Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1831-10-07

The Fredericksburg Arena mentions
that printed circulars Of an incendiarv
character, dated Albany. Sept. Is, and
signed Gregory S. Sherlock, have been
received at two post-oAices in that coun-
ty. The Arena very properly enquiries
oil the Albany editors who this Mr.. Sher-
lock is. We doubt not that he will be
found to be very contemplate fellow
at home.
Inc Lnsurgents.-In the lower part of
TINS state, we hear ofno farther insurrec-
tionary movements and, if we except
one or two rumors which are unworthy
of credit, all cause of alarm seems to have
subsidized
From North Carolina, we learn by the
last papers, that no apprehensions were
ielt. A letter from Newbern to a gen.
tleman in Norfolk gives the assurance
that the late alarm in that quarter has en-
tlrely subsided-that much of it was
without any just loundation-and that
the efficient means adopted for the pre-
servatIon of order and the public securi-
ty have inspired general Confidence
The Fayetteville Observer, of the 2Ist
ult' says, mot a single party OF negroes,
nay not single individual, has been
found In arms, or in rebellion, in any of
the counties in that neighborhood;
though all the confessions induce the
belief the conspirators were well organ
lied, and their plans well understood, in
Duplin, Sampson, Wayne, New Hanover.
and Lenoir. The discovery of the plot
completely overthrow all their plans.
which were TO have been carried into
execution in the early part of this
month. About % are in Sampson Jail,
80 in Duplin, and l5 in Wilmington
The examinations are going on. and the
guilty will be surely and severely punish
Vir.
tS%A new impetus has been qiyen TO
the investigations into the negro conspi-
racy in Southampton, by the disclosures
OF negro girl. Her evidence was at
first repudiated by the court, but subse-
quently received, and three convictions
at the last dates had been made upon it.
Her disclosures go to show long me-
ditated and extensive plot. The same
fact is disclosed in the investigations
which have beenmade in North Carolina.
General Nat, in Botetourt.-A negro
man. no'o very generally supposed to be
no other than thenotorious Nat Turner"
lately passed through this place and by
the Sweet Springs. He was stopped on
the high road near Prices in this county.
on Saturday last, by two young men who
were working on the road. These men
believing him to be only runaway stop
ped and were in the act of searching
him, when he unfortunately made his
escape. They had already deprived him
Of large knife which he carried i'm his
bosom, and desired him to take off the
knapsack which he had on his back in
order that they might proceed to more
rigorous search, when the fellow throw
ng off both it and his coat, took to his
heels and has since eluded all pursuit.
Both the young men, having guns dis
;harged them after him, but without eff
ect. The object being not to kill, but
o wound him in the legs, they missed
nm altogether. On searching the KNAPP
ack, some ammunition was found which
induces the belief that he was armed. 1t
.lso contained Hymn or Prayer Book
n which is written the name "Zepheni.
a Turner, Richmond" The cut of the
'oat which he left behind is the same
generally wornby these itinerant preach
RS, and has a round breast.
AS little doubt can be entertained that
his fellow is the same person described
II the Governors Proclamation, we hope
he people will use all vigilance in pur-
nit of him. He is probably still lurking
n the mountains, and endeavoriug to get
o Ohio.-Fmcastle Pat. Sept. 30.
ATHENS, Sept. 2O.-At the Gwinnett
erm of the Superior Court held last
week, the Rev. ]. j. Trot, Rev. Ezra
Butler, and Rev. S. A. Worchcster,
Missionaries in the Cherokee Nation,
we're sentenced TO Imprisonment in the
'enitcntiary for four gears each, for re-
using to take the oath to obey the laws
+ Georgia. At the same term seven
ther white men residing in the nation,
IL. Messrs. Chan, Delesier, Mays, Cop
NJ Eaton and two persons by the name
t Thompson, received each the same
entence for the same offence. The old
lea denying the jurisdiction ofthe Court