Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-07-31

company of white men and negroes were detected be-
fore they did any mischief On Sunday last they hung
two steam doctors, one named Cotton, and the other
Saunders also negroes without law spel
respectable authority learn there preach
and ten negroes to be hanged this day Cotton con
fessed every charge made against him, and that their
object was TO murder all and to get much property
and cash they could travel withhc also confessed
That ne and Balance, who since nkcn, belonged 10
the celebrated Mausels company, of Tennessee, who
ia The penentary. The last words he spoke, he re-
marked the citizens from Madison county 10 Natch.z
would get IllThe whole country is in arms and as
lembed at different points TO protect their families.
81 am, very respectfully &c.
Postscript from the Na,ehsn Courier, July lo.l
More ne,rs from Madison, Kinds and Warren.-A gen
telnan from above, brings the following news While
at Spring Ill., the 9th from 10 TO 20 gentlemen rode
up from Madison county. They stated that they had
hung Mt Livingston, several negroes aud white men, Cot
Ton ana saunders both steam doctors, and occasionally
preachers They had obtained from Cotton, list of
about fifty white men, who concerned in the
spacy to excite the negroes to rebellion fourteen of
whom they had caught, and had them in chains Yer
non aud Livingston. They had but few minutes pre-
vious, caught another, named Rawson, and said they
four others that they meant TO have before
morning. The next morning, informant went 10
Squire Sharkcys, where number had assembled
sqpir p said that the Madison should not take the
prisoners out of the couny-a disagreement
{ suit. and they discharged This same company
caught aud confined man named Backman.
Having reached Nicksbuyg informant inquired the
particulars respecting the affair there and informed
that that city had been rendezvous for gamblers
nurderers and swndlers who had hitherto bid defiance
I" Inc aw anu decen citizens. Since the alarm of
intended nsrrecon well groun dcd has
o" many wte men, as instgators and orignators of the
plot, ana the gamblers, itincrant preachers
tors, and clock pedlas, generally considered the
guilty leaders Some of the negroes when first APP
pehe implicated them, and the white men hung
ut Livingston made similar confessions, &c. &c-B.
Morn Men HrKe!--SxvEn,L MURDERS, &c-Snce
Inc above was IN type we have received, by the
South Carolina, Capt. Rollins from Charleston, varie-
tracts
1t is stated in the paragraph from the New Orleans IA
per of lith inst that five Individuals had been hung at
Vicksburg, (Aliss the 9th inst, who had defed and
resisted the laws Of the State The following from the
Watcher Courier OF the 10Th inst, furnishes further de-
tails OF simisr summary executions in Madison county,
in the same State: 80
(" While at Vicksburg, party came in from Madison
ter fellow by the maine ct Blake; Capt Doyle one of
the party stated that after informant left Madison
jour more 'rhc men had been hing! number were in
confinement and would be hung
Hiram Perkins OF Madison, shot from house
opposite shamewnys near Queens Hill, in Kinds
take the guilty Capt Doyle with party of volunteers
from =, viessburg, left on the sth with Blake in irons.
" Mr. Dixon arrived at Vcksburg on the evening of the
9Th and stated that Perkins alive but could not sur
vlve, and that another of the party Mr. Icdge WAS
slightly shot More had been hung in Madison but how
many could not be ascertaincd About twenty had GER
tainy been apprehcnded"
The New Orleans Bulletin Of the 18th inst, contains
the following paragraph in addition the above -
The steamer Freedom confirms the rtpor, of the exc
cuon oil the Vcksburg gamblers, and also states that
on the 9Th inst, quarrel originated ON Deer Creek
Washington County, Mississippi between one Iasbbu1.
ger and CLANCY, and that the 9Th CLANCY and frcnds
we're attacked by fiashburger and friends which attack
y,
and William Chance, Mr.. Howard and a negro beIonG
ing to Hashburger and Richard Chance badly wounded
IL was reported at vicksbnrg the 9th that in consc
quence of the difficulties among the gamblers nsurrec
tonsis and others wentysix persons white and bIacI
Norfolk Beacon. -'
From the Nashville Banner, of July 1871
lNsuRRECTloN OF SLAVES IN MISSISSIPPI.
ing, from a gentleman of responsibility in Missssippi
giving an account of extensive nedtatcd insurrec.
uon OF the slaves in that State which was fortunately
brfo a
place The letter is evidently written under strong ey
element, and, perhaps, with cxaggeraton but the
The writer says.
take few moments from the awful distress and
confusion existing here, inform you that this blinds
and several adjoining countless been under arms
day and night, in delencc expecting every mo-
ment TO be burned up have throas by the ne
females. s w
can insurrection has appears been on hand among
the negroes for the last months headed v white en
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 been saved, only week before the time by
faithful negro man, wlp in all the secrets and was
IN have been high in command and who revealed to his
master inc whole PLAN and to convince him of its reality
m hsler IN position where, from his place of
concealnunt, he could overhear one of their night
meetings, at which the whole scheme was discussed
~ yieat many negroes were IN consequence, taken
up IN Madison county, from whom the committee found
out who the white leaders About ten NEGROES
una hVc or SIX white men have been hung without any
form OF law trial. except animation before the
examining committee. They still going on trying
nnd managing ~ appears, from confession that Doctor
lotion made, that their route have commenced
from some place above ts and proceed thence through
the principal towns, Natcl,ez and then ON 70 Me-
Orleans, numbering all the white men and ugly women
sparing the handsome and making wives of then,
--anh pIunderng and burning they went Dr. Cot
toh aiter being condemned upon negro testimony made
confession and disclosed the whole plan lie is an
old confederate OF a man by the of Murrel now
In the Nashville Penitentiary.
1t appears thnt our Mississippi ncrhbors arc orcat
auinenrs Of summary justice. letter was received
mere on saturday, from Livingston Mssissipp stating
iuncrant abolition preachers had been sclzed by
ihe inhabitants, who, after receiving proof that the
"retches had cndeavorcd 10 revolt anono the
negroes and after hearng their defence caused bem IN
tstcRea TO mey doctrines Warning given to the obo-
tho South 80 80
by aP1ssenger the steam boat Freedom we learn
mat the same party were working iDsufrection and
t1at the 4h Of July the day fixed upon for its con-
summation.
x New ORLEASs. July 3D. Steamer Mogul reports that
she saw at Na,ccz, she passed down. several boats
crowded with persons who had been ordered from that
place in consequence of their abandoned character and
also saw at Eilss Cliffs 10 miles below Nstcbez ono
or Two nat boats fregtcd with the same description Of
persons, but principally femacs--a bound down The
hisslssipPi The people Of Natchcz had driven every
suspicious person from part Of their town known as
" Natchez under the Hill
a public Meeting held at New Orleans on the
rom, on the subject Of the expected arrival of the ban
lshed gamblers aud swndlers Of Vcksiurg and Nicbsz
On motion OF Mr.. r. w. Lee a committee Of five was
appointed to draft resolutions
The committee reported cries Of resolutions pur
P"'vHg 10 oisccunie0anee any violent and Wegat pro-