MARSHALL TEXAS REPUBLICAN 1860 [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 2, c. 1 We acknowledge the pleasure of a visit from Col. A. R. Mitchell, the talented editor of the Upshur Democrat, who is spending a few days in our city. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 2, c. 1 Saddlery.—Mr. J. B. Edwards, has removed his establishment to the building recently occupied by the Post Office. A fine workman, and always having a good stock on hand, he deserves to be liberally patronized. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 2, c. 3 Storm Parties. Marshall and vicinity have been unusually gay during the holidays. Storm parties, as they are termed, have been all the rage. The series of charming entertainments commenced, we believe, by an invasion of the premises of Hon. John T. Mills. We were not present at the delightful foray. The Judge lives two or three miles in the country; and although our friends acknowledge we possess a fine carriage, we are not the owner of a gig or buggy, and we yielded to the rapacity of those who at an early hour invaded the livery stables. Our friends who were present, reported themselves greatly refreshed; stated that it was a delightful evening, &c., which we regarded as a "romance," inasmuch as the weather was exceedingly inclement. Other parties followed in quick succession. Among those stormed was our friend of the Flag, who deported himself quite handsomely. The scene was one of enjoyment. We had the pleasure of attending two of the parties. The first was at the residence of Mrs. E. A. Thompson, where there was quite a brilliant coterie of ladies and gentlemen. Everything was prepared and managed with exquisite taste. The supper table was amply supplied with every delicacy, and beautifully decorated. The second was at the residence of Rev. Otis smith, where there was also a gay assemblage, and an array of beauty which it would be difficult to equal in any country. The supper was superb, and the taste manifested in the decoration of the table, we have never seen surpassed. Every one seemed to enjoy themselves very much at these parties. The gale, we are inclined to believe, has not yet subsided. The eyes of the young and gay, it is rumored, are cast wistfully at the splendid suburban residences of the city. We look with considerable interest to the social events of the next ten days. These social gatherings exercise a beneficial influence upon society, and do much to promote good feeling. It is rumored that several marriages are on the tapis. As an editor never publishes any secrets, we must be excused from giving the names of the parties. An acquaintance of ours, a most estimable lady, who knows—but enough; we shall say no more about this matter at present. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 We extend to our readers, one and all, the compliments of the season. May the year that has just opened, prove propitious in blessings, individually and nationally; bringing happiness and prosperity to many households, and restoring peace to our distracted country. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 Cashmere Goats.—A week or ten days ago, there was an importation of two beautiful specimens of the breed of these goats, purchased, we understand, from Mr. Richard Peters of Atlanta, Georgia. The first was a ram owned by Mr. Lawrence Lister, a ¾ breed, and the other a 15/16, owned by Messrs. B. M. Baldwin and R. R. Haynes. The wool is exceedingly fine and beautiful. A great deal of fine stock has been introduced into Texas within the last twelve months. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 We learn that a few nights ago, Mr. Bell, our jailor, gave the prisoners who were in jail in the cage, an oven of coals to keep them warm, and that having a razor in the cage with them, they converted it into a saw, with which they cut the cage, and then with their fire burnt through the loft of the jail, and were preparing to pick the brick out of the gable end of the building, and let themselves down with their blankets. But the jailor happening to hear them at their work, went up and put a stop to their operations, and blasted their expectations of a Christmas frolic on the outside.—Henderson New Era. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 3, c. 2 Wm. Bradfield Chas. E. Talley Messrs. Bradfield & Talley, Having permanently located in Marshall for a number of years, beg leave to call the attention of the citizens of Harrison county and the public generally to their large an complete stock of Fancy and Staple Goods,which they are now offering at reduced prices. Their stocks will at all times be complete, and their goods substantial, durable, and of the latest style. Their stock is comprised in part of Alpacas, Merinos, Bombazine, Sack Flannel, White Flannel, Red Flannel, Fancy Delaines, together with a variety of other colors. Calicoes, of all kinds, and warranted colors, Bleached and Brown Domestics, Shirting, Osnaburgs, Bed Ticking, Striped Domestics, cotton Diapers, Furniture Damasks, Linen Diapers, Table Linens, Hosiery of every description, Kid Gloves, Buck Gloves, Cassimere Gloves, Irish Linens, Swiss, Check Muslin, Jackonet Muslin, Nainsook Muslin, A Few Bonnets, of the most desirable style. Ready Made Clothing, to suit the taste of any and all. Hats and Caps, of every kind. Also a very desirable lot of Hardware, such as Axes, Saws, Chisels, Hammers, Butts and Screws, Pocket Knives, Table Knives, Draw Knives, Locks of every kind, Strap Hinges, Wafer Irons, Waffle Irons, Andirons, Hames, &c., Tacks, Chains, Traces, also, Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Martingales, Girths, &c., together with a large stock of Crockery and Glass Ware. Call and examine for yourselves before you buy elsewhere. Bradfield & Talley; Marshall, Jan. 7th, 1860. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 3, c. 4 A Large and Superior Stock of Saddlery. The undersigned is happy to inform his friends that he has just received a large and very Superior Stock of Saddlery, and is now fully prepared to fill all orders in his line in a manner to give complete satisfaction. An establishment properly furnished has been required for many years in Marshall. The undersigned, from his long experience in the business understood exactly what was needed, and he thinks he has filled it. He wishes the citizens of Marshall and surrounding country to call and examine for themselves before buying elsewhere. A superior lot of Saddles and Harness, and everything in his line kept constantly on hand. J. B. Edwards. Mar. 2, 1859. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 3, c. 2 J. H. Vanhook, [illustration] Manufacturer of Tin Ware, Etc., Shop South of the Public Square, Marshall, Texas, Has just received a large supply of Office, Parlor, Church, and Cooking Stoves. Great improvements have been made in stoves within the last few years, and these, which he is now offering for sale, are of the Latest and Most Approved Models. No Family ought to be without a Cooking Stove, and no Family will be, after having once tried them, and ascertained their value. Sufficient is saved, in labor and fuel, within a very short time, to pay for one. J. H. Van Hook also carries on, in all its various branches, the Tinning Business; and is prepared to execute all work with which he may be favored, promptly, and on the most reasonable terms. A large supply of Tin Ware, for Family purposes, always on hand, and which will be sold cheaper than can be purchased elsewhere. Stores Supplied with Tin Ware cheaper than can be bought in New Orleans. Guttering and Job Work done at short notice, and on reasonable terms. March 25, 1859. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 4, c. 1 M. Camille Vert, a Parisian, has invented a flying machine in the shape of a fish, which, while in the air, he can guide in any direction. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 7, 1860, p. 4, c. 1 To Cure Sore Throat.—Take the whites of two eggs and beat them with two spoonsful of white sugar; grate in a little nutmeg, and then add a pint of luke warm water. Stir well, and drink often. Repeat the prescription if necessary, and it will cure the most obstinate case of hoarseness in a short time. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 14, 1860, p. 1, c. 4 Free Negro Act of Arkansas.—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, p. 1, c. 4 It is a waste of raw materials to put five dollars worth of hat on ten cents' worth of brains. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 14, 1860, p. 2, c. 3 A Trip on the Southern Pacific Railroad. On Sunday last, in company with Col. A. R. Mitchell, of the Upshur Democrat, and a number of our citizens, we took a trip over the Southern Pacific Railroad to Swanson's landing. It had been about eighteen months since we were over this road, and hence we were agreeably surprised at the improvements made during that period. Until within a few months past, in consequence of litigation, the property was comparatively neglected, and the road out of repair. Mr. Hynson has exhibited great energy within that period, as Superintendent of the company. The road is now in complete repair, and is pronounced by competent judges, equal to any in the South. Mr. G. G. Gregg, who was one of our company, said it was only inferior to the best Northern roads; those for instance connecting immediately with the large cities. Sheds have been erected at this end of the line for storing cotton, and a commodious warehouse; temporary buildings. Scott's bears striking resemblance to a village. At Jonesville, also, there are like improvements. At Swanson's there is a large frame warehouse, sheds sufficient to store any amount of cotton, and all the other necessary buildings for the use of the Company. The engineer appears to be a very careful man, and the officers are polite and attentive. The weather was delightful; a May day could not have been more beautiful. There had been two steamboats at Swanson's, we learned, that morning, and while we were there the Sallie Robinson a very respectable size boat, landed. The Lake is now up, sufficient to admit the larger class of Lake steamers. At Swanson's the wharf is nearly finished. It will be completed this week, so that there will be no difficulty experienced by steamboats in landing. We obtained a substantial dinner at the Lake. An hour or two afterwards, we got aboard of the cars, and started homeward in double quick time. At Jonesville we met the Sbreveport stages loaded with passengers; among them Mr. Geo. L. Hill, and family, who were returning from Georgia, and Capt. R. H. Martin, as kind and accommodating a gentleman as ever commanded a steamboat. We reached Marshall at an early hour. It was conceded by all, that we had spent a very pleasant day. The connection which has been formed by the railroad company with the Shreveport stage line is an admirable one, particularly at this season of the year, when the roads are so bad. We do not know the amount of cotton and produce shipped over the road this season; but we are satisfied that it has been considerable. We found cotton piled up on the road side between the depots, and a quantity at Swanson's which has doubtless ere this been shipped and is now on its way to the city. By next season, we hope to chronicle the fact, that a connection has been formed with Shreveport, and the road further extended into Texas from twenty-five to fifty miles. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 14, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 Stanley & Nimmo's Packery. The Jefferson Gazette gives the subjoined interesting notice of this firm and their business operations. We had the pleasure of attending, on Christmas day, in company with a few invited guests a Christmas Dinner, given by the proprietors of this extensive establishment to their operatives, numbering, we believe, some eighty or ninety men. The table was about one hundred feet in length, and spread in the second story of the main building. At two o'clock, the bell summoned all parties to the feast—and a feast truly it was, for set before us in magnificent abundance, were "fish flesh and fowl," the substantials of life, with every variety of sweetmeats and delicacies to match all, too, having an air of neatness and care resembling a banquet to some tender bride, or a happy people's offering in commemoration of the day that gave our nation birth. No kid-gloved aristocracy nor jeweled millionaires, scarce knowing how they are fed, were there, to cock their useless noses in sickly mockery at the hardy sons who alone keep the world in motion—but men with stalwart arms and cheeks redolent with the health and happiness that an active life alone can give, rendered the scene a grand exhibition of the nobility of labor. No bacchanalian guffaw nor vulgar wit was heard, to disturb and put to the blush the dignity that attaches to true gentility, but a modest reserve—an unassumed pride pervaded the whole assembly—a pride of conscious merit. The scene passed off quietly, without the assistance of police, and we hope that each succeeding Christmas day may bring about a repetition of the scene of happiness, sobriety and tranquility that characterized the occasion and its participants. While on the subject, we may as well state that the slaughtering at this establishment is now pretty well over—four thousand head of cattle having been butchered for the season. And to show with what dispatch they transact business, we will state the fact that the morning of the 24th ult. found them with 177 head of cattle in the pen, and at 4 o'clock on the evening of the same day every beef was butchered, nicely cleaned, quartered and hanging in the cooling room. The reputation of this establishment with its extensive and convenient arrangements, has gone abroad. Men of experience, who have visited the best arranged packeries in the world, pronounce its whole construction unsurpassed by any thing of the kind in the country. Their cisterns are capacitated to hold, at the same time, two thousand head of six year old cattle, and every other arrangement is on a scale of equal magnitude. Their pumps are so arranged as to conduct water from the bayou to every department, enabling them to keep all things as clean and nice as their pride, comfort, or fancy may dictate. It is styled by competent judges a model packery, and, as we have no doubt, justly so. Their beef, we understand, has commanded the highest price in both New York and Liverpool markets, and, it is well known, has secured an enviable reputation wherever it is known. This is their second season, and it is to be hoped that each succeeding one will bring to them enlarged profits and an extended reputation. