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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-09-20

A man named Jordan, recently de-
serted his wife and five small children
in Buffalo. The police are endeavor-
ing to get the "other side of jordan"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-09-20

A bill has passed the Kansas Leg
stature fixing the rate Of interest
at SIX per cent where no agreement
is made otherwise interest is an
open question, to be regulated by
demand and supply.
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Exports for 1854.

The following table presents the
total amount Of the exports Of the
United States for the fiscal year 1854:
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ARKANSAS.
Refuse all notes on any hank of this State.
MISSOURI.
Bk of State Of Missouri, St. Louis, and
TThe branches are at Fayette, j ackson, Lex
ington, Palmyra and Springfield
MISSISSIPPI.
AL banks in this State are worthless.
TEXAS.
Refuse all notes on any bank Of this State.
FLORIDA.
AL banks in this State are worthless.
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For Gentlemen,

"E have super Black, Blue a
w and Fancy Cloths. Drab Ezsy
Overcoating, Steel mixed do Blk -
Doeskin and Fancy 0assimers, szkfz8
Black and Fancy Moleskin, Soft and
Casinetts, Wool Hats, . .
Satinstts, Tweeds, Gents Kid and winter
Vestings, in variety, Gloves.
Fine Boots and Shoes. Heavy wirteT Boots ard
Brosans, black and fancy Cravats. A large lots
of Ready Made Clothing, Cloaking. Cloths,
Blankets all colors, for sale low BY
RUSSELL f VANCE.
: sept. Is, 1855.
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BOOTS AND SHOES.

BOOTS AND SHOES.
iEENTS Fine Calf Boots do Imita-
VI ton Stitch, Kip do, Youths Calf SCI
Childs Kip do, men and boys Shoes of ' ~
every quality, Ladies fine Calf W. Boots, DO
Kid, Goat, Lace Boots, r r do. Misses Fin.
Calf ard Goat Caters, Childs enamel and mos.
do Kid Lace, Brogan Shoes lined and bounG,
Negro Shoes, Landerss' best home made Boots
and Shoes Our stock of Roots and Shoes is
too large. and must be closed out at some price
amounting to two thousand dollars For sale
low by JOHN GOODRICH
April Is.
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500 Bushels

REST Blue Grass Seed Just re- Ss.~p~-
- ceived on consignment. and 49,
for sale by -G0
Aug. %, 1856.
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DTaNCUcS SOOu
1.-THE branches are at Montgomery, Mobile
Huntsville and Decatur
Northern b. Huntsville. ...............go good
Southern Of Ala, Mobile. ........... do
LOUISIANA.
Blk Of Louisiana, New Orleans. ........ do
Blk of New Orleans. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. do
Canal and By Co. N, O............... do
Carrollton Railroad and BE- Co, n. o.. do
City Of New Orleans. .............. do
Citizens b, N. Observation-Disclosures. do
Gas Light and Bg Go, n. O............ Go
Louisiana State b, n. O., and branch at
Baton Rouge. do
Mechanics and Traders b, n, o.. do
Southern b, n. do
Union of Louisiana, N. O........... do
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POLITICS IN VIRGINIA.

The fourth Thursday of May next, an cleo
ton will be held in Virginia, for Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, a
member of the Board of Public Works, mem
bers of the Legislature, and Representatives to
Congress.
Mr.. Wise, the Administration candidate, is
canvassing the State with great zeal, but there
is evidently some GOODNESS towards him on the
part of some of the old Democratic politicians.
The progress of Know Nothingism in Virginia
has alarmed the ruling dynasty, and there is
general apprehension that it will carry the
State. On the same day the Know Nothings
were sweeping New Hampshire, on the Anti
Nebraska issue, Know Nothing Convention
met at Winchester, Virginia, and put in nomi-
nation a State ticket, thoroughly 4" sound" on
the Slavery and Nebraska questions. Stanhope
FlournOy, a conservative Wing, was nominated
for Governor; j. NJ. H. Beale, a conservative
Democrat, so called, for Lieutenant Governor :;
and John NJ. Patton, of Patton-gag memory,
we believe, for Attorney General.
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FICTION EXPLODED.
cut.

