Instead of bringing in the tally cut upon a piece of board, as usual, he wrote the number eighty upon a piece of paper.

When the overseer saw it, he would scarcely believe that any of his people could write, and ordered a piece of coal to be brought and made him write it over again; the next day he turned him into the field, but unable to perform the task (to hoe and weed one hundred coffee roots daily) with those who had been accustomed to field work all their lives, he was tried for neglect of duty, and sentenced to fourteen days on the treadmill!" We quote the following heart-rending account from the Telegraph, (Spanishtown,) April 28, 1837.

It is from a Baptist missionary.
"I see something is doing in England to shorten the apprenticeship system.

I pray God it may soon follow its predecessor--slavery, for it is indeed slavery under a less disgusting name.

Business lately (December 23) called me to Rodney Hall; and while I was there, a poor old negro was brought in for punishment.