The _Natchez Free Trader, 16th June, 1842_, gives a horrible account of the execution of the negro, Joseph, on the 5th of that month for murder. "The body," says that paper, "was taken and chained to a tree immediately on the bank of the Mississippi, on what is called Union Point. The torches were lighted and placed in the pile. He watched unmoved the curling flame as it grew, until it began to entwine itself around and feed upon his body; then he sent forth cries of agony painful to the ear, begging some one to blow his brains out; at the same time surging with almost superhuman strength, until the staple with which the chain was fastened to the tree, not being well secured, drew out, and he leaped from the burning pile. At that moment the sharp ring of several rifles was heard, and the body of the negro fell a corpse to the ground. He was picked up by two or three, and again thrown into the fire and consumed." "ANOTHER NEGRO BURNED.--We learn from the clerk of the Highlander that, while wooding a short distance below the mouth of Red river, they were _invited to stop a short time and see another negro burned_."--_N. O. Bulletin._ Thus we see that burning negroes alive is treated as a spectacle, and strangers are invited to witness it. The victim of this exhibition was the negro Enoch, said to have been an accomplice of Joseph, and was burned a few days after the other. We have thus given you no less than _six_ instances of human beings publicly burned alive in four slave States, and in each case with entire impunity to the miscreants engaged in the horrible murder. But these were cases which _happened_ to be reported in the newspapers, and with which we _happened_ to become acquainted. There is reason to believe that these executions are not of rare occurrence, and that many of them, either through indifference or policy, are not noticed in the Southern papers. A recent traveller remarks, "Just before I reached Mobile, two men were _burned alive_ there in a slow fire in the open air, in the presence of the _gentlemen_ of the city. No word was breathed of the transaction in the newspapers."--_Martineau's Society in America_, vol. I., p. 373.