The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-04-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, March 81


pubic men and especially those connected
with Congress and the Administration, take
an opportunity Of presenting themselves
before the people; and we now learn that
many of them are travelling or about to
make tours in different parts Of the country.
Mr.. Clay has gone South; Mr.. Seward is
constantly on the wing; Mr.. Douglas is
about to return from the South and 90 TO
New York; Gen. Houston is soon to 90
North; Mr.. Webster having accomplished
his Maryland excursion. is soon to 90 TO
Harrisburg. The President will 60 to
New. \ ork IN June. Gen. Scott is under
orders TO 90 South on the commission 10
select site for Military ASYLUM. Gen.
Cass is TO visit PENNSYLVANIA and New
York. MIR. Corwn and several of the
members Of the Cabinet are 70 leave the
city as soon as the state of public business
will permit it.
Mr.. Webster will attend a festival to be
given at Harrisburg, by The Pennsylvania
Legislature, in celebration Of the compro-
mise measures, of the principles of the
tlielzemann letter, and the invita,ion of
Kossu,h and hla companions to this coun
try, sc.
A protracred Cabinet meeting was held
on Saturday. and, ms it is said, upan the
subject Of some projected removals and
appointments. The late removals of Sc
ward men in New.York, and the subs,i'u.
ton Of Fillmore men, have excited con-
siderable sensation.
The Wing members of the Legislature
OF Delaware, have nominated Gen. Scott
for the Presidency. So far as such de-
monstra'ions 90, it is very certain that
General Scott now takes the lead among
the Wing candidates. The friends OF the
various Democratic candidates all look TO
the whoever he may be-of the
National Democratic Convention. The can.
vass appears to have commenced
The late Treasury order respecting the
execution of Mr.. Hunters act, is still the
subject Of comment, inasmuch as it is sup
posed ,ha. the Secretary of the Treasury
hesi'a'ed. as TO the question whether freight
should he included in the duiiable charges.
There was scarcely reasonable ground
for hesta,ing. and the inclusion of freight
would have given great dissatisfaction, and
would soon have been remedled by the
Supreme Court. Some goods, if freight
had been included, would have been made
10 pay, a, all ports, double and treble the
present du'ies-to say nothing OF the uni
forn'ty Of duties at different ports. Some
articles, inslend of so per cent would have
been made to pay from Is TO 100 per cent.
DESTINY Or destiny there are two kinds
-onc. tho general tendency of virtue to
overcome vice, which il one of the great
harmonies Of Providence, md which often
seems to us. 10 he vice irinmphing over
virtue. This dentinv, rs every event in life
shows, brings about good, though IN doing
so, it frequently to us dcluded mnr,nls ap.
pears TO crush the good man. while it leaves
the had successful in evcrv thing. The
other species If destiny, md which We too
or evil which we b-ing on ourselves. There
are cor alnssparticuIers, in which the Su.
pre,up Ruler ieGvcs to nur own agency, ne
&C ssnrily. Heaven establishes great gene.
raj rules of right, and certain pennies for
their breach; bu, heaven does not Of conrsr,
dictate every net of business or pleasure,
which engages n man in life. For success
in these, he must Look 10 himself. II rash
" and blindly he rushes into meu sures with.
out rejecting as TO Consequences, he must
exprc, to receive hard blows, from the com
mon obstacles which are more or less in
every mans way. But. if prudent and
he considers well the results of a
step; the probability is that in nincty.nine
nui Of every hundred cases, he will be sue
crssful-and, so far as the common events
pf life are concerned, this makes oil the diff
ference between lucky and unlucky men
The men Of good or evil desiiny.-.Ncws.
Thomas Pitt, the ins.iga.or of the mur
Ter of M. T. Hunt. near Fayetteville, some
lays since, left New York on The 26lh ul,
IN board the steam ship Ohio for CaIifor.
,ia, via New.Orleans. The Governor of
North Carolina has offered 400 dollars re-
v ard for his capture.
Common garden touch me-not roots, the
ca Of which ,s a certain aniIdoie 10 the
lite Of the ral,le>snaks or any other snake
the poultce Of the 50 me for the bite Of a
spider, or the sting Of any thing.
DEATH OF POLISH ExILE.-The Bos-
on Transcript states that a Polish exile.