The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-06-30
The Negro Plot in New Orleans.

The Negro Plot in New Orleans.
| Further Developments in relation to the Ne,
Orleans negro plot have reached us-New Or
| leans dates being received to the 18th inst. Th
papers have full reports Of the examination 0
! the arrested parties.
| The following from TIE Delta contains all tha
is important:
| An affidavit was made yesterday by the FREE
negro, George Wright, who first gave informa
ton of the matter, IN which he detailed at length
the plan of attack, fastening the whole leader
ship and responsibility on the Englishman, by
son.
This Dyson came from Jamaica in 1910, ant
ever since has been implicated in many fanati
| cal movements. He taught negro school ber
awhile, in which any thing but their A abs oc
cupied the attention of the pupils. He was con
cerned in the case of Shaw's negro for robbery
and, we believe, perjury. He is man of so.ls
talent, and decidedly dangerous.
the free negro stated in his affidavit the nan
ner in which he introduced to Dyson byAl-
bert, DR.. Rushton's slave, who was arrested by
the Chief OF Police on Monday night las. Dy-
son asked him was he free or a slave; he st.ted
that lie was free, but his family was-slaye
Dyson then asked him, would he not lik, to
have his family free, and he answered in tht af-
irmatlve-whereupon plan of attack-a nap,
very ably drawn up, exhibited to him.
The negro's testimony proceeds:
Il,
think III the Second District, below Canal steet
and was there introduced to a white man, whom
he called Dyson, who kept the school. Tlere
were no others present but US three. As soon
as Albert introduced US he left. When ht left
went into the school house with this Mr.. Dy-
syon, which room was filled with forms and
desks, like other school rooms Mr. Dysonask-
ed me to sit down, which | did, and then, lfter
intcrrogsting M to where | was from and
40" lag had been il the country, then asked
me where was my family, and whether or not
they were slaves. 1 told him that my family
was about thirty miles above here, at Mrs Ok
ley s p!aatatiol, that 1t consisted OF a wifeaud
elght children, and that they were all slaves
He then asked me If 1 did not want to free
them replied that / did II l had the means.
vt once then, and without suggestion from me,
lie siiI, i can SHOW you p..,a ADOPT
without your paying dime. have got the
p'an laid Il for everything how we SHAH hke
&c place. iie tAon went to chair which was
laid on a bench, and lifting it mp, took piper
lylns there, and came and sat down by me, pnd
read from ii the names OF all the streets Were
the armories, arsenals and magazines were.
Now, said he, you shall see al the plans.
am to go in front, and all the people he had
below, 10 wit; 100 white men, and all the caor-
ed people, were to go with him.
III said TIE white men were all assembled to-
gether IN a room below, and the colored people
had fixed everything. First, they were to fake
the magazine where all the powder is. / do not
know whether he Ilaaa th 70 other sirte on
this side. When he got the powder he said he
would be safe. Then he would put hun
dred men at the N Mt, one hundred at the Par
lsh Prison, to open it and let the prisoners out,
and forty or fifty men at each corner of the city
to FIRE the city. While the fire was raging, they
were to break open the armories, arsenals and
gun store, and get all the arms they could.
They were also to break open and rob the ba aks.
lie said they had crowbars and everything they
wanted. The prisons were to be opened and
the Mint attacked first. The people on the plan
tatons, who were armed with cane knives, AK
es, old hatchets, &C., were to rise and come to
the city He did not tell me the signal TO rise,
for they wer to come into the city cautiously
but when the fires took place they were geaer-
ally to move and attack the people and destroy
all before them opposing them This was about
all he told me. L answered, ''Very well, IN be
in the party, and then left him. He seemed to
be satisfied. l identified with the move
and one of the party.
There is more corroborative testimony. An
irishman named McGill also makes affidavit that
he rowed Dyson to Morgan's plantation, this
side the English Turn, and that he carried a
pile of ammunition and arms with him. When
they got to the plantation, number of we'll
dressed blacks-suPposed to be firemen. or ..ofi-
GERS, as the deponent calls them-came out of
the cane-brakes and took the gnns and ammu-
milton, and disappeared. Dyson then returned
to the city, arriving between and O'Clock
the next morning-the morning after the arrest
Of his confederate Albert
This is the purport of the sf1idavits made yes
terday. Coupled with the fact that a large
number of negroes have fed from their masters
md are now missing, it leaves little margin for
ridieule. There is certainly something in it
ind the determination of the Chief of Police to
be in readiness for any emergency is, according
to our estimation, laudable in the extreme.
LoGIo.-"Mind, John, if you go out in the
yard, you viii wish you had staid in the
house."
'Well, if stay in the house, will wish .ih0el
n the yard SO, where is the great difference,
lad ?''
THAT WASN'T BAD IDEA of Sam Sticks,
when suffering from intense heat, he said he
felt desire to take off his flesh and sit in his