Daily Times [Leavenworth, KS], December 6, 1860 [Correspondence of the Leavenworth Times.]  Fort Washita, C. N.} Nov. 23, 1860. }  Editor Times:–Within the past two weeks there have been brought before Gen. Douglass H. Cooper, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian Agent, five persons, charged with murder, theft and perjury, and were all committed to the jail [...]

Daily Advocate  [Baton Rouge, LA], December 5, 1860 The secession enthusiasm in Texas seems to be at fever heat. If the raising of Lone Star Flags be a reliable indication of the feelings of a majority of Texans, we should say that the feeling of determined resistance to Black Republican rule is spreading throughout the [...]

Daily Times [Leavenworth, KS], December 5, 1860 The writers of the following article tells of two cases of extreme poverty which have come under his own observation. They are not isolated instances but such as may be found every day in our city. We cannot be too often reminded of the necessity of making provision [...]

Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], December 1, 1860 A meeting of the members of the Infantry Company, raised above the Court House, will meet to-day at the Court House, for the purpose of electing officers, deciding upon a uniform, equipments, &c. Let every member be present. We anticipate a large and enthusiastic meeting.

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], December 1, 1860 The Charleston Mercury publishes the following suggestion for the flag of the “Southern Confederacy:” The ground entirely blue, with a golden palmetto in the center; a golden rattlesnake twining around the stem of the palmetto, with its rattle sprung, head erect, and tongue protruded. In the back-ground, [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], December 1, 1860 The News says a Lone Star rifle company, numbering nearly one hundred young men, has been organized in Galveston, and that the old artillery company is also being reorganized, to be composed of some of the older citizens. Many citizens are wearing the blue cockade, surmounted by [...]

Daily Times [Leavenworth, KS], December 1, 1860 There is a wide difference of opinion among the Eastern journals concerning the character of Montgomery and his followers.—On the one hand, they are regarded as men actuated purely by principle, and governed only by philanthropic motives; while, on the other, they are stigmatized as pirates, bandits and [...]

Daily Times [Leavenworth, KS], November 28, 1860. Yesterday, about 1 o’clock, two companies of mounted artillery, consisting of 180 men, besides the officers, with two cannons, fifteen train wagons and the necessary teamsters, wagon masters, &c., passed through there, on their way to the “seat of war.”—They are to meet the detachments from Riley and [...]

Daily Advocate  [Baton Rouge, LA], November 28, 1860 Those Republican editors, preachers and lecturers who think that the indignation of the south is best put down by ridicule, and who, therefore, lavish the resources of their buffoonery upon every reported attempt of a Southern State to arm her citizens for an impending conflict, will find [...]

Bellville [TX] Countryman, November 28, 1860 The flag that waved in the thick of the fight at San Jacinto, was yesterday flung to the breeze from the tallest flag staff in the city, in token of the love which many of our citizens feel for the “Lone Star,” and their wish to see it again [...]

Alexander H. Stephens to ______[i] Crawfordville [Ga.], Nov. 25, 1860. Dear Sir: Your kind and esteemed favor of the 19th instant is before me, for which you will please accept my thanks. I thoroughly agree with you as to the nature and extent of the dangers by which we are surrounded, and the importance of [...]

The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], November 24, 1860  We consider it our duty to call the attention of the citizens of the parish, to the position in which the whole Southern country is placed by the result of the recent Presidential election. We consider it to be the duty of the people of each Ward to [...]

Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], November 24, 1860 We recently announced that among the volunteers who went out from England to join Garibaldi, was our countryman Gen. Wheat. In a letter from Gen. Avezzana to a friend in this city, dated Maildaloni, October 16, we find mention of four other Americans as being attached [...]

Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], November 24, 1860 Quite an excitement was raised on Grosse-Tete a day or two since, by the apprehension of two men who had been detected in tampering with negroes. One of the individuals got clear of summary punishment from some little extenuating circumstance in his favor; but the other, [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], November 24, 1860 Our State exchanges come to hand this week containing calls for meetings, and reports of meetings already held, which indicate that Texas is in a blaze, and that the people are moving and preparing to meet the crisis, consequent upon the triumph of abolitionism. The propriety of [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, November 24, 1860 On Friday last the citizens of our city and vicinity assembled in mass meeting to express their disapprobation at the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. . . [among other resolutions] Resolved, That Texas entered the Union as a free and sovereign State, and that [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, November 24, 1860 On the 3rd inst., there was a splendid barbecue, and a large meeting of the citizens of Walker county, at Huntsville, Texas. Among the transparencies at night was one bearing the following inscription: “We had rather be the widows of State Right patriots than the wives of submissionists.”  Well [...]

[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, November 24, 1860 I have thought it might be interesting to some of your readers, especially the northern portion, to hear something of what the Germans call “Our inner life.” In a word it may be interesting to them to hear, honestly, a southern woman’s opinion on slavery. I know, in [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], November 24, 1860 On Thursday morning last the Lone Star Flag was hoisted on Cahill’s flag-staff, and one gun for each southern State was fired. Considerable excitement exists in this city, concerning the result of the late election, and a spirit is manifested by many of our citizens in favor [...]

Alexander H. Stephens to J. Henly Smith. Crawfordville, Ga., Nov. 23, 1860. Dear Smith, I have just received your letter of the 16th Inst. By some strange mishap it has been delayed. I wrote to you day before yesterday stating I had received nothing from you lately. Last night I got the Tribune and N. [...]

Daily Times [Leavenworth, KS], November 20, 1860 Gov. Houston recently made a speech at Independence, Texas, in which he attributed the late insurrection panic to the false accounts circulated by one Pryor of Dallas, a brother of the Virginia Pryor. Gov. Houston denied the stories and incendiary fires, and said that the panic had greatly [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], November 20, 1860 Respectable Dimensions.—The fact that there is as yet no workhouse in our limits, is known far and near. There is a kind of fraternity among thieves, beggars and loafers, under which they are all kept posted, as to the best places for them to migrate [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], November 17, 1860 A white man was found floating in the river opposite the residence of Sidney A. Robertson, in West Baton Rouge, on the 14th inst. The man appeared to be a laboring man, perhaps a deck-hand on a steamboat; the body gave evidence of murderous treatment, [...]

Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], November 17, 1860 A meeting was held at Academy Hall, in Baton Rouge on Wednesday night last for the purpose of forming a company of Minute Men for the protection of Southern Rights should they be assailed. The Hall was filled, but the enthusiasm, such as it was, was [...]