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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

SO be repeats offers to buy 1t. So
long as we do not have it, it places
our relations with Spain in constant
jeopardy. Spain need not be asham-
ed to sell it as Napoleon sold Louis
lam. Let Congress authorize the
President to make a cash advance
Immediately upon concln ding a bar
gain. Meantime, if the Spanish
Armistead claims are just let them
he paid. &
From Mexico ten millions Of dol.
lars are due american citizens, but
she is bankrupt, ahG cannot even
protect our citizens from forced loans,
our frontiers from aggressions. Re-
prisals upon our part are not only 10
accordance with international law,
but are our only means of. avoiding
actual war. Mexican anarchy now
prevents settlements. Let US assume
temporary protectorate over the
northern portions Of chihuahua and
Sonora. and establish military posts
| therein, to be Withdrawn when Next
CO is capable Of governing herself.
The political condition of the 18th
mus is of the utmost importance to
us. Lei conflicting transit compan-
les settle their difficulties before the
competent tribunal, but do not lei
the commerce Of the world wait till
they do it Nicaragua may charge
fair customs duties if she will, Blu,
!, she must not stop up the route. II
the meantime, authorize the Presi
dent to employ our land and nava
: forces to keep the route open, wheI
: required, and to withdraw when ne
5 cessity ceases. The same policy ap
: plies to Panama and Tehuantepec
1 Unless Costa RIGA and Nicaragua
o make an early and peaceful settle
\ ment, it only remains for US to EN-
g ploy force. Grenada has offered
). new treaty which will remove all dill
!, ficulties with that State. She prob
) ably will not attempt to enforce
q tax on our passengers or commerce
q With Brazil our relations are friendly
r We are trying to get her to abolls
# high duties aud to settle the claim
% of citizens, ''4t
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
A RESCUE.

We understand that, on Saturday
morning last, John @ A. Carter, of
Whitesburg, was arrested by the
Sheriff of Madison, by authority of
the Governor of Alabama, Cd a re-
QUESTION from the Governor Of Penn
sylvaDia, and was brought to Hunts
vile and delivered over to three Phil.
adelphia police officers, who were about
to secure him with handouts, when
several friends of Carter, armed,
walked into the Sheriff's Office and
told Garter to go with them. He
did so. and the company mounted
their horses and rode of.
We understand about 200 citi-
zenS we're assembled, most of whom
approved the rescue, on the ground
that Northern States would not
allow similar process to he executed
there on the requisition Of Southern
Governors as in the case Of fugitive
slaves. Some threats against the
Philadelphia police officers were
intimated, and a citizen, to whom
they brought letters, very properly
took them to his house, until they
could get off on the Rail Road cars
HuntsUiUe Democrat.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Judge Elmore, Associate Justice
IN Kansas Territory, has lately re.
fused the testimony of free negroes
ia his Court at Lawrence, Kansas
in an alleged case Of kidnapping Of
a negro. Whereupon the abolition
horde set upon his heels and the
Democracy generally and yillify in
particular, bred Scott. Lawrence
where the case was tried is The Sodom
of Kansas. They go in for negro
UNIVERSAL suffrage and cul-
tivate a number Of disgusting isms.
1t is a wonder Elmore was not mob
bed. A friendat our elbow says be
is well acquainted with the Judge,
and he is just the man to do his duty
He is an able jurist-
a high toned Alabama gentleman.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

EIGHT CHILDREN AT A B,RTH.--The
Cairo Gazette of the Sd inst, is res
Iponsible for the following:
About FIVE moKths since the wife
Of Jacob Abbott, living tea miles
west of Golconda, in Pope county.
presented her husband with eiqht
pledges of affection at one birth.
Four of these children survived until
some weeks since, when two of them
sickened and died. The whole eight
were very small specimens Of human
ity when ushered into this world, as
might hare been expected. This
statement is hiter-ally true; it is
vouched for by numbers OF respec
table witnesses who saw the four liv-
ing children. 1a r
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
The Chattanooga Advertiser says

