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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

HEADING GEN. CAss.-We notice Wash.
ington rumor afoat that directly after the
organization Of Baltimore Convention No. J.
a motion will be made that the claims Of no
candidate who has heretofore been put in nomi-
nation by the party and defeated, shall be con-
sidered by the Convention. This, it is sup
posed, will receive the votes Of the friends OF
all the candidates, Gen. Cass excepted, and
thus throw him out of the ring. We suspect
this motion has only been discussed, not
agreed on; and that its palpable personality
and unfairness will prevent Its adoption.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

w In New York Land Warrants are ac-
I've, and 100 acres are quoted at S12Oa Sl25.
The annexed information in regard to the
tansfer of Land Warrants is from Thomp-
sons Reporter
& General Land Office, April 90, 1852
Sir If the Warrantee died after the Warrant
was issued, the heirs, if adults, Jointly must
assign; if minors, their guardian, having pre-
viously obtained an order from the Court
having proper jurisdiction, can alone assign
their interest therein; if there are both adult
and minor heirs, the former and the guardian
Of the latter must unite in making the assign
ment
; An executor cannot assign a warrant un-
der said act, unless specific directions are
given by the testator to him to dispose of
the same.
II the Warrantee died before the Warrant
issned: tits null and void, and must be
returned TO the Commissioner of Pensions,
who will cancel the same and issue another
in the name Of the widow, Gf he left one y
if he left no widow, but minor children, the
Warrant will be issued in their names; if he
left neither widow nor minor children, there
exists no right in any ather person thereto.
Very respectfully your ob't serv't,
]. BUTTERFIELD, Commr.
To ], THOMPSON, Esq, LandWarrant Dealer,
Ne. 2 Wall ST., N Y.
Remarks.-If the warrantee died after the
issuing of the warrant, proof of the fact
must accompany the warrant, and proof of
heirship must also accompany the warrant
This proof must consist of the certificate of
a Probate Court, under seal, stating the time
of the death of the Warrantee, and giving
the name of the widow, or, if no widow, of
each and every child, designating which are
minors and which are of age.
The widow is entitled to the warrant. If
there are neither widow nor children, the war
rant is null and void
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

ANODD RECEPTION. "A few evenings since,
says the Salem Standard, party of young
men proceeded, at late hour, to serenade a
newly married couple. The groom arose and
prepared repast for the visitors, of which
they partook freely, when the host invited
them to unite with him in prayer. They all
kneeled down, and listened to an eloquent
appeal in their behalf Not word was spo-
ken, but each left in silence, amazed at the
odd turn of their visit.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21
tW- " An old man" writing to the Boston

W- An old man" writing to the Boston
Daily Advertiser, says that in his opinion
three results will have been produced by
Kossuth's visit and reception, in this country.
First, decline of reverence for the hitherto
sacred principles of Washington, as laid
down in his immortal Legacy; second, the
superinduction of a doubt among the nations
of Europe as to our real neutrality, and a
suspicion of our true faith in treaties; and
third, the still stronger binding of Austrian
tyranny around devoted Hungary, and the
still further postponement of the day of her
restoration.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

Vengeance was the tardy thought that now
rushed on every heart. Some, in the blind.
ed fury of the moment, actually discharged
their pieces into the centre of those waving
eddies, without staying to reflect upon its ut
ter uselessness. Others with their guns in
readiness, and eyes glaring upon the sea like
panthers robbed of their prey, stood prepar-
ed to fire tie moment he would show his
head above the water But he rose no more.
The winged messengers of death that had
been aimed at his life sped harmlessly over
his head; and had it been possible to pene-
trate the secrets of the great deep, he might
have seen reposing peacefully on its sandy
bottom by the side of his late antagonist A
sullen silence pervaded the ship.
The men looked gloomily at each other,
and with lowering brows on their helpless
prisoners, as if sufficient atonement had not
been rendered for the life of their comrade.
To one skilled in the language of the human
.eountenance, it was evident that nothing but
the restraint of discipline held them back
from a summary act of vengeance and of
crime that would have sunk them to level
with the pirates themselves. Judging of the
feelings of his crew from their looks, or more
probably from his own, and anxious to remove
the temptation to evil, the captain ordered
our eight prisoners to be slowed under the
matches, and they were accordingly tumbed
in with very little ceremony. How many of
this band of genuine despeadocs had been
lost, we had no means of ascertaining; for our
prisoners either did not or would not under
stand English or French But when they fired
upon us, twelve to sixteen men were visible,
and the yell that followed our discharge was
such as is never extored from mortal man but
by the pangs of the last agony.
Six or eight, then, of the treebooters, had
certainly perished What chance of success
they might fancy that an open boat could
have against n vessel of the size of ours, it
completely bewildered us to imagine. They
must either have been intoxicated, or in the
situation of beast of prey, whom the goad-
ings of hunger will impel to rush upon foe
whose face he would otherwise have fed
Viewing it in either light, it was an act of
the most daring hardihood. The struggle had
been fierce and boisterous, but had passed.
The ship was restored to her usual tranqulh
ty, and was moving before gentle breeze
from the shore, yet so slowly us scarcely TO
rutfie the face of the ocean.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21
THE POST.
Athens, Friday, May Fl, 1852.
BALTIMORE, May 8.

