Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-10

iii check betrays the warm kiss. The
air crowns it with wrentlls Of soft W.
l"r, ami the waters around it take the
h,lcs Of the emerald and the sapphire.
In fnltillmeMt of it's destiny il moves
onward in the blue pathway
through tho varying seasons and under
the changcful skies. Slowly. as in
ages long gone 10y it arose from tho
broad waters, does it sink back into
them. 1t is indeed Il noble symbol Of
the lava monument of Times slow
changes. moro ancient than the Egyp-
tian pyramids or the obclisk Of Hell
opolis. Its crystals were dew drops
and snOwtiakes long before the human
race was born III Eden.
The Rhett.COoley Duel.
The New Orleans Herald of Tuesday
has the following particulars of the
fatal duel between Col. r. b. Rhett. of
the Picayune, and Judge VIM. H.
Cooley:
i" For several days past the com,nu-
nifty has been mach c.citcd by un az.
pretended duel between Col. II. B.
Rhett. Jr., editor of the Picayune, and
Judge VIM. II. Cooley, tho leading
counsel in the case of Hawkins VS.. the
picayune. The facts of the controversy
will be hereafter elected. We presume
1t will suffice for the present to state
that on last Friday Col. r. b. Rhett
sent peremptory challenge t, Judge
Cooley, which was accepted by him
the meeting, however, to be post
poned until Tuesday ON account of
Cooley's engagement to argue the rule
for new trial before Judge Hawkins,
which came up yesterday. During the
course OF the argument Judge Cooley,
i'll opposing the motion for a continu-
ance, remarked that If the case went
over till Wednesday he might not be
alive to argue it, and so it has sadly
turned out to-day. The parties left on
the Mobile tram Mt eight O'Clock,
arriving ut Montgomery station at ton
A: H., where the party dlsembarked.
Montgomery station, where the duel
occurred, is a wild, sandy looking
place, some four or five miles this side
Of Bay st. Louis, where the road passes
through wood of tall pines, behind
which is an open field. Near 10y, on the
line of the railroad, is a small cottage
occupied by family, but with this
exception there are no residents nearer
than thrce-quarters Of mile. This
difficulty is ono Of the sad results OF
the iniquitous Hawkins trial against
the Picayune, of which Col. Rhett i.
editor. In his speech for the prOsccu-
ton Judge Cooley made reflections
upon that paper which called forth an
editorial in it's next issue pronouncing
them false. Judge Cooley then ad-
dressed communication to the editor
calling for explanations, which not be-
lug accorded, he followed it up by a
published card assailing Col. Rhett.
A challenge promptly followed, and
the result is now before our readers.
Judge VIM. H. Cooley was born in
Point Coupee, and was the son of
Judge Thos. Thos. j. Cooley, his
mother being O Ledoux, also of the
parish of Pointe Coupee. He was
educated and graduated in the Acatl-
envy department of Pennsylvania Uni
vcrsity, of Kentucky, in i847, in the
same year and in the same institution
where Gov. Voorhees, graduated in
law. He was subsequently appointed
Parish Judge Of Pointe Coupee by
Michael Hahn. The first appearance
OF Judge Cooley prominently before
the New Orleans public was az repre-
sentative from Pointe Coupee in the
Reconstruction Convention which sat
ut the Mechanics Institute, in which
he took leaking part. When the re-
construction election took place, Judge
Cooley, having select New Orleans
as his residence, was nominated by the
Democracy as their candidate for the
iudgeship of the Fifth District Court
Of the city, to which position he was
elected, and which he maintained until
the recent election, when he declined
submitting his name before the Con
vcntion. At the time Of his death
Judge Cooley was about ~ years old.
Judge Cooley was widowcr, having
married a Miss Plantinrugnc, who died
about four years ago. His only child
is how about ten or twelve years old.
His father, Judge Thos. J. Cooley,
and his two brothers, are we'll known
to the legal fraternity, and officers of
the courts. Ho was man of extra
ordinary natural abilities, anu what
he knew, either of law or language,
came to him as by intuition. His mind
while it was easily warped by passion
or prejudice, was exceedingly analytic,
and in ceses where neither personal
feeling nor party a'limosities interferetl
to cloud his judgment, his decisions
were almost critically correct. With
an cxcusable fund of humor, a keen
! sense OF the ridiculous, and being an
being an adept in the use of satire, he
was ut once warm friend or bitter
enemy This is not the first duel in
which he has been concerned. Some
years before the war he met DIR. Kauf-
man, one of his parisllionels upon the
field of honor, and after an exchange
OF shots, sn amicablc adjustment of the
difficulty was made, and thereafter the
parties became warm personal friends.
he had y supreme contempt for shams,
and was fond of launching the arrows
of wit and sarcasm against all manner
of hypocrisy. He had religion and 1.
code of morals peculiarly his own, and
with all his ecccntricitics was a man of
liberal IDEAS and warm impulses.
The i'otly WAS brought to the city on
the evening train, ana left at the hos
pitul. The funeral takes iplaco to.
morrow morning ut 10 O'Clock from the
corner of Seventh and st. Charles
streets
Trlyciing Dresses,