Intelligence of an unpleasant description has been received this week
from the United States. At Vicksburgh, which we believe is in Kentucky, five persons connected with a gambling-house had been seized by the infuriated populace, and hanged without trial: this summary mode of punishment is called the execution of " Lynch's law." An attack had been made by an armed force, -cosnualsssusieu u y 'Lie au 411til IL,C0 1.1AG 'imam ta tits or Toledo, in Ohio, who were maltreated by the aggressors. At Livingstone, in Mississippi, two preachers of the abolition of slavery, and seven of their Negro disciples, were hung in the streets, as a warning to all who dared to advocate or listen to Abolition doctrines. A conspiracy of the slaves in the same state is said to have been discovered; and a committee of planters, assuming to themselves legal authority, were proceeding, when the last accounts were despatched, to flog and hang all connected with it. At Charleston, a mob had stormed the post-office, and seized a quan- tity of tracts against slavery, which they soon destroyed. The whole of the Union seems to be in the most excited state on the subject of slavery, owing, it is said, in a great degree to the preaching of the Missionary Tuomsole.
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