Virginia Argus

BALTIMORE. June 4.

Shocking effects of False Honor.

In consequence of a dispute originating in a ball room, two young men of this city had a meeting in Jersey, on Thursday last. They were attended by what is erroneously called their "friends!" The fatal engines of death were placed in their hands by their pretended friends. The contents were discharged without effect. Again they were re-loaded—and again they proved harmless to either party. Thrice they were loaded, and thrice proved harmless!

Here let the reader for a moment pause. Let humanity, let honor, if you please so to call it, ponder over this scene of infatuation and wickedness—Two youths, perhaps, grown up together in friendship, are suddenly converted into deadly enemies. Ill advised and unrestrained by reflection, they are hurried to the field of death, and their friends unconcernedly look on their attempts at each other's murder! Thirsting for each other's blood, the instruments of destruction are again loaded, and again discharged without effect! A fifth time with the same result! A sixth! A SEVENTH. and a youth of 18 is sent into eternity!—We can proceed no farther: the heart-bursting subject is left to our readers' reflections. Fed. Republican.