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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-29
Joshua R Giddings on Negro. Su.
periority.

we fina 10 the Ashtabula Sentl-c
mel Of September Sd, a letter signed
&C." The Ohio Statesman says it
is the production Of Joshua r. Gid
dings, at whose sufferance Chase holds
his nominal position at the head Of
the Republican party Of that State.
This communication is to be taken as
a further authoritative exposition. Of
the creed Of the Congo brethren.
The fact is already established that
Governor Chase, Martin Welker, and
Milton Sutifie, Republican candidates
for the three highest offices in the
gift of the people of Ohio, ara in favor
of negro equality. The Ohio. State
journal is in the plot, and advocates
Negro suffrage and Negro office-hol-
ding, We now cite the deliberate
pronunciamento of Joshua r, Gid
dipgs, written down, and printed by
a leading Black Republican, paper n
few days ago, to show that the party
not only goes for negro equality, but
that the majority of the white citi-
zens Of the United States are, by its
leaders, proclaimed to be inferior to
niggers. Read this!
"Some niggers are far superior to
some Democrats. Indeed, they are
doubtless superior to the great mass
of the Democratic party; while some
Democrats are superior to some Mig
gers, and perhaps to the greater por-
ton Of the African race. Yet all
Democrats, however intellectually
inferior they may be to the niggers,
are entitled to live, and enjoy theil
liberty, and the fruits of their labor.
And while We are endeavoring to
sustain these equal and universal
rights, We ought not to be drawn IN
to any discussion of the moral or So
cial superiority Of the niggsrs over the.
Democrats"
Now the great mass Of the Demo-
cratic party is majority ofthe white
people of the United States of Amer
lea, who are thus pronounced to be
intellectually inferior to the .Nggers.
Again, the great mass of the Demo-
cratic party embraces the vast MA.
jority ofthe industrious laborers, me-
charles and farmers of the country,
who are thus held up as sintelleetaas.
" inferior to the Mgssrs!r' And
the conclusion follows that in the
estimation Of the Black Republicans,
all the producing classes are @iatelect-
ually inferior to the Mggers;" and
that to find the intellectual equal Of
the niggers you must send to the
thieving ranks of the; Congo party.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-29

The failure Of the Ohio Life and
Trust Company, is the heaviest in
this country since the suspension o.
the United States Bank.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-29

A giant cat died, at Cohasset, Mass,
last week. It weighed II pounds,
measured 373 inches from lip to tip,
girth I'll inches.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-29
Mail Hack Line.

'EHEsudscribers are run sl
ming regular HACKS, fog passengers, from
Fayetteville to Shelbyvipe and Huntsville.
Leave Fsyettevilie. each way, early everv
Monday. WednesdaF, and Friday-returning.
leave Huntsville and Shelbyville every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday. The lines are
wen supplied with good horses, and comforts-
ole conveyaaees-and as good roads as there
are In the county. Pare: oniy Two Dol
fars- BENZ. J. CHAFIN.
Aug. q, 1857. THOS. G. THOMPSON.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-29

The New York papers state that
there are at present fifteen of the
largest class ships now loading at that
port with grain for Europe. They
will carry out not less than three hnn-
dred aud eighty thousand bushels of
wheat.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-29
.Ne,c Fall and Wsnter
AeeNsa
FOR 1857.

IN C. GOODRICH informs bis
4 customers and the public sN
generally, that hehas inst received
the largest and most desirable stock of new
Fail and Winter Goods ne has ever
brought to this market / invite 4 comparison
OF my goods, styles and prices, and feel conf
dent can please all who may wish to buy.
My stock of Ladies Dress Goods is
richs varied and fashionable. embracing all the
latest and newest styles, and cannot fail to
please. 1t is uselessto enHmerate the articles
as have everything in their line Of dress
.would also inform the gentlemen that my
stock of GentIesRen's Goods is decided
iy the largest and most varied stock that
have ever brought to this market, embracing
all of the. newest styles CT Goods. All ask
Is a call from you, and feel assured can
please you both as to quality and price. as my
motto is, quick sales and small profits.
Oct. Is. T. C.. GOODRICH.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-29
List Of Suspended Banks.
IN GEORGIA.

