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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
An fndisestibIe Dinner.

The vitality Of the snake is mat
ter Of observation with all ,atquaint-
ed with its habits. The negroes Of
the plantations say that one never
dies-no matter how much akilled''
- until after sundown. Some 1at-
boatmen on one occasion captufed.a
large black snake in the Tallaha scEie
river, and putitin cage for the sa 20
of amusing themselves withils s;rue-
giles to escape. Accidenfallys fiadi6g
mole, about the size of d mouse.
they put ,"the grounding into the
snakes cage. The reptile at once
gulped it down. but the mole. ma
king no difference between the sides
of its prison-house and the solid
earth, much to the astonisbment of
the hat-boatmen, ate its way out of
the snakes side; wbereupon it was
swallowed again, and again gnawed
its way into daylight. The snake,
getting a dinner under difficulties,
once more titiIlated its throat With
the oft-repeated morsel, but With no
more success Of keeping it on his
stomach than an Irishman with the
emetic. The fourth time, the snake
yainly attempted to engulf its din
ner, but was too much exhausted,
and gave it Up as an impossible JOB.
The mole, SO well calculated to make
its way through the world, was out
on shore as reward for its bravery;
and, if il ever thinks at all, mdst Be
very much amused at its adventures
With the nat-boatmen on tse rasr;ug
river Of the sunny land Of Florida.
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
The Foot Of Time.

Too late I stayed--forgive the crime;
Unheeded few the hours;
How noiseless falls the foot of Time
That only treads on flowers!
What eye with clear account remarks
The ebbing Of the glass,
When all its sands are diamond sparks
That dazzle as they pass!
Obi, who to sober measurement
!. Times happy swiftness brings,
When birds of Paradise have lent
Their plumage for his wings!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22

ST. PAUL ON VIRGINIA LAws.--Two
Spiritual Rappers. at Mountain Cove
in the adjoining county of Fayette,
recently had a dispute about the tt
tie of some land. They went to- law
employed. their lawyers-but be-
fore the day of trial concluded that
it waslwrong for brethren of the same
faith to go to law land they mutu-
allyuagreed to refer the case their
respective COUNSEL Messrs. Caperton
and rColeman--wbo, after an inyesti-
CATION of the case, came TO the con-
clusion that the property in dispute
by law and equity, clearly belonged
to one of the parties, and So gave
their decision. The defeated party
refused to abide with the award, sta
ting that be would carry the case up
to st. Paul--audr for that purpose
asked time togo to New York, and
get his decision, through the Rap
.pers there. 70 this proposition the
counsel consented In a few weeks
he returned from New York andre
ported that he bad laid the case, with
all the papers, before st. Paul, and
that he, had examined them thor
oughly, and had decided, BY The laws
Of Moses and Of Heaven, the land
belonged to him; but advised him,
as the laws Of Virginia were SO very
uncertain to give II up!--KanaWha
Paper -.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
We are Growing Old Together.

We are growing old together,
Thou dearest Of the dear;
The morning of our life is past. f-f
And the evening shades appear.
Some friends we love are in their graves
And many are estranged;
But in sunshine and in shadow
Our hearts have never changed.
We are growing old together;
The ivy and the tree
A fitting emblem is, dear,
Of the love 'twixt you and me; (, =
To be worthy of each other
In the past was all our aim;
And tits pleasant now to know, dear,
. Our hearts are still the same.
We are growing old together.
Together may we die. =
Together may our spirits soar @
To our home beyond the sky; s
For we loved as few can love, dear,
When life's fewery path we ranged,
And though we've wandered long here,
Our hearts have never changed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
A hoy was drowned in BROOKLYN.

