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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12
Ashamed of Their Party.

The know nothing organs of Ten
nessee are casting about for chances.
They are DESTROYS Of making a race
for the Office Of Governor, but they
fear the odium Of know nothingism.
Speaking Of favorite, an organ
says:
He is an able man ia point of
intellect, is free from all party ties,
Owes no allegiance to any party or
sect, is what you might call man Of
his own head, and would not forsake
under any circumstances whatever,
any principle Of honor, for all the
party demagogues in the land.
True, the Judge voted, and per-
baps used his influence for the cleo.
ton Of Fillmore as 40 old line wing
should have done under the circum-
stances, for which he is none the
worse, this being free country. He
did nO5 canpaSs the STATE: he had, ne
suppose official business 10 attend to,
and, unlike others, he thought prop
er to hold inviolate the trust impos-
ed on him. he had no hard epiiheis
to apply to those Of has old Inc wh{g
brethrenWho honestly opposed him in
the late contest for the Presidency,
bnt like free man, he supported
the man of his choice, and let the
future control the past.
Judge Alexander is a genuine old
line '0hig of the Clay School, and
has not participated in the great po-
litical fights, very extensively, since
the death Of the whig party, though
like man, however, always free in
expressing bis political preferences
whenever called upon.
A correspondent of the Eagle &
Enquirer, says:
The subject of a candidate by the
| Wings and Americans for the office
of Governor, is now being stirred in
the papers. ] am an East Tennes.
seean, and will support, in good faith
any man the Americans and Wings
may agree upon.
1t is the chief recommendation OIL
this favorite, that he belongs to no
party. He has not the demerit Of
being know nothing, and hence the
know notAings are for him. We
concur With them in their opinion
1t is some merit that be is not a
know nothing; but be voted the know
nothing ticket, and in our judgment,
there is demerit enough in that to
put him out of the way of the Gov
ernorship of any State.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12
Defending The Soutb,

The New Orleans Bulletin suggests
the following method of defending
the South: "The best way of defen-
ding the rights Of the South" the
bulletin says. lis to make a vigorous
and extended assault upon old fields
and dilapidated fences. The enemy
is sure to enter at every gap and to
lie concealed in every brier patch and
acre of weeds he may discover. To
rout him, horse, foot and Dragons.
1t is necessary to set the plough and
spade going, and then to overwhelm
MIN with mountains OF manure. Moth.
Ing like manure for the rights of the
South and the explosion of its ene-
mles. They can't stand it at all. The
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
are nothing in comparison with it.
They may be attacked in front and
rear, and terribly shattered, but muck
from the swamps and deep ploughing,
with plenty of it, will prove invul-
nerabie. Cotton bales are but gossa-
mer in potency, placed beside heaps
of muck"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

CAMELs At Work. The San An
TOPIC (Texas) Times says: "The
camels, twenty-five in number, have
just passed through our city, loaded
with about 600 lbs. each, returning
to their places of rendezvous, which
is some seventy miles from here
There are dromedaries also with them,
and seated on the top of these cam,
els and drOmedaries are Arabs and
Turks, dressed in their own costume
OF their own Country. Texas is a
great country, and San Antonio is a
great city. We have among Us peo-
pie Of every nation and religion, and
around Us every specimen of the an
imal kingdom, with perhaps the ex-
ception of the woolly which can now
only be found near the source of salt
Tiver.'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

AN aBeLlTIoNIsT ROUGHLY HAN
DLED.-The Wilmington On. c. Her.
aid informs us that the citizens OF
Firafeld, Hyde county, N. c., recen-
tly requested a Mr. Rowland Chap.
man, an Aboiitionist, to leave their
country; but as Mr. Rowland Chap
man seemed 10th to 60, a committee
waited upon and escorted him into a
dense forest, lying somewhere in the
county of Tyrell, and left him in ''all
his glory, The having pledged bis hon.
or not to return to Hyde again.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

OUT AT LAST.-An old man named
Gregg. who has been confined in Eau
quer county Jail since the first Of
October, 1916, for debt, under the
old law, was released on Christmas
day by jailor Cross. there being MOTH
ing left iu the hands of the law to pay
his Jail expenses. We learn that bis
man had properly enough to pay the
deb against him, butthat he preferred
spending bis weary hours within the
gloomy walls Of the county prison, TO
paying the debt which he owed The
person who had him confined has
been dead some years, but we learn
put provision in his will appropria-
ting a sufficient amount to keep him
in limbo as long as be lived. Some
how or other this stipulation has Civ
en- out; and OF course Gregg becomes
free again. When he left the Jail
door he appeared to be pefectly Devil
dered;and did not know which way to
travel, but in short time he be-
came fully conscious of his freedom,
and strutted about with the air OF
one who knew what liberty used to
be in "by gone days y Warrenton
(Va) Wig
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

