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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08
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nY virtue of decree Of the Circuit Court
k9 Of Lincoln county. Tennessee, pronoun-
ced at the November term, 1856, in the mat
ter Of A. ID. Anderson and others-petition
to sell slave--I will. OF. Thursday, the
10Th day OF January next, at the late
residence of john T. Cunningham, deceased.
offer Tor sale to the highest bidder, on q credit
Of Twelve Months. q negro man slave, Daniel.
in tho petition mentioned, belonging 10 the
estate Of said Cunningham. Bond with two
or more good securities win be required Of the
purchaser, and lien retained on said slave
until the purchase money is paid.
Z Rs. WOODARD, Clerk.
Dec. ., 1656.--fn34:v6-4w-e4.l
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

Joen Andrews Of Petersburg. Va !,
made a wager Of twenty-five cents
that be would eat two pounds Of beef
stake, half a shoat and one pound Of
taflow candles He 'sworriedp the
whole down, and ''wet it" with two
quarts of ale. The bystauders paid
the expense.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

In late Synod at the West, four
Choctaw elders were present, sitting
as members of the highest ecclesias-
tical courts of the Presbyterian
Church. Such fact is welltitted to
awaken gratitude and JOY in the
Christian heart.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08
Important to viii Makers.
A short time since, says the Alba

A short time since, says the Alba
ny Argus, Surrogate Wald,oD, of
Saratoga, refused to admit The will
of W. P. Comstock, Of that village,
to probate, on account Of its not
having been legally executed. 1t
appears that w. P. Comstock and
his brother agreed to make their
wills, giving to each other all their
property upon their decease. Desi-
ring to keep their arrangement per-
fectly secret, w. P. Comstocl drew
his own will and called up Thomas
Mcdonnell and Lewis P. Close to
witness it, without however inform
ing them what the instrument was
that they we're asked to witness.
Messrs. Mcdonnell and Close, to
make it perfectly certain that they
were only signing as witnesses, wrote
the word witness. after their names.
When called upon to testify, before
the Surrogate, they testified to hav-
ing written thei. names, but could
not swear that they had signed a
will, and therefore the will was de.
clared void, The. law is express in
regard to the execution Of will re-
qairing the party making the will
TO tell the witness that it is n last
will and testament, and the witness
should sign in the presence Of each
other, writing their residence at the
end Of their names.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

INCOMPETENT WITNEssEs.--It is stat
ID that the Supreme Court of North
Carolina has confirmed the decision
IF Judge Manly, that members Of
The Universaiist Curch are incompe-
tent to testify in Courts Of Justice,
according to the laws Of that. State.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

The New Orleans Delta says, "tLe
assassination Of our citizens has now
become so common that reporters
for the daily papers scarcely deem
them worth an item.'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

PASSED. TO THEIR GRAyEs.-0f the
80 members Of the famous Hartford
ConventioD, noted 10 oar political
annals, every one has passed to his
grave. December Is was the ami
Yersary of the meeting.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

The population of New York is
dying of at the rate Of one every
seventeen minutes, day and night, all
the year round. What a steady sue
cession Of agonies!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

Col. Jim Lane, the Hero Of The
Free Kansas army Of Invasion, is
said to have made 100000 by the
operation. He kept the Yankees
funds no doubt.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08
The South and the North.

Senator Brown, Of Miss, thus al
luded to the two sections of this
country, in debate on the I'd inst;
The south never has attempted,
the south never will attempt, in any
manuer, shape, OF form, to interfere
with the domestic property or peace
of the Northern people; and if any
hair Drained simpleton shall put forth
any such a proposition, the. whole
united southern people will rise up
aud repudiate him. All we ask is q
like support from the north. Let Us
slone in our domestic institutions;
let US alone in 0ur domestic peace
and qlietude; invade by no act Of
yours the security of our fire-sides,
aud We shall go on in that path which
we have trodden from the foundation
Of the government, through all time
10 come, hand 10 hand, shoulder TO
shoulder, in mutual support and in
mutual defence against aggression,
from whatever quarter it may come.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

