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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

A strange story is told by the
New Haven Comm Journal, which
paper says that a young man OF
Bethany, of highly respectable con-
nexiOns, an only son, being about to
leave bis home for South America,
made few calls upon his acquain-
tances, when d young lady vino was
despairingly attached to him, as her
last means Of gaining him, had the
meanness to plan with some of her
associates to drug him and have him
taken to a low justice of the peace,
who is a disgrace to the Office, where
the marriage ceremony was per-
formed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03
The Exchange Bauk.

The opinion is held by many, that
the State will lie responsible for the
redemption Of the notes of the Ex-
change Bank, though the bonds de-
posted cannot be found. The NASH
vile Gazette says:
"All the notes of the Exchange
Bank bear upon their face the en-
dorSement of Tennessee, pledgipg
herself TO be responsible for the full
fillment Of the promise to pay. Now
The question is, can any state of cir
cumstances transpire which will free
her from full and faithful cempli-
auce with this obligation? Can she
hOnorably and justly evade, or seek
to evade, the responsibility thus as
sumed? Will she seek to become a
partner to the vile fraud and mon
strous swindle which has already been
perpetrated, by stifening her neck
and refusing to indemnify those who
have been basely defrauded, upon The
strength of her good name? Will
she permit her agents to swiudle the
public with impunity, thus making
herself accessory to the robbery of
her own and other citizens? These
are the questions. Future events
will in part supply the answer"
Should this be the case, should the
State at some future day, and in some
way, redeem every dollar Of the cir
culation Of this bank, and of every
other bank of the same kind that she
has authorized, still in This case the
few are benefited at the expense of
the many. The laboriug classes suf
Ter TO contribute to the wealth Of the
specializing men of the country.
The humble poor, the honest la
borer, the uDsuspecting citizen who
lives by The cultivation Of the soil,
and who has received q few dollars,
Eve, ten, or fifty. as the reward of his
labor, cannot we'll lie out of the use
of it; be is distrustful, be feels no as.
surance that his money will ever be
good, and he lets the arlful specula-
tor have it for a half, or probably a
fourth part Of what ought to De its
value. Wheffthe day comes for The
State to pay the note holder, the bills
are all in the hands Of the Spectator,
and the poor man is again taxed by
the State to enable her to pay the
specuIator the full amount these
notes call for Oh their face, but for
which he gave mere song. But we
will not attempt TO portray the evils
resulting from a bank failure; many
of our readers will feel them more
sensibly than we can describe them.
The Exchange Bank has certainly
gone the way such institutions gene
rally 60; it has failed, and will be a
bank no more. As things now ap-
pear, we can only say to our readers
that we regard the notes Of the Ex-
change Bank as worthless; in other
words, there is no certain value at
tached to them.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

Why GEN. LANE WANTS TO BE SENA.
ToR.--The Herald of Freedom, pub
lished at Lawrence, Kansas, gives an
account of the proceedings of a meet
ing held in the Unitarian church Of
that town, in which the inevitable
Jim Lane announced himself candi-
date for the United States Senate, de-
claring that he had challenged the
distinguished Senator from Illinois to
mortal combat, who had refused to
fight, shielding himself behind the
privileges Of his position; AID that
he was anxious to get upon the same
level with the Senator that he might
exact an acceptance Of his hostile
proposal"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03
THE GRAssHoPpER PLAG1

THE GRAssHoPPER PLAGUE
letter from Hawleyvil'e, Iowa, says
"the grasshoppers or locusts have
again made their appearance in our
midst in countless millions, and
already commenced destroying our
spring wheat. Fears are entertain
ed that they will destroy everything
in their way this season"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

BRINGING AN OBSTINATE Juror TIC
HIS SENsEs.-The Santa Cruz SENT.
mel gives the following account Of q
method adopted recently in its town
to overcome the objections of an OBJ
stinate juror:
Persuasion and starvation are the
approved common law methods Of
producing the above result; bat a
novel method was lately tiled in this
town. BY some means, a fellow
Juror, an utter stranger to all bis
brother jurors, was placed upon the
Jury, who dissented from the YER
dict agreed to by the other eleven.
They came to a joint conclusion Of
guilty without delay, but the stranger
pertinaciously held out against them
After an hour of argument, with no
avail, it was at last proposed that
the jury should return a verdict Of
guilty by II jurymen, who believe
the other to be a confederate of the
prisoner, and as great a rascal"
This ended it; stranger saw 20 vigi-
lance committees in bis mind s eve,
and in FIVE minutes the jury unam-
mously rendered a verdictSf guilty.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

