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bloody hands for tlio tears and heart-broken wailrogs of a bereaved mother ; they in stantly dispatched her with tliQsame instru ment (a butcher-knife,) with which they had cut the throat of the child ; then set tire to the house and fled. Tn the mean time, a man who was breaking (lux, hearing Mrs. Stegall scream, and guessing at the cause, made his escape with all possible speed, and alarmed the neighborhood. Ste gall, who was not far from home, was soon informed of the fact of their direful tragedy, when he, with Mr. Leiper and Mr. Wil liams, with some others, went in pursuit of them, and overtook the blood-thirsty butch ers the next day, about noon, quietly rest ing, in perfect security, under a cli ft of the mountain, when they fired upon them, and the big Harp (as Micajah was called,) was wounded. Upon being fired oh, they flew to their horses, leaving their women to their fate. After mounting their horses they rode off in difl'erent directions at full speed, the big Harp upon the horse usually rode by his brother, though the pursuers all fol lowed the larger brother, big Harp, except one or two who were left to secure the wo men. Leiper, one of the pursuers, being upon an animal fleet of foot, and possessing great elasticity of bottom, followed closely after big Harp for about eight miles over hills, across ravines, and througli the woods. Harp’s mare began at last to fail, and Lei per discovered he could soon overtake him, but finding himself alone, his comrades be ing far in the rear, and Harp being a stout and desperate man, and armed with a good knife, Leiper pursued cautiously until lie became satisfied that Harp’s gun was not charged, he then dashed suddenly upon him —fired, and broke his arm, the ball passing also through the side of the chest. Harp fell from the noble but jaded animal that bore him, rolled over, and crawling up by a log that lay hard by, he seated himself with his back against it. Leiper suspecting (al though he had dropped his gun,) that he might have a pistol about Ins person, did not approach him, until he reloaded his gun ; then cocking his piece, and presenting it at him, he advanced telling him that if he mo ved a hand ho would send the contents of the rifle into his body ; Leiper having satis fied himself that Harp had no arms about him, but a butcher-knife and tomahawk, made him surrender those, and then enter ed into a conversation with him, with a view to ascertain, if possible, the reasons that prompted him and his brother to the com mission of such savage and evil deeds.— Harp said his brother and himself had be come disgusted with all mankind, agreed with each other to destroy as many persons as they could. He knew at the time they commenced these bloody atrocities they must die some day or other by the hands of man, or fall a victim to the offended laws of his country; but he determined to risk the consequences, and slay as many as ho could before the hand of justice would overtake him. He said he had committed but one murder for which he felt remorse, and that was the murder of his own child. He said that his brother and he had committed many murders never heard of or known by others. Stegall and the rest of the company soon came, —Stegall burning with rage, on account ofthe murder of his wife and child, put an end to the conversa tion, by cutting off the head of Harp with his own butcher knife, which he had deliv ered over to Leiper, previous to his coming up, Harp staring him full in the face, said: “you are a rough butcher /” The spot where Harp was slain was be yond the settlements in what was called the Wilderness. Some of the company hap pened to have with them a bag, into which they put Harp’s head, and set off on their return march ; and as they passed a small farm of anew settler, knowing that they would bo obliged to camp in the woods, they procured as many roasting-ears as would serve them for their supper, and having no way of carrying them, they put them in the bag with Harp’s head ! Leiper and his company proceeded on their journey, and came the next day to the place where the women had been left tied to a sapling. They were interrogated as to the cause of their living with such bloody monsters as the Harps. They rendered as an excuse, that, when they first went to live with the Harps, they were ignorant of their real characters, and when they had ascer tained their malignant dispositions, they W'ere afraid to leave them, lest the Harps should murder them and all their relations. They also confessed that the unnatural and abominable wretches with whom they co habited murdered, their children soon after they were born. The women were then liberated, and Harp’s head carried to the nearest Justice ; and having made satisfac tory affidavits, they took it to the nearest cross-roads and put it upon the top of a lof ty pole. His body was left in the wilder ness where he was slaughtered, a