Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-10-07
Items Of News.

con, the Ohio abplitionists. The
committee requested of him that he
should renounce his abolition senti-
ments, but he refused. They then
stripped him and tying him to tree
administered about a dozen lashes,
when he agreed to renounce his abo.
lition views, sell his lands and negroes
and leave the State. The occur
renee has caused great excitement
the committee are said to be in pur-
suit of several other persons.
Several silccks of earthquakes
have been felt recently, at Naples
and in various other places of the
kingdom. One village, Bari: has
been completely destroyed-eyery
hous e being in ruins, and some Sc
ven hundred bodies have been
foun d. The crater of Vesuyius is
properly the safety valve Of the city
of the bay.
L He CRoPs AND HEALTn.-The
cotton and corn in this parish, says
the Baton Rouge Gazette, will not,
we are assured, yield more than
one-half crop. The long conlin-
ued drought and the late rains, have
caused the cotton to shed, and the
corn was too far advanced to re-
cover. We hre now having rain in
abundance. The cane crop is very
promising since the showers have
com menced. The country is very
sickly-feyers prevailing to a great
extent.
PENNSYLVANIA FINANcEs.-We learn
from proclaI nation of Gov. John
son, announcing the precise amount
Of State debt paid, that in two years
and a half in which the sinking fund
has been in operation, the sum of
S659,122 6S has been paid. A
floating debt of canal, railroad, and
motive power debts, contracted prior
to the close Of 1S48, amounting to
upwards of S373,000, has also been
The entire indebtedness
of the State On the LIST December,
1913, was 40,S48,588 Al; on the
lst instant it was S40,116,362 Al,
including special loan Of 100000.
The Washington Telegraph says
that George @. Lawrenson, Esq, has
been appointed Collector of New
Orleans. Mr.. Adams, who was ap-
pointed in place Of Mr.. Freret, re-
moved, having declined The Tele-
graph says Mr.. L. is native of All
exandria, Virginia, and a son Of
Thomas Lawrenson, deceased, of the
eminent commercial house of Law
renson & Fowle, of that town.
The Huntsville Advocafe of the
24th says "the weather continues re-
markably dry, with cool nights and
mornings and hot days. The dust
is getting to be a decided nuisance
the fields and all vegetation appear
parched up stock water is getting
scarce in many places. The season
is very favorable for gathering cotton
the crop will be a small one"
The Hmgaraans in Iowa.-The
Hungarian Colony in Iowa, is located
in an entirely new and unsettled coun-
try, about $50 miles from the Mis-
sissippi, and possesses few facilities
for communication. Some. of the
are dissatisfied and wish to
change the location to some point
near the Mississippi, where more
eligible location could be procured at
| small expense. Goy. IJhazy IS
represented as leading a lifelof a true
philosopher, dividing the time be-
,ween labor upon his fields and crops,
md study and reflection, diversified
With such hunting and fishing as the
egion affords.
The river is almost dry, with little
prospect Of a better state of affairs.
5oats of the lightest draught have
0 be poled over Warsaw bar, between
Iere and Louisville, and below every !,
ar is guarded by a fleet Of boats of
ny description and size. At this
ONT there is about as little water as
ny need for. A fat-boat got
ground Yesterday opposite Syca- I.
lore street. About a month since a
bal boat, heavily laden, sunk nearly !
pposite Plum street. The present !
w stage of water has given the !
Tner an opportunity to recover his :
Times. I
ELoPEAIENT.-Edward j. Swanson.
Lasalle, ILL.,, has run off with Mrs.
liza Cox, wife of John E. Cox, of :. !,
e same place. Swanson left a wife y