The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-12-22

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in the course Of NJ travels. Ths real fsses
respecting the insafrsction would sssn 70 10
something like these: II ths sountiss Of
Montgo1sry and S1swass, silaAts On fhs
northern line Of Tsnnsssss An6 hisssesd By
the Cumberland river, are 8 member VI iron
works, 10 which large numbsrs Of slavss are
employed, % No. h sons districts Of that
| neighborhood ths sleys considerably out
number The fres population; yet the two
counties taken together, have, Or had By the
last ceneus, upwards Of 1900 white popu-
lation, While the slAYes amount 10 lsaA than
12UUU.
Il would seem that the deslamatious 90
much indulgcd 10 ct the South against Fro
mont - the Abolition candidate, aud the vio-
tent measures taken, under tho prescncs TO
fsSsWos suu AOItB0tt0u VI ELS@OOt 01vCSVt0A
, tickets, had not escaped the notice II the
| Slaves, ever watohful and inquis,sive - to
anything Affecting themselves. With the
usual activity among the ignorant OF the
mythical Imagination, upon this basis, that
Fremont Was the Abolition candidate, an ox.
tenslve supesstructsre was speedily erected.
The credality Of thssspoor peopls was such
that they had taken up tho idsa that Col. FIRE.
mont, with . nQnefons force q baek him,
was waiting u the bottom Of to Cumbsr-
land River for Chsistnas night TO come,
when he and his army were 70 emerge from
the river to aid In the deliveeanoe Of the
slaves. Tho fact that hs was there was
proved BY the sudden rise in the river, which
they insisted upon - being caused BY the
great number Of men and boats waiting q
the bottom. A il was thought that waiting
80 long q tbs bottom Of the river must needs
dampen Col. Fremont's powder, il was con-
sidered necessary BY the blacks to buy up =
store OF It from which to supply him. So
thoroughly were the slaves convinced Of the
truth Of this fable, that Gays the Courrier's
correspondent, 81 have heard them say with
q smile, - they we're logged, that Colonel
Fremont aud his men 1t the bottom Of the
river, heard every blow that was struck At
them"
Such would sssn TO be pretty much The
whole OF this terrible plot. These slaves in
The iron works endeavored 70 beguile their
hard lot BY the idea that Fremont would rice
on Christmas night from the bottom Of the
Cumberland river and cot then al free. Il
does not appear that they expected or pro-
posed 70 do anything OF themselves, ct least
nothing except under the direction and q
the auxiliaSies Of their lcoksd-fos deliverer
Their only overt oct appears e hsve been
the providing Of . quantity Of powder, not
for their own use. bat 70 replace that
which the long stay OF Col. frsnont and his
army at tho tottoa Of the river might have
damaged.
The correspondent OF the Courier, on his
arrival at Dover, the shire town Of Stewart
county, found all the people there in the We
~ paroxysm Of terror. All the white popu.
lation was armed fron head 10 foot, even
small boys staggering under tho weight Of
guns end sccouternents too heavy for their
strength. Men on horseback, their horses
all foam, came riding in FROM eli directions.
All the women and children were collected
in two or three fortified houses, and the num-
Der was constantly lnoreased By others
brought in from the neighborhood. Nine
black prisoners we're guarded in house By
themselves, Of whon four or Ave we're short
ly TO be hanged.
At Cumberland Iron works, where the boat
next touched, the same state Of terror pre-
vailed. Sixty slaves, shut mp IN great
building, we're being whipped for their share
in the conspiracy, while other slaves, ~ he'd
been the case st Dover, perform their ordin-
AIRY service with submission and alacfisy.-
Ia spite OF numerous reports circulated to
the contrary, not single oct Of resistance
to authority, 80 FAR - the correspondent Of
the Caerier could ascertain, had anywhere
occursod on the part IT The slaves, except
that number Of them, alaRasd Ct the fury
OF the whites, had taken to the woods and
attempted to escape or to conceal themselves
Such appears to be about the whole Of this
alarming plot-except, indeed, the usual ac-
compartment Of the murder Of number OF
slaves and the whipping and bAnishing Of
three or four white men. This plot, indeed,
seems very much Of . sort with that myth
cal invasion OF Kansas BY Lane and chin
stirred up ell Western Missouri 20 riot aud
have believed in, which figures in the Presi.
dents Message, and which long kept Gov.
Gsary in q state OF high nervous agitation.
Lanes army and This Tsnuessss negro plot
might, indeed, serve 70 show hov, in the af-
fairs of thu Horld, fables become very seri-
GUS realitiss.-(N. Y. Tribune.
HIouwAY RonsERY.-Last Saturday after
noon - farmer BY the name Of Bash was
returning home iron this city il his sled, he
was accostsd when shout two miles below
town, by two men, Who ssksd to ride. lie
very kindly invited then 70 get in, when one