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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

How REcTIFIEI WHIsKEY IS MADE.-At
ST. Louis raw whiskey is now commanding an
unusually high price, "a a 35 cts. per gallon; !;
and since rectifers have to pay 35 cts for raw,
it is wonderful how they can afford rectifed
at "a cents. Nothing is easier of explanation.
Rectiied whiskey is whiskey literally mixed
with water-three to five, and sometimes as
many as eight gallons of water to the barrel,
at the manufacturers discretion. This at-
fords handsome profit, at the present cur
rent rates for raw, mixture of three gallons
mississippi netting S o5; five gallons 81 IS,
and when it comes to eight gallons there is
So 80 per barrel, clean clear profit. Besides
rectifying may be considered humane "insti-
tution," the charcoal taking out very con-
siderable portion of the alchohoic fire, and
reducing the baneful effects of too free use
of ''red eye" 1t also saves trouble to the to-
per, as his dram needs no mixing with un-
VholeSome water afterwards.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22
w Speaking of the New York Tr;bun,

EY speaking OF the New York Tribune
having reduced its size, the Wilmington N.
C. Journal, says:
"Even newspapers have reached point of
cheapness from which they are forced to re-
cede. We can assure His Respectableness,
the Public, that printing has got to be quite
a costly "insttuton." We would beg leave
to assure our readers in the country, and in
the town, too, that our expenses have risen
faster than the price of turpentine, while the
rates of advertising and subscription remain
without change. The margin is too narrow
to admit of any reduction. Now, we don't
like to make complaints of any sort, and we
don't see that we have any particular right to
do so, but at the same time, we would sug-
gest the necessity of asking as little gratuit-
GUS service from the press as possible. A
Great many people, we know, never think of
the amount of thi, sort of service which is
dome, and from nd fully understanding the
state OF the case, are apt to think hard of
publishers for charging for the insertion of
matters which, perhaps, may seem Of great
importance to the persons wishing such in-
sertion, and yet in the view of publishers,
coming under the head of advertising matter.
With paper and materials of every kind, as
well as labor, at their present rates, it be-
hooves publishers to make every department
of their business pay. The profits from a
subscription list are altogether too much cut
down to admit of any looseness in other
matters"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22
A despatch from York, Pa, dated the llth

A despatch from York, Pa, dated the llth
inst, says:
"The telegraph is Iot working between
here and Columbia There is rumor that
the Operator at Columbia, amongst others,
has fallen victim to the terrible scOurge.-
We have had no communication with that
town since last night. The train is expected
about half past two o'clock, when further
particulars may be obtained. Various rumors
are in circulation. From all can gather there
has been about eighty deaths Of cholera; in
cluding yesterday, since the disease appeared
on Friday last 1t has been unusually fatal,
very few escaping who were attacked. Some
amongst our bes: and most prudent citizens
have fallen victims. The panic is almost be-
yond conception. Every store, except Drug
and Doctors offices, are closed and business
entirely suspended
"a very large number of persons have al
ready left town for various localities in the
country, and hundreds are leaving every hour
on foot, in carriages and other vehicles and
on horseback, also by the cars. The whole
populace is completely panic-stricken, and 1t
is feared there will not be enough left to at
tend to the sick or bury the dead. At last
accounts the epidemic was raging with great
virulence and on the increase, notwithstand-
ing the great decrease in population. Many
who were taken, died in a few hours. Ex-
presses have been sent to Philadelphia and
elsewhere for physicians who have had famil-
lar practice with the disease The calamity
is truly appalling"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

A New Sort OF Know NOTHING INTER
FERENcE.-A few days since young lady
was insuted in the cars between Louisville
and Portland by a large burly Irishman. The
conductor interfered to protect her, but five
or six of the insulter's comrades took his part,
and the conductor was obliged to let him
alone. Directly the cars reached Portland,
and instantly, through the agency of some
Know Nothing sign it is supposed, the con-
ductor was reinforced, and the insulter and
three or four of his party terribly beaten in
very short order; and two Others of them,
who escaped from the depot without beating,
"caught it" Immediately afterwards upon the
vharf.boat
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22
aM.np,rn Observation-Disclosures in the

