Alamo Express  [San Antonio, TX], October 15, 1860 The meat market has been moved to the South side of the Main Plaza. We advise the  butchers to turn their stalls round to the North and prepare for winter—it’s a very good stand;  and we advise the authorities, who in their wisdom selected the sight for [...]

The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], October 13, 1860 The Vigilance Committee of Henderson, Texas, have hung Green Herndon and his negro woman found guilty of firing the town.

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], October 13, 1860 The last party of gallant knights arrived here, that took a trip up the country, for they knew “there must be at the least calculation one thousand warriors up there somewhere,” and that all Mexico would be a toy for their future amusement. But, lo! they have [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, October 13, 1860 Rev. Wm. Buley was arrested at Fayetteville, Arks., and brought back to Fort Worth, Texas, and on the 13th, was hung by the Vigilance Committee, on a pecan tree about a mile west of the town. Buley had two sons hung in Texas for their abolitionism. He was the [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, October 13, 1860 The following ascertained with considerable trouble, are the favorite drinks of the candidates now in the field for President and Vice-President; Abe Lincoln, Red Eye Whiskey; Hannibal Hamlin, Wolfe’s Scheidam Schnapps; Stephen A. Douglas, Jersey Lightening [40 rods brand]; H. V. Johnson, Georgia Baldface; Edward Everett, Currant Wine; John [...]

Cleveland Herald (Ohio), October 13, 1860 The New Orleans Picayune for the 8th says: If Lincoln is successful in the electoral college—which can scarcely be possible*—will he not be elected President by the voice of the people constitutionally expressed—elected too according to the ordinary modes of party action and popular voting—peacefully and regularly honored with [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], October 12, 1860 We have often deprecated the system of training which multitudes of children receive. We turn in vain for a spot where childhood is properly trained; where it is respected as childhood and allowed to be childhood. In solitary instances, perhaps, we might find families who [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], October 12, 1860 The Galveston Civilian is responsible for the following piece of information. The Knights of the Golden Circle, who have been so far benightened  as to march to Western Texas, have concluded that they have had about as near a view of the elephant as would [...]

Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], October 12, 1860 (Note: the original article was a bad attempt at humor and really refered to a hung decision between officials, not an execution. — MpG) We have been questioned by many persons with regard to a statement made in a recent issue of our paper that four members of [...]

New York Herald, October 12, 1860 Recent events at the elections in some of the Central States, and all the eventualities and chances which they foreshadow with regard to the Presidential contest, pointing in the direction of Mr. Lincoln’s election by the Northern States, people are beginning naturally to look towards the South and ask [...]

Charleston Free Press (Virginia), October 11, 1860 W. W. Lamb, a Breckinridge elector at Norfolk, who put the question to Senator Douglas as to the course to be pursued in case of resistance by the South to Lincoln’s election, and who received the prompt and emphatic reply that the laws must be enforced, even to [...]

Chicago Press and Tribune, October 10, 1860 It is announced that Mr. Wm. L. YANCEY is to address the public on the political issues of the day, this evening, at the Cooper Institute. We do not know that the announcement is authentic, but we have been assured that it is. What Mr. YANCY’S special object [...]

Chicago Press and Tribune, October 9, 1860 Havana, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1860. I yesterday sent to Charleston, via Cedar Key, the “news” of the execution of William Walker at Truxillo on the 12th inst., and suppose you are, or will be before this reaches your hand, in possession of the intelligence by the aid of [...]

New York Herald, October 8, 1860 The Atlanta (Ga.) Southern Confederacy says:— The South will never permit Abraham Lincoln to be President of the United States.   This is the determination of all parties at the South! And let the consequences be what they may—whether the Potomac be crimsoned in human gore, and Pennsylvania avenue [...]

Daily Times [Leavenworth, KS], October 6, 1860 A German named Fred. Amthor, who formerly resided in Texas, writes a letter to the Chicago “Press,” giving an account of his expulsion from that State. While there, he never expressed any sentiments hostile to the institution of slavery. But a man named Evans, with whom he had [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], October 6, 1860 A letter written by a late American traveler in Mexico says: “I’m traveling through Mexico; I stopped a short time at the Castle of Perote. I was much surprised to find a number of charcoal sketches made on the walls of several of the prison cells. One [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], October 6, 1860 Prof. Alexander, who has been to Huntsville lately, gives us the following items relative to the Penitentiary, which he visited while there. After being admitted through a massive iron gate, guarded by two sentinels; he was placed in the charge of a warden who conducted him over [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], October 6, 1860 It was a fit night, was that of Tuesday last, for a merciless deed. It was black and dark enough for any action—it rained and the wind howled pitiously, without a single flash from heaven, to give a ray of hope to the traveler. The [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], October 6, 1860 We always have been and are still in favor of a registry law. The Mexican vote has always been cause of serious complaint for years past, and no American has been in this vicinity long enough to tell whether the majority of Mexicans are voters. We have [...]

Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], October 5, 1860 (Note: this really refers to a hung decision between officials, not an execution. — MpG) We regret to state that Judge Lynch has been in our midst. On Tuesday morning, the second last, four respectable citizens of this county, all members of our County Court, were found hung [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], October 3, 1860 The new arsenal in course of erection at San Antonio, is thus noticed in the Herald of the 21st: The office, which is now nearly completed, is a very unique and substantial building; size, 25 by 60 feet, with a ten foot gallery on both [...]

Alamo Express — [San Antonio, TX], October 1, 1860 We notice some excellent photograph views on exhibition on the corner  of the plaza. They were executed by Negel & Williams. A few of these views sent abroad  would make people fall in love sooner with our city than the most glowing pen and ink sketches.

Standard [Clarksville, TX], September 29, 1860 Belknap, Young Co. Sept. 11th, 1860. Major DeMorse—Since my last, preparations were made to move up Red and Canadian rivers, from Rhadminski. When all was ready in fact some of the companies had started word was brought to Col. Johnson that there were 100 Kickapoo Indian Warriors, painted and [...]

[Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, September 29, 1860  From the Ft. Smith Herald, Sept. 22, 1860. Fire!—Loss 113,000!! On Thursday morning, at about 4 o’clock, our citizens were aroused by the alarm of fire. The fire originated in the post-office block—probably in the room occupied as a billiard saloon. When first entered, the room was [...]