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[PUBLIC ACT.]’
AN ACP to establish an additional Land
Office in the Stale of Illinois.
Be it enact'd by the Semite and Home
i)f Ueprcsenlaliees of the Vailed Slnlr.s uj
America in. Congress assembled, Thai,
so much of the public lands ol the United
Slates as lies cast ol the Mississippi rivet - ,
north oftheline separating the thirteenth
and fourteenth tiers of townships north ol
the base line, and west ol the third prin
cipal meridian, in Ihe Slate of Illinois,
shall lorm a Land District, for the dispo
sal of lltcsaid lands, and for which pur
po-e a Land O.fice shall be established at
Such place therein as the President ol
the United Stales shall designate, until
the same shall be permanently fixed by
law
Sue. 1. ,l.t ■ he it further marled, That
there shall ho i Register and Receiver
appointed to the said Land Ollice, to
superintend Ihe sales, of the Public Lands
in tlie said d strict, who shall reside at
the plat e where tlie said oliii o shall he
established as aforesaid, give security in
the snme manner, in the same sums, and
who e compensation, emoluments, and
duties, and authorities shall, in every re
spect, be tlie same in ralalion to the land
which shall be disposed of at their offices,
as are, or may he by law, provided in re
litiou to the registers, and receivers ol
public moneys in tlie several offices estab
lished for the sale of the public lands :
Provided, That the said appointments
shall not bo made until a sufficient quan
tity of public lands shall have been sur
veyed within the said district to author
ize, iu the opinion of the President, a pub
lic. sale of lands within the Fame.
Site. .1. And he it farther enacted, That
the provisions of the second, third, and
fifth, sections of the Act, entitled “ An
Act to designate the boundaries of dis
tricts, and e-tahlish laud offices, for the
di-qiood of Ihe public lands not heretofore
olferc I for sale in the States of Ohio anv
Indiana,” approved March third, ciglr
teen, hundre 1 and nineteen, and the Act,
entitled “ \n Act making further provi
sion for the sale of the public lands,” ap
proved April twenty-fourth, eighteen
hundred and twenty, lie, and the same
are hereby, made applicable to the said
district au l olfice, so far as they are not
cli mgml by subsequent laws of the United
States.
PHILIP P. HARBOUR,
Speaker of the House of Hepresenlnllveii,
JOHN GAILLARD,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.
Washington, May tl, 1022.—Apppinve.t
JAMES MONROE.
‘ AN ACCOUNT
op the
\u\ewvVc-vV Insurrection
AMONG
A PORTION OF HIE BLACKS
IX CHARLESTON,
prut.istl ED
By the authority of the Corporation o,
Charleston.
[continued.]
APPENDIX,
(A.)
“ Every slave who 'hall raise, or at
tempt to raise an Insurrection, in this
Pr wince or -hail endeavour to delude an
entice any Slave to runaway and leave
tlie Province, every such Slave ami
Slaves, and his and their accomplices,
aidoi-H an 1 abetters, shall, on conviction
thereof, as aforesaid, suffer death. Pro
ridei always, that it shall and may be
lawful, to and for the Justices who shall
pronounce «outonce against such Slaves,
by and with the advice and consent ol
the Frcehol Ws as aforesaid, it several
Slaves -h .It receive sen tern e at one time,
to mitigate and alter the sentence of any
.Slave, other than such as shall ~e con
v ic *1 of homicide ( fa white person, who
th sh <ll iliitik may deserve mercy, and
may inflict such co-poral punishment (o-
Hier tHaudmslh) on any such Slave, as they
in discretion shall think fit, any Hiin*- -
horeiu contained to the contrary thereof
it any wise not Withstanding. Provided,
Put one or more of the said Slaves who
shall be convicted of Hie crimes orof
feii e aforesaid, where several con' ern
cl, s'ia 1 Iv wkxecnled for examplo, to
vl - or others from o!T< n hug in the like
kind, A. A. 17 Id. P. L. 167.
(II.)
