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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
"a BAD EPlTAPHo

Is set down by Shakespeare as
among the things mankind have to
dread. If men wrote nothing but
that which is true, sensible, and to
the purpose, there would be but lit
tie use for stenegraphy. A long
obituary in Mobile paper begins
thus:
"There are occasions in the life Of
man which penetrate the heart and
affections so profoundly that language
becomes inadequate to convey to
the mind the hidden depths which
are penetrated by the event.
"These reflections are prompted
and painfully felt by the writer
&c, &c.
"These reflections" What re1ec.
lions? Can any reaecting man Eno
the meaning of the bombastic sen
tence to which the term reflection.
is applied? But the article contin
ues: "The writer will not mock tn,
memory of the departed with the Ian
guage of common place euIogy.'
Why should be mock it at all? 70
such stuff as this is nothing but sol
emn mockery. The wliter sign
himself Friendship" A friendlie
part to the deceas, d and bis suryiy
lug friends, is generally to omit sue
unmeanlng rant as this.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
S. A. SMITH.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
A. o. 2. NICHOLSON.
EDWIN A. KEEBLE.
JOHN X. Howard.
Committee.
TRUE.

The Memphis Eagle and Enquirer
in an article upon the course Of
certain fanatical editors North and
South, says:
Tt is now pretty we'll understood
that when an editor is oyerheated
upon an abstract subject, or fierce
upon a practical one, he is either
paid for his assumed malignity or has
been promised qaSd pro ono for bis
zeal. As consequence, editorial
diatrib es have lost the power they
formerly possessed. They merely
amuse without influencing, aud are
forgotten before the next days issue.
If the press would regain its former
position, editors must learn to be
severe without invective, and 10 be
caustic without exhibiting malignity.
In this way, and in this way only,
can the press accomplish its high des-
tiny. When its conductors have the
welfare of their country at heart,
the community are not slow to per-
ceive it. But they are quite as quick
to discover the absence Of this feeling
when it is only pretended, and as a gen
eTal rule they quickly distinguish
goolreasoning from empty gasconade.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
CHANGERY SALE OF SLAVES.

IN pursuance of decree of the Chaneery
a Court of Lincoln county, Tennessee,
made at the August term, 1858. in the case
Of W. P. Collins and Others vs. Francis VI.
Wright and others. Twill. on T,.HTsGar,
the 25sii day Of October, 1853. offer
for sale to the highest bidder, on a credit Of
twelve months. at Boon's Hill. IN Lincoln coun-
ty, Ten Likely NEGROES belonging 10
the estate of William Collins, dec, viz; es-
Sc, about 20: Henry, 60: Oily IS; Elizabeth,
IL; Nathan, IL; Lewis, 9; George, Z; Houston,
5; and Minerva, 3 years cd, and Polk, about
s months The children under 8 years VIII
be sold with their mother in one lot.
Bond and approved security viii be re-
quired of the purchasers. and lien retained
on each slave for the purchase money.
R. FARQUHARSON,
Sept. %, 1854. CLE & II
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

No FUsIoN.-The attempts made
by the Black Republicans and Knog
Nothings of New York to coalesce
and unite on enc State Ticket, so as
10 defeat the Democratic or "pro-
slavery party" as they both stigma.
tie it, beve failed. They were vii.
ling, and nearly agreed in principles
especially in hatred to the Democra.
cy; but they could not agree in the
division Of the Offices, and so run
separate tickets. The Democratic
party are perfectly wiling TO bea:
them separately, or combined.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

Some Of the Illinois farmers
agree in saying that the amount Of
sugar raised in that state this year
from the Chinese cane will excede the
amount : including. Of course the
molasses made in the same process
of that of any other one product
grown and manufactured in the
State. So, Chinese sugar can is not
defunct even though the papers have
ceased to talk about it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
a FAIR HIT.

