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

The handsomer girl is, the more likely
she is to die an old maid. Show us "gimb-
let-eyed" paradcr in calico, minus the silk,
and we will show you young lady who will
be Mrs. Somebody before she is out of her
teens: Fact Miss-says, "t'aint true; no
how"
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~" 1t is stated, on the authority of n
well known statistician, that the N. Y daily
papers consume twenty-eight acres of paper
every day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

~ Thc general elections in the State of
Virginia, will take place the fourth Thurs
day (the 26th) of May. They embrace the
election Of thirteen members of Congress,
members of the new Legislature, and three
Commissioners of the Board of Public
Works.
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tJy@ DR.. loHN NJ. LILLARD resigned hi'

s5y" Dr. loHN NJ. LILLARD rcsigncd his
Office of Circuit Court Clerk of Meigs county
on Monday last, and Col. MCKINLEY was
appointed to fill the vacancy thus made. DR..
LiIlard has been an able and efficient Clerk,
and we are pleased to know that he is sue
cceded by one so amply qualified to discharge
the duties of the Office as Col. Mckinley.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29
CONGRESSIONAL.

Below will be found letter from DR.. JAS.
w. GILLESPIE, in reply to the Committee ap-
pointed by the Convention recently assem-
bled at this place, to notify him of his nomi-
nation as the wing candidate for Congress
in the Sd District 1t will be seen that DR..
Gillespie declines the nomination. We were
apprised of the Discrimination which he al
ways had TO entering into public life and
mingling in the turmoil and strife of party
politics, yet we INDUCED the belief, in COM
mon with his friends generally, that he would
yield his own wishes, and consent to take
the race As much as we know DR.. Giles
pie would like to crafty his friends in this
respect, it seems he cannot do so without a
violation of other and higher duties. The
reasons which have influenced his determine
.. ton to decline, are not only satisfactory and
Conclusive but such as no honorable man
could disregard. The duty is, therefore, de-
volved upon the wings of the District to
make another selection, about which there
can be no difficulty while the party has
so many talented and worthy gentlemen
belonging to its ranks.
1t is right and proper for us to state that
the reason why DR.. Gillespes reply has not
appeared sooner is, it was held up at the sug-
geston of oursef and other friends.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

icy" Robt, $. Stewart has been appoint
cd Postmaster at Cleveland, Tenn, in the
place of Stephen Hampstead.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

e-y- Tho Fakir Of silva, with his Opera
Troupe, advcrtises TO give a Concert here to-
night
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

~" Circuit Court for Bradley county,
meets at Cleveland next Monday, I'd May.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

GREAT ROBBERY OF GoLn.-The steam
ship Union, which arrived at this port on
Wednesday, brought less gold than she start
ed with. On opening two or three boxes,
they were found to contain shot, and iron
weights, instead Of the yellow dust. The
boxes were double cased, and banded with
iron, with seals nearly us good as new, show
ing that the operators were skilled in their
business. The amount missing is nearly
$4,000, the insurance of which falls upon
two or three offices in this city. The con-
signment to one firm is covered by insurance
in London.-N Y. Mirror
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

sas- See advertisement Of p, II Keith g.
Co. Also advertisement of b. +. Martin,
Calhoun,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

Punch says that the best way to crush
question, is to appoint parliamentary com
mittee to sit upon it.
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WASHINGTON. Tenn, April 70, 1853.

Gentlemen-Yo our note of the 9Th instant,
informing me that the Convention which as
sembled at Athens on that day, had done
me the honor to nominate me rs the wing
candidate for Congress in the Third Con-
gressional District came duly to hand
While am deeuly impressed with the hon
or thus rendered and have Il lively sense of
gratitude to my friends for this additional
evidence Of their Partially and kindness, and
however much | might under other circum-
stances desire to yield to their wishes, | am
compelled, for reasons and considerations
which could be of but little interest to the
public yet are paramount with me, to decline
the honor thus voluntarily offered | have
never Mt any time been seeker of political
honors, and the little extent to which have
mingled in public life has been at the solici-
tation of my friends and not from any spe-
cial desire or ambition of my own. In max
ing known the determination indicated above,
| am but carrying out an often expressed pur-
pose not to make politics the business of my
life. There are other gentlemen in the Dis
trict better qualified to discharge the duties
of the position and meet the expectations of
the party
Renewing the expressions of gratitude to
my friends for the evidences of their conf
dence and esteem, and believing they will
have no difficulty in selecting more suitable
person for their standard-bearer in the Con-
grcssonal contest, have TO request of you,
gentlemen, that YOU will make known my
determination to the people of the District in
such way rs you may deem best and proper.
Respectfully, JAS. w. GILLESPIE.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