A hoy was drowned in Brooklyn,
a day or two since, under very sim
gular circumstances. He lived with
his mother in an old caual-boat, near
the Atlantic Docks. The mother,
an Irish-woman, had dropped some
articles which she was washing in the
river: Not having anything handy
TO fish them out, she concludes to
tie the little Patti a rope, and angle
for her lost property with this pre-
cious bait. Like true Irish-wo-
man, she let go the rope while the
child was in the water, and to. her
great grief and establishment the boy
was drowned. She was acquitted of
intent to murder.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
SMALL NoTEs.-In England I'll

SMALL NoTEs. In England the
smaHestpaper- money circulation they
have is the five pound note, equiva-
lent to about, twenty-five dollars
In France the smallest is equal to
forty dollars in federal money. Such
a thing as small bills is not known to
either Of these governments. In our
country some people are thrown into
spasms if you talk about prohibiting
from circulation our small bills. And
yet, if this was done, would not wa
ges of the laborer be more uniform
and steady, the farmer find albetter
safeguard, the business man more se-
curity and steadiness in the. currency
he must employ, and would not bank
ing, BY giving it more Of a commer-
cial character, become more honora-
bic, and less Of a temptation for dis
honesty? s.sss ssa eas sac
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
WHOLE NO. 2M
Jack and the Cilinaniau.

). We were amused few evenings
since, while rambling down Long
Wharf to observe a scene between =
sailor and three Cinnamon. A elie-
tper ship just from sea, was hauling
in, and one of the crew was ordered
by the mate to carry line to a pile
head on the wharf. Jack jumped
into the boat, and briskly sculIiDg.
with the end Of the line in his teeth,
caught hold of the pile beneath the
wharf, and looking up, found that
the tide was too low to admit of his
reaching. Three Chinese had ,Seen
attentiyely watching the gradual ap-
proaoh, of the ship, With the attend
ant noise Of orders. and replies. the
rattle of capstans, windlasses, and .
bawls. They were suddenly-aroused
from their reyerie by the gruff voice
Of the sailor, asking them to take
tho end of the line. xxi! va! Val
ya!" answered the Celestials, and
held out their hands for the coil
which Jack preparedto throw. Look
QUIT he shouted, and away flew the
coil heavy with salt water, and shot
from the arm Of this Ben Bolt Ikea
Shell from mortar. The coil struck
two Of the three full in the face, and
instead Of holding on to it, they re-
tired in haste, shaking the water
from their silk garments, as We have
seen a cat shake her paws after
treading on a wet floor. The conse-
quence was that the end went over
board as quick as thought, and the
enraged sailor sculled back to the
ship to recover it again. John Chi
naman thought this excellent fun,
and when the boat returned to the
wharf, Jack repeated the request, ad-
ling few epithets in Chinese, show
ng that be had seen salt water be-
ore that voyage, and knew his Gus
omers. The result vas, that they
lot only allowed the coil to go over
'oard again, but with true Chinese
instinct, began TO pelt.the sailor with
'rickbats. We now thought it time
o come to the rescue. We reached
lown and gave Jack, a helping hand.
'lming and swearing with rage, be
Ias up the post in twinkling, and
Q less time than we could take 10
ell ii, three Celesiials we're sprawl
ag upon the wharf in an admirable
onclusion of pig tails, silk frocks,
lmond eyes, wooden shoes, and yeI.
,w plush breeches. Having vented
is spite on them, he turned to US
nd said, "A good licking does these
'llows more good than possum Eat
nd hominy does niger" after
hieh classical assertion, he shinned
own in the boat, and soon returned
18th the line, which we made fast for
i'm. The Celestials. had meanwhile
ecamped.- California Rziig.
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First LoTe.