The following lines we're sent to 6
bachelor friend of ours, near tbis
place, Ly tie inimitable Butler
Brown, Of Lauderdale County, Ala
/ 'Tistime, old friend,
For yod TO bend
Year thoughts from earthly gain;
Your locks are gray,
Which plainly gay
You cannot b ere rem:iH.
Your cheeks are thin,
1ou cannot grin
Because your teeth are out;
Your eyes are sunk.
Your lettering trunk
Can scarcely creep about.
You've had your day,
It's slipt away,
Your night is coming on;
Thus cry your bones,
In solemn tones,
"Old man. you'll soon be gone !"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
Picture of the Republican Party BY
a Republican.

A Black Republican paper down
east-the Springfield Mass. Repub-
lican-has limned its party most ad-
mirab!y. We reproduce the picture:
"Tho fact is, the Republican
party isn't party yet, and, still
worse, isn't like to be at present
What it needs more than anything
else. is definition OF itself, a dis
cipline, boundary, habitation
doors to let people in, walls to
keep them 10, and a recognized
head Of the house to look up to
as 'provider, 1t has none of
these things now, but inhabits a
sort of ten acre lot, half the bars
of which are down three quarters
of the time. You admit one squad,
and another squad escapes at the
same moment. Every man fights
Tor his own hand, like the Highland
Chieftain. 1t is 'anti-nigger' 10 ST.
Louis, to save Dir, Blair; protection
ism in Pennsylvania, TO accommo-
date Henry c. Carey and save two
or three congressman; old fashioned
whiggery in Ohio, so that Tom Cor
win may make himself at home;
Filmoreisrn in Kentucky and Mary
land, go that Humphrey Marshall
aud Henry Winter Davis may be
reelected; truck and dicker in our
State committee, so that Burlingame
may not be beaten, and so on. A
GardneIite or straight republican
of 1858, or even a Fillmoreite of
1856, is just as good republican
as anybody. There is no risk in de-
serting, for the deserters are not
shot as they are in the democratic and
every other well regulated party"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
For the Fayetteville Observer.
The Submarine Telegraph.

By JESSIE.
Columbia Hail aspiring land
Where genius waves her magic wand,
And tames the electric fire;
What burning thoughts majestic sweep
The mystic chambers of the deep
At mans express desire.
Beneath the wild and surging wave
ln many dark mysterious cave
Those slender chords repose;
Or still pursue their wilder fight
Ger lofty range and towering height
Their mission to disclose.
b, wondrous work of Art sublime,
Unrivaled in the lists of Time,
OF ages past and gone;
The potent empires of the earth,
How trivial are their deeds of worth.
Compared with thine alone.
With thine. Columbia. land of fame,
What deathless honors crown thy name,
Nor will they pass away;
Enduring still while earth remains
Ill ustrious land where Science reigns
With ever genial sway.
Thy feats of fame wherein we trace
The aid of Heavens approving grace,
The hand of Power divine;
A kingdom s views to thee disclose,
Although between the Atlantic flows
Two kindred nations join.
Two kindred nations near allied.
Nor whom the oceans wave divide,
Though rolling far between;
Those slender chords recumbent lie
Which thus cement the friendly tic
With Enslsnd's sovereign Queen.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

A Teacher in the Darlington
Flag objects to "Grimshaw's History
of the United States" as not suitg.
bic for use in Southern schools and
academies.
The objection is, says the Charles
ton Courier, very well taken, and
may be applied also to other text
books in USE but our Southern Con.
ventionG are too much engaged with
Africa to attend to question so near
at home.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

Yellow Fever in Mobile, we re.
greet to see, is on the increase, and
has been declared an epidemic
by the Board of Health. In the
Tribune of the 18th inst, we see
that at 6 o'clock, P. NJ, on the day
before, twenty-three new clses had
been reported for the preceding "a
hours, and that the fever had rapidly
increased and spread generally
throughout the city.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

The Democratic State G, invention
of California has nominated Jos. G..
Baldwin for Judge of the Supreme
Court. He is from Alabama, VAS
once the Wing candidate for Congress
in the Sumter district, bat like
thousands of old Wings sees in the
Democratic party the only hope Of
the country. lie is a man OF decided
ability.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

The Knoxville Citizen of the 9th
says: The Union and State Banks
at this place, are now rejecting all
he issues of Banks west Of the
mountains, except those of the State,
Union and Planters Banks. Mr.
Morrow and the Farmers Bank,
however, receive western circulation
as heretofore.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
From Salt Lake.

