The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-30 00:00:00

massacre. The rwgroes of each habitation intended,
between the 23d valet 26th of December, to slaughter
the whites who Llurrounded them, and, this accom-
plished, to march to the chief pace of the country,
where the blacks would generally assemble, and com-
mence to act.

"In many places the white is much inferior in numbers
to the black population, but they have added to their
strength by putting on a bold front, and by punishing
the four princip3l conspirators, whom I saw prisoners
at Dover. This is all that has passed up to the present
time.

" C:arkeviVe, Montgomery County, Tennessee,
Wednesday, Dec. 3. _ _ _

" Wa arrived 1 sere at daybreak, damaged, and were I
obliged to remain over for the greater part of the day.
I took advantage of the opportunity to go ashore, and
pass some hours i n gaining such information as I could
obtain. The deta ifs that I have collected alter nothing
of what I wrote y esterday evening.
"The town isf• more tranquil than an 3 of the other
places that we livve visited about here ; this is because
the white population, more numerous, has less to fear
from the plots of ai itators, white or black. Neverthe-
less, during the la,sf,; few days they have not been with•
out anxiety- They cite, among other things, the working
of a mine, which (s i!cu pies about 800 neeroes, belonging
to a single individf al, and which has been on the point
of being suspended. The energetic action of the pro-
prietor, and the ai z .est of six whites who stirred up the
revolt, have sufficf ito suppress the commencement of
an insurrection. IC he works go on, but they are inces-
santly watched. 57 he six whites have been condemned
to the Penitentiary... Thirty blacks have been arrested,
and await judgmel 3 t.
" The credulity ( ,f these poor people is each that, in
the belief of the v),:laites who excite them, they imagine
that Col. Fremont with a large army is waiting at the
mouth of the river Cumberland, until the night of the
23d or 24th of De cember has arrived. Then all this
army will help to deliver the slaves. They have been
struck by the sudd e. n swelling of the river, and attribute
this circumstance tc , the great assemblage of men and
ships at the mouth Certain slaves are so strongly im-
bued with this fab'so that I have seen them smile while
they are being wi ripped, and have heard them say
that 'Fremont and his men can bear the blows they re-
ceive.'

"The mines alon; the shores of the Cumberland for a
distance of about 30i miles have suspended work. Ma•
chine shops, occup3i ng from 150 to 200 negroes, have
now only five or six whites to direct operations. This is
the case in regard. to the Cumberland Ironworks, of
which I spoke yestel rday. In these localities, also, the
panic is great. TA ree white Free Soilers have been
arrested at Dover id the act of exciting a revolt. They
were beaten, and we re allowed 15 hours to leave the
county and 30 to go out of the State. A black preacher
was arrested while de livering an abolitionist sermon. He
forms one of the nine who were yesterday in Dover. Of
these nine five are nof yet tried. The four others have
been tried by a regal ar tribunal, and were condemned to
be hung on Triursd ay (to-morrow) ; but as on the an-
nouncement of this s entence a band of blacks was orga-
nised for a rescuo the four criminals were to be hung last
evening. The excil ement which will naturally follow
among the slaves ii . much dreaded. The women and
children too young t o serve for defence are emigrating
towards more popule •us districts.
"Of the body of 200 blacks who marched to Dover
about 60 have been arrested. They are those whom I
saw whipped yesterd 'ay at the Cumberland Ironworks.
30 others returned ti ) their workshops and farms, and the
rest ran to the woodf ; but no attempt at pillage or mur-
der has yet been mad e. In saving themselves, the blacks
not only carried al say arms and munitions, but also
everything they could, and in many places, particularly
at Dover, the whita I are short of powder. They would
have paid its weight in gold for powder, but we could
not procure it for th em.
" All the blacks made prisoners are' first examined
separately by a jti ry, who decide whether there is
ground or not to lay an accusation before a justice. This
increased precaution has already had a good moral effect
among them.
"As I told you yesterday, the plan was to butcher
the whites upon iso laced farms and in the workshops,
and then to march to each chief town of the county.
They would thus hd .ve established a free road along the
Cumberland from I 'Ashville to Ohio. By this route all
who took part in th e revolt could have fought a retreat
to Indiana and Did ois. No one could have disturbed
them, for they wont d have traversed the least populated
parts of the countr3 Thus, though the plot bas been
exposed, and we ha' se not to dread any actual explosion,
there still remains e n uneasiness about the future, and
we reflect with term .r upon the facility of executing this
plan if it had not be en discovered."