prey to the wild beasts of the forest, and fowls of the air! The spot where the head of this lawless wretch was put is near the High land Lick, in Union county, and is known by the name of Harp’s Head Road. Thus terminated the life of Big Harp, whose name and conduct must long remain as a scorn and by-word to coming genera tions. But Wiley made his escape, and fled to the neighborhood of Natchez, in the State of Mississippi, where he continued his bloody deeds until the winter of 1803, or spring of 1804. He having associated himself with a man by the name of Mason who was well known in the country as a desperate villain, and for whose head, if he could be taken alive, a considerable re ward had been offered. Harp sought an opportunity to slay Mason, and having done so carried it to Natchez, and demanded the reward. It so happened that he arrived in Natchez at the same that the troops from East Tennessee did, who were on their march, by order of the Federal Govern ment, to take possession of Louisiana.— Some of the troops were well acquainted with IJarp—identified his person beyond a doubt —and he was condemned and execu ted shortly after. Thus ended the lawless arid bloody ca reer of those incarnate monsters, whose ruthless, unnatural and barbarous deeds, must startle and astound the reader who has not hitherto hoard the story of their moro than brutal outrages. Even the most ferocious beast of the forest, and most rapa cious fowl ofthe ai r, possess social feelings and animal sympathies. Neither tile wrathful Lyon, nor the ficrce-evc' 1 will destroy, but guard protect his female main n>J helpless offspring, as well uo those of his own peculiar species. The wild and timid Stag will throw his antlers between his femenine companions and ap proaching danger, and guard them with sedulous care. The Eagle soars with eyed vigilance around the t0 ,, - ,in ß where sets his brooding > an( l when the period of incubat l *® has terminated and the eve ofthe he'p less Eagle looks upon the brilliant rays of the burning sun, he feeds and nourishes them with the most anxious srffeitude. But the incarnate fiends, whose character we have just portrayed—incapa ble of even such animal sympathies and natural feelings as are inherent in the bo soms of brutes and birds, —waged a relent less war upon their own race, and without provocation,imbued their hands in the blood of the innocent, the helpless, and unoffen ding ; and regardless of those paternal fee lings, which compose the silken cord of pa ternal kindness and affection, that bind even the brutal tenants of the forest to their fee ble offspring, and the winged inhabitants of the air, to their tender and helpless brood they butchered their own unoffending chil dren, who should have been the idol of their hearts, and the object of their most anxious solicitude. However astonishing the story of the t"'o Harps may seem, we hope it will not be looked upon by our readers as fictitious and like the talcs of the “Arabian-Nights,” or of Baron Monchauson, intended only to a muse and entertain the reader, but rest with unshaken confidence in the truths of this tragic history. THE KENTUCKIAN IN HAVANA. On a certain Twenty-Second oj February not many years ago, there was seated at a dinnertable, at Cuney and Fulton’s, Hava na, a party of about a dozen Americans, principally seafaring men, who had gath ered there for the purpose of celebrating in a quiet way the anniversary of the birth of the immortal Washington. Asa matter of course, “patriotism” was all the go that day There was a man in the crowd whose heart failed to overflow with American feeling. As the apostle Johnson had not then visited the West Indies, teetotalers were rather scarce among the shipmasters in port.— Consequently, early on the morning of the anniversary, commenced their libations— , they took occasion to foreswear “their po tations,” in the outset, and when the dinner hour arrived, no one “came to the scratch” who would answer for a pattern of sobriety. The most uproarious of the collection was an out-and-out Kentuckian, who by some strange operation had made the “deep deep sea” his home, was then in command of a Baltimore schooner, which happened to be . in the harbor. In no man’s breast did the fire of amor patriot beam with a steadier or stronger (lame. He was “chuck full of Kentucky glory, Kentucky valor, as well as Kentucky fun.” Yet another of the party, was a young Captain of an English-mer chantman, who had been urgently pressed to partake of the feast, by some acquain tance at the table, not particularly mindful of the consequences. The Englishman evidently found himself in a bad box—the set was not such an one as he had been accustomed to, and the tone of conversation, and the behaviour of the Republicans, seemed to be of a very novel character. IJe watched the motions of the Kentuckian with some degree of apprehen sion, for his ideas in regard to Kentucky and its inhabitants were of a very