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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12
Punishment in 0lden Times.
On the Massachusetts record

On the Massachusetts record ap.
pears the following order:
Whereas, there is no express pun
ishment by any law hitherto estab-
lished or affixed TO the evil prac-
tice of Sundry Persons by Ex-
horbitancy Of the Tongue in Railing
and Seolding-
1t is thercfote ordered that all
such persons cdnyictcd before the
Court of Magistrates, that h, til
proper cognizan ce Of the case Of
Railing and Scol fling, shall be gagged
or SCI III Ducki ihg Stool, drenc!.ed
owe Head and Ears three times, in
some convenient place Of salt or
fresh water, as the Court Of Magis-
trhtes may judge meet.
In lG44. the Court ordered, among
other interesting matters, that every
town should take care that "there be
a pair of stocks, a cage, and couck
stool erected between this and the
next Court The "coucking stool" /"
OF "ducking, as it was ofiener styled,
consisted of a convenient seat at
tached to the end Of beam, pre-
cisely as bucket is hung from the
end of well sweep; this was placed
oyer pond Of any deep water, and
the person to be punished having
been we'll secu red in the seat, was let
down, or "ducked" into the water at
the pleasure Of the officer. This
was the most cooling mode of pun
lshment then In issue; aud was there
fore especially reserved for scolding
women. There was also provision
for whipping post ill the vicinity OF
every justice of the peace, presum-
ing the number honored with that
Of flee Was not SO great as in our day.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12
WHOLE NO. l5l.
The Society Of Ladies.

; The following pertinent remarks
: occur at the close of an article on
the dangers of college Life" from
the pen of a New York clergyman,
which appeared in the New York
Times:
The society of ladies has done
much for me all my life long, and it
was the sanitary, softening influence
of such associations, that with Gods
blessing, restrained me from many
an excess into which / might Others
wise have been led while receiving
my education. 1t is a bad sign
when young man has no relish for
such company. Whatever may be 4
mans station in life, whether higher
or lower, public or private, he viii
become a better man, aud escape
many a disaster, if he will listen, in
due season, to the VOICE of the in
telligentand refined among the other
sex. Not only do they generally
excel US in their nice perception of
the prOprieties Of life,- and in their
tender sense of duty to both God
ard man, but, they are equally be-
fore US in their instructive facility Of
foreseeing evil before it is upon US,
and of wisely discerning the charac-
ter and motive of men.
1t was not all a dream which made
the wife of Julius Caesar SO anxious
that he should hot 60 to the Senate
Chamber on the fatal Ides o f March;
and, had he complied With her en-
treaties, he might have esca ped the
lagger Of Brutu ). Disaster follows
disaster in the 4 dareer Of Napoleon,
rom the time that be ceased TO feel
The balance wheel of JosepIine's in
luence on his impetuous spirit. Our
OWN Washington, when important
questions were submitted to him,
'ften has said that he should like TO
carry the subject to his bed-chamber
before he had ibrmed bis decision;
md those who k new the clear judg-
neht and elevated purposes Of Mrs.
Washington, Thought the better of
lim for wishing 4 o make her conf
lential counceilor Indeed, the
great majority Of men who have ac-
luired for them selves good and
,reat name, were not only married
men, but happily married, b, both
paired and mate he'd.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12
FAYETTEVILLE, TB BN, THURSDAY JANUARY 12, 1854.

