Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-08-19

States has receiY led dispatch from
,Mr. Webster stat ting that the English
Minister Mr.. Crbmpton has under
take N to procure a revocation of the
orders issued by the British Govern
ment respecting the Fisheries, and
the withdrawal Of the British naval
forces.
MnlP HIs, August IL.
/ Helena, Ark, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire Monday night.
Only two busine ss houses remain.
The loss is estimated at about $780,
900.
The officers and the owners of the
Henry Clay, hav E been held to bail
in the sum Of $1,000 each. 1t is
now ascertained that near one hun
bred lives we're 10 st. e
| The cholera has broken out with
great fatality, at Rochester, N. Y.
10 out of 26 cases terminated fatal
ly in the first "a hours.
A writer in the London Lancet
recol amends purd lime juice 1.-TWO to
six ounces per d em) as an almost
certain cure for acute rheumatism.
Hooper Of the lafayette (Ala.) Tri-
bune, says he on &c had "a friend in
Montgomery afflicted with the dis
ense who used this compound: Lem
on juice, about ole tablespoon full;
sugar, two ditto; water, all lJiium;
maraschina, half b wine glass, dash
with old Jamaiea rum-and swallow.
He never got well though.
TITE French NAVY. 1t is said that
the Appropriation for the current
year, in I rance, puts in commission
one Hundred and twenty vessels, of
which seyenty-one are steamers
this portion of the force being nearly
twelv E times the number Of steamers
belonging to the United States Ma
WI
| Au stralia is about $4,000 miles
from New York, which distance is .ac-
complished in 90 days; fare from
Sl25 to 1928 in sail vessels, no
steam communication having yet
been established from an American
port.
| The population Of San Francisco
is increasing with astonishing rapidi-
/ ty. The increase for the month of
May was 10000.
On the goth Of July there were
in the Treasury of the United States
and other repositories of the public
moneys S15,901,503 72-of which
I 1,454,76T IS was due on drafts al
ready drawn, and Sl4,449,222 GO
subject to draft.
One OF THE CABBAGEs.-The
Minden, La, Herald mentions hay-
ing received head Of cabbage
nine feet in circumference, and solid
at that.
TIE VdrE OF GEp RGIA.-A ma
jorily Of al the votes cast is neces-
sary TO a choice OF Presidential
Electors in Georgia, and in case
three tickets are run at the ensuing
election, the probability is there will
be no choice by the people, although
at the last election the Union party
had "a majority of $4,000. Should
the people fail to make choice,
the Legislature, in which the Union
party is largely in the ascendant,
will have 10 elect Electors, in which
event, il is said, Pierce and King
will get the vote OF the State by d !
decided majority.
A destructive fiI e occurred al
Savannah on the 3D., destroying
from 60 TO- 10 hOI ses, mostly Of
wood, depriving abo pit 100 persons
Of homes-loss $4,000.
The Massachusetts, State prison
has 40 inmates, Of Which number
20 are in for life.
Mr.. Papineau, the Canadian "Pat-
riot, for whose head reward was
offered few years siAce by the Brit 4
ish government, wa$ on Tuesday
elected a member Of the Provincial
Parliament, from the county Of Two
Mountains, by majority of two to
one over the goyernme nt candidate.
The three candidates for Governor
in Maine, have publicly announced
their preference for ana their inten-
ton to support the Maine Liquor