LEAvENwoRTH, Sept. % The Salt
Lake mail has arrived, twenty days
out.
Brigham Yoi ng still remains hous-
cd, though it is supposed no harm
will be done him.
Everything was peac:able between
the Gentiles and Saints, though the
latter still keep strict guard over their
women.
The troops a. Camp Floyd we're
all well. Gen Johnston intends
wintering there. The men are now
building huts. The Indians were
quiet.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

The Brandon (A1iss-) Republican
mentions strict application of the
Mississippi dueliDg law
Recently bill was fled by the
Hon. William p. Harris and Steel &
Norris, in Clark Chancery Court, to
stop a sale under execution, based
upon judgments rendered before
Judge Hancock, on the ground that
the judgments we're void, because
Judge Hancock vas engaged in a
duel.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

The most desperate piece of cool
ness we have heard of was that of a
young gentleman in Wisconsin, whose
leg was recently amputated. While
the leg was being taken off, he cool
ly asked for a chew Of tobacco, and
inquired the price Of cork leg.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
PRINCIPLES of Insurance.

Two cases have just been decided
in the New York Court of Appeals
of considerable interest to insurers
and insurance companies. The effect
Of these decisions is thus stated in
the Journal of Commerce:
"Where real estate, insured against
fire, is transferred without The assent
of the insurance company, the mort
gagee, to whom the policy may have
been assigned as collateral security,
cannot recover the insurance. In
other words if A mortgage piece Of
property to B for $4,000, assigning
the policy to B, and B passes the
title to G without the assent of the
company, the policy is void. In
the other case the plaintiff, in tax
ing out his policy against ordinary
risks, paid the defendants an extra
premium for the extra risk of using
camphene as light in his store. A
memorandum of the transaction was
written on the back of the policy,
but the agreement was not inserted
in the body of the policy. The
court held that the plsintiff could
not recover, under the rule which
excludes parole evidence when the
terms of contract are stated in writ
ing"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

YELLOW FEvER.-Up to the 18th,
fourteen deaths had occurred from
yellow fever in Galveston, Texas.
Eight new cases of fever were de-
veloped in Baton Rouge. Ia. on the
9th. The disease is still on the in
crease in Vicksburg. The Natchez
papers say that city is free of yelIow
fever.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

The Black Republicans have car.
ried everything 10 the recent State
elections in VeTmont. There are
hardly enough national men there
to save the State from being a po-
litical Sodom.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
A vigilance committee has bee

A vigilance committee has beer
organized in Shelby county, Ky.
30 order white men and free ne.
groes, who are concerned In evil
deeds, to leave the county within
three days. Any property belong
ing to a white man is to be apprais,
ed by three disinterested persons, and
the price paid over, after such Per
son has been directed to leave the
county. Slaves who are vicious must
be removed, 81, from Shelby coun-
ty by their masters.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

Two men living near Rochester,
N. Y, recently converted to Jnaa.
ism, cirrumcised their sons, respee.
lively eight and ten years of age,
and we're nearly killed by the neigh
bors for it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

A Chicago mechanic has invented
machine which succeeds admirably
for breaking stone for macadamizing
roads and streets. Run by a ten
horse engine. it broke three "cords'
of stone into aegg" size, and less,
in one hour.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

The receipts of the st. Louis
Fair we're $4,000. The daily lie.
ceipts at the gate we're $1,000, and
the proceeds exceed the expense
$4,000.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

nent could effect with all the law and
prophets for the next ten years.
The question of the right and wrong
OF slavery is already decided. and its
fate is sealed.''
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

The Methodist Episcopal Confer
ere, for he Church South, meets
in McNlinnville, Tenn, on the 20th
o? October next.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
LATEST NEWS!
STEAMER AUSTRIA BURIED
ON THE OCEAN!
Over Five Hundred Persons Lost

New YORK, Monday, Sept. II.
The burning steamar seen BY the
Captain Of the Rosentreath is pro-
ven to be the Austria. Twelve OF
her passengers have arrived at Hall
fax. Only 81 out of 600 passen-
gers we're saved
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

Richard Dackwortb, has been
committed at indianapolis. in default
Of $1,000 bill, for rObbing the mail.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

The Sparta Times states that the
hog cholera has made its appearance
in portions of White county.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
IlaiI Heck LiRe.