peculiar character, and he thought he saw in the sample opposite him at the table all that wildness and ferocity which ho had been led to believe characterized the barbarians of the “Dark and Bloody Ground.” The Kentuckian was not long in preceivingthat he was attracting a good share of the Eng lishman’s attention, and silently determined to make the most of the joke. The eyes of this man wore a singular expression; one of them was a light blue, and the other a dark hazel ; on the bridge of his nose, near the corner of his right eye, was a small wart, which he had attempted to destroy with some sort of lotion, and which had thereby been dyed quite black. These peculiar ities gave his face a queer and sinister ap pearance. The first toast offered from the head of the table was, “Mary, the Mother of Washing ton!” The Kentuckian seized a decanter swallowed at least one fourth of its contents and rising from his chair, deliberately dashed the bottle into fifty pieces. “That’s the way to drink that toast,” said he, and calmly took his seat. The Englishman turned pale, for he began to think the next decanter would be broken over his head. “I say, Thompson,” observed the Ken tuckian, winking to a person next to the Englishman, on the opposite side ofthe ta ble, “do you know that the man who gouged my eye out the second time is now in this very city?” “No; is he?” “Yes he is ; I met him yesterday on the Posco, and he sunk like a mud-turtle into his shell.” “Did you speak to him?” “Devil the word ; but I watched where he went to, and am determined to fix him, spite ofthe consequences.” “I think you had better not,” said the other who seemed fully to comprehend the Kentuckian’s desire for a little fun. “Perhaps you don’t know all the circum stances of that fight,” said the other, draw ing himself up rather proudly. “The way it began, you see, was rather queer. That man’s cattle used to get into dad’s pasture, and one day I caught”— “Fill up for the second toast, gentlemen,” called out the President. “All charged.” “Th n Star Spangled Banner!” The Kentuckian contented himself wW a wild and startling “hip, hip, luvstory. this toast, and quietly rysiavorito Durham “One day I cajjgj of his tail und right Ullc j feathered it, and sent ..°i r iomo in all its glory.” The eyes of the Englishman were fixed upon the narrator with a glassy stare. — The Kentuckian continued his tale. “There “ ere three brothers of thorn; two came t” n,c the next day to give mu a flog j,jlV!r. I killed one, by throwing him three • ods over a stone wall with a pitchfork.— The other run and jumped into a horse-pond where I pelted him to death with squashes. The jury acquitted me on the ground that I had merely acted in self defence. A few days after, the third brother—the one now in Havana, and myself, went out a-train ing, and fought until we were completely tuckered out. When we got through we compared notes. He had got my right eye and I had chewed offbothofhis ears, and we made an even swap ; that was the way I got my eye back. A celebrated eye-doc tor came along a day or two after, and fas. tened my eye into my head again. Do you see that?” (pointing to the black wart in the corner of his eye) “that is the head of the screw by which he fastened the eye to my nose, in order to hold it !” It would be difficult to paint the various expressions of disgust, terror and alarm which chased each other across the face of the Englishman during this recital. When “Old Kaintuck” pointed to the “screw” the Englishman could stand it no longer, but leaped from the table, seized his hat, and made for the door. At one bound the Ken fuckian jumped over the table, and with a perfect Omctaw yell, rushed after the fugi tive. The last that was seen of the Eng lishman he was racing down the street as though Old Nick was after him, while our friend from Kentucky had coolly resumed his scat at the tuble, and filled his glass for the third toast.— Picayune. Curious and almost tragical Occurrence. ! —The Norfolk (Va.) Herald, of the 31st I ult. relates the following: “Asa colored female, dressed in the height of the fashion and sporting adashing parasol, was passing along Upper Cumberland street on Sunday afternoon, a cow very unceremoniously in serted the tip ends of its horns a little below the bustleing part of her dress, and tossed her about six feet in the air—an exploit which it performed a second time, and then trampled on and mouthed about the unfor tunate darky with a seeming determination to make a finish of her. Two gentlemen who witnessed the scene, however, ran to the spot in time to rescue her from the an. imal, though she was severely bruised, and her face (which had struck upon the pave ment in the first fall) was much lacerated. It was the opinion of the gentlemen, from the actions of the cow, that the animal was not so much instigated by malice or wan tonness, as a desire to get at the quart of bran in the girl’s bustle! So we earnestly