Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-08-28
The Reign Of Terror in Texas
Plots and RumOFs of F'lOts--
LyRchlRg and Threats of
observation-disclosures and In
cendiarIes and furderers.


The Galveston Neos of August 2lst says:
In addition to the many organizations of
the kind throughout the State, already report
ed by us, We find in our exchanges reports of
vigilance committees and patrols formed AT
Douglas, Nacogdoches county Jefferson, Cass
county; Coheeville and neighborhood, Up
shur county; San Augustine, San Augustine
county Veais Station, Parker county,
-four ministers of the gospel taking a leading
part)
In Rusk, Cherokee county, the patrol is
composed Of seventy-six of the best citizens
who watch vigilantly at night, and person
connot 20 fifty steps in any direction without
being challenged Similar vigilance is exer-
cised at Tyler, Smith county, and other lead
ing towns Of the State; and everywhere only
the most respectable and influential citizens
have been allowed to form these committees
The abolitionist Lemons, whose second
expulsion from Quitman we published last
week, was saved from death only by the pray
ers, tears, and applications Of his wife"
The Rusk Enquirer of the llth, gives the
details of the discovery of the plot in Cher
okee county. The negroes on Mrs. TimmOn' s
plantation became insubordnate; the overseer
refused to correct them and the Rusk police
were called in. The separate confessions of
the negroes were to the effect that on Sunday,
9TH inst, they were to place poison in the
wells and springs and otherwise to administer
it to the whites, to fire the dwellings and de-
stroy the town, to get possession of all the
arms and ammunition they could and kill the
men as they returned from the election.
The Enquirer says:
Many negroes we're implicated in the plot,
well known to the neighborhood, as well as
several white men, All the negroes confess
ed that the plot had been in agitation for sew
eral months, and all stated they expected
shortly to be free and that they would be as
sisted by white men in large numbers, when
the time came for them to act This intend
ed emeute was under the direction and control
of negroes, for the most part preachers, OF
who pretended to an extraordinary degree o
piety, and who were generally the favorites o
their masters; but from the disclosures made
although it appeared that all of the negroes in
the country were fully aware Of the plot, YET
comparatively few were willing to participate
in it, and many tried to dissuade others from
having anything to do with it. According tC
the confession of some, a meeting of the
leaders was to have been held on Sunday last
few miles west Of this place, for the purpose
of making more definite assignment of eacl
to his part but this meeting was happily frus
trated by the discovery of the matter and thu
arrest of the chief conspirators
The San Antonio Ledger says;
we ieSII riinm ilu n.;oa ~ JU9I ~. iiot DoS'
roP anu Os'i"o'' ' oou'iues' .,'e. eno Ioo
Mere w ioliee ~ ~ eon'en'P'a'eu 'nSu'ieeuo" VI
-nTTuLu"y, TL osn po...,, uo ,,s,oo.od i
ing nesloes ~ DASsloP "elI PT0J y
rom lhelr conueo' on ouuuny' TT Wnion ieu
Ine lorma''on Ei eonui'uee. oPoh W, an ca
amlnaV,oh oi lhe negro caplns oh "a.hu
creeA, larse quhhu',eS Vi arms a.lu "nlliui
lioh were 9iscoYeleu' ~ one e"oin a Aee =
Powuer anu neI siA snoo'e's, anu - e. o1ne -
CABINS 'arious ueAu'. "'''s"--s "ere iou"u Sc
crereu' pu L,,u, A.
me Jasper o:a'aon m oi lne ii'H, says aa
oh eiev''o' uay, :" yiei yn oou"'y' ie" "e"V 49, '
tne Poiis' oecause Vi .ne INTENSE eAe'lenlen ih
arising iioln sne a'tos' VI .en nesloeS, "n
had CONFESSED 10 9ells parties 70 plos
muruer, pHrn, anu Iep' two Tn''e rne" "er
'ihRuca'eu, Rn who seiI MaD lnneuiaSe ON;
Inc cluzehs ot m1h'au anu slcini'y, Oolii
county, on Iile 4ou UT, aPPo,neeu "a conlnl
zee 10 eNanine lnto lne insulreStiyn o.o IamIr' ~
Inc comm,t'ee rePor'eu On 'ne Ao'n UT, INA
Iney lounu no lnuica''onS oi inSurreo'io
among the negroes {.
An lncendlary attenlpt was ulscoVereu o. =
the town oil Jeuerson' oass county on tne OF
INST since tnatl the Town mas DSeu @ protecte
6y patrols OF the pest eltizens; me same m v1e
llance Is exercised says the Sehersoh HeF@t'
IN the neighborlng towns ana settlements;
Some forty negroes ana TWO or three white
have been discovered when togelher' az
: near Paris, Lamar county, says a letIer iroi
+ Bright Star, HoPkins county, TO the 1enerso
Her0fd oi the llth inst. some Oh tne negIoe
were arrested and confessed that u was the
intention, on the day OF eieeuon, Whiie Ia
men were at the polls voting, TO XIII the
males OF every house, ana as the men returl
+ ed from the polls, they were 70 be attacked
n We have direct news trom N Athens IN nei