The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-03 00:00:00

A CHAMPION OF IVO,II-AIV'S ItIGHIS.

A murder, as deliberate as ever perpetrated, was
committed on Saturday, the 10th April, at Jarretts-
Tine, Maryland. Nicholas M'Comas hal ridden to
that town from I3ellair to attend a meeting of a
company, and he was standing with some
companions at the back porch of a bAr-room, when
a Miss Cairns rode up and disnounting fastened i'et
horse se atrely ; then she entered the ladies' apart •
meta, where she removed her riding-skirt and al
that would encumber her movements, when she
walked through the crowd in the bar-room to withie
ten paces of where M'Comas was standing, and
raising her hand, in which was a revolver, fired at
him with careful aim. Struck in the breast by the
bullet, he reeled against a pillar supporting the
perch, when she as deliberately fired two more
shots, while he, clasping the pillar, endeavoured to
sustain•himself, but, fainting from the loss of blood,
fell, though neither of the other shots had taker
effect. Miss Cairns on this walked directly up, and
fired the two reinaining bullets ilto his body. She
then, with the revolver in her hand, passed through
the paralysed throng to the ladies' apartment, where,
as if engaged in the most ordinary occupation, she
resumed her riding-habit, mounted her horse, and
cantered home. Mr. Jarret rode after her, and on
his coming up she asked if M'Cotnas was dead
On receiving an affirmative answer, she re-
marked, without showing the least signs of regret,
that she had told him what she was going to do. It
appears that Miss Cairns had been seduced by
M'Cotnas over a year before under a promise of
marriage, which she had in vain importuned him to
keep. Last January she gave birth to a child
whose misfortune it now is to liave its mother the
murderer of its father for the crime of its own ille-
gitimacy. Some time ago a suit for breach of pro-
mise was brought by the lady against M'Comas ;
but she did not give it time to come on for trial.
Both parties moved in a good social circle, the
woman being about 30 years of age and the man
about 37. On the day following the deed she gave
herself up to the authorities, satisfied, we presume,
as she has good reason to know, that public opinion
would sustain her. In Hartford county the excite-
ment is high, and, of course, on the side of the lady
What "Rights" women in America can require
that they have not got it is difficult to imagine, as
they can with impunity do " any mortal thing."
The only woman that we know of who has ever come
to grief is Mrs. Surratt, and the nation never ceased
to deplore it, and to lay the blame on the head of
that universal scape-goat, Andrew Johnson. There
is something brutal beyond expression in the cold-
blooded cruelty with which the murderess walked
up to her victim to empty a revolver into bis body;
and in the deliberate, unrelenting way in which the
crime was perpetrated. Considering that she will
only excite public compassion, have a subscription
raised for her, and be made the heroine of the day,
she ran little danger in an act which, as her hate
was cold-blooded and her nerve strong, was easy
of accomplishment.

General Butler is sometimes called " Spoons."
This we have long known, but wo did not know he had
any particular objection to being called spoons. It ap-
pears, however, that a woman clerk employed in the
Treasury had the folly as well as the impropriety to term
that influential leader of the dominant party "spoons" as
she was leaving a car in the Pennsylvania-avenue, in
which Butler was seated. Her words were, " Look out
for your spoons," which had the singular effect of making
Butler look our for her, for he immediately followed her,
tracing her ho:ne, when he discovered she was a clerk,
and she was at once discharged from the Treasury, and to
fill up her cup ho got her place supplied by a negr6ss.
It is just possible, unless she has a father or brother
employed in a Government office, she wit employ
the rest of her life' in slioutinv spoons after him, for
it she could not refrain with an office to los it is reason-
id,le to suppose that she will now thus indu'g•+ herself,
unless who,' means are used to achieve the Herculean task
of W, pping a woman's tongue. The course we w.mld
re-
commend the lady to pursue is to qualify, and if Mr.
Jetickes' Reform Bill passes she may recover her place iu
spite of the General.

It is now a law in New York that any man
who will keep and maintain a public watering trough
on the highway shall have an abatement of $3 from his
taxes.

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