Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-06-03

In April, the ere was ice in Vermont
sufficient to bear a wagon and team
trip of II milesl
The Florida Indians propose 10
enigratesand give up their country
to the United States government for
|S530,0O0.
1t is stated in the London Times,
that upon an a erage one person out
of twenty of the inhabitants of this
luxurious metropolis is every day
destitute Of food and employment,
and every night without place for
shelter or repose. It's a lamentable
fact, that in this very city Of London
alone, theAcentre and core of British
civilization, one hundred thousand
persons are every day without food,
save it be the precarious produce of a
passing job or crime.
Apples are now selling at 10 cents
each In st. Louis. The poorest COM
mand 60 cents per dozen.
A paper-maker in one of the Mas
sachnsetts town recently committed
suicide. He vi rs doing flourishing
business, and was surrounded by all
that makes an earthly sojourn- desira-
bic, but be killed himself because he
thought he had been cheated in a
bargainl
VINO BELIEVES MT is stated in
a late issue of the Bridgeport Conn.,
Farmer, that man Of that town in
good health, of active and temperate
habits, has not slept q wink for five
weeks, and suffers no in inconYen-
fence from his Eakefulness.
The intense frost of last winter
has killed more than one thousand
shade trees on the streets Of Cincin-
natl.
The commonest kind Of laborers
in Australia now receive $40 a week,
and there is employment for hundreds
or thousands for years to come.
Would it not be good thing for
Corporations of cities to provide free
passages to that country, for all those
persons who do not find employment.
General Scott, we S suspect, has
broken away from his keepers, and
gone to writing letters. lie has
written one to this State, We learn,
endorsing the compromise up ono
side any down the other and al round
in general, and the fugitive slave law
in particular. There. IS no doubt of
the fact, and we deem it but proper
to give his friends notice. His mann
ma ought to kno W he's out, and send
the bell-man after him.-[01. Cour.
| The fruit crops in New Jersey
promise to be good, Apples, pears,
plums and cherries will be plentiful.
Peaches will prof. ably be scarce.
The Prince.o n Ky Republican,
says, "the cholera has made its ap-
lpearance In this ,lace. Two ner-
sons have died IF it,
AT RAR.-We understand an en-
terprising citizen of this county pro-
cured a large quantity of railroad
bonds" of the East Tennessee and
Virginia issue, topk them to one of
the cities of the South, paid old
debts with them, and purchased goods
with them at parl When it is re-
membered that Tennessee bank notes
both in the north and south, are from
two to four per cent. discount, and
at some places not receivable at all,
this fact, is highly gratifying.-
JOReSborO' Democrat.
MISSISSIPPI RIvER.-So tortuous.
is the course of the Mississippi, from
the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf
that it is seven hundred miles more
by the river betwee en- these two points
than the actual distance by a straight
line.
SANTA ANNA.-The Monitor saws
that San ia Anna has written letter
to his partisans, declaring that he
will furnish them with no more funds
for revolutionary PURPOSES; that he
has already sent them S150,00D,
which they have squandered; that
they have basely and yillainously de-
ceiged him; that they are set of
miserable towards, terrified by the
bare mention of Arista's name.
THE CALIFORNIA FUGITIVE SLAVE
BILL--The bill which has passed the