advise ladies who wear “them things,” to keep out ofthe way of the cows, for some of them will go their own death as well as that of liumans for their prog. And per haps it would be well for the corporate au thorities to prohibit these mischievous crea tures from going at large within the limits ofthe Borough, where bustles are all the go.” It has been remarked as a singular co incidence in the death ofthe “great and good Washington,” that he died in the last hour in the last day of the week, in the last month in the year, and in the last year of the century, viz : Saturday night, twelve o'clock, December, 1799. From the Southern Miscellany. MORGAN AGAINST BURKE. COTTON BOLLS. We have been presented, by L. Graves, Esq., with three stalks of Cotton, from the plantation of Mr. Reuben J, Butts, of this countVj each three feet high, exclusive of the roots, having, together, at this early sea son of the year, twenty-six squares, blooms and bolls—eight of the latter being as large as partridge eggs. We are informed that the stalks before us are a fair specimen of his crop generally, and that his prospect for a good Cotton crop was never better than at this time. We think Morgan is several weeks a-head of “ old Burke” in theCo'ton line. The stalks can be seen in our Read ing Room. THE RHODE ISLAND WAR. The following is the official return ofthe killed and wounded : Killed o Wounded () Missing 481 Scared 960 Horribly frightened 789 Fainted on the battle ground 73 Women in hysterics 22 Pantaloons in want of the washer woman 227 prs. Powder burned, said to be (but is doubtful) > oz. Shot expended 6 Temperance pledges broke (before the battle) 330 Governors missing 1 Ihe behavior of the troops was gallant beyond all compare, and they began to bat tle with the following song : Then up arose that man of might, The valiant Governor Dorr, And said, “I am resolved to fight— My voice is still for war.” Behold this sword”—and at the word It from the scabbard flew ; “It has drawn blood in Florida, I draw it now for you. “Two Indians its keen edge did feci, And straightway bit the dust ; Behold e’en now upon its blade, Two spots of gory rust.” He flourished it above their heads Eager they burned for war; The spots of blood, ere while but two, Seamed now increased to four . mi RIIODE-ISLAND QUESTION. There has been so much misrepresenta tion, by selfish demagogues for party effect, in relation to the merits and nature of the recent controversy in Rhode-Island, that we yield with pleasure to the request of a friend, and give the following article from the Baltimore Clipper, a place in our col umns. We ask for it the candid attention of our readers; and its influence with some people may be greater from the fact, that it is from a neutral paper. Mobile Advertiser. “ Much ado about Nothing.” —The revo lutionary party in Rhode-Island have at tempted to move Heaven and Earth, to re dress the grievous wrongs under which they arc said to be groaning, if not expiring— and really, from the outcry which they have made, and the sympathy meetings which have been held in New-York and elsewhere —from tiieir armaments on foot and their loud call for protection from the people of other States—one would be induced to be liev-. that the landholders of Rhode-Island were riding rough-shod over the Suffrage party, and ruling them with the iron rod of despotism. But when the matter is inves tigated, the whole grievance is found to consist in the landholders requiring that those who possess no property shall reside two years in the State before being entitled to voto, whilst the latter insist that one year is sufficient. And that-is the foundation of the mighty pother, which lias called forth the eloquent denunciations of ex-ministers, cx-membersof Congress, and a host of wor dy patriots, and the inflammatory appeals of abolition editors and reckless politicians. We take the following from a statement submitted to the President of the United States, by Messrs. Whipple, Francis and Potfer, and we ask those fiery patriots who are for pursuing the legal authorities of Rhode-Island with “ blood and thunder,” to read it attentively, and then ask themselves whether the difference between what was granted and what was asked for was of such vast importance as to be just cause for a civil war. “By the provisions of the ‘landholders’ constitution,” as the legal constitution is called, every white male native citizen, possessing the freehold qualification, and o ver 21 years of age, may vote, upon a resi dence of one year ; and without any free hold, may vote, upon a residence of two years, except in the case of votes for town taxes, in which case the voter must possess the freehold qualification, or be taxed for other property, to the value of $1 50. “By the ‘people’s constitution,’ every white male citizen ofthe United States of the age of 21 years, who has resided in this state for one year, in the town where lie votes for six months, shall be permitted to vote, with the same exception as to voting for town taxes as is contained in the other constitution. “ The provisions therefore, in relation to the great subject in dispute, the elective franchise, are substantially the same in the two constitutions.” The right of suffrage was extended by the legal constitution to all white male ci tizens over twenty yearsofage, and having a residence in the State of two years. In Maryland the limitation of time is one year and that is the only material difference in the constitutions of the two states. In Ma ryland a party might be raised who could go for shortening the residence to six or three months, or even for a shorter time.