Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-05-07
From the N. Y. Evening Post.
The Fugitive Army from the SOuth.-Fears
of Domestic lnsurrcctiOn. - Interesting
StAlHmenlS.

The Fugitive Army from the South.-Fears
Of Domestic Insurrcction. - Interesting
Statements.
Every railroad train from the southern
states is now crowded with families flying
from the oppression and rutfiansm Of the con-
ftderate traitors, who by force Of arms hold
those states in subsection. From reports
which come to us almost every day, from Which
white fugitives, there is reason for their haste.
The seeded states seem to stand on the brink
OF the dreadful catastrophe of slave insurrec-
ton. The accounts gwen below come TO us
from several reliable gentlemen, all welknown
either in this city or in Boston, who have just
returned from different parts of the southern
states where they have been residing and
travelling.
One OF these gentlemen was in Charleston
during the commandment OF Fort Sumter, and
has Just arrived here from that city. lie states
that troops are being sent from Charleston to
Richmond every day. Business was dull
meats and Hour high, but vegetables very
Cheap This was severe blow TO those who
have for many years raised early vegetables
for the northern market and VINO, now that
his is stopped, have to sell at rulnous rates in
the overstockedhome market. Peas-usually
four dollars per bushe there at this time
could scarcely be sold al one dollar. The peo-
pie of South Carolina were congratulaing
| themselves that the sgdr ras noU certainly
noved 10 the states north of them. They breath
ed ireer, and openly boosted that now they
had brought in Virginia and the other border
| states they were safe. They thought Charles
ton the safest place in the south just now.
In the interior OF South Carolina fears of
| slave instructions are exciting much alarm.
| Men sleep ,oith guns at their BEDSIDE; ,comea re-
fuse to be LEFT alone on the plantations In one
neighborhood forty miles from charleston 1t is
| at
down, ten days ago, and seven negroes were
hung.
The New Orleans Picayune recently com
planned that the UP river parishes of Louisiana
were very slow i'll furnishing their proportion
of troops for tile rebel army, and Tor the DE
fence of the state" A gentlemen who has
Just returned from a journey through Louisis-
ana informs us that this hesitation does not
arise so much from any prepondearnce OF the
Union sentiment, as from the general fear en-
tertained by the planters and farmers, OF ris-
ing among the slaves. Almost every pianta-
ton is doubly guarded, everywhere the slaves
are watched with the utmost vigilance. Plant
ers refuse TO let any of their white employees
enlist. but arm them and keep them us Il pri
waite guard One planter, the owner OF three
hundred negroes, expressing his fears to oul
informant, said, .'d--n the niggers, they know
more about DO itics than most OF the white
men. They know everything that happens"
In Mississippi, so far as he could learn in q
hasty passage through the state, the same
fears prevail and to the same extent. Planters
dare not leave their homes, and no one thinks
OF staying night away from his family. The
drafting Of so many thousands OF white resi-
dents into the rebel army fills those who re
main with dread of the slaves. AT Memphis
troops are being concentrated in great mum,
bers, and here our Informant saw bombs and
ammunition, said to have been brought from