Daily Advocate [Baton Rouge, LA], September 14, 1860
A traveling company of suspicious looking individuals, composed of men, women and children, drew up in our city on Thursday last. They represented themselves to be dealers in horses and mules, manufacturers of barrels, repairers of broken umbrellas, and fortune-tellers generally. As it was thought by some of our citizens that they came to a bad market, they were promptly ordered to vamoose, which they did instanter. These, and like suspicious stragglers, now passing through the country, should be carefully watched—we know not what their true designs may be.—Tuscaloosa Observer, 5th inst.