five, with the words, "I beg your pardon," written above his name, saying, "That's agreeable to number one," (reading the rule,) and adding, " Now I fancy all your cases are disposed of; and having done my duty according to the Tipperary Resolutions, which I never swerve from, if, gentlemen, you are not satisfied, I shall be on the bridge to-morrow morning with a case of barking irons." The military men, amazed, stared at the barrister and at each other. The honest, jolly countenance, the drollery of Yelverton, were irresistible. There was a hearty laugh all round. Yelverton was asked to dine at the regimental mess, where his eccentricity and good humor delighted everybody. In the end, the barrister became deranged.

YORK, Duke of. See Richmond, Duke of.

ZENO, CARLO, of an illustrious house of Venice. He was a favorite of Pope Clement V., who, after his father's death, incurred the expense of his education, and bestowed upon him a rich benefice in the Church. But it was not his fate to become a Canon, for a duel postponed his ordination; and his marriage with a beautiful Greek soon afterwards put an end to his hopes as an ecclesiastic. Embracing the profession of arms, he became a commander of renown. In the year 1403, as Admiral of the Venetian fleet, he received a challenge for a naval fight,-galley against galley, or any larger number, as he might elect, not to exceed twenty on one side or twenty-four on the other. The defiance was declined. See Boucicault.

ZIETHEN, HANS JOACHIM, a Prussian General of cavalry, and a Knight of the Black Eagle. In the last century, and prior to the year 1730. When young, a quarrel with an officer caused his imprisonment for a year; a duel in which he was engaged soon after his release caused his dismission from the corps. But restored to service, he obtained, finally, the high rank here stated.

ADDENDA.

COOPER, HON. JAMES, Senator in Congress from Pennsylvania, and MORTON MCMICHAEL, editor of the North American and United States Gazette, Philadelphia. Correspondence (in 1854) equivalent, on the part of the former, to a challenge: —

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Washington House, Philadelphia, September 18. "TO MORTON MCMICHAEL, Esq.: Sir, My attention has just been called to an editorial article in the North American and United States Gazette of this morning, in which the following language is used, namely: ' With plunder in high places,' &c., ' and false pretences and malversation, as in the city subscription to the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company, we shall bow our heads with shame, unless the sharp and secure processes of the penal laws can be successfully applied.'

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"My object in addressing you this note is to inquire respectfully whether the above remarks are intended to apply to me, and, if so, in what respect? The right which every man has to maintain his character and good name is the one which I invoke in making this call upon you. If the remarks are intended to be applied to me, it is proper that I should know it. If they are not, it is equally proper that I should be freed from the suspicion they are likely to create. I will be obliged to you for a proper answer. Harry Connelly, Esq., will hand you this note and receive your reply.

"I am, sir, your obedient, humble servant, "JAMES COOPER." The following reply was inclosed in an envelope addressed to Mr. Connelly :—

"Philadelphia, September 19. "SIR, I received your note last evening by the hands of Mr. Connelly, and avail myself of the first leisure which offers to reply.

"You ask whether certain passages in an editorial article in the North American of Monday last were intended to apply to you. I do not recognize the propriety of the question, and must therefore decline to answer it. The article to which you refer was of a public nature; it concerned public events, and its comments had a public bearing. In

the parts of it to which you have called my attention, it asserted in general terms what uncontradicted public statements had, elsewhere, particularly set forth, but it made no allusion to any individual.

"In declining to answer the question you have proposed, I am controlled by a conviction of duty. As the conductor of a public journal, I cannot allow the right of any one to catechize me as to the meaning of the articles I publish. At the same time I admit my responsibility, moral, legal, and personal, for whatever appears in the columns of the North American, and shall hold myself ready, on all proper occasions, to meet it. I am, sir, yours, &c., MORTON MCMICHAEL.

“HON. JAMES COOPER, Washington House.”

The second communication to Mr. McMichael was from Mr. Cooper's friend.

"Philadelphia, September 20. "MORTON MCMICHAEL, ESQ.:- Dear Sir, My friend, Mr. Cooper, has received your note of the 10th instant, sent to him under cover to me; and while it is not satisfactory, inasmuch as it does not relieve him from the imputation conveyed in your article of Monday, it is entirely so in respect to the avowal that you hold yourself personally responsible for every thing you publish. In making the call in his note of the 18th instant, Mr. Cooper desires me to express to you that he recognizes as fully as any one the right of every editor to perfect independence. But for a personal imputation, he is happy that you concur with his own views in admitting personal responsibility.

"I now desire to say, on my own part, as the friend of Mr. Cooper, that in prosecuting this correspondence further, there might be inconvenience in doing it here; and if you concur with me in this view of the case, I beg you will say where and at what time it will suit your convenience to receive a further message.

"Mr. Cooper admits that, while it is customary, under the circumstances in which you stand to each other, that you should make it convenient to receive his message in another jurisdiction, he has no right to insist that you should do so. I will be obliged to you for an answer on this point. Very respectfully, yours, &c., "HARRY CONNELLY."

Mr. McMichael, as appears by his statement, on receipt of this last letter, placed the whole correspondence in the hands of two friends, with the assurance that he would be governed entirely by their direction. These friends, having considered the subject, determined, first, that the article in the North American did not furnish any ground for the proposition contained in Mr. Connelly's letter, and that Mr. McMichael must decline its acceptance; and, second, that, to admit the personal responsibility of the conductor of a public journal for his strictures on public affairs, would, in their judgment, be detrimental to the interests

of the community, and divest the press of its most important prerogative. Mr. McMichael, in accordance with this opinion, addressed the friend of Mr. Cooper thus :

"Philadelphia, September 21. "DEAR SIR,As the application made in your note of yesterday involves principles, which, in their consequences, affect the integrity of the public press, I have given to it the most careful consideration.

"While I recognize to the fullest extent all my responsibilities for whatever appears in the columns of the North American, and am ready on all proper occasions to meet them in whatever form they may be presented, I am unable to perceive that Mr. Cooper has any right, under existing circumstances, to invite me to receive from him a hostile message. As I stated in my reply to his communication of the 18th instant, the article to which he referred was of a public nature, it concerned public events, and its comments had a public bearing. In the parts of it to which he called my attention, it asserted in general terms what uncontradicted public statements had, elsewhere, particularly set forth, but it made no allusion to any individual.'

"If the conductors of public journals should permit themselves to be held personally responsible for their strictures on public affairs, there would be at once an end to all independence of the press; and wrong and outrage might go unpunished and unrebuked. I cannot consent, by my example, to sanction such a course. I pretend to no privilege of interference with the private affairs of any, and should the journal I control offend in this way, I shall hold myself justly amenable; but I do claim, and will exercise, the right of commenting frankly and freely on all matters of public concern, and upon the conduct of all who stand in public relations towards them.

Mr. Connelly replied:

"Very respectfully, yours, &c.,
"MORTON MCMICHAEL."

"Philadelphia, September 22. "MORTON MCMICHAEL, ESQ.:- Dear Sir, I have just received your note, in which you decline to give the personal satisfaction which Mr. Cooper has a right to expect. Under these circumstances, no further correspondence is necessary. Respectfully, yours, "HARRY CONNELLY."

DORSEY, Captain H. P., and R. BEVENS. In California, 1854. The former Land Register at Los Angeles, the latter connected with an Indian Land Reserve. Both wounded; Dorsey in the abdomen, Bevens in the arm.