A negro mn testified ;« follows 1
I
know Peter, ho belongs to Mr. James
Poyas; in May last, Peter and myself
met in Legare Street, at the corner of
Lamhol street, where the following con
versation took place—He asked me the
news—l replied, none that 1 knew of—
He said, by George !we can’t live so. I
replied, how will we do ? He said, we
*tando very well, if you can find any one
to assist us—*-will you join ? 1 asked him,
how do you mean ? He said, why ! to
break the yoke, 1 replied, I don’t know.
He asked me, suppose you were to hear,
that the whites were going to kill you
would you defend yourself? I replied,
I’d try to escape. He asked, have you
lately seen Denmark Vtse.y, and has he
spoken to you particularly. I said no.
Well then, said he, that’s all now ; but
call at the shop to-morrow after knocking
off work, and I will tell you more,! We
then parted.—l met him the next day,
according to appointment, when he said
to me, we intend to see, if we can’t do
something for ourselves, we can’t live so.
I asked him, where he would gel men ?
He said, we’ll find them fast enough, wc
have got enough, we'expect men from
country and town. But how; said I, will
you manage it. Why, we will give them
notice, said he, and they will march down
and camp round the city. But what, said
’ I, will they do for arms, Heanswcrcd,
they will find arms enough, they all bring
’ down their hoes, axes, kc. 1 saki, that
\ won’t do to fight with here. - fie said,
stop! let us gel candidates from (own
with arms, and we will then lake the
t Guard-House and Arsenal in town, the
i Arsenal on the Neck and the Upper
r Guard-House, and supply the country
people with arms. Mow, said I, will you
approach those Arsenals, kc for they
• are guarded ? Yea, said he, 1 know that,
but what are these guards, one man here,
and one man th» re, we let a man pass be
fore us. Well, said I, but how will the
black people from the country, and those
from the islands, know when you are to
begin, or how will you get, the town peo
. pie together. Why, said he, wc will
have prayer meetings at night, and there
notify them when to start, and when the
< - leck strikes twelve, all must more. But,
said I, the whites in (he back country,
Virginia, kc. ; when they hear flic news,
will turn to, and kilt you all, and besides,
you may be betrayed. Well said h«,
what ofihat, if one gels hanged, we will
rise at that minute. We then left his
shop, and walked towards Broad-street,
when he said, I want you to take notice
of all the shops and stores in town with
arms in them, take down their num
bers, and give them to me, i said, I will
see to it, and then we parted.
About.the lal of June, 1 saw in (he
| publicpapers a statement that the white
I people wer > going to build missionary
, houses for the blacks, which 1 carried
and showed to Peter, and said, see the
good they are going to to do for ns ; when,
ha said,—What ot that ?—Have you not
heard, that on the 4th of July, the whites
1 .ire going to create a false alarm of fire,
and every black that comes out will be
killed, in order In thin them? Do you
think they would be so barbarous ? (said
!I) Yes 1 (said he) Ido !—1 fear they have
. a knowledge, of an army from Sat} Domin
go, and limy would be right to do it ; to
prevent vs joining IHHt army, if it should
march towards this land ! I was then ve
’ ry much alarmed. We then parted, and
I saw no more, of him till the Guards
1 were very strict, (about a fortnight ago.)
At that (imo I saw Peter and Ned Ben
nett standing and talking together at the
“ > orncr of Lambol and Lngare-streets.
They crossed over and met me by Mrs.
Myles’, and Ned Bennett said to me—
did yon hear whattho;*) boys were taken
up for (lie other Bay? I replied, No !
but some say it was for stealing. Ned
I asked me if 1 was sure 1 had never said
any thing to the whites about what Peter
II Poyas had spoken to me about? I repli
'■ ed, No ! Says Peter—You never did ?
e Noll answered. Says Ned, to me —
1 How do you stand ? At which I struck
1 the tree iiox with my knuckles and said,
as firm as this box —I’ll never say one
!’ word against you. Ned then smiled and
I nodded his head, and said—That will do!
