New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-16
Negro InsurrectIons Rumored.

R'!mors Of contemplated geryile Instructions con-
time to multiply. Last week we published an ac-
count OF plot discovered in the vicinity of CIarks
Vile, Tenn, and its suppression. Now we have
alarming reports from Kentucky.
We commence our account by quoting from the
correspondence Of the Louisville Courier.
HoPEINsyELLE, Dec. 3, 1s56.-Our little town il I'D
IN arms at the presenti writing The negroes are
marching upon u.s.; is heard from every mouth. This
morning several messengers arrived from LAFAYETTE
a small town eighteen miles south of Hopkinsye
calling on the citizens of this place to come to their
assistance They were omentariy expecting an at
.ach from n. about SIX hundred negroes. About $50
persons lett Immediately for the "seat of war; They
were III command OF Capt. James jackson and Sheriff
1o"an. , -HtpkinsVille is strongly guarded. 1t is
rnnofed We will be attacked tonight Twill write
municaton has been cut off-the telerranh nofes he
ing cut down. Appended is an extra issued this
morning. Yours in haste - 80
The Hopkinsville (Ky,) Press Extra, Of the sd
inst, says:
Or whole community was thrown into state Of
nIense excitement upon the receipt of the following
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE Rooms,
Lafayette, KY, Dec. 2, 1856. E
Gentlemen of HDpkinsrMe: From reliable inforrna-
tion we expect an attack from the negroes Of the
Iron Works on our town tomorrow morning, pernaps
tonight. Please come to our assistance. We are in
great danger. Yours,
e, JOHN H. RUSSELL, SecIF,
The Secretary of the committee adds the following,
predlcated upon which their apprehension is based
The negroes of Eclipse, Clark and Lagrange have
united and are marching towards Dover. and were
Wlthln @ Tg eght miles OF that place when last heard
from Their intention is to relieve the negroes at Do
YER then march to the Rolling Mill, then to Bell
wood Furnace, then through Lafayette on to Hop
kinsvile and the Ohio river.
The Evansville Qnd.) Journal, of the 9Th inst has
the following statement in regard to the matter:
cpn l,zJ
alarming reports in our city last evening from the
Cumberland river, in regard to the movements of the
blacks, and, from all we have heard the excitement
among the people through the middle district of Ten
nessee is far greater and more general than we sp-
posed when we wrote the article in another mart of
| this mornings sheet. Through what is called tile
Iron District on the Cumberland and Tennessee riv-
ers there are from 5000 to 10000 slaves employed at
the IRON WORKS they are congregated in large num-
bers working in the various abors Of making char
coal digging ore, and tending the furnaces in gangs
mostly ny themselves, with few whites for general
overseets. lhele are many OF these works situated
Wlthln few miles OF each other and in sections that
| have few white inhabitants
AN these circumstances give the blacks great "a
clltes to plot and combine insurection If the he'll
| Ish spirit be once awakened among them There is
now conclusive evidence that such spirit has been
at work IN this iron REGION and plan has been set on
| foot for general rising this Christmas when they
shall have gained the unlimited freedom of roaming
and fr0lickng that is always granted them during the
| informs us that at Dover, Oh the Cumberland thew
had obtained such evidence left no doubt of wide
spread conspiracy existing in that neighborlood, and
that number of the rngleaders had been discovered
and arrested and that eleven of them had been hung
by the excited inhabitants and that among those ar
rested was person who had been in the neighhor-
hood many months, who had always passed as negro
but on his arrest was found to be white man painted
and disguised as negro. Our informant says the
people being satisfied that he had been the prime
mover and nstgator Of the rebelous designs Of the
Blacks took him to the woods and by tine unanimprs
condemnation of those present, he was sentenced
receive nine hundred ashes and that he expired be
fore the penalty had been fully inflicted. These oe
currences mad produced general CONSERVATION and
terror and the women and children were fleeing and
being sent of for safety. The men were armng and
organizing for defence, and the negroes were being
confined Or kept under very viglant watch. We de
tail these reports as they related to u.s. on credible
authority, h9ning the alarm is exaggerated.
Since the foregoing was prepared, the yicksburg
Whig of the llth, has come to hand. In the Wing
we find the appended telegraphic Dispatch
HoPKINSrII.LE, Dec. S.-The excitement here il
snbsiding. The negroes arrested confess that they
were preparing for rising. All apprehension is at
an end.