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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

POPULAR LEADERs-The New Daily Ad-
vertiser embodies vast amount of wisdom
in the following brief article: ..
Men aspiring to be popular leaders have
small title to be expounders of what is, or
ought to be, the true policy Of the country,
because their ambition imposes on each of
them the necessity of adopting set of prin-
ciples peculiar to himself and unappropria-
ted by others. When man then thinks him
self too great to be folower-such are be-
coming numerous in our country-and wish
es to figure as n leader, he ceases to repre-
sent any body but himself, and all his words
and actions are TO BE- scrutinized with caution
by that standard, and never to be implicitly
received. Let us not be too skeptical, how
ever. A greater proportion OF such men
have n host of difficulties to encounter, and
in the nature of things, as our population is
augmenting, these must constantly accumu-
late. To borrow an illustration from the
laws of game Of hazard is always allowed.
We would therefore say of such characters
that when they do not follow suit, if they are
not trumps, they are nothing, and conse-
ouently are sure to lose the trick, and finally
the game, for which they are playing.
The foreign press, therefore, which ex
tracts their information of the views Of our
Government from the speeches of aspiring
members of Congress, even of the same par
ty nomnaly with the Executive, will be very
likely to be mised. Another thing: there is
even danger in taking the speeches of gen.
tleman when out of Office rs infaIlibe expo
nents of his conduct when he has the good
fortune to get in. The responsibilities of n
grave trust naturally and properly produce
increased sobriety of thought and prudence
in action. This is sufficient, without any i'm
putation upon motives, to account for modi.
fcatons OF conduct and opinions which we
frequently observe in men when advanced in
power.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

FILLrBUsTERs.-T The Brownsville Texas
correspondent of the New Orleans Delta, OF
the 18th, says:
"Captain Smith, of the 18th Infantry, and
temporarily commanding a company OF U. s..
Rifles, arrived from Rio Grande city, having
in his custody General Carvajal, Quartermas-
ter Dowd, Lieut., or Captain Roundtree, and
Maj. Norton, of the late Libernting Army, or
Filibusters, as they are more usually called
on this frontier"
They were placed under arrest in the
Military quarters, and will, in all probability,
be sent to Galveston, and there handed over
to the United States Marshal
letter of the 18th inst, from the same
correspondent, says:
"The United States Marshal who arrested
Carvajal and companions was yesterday held
to bail by one of our Justices in the sum of
$4,000, for illegally detiining them under ar
rest. The examination will take place on
the GOTH"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
Ley A St. Louis confectioner is said to

eW A St. Louis confectioner is said to
have manufactured an article for exhibition at
the crystal palace in New York, which will
doubtless attract crowds of juvenile observ-
ers. 1t is picture in candy, being n copy of
n Autograph of boar hunt. The figures in
the original, consisting of the hunters and
their horses, the boar and the hounds, and
even the grass and the sky overhead, are said
to be represented with surprising accuracy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
~ Quite large meeting Of the old so

w Quite large meeting Of the old SOL
diers and others interested in extending the
grant of bounty land from forty to one hun
dred and sixty acres to those who have re-
ceived or are entitled to less than the larger
amount under existing laws, was held in
Philadelphia on Thursday evening A series
of resolutions were adopted, complaining of
the present system, and complimentary to
the Hon. Joel B. Switzerland and John Will
son, ESQ.,, for their services and recommends
tons in behalf of the cause.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

sY- A lover of the French Empress, who,
had courted her for long time before her
marriage, and had been encouraged by her in
order to use him as a line for the Emperor
recently rcproached her bitterly, and then left
her presence and blew his own brains out
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
THE DEPARTED.

