The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-22

The EXCITEMENT IN TExAa-By our Tax
as exchanges we receive further particulars IN
regard to the excitement growing out Of the
suspected abolition conspiracy.
The Eacogdoches Chronicle, Of the 18th
inst, has the following items on this subject
Ellis CoUNTY.-A young man who had
employed in store at Waxahatchic, was
hung few days since for giving strychnine
to slaves to put in wells.
SIXTH CoUNTY.-The man who was shot
in the attempt to set'fre to Tyler, has been
found dead.
| CHEROKEE NATIoN.-The Paris Press speaks
| of a nmor that bloody fight had taken place
in the Nation, between abolitionists and pro-
slavery men, in which 159 Of the former were
killed, ahd z Of the latter. This story is most
probably a fabrication.
WooD CoUNTY-On the 18th uIt, an armed
committee escorted the notorious J. z. Lemon
out of Wood county. just before which, he
signed document binding himself under pen
atty of his life not to return to Wood county,
nor publish nor circulate abolition documents
in the State.
CHEROKEE CoUNTY.-The citizens Of Cher
okee have organized for their protection.
MORE Observation-Disclosures attempt
has been made to fire buildings near Tyler,
also in Brennan, and at Georgetown.
ANOTHER GREAT FIRE.-The Houston Tele-
graph, of the 18th, says:
We learn from a gentleman who passed
through Henderson, in Rnsk county, on last
kk.kk L. 49, Il
Was set on fire last Sunday night, the 9Th
inst, and was almost entirely consumed
Every house on the square, except one, includ-
ing all the business houses in the place, was
destroyed.
The people of Henderson, our informant
says, put no faith in the reported conspiracy
and neglected to appoint patrol or keeE
watch. The fire was discovered on Sunday
night about o'clock. No clue had been dis.
covered to the perpetrators of the deed.
PREACHER Hume AT VEAL's SrATIos.-
The Fort Worth Chief of the LIST inst, hai
the following brief notice of the execution O
an Abolitionist conspirator
We learn that preacher by the name O
Buley was hung at Veal's Station last week
for being an active abolitionists. A majorit,
of three hundred men condemned him.
A Discovery IN BRESHAM.-The Bren
ham Ranger, of the 10th inst, says:
A few days since, several negroes were ar
rested on Mill Creek, in this county, who &C
kRowleeged to their having poison given then
by white men, for the purpose Of poisonin
their owners and families. and that the day Q
election was the time fixed for general insur
rection. They also implicated some negroe
about town as being concerned in the muir
derous plot
Trouble IN TENNESSEE CoLoSy.-Th
Fairfield Pioneer, of the 9th inst, has the fol
lowing:
Mr.. league, printer in our Office, has jus
arrived from Tennessee Colony, Anderson
county, and brings the news that he witness
ed the hanging of two white men in that plac
on Sunday, the 9Th inst, who were proven II
be guilty of melting instruction among tn
slaves Of that neighborhood. Their name
were Antoney Wyrick and his cousin, Aliort
Cable. They were engaged near the Conol,
at their trades of wagon making and black
smithing where they have been living for thre
or four years. Wyrick had been previousl,
taken up for harboring and selling liquor 4
negroes. Negroes were found in the posses
sion of firearms and strychnine, furnished b,
these men.
| ANOTHER EM1ssARY.-The Houston Tele
graph, of the 1lth inst, says:
On Monday last, a white man rode up
Mr.. Dick Greetings, near Round Top, 9
noon, and finding nobody but negro girl q
home, questioned her about runaway horses
&c, and finally asked her how she and th
negroes were satisfied. He then went of
and fifteen minutes after returned with tire
negroes, demanding something to eat. Tn
woman gave them food After eating, the
broke open q trunk, in search Of money. The
then put shovel full of fire in the bed, an
left After they were gone, the negro woma
extinguished the fire, and then ran to th
overseer's house, to tell him what had han
pened. The affair caused good deal of ex
citement.
Evidence seems to be accommodating, I
show some concert among a set Of desperadoes
in deeds of outrageous villiany,
THE CHocrAws-we learn from the For
Worth Chief
That the Choctaws are about to call upo
the General Government for assistance 3
procure provisions for the people of the Ma
ton, as their crops have almost entirely beer
destroyed by the drouth. We learn from
good authority that there will not be corr
enough raised in the whole Nation to last then
until Christmas, and as the appropriation o
the money due the Nation failed in Congress
last session, they are going to appeal to tn,
Government for assistance in some shape, Il
keep them from starving.
DRoUTH.-In many quarters Of Texas tn
long continued drouth has at last been broken
though it is believed too late for much benefi
to the crops.