Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-05-15
GlEANlNGS FROM PAPERS,
With Editorial Sprinllings.

lon the South. 1t mas an area oil
10000 square miles, and popula-
ton estimated at 100000. There
Iare about 10000 Indians, and the
rest are chiefly mixed-what We
would call quadroons. The regular
army is very small--two hundred
men-but there is military force
of five thousand. We are told that
the latter is good for nothing. That
remains to be proved. The Presi-
dent is elected for six years. San
Jose is the capitol, and has thirty
thousand inhabitants. The chief
seaport is Puena Arenas, on the
Pacific. Costa RIGA is the only
Central American State that has
paid its debts, and has balance on
! the right side Of its cash book. The
source of its wealth is the cultivation
of coffee, which is shipped chiefly to
Europe from the port above named
There is a large French and German
population, which is inimical to
Walker.
The Rev. DR.. Willard Preston, for
% years the Pastor of the lndepen-
dent Presby terrain church in Savan-
nah, died on the 2lst ult, aged II
years. He first went to the bar as a
lawyer, and entered the ministry in
1911. AS Coming events cast their
shadows BEFORE" the Sabbath previ-
Gus to his death, he preached from
this text: "Set thy house in order;
| for thou shalt die and not live"
A Queer ResoznHoR.-It appears
that some of the merchants of
Louisville (Ky.) held a meeting and
adopted resolutions requesting the
editors of the press ''to discontinue
the discussion OF the prosperity of
that city," 1t would have been bet
ter to denounce the riots and mobs,
which have seriously affected the
prosperity of their city.
Mr.. CRAMpToN.-The National
Intelligencer says: so far as re-
CARDS the feelings and purposes of the
executive, Champion viii be immedi-
ately dismissed in case he is not re-
called; and that the final answer of
the British Government will not be
waited for much longer. neither"
The correspondent Of the Herald
says, Col. Benton will address a Jet
ter to the people Of Missouri decliE-
ing the nomination for Governor
The only nomination he could posi-
bly, accept, he says, is the nomination
for President.
The fast young ladies' Of Vincen-
mes, says the Louisville Democrat.
are giving "onion parties" at which
the only refreshmentsare raw onions
and alum salt. Vincennes is the
old est town in the State, and the
progress of civilization among It's In
habitants is '.some."
DR.. Dickson, late know no thing
candidate for Governor of Texas,
but formerly consistent democrat,
entirely repudiates Fillmore and
Donelson and the platform Of the
Convention by which they were nom.
mated.
TIE late Legislature Of Pennsyl-
vania passed a new libel law. The
old maxim was ''the greater truth
the greater the LIBEL This act re-
verses it. The greater the truth the
less the libel. Uuder it, malice is
not to be inferred.
The Nashville Union & American
has been sued for libel, and damages
laid in the sum of $4,000, BY ono
j. w. Williams, Of Smith county,
who formerly edited newspaper at
Holly Springs, Mississippi.
There are said to be over thirty
bands of Ethiopian Minstrels. tray.
cling through the country; SO that
about four hundred white men black
their faces and sing negro songs
every night.
Donelson says the" Democraticpa
tv left him." cleft him at home.
we presume he meant, where they
will leave him again next Novem-
Der.
/. A fellow, named Josh Smith. vas
arrested in Nashville, Tenn, last
week, Tor assaolting his own mother,
land beating and bruising Der shame
fuiiy.