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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17
Choire 1laetry,
Charity TO the Fallen.

Oh fair but unforgiving, thou
Whose red lips curl in pride,
If but an erring sister brush
Thy silken garb aside;
Shrink not from that profaning touch
Frown not thy naughty brow
In Gods great eye that scorned one
May be as pure as thou.
Thou canst not know, thou canst not tell
The struggle and the strife,
The fierce temptation that beset
Her fair unspotted life; ta
And gave to that hearts purity
Its first dark tint of sin;
Nor, now its angel turned to weep,
AS came its temper in.
Judge not!-that soul condemned by thee
May shine in Heaven afar,
Reclaimed from its strayed orbit here
A fixed and glorious star,
A sinless mothers prayers perchance,
Breathed DER her long ago,
May have won above, from a God of love,
The mercy thou can'st not show.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

The Mobile Tribune relates that q
gentleman, long resident Of the
South, but now a citizen Of Philadel-
phia, was induced, while he resided
in the South, to purchase an old negro
woman, who was so much attached to
him that she would not leave him,
even at the urgent solicitations of the
underground railroad. On one ocea-
sion after being much importuned to
leave her master and go to Canada,
she is reported to have addressed
them to the effect that, Il they would
give her 81, ,000 in cash, and a hand
some white husband, she wcald 60.
They excused her.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

Gov. Merrill, Of Maine, in his
message to The State Legislature, re-
CARDS what he calls the new policy
Of the federal government upon the
slavery question, as injurious to the
rights Of the free States, and calls
upon the Legislature and people to
maintain their resistance to the extern
sion Of slavery.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

The other day while over in jersey.
a tall, long legged, big, Gatfooted six
loot Vermonter came up to rs with
rnsh, holding in his hand a pillow
case veil filed, undoubtedly with
home affairs and fxiBgs," and also
gna"ing away at a large cake of gin
gerbreae. "Can you tell me, sir
what time the cars come in?" "Tbe
cars, sir! "Yes, 3ir." -The cars.
sir, come in right after the locomo-
tive. Down went the pillow case--of'
went his coat, and aEay we scsmper-
ed.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17
Hon. JnO. II. Savage.

We neglected to notice, in oul
last issue, the fact that the Hon.
Jno. II. Savage was cut in a eircu-
lar declaring himself candidate for
reelection to Congress from the
Fourth Congressional District
The probability is that there will
be two democratic candidates in the
field in that district, which may
possibly result in the election Of the
candidate Of the opposition. Public
meetings held in some of the coun-
ties composing the Fourth District
have declared in fayer of the Hon.
IL. Al. Waterson, though as yet
there is no telling whether Waterson,
Savage. or some one else will be
nominated. The only interest we
feel in the matter is in the success
OF the Democratic party. We hope
to see harmony prevail in the ranks. /
Democrat.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

SLAVERY IN NBw YoRK.-Rev
Milo 2. JeWett, who had charge
Of a female school in Ma,
riOn, Alabama, for some years, now
has charge Of one in Poughkeepsie,
New York. A correspondent of the
Mississippi Baptist, who recently yis-
tied that place, says:
professor Jewett has three slaves
whom he brought with him from
the South, and who, to all appear
ances, sustain to him the same re-
lation that Southern slaves do TO
their masters; nor can the Uiles of
Abolitionists entice them away
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17
COLD IN UTAH.

The following awful story Of tht
sufferings Of the mail party thai
start ed to cross the plains in Decem
Der, is told by the editor of the
Valley Tan, the Gentle paper Of Salt
Lake City:
An ambulance, containing three
passengers, was found one day last
week, upon the road between this
point and Fort Bridger, frozen stiff
1t appears that the fore feet of the
lead mules we're frozen while in the
act of stepping forward, and the en-
tire team stood in studied attitude,
resembling highly finished bronzed
statues. One OF the passengers was
in the act Of pouring some cognac in
cup, when the piercing blast came
upon him, freezing him and the Ii
quor, the latter presenting the ap-
pearance Of an icicle, from the mouth
of the bottle to the cup. A second
passenger, who had been enjoying a
smoke, was observed with wreath
of smoke frozen as it ascended up
wards. The third had been attempt
ing to light his pipe; he had liz
match which had blazed up only to
be frozen. Only think Of weather
cold enough TO freeze fire!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