The Chattanooga Advertiser says:
Hogs have been selling in this
market for the past week at from 4 ]
to 5 cents gross-a higher figure
than has ruled in this market at this
season Of the year. A drover re-
fused, Oh Saturday last, 5 cents, for
a lot Of four hundred. As yet there
has been a large decrease in the
number Of hogs that have arrived
at, and been shipped from Chatta-
nooga this season, as compared with
last; though, as general thing
they have been better fattened
Drivers Of hogs will do well this sea-
son, if present prices are kept u2.
Such as have returned from Southern
markets have expressed fine profits
made.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
The Department Reports.

Mr.. Secretary Cobb asks for sew
enty-three and a quarter millions
next year, including fifteen and a
half millions for the army, and tbir-
teen and a half millions for the na.
Wy, and two millions and one hundred
thousand for ordinance and fortified.
ton. ~
Mr.. Secretary Toucey recon-
mends increase of officers in the Navy
in all classes, and the pnr chase Of all
vessels lately chartered for the Para
quay expedition, constit uting ten
light draught steamers.
Mr.. Secretary Floyd believes the
Navajo Camanche War, just CON-
menced, to be fierce and bloody, but
thinks it should be vigorously prose
cufed. He recommends but four
new Notifications at exposed points.
His estimate for the next year is
three millions less than tho expen-
ditures Of last year.
Mr.. Secretary Brown recon-
mapds that the printing privileges
in G ongress should be abolished. and
the issue of suitable stamps su5sti-
tuted. He deprocates the transmits.
ion Of heavy matter in the steamer;
between San Francisco and Japan, Oh
China. He estimates the expendi.
lures of the next fiscal year at four.
teea millions, with receipts of up
wards of eleven millions.
Mr.. Secretary Thompson, reports
"a revenue last year from the Public
Lands Of upwards Of two millions,
and recommends Government to re-
tain all lands containing precious
metals. and the selling Of all con-
tanning baser kinds. He advocates
the extension Of the pre-emption
laws over Utah.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Too True An exchange whose
vocation requires him to travel all
over this country, has been amusing
himself by gathering statistics Of
politeness and boorishness among
men and women travelling on cars and
steamboats,. OF tWenty-three men
whom be helped to a cigar-light, or
loaned newspaper, twenty SAID,
THANK you, Sir" OF nineteen Wo-
men to whom he paid a courtesy
such as giving up bis seat picking
up dropped veil, shawl, or the like,
only seven said: Thank you," aud
two of those we're e'furriners.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
N. o. WALLACE, Editor.
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN:
ThursdayMorning ,Deeember23, 1855
EXCHANGE BANK.

Our friend of the Winchester
Home Journal appends the following
sensible remarks to our article on
what is known by many here as the
Spence swindlc:-
Yes, we've been thinking like our
brother of the Observer. What has
become Of that expose MIR. Spence
was 70 make? Let the press stir him
up about it. Let his name be kept
flying through all newspaperdom un-
til he has little more time, and if
then he has not made a satisfactory
expose, let the suspended Judgment
fall upon him with its whole and
crushing weight. Let him be known
to the world as villain, who for mer-
cenary motives, cheated, aye, robbed
the widow and orphan, and the labor.
ing man of all tkatsk could under
the protection Of a detective law
Mr.. Spence, perhaps, thinks that in a
short while public dissatisfaction and
clamoring for their rights will die
out and his affair be forgotten. And
we admit with regret that suci
is too often, ii not always the case
When bank first breaks the people
become excited and even mobs are
often formed, aud attempts upon the
life and property of the banking mer
made. Yet, time dispels the aggra
walton, and especially If the swindlt
is a big one, the swindier with plen
ty Of money at hand soon has friend:
and admirers, and he walks with hon
est men. Now, we say, let us keel
Spence's character suspended for
while and unless his expose can Sc
all right, let him meet the very wors
calumny a wronsed community o
people can heap upon him. Nor lie
us forget the late failure Of the Cit
zens' Bank at Memphis, but espe
cially, don't forget Spence's, for BIZ
forbodes total loss to all the not
holders. Keep the people awake Il
the injury done them. Don't lie
time, like opium, lull them to ease
bat keep the fraud before their eye
and urge them to demand satisfac
ton. To submit in silence is worse
than ignominy.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
Notice TO Travellers.

