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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
A Seri GUS Mistake at a Church Sa.
erament and the Consequences.

FROM The winchester lH.) enron.
icle, July 10th, We take the follow
ing:
Last Sabbath was quarterly meet
ing Of the NJ. E. Church, and, as usu-
al on such occasions, the Sacrament
was administered. After the meet
ing ad journed, the members went
their several ways; some to dine with
friends 10 towD, some to their homes
in the country. In about an hour
the doctors were in requisition in
every direction; the whole member
ship was seized with simultaneous
bilious attack, and the demand for
medical agents was general. The
first smell Of the sump!uOus' din
ners prep AIRED provoked sudden and
involuntary eructatioDs on the part
of all the orthodox members of the
respective families. The venerable
Peter Cartwright, Presiding Elder,
for whom extra preparations had OF
course been made, retired from the
prospect as dinner cam, on, a little
bent over, with both hands placed
below his vest buttons, declaring that
he didn't feel like eating One
brother is said TO have made for bis
house, half bent, and with groau
tumbled on to the bed, and in reply
to his wife's WHAT'S the matter?
exclaimed in d dispairing tone 90
I've got the cholera The epi'dem.
ic spread all through the country
exciting considerable alarm, and occa.
sioning general casting up Of &C.
counts. But the panic subsidized
when it was asoertsined that anti
monial wine had been. by mistake
administered to the whole body o.
communicates We understand that
Uncle Peter said it was the frs
time he ever knew an attempt tt
vomit the devil out Of church.
Although it was serious m after
the sinners, owing to the Hardness;
Of their hearts, did laugh.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
The Someryille, Tenn, Democrat

The Somerville, Tenn, Democrat
is in favor Of keeping the subject OF
Protection Of Slavery in the Terri
tories out of Congress. That paper
says: The question of Congress
sional Protection ia calculated to re-
suit in DO good to the South. 1t has
been sprung upon the country when
there was not shadow Of necessity
for it. THE rights of the South have
not been disregarded by the local AL.
thorities OF the Territories. When
these rights are disregarded, then it
will be time enough to discuss the
propriety of Congressional interven.
ton. When the judiciary proves in
adequate to protect those rights,
then will be time enough to demand
Congressional protection. The agi-
tatiOn Of the question at this time,
lis unnecessary, ineXpedient, and
fraugbt with mischief Let it be
kept out of Congress-
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
The Vote fer Governor.

The general run Of She vote con-
tinues to be about the same as here.
tofore. There is still a heavy in
crease over any former vote, and Gov
HARRIS continues to maintain a ma
jority exceeding that for BUCHANAN
in 1856. His majority will, we still
think, exceed eight thousand, bu'
probably will not reach nine thousand
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
GOOD
g y . y y 81
An Abolition Emissary.

Redpath, who was sent to Kansas
to maui fscture outrages AID lies
for the Eastern market, has just
published book, entitled "The
Rowing Editor, or talk with Slaves
in Southern States. It is publish
ed by Burdick, N. Y. On page SOC
of this book, Redpath makes the fol-
loving precious confession:
Il believed that civiE wdr be-
tween the North and South woul q
ultimate in instruction, and that the
Kansas troubles would probably Gre
ate a military conflict OF the sections
Hence left the South and went to
Kansas, and underworld personally
and by my pen, to precipitate revo-
luton"
lie has since gone to Hayti, and
is now there studying the SUBJECT OF
insurrectioa, and prophesying the
massacre Of the whites in the South,
Yet Tour years ago, 1655 accord
inc to the Savannah News, be was
porter for that paper, which says:
1--WE employed him for a time.
but found it difficult to restrain his
rampant zeal in the cause OF the
South. Some of bis articles on the
slavery question were SO bitterly de-
nunciatory and so personally abusive
of Greeley and other prominent
abolitionists, that we rejected them
as out of place in the columns OF a
Southern paper, suggesting to him
That il be really wished to enllghten
the people of lhe North upon a
subject on which our people we're
fully informed and needed no instrue-
ton, he should send bis articles, to
some Northern journal. lie did
so, and several able arguments from
his pen 10 defence of Slavery and
the South, in which he lost no op'
portuni.y to pitch into the abolition
lists, appeared in the New York pa
pers. After remaining with us a
few months, he paid visit North,
bot returned South as far as Angus
Ia, FROM whence be addressed US a
letter asking US to employ him
again in the News. This we, for va
rious reasons, declined to do, and
the next we heard Of our Mr.. Red
path, be was figuring conspicuously
in Kansas as the incendiary cores
ponlent Of the New York Tribune. !"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

