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September 13, 1860

*******************New Orleans, La., Daily True Delta*************************

Texas In the Field.- We are in receipt of most encouraging news from Texas. The Nullifiers are not to be allowed to take that noble State to the camp of disunion, and that they may not do so a ticket for Presidential electors, composed of two Democrats and two Bell and Everett supporters, has been put in nomination…

…Texas, in forgetting minor differences, has set a good example; let her proceed with wisdom and energy on the course her Union men have now marked out, and in November next she will stand one of the pillars upon which the Union and Constitution firmly repose.

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Mackerel Fishing in Maine.- Great Yield. The Deer Isle fishermen have taken from six to ten thousand barrels of mackerel this season. So says the Ellsworth American…

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Harvard’s Foot Ball Buried.- The faculty of Harvard University having forbidden the annual foot ball matches between the Sophomores and Freshmen, the ball was buried on Monday evening (the anniversary of the game) with ludicrous pomp and mock solemnity. There was a procession with mourners, pall bearers and grave diggers, and the sad services took place in a hollow square formed upon the Delta…and the stone told the tale of woe, viz. “Hic Jacet Football Fightum, Obit July 2, ’60, AEtat LX. Resurgat.”

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Reciprocity In Shipping.- …that negotiations be reopened with the United States with a view to the admission of English captains into American ports, on the score of reciprocity, the N. Y. Shipping and Commercial List says:
…Our commercial marine, though now come to be one of the most important elements of our national wealth and national property, is still in its infancy, and we cannot well afford to admit the cheaply built and cheaply manned vessels of Europe to compete with it for trade in its own ports. However, within the past few years, the leading nations of Europe, and especially England, have built up a magnificent fleet of steam vessels, most of them for war purposes originally, but now employed in commercial enterprises, and, as we have no vessels to speak of a corresponding character to successfully compete with these, it is not strange that a large proportion of the freights, which used to fall to the share of American sailing vessels, are now monopolized by our rivals. Now, to admit these vessels to our coasting trade, under the circumstances, would certainly be, on our part, an act of suicide which one cannot understand principle of international comity should constrain us to perform…At some future day, indeed, when we can compete with her on something like equitable terms, we may safely follow her example in repealing the navigation laws, so as to admit the flags of all nations into our ports on the same footing with her own; but at present, we repeat, the general sentiment of the country would seem to be that things are well enough as they stand.

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A Curious Ceremony.- “Bleeding Kansas.”- A Lincoln pole was recently set up at Martinsville, Ohio, and the flag to adorn it was presented by thirty-three young ladies . Sixteen of them were dressed in white, sixteen in black. The thirty-third was dressed in scarlet, with a red liberty cap, to represent “Bleeding Kansas.” They all marched round the pole in double file, black and white arm in arm. The “red one” followed on behind, alone and weeping.

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Wild Boar Hunt In Virginia.- Mr. Chas. Birdsong, an overseer for Mrs. Dunn, at Port Walthall, went out to one of his fields on Thursday night, August 30, to find out what was committing such depredations on his corn. He had not been out long before he heard a rustling in the field, and starting in that direction he discovered two large wild boars playing havoc with his corn. As soon as Mr. Birdsong was seen they made an attack on him and his dogs. He shot the first one at the muzzle of his gun, and killed him instantly. The other was keeping his dogs at bay, and had killed one before Birdsong could capture him. The two were brought to market the next morning, and weighed 500 lbs. and upwards.

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**********************Boston Evening Transcript**********************

Popular Delusion At the South.- The Missouri papers give the details of some of the deeds of illegal violence in Texas, which are almost incredible. Mr. Marsh, who sold papers in Camden, Arkansas, and delivered the New York Tribune to those of the residents of the vicinity who ordered the paper, has been kidnapped, tried by a mob and sentenced to be hung. An anonymous letter was the only evidence against him. Time was allowed for him to send for his wife and to procure form the citizens of St. Louis certificates of his former good character. His wife was making every effort to save him.

Recent accounts from Texas leave no doubt that innocent men have suffered in the terror that has spread through the region. The Marshall (Texas) Republican says-
“Mr. John D. Evans, who has made a tour through the countries of Upshur, Rusk, and Cherokee, informs us that what was supposed to be poison in the hands of the negroes in Cherokee county, when subjected to chemical analysis, turned out to be a harmless preparation. And yet the negroes stated that it was poison, and that they had been instructed to place it in the wells and in the food of their masters. Very little reliance can be placed in testimony obtained by coercion or intimidation.

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********************New Orleans Commercial Bulletin***********************

Arkansas Items.- Excitement in Camden.- The citizens of Camden are in a state of excitement occasioned by the supposed discovery of an Abolitionist in their midst. The suspected person is a man by the name of Marsh, who has been living in Camden for a month or so in the capacity of a news agent. Marsh had left before any action was taken by the citizens. He is being pursued, however, and if guilty, will doubltless receive the punishment he merits.- Washington Telegraph, 5th.

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David Upton

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