The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-02-14
Another Victim of the "Code Of
Ionor!"

BALTIMORE, feb. j, 1870.
/ The LATE DUEL IN BLApENsBURG. You
| have, doubtless, received an account Ol'thc ia
/ tai duel which took place at Badensburg on
/ Monday morning. fl was Il melancholy fin
ale TO IA very strange history, and the partIcu-
lars may not be without interest.
! The parties to the duel were Mr. Danl.
johnson and Thos. +. Jones, Ia lawyer both
residents ofIIertlord. North Carolina. They
were warm friends. Johnson was unmarried
and was practising medicine in Hcrtiord-
Jones is married TO 4 daughter of Gen. Dcvcr-
cauX, Of Pcrquimons county, y. &. Al the
house OF Jones, DIR. Johnson was constant
visitor, aud the greatest intimacy existed be-
tween hin aud all the family--so intimate,
indeed, were they, that when Jones left llcrt-
ford, TO come East To fight, Inc left the sister
of DIR. Johnson at his house, where she had
been on visit tor several days.
The quarrel grew out of this. Jones, III
going home one day, found Oh the table in
the parlor, note written in pencil, signed,
Daniel" and addressed to his (Joncs1 wife
The terms of the note were improper Jones
immediately took tie notsto DR.. J.-accused
him OF writing it, and insisted that he should
have ''SatsRlcton." DIR. J, denied the charge
admitted, however, that the handwriting of
the note was so much like his, that he might,
from the very likeness, Toe convicted before n
jury ofhaviug written II. His protestations
seemed To have weight with Joncs.aud ii was
then suggested 10y Dr. J. that another person
(whom he named) had written the note, with
view Questioning their intimacy. The at
fair here then rested, and Jones expressed
himself satisfied. In day or two, however,
he returned, declared he had reviewed the
whole matter, was convinced that DR. J. was
guilty of having written the note, md there
upon n written challenge was sent. DR.. j.
slated IN reply, that he should leave IN Il few
days, for MARYLAND, where Jones would hear
from him.
Both parties appear TO have set themselves
to work now TO sCtllc their affairs. DR. john
son gave ont that he was going TO New Or
leans, left the place, wrote for his hroiher-in
law, DIR. Henderson, who practises in the
town of Salisbury, in the interior OF North
Carolina, and they met and came to Mary
land together. Here they arranged mutJcrs,
and Jones was written to, Notifying him that
DIR. J. was prepared to meet him. In the days
that interviewed, before Jones got on, DIR. J.
occupied his time in visiting the public plac-
Cs round about the city; but the knowledge
of his difficulty had got abroad, and he was
pointed out as the man who had fed from \.
Carolina, 10 escape the anger Of an injured
husband, who, il was said, had gone TO New
Orleans after him.
AS soon as Jones had rot the letter he came
on; and the arrangements ofthe meeting hav-
ing been perfected, they met at Bladensburg
early on Monday morning. having spent the
previous night at Coleman's, III Washington.
The terms were that they were to fight with
pistols, AT ten PAGES, to stand at that distance
back 10 back to wheel at the word, and to
fire between the word--"fire, one, tw q, three,
halt"
DIR. Johnson had said, all along, that he
would not tre--and am told, from excel
lent authority, that he did so because he had
promised Mrs. Jones he would not. The sto-
ry runs, that whilst the difficulty was in pro-
gress, in Hartford, Mrs. J. had returned to
J. n riding whip,and some other little matters
that he had, with the knowledge of her hus-
band, presented to her, accompanied with
note, saying she feared there would be rem
contre between her husband and him, and
begging him that he would not kill her hus-
band. To this note DIR. J. is said to have re-
piled, saying, ifa rencontre did take place, he
should not fire.
When the parties met on the groundJ Jones
and DIR. Henderson exchanged salutations-
for they, also, were old triends-when the
former remarked ''that he regretted that they
should meet, after so long an sbsence,on such
a business" DIR. II. joined in expressions of
regret, and asked ''if there was no means of
SeItllll1 lilS 1llullGG, NIlIlOUt proceeding 10
adding that DR.. J. persisted in
saying that he was entirely innocent and that
the circumstances were very trivial. Jones
cut the matter short, at once, by saying, shat
there were other things that had come out,af- |
ter Dr. J. left Hartford, which left no doubt
and that he should take his position"-at the
same time taking the place designated by the
seconds for him.
Both parties now took their places-when,
in loading one ofthe pistols ofJones,th ram
rod became fastened and it became necessa-
ry to fire it off: This being done, attracted
some attention in the neighborhood, and quite
n number ofspectators soon assembled.
The pistols being properly loaded, they
were handed to the parties. The word was
given-both wheeled-Dr. J.,held his pistol
up before him, and Jones-who is very detec-
tive division, being blind in one eye, and sees
badly with the other-raised his pistol up,