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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

FEMALE DELICACY.-Above every other
feature which adorns the female character,
delicacy stands foremost within the province
of good taste. Not that delicacy which is
perpetually in quest of something to be
ashamed of, which makes merit of blush,
and shippers at the false construction its own
ingenuity has put upon an innocent remark;
this spurious kind of delicacy is as far remov-
we'd from good taste as from good feeling and
good sense; but the high minded deicacy
which maintains its pure and undertaking
walk alike amongst women as in the society
of men, which shrinks from no necessary
duty, and can speak, when required, with Sc
riousness and kindness of things at which il
would be ashamed to smile or to blush-that
delicacy which knows how to confer bene,
fit without wounding the feelings of another
and which understands also how and when
to receive one-that delicacy which can give
aims without display, and receive without as.
sumption, and which pains not. the most
humble or most susceptible being in creation
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

A NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT.-Wc don't want
to offend any ones feelings, but we cannot
hel p mentioning queer combination Of gay
and sad subjects we saw united few eve
nings since on lot of pasteboards, not many
inches long or broad. 1t was an invitation
from benevolent buryng society to attend
ball given by them to assist their friends
and charitable purposes. 1t was all right
enough, but il was odd enough to the reader.
1t is strange, though natural and unfortunate
ly necessary, that some men and women
should dance in order to raise money to bury
others-N o. Picamlne.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

lay" Ion, of the Baltimore Sun, says San
ta Anna has commenced his new career by
an open and gratuitous declaration of hos
tility against the United States; and if he
will carry out the policy thus indicated, we
shall have occasion to resort to the remedy
indicated in General Pierce's Inaugural Ad.
dress-and acquire some territory now for
eign. 1t is thought that Gen. Pierce had the
Tehuantepec isthmus in view when he made
that declaration.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29
NEW ORLEANS, April 90.

Ihe New Orleans Doita has received i'd
vices from the Rio Grande to the 18th inst,
which state that a company of United States
troops bad arrested Caravajal and several of
his associates at Rio Graude city, but after
wards released them. They were, however,
again arrested by the U. S. Marshal, and are
now confined in Fort Brown under strong
guard. Witnesses have been summoned to
attend their examination, which was fixed for
the Goth instant.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

A PRoBLEM.-A father leaves at his death
several children, who share his property in the
following manner, namely; the first receives
a hundred pounds, and the tenth part OF the
remainder; the second receives two hundred
pounds, and the tenth part of the remainder;
the third takes three hundred pounds and the
tenth part of the remainder; and so on; and it
is then found that the property has been dl-
vdcd equally among all the children. Re
quired how much it was, how many children
there were, and how much each received!
N. F.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29
VIRGINIA GIRLs.-A correspondent of tn
Richmond Despatch, writing from Hanove

VIRGINIA GIRLs.-A correspondent of the
Richmond Despatch, writing from Hanover
county, Virginia, says
see from the Savannah News, that the
Georgia girls are telling trees and getting
shingles. We have in this county two girls
following the same occupation. send you
a sample of their workmanship. They get
six thousand per week by their own hands
at $3.50 per thousand. They supply the
whole demand in that region of country, and
many are sold in the Richmond market
They have by dint of industry purchased an
excellent pb2S They are meet excellent
performers. TSsir task is six thousand pei
week. They shorten their task by working
at night in the fishing season, thereby gain
ing Saturday, which they devote to pleasure
They 60 to the Pamunky River and haul the
seine, regardless of the depth of water
They can dive deeper, stay under longer and
come out dryer than any other girls in the
United States. Now let the Georgia girl:
cut and come again.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

CncULATE YOUR SPANISH QUARTERS
Spanish quarter dollars are only intrinsically
worth 20 cents. Government is preparing an
enormous issue of new quarter-dollars. The
banks will be supplied next month, when the
Spanish quarters will be called in, it is more
than probable, at 30 cents.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