TFHE subscribers are run Ss>Sssl-
ming regular HACKS, for passengers. from
Fayetteville to Shelbyville and Huntsville
Leave Fayetteville. each way, early every
Monday. Wednesday and Friday-retuTaing.
leave Huntsville and Shelbyville every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday. The lines are
well supplied with good horses, ard omiorta-
Die conveyanees-and as good roads as there
eIr in the country. Fare: only two 59el-
lars. JOHN NcCANDLASS
Aug. q, 1857. THOS. G. THOMPSON.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30
Election ReturnS.

Official returns from SO counties
bad been received on the 2lst inst,
which give the following vote:
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-30

EVERYBoDY should i.lprove the oppo,-
4 "A tunity OF getting FIRE cltck very low
at GILDERSLEEyE'S JewelrY Store, where
almost everything is sold at little more than
hall the usual prices. Come soon
Sept. %, 1858,
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01

20 Some people take more care to
hide their wisdom than their folly.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01

he thinks tits not the will of the people.
On neither of these points did the Re
publican party ever differ from him.
A. Mr.. Douglas takes especial pairs
to say that he cares not whether slave
ry is voted up or voted dosCn. Repub-
hcans do care. They would vastly pre-
fer that it should be voted dozen. 1t
We exercise the charity to think that
Mr.. Douglas would personally prefer
to have it voted down, he is left on a
worse horn of the dilemma, viz: he
would have the people of the country
and the policy of the Government, ed
ucated to condition of total indiffe-
renee whether slavery is voted up or
voted down in all our territories-a
condition which he himself would re-
pudiate and scorn as an individual!
5. In the bred Scott decision which
Mr.. Douglas took an early occasion to
endorse, it is declared that a negro
brought into free State, for the con-
ven'ence of his master, may be again
declared slave by any Court outside
o. that free State-which his master
can subsequently force him into. That
which may apply to one slave may APP
ply to thousand. Thus the only
present difficulty in the way of holding
slaves in Illinois is the uncertainty OF
getting them back into Missouri or
Kentucky in case they choose to assert
their freedom. Wa0
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01

ORGANIZATIONS the State
Committee have fixed the date for the
State Democratic Convention, the
slaveocratic press, have been loud in
their exhortations to their friends to
organize. What is the matter now
Is there a division among the demo-
Gratis of Michigan? We supposed,
four months ago, that the pro-slavery
party of this State was armed and
equipped according to law. 1t seems,
however, that the unterrifed are not
organized. The abandonment by Mr..
Buchanan of the great principle, upon
which he predicated his election, seems
to have shaken the democl attic House.
We do not see why the party is not
properly organized, for all of the DEM
ocratic papers in the State, have given
in their adhesion to the English juggle,
save the Flint Democrat. We hope
that there may be proper and eff
cient organization in order to prevent
the Republicans from going to Sep
on their arms.-Mn shat Statesman.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01
squatter Sovereignty.

The following, which we clip from
the Chicago Tribune of Saturday, are
the positions taken by Hon. Abraham
Lincoln, in his speech before the Re-
publican Convention at Springfield, on
Wednesday evening, the 18th inst, TO
which we would invite the attention of
our readers -
1. The doctrine of Squatter Sover-
eighty, embodied in the Nebraska bill,
and the bred Scott decision of the SUI
irene Court, are S, admirably matched
Is to afford ground for the presumption
that they were each prepared for the
other-the object being, first, to make
slavery possible in the free Territories,
and second, to make it possible in the
free States.
2. The doctrine of Squatter Sover-
eighty, reduced to its minimum, is that
one man may make slave of another
in free Territory, and no third man,
either in or out of the Territory, shall
object
8. A little quarrel or a greater one
as people view it, has sprung up be
tween Senator Douglas and the Presi
dent. But the difference between then
is a quest bn of .fact-not of principle
lr. Douglas holds that the Lecomptor
Constitution was not the will OF the
people of Kansas. The President holds
that it was. Both agree that it ough1
to be. On this question of fact merely
hangs the whole strife. So far as the
argument is concerned, we must say
that Judge Douglas has altogether tho
advansage of his adversary. But Judge
Douglas has not said, does not say
that there is a particle of principle in
volved in the case. The most that car
be said for him is, that he is opposed
TO the Lecompton Constitution because
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01
Verdict against Hot Biscuit.