Over 800 white persons have been
lyuched in the Southern States,
during the past twenty years; for
circulating ''incendiary documents, +"
on slavery.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

Father Mathew, the great Irish
apostle Of Temperance, died at Cork
on the 9th ult.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

The Augusta (Ga.) Sentinel has
an article diseredaiug the souudness
of the Bank of Fulton, at Atlanta,
in that State, whichiti intimates is
owned and managed by Wall street
brokers. s;r .isty n.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

WELL SAD The Cincinnati En-
qnirer, speaking Of the discontinue
ance Of the Eas!on. Ohio, Democrat,
very excellent country paper, very
justly remarks:
There is no sin Of which oar po-
litical friends afeso justly chargeable
with as neglect and indifference to
their press; and, unless it be reform
ed, they viii reap the bitter fruits
.sintdefeat and disaster They could
and ought to learn some useful les
sons from the opposition in that re-
speet, who boast with much truth
of the immense number Of copies OF
journals favorable to than that are
put in circulation. Unless our friends
emulate them,- they will lose iheH
present predominance 10 the nation
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08

The Planters and Mechanics Bank
at Dalton, Geo., has oaved in. Do
not touch its issues.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-01-08
FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER.
Free of Postage In Lincoln County
N. O. WALLACE. Editor.

OEFIcE--Attle same Old Stand: Sign Of the
" Observer Printing 0fiee."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
Fire.

On Friday night last, between ten and eleven
o'clock. two wooden tenements, situated on the
cross street west of the Episcopal Church, were
entirely destroyed by fire. One of the buildings
tho property of Mrs. Venable, was unoccupied.
The other, belonging to the estate of Geo. D.
Lancaster, decd, was occupied by Mrs Lancas-
fer. The fire originated in the vacant building,
evidently from the inside, and we think it bare
" possible that it took fire accidentally, and
scarcely within the range of probability that 1t
was case of Spontaneous combustion" All
of Mrs. Laneasters furniture was saved, after
which the people stood around and warmed
themselves by the fire until the houses burnt to
the ground, the absence of water in the hydrants
rendering all effort to save the property unne-
cessarv. A new framed building, near the old
one, and occupied by Mrs. Venable, was pre-
vented from taking fire by plentiful pelting
with snow-balls. This novel Sire Annihilator
ought to be patented. Can nothing be done to
supply the town with water' Let us have no
more spasmodic efforts to organize Il fire compa'
ny, but give US aeater-water to drink-watel
to stay the flames that may break out at any
moment.
Mrs. Lancaster's property was to have been
sold on Saturday last. The lot will be offered
at public auction Saturday next.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
AUNTON SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER
LOFT few hundred athonls below and that these


are not to be mastered by force nor overcome
by the tensile strdlgth OF wire drawn ropes, but
that with little artiice, they will yield to q
mere thread. Therefore, it may now be consid-
cred as settled principle in submarine tee-
graphy that the tue character of cable for the
deep sen is not flat of an irou rope as large as
a mans arm, buta single copper wire, or fasicle
of wires, coated With gutta percha, plant and
supple, and not lTger than lady's finger. A
company, composed of Englishmen and Ameri-
cans are now at work on the submarine Allan
tic telegraph, and hope and believe that before
this time next year it WILDE in successful oper-
alton The first telegraph that was ever laid
down under water was across the East River
New York, from the Merchants Exchange to
the signal station on the other side. But then
there was no such thing as gutta percha known
in commerce. 1t was laid down surrounded
with leaden tube but the motion of the water
wore it off in six months. After the discovery OF
gutta percha, we learned the very beautiful
process of insulating wires in it. Iron wires
have been used to surround the gutta percha,
but they are unnecessary, except near the shore
or in shallow water. May the submarine At
lantic telegraph be quickly completed, and let
the first messages which flashes across the wires
read thus THE people of the United States,
in Congress assembled, to the Princes, Poten-
tates and Powers of the Old World send greet
ing: peace and good will to all nations in the
world free intercourse and commerce with all
people,"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
Important Intellisence---.'News from the
Plains''---Sufierings of two Citizens OF


