Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-07-01

ih4 mas appointed Ii. Nj. SAUNDERS
ASa Biggs, and B. +. Moore, Esqs:
Commissioners 10 revise the Stat
utes OF that State.
/ Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
The requisite amount of stock
has atlength been subscribed, and
arrangements viii be entered into
at once for tile purpose of com
mencing work on this great. enter
lprIse.
Late accounts from Mexico repre-
sent the treasury exhausted, with
cut any meanso replenishing it., and
the country yerging on anarchy.
Desertion in the army is begin
ming TO attract serious attention in
every part of the United States
The loss annually to government IS
Fenormous--eyery man who deserts,
robs the government Of $50 directly,
and indirectly of much more. One
eighth Of the whole army deserted
last year, and last month Is out OF
56 men of Capt. Hateh's company
at Rochester deserted.
There is one piece Of expert
mental legislation of which, the
State Of Wisconsin is said 10 be
Heartily sick, viz: the abolition Of
any limit to the rates of interest.
Fit is said that not less than one-halt
of the best lands in the Stale are
mortgaged for the payment of mon
ey borrowed at not less than twen-
ty five per cent.
C6TroN-The Savannah Republi-
can has intelligence of the Cotton
crop from sixty counties of Georgia,
and although the stand is generally
good it can make no progress on ac-
count of a long continued drought.
! The st. Louis Inteligencer, of the
18th inst, says that it is well au-
Ithenticated fact, that Of the five hum
dred emisrants sent up fronQ uaran-
tine Island, on Friday Of last week,
mot less than fifty, or one-tenth of
the whole number, have since died of
! ship fever and cholera, and, with very
few exceptions, were buried at the
Expense of the city of St. Louis.
i ELoPEMENT. The Enquirer says: a
man passed through Memphis last
Saturday in bot pursuit of his worser
half and a gay Lothario, with whom
she had deserted her iege Lord =
| The heart broken husband SAID he
didn't care so much about the gal,
but by thunder he wanted the boss
she took with her, Sensible fellow,
that.
i FLooD IN Arkansas AND THE CHER-
oKEE CoUSTRY.--A correspondent Of
the Fort Smith (Ark) Herald tn US
writes from Fayetteville, under date
of May 22d.
We had on Monday night quite
flood. White River and the Hi
nois have been higher than they
have been for the last TIVE atty years.
The fences in the bottoms have
nearly all been swept of; besides,
it has entirely ruined many of the
best farms. The wheat, oats and
corn, in the bottoms, and many OF
the farms, are entirely destroyed
The Illinois river here spoken Of
is small stream rising in the north
western part OF Arkansas, and
runs through the Cherokee co untry.
Penalty for Stare Wziipping. MIR.
4 Simeon sSouthey,a wealthy citizen
of Hanover county, Virginia, has
been convicted OF beating one Of
his slaves to death, and sentenced
to the penitentiary for five years.
BoUNTy LAND WARRANTS The
Commissioner Of Pensions, at Wash
ington, has given official notice that
l where bounty land warrants get
lost or miscarry, the persd n TO
whom they are sent must immedi-
ately enter cave4a in the General
/ Land Office to prevent the issuing
Of patent to a IF audulent claim. +
The claimant is also required to
lgiye six weeks public notice Of his
loss-minutely de scribing the war
Irant, the identity Of the applicant,
tand all other necessary facts, which
mus. be proved u der oath.
i The New York Courier of the
18th instant, says that Strawberries
were sold in their streets on
the 18th for three cents per basket.
The receipts by the Erie RaIlroat