The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-05-23
From the Louisville Journal.
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From the L0ulevlIle 5OnFnal.
LATE FROM HAVANA.
The SrRvILE INsURREcTIoN.-We o
the following from the N. Orleans Picayune
of the 18th inst:
BY the brig t. Street, we have received
full files of HAVANA papers, up TO the 9TH
inst! We insert the following extract of a
letter.
HAVANA; May 4, 1914.
There has been a good deal of excite
ment here, and more in the country, in rela-
ton to the negro plot. II has subsidea a
lille, Jet arrests are going on, both among
blacks and whites-many of the latter being
considered as guilty as the former. The
authorizes are very active, and all foreign
people of color have heen ordered to quit
the island within Is days. The Govern
ment is not so active in the matter of the
late murder of the American seamen.
Our Government has received official
news, confirming the reports brought prevl-
ously from st. Domingo. The blacks there,
so it is said, have murdered all the mulattoes
and many of the whites among the latter,
several Englishmen, Americans and Span
iards, and it is even said that some OF the
~consuls have lost their lives.
Some hundred negroes have been execu-
ted already at Matanzas, and a great many
more are yet to suffer. You shall be in
formed of all the particulars of the negro
plot, which is yet a secret TO most every enc
here. +.
By the Courier of last evening, we learn
that a private letter from HAVANA, address
ed to a commercial house in this city, gives
some startling particulars of the conspiracy
among the negroes. BY this it would seem
that the British ex-consul, the whitehead
but black-hearted and notorious Turnbull,
had a hand in fermenting the recent conspi-
racy to murder all the whites. A mllatto, \
named Cequi, who was brought before the
court for being implicated in the plot. has
made the following dreadful disclosures:
"And the negroes and mulattoes are con-
lcerned in the design 10 raise an insurrec-
ton. If three days more had elapsed before
your discovery of the plot, no means of es-
cape would have been left TO you white peo-
pie, because at a fixed hour the whole island
would have been in a state of revolt. AsI
speak English, they employed me as inter-
prefer, and, moreover, offered me ten thou
sand dollars and the rank of colonel.
unfortunately for me, | entered into the
plot but if you will pardon me, | will tell
you everything that has happened from be-
~einn,np to end. | will disclose everything
that was to be done in every coffee-house,
village and city. will give you all the doc
uments-I will tell you what kind of arms
were to be used, and the names of all the
chiefs who were TO command in the differ
ent parts of the island.
awe chose Mr.. Turnbull, ex-consul of
England at Havana, and now in Jamaica, to
be our king Professionally. That gentleman
had at his disposal $270,000, to supply the
conspirators with food, arms, and ammuni-
ton. Our chief was the poet Placide, a
mulaito, who possessed great influence
among the colored people, as well as among
many of the whites. Placide resided at
Matanzas. / will now tell you the plan of
the instruction.
"The instruction was TO break out first
at the sugar mills Of Ell General, situated at
Guamutas; second, at those of La Boque;
third, at Artemiza; fourth, at Caninge fifth,
at Soledad; sixth, at Corral False. The in
surrection was to break out at all these pla-
ces the same night.
"The negroes at those points were to set
fire to the houses, murder the whites, take
possession of their arms, and march to Car
dinas, where they were to find, on the banks
of the San Guaruda, 600 muskets, and am
munition, landed from an English brig, which
was to come from New Providence; from
Cardinas they were to march, TO the number
of 5000, upon Matanzas, where Placide was
TO wait for them.
cat Matanzas, the instruction was TO
proceed on the following plan: At first,
they intended to poison all the whites but
they afterwards determined, as surer mode,
that the cooks and other house servants,
should set fire 10 the dwelling-houses on a
fixed day, and murder their masters. The
capital and other cities were to follow our
example.
cat Havana the signal was TO be given
by firing mutskets. The general meeting
was to be held at the country house of the
Count de Penalves. Thus every own had
enemies in its bosom. We hoped to become
masters of the island, and marry the white
women; whom, on this account, we were
ordered not 10 kill-at least, those who were
! not old and ugly.
"Finally, the disclosures which | am yet
to make, will fill the whole world with hor-
ror.n