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 14, 1860, p. 2, c. 7 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 lived." He had also been tampering with slaves. The citizens of Jefferson passed the following resolutions: "Resolved, That we as a committee appointed to investigate the conduct of Fory R. Arnold, have unanimously concluded that the words and expressions used by him are of such a character as to deserve immediate action on the part of a southern community. "Resolved, That we therefore require the said Fory R. Arnold to leave this country within 24 hours in search of a region more congenial to his abominable sentiments. Resolved, That the day has at length arrived when the south must take decided action, and use the most cogent means to put a stop to every thing that has the least tendency to abolitionism. "Therefore, we recommend to the legislature to repeal the laws authorising peddling, and affix a penalty for the violation of the same. "Whereas this meeting is informed that the postmaster-general has declared that in States where incendiary publications are inhibited, postmasters may refuse to distribute such documents and destroy the same, that they be requested to do it." [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 14, 1860, p. 4, c. 1 Pew Talk for Sunday. That tall young fellows here to-day! I wonder what's his name? His eyes are fixed upon our pew— Do look at Sally Dame. Who's that young lady dressed in green? It can't be Mrs. Leach; There's Mr. Jones with Deacon Giles! I wonder if he'll preach? Lend me your fan—it is so warm— We both will sit in prayers; Mourning becomes the Widow Ames— How Mary's bonnet flares. Do look at Nancy Slooper's veil, It's full a breadth too wide; I wonder if Susannah Ayres Appears to-day as bride? Lord! What a voice Jane Rice has got! Oh, how that organ roars! I'm glad we've left the singers' seat; How hard Miss Johnson snores! What ugly shawls are those in front! Did you observe Ann Wild? Her new straw bonnet's trimmed with black, I guess she's lost a child. I'm half asleep; that Mr. Jones! His sermons are so long; This afternoon we'll stay at home, And practice that new song. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 21, 1860, p. 2, c. 3 The "East Texas Times" is the title of a new Democratic journal which has made its appearance at Henderson, Texas, Gould & Diamond, editors and proprietors. It is well gotten up and promises to prove an able auxiliary to the party whose principles it sustains. Its motto is, "Equality in the Union or Independence out of it." We wish it success. A paper sustained by men bearing such names ought, as a matter of consistence, to prove a mine of wealth. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 28, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 Emigration to Texas. 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 Texas has been very great this year. When he came down the Alabama river, there were a number of steamboats that started about the same time, carrying in all about eighteen hundred passengers, the most of them destined for this State. He learned that more slaves had been cleared this year from the custom house at Mobile destined for Texas, than for five preceding years, as large as the emigration has been during that period. Every portion of the State reports a heavy immigration, If the increase has been as great elsewhere as through this immediate section, the prospects are indeed flattering. Our vast extent of territory, presenting millions of acres of unoccupied lands, from which to make selections; the fact that Texas herself possesses a hundred millions of public domain; that she has made ample provision out of this fund for common schools and for the endowment of a magnificent free University, to be open alike to poor and rich; but more than all, the inauguration of a liberal railroad policy, promising the most brilliant results, has stimulated capital and enterprize to seek this new theatre of exertion. None of our great public works are languishing; all of them are being prosecuted with redoubled energy. The confidence felt in their success has brought a vast emigration, and this increase of population, wealth, and enterprize, is destined to give them an extraordinary impetus. If the history of Texas for the last ten years has been replete with interest, the succeeding decade will contain much more to challenge admiration. We have had roads opened through the haunts of the red man, counties created, and towns built up as if by magic; but within the next ten years, the great body of our lands will be settled, the State in all probability ramified by railroads, and cities rivaling in population and wealth many of the older States. The immigration into Texas since the period of annexation has been of the most desirable character. We venture to say that no State in the Union possesses so many intelligent, enterprizing men, or presents a more fruitful field for the exercise of energy, talent, and capital. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 28, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 Stormed.—As this is "leap year," our bachelor friends must look out. On Friday night last the law office of Col. W. H. Bristow was blown open, and several hundred yards of crinoline, ribbons, and lace entered. Conversation, dancing, &c., followed. There was any amount of feminine beauty that might be called for; faces and forms that the graces might have envied, or which the poet, painter, and sculptor would have viewed with delight. In vain the venerable array of books frowned from their ponderous shelves upon the gay crowd. Law learning was at a discount. Blackstone was laughed out of countenance. Old chanticleer sent forth his clarion, midnight warnings all unheeded. The Col. was all smiles and all attention, and his best friends—his lady admirers we mean, of course—said that they never saw him took so well. We hear it whispered that the young ladies of Marshall contemplate giving shortly a "Leap Year" party in which they will avail themselves of the privileges of the season. It will be a rare, rich treat, the particulars of which will be very interesting. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, January 28, 1860, p. 2, c. 6 McCormick, late of the Panola Harbinger, turns up at Shelbyville, where he has started the "Echo," a newspaper whose fair proportions rival those of his Panola first love. He inquires anxiously after his Carthage contemporary. "The accomplished editor is in ease, but we have heard nothing definitely yet, of the valuable team that belonged to the Bulletin office." One of them was recently in Marshall, but has gone back to Carthage, and we presume is once more in the traces. Mc. recounts several newspaper failures in Carthage during the last twelve months, and then exulting over the suspension of the Bulletin says: "What a responsive half-acre, would not Carthage be now for an echo?—that graveyard, not the nursery of newspapers." [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, February 4, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 A. R. Mitchell, Esq., has retired from the editorial chair of the Upshur Democrat, and is succeeded by Mr. W. H. Hart. These gentlemen have our kind wishes. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, February 4, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 We have received the "Student's Friend," a monthly of 32 pages, edited by Joshua Starr, published at Palestine, Anderson county, Texas. We have enjoyed the first number very much. Should the succeeding issues be equal to this, we are under the impression our health will improve. It is published at $1 per annum. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, February 4, 1860, p. 3, c. 1 Wood Ware. Just received and for sale by G. G. Gregg & Co., Brass Bound Cedar Buckets and Piggins, Tony Buckets, half Bushel Measures, Cany Pails, Well Buckets, Oak, Cedar, and painted Buckets, Spinning Wheels, Water Kegs, Barrel Covers, Cedar Churns, Trays, Wood Bowls, Coco Dippers, Zinc and Wood Washboards, Willow Wagons, Work, Market and Clothes Baskets, Cedar Painted and varnished Keelers, Cedar and Painted Tubs, Rolling Pins, Axe Helves, Whisk, Hearth, and Floor Brooms, sash cord, Trot Lines, &c., &c. All of which will be sold for cash and on time to prompt paying customers. G. G. Gregg & Co. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, February 11, 1860, p. 3, c. 1 "Hundreds of people," observes Lola Montez, "are in their graves at present over whom a coroner's jury could find a verdict of 'died of petticoats.'" She means probably both men and women—and, perhaps, more of the former. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, February 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 Jefferson has now but one newspaper; Mr. Eggers having bought out the Herald and united it with his own paper, the Gazette. He is of course doing an excellent business, and enabled thereby to publish a paper better representing the commercial interests of the place, which is the great feature of attraction. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, February 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 The Texas Tribune is the title of a neat, spirited journal, published at Gilmer, Texas, Mr. J. H. Trowell, editor and proprietor, and B. W. Reilly, publisher. Our Gilmer friends with two respectable newspapers are looking up. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, February 18, 1860, p. 3, c. 2 Prospectus of "The Scool [sic] Girls' Greeting." An Original Literary Journal, Under the Exclusive Management of the Hale and LeVert Societies of the Masonic Female Institute, Marshall, Texas. Miss Fannie Barrett, } " Mary Bradfield, } " Fannie Van Zandt, } Editresses. " Eliza Rain, } The young LADIES of the above named Societies, in obedience to the solicitations of many of their friends, have consented to publish a Monthly Paper, entitled "THE SCHOOL GIRLS' GREETING" to be edited and conducted entirely by their own members. The first number to be issued in APRIL next. Impressed with the belief that much too little interest has been manifested for the encouragement and support of Southern Journalism, they enter upon the task, though new to them, with a hearty good will, and they hereby pledge themselves to use their best endeavors to merit a generous support. While we shall claim the right to speak independently upon all proper subjects, "THE SCHOOL GIRLS' GREETING," will be almost exclusively devoted to ORIGINAL Literature. We are aware that we have assumed a weighty responsibility, for the honorable discharge of which, we look to the assistance of an enlightened and liberal public. As the success of our enterprise depends on our ability to pay for printing, we hope our friends will place it in our power to send forth our 'GREETING' filled with treasures from the store-house of learning, which will amply repay them for the trifling amount invested. TERMS: For single copies per annum $1 50 Four copies " " 5 00 All communications must be addressed to Miss Fannie Barrett, Marshall, Texas. Feb. 18, 1860. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, February 25, 1860, p. 3, c. 1 Texas Plows, Encourage Home Manufactures. I have an urgency to sell Nash's Plows. These plows are manufactured at Nash's foundry, 16 miles west of Jefferson, Texas, where the iron is taken out of Texas soil, and the plows are made. They are therefore exclusively of Texas manufacture. It is harder than any other iron is made, and is regarded as far superior. These plows speak for themselves. Farmers would do well to look at them before purchasing. If found to fill the bill, they ought, as a matter of State pride, to claim the precedence over plows manufactured abroad. Call and see them. D. McPhail. Feb. 25, 1860. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, March 10, 1860, p. 2, c. 4 Shreveport, La., March 5, 1860. I left home on Saturday morning last, taking the Southern Pacific Railroad preferring this mode of conveyance to a trip by stage to Shreveport, in the present condition of the roads. My expectations were fully realized. Upon arriving at the depot, I found a number of ladies and gentlemen; some of them destined for Jonesville and others to the Lake terminus of the road. There was quite a quantity of cotton at the Marshall depot; I should suppose between fifteen hundred and two thousand bales, and a considerable number of bales at every other station on the route. The day was beautiful, and everything conspired to make the trip pleasant. The new Locomotive, "Sam Houston," is an exceedingly fine one, and I must say that I found it much more agreeable to ride behind it, than I did to ride behind "Old Sam" in the gubernatorial contest. The presence of Ladies always gives interest to a journey, and when they are pretty and fascinating it is much more so. I do not know how it is with the majority of men, but I feel sometimes like Byron, when he wished that "womankind had but one rosy mouth." What is more innocent and exquisitely beautiful than a sweet girl just verging into womanhood, combining all the nameless graces of her sex? The ladies insisted that I should bring them a grateful return of candy from the "Crescent City," which I promised faithfully to do, and of course shall expect a notice of thanks in the literary journal of which one of these fair friends is to be the head. Arrived at Swanson's, the next thing was to look around and see what was to be seen. The landing was covered with cotton. I should suppose there was enough on hand to load several steamboats, and it continues to arrive as rapidly as it is taken off. There are a number of hands engaged in constructing a new wharf. About 12 o'clock M., the steamer W. A. Andrew arrived from Jefferson and commenced taking in cotton, which detailed her until sometime in the night. She did not leave until near daylight the next morning. About 10 o'clock at night, the Steamer National came up. I embarked on the Andrew. The trip to Shreveport was pleasant. The fare on the Andrew is excellent, and the officers polite and kind. I stopped at Shreveport at the Commercial, which is kept by Mr. Twitty, who it will be remembered was in Marshall for sometime, and our old friend Capt. Hart, formerly of the Adkins House. Of course I am in comfortable quarters; excellent fare, and the best of attentions. Shreveport is an exceedingly inhospitable looking place. The streets are almost impassible for the mud. I never saw so much mud before anywhere. Yesterday an empty wagon, with a pretty good team, got through with difficulty. I am told that there are a great number of dead oxen between this place and Marshall, animals that have just sunk and died by the road side. Why is it that people are silly enough to haul cotton and freight through such streets and roads, when, as in many cases, it could be avoided, is a mystery to me. I propose leaving to-morrow night on the R. W. Powell. L. