Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-04-08


There are movements now making
in this part of the State of New
York; towar DIS creating a new State
Eof this city, Kings County, Queens
County, Suffolk, Richmond, andsome
other counties on the Riyer. We
have here within sight of the City &
Hall About a million Of human beings,
and t be population is rapidly increas-
ing sfith every thing in men and
means that constitute State.
| FASEUH. HALL REFUsED.-The May
Ok and Aldermen at Boston have re-
fused to grant the use of Faneiil
Hall, on the Goth Of March, to Il. E.
Althrop and others, for the purpose
Pf holding mass meeting of those
opposed to the fugitive slave law.
The State of Massachusetts has
passed bill by which members of
Congress can Be chosen on the see
Pnd trial by a plurality of votes, and
presidential electors by plurality on
the first ballot.
The N. Z Express says that the
Rev. Mr.. Matthews, travelling agent of :
the American Baptist Emancipation
Society of New York, whilst on
pilgrimage to the residence Of Cassius
NJ. Clay, of Kentucky, stopped at
Richmond, Kentucky, and made use
of certain unwholesome expressions
relative to the subject of slavery,
which indueedTth citizens to order
him to leave town. He left, but re-
turned a day OF two afterwards;
whereuponI the citizens seized him,
and after ducking him eight or nine
times in horse-pond, ordered him
to leave the State. Upon refusing
to do so, he was dipped twice more;
whereupon he promised to leave i'm
mediately, and took up the line Of
march ON foot for Pennsylvania.
The most rapid piece of legisla-
ton ever recorded in the annals of
any legislative body, was the pas
sage of the Light House Bill in the
United States Senate The motion
was made to take il up aud car
ried, it was read a first, second and
third time and passed; sent to the
House for the signature of ii l.
Speaker and enrolment, return
ed TO the Senate, signed by its Pres
Iidens, and sent 10 the President.
within the space Of fee miaufes--
The motion to take up was made
fl We minutes before the expiration
LOT Congress.
i AN INDIAN MARaIAGE-lt is
many years since we have felt our.
SELVES called upon to record the
marriage Of two such distinguished
lpersonases as the followingI Tue
1record we find in the " atab (sIin-
nesoto Terr itory) Rcvellle, Of the
18th OF January, and reads as fol
lows:
4 sAIarried on the Sd instant. at
w atab City ,sIaw-kee ko-kt e-waw-
haw-dauchy, kew, Esq, to Miss
Wee-hunka ", daughter of Nav
hee koo shay zhe-kaw, all Of Wan
atah county ,.Nlinnesota
"The editor participated in the
feast on tn is occasion, aud was pre-
scented with the hind quarter OF a
fine dog"
The BoUNrY- LAND GRANr.-Tt
IS officially stated that up to this
time about one hundred thousand
applications have been received Tor
the benefit Of this law; and every
day mail adds from five hundred
, TO a thousand to their number
The office is now issuing between
one thousand and twelve hundred
a week; and it will require more
than eighteen months before claims
Eow on hand can be disposed Of, or
maturcd into warrants. All per-
I sons interested in the law or desi-
ring information in regard to it, are
requested to address their commu-
lniCatioDsI directly TO the Commits
sioner OF Pensions.
One OF the strongest objections
to the formation OF . Stanley Cab
met in England, is stated to be The
Necessity it would involve, by the
chpice Of a new Parliament. Of ex.
posing TO the view Of the immense
multitude of strangers, at the great
exhibition, the scandaIous eharac-
| ter of Englishlelections. This OBJ.
lection IS plainly and iorcibly set
forth by a respectable British jour,