The hctions on which Know Nothingism is
founded are being exploded every day.
A ridiculous story, which has misled some
honest people, thus receives its quietus from
General Scott. He is writing in reply to in
quiries addressed him from New Hampshire:
New YORK, March /, 1855.
GENTLEMEN: l have just received, through
the Hon. Mr.. Hibbard, NJ. c., at Washington,
your joint letter dated the Oath ultimo, in which
you say to me that, in some recent political ad-
dress, delivered in your neighborhood and in
your presence, the speaker declared substantial
ly, that in the last Presidential canvass
Bishop Hughes, of New York, proposed to
General Scott to sell the Catholic vote, who hes
itated to reply; when the proposition was made
to General Pierce, and accepted, and Jesuit
was placed at the head of the Post Office De-
partment.
"That Bishop Hughes demands were assent
ed to by the party to whom he first proposed,
except that he demanded a Cabinet officer, upon
which you hesitated; and the proposition was
made to Gen. Pierce, and he assented."
And your letter to me is thus concluded:
Believing the statement to be false and
basely caluminous of the fair fame of yourself
and the other distinguished gentlemen implica-
Ieu merely, we WouIu respectfully request OF you
to inform us at your earliest convenience whether
the statement of Mr., so far as relates to
you, is true"
hasten to say that the statement or state
ments have quoted from your letter, as above,
are, in respect to myself, absolutely false, and
hare 40 doubt they are equally so IN respect to
my political friends and opponents in the can
vass alluded to.
remain, gentlemen, with great respect, your
obedient servant, WINFIELD ScoTT. =
Another fiction is going the rounds of the
newspapers, under the head, Foreigners in
America" as follows:
Number of foreigners and Americans now
holding Office under the United States Govern
ment at Washington:
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limits, of convicts. What right has Congress
to interfere?
Under this Christian bill, no foreign person
could come to this country, without a certifi-
cate from an American Consul that he had not
been for FIVE years blind, insane, or a sufferer
from any arrangement of intellect That is,
if in that time be had had cataract, and been
cured of it, or been insane for a few weeks,
from some violent cause, and then recovered
from it, he could not come to this country, no
matter what his responsibility or means If
a poor fellow, who had scraped together enough
to pay his passage, were taken sick on the
passage, and obliged to pay his little surplus
for medical attention or medicine, on arriving
in our ports, he was to be turned back as
pauper The refugee from European tyranny,
hunted down, like Southern slave, if he had
blind mother, wife, or child, must abandon
them, to save himself, or abide, and be torn
from their embraces, for this most benefcent
bill would allow no blind person to come into
the country
Behold the wisdom and humanity of the So
called American movement If we are to
have such legislation by the next Congress, it
will fifty take rank with the Congress that
cursed US with the Fugitive Slave Act.
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and they have overcome larger majorities than
that. Nor, say they, will the majority be uni
ted. A portion of it is made up of Know
Nothings, who are anxious to affiliate with
Southern Know Nothings, for the purpose of
acquiring National power. Look, they con-
tinue, at Mr.. Banks. What had he to saw of
Nebraska !? What Anti-Slavery purpose did
he announce? How prudently he held himself
separate from the rabble rout of Abolitionists
and Free-Soilersl Many more of his class, we
may rely upon-sound, national men, deter
mined to shut out all causes of sectional dis
cord. The contest for the Speakership, they
predict, will turn upon Know Nothingism.
Southern and Northern members of the Order,
ignoring their differences about Slavery, will
meet in caucus, select their candidate, and
stick to him. With such division of the
Northern majority, it viii indeed be remarka
BILE, if the Slave Interest does not play its card
successfully for the Speakers chair and the
consequent organization of the House.
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KANSAS.

