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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
American Boasting.

The Richmond Dispatch says that
Americans are generally tainted a.
broad as Boosting and braggart ma
tion; but a nation may be pardoned
for some degree Of seIf-complacency,
which can feed the world, build the
best ships that navigate the sea, and
man them with the best sailors that
ever trod a deck. This is something
to justify national pride. Our Ca
pacities as maritime and CONNER.
-ciaI power, our inexhaustible agricul-
tural and mineral resources, our won-
derfnl manufacturing skill and ener-
KY, and our vast extent Of produc.
tive soil, point to future Of unequal
ed greatness. Nothing but our own
divisions can prevent the United
States from becoming The richest
aud most powerful country the world
ever saw. "
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

STEAMBOATS,, RAILROADS AND TELE-
GRAPHs.-Before the year 1900, it is
stated, there was not single steam
boat in existence, and the application
of steam to machinery was unknown.
Fulton launched the first steamboat
in 1904; now there are 5000 steam
boats traversing the waters of Amer
lea, and the time saved in travel is
equal to 70 per cent. In 1900
there was not single railroad in
the world. In the United States a.
lone there are now 8797 miles of
railroad, costing S2S6,000,0O0 to
build, and about $4,000 miles of rail
road in England and America. The
locomotive will now travel in as many
hours distance which required in
1900 as many days to accomplish
In 1900 il took weeks to convey in.
telligence between Philadelphia and
New Orleans; now it can be accom-
plished in minutes by the electric
telegraph, which only had it's begin
ing in l84S.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
Certain Cure for a Felon.
We are sure that all who have s.

We are sure that all who have suf-
fered from a genuine bone felOn will
thank US for making public so simple,
and yet SO effectual remedy as the
following. In thousands of instan-
ces, weeks and months of the most
intense suffering have been endured,
allowing Of neither rest by day or
sleep by night; and when a cure is
at last effected, the finger or thumb
is often deformed or rendered useless
for life. As soon as it becomes APP
parent that a felon is making its ap-
pearance, which is known by a con-
tinued soreness and pain proceeding
from the bone, and sometimes evin-
cling but little change for the worse
for week or a month, take strong
cord of any kind and wrap it around
the finger (affected part) as tightly
as it can be borne. Keep it in this
c0ndltl0n until the pain can oe en-
dured no longer. Now, loose the
cord, and as soon as the pain or Sore
ness caused by the cording subsidies,
tighten it again. Continue this for
several days, until the felon is COM
pletely 5lackened and killed. We
have known several persons who have
been afflicted with felons to try this
remedy with complete success; in
fact we have never known it to fall
The cording stops the circulation,
and thus the soreness has nothing to
feed on, and soon dies of starvation.
We have faith in this remedy, even
after the felon has made considerable
progress. -
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
The Days Gone By.

How fair and beautiful they seem,
The days, the days. gone by,
Their light is resting on US yet,
Like star-gleams from the sky;
Their memories come thronging round,
AS fancies in dream,
Or mist-shapes, that, at eventide,
Sail down upon the stream.
We ever love to wander back
To childhood's sunny hours,
When earth seemed all so beautiful,
Our iife-path filled with flowers;
Out from their lone sepulchral halls
A thousand fancies start,
Then, like the hues of sunset skies,
The fleeting dreams depart.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
WHOLE NO. 2sl,
The Camels In Texas.

