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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07


Some washer women possess quite
knack in washing hannels, SO as to
prevent it fulling. 1t is not the
soapsuds, nor rinsing waters that
thicken up flannel in washing but
the rubbing Of it. Cloth is fulled
by being 'pounced ana jounced' in
the stocks Of the fnlling-mill with
soapsuds. The action of rubbing
flannel on. a washboard- is just the
same as that of the fdlling- MILL
Flannel, therefore, should always be
washed in very strong soapsuds,
which will remove the dirtand grease
by squeezing, better than hard rub
bing will ia weak soapsuds. 1t should
also be rinsed out Of the soap ii
warm water, and never in cold, as
the fibres Of the wool do not shrink
up as in cold water, after coming ou.
Of warm soapsuds. Great care
should be taken to rinse the soaI
completely ont Of the flannel. Thi;
advice. wiIlapplysto the washing o
blankets, the same that it does tt
flannel.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07
A Magnificent BRIDGE.

The longest and most expensive
bridge that has ever been construct
ed on this continent, is now building
in Canada, and is designed to span
the river st. Lawrence at Montreal,
where il is but 176 fsat less than
two miles vide, and flows at rate
varying from seven to ten miles per
hour. The depth in summer varies
from fourteen feet in the middle to
four at the sides. Embankments of
solid stone are built from each side
till the width is reduced to 5000 feet
OF about one and a half miles, and
this distance is then to be studded
with "a piers ofmasonry. which are
to support a tubular bridge some-
what on the plan Of the famous tubu-
lar bridges in England. The height
of the tube above low water 10 the
centre is tosbe sixty feet, descend
ing towards each side at the rate OF
about forty feet to the mile. The
bridge is to cost 81 100000: The
abutments and piers are progressing,
and have been for several years, but
the bridge is yet a long way from its
completion. The total weight OF
iron in the tubes will be l0,400
tons.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

WHY Is IT?-In many of the
Northern States negroes are permit
ttd to vote. Why is it, therefore,
that our know nothing friends, in
seeking to regulate the question OF
suffrage, did not take the niger in-
to consideration as well as the white
man. Would they rather trust the
nigger at the ballot box, than sn
adopted citizen who happened to be
born in Ireland? Can anybody an
sHer this question? Dare anybody
answer it?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07
NO. m-Voh pATETPETLLB, TENN THURSDAY AUGUST 1 1856.

inch I approached my doom! First
the left hand lost its hold; and then,
as | felt the end slipping by the lit
tie finger Of the right, ] gave one
brief prayer and fell--oUT OF BED
Being, as Ibefore observed, cor
Ipulent man, my fall had shaken the
whole house, and the alarmed in
mates, aroused from sweet slumbers,'
were knocking violently at the door,
which bad the effect of restoring
me to consciousness, when I discover
ed that my terrible balloon ascent
was nothing more than nightmare,
superinduced am led to believe, by
the festivities usual on the 4th of
July; and allow me to tell you, dear
reader, that such a Shanghai dinner
as We had on this occasion, is not to
be sneezed at.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

Important political increment
The Philadelphia Ledger mentions
a rumor that it is tbe intention oi
the friends Of Mr.. Fillmore in Penn
sylvania and the friends Of Mr.. Ere
mont, each to have an electoral tick
ct, but that the same names will be
upon both tickets, and will be SO ar
ranged by transposition that the
ticket cast by the respective friends
of the two candidates will be known
one from the other. Then, which.
ever ticket has the most votes, the
candidates for whom it is cast viii
receive the electoral vote Of the
whole. This, it is expected, viii
unite the opposition to Mr. Buchan'
an, without dividing the vote.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

COOLING BY STEAM.-Steam power
has been employed for great variety
Of purposes, among others to keep
cool. A hotel proprietor of New
York, has fitted up his dining rooms
with pair Of fans about fifty feet
in length, suspended from the ceiling
and. vibrating by means of small
steam engine connected with the
boiler. 1t adds very materially to
the comfort of the guests.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

SCRIPTURE QUoTATIoN.-"Why,
Jimmy, howsawkwsrd you are eat
ing-do take your hand out Of your
pocket.
/ "It's my left hand, mother"
swell, what difference does that
make9"
"Why, I've been reading the Bi-
bIe."
"Arey you crazy? What has Rad
ing tho Bible to do with your keep
ing your hand in your pocket?'
Mustn't we do as the Bible tells
-us, dear mother?"
"CertainIy, my child"
"Well, mother, it says:-'Let not
thy left hand know what thy right
hand doeth,' and don't you suppose
it 'ud know was eatin' bread and
'lasses with the right, if I didn't
hide it away?''
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

