Rev. D.C.  EASTMAN, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bloomingburg, Fayette county, Ohio, has just forwarded a letter, from which the following is an extract: 

“GEORGE ROEBUCK, an old and respectable farmer, near Bloomingburg, Fayette county, Ohio, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, says, that almost forty-three years ago, he saw in Bath county, Virginia, a slave girl with a sore between the shoulders of the size and shape of a smoothing iron. The girl was ‘owned’ by one M’Neil.  A slaveholder who boarded at M’Neil’s stated that Mrs. M’Neil had placed the aforesaid iron when hot, between the girl’s shoulders, and produced the sore.

“Roebuck was once at this M’Neil’s father’s, and whilst the old man was at morning prayer, he heard the son plying the whip upon a slave out of doors.

“ELI WEST, of Concord township, Fayette county, Ohio, formerly of North Carolina, a farmer and an exhorter in the Methodist Protestant church, says, that many years since he went to live with an uncle who owned about fifty negroes.  Soon after his arrival, his uncle ordered his waiting boy, who was naked, to be tied—­his hands to horse rack, and his feet together, with a rail passed between his legs, and held down by a person at each end.  In this position he was whipped, from neck to feet, till covered with blood; after which he was salted.

“His uncle’s slaves received one quart of corn each day, and that only, and were allowed one hour each day to cook and eat it.  They had no meat but once in the year.  Such was the general usage in that country.

“West, after this, lived one year with Esquire Starky and mother.  They had two hundred slaves, who received the usual treatment of starvation, nakedness, and the cowhide.  They had one lively negro woman who bore no children.  For this neglect, her mistress had her back made naked and a severe whipping inflicted.  But as she continued barren, she was sold to the ‘negro buyers.’”

“THOMAS LARRIMER, a deacon in the Presbyterian church at Bloomingburg, Fayette county, Ohio, and a respectable farmer, says, that in April, 1837, as he was going down the Mississippi river, about fifty miles below Natchez, he saw ahead, on the left side of the river, a colored person tied to a post, and a man with a driver’s whip, the lash about eight or ten feet long.  With this the man commenced, with much deliberation, to whip, with much apparent force, and continued till he got out of sight.

“When coming up the river forty or fifty miles below Vicksburg, a Judge Owens came on board the steamboat.  He was owner of a cotton plantation below there, and on being told of the above whipping, he said that slaves were often whipped to death for great offences, such as stealing, &c.—­but that when death followed, the overseers were generally severely reproved!