On Sunday last Mr.. H. Chrisman, of Rocking
ham, arrived in this place with the first intelh-
yence from the lost train of cars on the Central
Railroad, having worked his way through With
great difficulty. The train left Richmond on
Sunday morning. the 18th, the day OF the
Storm and met the down train at Frederick
Hall. 1t reached Louisa Court House, where IT
was brought to stand. The passengers, from
fifty to seventy in number, including our friends
Imboden and McCue, of this place, took posses
sion of the Hotel, and made themselves as COM
Portable as possible. By Tuesday, however, the
stock of provisions was exhausted, liquor was
frozen in the casks, and the ticklers were empty.
The train then made desperate effort to pro-
coed, but the engine ran Off the track, and the
case became quite hopeless. Mr.. Chrisman de-
.ternined to wait no longer He walked TO
Charlottesville in three days, and procuring
horses at that place arrived here on Sunday
When he passed Gordonsville nothing had been
heard of the Alexandria cars. The track was
open from Stanton to Gotham.
When Mr. G. left Louisa Court House the suf-
ferngs of the travellers had reached crisis, ana
the whole party had turned out to hunt! The
first thing encountered in the way of game, was
little two-yearold sea-tick bull, and an assault
was at once made upon him. A shot gun, well
directed, wounded the animal, and the last sight
Mr.. @. had of the party this was about the pos
ture of affairs: A negro fellow, armed with a
mattock, was lodging round to get blow at
the bulls head, our friend Imboden was after
him with long knife, while Mac had him by
the tail, and was endeavoring to cut his ham
strings with pen knife. Thus vigorously as
sailed, the bull no doubt succumbed, and we in
dulge the pleasing thought that the whole party
were speedily RECALLED on frozen beef, which, we
learn from DIR. Kane's book, is most excellent
and wholesome fare
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
No Cars Yet {!

We again go to press before the arrival ofthe
cars. 1t is now tuesday, ten days since we re
ceived a mail from Richmond, Washington, or
Baltimore, and our last tidings Of the Central
Railroad train date just week ago. 1t is,how-
ever, matter of the smallest possible coIse-
quence to this community whether the cars ever
come, and we hope the energetic Railroad OH
GERS will not hurt themselves BY any extra exer-
tons. The Winter is rapidly wearing away, be-
fore very long Spring will be here, and them al
ter all the snow is melted, the cars can come IN
without the least difficulty. Bettor wait till
Spring, gentlemen; don't hurry yourselves; no
body is impatient.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
Railroads Open.

The Winchester Republican of Friday and the
Fincastle papers of the same date came to hand
on Monday morning. We learn from the for
mer that Geographic despatch received in
Winchester stated that the cars We're running on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the road
was open from Baltimore to Wheeling The
Fincaste Democrat has an extract from Lynch
burg paper, received by some miraculous means,
from which we learn that the track of the
Lynchburg and Tennessee Railroad was clear
throughout its whole extent. The South Side
Railroad was still blocked up with snow drifts.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28

ClNDERELLA's SLIPPER WAS Fur, Nor GLASS,
Two centuries ago, says 'Notes and Queries,
furs were so rare, and therefore so valuable that
the wearing of them was restricted, by several
sumptuary laws to kings and princes. Sable, in
those laws, was called pair, and was the subject
of countless regulations; the exact quality to be
worn by persons of different grades, and the ar.
ing defined most strictly. Perraults tale Of
cinderella" originally marked the dignity con
ferred on her by the fairy, by her wearing a
slipper of rair, privilege then confined to the
highest rank of princesses. An error of the
press now become inveterate, changed uair into
rerre, glass aud the slipper of sable became
converted into something much more brittle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28

