Texas Baptist [Anderson, TX], February 2, 1860 For the Texas Baptist . Brother Baines: In the first issue of your paper for the present year, I find an article devoted to the very disgusting practice of smoking and chewing tobacco. Sister Caroline, I think, has selected a subject too little spoken of, and there is, [...]

[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, February 2, 1860 Since the 1st of January the great house of Stewart & co., of New York—as we learn from the papers of that city—have discharged FIFTY of their employees in consequence of the reduction of their Southern trade. The same holds good in other cities, and the north will [...]

Standard [Clarksville, TX], January 28, 1860  Natchez, Jan. 10—A man whose name is not given, attempted to commit a rape on a young girl only ten years of age, last Saturday. He was arrested and imprisoned. A mob marched to the jail, took him out by force and hung him on a tree in the [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, January 28, 1860 Our thanks are due Dr. E. J. Beall and T. J. Beall, Esq., for late New Orleans and Mobile papers. These gentlemen have been on a visit to Alabama. They reached home a few days ago.  Mr. Beall states that the emigration from Alabama, and through that State, to [...]

[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, January 27, 1860 Note: This “conversation” is an early form of an infomercial, but it provides an interesting perspective of the Arkansas of 160 years ago, including the sectional politics and slavery. Something like the following conversation occurred in _______, in Missouri, between a citizen of Fayetteville and a gathering of [...]

[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, January 26, 1860 We made a most delightful visit to our thriving and enterprising sister town of Pine Bluff last week, and was much gratified to witness its prosperity and enjoy the hospitality of its kind and warm hearted citizens. There is no town in Arkansas that exhibits more cheering and [...]

Hinds County Gazette [Raymond, MS], January 25, 1860 We announce with no little satisfaction, that the old Jail property in this place, is soon to be transformed into a Negro Depot. It was purchased at the recent sale, we believe, with that view, and will soon be stocked, by a couple of gentlemen well and [...]

Hinds County Gazette [Raymond, MS], January 25, 1860 On reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that Dr. H. Estes has established, at his residence near Edwards Depot, in this county, an Infirmary for the treatment of sick and diseased negroes. We confidently recommend Dr. E. and his new enterprise to all of [...]

Alexander H. Stephens to J. Henly Smith. Crawfordville [Ga.] , Jan. 22d, 1860. Dear Smith, Your long letter of the 9th inst. was not received by me until my return the other day from Savannah, where I was at the Supreme Court for ten days. Since my return I have been very busy with a [...]

[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, January 20, 1860 Fayetteville, Arks.} January 18, 1860 } Messrs. Pettigrew & Boudinot.—The Arkansian has become the most popular paper ever published in the city of Fayetteville, consequently the people look to it for a proper exposition of politics and morals. As to your positions on the political issue of the [...]

[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, January 20, 1860 Messrs. Editors.—I beg leave to suggest that until we pull the beam out of our own eye, we had better leave the moat in our neighbor’s alone. All your comments, though meant for a good purpose, against Abolitionists in the free States, are like so much chaff before [...]

[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, January 20, 1860 A Mounted Rifle company was organized by the citizens of this county, on last Saturday, by the election of the following officers: Captain—J. M. Tuttle; 1st Lieu, P. P. Vanhoose; 2d Lieut, W. R. Cunningham; 3d Lieut, J. R. Pettigrew. Another meeting of the company will be held [...]

[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, January 19, 1860 From Northern Institutions.  The late news from Richmond, informing us of the revolt of the Southern students from the Medical Colleges of Philadelphia and New York, is one of the most striking and gratifying assurances to the people of the South, that the pride, interests, and future glory [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], January 19, 1860 Mr. Editor—As a chronicler of events, your attention is invited to the American Graveyard, near the Garrison. Almost every afternoon you might witness scenes of vandalism unequaled anywhere in the world. The rising generation, boys from ten to eighteen, repair thereto and amuse themselves [...]

[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, January 19, 1860 We had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Messrs. Slaughter and Sawyer of Natchez, who have come to this city for the purpose of building the Gas Works. The ground is surveyed, and the contracts signed. Messrs. Robbins and Fisher are the contractors for the brick and [...]

Texas Baptist [Anderson, TX], January 19, 1860 Students are leaving the northern Colleges by hundreds on account of the insults they have to hear upon the South since the hanging of Brown. Three hundred medical students left the two schools in Philadelphia on the 21st December.

Louisiana Democrat [Alexandria, LA], January 18, 1860 A writer in the Philadelphia Free Press, after personal  inspection of the condition of fugitive slaves in Canada, says: I have recently returned from a month’s sojourn in Chatham, and can speak from personal observation. Every one knows that this town, lying on the flats between Lakes Erie [...]

Southern Broad-Axe [West Point, MS], January 18, 1860 I take this method of informing the citizens of Lowsdes, Oktibbeha, Monroe, and the surrounding counties, that I am located one mile South of Artesia, on the M. & O. R. R., for the purpose of catching negroes, where I shall always be in readiness to serve [...]

Southern Broad-Axe [West Point, MS], January 18, 1860 On Friday the 20th instant, the Military Company recently gotten up under the appropriate name of the West Point Grays, assembled according to previous announcement at Dunlap’s old store house, in West Point. At an early hour a large and full meeting was in attendance, whereupon B. [...]

Staunton Spectator, Virgina,  January 17, 1860 It is a matter of surprise that any serious apprehensions as to the stability of the Union should now be felt in any quarter. With the exception of the insignificant faction of ultra abolitionists at the North and a few equally insane gentlemen of the fire-eating stripe at the [...]

Standard [Clarksville, TX], January 14, 1860  A confirmed opium-eater in Rochester has dropped the filthy habit. He is now an old man of seventy years, and for four years, he has not used the drug in any shape, though before he had been an opium-eater for forty years. When he commenced breaking himself of the [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, January 14, 1860 This very stringent measure goes into effect the 1st of  January. All free negroes found in the State at that period are to be sold into slavery. The papers of the State are re-publishing the act to give those interested timely notice.

[Marshall] Texas Republican, January 14, 1860 On the 5th inst., an abolitionist was arrested at Jefferson by the name of Fory R. Arnold.  He had been heard to say that “he was born upon freesoil—that he was proud of it, and that he  was an abolitionist and expected to be one as long as he [...]

[Marshall] Texas Republican, January 14, 1860 It is a waste of raw materials to put five dollars worth of hat on ten cents’ worth of brains.