The Wing City Convention met on Thurs
day night last to select eleven delegates to
the State Convention which has been called
for the purpose of choosing delegates to the
National Convention. On the first ballot,
Geo. E. Sangston, (Fillmore MANI, was elect
ed Senatorial delegate, by 80 to II for all
Others. Resolutions were then adopted in
favor of Mr.. Fillmore, for the Presidency, and
approving the Compromise measures, after
which the remaining ten delegates were
chosen, all of whom are friends of Fillmore.
Every county in the State, heard from, has
gone for Mr.. Fillmore, and the State Con-
yention will probably be unanimous in his
favor. Gen. Scott is no longer spoken of in
this latitude, the course of his Northern
friends indicating that he will preserve en-
tire silence upon the Compromise measures.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia North American, well known
anti-slavery man, writes that Gen. Scott will
under no condition or circumstance write a
letter upon public questions, unless the
Wing Convention should offer him a nomi-
nation. 1t remains to be seen whether the
Wing Convention will nominate him before
his sentiments on important subjects are fully
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

A CUTTING EPITAPH-'Some years ag'
there lived in this region so writes genia
friend, steam poet familiarly known a
Old Beach, What think you of the follow
ing, suggested by him as an appropriate
epitaph for certain Deacon R, who died
leaving all his property to the missionary
societies -
Here lies what's left of Deacon R;
He knows his own condition;
To save his soul he gave his all
Unto the heather mission;
His children poor, turned out of door,
For them he had no pity;
If heapen serves him as he served them,
Old Sultan do your duty
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

A MoTHER-Who can look coldly upon a
mother! Who, after the unspeakable tender
ness and care with which she has fostered
him through infancy, guided him through
childhood, and delberated with him through
the perplezities of opening manhood, can
speak irreverently of mother! Her claims
to the affections of her offspring are founded
in nature, and cold must be the heart that
can deny them. Over the grave of friend,
of brother, or of sister, would plant the
primrose, for it is emblematical of youth, but
over that of mother would let the green
.rass shoot up unmolested, for there is some
thing in the simple covering which Nature
spreads upon the grave that well becomes
the abiding place Of decaying age.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

| A TEMPERANCE JoKE.-Joe Harris was a
whoe-soued, merry fellow, and very fond Of
a glass. After living in New Orleans for
many years, he came to the conclusion of
visiting an old uncle, away up in MGssachu-
setts, whom he had not seen for many years.
Now, there is difference between New
Orleans and Massachusetts, in regard to tho
use OF ardent spirits, and when Joe arrived
there and found all the people run mad about
temperance, he felt b.d, thinking with the
old song, that keeping the spirits up by pour
ing the spirits down. was one of The best
ways to make time pass, and began to fear,
indeed, that he was in n pickle. But on tho
morning after his arrival, the old man and his
sons being out ut work, his aunt came to him
and said
Joe, you have been living in the south,
and, no doubt, are in the habit of taking n
little to drink about eleven o'clock. Now
Keep some here for medicinal purposes, but let
no one know 1t, as my husband wants 10 set
a good example for the boys.
Joe promised and thinking he would get
no more that day, took, as he expressed il, "A
buster After awhile he walked out to tho
| stable, and who should he meet but his un-
Gle.
'Well, joe says he, 4 expect you are &C.
customed to drinking something in New Or
leans, you find us all temperance here, and,
for the sake of my sons, don't let them
know that have any brandy about; but |
Just keepa little out here for my rheumatism.
Will you accept little'
Joe signified his readiness and took ano-
ther big horn. Then continuinghs walk, he
came to where the boys were hauling the.
rails. After conversng awhile, one Of his
cousins saidl
"Joe, expect you would like to have a
drink! and as the old folks are down on IL
quor, we keep some out here to help us on
with the work.
Out came the bottle, and down they sat-
and he says that by the time he went home
to dinner he was as tight as he could well be,
and all from visiting Il TEMPERANCE familM
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21
ISLANDER.

