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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-06-06
School Land for Sale.

PURSUANT TO decrelal order Of the
Circuit Court Of Roane county. made
at the February term, 1851, will on Thurs.
day, the 10Th day of June next, sell on the
premises to the highest bidder. the School
section Of Land, containing GAO acres, STU
ate in Township second, Range first, West
Of the Meridian, Hiwassee District, pro-
vided that purchasers bid as much for each
quarter as the same has been valued at By
the Commissioners appointed for that pur-
pose, and who have returned their valua-
ton 10 me as follows, 10 VIII:
S +. Quarter S350.00
S. w. Quarter, 10000
N. E. Quarter 10000
N. w. Quarter $4,000
$4,000
The sale will be made and conducted &C
cording to the Act of Assembly providing
Cor the sale of School Lands in said Dis
lrict, which will be made known upon the
tday of sale.
JOHN A. PATTON, Clerk.
May |, lS5l-6t Prs fee $3.50 1877
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-06-06

To those who have been in the
Service Of the United States
since the Revolution.
THE undersigned being familiar with all
l. the Executive rules and regulations,
and the character Of proof necessary to en-
able those who have been engaged in the
service of the United States since the War
of the Revolution, TO have their claims for
Pensions, Bounty Land, Arrearases of
Pay and Extra Pay, &c.. 10 one or all OF
which many persons are entitled, properly
prepared for adjudication before the De.
pariments at Washington, respectfully in.
yi,e the attention of such to an interview
with them, where they may learn some.
thing TO their advantage. Those who have
been injured by sickness or otherwise while
in the service OF the United States, are emit,
tied 10 Pension. Many claims are lost
for want OF proper steps at the outset, or by
being prepared by an inexperienced per-
son. Our charges are moderate. Residence
one mile and half above Calhoun, Nc.
MINI county, Tenn.
JOHN WAINWRIGHT,
II. MCDOWELL McELRATH.
Aug, 2, iS50-u ~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-06-06
Dissolution,

'E'ilE cornrtne'ship heretofore existing be
a tween RICE & lEuTY, Riccviilr, Nc
Ninn county, is this day dissolved by mntua
consent. All persons indebted to the firm vii
please call on NJ +. Rec, who is agent fol
the firm, and settle up. Make 10 delay.
G.. W. RICE,
NJ +. RICE,
II. MATLOCK, JR.,
JNO. II. LEUTY.
April 4, lS5l-3m 1872
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-06-06
HARDWARE

Ready Made Clothing,
EUST received, a beautiful assortment OF
~ Goats, Vests, Pants and Shirts, sn'ta-
Bile for the season, which we WI. sell very
low for Cash down.
April II. G. w. ROSS s co.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-06-06
Spring & Summer Goods!
JACKSON L. LELLARD

"A RE receiving and opening large and
IA well selected stock of SPRING AND
SUMMER GOODS, TO which they would
invite the attention persons wishing to pur-
chase. They know it is getting to be FASH
ionahic Cor Merchants TO talk largely about
fine stocks, cheap Goods, and so on, but all
testing aside, their stock is perhaps little SUI
pcrior to any ever offered here, and they pro-
pose to sell a little cheaper than was ever
heard of in this section.
Among their stock will be found the follow
ing articles.
Ladies Dress Goods--Silk Poplins, Muslin
dc Lanes. Bcrages, Deanes, Lawns, Prints,
&C., silk, Lcghorn and Straw Bonnets.
For Gentlcmen's Wcar-Summer Goods
of all kinds, Jenny Lind, fine Moleskin, Con.
grcss Panama and Lcghorn Hats, Boots and
Shoes of all descriptions.
Also, a large Iot of Ready Made Clothing,
assorted.
April So, ls5l-tf 1876
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

