Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-11-28
NEGRO IF.zURREcTIoN IN ST. VIM.
CENT.

The -. Vincent correspondent OF the LAYER.
pool rost writes a. follows:
Ne regret to inform you that q general rebel
zion OF the negroes occurred here on the 9th ult.
Thei intention seems 70 have been the massacre
Of he entire white and colored population OF
the Island. Many Of the managers on the
thrir lives, while others have been disfigured
Tor life by the brutality OF the rebels. Martial
law has been proclaimed, and all business
suspended, The stores and bank have closed.
Had IL not been for the timely arrival OF her
Mstestys ship Challenger, IL 10 prob able that
Kingston might ere this have been mass OF
ashes.
The stocks Of all the provision and liquor
stores of the Portuguese 70 windward have
been totally destroyed. The furniture and oil
necessaries and valuables In the managers
houses shared the same fate. The people at
Union Island (one Of the 6renadines) are In
open rebellion, and assistance was sent last
night from the Challenger, in the Royal Char
ley. under Lieutenant Dillon. We hear also
that Cariacon 10 in revolt, and that Father
Morgan's hou. q and urniture have been de-
mo!shed.
The following is an extract from a letter
dated 81. Vincent, October 16:
1t appears that the negroes had been plan
ming this rising since Christmas last. They
made the stoppage OF some allowance on the
sugar estates pretext for attacking all the
|, managers and overseers on whom they could
lay their hands-many they left for dead, and
q few escaped into the cane pieces. but every
thing they possessed were totally destroyed
some cases they were numerically beaten,
and IN others stript naked and abused.
Our corps was the first TO get into action: and
In fact u COUPLE OF charges produced such 4
panic amongst the negroes, that the rest OF the
campaign was mere hunting. They never
formed or stood firm after W ards, and the m arch
OF our little army OF two hundred men, cavai-
~, infantry and artillery, all told, was merely
an aneir Of capturing prisoners. i must tell
you of a brave dash made 10y twenty four Of
our cayalrymen. Headed 10y our captain, they
Unexpectedly fell in with a body of negroes
three hundred strong. On one side there was L
bank forty feet high, and on the other there
was a steep descent TO the river.
The negroes, hurrahng and shouting, drew
up 10 receive them. charge ordered,
and our little band burst through the crowd,
psing their swords and pistols with great
effect. The negroes reformed in their rear, and
IN 'front.', while crowds appeared on the bank
above the road, who stoned our men unmerci-
fully-the situation. as you may well conceive,
was desperate. Two Of our men We're dis
mounted, and barely escaped with their lives
by q miracle. and the bravery OF their com.
radcs, who charged again and again, and
dafhed manfully about them, bringing OF two
prisoners, and leaving seven bodies the
roads With this mlshap they sea ped scathles,
6fteen and twenty wounded in this affair We
Brought i'll from windwa-d some two hundred
and twenty prisoners, and we also s.catted' a
good many more.
Exeter Hall may possibly take M the cause
Of the blacks, and accuse of maltreating the
poor, dear negro. But, truly, if anything, we
nave been too humane with them Fancy how
matters might have been, if they had got the
upper hand OF rs before assistance arrived.