OCR Text |
Show Tllo lEull a Rolliiittt 1 1 K"eW Orleans, 4. Tho J)emocrat'd special from Bastrap, La., says: On 1" rid ay last, from island Deaiand, it is announced that tho negroes there wore ' up in arms. Citizens immediately !: armed, mounted and left for the,' scene of the reported trouble. After scouting for them the most part of the forenoon, aud finding no armed 1 bands anywhere, they broke up in small squads. As ono of these squads of about fifteen men, under com maud ot Jason James, was riding homo-ward, homo-ward, three men were thrown out about 300 yards iu advance, as a guard. Wnile passiug Ross Place, nine miles southwest of Bastrap, they were suddenly fired upon by a band of negroes under cover of a ditch on , the roadside. Tho three scouts im-, mediately charged tho negroes, who fled, closely pursued by the men, and I when they arrived at a fence, 1 some hundred yards further on, the fugitives turned aud delivered another inellectual volley. The three young men continued 'to lire from their revolvers, killingone aud wounding wound-ing four. The negroes wero dispersed. dis-persed. One wonn led negro was tiiken prisoner, and ia now in jail in Bastrap. He says they wero put up to taking arms by white men, of whom was ono Low, who last year 'murdered Mayor Phelps. Nick Evans was shot lust night by a negro assassin while going to visit a sick neighbor. A negro named Morgan, whom Evans had discharged from his plantation, is supposed to be tho murderer. No arrests. |