SUBSTITUTE FOR A WIFE.-They
have invented on alarm clock, which
not only wakes you up at any hour
in the morning, but lights candle,
and boiIs cup of coffee for you "a
drink when you are dressed! All ii
wants is little extra machinery tc
enable it to tuck you up in bed at
night. cook your dinner at noos, dc
the ehamber-work, darn your stock
ipgs. play yankee-docala, and an
swer the door-bell. Then who'll want
% wile?- Erchapge.
Why, yOu' would. That machine
is equal to no wife at all. Who
we'd Iika to know, is to half-sole
your trousers. spank the baby, black
your boots, and wash out the spit
toon?
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

PoPuLAR.-The Black Republican
doctrine Of Intervention by Congress
in the affairs Of the Territories is
exceedingly popular among the Up
position at the South. The Opposi
ton State Convention in Georges
lately resolved that Congress car
legisIate on The subject of slavery
in the Territories : precisely what
the Philadelphia platform resolved
but only in one way, for its protec-
ton; while the Black Republicans
insist that the legislation mus. be
for its exclusion he same principle
exactly. with only a difference OF
application. The Georgia Black Re
publicans have infinite faith In the
virtues OF Intervention. So says
the Detroit (Mich.) Free Press.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
Criminal puetry.
Written far the Fayetteville Observer.
Ais Mystery.
BY W.

When we behold the world around,
And view creation far and wide.
The strangest things are often found,
With common ones both side by side
Though here and there form may be,
OF something great or small in size,
The strangest thing in it we see,
Is something's there to make US wise
For when abroad we cast our ewes
No matter what thing we can see,
Its nature. when we anaiyze.
Involves it all in mystery
Go ask the wind. the cloud, the mist,
Or atom of the smallest worth,
If otherwise it could exist
Except obscure like mother earth"
Go ask the forest dense and wide
And mountains of prodigiouS height
If ever they spot espied,
Or aught devoid OF myst'ries night.
Go TO the Ocean round US hurled,
And to the brilliant rolling streams,
Ard ask the lakes of all the world,
If earth with aught than wonder teens
In reasons voice responding clear,
The forest mountains, ocean said,
When earth assum ed her mystic sphere,
In myst'ry too, we all were made.
The mighty earth then moving on,
Arrayed in graadeur's richest robe,
Conceals alike in ms st'ry's gloom,
The compositions of our globe
But why are we to wonder brought?
Why strive TO cross the narrow bound,
Or limit Of the human thought
To seek for causes never found
When earthly scenes we leave behind,
And soar uhere spirits dwell alone.
Mysteries there may be defined,
When 1--WE shall know as We are known
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
[ HriIen far the Fayetteville Observer.
TIE VALE
By RENBUH.

Sweet Valet again ! seek
Thy cool and silent shade,
Where zephyr, fan my cheek
With cdors from the glade.
All to this aching heart
Thy silence brings relief,
Unseen my tears cen start,
Those solaces of grief,
There. where the gloomy oak
Its sombre shadow filings,
VIII | the muse invoke
And touch the mournful strings.
The lowly glen shall hear
The sad, though tender tone,
And soft wirds linger near
Ere to The hills they roam.
The silv'ry stream that flows
So softly past my feet
Shall listen to my woes,
And every strain repeat
The birds shall cease their song
And listen to the strain,
Or in the boughs prolong
The musical refrain.
Thus shall my moments fee
In balmy peace along,
a tireless liberty
Enjoyed with harp and song,
Free from the worlds control
I'll shun her sinful ways,
And with quiet soul
Live my allotted days.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
C0BgreSsmen Elected.