rushed in painting for breath, an(
seeming affrigbted-
"Sister went down to the river, a
panther chased her, and she is al
most scared to DEATH g exclaimed
the boy.
The ruddy, flaxen-haired girl
stood full in view of her terrible pur-
suer, who was leaning upon his rifle,
and surveying h er with the most ca
ger admiration
/ ''Rebecca, this is young B oone,
son of our neigh hbor," was the lhcon-
ic introduction.
Both were you ung and beautiful,
and at the period when affections
exercise the md dst energetic inau-
ence.
The circumstances of the intro
duction were favorable to the result,
and the young h Iunter felt that her
eyes had shined ills bosom as fatally
as his rifle shot had ever the in
Inocent deer the forest.
She; too, when she saw the light,
open, bold forehead. the clear, keen
yet gentle, affecti onate eye, the firm
front, and the impress of decision
and fearlessness of the hunter
when she interpreted look which |
said as distinctlyIas looks could say
it, show terrible it woulG have been
to have fired!' can hardly be sup-
posed to have arded him with in
difference.
Nor can it be wondered at that
she saw him in her beau ideal Of ex
cellence. The inha abitants of cities,
who live in mansid ms aud read nov
els stored with III lreal pictures of
life and the heart, are apt to imagine
that love, with all its golden illu-
sions, is reserved exclusively for
them. 1t is "a most egregrious mis-
take. A model idea of beauty and
perfection is woven in almost every
youthful breast, of the brightest and
most brilliant threads that compose
the web Of existence. 1t may be
said that this forest maiden was
deeply and foolishly smitten at first
sight. All reasonable time and \
space were granted to. the claims of
maiden modesty.
As for Boone, he was remark kable
or the backwoods attribute Of never
beating out Of his track, and he
ceased not to WOO until be had gained
he heart of Rebecca Bryan. In a
word he courtcd successfully, and
hey wSFe married.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12

Recru uits for the Russian armyare
obtainedinthe following manner; The
authori ties ascertain from the regis
ter kept by the priesthood how many
youths there are in the town or vii
lage, from twelve to thirty years Of
age; and whoever has five sons must
part wi tn four. the eldest only be-
ing left at home. A party of the
soldiers surround the house or school
in which the youth or youths are,
and the take them away by main
force, at only few minutes notice,
leaving them no tim e to say farewell
to their friends. l1 one particular
case, I Wo youths. on twelve and the
other fourteen, were kidnapped on
their way from the house of theiI
grand mother, aged 50, where they
were S topping on a visit.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12
(fgolre H9aetrll.
To the Memory Of the Past.

III y
l love the Memory of the Past
i OF childhood's trusting years;
Before MY heart had felt the pang,
Or known the blight Of tears;
Before on life's fair page was writ
That line of whitening stain,
Which bade me start from youths pure bliss
To dpubt-not dream again.
| | love the Memory of the Past,
When gay, and free from care,
l knelt beside parents knee
Lisping up childhood's prayer;
Or basking in Hopes fiuttering rays,
AS bright as mountain springs.
l limned sickly manhood's days
With joys imaginings.
love the Memory of the Past,
1t of en- brings again
The music of soft, low voice,
AS if one golden strain
Was waited from that snless land
The land of bliss above
Where the perjur'd heart and venom'd tdMsue
Ne'er blast the dreams Of love.
love the Memory Of the Past,
1t comes in midnight hours,
Recalling those So fondly loved
When earth seemed naught but flowers;
Itopens up full many grave,
And gilds with hallowed beams
Full many a wreck now floating back
From the spirit land Of dreams.
I love the Memo ory of the Past,
1t wakes alingering tone
Of lays priced in trusting hours.
In honrs-h ow darkly flown;
Before on life's fair page. was writ
That line of whitening stain, 4
Which bade me start from youths pure bliss
To doubt--hot dream again.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12