RoAp WELL WATcHED-The Hudson
River Railroad, one hundred and fifty miles
in length, employs two hundred and twenty
five flag men, stationed at intervals along the
whole length oT tho line. Just before The
train is to pass, each one walks over his beat
and loolNto see that every track, tunnel,
switch, 4 clamp and rivot is in good order
and free of every obstruction.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

"FLoATERs."-We wish the papers would
discontinue the use of this word as applied
to Representatives in the Legislature. How
it ever came to be applied to them is past our
comprehension. A cork attached to fishing
line could, we suppose, be properly called a
"tloater" So were a man to acquire the
faculty of laying on the water without NOV
ing his arms or legs, he too, while deng this
would be "iloater" But a man is not ne
cessary fodier because he is the reprcsen-
tative of more than one county in the legls-
lature. Indeed we have known good many
such representatives who couldn't fodt al dL
and who, it they were TO happen to fall into
the river, would pat for the nearest landing
place if they could swim, or pretty suddenly
90 to that place where they don't choose
Legislators if they had never been taught
that accomplishment-NdShrille American.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

FEMALE LABoR.-The New York Day
Book says-and truly, too-in connection
with some remarks on the present high prices
of labor in all the departments of industry
that it would be for the interest of all hands
to change the practice of employing men to
sell tape, ribbons, laces, and other nicknNcks
to that of employing girls. The latter are
more adapted by nature to the business, and
the business is now adapted to their physical
capacities.
1t is false and cruel pride that compels
women to toll severely in their homes at
labor servant at six dollars a month could
perform, while their husbands and brothers
measure off tape and lustring at three hun
dred year, instead of pursuing more active
and appropriate duties at twice or thrice thai
amount of compensation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

tEy" The director at the mint, at Philadel-
phia, has given notice that the coinage of
three cent pieces, and their distribution at the
expense of the mint, has been discontinued,
with view to moro active employment in
the manufacture of new silver coin. In two
years, over 36,OOO,OOO three cent pieces have
been coined.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29
SUICIDE AND MURDER IN MICHIGAN.-The
Niles Union Of March 3lst says:


Niles Union Of March 3lst says:
"We understand that melancholy affair
transpired at Decatur on the first of the week.
Mr.. Keeler of Decatur, son of Judge Koeler,
of keelersvlle, and his wife were found dead
in their house on Monday last. The house
had been closed for one or two days, the
neighbors supposing the family was absent
on visit. Judge X. being anxious in regard
to their absence, entered the house, and found
the dead bodies of his children. The wife
was lying on the floor, with pillow under
her head, Il handkerchief around her face, and
properly laid out, as is usual with corpse.
The son was found on Il bed, and gave evil
dence of having died in great agony. 1t is
supposed Mr.. Keelcr first shot his wife through
the heart, arrayed her in the position in which
she was found, and taking poison intended
to lay himself beside her and die. The cause
for this sad affair we do not know"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

tIAsrRE.-The manure applied TO the soil
of England, says the AgricuItor, amounts to
three hundred millions of dollars; being moro
than the value Of the whole of its foreign
commerce; yet the grateful soil yields back
with interest all that is thus layished upon it.
And so it would do here if we would only
trust the soil with any portion of our capital.
But this we rarely do.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

~ The plate in the cabin of the steamer
"Victoria," wrecked near IIowth, on the coast
of Ireland, has been recovered 10y diver;
but the man protests that nothing in the
world would induce him to go down second
time. MS the scene in the cabin was the most
horrible he ever witnessed. lie thought he
had entered n wax-work exhibition, the
corpscs never having moved from their posi-.
ton since the vessel went down. There were
some eighteen or twenty persons in the cab
in. one and all of whom seemed to be hold.
ING conversation with each other and the
general appearance of the whole scene was
so life-like, that he was almost inclined ia
believe that some were yet living.
There are 2s2.s23 Quakers in the United
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

rR- The copper mines on Lake Superior
number twenty one-have 224,o0o shares
(which have cost by assessment Sl,OOo,OOO
ito the propretors, The present market val
ne of the whole stock of these twcnty-one
mines is S3,36OO0o, while their combined
product has already been lo,4o0 tons, or
,SsI2o,oOO at the price obtained for the met
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