TIE PRosPEcr.-The usually reli-
able New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier (ueutral) says:
Dir. Fillmore was received With
great enthusiasm all along the Hud-
son river to Albany, Personally he
is the most popular, in this city,
of any of the candidates. There
seems to be very general desire to
vote for Mr.. Fillmore, but knowing
be stands no chance, about twO-thirds
of the Wigs Of the city will go for
Buchanan, the other third inclining to
Fremont.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07


TIE ISLANDERS OF THE KNOW NoTH-
ING PREss.-The Philadelphia Ledger
(neutra) says
Mr.. Buchanan is berated and abused
for sentiments which it is charged he
uttered thirty years ago--the very
best proof that bis opponents can find
nothing in his long career of public
usefulness for thirty years subsequent
which they may pick flaw in. A
man who can show public life free
from blemish for as long period as
some of his detractors have lived
need not be ashamed of his antece-
dents.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

We know that many Of the Know
Nothing Editors are hard to beat in
the way of abuse. But here is a
choice extract which will fill them
with envy. They will try THEN best,
We know, but cannot, rival it. It is
from letter by Geo. Rathbun, a free
soil leader in New York. Read it,
anti Kansas Know Nothing seribblers,
who are charging abolitionism upon
James Buchanan-read it, and see
how your rivals excel in the line you
glory in:
sM this part Of the State our trork
is done, the old flag floats gloriously
In the handsof Fremont. The black
flag of slave Democracy already trails
in The dust. Their standard bearer
cyaczs on his belly at the foot Of his
masters of the South. How can q
creeping thing spread a banner to the
breeze?
SThe Cincinnati platform is slaves
and a pirate by the laws Of God and
nations-the people will scuttle and
sink her. The world will rejoice
lie pure spirits in Hsaven aiz
rgoice-eyery intelligent human be-
ing viii rejoice. BIT IN HI and
down South there viii be wailing, Sc
@Be of good cheer; our cause is
just, and God is also just; we shall
prevail.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

There are five Surfay papers in
New York. The Times and the At
las, 60 for old Buck; the Dispatch
and Courier support Fillmore, and
the Mercury leans to Fremont
John Mi.chel's paper (that was) the
Citizen, leans Fremontward, while
Meagher's Irish News is strong fol
Buchanan.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07
The Past and Present Of the Negro.

Il
The New. York Observer, in the
course of an article on slavery, says
When the ancestors of those ne
groes were torn from their homes il
Africa by the slave traders of OLD
England and New England, and placed
under the influence Of Christianity al
tthe South, they were among the most
degraded and miserable Of the human
species, slaves of cruel masters. the
victims Of bloody superstitions, be-
levers in witchcraft, and worshippers
I Of the devil.
And what now is the condition ol
their descendants? Several years ago
more than 100000 Of them were
members of Protestant evangelical
!churches in the slaveholding States!
About 10000 American negroes,
trained chiefly at the South, trans
planted to Liberia, now rule nearly
100000 natives Of Africa, and
through their schools and churches are
spreading the light and gospel in that
land of darkness and heathenism.
1t is true that more than nine
tenths Of the negroes at the South
arc still slaves; but Is slavery. under
Christian masters in America, the
samo evil with slavery under heather
|tyranss in Africa7 Degraded as these
slaves may still be compared with the
sons Of the pilgrims in New England
or even with the mass of laborers in
some Of the enlightened countries in
Europe, can 100000 of negroes
bond or free, be found in any part oI
the world who can compare, for good
condition, physical, intellectual and
moral, with the 100000 slaves al
the South? Has Christianity, aided
by all the wealth of British Christians,
done as much, during the last twenty
years, for the elevation Of the 100000
emancipated negroes in the West
Indies, British philanthropists them
selves being the judges of what it
has effected there. as it has done du-
ring the same period for the elevation
of our 100000 American slaves?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

A FACT AND a SHAME.-The New
buryport Herald says, "Three quar-.
ters ofall the mechanics in America
are working themselves to death to
pay for the follies of fashion for them
selves and their families" That's a
fact and shame, too.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

