New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-28
The TEXAS FRIGHT
From rae Hep..on TeleqrarA, Aug. ls.

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learns that ten negroes were arrested who confessed 10
b. ing parties to plot having murder, robbers, and
arson for lie object. They implicated tNo white mel
who were not suspected but who, 1t has siDce been
Observed left immediately on the breaking of the
:. exciten ent. The livingston Rising Sun mentions
report there TO pretty much the same effect concerning
! Tyler County. The Cameron Sentinel says that the
patIol in that town have, up this time, dsc0y.
! eTtd in the hands of negroes two double bTreled
| shot gus, sngle-barrelsd shot gun, one
Mississippi rife, pistol dirk nlfe, powder, OF
a. IL dces not certainly appear that the negroes nad
ihtse for bid purpose. They have beea taken
from them. A pot Was discovered 10 Hopkins county
The 4h Instant to burr the of Sui phur Springs
iii hat county election day the day after. Some
negroes confessed the plot and at latest dates 1t was
uuderg ing investigation, amid no lute excitement.
The reported burnIDg Of Dapgerfeld, in Titus county,
ad6s the list Gu Gurdsy before the ele ton
a oiscovery vas made in Rusk Cherokee county, OF
design upon that town, tue particulars of Which
We have not set received. We informed
by Il gentleman Just down from axahachie
tfai il was reported there that Tyler ia NTH
county, and Mckinney, in Colla county, bad been
bnued. We have before given our readers accounts
OF the attempts both these places. We fear the re-
ports true. Az Moscow, Polk County, The Lar
stOH Sun learns there great excitement last
week Mexican, named Sanchez, was run OIL these
are al the he reports Received by the last mall In
view of them let ak what ia to be do1e 10 b1
cure the County Committees are all dong thelf duy
well sn1 terfetiDg out be pl0s wherever they nave
app cared. But that fast the fre Is pu'
out 10 town il il khded IN another, and no day
paese but tba the flames risng IN some portion oI
The Sta.e kndled by the torches OF AbolltiJnlsm.
Ocght not come action 10 be had by the Sale ~
laIge dDrOpOS OF this course Is n letter
from a dstingu shed citizen of Washington County,
suggesting a State Convention. We are inclined 70
favor the suggestion and ask from the press and people
public expression IN relation To It, IL ls OBVIOUS
that ollie action being taken IN the several cOuh'
ties is checking the truu les IN those localities yet
ira the debeiatiOrs and decisions OF single coultes
will have general effect beyond our borders. IL Is
dtsrabe iii order to prevent these things In future t'
the PEOPLE OF the whole country, North aud SCUM,
should u, dsIsand that any efforts towards Abotoh'
ISM or instructions in Texas, will constitute tne
shortest possible rOai TO the gs we Tor tnoe wac en-
gage In Them. SoCu such a Convention be called IL
sbonld be made up Of the best citizens OF the State,
without distinction Of patty who should come together
solely 10 consult for the con mon good Nhat say the
people
Awrter in The ers, from Cenerville Leon county,
says:
81 understand that two or three neg living four
or five miles from hsre told their master, fe~ DAYS
ago. that they were as free a. he Was, aud walked
away from their work telling him to shoot he thougl
proper whereupOn he did So but did not happen u XII
any of them. A negro was whipped, three OF lour
miles from here last week for bad cohdlet, VINO
couiess-d tat lie the heg-Jl aud several Others were
to fire Meesrs Barley and B4ness houses to nignt,
and XII all tie whites they nd. Ana on OelhS
ask no told them 90 such atrOcOus acts, tne al
eve ed that white men told them 10 do So ana ny sueSe
means they would gam their freedom. There Is no
doubt but we have had Abolition emissa RES 10 poison
the minds Of the negroes of our county Recent lnVss
cations made here and elsewhere IN TINS county, luny
prove the ruth OF what gay.
