“I left Vicksburg and came to Grand Gulf.  This is a fine place immediately on the banks of the Mississippi, of something like fifteen hundred inhabitants in the winter, and at this time, I suppose, there are not over two hundred white inhabitants, but in the town and its vicinity there are negroes by thousands.  The day I arrived at this place there was a man by the name of G——­ murdered by a negro man that belonged to him.  G——­ was born and brought up in A——­, state of New York.  His father and mother now live south of A——.  He has left a property here, it is supposed, of forty thousand dollars, and no family.

“They took the negro, mounted him on a horse, led the horse under a tree, put a rope around his neck, raised him up by throwing the rope over a limb; they then got into a quarrel among themselves; some swore that he should be burnt alive; the rope was cut and the negro dropped to the ground.  He immediately jumped to his feet; they then made him walk a short distance to a tree; he was then tied fast and a fire kindled, when another quarrel took place; the fire was pulled away from him when about half dead, and a committee of twelve appointed to say in what manner he should be disposed of.  They brought in that he should then be cut down, his head cut off, his body burned, and his head stuck on a pole at the corner of the road in the edge of the town.  That was done and all parties satisfied!

“G——­ owned the negro’s wife, and was in the habit of sleeping with her! The negro said he had killed him, and he believed he should be rewarded in heaven for it.

“This is but one instance among many of a similar nature.

S.S.”

We have received a more detailed account of this transaction from Mr. William Armstrong, of Putnam, Ohio, through Maj.  Horace Nye, of that place.  Mr. A. who has been for some years employed as captain and supercargo of boats descending the river, was at Grand Gulf at the time of the tragedy, and witnessed it.  It was on the Sabbath.  From Mr. Armstrong’s statement, it appears that the slave was a man of uncommon intelligence; had the over-sight of a large business—­superintended the purchase of supplies for his master, &c.—­that exasperated by the intercourse of his master with his wife, he was upbraiding her one evening, when his master overhearing him, went out to quell him, was attacked by the infuriated man and killed on the spot.  The name of the master was Green; he was a native of Auburn, New York, and had been at the south but a few years.

Mr. EZEKIEL BIRDSEYE, of Cornwall, Conn., a gentleman well known and highly respected in Litchfield county, who resided a number of years in South Carolina, gives the following testimony:—­