The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-20
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"TRYING TIMES" In THE ISLAND.
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The British West India Fleet
Ordered to Halifax, N. S.
Strong Feeling in Favor of Annexation
to the United States.
PROGRESS or THE COURT OF INoUIRY-FAoTs
FLICITED,


: KINGSTON, jamaica March THE Royal
Commission still sits at Spanish Town, dally
wading through an immense mass of evidence
concerning the late outbreak, and the condition
OF the island generally. We can only guess at
the impression made on the minds OF the Com
missioners by this testimony, and the conclusion
they are likely to arrive at. There is abundant
evidence to prove that the outbreak was not
riot, but deliberately planned lnsurrecton.
1t has beer proved to certain extent, and
further proof can be had, that a kind of military
organization of the negroes, throughout the
counties OF MiddleseX and Surrey at least existed
No greater proof can be offered than that squads
OF men met for drill repeatedly in various parts
of those counties. Within less than mile from
where / am sitting is a field where the Kingston
"volunteersn drilled three or four times week,
Numbers of persons are familiar WITH the fact
that these ore rganizatlons had their field and staff
officers. A squad of these men was dispersed
only five or six weeks since while in the house of
one of them one hundred and eighty ball car
tridges were found. This, too, as late, as last
Then the conduct of Paul Boyle, who instantly
assumed command as generalnchieG and
whose authority as such was as instantly re-
cognized by his deluded followers, who ad-
dressed him as "My Lord" Threatening eX-
pressions used by negroes as far back as last
May and the proven fact that the insurrectlon
was looked for in August, are additional proofs
of deliberately laid plan. So strongly am l
convinced ofthis, that cannot conceive how
the Commissioners can arrive at different con-
clusion.
1t is equally plain thatthe object of the insur-
rectiou was to murder or drive out of the island
ali the white inhabitants. The murder of few
colored people was one of Bogle's blunders. 1t
was never intended to murder them indiscrimi-
nately; for it we'll known that the original plot
was the work of "brown men, as certain class
of colored persons here are called, class re-
garded as the most dangerous in the island, be-
cause more intelligent cunning, and designing
than the unthinking and indolent negro.
do not know whether this latter point could
be proved to the satisfaction of a jury, or to the
satisfaction of the Commissioner, but it is the
opinion deeply and firmly entertained by the
white and most respectable colored inhabitants
Of Jamaica.
1t is announced in to days papers that the
Commissioners will leave for England or the
2Gth instant.
TRIAL OF INSURGENTS.
Thirtyseven of the Morant Bay insurgents
were placed on trial day before yesterday, all
pure blacks as far as l could discover by look
ing at them -Four of them are women, and the
whole set are decidedly poor specimens of the
educated" pTOteges of Exeter Hall. The trial
OF these people will last several days.
DEPARTURE OF THE BRITISH FLEET.
Admiral Sir James Hope, commanding all the
West India feet, received despatch last Satur