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 3 Shreveport, March 6, 1860. Yesterday was a very pretty day and the citizens of this mud fated city seemed to enjoy it very much. The reader may object to the term "mud fated", and evince surprise at my using it. Ordinarily I would be disposed to let him have his own way; but having been recently engaged in one or two hair-splitting discussions, I am not disposed to yield the point. It is customary to speak of a city or an individual as "ill-fated," and why can we not with as much or more propriety say "mud-fated?" "Ill-fated" is altogether imaginary; and although we may believe with Shakspeare [sic], that "There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them as we will, "we have no demonstrative proof of it. It as best but a lurid ignis fat-u-us. "Mud fated" is a practical idea; "eminently" so, as my friend Jenkins used to say when he desired to be emphatic. The pedestrian, as he wends his way along the side walks of the thoroughfares of this city, through four or five inches of mud, stepping and sliding about, now here, now there, happy if he can maintain his questionable footing, and consoled with the reflection of how much better it is than the middle of the street, and his mind wandering back to the time, as does mine, when Shreveport could scarcely boast of such a luxury as a side walk, would concede the point at once. The luckless Texas waggoner, with sixteen famished looking steers, and five bales of cotton, looking as if he expected every moment to stick; men in buggies and on horseback; ladies as they gaze out from their houses, where they are safely caged, if the question was submitted to their decision would pronounce Shreveport without a moment's hesitation, a "mud-fated" city. It is "nothing else." We have mud every where; in doors and out; travel through it all day, and some perhaps dream of mud by night; but this last, I shall not insist upon. But as I remarked when I set out, yesterday was a very pretty day. The sun shone out grandly, having, I am pleased to say, a most wonderful effect upon the streets, which this morning are quite passable. What a place is this city of Shreveport for business. The steamboats coming and going, the immense piles of freight, merchandise, produce, cotton, stock, &c., the large warehouses and stores, etc., filled to overflowing. Taking into consideration its size, I doubt whether there is another such shipping point and place of trade in the United States. Its population is peculiar, embracing the extremes of thrift and profligacy. One portion of the community seem to have but one object, and to recognize but one purpose in life, and that is to make money; the other portion seem engrossed with the one idea, and that is how to devise ways and means to spend it. The prince who offered a premium for the discovery of a new pleasure, if he had lived in Shreveport, would have offered a like inducement for an improvement upon the plan of spending money. Here they have the largest bar rooms, and the most numerous gambling hells, if report be true, of any town in the South. Here men look more desperate, wear the fiercest moustaches, and give them the most significant twist, of any place I ever saw. The business men are "all right;" they think and talk of nothing else but business. Yesterday I saw the most interesting array of fine stock it has ever been my good fortune to inspect. They were brought out by Mr. Patterson of New York, a gentleman who has been engaged for many years in the stock business, and consists of 240 imported Spanish and French merino rams and ewes; a portion of them mixed Spanish and French; and also a lot of the finest English cattle. Among the latter are seven bulls, five Durhams and 2 Devons. One of these bulls the proprietor thinks would weight 2,000 pounds. He is a curiosity. These cattle and sheep come up fully to the pictures we sometimes see in agricultural books and newspapers. They leave here to day, and expect to reach Marshall sometime next week, when our planters will have an opportunity of purchasing some of them. Last night, I went to the theatre, and saw the play of Ingomar performed. The leading characters were sustained by Mr. J. S. Charles and Mrs. Kate D. Kyan. Mr. Charles performed his part admirably. He never acquitted himself better. But what surprised me was the superior acting of Mrs. Kyan. I have heard the best readers on the American state, and the finest performers from England who have visited this country, and I think she will bear a favorable comparison with the best of them. It may be that I over estimate her abilities, but I cannot but think she is idling her time away to little profit, by staying in such a place as this. I am disgusted with the stage as it exists. It is the hand maid of drinking, gambling, and every other vice and immorality. Many applaud virtuous sentiments, who are led captive by the fascinations around them and remember them only while they are uttered. There are several very fine buildings here; among them the bank, which I am inclined to believe is a considerable humbug. My old friend Ben Johnson was bank enough for this place, and I expect does more business now than the mammoth institution. What a splendid hotel this fine banking superstructure would make, and no town in the world so much needs a good hotel building as Shreveport. The principal streets are lighted with gas, which gives Shreveport a city-like appearance. This gas is of excellent quality, and I am told the projectors of the gas works are making money. I will write again when I get on the river. L. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 Complimentary Party. We had the pleasure, on Friday night last, of attending the complimentary party, given to Mr. James Turner and Lady, at the Adkins House, by the young men of Marshall. It was decidedly one of the most brilliant affairs we ever witnessed. There were from a 150 to 200 persons in attendance, and we never before in all our life, saw so much beauty, as many pretty faces, and so many winning smiles concentrated within the walls of one house; indeed, Harrison county has good cause to boast of her fair daughters, for we believe they will favorably compare, in point of intellect, good behavior, gracefulness and beauty, with any community, not only in Texas, but in the Union, the fastidious and fashionable of London not excepted. About half past 8, or 9 o'clock, the dance commenced, and it was a scene worthy to behold to see some of our young bloods "tip the fantastic toe," and to see how gracefully the fair daughters of old Harrison moved over the floor in keeping pace with the music. And we would have you know, dear reader, that there were others there who did not engage in the dance, whose sweet smiles and merry laughter made many a young man's heart beat more rapidly than it was want to do, and others mourn that they did not possess the treasure. About 12 or 1 o'clock, supper was announced, which suspended the dance for a short time; the party then repaired to the spacious dining room, to partake of the luxuries of the table, but as there was such a large number in attendance, we failed to obtain a seat at the first table, so a small party of us retired to the parlor, where we had the pleasure of listening to some of the most exquisite music, by the accomplished Miss ________, and to one of the clearest, sweetest, and most mellodious [sic] voices that ever fell upon mortal man's ear. The song we took such a fancy to, was called "the maiden's resolution," the last verse of which we fell most desperately in love with, where she says, "I rather think I will." We do not know what success other young men have met with, but our experience is that they always "rather think they won't." But we are digressing. The first table soon dispursed [sic] and we were invited in. The supper was a superb one, the table literally groaned with the good things of life; our worthy host and hostess deserve much credit for the elegant manner in which the supper was gotten up. After the dance was resumed, and kept up until about 3 o'clock in the morning, when they were admonished by old Sam's refusing to give them music, that it was time for them to retire. It is useless to say that every one's happiness was complete, and that the fair bride looked as sweet as the first flowers of spring. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, March 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 7 Married. At the residence of the bride's father, on the 7th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Dunlap, Mr. James Turner to Miss Dora Knox, both of this county. Accompanying the above notice, we received a huge cake, in the shape of a star, emblematic, we presume, of the Lone Star of Texas, for which the happy pair will accept our kindest regards. We wish them all the happiness that is known to the marriage state, and may the bark ever glide down life's rugged stream as it started, without a jar. Are we not one? are we not join'd by heav'n? Each interwoven with the other's fate? [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, March 24, 1860, p. 1, c. 4 A Nut for the Masculines to Crack. Annie Trevor, in the Philadelphia Press, gives her readers, of "the sterner sex," something to ponder over: Men are continually talking about women's dress, ridiculing woman's fashions, and having a good time of it to themselves. You don't hear women making such a noise about men's styles; they manage to mind their own business generally, on such matters as those anyhow. I break through forms, and give you an idea or two that are in my head now. Men talked about hoops, unblushingly and ridiculously, when they first became "the rage." Ministers in the pulpit, orators on the rostrum, editors through the papers; in the parlor and boys in the street, seemed to think it a necessary duty to cry down hoops; they do it yet, and I'll wager, if crinoline were entirely discarded, not a man lives who wouldn't laugh at the long shrouded figures women would appear in the streets. To be sure, I have met some few sensible men who are willing to acknowledge that hoops are a wonderful improvement, that they wouldn't like to see ladies without them, but the number is very small compared with the other side. Even while the men do make such a fuss, I want to know if any one of the sex wears a pair of pantaloons without some kind of stiffening around the hem of said articles. At any rate, I see some men who would look a deal better if they wore hoops in their pantaloons. When ladies wore coats, tight to the form, and buttoned to the throat a la militaire, men indignantly declared that their styles were being appropriated by the other sex, and, at that very same time, every second man you met was wrapped in a monstrous shawl. I wonder if that wasn't appropriating with a vengeance. Then they talk about padding, and there isn't a vest worn that the bosom isn't stuffed with cotton until it weighs more than any dress-body that was ever made. Padding, indeed! I wonder if you think we women are ignoramuses, because we have the good sense to say nothing. I wonder if you think we keep our eyes shut as well as our mouths. Not a bit of it. Don't I know that if the old style of knee-breeches and silk stockings should be revived, the demand for "false calves" would be alarming? To be sure I do. And don't I know that there are plenty of men who lace themselves in stays just as tight as any woman ever did, and for the very same reason that women do that thing? I don't know anything about it do I? Oh, no, of course I don't. I don't know that men dye their hair and whiskers when the natural color doesn't exactly suit them, do I? I never see men with tow-heads and jetty moustaches, do I? I don't know that old, gray-haired men are daily making efforts to rejuvenate themselves in appearance, by turning their gray hairs into 'glossy black,' wearing false teeth, &c., do I? Maybe I don't. Ladies wear tight shoes to make their feet look small, do they? Gentlemen never do such things, I suppose. They are never seen limping along the street in bran new patent leathers. Of course not. They never resort to artificial means to improve their beauty. They never wear woolen mittens all night to keep their hands white. Of course not. I don't know anything about it, do I? "What a quantity of stuff it takes to cut ladies' sleeves now-a-days!" said a masculine in my hearing. Ten minutes afterwards I saw him with a coat on, the sleeves of which looked like enormous balloons, legs of mutton, or some other monstrosity. There is consistency for you. Now, I advise you, men, to keep silence on matters you know nothing about. We will have our own way; we mean to wear hoops until we choose to take them off; we mean to wear coats a la militaire just when we please--aye and pantaloons, too, if it suits us. (They are worn by some married women now, are they not?) And you men had as well hold your tongues, and not be wasting your time and talents, talking about what you can't prevent. Hurrah for our side! Annie Trevor. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, March 31, 1860, p. 1, c. 4 Wedlock in the West.—Youths in the West are thus exhorted to marry, by one of the western journals: "A good wife is the best, most faithful companion you can possibly have by your side while performing the journey of life. A dog isn't a touch to her. She can smooth your linen and your cares for you; mend your trousers, and change your manners; sweeten sour moments, as well as your tea and coffee, ruffle, perhaps, your shirt bosom, but not your temper; and instead of sowing the seed of sorrow in your path, she will sew buttons on your shirt, and plant happiness, instead of harrow teeth, in your bosom. Yes! and if you are too confoundedly lazy, or too proud, to do such work yourself, she will carry swill to the hogs, chop wood, and dig potatoes for dinner. Her love for her husband is such that she will do anything to please him—except to receive company in her every day clothes. Get married, I repeat you must. Concentrate your affections upon one object, and don't distribute them crumb by crumb, amongst a host of Susans, Marias, Elizas, Betseys, Peggies, Dorothies, allowing each scarcely enough to nibble at. Get married, I repeat you must. Get married, and have some one to cheer you up as you journey through this vale of tears—somebody to scour up your dull, melancholy moments, and keep your whole life, and whatever linen you possess, in some sort of Sunday-go-to-meeting order." [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, March 31, 1860, p. 1, c. 4 From the Dallas Herald. To the Fair "Dippers." By a Looker On. "She that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge,* a serpent shall bite him."—Solomon. This morning I sat by a maid, And clasped her hand whiter than snow, And thought that an angel had strayed From her home to make heaven below! Small hands, fair as the shells of the sea, And sweet little fingers—oh, hush! What is it they hold! Ah! I see, 'Tis a confounded "dipper"—stick-brush! As rich as a half opened pink, Is the soft, blushing tints of her lips! They are parting to kiss me, I think, Oh, no! 'tis for—Heavens, she dips! How fair are her pearly-white teeth! Compared to them ivory's stuff— Let me drink the fresh balm of her breath— By thunder—I'm sneezing!—'tis snuff! Great God! and can lips that are sweet As the dew in the cup of the rose, Take a dose that a dog wouldn't eat— That would make a hog turn up his nose! Oh! beautiful maidens, refrain From that vile, detestable stuff! Never poison your dear lips again With filthy street-sweepings—called snuff. Just think, if your lovers should dare To rob your red lips of a kiss, And for honey, find snuff hidden there, 'Twould deprive you of Love's sweetest bliss! Our old Father Adam, we're told, Was slightly deluded by Eve, But the way we poor fellows are sold, Father Adam could never conceive! Gainesville, 1860. *Alluding to the great quantities of small timber annually destroyed for snuff mops. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, March 31, 1860, p. 2, c. 3 First Rate Idea.—The proprietor of a female boarding school at the north, has introduced into the catalogue of studies, the use of the sewing machine. He has provided a complete instructor, and each young lady is required to learn the art of sewing with the machine, before she graduates. This is one of the accomplishments that will pay a thousand fold better than one-half the studies superficially learned in our female colleges, institutes and high schools, and we hope our teachers will take the hint, and include the study of the sewing machine in the programme of qualifications for graduation. It ill prove more beneficial than studying Greek.—South-west. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, April 14, 1860, p. 2, c. 6 Pictures! Pictures!! R. S. Allen begs leave to inform the citizens of Marshall and the public generally that he has purchased of Spybey & Allen their picture gallery and having refitted his rooms, is now ready to take pictures in all kinds of weather. He feels confident of giving satisfaction and would solicit a liberal share of patronage. All wishing a good picture will do well to call at his rooms over the store of Spybey & Allen. He has also on hand a large and well assorted stock of Ambrotype Goods, which he will sell low for Cash. Orders from the country filled with promptness and dispatch. Persons wishing to buy will do well to call before purchasing elsewhere. R. S. Allen. April 14, 1860 [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, April 21, 1860, p. 3, c. 1 1860 1860 Spring and Summer Goods, Bradfield & Talley. Take great pleasure in inviting the attention of their friends and the public generally, of this and adjoining counties, in their very large and complete stock of Spring and Summer Goods, comprising every article kept in a country store. Their stock is almost entirely new, and having been selected with great care by one of the partners in person, and on the most favorable terms, they are enabled to offer much greater facilities to purchasers than has been the custom heretofore in this market. Their stock is composed in part of Fancy flounced silk Robes Fancy plaid and striped silks Black apron silk Black dress silk Marcaline silk, every color Florence, Fancy silk tissue robes Fancy Florence bareges Solid colored bareges, every color Fancy English barege Plain white barege, double width Black English crape Black, white, pink and blue Italian crape Black hat crape White dress silk White satin Gent's silk handkerchiefs cravats Organdie Muslin Robes, 3 to 10 Flounces Double Skirt Organdies, Corded and Plain Printed Muslins of every style Jaconet and Swiss Muslin Check and Striped Jaconet, and Swiss Mull and Nainsook, a large lot Thread Cambric White, Blue, and Pink Tarlton White and Black Silk Thule Black Silk, Nett, small figure Brown, Blue, and Green Veil Barege Tissue White Cotton Bobinett Irish Linen, at any price Jaconet Edging and Inserting Swiss Jaconet and Swiss Bands Linen Bands Ladies' Embroidered Handkerchiefs hem stitched Linen Ladies' Black silk Mantillas Lace Points Fancy Head Dresses French Artificials Bridal Wreaths Bonnet Ribbons Sash Narrow Satin; and Taffita [sic] Ribbons Black, White, and Colored Kid Gloves Silk Picknet Gloves for Ladies and Misses Ladies' Lisle and Silk Gloves, great variety We would invite particular attention to our stock of HEAVY GOODS, SUCH AS Lowells, ¾ and 7/8 Striped Domestic Lowell Hickory Shirting Blue Denims Bed Ticking 10 to 25 Brown Domestic ¾ 7/8 and 4-4 wide Sheeting 6-4 8-4 10-4 and 11-4 wide Twill Lowell White Wool Kersey Plaid Linsey, & c Our stock of Gentleman's Furnishing Goods, is unsurpassed by any, comprising Black Doeskin Cassimere Colored Cassimer for Summer Black French Cloth Blue " " Black French Drapd, etc English Planters Linen Duck Cottonades of every grade Spanish and Grass Linen COATINGS White Linen Drill and Duck Marseilles Coating, Vesting. Our stock of Ready Made Clothing is one of the best ever offered to this market, and our Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, are of the latest styles. Call and examine for yourself at our new Brick Store, North side Public Square, Marshall, Texas. April 21, 1860. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 3 Baloon [sic] Ascension.—We are requested to state that Miss Myra Rossella, or Prof. Samuel Wilson, will make a balloon ascension in Marshall, on Saturday, May the 26th, at 4 o'clock, P. M., with the largest balloon in the South, being 4 feet in diameter and 65 feet high, and containing six hundred square yards. On the night before the ascension, Prof. Wilson will give a free lecture on aerial Navigation, describing his various ascensions in Mexico, Cuba, California, and other parts of the world. He claims to have made over 200 ascensions. Such a sight has never been witnessed in Marshall, and will consequently attract the attention of the country for many miles. In this connection, we publish the following from the Central Texian, published at Anderson, Grimes county: "We learn that on Wednesday last Miss Myra Rosella made a successful balloon ascension from the town of Navasota. The fair aeronaut soared to the distance of about a mile, and after satisfying herself and the spectators generally, returned to terra firma but a few hundred yards from her place of departure." [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 4 Bread! Bread! Bread! Henrich & Munz, Confectioners & Bakers. Marshall, Texas. We will commence running a Bread Wagon (New Orleans style) on Monday the 28th day of May, and will continue to run regularly every day. Those wishing to be supplied with Bread, will please call at the Store, or apply to the Driver and procure tickets. We offer 22 Tickets, 5 cts., loaf, for $1.00. And 11 " 10 cts., loaf, for $1.00. Our object is to save families from baking Bread in the hot season of the summer and supplying them regularly for less than they can afford to bake their own Bread. May 19, 1860. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 Perfumery. Lubin's genuine Extracts, Harrison's Extracts, Bell Cologne, German Cologne, together with a large variety of Toilet Soap, just received and for sale by Bradfield & Talley. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 Hoops! Hoops! For all. 12, 20, 24, 30, 40, and 50 spring, of the latest style, just received and for sale by Bradfield & Talley. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 White Goods. A very handsome stock of Swiss, Jaconet, Check, Mull, and Nansook Muslins, Dotted and Striped Swiss, Bishop and Victoria Lawns, Linen Lawn, Irish Linen, Linen Cambric Pillow case Linen, Linen Sheeting, Bleached and Brown Table Damask, Towells, Towelling and Napkins, Birds Eye Diaper, Bleached Domestic, Bleached Sheetings, Brown and Yellow Linens, Marseilles and Honey Comb Quilts, Furniture Dimity, Bonnet Cord, &c., just received and for sale at prices to suit the times by Bradfield & Talley. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 Embroidery. A very large and complete stock of Embroidered, Jaconet and Swiss Collars, Jaconet and Swiss Collars and Sleeves in setts, Embroidered Thread Cambric Handkerchiefs, Jaconet and Swiss Edgings and Insertings, Jaconet, Swiss and Linen Flouncing, just arrived and for sale by Bradfield & Talley. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 Hosiery. A large and full stock of Ladies and Misses Black Slate, mixed and white cotton Hose, Ladies White Linen Hose, White Silk Hose, just received and for sale by Bradfield & Talley. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 6 John Walters. D. J. Elder. Walters & Elder, Occupying the two Stores on the Corner of Texas and Spring Streets, Shreveport, La. Would most respectfully call the attention of the citizens of Eastern Texas to the following Catalogue of goods, which is but an out line of their immense stock that they have now in store, and are daily making additions to, direct from the Manufacturers and Northern cities, which we are offering to good customers at a very small margin: Dry Goods Silk and Dress Goods Muslins Organdies Silk Tissues Bereges Granadines Plain Jaconets French Lawns Swiss Muslins Plain and Embroidered Muslin Doted [sic] Nansooks Linen Cambric " Lawns White Jaconet Irish Linens Printed do " Lawns Bird-eye Diaper Table Damask of all quallities [sic] Great variety of Linnen [sic] Towels 10 cases bleached Domestic 3 cases bleached domestic Pillow Case 12 cases 12-4 Linen Sheeting 12 P.S. Pillow case Linen Linen and Bobinet Netting Fancy and brown Linens " and white Marseilles French and American Cottonades, assorted 40 bales brown Domestic, assorted 10 bales Marborro and Virginia Stripes 4 bales Bed Ticking, assorted 50 bales Kentucky Linseys and Jeanes [sic] 50 bales Lowells 2000 lbs. Cotton Yarn 4 cases Plaid Linsys [sic] 1,500 pair French Negro Blankets 50 Frence Saddle blankets Various brands of S. I. Cotton. 6 bales of Apron Checks and blue Denims. Groceries! Groceries!! 60 casks clear Sides 200 bls. Mess Pork 10 casks Shoulders 10 casks plain Hams 30 Tierces canvassed Hams 100 kegs Lard 20 hhd. choice Sugar 10 prime hams 20 bls. Centrifeugal [sic] Sugar 40 cases Boston Loaf 15 cases Boston Loaf crushed 10 cases Boston Loaf pulverized 100 boxes Star Candles, various brands 50 ½ boxes Star Candles, sperm 400 doz. ½ boxes Sardines 800 " ¼ boxes sardines 200 " 1 lb. cans cove Oysters 200 " 2 lb cans cove oysters 100 Blos. dexter Whisky 100 blos. oliver whisky 50 blos. Kentucky whisky 5 blos. old peach Brandy 5 blos. apple brandy 5 blos. Punchions' Otard Brandy 100 ½ bls.. dexter Whisky 50 ½ bls. excelsior whisky 150 bls. superfine Flour 100 bls. extra superfine flour 50 boxes fancy Candy 25 boxes steam refined Candy 100 boxes Soap, of various brands 50 boxes Starch, 200 bags Rio Coffee 100 bls. refined sugar-house Molasses 100 ½ bls. refined Molasses Hardware. 1000 kegs cut Nails, assorted sizes 100 kegs finishing Nails, assorted sizes 20 kegs wrought nails 100 doz. Ames Spades 50 doz. Samuel W. Collins' Axes, medium size 20 doz. Samuel W. Collins' Axes, heavy 10 doz. Leveritts' Axes, light 5 doz. Leveritts' Axes, heavy 10 doz. Stewarts' Axes, medium size 10 doz. H. Collins' Handled Axes, assorted 200 tons of Tenn. Iron, assorted 100 tons of Swede Iron, assorted 100 tons of English refined Iron 1500 Hall & Spurs' turning Plows Pumps and fixtures, in the greatest variety Horse-shoe nails of all brands Table and pocket cuttlery [sic] of great variety Carpenters tools of all kinds Plains [sic] of all kind 200 doz. Axe Helves, 1, 2, and 3 5 doz. Plain Handles 10 gross, Auger Handles 3 doz. Spade Handles 3 doz. Adze Handles 10 doz. Hatchet Handles 24 sets Blacksmiths' tools 60 do 10 and 12 foot Gin segments, all complete 1 doz. Corn Shellers 1 do straw cutters 150 Grind stones and fixtures 2 doz. No. 1 Meat Cutters 2 doz. No. 2 Meat Cutters 2 doz. No. 3 Meat Cutters 2 doz. No. 4 Meat Cutters 2 doz. No. 5 Meat Cutters Shoes. 