New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-11
THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN
AN UNPROVOKED ASSAULT.
0re Man Killed and Another Mortal
Wounded.

One Man Killed and Another Nortally
Wounded.
From the New IBERIA Times, Democratic.l
The particulars, as VIC learn them from
various sources, are about these: A little
after seven o'clock on Monday evening last,
a r.arty of white men, it is said some two or
three In number, rode into the quarters Of
Nessrs White & Pinneo, some six miles
above town, on the bayou, and asked for
the flag that q negro man, named John
Sparrow, had carried in the Radical process
SION that day. On being told that it was at
q cabin further on, they went to this cabin
also and made the same demand, when it is
supposed that the negro refused to give it
VII. and after some loud talk, one of the
Marty fired a shotgun, killing the old man
INSTANTLY. Another shot was then fired at
his stepson, young lad, who was sick in
bed at the time, taking effect III his head
and shoulders, from which it is thought he
will die in few days. After the shooting,
sGsc party rode off, and are yet at large.
Upon being informed of the killing, our
Parish Coroner, DIR. George S. COlgin, sum-
Maoned jury, and went up there for the
purpose Of investigating the matter, but
could find no one who could swear to the
identical person who did the shooting,
though they knew the men who came into
the ward, and who entered the cabin of John
Sparrow: therefore the jury returned YER
dict that the deceased came to his death
from gunshOt wound in the hands of some
enc to them unknown, and, In consequence,
80 far as we know, there has been no war
rants issued or any arrests made up to this
time. These are as near the facts IN the
case as we have been able to get them
When the parties are identified by name, by
IN affidavit upon which warrants will be
issued, we will give them, but we think we
would take great risk of doing a wrong to
innocent parties if we should attempt it be-
fore.
This is one of the conditions of things that
We have frequently, within the past twelve
months, besOught our people to avoid by all
nseans, but our advice seems to have been
as straws before the wind. Every one
Aust make his own comment upon the act
and Qualifications, if there are any justihca-
tOns, and We hope time may prove there are
hut it is our opinion that it is the duty OF
every good citizen to use his influence to
put stop to such highland proceedings,
Il he would not see this country eventually
left an uninhabited plain. Our landholders
now cry out for labor, but few such acts
- this will drive away many that are now
here.
Every body speaks well of the man John
who was killed, and says that he was rather
a peace maker among his race. than other
wise. Since the commission of the act all
G8o acsSsEOcS pretty MuOu IL ouiS ScctiOA VI
the country, have quit working and some
Of them say they will do no more until after
the election. 1t would be well for our people
If elections did not come more than once in
Zen years. Tho affair is peculiarly hard on
the sugar planters about Fausse POinte,
whose crops are now ready to take off, and
who are not able to employ a single hand.
We are particularly sorry for White &
Pianeo. They are Northern gentlemen who
have settled in this country for the purpose
Of making living, and have never taken
any part in politics at all; and this affair
securing at their place may mix them up
n = matter with which they had nothing to
10, from beginning to end.
We devOutly hope that it may never be
our misfortune to chronicle another occur
renee of the kind.
Since the above was written, We learn
that last night lNovember -, as party
numbering twelve men were returning from
the residence Of MeRrs. White & Pinneo,
where they had been to calm the apprehen-
sions of danger felt by the females of the
house, three Of the party, constituting the
advance, were fired into from men am
pushed in the cane field, and all wounded,
one seriously. The names of the wounded
are Ernest Broussard, Onezefort Gonsoulin
and FlOrien TOffier. When or where will
retaliation cndl