“Rodney, July 27, 1837.

“Mr. Johnston informs Mr. Wilcox, that at or about 1 o’clock of this day, he will be on the common, opposite the Presbyterian Church of this town, waiting and expecting Mr. Wilcox to meet him there.

“I pledge my honor that Mr. Johnston will not fire at Mr. Wilcox, until he arrives at a distance of one hundred yards from him, and I desire Mr. Wilcox or any of his friends, to see that distance accurately measured.

“Mr. Johnston will wait there thirty minutes.

“J.  M. DUFFIELD.

“Mr. Wilcox declined being a party to any such arrangement, and Mr. D. told him to be prepared for an attack.  Accordingly, about an hour after this, Johnston proceeded towards Wilcox’s office, armed with a double-barrelled gun, (one of the barrels rifled,) and three pistols in his belt.  He halted about fifty yards from W’s door and leveled his gun.  W. withdrew before Johnston could fire, and seized a musket, returned to the door and flashed.  Johnston fired both barrels without effect.  Wilcox then seized a double barrel gun, and Johnston a musket, and both again fired.  Wilcox sent twenty-three buck shot over Johnston’s head, one of them passing through his hat, and Wilcox was slightly wounded on both hands, his thigh and leg.”

From the “Alabama Beacon,” May 27, 1838.

“An affray of the most barbarous nature was expected to take place in Arkansas opposite Princeton, on Thursday last.  The two original parties have been endeavoring for several weeks, to settle their differences at Natchez.  One of the individuals concerned stood pledged, our informant states, to fight three different antagonists in one day.  The fights, we understand, were to be with pistols; but a variety of other weapons were taken along—­among others, the deadly Bowie knife.  These latter instruments, we are told, were whetted and dressed up at Grand Gulf, as the parties passed up, avowedly with the intention of being used in the field.”

From the “Southern (Miss) Argus,” Nov. 21, 1837.

“We learn that, at a wood yard above Natchez, on Sunday evening last, a difficulty arose between Captain Crosly, of the steamboat Galenian, and one of his deck passengers.  Capt.  C. drew a Bowie knife, and made a pass at the throat of the passenger, which failed to do any harm, and the captain then ordered him to leave his boat.  The man went on board to get his baggage, and the captain immediately sought the cabin for a pistol.  As the passenger was about leaving the boat, the captain presented a pistol to his breast, which snapped.  Instantly the enraged and wronged individual seized Capt.  Crosly by the throat, and brought him to the ground, when he drew a dirk and stabbed him eight or nine times in the breast, each blow driving the weapon into his body up to the hilt.  The passenger was arrested, carried to Natchez, tried and acquitted.”

The “Planter’s Intelligencer” publishes the following from the Vicksburg Sentinel of June 19, 1838.