New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-29
Texas Intelligence.
THE ABOLITION PLOT.


On the l4th, Mr. silas NJ Hines, of seguin, while
crossing the river at Goad, was shot at BY some
one secreted near the ford. Mr.. H. received five
balls, and it is doubtful if he can recover He
thinks the assassin is a man named hillibrew.
The Sheriff went in search of the villain, but he
has escaped.
A letter of the 7th from Weatherford, Parker
county, to the State Gazette. says: -
Mr.. Fandrew, who was out in Johnson's expedI-
ton, states that he was camped near the Indian
Agency when the news reached there that Capt.
BAYLOR had killed ten Indians on this frontier, and
the Indians on the Reserve Or Agency, on hearing
the news, set up a hdeons yell and continued their
shrieks and yells all night.
Some of the planters of Goliad county, since the
rains, have commenced replanting corn, with
view to winter fodder.
The jefferson (Cass county, Herald has the fol-
lowing paragraph:
A guard of twenty.four men 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 recently been arrested,
and some are now in custody.
They have arrested man at Clarksville, named
Pearce, charged with the burning of Henderson.
The proof against him is almost positive. He
hired negro woman at the hotel to do the work.
His brother, also implicated, has fled.
The citizens of Lamar and Fannin counties have
ordered certain James R. Brown to leave the
State in less than twenty-four hours. The evi-
dence against him was sufficient to justify more
severity.
They are now driving from all the upper coun-
ties every individual upon whom rests the least
suspicion of Abolitonism. 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 burned down few
~, %. .1sp,,1
of whom, we are informed, has been caught and
hung.
A letter of the 10th, from Sulphur Springs, Hop
kins county, to the Jefferson Herald and Gazette
says
Last Saturday plan to burn this place was dis
| covered. A negro preacher belonging to Mr.
Goodson, acknowledged that he and others hat
set apart last Tuesday night as the time to burr
all the stores and dwellings, commit all othel
depredations they could, and then take horses, il
case they could not whip the white men, and fly
| for the Indian nation. One Taylor, who has beer
loafing about here for the past sixteen months
was partially implicated as confederate. He ha
made the negro his only companion and associate
| during the whole time he has been here. But a
several negroes We're implicated, and the prospects
good for Taylor and two negro men to hang,
| 'self-constituted = committee of six (the owner
of said slaves) held second investigations and tbs
negroes being permitted to talk together, the re
suit was contradiction and confusion, and thu
| whole posse We're let oil
But this has not satisfied the citizens and yester
day we organized regular vigilance committee
to exist long as any fears OF burning are enter
tanned. Mr. Taylor will get his travelling card to-
day, or be hung; and if the negroes suspected are
not taken from our midst, they will be dealt witt
recording to justice.
On the 18th inst an attempt at incendarism wa
discovered in Indianola, and suspicious looking
young man, loafng stranger, named Edward
King who was seen about the premises few mo
ments before, was arrested and given to under
stand that change of locality might be better fo
| his health He went to New Orleans on the frs
steamer. The citizens of 1ndianola have since
formed a vigilance committee; also those of Vic
toria.
The vigilance committee of Livingston, Poll
county, have ordered one Shadrack Collins t.
leave the county instanter. Shadrack is abou
| 20 years old, weighs about one hundred and tift
pounds, is baldheaded, and has blue or gray eyes
The Crockett Argus of the 22d says:
Since our last issue there has been considerabl
excitement in this and the adjoining county OF An
derson, growing out of the troubles among the ne
| groes. Several barns and one dwelllng-house hay
been burned down in this county, and the burning
were directly traced to negroes. A man belongm
to Mike Davis is now in jail for firing Mr. Pierson
| stable and cribs, and white man who was lmpl
| Gated by negroes was hung last Friday near Ion
in Anderson county. The vigilance committee ar
hunting for several other men who are implicated
man named Ward, from Trinity county, was al
rested at Randolph in this county, and after hayin
trial was ordered to leave the county. We lear
from highly respectable citizen Of sampter the
Ward is most certainly fullbooded abotionis
plot among the negroes has been disclosed
Tyler Prairie, and many of the negroes thorough
examined.
The Henderson Times of the 18th says the Wig
lance Committee have been busy engaged inye
tigating the case of the two Herndons, who reside
in Henderson, and were arrested on charges mac
by negress belonging to one of them, and wi
acknowledged to have fired the town, but insiste
that her master urged her to do it, and stood
when she did it. One of the Herndons was di
charged and ordered to leave the State; the 9TH
remains in jail; the woman was convicted II
, citizens are much excited to the result of ii
investigation against Herndon.