A mammoth OK supposed to be
the largest and most beautiful spec
linen ever seen in the world, is now
being exhibited by the owner, Hiram
Sherman, Esq, at the barn of the
New Yolk House, Ill. He is but
seven years old and weighs 400
pounds-is six feet high, and meas
ures eleven feet in length and around
the body. He is Of dark red roam
color, and is a cross of the Durham
and Ayershire breeds. He was raised
by Col. Wells s. Sons, Of Lake
county, illinois.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17
Ii was with Doubt and Trembling

1t was with doubt and trembling,
] whispered in her ear;
o take her answer, bony bird,
That all the world may hear!
Sing it, sing it, Silver throat,
Upon the wayside tree,
How fair she is, how true she is,
And how she loveth me!
Sing it, sing it, Si,ver-throat.
And all the summer long,
The other birds shall envy you,
Foi knowing such asong.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

A most unparalleled act Of mean
ness lately occurred in Buffalo
An individual held an execution
against another, which was placed
in the hands of the sheriff, but
that officer finding no property, re-
turned the deed unsatisfed. The
creditor, however. not to be done
out of the claim, discovered small
monument at marble-yard in the
city, which had been ordered by
the debtor to be placed over the
the grave of little child he had
recently buried, and forthwith instruc'
ted the sheriff to levy apon the stone
IA little monument of a little chic
with the names of its parents and tbel'
offspring upon 1.-THE figure OF {
dog, the emblem Of fidelity, 10 al
attitude of Iepose surmounting it
That worthy officer very properly
demonstrated against an act Sc
barbarous and uuehristian, but with
out avail. He was threatened with
prosecution unless be performed
this unpleasant duty, and the stone
was accordingly seized and Ii
due time sold. There was no on'
mean enough 10 bid upon 1t bu
the creditor, and it was knocked
down to him.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

Iowa CURRENCY The Dubuque
correspondent OF the New York
Tribune says: "Anything of hog,
hoggy, is legal tender here. The
tithes of Church aud the taxes OF
State can be satisfied with the COM
modify. 4 crock Of lard will pay
the fee for the nuptial ceremony, and
a shoulder of bacon is considered a
foil equivalent for funeral discourse,
including very 1atteriDg biograph>
ical sketch of deceased"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17
A GREAT IDEA.--A correspondent

~ O1'EAi lDhA'--A correspondent
of the Easton (Pa.) Daily Times.
sd who signs himself "IaventOr,' .
proposes to keep the Pacific Railroad
out Of the way of the Indians, bufIa.
loes, and other inconveniences, By
suspending it from Balloons. and
holding it in its place by large mag
nets buried in the earth at regular
intervals. A telegFapbic wire could,
he thinks, pass over the top Of the
gas-bags, aud the expense of the
whole be less than the common plan
by about $40,000,000. 4 sanguine
inventor this!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

The Victoria (Texas) Advocate
states that Ned, a free mulatto = the
Lavacca barber-who, speaks the En-
glish, Spanish and French languages
auen.ly-is a good penman- = has
travelled in the free States-is thirty
years of age, and was made fully ac-
quainted with the consequences of
his act, has gone into voluntary serv-
ituds for life, and chosen Mr. e.
CIegg, of Lavacea, for bis master.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

Observation-Disclosures, in Ohio,
IS so beset with incendiaries that the
journals there advise the citizens to
constitute themselves watchmen and
shoot all strangers found lurking a.
bo1t their premises after dark.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

The London papers report, that
the month Of November was seven
degrees colder in England than the
average of the same period, for for
ty-three years. The remarkable con.
tinuance Of cold in November is
without parallel since the year 1915.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17
Gift Enterprises.

