San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, September 17, 1859, Vol. 1 No.24 TO OUR PATRONS We this week place at the head of our paper the name of C.N. Fox, Esq., as editor, and place our editorial columns under his charge. THE ELECTION Official canvass Precincts in the county of San Mateo 10 Mile Stable San Mateo Spanish Town Purissimo Redwood City Searsville Greer's S. House Lapham's Mill Finch's House … The following was the vote of the several Townships for local officers: First Township - Supervisor: I.G. KNOWLES, 51, R.S. THORNTON, 78, E. WEHLER 69; Justices of the Peace; James MEE 134, W.A. CLARK 81, J. RAND, 64, H.L. WHITE, 21; Constables; J. CASEY 122, B.F. FOX, Jr. 107, R.E. MORRIS 57 Second Township - Supervisor; M. WOLF 210, Justices of the Peace; J.P. AMES 134, L. HILL, 127, A.T. SWART 74, E. ZABELLA 28, E.D. BOWMAN 3. Constables; S. FORD, 200, Wm LAMPMAN 146 Third Township - Supervisor: J.V. DILLER 298, R.J. WEEKS 157. Justices of the Peace: J.W. TURNER 237, A. TEAGUE 217, T. MOYLAN 147, O.P. MASON 159, W. LAZWELL 36, L. RICE 79. Constables: J.S. KIETH 257; C. PARSHALL 180, J. CANION (?) ??8, J.P. ROSS 40. QUALIFY - We now have a full complement of officers elected, and we hope to see each and every one of them quality, and be ready to do duty when occasion may require. The offices of Justices of the Peace and Constable are comparatively worthless, but they are sometimes indispensable to the community - and no man ought to allow the people to elect him, unless he is willing to serve. The Stockton Republican says, that a number of immigrants from the plains have arrived at that place. Train after train encamps nightly upon the outskirts of the city, seldom passing through it and leaving on the morning for Contra Costa, Tulare and other counties. They and their stock appear to be in fine condition. CODE DUELLO Again has the moral sense of the whole community been shocked by an appeal to this barbarous code. Again have the laws upon out statute books been openly and shamefully violated. And this time, too, it has been done by men from whom, on account of their intelligence and high position, we should have looked for better things. Done, too, for no apparent cause, for if the statement which we give below from the Sacramento Bee is correct, and we believe it is, we defy any man to point out a reasonable excuse for the bloody affray - for it deserves no better name - which took place of Tuesday morning. D.C. BRODERICK, a United States Senator, and David TERRY, a Judge of the Supreme Court, have each forsaken their high positions - trampled under foot the Constitution and laws which they had sworn to support - the one dishonored the mantle of a Senator - the other disgraced the ermine of the Bench - and entered the ring next in the downward grade of human depravity to that of the pugilist - and upon the false-named field of honor - with weapons peculiarly adapted to the hand of an assassin, have sought to blot out, each in the other's blood, the little honor that yet remained to himself. Honor, indeed, on such a field! This duel has been for some time on the tapis, and during the first days of the week much anxiety was felt throughout the State to know the result. The parties met on Monday morning, near the Lake House, and had just got the preliminaries arranged when they were interrupted by the police of San Francisco, and required to appear before Judge COON to answer to an attempt to fight a duel. The Judge discharged them on the ground that "an attempt" was not punishable under the law. On Tuesday morning they again met, and this time succeeding in accomplishing their purpose. The weapons were TERRY's own dueling pistols, set with hair-spring triggers, carrying half-ounce balls. The distance ten paces. When the word to fire was given, from some cause (a dozen different ones are given) BRODERICK's pistol went off prematurely, taking effect in the ground. TERRY took deliberate aim and fired, hitting his antagonist just above the right nipple - the ball passing around the front of the body, crushing the sternum bone, passing through the left lung and lodging under the skin near the left arm. BROKERICK fell and was soon removed to the house of Leonidas HASKELL, where he was properly attended to. The wound was supposed to be mortal, but at this time (Wednesday afternoon) our latest reports are that he is still living, with some ground to hope that he may recover. TERRY immediately hasted across the Bay, and overland to Sacramento. Much excitement prevailed in San Francisco, on learning the result of the contest, and the city papers are full of details of the tragic scene, but we have neither the space nor the desire to copy them. We regard the whole affair as a disgrace to our State, and to the parties engaged in it. The seconds of TERRY were Calhoun BENHAM and Thomas HAYES - of Broderick, J.C. McKIBBIN and General COULTON. Of the origin of the difficulty, the Bee says: The facts are like this: The Anti-Lecompton State Convention of June last was held in this city (Sacramento) one week in advance of the Lecompton Convention. Judge Terry was a candidate before the latter for a re-nomination, and was defeated. On the last night of the sitting of that body, all the prominent defeated candidates were called to the stand, the Judge among them. He made a short spirited address, in which he said, among other things, after asking who was opposed to the party to which he belonged: "They (the Anti-Lecompton) are the followers of one man, the personal chattels of a single individual, whom they are ashamed of. They belong heart and soul, body and breeches, to David C. BRODERICK. They are yet ashamed to acknowledge their master, and are calling themselves, aye forsooth, Douglas Democrats, when it is known, well known to them as to us, that the gallant Senator from Illinois, whose voice has always been heard in the advocacy of Democratic principles, who now is not disunited from the Democratic part, has no affiliation with them, no feeling in common with them. Perhaps, Mr. President and gentlemen, I am mistaken in denying their rights to claim Douglas as their leader. Perhaps they do sail under the flag of Douglas, but it is the banner of the black Douglas, whose name is Frederick, not Stephen." BRODERICK has read this, and which at breakfast, one morning at the International Hotel, San Francisco, entered into conversation with those near him on the subject and stated that he had once expressed the opinion that "Judge TERRY was the only upright man upon the Supreme Bench, but he believed that he would now have to take that back." Mr. PERLEY, a friend of TERRY, once his law partner took offence at this and replied sharply. Some further remarks were made, and BRODERICK in the heat of the moment expressed his sorrow that the Vigilance Committee did not hang TERRY when it had him in custody. The result was the PERLEY challenged BRODERICK, and the latter refused to accept on several grounds, and also stated that he would not accept a challenge from any person until after the election. On election day, TERRY in company with PERLEY, left this city for San Francisco, the Judge having first resigned his office. It was known on the boat going down that TERRY intended to challenge BRODERICK. The Judge, we believe, halted at Benica, went to Stockton for his physician - Dr. AYLETT - and left overland for San Francisco. TERRY sent BRODERICK a preemptory challenge. BRODERICK, through his friends desired to know the particular offence he had given, or the language he had used, which caused the challenge - and whether it had anything to do with his difficulty with PERLEY. The answer was, we hear, that it had no direct reference to the PERLEY matter, but to the language used, about that time, by Broderick, in which he expressed his regret that the Vigilance Committee had not hung the Judge. To this BRODERICK's friends replied that while he spoke thus in a moment of excitement, such were not the sentiments of the feelings of his heart; for he did not wish that body to hang any man, and that he was willing to acknowledge this publicly; but, as it was called out by what Judge TERRY had said of BRODERICK at the Lecompton State Convention, in Benton's church, TERRY should also withdraw what he had "said" of BRODERICK upon that occasion. This TERRY peremptorily refused; hence, there was no course left but to fight. ** To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php