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Fatal affray near New Orleans. --A fatal affray occurred at a place called Free-town near the city of New Orleans, between two notorious characters, named John Miller and Mary Jane Jackson alias Bricktop, living together for some time previous to the affair. The New Orleans True Delta of the 7th inst., says: The fatal affray occurred in their residence, on Thursday night, at half-past 8 o'clock Miller thought Bricktop needed a little domestic correction, and for this purpose brought home a cowhide, with watch he undertook to bring her to a due regard for the majesty and the rights of the male sex.--Bricktop never yet was vanquished, in fair fight, by man or woman, and rushing in upon him she seized the cowhide herself, and it is said, to have applied it upon his arm and shoulders This turn of affairs slang him to the quick, and he drew a knife upon her. --Quick as thought she grasped his arm and wrenched the dagger from him, then seizing him by the throat she plunged the