PRoGREss OF IMPROVEMENT AT ST.
LOUIS. There we're erected in st
Louis during the six months ending
April 18th, 1858, including houses
lin course of construction, 157 bull
dings, the estimated cost of which
is $524,300, being an average Of
of So, 400 each. Of these 1872 were
of brick and Is Of wood; fifteen
we're one story; seventy-ons two and
a half stories; shorty nine three stories,
and twenty-one four stories.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

SUICIDE Henry William Herbert
extensively known throughout the
United States and Great Britai q
as an author of celebrity, and more
especially for his works ON sports.
manship, under tie nom de plume Of
"Frank Forester" committed sui
eide yesterday morning, at the Ste
vens House, Broadway, by shooting
himself through the heart with a
pistol. Though over fifty years Of
age, herecently married a young lady
of twenty, from whom be was separ-
ated few weeks after marriage. He
left several letters, from which it
would appear that domestic differ
ences led to the commission of the
rash act.-Neac York Herald, 18Th.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03
A Case fer The hbOIiticniStS.

The Vicksburg Wing Of the 10th
relates the following affecting case
of romance, scent imeDt and theft.
Mrs, Stowe should by all means find
a place for i. in her next Uncle Tom
miad:
A negro woman belonging to Hon.
Andrew Hynes, of Madison Parish.
La, was stolen on Sunday last by
a MN named Daniel Winter, a shoe.
dealer, from Nashville, Tenn, lie
was tracked to a shanty on this side
OF the river opposite Alillikin's Bend
and arrested and lodged in jail at
Richmond, La, and the negro wo-
man returned to her owner. He
represents that he Was induced to
commit the theft by tender pas
sion that he entertains for the weuch.
that he had offered Dir. Hynes some
$500 for the woman more than
he had paid for her, (Which, we uu-
derstand,is true. and that the course
be adopted was the only one that
presented itself to him of possessing
himself of the OH set of his affection.
a residence Of fifteen or twenty
years in Baton Rouge will very
likely abate the ardor Of Daniels
passion.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03
Robert Hill
Robert Hin
as. NJ,
as r. Chilcoat, Admir- Of { = y 1'-'''O'

JAS r. Chilcoat. Admir- Of { 1'z''I0F-
R. n Mcconnell, dec.
! Z Rules holden at the otfice Of the Clerk
"A and Master. on the first Monday in Nav.
I858-on motion Of compliments counsel,
and it appearing TO the satisfaction Of the
Clerk and Master that defendant, Robert +.
Holman, is a non-resideat Of the State e
Teuncssce--It IS, therefor, ordered that pub
lcatiun be made in the FAYETTEVILLE Or
SILVER, a newspaper published in Fayetteville.
Tenn, four weeks il succession. commanding
said defendant to be and appear at or before
the next term Of the ChaEcerv Court. to be
holden at the ccuyt-house in the town Of Fav-
etteyil.e. on the fcssr:7, Monday IA Ass-
gust next. and answer conT LAZY ants BIB OF
Revivor-otherwis the same viii be taken for
confessed, and SCI down 70 Re heard n B1rts IS
to him. Il. FAEQ HARRISON.
May Is, 1S5S-4t OK & ".
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

The EGG TRADE-Findlay, Han.
cock county, Ohio, which, from the
18th OF March to the 18th Of April
last, exported some $4,000 dozen OF
eggs, has been outdone by Wooster,
which, according to the Republican
of that place, shipped over $4,000
dozen during the same period.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

Emigration to Kansas from Maine
is said to be going on with astonish-
ing rapidity. No less than three
hundred and twenty-five families left
on a single day. What a shrieking
for freedom" there will be when
they get therel
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

They are having good sleighiug in
Central New Hamshire-the result
of fall Of seven inches snow last
week.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

The N. Y. Day Book says there
is married lady in that place who
enjoys the luxury Of 100 dresses
tWenty-nine of which are mourning
dressesl
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03
!. n. w, BURTON.
.SecyetQyg of STATE,

The resignation was accepted by
bis Excellency, Coy. Harris, and
Jno. q. r. Ray, Esq, of Shelby
county, was appointed to Gil the va
caney.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03
ChancerY Sale Of Town Lots.

