Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-21
The STORY Tstter.
JAMES BOWIE'S DUELS.
Legends of the Mississippi River In
the Early Sixties.
Illustrated American.

Illustrated American.
Late as the year 1860, the steamers
plying on the Mississippi river were
|just as infested with organized gangs
of gamblers as are some Of the steam
ers now that ply between this country
and Europe, and the scenes thereon
occurring were frequently of a violent
character, for people are robbed nova
days with much more equarimity in
all ways than they were in the good
old times.
During the fall of 1882, the steamer
Orleans, Captain Davis commanding,
running between Nashville and the
Crescent City, became the theatre of a
rather typical encounter. A young
man of Natchez going North for the
isummer on his wedding trip, had been
requested by q number Of merchants
and planters in the neip hborhood to
collect sundry accounts due them in
New York and some other places
where he proposed to visit.
A gambling syndicate in some mys-
terious way, had gotten news of this
and had been informed that if properly
handled, the young man might he an
easy mark. They watched him care.
fully and shortly after his arrival in
New York some of their members
made his acquaintance and learned
that he would return South by way OF
Pittsburg, where he proposed to
board a steamer for Louisville, and,
after visiting a few days in that city,
TO take a packet for New Orleans that
stopped at Natchez and other points
on the river.
One of the men who had made his
acquaintance in New York joined him
on the boat at Pittsburg, and, greeting
him heartily US an old friend, intro
duced him to two alleged Louisiana
planters, who made themselves quite
agreeable. Cards were introduced in
the gentlemen's cabin during the even
ing, and the young man was allowed to
win small sums, so that by the time
the boat reached Louisville he fondly
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Ine game anu 'ne equ"' VI LILO opp0'
ne1ss. mS .ho,o dou, ra 6
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and in which the "three-pluck-one" or
favorite cross.lifting trick of the gam
oilng fraternity can oe oi''''a'S q"
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