IN dE0kGlA.
Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company, ct Augusta.
Union Bank, at Augusta.
manufacturers Bank, at Macon.
ALI the Banks ia Savannah.
SUSPENDED BANKS In SOUTH CAROLINA.
Bank Of the State Of South Car
olina, at Charleston, with branches at
Columbia and Camden.
Bank ofSouth Carolina, at Charles,
ton.
Bank of Hamburg, at Hamburg
Planters and Mechanics Bank,
at Charleston.
Farmers and Exchange Bank, at
Charleston.
Peoples Bank, at Charleston.
Southwestern Railroad Bank, at
Charleston,
This bank, We believe, has an a.
gency at Tallahassee, Florida.
A CANDID ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
AN UEDoUBrED TRUrH-At a meet
ing Of. the proprietors and managers
of. the Western Railroads, held a
few days ago 10 Columbus, Ohio, a
debate arose concerning the affairs of
the roads, when one of the members
remarked athat the railroads of the
country never could repay, if they
were disposed, the debt due to The
newspaper press for lis powerful aid
when the idea Of a. railway had to
be explained and popularized-the
public benefits shown, and tie people
induced to come forward aud associ-
ate for the purpose Of accomplishing
the great works that now need 10
advocate" The same gentleman, in
concluding a speech on the subject,
said, che could not forget the amount
of unpaid labor performed in the in.
fancy of railway building by the OF
~ men who could reach the popular
ear and the popular heart in the
most effective manner We be-
lieve, with the Alexandria Gazette,)
that in regard to many Of The rail-
roads Of the country, they owe their
inception, progress, and completion,
mainly 10 the exertions of the neys-
paper.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-29
Free ofPostage In Lincoln County
N. O. WALLACE. Editor.

oFFIcE--At tie same Old Stand: Sign of III.
" Obserre' Printing Office
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26
No. We find on orr Table quite q n,,m.

BE We find on our Table quite a number
of Pamphlets, &C., which we have not time
to read now, or give further notice than a
simple announcement of their titles, to wit /:
l. Address delivered before the State Educa-
tional Society at Warrenton, by W. W. Hol-
den, Esq. We shall publish extracts from
from this valuable production.
2. Transaction of the 9Th annual meeting
of the Medical Society of North Carolina,
held at Edenton, April 1857.
8. Annual Address before the Medical
Society, at the above session, by S. S. Satch-
well, NJ. D.
4. A Sermon preached to the Students OF
the United Baptist Institute, at Taylorsville,
N. c., June 1857, by Rev. j. Mcdaniel.
S. Address delivered before the Students
of Morning Star Institute, at Nashville, N,
c., May 1857, by VIM. F. Green, Esq.
6. Catalogue of Randolph Macon College,
for 1856'57.
Z. The Old Paths. A Sermon preached
in St. Luke's Church, Salisbury, by Rishor
Atkinson, on Whit-Sunday, 1857.
And last. but not least-Address befor,
the Philantlropic and Dialectic Societies O
the University of North Carolina, June 1857
by Henry W. Miller, ESQ.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26
The Southern Convention.

This body, which assembled at Knoxville,
Tenn, on the 10th inst, has adjourned. Its
next meeting will be held at Montgomery,
Ala.
Prof. De Bow was chosen President, and
on taking the chair delivered a sensible and
impressive address. The States of Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi. Maryland, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia were rep
resented. The delegations from Virginia,
South Carolina and Georgia were quite nu-
merous. The delegates form this State were
Messrs. S. Nj. Murrell, A. S. Merriman, A.
Gems and D. Christy.
The Convention adopted the following res.
olutions:
Requesting the General Government to in.
struct its diplomatic agents abroad to use
their efforts to procure a reduction or repeal
of the duties on tobacco.
Urging the Government to obtain control
| of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Calling the attention of the South to the
importance of grape culture, and appointing
a committee to procure information upon the
subject.
Endorsing the resolution of the Southern
Bishops to build a college.
Appointing a committee to enquire into
the propriety of re-opening the slave trade
And a resolution for the organization of q
Southern Agricultural and Commercial As
ISOLATION.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26
Stick to your Goose"

In is the safest way for every man to stick
to his own business. A Tailor was once
advised TO stick to his Goose" but he aban-
doned it and the consequences need not be
recorded. Let spectators make their thou
sands in a year, if they can, but mind your
regular trade and turn neither to the right
or the left. IF you are a farmer, a merchant,
a mechanic or a professional man, never go
into wild speculation on fancy stOcks."-
You understand your own business, but 9TH
er peoples business you do not understand.
Stick to your trade. A blacksmith should
not attempt to make money by working
hutton holes.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26
Woman's Temper.