CAUTION TO HusBASDs.-When your wife
is only going round to Mrs. Love-lies for half
m hours chat, make up your mind to pass
the whole evening solus, as you will certain
ly not see her till bed time.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

~" 1t is true greatness that constitutes
glory and virtue is the cause of botlg but
vice and ignorance taint the blood; and an un-
worthy behavior dcgrades and disennobles n
man more than birth and fortune aggrandi1e
and eyalt him.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

ANOTHER NEW INTENTIONAL Yankee has
Just invented mitten for wearing on the
proboscis on cold mornings. II is warranted,
besides keeping out the cold, to prevent the
wearer from sticking his nose in other peo
ple's business, There are many persons in
this vicinity who need them
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29
FERN LEAVES.

"lf you know anything to make brothers
heart glad, run and tell it. Anything to cause
sigh, bottle it up"
Yes, | shant do it! said Miss Nipper. I've
lived on scandal and Bohea this sixty years;
and change of diet at my time oflite might
prove fatal. 1t agrees with me, it doesl |
wouldn't give two pinches of snuff to live
where nobody jumped over the ten command
ments! It's fun alive for me to ferret it out.
| may not always hit on the right names of
the parties, but that's a trihe. Don't preach
to me. One half the world earn their "vit-
ties" by living on other folks vitals. If you
look into lawyers Bible, guess it would
puzzle you to find any such text, as BLESSED
are the peace-makers" Don't they earn the
salt to their porridge, by setting whole neigh
borhoods by the ears! Amt they in the Sc
venth heavens when they can get hold Of Il
long twistifed snarl of a family quarrela--
Don't they bow ar sIs...... and slirk. end
help Tp out a
with one hand, 1 ~
with the other! Oh, tell You Miss Npper
isn't the only mischief maker. There's large
family Of Paul Prys; don't all wear pettcoats
either. Some of them have masculine noses
that are forever up in the air snuffing the oil
wind that blows nobody good"-descendants
in direct line from Ananias and Saphira,-
Know more about a parish than the parsOn
and his deacons; more about a woman than
the father who bcgot her; and more about the
world in general than He who made it. Yes,
thank goodness, this is Gas the ministers saw
"a wicked world" 1t would be almighty
stupid, if it wasn't; suppose there's some
ly, H. i
not to, about every mnute at least hope so.
| only wish these male gossps would clear
the track and let the Nancy Nipper express
train be the first bearer of dispatches. q
should like to make some of 'em present Of
a petticoatD You don't catch Inc knocking
under, for speed and establishment, to any
thing that sports hat. Where's my snuff
box! FANNY FERN.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

THE BREEcHEs (BREAcHEs) AGAIN PATCH
ED.-The N. Y, Express in regard to the
reputed cabinet difficulties says
"Thc last despatch from Washington does
not indicate that Marcy has resigned, but, on
the contrary, indicates that the "breachcs'
have been "patched" That there is some
difficulty there is little doubt, but what it is
we cannot say"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

SEAMsrREssEs.-The wages of sin is
death, says the Good Book. The wages of
seamtresses are next thing to death, being
starvation, and much harder to bcar.-LoH,
Courier c.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