The following is a correct list O.
the members Of Congress elected:
Know-Nothing. Democrat.
Thos, a. Il. Nelson, jas. II. Thomas
Horace Maynard, Jno. '. Wright
r. B. BrabsoD. w. 7, Avery.
w. B. Stokes,
Robt. Hatton,
Emerson Etheridge,
Jas. NJ. Quarles.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

Mr.. W. T. Aymar, a flvorito per-
former in the Losise Wells eques-
TRAN trvupe, is about making ar
engagements to 10 some svmersaults
at aNiagra which will entirely eclipse
NJ, Blondin's feat in tight rope walk
ing. He proposes, if Mr.. Porter
will allow scalfeldiDg to be erected
on Goat Island, TO turn somer-
sault down into the water at the
foot Of the Island, depth Of one
hundred and seventy feet from the
point where he springs. He chooses
this place because it is the only one
with sufficient depth Of eater, and
clear of rocks, for him to nligbt in
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

The next delegation from Ken
utcky will stand 5 Democrats and 5
Opposition. The Democrats vii
have a handsome majority in both
the Senate and Lower House of the
Legislature, which insures good
Democrat to the United States Sen
ate in place of John j. Crlttenden
One thousand cheers for old Ken
lucky!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
Tuesday night, says the Newbury

Tuesday night, says the Newbury-
port (Mass.) Herald, was time to
try watch-spriugs. Stepping into a
watchmaker's on Wednesday, we
found half dozen watches, the
maiuspriDgs Of which had broken the
night before, during the thunder
storm, when the whole atmosphere
seemed charged with electricity. 1t
often happens that the state of the
weather produces like results.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

The most satisfactory way of ex'
pressing a young lady's age is aceor-
ding to the present style of skirts
by saying that eighteen springs
had passed over her head. Louis
uiNe Journal. ;.
But unfortunately, it is difficult
to find q lady now, Of whom it may
not be said that thirty springs have
passed over her head.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

An awkward mistake occurred to n
German paper in Wheeling one day
last week. The name of well known
preacher WIS inadvertently placed at
the bottom Of lager beer saloon adj
vertisement, and the lager beer man
was announced to preach at the rev.
erend gentleman's church. 1t was
a simple transpositiou Of names, and
might have occurred under the most
careful eyes, yet behold what jun
ble,t types made. They had to is
sue handbills to set it right.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

At Buffalo, N Y, Spring Wheat is
selling so low that the distillers are
purchasing it for the manulact ure Of
whiskey. On Saturday last, the dis
tillers cleaned the market, or nearly
so, buying $4,000 bushels Standard
Chicago Spring a! Coo. About six
thousand bushels Milwaukee Club sold
at the same price.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

We learn from the UEion and A
merican that Nashville is at last to
have a first class hotel. 1t is TO be
erected by John Overtou, Esq, Che
richest man in the State) aud is to
be exempt from city taxation for ten
years. The building.is to be com.
menced at as early day as possible,
and pushed to speedy completion,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

A physician in Louisville has dis
covered that by living principally on
bnttermilk. human being may pro-
long existence to the period Of two
hundFed years.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
REPUTATION. The magistrate

REPUDIAT!oN.-The magistrates
composing the levy Court Of Ohio
county, Va, which includes the city
of Wheeling, had served upon them
recently peremptory writ Of manda-
mus from the Circuit Court of that
county, requiring them to levy a
tax for the payment OF the interest
due on The bonds Of the county is
sued TO the Hemfeld Railroad CON-
pany. The Court on the 1st inst.
in the face of the mandamus, refused
by vote, to make the levy.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

