The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1850-07-19
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and he seemed to be likeness. Bloot
flowed from his mouth. and got ;
sponge and wiped it away. | go
some ammonia and applied it to hi.
nose. but without effect. Perhaps
spent ten minutes in attempts tt
recuscilate him; but found that he
was absolutely dead. In my horror
and CONSERVATION | ran inslinctivel,
md boIted the doors of the lecture
room and the la horatory below. And
then what was to do? 1t never oc.
cured to me to go out and declare
what had been done, and obtain a.sis
lance. ! saw nothing but the alter.
'ative of a successful removal and
:onceaIment Of the body, on the one
nand, and of infamy and destruction
IN the other"
The confession then goes on to
state the manner in which the body
was subsequently dismembered, &C.,
hut these details are 80 horrible that
we must be excused from copying
them.
THE PRESIDENTS DEATH.
The President of the United States
has just breathed his last. The cham.
her in which he died is filled with an
anxious and synrpathizing crowd
How often shalt we have to exclaim.
lin the memorable words of Edmund
Burke, What shadows we are, and
what shadows we pursue In little
more than nine years two Presidents
|of the United States have been hurried
away, covered as they were with all
the honors which their country could
bestow upon them. Scarce twelvc-
month ago. the lamented predecessor
of General Taylor was taken from
US. But Mr.. Folks office had expired,
and his work was done. In less than
four months, two of the distinguished
sons Of South Carolina, and senators
of the United States, have breathcG
! tt cir last; and scarcely had their
country ceased to weep over their
graves, before the President of the
United States descends to the tomb
amid the sympathies of his astonisheL
countrymen.
This melancholy event will fall like
II thunder.clap upon the people. II
is an event full of the saddest interest
calculated to astonish and startIe a
whole nation. and to touch every heart
in it. 1t is destined to produce conse-
|quences to the country which no
mortal man has sufficient sagacity to
|unroll.
In this grave and awful moment.
the heart is full Of the pro'oundest
|sympathies and regrets. But we have
no time to pour them forth at this
moment. A thousand other pens will
hereafter co Justice tc the iIIustrious
deceased. We bury in his honored
tomb every unkind or unworthy feel.
ing which we might ever have enter.
|tained. General la. Tor rises before
Jus in ali the glory OF the Hero, in all
THE maje,ty of the Patriot, whose
name is associated with some of the
most brilliant achievements in our
annals. who has carried the fame of
ibis country to the remntest nations.|
and whose reputation will never die
The name of the Hero of Palo Alto|
and Buena Vista will live as long as|
|the name of the nation whose Standard
he SO often bore to victory and to|
glory. These deeds are indelibly
written on the TABLET of n nation's|
gratitude. - Washington Union.
The New York Express makes the
following quotation from a recent
article in the London Times on theI
subject Of aliG"rnia:
1.-The Old World is very slow to|
California. 1t is as anna
'zed and stnpi fed at the spectacle as
"a man who has seen wild beast, or
"a meteor. or IN exceedingly imperti.
'nent stranger. Every step in ,he|
progress of this dashing new State|
seems to take US by surprise; and by|
the time we open our eyes wide
enough to take in one wonder, an.
.other is announced. While our geol.
'ogists were talking about auriferous|
streams, and granite. and quartz, there
were assembled on the bays and
rivers of California a community Of a
hundred thousand men--now per.
haps Of double that number. While
our humorists were indulging in grim
Jokes at the vicissitudes and perils OF
California existence. conventions had
been held. council had been elected.
order had trlumphed. and the laws
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