The Kansas Herald Of Freedom, in reply to
some inquiries, says that sheep raising is des-
tined to be a great business in that region /;
and as to fruit trees, there is no danger of glut
ting the market for a quarter of a century.
Enterprising Yankees, it says, are rapidly set
Ting all over the Territory large numbers
have squatted in the southern portion-sev-
eral towns have been recently laid out in that
direction. Emigrant parties have already
started from the East and from the West and
there can be no doubt that the Territory will
be rapidly filled up this spring and summer.
In regard to routes from St. Louis the same
paper says;
ave would state that there are two routes by
land from st. Louis-one on the north side of
the river, the other on the south side. The price
is twenty-five dollars to Independence, and one
dollar additional to Westport. From there, dis
tant about torty-ive miles, we have to seek pri-
vate conveyance. Usually there are chances to
ride on loaded teams, costing about one dollar
and hity cents. AS the steamers are now run
ming on the river. we presume there are none
who desire that kind of conveyance.
"Persons coming up the river should apply
to B. Slater, Esq, q Levee, st. Louis, and pro-
cure tickets through him, by which means they
can secure passage up the river to Kansas City,
Mo, for $40. From that point we hope TO have
a water conveyance in a few weeks but until
then, the overland route of fifty miles, by way
of Westport, must be got over the best way pos
sble."
We learn from the Boston Telegraph, that
Thomas II. Webb, Secretary of the New Eng
land Emigrant Aid Company, has published
pamphlet of twenty-four pages, containing con-
else and definite replies to the numerous IN
quiries which naturally arise respecting Kan
sas. If Mr.. Webb had thought of announcing
its price, he would have accommodated good
many inquirers.
In the Kansas Free State we observe the
details of the census Just taken of four dis.
tricts-frst, fourth, ninth, and tenth. The
whole number of inhabitants is 1876. In the
first district, Of the whole population, there are
623 males, 339 females minors 459; voters
$685. farmers, 225. Emigrated from Missouri,
2O6; Massachusetts, 1873, Illinois, I25. Whole
number of emigrants from slave States, 253
whole number from free, 7O4. Of the 962,
887 are natives Of the United States. Only
one colored person is returned
Of the Ala inhabitants in the other three
districts, ll9 are emigrants from the slave
States, the rest from the free One slave is
put down in the fourth district, three are re.
turned from the ninth, one in the tenth. In
all the districts, Of 1876 inhabitants, only so
are naturalized citizens, and % declarants
showing, that so far the emigration is chiefly
confined to our native population.
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good one, and that he will be elected. You and
l agree IN all these matters, we could have car
ried the State on the old issues, without the new
order of things; but with the tide rolling upon
US, there was no other way to save the State but
the same which has been taken, and now there is
no way that can see for the old Loco party to
save themselves from destruction.
Should the election 60 as we believe it will,
there acU be matters TO follor after schich must
be seen to arith care.
As you Justly remark, we must have good and
true men for our public servants.
Very respectfully, yours,
ANTHONY COLBY.
We are far from looking at the contest and
its results with unalloyed satisfaction. Had
Know Nothingism not interviewed, the Admin
istration Party would have been as efectually
beaten, and the Democrats, having no issue to
maintain against the prescription and secresy
of the new Order, would have been more shat
tered than they are now. As it is, after all, in
the popular vote, they have only lost two thou
sand FIVE hundred.
The victory would have been achieved by
right means, on sound principles, and have in
volved no subsequent embarrassments. As it
is, if the Opposition remain identified with the
secret, proscriptive Order, there must be re-
action, and the final result will be the restora-
ton of the Old Line Democracy to power.
AS to the rest, the story is soon told. The
Know Nothings nominated Pike, Free Soil
Democrat, Tappan, Free SOiler, and Cragin,
Free Soil Wing, for Congress, and they were
elected, by majorities ranging from 1000 to
$1,000 Know Nothing candidates for the Sen
ate arc chosen in the lst, I'd, Sd, 4th 5th, 7th,
9th, and 18th districts; 9th, 9th, 10th, and 18th,
doubtful, with the chances in favor of the Know
Nothings except in the 18th. The House, so
far, stands, 2O4 Opposition, &C Administra-
tion-last year it stood, l44 Opposition, 1877
Administration. In the towns to be heard
from, less than thirty members have been
probably chosen, of whom two-ffths, it is said,
will be Opposition.
The result will be, the election of two Oppo
sition United States Senators. Our neighbor
of the american Organ" who goes for sinking
the Slavery Question, rejoices without stint over
this election
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HERO WORSHIP IN NEW YORK.


