The Northern star, and constitutionalist. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1834-1837, 1835-08-01


make no comments upon SO dreadful an
occurrence hoping the account has been
exaggerated.
Since the above was in type we have
heard that DR.. Body was murdered in
the gaming house, after having won u
considerable sum of money at the table,
which was the original cause of this exc
cution of summary justice, or Lynch law
as it is called. The persons executed
were Mr.. North, who kept a tavern, Dutch-
Bill, his bar keeper, Mr. Samuel Smith,
Mr.. Culum, and Mr.. Mccall.
The True American gives another, and
we suspect, more correct version of the
occurrence.
From the True Americana
Mob Justice. Information was received
from VIsksburg yesterday, by the arrival
OF the steamboat Scotland, thar a serious
act of mobocracy took place on the 9th
inst, in the town mentioned. 1t appears
that a den Of gamblers existed in that
place which had become obnoxious to the
citizens. On the Fourth ofJuy the gam
bers were refused permission to partci-
pate in the celebration, whereupon they
became insolent, and notice was given TO
them by the citizens to leave the place.
This they disregarded, and remained.
Two OF them, in consoquonce wore taken
aud nude to go through the ceremony of
tarring and feathcrng, so we'll known and
so often prac.ised III the west. These
two left the place, but the others, five in
number, armed themselves, and madeAa
fortress OF their establishment, to whitS
the citizens repaired, and after having
forced the doors, rushed in. DIR. Bodily
the first person who entered, received G.
leven balls through. his body and fell dead
instantly. The death Of the Doctor excl
ted the people to the highest degree Of
wrath and having seized the gamblers,
they lost no time in hanging The ,cho!e fire,
who remained suspended twenty four
hours. Perhaps justice was done to them.
1t is reported that they had several times
before escaped legal justice.
L,smrection Of Slares in Mississippi
The .Nashrile (Ienn,) Banner, of the
10Th inst, gives the following information
Of II slave instruction in Mississippi
A merchant of Nashville received a
letter this morning, from a gentleman of
responsibility in Mississippi, giving an ac-
count of an extensive meditated insurrec-
tivn of the slaves in that State which was,
fortunately, discovered few days before
the intended massacre took place. The
letter ID evidently written under strong ex.
citelnent, aud perhaps, with some exag-
gerat,on but the account given is, no
doubt, substantially true.
The writer says:
/" take few moments from the awful
distress and confusion existing here, to in
form you that this Hnds,) and several
adjoining counties, have been under arms
day and night, in our defence, expecting
every moment To be burned up or to hava
our throats cut by the Negroes. A.dread-
iuI alarm exists, particularly among the ie-
males.
: "An insurrection has, It appears, been
on hand among the negroes, for the last
six months, headed by white men. The
massacre was TO have commenced on the
fourth of July. Their plans were well
LAID, and, no doubt but that thousands OF
the whites would have been murdered,
had we not heen saved, only week be-
fore the time, by u faithful negro man,
who was in all the secrets, and was to
have been high in command, and who re-
veaed to his master the whole plan and
to convince him of its reality, placed his
master in position where from his place
of conccalment, he could overhear one of
their night meetings, at which the whole
scheme was discussed.
" "A great many negroes were, in con-
sequence, taken up in Madison county.
from whom the committee found out who
the white leaders were.--About ten ne
groes, and five or six whites have been
hung without any form Of law or trial ex-
cept an examination before the examining
COMMITTEES. They We still going on try
ing and hanging. ltnppears, from con-
iession thut Doctor Cotton made. that
their route was to have commenced from
some Place above this, aud to proceed
thence through the principal towns, To
Natchez, and then on to New Orleans.
murdeiing all the white men and ugly wo-
men-sparlng the handsome ones aud ma
king wives oi thrm-and plundcring ard
burning as they went. DIR. Cotton, after
being codemnrd upon ncg,"'s ter,,mo-
ny, made confession aud discuscd the
whole plan. lie i. IN old confederate OF
IA man by tho name of AlurruI, now in the
Nashville Penitenl iary."
The Lynchburg Virgimn II tho Odd
inst. gives thus further cpniI 81 ,tion.
4 Extract ofa letter from a z, a., r,In in Gin.
: ton, Mississippi, to- ge"i'eDtm Il. hi,
nIsce. dated 9TH OF JUlu. 1889