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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15
Religion and Politics.

Within the past year or two stren-
uoas efforts have been made to per-
suade the people that our govern
ment and free institutions were in
great danger of being sobverted by
the Pope Of Rome, through the In
strumentality Of foreign catholics,
who seek their future homes on our
shores. To establish this fact, the
errors and misdeeds ofthe moulder
ing ruins Of the past, are exposed to
public view from every stump. and
through the columns Of the political
as well as religious press of the coun-
try. The bigoiry ofan already pref
udiced popular mind, has been fed
ad nauseusn with this musty food,
and even pot-housa politicians, slip
perry with the slime of vice and i'm
morality, have all at once been a.
Weakened to a sense Of their high call
ing and turned reformers in the house
Of Islael, while the High Priests OF
the church, commissioned to preach
Christ and Him crucifed-to preach
peace on earth and good will to all
men, have been as suddenly convert
ed into the politician, soiling their
sacerdotal robes with the dust and
filth Of the political arena. The he
ly cause Of religion has been blend
ed With the vile purposes of polite
al demagognes, and the true friends
of the Church of Christ may well
shudder when they reflect upon the
disastrous consequences that must
necessarily flow from such a course
of policy. The character of the
Church and Of religion is judged,to
great extent, by the character of it:
ministers. The Kingdom Of Christ
is not Of this world, and this fact Of
itself ought to be sufficient to restrain
Christian ministers from dabbilnt
in political contests, and in .his re
Ispect the Catholic priesthood con
trusts most favorably with the Pro
; tesiant ministry, OF the North il
particular. The Catholic Church
be its religious doctrines what the,
! may, has ever preserved correc
and patriotic position on the subjec
J of slavery, holding itself aloof en-
9 tirely. from any connection with tn
question, and leaving it where i
| properly belongs, in the hands Of tn
politicians and statesmen of th
country.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15

E3 The Rev. John E, Edwards,
in letter written on the Goth Of
February on board thesteamer Persia,
wbilo on Lis way to Europe, says;
"But you never saw such a mania
for betting as prevails on these
steamers Many of the passengers
it seems to me will bet on anything.
They are now batting on the hour Of
the arrival of the Persia at Liver
pool. They are also betting which
foot-yhether right or left-the
pilot will FIRST put on the ladder when
he comes aboard the ship; some bet
on the kind of bat the pilot will have
on when be boards thu ship, some
are betting that the 'sPersia" will get
into Liverpool before the "Queen
City," which sailed on Saturday,
10th. But the fact is, they will bet
on anything. They will beS on which
can draw the longest hair out Of a
cushion; or, which of two flies viii
fly first. 1t strikes me, that there
must be number of persons who
cross the Atlantic for none ether
thar. gambling purposes. Day and
night there are scores Of persons
engaged playing cards in the public
saloons, and all of them give ANNA
ton to the game by betting; some bet
high"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15

farms can be enclosed and ploughed
in time to re-p..aat.
The County Treasury, too, has not
escaped unscathed. Cane Creek
Bridge, two miles below here, erected
soma ten years since, at cost Of
about $1,000, is gone. We have
heard from it, since it left, 1t was far
down the river going on, still unbroken.
There is no way of properly esti-
matiag the amount of injury inflicted
upon the planting interests of this
county, taking into account the wash
ing of soil, the damage to growing
crops, the loss Of rails, the drowning
of stock, and the time and labor re-
Iquired to restore things to the condi-
ton in which they were before the
tinundation. This much we do know
that the loss sustained by the agri-
cultural community is immense; and
we hope never again to have to re-
cord such wholesale destruction.
But the loss of property is not the
only injury that the county sustains.
Were that all, then could it be more
easily endured. We might then, by
industry, and economy, repair the
damage. But unfortunately, we are
called upon to chronicle a loss which
neither the wisdom of man nor his
best efforts can restore. Some, while
enjoying the refreshments of sleer
which wearied nature requires, were
unaware swept away by the fearful
tide, and drowned in its flood. The
house Of Mr.. George Brame, on Null
berry Creek, was torn from It's found
Iation, carried off in the stream
and his four children drowned; au(
Mrs. Brame was so badly injured b,
the falling timbers and drift, that he
recovery IS very doubtful. Tw
daughters and grand-child Of MI
9 John Clarke, near Petersburg, O.
Cane Creek, were washed from thei
beds and drowned. Also, negr
manin the employ Of Mr.. Rosb0rougl
on Cane Creek, was drowned o
Tuesday, while getting rails out of tn
water.
Thus, in few short hours, on Nor
day night, was this county deprive
by death Of seven Of its citizens
Little did the victims suppose, whe
. retiring Sunday night, that the
would SO soon be required to slee
: the long sleep of death, and fin
their untimely end in a watery gray
Can we not drop the tear C syinp
d thy for those who so unexpected
= mourn the loss of kindred and friend
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15
TRAIToRs.-It is the habit or knoy