Some ten days ago u cat in Cape
Elizabeth had litter Of four kittens,
one OF which is minusa tail, aud in
stead of fore paws, these limbs resem-
bic the hands Of a little child, which
are slightly covered with hair. 1t
also walks backwards.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

The Wisconsin Methodist Confer
ence has expelled Rev. j. w. Wood,
for what they call scriptural adultery,
which consists in marrying second
wife while the first is living from
whom he was legally divorced, bat
not Tor the reason for which the
Bible allows divorce.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

The Lynchburg Republican says
they have no recollection of any year
in which such unanimous testimony
was borne in relation to the abundant
return which has rewarded the labors
Of the farmer. = Erchangs.
The Republican simply means that
everybody agrees that the crops in
that section are uncommonly fine.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

Mr.. Pratt was fled $50 in Mem
phis for whipping bis wife, The
Judge said, as salve to bis feelings,
that it was no great harm to whip
some wives, provided the public
we're not disturbed by the opera
ton,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

A letter from Virginia states that
the crop of wheat is most excellent
as good as it was taree years ago
oats better than they have been
in ten years; corn, while much OF
it is small, is of fine color and
growing rapidly; tobacco is doing well
and stands finely.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

Fifteen millions Of dollars. will be
needed in the West dnring the next
three months, to move the heavy
harvest TO market. So Says the
Nashville Banner
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
Stone Shop !

TNHE undersigned has opened a NEESsN
Il shop in Petersburg, and is pre- q
pared TO execute all Kinds of work =
in his line, whether for buildings or NJ
grave-yardS, in satisfactory manner, ~
and on terms cheaper than can be .
had in any other town. Orders respectfully
solicited and promptly filed.
Nav 5-3nss. w. II. PEACH.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18

The yellow fever has broken out 10
two small Mexican towns on the Rio
Grande, and in three days two hun.
drcd and for,y-three persons died Of
:.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1859-08-18
FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER
FREE Of POSTAGE IN LINCOLN co,
N. 0. WALLACE. Editor.

0FFIcE--Attaes same Old Stand: Sign Of the
"Obssrre' Printing 0fce.''
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-18

new union was formed, the old one saved, and an
other glorious victory" is to be achieved BY Re
publicahs.
We give these facts, because we have not seen
them set down in the Republican history Of the con-
vention, which was an immensely large one. We
think nobody expects Judge Gholson, IL elected, to
announce any revolutionary law on the question Of
slave rendition. He is represented as q conssrva-
tive man of wealth and talent, an able lawyer and
one with a very full share Of adherence Of Abo:
litionism. lie once figured in Congress. IN the
days of John Quincy Adams as a slaveboldet
from Mississippi. He had the justice to manu-
init his slaves. previously to his removal to Cincin-
natl. He may be q much better man than the
dough faced Swan, this honorable antecedentl looks
like it, but as we have said, we believe the Repub-
licans who nominated him, do not expect him 10
revolutionize against our federal kidnapping gov
eminent. The resolutions CT the Convention very
prudently do not ask it of him. So the Republic
an party at its next election will do nothing to re-
deem the State from its subserviency to fugitive
slave commissioners, nothing to protect even the
members of its own party from tho tyranny Of
Federal Judges. Yours,
A LOoKER-ON.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-18
SAVANNAH VS.. CLEVELAND.

