Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-16

almost simultaneously without injury TO either,
whereupon McCaleb's second declared that he
was satisfied" and he did not deny it. This,
of course, should have ended the affair."
Mr.. McCaleb had wanted satisfaction
and he got it. If he was satisfied
more readily than could have been
expected, so much the better for Mr. Grover.
But that gentleman did not think so. Satislac-
ton for his opponent was dissatisfaction for
himself; he therefore, through his second, called
McCaeb's attention 10 an article published in
the Times of that morning over McCaleb's sig
nature, containing expressions offensive to Mr.
Grover, and demanded that MeCaleb should
withdraw that article in the Evening Times of
the same date or satisfy him Immediately.
McCaleb declined to retract the article, but ac
cepted the other alternative, claiming, however
as the challenged party, the right to choose
other weapons. As neither party happened to
have with him the weapon chosen, the meeting
was adjourned to such time and place as might
be thereafter agreed upon. The remainder Of
the story cannot be so well told as in the admir-
ably diplomatic phraseology of the seconds.
Their report is as follows:
SETTLEMENT.
The seconds of Mr. [. Howard McCaleb and
of Mr. Hiram j. Grover, having met to consider
the challenge which was this day rendered by
Mr. Grover and accepted BY Mr.. McCaleb, it was
mutually agreed that the challenge on the one
side, and the acceptance on the other, should be
withdrawn, reseryIng to the challenging party
the right to renew il; and the parties then being
in the same position thev occupied when they
met this morning in combat, under the cha-
lenge sent by Mr.. McCaleb, Mr.. McCaleb,
Ia i l. -
ond, at the meeting OF this morning, considered
his honor satisfied and withdrew him from the
field on that account; the card which he pub
lished in this mornings Times was unnecessary,
and he hereby withdraws it; the subject of con-
tention between himself ana MIR. Grover having
been honorably settled at the hostile meeting
between tn m this morning the seconds Of the
two parties thereupon declared the affair hon
orably adjusted.
W. H. COOLEY,
for Howard MeCaleb
john H. BONNER,
for Hiram J. Grover
October It'll, 1872.
Of course, where there is serious danger TO
human life an affair of this sort though having
some irresistibly comic features, has also tragic
| elements; but the evidence of any such danger
| in this instance is of the slightest, and we may
therefore laugh wlthout!resuaint. We are not
| only amused by this transaction, however, but
somewhat perplexed as well, and would respect
fully ask of our southern brethren, some OF
whom can possibly inform us, what is the the
DRY Of satisfaction by the duel? McCaleb's
second, for example, declared bis honor salts
fed after he and Grover had exchanged harm.
less shots. Did the firing of those guns
under such conditions prove that Gro
vers charges were untrue, or that they
were no good cause of offence, or that
their power to injure McCaieb was taken
away, or what did it prove, if anything, and
how and why2 We have not much confidence
that we shall receive answers to these queStions
but we hope some charitable person in New Or
leans or elsewhere will give us this satisfaction,
though we presume it is not "the satisfaction
usual among gentlemen" The people of New
Orleans, we suppose, not having the pleasure of
personally knowing many of them, are not
| essentially different from other men, and their
| conduct is controlled more or less by what they
| persuade themselves are rational motives. If
| McCaleb had any reason to desire TO shoot Gro
yer, or be shot by him, at seven O'Clock last
| Tuesday morning, which did not exist at half
past seven, when they had once fired their guns
in each others presence, we should be pleased to
hear it suggested.