Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-18
RIOT IN JAMAICA.
Observation-Disclosures Executions

Full particulars of the negro revolt in the Island
ofJamaica are furnished by the arrival at New York
on Thursday. of the steamship Montezuma, from
Kingston on the 9th inst.
The facts elected show that the massacre was the
result of deli berate plot for assassinating the white
population and putting the negroes in possession of
the island. Tho 18th of October fixed for the
rising; but the arrest of some of the conspiraers on
other charges precpitated the outbreak several days
At the bottom of the conspiracy George William
Gordon, ex magistrate and member of the Colonial
Assembly, and, it would seem Though on this point
the colonial papers make, no, definite statement
white man. The active leader was Paul Bogle
negro preacher and it is significant thas most of the
rebels were in some way connected with negro "reli
principal rebels have been arrested and hanged.
General Lamothe, ex- President Of the Haytien re-
public. is believed to have been implicated in the
rising and has been arrested on board schooner, in
which he was trying to escape from the island. At
the date of last advices the revolt was nearly sup
of the negro atrocities, and one road eight miles
long, was said to be almost impossible from the col
lection of dead bodies. The insurgents do not
to have attempted the destruction of property the
island Their aim was to assassinate the whites then
enter into possession of their property The editor
the charge of being concerned In the revolt.
We make the following extraats from the Jamaica
newspapers:
CRUELTIEs THE RIOTERS.
Mr.. Henry Mais YVES in the parish looking after the
roads in the neighbOrhood of Oxford and East Pros
pect. He tells us that on his return toward Morant
Bay. he met several men from time to time with cut
said nothing to him. and he proceeded till he reached
Retreat Bridge when two women met him and i'm
piored him not TO proceed further he would be kill
ed. He took refuge with Is Others at Lyssons. The
people who were about the place. he says. behaved
well The boy of the overseer Mr.. Wallace, return
ed from the bay stating that they seized upon him
and attempted to kill him. but some one interfered
saying He could not help it, but they wanted his
masters head. and they would chop up the mule" so
It is said that Mr.. Price entreated them to spare
his life, offering his own and the Baron's Watches
him and his offer. Mr.. Herschell we learn, offered
t!oo hundred pog9dHs H for u his life but they refused to
to be spared. but they persisted in beating him to
death. Mr. Alberga,s son, little boy, was shot in
family who have been spared. Mr.: Brooke Cooke
was brought ashore on litter. carried by four sal
ors, and escorted by four men of the volunteer ar
tillery under the command of Capt Delisser.
The courtMartiai presided over by Lieutenant
Monday). Sixteen of the rebels were condemned to
evening twelve were hanged. Among them is the no.
torious Cowell, of whom wrote in my last dispatch;
this fellow pretends to be Baptist parson and Off
ciated in Paul Bogles chapel. at Stony Gut He was
in an extremely emacated condition, and could
hardly support himself. He called upon the people
to take warning by him.
There is one continued scene of hanging day by
day, and it becomes matter for consideration
heard Blue Jacket say. like sardines,'O in the
town is not likely to produce some serious epidemic
mere. ALREADY the emuvla arising from the graves
in which these dead bodies inferred pervade the
entire town, and it not witt difficulty that
could avoid getting nauseated This ought to be
looked after 1t is a matter of vital Importance.
A man named John Stevenson, farmer of
Lambton county. Canada. murdered Satur-
| day night. 1t appears that he formerly lived in
| Michigan, and few months ago left to reside in
| Canada. Two men came over on Saturday night from
| Newport (where Stevenson also formerly lived) and
/ laJ fha
son had, the week previous, deposited considerable
sum in the bank at Sarnia, and it is supposed the
men came over expecting to get all the money he
possessed. They now in Sarnia Jail. One of the
murderers, named Drummond was identified by Ste.
yeasops wife,