Ran Away--a City

The city of Memphis has levanted. Sb e lias run away f rom lier creditors. Tliis is the first instanee of a city's taking to her heels to avoid the constable. A decreo ef the United States Oourt was about to issue, commanding the city to levy a tax to pay its debts, when the city absconded. Strictly i spcíiking, she did not run away bodily, bnt disappeared, dissolved, vanished. She suppressed her charter, and deolared that she ceased to exist as a municipal Corporation. Shecommitted felo de se. The Lnhabitants and the houses remain, and also the ground, bnt it is no longer Memphis, bnt simply the territory of Tennessee. Memphis üas ceased to exist. The debtor was the city of Memphis. As she is no more, is not the debt paid? The constable will find it so. There being now no City Cour cil nor city oflicer, there is no one upon whom the judicial mandamus can lie. Cities ere now have been swallowed by earthquakus, have been buried by belching volcanoes, have boen destroyed by a shower of fire, drowned by a delnge, and have gone gradually to decay ; but tliis is the first instance on record of a city's suddenly vanishing from the ïrrnmid wherpnn if. st-nnl