Virginia Free Press

From the Louisville (Ky.) Herald.

The public are aware that a correspondence of a belligerent character has been going on for several days between George J. Trotter, editor of the Kentucky Gazette, and Geo. D. Prentice, editor of the Journal and Focus. As might have been expected from the course the controversy had taken, a personal rencontre took place between the parties yesterday afternoon, on Market street near the Post Office, in which Mr. Prentice was slightly wounded by a pistol ball fired by Mr. Trotter—in attempting to return the fire, Mr. Prentice's pistol snapped, upon which the parties closed and were engaged for a short time without much injury to each other. We were not present, and the accounts of the mode of attack (which was made by Mr. Trotter) and the position of Mr. Prentice when Mr. Trotter's pistol was fired, are so contradictory, that it is impossible to give a correct version of the affair. Mr. Trotter was taken into custody by the city Marshal, and was this morning taken before the Mayor, and bound in the sum of $1000 to appear at October Court, and in $500 to keep the peace.