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MANNERS OF THE WEST.The barbarous custom ofcarrying armsand the cowardly and Italian practice of carrying snc.h arms concealed, is forcibly animadverted upon in the following extract from a letter in the Boston Atlas, dated Louisville, 2d November.“I am sorry to find that the habit of carrying conceale weapons is very prevalent here and in other places on the river. The bowie knife, a deadly m-tsrument invented, by a famous ^bully who gave his name to it, is a favorite weapon. Coming down the Oh io the other day, some young men obtained a water-melonfrom adrift which dropped along side oft of our boat whereupon every one of them producing his bowie knife for the purpose af cutting off a slice. On a slight provocation they would have drawn them with a less innocent intent. In Cuba itis forbidden under heavy penalties; and the good sense of the community will I hope frown it down in this countrv.Better resume the old custcm of wearing a sword exposed at the side, than meanlywalk among our fellow-men armed like the base hearted assassin.”
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Logansport Canal Telegraph
Logansport, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 18, 1827
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