Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-30

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session of negroes and white men at TENNESSEE
Colony, in Anderson county, and that two white
devils (abolitionists) were publicly hung at thu
latter place yesterday. The proof of their com
plicity was incontrovertible, and the wretches
were Immediately strung up on the nearest tree
"The mail-rider from Gilmer informs US thai
he has authentic information that Dangerfeld
in Titus county, was totally destroyed by fire or
Sunday night.
"We have direct news from Athens, in Hen
derson county, that one well WAS poisoned ir
that place on Sunday night, and, upon investi
CATION, over one hundred bottles of strychnine
were found in possession of the negroes. After
a severe punishment, the latter related the par
t~iculars of the plot-which was to poison all the
public and private wells in the town on Sunday
night-to poison as far as possible, the family
breakfast ; and the knife and pistol with which
they were we'll %supplied) was TO complete the
fendish work. All the young children and ole
women were to be murdered, and young women
we're to be taken as wives by the hell hounds
So far as we have heard, the negroes being ex'
amined separately, tell exactly the same story
the truth of which we cannot for q moment
doubt.
"The only reason why Tyler had been spared
thus far, is the continued and unremitting vigi.
lance of our citizens. Over one hundred mer
are on patrol duty every night. Every man who
is met by one of them is hailed, and if be fail!
or refuses to answer, his life would not be worth
q straw.
"For four nights, every man connected with
the Reporter has been on duty, and we are al
completely worn out and if this excitement still
continues to exist, we must stop our regular is
sues and furnish the news in the form of extras
for it is impossible for US to watch all night ono
work all day.
"Mr. E. T. B~roughton has this moment inform
ed US that q stable at Athens, belonging to Mr.
John T.. Carlisle, wasafred on Monday evening
by on inceudiary, and burned to the ground.
"a negro belonging to Mr.. Barron, at Science
Hill, Henderson County, was hung last Friday
for having o quantity of strychnine in his pos
session. He confessed to having had a hand in
the insurrection."
The Marshall Republican, of the 18th, pub.
fishes a letter of the 4th, from Mr.. H. Bonner,
st Rusk, Cherokee County, to Mr.. O. Taylor,
at Marshall. 1t says:
1.-THE coincidence of the fires at Dallas and
other places, caused suspicion with US, and a
number of our citizens, a short time since, or.
ganized o watch and vigilance committee
Many, including myself, were disposed to con
slider the whole affair as q needless alarm, until
within q day or two, when authenticated state.
ments came to US, that in several places poison
had been found with negroes, and confessions
made, that on election day this poison was to be
administered in the food at breakfast, and de
posted in the wells and springs; and that a
general plot had been made for an iudiscrimiuste.
Wholesale destruction by poison and arms on
that day. This caused Us. to search, and last
night and this morning poison has been found
with several negroes, and they have made con-
LESSONS substantially the same as the above ru'
mors, and have implicated several other negroes.
We are taking prompt but deliberate measures
today to ferret out the whole matter. News
came in this morning, thatin Anderson and Hen.
derson counties similar developments on a more
extended scale have been made. We are in the
midst of considerable excitement, and l feel it
my duty to write to you, 80 that your town and
country may be on your guard.
II am opposed, in principle and policy, to
frequent alarms Of this kind, and should not
write if I did not believe there is serious cause
of alarm. Some of the most confidential negroes
are implicated"
The same paper has letters giving the par.
~ticulars of the burning of the town Of +Hender.
son. Sunday night, the 9th inst, a stiff south
wind was blowing, and in a few minutes, the
entire south side Of the square was in flames
The patrol had not yet gone on duty; the res,
of the people were at church. Ten stores, two
drug stores, two family groceries, ten Offices
and other buildings were consumed. The Era
Office was destroyed the Times office was saved,
but its material was all in Cpl"
A letter from Rusk county to the Austin State
Gazette says that two white men were hung in
the county, on conclusive evidence Of their com.
plicity with the incendiary and insurrectionary
movement.
The Polk county paper, of the 18th, says:
"As we 20 to press, w learn from o letter
Just received from an intelligent citizen of Mos.
cow, that the excitement is running high there,
in regard to Instruction, SC. that one Sanches,
a Mexican, has been whipped and driven off, and
the report concerning the negro movement in
TYLER, has been confirmed"
Rumors gain ground that the towns of Tyler,
Smith county, and Mckinney, Collin county,
have been destroyed by fire. We nave nothing
positive about it.
The San Antonio Ledger says:
"We learn from a gentleman just from Bastrop
and Caldwell counties, that the negroes we're
foiled in a contemplated insurrection on Monday,
9th instant.
"The negroes in Bastrop we're suspected, from
their conduct on Sunday, which led to the for
nation of O committee. Upon the examination
of the negro cabins on Walnut Creek, large
Quantities of arms and ammunition were dlscov-
cred in one cabin a keg of powder and new
six shooters, and in other cabins various deadly
weapons were found secreted."
The Jasper Clarion of the 18th says that on
election day in Tyler county, few went TO the
polls, because of the intense excitement arising
from the arrest of ten negroes, who had confess,
ed to being parties to o plot to murder, burn ana
rob. Two white men were implicated, who lett
Immediately.
Tbs citizens of Mantua and vicinity, Collin
county, on the 23d ult., appointed a committee
To examine into the insurrection rumors. The
committee reported on the 25th ult., that they
fonnd no indications of insurrection among the
negroes. n.
An incendiary attempt was discovered IN the
town of Jefferson, Cass county, on the ota lnst.
Since that, the town has been protected by pat
rolls of the best citizens. The same vigilance Is
exercised, says the Jefferson Herald, IN the
neighboring towns and settlements. -.
Some forty negroes and two or three whites
have been discovered, when together, at or near
Paris. Lamar county, says a letter from Bright
Star, Hopkins county, to the Jefferson Herald of
the 18th inst. some of the negroes were arrest
ed and "confessed thatit was their intention, on
the day of election, while the men were at the
polls voting, to kill the females Of every house ;
and as the men returned from the polls, they
were to DO attacked"