Ine SulnOl!lty OF the S0uther
people is wonderful indeed. Fc
more than fifty years we have bee
the dupes of Yankee sharpers.-
We abuse them, we hate them, W
advocate Southern institutions, ant
at the same time we patronize thes
unscrnpulous thieves. We have re
ceived through the post office a
least two columns of advertisement:
Of Gilt Enterprises. We merely
glance at them and throw them
among the rubbish of our sanctum
We will take this occasion TO state
to these liberal publishers of New
York papers that we DO not ask for
gifts. We detest jevelry, especially
the galvanized pinch-beck stuff which
they impose upon credulous fools.
We prefer gold and silver, stamp
ed with the American eagle, at the
United States mint. 1t may be a
mere fancy on our part, yet these
donors must indulge US in it. They
have acted upon the presumption
that we were dishonest, by refusing
to send money with their advertise
ments. We will return the compli-
ment and decline publishing your in
credible lies, unless you pay in ad-
vance. You think We might pock-
ct your money and not carry out
the contract; we know that you
would swindle US if it were to your
interest to do so. We kaov that
your gifts are miserable cheats, and
that your intention is simply to rob
the Southern people.
We should look with distrust
Upon every scheme, the express OBJ
ject Of which is to benefit the
South. The Northern people vii!
not patronize our presses, our colleges
or our manufactures. They look up
on US as fit subjects to bleed ad Abi-
tum. With protestat;ons Of affec-
tion they disarm US, and even per-
suade US to support their abolition [
presses, TO send our children to |
their colleges, and permit their
minds to be imbued with tie fatal
doctrines of iDfGelity and Aholi-
tionism. They do no: stop here, bnt
offer US gifts, and We, poor, ignorant
deluded creatures, accept the Offering
which, like the apples of SodOm,
turn to ashes.
We are too much disposed as a
people to enter into every lottery
scheme, every enterprise where We
can "take the chances. This pas
sian misleads many honest men,
md opens fair field for the tricks
Of the unscrupulous.' So long as
We insist upon getting something
or nothing, we must suffer ,the
consequences, aud give something
or nothing. The men who are en-
yaged in these gambling enterpri-
les have "a dead thing on yon,"
hey intend to make something out
If nothing, and make the creduIous
'ublic pay the difference.-AM
.Ala) Nems.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

PROPOSED CHANGE N THE jury LAW.
"A petition has been presented to
the Legislature Of Massachusetts,
praying that law be enacted, empog-
ering three-fourths or more Of a ju-
ry, in civil cases, TO pass upon the
rights of li!igants and find a v&dTct.
This petition was signed by some Of
the most eminent merchants Of B0s-
ton. -
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

.CAN II BE TRUE?-A child in
Woodstook, Inadvertently dislocate2
its neck, at the second vertebra,. by
falling down stairs SO that the head
was turned half around, and there
remained fixed. Chloroform was
employed to relax. the muscles, the
head was replaced, and the child
recovered.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

The Buffalo Republic il COM
menelng an account Of a fight; says:
There was terrible row 10 the low
er part of toe city last night, which
broke out in three Ianguages-Irish.
English, ana profane.'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

Some Of the farmers in northern
Ohio and on the borders OF Indiana,
have commenced the breeding and
raising of deer the same as they do
sheep, aud they bring them to market
in the same manner; hence the abnn-
dance OF yeDison.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

There is "a person in Albany
who says she is the spirit of the
murdered Bill Poole, and that she
hauntS the earth to avenge Lis VIC
lent death. That person is a woman.
Her baptismal name is Maria Lot
well, but she is known the town
over as "BiIl POOLE a few DAYS
ago she was in the street, and
made things "stand round" She
upset two stoves, one man, and
two woman, and was then arrested
by the police. She is now in Jail,
bat she claims that DO sueh "pont-
up Utica" as that can contract her
power, and that she'll be oUt again
soon to carry forward the purposes
OF her present mission On earth.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

The citizens of the town of Bloom
iogion, in Douglas county, Illinois,
have recently passed an ordinance
emitting women to an equality with
meE, as voters.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

The common-sehool trustees Of
Of town in Indian in a recent
report say: mo common schools
all uncommon. Branches taught
Eaclre, poker, old slsdgs, cnlgGr5tg
and prJepiN."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

The steamer John Bell, from
Louisville, to Nashville was badly
injured a few days, ago. The
politician John Bell has been swamp
ed by the rushing waves of public
opinion in Tennessee,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

A man named Cope has been SEN
tencea to sixtean months inprisou-
ment in Louisv;les for tunning off
with a negro gigl. t was an affair
of the heart.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

1t is reported that France has
informed England Of her
support, if England adopts measures
20 counteract President Buchanan's
policy.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

A year and half ago, four young
q ladies' 10 Cincinnati were married at
the same hour. Two have since sep
arated from their husbands, and the
other two are trying to get separated.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

A small deg which recently died
IN boston, was lately sent to Ban.
gor' Me, in a ziac case and buried
at Mount Hope, near its former
mistress, on account Of whose loss it
grieYed to death.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