y pursuance Of decree Of the Chancerv
4 C curt of LincolA county. Tenn pronounced
al the February term, 1888, of said Court. in
the case of Z. 4 Wilson Is. i. B. Knott.
| viii, on Saturday, the 26sss sIslv Of
.EIzEe, 1853, offer for sale at public auc-
ton, to the highest bidder, at the courthouse
door in the town Of Fayetteville. a DWELL
ING HOUSE and LOFS,Situated in tbe town
of Fayetteville. and known in the plan Of said
town as lots No. 95, sc, lO1, and 1O2.
~ Fl $50 %
At the same time and place, IN pursuance OF
a decree of said Chancery Court, made AZ said
February term, 1853. in she case OF J. Il. Nc
Grew and Others IS. L. T. Tucker and Others.
viii offer FOR sale at public auction. to the
highest bidder brick STORE HOUSE. sit
uated on the corner Of lot No. 3. in the plan
of Fayetteville, known As BusseIl's corner.
TERIs--Said houses and lots viii he sold for
CASH, to enforce the equitable lien for the
purchase mouey due upon the same, respec-
lively.
r. FARQUHARSON
May 20, 1958-4t OK & II.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03

There are now $36,0O0,OOO ofspe-
ola heapsd up IN the vaults of the N.
Y. banks.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-06-03
Resignation Of The Secretary Of
State.

The Governor yesterday received
the following communication from
DR.. Burton:
NASHVILLE, May 2S, 1858.
To his ExcelIeny l. G. HARRIS, Coz
sra0r Of the State Of Tennessee
DEAN SIR:-I I'm under a charge
of deialcation to the State. j hope
to be able to viudicate myself, but
this will necessarily be attended with
some delay, and cannot be done at
once. Ia the meantime, ! am IN
willing, as a man Of honor, to hold the
office Of Secretary Of State. there
fore, as an act of duty, tender my
resignation to take effect instanter.
Very Respectfully,
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11
WHY LADIES SHOULD READ News

WHY LADIES SHOULD READ NEWS
PAPERs.-It is great mistake in fe-
male education to keep young lady's
time and attention devoted to only the
fashionable literature of the day. If
you would qualify her for conversation,
you must give her something to talk
about-give her education with the ac-
tual world and it's transporting events
Urge her to read the newspapers, and
become familiar with the present char
acter and improvement of our race
History is of some Importance but the
past world is dead, and we have nothing
to do with it. Our thoughts and our
concerns should be for the present world,
to know what it is, and improve the con-
dition Of it. Let her have an intelligent
opinion, and be able to sustain an intel
ligent conversation concerning the men,
tai, moral, political, and religious i'm
provement of the times. Let the gilt
ANIMALS and poems on the centre table
be kepta part of the time covered with
good weekly and daily journals. Let
the whole family-men, women, and
children, read newspapers.
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11

SHOOTING STARs.-Various brilliant
bodies have been frequently observed
shooting through the heavens with a
terrible velocity, creating alarm in the
minds of the ignorant, and exciting the
wonder of the learned as to their mys,
ferrous origin. The midnight traveller,
far from the abodes of men, is sometimes
startled with one of these bright lights
fleeting for an instant athwart the hor-
lion, then as suddenly disappearing, lea
wing the darkness yet more Profound
These meteors, as they are called, are
far from being uncommon, or confined to
any locality-they are seen in every part
of our globe. Under the name of ''shoo-
ting stars" they are witnessed in clear
evenings during every month of the
year, but in this latitude they are more
numerous during the month of August.
They have the appearance of celestial
rockets rushing along Gas has been mea-
sured at the awful velocity of So, 400
miles per hour. They are strange mes
sengers of the skies, and no satisfactory
theory has yet been propounded respect
ing their nature and source.-iScientjfc
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11
FIVE SPOONSFUL OF PUNCH.