50 cases Russets 29 cases Russets Brogans 10 cases men's calf sewed boots 10 cases men's close stitched boots 6 cases men's close pegged boots Boys, youths, and children's boots, in greatest variety 300 pair men's waxed brogans 300 pair men's calf sewed and pegged brogans 120 pair men's calf sewed Oxford ties 96 pair men's congress Gaiters 48 pair men's calf sewed lasting Gaiters Ladies Kid and Laced Boots and Booties " Laced Boots and Lasting Gaiters " Laced boots and Slippers " Wlk. Boots " Wlk. Slippers " Calf and Goat pegged Boots " Polished grained boots " Enameled boots Misses Kid and Goat Booties " Kid & Goat Lasting Booties Kid Goad [sic] and Polished " Kid Slippers Boys and Children's Shoes of every variety. Clothing. Gentlemens, boys, and childrens clothing of the greatest variety, and gentlemens furnishing goods. Lisle Thread Under Shirts, Cotton and Gague [sic] Shirts, Checks, Muslin Shirts, Linen Drawers, Cravats, Suspenders, Socks, Gloves, &c. Saddlery. Gentlemen's Ladies, Misses, and boys of every style. Bridles, martingales, surcingles, girths, matter reins, bridle fillings, buggy and wagon harness, saddle bags, blind bridles, collars, horse and mule bell collars, etc. Crocker and Glass Ware. Soup, dinner, and desert plates, butter dishes, cups and Saucers, wash bowls and pitchers, white granite and common in the greatest variety. 150 doz. tumblers, bar and table 100 doz. goblets, 25 doz. wine glasses, 25 doz. oval covered stands, 50 doz. crewits [sic], assorted, Cake stands, Decanters, Molasses Pitchers, Fruit stands, glass bowls, Glass Pitchers, lanterns of every size and quality. China Ware. 6 sett gilt edge, 6 sett plain edge 6 doz. gilt edge plates, 6 doz. plain edge plates, 6 doz. bowls, assorted, 1 doz. tea pots, 1 doz. covered dishes, 1 doz. oval dishes [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 19, 1860, p. 2, c. 7 Mabies' Circus and Menagerie United!! Splendid and liberal design for the amuse- ment of the People, in the wonderful combination of these Two Great Companies! In the Equetrian [sic] Department may be found the following Stars, culled from the leading Circuses of Europe and America. Mr. W. Waterman, the celebrated four and six horse rider, and general performer. Mr. J. DeMott, the principal Equestrian of the world, will exhibit those daring [illegible] upon his spirited charger, which have so astonished the world and placed him upon the pedestal of equestrian fame. Mr. J. Conklin, the modern Hurcules [sic], in his graceful sports, juggling cannon balls weighing 30 to 45 pounds. Herr Jennings, the man of Iron, and most astonishing leaper and vaulter in the world. Sig. Bushnell, the wonder of the world, in his great feats of light and heavy balancing, and juggling knives, balls, etc. The Conklin Brothers, in their classic Poses, with a host of auxiliaries and juveniles, too numerous to mention. Last but not least, is the celebrated American Clown I. Huyack, whose rich gems of genius, spicy anecdotes, local [illegible], quaint delineations of men and manners, have rendered him the brilliant star from Maine to Mexico. Also the largest collection of living animals in the United States; and exhibited with the Circus, under one pavilion, for one price of admission. Among them are the following: Ten magnificent Lions, Royal Bengal Tiger, Brazilian Black Tiger, Leopards, Panthers, Cougar, Ocelots, Tiger Cats, Striped and Spotted Hyenas, Grizzly and Black Bears, Camels and Dromedaries, Limos [sic?], Burmese, [illegible] and Alpasas [sic?], Gray and Black Wolves, White Coon [?], Badger, Porcupines, and a wilderness of Birds and Monkeys. Professor Colson's Cornet Band will be herald through the principal streets in the morning of the day of exhibition, drawn by a team of Colossal Elephants. During the preformance [sic], Sig. Woodruf, the world renowned Lion Tamer, will enter the Den of Lions, Tigers, etc. and display his wonderful power in subduing and bringing into subjection these terrible monsters of the forest. Mons. Craven will introduce those highly trained Elephants, Romeo and Juliet, whose performances have been received with unbounded demonstration of applause wherever they have been exhibited. Truly they must be seen to be appreciated. Mr. W. Waterman will introduce his Educated Mules and Trick Ponies All of which will go through with a variety of chaste and pleasing performances. Will Exhibit at Jefferson, Monday, May 28th, 1860. At Marshall, Tuesday, May 29th, 1860. At Earpville, Wednesday, May 30th, 1860. Afternoon and Night. Admission, $1.00, Children and Servants, half price. Doors open at 1 and 7 o'clock, P.M. Performance commences half an hour later. Gentlemanly ushers in attendance, and perfect order observed. Dan. Rhodes, Agent. May 19, 1860. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, May 26, 1860, p. 1, c. 5 A Geometrical Description of a Lady.—A Back View.—Conical, base equal to seven-tenths the axis—four vaulted zones equidistant on the planes of the sides—cone truncated one nodule from theoretical apex, with a warped surface placed diagonally upon the parabola of truncation, intersected by the quadrant of a sphere, and it again by irregular polygonal planes, of half the diameter of the sphere, sloping downwards in the angle of the cosine of the longitude of figure. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, June 2, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 The whole town and a goodly portion of the country turned out on Saturday evening to witness the balloon ascension of Prof. Wilson. One of our citizens, Mr. E. L. Trickey, the proprietor of the elegant jewelry establishment on the west side of the public square, gave ten dollars towards raising the sum required by Prof. Wilson, upon the condition of being allowed the privilege of making the ascension. The balloon was cut loose after sun down, and ascended very prettily, Mr. Trickey alone occupying the car, and waving a couple of flags as he went up. The balloon ascended about four hundred yards, and was carried rapidly toward the North. In less than five minutes it descended and landed safely about a half mile from town, directly beyond the Marshall Cemetery. The trip was a novel one, but one which we should regard as hazardous. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, June 2, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 We are requested to state that the Peak Family, Campanalogians or Swiss Bell Ringers, will arrive in Marshall on Thursday, and give a series of their singular and interesting entertainments. They use a number of finely toned bells, so arranged as to give the different modulations of sound. By the dexterous use of these, they make exquisite music. Each member of the band keeps one bell in his hand and others beside him to use as occasion may require. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, June 16, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 The Henderson Times speaks favorably of the election of Mr. Eaton as President of the Masonic Female Institute of that place. Mr. Eaton is at present connected with the Marshall Masonic Female Institute, and has proved himself a ripe scholar and an excellent teacher. The people of Henderson may consider themselves fortunate if they can secure his services. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 7, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 The Fourth passed off quietly in this place, without so much as even the explosion of a fire cracker. We attribute this not so much to a want of patriotism as to the extreme hot weather. Several left town, by the railroad to Jonesville, where there was something of a jollification. We understand that the day's proceedings were enlivened at the scene of the festival with a shooting affair which happily terminated without an effusion of blood. R. S. Allen got into a difficulty with a German, and as his friends allege, shot at him in self defence. We know nothing of the particulars. The case has undergone judicial investigation, and Mr. Allen and his brother were bound over in the sum of five hundred dollars each, for their appearance at the next term of the District Court. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 14, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 The Drouth.—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 on the West side of the square in the interior of brick houses at 111. The air was so hot as if it came from over a furnace. The corn crop is ruined beyond redemption, and we have every reason to fear that the cotton crop will share the same fate. The most of the cotton is scarcely 16 inches high, and the squares are falling off. The State Gazette seems to think that the accounts of this drouth are over estimated. This is a sad mistake. The disaster is greater even than men are willing to admit. It will approach, in some portions of the State, nearly, if not quite, to a famine, and we have every reason to believe it will be necessary to call the legislature together to pass laws to postpone the collection of debts until another crop is made. Such is the actual condition of affairs, extending from the Rio Grande to the Ouachita river in Louisiana, and how far Eastward we know not, and from the Gulf to the 33rd parallel of latitude, with perhaps here and there a favored farm or neighborhood. And yet, to read the newspapers, one would suppose that a tolerably fair crop was being made. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 14, 1860, p. 2, c. 4 Incendiaries.—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 and a considerable quantity of jewelry were consumed. The fire is supposed to be the work of a negro man belonging to the family, who is now in jail awaiting his trial. On Friday night last, the house of Dr. Shelton, in New Salem, Rusk County was burnt, supposed to be the work of a white incendiary.—Rusk Enquirer. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 28, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 [July 21 missing] The Tyler Reporter of the 18th inst., is brimful of startling rumors of fires and incendiaries. Among others is the following: "At the time of writing, we are in receipt of a rumor that the business portion of the town of Marshall, is in ashes, but as the report is vague and indefinite, we are in hopes that it is unfounded." His hopes are correct. We are all right so far, and the receipt may be filed with his other receipts for 1860. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 28, 1860, p. 2, c. 6 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 letter: Dallas, July 15th, 1860. Capt. DeLisle, Editor of Bonham Era: Dear Sir:--I write in haste that you may prepare your people for the most alarming state of affairs that has ever occurred in Texas. On the 8th July the town of Dallas was fired, and the whole business portion entirely consumed, every store in town was destroyed. The next day the dwelling house of J. J. Eakens was burned; after that the residence of E. P. Nicholson was fired but discovered in time to arrest the flames. On Thursday, the premises of Crill Miller, with a large amount of oats, grain, etc., were totally consumed. This led to the arrest of some negroes and white men. A most diabolical plan was then discovered to devastate this entire portion of Northern Texas, extending even to the Red River counties. White men, friends of the Abolition preachers Blunt and McKinney, who were expelled from the country last year, are the instigators of the plot. The whole plan is systematically conceived, and most ingeniously contrived. It makes the blood run cold to hear the details. This whole country was to be laid waste with fire, destroying all the ammunition, provisions, arms, etc., to get the country in a state of helplessness, and then on Election day in August to make a general insurrection, aided and assisted by emissaries from the North, and persons friendly to them in our midst. Their sphere of operations is districted and sub-districted, giving to each division a close supervision by one energetic white man who controls the negroes as his subordinates. A regular invasion, and a real war. You and all Bonham are in as much danger as we are. Be on your guard, and make these facts known by issuing extras to be sent in every direction. All business has ceased, and the country is terribly excited. In haste, Yours truly, Chas. R. Pryor. Two of our citizens, who returned from Dallas a few days ago, state that the excitement at that place is intense. They learned that about 65 negroes were under arrest, and from them the facts set forth in Mr. Pryor's letter had been satisfactorily ascertained. The abolition preachers, Blunt and McKinney, some time last year, were lynched and driven out of the country, instead of being hung or sent to the penitentiary, and this is the first fruits of their vengeance. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 28, 1860, p. 2, c. 6 Incendiaries.—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 escape, not, it is to be hoped, without carrying with him some evidence of the skill of our marksmen. Our people are on the alert, and woe to the scoundrel who, arrested in the act, falls into their hands.—Tyler Reporter, of the 14th. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 28, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 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 loss, we are told, is not less than $4000. What next? [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 28, 1860, p. 2, c. 7 Suspicious Characters. 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 man, was riding a large dun horse, the other a man of apparently forty-five, was riding a roan. They avoided the hotels and are supposed to have lodged in the Court House Saturday night. They were observed in town next day, and about the time the alarm of fire was given, they crossed the Trinity at the ferry, making sundry enquiries about the distances to neighboring towns, among the rest to Waxahachie, where they said they were going. They rode in the direction of that place to Judge Hoard's, three miles south of Dallas, where they stopped and inquired if they could get dinner. The Judge invited them into his house, promising to have dinner prepared, and at the same time, discovering a dense smoke in the direction of Dallas, ordered his horse, saying he would ride to town and ascertain the cause. The strangers remained until his return, and in the interim were questioned by Mrs. Hoard, who learned from them that they were from Kansas. They said they were traveling to see the country, and were going to Waxahachie. They were armed with Colt's repeaters, which they carefully re-capped while at Judge Hoard's. The lady, suspecting all was not right, communicated her suspicions to her husband on his return, who concluded to watch the strangers. After supper they set out in the direction of Waxahachie, but soon changed their course and took the road to Dallas. The next day one of these men was seen a couple of miles west of town, in the neighborhood of Mr. Eakins', whose house was burned that day, and the other was seen about the same distance east of town. In the evening of the same day both were seen together a few miles north of Dallas, on the McKinney road, and the next day, about noon, two individuals with horses answering the description, passed through this place and it is supposed took the road to Bonham. They were observed by a number of school boys, of whom they inquired the name of the town. The next day (Wednesday_ they were seen fourteen miles north of town on the Bonham road. We hope our Bonham friends will keep a sharp look out for them.