ABOVE ali things let woman cultivate a
sweet and amiable temper. 1t is this that
makes Home happy. The sweet temper of
the wife make the fowersthat gem man'spath-
way. Man, perplexed and annoyed with
the cares and tolls of a busy day, goes home
and is soothed to rest by the music of kindly
coined words. 1t is like sunshine glinting
the dark and stony places in the heart
Let it be cultivated /; for husband and chill
dren are a thousand fold the happier for it.
Woman should strive to possess a sweet,
sweet temper and if it should so happen
that any man's eye falls upon this, we would
say that he should pray with all f%ervency for
q better temper than he has. How some
women can live with cross, grabbed, ugly
men all their lives, and still be 80 much like
Angels, is to US one of tho hidden mystic
ries."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

BEAUTIFUL ILLUsTRATIoN.-The wild
owls mite was beautifully illustrated at a
meeting of the Bible society recently held
in Manchester, New Hampshire. A poor
on her death bed, had given a cage,
with two beautiful birds, the only availa-
bic thing she owned, to the Bible Society.
The birds had been kept by the clergyman,
and at the anniversary meeting at Man
chester, they were brought forward and the
interesting circumstances of the gift stated.
They were then uncovered, and ohe sudden
gush of light reused them up, and the little
warblers burst into the most rapturous song
The effect upon the audience was magical
and under its influence they were sold a
auction. Over one hundred dollars, inclu
ding some voluntary additions, were thu.
secured for the Society by this poor dyiny
woman's bequest.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

pr We have received quite an indignant
letter from some anonymous writer at Fort
Hembree, concerning aridiculous letter which
we copied Uerbatina, as a literary curiosity, a
few weeks since. We should not notice this
latter communication were it not that the
writer seems to regard the publication of the
literary curiosity letter, as a reflection upon
the citizens Of that community, and of Hi.
wassee Division. We think no one else will
so regard it; but on the contrary, it must be
understood as exposing an ignorant scoun-
dren and BLACKBOARD for thus ~traducing hi
neighbors. No such TOOL as the one we ex
posed by publishing his a~ssinine letter, coul
injure any decent man by any such stuff a
he wrote and our only object in publishin
the letter was to rebuke the scamp who wrot
it, in the public manner we did. This
all we have to say.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AT HOME. -On
last Monday we were shewn a sample of mo-
lasses or syrup manufactured in this county,
that is pronounced by competent judges, far
superior TO anything hitherto imported from
Cuba. 1t was manufactured from the Chi
nese sugar cane, by Capt. Lewis Whitfield,
lately a member of the legislature from this
county, and is a part Of a small quantity =
about three quarts-extracted from about
100 stalks. The sample was handed us in
the court house and we had, therefore, the
opportunity of having it tasted and tested by
some twenty or thirty PERSONS, who were
unanimous in the opinion, that it is, as be-
fore stated, far superior to the imported arti-
Gle.
We promised not to disclose Mr.. Whitfeld's
name, but we have done it.
ANorHER.-Benj. Oliver, Esq, of Duplin,
has deposited at our Office another excellent
sample of this syrup. He bruised four choice
stalks from which about a pint of the syrup
was extracted. The importation of Molasses
in North Carolina will soon be at an end.
Goldsboro' Tribune.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

hke to know the routes and expenses, we
give them as follows: One route is from
Salisbury in four horse post coaches. via Lee
nor, Morganton, Marion, Pleasant Gardens,
through the Saluda Gap TO Asheyille. Time
OF travel about-N hours, with excellent res
ting places all along the route. Fare from
Raleigh to Asheville SIC go. Distance from
Salisbury to Asheyille about 14O miles.
Another route is from Charlotte via Lin
%colnton, Shelby and Shelby Spring, Ruther-
fordton. through the Hickory-nut Gap to
Asheyille. Time of travel about 80 hours
distance 40 miles-fare from Raleigh to
Asheyille SIG.
The rates of board are cheap; most of the
places being 81 per day and at several pla-
ces much less /; and they feed you on the fat
OF the land. We advise every body TO go to
the mountains of North Carolina.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26
Touchdown arrnment-

