Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-08-30
Correspondence Of tie Petersburg ErPress'
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HoUsroS, Texas Aug. IL, 1850.
Dear Express II should not have left il go long ere
wrote you had it not been was atgued from patrol
duv at night along with business during the day. that
/ really did not feel like writing ut sll.
Ever since my last letter. city has been regularly
patroed by picked men aud many arrests MADE oy them,
which led the discovery Of plot to burn Houston as
well az the other towns. Some firearms were also dis
covered in the possession Of negroes one or two white
men connected with them, but against whom we could
no. prove anything, except by negro evidence Ihese
men we're sent from the State by the Vigilance Commit
tee.
There is still a regular and well organized patrol on
duty every night for do consider the danger all
over Daily we receive accounts of fires more ar
rests and now and then hanging or two Inerc nave
been some fifteen more white hung, and q num-
Der of negroes.
private letter from friend in Dallas informs me
that one hundred and fortyseven negroes have been
found to be accomplices the scheme, and severely
logged and quantities Of poison found in their posses
sion with which they were TO poison the wells aud
springs to assist them in killing the whites They also
admit that Old Parson Kinney and his accomplish Blunt
who we're last fill ordered off, the planners oil the
whole scheme in revenge for their mild Aoggng OF last
fall which shows how much too moderate was their
punishment. Hanging would have been too good for
them.
fcommon sinners be forever punished what must
be the punishment Of those doubleddyed black hearted
villains who 20 disguised in the cloak of religion, mere
ly that they may the better perpetrate the most vile
deeds which their corrupted maginatioDs can devise
But thanks to kind Providence all such schemes
destined to come to light ere they can become fully de-
veoped and carried out.
In the early part of the present week. heard Of the
burning OF Henderson, Rusk county; and since of the
burning OF the Of Mckinney, Palestine, Tyler and
Dangerfeld
Ia Tarrant county there was wagon load Of sixshoot
ers and rifles intercepted its way to the residence OF
one of their agents. aud he quietly hung. Many Of
the hangings have been done privately, that the Off
of the law would not know anything about i.-not
that they feared them but wanted the matter settled at
once.
The town of TYLER burned this week, was fred some
three four weeks ago, and the firing it shot, so
that be died. and found three miles distant and now
il appears it has been burned in spite Of all the vigilance
Of the patrol
The cause of the late movement being widespread,
ia only be accounted for in my opinion, by the cnen-
cy with which negroes reated in Texas They have
their way and almost virtually free in two
Of every three The portion of the scheme upon
which they based all Of their hopes that in the ex-
element they would create by the wholesale murders,
they form in a Observation-Disclosures negroes and
InIans-and fight their way Mexico where they would
be tolerated TO live with their white Sidres-(the women
ON an equality with the natives
About the time town doomed to 90, so strict
patrol was kept, that several myself among the num-
Der, did not 60 10 bed but one night for whole week.
being on duty every blight.
The worst, trust is over but they may be
awaiting the cessation of the vigilance kept up But
the fruit is pucked and cannot rpen. Ny letter is
doubt disconnected, but cannot re-wriie it at present
for the lsck OF time. Yours, &c, G.
p. S-SATURDAY, Aug. ls-Last aight our city was
visited by very destructive fire, which consumed
y block and half-compesng one Of our best hotels
1.-THE Kelly House) steam bakery, and large public
ghouse lin and stove store &C. Loss mated
at $50 900 very little insurance anything The orr
gin of the fire is attributed to the work of an ncendiay
aud he supposed 10 be the proprietor Of the boarding
house, who had quarrel with the baker few days pre-
vious though nothing be proved on him.
Two abolition agents to be hung In Richmond TO-
day, upon whom some very positive documents were
found
There very strict guard kept during the fire last
night with orders to kill any who refused to answer
hall" in the outer and especially suspicious portions of
the city.
Lite developments from the upper country report the
finding of hundred bottles Of stryehnine in posses
sion Of negroes, for wells and springs. They will be Ia
ken care of e.