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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
Negroes Punished. --The examination of certain negroes charged with talking of and making arrangements, for an insurrection against the white inhabitants of Chesterfield county, at the house of J. B. Vaughn, on the night of December 27th, was reduced yesterday at 10 o'clock, at the Town Hall in Manchester, before Spencer Hancock, Esq., J. P., and after lasting five hours was concluded, no new fact having been elected. The parties in their "talks" made no reference, as we understood, to anything they proposed to do themselves, the tenor of their information leading them to believe that all the arrangements necessary to accomplish their "freedom" would be perfected at the North. None of the negroes implicated belonged to Charles Rhodes, as stated yesterday. The following is a list of owners, names of negroes, and award of judgment in the case: Jim, slave of Samuel Harogrove, thirty-nine lashes; Phil, (Wm. Gray's,) thirty-nine; Warner and Leander, (Mrs. Clarke's,) thirty-nine ea