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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
SHERIFFS SALE.

BY virtue Of writ of venditioni
exponas to me directed by the Cir
cult Court of Lincoln county, at
its November term, 1865, l will,
on Monday, the 9TH day of Febru-
arg, 1866, expose to sale for cash,
to the highest bidder, at the court
house door in the town of Fayette-
vile, all the right, title, claim and
interest that G. NJ. Steele has in
and to TOWN LOT situated
within the corporate limits of the
town of Fayetteville, in Civil Dis
trict No. 8, in Lincoln county,
Tennessee, and bounded as follows !.
Beginning with a new street laid
off by R. Farquharson and James
R. Bright, running with said street
"a poles, thence eastwardly 80
poles with another new street,
thence East % poles to the turn
pike road leading from Fayette-
vile to Mulberry Village, thence
with said road 8 poles to the be.
ginning, containing about l acre
and 4S poles-sold as the property
of G. NJ. Steele at the suit of M.
D. Hampton.
JOHN HI. STEELMAN,
Jan. 4, 1866. Sheriff.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
East Tennessee.

Philosopher Greedy, Published re-
Gently an article on the subject Of
"Negro Testimony in Tennessee
from which the following is an
extract:
The telegraph has informed us
that the bill allowing blacks to
testify in the courts of Tennessee,
which passed the Senate by 10 to
9, has been defeated in the House
by so to 27-the East Tennessee
Unionists generally opposing,
while many of the ex-rebels sup
ported it. This is what we had
been led to expect. Those East
Tennessee Unionists have been
permitted by a weak and worthless
UnionGeneral commanding and a
rerereasd blackguard arho is styled
Governor, to murder two or three
negroes to balance each of the pa
rolled and returned rebel soldiers
whom they have seen fit likewise
to dispatch, until they have good
reason to deprecate the admission
of negro testimony; for it would
hang. hundreds of them if there
was any semblance of law or JUS
tice in that region. According to
our information, not less than a
hundred rebels and negroes have
been butchered since June last
in and around Knoxville alone
and there will of course be more
if the strong hand of authority be
not stretched out over them.
Tennessee has many staunch
Unionists and worthy men among
her citizens; but she is neverthe-
less a Pandemonium of Passion
and crime, and no more fit to'
selt-goUernmem today than Daho-
naey. She needs the strong arm OF
military poacer stretched Deer her
for months get; and she needs
that this rule should guarantee the
freedom and legal equality of all
her people, as the solid basis of a
true reconstruction.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
Tribute Of Respect.

LYNCHBURG, Sept. 2, 1865.
Hull Lincoln Lodge No. 50IOOF
At a regular meeting of said
Lodge, Brothers A. Setliff, Sc.
H. Dance, and J. L. Bryant, who
had been previously appointed
Drafting Committee, made the fol-
lowing report which was adopted:
WHEREAS, we have been called
upon to mourn the loss of our
much esteemed and dearly beloved
Brother JAMES L. MOORE; and
whereas, the inscrutable ways of
Providence are just and right,
Notwithstanding it may be ayerse
to our feelings
Therefore Reso7ved, 1st, That
we bow in humble submission to
the will of Him who doest all
things well, and for His own glo-
ry.
Resozred, End, That in the
death of Brother Moore, Lincoln
Lodge No. so, l. o. O. F., has
lost one of its oldest and most eff
ficient members, and the Order
one of its brightest lights; society
one OF its surest props, and his
family a loving and affectionate
husband and father.
RESOLVED, Srd, That we tender
to the bereaved and affectionate
wife and children and friends of
the deceased our deepest and
most heartfelt coincidence.
Resolred, 4th, That We wear
the usual badge of mourning for
thirty days, and that we clad our
hall in mourning for the same pc.
rioG of time.
Resolved, 9Th, That a copy of
these resolutions be spread upon
our minutes, and a copy sent tc
the family of the deceased.
A true copy:
A. M. PRossER, n. G.
J. T. S. DANCE, V. G.
THOMAS j. SHAW, r. S.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

