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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-09-02
WHAT'S RESPECTABILITY.

To judge from the conduct and ideas o
some persons among both sexes, respecta
bility consists in driving fast horses, wearing
rich laces, drinking champagne, or idling
away life. To cut figure in society, on the
promenades, or at watering place, appears
to be the sole aim of many women, who sure.
ly were born for better things. TO cultivate
a moustache, sport "two forty" trotter, OF
act rs n model exhibitor Of coats for some
fashionable tailor, seems to be the conception
Of dignilied and respectable career formed
by not n few of the men.
Now being respectable, in either man OF
woman is, to our notion, doing what is duty.
The poorest person, even in what is consider
ed popularity the humblest avOcation, who
pays his debts, obeys the law, and fullls his
other obligations to society and to his fellow
creatures, is Il thousand tunes more respecta.
bic than the wealthy ider, the educated
spendthrift, the calous miscr, or the fash.
ionable fool. SO the modest female, whcth.
er scamstress, book-folder, press.tender, store.
keeper, or even house-servant is, in the true
sense Of the word, infinitely more respectable
than the cXtravagant wife who is running her
husband, than the thoughtless vOtary of fash
ion, than the butterfly firt. Ina word, worth,
not wealth constitutes responsibility.
Again. 1t is what really is, not what
merely seems to be, respectable, that men of
sense honor as such. The millionaire, who
has obtained wealth by knavish practices,
though he may creep through the meshcs Of
the law, cannot escape the indignant verdict
Of an honest public; he may give grand din.
ners, drive sliowy equipage, inhabit palace,
and even subscribe ostentatiously to benevO-
lent purposes; yet, with all his outside guild
ing, people recognize the rottenness within,
and from the very summit Of his splendor,
trace back the slimy track by which he rose
Such man, let him do what he will, can
never become respectable. a gulf, AS wide
as that between Dives and Lazarus, separates
him from the esteem of the good. So also
the low.mindcd in all pursuits, those cruel and
unfcclng towards their tellow-men, charla-
tans of every hue, hypocrites, demagogues,
toadies, sharpers, and all others of a similar
kind, cannot be respectable. Pinchbeck new
er vet passed long for gold. Or, rs the old
provcrb has it, "you cannot make a silk purse
ont of n sow's ear"
AS people are generally what habit renders
them, it is for the young that these remarks
are meant. The old cannot be cured. II
they are shams now, sliams they will remain;
nothing, alas! can ever make them respectable.
But the young have yet their habits to form.
Let them take Il high standard and become
truly respectable.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-09-02

~" The special Washington correspon-
dent of the N. Y. Herald writes that Presi-
dent Pcarcc is determined to leave the sub
ject of the proposed railroad to the Pacific an
open question, for settlement by Congress,
the different State Legislatures, and the peo-
pie. In his message to Congress next De-
cember he will merely give the result Of the
labors of the different exploring expeditions
so far as known, without advocating any par
ticular route or even the road itself. Gen.
Pierce comedies in the opinion expressed in
tho Herald at the time the debate was going
on in Congress relative to the imposition up
on the President of the extraordinary duties
of attending to the surveying of rail road
routes. He is of the opinion that he was
elected President of the United States; not
President of railroad, by the people. As
to the Cabinet, it is understood that its mem.
bers are opposed, upon the ground of uncon-
stitutonality, to any project which will grant
more than the mere right of way to the road.
Under any circumstances. however, the pco-
pie have determined, says the Herald, that
the road must be built. The only real dli-
Guilty in the way is the fixing upon the route.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-09-02