s35- A citizen of Louisville, and one of the
unfortunate passengers who took that awful
leap down the precipice west Of Cumberland,
has so far recovered as to write home to his
friends His experience was one which few
would wish to share in: 81 was asleep when
we first got off the track, in the first seat of
the second car-Mr H., of Walkers, sitting
right opposite. had time to jump off, had
| known how bad fix we were in: but be-
lieving it safer to remain, on second thought
did so. (The track was only l0t feet wide,
as measured after the accideht) The cars
Immediately fell over the preeipice. | thought
of God, mother, and death. The first jump,
about twenty feet, my hat saved me; the
second, | faintly remember seeing women
tearing their hair, and children screaming; the
third, fourth and last jump | know nothing
about, only that fell on my head and saw a
thousand pieces of timber and iron flying in
the air, and then tainted When | opened
my eyes, Mr.. T., who was lucky enough to
have been in one of the cars that remained
on the track, was at my side. My head was
bleeding profusely; with that exception felt
perfectly well, not feeling then what | suffer
now. Such sight as beheld would not
look at again for all the world; mutilated
bodies, some mashed to atoms, lying under
the wheeis-fifty or sixty men and women,
their faces covered with blood, running as
wild as demons with bloody hands
and face kissing the bodies of their dead OF
crippled children-onc woman, with her dress
torn of, screaming and trying to lift off the
stones that had crushed her husband-H., q
merchant of Baltimore, his leg mashed, sitting
on rock-one man, having lost all recolec,
ton, looking like an idiot-cries of agony
and despair, and oaths, mingled in the pres
| ence of death. God is mercifu that one Of
us all escaped. A worse place could not
have been found as we tumbled over rocks
| sharp and rugged"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

The war debts of the European nations n.
mount to $lOO,OOO,OOO,O0O. The interest
of this alone would give work 10 two mil.
lions of children, and pay each Of them $500
n year for their labor.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

tB" The opinion gains ground that Santa
Anna will attempt coup deiat in the style
of Louis Napoleon, and become Emperor of
MEXICO
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

A GREAT CoSvEReING PoINT in the sys-
TEN of Southern Atlantic Railroads now
constructing, is to be Knoxville, East Ten
nessee. When the railroad connections be-
tween Louisville and that point shall be com
pleted, our citizens, on reaching Knoxville,
can 90 directly eastward by railway to Rich
mond, Norfolk, Washington and Baltimore,
or Southeast to Charleston, or South to Sa-
vannah and Mobile.-Lou. Courier.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

.Sir The Memphis Eagle and Enquirer
reports real estate operations quite brisk in
that city. Everything, it says, indicates that
more buildings will be erected there this
summer than have ever been in one season
heretofore.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

AcTrvTY.-You see men with the most
delicate frames engaged in active professional
pursuits, who, literally, hare no time for III
ness. Let them become idle-let them take
care of themseves-let them think Of their
health, and they die. The rust rots the steel
which use prcseryes-Builrer.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

.75" The London Daily News of April Cd,
is exceedingly severe on Senator Dougass's
Speech about Central America, and speaks of
it as "a washy outpouring of nonsense" and
,..I......l 49,. >,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

tYs" Gentlemen should always walk n
little in the rear of ladies' Shadows should
not precede, but follow the sun.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

~" A complete, minute, and exact map
of France is about to be terminated, after
thrty-fye years inccssant labor, and at IN
expense of nearly 100000. It is said to be
the grandest work ofthe kind ever undertaken.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

SEpucTIoN-A man by the name CT Reed
w. Parker, who was found guilty of seduc-
ton in Allegheny, Pa, and sentenced TO the
penitentiary, aud who afterwards escaped,
was arrested in this city yesterday morning
by Marshal and Hardin, and was Immediately
placed in irons and taken back on the steam
or Alegheny.-Cin. Gazette.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

The population of tho earth is estimated
Mt one thousand millions. Thirty millions
die annually, cighty-two thousand four hun
drcd and twenty every hour, and iiity-seven
every minute,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

On Good Friday the Patriarch of the In.
dies presented for alteration to the Queen and
King of Spain, one of the nails that served
to fix the Redcemer to the cross, and which
is preserved in splendid gold relic case.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

.95" Mr.. Walsh, Paris correspondent of
the N Y. Journal of Commerce, writes that
there is no danger Of war in Europe on the
Turkish or any other question.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

The Norfolk Argus states on good author
ty that Robt., G. Scott, Esq, of Richmond,
Virginia has received the appointment of
Consul to Rio de Janerio.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