The Galveston News correspon-
dence from Castorville, Medina coun-
| ty, Texas. dated 18th uIt., from which
we take the following interesting par
ticulars in relation to the cameis which
have lately been imported there by
the United States Government:
81 also had the pleasure Of making
the acquaintance of Major Wayne,
for several years attached to the
war department at Washington, who
went out last year to Asia and intro
duced the camels into this country,
which arrived at Iudianola last spring,
and are now kept at this post. 1t
has been selected by him as tie best
adapted to that service for which be
intends them. When we arrived
they were grazing some two miles
distant, attended by the Arabs who
have charge of them, when Major
Wayne very kindly sent out and had
them driven in for inspection There
are altogether thirty-two, including
some young ones, and all are in ex-
cellent health, and seem to be doing
well. Major Wayne gave Us very
interesting account of their habits and
peculiarities, and he ordered one Of
them to be led out and loaded as for
a journey. After kneeling to receive
the pack-saddle, most cumbrous
load of itself, hut such as are used in
the country from which they came,
a load ofcorn WIS placed on the ami
mails back, sufficient fer two mulcsto
draw in wagon, with which he star
ted off at good round pace. A
dromedary was next led out, which
is the saddle animal Of the camel, and,
after kneeling to receive the saddle.
he was mounted by an Arab, who
started off across the prairie at a
pace which seemed to me not much
short ola two forty lick. This pace
they can keep up for many hours in
succession, travelling with perfect
ease from sixty to eighty miles per
lay. They can also subsist Gor sew
eral days without water, and their
idaptability to the frontier service for
which they are designed is now
matter beyond doubt. Major Wayne
informed me that he had forty more
animals coming out, and he is now
a stable in which they viii
De kept, which he expects to get fin
shed before the cold weather sets
a."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

BED BUGs.--"My family having
an irreeoneilable hatred to these pes
tiferous creatures, have, for years.
been trying TO keep them in subjee-
tion by the constant use Of the brush,
hot water, turpeDtine, and various
other bug medicines, bot until late
ly everything, except constant labor,
proved to be an almost entire hum
bug. At last some one gave the
following recipe, as being efIectual:
Take ten cents worth of quicksilver
and the white of one egg; beat them
we'll together, and apply the mixture
around the pins and joints Of the
bedstead with a small brush, or feath-
er. This has proved entirely effec-
tual. The above quantity will serve
for about two bedsteads."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
Oh, Never Let an Unkind Word.
Oh, never let an unkind word

Oh, never let an unkind word
Fall from those lirs of thine,
For harshness serves but to divide
Loves golden ch ain divine:
And as the rose when once tits pluck'd,
We never can rest ore;
So the fond heart thus sadly crushed
Will cling to us no more.
We often kill earth's fairest flowers
By some unkind neglect;
Then waste our time in useless tears
For wha. we might expect;
Oh, sweeter far to gaze upon
The faces of the dead,
Than upon those dark, sombre souls,
From whom all love has fed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

TERRIBLE ToRNADo.-We learn
from the Peoria Transcript that on
Friday afternoon, the Oath ult., a
most destructive tornado passed over
the Northern portion Of Schuyler
county, Illinois, and in its course
completely Frustrated the aourishiDg
village of Littleton. The place con-
tanned over a hundred houses besides
barns and outhouses, all of which
we're destroyed or SO much damaged
as to be useless. Among others,
there were two churches, one a wood
aud the other brick edifice. Some
idea Of the force of the gale may be
obtained from the fact that of the
walls of the brick church no part
was left standing which exceeded
four feet in height. Four persons
were seriously hurt; and strange as it
may seem, no one killed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

0 Fwo Dollars for one year f paid t.
tne tlms OF subscription; Two DOIIars
ana Fifty Ccnts, WITHOUT DEVIATION
EXPIRATION o. three months
EeAii Bills for Advertisements. Job
Work, or Subscription, considered due, when
contracted, except against those with whom
we have running accounts.
W Observation-Disclosures order sdiscontinuance
Of the paper, at the expiration of the time
for which they may have subscribed, are con-
stdered as wishing to renew; and it will be
continued to them accordingly.
36>NO Paper will be sent out of the county
unless paid for in advance.
sJ.Advertisements inserted at One Dol
lar per Square Of Twelve Lines
or Less, for the first insertion; Fifty
Cents for each continuance.
stFPersons advertising by the year, will be-
charged Thirty Dollars for whole col
umn, Twenty Dollars for one-half,
Zen Dollars for one-quarter. No deuia-
sion from these terms under any circumstances.
11 The privilege of yearly advertisers is
strictly limited to their oton immediate and
regular business; and the business of an ad-
vertising firm is not considered as including
that of its individual members
0JAnnouncing candidates Three Dollars
10 be paid tn actvance in every case.
VFAdFertlsements not marked WIN tne NUM-
Der of insertions when handed in, will be con-
tinued until ordered out, and payment enacted
oINo advertisement can be inserted grat"tousiy
6TAdvertisements of apersonal nature, iava-
riably charged double price
EFJOb Printing, of ALL kinds, neatly
done on New Type, and on as reasonable
terms as any oficein Tennessee.
rEO Paper will be discontinued until all
srearages are paid up--ezcept at the option ef
fhS Publisher.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
How Coffee came to be Used.

