The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], April 21, 1860 We take the following items from the last Courier received: It is rumored that a cargo of African negroes have been landed on the coast of Western Texas, somewhere between this place and Corpus Christi, and that some of them are now in Victoria county. We give [...]
Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], April 21, 1860 We had a call from Capt. I. T. Davis, of Upshur, who is a member of the above named mysterious order, yesterday morning. The Captain informed us that he has a company numbering some fifty three men just ahead of him, several along and fifteen on his trail; [...]
Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], April 21, 1860 From the New Orleans Mirror. An article in a late number of DeBow’s Review, from the pen of Judge Hopkins of Mobile, directs attention to the injury which is likely to be inflicted on the South by the system of instructing negroes in the mechanic arts, [...]
The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], April 21, 1860 By the latest intelligence from Brownsville, it is stated that all the Rangers serving on the Rio Grande have been disbandoned by order of Gov. Houston. This course has been pursued only upon positive assurances from Washington that a Federal force adequate to the task will be [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], April 19, 1860 The Goliad (Texas) Messenger says, a company of twenty-seven armed men passed through that place en route for Mexico the other day. The expedition is a secret one, and the Messenger has done wrong to herald it to the world. Should the news of their [...]
[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, April 19, 1860 On last Saturday, the 31st day of March a terrible storm of wind and hail passed over the southern part of this county doing great damage to houses, fences, &c. A friend in Green Brier township has sent on the following account of it. Green Brier Township,} April [...]
Columbus [GA] Enquirer, April 17, 1860 The Salt Lake Valley Tan, of February 29th, contains a statement from Wm. H. Rogers, in regard to the massacre at Mountain Meadows in September, 1857, when 120 men, women and children, emigrants from Arkansas, were murdered by Mormons. In company with Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for [...]
Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], April 17, 1860 There is much truth contained in the following communication which we take from the Nashville Gazette. However humiliating the acknowledgment may be, the people of the South are generally sending North for Superintendants , not only in cotton Manufacturing establishments, but in almost every other branch of Mechanics. [...]
Standard [Clarksville, TX], April 14, 1860 The successive numbers of the Frontier Journal, the White Man, are filled with accounts of outrages by Indians, and the efforts of the worried and impoverished frontiersmen to repel aggression, and punish the aggressors. Lately Governor Houston has authorized Col. M. T. Johnson, an old and efficient Ranger, to [...]
Standard [Clarksville, TX], April 14, 1860 The weather is dry and sunshiny. Rain much needed—a great deal of corn planted, cannot come up without it. Everything will be late this year. The River is nearly run out. We shall live in hope of more water. We want that railroad iron to get into Sulphur, and [...]
[Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, April 14, 1860 A friend has sent us a copy of the Valley Tan, published at Salt Lake city, on the 29th ult. It contains a statement by W. H. Rogers concerning the massacre, which, though long, we will transfer to our columns as soon as we can. It fixes [...]
Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], April 14, 1860 A Vigilance Committee has been formed in the parish of Ascension for the seeking out and punishing of any person or persons found trafficking illegally with slaves. In the present state of affairs there should be a similar Committee formed in every parish, not alone for [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], April 11, 1860 Deeply do we deplore the duty off recording a sad and melancholy occurrence that took place in this parish on last night (Friday) at the residence of Mr. William Barfield about 16 miles south of Mansfield. The circumstances are these Mr. Williams and several [...]
Southern Field and Fireside [Augusta, GA], April 7, 1860 Mr. S. B. Buckley, who is writing a series of interesting letters to the Country Gentleman [fold in paper] the productiveness of a Texas sugar plantation: Mr. McNeel is said to be one of the best managing sugar planters in Texas, having from six to seven [...]
[Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, April 7, 1860 The Montgomery Mail, of the 29th, says: At 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, by previous arrangement, there was a burning of the works of the notorious English abolitionist, Spurgeon, at the bookstore of Mr. B. B. Davis, Market street. Mr. Davis prepared a good fire of pine sticks, [...]
Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], April 7, 1860 In the March number of DeBow’s Commercial Review we find the following from the pen of Judge Hopkins, of Mobile. It is worthy of the special notice of every man in the Southern States who has interests in the institutions of slavery worth protecting: If it [...]
Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], April 7, 1860 A Baltimore paper states that the organization of the Branch of the Knights of the Golden Circle now numbers nearly one thousand men, mostly young, and many from some very respectable families. They have an Armory, where they meet for daily drill, under the instruction of [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], April 6, 1860 This organization, whose sole aim at presents seems the invasion of Mexico and assists in the establishment of a new government, has caused some interest, especially among the young men of the city, many of whom are unemployed.—They have formed an association, and for [...]
Texas Baptist [Anderson, TX], April 6, 1860 During the past session of our court, nineteen negroes chose masters for themselves and were made slaves for life. Wise choice, far better than to sink to the level with the free blacks of Canada and the North.
[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, April 5, 1860 Thirteen slaves belonging to Gov. Fitzpatrick of Alabama, recently received $900, the proceeds of cotton raised by them in the odd hours they were allowed by their master to work for themselves.—[Ex. We do not publish the above for our own benefit, or for the benefit of southerners, [...]
Louisiana Democrat [Alexandria , LA], April 4, 1860 We are happy to announce to the citizens of Alexandria, and the public generally that our indefatigably enterprising fellow-citizen, M. R. Ariail, has received his supply of ice for the present season, and is to-day having it stored away. The 375 tons just received, added to the [...]
Mailbag, that is! 160 years ago today, this letter was probably somewhere in Nebraska on the first 10-day Pony Express relay, headed to California.
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], April 3, 1860 It is remarkable how universal is the demand for this product. The official returns show a list of one hundred and twenty-five different articles of export; and out of that number, with the exception of grain, there is not one that is shipped to [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], April 3, 1860 We have received the following letter from Mr. John J. Drake, of Clinton, La.: Clinton, La., March 31st, 1860. Editor of the Gazette and Comet:– Dear Sir:–On my way to this place from Baton Rouge Friday last, in the vicinity of Midway, on the [...]
Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], March 31, 1860 Instructions for marshals and assistants in taking the next census are nearly prepared. The modifications from those of 1850 will be slight. A compliance with the recommendations of the New York Chamber of Commerce, regarding commercial statistics, is not deemed practicable.—The importance of information about internal [...]