Eleven foreign ships are now in
Savannah. or will be there in the
next thirty days, after timber.
One firm has a contract for forty
seven million Of feet, and some Of
these vessels are now loading with a
portion Of it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

Sixteen boys we're crushed ard
iramPled to death at the Victoria
Theatre, London, on the 9th De-
eember, 10 a panic caused by a fa!sa
alarm Of fire. The excitement.
speedily srbsided, and tie perf6r1,,
Gncc srGs proceeded lciIb as EsaaI
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

An cid man in Williamson COUNT
Tenn, who is BOW 85 years of age
says he never took chew Of-tobacco.
though making millions of pounds oc
IT. 10 bis life; never smoked a eiqaF
or pipe, and never had on a pair Of
boots.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17
MR.. COBDEN.
MR.. LUCAS, THE CATHOLIC.

The ultra-montane champion, Mr..
Lucas, has a disagreeable vinegar
voice; but his taste for superstition
makes him SO habitually wrathful
with everything Protestant, that the
voice is amusingly suitable to the
themes he chiefly selects. He is one
of the few smart agents of the priests,
and his perverse oratory, which
hurts nobody but himself and the
Roman Catholic interests, is always
relief from the average dullness Of
the House.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17
NO WIT IN THE HOUSE.

ANO WI AAt I'LL AlOSpLs
We have frequently heard it asked
whether there is much wit in the
House, and have never known any
variation in the reply. Very seldom
indeed, is "a good thing" said within
these walls. Yet the House OF Com
mons is an indulgent audience, where
it likes the speaker; but if is here
as elsewhere, the most sensible anec-
dote, execrably told, will be endured
from favoIite, while an unknown
man will receive a groan in return
for an epigram. The last deliberate
ly conceived neat thing within our
recollection was said by the late Mr.
Shell, who, complimentine a noble
lord who is ever active in the cause
of christian civilization, said that be
chad made Humanity one of Shaftes.
bury's Characteristics" Ono jest
delights the House very much; in
deed, it never fails; and it must have
been heard good many thousand
times. 1t is when a speaker con.
fuses the name of the member to
whom he refers with that Of the place
for which that gentleman sits. Ac-
cidsnsally, or (such things are) by
design, LEI Senator speak of the
noble lord the member for Palmerston,
or the honorable baronet the. mem.
Der for Molesworth, and the House
goes off into roar. 1t is safe
point, like Mr. Hardcastle S anecdote
of Old Grouse in the gun-room.-
s.Your worship must not tell that
story, if we cannot laugh; l cart
help laughing at that; we have laugh
ed at it these twenty years" Among
the smaller recreations Of tSe House
is the raising terrific cry when a
member new to parliamentary man
ners accidentally walks between the
Speaker and the member speaking.
This objectionable violation Of eti-
qustte brings from all sides the most
indignant exclamations. The puz-
zled look of the criminal as be sits
down: that "what hare I done?'' is
part of the sport; and we almost fear
that by publishing the secret we
shall be depriving the House Of one
Of its innocent diversions.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-02-17

speaker in the House of Commons
His verbal resources are as remarka-
bic as bis management Of them. and
his manner is invariably that of a
gentleman. He is charged with sub.
tlety' by the grosser minds, but the
fancy that the English intellect, which
is not distinguished for its analytic
pow ers, treats the subject in a some
what jumbling form. Mr. Gladstone
inclines to the Tractarian party-the
Tractarians are no better than Jesuits
--JeSuits are proverbially subtle,and,
therefore, when Mr.. Gladstone is de-
fining very elaborately the difference
between long annuities and deferred
annuities, he is talking Jesuitically.
We believe that Mr.. Gladstone, would
be more popular orator if he would
be less explicit; but while he eAhausts
the subject, be sometimes exhausts
the listener. His refined and schol-
arly periods, the creation of the mo-
ment, but as elegantly balanced and
as keenly pointed as ifthey had been
written and studied, are always mar
vels of fluency, and often specimens
Of elvquence. /
MR.. COBDEN.
Mr.. Golden has down look, and
a manner which is neither masculine
nor polished. He hammers away
with a narrow, niggling action of the
forearm; and his arguments partake
of the same small but continuous
character; ,ill at the close you find
that despite your dislike at being
]olted onward at such a fashion, he
has proved his case from bis prem
ises.