The Branded Hand

Un Wednesday night, Copt. Jonathan Wnlker, late of Florida, where, for a single act of humanily, lie was, by the ün:ed States ofticer, (native of N. England,) under United Staies Laws, imprisoned, kept in henvy irons, fined, put in the pillory, pelteu n his face with rotten eggs, and finally, brandal in his hand tciih a red hot irot, - this samo Capt. Wnlker, delivered an address in ihe Town Hall - n which he related his simples, though distressing narrative to a large and deeply interested audience. He made some statements concerniLg tho atrocities of New England men in Florida, which he aflírms as irue, of his own knowledge, which one might almost think enough to raise the doad. One was the case of O. M. A. who went from Mystic, Conn. This man went to Florida about the timo Capt. Walker did. He was a carpenter, and purchased house frames at the North, and put them up in Florida. He hired slaves of their masters, and worked them very hard. He also hired a slave woman of her master, for $16 a month. This woman he compelled to do the cooking and washing Tor from six to eight men, and besidcs this, to go out and hunt up work, so as to pay him $2 a week, on pain of a whipping, f she did not raise the money. This man had purchased some hay and potatoes at the Norlfj, and stored them in an old open building, at ome distance from the house. A poor starving slave, who had run away from his master, and had subsisted in the woods on nuts for two or three weeks, went to thatold building and took n few potatoes. This Connecticut carpenter- row a lawyer- was on the look-out with one or two others, and saw the slave lake ihe potatoes. He might have soartd him auay without injury ; but instcad, hO Jevelled his gun, charged with buck-shot, and shot the poor creature, dragged him inio a shed, where he was suflered to lay, until four or five days afierwards, when hc died. This man was a member of an orthodox congregational church in Myütic, when he went to Florida, and ns there was no church of that order thej-e, ho communed with the Methodists. Capt. Walker said his own children were pupils of this very man in the Sabbath School where he was a teacher,- that he saw this man after the above barbarous acts, partake of the communion, - and that he was never called to account for his inhuman conductby nny body nor