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SEVERE LAws-The penal laws of the State of Loulslana provide :-ss Ihai sheald aaag slare uo.ntn&l4 aposupd o2, anasns [ aef..te aaars, he slsaH bs punished auith deaA.''- Under this law, slave, belonging to Abijah Frisi, was recently arraigned, in the city of New Orleans, for striking white man, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung, on the following evidence, which was adduced on the trial =

 MT. Crone Ker being called upon, testi- fled that he was at the corner of Cont and Bourbon streets, be saw some negroes quarrelling or fighting among themselves. He went up to them and ordered them to disperse, when the prisoner sprang from the crowd, to where he the deponent was in the middle of the street, and struck him on the head with a pair of fire-tongs which he held in his hands.

 Messrs. Smith and s. M. Saunders con- frmed the foregoing evidence.

 Dr. Davidson, .jr. testified, that he ex- amined the wound short time after its in fiction, and that 1t was two and ahalf in- ches broad, and bled abundantly: that he dressed 1t. ss

 Catharine Andre testified that on the 22d Sept. she saw the prisoner coming from his dwelling with a pair of tongs, and saying to his wife, that he would l<ll white man that evening, should he be hanged for 1t. He then went towards Bourbon street.

 The attorney general then submitted 1t to the Court, who after conferring among themselves quarter of an hour, declared the prisoner guilty, and condemned him to be hung on the 18th October. between ten o'clock, A. M. and five o'clock, IP. M., on the public square, parallel to the rail- road,

 Jamss, another slave, has also recently been found guilty by a jury and sentenced to be hung, at New Orleans, for striking irhite man.. .Nat. Ban.