Another of his fellows was found at a short distance, mortally wounded and about to bid adieu to life.

In the yard lay the keeper of the horses, a stiffened corpse.

Six of the slaves were killed and two wounded.
It would be impossible to convey to the minds of northern people, the alarm and perfect consternation that the above circumstance occasioned in that community.

The knowledge of its occurrence was carried from one plantation to another, as on the wings of the wind; exaggerated accounts were given, and prophecies of the probable result made, until the excitement became truly fearful.

Every cheek was blanched and every frame trembled when listening to the tale, that "insurrection among the slaves had commenced on the plantation of Col.