Eyre's party on his westward trip consisted of an overseer, three men, and two natives.

He divided his party, sending Baxter, the overseer, with most of the men and stores straight across to Streaky Bay, where he had formerly made a camp, while, with the remainder, he made his way to Port Lincoln.

About half-past ten he drove them near the camp intending shortly to call the overseer to relieve him.

"At the dead hour of night, in the wildest and most inhospitable waste of Australia, with the fierce wind raging in unison with the scene of violence before me, I was left with a single native, whose fidelity I could not rely on, and who, for aught I knew might be in league with the other two, who, perhaps were even now lurking about to take my life, as they had done that of the overseer.

We will have tortures made to awe the slaves; Peace makes them ever proud and malapert, They'l be an Overseer of the State.

He made no secret of his detestation of the overseer.

Master George, who knew, and dreaded the indomitable spirit of the man, told the overseer, before he left the plantation, to beware how he attempted to punish him.

Testimony of Eleazer Powel; Overseer of Hinds Stuart, shot a slave for opposing the torture of his female companion.

When I first knew Mr. Swan's plantation, his overseer was a man who had been a Methodist minister.

His reason for leaving the ministry and becoming an overseer, as I was informed, was this: his wife died, at which providence he was so enraged, that he swore he would not preach for the Lord another day.

He has been appointed justice of the peace, and his place as overseer was afterwards occupied by a Mr. Galloway.

The overseer, getting information of the fact, went to the field where he was at work, and ordered him to come to him.

He had got but a few rods, when the overseer raised his gun, loaded with duck shot, and brought him down.

This the slaves sometimes do, when the master is absent for several weeks, to escape the cruel treatment of the overseer.

The overseer was a very miserly fellow, and restricted his wife in what are considered the comforts of lifesuch as tea, sugar, &c. To make up for this, she set her wits to work, and, by the help of a slave, named Joe, used to take from the plantation whatever she could conveniently, and watch her opportunity during her husband's absence, and send Joe to sell them and buy for her such things as she directed.

The overseer called the slave up, and charged him with the theft.

The overseer still charged him with it, and told him he would give him one week to think of it, and if he did not confess the theft, or find out who did steal the pig, he would flog every negro on the plantation; before the week was up it was ascertained that Joe had killed the pig.

He was called up and questioned, and admitted that he had done so, and told the overseer that he did it by the order of Mrs. Galloway, and that she directed him to buy some sugar, &c. with the money.

In this they failedwere taken, tied to trees, and whipped to death by their overseer.

I lived a mile from the negro quarters, and, at that distance, could frequently hear the screams of the poor creatures when beaten, and could also hear the blows given by the overseer with some heavy instrument.

Judge Clayton had joined the party in charge of the fugitives, and was now in conversation with the overseer, a short man clad in a coarse blue jacket, with high boots and greasy leather trousers.

" As Judge Clayton walked away, Dunwody turned to the overseer, whom he had seen before on the Clayton plantations.

"Heap of it, sir," replied the overseer, taking off his cap.

Dunwody approached the overseer, and put a gold double-eagle in his hand.

The workmen who had been brought from the Mississippi to erect the main building, were fully competent to carry on their work without an overseer; but the kitchen was to be the task of the Frenchmen, and the question was, how could it be executed in the absence of the bourgeois?