A Public Tooth Brush.-As the ,nlendid
steamer Connecticut was passing Backwels s
Island, on her way from Norwich to New York. a
lew days since, gentleman might have been seen
performing his ablutons in one of the marble ba.
sins In the wash room, in the forward part of the
boat. While he was in the midst of his task. a
tall and verdant specimen of the incipient Yankee
traveller entered the apartment, and alter staring
about a few moments to assure himself commenced
conversation with his fellow passenger.
say, yeou, kin any body wash himself in this
here cooky!"
You have perfect right to avail yourself Of
the accommodations Of the boat. You can help
yourself to the water"
Yaas; but this here pumpkin shell has got a
hole IN the bottom and the darned fasst's knocked
all askew. swow yeou, is that brass cock made
OF solid silver! swanny! this wash hand dish
looks jest like marble"
The gentleman quietly place the stopper in the
right place, and turned on the water for our hero
who soon made himself at home pretty generally.
The former, however, in short time, missed his
tooth brush, and on looking around was astonished
to perceive the Yankee applying it vigorously to
his tobacco stained worries
My dear friend, you have made great mis-
take in using my tooth brush" said the gentle
man.
Your acAat-your brush? You don't mean to
say that this here's y0ur tooth brush :? "
" | do sir but it is of no consequence now
You are welcome to the brush"
The Yankee looked puzzled at first as though
he suspected trick, but at length he exclaimed :
Here, yeou, take your confounded thingum.
bob But should like to know what in thunder
has become of the tooth trash that belongs to th4
boat :"
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02
BY TELEGRAPH,

~, NEwYORK Nov 8-s I'M.
The Presidents Message was sent from Wash.
irgton to-day, friday to every city in the United
States, to be published soon as delivered to Con.
gress.
The message puts Kossuth in the hands of Con-
gress.
Letters have just been received at the State De.
partment in reference to the case of Mr. Thrasher.
The Captain General, it is expected, will revise
proceedings or remit the sentence.
The Southern Union members of Congress re-
quire pledges from the Congressional Caucus in
favor OF the Fugitive Slave law.
WAsnlseroN. November 3O
The Democratic Caucus OF the House have re-
jected the Compromise pledge Gov. Foote will
offer it to the Democratic Caucus of Senators to-
morrow.
Hon. Lynn Boyd, of Kentucky, was nominated
IN the Caucus the democratic candidate for
Speaker, sgd John W. Forney, Esq, of Pennsyl-
| vania, receattd the nomination for Clerk.
CINCINNATI, November 20.
The river here is again falling, and has receded
three inches since last night.
PITTSBURGH, November %.
The river here is now rising, with seven feet two
inches water in the channel.
The market is more active. Flour, to-day, il
| selling at SO 90 per Dbl. Whisky also has i'm
proved. and is now selling at 16c per gallon. Mes
FORK is steady at $12 90 per Dbl. Green Ham
ing Delta.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Ship Abandoned-On Monday afternoon, about
four O'Clock, the British ship Virginia, 733 tons re.
gister, OF and from Liverpool, for this port, with a
cargo of 540O sacks Of salt, consigned to Messrs
c. T. Mitchell q Co., of this city, went ashore on
Cape Roman. At ten o'clock in the evening, in
consequence of the bosterous state of the weather
and the critical condition the ship was in-nc
hope existing of getting her off, and leak having
been sprung, which was filling her rapidy-it was
determined to abandon her and take to the boats
In pursuance of this resolution, the captain, his
wife, second mate and five of the crew left in the
life boat-the first mate and four more of the crew
IN another boat, and ten others, the balance of the
crew, in two other boats. These latter, whose
names are Thomas Bamord, of Cornwall, England
Martin Hogan, of London John Gordon, OF Edin.
hurgh; William Creighton, of White Haven
Nicholas Condern, of Corfu Thomas Hughes, o
Anglesea; Samuel Clarke, of Liverpool Johann
Piscopo, of the Roman States John Maxwell
boy, of Liverpool; and Benjamin Davis, of the
same city, were picked up about seven O'Clock
yesterday morning by the steamer C. Vanderbilt
Captain Sterrett, off Dewees' Island, and brough
into this port The other boats had not been hear
from when We went to press this morning, We
understand they were both provided with com
pass, and probably they have reached the shore
or been picked up by the General Clinch, whici
left this port yesterday morning, at seven O'clock
for Georgetown. The Virginia was built in the
British Provinces, although she is owned in Liver
pool. Charleston Courier, 25th.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