'..t
In Rutherford county, Tenn, the
other day, meeting was called for
Wings disconnected with other par
ties. 1t attracted notice. 1t was
soon known to be a trick, for the
names signed to it we're those who
|officiated at a recent K. IN. ratifica-
ton meeting! Wing meetings, con-
trolled by K. Ms. and lauded by K.
N. papers, are bogus affairs-intend-
ed to deceive-intended to catch
outside whigs.. The trick is seen
through and won't win.
At the so-called Wing Convention
In Richmond, Va, r. O. Ridgway OF
the Wing, and s.. Z. Peters of the
Lynchburg Virginian, two of the
most ultra and rabid know nothing
papers in the State, were Seereta-
riesl These papers 60 the Catholic
test and all the sbominations Of the
Order, and are now calling themselves
Wings to hoodwink anti-know Moth
ing Whigs! This is the last know
nothing trick. It is to call and hold
Conventions, Wing in name, to catch
the old line Wings. Know nothings
are not wings, and wings are not
-
such green gosling ) as TO be mised by
them into the emeshes of know moth
ingism! See the article exposing
the trick in the so-called whig con.
vention in Maryland.
At the Wing Convention in Ken
lucky the know nothings attempted
to get possession Of it so as to pros
titute it to their purposes But
they we're foiled by the old Wings;
who refused flat-footedly to recon-
mend Mr.. Fillmore, because be had
renounced whiggery in becoming a
K. N. on the Philadelphia Platform.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07
/. GLEANiNGS FROM PAPERS
With Editorial Sprinklings.

OLD CHURCH MusIC.-ln the time
Of Edward v, it was the custom to
have whole chapters of the Bible
set to music and sung lin the churches,
and an-old writer mentions that the
whole Of the first chapter Of Matthew
containing the genealogy was SO
arranged. Hegoes on very quantity
to say that "Shile the Bass was hold
ing forth the existence of Abraham,
the Tenor, in defiance of nature and
chronology, was begetting Isaac; the
Counter Tenor, begetting Jacob; and
the Treble, !egettiug Joseph and all
his brethren.
How SHIPS ARE NAMED.-Slnce the
last war, ships of the line in the U.
S.nayy are named after States, ,fiigates
after American rivers, sloops of war
after State capitols and other cities,
brigs after some noted deceased naval
commander, and revenue cutters after
members of the Cabinet. The Collins
steamers are named after oceans and
seas, and the Cunarders after coun-
tries.
About HooPs.--A lady whose gar
ments formed an immense circumfar'
ence, entered store in Boston, and
in doing SO prostrated some dozen
of flower pots, containing valuable
plants, which were ruined. The
store-keeper intends to sue the lady
for damages SO that the law may set,
tie how large space lady's circum-
zambients may occupy.
AIr. Stephens, in bis "Incidents O
Travel" mentions that the tombstone'
in the Turkish burying-grounds are
all flat, and contain little hollow'
which hold the water after the rain
and attract the birds, who resor
thither to slalxe their thirst and sins
among the trees.
Those who may be subject in tn
night time to that excruciating pail
called cramp, will be doubtless gla'
to learn that by tying any kind 0
bandage very tight round the lee
Immediately above the knee, thi
unpleasant sensation will be instan
taneously removed.
SLAyERY.-The Massachusetts, Gen
eral Association Of Congregations
Ministers unanimously referred t.
the District Associations the question
Of discontinuing correspondence Will
the Old School Presbyterian Church
on account Of its alleged pro-slaver.
tendencies.
TIE STREETS OF LoNDoN.-Th,
length Of all the different streets il
London is 1850 miles. The pawn,
of them cost 10000, 900, and th
yearly cost of keeping the payemen
in repair is s7,200,00O.
WOMAN SENTENCED FOR MURDER :
Mary Burks, of Kalamazoo, Michigan
has been convicted Of the murder {
her husband, by poison, and ser
fenced to solitary Imprisonment, wit
hard labor, for life.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

INDuLGENr PARENT.-G. W. Ken
.dellof Che NO. Picayune,w e,wltes that
paper that he knows q lady in San
Antonio who, before her eldest son
was chastised fer some fault, insisted
that he should be put under the In
1uence Of chIoroform to deaden the
pain.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

Ben Bend, who was United States
Marshal in Illinois under General
Taylor, and a Scott elector in 1852,
now places the Democratic ticket at
the head Of the paper be edits, the
Carlyle. Calumet.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

The Selma Sentinel has hoisted
the Buchanan flag. 1t was last year
and most of this the most violent
Know Nothing papers in the South.
But it is for the South, the Kansas
sct and the Union--therefore goes
for Buchanan.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07
The Acceptance.

