[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860
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.