The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-08-08
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Puerto Principe, San Juan, which had beef
Toned by q part of the Spanish troops II
the neghburhood. II is stated that Il colon
81 of a REQ iment stationed near Principe
had informed the authorities at Hnva0'
tina: he had hut a fragment of his regImef
left. The regiment Of Leon. stationed
Matanzas, had become SO insIbordnaf'
that the officers had advised The government
that the men could not be depended on, ant
the regiment had been removed to some 9th
or part of the island.
The authorities have stopped all sen'e'
communications between different parts o
the island since the 10Th instant. and al
communications had 70 60 through mi
mills opened unless written by some OIL
cial. Views and feelings ore now express
ed in Havana that would not have been at
tempted few weeks since, and meeting
of the llabnneros favorable to independence
wos TO have been held few days before the
sailing of the Isabel; but the place OF meet
ing having become known to the govern
ment, j, was taken possession Of ~ mlll'
,arv force, and the purpose thereby frustra'
ted. If the insurgents meet with success
in the interior, sn insurrectlon Will take
place in Havana immediately. An elderly
gentleman who has been planter for some
years on the island, and who possessed .
suuor estate valued at one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, sold out for one hundred
Thousand, and came passenger IN the ISABEL
The above is the substance of statements
which we have received from different
sources, A contradictory ore has been
furnished US by merchant of high respect
ability, who vouches for the character ana
;n,slliuence of his informant. The state
ment is as follows:
"The instruction OF Principe is an affair
that has created no alarm in the island o,
Cuba, and the exaggera''d reports published
in The papers have their orig" Of havana .
with The sole obiec, Of making an excite
m.nt IN the United States. The leader OF
The ,n>urrectionists, a Senior Agnefo' nau
been taken prisoner, with a number OF ms
followers, and the rest Of the party has o.
rered to give themselves upto The govern
ment il they were assured OF PARDON
Havana and all other parts OF the 's'and
tranouil as usual. Cholera and yellow le:
yer prevailing TO some extent.
A POINTED FUNERAL SEaMoN.-The
Cat.kilI New York; Wing a few days
since published n sketch Of n sermon, by the
Rev. Dr.. Murdoch, over the remains OF one
ye1der, a man Of wealth. who went TO Cali
ifornia and came home to die. The text
was most appropriate from James 4, ID
"Go 70 now, ye tha, say to day or 'o-mor'
row, we will 60 into such city and con.
,inue there year. and buy, aid ses'' and
&c, gain, whereas we know not what will
be on The morrow. For what is your lifss
1t is even q vapor. that appeareth for it,
lie time, and then vanisheth away" The
st, lie MAJ be judged from tho opening. Az
ter giving the California phrensy o review,
the Doctor says
No case, however, has excited more re,
mark than the present. A man possessed OF
ample property, dwelling ut home IN his
ia lace of house, surrounded BY these rlch'
IT, cultivated fields, in the midst OF his
friends and numerous relatives, LrosPering
in oil the gifts which kind Providence
showered do wn upon him. is seized with the
solt mania, leaves his native place 10 EN-
bark on the ocean, TO which he ~ an eh''f
stranger, takes the most hazardous voyage
known--around Cape Horn-endures all the
hardships of q stormy sea for months. then
lands on that strange coast. submitting nm
self to the merest drudgery of work to
which miners life is subjpctpd-and alter
eighteen months of trouble and difficulty
realizes few hundred dollars, with when
he prepares TO return TO his really r'cn
home, and is robed " the whole, ana ief'
rs begsar in u hearlless community. But
finding his why ihi,hward, he endufes sun
greater hardships on his return voyage
sickens as soon as he touches the lana OF
his native state, aud just succeeds IN r@ach'
ing his door step. when death SEXES hi"'
and his grave is dug behind what was MS
own barn.
And on these facts DR.. NJ. POUNDS one OF
the most pointed discourses IN the vanity
of riches, and the sinful lust for gam so UNI
versally prevalent, and so forcib'y exemp''
fled in the case OF the man whose corpse
lay before him.
The discovery has been maas TINT wins
out mouth man could neither eat drink
talk, kiss The girls, nor chew tooacco'
The Baltimore Sun Of the 24Ih lnstan'
has advanced 50 cents per bushel at Lynch
burg, w., 10 consequence Of the groa'
drou,h. The article is in demapd al 81 per
barrel. or 80 cents per bushel. Tobacco Is
also advancing.
The steamer Robert Campbell has been
chartered at st. Louie, to mako an excurs'
ION from tina, city to the mouth Of Milk riv'