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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16
L. H., New Orleans.

CHAPMAN AGAIN CRowING.-Mr. Chapman
the most distinguished of all the veteran
Democratic editors of Indiana, is now at the
head of paper in Indianapolis. He has no
regard for the present Administration. In
reply to an article in the Louisville Times,
which said that he used to be a good partisan
editor, he discourses thus:
We can't agree to the miserable shilly-
shallyism of the Pierce Administration. We
never had the faculty of changing our actions,
if not our opinions, twice day, as Mr.. Pierce
and his supporters appear to have; and we are
not ambitious of such quality even to gain
the reputation Of "being good partisan
editor" which, by the way, we never were.-
As to being half Wing and half Democrat
if we were so we should possess the precise
qualities to be a good Pierce and Gushing
man, especially if we added a strong spice of
what is called aboitionism. But servility,
in our opinion, is not Democracy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

r{" The Charleston Standard publishes
the following despatch from Washington, da.
ted Monday, the 9th inst:
AS informed you the other day, there is
no doubt that our difficulties with Spain are
gradually approximatng an amicable termin-
alton, intelligence to that effect having been
received by various of the diplomats here
congregated. A special bearer of dispatches
from Madrid to the Spanish Minister, Seno
Cueto, came out in the last steamer with in
formation that all was in a fair way to adj
justment, and that negotiations werepro gres-
sing for the purchase of the Island of Cuba
by the United States, Spain is willing to
sell, provided she can get her price, the op,
position of England and France to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

RUSHING IT.-The Western railroads are
all doing an immense business, in most cases
beyond the expectations of the managers
For the first week in April the Michigan
Central receipts were $4,000, against $ls,.
600 the same week last year. For March the
Madison, Indianapolis and Peru took $3l 900
against $25,GO in February. The first weel;
of April on the Cleveland and Toledo will
show about $4,000 On the 18th the train,
before it reached Cleveland, numbered ls
first class and 9 second class passenger cars,
and was nearly as large as the day before
The first week on the Michigan Southern
will show $35,O00 at least. Some of the
roads are taking so much money, that they
will not make their receipts public.
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

OCCUPATION OF KANsAs.-An Association
has been incorporated by the Legislature of
Massachusetts, under the name Of the "Emi-
grant Aid Society,"" Its Capital is S5,OOO,OOO,
in Shares of $lOC. IL is prohibited from
holding more than $4,000 in real estate in
Massachusetts, or to assess more than 81 on
each share, in 1854, or more than Sl0 in any
year thereafter. Its plan is to contract forth
with with the Transportation Lines for the
conveyance of 10000 emigrants; giving the
advantage of the reduced fare to the emigrants.
To erect Immediately large Receiving Es-
tablshment in Kansas, where the emigrants
may be accommodated until they have time
to settle themselves. To send out and set in
operation steam sawmills, grist mills, and
such necessaries of civilization as require
capital, with the apparatus for weekly news
paper.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

MAINE Law IN VERMoYT.-Mrs. Nichols,
late of the Brattleboro Democrat, says that
"the drinks" are now called "leg-stretchers'
in that State She says it is an every day
occurrence for some passengers in the stage
coaches-while the latter are waiting at the
hotels for the mais-to say,"I guess I'll get
out and stretch my legs" which always ends
in their having drink somewhere in the
hotel and intmates that it is perfectly as
tonishing with what unchecked ease and
frequency legs are now stretched in Yer
mont
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16
A FASHION HIT.-The fashion editor of the

A FASHION HTT.-The fashion editor of the
New York Mirror, concluding his article o.
April, makes :he following legitimate hit:
"It would be noticeable and charming re.
form in our ladies in costuming were they to
initiate the Parisians, and wear fewer furbe.
lows and flounces in thestreet. Also, if they
would more trinity stocking and gaiter theiI
feet. Our bellies should, furthermore, leave
street sweeping to the proper authorities
Skirts, trailed in tobacco juice, ETC., are not
tidy or attractive. To remedy this, trihe
might be taken from the bottom of fashiona.
BILE street dresses and added to the top"
We have no objection to the taking triHe
from the bottom, but we protest against ad-
ding particle to the top. We hope the
ladies will submit to no innovation in that
direction.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