The Harrisburg PAP Union says
that the following 'rules Of the road
are all based upon legal decisions
and that they ought to be universal
ly made known:
II has been legally decided that
applicants for tickets on railroads
can be elected from the cars If they
do net offer the exact amount foi
their fare. Conductors are mol
bound to make change. All railroad
tickets are good until used, and con-
ditious ''good for this day only" OF
otherwise limiting the time OF genu-
iueuess, are Of no account. Passen'
gers who lose their tickets can be
elected from the cars unless they
purchase a second enc. Passengers
are bound 10 observe decorum in the
cars, and are obliged to comply with
all reasonable demands to show their
tickets. Standing upon the platform
or otherwise violating rule OF the
company renders a person liable to
be nut from a train. No person has
right to mononolize more seats than
be has paid for, and any article left
in a seat, while the owner is temporal
rily absent, entities him to the place
upon bis return.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
L. Ill. JERNIGAN.

The wife of Mr.. Alpaeus s. Ed
wards, Of Washington city, and tor
merly of Chattanooga, came to bel
death, very suddenly few days ago
from fright oceasioned by neigh.
boris deg. Mr. E. and his wife were
walking out in their garden, and the
dog in an adjoining lot suddenly
jumped at them when they were close
to the fence, which SO frightened
Mrs. E. that she was struck with
paralysis, Of which she died the next
day.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
A MurrelI Gaag Passing as Gipsies

We are informed that on Saturday
last, a party of men and women cal
ling themselves gipsies, were encam.
ped in the suburbs of the town of
Sandersville. Sallying forth, they
found means to ascertain family res
licences, where the male members
absent, for the purpose Of fortune
telling. A woman of this party en-.
tered the residence of Mrs. Land.
smead, who, with a young lady,
were alone, and insisted on telling
their fortune. After which. she
noticed fine ring on Mrs. Us finger,
and she demanded it. Mrs. L., be-
coming frightened, gave it to her.
Turning to the young lady, she or
dered her take off her shawl and
hand it ever, which was also
done. Her rap2city was not yet
satisfied, Mrs. L. was ordered TO 90
and get her best bonnet, and coat
belonging to her husband, for the
wretch. Money was then deman-
ded from the young lady, aud a
dollar obtained. "Now," said the
gypsy to Mrs. L ), II want some from
you, and more than a dollar, too
In her trepidation, and wishing to
get clear Of the woman, she gave
her ten dollars. Similar outrages
were committed upon ether dwellings
by the rest of the miscreants; aud
what would seem to make the above
statementalmost incredible. they we're
suffered to remain encamped until
the next day, and departed unmoles.
Ted. Look out for m!--Sayan-
nah Republican.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
Administration Of Justice in Arkan-
sas.--Lynch Law.

