Edgefield Advertiser

Attempted Insurrection.—We yesterday learned from an undoubted source, that a plan was recently laid in South Carolina, near Purysburg, by some negroes, to rise and kill their masters. It was, however, discovered, as is the general fate of such evil machinations, in season to frustrate the hellish design. On Wednesday night last, Mr. Zandt heard three of his own negroes and one belonging to a neighboring plantation, knock at his door, and on listening, he overheard enough to convince him some villainy was on foot, and did not admit them. The next morning he had the negroes arrested, when they confessed it was their design to have killed Mr. Z. the moment he opened the door; for which purpose, one of them was provided with an axe. They then intended to proceed to the residence of Mrs. Williams, and kill her, and so on to the next neighbor. On their examination, the four negroes implicated several others who were concerned with them, and nine in all were put on their trial. Our informant thinks the four ring-leaders will be hung, and the rest severely punished. Of the negroes arrested, three belonged to Mr. Zandt, three to Mrs. Williams, two to Mr. Hardee, and one to the estate of Yeomans. Much excitement prevailed in the neighborhood; but when our informant left, the alarm had in some degree subsided.—Savannah Republican.