"MARRIED YEsTERDAY."-Everyday in the
journal that with the first CLEAN of the sun is
flung within our portals, we read this little
sentence! @Married yesterday, so and so.'
Every day there is wedding feast in some
of the mansions of earth: clasping of hands
and union of hearts in the aisles of some holy
temple; pledging of eternal love and con-
stancy during all the hours that are yet to
come down, like spring flowers, upon Life's
pathway. Each day some new marriage
crown is put on and she,that wears it, leaning
upon him whose love is the brightest jewel
set midst its leaves, steals away from the
"dear old home" and nestles tremblingly in
the honeysuckles, over the latticed porch, and
placed Eolian Tyres in all the easements.
"MARRIED YEsTERDAY."-There are pearls
and gold shining now amid the flowers that
fringe Loves pathway, and stars cleaning
like great chandeliers in the armament of
hope. There are harps tinklng now, whose
melody is sweeter than the sound of evening
bells, and joys falling like shower of ame-
thysts upon the hearts that yesterday were
we'd Life now is become beautiful; the soul
scars upward from the dust, like dove loos-
ed from its cage; there is melody in every
breeze and every place; yea, there are angels
in every path, with crownings for those who
are pressing onward with song and prayer.
"MARRIED YEsTERDAY."-It seems now
long distance to the grave-a long road to the
final rest But soon the shadows will come,
and life lose its summer bloom. Then, as
the patter of tiny feet is heard about grand
fathers house, and little brains cluster about
his knee, who were "married yesterday" may
hap will turn back to the records of the Past,
weeping silently the while, remembering that
their summer is gone; their harvest ended
and that soon gathering up their sheaves, they
must pass beyond the gates of pearl, where
there will evermore be but one marriage, that
of the Lamb with his chosen people.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

A HINT FOR THE UNsUccEssFUL-Thef fol-
lowing from Claxton's "Hints for Mechanics" !"
will apply with equal force to mercantile
men:
AS for luck, as have said before, there is
more in the sound of word which people
have got used to than in the thing they are
thinking of. Some luck there is, no doubt,
as we commonly understood the term, but
very much less than most persons supposed.
There is great deal which passes for luck
which is not such. Generally speaking your
"lucky fellows" when one searches closely in
to their history, turn out to be your fellows
that know what they are doing, and how to
do it in the right way. Their luck comes to
them, because they work for it; it is luck well
earned. They put themselves in the way of
luck. They keep themselves wide awake
They make the best of what opportunities
thev possess, and always stand ready for more;
and when q mechanic does this much, depend
upon it, it must be hard luck indeed, if he do
not get at least, employers customers, and
friends. One need only, says an American
writer, "to turn to the lives of men of me-
chanical genius, to see how by taking advant-
age of little things and facts, which no one
had observed or which every one had thought
unworthy of regard they have established
new and important principles in the arts, and
built up for themselves manufactures for the
practice of their newly discovered processes"
And yet these are the men who are called the
lucky fellows, and some times envied as such.
Who can deny that their luck is well earned,
or that il is just as much in my power to Ego
ahead" as it was in theirs.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

A REBuKE-The Warwick Baptist Asso-
citation, of New York, have protested against
the action of the three thousand clergymen
of New England who, in the "name of the
Almighty" denounced the Nebraska BILL
The Association think it presumption for any
set of men, no matter what their calling, to
impiously assume that they speak by Divine
authority and in his name to illuminate ana
themas against the representatives Of the peo-
pie in the discharge Of their official duties-
This assumption recognized, would destroy
every vestige of civil and religious freedom,
and PROSTATE all the institutions of our land
at the foot of an irresponsible and arrogant
priesthood. The rebuke is timely and well
deserved.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

