. Farquhar of Vir-
ginia, meeting the Captain at a hotel in
Paris, and knowing his parentage, re-
preached him in OpprobriOus terms as a
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
services of her sons, particularly of her
seamen and navigatOrs. He took occasion,
In his vituperatioD, also, to cast impurities
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
Virginian, and laying him in ordinary for
the remainder of the evening.
Farquar was taken charge of by his
friends, and when be had gathered bis scat
tered faculties, sent challenge to the CAP
tain by the hands of his friend Mons. Ste.
phanie. The challenge received prompt
response, and not twenty four hours from
the first meeting of the combatants. they
stood on the banks of the Seine, prepared
to take each others lives. The weapons sc
lected were Derringer pistols, the distance
ten PAGES, the combatants being ordered to
wheel and fire at the given signal. Farquar
was boastiul and coarse in his manner and
remarks. The captain was calm, though
determined.
All being ready, Capt. Moses handed two
letters to his second, one addressed to the
American Consul at Liverpool, and the
othar to his wife at Saco, Maine, to be de-
livered in case be fell. He then removed
his coat bandaged back his hair from his
eyes, and took his position The word was
then given, and, with simultaneous re.
port OF both pistols, the combatants fell
to the ground. Both were shot through
the head. Farquar received mortal
wound with which he fingered several days.
finally dying at hamlet a 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 an acknowledge
ment of bis base conduct, and solicited the
latter's forgiveness, which was freely grant.
ed. The Captain escaping from the French
police, took refuge at Liverpool, where he
was concealed by the American shippers OF
that city, and sent on to New York by the
Edinburgh. asr Hsa 1a
He is now at the Stevens House, i'm this
city, where he lies in a very critical condi-
ton. The ball his adversary passing i'm
mediately ueder the ear, caused severe
conclusion of the brain, which was more
dangerous from the fact that the Captain
had received severe wound in the head in
the Mexican war. He bleeds frequently
from the ears, and remains in condition
constantly threatening apoplexy. fiss
1t is represented as dry time at Cairo