Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-12-19
The Slave Insurrection.

that the people are badly frightened
At Lafayette, KY, the excitement was
so intense that a Vigilance Committee
was formed, and in the belief that the
town was to be attacked on the I'd or
4th inst, by six hundred negroes, that
assistance was demanded of the neigh
boring towns. Telegraphic adyices state'
however, that there has been no outbreak
at that place. At HopkinsTille, Ky9 on
the Sd inst, everybody was in arms, an
attack being expected that night 1t was
said that the Geographic poles were all
cut down. The Hopkinsville Press,
(extra) after giving the current rumors
says =
at is high time that steps were being
taken for our defense in case of an in
surrection. We have not stand of
arms in this whole section of the country,
and no organised military. We are re-
quested by many of our best citizens to
call a meeting of the citizens Of the coun-
ty at this place on Friday next, the 9TH
inst, TO take immediate action on the sub
ject. Other questions Of greater impor-
lance relating TO the shareholders inter-
ests will be presented to the meeting.-I
Let every man attend"
The GAINESVILLE (Ten.) Jefsrsonjan
of the Sd inst, has the following items:
There was much excitement in town
yesterday, growing out of information
received from Stewart county, where the
examination of the negroes has been
progressing for several days. The revel-
atiOns made by the negroes there, i'm
plicate very deeply, as did the revela-
lions of the negroes at the Louisa Fur
mace, and large number of negroes
here. Numerous arrests were made
during the day, and large number of
the implicated and suspected are now in
durance.
On Wednesday morning last, about
half an hour before daybreak, negro
man belonging to Mr.. Solomon Reimey,
was shot and instantly killed by one of
the neighbors named Pickett, under the
following circumstances: The scene of
the occurrence is in the immediate vici-
nifty Of Louisa Iron Works, the point at
which the intended instruction (men-
toned in our LAST was discovered. The
negro had been sent to his work in the
coalings; and started off apparently in
his usual good humor, but shortly turned
back and approached the house, where
he met his fate. 1t was still too dark to
distinguish persons, and Mr.. P, who
was alone in the house with his daughter.
warned him not to enter the gate, but he
persisted in doing so, and notwithstand-
ing a second and third command to halt,
advanced until he reached the porch in
front of the door, cursing as he advanced,
and defying Mr.. 2. to fire. When he
put his foot upon the porch, Mr.. p dis
charged his gun, which was heavily load
ed with buckshot, into his breast. The
negro fell and died almost Immediately.
We understand that some of the ne
groeS at the Furnace, who had been under
examination concerning the instruction
for several days, and had witnessed the
high degree of excitement and indigna-
ton manifested by the whites, upon hear
ing this summary punishment of one OF
their fellows, Immediately fed, under the
-, impression that the excited whites had
commenced a general and indiscriminate
slaughter. They were soon retaken and
quoted"
The Evansville Journal of the 9Th
says
! " We had very serious and alarming
o reports in our city last evening from the
Cumberland river, in regard to the move
+ ment3 of the blacks, and from all we have
heard, the excitement among the people
- through the middle district of Tennessee
is greater and more general than we
supposed when we wrote the article in
another part of this mornings Sheet
Through what is called the Iron District
on the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers
there are from eight to ten thousand
slaves employed at the iron works; they
L are there congregated in large numbers
z, working in the various labors of making
IS charcoal, digging ore and tending furna
/ ces, in gangs, mostly by themselves, will
if few whites for general overseers.-
n There are many of these works situated
V within few miles Of each other and il
q sections that have few white inhabitants
~ A gentleman who arrived her,
last evening informs us that at Dover
= on the Cumberland, they had obtaine,
such evidence as left no doubt of a wild
spread conspiracy existing in that neiob