ANAL IN THE COFFIN OF SoMEBoDY.-We
are informed by worthy gentleman, that a
number of our German citizens have actually
organized an association to sustain the most
ultra-Know-No Nothing principles. Intending to
support the Know-Nothing nominations, they
display rare devotion to what they consider
public veal by surrendering their own pros
poets for political promotion. We do not
know whether disgust at the dongs of the
Carthage Convention caused tho movement,
or whether Remelin has anything to do with
it, but it is certainly n very significant sign Of
the times-Cincinndf Columbian
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

ONE OF THE GREAT CAUSES OF HARD
TMEs.-We ship too much of our gold coin
to Europe, and why? Because we import ten
millions more than we ought. We import
too many silks, satins, and aces. If the ladies'
of the United States would wear cotton fab
RIGS, and encourage our own staple production
for four years, every merchant, mechanic
farmer, and laborer would feel the good effect,
and there would be an end of long faces and
hard times.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

KILLED BY A NAME.--"Young America
the Douglas organ at Chicago, died on the
Both ult after brief and sickly existence of
forty-nne days. Its editor, in his valedictory,
seems to think that, like a mad-dog, his pa
per had bad name. Here is what he says :
"1'his mornings issue terminates the exis-
tence Of young America" In the course of
human events all things must sooner or later
die. Thus, in the present instance we are re-
minded of the old adage, of the uncertainty
Of all things here below. Young America
dies, and the death is voluntary. And like
an infant on the parents breast, it calmly sinks
to rest, without any throes of agony or con-
scious pain. The nomme de plume, by which
our sheet has been recognized, has never held
very affectionate place in our bosom; and
although the name disappears, still the en-
bodiment remains, and still will be seen at
your firesides and places of business, we
doubt not, much improved in merit and cali
bre, and be quite as welcome as ever has been
Young America.
The new paper assumes the more modest,
quiet and respectable name of Chicago Times.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

THE Corn CRop.-We have predicted
that corn will be as cheap in this section
next spring as at the present time. The
crop will be short one, it is true, but the
farmers have gathered large quantities of
fodder, which, together with the fine crops of
oats raised the present year, will enable them
to winter their stock with comparatively lit
tie corn. There will not be, perhaps. more
than one-half the number of pork hogs fat
tened this season; and, as one of our cores
dondents remarks, by housing and shetering
his stock from the cold winds and rains of
winter, the farmer will save one-third in the
way of provender. ....
A general system of economy will be prac-
tised throughout the county, and the result
will be a plentiful supply of corn. From
present indications pork will be worth from
four to five cents. We have heard Of sever
al recent transactions at that rate.
Col. James II. Webster, an intelligent and
experienced farmer of this county, left us on
Monday last several cars of corn gathered
from field which he describes as being so
literally burnt up by the dry weather, that,
apparently, single spark of fire would set
the whole field in flames. This corn--the
ears left with us--is well filled, and seems to
have suffered but little from the drouth.-
Col. Webster thinks that the crops of corn
generally in this county will be much better
than is expected N. Porter, Esq, living
some two or three miles south of town, says
he never had better crops of corn than he
has this season, and that he will raise at least
ten barrels TO the acre. He prepared his
ground well in the spring by subsoil plough
has suffered little from the drouth.-Maury
Int, 18th,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

"No One LOVES ME."-"No one loves me!''
Speak it not,-believe it not, if thou hopest
for peace, for comfort for sympathy in this
world The phrase is of dreary midnight's
birth, when there were no stars seen, and the
mother turned from her crying babe. 1t is
false, too, and poison turks in its ill-omened
syllables. If it rise in thy mind crush it out,
and give proof of its falseness by seeking for
what thou canst love, and be sure thou wilt
then be loved in return. ..
Love inhabits every human soul-its very
Immortality springs from love alone-howev-
er oft hatred Of Self and of Humanity and
Nature, may fright this God. descended inhab-
liant away. And love will and does spring
from love, as the seed springs from the soil !;
because it is the immutable law ;-because
the great Original is love, and love includes
our aims, our destiny and our deathlessness
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22
o. The Washington Star of Saturday,

