Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-09-01

ampton. i trust tue next news you near
will be that all is quiet again.
\ In haste, yours.
Extract of another letter to the same gentleman,
dated al Norfolk, o'cock, +. NJ.
at is now 3 O'Clock -Thompson's
Stage has Just rrrycd--thc above state
ment is confrmed; and in addition states
that 800 negroes well mounted and arm
ed; and headed by one or two white men,
is the amount Of the insurgent force"
The Richmond Compiler adds, that
"The Recorder of the town, upon re-
ceiving the letter, from Col Fayvcnt,
despatched it to the Mayor of this city
A new express, (not the one from South
ampton, arrived in this city with the let
ter about three o'clock on Monday night.
Early in the morning, the Mayor put it
into the hands of the Governor of the
Commonwealth, who Immediately con-
vened the Council The Lieutenant
Governor, the only member in town,
who advised the earliest and most eff
cicnt measures to be takcn-lcavilg fall
discretion to the Governor upon the sub
ject. Arrangements were Immediately
taken by the Chief Magistrate for that
purpose. Arms and ammunition were
dispatched in Wagons to the county OF
Southampton. The four Volunteer COM
panies, Of Petersburgh, two Companies
from Richmond, viz. the Cayaly and
Artillery, one from Norfolk, and one
from Portsmouth, and the Regiments Of
Sussex and Southampton, have been or
dcred out. The Dragons of this city,
commanded by Capt. Randolp pl Harri-
son, go or 20 strong set out in the
evening about o'clock, and viii prob
ably be on the ground by - o'cock.-
The distance is about sixty miles,
The Lafayette artillery company,
commanded by Capt. Richardson, en-
barked last evening about eight o'clock,
in the steamboat Norfolk, and will laad
at Smithfcld.
This intelligence has burst very uncy-
pcctedly upon us. No one has had the
slightest int;mation or dream of any such
movement. We have no doubt but the
transaction has been much exaggerated,
and that less mischief has been done,
and less force has been gathered togeth-
er than has been rumored, and that the
range of the evil will soon be arrested.
The wrctchcs who have contrived this
thing arc fatuated-deceived by
some arlul knaves, or stimulated by their
miscalculating passions. The ruin must
return on their own heads; they must fall
certain sacrifices to their own folly and
infatuation.
1t is scarcely necessary to say, that
every thing is perfectly quiet here; all
our population unusually calm; and that
these rumors have not ruAlcd the tram
guilty Of the city. All our care is for
our brethren of Southampton, who, from
some local cause or other, not explain
ed or conjectured, have been subjected
to this visitation. The authorizes ofthe
city arc, however, on the alert, as they
should be. No danger appears, but no
necessary caution will be spared-the
police will be vigiIant. Last night the
Richmond Light Infantry Blues were
out on the watch-the surveillance will
be maintained until our volunteer corps
have returned, and tranquility shall be
restored to the affected district, if district
it can be called
The Washington Telegraph states,
that a gentleman who came up from Old
Point Comfort, on Friday, gives the fol-
lowing account
A couple of gentlemen and three Ia
dies arrived at the Point OH Tuesday
evening, from Smithfield, bringing intel
ligencc of an insurrection in Southamp-
ton county. They reported that Mrs.
Whitehead and family, an ovcrscer, and
several others, had been murdered by
the negroes; that largo body ofthe lat
ter had collected with arms of different
desert iptions, some mounted, others on
foot; that an engagement had taken place
between them and the white inhabitants,
near Jerusalem, at a place called the
Cross Keys, in which several lives were
lost In the course of Tuesday night,
arrived at the Point from the Mayor of
Norfolk, requesting the commandant,
Col. House, TO send men, arms, and am.
munition, to aid in ,,pprcssing the rebel
lion, s. by daylight on Wednesday three
companies, under the command of Col
Worth, with several chests of arms, and
munitions ofwar, were despatched up the
Nansemond River, in the steamboat
Hampton, to the scene of action The
gentlcmen.and ladies who brought the
intelligence to the Point, fled there for
safety. Forty marines, from the two
sloops OF war, (Natchez and Warren
now anchored in Hampton Roads, also
formed part ofthe armed force under COL
Worth, Of the u. S. Army.
1t is said, also, that Commodore Eli