— If such a party were to be raised; have a convention called ; form anew constitution and elect their officers under it; they would have as much right to complain of oppres sion, to ask for sympathy, and to fly to arms as the men in Rhode Island who prefer one year’s residence to double the term. But, would the legal government of Maryland succumb to such a party ? Would they BOt enforce the laws of the state against the revolutionist ? There can be no doubt ofit. If the doctrine contended for by Mr. Dorr be correct, that “the majority have the right not only to govern but to alter and abolish governments at their pleasure,” there can be no stability in governments; no safety in laws. Life and property may be made the sport of caprice. But the aim of Mr. Dorr in maintaining this principle has a further reach than is discoverable at first view.— He isa thorough abolitionist, and advocates what he terms “human rights”—that is e qual rights without reference to color; and of course his majority which shall have “the right not only to govern, but to alter and abolish governments at their pleasure” includes colored as well as white people; so that the southern states may have their constitutions rightfully altered whenever it can be done by the slave population. This Rhode Island insurrection is said to be an abolition movement ; and, if successful to the extent desired by Mr. Dorr—that is, the recognition of the right of tho majority (white or black) to rule or to destroy ; then principle would be applied to the southern states by theabolition party, and worse than civil war would be tho result. We rejoice that he has been frustrated. He has proved himself a coward and a traitor to those who had confided in him. He has just courage enough to lay the train to a barrel of gun powder, but leaves others to encounter the explosion. YVe recognize the right of the majority of free white mal citizens to rule, according to the constitution and laws of the land, but in no other manner. “Do you ever play cards?” inquired George 111. of Horne Tooke. “Please your majesty,” was the reply, “ I am so little acquainted with court cards, as not to know a king from a knave.” Miss Hamblin, the play actress who late ly murdered her husband at Mobile, is in New York, disguised in male attire, sport ing mustaches, and cane, with as much grace as the most accomplished dandy any where. No steps have been taken by the Alabamians to bring her to justioo From the Natchez Dory Courier. Natch I-:;:. May 13, 1612. Mr. Editor:—l h row it h transmit you some extracts from a letter received recent ly from Mr. T. F. Finnic, who was the principal of an emigrating company under Captain Bayles, who left th.s city in the spring of 1840, for the purpose of introdu cing the culture of cotton into the different Presidencies of India. As there have been many erroneous and contradictory state ments in circulation throughout the United States respecting the success or total fail ure ofthe enterprise, the following items are submitted to you for publication for the benefit of those of your readers who may feel interested. U. S. Kootramucksandroor, Jan. 11, 1842. i Banks of the Junna. ) Yours under date of August 7th, 1841, was received on Christmas day, when sur rounded by my companions at our first meeting since we separated in April last.— All of the number present had enjoyed ex cellent health. \Ve numbered at our fes tive board, six Americans, two of whom are American missionaries, four Englishmen, and one Scotchman, and one lady, Mrs. B. I send you some of my published articles relative to your prospects here. The young men that were at the Bombay and Madras Presidencies, are, I believe, on the eve of returning home;tliose from Bombay I know are; I do not believe, however, it is because they could not succeed ; one of them lias been sick ; they were, I believe, iti some respect disappointed. But an Englishman might as well go to the United States to plant cotton, and attempt it in Now York, and give it up, and say it would not grow in America, as for those who have only been to Madras and Bombay to say that cotton would not grow in India, because they failed in their attempts. lam just as sure of making cotton here, as if it were on the banks of the Mississippi. Our late ar rival in the country, a misunderstanding of what we required, and and the drouth here, has prevented us ftom making it profitable this year, yet we have made something. 