Cincinnati Daily Press

Erroneous Ideas of American Slavery in England.—A Paris correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser quotes from the Opinion Nationale the statement, that in the slave States of America "it is a common practice to strip a refractory negro naked, to lay him down on his face, and then to drag a cat by the tail down his back, the claws of the animal inflicting unheard-of tearings on the poor fellow's skin. To prevent the animal from turning to bite the executioner, the writer supposes that it is trained to the work." He also enumerates a long list of tortures which might enter fairly into the category of the Inquisition, and which were evidently borrowed from Fox's Book of Martyrs.

The same remarkable ignorance of the question they assume to discuss and decide, is frequently shown by foreigners, when American slavery is the theme. Englishmen of culture and cleverness, now in this country, came hither with the idea that burning negroes alive was a common practice at the South: and the London journals almost assume, as a matter of course, that Anderson, the fugitive murderer from Missouri, will be burned at the stake if he is returned under the Extradition Treaty.