Show tile the mcculty law acu ecu mr and mr cross TER TEH july duly 24 1830 5 editor of the san francisco igei aid I 1 see by the last issue issue of 0 your paper that bac reacted L ed this place that at you manifest some interest in the res result t I 1 of f an affair of honor t that hat was w as to take place between beaw een the hon hen sylvester syllester mowry and edward E cross esq i of if tubac aubac I 1 am happy to be able to say that the affair has terminated without injury ury to either party although not without w the burning of gunpowder gunpowder the he parties wert went on the field on the ath mat after having with some difficulty ar 1 ranged the preliminaries the weapons i were burnsides rifles chosen by mr air cross distance sixty yards ards the rifle being accepted tad by mr mowry against the eions of his friends supposing it to have hai e been practiced with by mr cross and at any rate an unusual weapon one not zed 1 by the code mr air mowry then insisted upon his ns right to reduce the distance and proposed forty yards instead of sixty which was for or some time strenuously opposed by mr jross cross but finally agie agreed to the ground being eing measured the parties took their star d mr air morays friend having the word the best shot was waa fired without effect but coming so near mr air cross as to cause him to flinch and to remark that it was an uncomfortably close one the second shot was fired also without effect both parties having fired too quick consequently losing losing their shots by overshooting er the third shot was fired and again without without effect althou although h very cool and deliberate upon the part of mory who fired between the words two and three the fourth shot was fi fired red byar by mr cross alone Alow mowris rys gun missing fire mr air george D mercer the friend armr of air mowry contended cor tended that hat mowry was entitled to his bis shot to which v mr air john donaldson the acting friend of mr cross demurred the question being referred to authority was decided in in favor of mr air mowry and courteously acquiesced in by mr air cross the parties were again re replaced placed and the word given when hen mowry discharged arged his weapon in in the air notwithstanding the bad shooting I 1 have never seen in in my life a greater display of gallantry coolness and courage on an occasion sion of the tha kind and but for the fact that there was at the time blowing blowing almost a hurricane across the line of fire the affair without doubt doubts would have had a more serious result mowry went on onto to the ground accompanied by a host of friends and an 1 carrying with him the approbation and good wishes of the entire community mr air cross was alone and unattended by a single friend save his bis second I 1 who was also the declared friend of mowry a very striking argument against the assertion of mr air cross that mr air mowry had no friends in arizona the ataman has chan changed ed hands and will in in future be published in in gueson 1 aeson and and will ill be devoted to the promulgation of democratic principles as well as the interests and welfare of the territory generally the name of the hon sylvester mowry will be found at the masthead for delegate to congress he will be elected without opposition G |