[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 It is reported that a man was taken out of the Gilmer jail on Thursday by a body of armed men from Wood county, and hung in the town. We sincerely hope that this is not so.

Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], August 18, 1860 At the Hole in the Wall.—Our old Starting Point.—Our office is in the rear of the old Verimendi house, just where we started the Herald about five years ago. Our friends wishing to see us will be so kind as to climb the fence. We hope to [...]

Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], August 18, 1860 As a Campaign Paper.—The Express will be devoted in the main to politics until after the present great Presidential contest. Terms, $1.00 in advance to persons wishing to take it until November.

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Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], August 18, 1860 We have nailed to our mast-head as our first choice of tickets, JOHN BELL of Tennessee, for President, and EDWARD EVERETT of Massachusetts, for Vice President. In our humble opinion it is the best ticket before the people,–the only one that embodies a pure, uncontaminated conservative, Union [...]

Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], August 18, 1860 To the Reading Public.—For many reasons we consider good, we present to you the “Alamo Express” for your inspection and, we hope, approval. We commence this little enterprise under almost the same auspices we did the present Herald of our city some five years ago. In this [...]

Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], August 17, 1860 The Excitement in Texas.—By our Texas exchanges we receive further particulars in regard to the excitement growing out of the suspected abolition conspiracy. The Nacogdoches Chronicle, of the 7th inst., has the following items on this subject: Ellis County.—A young man who had employed in a store at [...]

[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, August 16, 1860 Great excitement has been caused in Texas, and is spreading throughout the Southern States generally, arising out of a series of conflagrations that have taken place in a portion of that State, and that are properly attributed to abolition incendiaries. When the news of these destructive fires was [...]

[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, August 16, 1860 General Bickley has published an address to the Knights of the Golden Circle, requesting them to repair to their Texas encampment by the 15th of September. He declares the object of the association to be to Americanize and Southernize Mexico. The Knights will go to Mexico as emigrants, [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 14, 1860 Two Legislators were recently conversing upon the subject of voting, when one of them inquired: “Well, now, but what is a man to do when he don’t know anything about a matter?” “Well,” replied the other, “I have got two rules about that; when anything [...]

The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], August 13, 1860  Diabolical Abolition Plot in Texas.—The Origin of the Late Fires.—D. Pryor, editor of the Dallas Herald, publisher in the Houston Telegraph of Thursday, a letter giving the details of one of the most diabolical plots ever concocted by fanaticism. Before quoting from the letter we must give expression [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 11, 1860 John Booth, a son of the great Booth, and a younger brother to Edwin, was in New York a short time since. It is said that he inherits the genius and talents of his father, and gives promise of attaining the highest rank in his [...]

[Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, August 11, 1860 From the Texas State Gazette Extra. Terrible Development—An Abolition Conspiracy— The sixth day of August set for a General Slaughter of the Whites—the People of Dallas Sleeping with their Arms in Hand—May call on the Lower Counties for Assistance.  Dallas, Texas, July 16th, 1860. Major John Marshall— [...]

Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], August 11, 1860 By a letter from Dallas, of the 21st of July, to the Houston Telegraph, we learn more of the details of the conspiracy on foot in the up country than heretofore. A few days after the destruction of Dallas, the out houses, granaries, oats and grain of Mr. [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], August 11, 1860 More Startling Developments—Several Negroes hung—Among others the Incendiary who Burnt the Town of Dallas—Investigations still going on—Poison found in the hands of Negroes. The following letter is from one of the most reliable citizens of Dallas, addressed to the editor of the State Gazette: Dallas, July 21, [...]

Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], August 11, 1860 A letter to the Telegraph from Dallas gives the particulars of the hanging of three negroes, one of whom set fire to Dallas. Two abolitionist and one negro have been hung in Anderson county, three abolitionists in Tarrant county, and one in Parker county.

Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], August 11, 1860 Mr. Teague, a printer in our office, has just arrived from Tennessee Colony, Anderson county, and brings the news that he witnessed the hanging of two white men in that place, on Sunday the 5th inst., who were proven to be guilty of inciting insurrection among the slaves [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 11, 1860 With no desire to create alarm, we publish below all the intelligence we can gather relative to the incendiarism abroad in our State. There is already more excitement in this community than we like to see exhibited, and we would rather allay it, than add to it. But such [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], August 11, 1860 Nueces county stands in need of one of those institutions known as a jail. Scarcely a week or month passes but what the very letter of the law and justice are defeated, solely for the want of a suitable place of incarceration. Security, alike to the prisoner [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 11, 1860 The following letter is from the foreman of the Times newspaper office. Mr. Hartley recently resided in this place:  Henderson, Aug. 7th, 1860. Dear Loughery: Henderson is no more; Sunday night at 8 o’clock the town was fired by an incendiary, immediately back of Wiggins, Hogg, and Felton’s Drug [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 11, 1860 An attempt was made on last Monday night to fire the dwelling of Mrs. Erwin, two miles west of town. The fire was applied to a bale of cotton, which was under the house, and would have rapidly consumed the building, but from the fact that the barking of [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 11, 1860 It is reported that a horse thief was arrested a few days ago, in this county, and hung. One report states that he was hung at the cross roads 9 or 10 miles from Marshall, which we think unfounded, and another rumor is to the effect that he was [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 11, 1860 On Tuesday last, great excitement was created in Marshall, by the intelligence that a lady of this county was missing from her house, and that apprehensions existed that she had been killed by the negroes. It seems that her husband attended the election in this place, the day previous, [...]

Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], August 11, 1860 Incendiarism is the order of the day. The State Gazette of July 30th says the Steam Mill of George Glasscock, near Austin, was burned on the 26th. It is said to be the work of an incendiary. Loss estimated at $30,000. The Central Texian learns that an attempt [...]