The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN JAhLkICL.

It is clear that the outbreak, though sudden, le
organized and perhaps widespread. By one writer its
origin is attributed to the reports that have reached
the blacks in Jamaica about the establishment of the
Freedmen's Bureaue, which supply food and shelter to
the negroes in the Southern States of America. At all
events the insurgents have a leader, named Paul Bogle,
who is well known to tho,e acquainted with the parish
of St. Thonias-in-the•East, and who ban hitherto borne
the best charaeter for quietness and good conduct. A.
reward of 2,000 dollars has been offered by the Govern.
nient for his apprehension. The authorial.s were taking
prompt and severe measures to suppress the rebellion.
Upwards of forty rebels had been hanged, and the pur-
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. ruing troops were being guided to the haunts of the
' main bodies by a man who had come over from the
rebel ranks. It is only proper to say that many negro
men and women hive proved faithful and devoted, and
have in some installer,' saved the lives of whites from
the fury of the rebellious blacks. The rebels do not kill
medical men. They keep them, under the idea that
they will be useful to them. It is said that their plan is
to murder, flint all the white and coloured men, then
the children, and to keep the women as servants, and
for their own pleasure. They are to avoid as inuoh as
posedhle the use of the torch on estates and building*,
but simply to maim the works so as to prevent next
year's croo from being got in, as they hope to become
the proprietors themselves. All this shows organisation
end • deficits object After thirty yeara of freedom the
negroes have not in the least unlearned their blood.
thirsty spirit. Notwithstanding individual exceptions,
the heart of the bulk of them, even when they are
educattd, remains savage, and their civilization may
well nigh be despaired of.

Dr. Gerard was drawn from his place of concealment,
and was about to be struck down, when he exclaimed.,
"I am Dr. Gerard !" and the murderers desiated. He
had, however, no influence to save any one. Mr. Ratty,
who clung to him, was torn away and despatched under
his eyes. Mr. Hitching, faint and horribly mutilated,
staggered towards the doctor, and, throwing his arms
around his neck, could only gasp out, "I am weak,
doctor; I can scarcely stand." While he stood in this
position, the savages were striking into his back and
neck with their cutlasses, and Dr. Gerard could feel the
rebound of the blows. At last the unfortunate gentle-
man relaxed his hold of the doctor, and sunk down,
literally hacked to pieces. The bravery of Captain
Hitching and his brother volunteers place them side by
side with the first of British heroes. While the Custom
and other gentlemen were in the Courthouse, his
Honour displayed the utmost abnegation of self, and
only thought of the safety of those with him. Address.
ing Mr. Price, he said, "You are a man of their own
eelour ; will you undertake to address them, asking
them what it is they want? If it is my life they want.
I am prepared to yield it up and save you all." Mr.
Prim obsereed that he feared the mob would have no
consideration for him. The baron then said, "Let us
all go out, then, or I will ge oat," balls and brickbats
showering thick at the thew. Mr. Hitching dissuaded
them, observing that it would be certain destruction for
each one, for whoever appeared it the windows was at
once made • mark for twenty bullets. Mr. Alberga's
little boy was in great alarm, and begged and entreated
to be put somewhere. The spectacle presented by his
wretched father, thus fearing tor a life even dearer to
him than his own, was truly heartrending, and chew the
tears of the beholders, notwithstanding the poisoned
perils they were under. When the company had retired
to the schoolroom a volley came through one of the
windows; and the baron, holding his and up to
his breast, said, "My friends, I have it now, they
have shot me." An exelarnation came frets Mr. G
into whose leg two bullets had penetrated.
Rev. Mr. Herschel took off his necktie and bound up
the wound. Poor little Alberga, clinging to his lather's
knees, receive a shot hi the leg. Previous to thia,•
rush out having been determined on, as the burning
roof was expected to fell in, the Rev. Mr. Herschel hail
proposed the offering, up a prayer. All were engaged in
pouring out their petition to the Most High for mercy,
when the ballacame crashing through the windows and
ht three among them. The roof immediately gave
way, and every, soul rushed out. Mr. Alberga, with
Isis child in his 'mil, received the first blows; and his
criee of "Save my child l" moved the heart of
woman, who took the little innocent away and con-
veyed him to his mother. Mr. A. Crooke and Mr.
SiTherson hid him under the flooring, but the glare of
the lire betrayed them, and they were pulled out and
butehered. The Rev. Mr. Herschel, knocked down on
his knees, in vain sued far mercy and offered ransom ,•
the blosrg fell thick upon him till he was laid low, and
while his heart yetbeate a woman mat out his tongue
and held it up in triumph. Cheer after cheer rung
through the fiendish band after each new act of atrocity,
Mr. Cooke, the clerk of the peace, was pushed under
the floor by a faithful black servant boy, and remained
use whole night in.. mud peddle under it firmed by
hogs. Lying there he could je.t Fee through the
intervals of the. pillars the feet of the rioters ae they
went by, and hear some of them boast that they had
chopped him to pieces. His unfor'unate brother had
probably b. en mistaken for him, and he owed hi. safety
to that oircumstance, which prevented further search
after him. The next morning his faithful preierver
and companion watched the opportunity and led him
to the 'woods, where he remained conceded until the
military arrived from Kingston. While the wife and
children of this gentleman remained concealed in the
house of a druggist they heard the boast of IMMO men
who lied brought wounded companions there to be
dressed, that "they had chopped up that fellow
Stephen Cooke so fine, is wife would not be able to
find a piece of him." The unfortunate woman with
difficulty suppreassed a shriek, which, had she uttered
it, might have at once drawn down a bloody revenge
upon tier kind protector, the druggist. Dr. Major was
lifted over the railing at Mr. Marchallek's, and that
gentleman was summoned by the rebels to some
and take charge of him and lock him up
out of harm'e way. While Dr. Gerard wars
about, parties frequently came around him
wth threatening gestures, protesting that but
for his being a dostor they would chop trim up
fine, and warning him by what they had done of the
necessity of stickiag to them if he wished te contieue
safe. At other times he was embraced and patted.
While Mr. Cooke lay concealed under the ilollb6
I heard distinctly each dreadful act of murder, and could
tell the victims by the exclamations of the mob. He
heard the dying groans of Mr. Price, who lay with his
entrails protruding, having been ripped open by women.
The Castes got hold of s sword, and sold his life dearly.
The mob jointed his fingers, leavmg them hanging by
some small tegument', and laughingly dangled them
about with a jeer—" Now, you write no more lies to
the Queen against us." The prison was opened nod the
prisoners set free. The mob amused themselves by
dria.sing the prisoners in the policemen's clothes. It is
remarkable that except Mr. Alberga's child uo violent,*
was offered to any women or children up to that time.
The rioters, it is said, drank no spirits on the day of the
butchery, but had inspired themselves the night before
with potent draughts of rum and gunpbwder.