ST The Washington Star of Saturday,
says;
awe have never before known such dearth
of news around us. During the Presidents
absence nothing is doing in the 'cahoodling'
line. That is, those in Washington interest
cd in securing places at distance for their
respective friends are laying on their oars
His Excellency is expected some time to-day,
when they will be down on him, notwith-
standing the extreme heat of the weather,
with vehemence greatly increased by their
breathing spell. The Govenorship Of Ore
gon, which, rumor says, the Hon. Ex-Speaker
Davis, of Indiana, is about to resign, will be
the chief prize sought after for some time to
come, unless death cruelty takes off one or
more prominent Office holders. as though spe-
cially to perplex President Pierce. There
will, doubtless, be twenty or thirty applicants
for that Governorship upon the strength Of
the rumor only-patriots wanting office being
well nigh as plentiful at this moment as on
the 4th of March, 1853" .tt ...
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

ABUNDANCE OF WHEAT.-The Richmond
(va) Penny Post speaks of the immense
amount of wheat now in the various railroad
depots of that city. One of them is literally
groaning under the weight of its contents,
and the writer thinks he "saw enough to feed
the Russians and allied troops for twelve
month" There are eight large millsnow in
operation in that city, aud two of them grind
at least nine hundred barrels each per day.
1t is mostly shipped, however, for the South
American markets, where It is favorito over
all others. The climate does not sour it, and
the secret is said to consist in packing it
while II is hot.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

icy Jokes are immortal. Capital or shock
ing they survive the best speeches, the pro-
foundest papers of statesmen. If some ante
duvian editor treated his readers to one, we
do not believe that all the waters of the flood
could drown it. A good joke nowadays
goes to help digest the roast beef and cherry
puddings of thousand families. II makes
the crcnit of the world, steams over the ocean,
skates on telegraph wires, tunnels mountains,
rides expresses, excites the risibles of armies,
harms none Verify good Joke is a great
thing, and bad one is abominable. Let
iocose people beware.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

ty- The Paris Universe states that grand
council of Roman Catholic Bishops from all
parts of the world is to assemble at Rome at
tho end of next October, TO deliberate on the
question of the immaculate conception of the
most Holy Virgin, and finally to settle what
is the true dogma of the Roman Church on
that point. The Universe says that "it is
probable that the 9Th of December of this
year will witness the accomplishment of the
universal wish"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

AN HONOR DEcLNED.-It is not, perhaps,
generally known by the present generation,
and may have been forgotten by some of the
past, that John Quincy Adams was appointed
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States, 22d February, 1911, in place of Levy
Lincoln, deceased, and declined the appoint
ment. The high trust was then conferred by
Mr.. Madison upon Joseph Story, of Massa-
chusetts, whose rank as a profound jurist
was only second 10 that Of Chief Justice
Marshall
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

"TREMENDous Mass MEETING. THE Ken
nebec (Me.) Journal gives an enthusiastic ac
count of tremendous" Democratic mass
meeting in that city last week. The people
began to pour into the hill at the rate OF one
minute, for the space of at least three hun.
drcd and sixty seconds. The audience, lcav
ing out the President, Secretary and three or
ators, consisted Of the Postmaster of Angus
ia, Maiuel OF course harmony and unanm-
ity prevailed to a remarkable degree.
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TER s.:

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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

