Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1860-09-06
The Texas Troubles Effects of the
Fires,


Fires.
The Marshall Republican, of the 18th, pub
fishes a letter from Mr.. H. Bonner, at Rusk,
Cherokee county, to Mr.. o. Taylor, at Mar
shall. 1t says:
"The coincidence of the fires at Dallas end
otker places caused suspicion with us, and |
number of our citizens, short time since, or |
ganlzed watch and vigilance Committee
Many, including myself, were disposed to con.
slider the whole affair a needless alarm, until
| within day OF two, when authenticated state
ments came 10 US, that in several places poison
had been found with negroes, and confessions
made that on election day this poison was to
be administered in the food at breakfast, and
deposited in the wells and springs; and that a
general plot had been made for an indiscrimi-
nate, wholesale destruction by poison and arms
on that day. This caused US to search, and
last night and this morning poison has been
found with several negroes, and they have
made confessions substantially the same as the
above rumors, and have implicated several
other negroes. We are taking prompt but de-
liberate measures TO day To ferret out the whole
matter. News came in this morning that in
Anderson and Henderson counties, similar de-
velopments on more extended scale have been
made. We are in the midst of considerable
excitement, and | feel il my duty TO write you,
SO that your town and county may be on their
guard.
~ am opposed, 10 principle and policy, to
frequent alarms of this kind, and should not
write il | did not believe there is serious cause
of alarm. Some of the most confidential ne
groes are implicated.
The Houston Telegraph says:
: "a plot was discovered in Hopkins county
. on the Alta inst, TO burn the town OF Suph or
| Springs in That county, on election day or the
day after. Some negroes confessed the plot,
and at latest dates it was undergoing inyesti.
CATION, amid no little excitement"
The Polk county paper of the 18th, says:
], awe learn from letter just received from
J. an intelligent citizen of Moscow, that the ex'
I element is running high there, in regard &c
e insurrection, &c; that one Zanches, a Next
can, had been whipped and driven of, and thai
| the report concerning the negro movement in
r. Tyler has been confirmed"
I Rumors. gain ground that the towns Of Ty
! Ter. Smith county, and Mckinney, Collin CO.
= have been destroyed by fire.
I The San Antonio Ledger says:
The negroes in Bastrop were suspected
d from their conduct on Sunday, which led to thu
q formation of committee. Upon an examina
i ton Of the negro cabins on Walnut Creek
(; large quantities of arms and ammunition wer
d discovered in one cabin a keg of powder an
% new six shooters, and IN other cabins variou
10 deadly weapons were found secreied."
e The jasper Clarion of the l1th, says that Of
l. election day, in Tyler county, few went to tn
y, polls, because of the intense excitement arisn
Je from the arrest of ten negroes, who had con
rs fessed to being parties to a plot to murder
burn aud rob. Two white men were implies
se led, who left immediately. asa5
d. An incendiary attempt was discovered in III
vs. town of Jefferson, Cass county, on the 9th ms
e. Since that, the town has been protected by pr
it trolls of the best citizens. The same vigllanc
On is exercised, says the Jefferson Herald, in tn
n neighboring towns and settlements.
k. Some forty negroes aud two or three white
G. have been discovered, when together, at
IN near Paris, Lamar county, says a letter fro
ID; Bright Star, Hopkins county, llth inst; sou
ed of the negroes were arrested and "confesst
,at that it was their intention, on the day of ele
6c ton, while the men were at the polls voting,
- kill the females of every house, and as the mt
te- returned from the polls, they were TO be q
on tackled
in The incendiary who fred the town of He
cir derson has been arrested, and the people a
driving off all suspected persons. The town
ILL Mount Vernon has been burned, but one OF Il
or lncendnlries was caught ana nung. n pan n
the been discovered to burn Sulphur Springs. a
asst a slave negro preacher has been arrested as I
arr incendiary. and has confessed his guilt.
ian An attempt TO burn the town of indiana
ro- has been discovered in time 10 prevent serio
10 loss. AT Crocket, and the adjoining county
hat Anderson incendiarism caused the arrest a
all execution of white man. A plot had be
ave discovered in Tyler prairie. Various persc
PM had beef ordered TO leave the State, and Wig
TO ance colpmiltees were continually forming.