1t is somewhat singular to trace
the manner in which arose tho use of
the common beverage of Coffee, with
out which few persons in any half or
wholly civilized country in the world
now make a breakfast. At the time
Columbus discovered America, it had
never been known or used. 1t only
grew in Arabia and Upper Ethiopia.
The discovery Of its use as a beve-
rage is ascribed to the superior of a
monastery, in Arabia, who, desirous
of preventing the monks from sleep
ing at their nocturnal services, made
them drink the infusion Of Coffee,
upon the report Of shepherds, who OBJ
served that their Aocks we're more
lively after browsing on the fruit Of
that plant. Its reputation spread
through the adjacent countries; and
in about 200 years it had reached
Paris. A single plant, brought there
in TIA, became the parent stock Of
all the French coffee plantations in
the West Indies. The Dutch intro
duced it into Java and the East In
dies, and the French and Spanish all
over South America and the West
Indies. The extent Of the consump.
ton can now hardly be realized
The United States annually con-
sumes it at the cost, on its landing,
of from fifteen to sixteen millions Of
dollars. That of tea is little over
eight millions of dollars. You may
know the Arabian or Mocha, the best
Coffee. by its small bean, of a dark
yellow color. The Java and Eas;
Indian, next IN quality, are larger
and Of paIer yellow. The West
India Rio has . BLUSH OF greenist
gray tint. -
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

Clerical Politicians.

We have been cursed in Tennes
see, as much as they have been else
where, with clerical politicians. We
suppose that, ofthose who took the
know-nothing oaths, quite cne-fourth
took them from preachers Of the gos-
pei. These preachers could scarcely
have taught the people a more de.
grading or demoralizing act. The
effects of the excitement they thus
helped to inaugurate will be felt fol
years. adversely to all they profess
to teach. Repentance like that Of
Esau, sought diligently and with
tears, will not avail these men. The
stigma will attach to them forever,
and will grew darker as each year
brings cooler reflection to the decei-
we'd people. The retribution is as
just as it has beeu speedy and sig
nal. The influence Of these know.
nothing preachers is gone forever.
1t perishes with the disgraceful death
Of the vulgar fanaticism which they
have fostered. Hereafter these cleri-
cal politicians, who, for the last two
years. instead Of preaching "Christ
crucified," have been preaching "Cru-
city the Catholics and foreigners"
who, instead ofinculcating sound
morality, have been engaged in be.
guiling the thoughtless into secret
places and there administering to
them profane oaths to hate their
neighbors--will be held up as war.
ming and an example. Their chur-
ches. in some places, may try to
shield them from the effects Of
retribution; but the chur-
ches which do this will be themselves
the sufferers. The age is too en-,
to permit hypocrisy to go
long unpunished, no matter in how
a shape it may appear.
Union 9. American.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

A PAsTo RAJ LETTER.-The follow.
ing is beautiful pastoral letter, ad-
dressed to the churches. It's brevi-
ty may commend it to some, its an.
ti-sectarian character to all. It's au-
thority is uDquestionable; and if its
advices were needed, the most desir-
able result would follow:
"We beseech you, brethren, TO
know them which labor among you,
in the Lord, and admonish yoo; and
to esteem them very highly in love
for there works sake. And be at
peace among yourselves" ."-.N. Paul.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
The Democratic Party.

