Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-02-05
Tier S Of News.
CINCINNATI. Jan. q.

CINCINNATI, Jan. II.
The Price Current publishes a
statement of hogs packed in the
| West. The returns are from two
thirds of the packing poi nts, inelu-
ding the principal places, and sum up
the grand total this year 95O,513
against f001,S 1897 last year Ohio,
Indiana, and Kentucky show an ag-
gregate increase of I4,O0OI There
were $4,000 packed in this city
against $4,000 last year.
New YORK, JAIN 90.
East river frozen over and about
10 al m. the tide arose sd suddenly
that the ice broke in all objections.
AboutI300 persons we're On the ice
at the time and we're carrie AWAY
1t is feared great numberIof per-
sons wi be lost The people along
the shore rendered all the assistance
possible to rescue those on the ice.
EDDYvLIE, Jan. %.
The Harry Hill started up yes.
terday for Nashville. She has been
working all day TO break through
the gorge, but finding that impossi-
BILE returned here to-daH She
found the gorge in some places 20
feet thick, and of unknown extent.
1t is REPORTED that the gorge extends
from 5 to 10 miles up. y be Hill
will probably store her freight here
and return to New Orlean IS.
Hon. Henry Clay has 70 far re-
covered as to be able to ride out in
company with his physical h.
EpDYYlLLF, Jan. 90, IS p. NJ.
The gorge above here is broken.
About hall an hour after he Hill
returned the ice CAME down. like an
avalanche, and Tor two no prs the
river was completely blot ked.-
Some ofthe ice was twenty-fye feet
thick. Nearly all run out now,
and the Hill has gone up.
Extensive frauds on the custom
house in New York have Recently
been discovered. A custom house
bro ker is charged with havins forged
many orders, invoices, &C., BY which
he has obtained boxes and bales Of
goods. He has also forged the sig
nature of the collector, naval officer,
an of almost every person ne cessary
to enable him to effect his object
These f3rgeries have been pfactised
for long time and were detected
only by accident The forg ger has
made his escape, and is now beyond
| the reach of the authorities. The
e tent of his depredations is not yet
known, as new Developments are
dally making
| THE VICE PREsIDENcY.-The Wash
ipgton correspondence the Charles
ton Standard, in his letterof the Both
ult., says
| Gov. James C. Jones, late Presi-
dent of the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad, and now a Senator from
the State of Tennessee, will be the
whig candidate for Vice 2 resident.
This may be looked upon IS fixed
fact.
FREE NEGROES IN PENNSYLVANIA
A bill has been reported in the Penn.
sylvania House of Representatives,
for bidding free persons of color from
cor ming into that State. 1t prohibits
col pred persons, negroes, or mulat-
toes, from coming into the State for
the purpose of settling therein, under
the penalty Of Imprisonment, not less
than two nor more than nine months.
Persons employing or otherwise en-
eou raging them to settle or remain
in the State, are subject to d fine of
from one to one hundred dollars. and
the overseers of the poor are to pros
ecute all persons violating TIL act.
EMIGRATTos--From the eport of.
the commissioners OF emigration, re-
Gently published, it d ppears that the
number of foreigners that arrived in
this country in lS49 was 220,603: in
1880 it was 2l2,766; while in 1851
it was 209,6Ol, show ing an increase
over the previous year of 6S,S05.
WAsHTNEoN, Jan. 81.
Neither tho House nor the Senate
in session to-day. House bill grant |
ing land to Whltney's railroad was
yesterday referred 10 the com rniltee
of the whole.
The University of the State oil
North Carolina, is said to be in a |
more prosperous condition at this |
time than ever before. There |
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