New York has lately signalized itself by
new act of hero worship. William Poole, a
noted pugilist, who had excited the vindictive
passions of other sportsmen of his stripe, by
hogging several of them, was set upon at dead
of night in groggery, by a party of them,
brutally beaten, and murdered. The assassin
who struck the fatal blow escaped, and the
police are now hunting him. One might
have supposed that a simple statement of the
horrible fact, and the announcement Of the coro-
ner's verdict, would have suficed; but the New
York press thrives by purveying for the tastes
of the rabble. Several respectable journals
devoted themselves to the most minute and re-
voting details Of the transaction, giving the
particulars of POole's life, incidents in his ca
reer, graphic sketches of his last encounter
and affecting reports of his dying words-pa
rading all in such type as is used when events
of the greatest magnitude are heralded.
OF course, Poole was transformed into
hero-the rabble had something to Worship
his apotheosis took place on the Sabbath.
All sorts of associations turned out to do him
honor, among them, "the Poole Guards" "the
Poole Association" "Rynders Grenadiers,''
and vast concourse of NatiUe Americans for
the rumor got afoat that Poole was Native
American, and that his murderers were of for
eign extraction! And so he was escorted to
the grave. "From his late residence in Chris
topher street." says the Journal Of Commerce,
"to Broadway, and thence to the Battery, pre-
scented one moving mass of humanity; windows
and balconies were crowded, as were many
house-tops. Without danger of exaggeration,
it may be said that larger concourse of citi-
zens has rarely assembled in honor of any indi-
vidual, however eminent for intellectual or
moral requirements, or distinguished for public
services
Now, all this is disgusting enough, but who
are responsible for such exhibitions ? Those
respectable editors in New York city, who,
from day to day, and year to year, pamper and
inAame the groveling and corrupt appetites Of
the very lowest classes of population that infest
large cities, by loathsome details Of depravity
and crime, crowding their columns with the
particulars of rape, seduction, and murder.
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THE STATE OF OREGON.

Our readers will recollect that a bin, author
izing the People of Oregon to forns State,
passed the House at the last session. 1t was
passed at the previous session, but then failed
in consequence of Southern opposition. This
year, it was sent to the Senate, but, as usual,
where new free State is concerned, obstacles
were interposed to taking it up. The policy of
the Slave Power, which is clearly ascendant in
the Senate, is to postpone the organization of
any new free State, until it has slave State
ready to balance it. We wish Senators repre-
senting the interests of Freedom would always
remember this, and not suffer themselves to be
placed in a position which can be construed as
aiding such a policy.
On the last day of the session. when the
Senate was awaiting action on the appropria-
ton bills, Mr.. Douglas made an effort to call
up the Oregon bill, but of course he was resisted
by Southern Senators. Mr. Wilson, CT Massa-
chusetts, also opposed it, on the ground that
the day being the Sabbath, none but necessary
work should be DONE We have no doubt he
was honest in the matter, but we could wish
that he had left the burden of opposition to the
slaveholding Senators. AS the Senate was in
session, it would have been quite as we'll en-
ployed in forming free State, as in passing
an appropriation for Collins's line of steamers.
If free State Senators expect that slaveholding
opposition will be Withdrawn at the next ses-
sion, they reckon without their host.
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THE SOUTH AND THE NEXT CONGRESS.

The Charleston Mercury bids the People of
the South prepare for the next Congress.
Speaking of the Fusion movement at the
North, it says:
a" In the present Congress this movement has
only wavering and doubtful characteristic re.
hex of the late elections, not the direct product
In the next Congress we shall see the full mower
of this FUSION and there will be gathered in
Washington the refuse of all the old parties.
the dirt and scum and dregs of the great cal
dron of Northern political and social agitation
We shall then know what sort of lunatic. cun-
ming, malevolent and strong, we have to deal
with 1t is not too early to begin to prepare in
earnest for the encounter"
The Washington Sentinel suggests, that in a
certain contingency, Congress be turned out of
doors. 1t is an admirer of the stalwart Crom.
well, and commends him as an examine 70 tho
President. 1t grows hot as furnace at the
thought that the next Congress may vote to re-.
peal the Fugitive Slave Act, or restore the Mis-.
souri, Compromise.
In the next House of Representatives tho
Abolitionists viii have majority. Should sncb
vile and Infamous propositions be made. should
the vote be taken, should that vote show ma.
jority for the incendiaries of whom we have
spoken-then, and we say it solemnly, we wouId
not answer for the consequences. Thew would
deserve, majority though they be, to be dyiren
from the Hall of Legislation, as Cromwell drove
the corrupt men of his day from their seats in
the Halls of the English Legislature"
We think we could answer for the conse-
quences," provided the House should take the
Precaution to make the Sentinel its printer.
Southern men generally, we apprehend. feel
less troubled than our modern Cromwell. They
know that the total Anti-Nebraska majority in
the next House will not exceed ten or twelve.
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BOUNTY LAND LAW.