'■ —when we all separated; La«l Tnes-
II day or Wednesday week, Peter said to me
j —Yon see, my lad, how (he white peo
l" pie have got to windward of us ? You
1 won’t, said I, be able to do any tiling. O,
J yes ! (he said) wp will ! By George we
are obliged to 1 Ho said, all down this
way ought to meet and have a collection
to purchase powder. What, said I, is
the use of |iowder —the whites ran tire
three times to on - * mice. He said, but
’twill be such a dead lime of the night, they
won't know what is the matter, and our
" horse companies will go about Ihe streets
and prevent the whites from assembling.
1 linked bim—where will you get horses ?
Why, said he, there are many butcher
, boys with horses ; and there are the liv
ery stables, where we have several can
didates ; and the waiting men, belonging
to the white people of the horse compa
nies, will be told to take away their mas
ter’s horses. He asked me if my master
was not a horseman ? I said, Yes ? lias
be not got arms in his house ? I answered,
’/[ Yes ! Can’t they be got at? I said Y'es !
Then (said he) it is good to have them. I
asked what was the plan ? Why said, he,
after have taken the Arsenals and
Guard Houses, then we will set the town
on tire, in different places, ami as the
whiles come out we will slay them. If
’ we were to set fire to Ihe town first the
' man in the steeple would give the alarm
loo soon.—l am the Captain, said he, to
I lake the lower Guard-House arid Ar
senal.* But, I replied, when you are
’ coming up, the Centinel will give the a
-1 hum. He said, he would advance a lil
’ He distance ahead, and if he could only
| get a grip at his Ih oat, he teas a gone
man, for his sword was very sharp; he
! had sharpened it, and had made it so
sharp, it had rut his finger, which he
showed me. As to th - * Arsenril on the
[ Neck, he said, that it was gone as sure as
fate, JVtd Bennett, would manage that
t Hh Ihe people from Ihe country, and the
I maple bi tween Hibheus' Ferry and Santee
would land and lake the Upper (iuard
f House. .1 then said, then this tiling seems
, } n,p- y 'y man, said he, God has a hand
* in it, we hare been meeting fur four years,
' and are not yet betrayed ' I told him, 1
' was afraid, after all, of the white people
b-oiu (he l ack country and Virginia, ,tc.
He said that the blacks would collect so
numerous fioni the country, we need not
’ tear the whites from other parts, for when
? we have once got Hie city we can keep
them all out. He asked if I had told my
boys. I said no. Then said he, you
i should do it, for Ned Bennett has his peo
■# '*
pic pretty well ranged. But, said he,
take care and don’t mention it to those
wno receive present! of old eon It, ice. from
their nutters, or Ihey'U betray us. 1 will
speak to them. We then parted, and 1 1
have not since conversed with him. He
said the rising was to take place last Sun
day night, (16th June) —That t any of the
coloured people who said a word about this
i matter would be killed by others. The lil
lie mate, who can’t be killed, shot or token
is named Jack, a Gullaft Negro. Peter
said there was a French Company in
town of three hundred men fully armed
—that he was to see Mond (Jell, about
expediting the rising. I know that Min
go went often to Mr. Paul’s to see Edwin,
hut don’t know if he spoke with William.
Peter said he had a sword, and I ought
to get one. He said he had got a letter
from the country ; I think from St. Tho
mas’, from a negro man who belonged to
the captain of a mililiacompany, who said
he could easily get the key of the house
where the company’s arms were put af
ter muster, and lake them all out, and
help in that way. This business origin
ates altogether with the African Congre
gation, in which Peter i-a leader. When
Bennett’s Ned asked about those taken
up, he alluded particularly to Mr. Paul’s
William, ami asked me if 1 said anything
to him about it.
The voluntary confession of Uom.a, to the
Court, made after his trial, but before
sentence was passed on him.
