The following affray at Athens, Tennessee, from the Mississippian, August 10, 1838.

“An unpleasant occurrence transpired at Athens on Monday.  Captain James Byrnes was stabbed four times, twice in the arm, and twice in the side by A.R.  Livingston.  The wounds are said to be very severe, and fears are entertained of their proving mortal.  The affair underwent an examination before Sylvester Nichols, Esq., by whom Livingston was let to bail.”

The “West Tennessean,” Aug. 4, 1837, says—­

“A duel was fought at Calhoun, Tenn., between G.W.  Carter and J.C.  Sherley.  They used yaugers at the distance of 20 yards.  The former was slightly wounded, and the latter quite dangerously.”

June 23d, 1838, Benjamin Shipley, of Hamilton co., Tennessee, shot Archibald McCallie. (Nashville Banner, July 16, 1838.)

June 23d, 1838, Levi Stunston, of Weakly co., Tennessee, killed William Price, of said county, in an affray. (Nashville Banner, July 6, 1838.)

October 8, 1838, in an affray at Wolf’s Ferry, Tennessee, Martin Farley, Senior, was killed by John and Solomon Step. (Georgia Telegraph, Nov 6, 1838..)

Feb. 14, 1838, John Manie was killed by William Doss at Decatur, Tennessee. (Memphis Gazette, May 15, 1838.)

  “From the Nashville Whig.”

“Fatal Affray in Columbia, Tenn.—­A fatal street encounter occurred at that place, on the 3d inst., between Richard H. Hays, attorney at law, and Wm. Polk, brother to the Hon. Jas. K. Polk.  The parties met, armed with pistols, and exchanged shots simultaneously.  A buck-shot pierced the brain of Hays, and he died early the next morning.  The quarrel grew out of a sportive remark of Hays’, at dinner, at the Columbia Inn, for which he offered an apology, not accepted, it seems, as Polk went to Hays’ office, the same evening, and chastised him with a whip.  This occurred on Friday, the fatal result took place on Monday.”

In a fight near Memphis, Tennessee, May 15, 1837, Mr. Jackson, of that place, shot through the heart Mr. W.F.  Gholson, son of the late Mr. Gholson, of Virginia. (Raleigh Register, June 13, 1837.)

The following horrible outrage, committed in West Tennessee, not far from Randolph, was published by the Georgetown (S.C.) Union, May 26, 1837, from the Louisville Journal.

“A feeble bodied man settled a few years ago on the Mississippi, a short distance below Randolph, on the Tennessee side.  He succeeded in amassing property to the value of about $14,000, and, like most of the settlers, made a business of selling wood to the boats.  This he sold at $2.50 a cord, while his neighbors asked $3.  One of them came to remonstrate against his underselling, and had a fight with his brother-in-law Clark, in which he was beaten.  He then went and obtained legal process against Clark, and returned with a deputy sheriff, attended by a posse of desperate villains.  When they arrived