Mr. ——­ SPILLMAN, a native, and till recently, a resident of Virginia, now a member of the Presbyterian church in Delhi, Hamilton co., Ohio, has furnished the two following facts, of which he had personal knowledge.

“David Stallard, of Shenandoah co., Virginia, had a slave, who run away; he was taken up and lodged in Woodstock jail.  Stallard went with another man and took him out of the jail—­tied him to their horses—­and started for home.  The day was excessively hot, and they rode so fast, dragging the man by the rope behind them, that he became perfectly exhausted—­fainted—­dropped down, and died.

“Henry Jones, of Culpepper co., Virginia, owned a slave, who ran away.  Jones caught him, tied him up, and for two days, at intervals, continued to flog him, and rub salt into his mangled flesh, until his back was literally cut up.  The slave sunk under the torture; and for some days it was supposed he must die.  He, however, slowly recovered; though it was some weeks before he could walk.”

Mr. NATHAN COLE, of St. Louis, Missouri, in a letter to Mr. Arthur Tappan, of New-York, dated July 2, 1834, says,—­

“You will find inclosed an account of the proceedings of an inquest lately held in this city upon the body of a slave, the details of which, if published, not one in ten could be induced to believe true.[11] It appears that the master or mistress, or both, suspected the unfortunate wretch of hiding a bunch of keys which were missing; and to extort some explanation, which, it is more than probable, the slave was as unable to do as her mistress, or any other person, her master, Major Harney, an officer of our army, had whipped her for three successive days, and it is supposed by some, that she was kept tied during the time, until her flesh was so lacerated and torn that it was impossible for the jury to say whether it had been done with a whip or hot iron; some think both—­but she was tortured to death.  It appears also that the husband of the said slave had become suspected of telling some neighbor of what was going on, for which Major Harney commenced torturing him, until the man broke from him, and ran into the Mississippi and drowned himself.  The man was a pious and very industrious slave, perhaps not surpassed by any in this place.  The woman has been in the family of John Shackford, Esq., the present doorkeeper of the Senate of the United States, for many years; was considered an excellent servant—­was the mother of a number of children—­and I believe was sold into the family where she met her fate, as matter of conscience, to keep her from being sent below.”

[Footnote 11:  The following is the newspaper notice referred to:—­

An inquest was held at the dwelling house of Major Harney, in this city, on the 27th inst. by the coroner, on the body of Hannah, a slave.  The jury, on their oaths, and after hearing the testimony of physicians and several other witnesses, found, that said slave “came to her death by wounds inflicted by William S. Harney.”]