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»would not le much over 200,000 hhds.— ( that it would exceed 300,000 hhds. When j Mr. Champomier’a report was made,! (long after the crops had gone out of the. producer’s hands) it was found to go a i little over 200,000 hhds. Prices tbeoj arose rapidly, and consumers paid for their incredulity.Consumers would do well to give nt least as much credit to the statement of the planter as to tho.se of the speculator.; They would also, in my poor opinion, doj well to buy early, as they may be assured: prices will materially advance. Sugar sold in 1836 at 13£ to 13 cents in this market. The crop of 1835 was 30,000 hhds. The crop of 1856 will not b«; greater in proportion to population than in j 1836, whilst the capacity to consume, owing to the general prosperity, is much increased. In 1636 the country was upon the eve of bankruptcy.Albemarle.maileruountpistol,from harresttemptifriend*03 The Pioneer of Assumption in its issue of the 14th inst. has the following items:A meeting of the inhabitants of this Parish was held yesterday at Napoieon-vilie, for the purpose of adopting some measures for the public safety, against thethreatened insurrection among the blacks.Resolutions were adopted and Vigilance Committee’s organized in eveiy ward in the Parish. Rumors of an insurrection have been flying about for some days past and it was time to take some measures for its defeat, should it take place. There is a negro man at present iu the Parish Jail, awaiting his trial, accused of being a parly to that insurrection.The premises of Captain Ament, of this place, were visited on two nights during the past week, by a thief, supposed to be a runaway negro.’ On his first visit be only took a blanket, but on bis second he attempted to carry off one of the Captain’s fine hogs, of which he has a large number. The owner awakened by the noise, went out to ascertain the cause; on his appearance a huge fellow took to his heels and. disappeared in the woods near by, before anything could be done to arrest him. We would caution our fellow-townsmen to be on the alert.The Lafourche has risen several feet within the last few days. There will soon be water enough for steamboats to come in. The Knoxville passed here to-day.regaru iu tucNegeo Insurrection.—We had very serious and alarming reports in our city last evening from the Cumberland river, in regard to the movements of the blacks, and, from all we have heard, the excite-, ment among the people through the middle The district of Tennessee, is far greater and gratify more general than we supposed when we; not g wrote the article in another part of this unless morning’s sheet. Through what is called recour the Iron District, on the Cumberland and I was qi Tennessee rivers, there are from8,000to’ A s 10,000 slaves employed at the iron works; waited they are congregated in large numbers, i from t« working in the various labors of making mande charcoal, digging ore, and teuding the j them— furnaces, in gangs, mostly by themselves,; of ther with a few whites for general overseers, j the cn There are many of these ^orks situated (the M within at few miles of each other, and in!“lode sections that have few white inhabitants, j like toAll these circumstances give the blacks see all great facilities to plot and combine au in--them t surrection, if the hellish spirit be once j talk to awakened among them. There is now j styled conclusive evidence that such a spirit has highly been at work in this iron region, and a quite i plan has been set on foot for a general rising this Christmas, when they shall: have gained the unlimited freedom* of roaming and frolicking that is always granted them during the holidays. ATaipistoltweengentleman who arrived here last evening, • Sam.Ridiculous.—-The gentlemen compos, ing the Virginia Electoral College have made asses of themselves. After casting their votes for Mr. Buchanan, they took, upon themselves to instruct the President . iL-i I —..i.i.a .informs us that at Dover, on the Cumber- \ the ei land, they had obtained such evidence as• crowd left no doubt of a widespread conspiracy‘s existing in that neighborhood, and that a number of the ring-leaders had been discovered and arrested ; and that eleven of them bad been hung by the excited inhabitants ; and that among those arrested was a person who had been in the neighborhood many months, who bad always passed as a negro, but on bis arrest was found to be a white man, painted and disguised asa negro. Our informant says the people being satisfied that he had been the prime mover and instigator of the rebellious designs of the blacks, took him to the woods, and by the unanimous condemnation of those present, be was sentenced to receive nine hundred lashes; and that he expired before the penalty had been fully inflicted.These occurrences had produced general:an(* consternation and terror, and the womenT1 the fii word signal word Each round*put thlt; was to led of balls i a fa ilu secont figure, put nil on theTn Bengiand children were fleeing and being sent off for safely. The men were arming and organizing for defence, and the negroes reportwere being confined or kept under very i Capta vigilant watch. We detail these reports j was a as they are related to us, on credible au- \ her, w thority, hoping the alarm is exaggerated. \ war, s Since the foregoing was prepared, the j Vicksburg Whig, of the 11th, has come to ion hand. In the Whig we find the appended I
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