In voting upon the negro suf
frage question by the citizens of
Washington, the Evening Sta,
says sat every polling place the
best known and most decided Re
publicans in the city voted an oper
ticket against negro suffrage, thus
proclaiming that, like their fellow
Republicans in Connecticut, Indi
ana, Wisconsin, Iowa, and else.
where, while willing to grant the
negro every right due him before
the law, they are not prepared tc
make a farce of the right of suf
frage, by giving it to an ignorant
mass of negroes"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

The following resolution was
adopted at a large mass meeting
of conservatives held in Memphis
on Wednesday last:
Resolved, That our present Leg
islature has failed to comprehend
the true situation of public affairs,
and their late action in refusing to
accord to the freedmen the right to
testify in our courts of justice, is,
in our opinion, a deliberate attempt
on their part to thwart the policy
of President Johnson in reorgani-
zing the .Goveln nent of these
States, and restoring them to their
former position in the Union un-
der the Constitution.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

CONFEDERATE MONEY NO Cur.
RENCY.-It has been decided by
the Supreme Court, recently, in
the case of Cantrell, ct ais VS.. w.
Overton, that Confederate Money
having been issued against public
policy and without authority of
law, was neither a good or valu-
able consideration.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

Parson Brownlow's paper says
that the editor of this paper has
recently been taken off the streets
of Nashville, in a drunken condi-
ton by negroes. If this were true,
it only proves that the negro is an
excellent judge of a gentleman.
A negro recently bucked Brown
low off the pavement, at Knox
ville.-Mattdnooga Gazette.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

A dispatch from Washington
says: The civil courts have recent
ly tried several persons for the
occupancy of estates deserted by
rebel owners and leased to them
by the United States Government
and rendered judgments against
them Damages and costs have
been adjudged against others prov.
en- to have acted during the war as
scouts and spies for the Union ar.
mics, and through whose supposed
information the rebel owners were
despoiled of their cattle and for.
age.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
INSOLVENCY.

DURSUANT to an order of the Clerk of
u the County Court of Lincoln county.
Tenn, uron the suggestion Of the administra-
tor of the estate Of Nancy Rhea, dec, of the
insolvency of saic decedents estate: notice
is hereby given to all persons having claims
against said estate to present them to the
Clerk OF said Court, authenticated. on or be-
lore the list OF June next, for pro rata
troution or thew viii be forever declared.
dec Il, 1856 ANDREW Z. RHEA, Atm.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

A celebrated old violin was sold
at auction few days since in
Baltimore. This famous cremona
caused a large attendance of must
clans from various cities. The
fiddle was started at 500; it ran
up rapidly to 500, some fifteen
claiming that as his bid, and final
ly was knocked down to BaIti-
more man at 5000.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

The Cincinnati Enquirer says of
Gen. Joe Hooker, whose condition
was lately reported as critical, that
paralysis has made sad work with
his fine physical frame and hand.
some face. One whole side of his
body has lost its vitality, and
hangs fabid and loose, like a wilt
ed hand.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

The latest Chicago sensation is
the elopement of a young and
pretty married woman with two
married men, either old enough to
be her father. These Lotharios
sold their families into beggary
and borrowed several thousand
dollars of their friends. 1t is
known that the runaways left via
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago Railroad. tits suspected
Cincinnati is their destination.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
INSOLVENCY.