—McKinney Messenger. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 28, 1860, p. 3, c. 1 Recent Fires—A Fearful but Well Grounded Suspicion. 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 of revenge, set on foot and deliberately executed by fiends in human shape, sympathizers with those intermeddling abolition emissaries, who on former occasions have been expelled from the country by outraged and indignant communities. That this conviction is not without facts to sustain it, will abundantly appear by a perusal of the following brief summary of fires which have occurred within a few days past in this and neighboring counties. In the latter part of last week, a steam saw and grist mill was burned down at Millwood in this county. Supposed loss ten or twelve thousand dollars. Sunday last, about 2 p.m., the great fire occurred at Dallas, an account of which will be found elsewhere in this week's paper. Loss estimated at nearly 400,000. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. In the evening of the same day, about the same hour, the store house of a Mr. Dupree, at Ladonia, Fannin county, was destroyed by fire, together with material for a new building, a lot of carpenter's tools, &c. Loss estimated at $25,000. On the same day, about 2 o'clock in the evening the store house at Pilot Point, Denton county, owned by Mr. James M. Smoot, of Denton, was wholly consumed by fire together with a considerable amount of merchandise and nearly two thousand dollars in money. Total loss $10,000. The same day, between two and three o'clock in the evening, a fire broke out in the store house of J. M. Smoot, Denton, which, with the store house of Jacobs, and that of Baines & Turner, with nearly their entire stocks of merchandise, was wholly consumed. Loss estimated at $100,000. Strong suspicions of incendiarism are entertained both at Denton and at Pilot Point. On the same day, and about the same time of day, Milford, in Ellis county, was destroyed by fire; also a mercantile establishment at Black Jack Grove, in Hopkins county, the property of a Mr. Cato. A gentleman of the Grove informs us that the fire at that place was believed to be accidental. It occurred at 3 p.m. The loss is estimated at $30,000. We have not heard the particulars of the burning of Milford. The news comes to us from Dallas, with the additional item that a fire occurred the same day at Waxahachie, but that it was extinguished before much damage was done. These facts speak volumes in support of the fearful suspicion to which allusion has been made, and cannot fail to create the most lively apprehensions in the breast of every good citizen. We learn that strenuous efforts are being made in some quarters to ferret out the offenders and bring them to justice. All should be willing to assist in doing this, but should exercise a becoming caution and moderation, to the end that the innocent may not suffer, not the State be disgraced by lawless proceedings. Let offenders be arrested, and the laws of the land enforced, but nothing more.—McKinney Mes. Attempts have been made to burn up Tyler, Quitman, and Jefferson, and we presume there is not town, store, or farmhouse safe from these diabolical miscreants. The extra of the Bonham Era, which we have noticed in another article, mention the following fires, in addition to those mentioned above. Fort Worth.—A mercantile house. Loss not given. Waxahachie.—One house. Belknap—Eight large store houses were destroyed. The buildings were owned by Drs. Foote & Thogmorton of McKinney. Loss not given. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, July 28, 1860, p. 3, c. 1-2 The Destruction of Property at Dallas 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 their stock of goods; goods partly saved. Small frame office of Jas. T. Smith, occupied by himself, Gen. J. J. Good, and Dr. A. A. Johnson. Drug and Grocery store of W. W. Peck & Bro., with a heavy stock of goods. Vacant two story house, owned by J. W. Smith. Storehouse and stock of goods, owned by A. Shirek, total loss. Upper story of same building, occupied by J. W. Swindells, Dallas Herald office, total loss. Crutchfield House, owned and occupied by T. F. Crutchfield, total loss. Post office in the same building all burned, with mails. Office occupied by Drs. Pryer and Col. J. M. Crockett, and rear of building occupied by a family, total loss. Barbershop of E. Wester, total loss. A building just being erected for A. Simon. Old tavern stand, occupied by several persons as boot shop by J. Bertoy, L. Burkhart, jeweler, and a family. Law office of B. W. Stone. Young Carr, saddler, total loss. Storehouse of H. Hirsh, total loss—partly insured. Storehouse of W. Casutte [?] & Bro., occupied by A. Simar [?], total loss—partly insured—up stairs occupied by law office by Nicholson & Ferris. Mr. Stuble's house just being erected, total loss. House of Wm. K. Brutle, occupied as a shoe shop and residence, total loss. Drug store of Dr. D. B. Thomas—stock and house, total loss—up stairs occupied by a law office by Mr. Hay. Storehouse of J. W. Ellett—house and stock lost. Vacant house, adjoining, total loss. Blacksmith shop occupied by Joseph Lockett. Storehouse of R. R. Fletcher & Co.—stock partly saved. Storehouse of Cuneth, Simonds & Co. stock partly saved. Saddle shop of Lynch & Son, total loss. Storehouse of E. M. Stackpole—building and stock total loss. Law office of J. C. Motley [?] and stable owned by same, total loss. G. W. Guess' law office, pulled down and law books saved. Over Pratt & Bro.'s drug store were the offices of Dr. C. C. Spencer and W. S. J. Adams, J. S. Chapman, and J. K. E. Record, as law offices, their libraries and clothing total loss. The Court House in the centre of the square, a fine brick building, was saved by the superhuman exertion of a few spirited individuals. Over A. Shirek's store was also the law office of E. C. McKenzie and Dr. C. R. Pryor, editor of the Herald—contents all lost. Over H. Hirsh's tore was the office of Dr. H. C. Scvott, whose library was totally lost. The total loss is estimated variously at from three to five hundred thousand dollars, on which there is, I learn, not to exceed $10,000 insurance. The whole number of buildings destroyed is thirty-two or thirty-three, comprising the best built part of the place and including every store in use in it. Our town, which has been the admiration of all strangers, and which it is no exaggeration to say, was one of the prettiest small towns in the State, is now nearly a mass of ruins. All the stores had good stocks of merchandise, and some of them very heavy ones. It is sickening to look around and view the ruins of what was but yesterday morning a flourishing and beautiful place. A great many goods from the stores and other buildings were saved, and piled up on the square, only to be destroyed where they were placed, the heat being so intense as to preclude al possibility of saving them. I write in haste and there may be some inaccuracies in my statement, but it is nearly correct I think. For myself and the "Herald," I shall at once order another new office, and the Herald shall be revived just as soon as I can get the material here. My loss was total—only my account books were saved. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 4, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 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 negroes were instructed to burn down all the towns, stores, mills, and residences, and particularly every place containing powder. That the people would be thus rendered defenceless, and that on the day of election, the abolitionists would invade the State in armed force and carry off the negroes to Mexico. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 4, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 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 means of support, or any occupation, except that of living at the expense of others." [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 4, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 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. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 4, 1860, p. 2, c. 4 In consequence of the numerous fires and other incendiary movements in the Northern portion of the State, the people of Marshall have organized a vigilance committee and a rigid patrol. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 4, 1860, p. 2, c. 6 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 seem to be, and no doubt are, much concerned in the preservation of their rights and freedom from any molestation by such pests of society. At the meeting an organization was had with great unanimity, which proposed to aid the law in bringing such offenders to justice. At Marshall we have two Justices of the Peace, a beat Constable, a Sheriff, and a Mayor, besides others; and, in addition to these, the organization constituted a Chief of Police to strengthen the "aid of the law" proposed, and a large number of the people constituted themselves into a police for guarding the lives and property of the people, and also the organization of a Military company. I belong to the Police organization. I have no doubt of the propriety of all this now, or at any other time of emergency in aid of law. Now, one case, and the first one under this effective union for self-protection. A few days after this organization a case happened to become apparent. A horse thief was caught in our very midst a veritable horse thief, in the person of _____ Robinson, given name not known, and the stealer of more than one horse according to his own showing. Robinson was caught in the vicinity of Marshall, on the 30th July past. Now let us see how the law was aided by these organizations. Robinson was kept in custody two or three days without warrant, as if the only object of his detention was to exhibit him at various points as a horse thief! His keepers were not to blame for they could not discharge him. He had stolen a horse within two miles of Marshall, and in Harrison county, Texas, and they were doing their duty to detain him till the law came. But it seems that the law with all its aids could not come to their relief. It is now the 3rd day of August and the 4th from the time of the apprehension and custody of said horse thief and I believe the law has not come yet. But where is the thief gone? Is the law stronger with these aids than without them? If the law had no other aid than fidelity on the part of its officers in its proper execution, this thief would now be in the jail at Marshall to answer for his transgression committed within two miles of the prison. But he is not in jail! Where is he? I hear people speak of the weakness of the law. They don't understand what they talk about. The weakness of the law! The law is ample; full of life and energy. It arrests offenders and suspected persons with or without warrants and makes provisions for all cases. But its officers! What shall we say? A vigilant police we have, and it is now doing good service, and bids fair to catch and bring every offender to the law, and the law if properly executed will be sufficient without those aids which intervene and bid defiance to law and transgress it. Sir, can you tell where that horse thief is? and why it is that he is not in jail in Marshall to answer for his crime? How, sir, is the law to regain its former dignity and respect? P. These inquiries, it occurs to us are, in every respect, pertinent and [illegible]. We are no lawyer, and consequently are not prepared to instruct the officers of the law relative to their duties. But we do know what the public interests and the peace of society demanded in this case and what it demands in all other cases of a like nature. The parties who lost their property ought, as good citizens, to have had this man Robinson regularly committed, and if they failed to do so, it was the duty of the officers of the law, to have attended to the matter, and to have instituted such proceedings as would have led to his prosecution. It was a matter of notoriety that a thief h ad been arrested, and that among other things stolen in this town and vicinity, was the horse of a citizen of this county, living within two miles of Marshall. For several days this thief was paraded about our streets. We take it for granted that our officers were cognizant of the proceeding, and if they were not conversant with all the facts and reports connected with the affair, they were not as vigilant as they ought to be, or as the proper administration of the law requires. It is for them, and not for us to say why there was no action in the premises. What has become of the thief? One report stated that he had got away. Another that he had been carried to Shreveport, in the State of Louisiana. A friend informed us, on Thursday, that he met three gentlemen that morning, about seven miles from town, with the prisoner hand-cuffed, proceeding in the direction of Shreveport. Now, we object to such proceedings as we have detailed, for the reason, that their inevitable tendency is to produce contempt for the law, and to substitute in its stead anarchy and mob violence. Speculation was rife, in this community, as to what would be done with the thief, and the opinion was freely expressed that he would be lynched or hung before the parties who had him in charge reached Shreveport. We trust the suspicion was unjust and unfounded, for while we have no sympathy for crime of any sort, we look with what we conceive to be just apprehension and horror upon everything that tends to subvert the good order of society, and particularly by men whose social position demands that they should strengthen and preserve the law. And, in this connection, it is proper to say, that we have with pain heard leading citizens, from whose age, experience, and elevated character we expected different reflections, speak of the weakness of the law, and in terms of approval of the lyncher's code! Do men reflect properly when they talk thus? Do they know what they are doing when they give encouragement to such a sentiment? If they are correct, we had better abandon all law, and substitute in its stead the course of proceedings which they recommend—the lyncher's code! which all experience has shown surrenders the control of society, to the most vicious and depraved. But as our correspondent says, the law is not weak, but strong, and fully efficacious for all legitimate purposes. We venture to say that there is no State in the Union that has better laws than Texas, and no State where there is less chance for a thief to escape punishment. but good laws and a virtuous public sentiment are worthless, where officers are not vigilant, or citizens fail in the discharge of their obligations. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 4, 1860, p. 3, c. 2 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 a gentleman just from Quitman, Lemmons returned to that town, and, after remaining a few days, suddenly absconded, and on the very night after his departure the town was set on fire by an incendiary. The fire was fortunately discovered in time to be extinguished without damage being done to property. A committee of the citizens of Quitman are in search of Lemmons, provided with ropes to hang him in case he is caught.—Jefferson Herald. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 4, 1860, p. 3, c. 2 Abolitionists Caught.—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 were appointed to investigate the affair. It was proven by several gentlemen that the accused had repeatedly said that they were abolitionists; that there were three thousand abolitionists in the State; and that in three years the Black Republicans would rule this State; and that they sympathized with the negroes. The accused were ordered to leave the State as soon as they could arrange their business. They have complied with the order. Clock, Sr., is about forty years old and hump-backed; young Clock is about twenty-one, and Perkins about twenty-five.—Galveston News. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 On Tuesday last, great excitement was created in Marshall, by the intelligence that a lady of this county was missing from her house, and that apprehensions existed that she had been killed by the negroes. It seems that her husband attended the election in this place, the day previous, and owing to the hot weather, did not leave until late. He arrived at home early in the night, and found his wife missing. The negroes could give no satisfactory account of her absence. Of course an affair of this character created great consternation. Search was instituted and she was finally found about seven miles from home, at the residence of Mr. Boon. Reports had been circulated that the negroes were to rise on election day, and being a short distance from the house, she heard the firing of guns, and becoming frightened ran off, her alarm increasing with her flight. She was out the entire night, and arrived at Mr. Boon's barefooted and in a wretched condition. This affair shows the necessity of prudence and caution, and the folly of unnecessary alarm. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 Lynch Law.—It is reported that a horse thief was arrested a few days ago, in this county, and hung. One report states that he was hung at the cross roads 9 or 10 miles from Marshall, which we think unfounded, and another rumor is to the effect that he was executed upon the same limb in Caddo parish upon which Robinson was hung last week. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 3 The following account of the "heated term" has been condensed from a weather journal, kept at the Railroad Office in Marshall, the thermometer in the shade: The "term" commenced about the 1st of May, and the end is not yet. The period of the greatest heat was during the month of July, when the thermometer indicated over 100 degrees Farenh. excepting four days, when it was between 90 and 100. The greatest heat attained was 115½ degrees, on Sunday the 8th, and 113 degrees on Sunday, the 29th. On the 15th, a slight norther and a change of temperature; at 8 o'clock, A.M., 88 degrees, and at 8¼ P.M., 75, with high wind, clouds of dust, but no rain. From the 15th to the 18th, the temperature was below 100. The average for the month of July, between 8 o'clock, 1.m., and 5 o'clock., P.M., has been 93 degrees. There was a light rain on the 23d of April. On the 14th of July a few drops fell; on the 23d a slight sprinkling; on the 26th and on the 30th, more showers, just enough to keep the dust quiet for an hour or two. The wind has been very uniformly South, and in the month of July especially, has blown with considerable strength, and served to mitigate the suffering which such intense heat is likely to produce, particularly at night, and every night, the thermometer often indicating a temperature as low as 70 degrees. It will perhaps be unnecessary to state, that we are suffering some from drouth, as the preceding abstract will show. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 4 Incendiarism Again.—An attempt was made on last Monday night to fire the dwelling of Mrs. Erwin, two miles west of town. The fire was applied to a bale of cotton, which was under the house, and would have rapidly consumed the building, but from the fact that the barking of the dogs aroused a negro man, who discovered the fire.—Tyler Reporter. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 4 The Incendiaries Still at Work—Henderson in Ashes— A Horrid Poisoning Plot Discovered in Cherokee County. The following letter is from the foreman of the Times newspaper office. Mr. Hartley recently resided in this place: Henderson, Aug. 7th, 1860. Dear Loughery: Henderson is no more; Sunday night at 8 o'clock the town was fired by an incendiary, immediately back of Wiggins, Hogg, and Felton's Drug Store, and in a few moments, the whole South side of the Square was in flames. The people being at Church, the flames gained the mastery, and the whole business portion of the town is in ashes. Loss $200,000. The greatest excitement prevails. We have a Vigilance Committee;--a Company of over a hundred; several arrests have been made, but as yet no one convicted. I shall be in Marshall soon, but for the present am detailed for duty, and cannot come until all is over. Era Office in ruins, Times saved, but all in pi. Yours truly, A. I. Hartley. The whole square is in ashes. A. I. H. In addition to this intelligence, we were presented with the following letter, addressed to Hon. C. A. Frazer, our District Judge: Henderson, Aug. 7, 1860. Judge Frazer: You have before this learned the fate of our town. All from McDonough's Hotel to Smither's office, taking that entire block, and from Redwine's store to Likens's corner, running back to the Presbyterian Church, (which was saved,) is a scene of ruin and devastation; 10 stores, 2 drug stores, 8 or 10 law offices, 2 family groceries, &c., were consumed. There was a stiff South wind blowing at the time, and in two hours at most, every house which had caught burned down. The sparks reached out fully a half mile. Judge, it is a sad picture to visit the scene, where all but yesterday was life and energy, fine buildings and every evidence of thrift and prosperity, now burnt and crumbling walls, lonely chimneys, chared [sic] shade trees, and the rubbish, as is generally to be seen after such a calamity. Owing to the failure of crops, such a misfortune never could have found us so illy prepared to meet it in a pecuniary point of view. And when we consider it has not been the result of accident, but that it was fired beyond any sort of question by some fiend in human shape, who had only acted the part allotted him in all probability, in a common purpose, to set on fire our towns and perhaps to murder or poison our citizens, it has driven us to a state of desperation which can scarcely be conceived by one who has not witnessed it. All is alarm and excitement with our women and children. Our men are in arms. The most vigilant investigation is being had. The plot was so well conceived, the time of the night, a little excitement between two gentlemen had just occurred which attracted the crowd just as our citizens were assembling at Church, and before the guard started out, the fire was put in some shape into an old shop where there had been none for months. It was burning in every part of the house at once, and in less than five minutes it was on fire all over. As yet we have not been able to find out who it was that did it, whether white or black. No traces have been discovered. My own opinion is, that the negroes had but little to do with it. I have given you these particulars in haste. I will write again soon. I see no chance for us to have a Court. We can scarcely provide for those of our people left. I would like to hear from you and advise with you. Be on your guard, for you cannot tell how soon you will share the same fate with us. Your friend, M. D. Ector. But more startling and terrible than even the burning of Henderson, is the intelligence contained in the following letter from Cherokee county, Texas: Rusk, August 4, 1860. Dear Oxe: The coincidence of the fires at Dallas and other places, caused suspicion with us, and a number of our citizens a short time since, organized a watch and a vigilance committee. Many, including myself, were disposed to consider the whole affair as a needless alarm, until within the last day or two, when authenticated statements came to us, that in several places, poison had been found with negroes, and confessions made, that on the election day, this poison was to be administered in the food at breakfast, and deposited in the wells and springs; and that a general plot had been made, for an indiscriminate, wholesale destruction by poison and arms on that day. This caused us to search, and on last night and this morning, poison has been found with several negroes, and they have made confessions substantially the same as the above rumors, and have implicated several other negroes. We are taking prompt but deliberate measures to-day, to ferret out the whole matter. News came in this morning, that in Anderson and Henderson counties, similar developments on a more extended scale have been made. We are in the midst of considerable excitement, and I feel it my duty to write you, so that your town and county may be on your guard. I am opposed, in principle and policy, to frequent alarms of this kind, and should not write, if I did not believe there is serious cause of alarm. some of the most confidential negroes are implicated. Yours in haste, M. H. Bonner. Mr. Oxe Taylor, Marshall. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 5 Incendiarism and Plots of Negro Insurrection in Texas. With no desire to create alarm, we publish below all the intelligence we can gather relative to the incendiarism abroad in our State. There is already more excitement in this community than we like to see exhibited, and we would rather allay it, than add to it. But such information as found below, is essential. Our people should be vigilant, at the same time wise and prudent. A letter published in the Houston Telegraph, dated Dallas, July 21st, speaks of the numerous and almost almost simultaneous burnings of towns, stores, mills, and farm houses, evidently the work of incendiaries, and then says: "The outhouses, granaries, oats and grain of Mr. Crill Miller, were destroyed a few days after the destruction of Dallas. This led to the arrest of some white men, whose innocence, however, was proven beyond a doubt. Several negroes belonging to Mr. Miller, were then taken up and examined, and developments of the most startling character elicited. A plot to destroy the country was revealed, and every circumstance even to the minutia, detailed. Nearly or quite a hundred negroes have been arrested, and upon a close examination separate and apart from each other, they deposed to the existence of a plot or conspiracy to lay waste the country by fire and assassination—to impoverish the land by the destruction of the provision, arms, and ammunition, and then when in a state of helplessness, a general revolt of the negroes was to begin on the 1st Monday in August, the day of election for State officers. This conspiracy is aided and abetted by abolition emissaries from the North, and by those in our midst. The details of the plot, and its modus operandi, are these; Each county in Northern Texas, has a supervisor in the person of a white man, whose name is not given, each county laid off into districts under the sub-agents of this villain, who control the action of the negroes in said districts, by whom the firing was to be done. Many of our most prominent citizens were singled out for assassination whenever they made their escape from their burning homes. Negroes never before suspected, are implicated, and the insurrectionary movement is wide spread to an extent truly alarming. In some places the plan was conceived in every form shocking to the mind, and frightful in its results. Poisoning was to be added, and the old females to be slaughtered along with the men, and the young and handsome women to be parceled out amongst these infamous scoundrels. They have even gone so far as to designate their choice, and certain ladies had already been selected as the victims of these misguided monsters. Fortunately, the country has been saved from the accomplishment of these horrors; but then, a fearful duty remains for us. The negroes have been incited to these infernal proceedings by abolitionists, and the emissaries