EUROPEAN ISTELLlGEHcE.-Thc London
Morning Post boldly asserts that the Princi-
paltics will be evacuated the first week in
September, and that soon afterwards the Brit.
isl and French fleets will leave the Turkish
waters.
The latest telcgraphic dispatch received at
Liverpool from London, on the morning of
the 18th inst, states that advices had been
received from st. Petersburg dated the 9Th
inst, announcing that the Emperor of Russia
has definitely accepted the proposals from the
four Great Powers.
A dispatch from Trieste says that the Porte
has accepted without modification the propo.
sails drawn up at Vienna, and that an Ambas.
sador Extraordinary was to leave CONSTANT
noplc for st. Petersburg as soon as the Rus
sian troops should be ordered to cvacuate the
Principalities.
The latest advices from ConstantinOple arc
to the 3lst ult., and state that intense excite
ment existed in that city in coscqucnce ofthe
refusal of the Hospodnrs Of Moldavia and
Wallachia to obey the summons to return to
Constantinoplc-indeed the members of the
old Turkish party are so indignant that fears
are entertained for the safety of the city, and
there is imminent danger that a revolution
will result therefron,.
DESTRUCTION OF SHIEAZ BY EARTHQUAKE.
"A letter from Persia gives some further
particulars of the terrible earthquake at Shi-
raz on the 2lst Of April last. The shocks
continued, up to the l4th of May, at short
intervals every day. The first shock lasted
five minutes, when the inhabitants were asleep,
and laid nearly the whole city in ruins. The
writer, speaking Of the scene next morning,
says:
"On every side the eve could see nothing
but heap of ruins, streets blocked up with
stones, and dead bodies being carried on lit.
ters without the walls of the city. II made
the heart bleed TO see the limbs of persons
showing themselves from beneath piles Of
rubbish, and men, women andchildrcn cndcav-
Oring to withdraw the INITIATED bodies of
their friends and relations from beneath the
ruins, which, in their despair, they were tear
ing away with their teeth, their hands and
their nails. Ont of several thousand victims,
the lives of only a very small number were
saved. Several shocks occurred for five days,
during which il is calculated that twelve
thousand persons persisted, On the fourth
day large bands of brigands made their ap-
Ia, r.,,t,
habitants, who were without defence and
without asylum, of what little they had been
able to save from the ruins"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-09-02

TIE MEs,LLA VALLEY QvEsTIoN-THE
FIRST SKIRMIsH.-Boundary wars generally
begin by some preliminary skirmishing on or
near the disputed line Upon a nice and
delicate case like that of the Mesilla Valley
question the imprudence or reckessness Of
solitary individual may light up the combus-
tibles of n bloody war. The late news from
FL Paso in this view is ominous. A conflict
between party of Americans and guard Of
Mexican troops, with the loss of man or
two to the former, may perhaps require no
very laborcd construction to denounce as tho
shedding of American blood upon American
soil" The affair is the more TO be dcprecat-
hammatory condition Of both
o disputed boundary. The
man thi.,"me American party,
ITO California, are eager for anoth-
into tbo bo,rt of Mox;.o. ,I;lo ~,
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VIRaIMIA LEGIsLATURE.
MONDAY, Janunry 8. 1853.


lMr Deneale, President pro tsaPOr, in the Chair.
b IA communication was received frnm the House,
stating the passage of the House bill to authorlze
the blishment of D Bank In Union, Monroe Coz
which was carried through It's successive Stages,
passsd, and ordered 10 be coEnmunicat the
Mr. Pitman, from the committee on Claims pre-
sented-
A Senate bill for the relief of Giles Henderson,
Deputy Sheriff of Montgomery county.
Mr. Darlington, from the committee on Banks.
oreEented-s=z 49, s5=ssss5 -
A House bill, to establish an independent Bank
in Winchester,i 4L8=
. MIR Brown, fom. the. committee on Agriculture
House bin to incorporate the Potomac Copper
Company, in Loudon county
A Communication was received from the Gov
etnor, transmitting the resignation OF John
ston, as Brigadier General OF the l7th Brsaoe Oh
Virginia Militia.
Mr. Hall, from the select committee, report
ed IN r. 81 5s .QH
A bin o amend the first sectien of the act pass
ed May 1882, to extend the corporate limits OF the
town of Ripley, in the county OF Jackson.
ssa BILLS PASSED.
The following bills were passed.:
House bill to incorporate the Potomac Copper
Company, in the county of Loudon.
Senate bill to incorporate the Bank OF Manassa''
House bill 10 establish an independent Bank in
Senate bill to Incorporate the Point Peasants
Manufacturing Company, in the county of Ma
son. h'
l.f BILLS ON THE CALENDAR.
wseyeral bills on the Calendar were advanced
stage.
BONDS or-rnE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO oSNAL COM
PANY.
A bill to provide for the payment of the interest
of these bonds guaranteed by the State was read
second and ordered to be read a third time.
The Senate then adjourned.
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MA new reservoircOnnected with the Philadel-
phia Water Works had the water let into it for the
!. frst time on Wednesday. 1t is of immense size.
ON the inside measured fromthe foot of the banks,
is S76i feet long, and 1884 feet wide enclosing
an area of 149,4s6 square feet. Its dimensions at
the surface of the water, when filed, are S-s
scrss. When full, its capacity is Is feet depth,
containing 1s,66S,s67 gallons, or ,7ts,144 cubic
feet, equivalent to IS, e41 tons of water. With the
other reservoirs previously existing it furnishes
caploity equal to ss.6s1,s4s gallons of water
This is exclusive of the reservoirs belonging to the
aspring Garden and Keusington water works.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-08

