at Clark’s house, he was seated among his children—­they put two or three balls through his body.  Clark ran, was overtaken and knocked down; in the midst of his cries for mercy, one of the villains fired a pistol in his mouth, killing him instantly.  They then required the settler to sell his property to them, and leave the country.  He, fearing that they would otherwise take his life, sold them his valuable property for $300, and departed with his family. The sheriff was one of the purchasers.”

The Baltimore American, Feb. 8, 1838, publishes the following from the Nashville (Tennessee) Banner: 

“A most atrocious murder was committed a few days ago at Lagrange, in this state, on the body of Mr. John T. Foster, a respectable merchant of that town.  The perpetrators of this bloody act are E. Moody, Thomas Moody, J.E.  Douglass, W.R.  Harris, and W.C.  Harris.  The circumstances attending this horrible affair, are the following:—­On the night previous to the murder, a gang of villains, under pretence of wishing to purchase goods, entered Mr. Foster’s store, took him by force, and rode him through the streets on a rail.  The next morning, Mr. F. met one of the party, and gave him a caning.  For this just retaliation for the outrage which had been committed on his person, he was pursued by the persons alone named, while taking a walk with a friend, and murdered in the open face of day.”

The following presentment of a Tennessee Grand Jury, sufficiently explains and comments on itself: 

The Grand Jurors empanelled to inquire for the county of Shelby, would separate without having discharged their duties, if they were to omit to notice public evils which they have found their powers inadequate to put in train for punishment.  The evils referred to exist more particularly in the town of Memphis.

The audacity and frequency with which outrages are committed, forbid us, in justice to our consciences, to omit to use the powers we possess, to bring them to the severe action of the law; and when we find our powers inadequate, to draw upon them public attention, and the rebuke of the good.

An infamous female publicly and grossly assaults a lady; therefore a public meeting is called, the mayor of the town is placed in the chair, resolutions are adopted, providing for the summary and lawless punishment of the wretched woman.  In the progress of the affair, hundreds of citizens assemble at her house, and raze it to the ground.  The unfortunate creature, together with two or three men of like character, are committed, in an open canoe or boat, without oar or paddle, to the middle of the Mississippi river.

Such is a concise outline of the leading incidents of a recent transaction in Memphis.  It might be filled up by the detail of individual exploits, which would give vivacity to the description; but we forbear to mention them.  We leave it to others to admire the manliness of the transaction, and the courage displayed by a mob of hundreds, in the various outrages upon the persons and property of three or four individuals who fell under its vengeance.