Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-07-02

NEW York, July 2.-On June sui
r. w. Taylor, First Controller Of the
Treasury, addressed a letter to an
Eastern Senator saying that the back
pay Of Senators and Representative;
will be at their disposal two years
from date.
Anew PRECEDENT for Cuba.
The Sun announces that Salvador
Cisneras has been chosen President Of
the Cuban Republic, Csspedes having
resigned.
Farewell Dinner.
The members of the staff Of ex-Gov.
Jewell, the newly appointed Minister
to Russia, rendered him a farewell
dinner last night at the Hoffman
House. Among the guests were Baron
Gutenberg, the Russian Minister.
Death OF Congressman.
CINCINNATI, July 2.-rhe Chronicles
dispatches from Marietta, Ohio, state
that Hon. James G. Wilson, member
of Congress from Oregon, died of par
alysis at that place this morning.
The waIwsrih Trinl.
At the Walworth trial to-day a large
crowd was present. District Attorney
Phillips, in his argument for the prose
cution, controverted the claims of the
defense that the prisoner was affected
by either epilepsy or insanity.
Matricide Arrested.
Thos. Feeney was arrested for fatally
beating his mother in Brooklyn last
night.
The CooIey-Rhcit Duci-Cnusc OF the
Affair.
New ORLEANS, July 1.-The lmme-
date cause Of the duel fought yester-
day between Col. r. B. Rhett and
Judge w. II. Cooley was a published
card Of the latter, in which he gave
the correspondence between himself
and Rhett in reference to the express
sions used by the Judge In his argu-
ment In the Hawkins-P icayune libel
case, which card concludes as follows {:
The public will see BY the cores
pondence that | made q fair, honest
and manly offer to Col. Rhett, viz: to
publicly acknowledge I was wrong II
he could show from his own files that,
from December IL, 1872, until Febru-
airy %, 1873, the Picayune had used
toward any member of the Lynch Re-
turnirg Board, except Judge Hawkins,
tho terms perfidy, perjury and bribery,
provided that he agreed to admit he
had spoken incorrectly In the article
of yesterday morning If he could
not prove what | denied. The valiant
and truthful Colonel lodges the issue
in his letter to me and very compla-
Gently refers me to the files Of his pa
per from December 10, 1872, to Febru-
airy %, 1873. l had already examined
these files and knew that Col. Rhett
could not prove by them that had
misstated the Picayune, and | presume
that Col. Rhett employed the twenty
four hours of delay he claimed and
was allowed to answer my note to
him. In examining those files him
self, ard after satisfying himself
therefrom that he was fairly caught,
he refused the proposition made to
him, Col. Rhett having written to the
Pfcayune that l made assertions to the
Jury which were maliciously and Will
fully false, and having subsequently,
refused my fair, honest and honorable
offer to decide which of us is correct,
| publish him to the people of New
Orleans as an unmitigated calumnia-
tor, q deliberate and wiltul falsifer,
an artful dodger and withal
a thorough faced ~bragsart." This APP
peared in the Times, of this city, on
June 27th, and on Friday last Colonel
Rhett sent a peremptory challenge to
Judge Cooley, which was accepted. he
asking, however, that the meeting be
postponed till Tuesday yesterday, on
account of his engagement to argue
the motion for a new trial before Judge
Hawkins, which came up on Monday.
This is not the first duel in which he
has been concerned. Some years be-
fore the war he met DR.. Kaufman,
one Of his fellow Pensioners, upon
the field Of honor, and after an eS-
change Of shots, an amlcable adjust
ment Of the difficulty was made, and
thereafter the parties became warm
friends.