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Correspondence Of the Heraldl


W.surScToN. Feb 2 I9.
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Another A6air of Honor on the Tapis.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ESQ.,


DEAR sIR:-Another duel is anticipated here
the parties being distinguished officer of the Tex
an Navy and an officer In the United States Navy
The circumstances which are likely to lead TO this
result these


short time ago the House committee on ac-
counts, (the same which investigated the McNulty
business, had before il the accounts OF Lieutenant
Mclaughlin, in Florida Among the items was a
charge of about $4,000 Tor curing one hundred
sick men-buying groceries, medicines, brandy,
&c. for them-who were not cured at all, but, In
the course of the eleven months they were under
this expensive treatment, mostly died off, A let
ter was read in committee from Com. Moore, OF
the Texas Navy, (late in the United States SER
vice,) making serious charges against Lieutenant
Mclaughlin, which the lieutenant repelled with
so much spirit and in such terms as, it is generally
supposed, will inevitably lead TO challenge and
meetng-if the bellgerent parties can succeed IN
escaping the vigilance of the mlnions of the law
shall send you the particulars Immediately, II the
affair comes off o. r. q.