1 know Denmark Vesey, on one occa
sion lie asked me, what news? I told him
■ none. He replied, we are free, but the
white people here won’t let us be so;
and the only way is, to raise up and light
the whites. I went to his house one
night, to learn where the meetings were
held. 1 never conversed on this subject
with Batteau nr Ned.—Vesey told me,
he was leader in this plot. 1 never con
versed either witn Peter or Miugo. Ve
sey induced me to join. When 1 went
to Vesey’s house, there was a meeting
there, the room was lull of people, but
none of them white. That night, at
Vesey’?, we determined to have arms
made, and each man to pul in twelve
and a half cents towards that purpose,
i’hough Vesej’s room was full, Vdid not
know one individual there. Ait this
meeting, Vesey said, wc were to take the
Guard-House and Magazine, to get
arms; that wc ought *o rise up against
the whites to get our liberties, lie was
the first to raise up and speak, and he
read to us from the Bible, how the
children of Israel were delivered out of
Egypt from bondage; he said, that the
rising would take lace last night week,
■ (the 16th J une) and that Peter Poyas was
one,
(C.)
I Examination of Sai.j.y, a negro woman
! belonging to Mr Alexander Howard.
, 1 know Jesse, and heard him speak
l several times about it ; one day in parti
i cular, he was anxious to see his brother,
, who has my mother for his wife, and
! waited until he came, when they con
i versed together. Jesse said, he had got
1 a horse to go into the country, to bring
p. down men to fight the white people : that
- he was allowed to pass by two parties of
» the patrol on the road, but that a third
i parly hud brought him back, and that, if
- there were but five men like him, they
1 would destroy the city. This was on last
s Sunday week, (the 16th June,) he said,
) that before J o’clock, that night, all the
white people would be killed. Thai, if
s any person informed, or would not join
. in the fight, sucli persons would be killed
or poisoned. He frequently came iu(o
- the yard to see his brother, and 1 threat
i ened to inform, if he came there, and
! spoke in that way, to get us all into
I trouble. We nevrr had any quarrel.
1 Examination of Lot, a negro man belong
r ing to Mr. Forrester.
I know Jesse; he met me just Sunday
? week (16th June) at the corker of Botin
- dury street, as 1 was coming into town;
c he said, he was going to get a horse to go
, into the country. From what my mas
b ter had told me the Tuesday before, 1
J distrusted his errand, and gave him a
! caution. When, ns I was goiug down
- into town towards Mr. Hibben’s ferry
s slip, and conversing with him, he said,
- you shall see to night, when 1 come down,
i what lam going up for, and, if my own
, father docs not assist, J will cut off his
j head. He said, he was going ai Tar as
s Goose Greek bridge, and would get a
i horse if it cost him nine dollars. The
s church bells were then ringing, and at
; half past eleven o’clock, same day, I
t saw him at Mr. Howard’s, and after
/ wards understood from Sally, that he
r had set off for the country, and had been
* brought back by the Patrole.
• . (U> )
? Examination of Frank, a negro man
r belonging to Mrs. Ferguson.
I know Denmark Vesey, and have
- been to his house ;1 have heard him say,
g that the negroc’s situation was so bad,
- he dul not know how they could endure
- it; and was astonished they did not rise
r and fight for themselves, and he advised
s m» to join, aud rise. He said, he was
I, going about to sec different people, and
! mentioned the names of Ned Bennett
I and Peter Poyas, as concerned with him ;
. that he had spoken to Nod aud Peter on
1 this subject, and that they were logo
i about and tell the blacks, that (hey were
> free, and must rise and fight for theni
f solves : that they would lake the Maga
» vines and Guard Houses, and the City,
i and be free; that he was going to send
> into the country to inform the people
• ‘here, too ; he said, he wanted me to
> join them. 1 said, I could not answer.