DURSUANT to an order of the Clerk Of
IL the County Court of Lincoln county,
Tenn, upon the suggestion Of the administra-
tor Of the estate of W. C Bray, dec, of
the insolvency of said decedent's estate !; no.
tice is hereby given to all persons having
claims against said estate to present them to
the Clerk Of said Court, authenticated, on or
before the Est Of June next, for pro rata
or they will be forever debarred.
dec 81. 1855 J. F. GREGORY, Adm.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

In his inaugural address on the
4th of March last, as Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, Mr..
johnson used this emphatic Ian
guage:
at is the doctrine of the Fed
eral constitution, that no State
can go out of this Union; and
moreover Congress cannot reject
a State from this Union. Thank
God, Tennessee has never been out
of the Union! 1t is true the OPP
erations of her government were
for time interrupted; there was
an interregnum; but she is still in
the Union, and / am her represen
tative. This day she elects her
Governor and her Legislature,
which will be convened on the
first Monday of April, and again
her Senators and Representatives
will soon mingle with those of her
sister States; and who shall gain
say it, for the constitution requires
that to every State shall be grant
ed republican form of Govern
ment."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
INSOLVENCY.

DURSUANT to an order of the Clerk of
IL the County Court Of Lincoln county,
Tenn, upon the suggestion of the administra
tor of the estate OF T. B. Gtsnter, dec, Of the
insolvency of said dece6ent's estate; notice
is hereby given to all persons having claims
against said estate to present them to the Clerk
of said Court, authenticated, on or before the
Est Of June next, for pro rata distribu-
ton. or they will be forever debarred.
Nov 80, VIM. GUNTER, Adm.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

One of the largest shareholders
in Southern Kentucky has gone
mad on account of the liberia
ton of his slaves, and is now an
inmate of the lunatic asylum at
Hopkinsville, KY. He owned
over 200 negroes, and had accu-
mulated by their labor a large for
tune. He was probably worth
100000 independent of his
slaves.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

Governor Humphreys, of Mis-
sissippi, has ordered the disarmine
of the negroes in that State. This
action has been found necessary
IN consequence of the recent VIC
lent demonstrations of certain
armed bands of blacks in the
counties bordering on Tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
sHERIFF.s SALE.

DY Write of writ of vendi,ioni expon az
II issued to me from the Circuit Court of
Lincoln county, Tennessee, in the case Of
McElroy & Alexander es Seafcy g McKin-
ney, Will, on Monday. HE 5tla day Of
February next, expose for So .. at the
court house door In the town OF Fayetteville,
to the highest bidder for CASH. ths
House andLof
formerly occupied by said Searcy & McKin-
ney as a Drug Store, being about 22Iz feet
front by 80 feet back. being botnded on th,
West by Wright & Trantham, North and
Rast by W. f. Kercheval, and South by th,
Public Square. Levied on as the property o
Searcy & Mckinney, to satisfy judgmen
in favor of McElroy & Alexander.
JOHN Il. STEELMAN,
jan 4, 1856 Shsf
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
An Act to Supply Lost
Deeds and Title Papers,.

Whereas, under the casualties
of war, many of the records be-
longing to the several offices of
the Registers of the different
Counties in the State, have been
lost and destroyed, and it is nee
essary to preserve, as far as posi-
bic, the muniments of title to land;
therefore,
| BE 1t enacted by the General As
sembly Of the State of Tennessee,
That the present or any subsequent
owner of land in this State may,
for the purpose of perpetuating
the evidence of his title to his
land, carry to any of the Registers
Of the Counties in this State where
his land or lands are situated, the
original conveyances which may
be in his possession or the posses.
sion of any one else, and have the
same recorded by said Register in
the Registers books, together
with the certificate attached to said
original conveyances, showing
that it had been previously duly
registered; and if the owner of the
land should be informed of the ex
|istence of any original conveyance
in the possession of any third par
ty who will not voluntarily pro
duce it for registration, then the
Register, on the application of the
owner of the land in writing, may
cause a subpoena dasces tecum to is
sue, to compel the holder to pro
duce said deed or conveyance, Sc
that it may be registered for the
security of the title of the clai
mant or owner. The Register
shall receive the same fees as now
fixed by law for similar services
to be paid by the applicant. Anc
this Act shall take effect from anc
after its passage.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

Official reports just published
show that in Northern and North
western Arkansas there arelOO, 900
individuals widows, orphans, de-
crepid people, old and young,)
who have been left entirely desti-
tute by the war.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

