Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-03-11
Items Of News.

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Parties are left free to pay what they
! please, the law interfering only 81
far as to compel the fulfilnient Of the
contract, whatever it may be.
} Maxine PROGRESS The To rks
are now engaged in buildings mafad-
: amized road from Trebiz ond to Efze-
| room, two hundred miles in length
which will be the greatest achid We
5 ment in the way Of inter pal imprd We
ment, in all Turkey.
STEAMBOAT DIsAsTE Rs On TIE We r
ERN WATERs.-The annual statement
of the marine disasters on the waters
of theISouth and West shows that du-
ring the year 1850 Their were fifty
three vessels totally lost, Of wi eh
thirty-three were sunk, fourte cen
burnt, and six destroyed by exIlo-
sion. The number of accidents Fas
one hundred and seventeen. The
number of persons killed was neaF ply
Iserea hundred, and probably half hat
humble r were wounded. The amount
of capital destroyed from these ad d
dents exceeds one and a half milli5 ns
of dollars. The chief disasters bd fel
the steamers Griffith, Belle of The
: West, Anthony Wayne, Antoinette
; Douglass, Knoxville, and the Anglo
J Norm On. The number of lives LOST
by these six disasters was neatly
! four h hundred and fifty.
FREE BANKING-Thefe are n pw
bills pending before til States Of
! Pennsy lvania, Indiana, and New pr
i sey,. With the view to introduce the
+, system of free-banling into those
e States. The free-banking svste m
; which has been quite successful in thc
l. State bf New York, will doubtless be
e adopted, to a great exte hit, as the ba-
e SIS Of banking business throughout
: the country. 1t may, like any 9th
e er plan, be overdbne. and eertai in
checks should be adopted to preve bit
5 too great an issue Of ban notes, eve IN
on government sec lrityI The con
e vertibility OF the il Sue into gold and
: silver must neyeraF e lost sight Of.
) ANOTHER STEAM oAT LqsT-We
, learn by a private tele graphic dis
! patch received in II bis city yesterday,
that the steamboat Auf9guf, on hfr
trip ub from New Orleans, came in
collision with another steamer near
Memphis Thirty persq MS were lost,
amonSI whom was OF r t0wnsman, j.
b. Fer UsoN, Jr., lat e of the Verall-
] dab IPtel-AashtFM Gasetf.
PupITc LANps.-1 t is officially sta
ted that ninety-fve millions Of acres
of public lands will be required to
{atisly the warrants of soldiers in the
hte war, and the 81 creta airy of the
Trea sury computes hat it viii take.
ut the rate public ! pnds have been
heretofore sold, sixtd len Y ears to dis
pose of these ninety five millions.
! TEMI FRANCE ~ j LLN3ls-A bill
MAS pas4ed the Illinois House of Rep
rFsentatives, which 7 rohibits the sale
Of intoxicating liquors in quantities
less thin one quart, unless sold by.
druggists and physicians, in good
filth, FIR mechanical, medicinal, or
sacramental purposes. If sold to an
adult, tile fine isS25 for every breachf
of the law, and if to a minor under
lineage Of eighteen years. the penal
ty is not less than $50, nor more
than 500. The act also repeals all |
&c rmer laws upon the subject, and |
completely destroy IS the license sys-
td IN. Action has j let to be taken on
it in theISenate.
WoRLD's FAIR The frigate\ st. 4
Lawrence sailed fro n New York for
England ON the 10th inst, with the
American contributions to the great n
Industrial Exhibition at London
Mr.. Charles f. Sta nsbury went out
as agent for,the cent ral committee to-
attend to the interest Is of sd CHI Amer 7
lean contributors as may not have
obtained the services of another
agent.
The Charleston Mercury sets down.
the number Of sccessionists elected {
to the South Carolina Cd Invention. I,
at II q, out Of 100, the number Of
which the Convention will q nsist..
UoF BELL on THE BIN LE-The
Governor Of Texas. in his thanksqiy- !,
ing proclamation, congratul ates the
people Of the State ontheir improved {
and adds:
I'm the beautiful and expressive
language of the. bible: -sThe winter of