The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-29

supplies of either lave been brought here
to supply the negroes.
The Henderson Times of the / 18th says:
We have seen note written from near
Danvile. by Col. Dunn'ss overseer, to his
son Charles Dunn, which said that negro
boy named Allen, formerly belonging to
Mr.. Dunn, had confessed his connection
with this insuIrectlonary movement, and
was to have been hung yesterday.
The citizens of Wood county were to
hold public meeting on the Goth, to con-
slider the condition of'the country and
devise the means for protecting life and
property.
The citizens of Melville, Rusk county.
held public meeting on the 9th, to ex-
anime into the character of certain sus-
picious persons and to organize patrols.
Col. Allen Gibson presided, and DR.. R. H.
Graham was the Secretary. Sundry in
diyiduals were ordered to leave the county.
The Quitman Herald of the l 9Th says:
A gentleman from Little Elm, in Dem
ton county, on Saturday last, informed us
that the citizens of Denton are as much
excited as elsewhere in the State. A ne
gro had been arrested in that county, in
whose possession twenty-four bottles of
stSbchnine were found.
The Rusk Enquirer learns that a
Yankee abolition schoolmaster was
hung on the 10th, in Anderson county.
He was convicted of melting the ne
groes to instruction.
/ A man named Morrison, who stole q
negress from Mr.. Farris, near Pittsburg,
in Upshur county, fortnight ago, was
pursued, caught in Wood county,
brought back to Pittsburg, and hung
on the 9th.
Later from Texas.
The Ercitement-Newe events (says
the N. o. Picayune Of yesterday al
most daily occur in some parts Of Texas
to keep alive the excitement that exists
We CLEAN again the most important
from our exchanges.
/ The Jefferson (Cass county, Herald
has the following paragraph:
"A guard of twenty-four mon is nightly
stationed around this place, and not
an individual passes through the streets
after dark without being hailed and
made to give an account of himself.
Several suspicious individuals have re-
Gently been arrested, and some are
now in custody.
A man named Pearce has been ar
rested at GAINESVILLE charged with
burning Henderson:
The proof against him is almost posi-
tive. He hired a negro woman at the
hotel to do the work. His brother,
also implicated, has fled.
The Jefferson Herald says:
The citizens of Lamar and F6nnfn
counties have ordered certain James
r. Brown to leave the State In less than
"a hours. The evidence against him
was sufficient to justify more severity
They are now driving from all the up
per counties every individual upon whom
rests the least suspicion of aboltionsm.
1t will, no doubt, fall pretty hard on some
parties, but the peace and safety of the
country demand it.
We learn that the fourishing little town
of Mount Vernon, Titus county, was
UuLSSu uo'Nll d It" udyS StIlte. IL was tIle
work of incendiaries, ore of whom, we.are
informed, has been caught and hung.
A letter from Sulphur Springs, dated
the 10th inst, says:
Last Saturday a plan to burn this "
place was discovered. A negro
preacher belonging to Mr.. Goodson,
acknowledged that he and others had
set apart last Tuesday night as tho
time to burn all the stores and dwell
ings, commit all other depredations they
could, and then take horses, in case
they could not whip out the white men,
and fly for the Indian natipH.. Ono
Taylor, who has been loafng about
here for the past sixteen months, was
partially implicated as a confederate.
lie has made the negro his only COM
panion.
European Intelligence.
Photographed to the New Orleans papers.l