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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

RAILWAYS ~ GREAT BRirAiY.-It apr
pears lnar the gc,>, ,r,tlir 'rc+ip,s Of rail.
wa,. ~ the Cndrd kn.t"m 'or the year
!>jD amounted 10 ~l3, ll2,23j. on G73I
rui-, Ut railroad in- r,rurns published
weekly, show 'haj : 2,1JJ. .23j was receive
ed ou III" railroads durIng TIE past year. on
62j. uil.s. nc udug abuut 200 miles ca
nal, being an increase Ci IL AZ ,iI3 m the
receipts over the preceding year on 5l6l
mr'es vi railway. and also an increase of
lu.6 miles IA operation. independent of
thrsr railways, there are about seventeen
new lines m operation, OF an aggregate
lphcih OF 219 mlics. the usiic returns or
which are not published weekly, but NAV
be estimated at L 600 ior various per,.
udy during The past year.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

AIR.-An ANALYSIS of air taken from jars
which had been buried for seventeen cen.
,urIes IN the ruins Of PompeI. was iound
10 be atom for atom, identical with tue air
we breathe.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

A crave dirrrr nhr excrci-e | his v ca
,,,, m a country town. wa> ~ pt how hr
iiscd tie business. lie rcT'i d 'hf' ne liked
a, pretty well. bur should ak" IT better ''ii
3.c u!i have ste d. cml,oynsnt!'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21
VOLUME s.-NUMBEn 1876.


"INIEO'! fnlNrrV'
And then, rs though dc-paIrirg Of sue"
c2.&, hudd'ci into it.. mothers bosom. and
burst in'0 sobbing cry.
1t was more >hpn the Rangers could stand.
ord. afrpr short consultation. the rope was
taken from the criminals thrOa', and the
hnnh ''tt l.r spot; aud Burt became re-
formed mrn, through the powerful effects Of
his "lvFANT's APPEAL."- Columbian and
Great Vest.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

A college s,udrn, gave his fellow student
the T.. and a chalIenae fsllowel. The
ma'haua,ical 'u,or heard of tha y fic ulty.
and sent for he Young man who gave the
challenge. who insisted that he must fight
10 shield his honor
"Why2" asked the tutor.
"Bccause he gave me the ie."
every well; let bin prove H. II lie
proves it, you did .ei but if he does not
prove II, then he lies. Why should YOU
shoot one another? win that make lie
any more hQnorable"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

If oar common country, in defence Of her
lights and the nights of her citizens. NUA
am not So narrow minded ~ TO wish T."
deprive III" bra?e %n.d!er who has r"h'N
'uught ~ defence Of his runn'rv'- rirht., a.
that debt Of grnItade wh'rh is 50 ju,' y
due 10 him from his Country men; bat | Utt
opposed "a the srni'n.it nov - Cntnurrn ~
ms ''!and AMI ronnry' o. mnfinr Military
fame a."n" .ut.irrrut qua iGrrIlnn III M
lrdlvidunI 20 onti',. hiun 10 the entire con.
denra %! his .'ai.aw ctlHrnS. Thus >entl
m"n', nr' nvowrd IN 80 many worl~, but
taught hv praclic", has been IGcr' 'ca,rd by
The Two great poIi'!caI parties OF our ecu
try; ard they have prpc'irHd It ny frequently
nunInaiing nlrn t"r oii'" on the mere
ground Of nv0ilNH.r'r. Of th' "M,c,s a.
his uiudrlon> ppllcy n"'d 70, sprnk;
every one, whp has observed the course oi
events in our country wa readi'. see rh' NJ.
This po'icY hrs br'n Practical N the "lcc-
tl"n Of differs "f every grade from prr>i'
dents dawn t. con>lob''., md If any good
has ever resulted rr crlhcr iar'y from it, II
ha. escaped my oh~rrra'pnn,
Now. ak. j. It lr' time different pol.
icy VAS . rp'ci ~ tIin selection ct candi-
d1'c,? The U,X' L".i-'arnrr viii hsVc in.
pnr'nn' hu.inrl to 'rnns,i. aud "" owe 1t
Z" "ur'o'vr' 70 ar country, % poS'FrIiy,
20 select moa ~ represent rs ~ HAT bgdv,
NJ .oiriy "n account Of NrailuLiliiY. r"'
bNcaus" ihrv nre "r'evrr, good tiu"~,"
who Crn '"'l - ,iyo'Y an cao'" aud crock n
pleasant irE,; nn, ui"n ut e mm,n sense.
'IhrtHl lntoruatl"n, moral hnnc%ty, sound
int. "a, ,,,l ! In,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