.ly" At Barnstead, N. H., at the Presi-
dental election, fourteen persons voted.
whose united ages were more than twelve
hundred years, the leader being one hundred
and two years old. In the same town la
dy was baptized, by immersion in n pond,
by Baptist clergyman, on her one hundredth
birthday,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

DEATH OF THE VICE PRESIDENT Hon
VIM. X. KING, Vice President of the United
States, died at his home, in Dallas COUNTY
Alabama, on the 10Th instant. Mr.. King has
for third of century occupied front rank
among the statesmen of the country, and il
has been his fortune, decided as he has been
in lis political course, to have conciliated the
respect and esteem of all parties by his en-
celIent and amiable personal qualities. His
eulogy was well and feelingly spoken by
John M. Clayton, when that able and honest
but traduced public servant resumed his seat
in the United States Senate after an absence
of years. On that occasion, Mr.. Clayton
said
"ln rising for the first time, after a long
absence, to address the Senate, | labor under
some embarrassment from observing that the
gentlemen around me, are generally strangers
to me, and that not Il single individual of all
my ancient associates who served with me in
this body twenty four years ago is now
present. | am led back to the events of n
PciIOu ONel WHICH Hcdrly u quarter OF Il CEN
tury has spread its mantle, when those who
filled this chamber as the representatives of
the sovereign States of this Union, mingled
in discussion on the great issues then before
the country, and when the walls of this
chamber daily rung with the echoes of their
voices, as they poured forth "the logic and
the wisdom and the wit" for which they were
so pre-eminently distinguished. Their de-
bates were but justly compared to thespro-
cession ola Roman triumph, moving in dig
nifty and order to the lofty music Of its march,
and glittering all over with the spoils of the
civilized world. They are gone; and |, the
youngest and humblest of their body, am left
to tell the tale. The last of them who left
this scene Of their strifes and contentious
was the present'Vice President of the United
States, the Hon. VIM. R. King, who presided
over the deliberations of the Senate nearly
twenty years with unsurpassed ability and
impartiality, and who, during a long period,
occupied the post Of chief distinction here as
the chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations
Statesman, yet friend to truth--of soul sincere
In action faithful, and in honor clear"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

.5g" VIM. Young, who drew Sl,l5O on
check of $3.50 at Nashville, Tenn, some
time since, has been tried for obtaining mon
ey under false pretences, and acquitted.
The cause Of the error in the payment of
the check was the omission of the decimal
point between the figures IL and 3D..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

A wealthy Dublin matchmaker, named
Donegan, is sending out to the New York
Exhibition II set of superb gold watches, MS
presents to tho Irish political exies, both
those who remain in Van Diemans Land and
those who have escaped to America. The
watches are appropriately decorated, and are
very valuable.
An Irish friend suggests that the poor fel-
lows in captivity are too well watched at
present
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

IzgJ" The Bank of the United States, n bo-
gus concern, lately doing business in Wash
ington, closed on Friday for want Of funds
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

~ Nine causes for divorce are admitted
in Oregon, according to law recently passed,
viz: adultery, impotency, bigamy, fraud or
force in contract, wilful desertion for the space
of two years, conviction of infamous crime,
habitual drunkenness, cruel treatment, me-
gleet to provide home on the part of a hus-
band for SIX months. The conjugal yoke
rests lightly upon the people of Oregon
The judges who decide in the matter of d.
vorce are likewise to decide with reference
to the disposal of the children of the sunder-
ed pairs, and the disposition of all property
belonging TO either, with "strict regard to the
respective merits Of the parties, and to the
'enndition in which they will be left by such
'd''5fce, and to the party through whom the
property was acquired, and to the burdens
imposed upon it for the benefit of children"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

Is" An instance of the enforcement ofthe
liquor law in Vermont, under circumstances
of peculiar stringency, occurred in Stock
bridge last week. A lady called upon DR..
Gibbs for half :. pint of alcohol to put with
some camphor gum, and he, after mixing the
two in n scientific manner, furnished her with
the same The knowledge of this violation
coming TO the ears of certain law abiding
citizens, legal proceedings were instituted a.
gainst him. The facts were proved as above
but the counsel for the prosecution contend
ed that this was case of furnishing mired
liquors contrary to the statute; and the doc
tor was fined $40 and costs amounting TO
Sl7,55, which he paid. These statements
are youched for by the Woodstock Age.
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Az ELECTIVE JUDIcIARY.-The New York
Times thinks that "the people of New York
have no cause to complain of the change of
constitution in favor of an elective Judiciary.
The dignity of the Bench may here and there
suffer, but the advantages, on the whole, we
incline to place to the credit of the present
system. An eminent lawyer Of the West
once told us that he had seei. claims for the
CHARACTERISTIC and Supreme Bench bartcred
off for votes for Doorkeeper"
LOLA MoNTEz has appeared IN new light,
us 'Printercss." A short time since she
astonished the hands in the Cincinnati Nom
parei office, by going there and taking the
"stick" and "rule," and setting up commu-
nieation she had written in reply to some
assertion made by the editor of The Sun. The
Sandusky Register says she astonished the
devils" 1t is not the first time she has
done that.
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RALrlMoRE. Anril %.
BALTIMORE. Anril d.

