A great, and we are incli...
A great, and we are inclined to think, an undue im- portance, has been given by somae of our cotemporaries to the late attempts at disorder amnong the Negroes of Ja- maica. It now appears, that wherever the disturbers of the public peace were found, they vere instantly overpowered. The whole " insurection," as they call it, had dwindled downi to ain escape of 50 wretched slaves into the rmoun- tains; and the only proof of danger to the Government al- leged by the alarmists is, that some of the most forward among these desperadoes had resolved to take tieir own lives, rather thaii be again reduced to a state of bondage.