MR. EZEKIEL BIRDSEYE, a highly respected citizen of Cornwall, Litchfield co., Connecticut, who resided for many years at the south, furnished to the Rev. E. R. Tyler, editor of the Connecticut Observer, the following personal testimony.

“While I lived in Limestone co., Alabama, in 1826-7, a tavern-keeper of the village of Moresville discovered a negro carrying away a piece of old carpet.  It was during the Christmas holidays, when the slaves are allowed to visit their friends.  The negro stated that one of the servants of the tavern owed him some twelve and a half or twenty-five cents, and that he had taken the carpet in payment.  This the servant denied.  The innkeeper took the negro to a field near by, and whipped him cruelly.  He then struck him with a stake, and punched him in the face and mouth, knocking out some of his teeth.  After this, he took him back to the house, and committed him to the care of his son, who had just then come home with another young man.  This was at evening.  They whipped him by turns, with heavy cowskins, and made the dogs shake him.  A Mr. Phillips, who lodged at the house, heard the cruelty during the night.  On getting up he found the negro in the bar-room, terribly mangled with the whip, and his flesh so torn by the dogs, that the cords were bare.  He remarked to the landlord that he was dangerously hurt, and needed care.  The landlord replied that he deserved none.  Mr. Phillips went to a neighboring magistrate, who took the slave home with him, where he soon died.  The father and son were both tried, and acquitted!!  A suit was brought, however, for damages in behalf of the owner of the slave, a young lady by the name of Agnes Jones. I was on the jury when these facts were stated on oath.  Two men testified, one that he would have given $1000 for him, the other $900 or $950.  The jury found the latter sum.

“At Union Court House, S.C., a tavern-keeper, by the name of Samuel Davis, procured the conviction and execution of his own slave, for stealing a cake of gingerbread from a grog shop.  The slave raised the latch of the back door, and took the cake, doing no other injury.  The shop keeper, whose name was Charles Gordon, was willing to forgive him, but his master procured his conviction and execution by hanging.  The slave had but one arm; and an order on the state treasury by the court that tried him, which also assessed his value, brought him more money than he could have obtained for the slave in market.”

Mr. ——­, an elder of the Presbyterian Church in one of the slave states, lately wrote a letter to an agent of the Anti-Slavery Society, in which he states the following fact.  The name of the writer is with the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society.