BALTIMORE, April 90.
The Hon. Scion Borland has been appoint
ed Minister to Central America.
BALTIMORE, April -.
f. Burt, Esq, of South Carolina, has en-
tered upon his duties as Third Auditor Of
the Treasury.
Governor Footc has been mentioned as
likely to be the new Minister 10 France.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

Renewed laughter He was Just now a
Democrat, but how long he should remain so
was quite uncertain 1t depended on the
course pursued by Mr.. Pierce-a man who
had been elected President lately Laughter
A Voice-How about John Tyler!
Mr.. Shaw was the personal friend of
Mr.. Tyler, but fonnd to my sorrow that
high honors turned his brain and unsettled
his intellect, and made him poor vain fool .
Loud laughter.
Mr.. S. said he had now stated his position
and given, he believed, clear history of his
political life.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29
HISTORY OFTENNESSEE

We briefly adverted last week to this work,
and having now made somewhat more
thorough examination of its contents we are
enabled to speak more certainly ofits merits.
The author has evidently spent great labor,
much time, money, and infinite research in its
preparation. Relying upon old musty docu-
ments, illegible records, detached fragments
of quaint and badly written journals-and to
the far greatest extent upon tradition derived
from the lips of old men whose memories
have almost failed them, and from the nature
of things, but little able to communicate I'M
portant facts, intelligently, the immense labor
attending the production of the work must
be apparent. Written in the midst of an ac-
tive professional life, and only as moments
could be spared from other employments, the
undertaking must have proved to the author
long and at times tedious one. The out
lay upon the work must have been large as
it isgotten up in n style of neatness and dur
ability alike honorable to the author and the
publisher. Take it all in all it is an invaua-
BILE addition to the literature of the country,
and as an offering to Tennessee, prompted
by patriotism, State pride, and devotion to the
land of the authors nativity, should be CRATE
fully received by his feIlow-countrymen, and
should be valued as treasure found which
was about to be irretrievably lost 1t wrests
from oblivion and places in an attractive form
BbgSsol ;afs7 rss sscsS Tor cauld possibly inter-
Sory of their State.
The 'tfadltbns ftuhfolds would have passed
away with the persons who were the original
actors in the scenes, and whose dying lips
have been the organs of the past to the pre-
sent, and whose memories have communica
ted to the page all that we had heard so in
distinctly, and which we could only expect to
communicate to our children in an uncertain
and unreliable way. To East Tennesseans
the work bears with it a peculiar interest,"
They are the descendants of the venerated
sages, the hardy pioneers and heroic women
whose names abound in its leaves, and al
most every one can find something in the
book to which he can point with pride and
exultation as being marked by some connec-
ton with his own ancestors.
1t is a book that every Tennessean should
possess, and we sincerely trust that the au-
thor will be richly rewarded by a grateful
people for his well-spent labors.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

.5Y7 Jas R. Rogers, the wing candidate
for Congress in the lst district in Kentucky,
has issued fancy circular through the Padu-
cab Journal. He says;
"Born at an early period of my life in the
State of North Carolina, on Great Pedee riv-
er, in Arson county, (not far from George
Dunn's) of obscure, but honest parents,
had none of those advantages possessed
by the wealthy to push forward the germ of
intellect which developed itself in me at an
early age"
Again:
"The brightest trait that exhibited itself
in me was honesty. This character / inher-
tied through my father from the ever to-be
remembered and never-to-be-forgotton Mar
tyr of spelling book fame, John Rogers, of
SmithfeId, who, it will be remembered, was
burnt at the stake, in the'presence of his wife
and nine small children, and one at the breast,
for hercsy"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

g3y@ The Louisville Courier closes a well
written article in relation to the late defeat
of the wing party as follows:
The Wings, in the midst of their defeat
and its first consequences, have a great deal
te encourage them. ats always darkest Just
before day." Let them look to the old land
maTks-stand by the good old principles,
without quixotically warning against the new
cling to each other unswervingly, burying
past dissentions and their causes-"work and
wait" and three years hereafter we shall be
stronger than we have ever been heretofore.
We have had cause to mistrust each other,
not to mistrust our principles. Let us dig
out and east aside, as unworthy of us, all the
old roots of dissention, and our party will
again be, where it now ought to be, in the
ascendant.
Popular commissions are periodical They
have come heretofore-they will come again,
unless we cease to be a free people. For
ourselves, they do not alarm us. AS Repub-
leans, we acknowledge their concomitancy
with the spirit of our institutions; as Wings,
we do not fear them.
They were with us, in the election of Gen
eral Harrison; they were against us, in the
election of franklin Pierce. When that is
said, all is said.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

