Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer

Extract of a letter from Savannah (G.) to a gentleman in New-York, dated October 16, 1806.

"This city has been under arms for two nights past, expecting an insurrection from the Blacks. It appears that several meetings had taken place, about four miles from town where they had agreed to attack the whites; in the city they had appointed generals and other officers. According to their plans they were to make three separate landings; one at Wayne's wharf, one at the coffee House wharf, and one at the fort. They were then to set fire to the town and massacre the whites. But a difference existed between two of their leaders, and one of them divulged the secret early the evening before yesterday, in consequence of which the different companies of volunteers were stationed under the Bluff, and the Militia at Spring Hill, where twelve of the head men of the insurgents were taken and will be tried in a few days. Having been so fortunate as to take the head men, we have now I think little to fear, as the rest appear to be quiet. The negroes are to the whites as eight to one!"