of certain preachers, who were expelled from this county last year. Their agents have been busy amongst us, and many of them have been in our midst. Some of them have been identified, but have fled from the county, others still remain, to receive a fearful accountability from an outraged and infuriated people. Nearly a hundred negroes have testified that a large reinforcement of abolitionists are expected on the 1st of August, and these to be aided by recruits from the Indian tribes, while the Rangers are several hundred miles to the North of us. It was desired to destroy Dallas, in order that the arms and ammunition of the artillery company might share the same fate. Our jail is filled with the villians, [sic] many of whom will be hung and that very soon. A man was found hung at our neighboring city of Fort Worth, two days ago, believed to be one of those scoundrels who are engaged in this work. We learn that he has stored away a number of rifles, and the day after he was hung, a load of six-shooters passed on to him, but were intercepted. He was betrayed by one of the gang, and hence his plans were thwarted. Many others will share his fate. I have never witnessed such times. We are most profoundly excited. We go armed day and night, and know not what we shall be called upon to do. The circumstances are frightful, and I fear that the trouble is not confined to this State. It behooves every true man to buckle on his armor, and fight the good fight for his country's good. We copy the following from the Ranger, published at Brenham, Washington county, Texas: The late insurrection in the northern portion of our State, has carried numbers of our citizens to a high excitement. On Tuesday a large crowd from Chappell Hill, came here for the purpose of forcibly taking the negroes out of jail that were confined for murder, and hanging them; but, for certain considerations, have postponed the matter until after the election. The citizens of Brenham have passed some strong resolutions and appointed a vigilance committee, with full power to act for the safety and defence of the people. The resolutions have been furnished us for publication, but too late for this issue. The citizens of Grimes having learned that many negroes of that county had held secret meetings, and were supplied with deadly weapons, have also passed resolutions recommending the expulsion of all white persons suspected of entertaining abolition sentiments, reprobating the practice of giving general passes, and selling liquor and arms to slaves, and recommending all ministers of the Gospel to abstain from preaching to slaves during the present year. In addition to the foregoing, we have rumors of the burning of Birdville, and Bonham, the discovery of an insurrectionary plot in Titus county, accompanied with the hanging of negroes and a white man; and that two men connected with the fires in Texas, were pursued and hung between Shreveport and Minden, and a thousand and one other reports which have no credible foundation and are not entitled to belief, all of which prove the necessity of guarding against unnecessary alarm and excitement. The Waco Democrat of July 26th contains the following extract of a letter from Judge Burford, addressed to Thomas Harrison, of Waco, dated at Waxahatchie, Ellis county, on the 20th of July: "Since you left this place, the investigations of the "Vigilance Committee" of Dallas, has led to very important discoveries, implicating nearly all the negroes of Ellis and adjoining counties. To-day a committee was organized in this county, who have ascertained the existence of a most perfect and thorough organization, having for its object an indiscriminate massacre4 of the white population; under the lash the negroes have admitted that they had in their profession [possession] deadly poisons to be administered to their masters' families in food; and when demanded of them, they have gone to the kitchen and produce the poison." Attempt to Fire the State Capital.—The Austin State Gazette of the 28th says: "We were pained to witness on Thursday night the successful attempt of an incendiary to burn down and destroy the Steam Mill of George Glascock, Esq. This building was a large and substantial edifice constructed of stone, and contained, we believe, machinery worth about $30,000. There was no insurance upon it. The fire could not be arrested until everything was consumed. Mr. Glascock, we learn, is perfectly satisfied that the fire was the work of an incendiary. The same paper has the following: "We learn that an attempt was discovered the past week at Georgetown, to burn that town. A negro boy being taken up, it is said that he was instigated to set fire to a stable building." The Rusk Enquirer publishes an extract from a letter, addressed to General Jack Davis from Fort Worth, dated July 19th: "Our whole neighborhood is in terrible commotion about the burning of our neighboring towns, being thoroughly satisfied that it is the work of abolition incendiaries. One man by the name of Crawford, late of Kansas Territory, who brought some thirty or forty guns with him, and sold one of them to a negro of Col. Nat. Terry's, and perhaps to others, as most of them are disposed of, was hung about ¼ mile from Fort Worth on Tuesday last, by the side of the public road between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock in the day time. A public meeting was held the next day and the act publicly justified, and plans concerted for the protection of our institutions and property. Crawford's wife was very much incensed, and declared vengeance against the parties who hung her husband, and said that Fort Worth would yet be burned." We have also been permitted to make the following extract from Col. Nat. Terry, to D. B. Martin, Esq., of this place dated July 24th: "We are in an intense excitement growing out of these organized burnings that have been going on. Some seven white men hung, and I expect before it is over not less than fifty negroes will be hung. We have discovered an extensive plan for an insurrection, instigated by abolition emissaries." [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 18, 1860, p. 1, c. 4 Excitement and Alarm at Carthage. Carthage, Texas, Aug. 7th, 1860. At a public meeting called for the purpose of considering of the best means of protecting the town of Carthage, against the torch of the incendiary and the interests of the county of Panola generally, against the secret foes who seem bent upon the ruin of this portion of the Southern country, Judge Drury Field was called to the chair, and having brought the assembly to order, explained the object of the meeting, briefly, pertinently and forcibly. A. M. Samford was appointed Secretary. It was then resolved upon motion, that the chairman appoint five persons to draft resolutions which should suggest a plan for the protection of the town of Carthage, and for the accomplishment of the general object of the meeting. Moved and adopted that the said committee be requested to report instanter, or as soon as possible. The committee as appointed, consisted of H. P. C. Dulany, A. W. DeBerry, W. Watson, W. M. Thomas and James Long. Upon motion, W. R. Poag, and J. K. Knight were also added to the committee. It was moved and seconded that a vigilance committee be appointed to examine all strangers with reference to the purpose of their visit to our town and county. Moved that the last motion be so amended as to make the officers of the corporation members of this committee. The motion and its amendment were withdrawn, to await the action of the committee appointed to report a plan for the protection of the town and county. Mr. H. McKay, Rev. Mr. Roguemore, Rev. Mr. Pelham, Mr. Morris and Mr. Clements, being called upon, spoke upon the subject appropriate to the occasion, in brief but stirring addresses. Moved and carried that the meeting now adjourn till 1 o'clock to give the committee on ways and means time to prepare their report. Tuesday Afternoon, Aug. 7th. The citizens assembled at the hour appointed. The meeting being called to order, the following report of the committee appointed this morning, was read by its chairman. Whereas, we have reason to believe that there are incendiaries in our midst, and that our lives and property may be in danger. Therefore in order for our protection, Resolved, That the Chief Justice be requested immediately to convene the County Court, for the purpose of appointing patrol detachments for the county, as authorized by Law. Resolved, That we recommend, that each and every negro quarter be searched, and everything in the nature of weapons be taken away from them. Resolved, That we earnestly recommend and urge upon our citizens the importance of guarding well and strictly, the conduct of slaves everywhere, and especially do we urge the importance of watching closely their associations with white men. Resolved, That we recommend and request, that the Mayor and Aldermen of this Town do immediately convene for the purpose of passing such ordinances as may be in their wisdom necessary for the preservation of our Town. Resolved, That we recommend the establishment of a police or guard. That the town marshal be appointed chief of such police, and that every free white male citizen be required by such ordinance to do and perform such duty when called upon by the said town Marshal. Resolved, That such police or guard be stationed every night and remain on guard during the night unless relieved. Resolved, That we recommend and urge upon all those who own unimproved lots, on or near the public square to cut down immediately all the bushes and remove other timbers that may obstruct the view to the Town or any of the buildings. Resolved, That we advise all owners of slaves in the county to keep them at home for their own safety, and not to allow them to visit this or any other public place in the county unless on special business. Resolved, That we recommend that when any patrol detachment shall find three or more slaves together, away from home, whether they have permits on paper or not, that they be requested to punish them in the manner authorized by Law. The report was then adopted with the following amendment to the second resolution, to-wit:--That it be recommended that whatever weapons may be found unlawfully in the possession of slaves be appropriated to the use of the county, until redeemed by their proper owner. On motion of H. McKay, the following additional resolution was adopted: Resolved further, That this meeting recommend, that the citizens of the different Beats in the county, assemble immediately and take such steps as will in their wisdom, meet the present emergencies—and that the acting Justices of the Peace, be requested to call together the citizens of their Beats for such purpose; and further, that there be a patrol appointed by the chair to patrol this Beat, and search all negro cabins, and other places where arms may be likely concealed, pursuant to a former resolution, and that said patrol be requested to appoint of their own number, an individual to act as commander of such detachment, and that said Patrol be requested to proceed immediately to patrol this Beat. On motion of H. P. C. Dulany, the following resolutions were also adopted. Resolved, That we recommend the immediate organization of a military company here to be held in readiness until our country and military district shall be organized as authorized by the acts of the last Legislature. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to sustain every citizen who shall endeavor to carry out these resolutions. Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the Marshall and Shelbyville papers. On motion the meeting then adjourned. Drury Field, Ch'n. A. M. Samford, Sec'y. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 18, 1860, p. 1, c. 7 The people of Dallas have gone to work to rebuild their "burned district." Several large brick buildings are already going up and many frame buildings are under contract. There is a great demand for carpenters and brick masons. Mrs. Cockrell has already opened a new hotel, although her own was burned. The slave Joe, convicted of arson, for setting fire to the buildings in Cameron, Milan county last fall, was hung on the 13th ult. A thousand spectators attended. A number of negroes were present, whom he w3arned against following his example. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 We have received a letter from Clarksville, Texas, dated the 13th inst., which says: On the 11th inst., a traveller by the name of Pierce, formerly a cabinet maker of Shreveport, was arrested here and carried to Paris from whence I think they will send him to Henderson. He is strongly suspected of having had a hand in the fire in Henderson. Three Abolitionists hung in Gainesville, Cook county, (Templeton, Hensley, and Kirk.) These men before they were hung implicated 15 other men belonging to an Abolition conspiracy. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 It is reported that a man was taken out of the Gilmer jail on Thursday by a body of armed men from Wood county, and hung in the town. We sincerely hope that this is not so. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 A negro woman has been convicted by the Vigilance Committee of Henderson with being concerned in burning the town, and sentenced to be hung on the 27th. Other parties are under arrest, and will be tried. [MARSHALL] TEXAS REPUBLICAN, August 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 2 Two Men Hung.—We learn that on last Saturday an investigation of some negroes was held at Tennessee Colony, and from their testimony sustained to the full satisfaction of the whole assemblage, by circumstances and other corroborative testimony, two white men—Wyrick and Cabelle,--were implicated in the proposed insurrectionary movements of the negroes of our county. A full, fair and impartial investigation was had, as we are informed, and the verdict was unanimous that they were guilty. They were then taken to the woods and expiated their crimes on the gallows. They had both been citizens of our county for years, and on one or two occasions heretofore had been charged with a degree of certainty, of having harbored runaway negroes. Their general character was bad. The citizens