1 have made about 20 bales on my own ac count. There have been two showers of ; rain lately—one of the 18th of December, I the other on the Ist of January. I called out the ploughs, 200 in number, for four or five days, and have now upwards of 1,000 acres ploughed and cross-ploughed at a cost of 12) cents per day for each plough, the natives finding themselves and bullocks. The wages ofa laboring man is 81 02.) cents per month, he furnishes his own sub sistence. There are large quantities of native cotton grown here ; it is sown broad cast, like oats, and not cultivated at all. The land here is laid out in a manner similar to our townships, each containing some 5,000 acres, I am now constituted a “Zemendar” or Landlord, and have con trol of a tract of land as above mentioned, containing a village of 2,000 inhabitants, and although this number of people derive their subsistence from my tract, yet no more than one third of it is cultivated. I have a large quantity of burga, (wild land) all grow up with grass, which has not been tilled within the memory of the ol dest inhabitants upon it, and some of my tenants are 90 years old. There are mil lions of acres in my neighborhood unculti vated, the people being naturally indolent. At the commencement ofthe raius, I offered them thisgood land one year for nothing, and also offered to loan them money to bring the land into cultivation, but they wholly declined making an effort. I ac cordingly hired them to do for me what the}’ would not attempt for themselves, and that too, at a price that would not purchase a ne gro a single meal. They do not under stand the management of horses, but plough with bullocks. The native plough is of rude construction, but acts admirably in the place of our coulter plough in tough land ; until theirs has passed through it once or twice it is almost impossible to use our ploughs. There has been a great drouth this year; the rain ceased in August, just a month sooner than usual, and consequently out crop did not turn out as well as it other wise would have done, but had we been pre pared in time, and been able to plant a full crop, it would have made a handsome pro fit this year. I see that the papers in the South are rejoicing at what they call our failure, and that a letter of one of our par ty has been published ; the opinions it con tained were evidently formed before the writer had an opportunity of forming a cor rect one. Notwithstanding all these unfa vorable expressions, I beg leave to exercise au opinion, and now assert, as a few years will prove, that cotton can be produced here fifty per cent, cheaper than in the United States. It requires more energy, industry and perseverance here than in the States to get things under way, but after we have once learned the people how to use our im plements, they handle them with a good deal of dexterity. When I first commenced ploughing with our ploughs, it took three of the natives to manage a single plough and the bullocks; then I got two of them to man age it, and finally one man, after some practice, managed both the plough and the bullocks with ease. The natives are a fraid of horse i, iiile; sit i those wlios pro session or cast it is to tike care of them. I have six natives and one white man as overseer, but ‘he natives will perform dou ble the work sot -Barra Said,” as they call me, than for any om ‘se. Battery no Assault. —A fiend ofour tel Is us, that while stand :rt; it the Post Office not long since, one gentleman struck anoth er with a newspaper—(by the way both were democrats and both subscribers to the paper alluded to.) “Arc you aware said the person struck, “that you have commit ted an assault ?” “No,” said the other, “I am sure I have not; for that depends, in a great measure, on the instrument with which the blow was given. 1 only struck you with the “Federal Union!” “Well, in that case I freely and fully acquit you as the instrument, is too soft to inflict any iniu ru.”—Savannah Republican IMPORTANT DECISION IN BANK RUPTCY. Tho operation of the involuntary pro visions of the Bankrupt Law have been il lustrated by a case of much importance in the District Court of the United States for Middle Tennessee, Judge M W Brown pre siding. Wo commend it to the attention of the commercial and trading community especially, as affording an insight into tile remedy provided by this benefice nt law for cases of partial or fraudulent and conveyances, made in failing circum stances.