We THOUGHT so.-tn exchange papey
SAYS. Ne man who refused to take his pa
per ont Of the post Office, so as to he able
10 get 4 ,,r OF his former sub>crprion bill,
is on his way 10 Caiiiornia IN company
with a tre4 negro. He takes tho rDute
around South America and GOES in soap
wliiJl0tU HIM across.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

TIE SCARCITY OF SILvER.-MOTe than
three hundred Thousand dollars of sIl,pr
yr-. exp,r'ed from New YORK. last week.
Tho raii steamer Asia. n'"rc. took urt two
Nunirrd and ninniy''i2hl Thousand d"li1rs,
ri "hch 3HfO,u 900 wrr" in American hai
dollars. lhe -, cie imported INTO Boston
IN I,nuary amoUu'sio 3iU.30t, whie that
exported Is GlJl .2G2.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

New Englsnd hiss IN the present Concrrsa
II nrHhet> of The House ct R.pf srnis.
uve-. In lie new appointment She will
nnv" tn' -, 'o-ing three members. Maine
"i' have New Hrmr,lire g. Vermon,
3, Mrs-achu>e',> 10. EAode Island |. Con-
uccitcut 4
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21
We arc ever lookirs ward,

We arc ever lookr. onward,
Bn ling "caslIps in 'ha air."
Whlr the Niinh's d iicIenl temple
And the Heats hone need repair.
SUI s,mp yearnin@ a-p'raI'on
Ed o. soar hevonL he earth,
Seekirg for the vain ideal,
Never ,eaiZcd IN earih. l..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

Coon hDNiCE FOR WISTER.-Shut The
jooI' mak. yuu' house ughr; get stove;
plenty oi dry wood; don't leave the door
open; Put spring or weight on n; ii any
one sand, holding the door open while he
tells luug yarn. knock him down with The
puksr We have hu, one hing more TO
add. and that is-slm iic door'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

We are ever looking onward,
70 he fair deal goal.
Which n cary years we worsairPei
Nih a childish depth Of soul.
twas somelh:ns 10 lookFtlp TO,
10 be sliivrn Tor and s.tilcd;
But to see the shrine before US,
WorshIpped sull, but unauaiued.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21

Hang ever iastInG lhin9s!"
THE ADMINISTRATIONS AND THE CoM-
iPRoMlsE.-Mr. Webster IN his rep 10 an
invitation to attend the great Union Meet
iog recently convened a. Wes,chesler, N.
York, uses the following ianguage:
"Gen,lemen. am sure that you and
your friends will 90 your whole duty, as
Intelligent aud patriotic citizens. in uphold
ing the institutions of your country. rur-
pose to do niue, and should not consent
10 act with any BODY, who might be found
to waver or 10 hesitate, on this all important
question:
"The Presidents Message a, the opening
o: the present session OF Congress. express
es fully and plainly his own opinion and
the unanimous opinion OF all those aSSoc''
ated with him in the executive admInlStra'
ton of the government, in regard TO what
are called the Adjustment or Compromise
Measures of last session. That opinion Is,
that those measures should be regarded IN
principle as a final settlement of the dan>
rerous and exciting subjects winch ih-y
embrace; thai though they were not Tree
from impert cllons, yet IN their mutual de
pendence and connection, lhey formed n
system of compromise, the most concilla>
tory and best for the entire country that
could be obtained from conflicting sectional
interest and opinions, and that therefore
they should be adhered TO. until time and
experIence should demonstrate the nece5 l.
" Of further legislation, to guard against
evasion or abuse. That opinion, so lar as
know, remains entirely unchanged, and
will be acted upon steadily and dec'sivelv.
The peace of the country requires this; the
security of the Constitution requires this;
and every consideration o! the pubic good
demands this. II the administration can.
not stand upon the PRINCIPLES OF the mrs-
sage, it does not expect to stand at ALL
CREED AND CoNDUCT-To make specu-
la,ive belief the rule absolute Of conduct is
not easy. The "lesh" rebels and overpow-
ers US, Yet even in defeat the inlellec,
vindicates its superiority, and finds The best
possible reasons for its defeat. A Spanish
priest, once exhorling the soldiers to tight
like lions. added. in the ardor of enlhusi.
asm: "ReAect, my brethren, that whoso-
ever falls today in battle, sups TO night in
Paradise" Thunders of applause follow
ed The sentiment.
The fight began, the ranks wavered, the
pries, took to his heels, when soldier stop.
ping him, reproachIully referred 10 the
promised supper IN Paradise. True. my
son, true.' said the priest, but | never eat
suppers.'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-02-21
LOOKING ONWARD.

