The Placer herald., 1866-01-06
The Negro Insurrection n in Jamaica.

The Kingston (Jamaica) Guardian, makes
the following observations on the late negro
insurrec,ion in that island:
1--WE must be awakened thoroughly and
look at all the circumstances earnestly and
with the determination that, so far as we
|. may be able to devise the means of preser
vation. such things shall never, never again
occur. We understand fully now the char
acter Of our peasantry, and we must shape
our legislation accordingly. and all such
legislation must be conceived and carried
out, by the light Of present events ever be-,
fore our eyes, to show US the way in which
our movements should he directed. We
must never, never forget the development of
character which these people have just mani
tested, and we mus, shape our future ends
in such a way as to bear forcbly upon that
development.
"lhe story of our Cawnpore'-the lap
ping OF the Baron's blood, as finger after
finger was removed from the hand warm with
ife-the cutting out of poor Victor He'sch.
ellis tongue, while the heart still painted
with life-the disemboweling of poor Price
by women, amid such deep and bitter groans
as, we are told. would have pierced the
heart of a stone'-these things are sufficient
to harrow up the inmost soul and will, we
trust, impress the important lessons that
people should be left alone to settle theil
own affair; and that it is dangerous, a
perilous thing, to trile with edged tools, il
the shape of the feelings of an ignorant ant
excitable peasan,ry like ours"
| fol In >l,o oh,
correspondence of the World:
JAMAICA, w. l., Nov. 4.
Here, on the highlands of Jamaica, pro
found peace has long regned; but we nov
feel as it our mountains were all volcanoes
where we have been resting without a dream
of the fires below, or of the internal powe
that has been raising those fires 1t seem
that plot has been brewing to make th'
Island a second Hayti. and tha: Judase.
were found among the Methodist and Bap.
tist ministers. mostly the latter. to act as
ringleaders; Rev. George Wm Gordon being
the chief, man of wealth, nearly white
and member of the Legislature, elected
for seven years. The iulI history of the
plot has not yet become public. 1t exploded
before it was ripe, not over the whole island
but in the parish of St Thomas in the East.
war steamer went down at once, from
Kingston, and other forces were col ected
on the land. Prisoners were taken and
tried by court martial; the most guilty were
hung, and Others were punished by f,eging
or imprisonment. In two weeks one hundred
and twenty were hung. Mr.. Gordon, and
several other Baptist ministers among the
number. Important papers, throwing light
on the conspiracy, were found in possession
OF persons arrested, and many have been ar
rested merely for using sedilious language;
one man who said: "You have seen nothing
here in ST. Mary; wait till we rise, and then
You will see enough" The frs: three days
following the outbreak was a time of sus,
pense. A large proportion of the blacks
showed signs ofbeiog pleased, and men we're
in doub, whether or not the insurrec,ion
would spread. The news afterwards was
such as to make things quiet, and the blacks
appeared as usual.