Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-25

got TWO four-pOund brass cannons and
put them uD in my Office and loaded
Thorn with shot and nails. / had them
or table and their mouths were just as
high as mans breast and they faced
the door. Is q mob attempted to enter
expected TO shoot right into it, and /
had in the Office also a key Of powder,
which 1 expected to blow up with
match and send my enemies into etern-
ity N they succeeded in capturing the
Office. Well. the mob attacked me, but
/ was not killed. Some time after this
l went into the Mexican war as captain
OF company. Tom Marshall was cap
tain OF another company OF the same
regiment, and I decided TO settle my
trouble with him before we got through
the war. He was drunk about half the
tine, and ! believed he often cultivated
drunkenness IN order TO enable him to
say mean things and not be called TO &C
count for them. 1 expected to have a
duel with him and 1 got stone and
sharpened my sword until 10 shone like
silver and had az edge like razor.
l gave him one or two chances to chal-
lenCc me, but he did not do so, and st
last one day when we we're in camp Mar
shall rode down into my quarters. lie
NAY have been drunk and be may have
mista ken my company for his. At any
rate he came mp TO me and made some
insulting remark. rose and said: Tom
Marshall. we may as well settle our feHd,
and now is as good time as any. Get
down from your horse and we will dght
IL ont he replied: Not now. Some
other time. ! here drew my sword and
said: The time for men who wear
swords is now. You chose your own
time 10 mob me at Lexington. and you
are n coward II you refrain on account
OF your surroundings Marshall here
upon rode over 10 his tent. In few
moments he came back with bis pistol.
J saw him and I went into my tent and
got mine. l came out with one in each
hand. They were cooked, and l said:
I am ready for you He was coward,
and be was afraid TO FIRE. He turned bis
horse and rode back to his tent. That
same evening he tried to drown himself
In the Rio Grand river, but the men saw
him and prevented him. He was afraid
Co fight, but he was not afraid to COM
nit suicide. Had we fought with
swords would have carved him up like
a pancake"
CLAY'S FIGHT WITH SAM BROWN.
''Do you remember any other circum-
stauces?"
Eyes, replied General Clay, 81 snip
pose I could give others. 1t is curious
that even a brave man when he is once
beaten hates TO encounter the same man
again. 1 can only explain the fact that
l was not challenged by Sam Brown ef-
ter our terrible fight on these grounds"
"What was the fight, General?"
at arose out Of a congressional con-
test" replied General Clay. II was a
candidate against a man named Wick
life and Wicklitfs introduced my wife'S
name into one of his speeches. l chal-
lenged him and we fred at ten PAGES.
Both Of US missed and IraiSed my pistol
up into the air and demanded a second
fire. The seconds would not permit
this. and we left the ground without q
reconciliation or an apology on either
side. AS / look over the matter now l
don't believe our seconds had loaded the |
pistols with balls, and did not see how
/ could have missed. l was an excellent |
shot, and was accustomed TO shooting !
with a rifle and a revolver. One Of |
my favOrite amusements was squirrel |
shooting, and l could shoot the heads of |
OF eleven out Of twelve squirrels when |
out hunting. You know il a squirrel |
sees you and runs up tree, and you re-
main quiet, as soon rs he gets into what |
ever he considers safe place he will |
pote ont his head and look TO see where |
YOU are, and the skill IN squirrel shoot |.
ing is TO shoot OF the head OF the Squir !
rel.
THE BOWIE KNIFE VS.. THE PISTOL.
'Well, Wickliffe here had the worst
OF the fight AMI during the canvass |
for Congress / was making q very good |
opposition 70 him, much To the disgust
OF the pro-Siavery party. He had a |
haudbul which he read during his
speech. We made our speeches together
and when ne brought out this bill al
ways rose and asked il 1 might inter
ruUt him. He would politely consent
and 1 would then say that the handful !
he had read was untrue and had been
proved so. The prO-slavery men got
tired Of this and they decided to kill me.
They sent for Sam Brown, who was one
the most noted DULLES of Kentucky. 1t is |
said that be had had forty fights and
had never lost battle. Brown came,
and he and Wickliffe, a fellow named |
Jacob Ashton and Ben Wood, police |
bully, held a consultation, at which they |
loaded pistol which Brown was TO use |
upon me the next day. knew nothing |
OF this and had not my dueling pistols |
with me. 1 interrupted Wickliffe as US |
ual, and as l did so Brown struck me |
With his umbrella and told me that my |
statement was a- lie. l saw at once |
that be meant fight and when 1 recog-
nized Brown knew it meant fight TO |
death. l had q long sharp bowie knife |
in the breast of my coat and 1 jerked |
this out, but before 1 could strike
Browns friends grabbed my arms from
behind and hauled me back about tii-
teen feet from Brown. Brown now
pulled his revolver and told them TO get
out OF the way and TO let him kill me.
The crowd got back and l stood alone.
Brown had his pistol pointed at me and
1 started toward him. l could see him
DOCKING along the barrel Of the revolver
He took aim and waited until he thought
was close enough 10 give him sure
shot, and then fred. felt the ball
strike me in the breast and thought il
had gone through me, and l determined
to Kill him II I could before l died.
came down on his head with tremend-
Gus blow with the bowie knife, but did
not split open his skull. struck again
and again, and stunned him so that he
was not able 10 fire. With one cut Of
the knife I sliced his nose right in two,
so that il separated in the middle and
came out as hat as pancake. With an
other blow 1 cut of his ear, so that it
hung by q shred, and with third put