Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1883-01-25

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bia. When Mr. Chiltnu consent
ed TO deliver Dir. Clinglnan's note.
il was expressly understood he
tween ahem that If the matter
should require d hostile meeting.
he would BE relieved from further
connection with il.
A TRIP 10 BALTIMORE.
After the delivery Of the last
nnte, Mr.. Clingman Immediately
proceeded to Baltimore, where be
found the writer and placed the
matter i'm his hands. Upon inqui-
~ 4 ascertained that he was en-
tirely anaequainted with the use
and handling II tie dHelling pis
t0l, never having even red one,
and that bis adversary was sup
posed to bela pfactieed shot. He
exhibited to me 4 finely finished
and costly pair Of pistols, stating
they were che property Of Senator
VIM. Allen, Of o., who had import
ed them and from whom they had
been borrowed. vi o examination
the writer thought LnensaoO heavy
and not well balanced for drop
ping, the mode of firing he thought
best for an inexperienced shot to
adopt. So he left immediately for,
and returned that night from Wash
ington, bringing with him a pair
Ol mis- own pistols, which he thought
better adapted fBr the purpose.
With the two pairs of pistols
Mr.. CliHgman was sent into the
country, two or three miles from
the city, that he might be free
from arrest, and become familiar
with the handling of his pistol.
with the instructions 10 select the
pistol whic he thought he could
handle best, his second remaining
in the city 10 receive Mr.. Yamcey,
who had notified Mr.. Clingman OF
has readiness TO meet hIm in Bal
timOre without unnecessary delay.
On Saturday morning, the 1lth,
Mr.. Yancey, with his friend. Mr..
Huger, of South Carolina, arrived.
A correspondence was Immediate
ly opened by Mr.. Clingmah's sec
0nd, with an earnest effort to bring
about an amicable adjustment, but
without avail, and a hostile meet
ing became inevitable, and was
fixed upon TO take place at IL
m. on Monday, the 18th, near
Beltsville, little tavern on the
Baltimore and Washington turn
pike, about twelve miles from
Washington That evening NJ.
( k1linRlpan. his second, his surgeon,
Dr. Chas. Bell GIBSON, and the
Hon. j. III. b gausin. Represen-
tative from Maryland, as advising
friend, left BAiTimore in hack,
AM We're carried by his second TO
the residence OF a friend, Mr.. Chas.
q. Hanson, living in the country,
abcut II miles from Baltimore and
eight from the place agreed on for
the meeting. We we te received
and treated by Mr.. Hanson with
all the hospitality then so charac-
teristic of the Maryland gentle
man.
The following day, Sunday, we
remained at Dir. Hanson's, when
Mr.. Clingman's second attempted
to avail himself of the first Oppor-
tunity that had occurred to give
him some practical instructions
with the use of the pistol, but the
day was too windy for more than
a very little practice.
SENATOR ALIENS PISTOLS.
While in Baltimore Mr. Clingmans
second had received a letter from
Hon. James Alfred Pearce, Senator
from Maryland, stating the pistols
which Mr.. Clingman brought with
hiIa had been borrowed By him from
Senator Allen, of Ohio, and that Mr..
Allen. learning that they were to be
used by Mr.. c., desired their imme-
diate return, as when purchasing them
he had determined they should never
he used against personal or politi-
teal friend.
was desirous that Mr.. Clingman
should use my own pistols, as they
were lighter and better adapted to the
drop, but found he had decided pre-
ference for Mr.. Aliens. 1t was there
fore determined. as be pistols were
in our possession ail4 there was no
mode of taking them out, to iguepe,
in u matter of life and death, Mr.. AL
len fanciful notions. II was there
fore settled that Mr. Clingman would
use Mr.. As pistols At later day,
when Mr.. Alien was told Of the cir
cumstances, he laughed over it as
good joke. while Mr.. Pee, the
writer thinks, never fully Cd ave him
for permitting the pistols ID be used.
On Monday morning. after an early
breakfast, Mr.. Hanson carried us to
the residence of Col. Horace Capron,
about four miles distant from the
place agreed on for the meeting,
where we were most kindly received.
Here leaving Mr.. Chngman aud the
rest Of the party to partake Of lax
urious lunch Col. Capron had provi-
ded, his second went ahead in q
buggy, driven by q servant and
drawn hY fine pair Of horses, the
properly Of Mr.. Hanson. tomeet AIE.
fanceys second. to eeiect the precise
spot for the meeting. instracting them
to follow so as 70 be on the ground
precisely at the time designated for
the fight. When came within a
mile Of the Beltsville tavern / passed
a couple Of gentlemen walking on the
road, one Of whom recognized and