A friend who has recently travelled
through portion of the State of
Arkansas, and especially through
Red River Bottom, where the follow
ing incident occurred, related it
to US in our editorial sanction
as follows: A man by the name of
Rogers, stole horse from an honest
leld farmer of Arkansas, and wendell
his way up into Washington county,
where be said he sold it to a farmer
there. But upon bis not being able
to give the name Of the man, mol
make a satisfactory explanation, a
company who had been in pursuiI
of the horse and thief, took him in
Ito the woods and tied him to q
Hog, and gave him between two anC
three hundred lasheS, well laid on
He then confessed where the horse
was and who were his accessories
The company then proceeded to Rec
, River Bottom, where they found The
missing horse and five fellows who's
business it was to steal all the horses
and whatever else ''would pay" ira
they could, whom they hung to limb
of trees until they were dead, dead
dead. Upon consideration Of Rog
erS having '.turned," he was spared
As our informant rode past th'
spot, where the edict of Lynch Lar
had gone forth, and the horri5l
spectacle of it's execution was witnes
sed, one poor fellow was seen dang
/ ling between heaven and cart
suspended by bis neck to the linn
Of a tree, whose branches extende'
} across the road, With this description
r written upon bis back: "Tennesse
, horse thief; if you like him bette
. thnl | do. you can take him dow
aud bury him F" We will simply stat
: that our informant is a highly rcspec
table gentleman, and this na-rativ
may be relied on as true. Believing
C it, We thus record it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
For Ms Fayetteville Observer.
On MIR. M :, whom met at q late Party

g. u
BY JESSIE. IS
Say, have you not seen him, certain exquisite,
A most entertaining and gallant young fell
low.
If SO, you may call him, don't ask me who is
By many he is thought inoxpressibly shall
low.
His wonderful wit, in his own estimation,
Is enough to insur, him decided success,
While those that are near him may have al
occasion
No longer their star Of good fortune to bless
His powers conversaat, so brilliant appearing
Overwhelming their weak minded owne
alone,
Whose pleasantly proving not worthy tn
hearing, "a s.
For the want of intelligence poorly atone
An d while his fair listeners attend him a
leisure,
BY courtesy bound in his converse to share
How gladly they leave him. how bored be
yond measure,
! Ere the moment arrives he no longer is neal
Considered as one of the bores Of creation,
Although il may seem as decidedly harsh
Yet certain it is, that but small admiration
Was felt for the young and most ele
giant M,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

The Laporte (Ind) Times states
that most distressing accident &C.
Cured near Plymouth, few days
ago. DR.. Baily discovered an owl
lurking in the vicinity of his barn,
aud ran in the house after his gun tc
shoot it. As be went towards the
door, on his way out with his gun
and it cooked with the muzzle behind
him, it went of, shooting his wife
and child and his sister and her child
in all four, not one of whom vii
probably recover. The gun was
loaded with buck shot.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
MAMMOTH CHrsNur TREE.-A yet

MAMMOTH CBnsNUT TREE.-A vet.
eran chesnat tree was cut down Q
few days ago, on the property Of
Colonel Isaac Yoder, of Oluey town.
ship, Berks county, Pa, which meas
ured twenty.three feet in circumfer-
ence, and seven feet eight inches
across the stump. BY the rings,
the tree appeared to be about 200
years Old.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Two "Cotton Planter" are firing
away at each other through the col.
umns of the Pulaski Times. about
the cause of the low prices now
ruling for Cotton. One Of the wri.
tiers pungentIy remarks that he fre-
quently hears planters asking for the
cause of decline, but he has never
vet heard one want to know the
reason it advanced.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

A You've SoT.-In the Boston
Police Court, on Tuesday, bright
looking boy Of eleven years, was
sentenced to the House of RefoIma-
ton, for being a common drunkard.
Think of that! A common drunk
ard at ii years!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Shirt bosoms at fourteen cents per
dozen, and cloth pantaloons at fifteen
cents per pair, may be good for EN-.
p,oyers, says the New York Express,
but it is hard for the women, if they
do not make them with machine.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

CsPAc1ous HIDING cE.-Julia
Smith, a professional thief, was ar
rested in Cincinnati, Ohio, recent
~, and under her hoops we're found
carefully slowed three towels, two
table cloths, one looking glass, three
tumblers, one pair OF pants, and a
quart bottle Of Madeira.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
IMPORTANT RUMOR.
Declaration Of War by Spain against
Mexico.

A Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Press telegraphs under
date of Dec II, that it is Stated
upon good authority, that the
Spanish Minister called upon Gen.
eral Cass this afternoon, and an.
nounced to him that Spain had de-
clared war against Mexico. Great
excitement prevails in diplomatic
circles.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

4 LICK AT "PIKEs MAGNOLIA =
A man in Cincinnati named Pike,
having grown rich in the whisky
trade, has just erected a magnificent
opera house, the finest in all the
West. and wag wants him to call
it Pixies Alec Hall.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

1t is becoming the custom FONT
west" for newly married people to
ssDd to newspaper publishers, along
with their marriage notices, the
amount Of a years subscription
This is a very sensible custom.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

To THE POINT. Ifany of our read
ers should have occasion to pass
through Mr.. Jern;gan's field out in
Illinois, they will please observe the
following, which be prints in a local
paper:
EAR WARNING TO ALL.-May
Il | be essentially ID if | don't
put ball through the heart of the
first man that passes through my
field without putting up my fence
good, SO help me God.
L. Ill. JERNIGAN.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

NOVEL SUrr.-A young man in
Cincinnati has sued a surgeon for
$4,000 damages for unnecessarily
cutting off his leg. He alleges that
ether was given him while in the
Hospital, aud advantage taken Of bis
Inconsistencies for q nice operation.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

FREAK OF NATURE. The Marion
American notices the birth, on a
plantation near Uniontown, last week,
Of negro child with a perfectly
white head of hair twool)-luxuriant
at that. The parents Of the child
are described as being Of simon pure
ebony hue.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Persons writing to California,
hereafter, will do we'll to bear in
mind that by endorsing their letters,
"via Overland Mall" three cents
postage will do instead of ten cents
ocean POSTAGE, Newspapers cannot
be sent by this route. hn
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Two brothers liz Maine, by the
name Of Rich, have been lately mar
ried to tive sisters by the name of
Wings, and have removed to Illinois.
Thus "riches take to themselves
wings"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

Messrs. Tyler & Pierce, projectors
Of the Commercial Hotel, at Mem
phis. ran away on the 29th, bag and
baggage, leaving many inqairlng
friends legacies. eifa
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
State Convention,

Ia accordance with usage, and as
a necessary means Of perfecting
the organization and securing the
success Of our party, at the next
August election. the undersigned as
members of the Democratic State
Central Committee, would urge up
on the Democracy Of every country
Of the State, the necessity of hold
ing prim Try meetings in their respec.
tive counties, anG appointing dele.
gates to the convention, to be held
at Nashville, to nominate a eanGi
date for Governor. As there arr
questions connected with our feder
al policy, as also with our State leg
Iislation that will probably be brough
before the convention. it is important
that every county should be repre-
sented, and it is suggested, that eacl
meeting appoint proxies TO cas-
their vote, in case of inability o
I failure on the part of their d delegates
TO attend. f31e e9-'3
| we suggest the 17tb day Q
I March, 1859, as suitable time 70
sitting Of the Convention. and wouI
respectfully request the Democrat
papers of the State to give publicit
to this notice. -e1 3 ~
A d Nnoo,rr
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

A bill is before the Arkansas
Legislature to prohibit the sale of
patent medicines in tho State.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

The steamer Morrison the other
day carried into New Orleans 1870
persons!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

At least one thousand tenements
are marked "to let" in Lowell, Mass,
Its population, in two years, has fad
len from $4,000 to $4,000. g
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

The Louisville Courier says that
the pork house Of Watkins, Hunt &
Co., in that city, is the most extern
sive in the world. Thirty-four hun
dred hogs we're killed in that estab-
lishment in one day, last week, every
one being hung up before shutdown.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23

The Legislature of Georgia has a.
polished the law granting license
to Lotteries in that State.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-12-23
The price Of Pork, we believe,
continues at 6 cents in this market.
--HuntsviHe Independent. eepasgo

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