DR.. Bunting, who has been expert
menting with Alexis ST. Martin, the
Frenchman with window in his stom-
ach, through which can be seen all the
processes of digestion, declares that
hot bread never digests at all. 1t is
tumbled about for long time, till it
begins to ferment, when it is forced
out with other useless debris. Itnever
digests, and is never assimilated by tie
organs of nutrition. IRIS only effect is
to produce dyspepsia. This is DR..
Bunting's testimony, as demonstrated
by repeated experiments upon the
stomach of St. Martin.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01

Oh, treachery vile, who gave thee birth,
Gave thee the right to walk the earth,
To tread where fairest flowers bloom,
And send them whitening to their tombs
Who gave thee power to rend the heart
Lay waste its joy in every part;
Turn smiles to grief and love to hate,
And every noble deed forsakeg
Who babe thee sunder friendships ties,
And cause the wild heart-rending sighsf
To stay hfe's current as it flows,
And fill the mind with untold woes.
Who babe thee seek the house of truth,
Where age rests on the arm of youth,
And'wrest from there each happy tie,
That they in sorrow droop and die?
Speak, if thou cans'ti and tell the place,
Where first the light shone on thy face;
Thou demon dark Where PLuro reigns,
Thou'lt find home-on HADEs plains.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-01
HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
D1;1- lo1-1:

tIA1ASAe
BeneeOlsat Institution established By special En-
tressed, afflicted sciiA Psrneat and
Epidemic Diseases a-as.f
H>HE HOWARD association, in view of the
L awful destruction of human life caused by
Sexual diseases, and the receptions practiced upo
the unfortunate victims of such diseases by Quacks
several years ago directed their Consulting Sur.
geon, as CHARITABLE ACT worthy Of their
name, to open Dspensary for the treatment of this
class of diseases, in all their FORMS and to give
MEDICAL ADVICE GRATIS to all who apply by
letter. with a description of their condition Gage
occupation habits of life, &c, and in cases Of ex.
a5sms to EGkNish oss FREE
sociation commands the highest Medical skill of
the age. and will furnish the most approved mod
ern treatment.
The Directors of the Association, in their Annu-
al Report upon the treatment of Sexual Diseases,
for the year ending January lst 1858, express the
highest satisfaction with the success which has at
tended the abors of the Consulting Surgeon in the
cure of Spermatorrhea Seminal Weakness, Impo-
0nanism or Selfabuse, &C., and order continu-
ance of the same plan for the ensuing year.
The Directors, on review of the past feel as
sured that their labors in this sphere Of benevolent
effort have been of great benefit to the afflicted
especially to the young, and they have resolved to
devote themselves, with renewed zeal to this very
important and much despised cause.
An admirable Report on Spermatorrhea, or
Seminal Weakness, the vice of 0nanism Mastur-
baton, or Selfabuse, and other diseases of the
sexual organs, by the Consulting Surgeon, will be
sent by mail Tin sealed envelope( FREE OF
CHARGE, on the receipt of TWO STAMPS for
postage. Other Reports and Tracts the nature
and treatment of sexual diseases, diet, &C., are
constantly being published for gratuitous distribu-
ton, and will be sent to the afflicted. Some of the
new remedies and methods of treatment discovered
during the last year, are of great value.
!, Address for Report or treatment DR.; GEORGE
R. CALHOUN, Consulting Surgeon, Howard As
sociation, No. South Ninth Street, Philadelphia,
Pa BY order of the Directors. -
EZRA d. HEARTWEL, Presided
GEO. FAIRcHnp, SecretGry. my27-5yl