New-York daily tribune., 1865-12-28
pHE cHKYsT MAS INsURRECTIOSs

pHE cuKYsT MAS INsURRECTIOSs.
1t is st least month since rn.Slavcry jour.
nails, North aud South, began TO circulate
rumors cf an organized insur-ection by the
| blacks on Christmas. Circumstantial accounts
were flrnihed to Tie Cincinnati Enquirer, and
copied in The Nsrss of this city. The Misis-
| sppi papcr0 contained vague but dreadiul bi1tS.
In both louisiana and Mississippi, orders were
issued by th /, reconstructed civil authorities to
disarn, the negroes, and we presume those
orders were very generally executed by the
State militia There was in a word, general
and persistent efFor. to create belief that the
freedmen would require to be kept down by
force wien Christmas came.
Well, Christmas has come and gone and yes
terday msrning We had the iirst installments OF
the expc,ted irslreoHon news. kilograms
were sent us from Wilmington, n. O., from
Fortress Monroe from Richmond. AID from
Alexandria. A dispatch from Wilmington on the
2ith says: 1.-The alarm about The negroeB Bis sub
siding in til, vicinity. Nothing later is known
uy sterious. and nearly as significant i the
Chops and, Tomato Sauce" dispatch frcn Mr.
iPiekwick to Mrs.. HardelL On the 2Gth, the
news is that 4" the negroes made no organ
ized demonstration. There were few ifplatod
cases OF collision between the whites and blacks
Ia few arrests Of negroes, rally to release .hem
and more arrests. That is all that can be made
out of the Wilmington business by write who
is rather anxious for a sensation. At Fortress
Monroe there was considerable excitement and
oven fireworks, but no covert act, except that n
negro attacked policeman with a club new
sort Of high treason. st Manchester, opposite
Richmond, two colored prisoners were released
from jail by force; on what account, or ia Thst
circumstances is not stated, but, at any -ate,
nobody was hurt. Official reports from ether
sections represent the freedmen as quiet-ss
quiet, we suppose, as the Army Of the Potomac
used to be in the halcyon days of Mcclellan.
But at Alexandra, Va. there was really
serious disturbance. First reports, supplied by
The Uashington EroniIg Star, represented the
riot as begun by the negroes. Fuller accounts
from The Muandria Journal, and Wdsh:sgton
ChronieIe. show that the whites and not the
negroes were the aggresSors The formet says:
early in tbe morning It observed that all the
young recon strncted were well armed. I,oii1g com
mcnced at nn early hour vi, %oi ming ana oy o, M
Mayor found it necessary to call upon tue mbhat,
: authorities " suppress ~.
The Chrosieie gives . fuller account
"It appear, that la,ae number Of men as ntari,
eg we can earn chiefly erCoDfsderatc sodi9Es took
into their leads 70 celebrate Christmas by Rensfa
!, on,,aueb bt on the negroes. They commenced by IN
blbng freely Of those beverages usually INDUCED IL
largely nj this particular season OF the year, and av
io ,ii ,ed yery high pitch Of Dutch srago re-
solved themselves intp sort OF volunteer patrol organ
jzaton aud started out on a general reoouno',sahe
, arouud :he city, many OF them armed VIII pistols an'
|. n,ber WEAPONS and wherever they met man wlih
darker ssin than their own instantly declared wa
c agnus, him. These rOvdies for rome NE during th
forenqpD lad matters very much Their cwn way goh
ahout tho streets singly or In squsds irsely dis
,layiog their we'pons and boldly halooing foE Ien
=, Days Gen. Lee. aud other Leading heDos. my
colc-sd soldiers belonging 10 Battery Rogers, VIM
10 stonding at the Of Prince and fnrfaxo WEI
act anon by patty Of these ruians and baIy beaten
Arolher party froke into Chnppeh nan eolnsio' as
holding meeting. broke up the assen o'y and lnous'
Of yted q general melee Tho colorod iesn deifndc
.b.nscjyrs AID shots we're freely 1,chapged, a "hi'
ian named AEteIelI receiving soyrre yoHnd in th
nj mead which il IL tbolght vili prove iutLL Inc hr
eL OF pistols heard IN streets IN different parts oi u
IQit
=. were assaulted and botten beside se'er'ii "ouh--
y with pistol shots
e Three companies Of troops were called ous
"a slIpprcss the mob and arrested nearly ahundre
ID If the rioters. The Chro.ieh adds that u
Of affair was arranged beforehand. and the zioie
N. N. camo out in the morning fully prepercd for
'e many wearing gray upiiorms, a. we'll IS arm
,h Dispatches to the evening papers oi ye'icrdd
rs confirm this account.
N. There needs but ono explanation Vi this di
ne ne graceful business. The Rebels who were co
he cerned in it had prophesed 80 often n
~ among the negroes that they felt bound to ma
n. their words good. If tho negroes could not
70. goaded into beginning it, the.Rebels would sa
oe them that trouble. Our own corresponds
or. writes that at least six negroes were brutal
be killed By these rufians, without any shade"
nd excuse or provocatiOn; and it was long beic
m. the military got the upper hand oi tho MOO
rcd drunken chiyalry. Yet this no was permit
he to be organized under the eyes Of strong w