“A METHODIST PREACHER last fall took a load of produce down the river.  Amongst other things he took down five slaves.  He sold them at New Orleans—­he came up to Natchez—­bought seven there—­and took them down and sold them also.  Last March he came up to preach the Gospel again.  A number of persons on board the steamboat (the Tuscarora.) who had seen him in the slave-shambles in Natchez and New Orleans, and now, for the first time, found him to be a preacher, had much sport at the expense of ‘the fine old preacher who dealt in slaves.’

A non-professor of religion, in Campbell county, Ky. sold a female and two children to a Methodist professor, with the proviso that they should not leave that region of country.  The slave-driver came, and offered $5 more for the woman than he had given, and he sold her.  She is now in the lower country, and her orphan babes are in Kentucky.

“I was much shocked once, to see a Presbyterian elder’s wife call a little slave to her to kiss her feet.  At first the boy hesitated—­but the command being repeated in tones not to be misunderstood, be approached timidly, knelt, and kissed her foot.”

Rev. W.T.  ALLAN, of Chatham, Illinois, gives the following in a letter dated Feb. 4, 1839: 

“Mr. Peter Vanarsdale, an elder of the Presbyterian church in Carrollton, formerly from Kentucky, told me, the other day, that a Mrs. Burford, in the neighborhood of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, had separated a woman and her children from their husband and father, taking them into another state.  Mrs. B. was a member of the Presbyterian Church.  The bereaved husband and father was also a professor of religion.

“Mr. V. told me of a slave woman who had lost her son, separated from her by public sale.  In the anguish of her soul, she gave vent to her indignation freely, and perhaps harshly.  Sometime after, she wished to become a member of the church.  Before they received her, she had to make humble confession for speaking as she had done. Some of the elders that received her, and required the confession, were engaged is selling the son from his mother.”

The following communication from the Rev. WILLIAM BARDWELL, of Sandwich, Massachusetts, has just been published in Zion’s Watchman, New York city: 

Mr. Editor:—­The following fact was given me last evening, from the pen of a shipmaster, who has traded in several of the principal ports in the south.  He is a man of unblemished character, a member of the M.E.  Church in this place, and familiarly known in this town.  The facts were communicated to me last fall in a letter to his wife, with a request that she would cause them to be published.  I give verbatim, as they were written from the letter by brother Perry’s own hand while I was in his house.