Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-11

OSutidl LICE put Ou.
"'Well,' said Mr.. Pierce, in reply to my
objection, win you go over with me to
the House Of Representatives Mr.. Gil
ley's second choice is General Miller, of
Massachusetts, / said Pll do any,
thing except to be publicly connected with
this duel l got into carriage with
Mr.. Pierce and we drove over to the Capt.
tol. He asked me to sit down in the Vice
| Presidents room while he went to see Sen
eral Miller. He soon returned, saying
General Miller peremptorily refused to
serve He then asked me to go with him
to see Cilley.
1--WE got into the carriage and on the
way saw Colonel James Schaumberg, be-
/ tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,
on the North Side We saw him walking
! along with his ruffies all sticking out on
his bosom and wristbands. Pierce said !:
| There's Colonel Schaumberg, who had
! that duel on horseback with broadswords.
His sword glanced off his opponents blade
and cut off part of the horses head He
was father Of Emily Schaumberg, of Phil
/ adelphia, the famous BELLE Mr.. Pierce
! stopped the driver and called to Schaum-
/ berg. l said; For Gods sake, don't take
him I objected simply because I knew
the fiery temper of the man, but Schaum-
berg got into the carriage.
I'VE drove up to Dr.. R. Then We
walked up into DR., Rs room, where
/ saw Dr. R and his son, a doctor also,
and DR.. Duncan and Bynum, member of
! the House of Representatives from North
Carolina, and Jonathan Cilley. As soon
as we entered Cilley jumped up and cor
/ Il IL I
/ General. for coming to stand by me on
| this OCCASION. Said /: Mr.. Cilley, have
not come to stand by you; l cannot serve
you as second He said: you won't re-
fuse to be my second ? l said: If serve
/ it will ruin my prospects for Delegate to
! Congress- He said: Come out here and
let me talk to you,' and he took me out
! into the hall He said Now, General, l
have stood by you in all your measures
| here in Congress, we have served together
at our great 22d of February ball at Caru-
sis and have aided YOU in every way pos
sible, and we have been managers Of this
Washington birthday ball. Mr.. Graves is
a larger man than | am. He can take me
/ by the collar with one hand, hold me up
and cowhide OF cane me with the other,
| and | have no alternative but to fight him
on this challenge
"Mr. Cilley was man who was perfectly
irresistible. l used to swear in those
days, and said, by God I'll serve your l
went III and said, Now, how do you want
to fight, and when and where Cilley
said, I want to fight immediately
/ What do you want to fight with ?
Rifles Have you got rifle p I
! ,,l-oJ sNasV CiIia,- rent n Aha 10th nc
press, or DR.. Duncan did, and took out
rifle beautifully ornamented with silver
and handed it to me. l said, This rife
IS too small. The bore is very small.
Dr.. Duncan spoke up then, saying, 4 had
this rife made to order. can take the
head off of a squirrel on the highest tree
in the Miami bottom It's too SMALL I
persisted. Mr.. Cilley said, 4 like it ex-
cept this silver end piece is too long, and
the trigger little too soft l said, I
can make the trigger as hard as you
please, and | can take off the end piece"
He said the end piece caught in his coat.
! took my seat at the table and wrote out
the terms Of The duel, which were to fight
at eighty yards with rifles on the Marl-
borough road, leading to Baltimore.
II Immediately drew the terms upon
which they were to fight, but l said, Mr.
CilIey, you have seen only one rife, have
you He said, Only one said, I
know that my friend, John Forsyth then
Secretary of State) has a fine rifle ! said
to DR.. Duncan, Take this note and get DR..
! Rs rifle l said 10 Schaumberg,
Jim, go to Mr.. Blum, and, Burnham, you
go to Forsyth and get his rife and bring
them here, whilst 1 go to deliver this
acceptance of the challenge to Mr..
Graves I went down to Mr.. Wises room
at Kings and rang the bell. The servant
came and I asked him if Mr.. Wise was in.
Yes, MASTER he said Oh, I am getting
ahead of my story. I had asked Cilley
why he preferred rifles. Are you we'll
acquainted with the rifep said l. No, /
am not he said, but l expect the Ken
tuckian would prefer pistols, therefore
demand rifles that l may be on an equal
ity.'
''Well, I walked into the house, and
there | saw Mr. Wise, and Mr.. Graves
standing by his side, examining a pair of
, dueling pistols. Said l. Gentlemen, you
are engaged in the very business l came to
see you about Wise said, Graves, you
had better 90 out Graves went out. l
handed the acceptance to Mr.. Wise, say
ing, Here are Mr.. Ciiley's terms in writ
ing If Mr.. Cilley had not accepted
verbally l would never have let him fight
Mr. Wise uttered an oath and cried,
| Great God who ever heard of
such thing as rihes?' Said I, These are
the terms upon which we fight; with rifles,
Immediately, on the Marlborough road, in
stead of B!adensburg. 50 as to avoid inter
ruption.'
a'Well,' said Wise, I don't know where
there is rifle in the whole city Then he
swore again and said in disgust, -
Rifles Why, it's barbaronsp l said, 4
have heard Of their being used before 1t
Just then occurred to me what | heard
Colonel Benton say. | went back and told
what had occurred, and Cilley said, Didn't
l tell you they expected to fight with pis-
tols?'"
"What was Cilley's bearing ?" asked the
correspondent.
"Cool, calm, collected and cheerful. He
was as brave as a man could be and a kind
hearted gentleman, too When had told
them what had occurred, DR.. Duncan said
L expected they would say they could not
get rife Ny people had secured a rife
from Forsyth and Schaumberg had got an
other, but Duncan didn't get one. He was
bound to have his own fowl rife used.
well, now Duncan says, didn't | tell You
so? General, just want you to go back
and tell them we have two rifles we don /
want, and they can have their choice or
take both Schaumbers said, That's
right / went back to Wise's room and
said: L have come to tender you the use
of either Of two rifles Mr. Wise said
we have now got one.
'By this time it was too late to go out
that day, so we had to defer it until the
next morning. Immediately after break
fast l got at Fuller's Hotel an omnibus
! (the only one in Washingten-they were
new in those days. to take our party out.
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