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

! 1t IS said Kossuth has received
from $4,000 to Sl9,00Oin Tmate-
rial aid" in Massachusetts. 1
| Occupations in the q. States are
ESTIMATED as follows:
Number engaged in Inter
nal Navigation, 33,076
Number on the ocean, 56,022
Learned Professions, 65,255
In Commerce, ll,967
In Manufactures, 29I,749
In Agriculture, 3,T19,95l
The new. capitol Of Texas has been
given out by contract. 1t is to be
built at Austin, and is estimated to
cost $751;, 900.
! A REMARKABLE MANA CORES
pondent of the Rogersyille (Tenn.)
Times, says:
There is man living in Haw-
kins county, who is now eighty
seven years old, weighs 1853
pounds, and is living with his third
wife; and WHAT'S stranger, he is the
father Of twenty-six children, and
can beat any of them dancing, old
and as heshy as he is" :
PUBLIC LANDS IN ALABAMA.--Ac-
cording to the report from the COM
missioner Of the General Ian Office,
here we're, up to September, 1851,
fifteen million four hundred and
twenty-six thousand five hundred
and sixty-six acres of public lands
unsold in the State of Alabama.
In Italy, Piedmont excepted, ey-
cry 114th man of the population is
in prison. Every 400th man Of The
population is an exile. The ratio
would be higher in France, higher
still in Hungary, higher still in Po-
land, higher still in Hesse or Baden.
/ THE UPPER MIssIssIPPI.-The st.
Louis Intelligeneer Of Wednesday
says:
+ The water is in nearly all the Gel
lars along the levee from five to
eight inches deep The bottom on
the opposite side is oyerflowed in all
the low places and a portion of the
plank road in the direction of Kas-
kaskia, and one or more bridges
washed away. The Usage river is
putting out,full, tho Missouri rising
from thence down, upper Missouri
high, and from every indication we
are to have high water here.
Bishop Otey, of Tennessee, has
lately written a letter about the "spir-
itual rappings." He has submitted
10 them a test, he says, and when he
hears from them the public shall
know the result.
Houston, Miss, is the place for
girls to emigrate to. There is not
singl manageable lady in the town.
The three last were All married about
two weeks since. Go quick, if you
are in market. The first conner will
command a good price.
Hon. Isaac Toucey has been elect
ed U. S. Senator from Connecticut,
in place Of Roger S. Baldwin, whose
term expired with the last Congress.
Mr.. Toucey was once Governor Of
Connecticut, and afterwards Attor-
ney General of the United States.
The receipts of the Georgia Rail-
road during the month Of April, IS
%, amounted to S70,O44,29, against
S60,624 for the same month last
year. Increase, S., 500 20, Of which
1858 % was from passenger traf-
| fic.
One hundred and sixty sheep
which Mr.. Jewett, of Vermont, has
just imported from Spain, have ar
rived, in charge of a Spanish shep-
herd. Mr.. Jewett paid $4,000 for
the flock. There was one buck which
cost 5000, and would shear "a lbs.
of wool.
According to some of the Penn
sylvania papers, the wheat crop in
that State viii be a short one this
year
Gibson county, Tenn, has voted,
by a majority of six hundred, in
favor Of subscribing $3.50, 900, to I
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
The voters of Knoxville, Tenn,
by a vote Of two to one, decidedly
on the 18th ult. to subscribe $780,
900 i'm the East Tennessee and Vir-