Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], August 25, 1860 The report which we mentioned in our last in regard to the hanging of the map man, Mr. Parker, is contradicted by the Herald. We have obtained some more particulars. Mr. L. Zork, of our city, who was in Richmond on Thursday the 16th, says that Parker [...]

Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], August 25, 1860 “The Fall of the Alamo.”—As there are a great many false traditions and much perverted history in regard to this, the most heroic action of the Texan struggle, we will attempt to give the public, as soon as it can be conveniently compiled, an account taken from [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 24, 1860 The Louisville Journal announces that “Bell’s tavern,” in Kentucky, kept by Mr. Proctor, was destroyed by the fire last Friday night, and adds: For two generations past, and since the beginning of the present century, it has been the stopping place for all visitors to [...]

 Albany [GA] Patriot , August 23, 1860 Few persons perhaps are aware that there are many families in our midst who do not get  half enough to eat. While it has ever been characteristic of our citizens to give with a liberal  hand, yet there are many charitable objects who seem at present to be [...]

Texas Baptist [Anderson, TX], August 23, 1860 August 10.  Brother Baines: In these time  of peril, when every community is threatened with insurrection and murder, any fact which may put our citizens upon their guard will doubtless be of interest to our readers. Almost every day brings some new evidence to establish the suggestion I [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 23, 1860 A Virginia census taker writes: “I have opened 200 to 2500 gates, let down 1500 to 1800 pairs of bars, and any number of fences; have got off and on my horse from fifty to eighty times a day, done any amount of talking in [...]

Daily Confederation [Montgomery, Al], August 22, 1860 My son John T. M. Bowen left my premises and parental control on Sunday, the 19th inst., taking with him a small clay banked Pony, very drooped rump. All persons are hereby forbid from employing or harboring him, or of trading for said horse or for a watch. [...]

Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], August 21, 1860 Dr. Pryor writes to the State Gazette, under date of Dallas, July 23 and 24, the following additional particulars of the progress of the Vigilance Committee in their work of ferreting out the guilty parties in the late outrages in that county: The Vigilance Committee have been in [...]

The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], August 20, 1860 On Thursday afternoon last, a murderous conflict occurred between a  number of Indians, in the rear of the Ice House Hotel, which resulted in the killing of two of the redskins. A family feud of Montague and Capulet intensity had been existing for a long time,  which, by [...]

Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], August 18, 1860, p. 3, c. 1 Today’s Weekly Herald contains an account of the Fall of the Alamo by Capt. R. W. Potter. It is the best, fullest, and most authentic that has been published. Mr. Potter is a gentleman of fine talents, and we hope he will continue [...]

[Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, August 18, 1860  Texas. About a dozen wagons passed through Little Rock on Monday last returning from Texas. They give quite a dismal report of that State. In many portions vegetation is burned up, and the country is threatened with starvation.

Bellville [TX] Countryman, August 18, 1860 We hear by Ed Tucker who is just from Houston, that it is reported there that the towns of Tyler and McKinney have been burnt up.

Bellville [TX] Countryman, August 18, 1860 [Special Correspondence of the Telegraph.] Dallas, July 25. Ed. Telegraph.—Three negro men, the leaders in the insurrectionary plot, were executed at this place last Tuesday evening. One of them, Pat. Jennings, was the man who applied the torch to the town of Dallas, and one of the most prominent [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 We have received a letter from Clarksville, Texas, dated the 13th inst., which says: On the 11th inst., a traveller by the name of Pierce, formerly a cabinet maker of Shreveport, was arrested here and carried to Paris from whence I think they will send him to Henderson. He [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 We copy the following from the Henderson Times of Saturday last. Who that reads this article will not feel his heart melted with sympathy over this great misfortune? It forms another of the terrible outrages, which have driven our people to the verge of madness. The Fire.—The painful duty [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 The people of Dallas have gone to work to rebuild their “burned district.” Several large brick buildings are already going up and many frame buildings are under contract. There is a great demand for carpenters and brick masons. Mrs. Cockrell has already opened a new hotel, although her own [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 Carthage, Texas, Aug. 7th, 1860. At a public meeting called for the purpose of considering of the best means of protecting the town of Carthage, against the torch of the incendiary and the interests of the county of Panola generally, against the secret foes who seem bent upon the [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 We publish below all the intelligence we have been able to gather from our exchanges in different parts of the State. The following is from the Austin State Gazette: Incendiarism in Austin.—The large Steam Mill of Capt Glasscock is believed by many to have been destroyed by an incendiary. [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 A letter of the 21st ult., from Dallas to the Austin State Gazette, says: The excitement consequent upon the revelations made by negroes under examination, continues unabated. Already nearly a hundred blacks have been arrested and examined separately before a committee of vigilance, appointed for that purpose. This committee [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 We copy the following from the Bonham Era: Alarming State of Affairs.—What Shall We Do? We have an extra from the office of the Quitman Herald of the 26th ult., copying the news of the destruction of Dallas, &c., from the Era, with the additional intelligence that the watchman [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 Mr. Thomas Erwin, who is represented as proverbially kind to his slaves, was recently murdered by two of his negro men. The negroes are in jail at Brenham.

Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], August 18, 1860 Mrs. E. B. Smith, wife of E. B. Smith of the Plaza House of this city, says the San Antonio Texian, is in receipt of a letter from her husband from Austin, in which Mr. S. states that six persons have been executed by the populace of Georgetown, [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 We learn that on last Saturday an investigation of some negroes was held at Tennessee Colony, and from their testimony sustained to the full satisfaction of the whole assemblage, by circumstances and other corroborative testimony, two white men—Wyrick and Cabelle,—were implicated in the proposed insurrectionary movements of the negroes [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 The word “Zouave” is generally and incorrectly pronounced as a word of two syllables. It should be spoken as if written Zwuve, the a having the Italian sound as in “fau.” The name is derived from the Arabic Zouaona, a confederacy of the Kabile tribe, who lives on the [...]