A SLIGHT SURpR1sE.-It will not
escape attention that some signifi-
cant amplifications are contained in
the proclamation of Secretary Sc
ward. For instance, it is assumed
that the States of Tennessee, Lou
isiana, North Carolina, South Car
olina, Virginia, Georgia, and Ala
bama, Gf not the other seeded
States are now absolutely in the
Union, so that any act they may
do in consonance with State pow
ers is valid to all intents and pur-
poses, and hence theirsmembers of
Congress duly chosen are entitled
of right to admission, unless indi-
vidually debarred by purely per-
sonal objects. This will surprise
many who have not thus interpre-
ted the position of the administra-
ton. 1t gives a new turn to the
reconstruction question, which can
not but invest its consideration in
Congress with enhanced interest.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

Amani in Albany,N. turned his
little son out doors the other night,
and the poor boy was found al
most frozen to death. The place
destined for the father will not be
so cold.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

The New York Tribune has a
letter from Constantinople, dated
November Oath, which says =:
"The cholera continues to rage in
Asiatic Turkey. At Aleppo, Nor
ash and Adana it has been as ma.
lignant as in Constantinople. 1t is
said that eleven thousand have
died at Aleppo of the epidemic,
and it has again just broken out
anew there. In Constantinople
and in most of the cities of Turkey
there are still sporadic cases, but
nothing like an epidemic. The
locusts are SO abundant in Syria
thatitis feared the pestilence there
will be succeeded by famine. AT
Aleppo, wheat has already doub.
led in price
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

The Augusta Constitutionalist
has been authorized to state that
persons wishing information in re-
gard to prisoners of war who have
died at Camp Douglas, Illinois,
can ascertain by addressing E. S.
Jordan, Box GIG, Chicago, Hi
neis...
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

The Boston Traveller has seen q
memorial circulating in that city
for signatures, which asks Con-
gress to impeach and remove Pres.
ident ] ohnson.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

Joseph Ashley, a Fall River
Mass glutton, recently under
took on bet of $25, to eat a tur-
key, weighing nine pounds, at one
sitting. He accomplished the
task i'll 80 minutes.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
The National Banks.

Many inquiries having been
made as to the consequences of a
failure of any of the National
Banks, authorized by the Govern
ment, and there being some unea-
mess felt at the report of the fail
urc of four of them in the North,
we copy the following from the
commercial of the New Orleans
Crescent, which explains the whole
question:
The failure of four National
Banks at the North to redeem their
circulation in q. S. treasury notes
has created petty panic among
some holders of this currency.
Yesterday, we are informed, at
least, of the city market, it was
refused by the butchers. Under
these circumstances, and in order
TO prevent ill-informed holders
from selling at a discount, the
First National Bank promptly
gave notice through the press,
that it was ready to redeem ALL
National Banks at its counter, at
par, in U. S. treasury notes. In
the meantime, some money deal
ers were exchanging city treasu-
ry notes for them at par, and all
the banks and dealers were re-
ceiving them on deposit, and in
some cases, exchanging Legal ten
der notes for them to accommodate
timid holders.
1t is evident that the public do
not appreciate the fuIness in the
provisions of the National Bank
ing Law, to save the holders of the
bank circulation from loss. In
the first instance, the bank is COM
PEELED to deposit with the Comp
troller of the Currency, United
States Bonds to the amount of at
least one-third of its capital. The
Comptroller then issues to the
banks in circulating notes ninety
per cent. of the market value of
the securities deposited-but in nc
case more than par--reserving
the ten per cent. as margin for
the protection, not of the holders
of the notes, but of the Govern
ment, which IN any eUent, is bound
to pay the full face of the notes in
lawful money of the United States;
that is if the securities deposit
ed were suddenly to become val
ueless, the Government would be
the loser, not the note holder.
The proceedings in the case of a
bank failure are prompt and SIM
pie. The holder of the banks bills
presents them at the counter for
redemption in lawful money. 1t
is refused. The holder then pro
tests them formally, and the notary
sends the protest. to the Comptroller
of the currency. The Comptroller
makes further investigation into
the facts and on being satisfied of
the failure, is bound within forty
days thereafter, to declare the de-
posted securities forfeited to the
Government. Thereupon the
Secretary of the Treasury is re.
quired to direct the holders of the
notes of the broken bank to pre-.
sent them at the United States
Treasury at Washington, for pay.
ment, when they will be paid in
lawful money of the United States.
There are other provisions in the
law to guard the Government q.
gainst essential loss, but, standing
in the position of endorser of the
notes, the Government is bound
to pay them in lawful money
whatever may be the result to it
self.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

