Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-12-28

catering to the common taste. Crit.
tenden said, during his second
speech, that no language was toll
erable that could not be sustained
| by the Code of Honor. At this the
infamed Conway interrupted him
with denunciation and invectivo,
and Crittenden stopped the discus
sion, and sent the challenge the
same evening. They met next
morning in the presence ofas many
people as had listened to the dis
cussion. Crittcndon's second was
Ben. Desha, of kentucky; Conway's
Colonel Wharton Rector. All Ar
kansas might have been said to be
assembled. A quarrel of an hour
arose over the preliminaries and
Crittenden lay quiet on his blanket
while Conway excited himself. AS
they stood up to fight Conway
looked tho swarthy Tennesseean
stern and premeditative; Critten-
den, tho fair haired, spirited Ken
tuckian. Desha gave tho word,
loud as the proclamation of tho
law. Conway fred first, and cnt a
button from Crittenden's coat. The
next minute he fell heavily to the
ground, shot through the heart.
Mr.. Crittendcn had set Arkansas
an example.
soLAND BoRLAND.
An Arkansan who became noto-
rious the world over for a brief
time was Soland Borland. The in
cident which gave him such wide
blame was the bombardment of San
Juan, at Graytown, Central Amerl-
ca. The event happened in looz,
in the time of Franklin Pierce.
Borland was native of Virginia,
educated in North Carolina, and he
went to Arkansas under the patron
age of Ambrose II. Sewer, to edit
the latter's political organ. His
superior training gave him the ad-
vantage, and he adopted the Ar
kansas code as easy enough to con.
quer by, so that he wrote and
fought on the line Of an ambitious
career, until no superseded Sewer
in tho United States Senate. To-
ward the close of his term, the
modern organizing politician ap-
peared in the person of Robert w.
Johnson, {" the most successful pub.
lie man we ever had in Arkansas. ="
Johnson held the State hence-for-
ward until the rebellion, and Bor-
land lost both his newspaper pre-
eminence and his seat. In these
gloomy circumstances, he was Of
fered tho Governorship of New
Mexico by Frank Pierce, but pre-
ferred instead the post of Envoy to
Central America, with power to
mako treaties. He was a strict
Manifest Destinarian, and con-
temned the British Mosquito Pro-
tectorate under which the town of
San Juan held q sort of nude mu-
nicipal Independence. Some quar-
rels took place between the town
and the Americans on shore, and a
British Lieutenant, who had a ship
at hand, made himself dutifully Of
ficious. The town refused to pay
some American obligations; the ma
tiyes were accused of stealing and
dodging responsibility, and the
Americans of numbering negro
river captain. The murderer fled
to a steamer, and Borland and the
passengers protected him from ar
rest. The town authorities then
sought to arrest Borland ashore,
and a irregular" Arkansas melee
then took place, during which some
body-mnybe the Britisher-threw
bottle marked Barclay & Perkins,
that bottle wherewith the Briton,
refreshed upon its contents, has
conquered India, Abyssinia and
much of the globe. MIR. Borland
could not resist this weapon which
came in such q questionable shape ;
it was outside the Code. He there.
fore sent for the only thing equal
to tho occasion-a ship-of-war. The
Cyano came up promptly, COM
manded by J. S. Hollins, the same
who afterwards appeared off South,
west Pass with the first ram used
in tho war; The Commodore con
suited with Mr.. Borland and Mr.
Fabens, tho Consul. Everybody
knows Fabens as the friend OF Baez
seventeen years afterwards, and
one of Mr.. Summers Santo Domin'
go 'jockeys." An American En-.
voy Extraordinary from the town
of Little Rock had been struck on
the face with an empty bottle
This bottle had not only been
thrown, but the contents previously
drunk. As there was nobody to
be posted for a coward, and nc
body could read it if it were, there
seemed to be nothing to do bu'
lombard Greytown.
Mr.. Fabens, however, with or
oye to business, 6rst made a formal
demand on "the authorities fol
the immediate payment of s24, 600
besides an apology for the unknown
person who had fired the bottle la.
belled Barclay & Perkins. The of
fer was declined, as nobody in San
Juan knew how TO make an apollo
gy. Commodore Hollins immedi.
ately thereupon hitched up bis
breechos and mustered his crew
He served the British Lieutenant
with a proclamation on board his
ship. The Lisutenant's name was
Jolley. Jolley doggcdly replied
that his vessel was too weak to en-
gage with the big ship Cyane, but
he mournfully protested on the
grounds of an outraged civilization
and certain valuable British prop
erty in the place. Hollins and Bor.
land replied that they also regretted