In a beautiful written eulogy on the Ia
mented, William R. King, the Pennsylvania
says, awe measure and mark our progress, as
a nation, in the life Of such men as William
R. King, Of Alabama. At his death we halt
as the tired traveller on the mountain top,
who looks back over the path he has travers-
ed, and by the sunset light counts the miles
he has left behind him. Heated by the ex-
element Of his progressive and forward age,
we quietly rest upon the event marked by the
close of his career, and In his own history
trace the thick coming glories of the future.
Sixty-seven years he lived life of stainless
honor and extended usefulness. During this
lapse Of time the Revolution was decided, and
articles Of Confederation agreed upon, the
Constitution formed, and when he entered
the councils it was to stand by Jefferson and
the Democratic party, then, as now, the party
of deathless principle and undying patriotism.
He was contemporary with Washington and
Adams. He voted for Henry Clay for Speaker
for the National House of Representatives
forty-three years ago; voted for and defended
the declaration of the last war with England
went abroad with Pinkney nearly forty years
ago; and in 1919 he took his seat in the Sen
ate Of the United States, which dignifed
position he continued to fill, with the excep-
ton of the space, of time consumed by his
mission to the French Court from 1914 to
1886, until the day of his death---having been
elected Vice President while a Senator from
Alabama, by the popular acclaim of Novem-
Der last.
"This long chain of years extended through
eras of wonderful interest to mankind. He
saw the meteor progress Of Napoleon from
obscurity to Empire, from the army to the
throne, and from Waterloo to st. Helena
He saw Revolution drive her bloody car over
the fairest regions of the old world. He saw
south America break the bonds of Spanish
tyranny. He saw Florida, Louisiana, Texas
and California, added to the Union. He saw
our flag wave in triumph over land and sea
with foreign foes. But more than all, he
saw his country advance in every peaceful art,
and he saw, how on this soil, so dear to the
oppressed of all nations, Freedom and "Civ-
ilzation, on luminous wings, rise Phoenix
like, to love-" Well may we say that in the
record of his life, we may renew the recollec-
tons of our Country's Advancement in arms,
in art, in literature, in law, in religion, and in
government.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

sY" A law has just passed the New York
Legislature, making it the duty of any one
who performs the marriage ceremony to keep
n record of the same, with the names and
condition of the parties; and all physicians
and mid.wivcs to make n similar registry OF
births, with the name, sex, and color Of the
child, &c, and the city inspector and doctor
TO keep an account of the deaths.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

.B-It is said that n gentleman from Ten
ncssee observed to Gen. Pierce, few days
since, that he came from district which had
never held or solicited an office from the Gen.
era Government Then, said Cen Pierce,
promptly, il il to be hoped that it will never
break in on such beautiful custom. This
was rather a puzzler.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

SENATOR BoRLAND.-The New York Her.
AIDS correspondent, speaking Of Senate. Bor-
lands appointment as Minister to Central
America, says:
at is regarded as equivalent to the proc
lamation Of the Monroe doctrine. He voted
against the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, and
spoke in favor of its abrogation, at the late
extra session of the Senate, and will unques-
tionably 90 the length OF his instructions
against British intervention and colonization.
The lovers of neutrality call Borland an Ark
ansas fre-eatcr, and are afraid he will hurry
up war"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

sY- John H. Dobson, Esq, of Polk coun-
ty, has requested US to withdraw his name
from the list as candidate for Joint Repre-
sentative. This leaves but two candidates in
the tield-Dr. Jno. NJ. Llard, of Meigs, and
Jno. B. Hoyl, Esq, of Polk.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

LApY.LlKE.-The Boston Olive Branch
having accused Miss Marian II. Stevens of
stealing Fanny Ferns "thunder," the accused
lady comes out in the Boston Times and
charges Fanny's friends with Swelling her
up leetIe too big for her breeches."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

During a recent performance Of Shake
speare's Romeo and Juliet, ut Marblehead,
Mass the iar Juiet's question, in the solilo-
guy before taking the sleeping draught-
What ii this mixtue do not worS at allr---
was answered by nm urchin in the pit with,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

eB"Thc Washington Republic states that
another shinpaster concern in that city, call
ing itself the "Freeman's Bank" has closed
its doors. II adds:-
II there are only hundred dollars worth
of its notes outstanding they will be redeem
ed MS that. much money has been placed in
the hands of an agent for this purpose.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