You and your temperance folks have been
lecturing and writing upon the subject ever
since | can remem ber, and the re is as much
liquor drank now as ever
Such is the argument of a noted swil tab,
with which he expects to work wonders and
induce somebody to think as be does and say
no more against drunkenness. If the argu-
ment was pursued it might lead one into
strange intricacies. The Gospel has been
steadily preached ever since was heard the
voice of one crying in the wilderness, pre-
pare ye the way Of the Lord, make his paths
straight The Saviour of men was crueifed.
buried and arose from the dead. His truths
have been heralded over the earth in all
earnestness for eighteen hundred years-and
get, the world abounds with sin and iniouity,
more perhaps than when the great fore-run-
ner exclaimed: % generation of vipers, who
hath warned you to flee from the wrath to
Gomez The preaching of the glorious gOs7
pei produces all the wickedness cursing the
land and never beats back its black tide! The
argument is clear as the %veriest .lob-lolly !
Let all the preachers turn pedlars, establish
great groceries in all the church /edihces,
burn Bibles and destroy the religious press
What is the use of preaching and all that's
it don't make every man a deyout christlar
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

DEATH OF EUGENE SUE.-Eugene Sue, the
French novelist, died in Paris on the Sd inst.
He was about 10 years of age. His earlier
works attracted no great attention but in
l843 he brought out his Mysteries of Paris,
and a year or two afterwards his Wdnderino
JeIO, and these works at once gave him a
worldwide reputation. They were read every
where with the greatest avidity, and the enor-
nous sales soon rendered him a wealthy man.
He lived in the most luxurious style, which
was probably the cause of his early death.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

sI- Whenever we receive a communica-
ton that does not give US, privately, the name
of the writer, we at once destroy it, unless it
is in the handwriting of some wellknown
Correspondent. We have thus summarily
disposed of quite a number recently. The
writer's real name must be given to as, or
we take no notice of communications.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26
For the Spirit of the Age.

Having seen nothing at all for a consider
able time from the village just below. In
would state for the information of your reaS
ders, that a reformation unparalleled is go
ing on there. Grog shop No. 2, bid fair for
some time to be without In occupantIheeause [
Of the proprietor's becoming alarmed about le-
sing his patronage for it needed no close
observer to discover that his business was
growing beautifully less every day, and much
more disrespectful. Public opinion is fast
aproximating what it should be in this re-
gion and a man who makes any preten-
tons to responsibility viii no longer be seen
entering their dirty negro dens, where the
colored population take their owners cotton
and corn and every thing else that a roguish
darkie can be induced by the grog seller to
steal. 1t was said publicly in the streets the
other day. by one of the most influential
men in the county, mot a Son of Temper
ance) that any man who would follow the
. selling of liquor for alivelihood nowadays,
q would steal. Some one replied you only
mean that he would take stolen property for
q whiskey, knowingly" to which he replied
n emphatically 81 mean to say that he would
steal outright" pity the grog seller, from
my very heart, or. rather, his wife and chill
- dren.
as But to return to grog shop No. 2: TIL,
er filthy. abominable pig sly, was sold out to al
ly old hardened rebel who has, at the instigs
ed ton of his lawful father the Devil, been 70
~, many years worse than a nuisance, yea.
an
who in defiance of public sentiment, ha
3 jumped aboard of a sinking ship, sayir
ne that the old house where serpents his
of devils shout, and hell's blacklist agents !
,ay ioice over the present and eternal ruin
vas men, the bitter tears of down-trodden W
men and the rags and hunger of poor hel
less children, shall be pulled down, and
10 fine two story house erected in the pie
Cue thereof.
the Bear in mind the accompanying prophec
let 1t is no go. Black Beard, with all his exl
ing ~perience in killing men and beggaring '
non men and children, will find it a difficult ta
to row against wind and tide and VIII
the splendid drinking and gambling sale
Wy ) is erected, it will stand a monument o
= FOOLS folly, and the man of serpent stil
T. will be pointed at as an infectious, loa
told some being, who should be Stunned as
Ma sinking carcass or the deadly adder, '
should be hunted down and removed, on
Oman count of his death breeding stencil, from
~ walks Of civilized life, or incarcerated W
olely in the walls of a penitentiary where he &C
make a support without injury to others
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

