Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-05-13
Items Of News.

f$sl'OuNSi-e "a viz cONAAHA % ~OAa1
merce, writing from San Francisco
under date of March 4th, says:
Business here is growing more
and more slack, and thu quantity of
goods daily arriving and forced at
auction, is truly immense. On Mon
day last, at John Middleton's public
sale Of boots, clothing, etc, the COM
pany, which was large, assembled at |
10 o'clock in the morraing, and did
not adjourn until dark. Some five
hundred lots of goods were sold
which, on an average, did not realize
freight and charges, although the
quality and condition Of the goods
were unexceptionable- notice to-
day in the papers that in one vessel,
| from Baltimore, the agent adyertises
2267 packages to the different con
signees, to be sold to pay freight md
charges, and this is a sample of aim st
every ship load that arrives"
A Patient Judge.--The patent
case of Sloat rs. Spring ct al, was
concluded at Philadelphia on Tues
day evening, and Judge Grier, af-
ter reviewing the testimony, and
laying do wn the law which gov
erned the case, said in conclusion
-"Gentlemen, the court will be in
session for a whole month. If you
shall not have agreed upon YER
dict at the expiration of that time,
you can seal up your verdict, and
the court will receive it at q future
period"
| The BosToN BARBERs.-The To-
cal authorities Of Boston, in def
ance OF the Bill Of Rights compel
the BARRIERS to keep their shops open
on Sunday; consequently forty nine
Of them have. pctiiioned the Mayor
and Aldermen to grant an order
that they may be permitted 10 read
a chapter in the Catechism before
opening their shops on Sabbath
mornings
The II ew York Courier.givcs the
proceeds Of an invoice Of goods
shipped by..a firm of that city TO
California, the prime cost of which
was 500. The sum realized on il
j was 1888 so, about 400 per cent
The charge, however, for freight,
storage, auction duties, &c, amount
ed to $3.50 SO, leaving balance
due on the original shipment of IL
cents, which, with Sc cents more,
were used up in paying the postage
from San Francisco conveying an
| account of the transaction.
I CoMPLIMENrARY.-Geo- Thomp-
son, the British Abolitionist, in a re-
4 cent speech in Canada, SAID:
J, II do not believe there is one
4 minister in the United States who
believes what he says. ! know
enough Of ministers in that country
J to believe that they preach wilfully
{ and designedly what they know to
; be falsel These men deliberately
f go to their closets, and, for purely
political and pro slavery purposes,
, write sermons for the Sabbath-day,
| which they all the while know TO be
palpably and damnably untrue!"
A correspondent Of the '-Couiiei'
tdes Etats Unis," dated Paris, March
81, 1851, contains, among other
items, the following interesting fact:
"a few days ago the steeple of
the Church of Larignac, Depart
ment Of the Lot, was carried away
by ihe fall of an aerolite, which
! sione brilliantly under he'rays OF
the sun, The Academy Of Scien-
ces, informed Of this event, appoint
ed committee of three persons
r specially charged with studying the
; nature of this remarkable aerolIte-
> A first examination appears to es,
+ tabIish that the matter oil diamond
prcdominates in the gangue OF this
: celestial body, which is in part
schistus and ammonical. This me-
r teoric substance is a novelty, and
has not yet been comprised BY phl-
f losophers in their scientific ciasslil-
: cations"
Probable Release Of Rossuth.-
, The new by the Asia gives us the
following Information, which We
! hope ma y be realized. a letter
l from Constantinople says: "Ihe
; Sultan has refused to accede to the
: demands of Austria, to exclude NJ
} Kossuth and seven Of his compan-
ions in exile, from the benefit OF liD-
Grafton. and the Austrian Minister
II ~. a. :, crogh incf rflr-