- He said, if I would not go into the coun
try for him, he could get others ; he said,
’ himself, Ned Bennett, Peter Poyas and
■ Monday Cell, were the principal men,
■ and himself the head man.—He said,
i they were the principal meu togoabout
i ami inform the people,aad fix them Sic. ;
1 that one party would laud on South Bay,
one about Wappoo and about the Farms ;
that the party which was to land on
South Ray, was to take the Guard
House, and get arms, and then they would
be able to go on; that the attack was tc
commence about 12 o’clock at night ;
that great numbers would come from all
about, and it must succeed, as so many
were engaged in it ; that they would
kill all the whiles ; that they would
leave their masters’ houses, and assem
ble near tlie Linos, march down ami
meet the party which would, land on
South Bay ; that he was going to send a
man into the country on a horse, to bring
down the country people, and that he
would pay for (he horse. He gave two
dollars to Jesse, to get tha horse on Sa
• %
lurday week last, (15lh June) about 1 I
o’clock in the day, and myself and wit
ness (No. 8,) also pan iu 25 cents a piece, ]
and he told Jesse, if he could not go, he I
■ must send some one else. I have seen
Ned Bennett at Vescy’s, I one night i
metal Vescy’s a great number of men, i
and as they came in, they each handed ■
him some money.—Vesey saujl, there i
Was a a little man, named Jack, who
could not b« killed, and who would fur
nish them with arms ; he had a charm,
and would lead them; that Charles
Drayton had pron ised to be engaged
with them. Vesey said, the negroes
were living such an abominable life, they
ought to rise. I said, i was living well.
He said, though I was, others was not,
and that it was such fools as 1, that were
in their way, and w'ould not help them,
and that, after all things w'ere well, he
would mark me. lie said, he did not go
with Creighton to Africa, because he had
not a will, he wanted to stay and see what
he could do for his fellow creatures. I
met Ned, .Monday and others, at Den
mark Vesey’s,. where they were talking
about this business.
Thaffirsl time I spoke with Monday
Cell, If was one night at Denmark Ve
sey’s house, where 1 heard Vesey tell
Monday, that he must send some one in
to the country to bring the people down.
Monday said, he had sent up Jack, and
told him to tell the people to come down
ai d join in the fight against the whites;
and also to ascertain and inform him how
many people he could get. A few days
after, 1 met Vesey, Monday and Jack in
the streets, under Mr. Duncan’s trees,
at night, where Jack stated, ho had been
into the country, round by Goose Creek
and Don hester ; that he had spoken to
6,6oo,persons, who had agreed to join.
Monday said to Vesey, that if Jack had
so many men, they had belter wait no
longer, but begin the business at once,
and others would join. The first time 1
saw Monday at Vesey’s, he was going
away early, when Vesey asked him to
stay, to which Monday replied, he ex
pected that, night a meeting at his house,
to fix upon and mature the plan, Sic. and
that he could stay no longer. I after
wards conversed with Monday in his shop,
when he asked me, if I had heard that
Bennett’s and Poyas’ people were taken
up, that it was a great pity. He said,
he had joined in the business. 1 told Ijim
to take care he was not taken up. When
ever I talked with Vasey, he always spoke
of Monday Gell a? being his principal
and active mrtn in this business.
(E)
Examination of Witness Ko, 10, a Kegro
Man.
Peter Poyas was the first man who
spoke to me, and asked me to join. 1
asked him what, tha church? He said
no, have you not heard, that the blacks
were joining, to try and take the coun
try. I asked him, if lie thought he had
men enough to doit? He said yes, a
plenty of and the Society will con
tribute money, with which a white man
would purchase guns and powder for
them. He said he would call back, and
I must consider if I would join them.
He called back, and asked me, if I was
willing now? Why Peter, said I, yon
i have not got force enough. He said, if
I 1 did not join, he would turn all my
1 country people against me. Said 1, if so,
I’ll join you, but you must not put my
, name down, when you come out, if 1
1 find you strong enough, I’ll join you.
1 (Veil, said he, if you don’t join you’ll be
i killed. Peter and Harry Haig called
I on me afterwards, 1 was not at home;
> but the next morning 1 met Marry, who
• asked me for my name. 1 refused it He
I said, 1 would be killed if I did not join.
> I said, 1 would join when they came out,
if they were stronger than the whites.