ANOTHER TERTIMONIAL AS TO THE EFFICACY Of
Do. Lonoca's Pormotrlo WAFERS—From Mr. H.
Armstrong, Druggist, 8, Church-street, Preston.
"The country little knows the beneficial effects that
are to be derived from them, or no one with the
slightest or most inveterate disease of the lunge would
be without them. I can with confidence recommend
them, having ssen so many hundred 0•6134 iii which
they have never failed."

Dr. ',Doom's PULEIONIO WATERS give instant relief
and a rapid sure of asthma, oommmption, coughs and
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white letters on a red ground in the government Stamps
without which words ALL ARE °MINTER/TITS AID
N IMPOSITION.

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IMPORTANT TO HOTEIRRS.—tdre. Winslow' S iothing
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from pain, and the little cherub awakes "u bright as
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gives rest to the mother, and health te the child. It
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n Oda C .untry by all the prinaiapal medicine dcader at
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tolunin.

HomowaY's • OINTMENT AND PILLS. Society's
iafegua,cl.—Whateeer the dimes, may be, wherever it
may .over itaelf, whether externally or intamilly,
its victims my enter on Profesaor Holloway's treat.
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401110 ainelioration„ot the infirmity. For th.- cure a
ulcers, wounds, ,sore, abrasion', eruptions, abscesses,
glandular swellings, and the generality of throat and
chest complaints, 7t6he :Ointment need only be used
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to the illness, and a desirable restoration of health and
etrength. 'ln all disorders which have been of long
duration Hdlloway's Pills should be taken; they power-
fully stimulate the circulation, rouse the heedfal
nervous energy, and induce reparatire lotion.