The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-04 00:00:00

"SHOOTING ON SIGHT."

The late American papers give accounts of two
remarkable murders. The actors in each held high
official posts in the United States, and the victims
in both instances were gentlemen. The Albany
tradegy appears to have been more an act of homi-
cide, perpetrated by a man labouring under the
mental derangement caused by a great alleged
wrong to his honour. With resiiect to this case we
give in our columns an article as able as it is sensible,
though premature, front the Nation. We
say premature, because
such an article appearing in
r perhapsature,
so influential a paper cannot but have a preju-
dicial effect on the prisoner. It is true that the
facts are as clear as noon-day, so far as the murder
is concerned. General COLE has to justify his con-
duct, and it is against this justification that the
Nation writes. But let us turn from the Albany
affair, which has excited such universal horror
throughout the North, to the little occurrence at
Natchitoches, and we find the difference between
the civilisation of the North and the civilisation of
the South made manifest. Mr. WELLS, the Go-
vernor of Louisiana, had three nephews named
JONES. Mr. WELLS' first care in life was to take
care of himself. That object accomplished, as General
SIIERIDAN declares, " by any underhand means," his
next object was to take care of those allied to him.
Anything in the way of a snug berth he could control
he bestowed not to meet the necessity of the State,
but of the individual. One of these nephews he
appointed to a judgeship of the Supreme Court of
the State, and the happy nature of the selection
Judge R. B. JONES took the opportunity of showing,
when his accommodating uncle was in the grasp of
that determined soldier, SHERIDAN, by an act which
will go far to justify with the nation, the high-
handed proceedings of the military dictator. Of
the other JONESES, one was a doctor and the third
a lawyer, who entered into partnership with a Mr.
C. W. STAUFFER. A quarrel appears to have arisen
between the partners, which was intensified by Mr.
STAUFFER becoming the popular candidate for the
State Convention. It is clear that Southern prin-
ciples ruled at Natchitoches, as was natural in
Louisiana. A popular election was all very well,
so long as it went the right way, but it was a thing
to be resisted and suppressed by the force of arms
if the people presumed to elect a candidate hostile
to the ruling class. The JONESES were the ruling
class at Natchitoches, and STAUFFER had the auda-
city to set himself in opposition to this principle of
Southern action. The course to be pursued by the
JONESES under such circumstances was too clear to
need much reflection. Precedents in hundreds
were before them, together with the great prece-
dent of all, the Southern Rebellion. STAUFFER
was informed that he should leave the place,
or be shot on sight. On the 3d of June,
after receiving this intimation, Mr. STAUFFER
hurried to a justice, intending to have the
JONESES bound over to keep the peace. Ile was not,
however, fated to elude the vigilance of the Go-
vernor's nephews. The highest functionary of the
law in Natchitoches, with his brother, the doctor,
were on the war-path, and they attacked the unfor-
tunate man in the terms of the notification, shoot-
ing at him on sight. Two to one were long odds,
but even that did not satisfy the chivalry of the
JONESES. While the unequal conflict was proceed-
ing, the partner, JOHN JONES, came up with a
double-barrelled shot gun, and killed STAUFFER
on the spot. Having accomplished this feat the
murderer rode round to the wife of his victim,
called her to the door, and coolly informed her he
had killed her husband. Bat the end of the story
had not yet come, for the sheriff attempted to arrest
the gang, when he was resisted, and wounded in the
head, his assistant receiving an injury in the arm.
The murderer made good his way out of the town,
and the JONESES for the time were triumphant in

Births.
BALITORD—On the 27th ult., at 27, Crosvenor-squarel tbd
lion. Mrs. Halford, of a son.
MANNING—Ou the 2d inst., at Campden-hill, Kensingt°P'
the wife of George C. Manning, of a daughter.
RussELL—Ou the 2d inst., at 28, Montague-place, Russ ;0,
square, the wife of Mr. Charles Russell, barrister'
law, of a son.

Marriages.
MACONCHY -MIDDLETON—On the 2d inst., at St.
Church, Torquay, George Maconchy, Esq., of Ra,thre°,,-to
county Longford, to Janet Hamilton, wiow of the
Win. Middleton, Esq., Major 7th Dragoon Guards,
daughter of the late Cohn Campbell, Esq of Colgi3
Dumbartonshire.
THOMAS—NUTTER—On the 31 inst. at Clapton 0"°o,
Charles James, second son of John Thomas, Esq.' Ir
Stafford lIous( ' Hackney, and Bishopwrate-street NYtori
out, to Mary Matilda, only daughter of John \V. Is'-'l`,
Esq., of Amhurst-road, Ilackney.
Deaths.
GUNDRY —On the 2d inst., at Bridport, Dorsetsbire,
Gundry, Esq., a magistrate fsr the county, aged 76;0,
RANGER—On the Ist inst., at 3, Clarence-terrace,
bridge-wells, Richard C. S. Ranger, Esq., aged 57. ,00.
SAVILL —On the Ist inst., at Chigwell-row, Essex,
Mary Savill, aged 90.
SLATER—On the 2d inst., at the Sparrow's Nest, Whittel;'
near Ipswich, Henry Slater, Esq. port'
VADE—On the Ist inst.? at 4, Lower Berkeley-street, -
man-square, John Knox Vade, Esq., M.D.

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GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
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OUR SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN and their
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Ther the bereaved widows and orphans of the drowned.
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HELP for the DESTITUTE SICK.—
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THE BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the
LONDON HOWEOPATHIC HOSPITAL wish to
call the attention of their friends t, its position—during the
Past year the beds have been almost constantly filled, and
the drain on the resources of the Hospital has consequently
been great. They trust, therefore, that all the friends of
horrceopathy, both in town and country, will rally round
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SUBSCitIPTIONS earnestly needed. Bankers Messrs.
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