From the “Alexandria (D.C.) Gazette” Dec. 19.

“I will give the highest cash price for likely negroes, from 10 to 25 years of age.

GEO. KEPHART.”

From the “Southern Whig,” March 2, 1838.—­

“WILL be sold in La Grange, Troup county, one negro girl, by the name of Charity, aged about 10 or 12 years; as the property of Littleton L. Burk, to satisfy a mortgage fi. fa. from Troup Inferior Court, in favor of Daniel S. Robertson vs. said Burk.”

From the “Petersburgh (Va.) Constellation,” March 18, 1837.

“50 Negroes wanted immediately.—­The subscriber will give a good market price for fifty likely negroes, from 10 to 30 years of age.

HENRY DAVIS.”

The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman, a native and still a resident of one of the slave states, and still a slaveholder.  He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, his letter is now before us, and his name is with the Executive Committee of the Am.  Anti-slavery Society.

“Permit me to say, that around this very place where I reside, slaves are brought almost constantly, and sold to Miss. and Orleans; that it is usual to part families forever by such sales—­the parents from the children and the children from the parents, of every size and age.  A mother was taken not long since, in this town, from a sucking child, and sold to the lower country.  Three young men I saw some time ago taken from this place in chains—­while the mother of one of them, old and decrepid, followed with tears and prayers her son, 18 or 20 miles, and bid him a final farewell!  O, thou Great Eternal, is this justice! is this equity!!—­Equal Rights!!”

We subjoin a few miscellaneous facts illustrating the INHUMANITY of slaveholding ‘public opinion.’

The shocking indifference manifested at the death of slaves as human beings, contrasted with the grief at their loss as property, is a true index to the public opinion of slaveholders.

Colonel Oliver of Louisville, lost a valuable race-horse by the explosion of the steamer Oronoko, a few months since on the Mississippi river.  Eight human beings whom he held as slaves were also killed by the explosion.  They were the riders and grooms of his race-horses.  A Louisville paper thus speaks of the occurrence: 

“Colonel Oliver suffered severely by the explosion of the Oronoko.  He lost eight of his rubbers and riders, and his horse, Joe Kearney, which he had sold the night before for $3,000.”

Mr. King, of the New York American, makes the following just comment on the barbarity of the above paragraph: 

“Would any one, in reading this paragraph from an evening paper, conjecture that these ‘eight rubbers and riders,’ that together with a horse, are merely mentioned as a ‘loss’ to their owner, were human beings—­immortal as the writer who thus brutalizes them, and perhaps cherishing life as much?  In this view, perhaps, the ‘eight’ lost as much as Colonel Oliver.”