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

The Hood IN the upper MISSISSIPPI
| subsidIng. Great damage Has been
done to the property in the bottoms
of that and its tributary streams, but
the extent of suffering and loss is
mot yet known, and probably never
can be.
THE cRops.- From the Cincin-
mali Enquirer, of the 18th il st, we
take the following flattering account
Of the brigt-. prospects that dawn
upon the farmers of the. Buckeye
State, for an abundant harvest:
From all we can learn there has
not been year in the hist crY of
Ohio, which will compare with The
present for the abundance of yield
of all kinds Of crops with tile ex-.
ceptions, of some fruits. Wheat.
corn, hay, oats and potatoes never
looked more promising. w e find
a paragraph hike the follow ing in
most of our Ohio exchanges The
Anglaize Republican of tRe 4th
nst., says:
Never, to our recollection was
there ever greater promise at this
season of the year for abundant
crops OF every description. Should
the wheat crop turn out as well as
appearances now indicate the Ire will
be a surplus twice as great in this
vicinity as there ever was before.
The receipt Of cotton at Boston
from January 1st, to May 18th,
IS49 we re I6O,976 some time in
1850 the y were 157,724, pnd in
1881 were only $685..
| SINGULAR-Passengers Fl om n.
Orleans report that large qua antilles
Of dead fish were seen floa ting in
the Mississippi below Red ri yer, out
of which stream they probably
came, They should be caught and
ploughed in the ground for NJ manure,
or buried in the compost heap, else
their decayed bodies will POI son the
whole atmosphere, wherever they
congregate on the lower riv er.
! Judge Wilkins, the United State.
District Judge for Michigan, ha.
charged the grand Jury, among 9th
err things. that the Fugitive Slave
Ilaw is constitutional; that it woulo
be and mtU be executed in Michigan:
and that all distractions TO an az
Irest, or interference with the arrest
ed, will be punished, by law. The
harboring or conceallnent spoken
of in the act, he says, is the fraud
luleut act of placing the fugitive be.
yond the reach and knowledge Of
| his owner. "This a ctmust be done
with fixed intentions to violate The
law by defeating its object, which
| is fraud upon the law as well as
upon the rights which the law de
Isigns to protect.
President Fillmore has recog
nized James Dempsey, Esq, as vic'
}, Consul Of Sweden and Norway
to reside al Alexandra, Va.
/ Ono ELECTION. The vote OF
the new constitution was taken il
this State on Tuesday and also OF
! the question OF License and sNc
License.'' The vote in Cincinnati
stood: For the constitution .6,353
against it 3,426, for license 3,505
against license 5,6l4.
The Cincinnati papers have scat
tering returns from the interior o
the State. The Atlas says the new
instrument is no doubt adopted by
a decisive majority, and the ''no Ii
cense' section appears>to run aheat
of the rest of the instrument.
| BANK OF EAST TENNEssEE.-
| The Knoxville Register says: @Tht
holders of the bills of this Bank
need not have the slightest appre
| hension as to its solvcncy. We
speak a dvisedly when we say this
ShouId any thing occur to make the
4 redemption of the notes of the
| Banka matter Of doubt even, we
shall promptly advise the public o.
! the fact. ?
| From WESTERN TExAs.-Col
Hardin's expedition into the Indian
country was successful, II prisoner.
obtained from Lopans. The Ca.
manche Indians appear anxious fol
friendly relations with the whites
| Mexican men and women refuse tc
leave the Indians, saving they pre-.