We re ever locking onward,
Trssilug TO the coming hour'.&.
Wearing many glorious fancy.
Gcm'd with freshest, ialresl flowers,
Wit fond lodgings for the future,
Wpr glad eye Is careless thrown,
wiz content Upon the rreSan'.
VISA regret o'er days COW iowa.
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DISASTROUS STEAMBOAT COLLISION.

The ST. Louis Republican has the particulars Of
the frightfu collision heretofore reported by Telc
graph) which lately took place the Mississippi
river between the steamers Die Vernon and ArcAer,
by which the latter boat sunk and lost with all her
cargo and number Of her passengers The Die Veraon
sustained material injury The Archer old and
very substantial boat Her pilot discovered the Die
time to avoid collision but from defect
of his bell he could not make it ring The accident orr
Cured Enterprise Island five miles above the mouth Of
the Illinois river, at two o'clock in the morning of the
9th utimo the Archer being her way from St. Louis
the Upper Mississippi At the tme all the passengers
and of the Archer deck, amounting to
forty odd persons OF this number twenty passen-
gers and ten deck hands drowned-the officers Of
the boat and young and little boy being the
as Sarah Dick and - Smyers. All the rest of their
family lost consisting Of James Smyers sen, James
Smyers r Jane Smyers, Mary Smyers Caroline Smyers
Margaret Ann Smyers, Sarah Smyers and Ellen Smyers.
There was also on board Irish family, consisting of
seven eight persons, American family of three
four and FIVE six deck passengers all of whom
drowned rendering the destruction Of life by this
disaster the greatest considering the number of lives
placed in jeopardy that occurred in the Western
waters. In this case in many others which have
had record there register Of the passengers
and it is not probable that the friends of those who
suffered will ever have satisfactory evidence of their
death stsE
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

The steamer America, with Liverpool dates to
the 22d, has arrived at New York. Most Of her
news has been anticipated
The French Assembly occupied on the Goth ultimo
with the discussion Of the Municipal BILL when motion
substituting two years instead Of three for resdent quail
cation for voting was 844 n MoHEr had
previously moved one year sfesdence, and LARocHn
nm eighteen months residence both q which
PROPOSITIONS were Lost "A change in the Cabinet Is
talked Of The Ministry Of the Interior is TO be filed BY
M. FERDINAND BARnor the Foreign Office by Gen.
ScHRAMs the Finance by NJ FoULD; and the Marine by
NJ. DUcos
Marsees letters report collision between tive river
steamers one Of ...c. , aan1 a. a. o.. ,
Amongst the passengers thus lost of whom there were
great many was the Russian Count HAAG with his family
of seven persons.
The correspondent of the Paris Consttuonne at Con-
sannope states that private letters from Taroc bring the
Of fresh and terrible defeat sustained by the Rus
in Circassia No dates given, but all agree in
stating that Russian corps completely beaten
in the neghborhood of Derbent and lost oil its guns
twenty-eight in number.
The Damatian papers are teeming with accounts Of
earthquakes along the Aban;an and Dalmatian
violent shock occurred at Sagno Pccoo on the 18th u
mo- accompanied with subterranean detonaons another
detonaon ensued time after the day, and
these phenomena were repeated the goth with still
greater intensity. Fortunately disaster of serious
nature has to be lamented there
Further particulars of the terrific earthquake at Vaona
have reached the Oserpatore Danato 1t preceded
by violent detonatons which succeeded series of in
termttent Shocks which lasted in the aggregate about
quarter Of hour The waters of the river Voiussa
miles from Vallona two feet above the ordinary
level and many houses fell in the town itself The town
of Beratt about thirty miles from Vaona, is heap of
ruins its castle has also been destroyed Some villages
have literally disappeared, leaving scarce yestge Of
their former existence The Shocks though weaker,
October.
We add the Letters of our London and Paris Cor
respondents.
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FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT,