■ I larry called on me again, and asked me,
if I was willing that the thing would
r break out soon. I asked him, where they
■ would begin ? He said, in Boundary
; street. At what hour? He said, at 12
> o’clock at night, or ear!j r iu the morning,
• as soon as the guard is discharged. Jack
I Pritchard called on me, he is sometimes
i called Gullah Jack, sometimes Couter
i Jack, he gave me some dry food, consisl
’ ingot parched corn and ground nuts,
, and said, eat that, and nothing 1 else, on
, the morning when it breaks out, and
i when you join us as we pass, put into
> your mouth this crab c law, and you can’l
s be wounded, and, said he, I give the
i same to the rest of my troops—if you
' drop the large crab claw out of your
t mouth, then put in the small one. Said,
1 I, when do you break out, and have you
■ arras. He said, plenty, but they are
; over Boundary street, we can’t get at
i them now, but as soon as the patrol was
slack, they could get them ; this was
previous to the 16th J une, on which day,
t he said, they were to break ou’. On
that day he came to me, and said, they
: could not break out that night, as the
i patrol was too strong ; he said, he would
, let me know when they were ready,
i That Sunday fortnight, the 30th June,
• he came to me and said, I must lay by
I still, they w r ould not break out then, that
s he had been round to all his company
1 and found them cowards. I said, thank
I God, then ! He said, give me hack my
corn aud cullahi (that is crab claw). |
i said, 1 would not, and upbraided him for
1 having deluded so many. He said, all
■ his country born promised him to join,
because he was a Doc tor, (that is a Con
jurer). He said, th? white people was
looking for him, and he was afraid of be
ing taken, that two men came to his mas
ter’s wharf, and asked him, if he knew
Gullah Jack, and that he told them, no.
He said, his charms would not protect
him from the treachery of his own co
lour, He went away, and 1 have not
seen him since. Harry Haig has since
seen me several times, and told me to
hold myself ready. 1 said, I’m ready
when called ra. He said, all the dray
men came to his master’s cooper yard,
and said they were ready, but he told
them, he was only waiting for Gullah
Jack, fie said, he would tell me when
they were ready, that they were only
wailing for the head man, who was a
white man ; but he, although asked,
would neither tell me the white man’s
name, nor whore the powder and arms
were; this was last Tuesday, the very
day the six negroes were hanged, about
six o’cloc a, A. M. this was the last time
we spoke, tliough l have seen him since. !
1 saw Charles Drayton before the 16th,
at Monday Cell’s, 1 was going to mar- :
ket, and Charles called to me as I cross
ed the street; Joe, who has a wife at '
Mr. llemoussin’s, asked me, if I did 1
know that Monday was at the head of j
the Ebo Company, who are going to fight '
the white people ; Monday is au Ebo.
I asked Joe, if lie was one of that com- j
pany. He said yes, he was. 1 asked
him, what he could do, as he was an in
valid.—He said, he would take Remous- '
sin’s sword and gun, and tell him to lay
down in his bed and be quiet. We part
ed. Previous to the 16th of June, Mon- ,
day Gell called me into his shop; 1 went
in, and sftid to him, I heard he was cap
tain of his countrymen’s company, the
Ebo’s. He said, be was a sort of a one.
! bid him good morning, when he said,
when you want to hear the news, come
here* I never saw him afterwards.
I met Charles Drayton on the Ist of
July in the streets, when he said, now get
ready, we must break out at once, for we
will not let six lives be taken. 1 asked
him, where they would begin ? He said,
in Boundary street, directly as the patrol
and light horse turned in. I said, had
you not better wait till after the 4th of
July. He said, no, because in the mean
time the people would be hanged.
