Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 9, 1860 It is an interesting fact in connection with the several candidates for the Presidency, that they all have Southern wives. Lincoln married a lady of Lexington, Ky., where his opponent Breckinridge was born and married; Mr. Bell’s wife, is, we believe, also a native of [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 9, 1860 We perceive in a recent issue of the Shreveport (La.) Gazette that the inhabitants of that place are experiencing great inconvenience and actual suffering from their inability to purchase water—the free gift of God to man—even for ordinary purposes. Mr. Jones, the lessee of the [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 8, 1860 A considerable number of Americans have joined the army of Garibaldi. A young Virginian left Paris, on the 11th ult., with a commission as lieutenant, he had just received from headquarters at Palermo.

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 8, 1860 An infernal machine, called the centrifugal gun, is on exhibition at Columbus, Ohio, which will throw five hundred balls a minute, with the force of an ordinary rifle, without the aid of powder or cap, by merely turning a crank like a coffee mill.

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 8, 1860 Some simple contrivance, is certainly wanted, so as to fix in a visible manner, the Post marks on letters. In the hasty manner in which letters are stamped at the various offices in the country, the mark, is utterly worthless, to indicate the place and [...]

Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], August 7, 1860 The Houston Telegraph, of the 31st ult. mentions meetings of citizens at Anderson, Hempstead, Brenham, Paris, &c., and the appointment of Vigilance committees, in consequence of the developments of the Abolition plot. The Telegraph says: It has been ascertained that the negroes of Grimes county have held secret [...]

Bellville [TX] Countryman, August 4, 1860 We extract the following from a letter to the Houston Telegraph, from Dallas, giving further particulars of the extensive Abolition plot discovered there a few days ago: The outhouses, granaries, oats and grain of Mr. Crill Miller, were destroyed a few days after the destruction of Dallas. This led [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], August 4, 1860 Mr. Chas. R. Pryor, editor of the Dallas Herald, writes to the State Gazette, under date of 16th July, giving an account of the destruction of that place by fire, and makes a statement which, if true, will produce exciting times in that quarter. After narrating the [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 4, 1860 Sometime in 1857, a person by the name of Lemmons was expelled from the town of Quitman for expressing abolition sentiments, and went to Illinois, where a printing establishment was purchased for him and where he published an abolition newspaper. A few weeks since, as we are informed by [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], August 4, 1860 In another column we publish a letter written by Col. Chas. R. Pryor, editor of the Dallas Herald, which makes some startling developments. Facts have been elicited by actual testimony, that goes to substantiate the fact that this State is infested with an organized band of abolitionists, [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 4, 1860  Marshall, Aug. 3, 1860. Editor Texas Republican: Dear Sir:–A few days ago, the citizens of Marshall and vicinity held a public meeting for the purpose of self-protection against all persons who might be found inimical to our rights; that is to say, thieves, robbers, murderers, &c., &c. The people [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 4, 1860 On the 3d July, as we learn from a letter in the Brenham Enquirer three men, Clock, Sr., his son, and Perkins, his son-in-law, were arrested in Chapel Hill, and brought before a public meeting on charge of being abolitionists. A committee of twelve of the most respectable citizens [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 4, 1860 Incendiaries A committee appointed for the purpose at Paris, Texas, has reported that no “thermometer heat will ignite matches.” This proves that the late burnings in the northern portion of the State were produced by incendiaries. Vigilance committee In consequence of the numerous fires and other incendiary movements in [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 4, 1860 Incendiarism, thieving, and burglary are prevalent in Galveston. The News says:  “There are at this time a larger number of suspicious characters in our midst than we have ever known before—men who are either entirely unknown or of whom no good is known, and who are without any visible [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 4, 1860 We have no late intelligence from Dallas. Reports are current here to the effect that twenty or thirty negroes were in jail at that place—that the incendiary conspiracy was fully established, and that several negroes and two or three white men had been hung. It is stated that the [...]

Standard [Clarksville, TX], August 4, 1860  Writer in the Union of the 5th, [illegible] Panola county. The drouth has prevailed in our section of country since the 18th February, with the exception of two showers which [illegible] settled the dust. Notwithstanding the severity of the drouth, we broke up our ground and planted our corn, [...]

Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], August 3, 1860 For diabolism of intent—revolting cruelty—and savage ferocity—this affair has no parallel in the annals of Abolition outrage. The details present a fertility of wicked invention and an exuberance of depravity sickening to all but the most hardened in vice, villainy, cruelty and corruption. The scheme extended in its [...]

Bellville [TX] Countryman, July 28, 1860 By an extra from the office of the Brenham Enquirer dated the 23d inst., we learn that [tear in paper] excitement in Northern Texas [tear in paper] an insurrection movement among the negroes, led on by white men. Enough has been discovered to show that a deep laid plot [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, July 28, 1860 The fire at Dallas broke out on Sunday, the 8th inst., at 2 o’clock, P.M. Mr. John W. Swindells, furnishes the Galveston News with the following account of the property destroyed: Dallas Hotel, three story brick, owned and occupied by Mrs. Cockrell. Brick store of Smith & Murphy, with [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, July 28, 1860 We learn from some of our citizens who were at Dallas a few days since, that two individuals (strangers) are suspected of being the incendiaries who set fire to that town on the 8th inst. They were first seen at Dallas the evening preceding the fire. One, a young [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, July 28, 1860 The Paris Press of the 21st says that the house of Dr. W. W. Stell was set on fire, by one of his negro women, (who has acknowledged the deed,) on the night of the 16th inst., and was consumed with all its contents—furniture, books, &c.—except two trunks. The [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, July 28, 1860 Our town, on Monday night last, was thrown into a fever of excitement by the detection of an individual, a stranger in our place, in the act of attempting to fire the town. He was shot at two or three times by the patrol, but succeeded in making his [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], July 28, 1860 The town of Dallas, Texas, was almost totally destroyed by fire on the 8th inst. Loss $400,000. Our Austin and other State exchanges bring accounts of most destructive fires in different sections of the State, whereby thousands of dollars worth of property has been destroyed. The general [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, July 28, 1860 Fearful Abolition Raid—Negro Insurrection—Northern Texas to be Laid in Waste—Intense Excitement. We have received an extra from the Bonham Era of the 17th, from which we learn that the most intense excitement exists throughout Northern Texas, predicated upon revelations recently made at Dallas, which are mentioned in the following [...]