Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-05-20
Items Of News.


steamboat hnding day before yester-
day, at abe appearance Of a couple OF
ladies' with the short Turkish dress.
They we're travelling in company
with gentlemen, and were evidently
people of cultivation. A revolution
in female costume is undoubtedly in
preparation. There can be nothing
more ungraceful than the long, drab-
ling dresses which sweep the streets
and steps VIII rever ladies move
As matter Of personal comfort5 the
Turkish dress must be most agree
able, in addition to its beauty-Os-
pegQ Journal.
There was . slight frost here on
the ID lust which did not, how
ever, do much damage in this re-
gion; but farther North and South
it appears to have greatly injured
the crops Of corn and cotton, and
fruits and vegetables. The wealth
er is still very cool for the season,
and the crops look bad. Cotton
has advanced in New York in con-
sequence Of a pprehensions Of dam
age to the young CROP Huntsville
{ 4lq.) 4dpocatf.
A Band Of Desperaloes broken up.
The Detroit, Michigan, papers of
the 2lst ult., detail the particulars
of one Of the most Villainous plots,
just discovered there ever heard of
in this country. A gang Of thirty
or forty scounlrels, it seems, has
associated together for the avowed
purpose Of q unterieiting. horse
stealing, ince ndiarism, burglary,
robbery--in short, from the capital
crimes down to the pettiest larceny
The organization has been in ope-
ration for some eighteen months,
and is ouly discovered BOW by a
person who succeeded in getting
the confidence of the banditti. At
Leona, Centre and Jackson, Mich
igan, no fewer than thirty>three Of
the scoundrels have been arrested
among whom are three justices
Of the peace five doctors, one Judge,
and four constables! Among other
schemes Of villainy they intended TO
carry out, was one to blow up the
Michigan Central rail road track
and cars, by m cans of an ingenious
ly contrived torpedo. The prison
ers were arrested on a writ from
the United States Court, for stop
ping the mail, counterfeitlng, &C.,
and will proba bly, be detained until
the next session 0i the court Tor
that district.
FRosT.-The recent cold wealth
er and frosts, which have pro we'd so
destructive to our crops, are not
confined TO this region. Exc anges
from north, south, east and west,
all record the ravages it has com
nitted upon vegetation Of every
kind. Fruit, cotton, corn and po-
tatoes, seem to have suffered injury
throughout the Mississippi Valley,
as far as has been heard from, to a
degree that cannot be estimated.
Our farmers have sust aimed their
full share of the general injury
Many OF them, we are informed,
will be reduced to the necessity Of
replanting to a great extent. From
the milder temperature, with which
we have been favored for several
days past, it is to be hoped there
will be no recurrence of the rava
ges of this unweIcome VISITOR
| Franklin (Tm.) Reciew.
Col. S. r. Anderson, in a pub
lished card, declines a nomination
rendered him by the Democracy of
Smith county at public meeting
on the 5th inst. to run as candl-
date for Congr ess in that Congress
ionaI district.
The Cincinnati Commercial says
that, on Saturday, at a meeting OF
the directors Of the Ohio and Miss.
railroad company. $50, 600 OF stock
were SUBSCRIBE in one hour by
eight persons, all of them direc tors
and officers. This road is to ru p to
St. Louis.
Coinage al the United States Mt4t.-
The total coinage for the year
thus far amounts S17,$l1. O0S.-
The coinage { or April, was S3,-
l76,05s, being a falling off Of n ear
ly one-half, as compared With
March. The coinage Of Three
Cent Pieces has reached $4,000,
and is rapidly increasing.