The Waco Democrat, unil recently opposed to the
organized Democracy Of Texas, says:
"THE USIoN We are lis friends and support
er; but it must be Union of political brothers Here
is how the Northern brethren are working IN iesis'
They must do bstter than this, or We will want 10
divide. We hardly think 1t righ for our Nor"tsrH
brothers 10 burn uy our homes after this fashion! We
may be wrong but we d0Ht think they have any
good cause OF any right to burn out Of the iutbi
ana we modesyly and II IDLY venture the 0Phon ma
| tfey ought to be Tery nicely qu'et[g aDd cosby
HUNG 10 any convenient post oak when found!
From The Houston Telegraph, l8ti last
We have al las. full particulars of The des ru t)n OF
| tire hourshng town Of Henderson, In Rlsh Couhy'
From The Tyler Reporter, we learn that the IRE Droke
out ia three tour different place simultaneously, on
/ Sunday night, the 5h inst. between su1down and
/ srk and III a few minutes the whole town was Ia
blaze The partrol had just lett the square for their
simmer when the flames broke out A letter from Hen
d,rson 10 The Marshall Republican,, says mat the
town was fired AZ O'Clock III the evening, vale the
Dc pie were at church. A Vigilance Comm te had
lon The 7Ib been formed, aud several arrests made
letter dated Henderson 7th, has tue following
"All from McDonough's Hotel 10 Sm hers Office
taking that entire block, and from Redwaes store TO
Likenss corner, running back 10 t1e Presbyterian
Church (which was saved IL s3ene OF rum and de
yastati1u ten stores two dugsOres, eight or ten law
Offices, two family Oceriss &c., were consumed
There Wac sill SoGtn wind bio wing a. the the and
in two nous at most, every house winch had caught
! burned down.
| lowing 10 the failure of crops, such misfortune
never could have Ou d Us lily prepared 10 meet l.
| u a pecupiary poiy; Of view And when we n-.dsr
il las not been The result Of ccdn., bu thai II was
feed b-yo nd any sort of question Oy some 1snd Ia hu
mar Oil ,Ie who hal OIL acted tine part allotted 1m
IN ali PROBABILITY, III common purpose . set on are
our wBr and perhaps 10 murder or poison our eltl-
| Zsrs. iJ has driven % 70 a Stale OF despefdhph
| IL kNh n
| has not win ssed il. All is alarm and excite
| m1nt with Our women and children. Oar meI
| arr in arms. The most yigiiAnt nyestgt tlon Is
| being bad The plot was 80 Well conceived the Time
of tie night "A little excitement ct Seeu two 'ntemsn
hd lust cured which attracted the sd ust "a Out
ci'lzens were assembling at church, and before the
guard lred out the fire was put IN some shape INTO
an old shop where there htd been none Tor m)hth IL
was burning in every part Of the house az once, aud IN
less than five minutes II on fire all over As yet
we nave not been able 10 find out who 1t was that dd
IT, whether white or black. No traces have been di5
covered. My own opinion Is, that the negroes ha1 ou
| little 20 do with IT,
The following is from The jefferson Heraid OF
the llh;
| awe learn, by gentleman VINO left Marshall on
Thursday morning., that the neendidres " no hed the
Town OF Henderson the 9TH inst. have been over
hauled and summary punished. lie iacts, as Related
no MS are briefly these Three persons left henderson,
imne Iatey alter the c0niagrdu0n, under very sus.
pjcious circumstances. They were followed by CON-
pittee OF the CtlZens aud OVertdAen on the ROAD 70
Marshall Perceying themselves pursued, they turned
to tight when one Of thom was shot dead iron ms
horse and the other two were taken and hung iortn-
| with
| Tie Tgler Reporter OF the 7th says that report
has iurt reached there that Belevlew IN Rask County
was burned on the night Of the 4th inst. Inc za ne
paper says that Dangeriieli, III Titus County Is Dar
| Ar Athens Henderson County a well was discovered
10 be poisoned on Sunday night the jth inst, and Over
one hundred bottles OF strychnne were found IN pos
| session Of negroes. On examination the plot Wa
brought 10 Hght which was 10 poison as many as pos