PARIS, NOVEMBER 20, 1851.
We have had week of most intense political ex-
citement. The most disquieting rumors have pre-
vailed and they supported by many facts not
otherwise expGcable, and by such seeming proba-
bility, that we hardly refrain from believing that
we have been upon the eve of revolution in two or
three directions 1t is confidently asserted that on
Thursday night, after the Assembly refused by a
very small majority to consider M. BoNAPARTE's s
bill for the re-estabshment of universal suffrage,
military coup Tetdt only failed of execution from
the hesitation Of two of council of generals whom
the President conferred with upon the subject.
The vote of Monday last on the questor's bill
almost certainly saved us from parliamentary at
tempt to check-mate the President and set over
France conventional dictatorship, with Gen CHAN
GARNER for its chief executive officer That dis
cussion and the vote which followed have thrown
French politics into such chaotic confusion that you
must allow me till next Monday (the oath instant)
to rest my eyes, and attempt to see something clear
ly amid the dust and smoke which it shas raised
AT the sitting of the Academy of sciences of the 10th
instant paper of physiological interest read
by NJ FouRcAgLr and submitted to a committee compos
of NM. SERnns, ASDRAI, and Ellie BEAUMONT. 1t
was upon subject which the attention of the Acade-
nv has frequently been called dng the last year. the
oathsome Diseases goitre and cretinism. The memoir
treats Of the absence of iodine from waters and aen
ary substances Of these Diseases and adds
considerations upon the of prevention that should
be used / take from this memoir the following short
extract:
In my Treatise upon the General Causes Of Chronic
Diseases have attempted to throw the light of analysis
upon the field Of observation by first of all studying these
causes in small localities where they present themselves
separately for examination, rather than in those grand
centres OF population where find oil the assem-
bed together and exhibiting their maximum of intensity
In my later researches have pursued the plan
broad wellared Valleys upon dry elevated hills where
the winds and light have free access and avoided at
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Commodore Parker to Mr. Webster

U. s. FLAG SHIP SARANAc,
Hacana, October s. 1851.
SIR: On my return from Matanzas to this place, Il
learned that men, Robert H. Breckenridge and Rxn
Beach, both from the State of Kentucky, had been
picked up small boat by Spanish merchant
schooner, and then confined in prison at this place
waited the Captain General and inquired why and
wherefore these had been captured who informed mo
that they captured the high seas, but had con-
fessed they part Of the Lopez expedition had been
the island twenty days. and made their cscsp~
thrtysx hours before they captured in the bcas
which belonged to small vessel anchored near the shore
that the boat recognised having been stolen &C.
In the of conversation the Captain General said
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first visiting the Deep winding contracted valleys where,
as in the great centres Of population the ambient causes
are all collected together producing complication and
confusion which throw doubt and uncertainty into the
mind Of the observer.
Proceeding thus by the path of observation and
ayss have been enabled to deduce the following
cusions from the facts which have been signal
lied in my memoir:
'.1st The absence insufciency of iodine in water
and amentary substances must be considered the pr
mtve special s geers cause of the gotre and Gre
tinsm.
sd These diseases determined by the presence
Of pahogecal element by the excess of sulphate Of
lime of magnesia in the economy. Such theory il
dsproved by facts by the results Of chemical analys
and by the principles Of physiology.
3d. Substances not poisonous introduced in too greet
quantities, and by way of absorption into the animal
vegetable economy, continually eliminated by the vial
movement and by the excretory canals without roublg
the order of the organic af6nities.
a4th. On the contrary, animals well vegetables
cease to develop themselves they anguish, deteriore
waste away and die upon being deprived of the eemes
necessary for nutrition.
9TH Every thing then goes to show that iodine in
gQtre acts Ike iron choross, by restoring TO the eco
= m n siasy H. sga1aiiary causszz
W & a3 (ES r. ~ arc u constant and coarse
getable st residence in the bottom of deep valleys,
closely shut in by the surrounding hils low built
damp dwellings into which the light and air penetrate
with difficulty; intermarrage between families afflicted
with gotre the want Of industrial occupations which
promote comfort and favor the development Of the ply
sical forces"
After the reading of the above memoir, M. lHENARD
stated to the Academy that M. CHATAIN, known the
author of the remarkable researches upon iodine had
called him few days before to that he en-
C had visited the gorous Alpine valleys that he had
alysed their waters and had found in them iodine
and that he proposed to be present at the next sitting Of
the Academy report at length the observations
made among the Alps and in his laboratory since the
date of his last memoir upon this subject.
is already matter of public notorety that marine salt
containing little ioduret of potassium has su6ced to
preserve from gore the inhabitants of those valleys into
which its employment has been introduced.
AT the sitting the Academy acknowledged the re-
ception Of Mr. c. G. FoRsHEYs work upon the physical
character of the Mississippi river.
The medical journals giving interesting account Of
the TRANSMISSION Of blood with the happiest results from the
of person in health into the veins of who
at the very point of death from the effects of excessive
hemorrhage The Blood furnished by young gentleman
medical attendant in the hospital where the occur
ed produced immediate restoration of all the powers OF
life which had seemed extinct Amelioration continued
and the patient well nigh restored to perfect
health
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"a DOUBLE RAILROAD COLLISION.

