Important Decision

A sl.i.e bclanging to Louis Alme Pignpyguy, wís yesterday declnred t lie fiv e in consone ice cf hoving been inken to France. - iVc-w Orleans Pietiyuuc. 'l'liis is in aco.irdarice with rJctisiona wliich have frequeiitly hecn, uide hpre, and wili which the .-ouh has ni-verlwen .tatisfied. ll' a s!ji(i be tvauglit by liis nuister, volun.ury, into tiiis State, ha shnckless iail off at onc6. Slavery
nut p.xist liere for a mo.nen'. And ir is so i.hevery free State, nnj with iverv country wliere slnvery is nut recognized. The decisión in N. Orli ans goos fur'lier, tinwever, tlian our decixious havp gonp oicmg'). lt e-tiblishes the important fact. Ihal ihe fre&duin which a slèvsfliusl acquirapt' by the voluntar}' net of ti is inaslor, shall av&il hini ieni)ni)eNtlv; and, tliüt if Iip, of liis owu choice, shall n'iirv a nis rtturn to a Mae Stal', he sKVI ö"l ngairi he subject to bond 'ge Boston Iranscripl. The same court decided, a few d.iys previous as it appears in som f tlie New Orleans pnpe'rs, that the sieaniboat Missouri was not Hable for cnnytng off n slnve. In ihis t-a-se a singular fac was disclosed, viz: a slave being so white t lint lie could pass nny where lor a white inati, and who was supposed to bn sui.'li when he was taken nto lheem;iloy oftlie Steomer and cai ried out of the State. - The lave had been permitted to hiie liimself on boats trading to places here slavery does not exisi, ai.d to rema in there till hechoseto leive, nnd the court ex■ d great dnuhts whether his mnster could exercise any neis of owiieishii over