TRAIToRs.-It is the habit oc know
nothings to denounce as traitors
old line wings who refuse to join
them, and who oppose their proscrip.
tive principles. How a man can BE-
justly chargeable, with treachery to-
wards party to which be never be-
longed, and to the principles (Which
he was ever opposed, We canno. dis
cover. If there be treachery in the
matter, the leaders ofthe new party
were guilty oft when they secretly
transferred themselves from their for
mer parties, vhigand democratic, as
did Fillmore and Donelson, to raise
a party iu opposition to both.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15

SENSIBLE ADyICE.-The Washing
ton correspondent Of the New York
Advertiser writes:
"Some of the Southern Wings,
like Mr.. Jones Of Tennessee, and Mr..
Benjamin of Louisiana, think there is
really SO much danger of the election
Of a Republican, either by the people
or by the House, that they adUise the
Wigs 10 go for the Democratic nom
inee."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15

The Washington Star says Doug
lass bill for the admission Of Kan
sas, while it will pass the Senate by
large majority. viii have a clear
majority in the House. 1t provides
that when Kansas has the requisite
population, she may enter the Union
with such constitution as she may
adopt, without referanceto the slave
ry question.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15
The Rain and its Results.
EIGHT LIVES LOsT!-GREiT DE-
SYgUCT.oY OF PROPERTY!

Monday night, of last week, a blow
WIS dealt to Lincoln county-one of
the hardest it has ever been her des-
tiny to receive.
In the good old time, the people
were accustomed to, and expected,
the May freshets, but in later years
they have been so seldom, that the
farmer had supposed that nature had
deviated so far from its ordinary
course, as to direct a cessation of
their visits. But how suddenly has
he been awakened from the comforts
produced by that belief, by the fear
ful and unprecedented ravages Of
the recent destructive freshetl
For several days previous to the
9TH and 9Th, the weather was almost
oppressiFely warm, with a brisk gale
from the south-east-and the atmos-
phere became ladened with vapor.-
Sunday morning condensation was
effected, and the result was showers
or rain in such profusion as to cause
the whole face of the earth to resem-
bic vast, extended sea of water. The
showers continued until Tuesday
morning-the hardest and most de-
structive being on Monday night
Those who are apprehensive Of storms,
and whose slumbers are interrupted
in consequence thereof, can testify
that that night was brilliantly illumin-
ated by constant flashes of lightning
and rendered awful by the unbroken
roar of the thunder's fearful peal
That night, the farmer retired to rest
with the satisfactory belief that his
crops were in a thriving condition, anc
secured from stock by good fences
the workmanship Of his hands. Will
what pleasurable feelings did he con
template his broad fields, and conjec
ture the result of the rain. He saw
vegetation terminate and burst forth
to enjoy the cooling breeze and re
freshing shower. With what pride
did be, but a few hours before, trav
erse his well-tended farm, and gaz'
upon the growing crops, on which h
based bis hopes for future comfort ant
worldly requirements, and behold witt
satisfaction the extended pastures, al
green and tender for the grazing stock
But, how vain are all the expectation
of manl--what mutation is writer
upon his fondest hopesl The hand o
dire misfortune waves its magic wand
and his far-reaching plans, concoctet
in the councils of his wisdom, vanisl
like mornings sparkling dew before
the rising sun. Who can tell the SAT
and gloomy feelings that seized hi
mind, as his drowsy eyes reluctantly
opened to greet the breaking morn
and to see his farm all deluged will
water, rolling, heaying, swelling, tear
ing, with all the fearful force of tina
destructive element. In its course
it uprooted trees, tore away fences
drowned stock, washed away crop:
that had already given indications o
generous harvest, and swept off thc
ploughed soil, leaving the farmer The
sub-soil to plough and plant again.
So fearful have been its ravages il
some localities, as to destroy almost
, if not entirely, the probability of a
crop this year, having carried away
both fences and soil to such an extent
as to render i. uncertain whether the
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15

