On Thursday last, LUCY, a coloured woman, the property of Thomas Batton was tried at Lewis county court house by the Magistrates of that county, and sentenced to death, to be hung on the 14th day of February next. The crime she was charged with was the murdering of her infant child. Comment on the atrocity of the crime is unnecessary. A mother murdering the offspring of her womb, almost as soon as it saw the light of day; oh, inhuman! Oh monstrous! Servants take warning by the fate of Lucy. Know that vice will be punished, justice will overtake you either in this world or the world to come. Masters, what an appeal it is to your feelings, to your humanity. You are charged with half the sins of your slaves when you rear them up from childhood to manhood, from manhood to old age, without giving them on tittle of education, or moral or religious instruction. It is a duty you owe yourselves, your slaves, and an offended God, to give your slaves that instruction which is meet and Godly. Be assured that at the great day of judgement, when a terrible and Omnipotent Judge descends to judge the world you will have to give a faithful account of your Stewardship, and dreadful will be that account if you suffer the flock committed to your charge to stray so far from the duties they owe to Calvary's martyr.

The evidence against Lucy was sufficiently strong to convict her: It appeared that she delivered herself of the child in the woods and then abandoned it to its fate - some marks of violence were discovered by the inquest - the child was a mulatto: -- white man how can you be so base.

The sentence was pronounced by Edward Jackson, Esq. In a solemn and impressive manner. A petition was handed about immediately after the sentence was pronounced, for her reprieve, which was signed by nearly all the people among which were two of the magistrates who condemned her.