Daily Chronicle & Sentinel [Augusta, GA], March 2, 1860 Nearly all the Southern pupils of the Bethlehem, Pa., Female Institute, have withdrawn from that institution within the past few days, for the same reason that the Southern Medical students left the Colleges in Philadelphia. Five young ladies, from Mississippi, left a few days since.
New York Times, March 1, 1860 Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 29. The Senate Yesterday. The report that Senator Seward would speak to-day, crowded the immense galleries, and by noon it was impossible to procure standing room within hearing of the chamber, although the proceedings did not commence till 1 o’clock. The great leader of the Republican [...]
New York Times, March 1, 1860 The Opposition State Convention of Kentucky, which was in session at Frankfort last week, adopted a platform denouncing the House of Representatives and the National Administration, and urging the necessity of the organization of a National Union Party. The resolutions appended to the platform declare the supremacy of the [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], February 28, 1860 It is entirely useless to give words of caution and advice in the paper, unless people profit by it. Our fast young men should paste the following in the crowns of their hats: On Sunday morning last a young gentleman dressed in the most [...]
New York Times, February,26, 1860 Leavenworth, K. T., Feb. 25, 1860. The Pike’s Peak express arrived here this morning with twenty-five hundred dollars in gold and the mails. The news is meagre. Good prospects had been obtained in the mountains, between Denvers City and Gregory’s mines. Two cords of quartz, mingled with pyrites of iron, [...]
Daily Chronicle & Sentinel [Augusta, GA], February 24, 1860 From a private letter to a gentleman in this place, we learn that the students of Mercer University, at Penfield, held a Southern Rights Meeting on last Saturday afternoon, and adopted strong resolutions, declaring their eternal allegiance to Southern homes and hearths. Among the resolutions was [...]
The Adjutant General to Colonel Lee. Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, February 24, 1860. Sir: Information having reached the War Department of the continued depredations of Cortinas and his followers on American soil, the Secretary of War directs that you make use of your best exertions to put a period to the predatory operations of that [...]
Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], February 24, 1860 It must be gratifying to all our National and Union loving people to know that the bright light of early patriotic desire has not altogether been smothered or quenched by the fire of fanaticism on one hand and fire-eating on the other.—Indeed fire-eating has [...]
Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], February 24, 1860 For the Mississippian. Ed. Mississippian:–The Abolition papers, says the New York Day Book of the 11th inst., just now contain a very affecting and melancholy appeal from some free negroes who have left Arkansas for good, asking alms and support from Northern people, the names of whom, at [...]
The Adjutant General to the Commander of Fort Bliss. War Department, February 21, 1860. Sir: Representations have been made to the War Department to the effect that large bands of armed banditti are marauding upon the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and that the property and lives of American citizens are in imminent [...]
Governor Houston to Mr. Floyd. [Telegram.] New Orleans, February 20, 1860. Sir: The commissioners sent by me to the Rio Grande have reported that the territory of Texas has been invaded. The banditti recruit their forces and gain supplies in the face of the authorities of Matamoras, and they are unable to restrain them. The [...]
Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], February 18, 1860 The lands and slaves belonging to the succession of the late Joachim Daigle, were sold at extraordinary prices. The exact prices per acre of the lands we have not been able to learn, but they exceeded the expectations of every one. Some of the negroes brought [...]
The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], February 18, 1860 The following letter which will prove interesting to the members of the Walker Rifles, and our community generally, explains itself: Austin, Texas, January 31st 1860. Lieut. Henry A. Maltby, Walker Mounted Rifles, Corpus Christi. Lieutenant:–Enclosed herewith, you will find your Commission as 1st Lieut. of the Walker [...]
Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], February 18, 1860 On the 15th inst. eighty one free colored persons sailed from New Orleans for Hayti . They all came from the Opelousas parishes, and are farmers, mechanics and weavers of the stuff called Attakapas cottonade. They take with them the necessary implements for the pursuit of their respective [...]
Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], February 17, 1860 The Chattanooga Reflector says a white woman by the name of Mary Wilson, of Adairsville, Ga., came up to that place on the Georgia train on the 6th, with a big buck negro belonging to a gentleman of the former place, who she had stolen with the intention, [...]
New York Times, February 16, 2020 Mr. HICKMAN (John Hickman, see image) having practically “retired from business ” as a hero, some of the partisan Republican journals are desperately trying to set him up again as a martyr. We do not think the operation likely to prove successful. The facts in the case of Mr. [...]
Natchez Daily Free Trader [MS], February 15, 1860 The Reinterments of the Dead of Tensas. Yesterday many of our citizens, who were not apprised of the circumstance, were surprised at seeing the hearse proceeding so many times through our streets to the “Natchez City of the Silent.” They were the remains of persons who had [...]
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[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, February 10, 1860 The Cane Hill committee of vigilance met a few days ago, and gave peremptory notice to several suspicious characters to “vamoose the ranch,” promising in case of refusal, to hand one over to the Grand Jury, and to make a suspension of the other. We do not know [...]
Natchez Daily Free Trader [MS], February 10, 1860 The San Antonio Herald says there is quite an emigration of Mexican families into that place from Mexico, since the late defeats of the Liberal party there. One day lately a dozen families arrived in one company. They say there is no peace for them in Mexico.
Southern Broad-Axe [West Point, MS], February 8, 1860 A friend of ours writing from Nacogdoches, Texas, says: “Texas avails herself of every opportunity of showing her patriotism, her respect for the constitution, the South and the blood of her ancient heroes, by elevating the humanitarian emissaries of the Seward and Brown stripe, sent down here [...]
Standard [Clarksville, TX], February 4, 1860 An extraordinary case of a girl concealing her sex for many years has been brought to light at Pettiers, France. Augustine, alias Augustus Baudouin, young person of 17, was known in the town and neighborhood as an active lad, and had been in place in respectable houses as “odd [...]
Standard [Clarksville, TX], February 4, 1860 It seems that Mr. Mills of Navarro, has found it necessary, in his place in the State Legislature, to define the position of the people of Northern Texas upon the Slavery question. We were not before this aware that the people of Northern Texas required any definement of their [...]
[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, February 3, 1860 (1860 infomercial continued…) “Now, friend, we are ready to hear you according to promise, finish your account of your country. We are much pleased so far with your answers to our queries, and think you endeavor to give us the truth concerning Arkansas.” “I am much obliged to [...]
[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, February 2, 1860 Lake Village, Jan. 9th, 1860. Dear Old-Line.—Thinking that perhaps amid the din of political strife, a letter from the quiet and secluded little town of Lake Village, would operate as a balm to your weary soul, by again calling to remembrance those scenes of quietude remote from the [...]