Charles said, they had force enough, and
we parted. I met him in Market, be
twixt 8 and 9 o’clock, on the 2d of J uly,
and said to him, now the people are hang
ed, I suppose you are sorry you joined
in the business. Pie said yes, and we
parted. Peter Poyas told me also, that
they had force enough, that some would
come from James’ and John’s is ands, and
some from Christ’s Church Parish, where
he generally went over to a meeting to
have a talk, and that he had some about
and about ia town, the number of which
he would show me f oin the Society books,
if I would only come to the Society. He
said, they were to fight the whites, & keep
on fighting, till the English came to help
them. Harry told me the same thing.—
Jack being the head man, I asked him
about the plan, he told me the same
thins; that the English were to come to
help them, that the Americans could do
nothing against the English, and that the
English would carry them off to St. Do
mingo. Monday and Charles were very
great together. John, Mr. Horry’s
coachman, came to me one day, and asked
me what 1 thought? Every one is ready,
said John, to fight the whites, are you
ready? He said, lam ready. This took
place sometime before the 16th June, and
every day he asked me the same ques
tions.—About this time George Vander
horst came to me and said, they were
going to take the country, and he had
joined; that he was ready whenever the
blacks broke out. He requested me to
let him sleep at my wife’s house near
Boundary street; I saw him almost every
day after the 16th June, and he always
said, he was ready whenever the troops
were ready. On the 16th June, Jack
requested me to let twelve men sleep at
my wife’s, as they were to break out
that night, and he wanted them to be
near Boundary street. On being refus
ed, he departed in anger, and reproached
me. George called ou me yesterday
morning, and asked, if 1 knew that
Charles Drayton was taken up, and said,
he was afraid Charles would name him,
not because he was on his list, for he had
joined Jack’s company, hut because
Charles had met him at Gullah Jack’s,
when ihey were consulting on the sub
ject ; that, if he could hear that Charles
had named him, he would run off. On
Monday, Ist July, Charles Drayton told
me, that there would be an insurrection
on the morning of the Glh July, as soon as
the Guard turned in ; he said, he com
manded the country born company.—
Jack told me on the Ist July the same
thing, and in addition, that they were to
rush in with their dirks, guns and swords,
ice. they had got, kill the City Guard,
and take all the arms in the arsenals ; he
also said, there were some arms in King
street, beyond Boundary street, in pos
session of a white man, which thej in
tended to take, (alluded to the arms of the
Charleston Neck Company, deposited at
Wharton’s, in Kingstreet.) Chas. Dray
ton said, he had prepared for himselfa gun
and a sword. John Horry came tome ve
ry often, and once said he had a sword, &
that, as soon as it broke out, he would go
upstairs and kill his master and family.—
On the 17th of June, on his carriage box,
he expressed himself to me in the same
manner he had done previous to the 16th.
The blacks would have risen on the night
of the 16th, had the Guards not been so
strong ;'this 1 know from Gullah Jack and
Harry Haig, who said, that if the Guards
were not too strong, they would get the
arms near the Lines, but if the Guards
were out, they could not get them to
break out with.
♦ Against this witness, the Court had
not a title of testimony; he consented with
out hesitation to become a witness, and to
give all the information he possessed ; a
pledge haring been previously given him
by the Court, that he should not be prose
cuted, nor his name revealed.
NEW-YORK, AUGUST 22, 1822.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Board convened at the usual
hour.
The Resident Physician stated
that he had no report to make.
A report was received from Drs.
Hardy and Hossack, of a lady ill of
yellow fever removed from the infec
ted district into the country.*
The question was put upon pub
lishing the foregoing case, when Al- ,
derman Wyckoff opposed it. He
thought no cases of sickness in the
country ought to be published, and .
alluded to the cases of illness at Am- (
boy, in New-Jersey, reported yester
day by Dr. Yates. He thought there
was no more reason for publishing
such cases, than of sickness in Phi- ,
ladelphia. (
The Mayor suggested that the rea
son for publishing them was that they
got sick by going into our infected
district, and it there was a propriety .
in publishing any cases at all, it would i
seem that those of this description <
should also be made public. ’
Ihe question was then put upon <
publishing, and carried — ayes 6, <
noes 4.
Dr. Nielson reported a caseofyel- J
jow fever in Thomas street. She re- 1
moved from the corner of Green- ]
wich and Cedar streets, on Monday t }
!
Dr. Bergen reported a case of
low fever at No. 11 North Moore
street. The patient removed f ro m
the corner of Liberty and Green
wich-streets on Friday last.
A letter was read from Dr. Dyck
man, (the Health Commissioner) re*
questing leave of absence from the
Board for a few days, which was
granted.