:" Mind your Stops."-This is an admouitiop
often administered by pedagogues to their pupils
but, at the risk of afordng some amusement at our
own expense, we cannot refrain from relating an
instance wherein painter of signs omitted tc
mind his stops" in a most signal manner 1t il
known that we have just moved into our new build
ing, and with the view Of designating the purposes
tor which the several rooms were intended. we
employed painter to number the doors and to
paint upon them signs; designating one, for exam.
pie, as Job Office" another as Composition
Room, etc. He was directed to put upon the door
OF our sanctum the following sentence, to wit
Editor and Assistant Editor" He commenced
the lettering and when he had gotten as far as
" Editor and ASS" his dinner hour arrived, and
ne went of, leaving upon the door in big letters
" Editor and Ass" While we were within, gravely
inditing an editorial gentleman came to the
closed door, and all at once astounded us with a
peal OF laughter which almost shook the building,
We rushed to the door, and found him leaning
against the wall overcome with mirth and pon tin
significantly to the extraordinary sign which graced
the door OF our sanctum. In an hour or two the
painter came back, looking as innocent as lamb,
and we have not yet decided whether he intended
to put OF good joke upon US, or whether he had
fallen into careless habit Of not minding his stops
(St. Louis Intelligencer.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Law Anecdote.-The following is a literal extract
from deposition in the Irish Court of Common
Pleas:
" And this deponent further saith, on arriving a,
the house of said defendant, situated in the county
OF Galway aforesaid, for the purpose of personally
nent, knocked three several times at the outer,
commonly called the hall door, but could not gain
admittance whereupon this deponent was pro.
ceeding to knock the fourth time, when man. to
this deponent unknown, holding in his hand a
musket or blunderbuss, loaded with balls or slugs
as this deponent has since heard and verify be.
lieves, appeared at one of the upper windows OF
said house, and presenting said musket or hlunder.
bnss at this deponent, said that if said deponen,
did not Instantly retire, he would send his, this de
ponent's soul to hell, which the deponent verify
believes he would have done had not this deponeni
precipitately retreated."
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

kKhARKABLF CuRK.-Dr. Fryer the celebrated Indian
Doctor, has the credit of achieving some remarkable cu,es
we were shown the otherd slave belonging to the Old
Levee Steam Cotton Press, Third Municipality wbo we
we're informed had been cured of consumption or rather
disease OF the liver and lungs with fever of the bowels He
was discharged on the a2d March. after being confined to his
bed fer many months Thenegro appeared perfectly
We aso al the tme negro who had been cnysd
Of severe cancer by Dr. Fryer. TEdors Louisiana State
Repnblioan. LAFAYETTE. May S. 1851. my3O dSV Vtf
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Interesting Decision.-An Alderman in Pitts.
burg has decided, by giving judgment for plain
t, that railroad companies have no right to refuse
excursion tickets from passengers, offered after the
time for which they were issued. The plaintiff
paid his fare in money, and then brought suit and
recovered the price of ticket and costs. The plain
tlif s counsel argued that the notice good for two
days only" printed the face of the ticket did
not amount to a contract, any more than the com.
mon notice on stage company and canal tickets
all baggage at the risk OF the owner" did, which
has been decided again and again to be of no virtue
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Pretty Sigh-Two women, who had had a
previous quarrel, met in the market house at Gin
cnnat the other day, one carrying string of fish
and the other pair of live chickens They re-
newed their quarrel, the chickens and fish being
used as weapons, to the destruction of bonne,s and
The dsfiguring of faces. The fight continued until
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Famous WeH-A well is now being excavated
IN Jackson county, Florida, which, in the number
OF strata already passed through, is, according to
the Florida Wing, nearly as notable as the one so
famous near Genoa. The first twenty or thirty
are composed of the sandy soil common to that re-
gon This is succeeded for about an equal dis
lance by black, rich vegetable loan. Beneath
the loan is a deposit of trunks and branches OF
trees in a semi -petri6ed state, and still further
down, at the depth of sixty five feet, is struck a
vein OF metallic ore. A specimen of the ere is in
the possession of the editor of the Wing, who saws
that 1t is very pure and has the appearance of sill.
yer, but the hardness of platina. There is little
doubt of its being valuable. 1t is said to be found
in considerable quantities
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02
Dr. FRYER.

