The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-14 00:00:00

AMERICA.

A bill is before the Arkansas Legislature to com-
pel all free negroes to leave the State, under pen-
ally of immediate sale into slavery for life. A bill
allowing negroes, Indians, and mulattoes, to give
evidence in cases where white persons are parties,
has passed the Senate branch of the lowa Legis-
lature by a vote of 19 to 18. A bill to " encourage
and promote matrimony" has been introduced into
the Legislature of North Carolina.
The following paragraphs contain the latest in-
telligence respecting the slave excitement in the
South. The Marlborough, Advocate says:—
" Two slaves, the property of Mr. Henry Danger-
field, were arrested and committed to gaol on Friday
last, and on Sunday five others were also committed.
Those first arrested are said to have given some infor-
mation, or to have made some disclosures, concerning
an insurrection on which public apprehension appears
to be based. In consequence of these circumstances
public meetings of the citizens of this district were held
on Saturday and Monday last for the organisation of
patrols, and for taking other action in the premises."
The Berryville (Virginia) Gazette has the follow-
ing :
" Just before going to press three slaves—Joe, Tom,
and Vincent—the property of Mrs. George L. Kerfoot,
near Millwood, and a free negro, named Alfred Thomp-
son, have been lodged in our gaol for attempting insur-
rection. We learn that these negroes expressed them-
selves before the justice who committed them as familiar
with a plot of insurrection to commence in our country,
and also at Harper's Ferry, two months from the first
of November last ; and, further, that they had heard
white men and negroes talking if Fremont was elected
they would be free, and, as they knew he was not, they
were prepared to fight for it, and threatened the lives of
two of our most worthy citizens as the first they in-
tended to take."

A letter from Jackson, Mississippi, dated the
21st, says
" Our town is in a perfect state of excitement to-day
in consequence of rumours of an intended negro insur
rection, to take place during the holidays.
" The mayor has issued a proclamation calling upon
the citizens to organise and prepare to crush the insur-
rection in its bud.

"Twenty-seven negroes have been arrested this morn-
ing. The extent of the plot is not known. Feelings of
doubt and anxiety are universal.

" Our citizens are in a fearful state of excitement. The
particulars of this excitement are hard to obtain ; and,
although universal, the origin and foundation are very
difficult to ascertain.

"Rumours from Canton, Mississippi, also have reached
us of a similar state of affairs.
" How far North Alabama may be in danger we can-
not say with certainty, but there are rumours of rebel-
lion in that quarter."
A telegraphic communication from Louisville,
Kentucky, under date the 29th of December,
says :
f here was great excitement at the Court-house here
on Saturday, in consequence of the examination of the
negroes who are charged with murdering the Joyce
family. William Joyce, a brother, proposed that the
negroes b© burnt, to which the crowd re-ponded Aye,'
but they were finally quieted by the Court, and the
negroes remanded to prison. The presumptive evidence
against the negroes is strong, but there is nothing direct
against them save the confession of one of their number.
New Orleans papers, received at Baltimore, con-
tain despatches from Mississippi and Northern
Alabama, giving reports of slave excitement at
Jackso-1 and Canton, Mississippi. Great alarm pre-
vailed and a number of negroes had been arrested.
A Tennessee paper states that Senator Bell loses
about 10,000 dols. by the insurrection panic. Four
of his negroes in his absence were hung by one of
the local courts, and five more afterwards by the
mob, without judge or jury. Yet there seems to
have been little or no evidence to inculpate them.
Huntington, the forger, had been found guilty,
and sentenced to four years and 10 months' impri-
sonment in the New York State prison.
The appearance of the would-be Filibusters who
had left New York in the steam-ship Tennessee did
not promise to afford Walker much material aid
on their arrival in Central America. They are
described as few in number, but with their spirits
up from having poured large libations of spirits
down, and almost ready to do anything but remain
quiet. The steam-ship Adye, with 50 additional
Filibusters, including General Wheal, had arrived
at Norfolk to take up the passengers of the Ten-
nessee.
The New York Tribune says that the text of the
last Central American treaty which appeared in
the Times, extracted from the New York _Herald,
was surreptitiously obtained. Of the treaty the
&IMO journal says :
" This treaty is one of very grave character. It has
no parallel in the past diplomacy of our Government
but that negotiated between Messrs. Clayton and Bul-
wer, which it far outvies in all that rendered that
instrument remarkable. Its recognition of the Mos-
quito savages as au independent Power, with a large
extent of territory ; its stipulations that our Govern-
ment, in connection with that of Great Britain, shall
undertake to settle the reciprocal limits of Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, and Mosquito ; its singular and compli-
cated provisions with respect to Greytown or San Juan
de Nicaragua; its express recognition of British Hon-
duras and attempts to define her boundaries, are at
least far out of the ordinary course of our diplomacy,
contrast strongly with our current jeers at British as-
sumption with regard to Mosquito, and are just such
as none other than a Democratic Administration could
reasonably hope to carry through the Senate and sus-
tain before the country. On the whole, we are inclined
to approve and uphold this treaty, though not without
misgivings that it will ultimately involve us in worse
complications than those it resolves. We consider its
stipulations in the main fair and equal, though en-
tangling, and we are inclined rather to regret that
exigencies exist which demand such a treaty than to
complain that those exigencies have not been more
wisely met."
The Illinois had arrived at New York with the
Californian mails of the sth ult. and $1,671,569 in
specie on freight. The total vote of the State for
President was 107,377, of which Buchanan had
51,925 ; Fillmore, 35,113 ; and Fremont, 20,339,
giving a plurality of Fillmore and Fremont over
Buchanan of 3,527.
The advices from Panama are to the 19th of
December. According to the Star the blockade of
all the New Granada ports was to be enforced.
The same paper asserts that the object of Admiral
Bruce's visit to Panama was to examine the prac-
ticability of establishing a British naval depot in
the Bay of Panama, in order that the British fleet
in the Pacific, now principally steamers, may re-
ceive their coal across the Isthmus. The officers of
the Monarch were surveying the harbour at the
Island of Tobago. The United States' Government,
it says, has also been thinking of taking a similar
step. The Esk had sailed for Acapulco, touching
at the Central American ports.