Fatal sHoorso.-caleb j. Brennan, town
Marshal of Aberdeen, Mississippi, while riding on
horseback few days since near the city, was shot
in his right leg from rife or pistol the ball enter
ing behind and ranging downwards. He refused to
permit ampntation; modification ensued, causing
several children in a dependent situation.
The Independent, from which we learn these
facts says that it not known who perpetrated the
deed, and the deceased refused to tell. Its, how
ever, probable that he shot himself.-NGtches
Courier. ..lL :
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'''' slxouLin CiaounsrANcE.--A singular cirOum-
stance Is mentioned by the skOwhegan tMe.> Cla-
NON AlfeW years ago, man by the name of
johnson. apedlaT stopped at the house of one HUI
glies, in Madison, and was never afterwards heard
OF. until recently. Some time after johnson
stopped with Hughes, the latter was drowned and
p bis wife became insane. She declared her hus'
band the murderer of johnson, and circumstances
L.eave plausibity to her story. Now johnson turns
np,in California, and the children Of Hughes are
: thus relieved of the stigma Of being the offspring
ss,of murderer.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-08

80 PrasoSAL MovrnESrs.-Gen. Houston arrived
lat Washington on Friday. Hon. Gfaharn N.
Fitch has gone to Indiana, tobe in the vicinity at
the meeting of the Legislature, nextmonth. when,
ills said, he will be elected TO the Senate for the
unexpred term of Senator Whitcomb. Col. For
ney has gone on pilgrimage to Concord, to have
an interview with the President elect; rumor says
10 oppose the claims ofJudge Campbell for post
in the new Cabinet, and to sustain the cloims Of
Hon. Jas. Buchanan. Ex-Governor VIM. Smith,
,-bo retutned from California in the Uncle SAM
is.with his familyin Virginia.
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HOUSE or pELEGATEs.


Prayer by Rev. Peter De Forrest, of the N. E.
Church. a.t
MI Lewis. frlm the Committee of Roads and In
ternal Navigation, presented
An act TO amend the Sd section ofan act passed
March 9th, 1851, to widen and complete the Sis
terville and Salem turnpike road.
Mr. MaItz, from select Committee, presented
A bill to construct railroad from Parkesburs, in
Wood county, to Strasburg, in Shenandoah county.
A message was received from the Senate, trans
hitting the following House bills, with the annun
citation OF, their final passage without amt nd
ment:
To incorporate the Potomac Copper Company, in
the county of Loudoun; s.a5l e5 .-.-#.s
To authorize the establishment OF Bank at
Union, in Monroe county, and -.sI g
To incorporate the Bank of ManaSsa, Ia the Town
of Front Royal, in the county ofWaHen.
|, A communication from the Senate was read,
stating the final passage in that body OF the follow
ing House bills.
| ToauthoriSe the Exchange Bank to establish al
Office in the townof Danvi lei and
To authorize the election of constable in King
wood, Preston county, West Union, Doddndg'
county, .PTuntytOwn, Taylor county, and ClarkS
burg, Harrison county.
A bill to repeal SO much of the act passed. Fee
bruary 26th, 1916, to establish District Free Schools
in the counties of Lancaster, Westmoreland, Rich
mond, Prince William and other counties, as ap-
piled 10 Henry counties, was moved to be taken up
| by Mr.. Hairston.
Mr., Jackson. of Doidudge AMI Tyler, opposed
said motion and was replied to by Mr.. HaIrSton.
The bill was then taken up aud real a second
| time.
| RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions of enquiry were agreed
to and ref fred:
BY Mr.. Patrlck-That a special Committee be
appointed TO enquire into the expediency of amend
ing the District School law for sKanawha county.
with leave 10 report by bill or otherwise. Com
mittee was accordingly appointed.
BY Mr.. PreSton-Resolved, ThatthiS House WILL
with the consent of the Senate, proceed on Monday,
the 31st, 10 fill the vacancy caused BY the resigna
ton of Peter c. johnson, BrigadierG General Of the
18th brigade of Virginia Militia.
The following petitions, &C, were presented and
referred TO appropriate Committees:
by Mr.. Talafero-.O the citizens of the Com
monwe alth for an act of incorporation for Com
pany TO be styled the York River Steamboat Com
pany.
Mr., T. 9lso presented like petition of the citi-
zens of Maryland for a similar purpose.
1t being here aScertained that there was no quo
rum present,
Mr.. Wallace said that the only alternative lor
the House to make of was, either to adjourn OF
10 takeharsh against absents; and thin king
it best to adjourn, he therefore made that motion,
which was agreed t..
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-08