A HUMAN HoRN.-Dr. Porcher, Of
Charleston, has in his possession a
horn, about seven inches in length,
and in diameter two inches and three
quarters, bearing a close resemblance
to a rams horn, which he extracted
from the head Of a negress, aged
about 81, born on plantation in st.
Johns, Berkeley, South Carolina.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15

Timber in France is dyed by va
rious cclors being mixed with water,
and pouring over by the root Of the
tree. The sap is the medium through
which the fluid is conveyed. Informs
4 kind Of delicate pump, up which
the artery particles run With great
rapidity.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15
ARIsrooRATIc DARxEY. "A CORES

ARIsTooRATIc DARKEY. "A cores
pendent Of tho Savannah Neics re-
lates the case of VIM. Ellison, a ne
gro, who purchased his freedom from
his master several years ago, and
now owns large cotton plantation,
upon which he works fifty hands,
and owns about one half of the town
of Statesburg in Sumpter District,
S. G..
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15

Near Helena, Ark, the other day,
the steamer Robert J. Ward ran over
= sail boat containing six persons
Col. ). \ Cary, a young lawyer, Mr..
Carroll and Mr. Brown we're drowned
three we're saved.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15

Col. Mathews and Mr.. Williams
were both killed in Memphis on the
30th ult., by BENZ. Conner, who was
There was no reasonable
cause for either murder. 1t was with
difficulty the crowd was prevented
from at once hanging Conner.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15

Sweet potatoes, for planting, the
Caddo Gazentte says, we're sold in
Shreveport, La, recently for nine dol
lars a JusAsl.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15
PROF. o. J. WOODS
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15
We annex few certificates to cOrrObOrss

We annex a few certificates TO cOrroborats
our assertions:
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15
FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER.
Free of Postage in Lincoln County
NJ. 0. WALLACE, Editor.

OFrI-E-- It he same Oh staaI: Sign # The
"OJssrrer Printing 05iee."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15
NJ. Fl. GRIDLEY.
s.. Lou1s. Juue 2a 1s62-

OF. LOUIS. Juue 70. 1905.
Prof Wood: a. you are about to prepare
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viii state that my hair was, a few months
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color, and since its application all dandruff has
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regret it, as it gives the hair the appearance Of
having beer recently oiled. am prepared.
therefore, to recommend its use to all who are
DESTROYS Of having beautiful head Of hair.
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New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-22
Extraordinary SobrEetF.

The Legislature adjourned on Thursday evening at
about nine o'clock, say our dispatches with great
decorlim and sobriety."
This fact-if it be fact--we are pleased to record
The Legislature wasn't drunk when the adjournment
took place! Good! The Legislature was sober on
the last night of the session! Better! And if fu-
ture Legislatures follow the example thus set, great
improvement upon the past will have been made.
The closing scenes of the Legislature before the
last were really outrageous and disgracefu In the
House. especially, members seemed to have lost all re
spect for themselves, the positions they held, and
proprety and decency generally. Allwas boisterous
confusion.
The practice of transforming last nights sessions
into regular saturnaia has obtained to Notifying
extent, all the country. The sooner it is dscon
tnued the better; and we trust the good example o
Louisiana will not be without followers.
We are rather inereduous, however, as to whether
the Geographic report is correct.
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CoMMUNIC AT ED.

lieSsrs EditofS-The decisionssof our Courts are
legitimate subjects for discussion if done in proper
manner. My attention has just been drawn to the ex
traordnary decision Of the Judge of the Sixth Dis
trict Court in the matter of Bell and Hufty. With
out advertng at all to the merits Of the controversy
and which is no concern of mine, think the
upon which the Judgment of the Court is based, is
still more extraordinary than the decision itself.
The Court, with much forbearance and patience
grvely listens for two days to the discussion of mat
tiers which it decides entirely foreign to the sub
jcct. This was the exercise of very commendable
virtues at least in view of the fact that in the opin
ion of the Court it was bound to take prompt and
| immediate action on the subject.
The opinion Of the Court is based, not upon the
fact that Hufty has been removed from Office by the
Legislature, for the Court expressly says, that it is
wholly unnecessary to notice these points, but upon
the fact as the Court declares, that Bell is the
acting Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans, and has been
recognized by the Supreme Court and BY this Court
But this was begging the question. The Supreme
Court had expressly discaimed all Jurisdiction over
the NATTER and by what authority had the Sixth Dis
trict Court assumed to turn Mr. Hufty out of office
and put Mr. Bell in some two days before, upon an
exparte application of the latter?
Hufty was the Sheriff de facto, and upon this fact
the application OF Bell for nandamus was founded
He alleges in his petition that he is entitled to the
office by virtue of his commission founded upon the
action of the Legislature And upon this issue, made
up and formally presented by the peadngs the
Court was called on to determine the validity Of this
Legislative act.
Instead of this, the Court says, that the law does
not recognize but Sheriff, and as the Court hat
recognized Mr.. Bell, it could not therefore consider
. Tho Of Ny IIuftu Jt
other words the Court pleadsits act in removing
Hufty and placing Bell in office, without notice ant
without hearing in bar to any investigation as tt
the rights of Hufty. All this, no doubt, is the law
only becomes of the lay to understand and diges
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LOWER MISSISSIPPI.

