The Phenix

Novel Lawsuit.—An action was lately tried at New Haven, in the Supreme Court of Connecticut, in which the plaintiff, who had been a resident in the State of Alabama in the capacity of a clerk, demanded damages against the defendant for having written a letter addressed to the Postmaster of the place where the plaintiff resided, informing him that the plaintiff was a violent abolitionist, and advising the people of the place to treat him as he deserved, intimating that a coat of tar and feathers would not be amiss; in consequence of which letter the plaintiff was put in danger of personal injury, and was driven from the State, to the injury of his business.—The writing and receipt of the letter was proved, but the evidence of actual injury therefrom was not conclusive. The jury could not agree on a verdict.—Boston Adv.