ldE INDlAN DOCTOR,
s A REGULAR GRADUATE of Nature's
= wide Botanic Garden and Common Sense Medical Col.
ege and has made the study OF Herbs bis ploesson for
Thirty and daily more patients than any other
physician in New Orleans
Office hours from A. NJ. till 9P.M.
All orders enclosing a5, postpaid will be thankfully re-
ceived and punctualIy attended to.
Residence and office No. 33 Frenobmer .,oat Th;d
Municipality, NewOrleans. KFERyER
myl3 dS Wit Irdi., D,.s
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Singular Phenomeslon-Nea the Ashton Nur.
series, in Burlington county, N. j., is mill pond
containing large numbers Of fish of different yare,
ties. Recently, according to the Trenton State
Guard the fish commenced dying in great mum.
bers, so that there is but small part OF them ef,
alive. Those that are dead lie on the bottom Of
the pond. Pike pkerel, catfish, sunfish, roache.
and eels, have all suffered: The muet or horned
sucker, still lives-not of them has been found
among the numbers that have died All the other
varieties have died, even the tadpoles and young
frogs Another singular circumstance about the
affair is that the water, which has generally been
thick and muddy, has become extremely clear
This singular phenomenon has baffied the philoso.
ply OF the neighborhood in which it occurred, and
IT is given to the public in the hope that some sou.
tion will be given to the affair.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Cobee.-AIi C FIFE grown in the West Indies has
sprung from two plants taken thther by French
botani.t, from tie botanic garden at Paris On
the voyage, the supply Of water became nearly
exhausted but 60 anxious was the Frenchman to
preserve he plants, that he deprived himself Of his
allowance in order to water the coffee plants For.
merly, coffee could only be got at great expense
from Mocha, in Arabia.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Fan, Begtmntng.-A marriage took place in
Newburyport recently, where the bridegroom was
only stTty. .fUe years old, and the bride seventeen,
By this union, the bride becomes the mother OF
children between the ages of twenty-five and
thirty-three years
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Delicious Productions,--A traveller, in speaking
of Egypt, says her products consist of wheat flies,
and sore-eyed children. So much for her crops
In remarking on her commerce, he observes that
her imports are made up of under.dons English.
men in pursuit of the Pyramids-while her exports
consist of the same Englshmen done brown {"
and fleeing from beggars and bedbugs. Nice coun.
Try ftat !
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

From Minnesota The public Dime, rendered to
Governor Ramsey and Secretary Wilkins has taken
place with much eclat. The Hon. H. H. Sibley,
Representative in Congress from the Territory,
was present, and delivered an address. The Win
nebago Indians have again been giving trouble TO
the whites, and Major Alexander has been out
with large force of dragons driving them back
to their pr PER location The removals of Judge
Goodrich and Marshal Tilden do not seem to have
given satisfaction TO the wings of the Territory.
Fee ght business in the river by means of steam.
boats is very brisk between St. Paul and St. Louis,
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

The NewYork Tragedy y.-Thcterrible catastro.
phe in NewYork, by which so many lives were
lost, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, is another
warning against carelessness in building Had
the bausters been properly constructed, none OF
these little victims would have perished. A blind
economy, which has proved in this case criminal
was the cause of all. Contemporaneous with this
awful disaster, we notice the falling of house in
NewYork, and though no lives were lost by the
latter accident, it was through mere chance only.
Not long since We alluded 10 the flimsy character
of modern buildings but little did we think that
so appalling catastrophe trod close on the heel Of
our remarks. This careless style of building is a
vice OF the age Sometimes ii is the fault of the
owner, who becomes the cause of it, by refusing
To pay sum adsqua TO erect the edifice properly
sometimes it is ths fault of the contractor who
seeks TO make large profits by supplying bad mate
rias; sometimes it is the fault of the architect
who falsely computes the required strength of the
building, or of parts of it. Cannot some legislative
provision be made to reach the evil , Hereafter
we have no doubt, balusters in school. houses will
be constructed properly; but, meantime some
other point may be neglected; and, in time, a
tragedy, as horrible as this, may occur again.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Wrseksd-Loss Of hfe-The French corvette
Almena was lost on the West coast of New Zea.
land, in the early part of July. She is total
wreck. Fifteen men were lost in the serf in at.
tempting to gain the shore. In June two officers
and eleven men were killed by the natives of New
Zealand, while on shore in boat. force was
landed afterwards, which had an engagement with
the savages, killing $50 of them, burning their vii.
lagos, etc. San Francisco Courier.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