lfthere ever was (says the Mobile
Register) a political organization with
which patriot mightfeelj justly proud
to be connected, that organization is
the great national Democratic party,
Whether its past history or its pres
ent position be considered, it alone
will be found to possess the princi-
pies requisite to maintain, in all its
purity, the free constitutional govern
ment bequeathed us by our fathers.
The history of the American people
is the history of the Democratic paa-
ty; the achievements of the nation
are the achievements of the Demo-
cratic party; and the day that witness
es it's dissolution, will witness, also,
the destruction Of the Constitution
and the union of these States. 1t
alone of all parties nay, of all our
institutions--is truly national. One
after another the links which have
bound the North and the South to-
gether have been severed. The
thousand tiny cords which linked
the two sections more closely together
have been snapped; the thousand
little channels through which a COM
mon sentiment has been difused
through the Union are choked up;
and an antagonism of sentiment, of
principle, and of interest, has gradu-
ally, but surely, risen up in their
stead. With but few exceptions, the
various denominations of Christians
have resolved their organizations into
Northern and Southern wings, and
the same is true of most of our public
bodies. While narrow sectionalism
is fast becoming a prevailing senti-
ment; while the fierce conflict of jar
ring elements strive to bring chaos
back again, the Democratic party
looms grandly up, its nationality in
tact, and waves the olive-branch over
the troubled waters of politics.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
Cbuitf poetrq.
Oh, Let Me Live to do Some Good.

Oh, let me live to do some good,
To battle for the right;
To walk the straight and narrow path,
All worldly cares despite:
To touch that hnman harp, whose chords
Are allied with the sky;
To act in mercy, truth, and love.
Nor living fear to die!
Oh, let me sound that gentle strain
Of pure, unsullied love;
To move some sorrow-stricken soul,
To place his trust above;
To breath into some dying ear
A hope that never dies;
To fill some fearful, trembling heart.
With Heavenly harmonies.
Oh, let me course my pilgrimage
With measured step, and slow;
And follow Jesus through the flesh,
And bear His load of woe!
To act that my example may
Prove virtue not iR vain;
That some poor brother sinking down,
May e'en take heart again.
Oh, let me live to do some good,
To battle for the Truth:
To pour Religions living strain
Into the heart of youth:
To bear with all that God may send,
And drink the chalice dry!
To act with saints of every age,
Nor living, fear to die!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
A RIGHrRoUs JUDGE--A young

A RIGHrEoUs JUDGE.-A young
man was sentenced in Pittsburg last
Saturday to six months imprison-
meat to Jail for assaulting another
with "knucklers." His counsel,
previous to the passing of the SEN
tence, solicited leniency for his client
on the score Of good character and
gentlemaDly conduct generally. The
Judge replied that it was fort:nate
for him thatshe was MT indicted for
an attempt to murder, and said that
when people with gentlemanly cul.
ture and good character performed
such deeds he should punish them
as rowdies and rullians. "The frsi
gentleman Of the land shall fare nc
better than the poorest man"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

INTERESTING DEcIsIoN.--On a
trial for murder in Weston county,
Missouri, a lad who was instigated
to fire a gun which caused the death
of the victim by his father, was
acquitted, and the father and an
adultaccomplice convicted of mur-
der in the second degree, and SEN
fenced to ten years. Imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

A young man and a female, stop
ping at a country tavern, their awk-
ward appearance excited The curiosi-
ty Of the host, who commenced q
conversation with the female by en-
quiring how far she had travelled.
travelled" exclaimed the s.rau-
ger, somewhat Indignantly, eve
diin't travef--we rid" o
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20
Origin of Newspapers.