VIM. M. Thackery, Esq, the dis
: tinguished novelist and lecturer, thu
! discou.ses on the intensely interest
: ing subject. which forms the caption
of this article;
"Can any one lay his hand npor
his waistcoat and conscientiously say
Until I saw the present Mrs. Jones
l never was in love IN my life?' Can
any man say so? Heis poor erea-
ture, if be can; and ! make no doubt
ne has had at least forty-fve first
loves since he began to be capable
fof admiring at all. AS for the la
dies, they, Of course, l put out Of
the question; they are fresh. no
doubt; they never fall in love until
mamma tells them that Mr.. So.and-
SO is an amiable young man, and in
every way eligible; they never firt
with Captain Smith at ball; and
sigh as they lie at home in bed, and
think what a charming dashing fel-
low be is; they never hear the young
curate read bis sermon so sweetly, !
and think how pale and interesting
he looks, and how lonely he must
feel in his curate house, and what a
noble work it would be to share the
solitude, and soothe the pains, and
listen to the delightful doctrine ofso
excellent a man; and never think Of
attaching themselves to any mortal
except their brother until he brings
home young friend from college
and says: MARY, Tom Atehison ad- |
mires you hugely, and is heir to a
thousand year, They never begin |
the attack as I have heard; but
their young hearts wait like SO many
fortresses, to be attacked and car
ried after proper period of siege
by blockade, or by bribery, or by ca
pitulation, or by fiery escalade. /
"Whilst ladies persist in maintain
ing the strictly defensive condition,
men must naturally, as it we're; take
the opposite line, that Of attack;
otherwise, if both parties held aloof,
there would be no marriage; and the
hosts would die in their respective
inaetion, without ever coming to a
battle. Thus. it is evident, that as
The ladies will not, the men must
take the offensive. / for my part,
have made in the course of my life, i
1t least score of chivaIrous attacks Ii
upon several strongly fortified hearts. <
Sometimes began my work too late {
y the season, and winter suddenly
,ame and rendered further labors inn
possible; sometimes ] have made a q
lecent lodgment in the place, when i
,ang! blows up mine, and | am q
to the deuce! and some- "
lines when / had been in the very e
leart of the citadel that / /,
hould say it! a sudden panic has /
truck me, and ! ran like the Brit
SD out of Carthagena!"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
The Holyoke Mirror says: A FIN,

The Ilolyoke Mirror says: A fine
trick was played upon our citizens
The oiher eveping BY lad who had
been skating upon the canal Some
one saw him break. through the ice,
and instantly ran for, help. In The
meanwhile nley eyoangster extricated
himself and ran I,oms-but fearing
a Aogging he crept to bed, The
people, rslllsd. and searched fer bin
IN The canal . long time; apd pray
.ers III some OF the religions meetings
et The sesenIng were offered for Tie
bereared family. ot s,..s,n.... 80
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22

So AaLryE NoBLEMLN.A .AThereis an
amusing story concerning the last
arrival Of The Mexico at Galveston.
IT appears sihateamong the dist Of
passengers onalie' 'nhsniiestthe Game
IL fbe AEarl of Durham" was legi-
biy recorded. The news quickb
spread and was quickly cenimani-
lGsteR 10 the y English Consul, who
ID llie generosity of.his nature, took
rooms for bis noble couHtryman at
the Tremons,, and Then procesdei
to,the steaiaef 10 convey him to his
uusrtefs, when some gran" mistake
Was discovered? sfhe Earl of Dur
ham on the Mexico proved to be a
large Durham bull from Kentucky
The Consul was doing well at last
accounts. -ss~ s ...s
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22

On The last day Of the Vermont
Legislature, resolution passed fhe
House, to pay a member farzbis
over-coat, which had been stolen
curing session hours; bntihe Senate
rejected il, on ibe ground that it
would be time enough for the State
TO pay for the coat when il bad sto-
len it.. a4 i ~ e9L2 sIigp.
...-...
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the Spaniard by the throat. Tear
ing open his shirt-codar be showed
the mark of a wound upon his neck.
We need say no more. Three
weeks after that Joseph Gomez was
hanged in the city Of Cumberland,
upon his confession Of having mur-
dered no less than five travellers in
that very room.af eTaGi ne
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
GIeanings from our Exchanges,
Nth Editorial Sprinka'Tgs.

