Mr. TOBIAS BOUDINOT, a member of the Methodist Church in St. Albans, Licking county, Ohio, says: 

“In Nicholasville, Ky. in the year 1823, he saw a slave fleeing before the patrol, but he was overtaken near where he stood, and a man with a knotted cane, as large as his wrist, struck the slave a number of times on his head, until the club was broken and he made tame; the blood was thrown in every direction by the violence of the blows.”

The Rev. WILLIAM DICKEY, of Bloomingburg, Fayette county, Ohio, wrote a letter to the Rev. John Rankin, of Ripley, Ohio thirteen years since, containing a description of the cutting up of a slave with a broad axe; beginning at the feet and gradually cutting the legs, arms, and body into pieces!  This diabolical atrocity was committed in the state of Kentucky, in the year 1807.  The perpetrators of the deed were two brothers, Lilburn and Isham Lewis, NEPHEWS OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON.  The writer of this having been informed by Mr. Dickey, that some of the facts connected with this murder were not contained in his letter published by Mr. Rankin, requested him to write the account anew, and furnish the additional facts.  This he did, and the letter containing it was published in the “Human Rights” for August, 1837.  We insert it here, slightly abridged, with the introductory remarks which appeared in that paper.

“Mr. Dickey’s first letter has been scattered all over the country, south and north; and though multitudes have affected to disbelieve its statements, Kentuckians know the truth of them quite too well to call them in question.  The story is fiction or fact—­if fiction, why has it not been nailed to the wall?  Hundreds of people around the mouth of Cumberland River are personally knowing to these facts. There are the records of the court that tried the wretches.—­There their acquaintances and kindred still live.  All over that region of country, the brutal butchery of George is a matter of public notoriety.  It is quite needless, perhaps, to add, that the Rev. Wm. Dickey is a Presbyterian clergyman, one of the oldest members of the Chilicothe Presbytery, and greatly respected and beloved by the churches in Southern Ohio.  He was born in South Carolina, and was for many years pastor of a church in Kentucky.”

REV.  WM. DICKEY’S LETTER.

“In the county of Livingston, KY. near the mouth of Cumberland River, lived Lilburn Lewis, a sister’s son of the celebrated Jefferson.  He was the wealthy owner of a considerable gang of negroes, whom he drove constantly, fed sparingly, and lashed severely.  The consequence was, that they would run away.  Among the rest was an ill-thrived boy of about seventeen, who, having just returned from a skulking spell, was sent to the spring for water, and in returning let fall an elegant pitcher:  it was dashed to shivers upon the rocks.  This was made the occasion for reckoning with him.  It was night, and the slaves