Conn IN WASHINGTON Co., VA.-The crops
around Abingdon have been improved by re-
cent rains The corn crops, says the Demo-
crat, is not so hopeless as was expected
Wherever the land was ploughed deep, the
prospects are good, Notwithstanding the
drought. ..-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

rW. A correspondent of the Cleveland
Herald writing from Arkansas, tells very
large story He says that he discovered a
cave lear Graham in that State into which he
walked several miles, the floor of which is
several feet thick with saltpetre. He has also
shot several wild turkeys, which weighed,
when dressed, twenty-eight pounds. The
corn, also, grows down there from twenty
five to thirty feet high, and appears like a
forest
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

sB Boys are re-admonished, by sensi.
Bile writer to beware of the following de-
scription of company, if they would avoid
becoming like those who enter prisons for
their crimes;
l.. Those who ridicule their parents or
disobey their commands.
2. Those who profane the Sabbath or
scoff at religion.
8. Those who use profane or filthy Ian.
guage.
4. Those who are unfaithful, play truant,
and waste their time in idleness.
B. Those who are of quarreisome temper
and who are aptto get into difficulties with
others.
g. Those who are addicted to lying and
stealing.
7. Those who take pleasure in torturing
animals and insects.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22
w- One thousand of the people of tn

sY- One thousand of the people of the
city of st. John, New Brunswick, have died
of cholera in n short period of time. Seven
hundred and fifty orphan children left desti-
tute, and without friends or kindred, have
been taken charge of by the Roman Catholic
Bishop, aided by some benevolent citizens
A lawyer who fell victim to the disease, be-
queathed several thousand dollars in aid of
these orphans.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

EDITORIAL PERsoNALITIEs.-The New
York Times thus winds up in an article upon
the dignity of journalism :-"Whenever Edi-
tors raise the standard of mutual respect /;
whenever they become in fact what they are
in theory--a Profession; whenever they have
common and current creed of gentlemanly
behavior MS editors, no less than as men-then
will tho evils complained Of be cured, and
society spared the merciless nhiction of pri-
vate wrongs upon its notice. Editors ought
to know, that the bare fact of their COM
manding the use of the pen daily, docs not
entitle them to persecute the public with ed
itorial quarrcls. These are incidents of their
private business and ought to be so treated"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

IRON FOR THE MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON
RAILRoAp.-Mr. Tate, the energetic President
of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Company, has just closed contract for twen-
tv-fiye hundred tons of iron, for the construcs
ton of the road east of La Grunge. The iron
IL 10 bc delivered at New Orleans on the first
of December next. The terms Of the contract
ore ycry favorable. The iron Is purchased az
Gas per ton, the payments TO be made partly
in cash and partly in the bonds Of the com.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

n3y- The Irish employed on the rail road
in the vicinity of Grafton, Ohio, on Monday
evening tried to force their way to Uncle
Toms Show Tent" owned by man by the
name of Matthias They were repulsed, but
again returned with reinforcement, when
they were all driven into the woods, and
their shanties entirely demolished.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

New YoRK HoTELs.-Thc Herald gives n
list of fity hotels in New York, the total as
sessed value of which is put down at S4,256,-
900. The total amount of capital, including
furniture, invested in these hotels is estimat-
ed at 100000. Mr.. Monnot, il is said,
designs to erect u gigantic structure on the
site of the Hippodrome. This building is to
be constructed of marble, and will cost when
completed, upwards of million of dollars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22
noru- Tho UnirersnL n Mexican nnner. |

o5y- The Universal, Mexican paper, 10
out again strongly In favor of a great Spanish
American alliance, which II says, is rendered
necessary by the late occurrence at Greytown
IL saws this affair will not bs tho last Of its
kind, and that only an alliance can save all
South America from the greed Of the Amcri-
can Union
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

SUICIDE IN THE PENITENTIARY.-Copenha-
yer, one of the convicts in the Penitentiary,
hung himself on Saturday last, in his cell, by
suspending himself from joist with hand
kerchief He was one of DR.. Roberts gang
of robbers, sent from Monroe county, for rob-
bing Mr.. Jackson, near Barnsvile. lie was
about 80 years Of age, and has respectable
connections in Kentucky.--S News.