A MIsER.-A notorious miser, named
Jameson died al Newly, Westmorelnnd. q
few days ago, in abject wretcbcdness, He
made his own clothes, and washed his own
linen, and lived on the sparest diet His
property has been estimated at nearly $780,
900, the principal part Of which will 60 to .
nephew in London.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

A man in New Bedford, who had backed
out from promise Of marriage, was' pros
ecutod and imprisoned by HE intended. The
injured fair one paid his board in jail for two
weeks, when he surrendered and they were
married. i':..f
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

ANOTHER NEW LocoMoTIvE.-The Nash
vile Manufacturing Company turned out
their third locomotive yesterday, after an in
terval of only six weeks since the last one
was completed. We are informed that the
establishment will soon be able to complete
a locomotive every three weeks.--Nashuille
Whig, .'...
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

rY- The editor of the Palmer Journal
thus writes on the death of his favori:e
Shanghai rooster: Ellis voice, when heard
amidst the growing Of other ROSTERS, was like
the trombone in an orchestra of violins, or
the bass of rumblng thunder amid the hum
Of dozen spinning wheels:
Farewell faithful servant, lasting farewell;
From thy fate let all ROSTERS take warning;
No more will thy voice, in u long and loud
swell,
Awake us, to get up and go to work, about
half past five o'clock in the morning.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

JOKING WITH FAcTs.-A contemporary, in
speaking of the lawful waste Of twenty-five
casks of liquor poured upon the ground in
Maine, remarks that such an amount of liquor
properly distributed would have carried the
primary election in two or three wards OF
New York CITY.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

ROBBERY OF A TENNEssEEAN.-The N. o.
Picayune Of recent date says a gentleman
from Tennessee, Mr.. Garrison, was robbed
in that city on the day before of $4,000,
all in Louisiana money. and remarks that ''the
time, place and circumstances are not clearly
stated us the loser was much affected by Ii
quor. No arrests were made" -.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

CoYvENTIoN-The Democratic Convention
which assembled at this place on Monday
last for the purpose of nominating candidates
for the State Senate and for Joint Represen-
tative, dissolved, we have been informed,
without eflecting the object for which i+rom,
called together Sir. Y
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
,yy-The interior Of the dome of the Can.

twThe interior Of the dome Of the Cap
itol at Washington, is at present undergoing
whitening, much to the improvement Of its
appearance. The operation is accomplished
BY means of q new and escellently adapted
form of scaffolding constructed according to
plan furnished by the Commissioner of
Public Works.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

GRocER.-Mr. Editor, I'll thank you TO say
keep the best groceries in the city. Edi-
tr-l'll thank you to supply my family with
groceries gratis. Grocer thought you
we're giad to get something to GIL up your
paper. Editor therght you were glad to-
iili store-rooms for nothing. Hs apoor rule
that won't work both WAYS. Exit grocer in
n rage-thre atening 70 kill the paper.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

THE DEMocRATIc NoMINEE.-Thdan eXte
cratic State Convention, which assemc
Nashville, on the 9th ult., nominated
Hon, ANDREW JOHNSON, of Greene connt.0
MS their candidate for Governor. The same
degree of unanimity and good feeling that
char ctcrised the nomination of the whig
candidate, the gallant and eloquent Henry,
nppears not to have prevailed in the demo-
cratic nominating body. The nominee, how
ever is a pretty strong man, and Will no
doubt be made acceptable to his party gen.
orally. A gentleman Of very fair abilities, he is
somewhat noted for radical and extreme
views, dating the origin of democracy as far
back ms the commencement of the Christian
era, and pretending to believe that the whole
world will eventually become democratic,
according to the present party designation of
the term. and then the millennium will com
mence. How he got it into his head to as
sociate the approach of the millennium with
the progress of modern democracy will be
incomprehensibe, no doubt, to any one IA
miliar with the history of that party. We
have always understood that Mr.. Johnson
was opposed to internal improvements, espe-
cially the East Tennessee and Virginia Rail
road. How he will reconcile that opposition
and justify himself before the people of the
State, who are warmly interested in works
of the kind, is yet to be seen.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