A fat man in Paris sold his
body to the surgeons for two hun
dred francs, went on spree with
the money, died, and was imme-
diately cut up.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph es
Inmates the number of negroe:
now in that city at eight thousand
and states that such is the NOR.
tally among them that they are
dying off at the rate of five hun.
dred q month.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

In Sacramento, recently, a
woman procured the release of
her husband from Jail, and that
night ran off with another fellow.
Her object in procuring her hus-
bands release was to leave some
one with the children.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

A New York paper thinks that,
instead of amending the Constitu-
ton, the Radicals ought to learn
to obey it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

The New York Central Rail.
road has thirty thousand dollars
invested in little brass baggage
checks. Thirty thousand pieces
of baggage are sometimes checked
at Albany In a single month.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

A man in New York has brought
an action in one of the courts to
recover $4,000 damages of the
compiler of the City Directory for
putting him down as "colored,"
when in fact he is white.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

Washington correspondents re-
port a strong belief in official cir.
Icles that the Tennessee congress.
sional delegation will be admitted
to their seats within ten days af
ter Congress re-assembles, and
most Of the other Southern Con-
gressmen elect will be admitted by
the first Of February. Another
effort to refer the claims of these
to the committee on elections will
be made.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18


DIR. Barry, a surgeon in the En-
glish army, recently died at Corfu.
He was well known as a skill
full surgeon, and bore a reputation
for great eccentricity. On his
death-bed he gave orders that he
should be buried as he lay, with
out the usual preparation given to
the bodies of the dead. This ex-
cited the curiosity of the attend
ants, and before placing him in
his coffin, they made an exami-
nation, discovering that the doc
tor was woman.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
In the olden and the flush times

In the olden and the flush times
no one of our many exchanges
was more welcome to this table
than the Fayetteville Observer
We take great pleasure in direct
ing the attention of our business
men to the card of our old friend
N. 0. Wallace, in another column.
The Observer is state institution,
and deserves to be perpetuated.-
1t circulates through the wealth.
est portions of the State, and is an
excellent advertising medium
Nashville Banner.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

Printing paper in New York is
now worth t'oenty cents per pound.
It used to be sic.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18
A late California letter contains

A late California letter contains
the following paragraph:
"Writing of Mrs. Lincoln re-
minds me of the widow of old
Ossawattamie Brown. who is now
living at Red Bluff, in this State.
Mention has been made in this
correspondence of fund that the
admirers of John Brown, the
martyr of Harper's Ferry" were
raising i'll this State, with which
to purchase a homestead. The
fund has at last been raised, but
it don't pan out well, to use a
miners phrase. Four lots have
been purchased on the west side
of Main street, in the South end
of Red Bluff, and inclosed with a
neat board fence. A contract has
been made with carpenters in that
town to build a dwelling for the
widow Brown, for the enormous
sum of $3.50, on those lots. 1t is
to be finished in January. So
that will be the home of the wild
ow Brown and her three children.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-18

The BANK OF TENNEssEE.-The
notes of this bank now held by
individuals, are estimated at S..
100000, onc-half old, and one.
half new issue. Whatever be-
comes of the latter, it is thought
by good judges that the former
will reach almostpar. The indebt.
edness to the bank is very large,
and it can hardly happen that any
legislation will prevent the bank
from receiving its own notes in
payment of this Indebtedness.