The Niles Mich Republican says
ga lady visited our family few day:
since, and stated that her daughter
had The erysipelas quite bad. We
called TO mind the remedy recon-
mended.by a New Haven editor On
returning home in, the evening she
found the disease spreading rapidly
and had assumed frightfol appear
ance.- She Immediately applied a
pou.tice of cranberries, which SEEM
ed to arrest it at once, and the Sec
ond poultice effected "a complete
cure
A camp of negro runaways was re-
Gently discovered near Savannah, ,Ga.
-Four of the inmates were arrested
and confined in the city. The camp
was well provided with provisions,
cooking utensils, &c besides several
instruments Of music and musket.
One Of the gang had been in the
woods twelve months, and another
six.
William Davis was recently arrest
ed in Nashville, Tenn, and fined
three dollars for having got into a
dispute with one Joseph Frizzell a.
bout live chicken, becoming saw
age, tearing the fowl to pieces, beat
ing his antagonist over the head with
the fragments, and causing a copsld-
serable rise in feathers. NIB iai5i
A tailor in London has invented q
waistcoat scith four fronts, useful ell
tber to secure the charm of variety,
or to conceal shabbiness or grease
spots; but particularly convenient, as
lessening baggage by reducing four
waistcoats to one. .9.a...
A few evenings since, at 81. Lou
is. a number of rowdies attacked q
house where marriage was belng'
consummated. The clergyman who
was performing the ceremony was
severely handled, and one raiilall
actually gave him severe kiek N
the stomach. ,tg yI
A. keeper of public house IN
Melbourne, Australia, has recently
returned 10 England with a prop
erty acquired 10 his vocation worth
$500, 600, and an 1risllman, from
Belfast, with 100000. ~'
We find il stated in an exchange
paper, that during the last iire
years the number Of believers IN
spirit rappings have increased 2 ln
this country TO over 0 900. and that
they now support eleven newspa'
pers. = 7''s' -
TROUBLE BREwITG.-A iet:Sr
from Rome says:--"There are two
great events taking place at this
moment-france: and Austriai are
Withdrawing their troops, and symp-
soms Of revolution are appearing 10
the Roman States and IN Tuscany.
Msanwhils, the italian princes les
Nsples) are recruitinglsge,I
" iu Switzerland at ruluous eost-Y
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22

One Of the Texas papers re-
marks, that "at the recent sitting Of
the court at San Antonia, thirteen
gentlemen were assigned places in
The penItentiary.' ,isl
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22

- A ma,l named Harrison Invade,
aVirgjnian, not long since castirom
bis stomach a live snake, five and
d quarter inches in lengtbs Of a
milky color, and having greddisheyes
or great 'briiiiancy; SO says the Pc
tersburg Express. 's =
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
Special Providences.

Hugh Miller, in bis Autobiogri
ply, thus relates some of his hail
breadth escapes, and moralizes upo
them. How plain does the ministr
(. of angels make this description:
"For my own part though l have
| trust, ever believed in the doctrin
1of particular Providence, it has al
ways been some narrow escape tha
has given me my best evidences o
the vitality and strength Of the be
lief within. 1t has been ever tn,
touch Of danger that has rendered i
strongly emotional A few years
ago: when stocping forward to ex
anime an opening fssure in a rock
front, at which / was engaged in quar-.
rying, a stone, detached from above
by a sudden gust of wind, brushed
SO closely past my head as to beat
down the projecting front of my bon
net, and then dented into deep hol-
low The sward at my feet.
"rhere was nothing that was not
perfectly natural in the occurrence;
but the gush Of acknowledgment
that burst spontaneously from my
heart, would have set at naught the
skepticism which would have held
that there was no Providence in it.
On another occasion paused for
some time when examining cave Of
the old coast line, directly under its
iow-browed roof of Old Red con-
glomerate, as little aware Of the pres
ence ofdanger as if had been stand
ing under the dome of st. Pauls;
but when ! next passed that way, the
roof had fallen, and a mass, huge
enough to have given me at once
death and burial, numbered the spot
which | had occupied
"On yet another occasion, Iclam-
bered a few yards down precipice,
to examine some crab.apple trees,
which, springing from turret-like
projection of the rock, far. I. from gar
dens or nurseries, had every mark of
Indigenous; ard then climbing up
the branches i shook them in |
such manner that must have ex-
srted no small leverage power on the !
outjet beneath, to possess myself Of
some of the fruit, as the native ap-
oles of Scotland. On my descent
without much thinking ef
he. matter, an apparently recent
rack running between the outlet
md the body Of the precipice. l
ound, however, cause enough to
hink oft on my return, scarce a
month after; for then both outlet
md trees lay broken and fractured
IN the beach more than hundred
eet below. With such momentum
lad even the Simmer :wigs been
|ashed against the sea-pebbles, that
hey stuck out from under more than
hundred tons of fallen rock, divest-
d Of the bark on their undersides,
S if peeled by the hand. Aud what
felt on these occasions was, ! be-
ieye,s not more in. accordance with |;
be nature of man as an instinct of
be moral family, than in agreement
lith- that provision of the Divine
Government under which a sparrow
illeth not without permission !,
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Serpents in. a Pile.in s. America.