An inhabitant of Oregon writes: 81 have
not seen scky looking mar in this terrific
ry,who has been here twelve months.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

There are, it is said, one hundred appli.
cants for the counsuIship at Honolulu, among
whom arc nine cx-Govcrnors.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

~ The Boston Traveller says that gen.
teman of that city recently married a woman
reputed to be rich, who turned out to be poor,
and some seven hundred dollars in debt,
which debt he had to liquidate. She assured
him, however, that the debt was contracted
for dry goods, which she bought to captiyate
him. Think osa fish payinssrc4,aut aatsl I:
with which il is Caught.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

LIQUOR LAVA grog shop keeper in New
Castle, Ohio, while returning home, a few
days since, with barrel Of liquor, was over
taken by two men and woman, when the
latter jumped into his wagon, and with an
axe knocked in the head of the whisky barrel,
spilling its contents on the ground.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

made n test of the p.
Democrat, when, on
the advocates of sud
pected to find them 4
day. [Shouts ofld
always consistent! !
it q point to belong
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-04-29

A VETERAN PoLITIcnE.-Hon. Henry
Shaw, the representative of the XlIth and
XlXth Wards of New York City in the As
sembly, the Tribune says, is probably the
oldest member of that body, yet still alert
and vigorous in mind and body He was in
Congress (from Berkshire County Mass.,)
more than thirty years ago, and voted for the
Missouri Compromise of 1920, which cost
him his seat. In recent passage with his
colleague, Mr. D. B. Taylor, Mr.. Shaw gave
the following good-natured account of his
own political experiences:
"In politics he had been everything He
had been member of every party he had
ever heard of. Laughter. He was at this
time member of the Democratic party-of
that faction known as "Hunker"-a moderate
one-rather softly. Renewed Laughter. l.
Before the time of Andrew Jackson he had
been Democrat. But when he was talked
Of as candidate for the Presidency, and
Crawford was mentioned too, he (Mr. s.
became Clay man during the whole of that
despotic Democratic rule and the one that
followed. He chung fast to Mr. Clay as long
as there was any hope of placing him in the
Presidential Chair, and was present at the
Harrisburg Convention that witnessed his
(Mr. C's) political death. And a sorry death
it was, too After that he left the party and
again sailed under the Democratic banner
lie had been a Democrat, andleft them when
opposition to the old UuitSl States Bank was
made mac test of the paSn shad been
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nish and this petty srtoc cyand extend
ed from the large cities TO arts OF ths country In 3D.
cltlon 10 these Amer 70 pave the spirit or an
Iexaton Normonism, spirit ral pings ana negro singing
all OF which, said the lecturer original with u.s. ana
All OF which had bad and 81 III having great erect
abroad great fault in char1 "er was tound III our
heedlessness Every day two ear OF some terrioie
railway steamb at accident and tn are rog ten I'M
n nediate'y. We're less Needless w snouid nave iew
caamies Another prominent feature in our
Is the great haste which always display An amcrlcs
always ruses He calls calm repose lazineA ana
uch man might be disposed TO be quiet IN ne" o,A
he is quickly infected with the general spirit OF me
hrong and rushes along fast the rest IN no part
U me country except the extreme south tn 't such
pg as at abiding quiet known; and every eier WIZ
JON WIN me IN saying, that in continental CITY can
hee he ouho such tumultuons racing threngs IS may
u"y De seen IN our Sn New York. The lie .turN nexs
commended the manner in which Thackeray VA re-
ceyed here and said that the reception KossuA was
an outrageous ovation though springing good NO
yves He severely deprecated the preya ling habit ng
some americans To cut and everything within tA ~
reacn, ana said that the penknife never Nof
otr hancs from the cradle to the grave. The remA
dy tor this wac only To be found in the educatioa
OF our children 10 love of IL beautiful He conrassd
what we called the high flown and orid style of
Tor. and writers with the coi correctness of the
persons abroad and said that the best remedy
Tor This fault in us in rdcule and In ustra-
uon he leeted (aeged) speeches of country law
yers and Down East legislators The anecdote rela i've
to happiness and the crow is quite old enough to cn
Tie II to place in Barnums Museum and the lecturer
SEE med TO delight in antique wittcsms He gave
list OF American slang phrases and closed with a comp-
nen to the respect paid to American women and enlo
gum upon their character. The lecture occupied
hour and the lecturer seemed more anxious to make hs
auditors laugh than to give what would have
pected-a critical anal yss of American character man
ners and idiof yncraces.