Slander is the enemy of all goodness;
hence the virtuous and the good have, in all
ages, been the peculiar objects Of its venom.
How shall this odious vice be described
What colours shall perfectly delineate its
character! In the varied storehouse of the
Imagination it is almost impossible to find
materials for this work. Language falls far
short of doing justice to this neglected sub
ject. Although this effort may prove per-
feet failure, the writer's time will not be
wholly lost, if not more than one mind may
be impressed with the inimeasurable turpi-
tude and malignity of this dreadful vice, and
lead TO resolution to guard against it forever.
Slander is the product of a wicked DISPOSE
tion aAd acorrupt heart; it is the offspring of
malicious, envious and jealous spirit. In a
slanderer we find what we should scarcely
expect to find in any person the coincidence
and concentration of all evil qualities. Such
a compound of all the vices-such as pride,
hypocrisy, treachery and cruelty needs some
disguise to conceal its loathsomeness ana
deformity.
To whatever we may attribute this delusive
desire for evil speaking, whether to natural
cruelty of disposition and love of mischief,
or to an envious, jealous temper, impatient of
the merit and superiority Of others-whether
to ambition or insatiate lust-to which of
these causes we attribute this loathsome
disease, true it is to growth and progress as
injurious as it is dsgraceful to n civilized
people. To pass an il-natured reflection on
wel-meant and innocent action; to condemn
a person for a word spoken inadvertently or
in jest; to rob an innocent man of his charac-
ter, and, above all, his peace, while family is
dependent upon his labors for bread, and all
this out of pure caprice and wantcnness-ay,
and sometimes from worse motives, is such
of wickedness, and such per-
version of the noble powers of mind, as can
not fail to excite the deepest disgust and
incur the heaviest censure.
But what are some of the different forms
of slander! There is one species in the form
of whispering This consists of speaking of
a persons failings in private. This is done
in very confidential manner to some par
ticular and intimate friend, and generally has
an introduction something like this: SNOW |
am going to tell you something, but don't
mention il to any one" Thus the story
e5ceps s,os}g asssl -spread- tbrangh commit
nifty, until the public mind is irremediably
tainted Backbiting comes next. Undoubt-
edly more have suffered in their reputation
by backbiting than by public accusations. /
Against the former we may arm ourselves;
but being ignorant of the designs of the
Dackbiter, we are taken unawares Tale
bearing is another species; these are generally
he accommodating carriers of news for the
special qualification and relief of the curious
These three generally are the most odious
md mschievous characters in the community
and they should be abhorred and spurned as
a walking pestilence.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

TAKE THE PAPERs.-'Tis sweet on win
ter's night at home, to sit by fire and tapers;
but ah! It's wiser thing by far to read the
papers. Can't you take the papers? The
joys of hearts are of little worth unless you
take the papers.
Maidens wait lovers true-you must take
the papers! SWANS who would not idly WOO
you must take the papers! Won't you
take the papers! Loves joys below, you'll
never know, unless you take the papers.
Married folks of all degree-you must take
the papers! You must truly happy be, fyou
take the papers! Won't you take papers'
Can't you take the papers! They'll say
you're mean, and "rather green" unless you
take the papers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

w- law has passed the Louisiana Leg
islature, and goes into effect in six months
time, which prohibits the emancipation of
slaves in that State, except upon the express
condition that they shall be sent out of the
United States within twelve months, and re-
curing the payment of $3.50, to be deposited
in the treasury for each slave, to be applied
in payment of passage to Africa, and support
after arrival.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

The RUSH FOR CALIFoRNIA.-The steam
ship Northern Light, which left New York
on Wednesday for Nicaragua, had on board
nine hundred and fifty California Adventures.
When she took her departure, her decks and
rigging were crowded with human beings.
AS the Crescent City sailed the same day
from New York for Navy Bay with 500, We
have total of l,45O persons leaving a single
port on the Atlantic, in one day, for the
Pacific.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

The Franklin CTenn.) Review says that
Geo. Bennett, of Williamson county, cured
himself large cancer in the nose, and with
which he had for years suffered intensely, by
the following simple process:
He procured about peck of clean red oak
bark, by first cutting off the rough outside,
and put it into vessel containing about two
gallons of water which he boiled over slow
fire till the ooze became quite strong, when
he strained it through cloth to remove the
particles of the bark. Then he again put it
into the vessel and simmered it over slow
fire till it came to the consistency of molas-
ses, when it was fit for use. It was then
spread upon piece of silk or other soft rag,
and applied to the diseased part lie used
about two fresh plasters every week until the
cancer was removed and the woond healed;
he says is not painful, but believes it an
infallible remedy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