We have heard of no less than
seven persons-three white men, one
White woman, one negro man and two
negro women-who fro1e to death in
this county during the last Two
weeks The white men were drunk,
lay out all night, and were found
dead in the morning. The negro
man got lost at night while going to
see bis wife, and il is supposed, died
from cold while under the Influence
OF whisky. The white woman, who
lived at or near Spring Hill, was in
sane and froze to death while wan
deriDg from home Columbia { TENN
Herald.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

CRIME IN TExAs.-Crime is so
prevalent in Texas that the Chronicle
aud Advocate, religious paper pub
lisbed there, says:
The number of homicides, murders
and assassinations in Texas, for the
last feg years, is utterly appalling.
When we first became the conductor
OF the Advocate, We noticed all items
Of news, the different killings, as they
as they occurred from week to week.
But the horrid list has So RAPIDLY
increased both in numbers and bloodi.
ness, that we shrink from mixing
our columns a Calendar of crime.
and from iamiliarising the minds of
our readers, especially the young,
with such demoralizins scenes.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

people of the same race or between
different races, it is urged that the lat.
ter is the most desirable, and will work
out the most beautiful results.
ln order that all the white race In
the South may be attached to the
dominant party and have common
interest with them, it is proposed to
make every head of family, slave.
holder This is the end 10 view,
and as preliminary and necessary
step TO reach th is end, it is proposed
to establish "thQ involability of a
certain amount Of slave property
from any process Of law-the secu-
rity forever, to every family, from
all attachments or legal seizures, OF
one family of slaves In plain En-
glish, that each family may hold ex-
empt from execution one family of
slaves.
The reasons for this exemption
are manifest. 1t would induce
free laboring men TO invest por-
ton of their first gains in slave
property, and would invite immigra.
ton to the Slave States. A family
would have the consciousness that no
ordinary pocuniary reversas could
deprive them Of at least humber
of slaves, that might by their
labor and probable increase, keep of
the gripping hand Of utter poverty,
which is so terrible to fallen families
in the Free States. Such a measure
would diffu8e slavery among all
IproperIy-hclders and free persons,
enlisting all their interests and sym.
pathjes in behalf of the institution
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12
Lndicrons Mischief.

The cold weather at the North
gives rise to great many means to
obtain and perpetrats mischief, be.
sides sleigh-riding and snow baliing.
The Chelsea (Mass.) Telegraph
relates the following as a new idea for
creating excitement:
Hobbs, the great safety lock maker
said no one could pick his locks; on
Tuesday morning last several of the
thestore keepers in Winnisimmet said
the same thing; some Of the "boys''
on the preceding night-a very
cold one-squirted water into all the
keyholes, which froze solid in the
locks, and in the morning there was
a great try ing to get in. NeighboI
Skerry. after picking and adopting
various inventions, had to break his
lock; neighbor Richardson ran home
for the tea-kettle, and ran back in
hot haste, fearing the water might
freeze on the journey, the kettle pro
pelling him along like steam engine
and a stream of vapor issuing from
the pipe, to the amusement Of the
passers by. Arrived at the store
he inserted the nose Of the tea-kettle
into the lock, and scalded it on
and entered.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

A Northern gentleman, who atten-
ded the Southern CommercialC onven-
ton, at Savannah, concludes one of
bis letters, descriptive Of what he saw
and heard at Savannah, as follows:
"People of the North have no idea
of the sociability that exists here be.
tween master and slave. Slave. did |
Say? Its a SANDER upon the South in
its like intrinsic sense. If theirs is
slavery--the life of the colorel man
OF the SGuth-then | do not know
what worse name | can appropriate to
those who Sew in your work shops in
New York, or anguish at the loom
IN that pseudo phiianthropie State
whose industrial development anC
activity are supported and fed by
Southern cotton, and whose fabrics ar,
consumed here the State of Massa
chusetts. Let Beecher put imaginar,
chains around their necks and loat
thelrfeet with letters; let Grgel,
paint The red stripes on the negro ;,
back they know not what they do
forgive them, oh Lord!"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

