Show Chivalric Idiots Richmond 21All manner of rumors were afloat today regarding a hostile meeting between Beirne and Elam and interest in the affair has been intense The latest is that a challenge has been accepted by Elam He is reported as having left here tonIght with friends a surgeon weapons etc for the battle fieldwlnch will be outside state The Whig Elams paper had an editorial today in reply to one in the State yesterday commending in strong language on the Whig as the organ of Boss Mabone and concluding con-cluding as follows In making this comment upon Boss Mahono we wish it to be distinctly understood by all his corrupt henchmen that what we say and have said of him we mean and have meant I of them personally individually collectively or in any sense they may feel it A more vicious coi rupt gang never followed an adventurer ad-venturer than hang around the petty boss The Whig takes extracts from States article replying to each charge and concludes Now we might be content with simply Riv ing a lie to all this as we do generally gen-erally for the readjuster party especially insofar as its charges are meant to apply to the TTZmr or anybody connected with tEe Whig in a responsible way but we wish further to say that the whole article from which we make these extracts is a tissue of general enunciation e-nunciation which would humiliate if not accompanied by lofty pretensions pre-tensions of superiority in manners morals and letters that are laughable laugh-able and ridiculous coming from a source so pitiable in all moral and intellectual resourcesConEequfintly S unintimidated and not utterly crushed we laugh at the States S vituperation and vaporing and beg to remark that not only does the State lie but its editor and owner lies S Copenhagen 1rj e duel between be-tween Eichel and Baiazzie was S fought by moonlight The weapons were swords The wounds of S Eichel will likely prove fatal S Balazzie is a fugitive |