EPFEcrs OF RAILROADS UPON THE PRICE OF LANDS
AND FARMING PRoDuCE.-It las been estimated, by
those whose observation has qualified them to judge
correctly, that the increase in the value OF stup
of land three miles wide, through which railroad
is constructed, is sufficient to build and stock IT.
The experience of the whole country has proved
that this estimate is not extravagant Every mile
of strip of land three miles wide, one and bali
miles each side of the ROAD, will contain 1,92O
acres, The average increase in the price OF such
strip OF land has been not far from S15 an acre; IN
new and tuiny settled districts of country, it has
been much more in many instances. This would
be equal to 800 increase TO every mile OF road
OF, in other words, if the farmers or owners OF tnS
strip of country should themselves build the road,
their land would be worth enough or more to pay
the whole expense of its construction and they
would own the road besides. Hrailroads. therefore,
conferred no other benefits upon tanners that this
great addition to their wea tn, they VIII see that
tkey are more deeply interested in Their construc-
ton than any other cass of the community. They
receive Direct positive, tangible advantage in the
immediate rise in the value of their property. Inc
fnrmer owning farm of $50 acres, worth perhaps
$50 per acre. can sell it for S65 per acle the very
day a railroad shall have been completed through
or near it. He is, therefore, made nearly $4,000
richer by his enterprise.
But there are other advantages to the forming in
terests besides the rise in the value of their farms
The products OF farm situated at any considerable
distance from market, where ordinary roads have
TO be depended upon, are OF little comparative
value TO the producer; but railroads at once give
them ready access to market, at good prices and
quick sales. The experience Of farmers near the
great centres of population is sufficient proof
the great advantages of railroads in this point Of
view Indeed, no one has any doubt oil It. Inc
reasons for il are too obvious to need proof aTg-
ment-Netpark Mercury. fs
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HsRAr. NAvIoAr1oS.-Mr Ruins Porter announ-
ces that he ssnow believes that his @roPort may be
put in full operation in two orth1ee weeks OF MID,
nothing to shake his confidence in the success OF the
experiment. The machine is one hundred and six,
ty feet long to be propelled by steam engines and
capable Of carrying six persons, and travel forty
miles an hour. The community genesally are hot
quite so sanguine as Mr. Porter and there are not
few who will not be convinced except by the ac-
tual travel ofthe eroport. Republic.
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1MUSEMENTS.
M ET, % IA O N !!

WI; ope,5 on Thursday 6tt' 81,
" - egsrg night jer fey d g g 9'''g:
.r,sla,,z.+ad Series OF Gigantic PanoEanlass
nVoyage TO Europe, !, 44,or.
magnificent yisgyS Of soAtgs ~ The
III Halifax, the Atllntte IveE .I estmrster Abbey,
Thames passing oqf ass II Flames
s SpisptIy Illuminated and both banks OF the
River Rhne ON wednesday Saturday After
moons e G'sSsE children
is esn Doors open 81 , n98S
II O'Clock.
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I; rs =, PsoaREss1vE PEoPLE.-Not content with the
ufetiy decisive aggressons upon the rights ofmnn
ss'I;sde by the Bloomer costumes, quite anumber of
Young Misses, North and South, have actually
ESouStea the male attire. and figured as bar-keep-
~ ~ lefks, or rentlmen of leisure.
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+ RAnRoApIN NV oalGANs.-A ordinance has
ed one bEanCh Of the city government Of Nl.R
Orleans authotising The construction Of railways
throngh one Of the principal streets.
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FmE Dam ExpLoslos IN schtYLxr11 CouNrr.-
An explosion of fire damp took placein P. Fogertys
colliery at West Wood, schuylkill county, Pa on
the 9Th ult, burning eight Person only
sliqbtly. Ibut three badly-one of whom, Thomas
Welsh. has since died. Two Others, by the name
of Schmidt, were burnt very seriously.
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pGovernor Hunt has offered reward Of seven
hundred dollars for the arrest Of the murderer of
Mr. John Brown, in the town of Pembroke, Erie
county, ON the 22d inst,
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nrI4n OF AN AnT1sT.- George st. P. Brewer,
an artist, diedin st. Louis onithe 26th ult MI.
Brewer was the painter Of panoramic view Of the
Mammoth Cayeof Kentucky, and also the "alance
at the World"
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vAcas1sUoN-An intense excitement was caused
atthe oface of Mayor Kingsland, in New York, on
Fridsy.last, by,an alteration between the Mayor
oi,a,Ii a alderman Compton. The 1ie' was passed
wen hem, and the matter was finally ended,
81 The chief Of police, who led the alderman out
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WIN. MCCOY, Treas. rcr.
r the undersigned, Committee appointed to axam ne
the accounts b the Wheeling Savings Institution and make
report thereof hereby certify that we have caremy
examined tho accounts OF said 4nsutuuoh anu hu h'
above statement to be correct. 80.
ISAIAH COOPER,
mo McGAUGHY, Committee.
hu7 w NJ. BRRRYHILIE.)