Providence Patriot, Columbian Phenix

MURDER AND Execution.--We have received a communication from Capt. Russell, of this place, who was an eye witness to the scene, giving an account of the singular execution, on the 4th ult. in the Choctaw Nation of a negro, for the murder of his master, Mr. James Davis, a white man, aged between 50 and 60 years, son-in-law of James Perry, a half-bred Indian. The negro, aged about 20, and his master, were in the woods together gathering pine, for the purpose of taking a fire hunt that night. Whilst Mr. Davis was snapping down picking up spits, the negro, with an axe, knocked him on the head, burnt his body, returned home, and told that his master and himself had separated and went different ways. Search was at length made-- some particles of bones found, and the negro apprehended. He made confession; showed where he had concealed his master's gun, but could assign no other reason for the act than that an old negro had advised him to kill his master. He had been raised by Mr. Davis from a child, who was a respectable man and a humane master. The negro was tied to a stake, a pen of pine splits made around him, and in this situation burnt alive,--Tennessee Statesman.