“Another case of flogging came under my notice:  Philip O. Hughes, sheriff of Jefferson county, had hired a slave to a man, whose name I do not recollect.  On a Sabbath day the slave had drank somewhat freely; he was ordered by the tavern keeper, (where his present master had left his horse and the negro,) to stay in the kitchen; the negro wished to be out.  In persisting to go out he was knocked down three times; and afterwards flogged until another young man and myself ran about half a mile, having been drawn by the cries of the negro and the sound of the whip.  When we came up, a number of men that had been about the tavern, were whipping him, and at intervals would ask him if he would take off his clothes.  At seeing them drive down the stakes for a regular flogging he yielded, and took them off.  They then flogged him until satisfied.  On the next morning I saw him, and his pantaloons were all in a gore of blood.

“During my stay in Jefferson county, Philip O. Hughes was out one day with his gun—­he saw a negro at some distance, with a club in one hand and an ear of corn in the other—­Hughes stepped behind a tree, and waited his approach; he supposed the negro to be a runaway, who had escaped about nine months before from his master, living not very far distant.  The negro discovered Hughes before he came up, and started to run; he refusing to stop, Hughes fired, and shot him through the arm.  Through loss of blood the negro was soon taken and put in jail.  I saw his wound twice dressed, and heard Hughes make the above statement.

“When in Jefferson county I boarded six weeks in Fayette, the county town, with a tavern keeper named James Truly.  He had a slave named Lucy, who occupied the station of chamber maid and table waiter.  One day, just after dinner Mrs. Truly took Lucy and bound her arms round a pine sapling behind the house, and commenced flogging her with a riding-whip; and when tired would take her chair and rest.  She continued thus alternately flogging and resting, for at least an hour and a half.  I afterwards learned from the bar-keeper, and others, that the woman’s offence was that she had bought two candles to set on the table the evening before, not knowing there were yet some in the box.  I did nor see the act of flogging above related; but it was commenced before I left the house after dinner, and my work not being more than twenty rods from the house, I distinctly heard the cries of the woman all the time, and the manner of tying I had from those who did see it.

“While I boarded at Truly’s, an overseer shot a negro about two miles northwest of Fayette, belonging to a man named Hinds Stuart.  I heard Stuart himself state the particulars.  It appeared that the negro’s wife fell under the overseer’s displeasure, and he went to whip her.  The negro said she should not be whipped.  The overseer then let her go, and ordered him to be seized.  The negro, having been a driver, rolled the lash of his