An Old and Interesting Newspaper friend
has placed in our possession Newport Mercury
published at Newport Rhode Island, on the 18th
OF June, 1862 more than 80 years since 1t is
number 562 of the journal, and strange to say, the
paper is still in existence and well sustained 1t
was nally started by brother Of DR.. Franklin,
and was edited in 1769-then upwards of eleven
years old-by Solomon Southwiok.
This number of the Mercury contains the fol.
lowing very laconc message from Governor Bote-
tourt to the House Of Burgesses of Virginia, on the
10th of May, 1869. We quote
WEDNESDAY, May II, 1869.
Yesterday at 70 o'clock, his Exceliency the
Governor went to the Capitol, and having sent a
message by Mr.. Wathone to the Hon. the Speaker
OF the House of Burgesses, commanding their i'm
mediate attendance in the Council Chamber, when
they instantly obeyed, he spoke to them as follows
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House Of Burgesses
their effects. You have made it my duty to dis
solve you and you dissolved accordingly.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Presentation.-At the conclusion of the Amer.
can Equestrian Company's 3 performances at the
Drury Lane Theatre, London. Mr.. Burgess, who
has been connected with the fortunes of " Old
Drury" for upwards of thirty years, presented to
mr.. Eaton Stone an elegant silver cigar case, upon
which was the following inscription:
Presented TO Eaton Stone, of New York, u,
states, by Thomas Burgess, of the Theatre Royal
Drury Lane, London, on behalf of himself and
friends, as small testimonial of the esteem in
which they hold Mr. Stones surprising talents as
an equestrian, and his character as man.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02
TO RENT.

10 RENT-A part, or House. with rear build
= ings 70 lease. in Parmy Row. opposite Lafayette
sa.are Inquire at the Of ST. Francis and Worth
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

IO LEA En- the city OF Lafayette, corner OF
n 1--we YAK and recond streets, two comfor able -
Tehgs' each containing four rooms, pantry, front IA
an uaek ga,erv cIsern kitchen, roum, and "a
'a'ee|a hehts-el5 per month. Inquire of
JOS. MCLULLOCH.
~ lW'- Lave Oak, bet Third and Enurin straets
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Curious Co@.-ln New York, on Friday week,
curious case came up before the Judge in Com
mon Pleas Chambers. 1t appears that Mr..
Iowsley was in the habit of going to the New
York Exchange Bank and demanding change OF
certain notes, which they were bound to redeem
at quarter per cent. discount, and insisted on
handing in his notes dollar by dollar, to the great
annoyance of the telsrs, who were nonplussed to
nnd coin small enough to deduct the legal pro-
portion on each dollar bill. The party persisted in
this perplexng exchange for several days, until at
last he was apprehended on warrant issued by
Justice Osborn, on complaint that his conduct
tended tot breach Of the peace. After full hear
ing Of the case Judge DAILY granted the discharge
Of Mr.. Towsley
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Arresfed-Ihe Pittsburg Dispatch of the 2o,b
states that Buchsa, the travelling companion Of
Madame Anna Bishop, was arrested at Wbsai,s
when The boat touched there, on his wav to Cin
cnnati. He had arranged to give concert tbers
but was sliding past without stopping at the print.
ing offices. On settling his bills he was allowed to
proceed.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Special Thanksgiving Among the Fshermen.-
The terrific gale off Prince Edward Island called
many PAGES 10 deep mourning, but towns there
Were which had vessels exposed, and ye, escaped
with little "r no loss. One of these towns, Well
fleet, on Cap Cod, in view of such deliyerance.
appointed Tuesday the 1lth of November, as day
OF 81 ecial Th4nksgiving to Almiph1u Cod
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

Terrible Accident-A Baltimore paper of the
21st ult says:
in Baltimore county, few miles from the city, in
the marble quarres whence all the stone for build
ing the Washington Monument is obtained. The
section OF an immense shaft had been quarried, and
was being raised to the side of the railroad by
means OF shears, when the tackling broke and this
immense stone, weighing not less than twenty
tons, tell on two Of the workmen, brothers, named
Buckley. One of them was ground into an impal-
pable mass and scattered on the clothing of his
fellow workmen, while the other had both his legs
cut off above the knee, and cannot possibly live.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

from Bne,'os Iyres.-By the arrival of the ship
Margaret Eliza, Captain Adams, at New York,
from buenos Ayres, which port she left on the
2oth September We learn that Oribe had eaptu-
lated and It was supposed that he would join with
ueneral Urquza, so that the war in the Banda
would soon be at end, General Rosas was
pressing the male Inhabitants into his army, and
IN some places none but females and children were
lett. He intends to be in readiness for his oppo-
nents, should they come on his track