Alderman Mann moved that here
after the names of the persons sick
be published ; but the motion was
not seconded.
The Mayor stated that he had re
ceived a number of anonymous com- I
mumcations from -persons who an- L
peared to have the health of the city
much at heart. One of them w 4
signed, “ A Friend to the Health of
IS ew-York and Philadelphia,” and
proposed a specific for yellow fever
Referred to the Resident Physician.
Another recommended that 11 500
field pieces should be procured, load
ed with blank cartridges, and fired
into the infected district— Rtferred
to Major General Morton, (Secreta
ry of the Board.)
A letter was received from Dr
Bliss, stating that the case of sick
ness at No. 3 Wall street, and which
has created much alarm in that neigh,
borhood, has not assumed symptom*
of malignity sufficient to warrant *
conclusion that it is yellow fever.
The expediency of removing the
fences and enlarging the proscribed
district, was referred to the Health
Committee with full powers.
We wish by no means to spread
unnecessary alarm among the citi
zens, but we do hold it to be the so
lemn duty of Editors to keep the
public well and truly Informed. If
by incorrect statements, or by at
tempting to quiet just apprehensions
for the public safety, we should in
duce one person to stay in a danger
ous atmosphere, contract the /ever,
and die, we should certainly feel
ourselves highly culpable. It was
stated in one of the morning papers
yesterday, that there had been butse
ven deaths from the prevailing fever
this season. We knew this state
ment to be far too small, yesterday,
and took some pains to investigate
the matter. The result was, that we
made up a list of twenty-one ; and
there have been five or six since—in
all, say twenty-six or eight. The
paper to which we allude, has this
morning made a partial correction,
by which sixteen deaths arc admitted.
Os the number we give above, it is
but fair to state, that two of them
could not have been known to Mr.
Lang when his paper went to
as they died during the last night
A CARD.
Mr. Stone will please' to do Dr.
Perkins the justice to state, that in
stead of being able to obtain a aerti
ficate to substantiate what Dr. P. had
disclaimed, the gentleman on whom
Mr. relied, is satisfied on reflec
tion, that he was mistaken in point of
fact; and that Dr. P. was correct.
REMARKS.
The matter now stands explained
we presume, to the satisfaction of all.
Dr. Perkins is satisfied that we re
ceived the information as we stated
it, and our informant, “ ou reflection/'
as we are informed by Dr. P. admits
that he might have been mistaken.
T he mistake, it has been observed t*
us, might have originated in this way.
Our informant called Dr. P. to visit
a case of yellow fever; and the latter I
might have asked why it had not been I
reported, on the way, before his ar- I
rival. “ Doctors will disagree.” *
Dr. P. thinks it was not yellow fever,
and some other physicians think it
was. We have no doubt of the fact.
However we are glad the controver
sy is at an end. We esteem Dr.
Perkins as a friend, as a professional
man, and as a gentleman. And we
would be the last to say a word that
would injure either his feelings or
character. We have successfully
vindicated ourselves and are content.
* There must be some mistake in this
case. The lady has never been W
nearer the infected district than 151
Broadway.
t Neither of those places were original
ly considered in the infected district.—
But the bounds have already been en
larged, and will be still ra .re so.
Table of Stocks. —The table ol
stocks is omitted this day. The
Brokers, and indeed the offices in
Wall-street are preparing to remove,
and as no business is doing, we ol
• • it q
course can give no quotations, u. ->
Bank Stock, 121 1-2 sales.
The Steam Boat from Albany, duf
this morning, had not arrived when
our paper went to press.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
The regular sailing packet ship*
James Monroe; Capt. Marshall, ar
rived here late last evening, in
days from Liverpool. By this con
veyance the Editojs of the Cominf'
cial Advertiser have received Don
don papers to the evening ol I * e
14th, Liverpool of the 16th, Llo} 1 * ’
Lists of the 13th, a Shipping List o. >
the 13th, and Price Currents of tnc |
13th July. The most important t
part of the intelligence contained m I