Tha a~cquittal Of Capt. Townsend, Of the SLAYER
Echo, has already been announced, and yesterday
we gave the points Of law involved ia the decision.
One or two Of these points which como strikingly
in contrast with the rulings Of the United States
Court in Cleveland, during the recent Fugitive
Slave Rescue trials there, will give a tolcrnble
commentary on the justice which is now being
mc,ed out TO the offenders of the United States
laws. To prove that the ownership Of the Echo
was vested 10 Townsend, the prosecution produced
from the records Of the New Orleans Custom
House, n certified COPY of her register, in which
Townsend was represented to be the actual owner.
But the learned Judge held, first, that being a
copy, this document conld not be admitted in evil
dence and second, that if it were admitted, it did
prove Townsend to be the owner. Compare this
want of faith 10 a well authenticated and legal
document, with the ruling of the United States
Court in Cleveland, where a power of attorney,
Issued by q deputy clerk OF a Kentucky court,
was admitted as the best Of evidence, even though
a deputy clerk could not be recognized as an officer
Of another court in another district. In the one
case, no credence is put in a document from a
proper source in the other, full credence is placed
in a document from an improper source; and both
decisions are carefully adapted IT, meet the re-
quirements of the slave power.
Again in the Echo trial, to prove tho same
point, the District Attorney offered in evidence,
the original bill of sale, from q former owner to
Townsend but it was rejected, because the hand
writing Of the party who executed it was not pro-
we'd. In the Cleveland trial on the other hand, a
warrant for tho arrest Of q fugitive purporting to
be from n U. S. Commissioner, but somehow lack
ing the necessary seal, and also emanatiug from
another district, was held to be admissible testi-
mony; and freemen were sentenced to months Of
imprisonment on such imperfect evidence. Lastly;
The fact of actual possession of the vessel was rul-
ed out as insufficient in the case of Townsend
while in the other case, tho mere oath as to q prior
possession was considered amply sufficient to es
tablish an ownership of q slave, which ownership
for aught that appeared to the court, as truly
vested in six other men as in the claimant. Such
extraordinary ruling, and ruling to suit circum-
stances, we have never heard of before. We en-
terrain no hostility to the U. S. Courts, so long
ms their deeds and decisions are characterized by
genuine regard for the principles of law and
Justice. But If the interests of slavery are to be
held Of paramount Importance, we think it high
time the facts should be known and action taken
accordingl - Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-18
From the New York Times.
GOVERNOR CHASE AT THE CLEVELAND
MEETING.

A meeting Of some six thousand persons was
held at Cleveland. on the Oath ult., to denounce
the Fugitive Slave Law, in view Of its enforcement
against the Oberlin prisoners. Tho published call
invited all 'foes of slavery and despotism." and
stigmatized the proceedings of the District Court as
a "despotic usurpation Of power" Joshua r. Gid
dings presided. Among the prominent persons
present was Gov. Chase. who. upon invitation. adj
dressed the concourse. His remarks were brief
and sensible. Concurring with those who heard
him in dislike Of the Fugitive Law, he yet coun-
seled no forcible resistance. On the contrary, his
advice was to oppose it through the ballot box
alone,b by electing men to Congress and to the Pres
idency who would repeal it. lie did not even as
sail its cons,itutionali;y. but left that question,
to the proper tribunals. Safe and Federal. For
those who were lying in Jail, within the sound
of his voice. by reason Of having resisted the ex-
%ecution of that enactment, in obedience. as they
claimed, to the dictates Of their consciences, the
Governor had no word Of commentator. % the
law-abiding.
Whether Governor Chase's speech came up to
the spirit and temper of the meeting, we are una
BILE to say. 1t is represented by the Cleveland pa
pers as having been well received. Certainly its
toneand the character of it's recommendation were
such as became bin, both officially and personally.
The fugitive Slave Law is no doubt as odious to
him as it can be to any Of his auditors, but he,
nevertheless, recognizes the duty of all good citi-
gems to refrain from violence, aud to abats bad
laws IN lawful manner.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-06-18
The S7dre Trade.

Resolved, That the suppression of the African
and foreign slave trade by the Federal Govern
ment. after the year eighteen hundred and soven,
is one of tho compromises on the faith of which
the Constitution was adopted, and non-slavehold
ing States firmly established; that a revival OF
that trade would not only renew those ~cruelties
which once provoked the indignation of the civil
lied world, but would expose the slavaholdirg
States to q constant tel ror of servile instruction,
and the nonslaveholding States of the border, like
Ohio. to all the mischiefs and annoyance Of . free
black population; for these reasons, with others
the Democracy of Ohio are opposed to any suct
revival, and 70 measures tending in that dirsc
| ton.