Some of our readers will be interested in the
provisions of the New Bounty Land Law, print
ed on our first page. II secures leo acres of
the public domain to everybody who shall have
been connected in any way with the military
service of the United States since 1890, and, in
case of the death of the person having been so
connected, to his widow, or minor children.
Mr.. Giddings estimates that some fifty millions
of acres, amounting in value to S62,500,OOO,
are given away under this law. Others say, two
hundred millions. The great proportion of it
viii of course pass into the hands of specula-
tors. Old soldiers, widows; or minors, are not
apt to turn squatters. What between Bounty
Land Laws and Railroad Grants, the Home
stead policy stands but slim chance.
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{ MltnchnnSen Statement.
A contemporary remarks

a cotemporary remarks:
1T will be perceived that the proportion of
foreigners in the list of ministers and consuls is
larger than in any other. This is easily account
ed for by the fact that many of the consulships
are worth scarcely anything, and no AB.ericdn
ioOuld haze them. 1t becomes, therefore, fire.
quently necessary to give them to citizens and
residents of the places in which the consulates
are located.
"There are twelve foreigners in the State De-
partment, and here is their history One came
to this country at the age of eight months !;
another has been here forty years; another came
here at three months of age, and has been here
ffy years; fourth has been here hcenty-seUen
years; fifth served ten years in the army !;
another has been here hirty-tlCo years, anoth.
er ttcenty years; another came here in infancy;
another has been here over forty years; anoth-
er hiry.fre years; another fourteen years; and
the twelfth, simple Waterman, has been sew
eral years in the country"
Now, when we add to all this, that we know
of but one naturalized citizen in the Senate
and one in the House, of the last Congress.
people of common sense will be apt to wonder
at the hubbub raised about foreigners, by
Know Nothings. 1t is worthy of an age and
country that have produced Mormonism, and
spiritual revelations of higher import than the
old-fashioned revelations Of the Bible.
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PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM ILLUSTRATED.

The following appears in Missouri Journal.
the Lexington Democratic AdrOcate. Tribune
Negro Dogs would inform the citizeus of
Holmes County that | still have my Negro Dogs,
and that they are in good training, and ready to
attend to all calls of hunting and catching Run
away Negroes, at the following rates For hunt
ing per day, FIVE dollars, or if l have to travel
any distance, every day will be charged for, in
going and returning, as for hunting, and at the
same rates. Not less than five dollars will be
charged in any case, where the Negroes come in
before reach the place. From fifteen to twenty.
FIVE dollars will be charged for catching, accord.
ing to the trouble if the Negro has weapons.
the charge will be made according to the diff
Guilty had in taking him, or in case he kills some
of the dogs the charge will not be governed by
the above rates. | am explicit, to prevent any
misunderstanding. The owner of the slave To
pay all expenses in all cases. venture to sue-
gest to any person having a slave runaway, that
the better plan is to send for the dogs forthwith
when the negro goes off, if they intend sending
at ALL and let no other person 90 in the direction,
if they know which way the runaway went: as
many persons having other negroes to hunt over
the track, and failing Of success, send for the
dogs, and then perhaps fail in consequence to
catch their negro, and thus causelessly fault the
dogs. Terms cash. If NE money is not paid
at the time the negro hunted for is caught, he
will be held bound for the money. 1 can be
found at home at all times, FIVE and a half miles
east of Lexington, except when hunting with
the dogs. john LoxG.
February IA, 1856.
The People of the free States will be horror
stricken at such an advertisement; but do they
really think the twolegged hounds among
them, employed to run down fugitives, are as
respectable as the four-legged ones of John
Tono1