, 1875-04-24
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From Calls News Letter.

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In We're, on the 3lst March, there was a
h~ailstorm which broke Sc panes of glass on
"Salt Savanna" Estate some of the hail
stones which fell measured two inches, and
from what there was gathered from the ground
on that day, there was sufficient to ice the
water for the family Of the overseer for that
day and next.
THE. sP. THOMAS We EAST SCARE.
Considerable irritation has been caused by
the very contradictory character of the news,
and the difficulty that has arisen in tracing
any absolute ground for the recent rum0ur of
disturbances in St. Thomas in the East.
Enquiries have elioited the following re-
port from an old and experienced resident
in the vicinity of Port Morart, snd upon whose
Judgment much reliance can be plaoed:-
The panic has been caused from threats
throughout the parish for the past two weeks
of setting FIRE to the Estates at Easter, and
threats to the managers Of Estates that they
would see something. TVS was not confined
to one place, but in many / ices a long way
apart, and one day las v.ok a Maroon told
the bead BO0kkeeper O. enfield that the
people intended to rise at + or, and that it
was doubtful If the Char, town Maroons
and those of Accompoug euld assist the
authorities, causing q con. bile panic in the
district, and a telegram was sent on Sunday
to the Governor for protection in sending a
ship-of war with troops, when the Gunboat Bull
finch with marines on board was sent to Port
Morant on Monday, which has had a good
effect in checking anything, and 50 far all re-
mains quiet. The people for some time pas!
have been very rude and defiant, and very
Initiating in their behaviour to their employers,
and if they had any leaders, would no doubt
give trouble, although all to their own injury.
The rising race are getting very lazy, idle. and
lawless, and requires to be ruled with a strong
hand they prefer to lounge about in dirt and
ragS-stealing 10 get . living, rather than earn
money honestly. 1t is with the greatest diff
Guilty that any one can be got 10 do anything,
as it is Good Friday. We learn that the peo-
pie about Mount Stewart, Thornton tTorring-
ton as they call it,. and up in the mountains
in that direction show q great deal of dissatis-
faction: these places we're the hotheds Of the
rebellion in 1865. The gentlemen at Potosi
heard quite enough from that quarter: one OF
them told q gentleman that be had decided ON
writing to Head Quarters bad no one else done
so. We cannot see what should cause them
to act thus. Honest industry will give them
ample means of livelihood. There is no coun-
try we know of where the laboring population
could Or might be so prosperous and happy if
industrious and reasonable in their demands
as in this island. with all its advantages of
climate and produotiveress.
In the end, nothing has come of it. The
panic has worn itself out, and work proceeds
as steadily and noiselessly as if nothing what
ever had been wrong. The season was a
holiday time" when negroes are not disposed
to work, and when Idle talk has but little
earnesthess Or meaning. Those most alarmed
turn out to be those whose residence has bssn
short, and whose experience of the. country
has been but very limited: and therefore, with
the recollection of events which transpirsd in
October. 1866, their uneasiness materially