LOWER MISSISSIPPI
H. Il. ". II Newell master, at o'clock r. Nixon, Ca
rondelet street. agent.
OHIO RIVER.
belle Sheridan, Key, MASTER O'Clock r. B. Smith, u New
street, agent.
ARKANSAS RIVER.
Noses Greenwood, Thomas master, O'clock l.. Snnpp
Co, and T. Il. Smith, agents.
WHITE RIVER.
J, Morrett, anenhrg MASTER o'clock Lewis Snapp
Co, 81 Front street, agents.
PASCAG0CI.A.
Creole Itchings, master, the arrival of the O'Clock
NJ. Il, Geddes 10 Bank Place, agent,
RED RIVER.
White Gifts, Graham, master ut s O'Clock P VI. Shaw
Cunts 10 and A. Fulton 80 and Al Front Streets agents
r. F. Kimball Wlienhery, master, p NJ Lewis SnapI
Co. 81 Front street, and T. b. Smith, u New eYee street,
agents.
Swamp Fox Kinball MASTER at o'clock Carroll PrchaId
Co., IS Union Row, Carondeet Street, agents.
MOBILE
Florida Frost master the arrival the Lake Of the O'Clock
Pm cars. r. Geddes 10 Bank Place, agent
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+ 4 .a@5
\ The lecture at Lyceuln Hall, last evening, was
attended by avery fine audience. Aterrecapituatng
the leading points Of the preceding lecture Dr. Bald
win proceeded to remark that any legitimate inter-
probation of prophecy is fnlfment of the prophecy
itself lis not allowable that We should undertake
to interpret the future, except by some clear and
definite base The Scriptures evidently speak OF q
nation like our own and from their painreterence to
4 wo ohton many facts that could not otherwise be
understood 57
The lecturer proceeded by some calculations to show
that prophecy had, in numberless instances, fulfilled
itself and that in these ul6llments and the language
which predicted them, there sufficient rule for
further interpretation From the more general pre-
misses it was evident TINT America, Great Britain and
France were each spoken Of i'll the Bibethe former
country as rising trouble and commotion pertaining
to the others.
The rise of the United States is the beginning OF
the restoration of the Jews; and, if nothing more
there Is great curiosity in what may seem to some
real revelation touching its future history in the
Bible. The stars of the church are just thirteen il
number, and so were the original States, and the par
alel runs equally close all through.
The views Of various commentators were taken W
and considered with regard to some scrptura phrases
anu all VI
60 quite far enough. England and her history ma,
be seen in the Rbe, and as an evidence that it is so
the same calculations which establish other facts Prov
that the 10th of june l776 great fctwas to occu
in her history, which has occurred Monarchy coiano
constrain humanity as it had done when Washington
arose to do his predestined work The character o
the Ronsh church is shown in scripture also, and tn
policy Of Hildebrand was foretold. But twas not salt
that it would be favorable to religious liberty, nor la
it ever been so. The conduct and character Of bot
churches and government are clearly written out il
the Bible. There never thoroughly free nation
in both theology and government, as now exists il
this country.
The history of English theology was fully writte
out in the Bible and has agreed in its development
with the previous record She has never been tru
friend to liberty, to free thought aught else tina
was profitable to mankind. That great fact tina
close scrptura Interpretation agrees so precisely wit
actual history establishes the correctness of the fome
Some general remarks pertinent to the subject close
the lecture, which was exceedingly interesting an
which was frequently appauded. The third aud las
of the course will be given at Lyceum Hall this ever