The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-23


1t >OrigInafeds-.Dread Scenes at
Mornnt tBnY.--CapIure and Execution
OF the Chtefs of the Revolt.
CoyTesI1OndeleeoC the NeiD York Times. 4
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Monday, Nov. g.
The insurrection which broke out a
few weeks since, in the parish of ST.
East, has been put down.
Most of the ringleaders and chiefs of
the movement, through whose guilty
agency the black peasants were melted
to rise, have been captured, tried, con-
victed, and summarfly executed. Mar
tial Law. is still in force, but all danger
Is considered past. The insurgents have
been put down with short, sharp. and
decisive blows, and at least fifteen hum
dred of these deluded wretches have
suffered the penalty of outraged law. 81
p It may interest your readers to have a
brief account OF the circumstances un-
der which the insurreCtion began. The
first disturbance of the peace occurred
on the 7th of October last, in the parish
of st. East, when n
prisoner was rescued from the district
Jail by mob. This was followed by a
series of violent acts, and the next day
the Governor, at Spanish Town, was
called upon by the authorities to send
troops for their protection, as the move
ment was likely to become a formidable
rebellion:- These fears Were well
grounded 1t'was well known that ever
since the beginning of last year, u set of
men have been at work sowing the seeds
of dissatisfaction among the peasantry,
using their prejudices, and their fancied
as we'll as their actual wrongs, to excite
them against the authorities. Associa-
tions were formed inst. Thomas-in-the-
East, under the direction of IA malcon-
tent named Grant, a saddler by trade, u
man OF considerable tact and influence
asa local politician. Among the princi-
pal leaders was the pastor of negro
chapel at Stony Gut, named Paul Boyle,
at whose place of worship the associa-
ton were accustomed to hold their
reasonable meetings. From every one
who became member of this secret
society, an oath Of secrecy was extorted,
and compliance with decentralization
under pain of immediate death. It is
generally believed that these misguided
people have been swearing in" their
own class all round the country for sew
eral- months past, and secretly taking
the life of every one upon whom they
had the slightest suspicion of being In
constant. Men were sent for to attend
their meetings at the chapel at Stony
Gut, and were then and there required
to take the oath that had been prepared
for them, or told that they would be
According to the stories of prisoners
taken in the rebellion, it would appear
that the 18th of October had been fixed
upon by the conspirators for general
uprising of the blacks and the indis-
criminate slaughter OF the white popu-
lation. The rescue of 8, prisoner, al
ready alluded to, hastened the outbreak,
and precipitated hostilities, before the
leaders had completed their arrange
ments for simultaneous rising. The
circumstances of this rescue were as
follows At the court of petty sessions
L.. III ~ T1T,,r TlsRf -
ed George Geohegan was ordered under
arrest by the magistrates for creating n
disturbance in the court room. The of
ficers We're, however, set upon by Paul
Boyle, and about a hundred of his fol-
lowers, armed with sticks, and Geohe-
gan was soon placed beyond their reach.
The police were severely beaten, and
were not strong enough to enforce the
orders of the court. "A day or two af-
terward, Boyle and GeOhegan again ap-
peared in the court room, and attempt
ed to browbeat the magistrates, who
forthwith ordered their arrest. A force
of seven policemen. and three consta-
bIes were sent to make the capture. On
reaching Stony Gut, the negro settle
ment where Bogle's chapel stands, they
exhibited their warrant to Boyle, and
told him he must go along with them.
Instead of complying, Boyle blewsa
shell, which was answered from three
ments the policemen We're surrounded
by a mob of two or three hundred yell
ling, frantic negroes, by whom three of
them were taken prisoners and put in
irons. The. negroes held their prison
iers until they gave q sort of parole,
when they were liberated. No personal
injnry was inflicted. .r .a. :!
r. During the next three days the eX-
citement at Stony Gut continued to in=
ctease. Large numbers of negroes
continued to flock there, a mixture of
rum and gunpowder was handed about
among them, and of this they drank
until madness covercaine every feeling
of humanity and prudence, On the
11th, q - force of about five hundred
rebels, armed, with rifles, cutlasses and
clubs, under command of Paul Boyle,
made furious attack on the govern
ment bull ldIngs at Morant Bay. A de-
ltachment Of volunteers, hastily gather
ed to defend the place, were compelled, /,
after Hiring once or twice, to seek shell
TER in the Court house, where they bar
ricaded themselves against the rebels.
Finding themselves unable to dislodge
the tmilitaryi the insurgents began 10
plunder tho private houses, and attack
1 ed every citizen who Yentired To show
\ himself in the streets. ] cannot do bet
!! ter than to- copy here the graphic ac-
| count of the affair given by the rector
! of M0rant Bay, who, ,at the time of the
attack, was in the court house consult
I ingYith the vestry as to the best means
| of defence. Hstll.5-5 +oa ~ s.
tBnsiness was proceeded with, us
! usual, until about 4 o'clock when the
meeting was disturbed. Mr.. Bowen
! mentioned that as he came down from
| Collie, he had met parties of twenty or
/ thirty men, who stated that they were
| recruiting. j then told the baron thHt
| there were 800 armed men assembled at
/ fI1n pantfaf ntN0nnl OTN the RInn Mnnn-
4 tain road, where Bnie ofhciated, and
that they had dispersed for recruits, be-
cause they. had heard thatthe Bath vol
runteers had been sent for. The baron
did not seem TO think that there was
any danger to be apprehended, but ]
urged him to get over the business as
I quickly as possible Shortly atter this
We heard the sound of a fife, and then
l a drum, and i rose up and said, Now,
baron, they are comingr Several ma:
| gfstrates then rose, and the baron closed
the books of the vestry, and SO conclu-
ded the meeting of the vestry. By this
time the rebels had entered the square
where the volunteers had formed q
line, They numbered some 500 or Coz
people, armed with guns, pixies swords
! entlRsseS, sticks and stones, q On theil
i way itosthe court hnnse, they released
some fifty-one prisoners from the Mo
rant Bay district prison, took the police
station, and seized the arms that Wert
there, and armed themselves with stones
ffom theF prison yard, Which prisoners
had been engaged in breaking there
They steadily lyTadvanced nlthe volun-
Eteers; man twhom i was-not neal
! enough to recognizel being in front
|. I.dancfng some African war dance, anC
| 1iourishfng stick The baron, by ad,
vice, then read the, riot act; but whil'
that was going on the mob began t.