EVENING FAsHIoNs.-Em1y.-Shall
you dress much tonight, dear? S
Lillidn.-No-as little as possible
[ am going to BAH
ENGLISH MISSES AND FRENCH MAD
WORCESTERSHIRE difference between
them is this Your English Miss flirts
before she is married; your French
Mademoiselle gets married first, and
flirts afterwards. Neither plan is safe,
and both are Objectionable.
WoMAN's CONSTANT TORMENT
Dust.
MANS GREATEST PLAaUE.-A wo.
man continually brushing the same.
ALL A MATTER OF TAsTE.-A wo.
man will tolerate tobacco-smoke in man
she ikes-and even say she likes it; and
yet, curiously enough, how she dislikes
it in man she dishkes
A FoGGY REFLEcT1oN.-How does
it happen that when bill becomes due,
the acceptor is often n,issede
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11
VExAr1oNs.-Under this caption the

VExATIoNs.-Under this caption the
editressof the Hesperiam gives an anu
sing list of feminine miseries and con-
cludes that they are all surpassed by
typographical errors:
owe have had the minister call on
us of a wash-day, when we were up to
our eyes in suds; we have had compa-
ny brought home to dine on the same
inauspicious day; we have had small
particles of floating SCOT fall upon and
soil the snowy linen which we had but
just hung upon the line; we have lived
Id house with smoky chimney; we
have laid awake all night with the tooth
ache; we have had callers who would
neither 60 nor stay, and yet remained so
long that our nice light bread was burn
edNto a crisp in the oven, our vegetables
boiled dry and burned to the pot; we
have had to offer our family an apology
in place of dinner; we have burned
our fingers turning fapjacks; we have
had soup spilled on our new silk dress,
and got caught in the rain with our span
new bonnet on; We have had our baby
cry all night with the collie, and heard
our best China go smash upon the floor;
in time Of fire we have had our best
mirror thrown out of the window, while
our feather bed was carefully carried
down stairs; we have moved all our
goods and chattels, and then seen the
FIRE extinguished ao,thout burning our
house; we have looked for letters and
been disappointed; we have heard those
We thought friends speak unkimolly of
rs; we have received an invitation to
) wedding the day after it had taken
place; we have heard our neighbor' s
baby praised more than our own, and
had the chills and fever; yet all are lost
sight of, sink into insigni6cance and be-
come as nothing, compared to the vexa-
tious trial of typographical errors"
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11
ARBITRARY o.

ARBITRARY OPINIoNs.-Who is there
almost that has not opinions planted in
him by education time out Of mind
which by that means came to be as the
municipal laws of the country, which
must not be questioned, but are then
looked on with reverence, as the stan
dard of right and wrong, truth and
falsehood, when perhaps these so sacred
opinions are but the oracles of the nur-
sery, or the traditional grave talk Of
those who pretend to inform our child.
hood who receive them from hand ia
hand without ever examining them
These ancient preoccupations of our
minds, these several and almost sacred
opinions, are to be examined if we will
make way for truth, and put our minds
in that freedom which belongs and is
necessary to them. A mistake is not
the less SO, and will never grow into q
truth because we have believed it a long
time, though perhaps it be the harder
to part with; and an error is not the
less dangerous, nor the less contrary to
truth because it is cried up and had in
veneration by any party.-Locke
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11

A SINGULAR FACT.-In an article
by John S. Hittell, upon the climate of
California, published in the California
Magazine for December, the author
truthfully remarks
A railroad, about one hundred and
eighty miles long, running nearly due
east from Oakland, through Stockton
and Sonora, and near the Mammoth
Grove of Mariposa and the Yosemite
Valley to the summit of the Sierra Ne
vada, would enable the people near the
line to place themselves every summers
day, in any tolerable degree of either
heat or cold. Eighteen miles west of
Oakland lies the beach of the Pacific,
where chill breeze blows without ceas-
ing; and, going eastward, the traveller
would gradually get intoa warmer cline,
until in Stockton he would find the
thermometer at 100 degrees, most of
the summer Moons and, going still fur
Their, he would gradually rise into the
almost freezing comb Of the Sierra. A
branch road running southwark to Fort
Yuma, would enable the traveller to en-
Joy almost as great a variety of climate
in winters day, as could be found in
the other during summer"
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11