The CHANCES OF LIFE.-A late number Of
the Albany Journal says: "Among the inter-
esting facts developed by the recent census
are some in relation to the laws that govern
life and death. They are based upon returns
from the State of Maryland, and compari-
son with previous ones. The calculation it
is unnecessary to explain, but the result is a
table from which we gather the following
illustrations:
lO,26S infants are born on the same day
and enter upon life simultaneously. Ofthese
l,243 never reach the anniversary of their
BIRTH 9,025 commence the second year; but
the proportion of deaths still continues so
great that at the end of the third only 8183,
or about four-fifths of the original number,
survive. But during the fourth year the
the number of deaths rapidly decreases. 1t
goes on decreasing until twenty-one, the
commencement of maturity and the period Of
highest health. 7,l34 enter upon the activi-
ties and responsibilities of life-more than
two-thirds of the original number Thirty
five comes, the meridian of manhood, 5000
have reached it. Twenty years more, and
the ranks are thinned. Only 4,727, or less
than half of those who entered life fifty-fve
years ago, are left. And now death comes
more frequently. Every year the ratio of
mortality steadily increases, and at seventy
there are not a thousand survivors. A scat
tered few live on to the close of the century,
and at the age of one hundred and six, the
dream is ended-the last man is dead!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

A San Francisco resident states that now
there is in that city, less darkness, fewer
riots, burglaries, murders, and less disorderly
conduct generally, than exists even in many
of the villages of the older States, where So
ciety is better organized, and thelaw omnipo-
tent in its majesty and power.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

Rooms in which, from any cause, there
arises an unpleasant odor, may be freed OF
the noxious efiluva by placing few kernels
Of coffee on hot shovel, and allowing the
aroma, or smoke, to be freely disseminated.
II will dispel efectually the most powerful
odor arising from putrid animal or vegetable
natter. II has been much used and with
excellent success, in localities infested with
cholera.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

icy DR.. Stevens, in his address to the
graduates said that notwithstanding the tolls
connected with medical life, it is happy
Calling This is a just opinion, and has
been ever since we saw DR.. Rhubarb charge
q dollar for shaking his head at an infamed
ankle.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

The Ohio Statesman says that Catharlne
Scholey, thirty-six years of age, and weigh
ing six hundred and eleven pounds, is to be
exhibited in Columbus She is q native OF
Ohio, and resides in Pickaway county near
the junction Of the Darby with the Scioto'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

INDIANA LEGIsLArURE.-A bill appropriat-
ing five thousand dollars to aid in the coloni-
zation of the free persons of color in the
State of Indiana, has passed both branches of
the General Assembly.
In the House, a resolution in favor of the
Maine law was voted down-ayes, 8, noes 79.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

A story isgoing the rounds that an Amer
lean gentleman in Rome, (name not stated
refused to take off his hat when the Pope
was carried past, during the ceremonies of
Holy Week. The police took him in charge
charge and treated him roughly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

DoNT BLAME HIM. "A man moved to New
Hampshire and remained three weeks, during
which time it rained hard every day on the
morning of the 2lst day he met neighbor
who remarked that the skies looked rs though
"a storm was going to set in," whereupon
the discouraged emigrant packed up and
hoated back to his old home.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

Ley individuals that stay out late at night
must expect to eat a late breakfast and enjoy
n comfortable headache, accompanied by a
eor,;,;ne dissertation on broken rest.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

~ Jane, put the baby to sleep with
laudanum, and then bring me my parasol and
revolver. am going to attend meeting for
the amelioration of the condition Of the hu-
man race.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

RABuN GAP RAIL RoAD.-General A. II.
Brisbane, with corps of Cadets, from the
Military Academy of Charleston, reached
Augusta last Friday evening, and left there
on Saturday morning for the Rabun Gap, via
Athens, to make a survey of the proposed
route for the Rabun Gap Rail Road.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

A man on getting out of an omnibus few
days ago, made use of two rows of knees as
banisters to steady himself, at which the la
dies took offence, and one of them cried
aloud "a perfect savage" "True," said a
wag inside, "he belongs to the Paw Knee
tribe"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

rW Don't moralize to man who is on
his back. Help him up, set him firmly on
his feet, and then give him advice and means
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

The want of the gentler sex in California
is expressed in the following business report;
"Females are earning from $40 to $lOo per
month in the cities of the Pacific, and hus-
bands are as plentiful as flies ina sugar hogs
head!"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-21

The plain of the Euphrates is one hundred
miles in diameter, and appears as level as
floor. Once it was densey populated, no
doubt, but now few villages only are scat
tered over IL.