Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-02-11
Items Of News.

That negro man named DdVlu
claim ed as the property of a Mr..
Briggs of Clarke county, Virginia,
was arrested in Harrisburg on Fri
day, and after examination by the
United States Commissi oner, Rich
ard M'Allister, Esq, was quietly
handed over to his master, to be
transported back to his former home.
Balt. Pit.
Virginia. eso7utions.- Resolutions
were introduced into the Virginia
General Assembly, approving the
compromise meas ures, but decl4 airing
that the repealof thefugitive sla4 elaw
would be a dissolution of the Union,
and ihstructing their Senators and
Representatives to gacate their seats,
whenever Congress imposes addi-
tional restrictions upon slavery or
the slave trade between the States.
These resolutions were indefinite
ly postponed by a majority Of one
gote-Lou. JON.
According to work re Gently pub
lished inLondon, there was in opera
ton at the commencement of 1910,
in different parts of the globe, to-
tai length of 1866 miles of rail
way, on which capital of 936S,567,-
600 had been actually expended
Besides this, it is estimated that
there we're, at that epoch, in progress
of construction, further extent of
1929 miles, the cost of which, when
completed, would be e146,750,000.
Thus, when these latter lines shall
have been brought into operation, the
population of Europe and the United
States, (for it is there only that II i'll
ways have made any progress, J. W i'll
have completed, within the period of
less than a quarter Of century, 2 Is
4S5 miles Of railway; that is to say,
a greater length than would complete
! ly surround the globe, at a cost OF
above G500,000,000 sterling.
The Plaquemine Qa) Gazette
says that the late cold weather has
proved very destructive to the
young orange-trees in that vicinity
Hon. Geo. NJ. Bib, late Secretary
of the Treasury, has written letter
to Mr.. Ritchie, the editor of the
Washington Union, explaining the
deposit made in the Middletown
Bank, etc, and denying that it was
ever used to purchase the Globe.
POPULATION OF MARYLAND-The
increase since 1910 IS ascertained to
be 80 per cent. Total population
now, 591 600, of which 10000 are
slaves. The increase in slaves has
been only a little more than one per
Icent.
MIssIssIPPT.-Thes census returns
of % counties in Southern Mississippi
lpi show an increase in population Of
very nearly B. per cent since 1910
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EAST TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA Rail-
ROAD letter to the Knoxville
Wing says: The cars will be rum
ming from Dalton to Charleston, by
the middle of May, and at that time
hlessrs. Dent & Co, will be ready to
commence laying down the iron to
Athens.
SfEcII; During the week ending
on the 18th ult., the exports of specie
from New York were S2G2,532.-
OF this sum, the packet for Havre
took out $4,000, mostly in silver.
ExcELIENr oRT-The Legisla-
ture of Vermont having sent q series
/ of peace resolutions to the Legislature
iof Virginia, with a request for her
views on the subject Of universal
peace and the abolition Of war, the
latter body, by unanimous vote, re-
quested the Governor to return the
resolutions to Vermont with the
declaration that, when Vermont
shall prove her willingness to con-
suit the peace of this Union, by do
ing justice to the Constitution, it
would be time enough for Virginia
to consult with her as to the peace
Of the world.
A singular instance of resuscita-
ton occurred at the British Museum,
which, however strange as it may
seem, still is actually a fact. A GER
tain snail, a native Of Egypt, which
had been glued down to a card du-
ring the past four years, and confined
in close glass case, actually came to
life the other day, and was found by
the astonished curious promenadlng
about the narrow domain.