—New York Express. The facts of tho case, as we find them stated in the Nashville Whig, are briefly these : Galbraith, Cromwell, & Cos., were part ners in trade at Clarksville in this State, and (under the firm ofGalbraith, Cos.) at N. Orleans La. In the month of April, they failed in business and became insolvent. About the time of the failure, Cromwell, one of the firm, and the active partner at Clarksville, made an assignment of the partnership effects to secure certain creditors,leaving unprovided for a large debt due to ihe Planters’Bank, McKeage, and other creditors. The claims of the prefer red creditors amount to upwards of880,00l) and the claims left out of the deed of trust to #IOO,OOO. Logan, one of the firm, was privy, and consented to the assignment made by Cromwell. The other partners, Gal braith & Greenfield, were at New Orleans and knew nothing ofit when made, and dis sented to the transfer of effects as soon as they heard of it. The Court decided—l. That tho prefer ence given by Cromwell in tho deed of as signment made for the benefit ofa part of the creditors, was in violation ofthe Bank rup Law, and on account of this preference the debtors being merchants, it was a fraud on the part of Cromwell, anil also on the part of Logan, who consented to the trans fer. It was an act of Bankruptcy on their part, and brought them and their effects un der the operation of the Bankrupt Law on the petition of their creditors. 2. That the deed of transfer made by Cromwell, being in violation of the Bankrupt Law, was ut terly void. 3. That Galbraith and Green field, who had no knowledge of tho deed at the time it was executed, and dissented from the transfer so soon as they heard ofit, were not, personally, affected by the act of Cromwell, and that the same was not act of Bankruptcy on their part. 4. That Gal braith, Cromwell & Cos., and the partners composing the firm, being insolvent and partners in trade, the whole ofthe partners must be declared Bankrupts by reason of their insolvency, under the 14th Section of of the Act es Congress in relation to Bank ruptcies. And a decree was entered ac cordingly. This decision settles a most important point in relation to mercantile partnership, viz: That is, partners becoming insolvent, can be declared Bankrupts under tho 14th Section of the Act of Congress, on ac count of their insolvency alone. The effect ofthe foregoing decision upon the partners acquitted of fraud, but declared Bankrupts bv reason of their insolvency, is the same as in cases of voluntary Bank ruptcy. The commissioner and assignee having reported a full and satisfactory sur render of all effects, (individual as well as partnership,) under the control of Messrs. Galbraith and Greenfield, they are entitled to a final discharge and certificate upon their own petition, unless other cause of denial than the acts of their partners, should in the meantime transpire. The Clarksville part ners occupy a different position, and can only be discharged by the concert of a ma jority, in interest, ofthe non-preferred cred itors. GEN. JACKSON’S FINE. Our readers all understand thattlie move in several Legislatures upon Congress for the repayment to Gen. Jackson of a fine im posed on him in New-Orleans is a party manosvre, intended to raise a little Hicko ry fire under the caldron of Loco-focoism. We think the Senate have been very kind to Gen. J. in the course they permitted the matter to take in that body. A friend has furnished the following account of the trans action on which this application is founded. N. Y. Tribune. -“ It is generally supposed that the act of General Jackson for which ho was fined, a rose from the necessity under which he was placed to act thus for the preservation of the city ; that lie declared Martial Law, &c. Now had tho action for which the fine was imposed taken place either before or at tho time ofthe battle, or pending any imminent danger, there might have been some color ofjustification. Such, however, is not the fact; for the circumstance took place on the 18th day of February, over'-* days after the battle. At that time about 2000 militia were stationed below New- Orleans, in a savannah, where they were dying off very fast. Mr. Souailard, a mem ber ofthe Legislature, called upon General Jackson and told him of their situation, and that the ratification of the treaty of Ghent was known on the authority of Mr. Living ston, who had just returned from the British fleet, and askeu that they should be reliev ed. Tb s Gen. Jackson refused. Mr. S. made an appeal, or statement ofthe facts, in the public papers. For this act of pub lication Gen. Jackson, by virtue of martial law, imprisoned Mr. S. A writ of habeas corpus was issued by Judge Hall for his release, which- Gen. Jackson refused to o bey—and for such refusal he was fined- for contempt of Court, by Judge Hall. The American People are now called upon to refund this fine with interest, for a gross violation and contempt of law, to a man who has been the recipient already of the highest honor that a free people can be stow, and who has already received mord*’ than 8200,000 salary in one office only. Q. in the Corner ” The Central Bank, we are told, isdiscoun tingto its friends about Milledgeville. None but it? friends need apply.
