NORTH AND SOUTH IN PARIS.

Colonist, Volume V, Issue 465, 8 April 1862, Page 3

NORTH AND SOUTH IN PARIS.

There arrived by the steamer Edinburgh from Europe Captain C. Lee Moses, a citizen of Saco Maine, formerly U.S. astronomer, &c. He is suffering from the results of a singular duel fought in August last, on the banks of the Seine, a few miles from Paris. The New York Commercial gives the particulars of this affair as follows :—

Captain Moses, although a South Carolinian by birth, is a strong and devoted adherent to the cause of the Union, and during his journey through France made no hesitation in expressing his sympathies and his feelings for the United States Government, and his abhorrence of the Southern traitors and rebels. The hon. F. G. Farquhar, of Virginia, meeting the captain at an hotel in Paris, and knowing hi 3 parentage, reproached him in opprobrious terms, as a renegade from his native State. He charged him with being a traitor to the South, and a man of no honor, because he abandoned her when she needed all the services of her sons, particularly her seamen and navigators. He took occasion in his vituperation, also, to cast imputations on the character of Northern ladies, ■which, as tho Captain had married a New England wife, was resented by a tremendous blow, entirely doubling up the chivalric Virginian, and laying him in ordinary for the remainder of the evening. Farquhar was taken in charge by his friends, and when he had gathered his scattered faculties, sent, a challenge to the Captain by the hand of his friend Mons. Stephanie. The challenge received a prompt response, and not twentyfour hours from the first meeting of the combatants they stood on the banks of the Seine, prepared to take each other's lives. The weapons selected were Derringer pistols, the distance ten paces, the combatants being ordered to wheel and fire at the given signal. Farquhar was boastful and course in his remarks. The Captain was calm, though determined. All being ready, Captain Moses handed two letters to his second, one addressed to the American consul at Liverpool, and the other to his wife at Saco, Maine, to be delivered in case ho fell. He then removed his coat, bandaged back the hair from his eyes, and took Ids position. The word was then given, and with a simultaneous report of both pistols the combatants fell to the ground. Both w Tere shot through the head. Farquhar received a mortal wound, from which he lingered several days, finally dying at a hamlet a few miles from Paris, where he had been removed to avoid the noise of the city. Before dying he solicited an interview with Captain Moses, made an acknowledgment of his base conduct, and solicited the latter's forgiveness, which was freely granted. The Captain, escaping from tho French police, took refuge in Liverpool, where he was concealed by the American shippers of that city and sent on to New York by the Edinburgh. He is now at the Stevens house in this city, where he lies in a very ciitical condition. The bell of his adversary passing immediately under the ear, caused a severe concuss jn of the brain, which was more dangerous from the fact that the Captain had received a severe wound in the head in the Mexican war. He bleeds frequently from the ears, and remains in a condition constantly threatening apoplexy.