CHIVALRY ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 261, 13 April 1875, Page 3

CHIVALRY ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE.

A duel, arising out of the war of secession, has lately been fought in San Francisco between a Northern man, whose “ brother was hanged” as a spy by the Confederates, and an ex-rebel officer. By some strange accident the officer who arrested the alleged spy and the Union soldier’s brother met on the Pacific slope. All the vengeful memories of the civil strife were called into life by the unlooked-for meeting. The Northern man denounced the ex-Coufederate as a murderer and assassin. As a consequence a challenge was sent and accepted. Both men were brave, and at the first fire the Southern man was wounded, slightly, however. For some unknown reason he fired in the air, and then insisted on continuing the combat. The Northern man properly refused to fire on a man who would not defend himself, and the friends of both having decided that the duel could not go on, the Southern champion turned his weapon against himself. Fortunately it did not explode, and the man was disarmed and taken in charge by his friends. There is a serious lesson in this duel which statesmen can study with advantage. War carried on generously leaves few rankling wounds, while acts of severity leave bitter memories that are not easily effaced. We may congratulate ourselves that the civil war has left behind so few vendettas. We cannot but regret that the mutual friends of the parties in this dueljsaw no means of preventing it. The Southern soldier seems to have only performed his duty in arresting a suspicious person within his lines and was in no way responsible for the execution of the Union soldier. Men of right minds on both sides’should frown down foolish attempts to revive the hostile feelings of a dead past, — New York Herald.