D'Israeli in the first volume of his
"Curiosities of Literature" gives an
interesting account of the origin of
newspapers, with historical facts con-
cerning :heir introduction into vari-
ous European nations. He states
that We are indebted to the Italians
for the idea of newspapers. The
first paper vas a Venetian one, and
only monthly; but it Was merely the
newspaper of the government. The
title, the Gazettas, was perhaps derived
from Gazzera, magpie, or chatterer,
or more probably from farthing,
coin, peculiar 10 the city of Venice
called gazett, which was the common
price of the newspapers. These ear
ly newspapers were not allowed by
jealous government to be circnla-
ted in printed form, but the Vene-
tian gazette continued long after
the invention of printing to be dis
tributed in manuscript. In libra
ry at Florence are thirty volumes Of
Venetian gazettas, all in manuscript.
Mr.. George Chalmers states that
mankind are indebted to the wisdom
ofQueen Elizabeth, and the prudence
Of Borleigh, for the first genuine
newspaper. In the British Museum
are several newspapers which were
printed while the Spanish feet were
in the Euglish Channel; during the
year 1888. Popular zeal against
the Spanish Armada was inhamed in
these early newspapers. Burleigh
in order TO rouse the national feel
ing, publishes an extract of a letter
from Madrid, which speaks of put
ting the English Queen to death,
and the instruments of torture on
board the Spanish fleet!
These early copies of newspapers
are 10 Roman, not in black letter.
They are entitled, "The English
Mercuries. Periodical papers were
first generally used in England du.
ring the civil wars, at the period of
the Commonwealth.
De Saint Folk, in his curious his
torical essays, gives the origin of
newspapers in France. Renaudot,
a physician of Paris, to amuse his
patients. was great collector of news;
and be found by these means that
he was more sought after than bis
more learned brethren. But as be
had much leisure and was quite fond
ofcollectipg news, he obtained a
privilege from the government, in
1852, 20 publish each week sum-
mary ofthe news Of various coun-
tries, to distribute among bis pa
tients. 1t is almost needless to add
that his patrons we're soon found in
ali ranks, and his printed sheets we're
10 greater demand than bis written
prescriptions.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

Wine, fresh from the press, is sell
ing IN Cincinnati at 81 15 per gallon,
while a bottle Of Newark cider, with
tin foil round the cork, costs 81 in
most Of the large cities.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

Two slaves, belonging to Lewis b.
Norwood. of Granville, N c., lately
murdered their master, by pouring
large pot Of boiling water dosn his
throat.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-11-20

A man named Hamilton visited a
eir in Carondelet, Missouri, and to
keep his money (some S70o) safe,
he put it in his boot. His boot feel
ing uncomfortable, be took it off and
turning around to put ito sgain'
found that the money had been a.
droitly distracted.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1856-03-29
THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

Mir Seward declared he did not care what ra.rc
the parry ior. He would support the candidate
WHO represented Inc grea; principle OF freedom
This II m the .nirit o. IL Viii. Convcn-
ton at Rr.lanG. .Inne. 1854, and of the Re-
publican CONVENTION 4. Montpelier, in july
Of the same year. THIS is tux: ground on
wh;rh the Republican party was siar,,t- -an''
Il is the only ground OH which there is the
slightest chance Of successfully resisting tie
Slave Power. On this ground, every Free
State has been carried against the Siavocra-
cy. and can again be carried at 'iIe Presiden-
tai election. In Maine this GROUND was a.
b.n'oned last year-and she was lost Let
that ground be abandoned in the Presiden-
tial election. and all vii. be lost The strur-
Gle for Speaker is an example to the same
point. Ii was all hut lost. through the retu-
sal of few professed Anti Nebraska Ameri-
cans to support Banks. -Four more rmprac-
tl''atle men cf the same sort would have
given the victory to the S'avocrary. In the
light Of these examples let every friend OF
Freedom Of every party name pledge him
self to Support the candidate w'.o repre-
sen.s the great principle of Freedom" Thus
can Freedom win-thus only Montpelier
UIdtchman.