VOLCANO IN PENDLEToN COUNTY We have
it from the most reliable authority, that the shock
of an earthquake was felt in Pendleton county
some days ago, and that an aperture has been
formed in the mountain, within two or three
miles of Circevile, in that county, from which
volumes of black smoke are issuing, and large
stones have been thrown to great height OF
this extraordinary phenomenon we will likely
have fuller intelligence next week. Rocking
ham Register.
A gentleman of this place, who came up from
Harrisonburg last week, states that Judge Ken
ney had received letter from Gen. Boggs, OF
Pendleton, confirming the above report,and that
the JUDGE entertained no doubt of its truth.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28

New York Sixty EIGHT YEARS AGo.-Gov-
error Page, of Virginia, in letter from the city
of New York to his son, dated March l6, 1856,
says
"This town is not half so large as Philadel-
phia, nor in any manner to be compared to it
for elegance Philadelphia, am well assured,
has more inhabitants than Boston and New
York together. The streets here are badly
paved, very dirty and narrow, as well as crook.
ed, and filed up with a strange variety of
wooden, stone, and brick buildings, and full of
hogs and mud. The college, ST. Paurs church
and the hospital arc elegant buildings. The
Federal Hall, also. in which Congress is to sit.
is elegant What is very remarkable here is
that there is but one well of water which fur
nshes the inabitants with drink, so that water
is bought here by every one that drinks it, eX-
cept the owner ofthis well. Four carts arc COLI
tinually going about selling it at three gallons
for copper-that is, a penny for every three
gallons of water The other wells and pumps
serve for washing and nothing else. have not
time to say more about this place and the other
towns through which passed, but will by some
other opportunity write you whatever may be
worth your knowledge"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
xyhoro MD Il Come From 2

Some person payed us, on Monday last, S.
note on the "Bank of Kanawha," doubtless un-
Intentionally. The Bank is not considered sol
vent, and we would be glad to exchange it with
the person from whom we received it for one of
some value.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
January Court.

A large number of persons were in town on
Monday last, in attendance upon the County
Court, the most of them having enjoyed the
pleasure of nice sleigh ride. Nothing of spe-
cial interest transpired at the Courthouse. Sew
eral cases of small pox having been reported, the
Court made provision for securing proper at
tendance upon the patients.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
Augusta Savings Rank.

At meeting of Stockholders on Saturday
last, N. X. Trout was appointed Commissioner
to settle the affairs of this institution. 1t was
ordered that all books, papers, notes and claims
of every kind be delivered to him; and he was
instructed to grant no further indulgence to
debtors, but to make collections in the speedest
manner nossibe.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
Sale of Property.

The land and other property belonging to the
estate of Christian Hupman, decd, was sold on
Wednesday last, by VIM. A. Bell, Com'r. The
land was divided into several parcels, the home
tract, containing no acres bringing $3.50 per
acre. There was large number of persons at
the sale, although the weather was very severe.
The aggregate amount of the sales was about
60 900
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
Small RnY.

Two or three cases of small pox have lately
occurred in this comfy, at Capt. Young's, on
the Middlebrook road, six miles from Staunton,
and at Mr.. specks, in the same neighborhood.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
The Poisoning Case.

We alluded last week to case of accidental
poisoning near Churchville, in this county. On
Monday, we were gratifed to learn that all the
persons made sick by the poisoned food had re-
covered.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
The inhabitants of pitcairn's Island, descend

The inhabitants of Pitcairns Island, descend
ed from the mutineers of the ship Bounty, have
been removed to Norfolk Island, on account OF
their numbers having outgrown the capacity OF
their old home. They numbered 1919 persons,
of whom 81 are males and 102 females. Some
1000 sheep, $50 head of cattle, and 20 horses,
and provisions for twelve months were left at
Norfolk Island for their use.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28