The mail of yesterday furnishes the particulars of
fghtfu collision which happened the Erie Railroad
last Thursday night The fault appears to have been
with the conductors both Of whom have been dismissed
from the service of the company is wonderful that
amidst such crash should have been killed The
details of the accident are thus stated:
The way train for Poughkeepse, which left New York
at P NJ Thursday, when it had reached the centre
of curve running around projecting head-lands, wal
stopped by the conductor to land two shmen who reus
ed to pay the fare, and while they being put out
locomotive that sent behind the train bring down
some freight cars into il about o'clock p NJ and
injured several passengers of them severely The
locomotive which going at the rate of thirty miles
per hour penetrated into the among the passengers
about wohrds Of the way cutting out the centre of the
went and completely housing itself within it.
forced of the passengers ahead threw others the
right and left in the space between it and the sides
Of the and one passenger lady was forced on the
top of the boiler The pipe broke it entered the
and the latter instantly filed with smoke and it
caught fire. The scene, may be supposed, of
great CONSERVATION. The passengers relieved by
being taken out through the windows.
The train the east track, and thrown partly
the west to obstruct slightly the passage of
cars The FIVE o'clock express train for Albany, which
used the track due there twenty minutes past
NJ and stopped below and sent back to Croton,
about mile distant, with of the accident and with
directions to switch off and up slowly the west
track to take off the passengers and perform whatever
service it could and with directions that the next upan
should be warned Of the accident.
The express train returned to Croton ordered and
went up the west track to the of the disaster
The passengers Of the injured train removed into it,
the obstruction the west track was cleared away and
when the express train about start off the up train
for Peeksdl, which left New York at 81 p NJ ran into
it when goog at thirty miles per hour and did serious
damage to numberof the passengers. The up Peeksk
train. which had previously stopped Croton was for
the first time, changed there from the east the west
track account Of the first obstruction the other,
and strange it may saem dashed away high speed,
without regard to the circumstances The last engine
penetrated into the of the express an split it
open forced the passengers forward and jammed and
bruised many of tkcm-soue very seriously. The car
was full of passengers, and had time to escape.
The first train had three cars the second four the third
two or three, and they started full
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TTRANsLATIoN.1

The Captain General Of Cuba to Commodore Parker.
HAVANA, SEPTEMBER Is, 1851.
My DEAR SIR have received your communication the
10th instant informing that you perceived by the New
Orleans papers, and those journals published other points
in the United States that the who had assembled
for the purpose of unlawfuy invading this island had
been dsbanded and that the President of the United States
had again issued the most stringent orders both civil and
military officers to in future a illegal assembges Of
this class of and the possibility Of their embarkng
of the ports of the United States concluding with the
mark that when every thing appears tranquil ought
take into consideration the propricy Of setting liberty
those prisoners who still here, especially those who
sick and wounded and you that such would
contribute to calm the excitement of the people the United
States, and prove gratifying to your Government
have to say to you in reply that is not in power to
comply with your request have already informed hsr
Maestys Government of the which have lately trans
pired this island and that going to send to Spain AL
the whose lives have been spared in virtue OF the par
don which granted in proclamation OF the z4th Of ias
posed of there agreeably to its superior Will
with every consideration your attentive faithful scs
want w. h. Y. H. JosE DE LA CoNCHa
To Mr.. FoxHALL A. PAREER, .
Commandcr-in chief OF the Naval FORCES OF the u o
In the West Indies