21 AUGUST 1875, Page 2

The New York correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs (August

19) that some eighty negroes have been arrested in the counties of Jefferson and Washington, in Georgia, on charges of conspiracy. They are accused of having joined in a plot for the general massacre of the whites, which was to be carried out through the coloured militia. The story, adds the correspondent, it not belie'ved in the North, but it is in the South ; and in Georgia the Governor has called out the white militia. Georgia, it will be remembered, is the State in which the planters have succeeded in enacting severe labour laws, but as the whites are armed, are in the majority, and are sure of support from the regulars, the-story must have been set afloat for election purposes.