Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-02-12
Items of News.
WASHINGTON. Jan. IS.

ing enough to go home to Kentucky.
Governors Salaries. aggre.
gate salaries of the Governors of
the tlIirty-one States is S73,7 100.
Rhode Island gives the lowest in
tile list-S4OO per annu m, and Cali
ilornia the highest $4,000. The
next in the list is Louisiana, the
salary Of whose Governor is $4,000.
There are four terri tories with
salaried Governors, hose aggre-
gate is $4,000. And ng them is
the immortal Brigham young, who
draws from the National Treasury
$4,000.
Importation Of S7apes d Georgia.
A bill previously passed by the Sem
ate of Georgia, prohibiting the i'm
portation of Slayes into that State,
passed the House on tho 10Th inst
with an amendment re ducing the
penalty, which was originally pens
itentiary, to a fine, on e bali of
which was to go to the informant.
The Senate " i'll most pr bably con
cur, and the bill in this shape be-
come a law
Daniel Mace, representative in
Congress from Indiana and a demo-
crat. has introduced a joint resolu-
ton for the amendment Of the con-
stitution of the United States, max
| ing United States, Senators elective
by the people.
Wool IN TENNESSEE. Mark Cock
rill, Esq, residing near Nashville, in
a letter to the commissioner of pat
ents, conclusively shows by the most
potent arguments, to wit, facts, that
the climate and soil of Tennessee are
as we'll adapted to the raising of the
finest wool as any part Of the habit
able globe, not excepting that para
disc Of sheep-GermIny.
A LITERARY MIsTAKE,-51r. Whit
tier states in the National Era, that
the carefully prepared Oxford edition
Idf Millions works contains a poem
by Elizabeth Lloyd, of Philadelphia
ipurporting to have been written by
the poet in his old age, and blind
ness, and which is so well executed
as to have deceived the English ed
itor Of his works. This poem is nov
going the round Of the American
press as the production of Milton.
Steamer Washington .Suak--We
learn from the officers of the Pawnee.
that the steamer Washington, Capt
Hazlep from Nashville, with a scargo
of pig iron for Pittsburg, had sunk
at Rock Island, in the Ohio, and
broke in two. She was sunk by the
ice, and it is thought will prove to-
tai loss. The G. W. Sparhawk was
along side taking off her furniture.
The Washington was a stern wheel
boat, and was owned in Pittsburg.
The Plaquemine (La.) Sentinel.
OF very recent date, says that rose
bushes in that place, with full blown
roses on them, were, ON the 30th 81
December, thickIy q vered with
glistening icicles. They presented
singular contrast, and a very rare
sight for that latitude.
The wheat crop Of Pennsylvania,
in 1851, was the greatest in the
Union. The returns were as fol
lows;--Pennsylvania, 15,4S2, l91
bushels; Ohio, 14,957;O56; Virginia,
l4,6l6,900; New York, 49, 72, 900,
Michigan, 4,91S,00 Maryland,
4,494,6S0.
A correspondent, at Milledgeyille,
of the Savannah Georgian, says
In 1850, there were in the state
$500 merchants, who owned 5000
slaves, S7,293,950 of real property,
S5,3S1,l50 stock in trade, and paid
S37,165 taxes. The tax Of the
State for 1850, was $32I,23S At.
The Springfield Mass Reporter
says that a healthy child was born
in Northampton, not long since,
well formed, and in every respect
perfect, save and except that it is
minus one leg, from a little below
the hip joint. The child appears
to be doing well.
1t is said that two boys, thirteen
and nine years of age, sons OF Mr..
Charles Sweeny, killed two bears
in Lancaster, New Hampshire, Ein a
fair fight. They discharged al gun
once, and did the rest with an axe.
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