.B The steamship Independence was re-
Gently lost OF the coast of Lower California.
She first run on shoal near Margarita Is
land, then took fire, and was entirely consum-
ed. She had on board over four hundred
passengers o. whom one hundred and thirty
were either drowned or persisted in the
flames. The survivors were carried to San
Francisco. The scene is represented to have
been most terrible, and the suffering intense.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

o. The Merchants at Cleveland have very
large stocks of goods, and all appear to be
doing n prosperous business. We noticed n
good deal of grain, and other produce going
in to the Depot. The people of Bradley I'M
derstand the run of the ropes well enough to
let of their surplus when there is any thing
like paying price. They know that small
profit is better than to have it rot on their
hands.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

Wealth and widowhood, when united, are
dangerous things to encounter. Money may
be called the "widow's might" when in large
quantities, as in poverty il Is her "mite."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

SrRKEs.-A contemporary says the pugi-
lists IRE about to strike. Beggars will refuse
anything less than sixpence after the 9TH Of
July. Persons peeping through cracks in
the fence to see the balloon 60 of, expect
shilling each after the Hippodrome opens.--
Sleepy church gocrs intend striking for mat
tresscs, pipes, and coffee, during prosy ser.
vice.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
The New York Journal of Commerce has

VIIo IVTIV"THB
Good out of Eril-The strikes are doing
some good by displacing able bodied men,
black and white, who have been feasting at
expensive hotels, not only gratis, but paid at
the rate of Sl5 or SIG month and supply
ing their places with neat, tidy, modest young
women, who had before been obliged to de-
pend upon the scanty earnings of the needle
for subsistence. Some of the Philadelphia
hotels have already made the change, and
most or all the others, it is said, will soon
follow. We have no doubt they will find
that the strikers have struck out decided
improvement for the hotel keepers and their
guests. as well as for the girls and the inter-
ests of society.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

At Nashville, on he 10th, asa Mr. Ridga.
way was passing down the steps in front -
the NJ E. Church, the right skirt Of
in the pocket of whit Wa
came in contact
steps, causing ths'
tents of which took eiiecl
Bate, who was standing l5~l 0ces
on the pavement, causing his death i
afterwards.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

Want and affiuence are both injurious to
morals. Excessive wealth converts men into
roues, while sudden poverty is apt to make
them purloiners of bacon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

.5B- The Sandersville Georgian says that
from the present appearance Of the wheat
crop thereabouts, tie prospects are flattering
for good harvest
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
NEw ORLEANS. Anil %.

Advices from Baton Rouge state that the
Hon. John Sidell was cheated u. s. Senator
on Thursday, rice the Hon. 7. Soule, by 80
majority over. Hart, WAig.- a--. ..-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

The Washington Union of Sunday says.
we are authorised to announce that the Pres
ident will receive visitors on business on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the pre-
two o'clock.
BY the above notice, it appears that the
President, in view of the urgency of his pub"
lie duties, has felt himself constrained to fix
certain hours at which he can receive visitors
on business Considerate men, who appre-
ciate the importance of the public cares which
must necessarily absorb the Presidents at
tention, will surely be willing to conform in
their visits to this arrangement Of his time.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

H- Mrs. Bloomer says the time will yet
come when women will do everything that
men do. We should like to see one of them
saving ship-.imber, especially ifa gentleman
of the opposite sex" worked the lower end
of the cutting instrument. 1t strikes us that
even "strong minded woman" would object
TO this arrangement.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
Athens, Friday, May 6. 1853.

sB@ Circuit Court for Monroe county
meets at jacksonville next Monday, the
9th
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
ELECTIONS FOR 1853.

