Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-08-04
From the Austin State Gazette.l
THE ABOLITION PLOT I'm. TFyas4

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10 view Of all these fires, and IN cof,s,ero,;o, ne
the facs presented who can doubt Of the ct .h..
mere is' regular organized band of bellhonnds
VINO nave secretly plotted the destruction of proper
y ana OF lite Who can they be, and whatmosiye
esh lney nave These questions occur at once to
nl'lI NE have not room to pursuethe subject
iurthor, but we viii not close without osllinc The
attention Of the citizens of Austin and of our ma
irons everywhere, to the necessity Of guarding we'll
tpelr property, andSof scrutiniziDg closely every
|. them - 'OeAe "A,''ons
There are letters in this city giving accounts of
serious nres at Sulphur Springs and Brenham, but
our mail to-day does not bring us any details Of the
disasters at these places.
Inc impression prevails that these extensive con.
hagrations in Texas are the work Of northern abol
nonlsts, several of whom have been ordered out of
Texas 81 - = 800
The following is from an extra Of the Bonham Era
oil thu 18th inst:
Fearful ABOLITION Raid-Insurrection of Neoroes-
Ossdodtofnte Broom among us-N0rthern Teras
to be Laid Wdste-7As Work Already Com
meneed
The destructive and mysterious fires that occurred
throughout our portion Of the State, on the 9Th
INST, were theme for speculation until to-day
Some Imputed their origin to the Spontaneous
combustion" of prairie matches caused by the ex-
cessive heat of that day. but the conviction seemed
TO prevail that they were the result Of preconcerted
arrangements set on foot by abolition enissaries,
who had heretofore been expelled from the country
That this latter position correct is verified by
the su6oiped letter from DR.. Pryor, editor of the
Capt DeLasle: g
DEAR Sin: write in haste that you may prepare
your people for the most alarming state of affairs
that has ever occurred in Texas On the Sth of
July the town Of Dallas was fired, and the whole
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town was destroyed. The next day the dwelling
house OF ). j. Eakins was burned. After that the
dwelling house of E. p. Nicholson was fired but
discovered in time to arrest the flames. On Thurs
day the premises of Grill Miller with large amount
oil grain, oats, etc, were totally consumed This
led to the arrest of some white men. A most dia-
boical plan was then discovered to devastae the en-
tire 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 instgators OF the plot
The whole plan is Systematically conceived, and
most ingeniousy contrived. 1t makes the blood
run cold to hear the details This whole country
was to be laid waste with fire. destroying all the
ammunition, arms provisions, etc, to get the country
in state of heplessness and then on election day
| in August, TO make general Instruction, aided
and assisted by emiSSares from the North aad per-
sons friendly to them in midst Their sphere
of operations is dStrcted and SubdStrcted giving
to each division close supervision by one energetic
white man, who controls the negroes as his subor-
dinates. A regular invasion, and real intestine
war. You all at Bonham in much danger as
We are. BE on your guard, and make these facts
known by issuing extras, to be sent in every dIrcc
ton. All business has ceased and the country is
| terribly excited.
In haste, yours truly
CHAS. R. PRYOR.
Comment on the above would be superfuous;
everybody will the necessity of immediate and
energetic action, and thorough organization
throughout the country, and to this end it is pro-
posed that meeting of the citizens Of Fannin
ty be held in the court house at Bonham, at ten
o'clock on Saturday next when the subject will be
fully discussed and measures adopted for future
safety.
The fires that occurred on the 9Th inst, as far as
we are yet able to learn, are as follows:
Dallas.-The entire business portion of the town.
including every mercantile house in the place Loss
estimated at 100000
Balknap.-Eight large storehouses were destroy
ed The buildings were owned by Drs. Foote and
Throgmorton, of Mckinney Loss not given.
Milford, Ellis county-Totally destroyed
Black Jack Grove.-One large mercantile house.
Loss, $4,000.
Observation-Disclosures house.
Denton.-The storehouse of j. NJ. Smoot with
the house of Jacobs, and that of Baines & Turner
Total loss estimated at $4,000.
Smoot, of Denton Total loss, $4,000.
Fort Worth.-A mercantile house. Loss not
| given.
Ladonia, Fannin county.-The storehouse of Mr.
E. Dupree, totally destroyed. Loss about $4,000
1t is also reported that two houses were burned
in Jefferson and at Honey Grove, in this county;
one house fired, but put out before much dam
age was done. steam Touring mill was burned at
Wildwood, Collin county, Texas
The correspondence in the Houston Telegraph
says that these fires undoubtedly the work of
abolition emssaries; and the Telegraph has the fol-
! lowing upon the subject:
They all appear to have been the work of ;ncen-
diaries, doubt abolitiOnsts who either reveng
ing themselves for having been driven from the
country, are attempting TO destroy all property
in that region. Words of execration all fail to do
justice to the enormty Of the crimes of these vii
ainS-devils in human shape. Let them but con-
time their outrages and not all the blood of all the
abotionists in the Union will quench the fires they
are kinding."
In confederation of the above view Of the origin
of the fire, we give the following: On July Sd the
citizens of Chapel Hill, after a calm consideration of
the matter quietly expelled from their midst three
abotioniSts who had been quite industrious in dis
seminating their pestilent doctrines among the ne
groes. The letter in the Matagorda Gazette, from
which learn the above, says: at was proved
that they had repeatedly declared that there were
from three to four thousand abolitonists in Texas
and that in three years they would rule the State.
The HEATED TERM.-Our exchanges come daily
with accounts of the overpowering hot weather at
| the South. Natchetz St. Louis, Memphis, Savan-
nah and New Orleans are suffering almost beyond
precedent. The average range of the thermometer
at these points is this year far in of that Of
| the past.
Forty-two deaths occurred in New Orleans last
week from sun-stroke, and forty from appoplexy.
| The whole mortality of the city was 800. The sun
is said to have poured down with intensity which
the oldest resident does not recolect to have
equaled."
! In Mobile. Alabama, some half dozen cases of
coup de soliet had occurred Heretofore it has been
almost unknown in that place. Even night offers
no protection. The heat was so intense that the