PA"'ioi " lHleS Icet Ill HelSnt, 10TH
: ing thrde steps, upon which there
e a screen of East Tennessee variega
ted maj BILE, thirteen feet in height
twelve feet wide, and one foot il
thickne$ s, on the top of which is
cornice and blocking course, sur
mounted by an eagle resting upor
shield of cast iron, bronzed anC
gilt. Ohe foot from each end of The
screen oh a die of black marble, the
Roman Fasces are placed, which are
of beau4 4iful yariegated East Tennes-
see marble, one foot two inches in
diamete1 and ten feet in height.
The s enate chamber is of oblong
form, I hirty-live by seventy feet,
having Il ilasters of the Ionic order
with a fl II entablature; the ceiling of
this ROD m is formed into leading
panels OF lacunaria and is forty-three
feet in height; there is gallery of
twelve ftet in wild th on the three
sides of the room, supported by
twelve g columns of variegated East
Tennessd De marble, with white capi-
falls blac K basis from the Erectheum.
The foru IN in this room consists of a
platform of two steps; the speakers
and clerks desks are Of fine East
Tennessee marble.
The Library is Immediately oppo-
site the Senate, and is 35Oby 81
feet; on each side there are commit
tee rooms, comm unicating. Over
the arches of these rooms, are al
coves for boo ks, papers and archives
of the State; the doors and windows,
which are of a lar ge size, are all of
solid white oak M oulded, pannelled
and ornamented with devices; the
windows are all double, divided by
stone pilasters, enriched with COZ
soles, ovolo, and sparsE
All the floors are groin arched and
tagged with rubbed stone; hanging
stone steps throughout the building.
The building stands d pon a rustica-
ted basement eighteen feet jim height,
which is fooled on all fronts, and the
is of rubbed stone in
side and out; all the walls of the
foundation are seven feet in thick
ness, and those of the superstruct-
ure four feet six inches.
The building is in the form of
parallelogram 140 feet by 80, sur
rounded by a terrace II feet in
width and 6 feet in height, tagged
with stone, with flights of steps in
the centre Of each front, opposite the
loors of entrance.
There are 2S luted columns, 4
eet s inches in diameter, ornament
ng the four norticos, with the most
slabOrately wrought capitals; the
north and south porticos are finished
With pediments containing ceilings Of
stone, and he east and west porti-
'Os are surmounted by parapets;
hose of the north and south are
Deto-style; and those of the east and
vest HeXa-style. The columns Of
he principal story rest upon a basis
feet square,
The water is. conveyed from the
cutters of a roof by means of cast
ron pipes, eight inches in diameter,
md buried in the walls. The glass,
which is of double thickness, is of a .
superior quality, and was made at the
works near Knoxville, East rennes-
see; indeed, all the materials are fur
nished by the State of Tennessee
The whole building will be heated
With furnaces communicating with
not air, fues within the walls. :
NashmAe Banner. /,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12

The Oldest preacher in,the world is
Rev. Robert Fletcher of London,
who III February next will be l07
years old.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12

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the time Of subscription; two Dollars
assd Fifty Gents. WITHOUT DEVIATION
after the expiration Of three months.
fTsAH BiIis foc Advertisements job
Work, or Subscription, considered due, wher
contracted, except against those with whom
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Subscribers falling to order adiscontinuancd
of she paper, at the expiration of the time
for which they may have subscribed, are con-
sdered rs wishing to renew; and it will be
continued to them accordingly.
sf-g@N Paper will b. sent out of the county
unless paid for in advance.
huT5s Advertisements inserted at One Dol
i:,r per Sqr,nre of Twelve Zines
Or Less. for the first insertion; Fifty
EeuiS for each continuance.
ktlJ Prisons advertising by the year, will be
charged Thirty Dollars for whole coll
IEuon. Twenty Dollars for one half;
ten Dollars for one-quarter. No dfviq-
boa from these terms anles opy Circumstances.
stl b. The privilege Of YEARLY advertisers is
k,lctlg limited to her 0o,c,a inalaeliate ddM
1eg,1r5 business; and the business Of an adj
,Eer,iSing firm is not considered as including
that Of It's individual members
candidates Three Dollars;
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tff-Adpertisement1 not marked WIN the NUM-
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per Year.
rFIOb Printing. ri ALL f'MfS, Aeqtty
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;hrns as ANY olfide in Tennessee.
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12

Hector Jennings, of sandusky,
Ohio, has been notified by his Attor-
,sey in London, that he IS an uncls-
.puted heir toIone-half the Jennings
estate in England, about S6U,OOO,-
eco.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12

The Alabama Legislature is about
to repeal the law against the oResEa>
ton Of small notes. 1t is considered
unjust and odious, and a dead letter.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12
(iIcanings from the W aysid c,
/ WIN Ealt9rId ,SPrinkliRgs.