The following table gives the days on
which the State elections for the present year
are held throughout the Union Wash.
Union
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

.Y A spirit rapper in st. Louis has con-
versed with Homer, who answers in Latin,
and bad Latin at that!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

ley Hereafter every mock auctioneer in
New York is liable to three years imprison-
mcnt and fine of $1,000.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
BALTIMORE. Nav

Cotton in New York on Saturday was
firm, and 1850 bales changed hands. The
sales during the week comprised $4,000
bales. $50 tierces of Rice were sold at from
4.l24 u $3.50 per 100 lbs.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

.=S- The last advces from Europe repre-.
sent an advance in the Flour market, and a
slight decline in Bacon
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
BALTIMORE April. 90.

UHbI THVNH NVTTI' aJ'
Elk Governor Hubbard Of Maine, has been
appointed Coasu at Rio de Janerio, and
Stephen d. DilIoye of New York, Charge de
Mn irrS at Rrnssels
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
COMMUNICATION.
For the Post.

CALHOUN, April 30, 1858.
Mr.. s. p lvINs-Dedr Sir notice in
your paper of today that there is company
being formed in your city the object OF which
is to purchase a steamer, to be modelled and
fashioned after the steamer Hiwassee, to be
run on Cleage's mill pond during the fishing
season, and afterward to be tied on bag
gage wagon and transported 10 the waters OF
the Conasauga. The Hiwassee Steamboat
Company are under many and lasting obi
cations to you for so favorable notice Of
their enterprise, feeling that such fattering
notices emanating from such influential
sources will be of lasting benefit to them;
and the company, through me, tender you
the inequalities of the steamer Hiwassee,
with as many free rides as you may see
proper to make during the summer and
should your company not be able to make
up the amount necessary to purchase the
boat spoken of, the citizens of Calhoun will
make up the deficiency, as some OF them on
former occasions, when the citizens OF
Athens have not been able to raise the wind,
come up to their relief and assisted them to
buy presses and build churches, &c. The
company also desire me to say further, if you
SnpuIu nave any OCCiSlol W HotiCo tuSh
boat in like manner in future, you will do it
in the same complimentary manner as before,
for they feel assured that one blast from
your battery would demolish them and ruin
their prospects forever.
HIwAssEE STEAMBOAT Co.,
Per b. +. Martin, Prsst.
We wishto make just one remark in. re-
gard to the aoove--about- buying presses
The steamboat company" are mistaken upon
that point, as far as we are concerned. We
buy our own presses, paper, ink, &C., with
onr own money, fairly and honestly earned;
and the people of Athens are not charge
able with any acts of ours, nor responsible
for what appears in our editorial columns
that matter belongs to ourself, solely and
exclusively, whether it relates to the con.
structon of railroads or building of steam
ships. One more word-our columns are
always open to all communications from
responsible sources, if of reasonable length
and couched in respectful language. Those
of different character must reach the public
eye through some other channel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

The IRISH ExoDUs.-The exodus is the
all engrossing topic of the latest Irish Jour-
nails, and every post brings fresh accounts of
the continuous fight of the people from the
northern country. From the port of Water
ford, on the 9th inst, no less than 800 COM
Portable looking passengers took shipping for
Liverpool, there to embark either for America
or Australia. According to one of the Cork
papers:
A vessel in port has been chartered for
f5OO to take out emigrants to New York.
Last year q similar vessel could have been
had for $500. Passengers are therefore high
to the United States, f5 los. being generally
expected.
farming westward, it is stated in Galway
journal, that the constantly increasing tide Of
emigration knows not a single days cessation.
Hundreds are leaving this neighborhood
daily, and yesterday morning great number
Of intelligent girls of humble but decent
rank in life went off by the train. Labor in
every part of the country is becoming exceed.
ingly scarce, and even the very inefficient per-
sons who have been previously tenants of the
workhonse are now being eagerly sought
after and employed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06
BALTIMORE, May

The Batic's advices depressed the New
York Cotton market on Monday, and 1850
bales changed hands at decline Of an eighth
of cent.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-06

eY" Edinburgh is projecting great In
dustrial Exhibition, to be held next year.