sg- We had the pleasu-d Of meeting in |
the grand Division with our korthy eonfrers,
Bro. Hicks, Ed r of the Heald of Truth,
puonsned at Hendersonville. We expected to
find in him a real congenial lpirit-a down.
rignt clever fellow. But WI found him all
siis, ana more-a wholesdaled, generous,
noble hearted fellow-one that it is worth a
lard days travel over the worst mountain
road, to meet with any daN We owe him
one and considerable over. fr his disinteres-
ted efforts in procuring us a handsome list of
SUBSCRIBERS while IN Asheville-and we now
give him fair warnin, gthat We shall nav him
back, with interest, whenever we have op-
portunity to do SO. And iut here we would
say 70 our readers that Bro. Hicks publishes
a most excellent religious aud literary paper
at Hendersonville, N. c., ard we would like
to be the means of procuring him at least
some 81 new subscribers, as he did us al
Asheville. Send him 81 so and try him q
year, anyhow.
Our good brother Henry of the Ashevillt
spectator, was also a member of the Ut. ID.
and we were happy to learn was an active
Jealous member ofthe Order. We are Away
glad to see the Press gang" enlisted in thi
TgS5&AAAWs coufd n1vs Ths inauenc
of the Press generally in our behalf, W
would b. able to accomplish very muc
for Temperance in North Carolina in a sho
time.
sgr At the Festival of the Sons, a han
some list of subscribers to the Spirit of Il
Age was obtained. With somei it was inco
~venient to hand over the subscription none
1t is only necessary to remind all such tn
the terms of our paper are cash IN adUan
From this rule we never depart. Those W
did not pay will, therefore, please forwa
the money Immediately, if they desire
paper sent to their address.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

THE HEALFHIEsT COUNTRY II CREATION
DeBow's mortality statistics show that the
people of the United States are the healthies,
the globe. The deaths are $4,000 pei
year, or n and one-third per cent. of the
population. In England the ratio is over
two per cent, aud in France nearly three
per cent. Virginia and North Carolina are
the healthiest of the States, and have 638 in
habitants over 100 years of age.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

"a We have received q letter, making
inquiry concerning the advertisement in this
paper, for "a situation as Teacher in a male
school by a recent graduate Of a southern
Institution We have mislaid the address
of the Advertiser. Hewill please let us know.
SO that we may forward him the letter an,
plying for his services.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

BT The cash must accompany all sub
scriptions to the Spirit of the Age. 1t is
perfect folly for any one to expectto receive
it on any other terms-for they viii surely be
~disannointed.
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n6E- First and Second Love-" by
Lee" shall appear in our next.
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~ Errangement.
a Posi- 81
Subscribers re- Aiaed that in -fonr veal.
MARK, are 80 number thus marked,
from herees1 AxpirSs-and unless
-1nelI Sa0scs paper win be dis
- Aaexibly adhered to
S@ao
oEnH Volume.
- besoncudes the 9Th vol
of1se Age. For eight
uhe : cd It the helm through
1aohg yea prosperity and adj
sansn,1 til what ability We
s good ship of Tenn
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-26

sI- We regret to learn, since our return
home. that our friend o. P. COPELAND, Por-
trait and Daguerrean Artist, has removed
from this City to Oxford. We are sorry to
part with him. He is a good citizen, an ac-
tive Son of Temperance, and an accomplish
ed Artist. May success attend him in his
new place of residence, and his fondest hopes
he more than realized.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-01-22

A VIRGINIA BLUE LAW Among
The acts passed at the General Assembly
of Virginia. held at 'James Citlie," in
the year 1861, was the following:
Women causing scandalous suites, to
be ducked.' -
"Whereos, oftentimes many babbling
women slander and scanGalize their neigh
bors. for which their poor husbands are
brought into chargeable and vexa,ious
suits, and cast in great damages
"Be HMerefore enacted By authority q fore
sdid,. That in actions of SANDER occasion
ed by the wife. as aforesaid, after judg-
ment passed for the damages. the woman
shall be punished by ducking or if the
slander be so enormous as to be adjudgec
at a greater damage than FIVE hundred
pounds of tobacco, then the woman to suf
fer ducking for every five hundred pound:
oftobacco adjudged against the husband
if he refuses to pay the tobacco"