Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-01-03

All our exchanges from Kentucky and Ten.
nessee are full of rumors and accounts of the
Negro mutiny. We believe they are as interesting
as anything else we could publish. The Louis
vile Journal says: rsst.
"We were shown letter yesterday from Lafay-
cite, Christian county, which states that sly
negroes were to DE hung there on the day thu
letter was written" T.
The Nashville Gazette of the 9th inst has thu
following:
ga gentleman Just arrived from Gallatin in.
forms US that four male negroes are to be hung
at that place to-day, on account of their con-
nection with the slave revolt. A good many are
still in custody there, awaiting. exam ination. Ii
is to be hoped no violence will be done to any
unless their guilt is clearly proven.''
One of the editors of the Courier des Etats
Unis, on the Cumberland at the time of the
alarm, writes to his paper in New York, under
date, ClaIksvile, KY, Dec. Sd, thus:
TIE town IS more tranquil than any Of the
other plecs. that We have visited about here
This Is baoaase the white population, more nu-
merous, LIS less to fear from the plots OF
agitatyrs, white or black. Nevertheless, during
iho asst feS days, they have not been without
anrety. They cite, among other things, the
rking OF an iron mine, which occupies about
500 negroes, belonging to sing lie individual, and
which has been on the point of being suspended.
The energetic action of the proprietor, and the
arrest of six whites who stirred up the revolt,
have sufhced to suppress the commencement of an
insurrection. The works go on, but they are in
cessantly watched. The six whites have been
condemned to the penitentiary. Thirty blacks
have been arrested, and await Judgment.
The credulity of these poor people is such that
in the belief of the whites who excite them, they
imagine that Col. Fremont with large army is
waiting at the mouth of the River Cumberland,
until the night of the 23d or Oath of December,
has arrived Then all his army will help to de-
liver the slaves. They have been struck by the
sudden swelling of the river, and attribute this
circumstance to the great assemblage Of men and
ships at its mouth. Certain slaves are so greatly
imbued with this fable, that have seen them
smile while they are being whipped, and have
heard them say that " Fremont and his men can
bear the blows they receive.' go
The mines along the shores of the Cumberland
for distance of about thirty miles, have suspen-
ded work. Machine shops employing from $50
to 200 negroes, have now only five or six whites
to direct operations. This is the case in regard
to the Cumberland Iron Works, of which spoke
yesterday. In these localities, also, the panic is
great. Three white Free Sellers were arrested
In Dover in the act of exciting a revolt. They
were beaten, and were allowed fifteen hours to
leave the county and thirty to go out Of the
State. black preacher was arrested while de.
livering an Abolition sermon. He forms one of
the nine who were in Dover yesterday. Of these
nine, FIVE are not tried. The four Others have
been tried by the regular tribunal, and were con-
demned to be hung on Thursday, Tomorrow -
but as on the announcement of the sentence
band Of blacks were organized for rescue, the
four criminals were to be hung last evening
the excitement which will naturally follow among
slaves is much dreaded. The women and child
rem too young to serve for defence are emigra-
ting towards more populous districts. t-
Of the body of two hundred blacks that march
ed to Dover, about sixty have been arrested
They are those whom saw whipped yesterday at
the Cumberland Iron Works. Thirty others re-
turned to their workshops and farms, and the
rest ran to the woods; but no attempt at pillage
or murder has yet been made. In saving them
selves, the blacks not only carried away arms
and amunitions, but also every thing that they
could, and in many places, especially at Dover.
the whites are short of powder. They would
have paid its weight in gold for that which We
could not procure for them.
As told you yesterday, the plan was to butcher
the whites upon isolated farms and in the work.
shops. and then to march to each chief town of
the county. They would thus have established
free road along the Cumberland and Nashville
to Ohio. BY this route all who took part in the
revolt could have fought retreat to Indiana and
Illinois. No one could have disturbed them. for
they would have traversed the least populated
part of the country. Thus, though the plot has
been exposed, and we are not to dread any actu-
al explosion, there still remains an uneasiness
abouy tho lnrrre, and we reflect with terror upon
the t. ii,-es Of executing this plan if it had not
been ..s.y ed.