II is estimated that the iron blast furnaces,
in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, are
now making $1,000 10 $500 weekly clear
Of all expenses
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

HEIGHT OF FoLLY,-'or parents to live
hard, work hard and die hard to give their
children "a start in the world.n
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

c45" Many people complain bitterly of
the troubles of life, yet often greatly increase
life's real troubles by the anticipation OF i'm
nginary ones.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

~" How we printers iic!" as our devil
said when he got up too late for his break
Inst
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

szy" Isn't it little singular that President
Pierce forgot to say any thing about the
resolutions of 9Sr' in his Inaugural!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

ANEcpoTE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL cores
pondent of the Boston Journal furnishes the
following anecdote of President Pierce. 1t
will give our readers some idea Of the man
without the politician, and, we think, favor
able one:
A few DAYS since the President appointed
an individual to responsible and lucrative
office in a distant part of the country on the
recommendation of two United States Sena-
tors, and the Senate confirmed the appoint
ment. This gratifying event produced an
exhilarating effect upon the successful appi-
cant for office, who so far forgot himself as
to indulge in "glorious jollii;caton." As
he was lodged in n fashionable hotel, his dis
graceful conduct became known, and was
freely commented on-indecd, it became the
"town talk" The Senators who had recom-
mended him to the favor Of the President,
finding that he had disgraced himself, and
was unworthy of confidence, waited upon
the President, stated the facts, and asked for
his removal from office. "Gcntleman," said
the President, in reply, 'this gentleman was
nominated by me on your recommendation
and at your solicitation, to an office under the
Government, and the nomination was con-
fined by the Senate. You now say that his
habits are incorporate, and that he is unwor-
thy of his situation. But if were to re-
move him now, the consequence would be
inevitable ruin t. him. The shame and disap-
pointment attending his dismissal from office
under such circumstances would lead him to
find solace in the intoxicating bowl, and he
would become confirmed inebriate, whereas
if this conversation is repeated to him, he
may and probably will, reform, and become
sober and exemp plary citizen. | shall not re-
move him from office for this offence; but
this, as it has been the first so it will be the
last time can forgive him."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

The market for Wool at Baltimore is on
the decline on account of the approaching
new clip.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

.3y" lie who wants good sense, is unhap'
py in having learning, for he has thereby
more ways for exposing himself.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

17B" A butcher in Cincinnati was found
guilty the other day of selling dogs for NUT
ton and veal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

The State of Maine has 4l2 miles compile.
ted Railway, and GIT projected.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

ing navies, colossal military establishments,
frightful expenditures, contracts, jobs, cor
ruptioR, which it makes the heart of patriot
sick to contemplated How can our simple
republican institutions, our popular elections,
our annual or biennial choice of those who
are to rule over US, instead of rule of he
reditary succession supported by pretori II
guards, how can they subsist under influences
like these!
"Do not mistake, sir; counsel no pusil-
luminous doctrine Of nen-resistance. Heaven
forbid. Providence has placed us between
the two great world oceans, and we shall al
ways be maritime power Of the first order
Our commerce already visits every sea, and
wherever it floats it must be protected. Our
immense inland frontier will always require a
considerable army; and it should be kept in
the highest state of discipline. The naval
school at Annapolis and the military school
at West ought to be the foster children of
the Republic. Our arsenal and our armies
ought to be filled with every weapon and
munition of war. Every vulnerable point
upon the coast ought to be fortified. But
while we act upon the maxim, an peace pre-
pare for war;" let us also remember that the
best preparation for 1car is peace. This swels
your numbers-this augments your means
this knits the sinews of your strength-this
covers you all over with panopy Of glory.
And then, if war must come in a just cause,
no foreign State-no, sir, not all combined,
can send forth an adversary that you need
fear to encounter"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

Dobbs says that women have "such way
with their lips" that huggng and kissing
leads as naturally to love as champagne does
to soda water. That being the case, avoid
nibblng.