Danbury Times

Projected Insurrection of Slaves.

We copy the following narrative from the Evansville (Ia.) Journal of last Wednesday. We have no reason to doubt a statement given with so much minuteness and through so respectable a medium.

"Great excitement has prevailed for a week or two past, in Henderson county, Ky. in consequence of the discovery of a plan of insurrection of the slaves. Mr. Aiken, who lives on the opposite side of the river, a few miles from this place, discovered a week ago last Sunday that his horses had been ridden during the night, which, added to the fact that his slaves had of late been absent more frequently than usual, elicited his suspicion. He separated three of his negro men who had been absent, and flogged each one into a confession of where they had been and what was their object. The similarity of their confessions, separated as they were, placed the truth of them almost beyond a doubt. They stated that they had been a number of times to a meeting at Race Creek, a few miles above this place, on the Kentucky side, attending the preaching of a white man by the name of Cummings, who told them that they might gain their freedom, and that he would provide them with arms and ammunition. The time for rising was to have been fixed upon last Saturday night; but the plot being discovered, and Cummings getting wind of it, cleared out. It is said that Col. McLain was to be the first victim.—There is but little doubt that this Cummings is one of a band of villains whose object is plunder. It is known that Col. McLain and a number of his neighbors generally keep considerable money by them.

A week ago last Saturday night the citizens, being alarmed, patrolled the streets, and made a general examination of the town, when only one negro man out of two hundred, was to be found. Report says a gang of villains had divided a great portion of the State into districts, and were planning a general and simultaneous insurrection of the slaves. Cummings is represented as a very thick-set, stout, athletic man."