Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
affairs in King & Queen — arrest, &c.
King & Queen County, Va.,Jan. 4
Yesterday was Court day, and a number of our citizens assembled at the Court-House A South Carolina flag was raised, with the motto, "God speed thee." We are for the immediate assembling of a State Convention.--In a large and enthusiastic meeting of our citizens, in the Court-House, speeches were made by Col. Alex.
Fleet, Alex Dudley, Col. T. Ro. Gresham, and others, which expressed sentiments strongly in favor of "South Carolina and Southern rights. There was considerable excitement here on the 27th ult., caused by the catching of a live abolitionist. He belonged to the crew of Mr E Rokes, a ship-timber getter, from Maine Mr. Rokes, by the way, is a Democrat, and was deceived in the man. The man's name is "Leavy," and had been tampering with negroes. One of the negroes confronted him, and accused him to his face at the examination. The man denied it. The negro was asked if he wished to be free. He readily answered no; that he loved his master as well as he did his mother. The abolitionist is to be sent home immediately. The rest of Mr. Rokes' men seem to be orderly and Union-loving citizens.