BANK CHARTERS ACCEPTED.-The stockhold-
ers of the Bank of Virginia and of the Farmers
Bank of Virginia have held their annual meet
ings in this city during the present week, and
accepted the charters of the last Legislature con-
tinuing their corporate existence six years from
and after the expiration of their present charters
in April next AS their example will doubtless
be followed by all the banks of the old system
in the State, we publish, for general information,
an abstract of the provisions of the new char
tiers
"The charter is extended for six years from
the lst of April, 1857, and the bank is subject
to the provisions of the Code, etc.
"The loans and discounts of each branch must
never exceed twice the capital of the branch,
and the total amount of its circulation must new
er exceed twice the capital of the branch, and
the total amount of its circulation must never
exceed five times the amount OF coin in its pos
session.
"The bank shall gire no certificate ot'deposite,
drott or other ecidence Of debt, Which Is not pay
able II. SPECIE.
Every quarterly statement of the bank must
exhibit its aggregate debt and credits; its dis
count of inland and foreign bills of exchange :
its loans to directors; its specie circulation and
deposites on the first day OF each month of the
quarter it embraces.
"The bank shaU not issue or pay out any note
except Of the denomination of s., 10. or OF some
multiple of zen. This clause is designed to put
out of circulation the 6's rs, SIS 9's, and 15's,
which have heretofore been found SO convenient
for making change in business Transactions
Merchants and Others DESTROYS of keeping these
denominations in circulation. should, as far as
possible, fail to return them to the banks on de-
posite.]
THE bank is authorized to increase its capital
stock by the amount of $650,000. both the
Virginia and Farmers Bank declined to avail
themselves of this provision.
"The act takes effect from and after the time
when It's provisions shall have been approved
by the stockholders, and the action officially
communicated to the Governor. "-Richmond
Examiner.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28

Hon. VIM. G. Rives has, it is said, undertaken
n m edit the Madison papers, or such of them
as are in the possession of Congress and have not
been fIched. Among them is letter addressed
Inv Madison to his countrymen, with request
that it should not be opened until after his
death. The document is said to lie strongly for
the Union under all possible circumstances
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28

The largest mirror plate ever imported into
the United States has just been put into the bar
room of the ST. Nicholas Hotel, New YORK
The plate is seven feet wide, eleven feet hlgh.
and half an inch thick. The original cost ana
the cost of importation was sl,2oo; making alto
eether S1.400.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28

ew- DR.. KILLERS Card to the Public reached
US too late for insertion in this psper. 1t will
appear NEXT week.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28

VINO ARE TIE GUILTY CoNGREssMEN2-A
Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American answers the question. He says
the fact is notorious to every observer at Wash
ington, that nearly all the wholesale schemes OF
plumber which have been carried through Con-
gress for years past all the corrupt iobbing; all
the projects of spoliaton, and all the vile and
venal combinations have been planned and car
ried on under the control and with the means OF
northern managers While they shouted the
loudest for freedom and stigmatzed slavery as
stigma to civilization, they took care to pill
lage the treasury by way OF refreshing this SEN
timental devotion. On the floor of the House
and on the floor of the Senate-for both are noto-
riously contaminated, the latter only in limited
degree the proflgate traders most known inside
and outside, arc not only northern members,
but they are members who have endeavored to
figure conspicuously in all the recent political
movements They devote themselves exclu-
sively to the business of extorting compensation
for legislative favor, and some of them have
paid enormously for seats as q means OF prosecu-
ting this disgraceful traffic. Nor is this corrup-
ton confined to a few isolated instances. There
are members in the House whose votes, or ST.
lence, or absence, was purchased at the last ses-
sion, for the pnblic printing, the railroad grant
and other special objects of Legislation. These
spoils were distributed among certain Republic
cans holding seats, and Others who were sup
posed to be influential outside. The North A
merican is Fremont paper
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28

The funeral of Father Mathew, in Cork, was
attended by fifty thousand persons, and the bish-
op and seventy priests officated in church.