Serpents ia. a Pile in s. America,
Inthe Savannahs ofAIzaubo, Gui.
ana, | saw the most wonderful and
terrible spectacle that can be seen,
and although it be not uncommon to
1.-The natives, no traveller has ever
mentioned it. We were ten men on
horseback two Of whom took the
lead, in order to bound the passages,
while | preferred to skirt the great
forests One of the blacks who
formed the vanguard, returned at
full gallop, and calledto me, "Here,
sir. come and see the serpents in a
pile" He pointed to something
elevated in the middle Of the Sa-
sannah or swamp, which appeared
like a bundle Of arms. One of my
company said: t'This is certainly
one of the assemblages of serpents
which heap themselves on each other
after a violent tempest. l. have
heard of these, but never saw any;
let us proceed cautiously, and not
too near.'' When we were within
twenty PAGES of it, the terror Of our
horses prevented our approaching
nearer, to which none of us were In
clined. On a sudden, the pyramid
mass became agitated; a hortid his
sing issued from it, thousands of SER
peDts rolled spirally on each other
and shot forth out f-the circle their
hideous heads, presenting their en-
venomed darts and fiery eyes to us. |
own / was the first to draw back,
but when | saw this formidable phal-
anx remain at its post, and appeared
more disposed to defend itself than /
lttack us, / rode round in order to
view its order Of battle, which faced
he enemy on every side. l then
hought whas could be the de-
ign Of this numerous assemblnge,
lad concluded that this species of
erpents dreaded some oollossean en-
my, which might be the great SER
,ent of Cayman, and they re-unite
themselves after seeing the enemy,
o as to resist this enemy in a mass.
-HanbolM. sa - ".ifg
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S. YOU'VE AMERICA ORIENTALIZBD.-
The New York Herald says that a
Turk who has recently arrived in
New York from Constantinople, has
established a kahrc, or Turkish cof-
fee-house, in that city, where one
may procure a Turkish pipe, with
the best quality Of tobacco, a. cup OF
coffee, sherbet,p locooM 6g paste
or other oriental .luxuries served up
in a astyle that makes one imagine
himself under the shade Of st. Sophia,
expecting to be awakened from the
delicious langonr produced by the
fragrant berry or the aromatic weed,
BY the musical voice of the Muezzln
as he cries: .To1pray yersl to-prsyersE'
The house is fitted up in strictly, Tur-
kish fashion, and visitors seat them.
selves upon an elevated cushioned
platform. They have round them
books, newspapers dominoesl and
chessboards. The pipe bearer gives
them either the chibouk withits long
long stem and amber mouth piece, or
the narghile, the smoke of~which is
cooled by passing through water
The coffee is served in iittleporcelain
cups. s s''s -, 80