SLAVE EXEMPTION IN MISSISSIPPI
We learn from the Mississippian that
the Senate Of Mississippi, on the 9th
inst, after a long and interesting
discussion, adopted, by vote of 20
to 5,-the following amendment, offer.
ed by Mr.. Ellet to the court bill, ex-
enptlng a portion of slave property
from sale under execution:
"Ezempting one slave, to be Sc
lected by the debtor, if be have more
than one. And should such debtor
select to retain female slave, then
all the children of such female, being
under the age of twenty years, shall
likewise be exempted"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

John Bickel, Esq, postmaster Of
Jamestown, formerly Dauphin, now
Lebanon county, in Pennsylvania, has
held the trust of postmaster of that
town for fifty years. He was appoint
ed by Gideon Granger, postmaster
general under Thomas Jefferson, on
the 22d of September, 1902. MI.
Bickel has advanced far in his 82d
year, but continues to personally su-
perintend bis office and perform all
it's duties himself
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

SUGAR AND MoLAssEs. "A letter
from Cardenas, Cuba, of recent date
says:
"All the sugar and molasses, which
will arrive at this port for some
months to come, have been purchased
at such high rates, that should fall
in prices ensue, there will be many
long faces"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

A Paris paper says that a duel late.
iy took place between a barrister
and merchant, in the Bots de Vim
.cennes. On the day appointed, the
ram fell IN torrents. Nevertheless,
being men ofspirit, the two combat
ants took off their coats and fired
twice at each other without hitting,
when the matter was settled. In a
fortnight afterward they both died of
Inflammation of the chest. This was
satisfaction With q vengeance.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

The New York State Register is
exposing the fraudulent and mischiev-
Gus authorizations of liquor practised
by dealers in that city. A bottle of
the best brandy, labelled Old Otard,
vintage Of 1903, was found, on ana
lysis, to be only common American
whiskey favored with what is called
oil of cognac, a most deadly poison
Genuine liquors now bear SO high a
price, that the temptation to fraud i
very great, and the Providence Jour.
nal is not far from the truth when il
says: "The safest thing to buy is
American whiskey, which is so much
cheaper than other liquors that it is
not SO likely to be initiated; and upon
which a man may make brute o.
himself at moderate expense, ard
coutrive to kill himself 10 few years.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

Communicable Frankfort Ky. }
Commonwealth says: We have just
been shown a new and very danger
Gus counterfeit on the Bank of Ken.
lucky. The note is twenty dollar
bill letter B., payable at the Hopkins
vile Branch. The defects by witch it
can be most readily detected are in
the eyes of Mcknight aud Webster
on the two margins. The central
portion of the Vignette is also very
bad. The bill which we have seen
was taken at the Branch of the Bank
OF Kentucky in this place, and it was
only after the closest scrutiny that
it could, be told from a genuine note.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

The NewYork Express of the 10th
inst. says "a consignment of fifty
hives of bees was received Thursday
by the Erie Railroad, for shipment
to California. The bees came from
Sullivan county in this State, and the
owner goes out with them 10 the
George Law on the 10Th. They are in
the old fashioned box hives, but some
OF them are in hives made ola section
OF a hollow tree. The tops of the
hives are covered with wire NETTING.
through which the warm sun was
shining when We saw them, arousinp
the busy communities into BUSTING
activity. Bees are scarce in CaliEorn7
a, and hives command very high
prices. We suspect that this is the
irst time honey bees we're taken on
10 long journey"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12
Railroad Accident.

AUGUSTA, Ga, Feb. 1.-The up
train on the Georgia Railroad met
with a frightful accident about II
miles from here. Forty passengers
were injured. Gov. johnson of Ten
nessee, bad an arm broken. Two
ladies were seriously injured, No
further particulars.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

ADVERTISING RoGUgs.-Col. For
no, chief Of the New Orleans police.
has hit upon novel mode of adyer-
Using rogues. 1t is to parade through
the streets and public places of the
city, notorious thieves, burglars and
plckpockets, their hands the while
decorated with Pi.tsburg bracelets,
and their proper titles placarded in
large letters on their backs. The first
victim Was S. w. Marshall, alias Bill
jackson, alias Wood, alias Reed. He
was shown like wild beast in the
principal hotels and bar-rooms, with
bis full name and aliases, between his
shoulders, and the supplemental
phrase, as a notorious thief" When
Marshall first made his appearance
In New Orleans, Col Forno warned
him to clear out within a day or be
would make him become his own
walking advertisement; but the warn.
ing was unheeded, and the threat was
consequently carried into execution.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

