“The second was that of a man in Perdido street.  Circumstances not known.

“The third was that of a watchman, on the corner of Custom House and Burgundy street, who was found dead yesterday morning, shot through the heart.  The deed was evidently committed on the opposite side from where he was found, as the unfortunate man was tracked by his blood across the street.  In addition to being shot through the heart, two wounds in his breast, supposed to have been done with a Bowie knife, were discovered.  No arrests have been made to our knowledge.”

The editor of the “Charleston, (S.C.) Mercury” of April, 1837, snakes the following remarks.

“The energy of a Tacon is much needed to vivify the police of New Orleans.  In a single paper we find an account of the execution of one man for robbery and intent to kill, of the arrest of another for stabbing a man to death with a carving knife; and of a third found murdered on the Levee on the previous Sunday morning.  In the last case, although the murderer was known, no steps had been taken for his arrest; and to crown the whole, it is actually stated in so many words, that the City guards are not permitted, according to their instructions, to patrol the Levee after night, for fear of attacks from persons employed in steamboats!”

The present white population of Louisiana is but little more than that of Rhode Island, yet more appalling crime is committed in Louisiana every day, than in Rhode Island during a year, notwithstanding the tone of public morals is probably lower in the latter than in any other New England state.

TENNESSEE.

Tennessee became one of the United States in 1796.  Its present white population is about seven hundred thousand.

The details which follow, go to confirm the old truth, that the exercise of arbitrary power tends to make men monsters.  The following, from the “Memphis (Tennessee) Enquirer,” was published in the Virginia Advocate, Jan. 26, 1838.

“Below will be found a detailed account of one of the most unnatural and aggravated murders ever recorded.  Col.  Ward, the deceased, was a man of high standing in the state, and very much esteemed by his neighbors, and by all who knew him.  The brothers concerned in this ‘murder, most foul and unnatural,’ were Lafayette, Chamberlayne, Caesar, and Achilles Jones, (the nephews of Col.  Ward.)

“The four brothers, all armed, went to the residence of Mr. A.G.  Ward, in Shelby co., on the evening of 22d instant.  They were conducted into the room in which Col.  Ward was sitting, together with some two or three ladies, his intended wife amongst the number.  Upon their entering the room, Col.  Ward rose, and extended his hand to Lafayette.  He refused, saying he would shake hands with no such d——­d rascal.  The rest answered in the same tone.  Col.  Ward remarked that they were not in a proper place for a difficulty,