She raised her bright eyes from the book.
asked her she'd have it so?
She gazsd on me with troubled look, -
And sweetly answered, no. oh, mol 8
I asked her'if she would be minef
The thoughts within / could not guess;
She turned her from the Poets line,
And blushing, answered, yes! oh, yes!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

Dobson quit boarding with Mrs.
McGallagher, because she persisted
in washing her feet in the soup tu-
reen. Dobson, in our opinion, did
quite right.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

HEAVY Loss.-The Albany Ex-
press is Of the opinion that the loss
es to SPECTATORS in breadstuffs and
provisions in the United States With
in a few months cannot be less than
S15,0 100000.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07
Daniel Webster.

| The support given to the Com
promise measures during Mr.. Fill
|m6es administration from th'
North, was by Northern Democrats
mot single Wing in the Senate
voted for the fugitive slave bill, and
lbut.. three did so in the House
Brooks of the N. Y. Express lodging
the vote! All the power and patron
age of the Government, With Web
ster''s and Clay's vast influence
could not bring their party friends
to sense of their duty. But their
political opponents carried the meas.
ure through Congress-,
Daniel Webster's. social hours
! is the title Of an article in the last
Harper's Magazine, evidently from
the pen Of al intimate personal
friend. We make an extract from a
conversation with Webster, which
bears upon the present state Of
parties. Were Webster now alive be
would again be acting with Northern
Democrats and against Northern
Know sNo.hings, who are now banded
with abolitionists warring upon the
South:
at is impossible" continued Mr.
Webster, sfora mo to feel the least
Iacefbity toward such men es Rusk,
Cass, Foote, and Dickinson. We
have stood by each. other in time
lof greatest moment to myself as
we'll as Of danger 20 the Union Of
these States, shoulder to shoulder
/ can never forget OF refuse to &C.
knowledge their important and vital
aid."
SIT vas from the Democratic party
Sir, you received your chief sympa-
| thy and support during the crisis.
They rallied around you when old
friends hung back or deserted
"That is true, my friend; for four
months after my speech Of the 7th
Of March, scarcely man in the
North of the Wing party, possessing
position or influence, ever said, God
bless you!' Norris, Of New Hamp-
shire, a lifetime political opponent,
alone dared to speak for me. ] was
hunted everywhere"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

Miss Hinson committed suicide
in Dyersburg, Tenn, on the 4th, be-
cause her father would not let her
participate in the celebration Of the
day.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

A drowning boy was recently res
cued in Boston, Mass, by Mr..
Lemon. whereupon bystander re-
marked, that the little fellow would
have perished, had it not been for
Lenaon-aid. The fellow was prompt
ly arrested.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

Brown says that the greatest
matchmaking machine be ever saw.
is widow lady with four marriagea-
ble daughters. 1t beats the match
factory Of Harlan all to pieces.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

Soft soap, in some shape. pleases
all, and generally speaking, the more
leg you put in the better.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

A prominent merchant of Mem
phis, now on a visit to the North,
writing a letter from Northampton,
Mass, on Northern politics, concludes
by saying:
To end briefly, allow me to say
now from the North, as I said TO my
friends whilst in the South, that the
fight is not with Fillmore, but with
Fremont. And if the national men
at the North do not stand strongly
up to. us, then will that State at the
South, which unwisely divides the
Southern vote, bitterly repent o.
the folly.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

The most elegant private house in
HE city Of New York cost 1926, ,0o0.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-08-07

Aneditor out west announces the
birth Of his ninth child under the
head of distressing Casualty"
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THE HILLS OF THE SHATEMUC; by the
A. Uarfd aarh

1IlHKEE PER CENT. A MONTH.
THE HILLS OF THE SHATEMUC; by the au-
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dispatch from Louisville, KY, Thursday, says that
a heavy frost had fallen in that region which &C.
vereiy damaged the growing tobacco, and conse
quently advanced prices. The tobacco on the fiat
land in Pittsylvania county, Va, was severely
damaged by frost Tuesday night. The Danville
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