The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1850-08-02
Mn. WrIsTER's LAST SPEECH.-Ihe

| MIR. w EBSTERS LAsi S
Washington correspondent OF the LOUIS
VILE Courier under date OF the l7th, says !:
Mr.. Webster today made one Of the
| ablest speeches OF his life IN favor OF 'he
compromise bill before the Sena'c' anu re-
ported BY the commii'ee Of thirteen. fut
" and unequivocally has he redeemed MS
pledge TO the people OF Massachusetts,
when he last visited them. that ne Shou'u
.tuke no steps backwards" And those
who, TO drive him from his position, nave
been baseIy disappearing HIM as having
determined TO vote against the measure OF
peace, have had brand placed upon their
brow bv this grea, New England statesman
that will cling to them during their pol'!'-
cal existence. Several times during us ne"
livery, the crowded galleries and lobby gave
vent TO their feelings IN the most trsnien'
dous applause, which the Speaker OF the
Senate found II impossible TO restrain. u
was even repeated after he had given no
lice that to do so would be at the risk OF
having both galleries and lobby cleared
His eulogy upon Massachusetts, the pa
lrollsm OF her citizens, and her devotion TO
the Union, was burst OF eloquence and
ora,ory combined, the influences OF which
no body of men with hearts could have re"
sisted; and it is doubtful whether the pre-.
siding officer himself die not yield his own
feelings, ia,her than attempt to execute the
order he had given notice Of.
The Cholera has broken out with fatal
malgnity, among the hands on section %
of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad,
near Winchester. and at The tunnel
Eight deaths had occurred up 10 the 18th
inst. The names are Patrick Whaler, Mr..
Gallaher. Grant Hamilton. Mrs. Mills,
Mrs. Read and child, child of Mr.. Done,
Edward Paul.
The workmen have scattered in every
direction. A melancholy incident, says
the Winchester Independent, IS connected
with the death of Mr.. Paul. He was one
Of the supern,endents of the tunnel. ma
tive of Cornwall, England, and expected
his wife in the next days stage. What
hear,rending intelligence 10 her! Instead
Of meeting the husband 10 welcome her,
his spirit is in eternity.
Winchester continued healthy, on the
l9lh.-Nash. paper.
AWFUL FATALIrY.-We copy the fol-
lowing from the Rising Sun Qa.) True
Whig, of the 2Olh instant:
A man from Pennsylvania. (name un-
known) with wife and six children. left
Cincinnati one day last week, in sk'ff,
10 tending to 60 to Madison-and when ar
irving at North Bend, his wife was taken
with the cholera and died in few hours,
her husband mailing a rough box together
and IMPEDING it IN The sand, where he left
her. On arriving al Miilersburg, a few
miles below this place, all Of the children
died but one, and were buried in a like
manner. The next day the father died, and
was buried on a sand bar by a Fisherman.
This completed the whole family, with
the exception Of a girl three or four years
old, who is now living with the Fisherman
who buried her father. This is certainly
one of the mos, remarkable cases of fatality
on record. The surviving girl is not sul>
ficenlly advanced in years TO give an &C.
curate account OF their origin or distinction,
the above being the history furnished our
informant by the old man previous 10 his
death.