MODERN INVENTIONS. The strong
est witness the present age has to supe-
riority over the past, is the number and
quality of its inventions. The classic
Greek, surrounded by muse-haunted
groves and monuments of Incompatible
art, had not the simple convenience of
cooking-stove; and the luxurious Ro-
man, lounging on the silks of Persia,
amid marble baths and orange-scented
villas, was compelled to burn a floating
wick in an open censor of oil, to light
and smoke his splendid palaces. The
spirit lamp, safety lamp, rotary stove,
kitchen range, and ten thousand appli-
ances that 60 to make up our labor-sa-
ving-machine system, and in which
there are more usefulness and luxury
than in all the purple of Tyre or gold
Of Ophir, the naughty conquerors of
old knew nothing about.
We may not have chiseled the mar
BILE equal to Phidias, nor touched the
canvas SO tenderly as Apelles; but we
have moulded marble and granite into far
more useful shapes for the time being,
and turned our brushes to protect and
beautify our houses as the ancients new
er thought. We may never have de-
veloped the arts SO sublimely, but we
have turned them to more universal,
practical account. The mystery of Etru-
scan vases we unriddle in our common
est pottery, and the poorest farmer in
the land has more means of domestic
comfort and independence than Greek
Philosopher or Roman Senator enjoyed.
1t is hardly possible, in these days, to
keep pace with useful and cunning in
vention. BY artificial processes nature
is Knocked, and we are presented with
fac similes of almost everything in Gre
alton. Wonderful are modern art and
Misunderstanding iron houses for
steam spirits, and cross-wiring the earth
that man may send the lightning of
heaven on his errands.-BLackwood.
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11

SCROFULOUs SORE EYES.
The following important testimony is from South
Kingston, r. I. In this case the Sarsaparilla was
recommended by the family Physician.
Messrs SANDS :-Gentemen,-My little daughter,
when one year old, was attacked with scrofulous
humor on her face, which after extended into
her eyes, causing almost total blindness in one Of
them, and disfguring her whole face. employed
two physicians to attend her, who exhausted their
utmost skill to give her relief but all proved
less, and finally of them remarked to that he
had known Of some striking effected by Sands
Sarsaparilla and advised me to try it obtained ono
bottle, which she commenced using and before it was
oil used up it had effected entire 1t is now
over four years since she was cured, and there has
been no temperance Of the disease and we are
satisfied that it is perfect cure.
Respectfully yours,
GEORGE ROBINSON.
Prepared and sold by A. b. & ID. SANDS,
Wholesale Druggists, 100 Fulton-street corner Of
William, New York.
For sale by DEWITT. KITTLE 6 Co., H. JOHN
SON Il Co.. and REDINGTON & Co.. San Francisco;
RICE & COFFIN, Marysville; z. H. MCDONALD
4 Co Sacramento: and By Druggists generally.
For sale by p. AVERY.
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11

: W0MAN's INTELLEcT.-The most
obvious characteristics of the feminine
intellect, says an English writer, are
dehcacy of perceptive power and rapid
hy of movement A woman sees a
thousand things which escape man.
Physically even she is quicker sighted.
A girl is better bird-nester than boy;
a woman marks thing which passes
over a mans eye too rapidly for him to
perceive it. Mentally she takes in
many more impressions in the same time
than a man does. A woman will have
mastered the minutest details in another
woman's dress, and noted all the eviden-
ces Of character in her face before man
who has been equally occupied in exam
lining her knows the details of her fea-
lures.
~. The same writer remarks that the
mind of woman is more fluid, as it
were, than that of man; it moves more
easily, and its operations have a less CO.
hesiye and permanent character: A
woman thinks transiently, and IN a
hand-to-mouth sort of way. She makes
o new observation and a new deduction
for each case, and constantly also new
general idea. A man, less quick, and
less fertile, accumulates facts, collects
them in classes, and combines them by
principles; womau's mind is running
stream, ever emptying itself, and ever
freshly supplied. She takes abucketful
when she wants it. A mans mind is a
reservoir arranged to work a water
wheel.
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11
a SrNs1Rrr Mr,,op1A1 The

A SENSIBLE MEMoRIAL.-The cot
tage in which George Stephenson was
born is being pulled down, and in its
place handsome memorial school will
be erected, which will at all times be al
egorical of the great man who first saw
the light in that humble spot. John
Bull is, perhaps, not very ego ahead, y
but there is much for us to admire and
copy in the way that he is now celebra.
ting great events and marking historic
spots, namely, by erecting school-houses,
public fountains and statues.
How much better than fire. works, pa
rades, and buncombe speeches!
Scientific American.
The hydraulic press., 1858-12-11

'HAsrY CoNcLus1oNs," says Jere-
my Taylor, care the mark of fool; a
wise man doubteth, fool rageth and is
confident; the novice saith, | am sure
that it is SO: the better learned answers,
Peradventure it may be SO, but prithee
enquire. Some men are drunk with
fancy and mad with opinion. It is q
little learning, which makes men con-
clude hastily. Experience and humili-
ty teach modesty and fear"