iruE CEDARs OF LEBANON The
prtiphecy of Isaiah has long since
be4n fulfilled. and Lebanon is turned
inl 10 a fruitful field, 1-''the rest Of the
trtIcs Of his forest are few, child
maE write them The cedars Of
Lebanon, scarcely occupy a space
eqtial to two acres Of ground.
Tie Caolcra ii Ncc Eork-The
Newark Advertiser states,on. the au-
thority of New York physician,
that four deaths from Asiatic chole-
IN occurred in the city of Ne " Uork
on Monday last, and all within his
ediate vicinity.
S.lun the man who doesn't pay
his compliments to the ladies. He
who is wanting in honor towards curls
and corsets will almost invariably at
tempt to dodge the grocer, tailor and
butcher Faithlessness to the dimi-
tv institution is a sure sign Of want of
plinciPle,piety and good 'blingingup
A model return upon a writ was
recently made-by deputy Sheriff in
Morgan county, Indiana. 1t was
"sarved the within but was fit with
Trick bats BY the wo man SO that |
couldn't sarve it,
SOMETHING NEw.-A Mr.. Flour
nev.a member of the Senate, of Geor-
eia, recently presented in that body
1 memorial to repeal all laws ma
king polygamy unlawful. 1t was
SECUTED down. Mr. Flourney, it is
tn ought, will start for the Mormon
settlements as soon as the Legisla-
ture adjourns-a
There are six Smiths and five
Jones In the present Congress.
Judge Leigh, Of VirginiR, has de-
c;bed that stage and railroad compa-
nies are responsible for the baggage
of the messengers. Notwithstanding
mice IS given aall baggage at the
risk of the owners.
.S,oou1r T-erdfct-A few days
since. 2 moor inebriate named Kings
b,brv was found dead in a meadow,
in the town of Marshield, Conn
The Coroners jury returned the YER
dlct-"dled for rant Of r+'in'-
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12

Counterfeit post-office envelopes
are in circulation in Albany, n. Y,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-12
BALrrNIoRE, Dec 30.

Private letters Fl rom Europe state
that the Emperor Of Russia is bent
Oh proseeuting the war with the
utmost yigor, and that he will put
500 900 men under Paskiewitch to
march on Constantinople. The Rus
Sian merchants have(offered the Gar
any amount.
Materid Aida large meeting
Of foreigners was held in New York,
Oh Thursday night, for the purpose
of raising funds to organize several
companies Of foreigners, to aid Tur-
KEY in the war with Russia.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-12-23

The canvass in Virginia is likely to be warm
and animated. 1t does not yet appear, how.
ever, who will be run by the opposition against
the Democratic ticket recently nominated by
the Staunton Convention. There seems to be
more secret, than open work going on. 1t is
the first time that the opposition in the Old
Dominion has ever been SO still on the eve Of
an important election. This silence looks
omnous. The most superficial observer can
not fail to perceive that new and secret agen.
cies are actively at work, and that new tactics
are attempted to be introduced, that do not
SAVIOUR of Old Virginia frankness. 1t is no
ticeable that the opposition presses contain no
nominations, which is unprecedented in cleo
ton times
Now, what is the meaning of this 2 Have
men lost their tongues? Are the opposition
ashamed of their candidates, or are the candi-
dates ashamed Of their supporters Is it in
tended to preserve this unusual silence all
through the canvass2 We hope not. We
should lament to see good old Virginia Gus
toms broken down, and strange customs from
different and abolitionized States, introduced
IN their stead. OF one thing we feel quite GER
tain, aud that is, that the old-fashioned Wings,
who love fair dealing and cherish manly indie
pendence, will never consent to be thus muz-
Eled, and will refuse to act with any party that
thus applies the screws TO them.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-12-23
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE IN.
TERROR.


When we published the report of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, we omitted to refer to the
recommendation that the Chief Clerk of that
Department be made, er o6fcio, Assistant Sec
rotary in the absence of the. Secretary, and
that his compensation be increased from TWEEN
ty-two hundred to three thousand dollars a
year. Governor McCleland says:
In the increase Of salaries to officers and
clerks Of the different Departments, by late
act of Congress, no notice was taken of the
chief clerk of this Department whose duties
are as arduous, and of as important a character
as those of the assistant secretaries of other
Departments. These assistants receive each,
$4,000 per annum; he only $4,000. No such
invidious distinction should exist between
them. Justly approaching the value of his
services, / have no hesitation in recommending
the increase of his compensation, and that he
be made, er oficio, assistant secretary, in the
absence Of the Secretary from the Department"
The omission alluded to above arose from an
oversight, and we doubt not that Congress will
rectify it. The duties which devolye upon the
Chief Clerk of the Interior Department, equal
if they do not exceed, as well in amount as in
importance, those which devolve on the Assis.
tant Secretaries, and that they are performed
with equal zeal and fidelity no one can cues
ton. The Bill creating the Department of the
Interior, relieved the other Departments of an
immense amount of business and concentrated
it in that Department The business connect
ed with Public Lands Pensions, and the In
dian tribes, alone imposes vast amount of
labor. If no other subjects were entrusted to
the administration of the Department, the
recommendation Of Governor McClelland, TO
which we have alluded, would be just and
proper. We trust therefore, that it will be
promptly responded to as well on account of
the public business as because it is an act Of
justice to the chief clerk, who has labored so
efficiently in the performance of duties which
appertain more properly TO an Assistant Sec
rotary.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-12-23