HIGH PRICE OF TRAvEL.-A NUN.
Der OF persons left Memphis last week.
passengers on the Woodford for Cairo.
who paid $40 passage, and agreed to
pay 50 90 per day board bill every
day she was forced to lie up during
the passage.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

A fast young Mississippi gentle
man recently went to Cincinnati
with $4,000, where be was Aeeced,
at a gambling hell, of every dollar,
gold watch, &c.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

The Jackson Miss True Witness
advocates the passage of a Law giving
the proceeds of penitentiary con.
victs' labor to the families who may
have been dependant upon them at
the time of conviction. This would
be good law, at least the sugges-
ton is worthy of attention.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

Snow. - The Galena Advertiser
states that there has fallen during
the present season in that region
SO inches of snow. In Northern Iowa
and Southern Minnesota the snow
is from three TO four feet deep, and
we'll packed down at that
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat
says that the heaves in horses may
be cured by feeding them on corn.
stalks, and the disease will never re-
turn.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12
NNNAN

ENHE subscribers having visited the Sze
Il principal Nurseries in Kentucky s2sE
and Ohio and made arrangements by r.
which they can supply the people Of Lincoln
county with any amount of all the finest vaTi-
cites of Fruits, Silrubbery. etc. They
invite all who want anything i'll this line to
give them call.
MILLER & KIRKPATRICK.
May %. 1856--tf.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12


Cameron,the newly elected Senator
from Pennsylvania, arrived in Wash
ington city on Thursday, where he
was lion of the day among his party
friends. A dispatch from Harrisburg
thus speaks Of the three Democrats
by whose votes Col. Forney was ie-
feated:
Menear, Of York, openly boasts
that be received $4,000 for voting for
Cameron; he says he would have
voted for Forney for $4,000. The
boarders at Wilks' Hotel, where
Menear has been stopping, protested
against his remaining; be was con.
sequently dismissed by the landlord
Brady TO whom he applied fol
board, refused to receive him. Omit
has given Wagonseller and Lebc
notice to quit. In the House an
effort will be made to expel Menear
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

/. The Eagle says there is a negro in
Memphis who is said to possess an
estate worth $4,000. This negro
belongs to his wife, a free colored wo-
man, in whose name the property is
held.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

The profit on sheep in Ohio is es-
tImated during last year, at s6,OO0,-
Ooo, and the whole capital invested,
at S60,000,00O
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12
PARTICULAR NOTICE.

>HE first time we have ever called on our
Il customers for money. All those who
owe US on note or account, previous TO Dec.
25th, 1856. must come forward and pay Us
by the 18th of February. 1857: for we owe large
Eastern debts, and they must be paid, and We
can get money only from those that eve us.
Please collie forward and par.
RUSSELL & VANCE.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY. The Wash
ington Star says:
"a Washington letter, in recent
New York paper, discourses of alleged
excitement in this city over story
that MIR Buchanan has adopted the
views of Gen. Cass upon "squatter
sovereignty" We have to say that
no such excitement has come under
our notice; and further, that we dc
not know of Democratic member
who is not aware that gentlemen
who have of late conversed with Mr.
B. on the subject, whatever their indi.
vidual views upon it may be, unite 10
saying that be unhesitatiugly declares
that he holds to the views in the
connection known as those of the
Southern Democracy which, as all the
world know, are not those of Gen
Glass;"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

The Galveston Texas Civilian
says that every steamship from New
Orleans. arriving at Galveston, is
crowded With emigrants, including
many slaves. 1t adds:
The Statistics Of the State, as
compiled by the State Gazette, shows
that we are entitled to five instead
of two Representatives in Congress.
BY 1860 we shall be entitled to sew
en- under the present apportionment
basis; but under a reduced ratio we
shall prOpably only get six. With
that number we may be heard in
the halls of Congress more success
fully than we have generally been.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-02-12

Who ever heard of more terrible
death than this? Fred Mentz was
found few days ago in a swamp near
Lyons, Illinois, frozen to death in the
Ice. 1t is supposed that be came to
a place in the swamp where the ice
was rotten, as it was raining at the
time, and breaking in, was unable to
extrlcate himself, and so perished.-
y When found, it was necessary to chop
The body out in large block of ice
with axes, as the recent cold had fro
Zen to a considerable depth. His
BODY, from the waist downwards, was
below the surface of the swamp. His
head was bent downwards, and his
lands clasped, as in the common at
itude of prayer.