"DELPHI," who is travelling through the Southern Atlantic States on business, writes to The Whig Press, Middleton, N.Y., from Charlotte, N.C., May 17th, as follows:

  "While at Winnsborough, N.C., about two o'clock on Sunday morning, I was awakened by the cry of suffering, and soon learned the cause. Immediately underneath my window, a negro was receiving the lashes of his master. He was stripped entirely naked, and his master was flogging him with a harness trace. The night watch had found him asleep in a back yard of the hotel, and therefore concluded he was there intending to commit burglary; his master was called and the whipping commenced to make him confess. At no time during the inquisition was ever more cruelty displayed; his feet were fastened to the ground, and his body stretched over an outside market stall, and the lash fell with an unsparing hand. His back was literally pounded to a jelly, and at every stroke the blood oozed out and trickled to the ground, and his simple tale was, "Massa, I wasn't going to do anything." For one hour and a half this cruel treatment was continued, till the victim begged that they would take a gun and kill him, and fainted from pure exhaustion; there it was discontinued, and in the morning I heard them say he received 277 lashes. There were some scenes connected with this punishment too revolting to write, much more to be believed;—therefore, I refrain from writing more upon the subject. Suffice it to say, it remained me forcibly of one of the scenes in Uncle Tom's Cabin, with Legree for principal actor."