jority over him was sixty-two; IN Schuyler
forty seven. But for the Know-nothing organ
ization, my vote in Brown would have been
full 800, instead of 685. There are personal
considerations for my obtaining more votes in
the counties of Brown and Schuyler than Gov.
Moore. In 1882 i settled in the county of
SCHUYLER; (it,then included what is now Brown
county y aud represented the county for many
years in the legislature. During that service
/ introduced the bill, which became law, or
ganizing the county Of Brown; raised in the
two counties the company that served with me
in Mexico; shared with that company the
hardships and tolls and privations of the cam
paign, the dangers of the battlefield, and par
ticipated with it in the joys OF victory. In o
previous congressional race in those two coun-
ties received majority of 100 votes. Is it
wonderful at the late election that | received
in those counties few votes more than Gov.
Moore, stranger
The Know-nothing papers that make this &C
cusation know well that their societies were Or
ganized for the benefit of my opponent and
that he obtained their votes. Without this or
ganization, and upon the Nebraska issue alone
my majority, in my opinion, would have been
increased near two thousand.
Is it part of the system of the Know-noth-
ings to claim every victory, in order that they
may induce the belief that they are omnip-
otent? Is this the way in which their distin-
guished advocate (Mr. Banks) claims that they
control legislatures, courts, and juries? Is it
part of their plan, when they mean to utter a
falsehood, to say cit is reported" and give COM
mon rumor as their author?
belong to no secret political organization (;
/ never have belonged to any such party; and
/ trust / never shall be identified with them.
History admonishes me that they are danger.
GUS to liberty, and prolific of anarchy, confu.
sion, and bloodshed.
Ifthere is honor, integrity, or truth, in those
that have invented and circulated this false
hood against me, they will publish this, my re-
ply or their own disclaimer of the SANDER.
w. A. RICHARDSON.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-12-23

We HAVE SPOKEN before Of the duty which the
young owe to the aged; let us now hear in the
language OF one who wrote wisely and well, what
is due from age TO youth, as well as from age TO
itself
Let us pray ever, that we will still move on in
life travelling, as Of necessity we must gradually,
and lmperceptiby, day by day, further from the
freshness, the joyousness, and the romantic ardor
Of our youth, that we may be privileged 10 carry
with us the remembrance at least, If not a single
vestige, of our bright experience so shall we be
blessings 10 the young, neither churlsh nor dis
contented ourselves, nor a source Of uneasiness 10
others. Let us bear in our years that knowledge
Of our youth that will suffice 10 save the elder
from becoming the envier Of the young for what
is that incessant evi-eyeing Of the amusements Of
'youth--those surly, fretful, and over hasty CON-
plainings at its pleasures--but envy, the most
malignant, the most odous, and the most unprof
table. Yes. let us pray that our sunset may be
streaked with the memories and shadows only Of
the brilliant dawn.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-12-23
PELF AND PIETY-"EMIGRAN AID
sOCIETIEs.-A SPECULATION.

A rash unthinking charity does not grow on
the anti.Nebraska side of Plymouth rock
There is no reciprocity in it. But that charity
which twice blesses-the giver and the re-
ceiver--grows like lichen there. Such is that
mercenary, compensating charity that seeks
profitable investment Those Abolition de-
scendants Of the Pilgrim Fathers are wiser in
their day and generation than most Of the sons
of men. They not only make their vices, but
their virtues profitable. They turn even their
piety, their patriotism, and their charity, TO
good account Their game may be called, 10
use vulgarism, an open and shut game. They
are compelled TO win. Pelf and piety, profit
and charity, pay and patriotism, are ingeniously
harmonized. They never cast their bread on
the waters, without knowing that "it will re-
return to them in many days."
This was exempli6ed in their great move
sneut, by means Of the machinery Of "Emi.
grant Societses' TO people Kansas with Free.
ilers" This was regarded by many as a
raciical proof Of their disnierestedness, for