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Show GENERAL. Gov. '.t .irinoth Kills nu F.tiitor who lolult-ft llie t'otl of lluuor." New Orleans, 2k Gov. Warmoth, to-day, stated to the agent of the associated press that he published a card in the Picayune which rellected on the Bulletin and one of its editors, Mr. Jewett. This caused the trouble between him and Byerley. Mr.Jewett demanded an abject apology, which he (Warmoth) declined to make, ' whereupon Jewett asked him if he would fight a duel. The matter was referred to their respective friends, wno arranged that the fight should take place in Alabama on Monday morning, with pistols, at ten paces. Warmoth accepted these terms. He believed courtesy between gentlemen was the rule, and was about to tip his hat at Byerley, whom he met on a crowded street, when the latter btruck him with a heavy stick, infiict-ing infiict-ing a considrab!e wound on the left temple, lie drew a knife and they clinched and fell. Waniwth w:is at onco arrested ami put in prison to await the reaitlt ui iiyeiley'a wounds, which iiro very dangerous, be.ng in the abdomen, tan not neeCssarily fatal. Later. Byerh-y wai aned 4S vears. 1-fe was a printer by trade; a native of l?c-nnyivani.t, and came to Now Orleans ui 1S47. lie served gallantly in riuield's regiment ot Louisiana volunteers in the west during the war, and was wounded four times in the tight around Atlanta. Ono wound deprived him of the " use of his leit arm, by a resection ot six inches of the bone including the elbow joint. After the war he returned to this city and was elected clerk of the third district court for two terms. Some months ago Byerley, in company with others, commenced the publication publica-tion of tho Bulletin. |