[Marshall] Texas Republican, July 28, 1860 Destructive fires in this portion of our State have recently been so numerous—so simultaneous in their occurrence, as to impress a conviction, amounting almost to absolute certainty, upon the minds of many of our people, that they are the result of preconcerted arrangement; the communication of a diabolical plan [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], July 27, 1860 At a recent session of the Alexandria county court, two men of mixed blood appeared before the court, and having proved themselves to be octoroons, or possessing but one-eighth negro blood, asked the court to certify that they were not negroes. The court having heard [...]
New York Times, July 23, 1860 The Houston (Texas) Republic, of the 14th inst., contains an account of the great fire, which destroyed the town of Dallas on the 8th inst., a brief notice of which we obtained by telegraph. It says: “Just as we were going to press we received intelligence of one of [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], July 21, 1860 There is said to be about three hundred daily papers at this time in the United States. Five hundred and seventy thousand is estimated as the regular circulation of the daily press, or 184,080,000 per annum. There are also about two thousand five hundred tri-weeklies, [...]
The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], July 21, 1860 In his late report, Gov. Floyd, the present Secretary of War, says: The experiments thus far made (and they are pretty full) demonstrate that camels constitute a most useful and economical means of transportation for men and supplies through the great deserts and barren regions of our [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], July 20, 1860, Mr. Comet:—We of the “milder sex”—a term applied to us, by masculine humanity are not disposed to object to the edicts of the lords of creation, who, by virtue of muscel, claim to govern the world. I am not a woman’s right’s woman, I would [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], July 19, 1860 The Houston Telegraph gives an account of a destruction conflagation which visited Dallas on Sunday the 8th inst. With the exception of a few dwelling houses, the entire place is in ashes. The loss is estimated at $300,000.
Texas Baptist [Anderson, TX], July 19, 1860 We are sorry to learn that nearly the whole of the town of Dallas was destroyed by fire on the 7th instant, leaving not a hotel, store, or office hardly remaining. The loss is estimated at between $3000,000 and $500,000. The fire spread with such rapidity that very [...]
Texas Baptist [Anderson, TX], July 19, 1860 We have just returned from Huntsville. The roads continue dry and dusty. Farmers are much discouraged. Corn crops are about a total failure in many fields, and the best is not half a crop.—Cotton is now presenting a gloomy prospect, a few very small bolls have matured and [...]
[Marshall] Texas Republican, July 14, 1860 On Friday last, during the absence of the White family, the residence of Dr. C. B. Raines, Jr., about four miles from this town on the Palestine road, was destroyed by fire. The house and kitchen together with all the furniture, the wearing apparel of the family, silver ware [...]
Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], July 14, 1860 The news has just reached us of the destruction by fire of almost the entire town of Dallas on the 8th inst. The loss is estimated at $400,000. All the buildings on the public square, excepting two groceries and a law office, have been consumed. The fire originated [...]
[Marshall] Texas Republican, July 14, 1860 The drouth still continues. For weeks the thermometer has stood at a hundred and over in the shade. Each day seems to excel its predecessor in intensity of heat and sultriness. On Saturday, the thermometer, we are told, stood in the shade at the railroad office at 113, and [...]
Standard [Clarksville, TX], July 14, 1860 We made a notice for our last issue, of the enlargement of the Dallas Herald, and now, as will be seen below we have to record the destruction of the establishment, and of nearly all the business section of Dallas; the stores, offices, hotels, &c., around the Square. We [...]
Daily Times [Leavenworth , KS], July 13, 1860 We learn that a process has been issued by the Mayor of Weston, in order to get possession of this relic of the Kansas troubles. The officer is in town, but has done nothing as yet. We decidedly object to this proceeding. The old gun is one [...]
Tallapoosa Times [Dadeville, AL], July 12, 1860 Tremendous Excitement. W.F. Higgins & Co. have established a regular Gun and Pistol Factory, on the corner opposite the Baptist Church in Dadeville, Alabama. They will manufacture Rifles, Shot Guns with both single and double barrels, and Pistols of every variety. All their work will be Warranted to [...]
Tallapoosa Times [Dadeville, AL], July 12, 1860 Hamlet said there was something rotten in Denmark, but our government is now a sort of Denmark in which there is nothing that isn’t rotten.
Standard [Clarksville, TX], July 7, 1860 The thermometer today, at 1 p.m. in the shade of our sanctum, brick wall, second story, one of the coolest places in town, indicates 106°. At the same time the breeze renders the heat quite endurable; indeed we do not feel it near as much as some days last [...]
Standard [Clarksville, TX], July 7, 1860 We imagine that our country neighbors are unaware that there is a scarcity of fresh food in Clarksville. Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Mutton, even Beef, are all scarce. Until a few days past we have had pretensions to an occasional beef market; but even that has vanished; and with sheep [...]
[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, July 7, 1860 The wires were uncoiled and stretched from insulator to insulator, through and beyond this city, last Wednesday, on which day the electric pulse first thrilled through our midst. Fayetteville is now in instant connection with the world. May the Telegraph be the forerunner of more magnificent enterprises, until [...]
Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], July 3, 1860 The Meridian mentions a rumor that there is an organized band of Abolitionists in the corner of Clark and Wayne of this State, and Choctaw and Washington of Ala., who are defying the people and the authorities. Considerable excitement had been created in Quitman, and other contiguous localities, [...]
Standard [Clarksville, TX], June 30, 1860 During District Court at Bonham, a little son of Alfred E. Pace, about six years of age, was missing one day, and for several hours some enquiry was made for him, without much anxiety, as he was in the habit of roving about freely. As night came on, however, [...]
[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, June 30, 1860 Our city is still steadily improving, every business house and dwelling occupied, and new buildings going up every day. The Telegraph will be completed to, and an office opened in this city during the coming week. We have also another newspaper, which unheralded, as the sudden flash of [...]
The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], June 30, 1860 The Matagorda Gazette says “the report that a cargo of Africans had been landed near Aransas Pass, turns out to be an egregious hoax. No Africans have been landed on this coast for many years.” No, nothing but camels!
(Announcement of the (John) Brown commemoration in North Elba, New York) Liberator, Boston, Massachusetts, June 29, 1860 The believers in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, and of that Method of proclaiming them inaugurated by Gen. Warren at Bunker Hill, and continued by Capt. Brown at Harper’s Ferry, are requested to meet at NORTH [...]
Leavenworth Daily Times, June 28th, 18601 Congress has adjourned. The deed is done—the crime completed. Our land grants are withheld. The Homestead Bill has been chopped down by the Executive axe. The Pacific Railroad fails under the harsh hand of faithless Democracy—while the languishing manufacturing interest, that half feeds the innumerable legions of poor operatives, [...]