The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-11-22

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self to another white girl till his pounded feelings
are healed.
THE CHARLESTON SLAVE Plot IN 1922.-The
late Harpers Ferry affair has revived the recollec
! ton of previous plots to produce insurrection
among the slaves in Southern States. These plots,
however, have all been easily crushed. The Char
lesion plot in 1922, was made known to the Secre-
tary of War.
The ringleader of the plot bore the name of Den
mark Vevay. He free muatto, cunning, ac-
tive restless and possessing talent of influencing
negroes which he applied with great dexterity.
The negroes, long INDUCED, held secret meetings,
several of which were protesscdly religious, and the
exhorters among them partici pated in them.
They could not be said to complain of oppression,
for many Of them were trusted and even pctted
servants in the households of their masters, carry
ing the keys, and enjoying the largest liberty
compatible with their station; yet they devised
one of the most diabolica plots of blood and muir
der that stained the annals of instruction.
The progress of their trial by Court of Mags-
trates and freeholders fearful and frightfu in
the disclosures. 1t was in evidence that the plan
to murder the masters, appropriate the desira-
bic females to their british uses, burn the
city, and in the midst of the panic and conagra-
ton seize the ships in port, and push for heisand
Of ST. Domingo. One Of the praying negroes,
smtten probably by his conscience, for he had been
INDUCED in the pious, and respectable family of
his master, gave the clue to the conspiracy, and
after long and full trial. some thirty or forty were
sentenced to DEATH which sentence was thoroug hly
carried into execution by hanging.
SINGULAR DEATH.-On Wednesday of last
week. Mr. VIM. Griffin, ofthis county, aged about
so years, died Of palsy. On the Friday preceding,
he had been to Rocky Mount, and his return
fell from his cart, striking upon his head, since
which time his entire person, with the exception of
neck and head, has been dead so raral yzed that
he was insensble to pain. Mr. Griffin retained
his mind and conversed freely, but could not move
feet, hands, nor any part Of his body. He had not
eaten anything, and all the functions of the body
had ceased to act. 1t is said by some that he was
intoxicated at the time he fell from his cart, and
that his neck was Observation-Disclosures Soutte,mer
INTEMPERANCE AMONG FASHIONABLE LADIES
The New York correspondent Of the Charleston
Courier, says:
There is great and growing evil in this city but
of such delicate as to almost forbid be-
ing dragged into public print. I refer to the in
creasing and lamentable habit now so common of
the indulgence by ladies in intoxicating drinks.
do not refer to those who do wrong almost from
necessity; but to that other class who have rich
husbands and homes that might be made happy.
large number of this class seem to be steadily
diving deeper into dissi patton every year, than
many persons greatly interested in their welfare
and happiness even imagine. [ have heard recent
ly Of several distressing of the kind. And
to-day learn that the wife of well known citizen
reported to be very wealthy, has been sent to the
lunatic asylum in the hope that she may with re-
turning reason, be enabled to overcome the terri
BILE temptations which Intoxicating liquors have
of late had for her. Her husbands name is almost
as familiar in some parts of the South it is here
PREACHERS OF SEDITIoN AND REVOLUTION
The speeches Of the Black Republican leaders, such
as Wendell Phillips, Tom Corwin, Senator Wilson
and others at the present time sustaining and de-
Tending they do the nsurrectionary acts of John
Brown, nothing better than incentives to rebel
lion.
If the Southern States should take it into their
heads that this is the course which will be pursued
in the event of Republican candidate being elect
ed to the Presidency next year, they may at once
secede from the Union. They have only to call
convention In some Southern city, refuse to send
Senators Representatives to Congress. declare
themselves an Independent nation, organize an
army for the protection of their frontiers from the
raids of the Northern Abolitiouists, make treaty
of recognition with England, and thus break IN
this confederation altogether. There is nothin.,
to prevent them tlom doing this, and if thew do
what will become Of the trade and commerce of
the North-of New YORK and Boston and other
large cities! This is significant question which
the preachers OF revolution ought to answer
Nep York Herald
SLAVERY.-Notice given In the Mississinni
Legislature, on the 9th instant, b> MIR Graham of
the future Introduction of bill to abolish exst;nr
laws against the introduction of slaves from abroad