EXPENSES OF THE WAR IN TURKEY.--1n o
statement lately laid before Parliament, of the
estimated naval expenditures for the current
year, the large sum of f3,O96,7OO is set down
for "the expense Of transporting troops and
horses" II will be but poor consolation to
The British nation, who have these expenses
to pay, to reflect that the total expense of the
return passage Of these men and horses is
likely to be very much reduced
Among the other items of the supplement
tary estimate are f22O,OOO for years wages
of 5000 additional seamen, besides f1l0,0O0
for six months additional pay of 5000 sea-
men, previously voted for six months only.
There are also fl60,00O for fuel for steam
vessels; 9252,674 for the purchase and repair
of steam machinery, and f244,657 for the
purchase of steam vessels, gunboats, etc.
The supplemental army estimate provides
for further addition to the army of l4,799
men of all ranks to the land forces, making
the whole numerical force of the army l42,-
776, it being 4O,493 additional to the force
authorized last year, making the enlargement
of the estimate for this item of the service
fl,l32,470.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16
NJ The Philadelphia Enquirer says thi

OF The Philadelphia Enquirer says that
it has generally been supposed that labor is
cheaper in the Northern than in the slave
holding States. According to the Patent
Office Report of 1851, the average cost of
labor Of men employed in cotton manufacto-
ries in Massachusetts, is $22.9O per month;
of females 1880. The cost of labor in the
manufactures of South Carolina, according
to the same Report, is for men Sl3.94, for
females $3.50. According to this statement;
the price of factory labor in South Carolina
is, says the Enquirer, less than half of what
it is in Massachusetts,, taking the average Of
the labor of both sexes.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

TIE DANGERS OF A wedding TRIP.-Mr
and Mrs. Best, bride and bridegroom, were
returning from Alabama to the husbands
residence in Mississippi, when their horse ran
Off the bridge ever the Noxubee at Macon,
carrying the buggy and lady with him. The
husband saved HIMSELF and in trying to save
his wife tore most of her dress off, She was,
however, but little injured by the fall of over
twenty feet the horse picked himself up and
went to eating grass.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

IMM1GRATIoN.-Some idea of the extent
of the tremendous immigration to this coun-
try may be gathered from the announcement
that two trains, consisting of sixty cars, and
containing two thousand six hundred Ger
mans, on their way to the West, arrived at
Rochester on the oath. They were soon
followed by another train, having on board
eleven hundred morc-making total of
thirty seven hundred newly arrived people
who passed through that place in one day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

Trouble in New York among the Dutch
and Irish RumseHers.-The New York cor.
respondent of the Public Ledger, on We'd
nesday, remarks:-"The Board of Excise was
in session again this morning. Out of $50
applications for renewal Of licenses, only 80
were granted. The Germans and Irish are
awfulIy indignant. They say Americans are
favored in this matter, and that the whole
movement grows out of a "Know-NothiDg'
arrangement.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

CUoLrRA TN ClNcINNATI.-The Cincinnati
Times of Friday evening says;-"We have
heard of several cases of cholera in the city,
nearly all of which proved fatal. In the
neighborhood of St. Pau's Church, in the
Ninth ward, four persons have died of it in
one house; and deaths have occurred in other
parts of the city. All the cases, so far as we
heard, have been among foreigners, who were
very careless as to their habits Of living, and
they are not by any means any cause for
alarm,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

eB-The Times states that distinguished
citizen asserts that the brother of the murder.
ed Butler-also teacher in Louisvlle--wil
be compelled, unless he receives pecuniary
aid, to sell his house in order to defray the ex.
penses incurred in prosecuting the Ward tri-
al. He has given $50 Internationally, to
prevent this sacrifice, and suggests that $1,000
be raised in that vicinity. The Times will
receive and acknowledge donations. Almost
commendable project
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

W "A meeting was held last week at the
Astor House, New York, in favor of the con-
struction of an air line Rail Road between
that city and Norfolk, Va. Mr.. Charles Gould,
of New York, acted as chairman, and Mr.. J.
w. Houston, of Delaware, as Secretary. A
minute report on the proposed route of the
road, its cost and practicability of construc-
ton, &c, was submitted and adopted, and an
executive committee was appointed to carry
out the objects of the meeting.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

icy The Tribunes Washington cores
pondent telegraphs that the Senate has rati-
fled the Swiss treaty. He also says that the
Havana consulate is to be given to Missis-
sippi man, but who the favored individual is
to be IS yet unknown, as the President is un-
decided between Ex-Governor Matthews,
PinkneY Smith, and Jake Thompson.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

eB- The official statistics show that fifty
seven thousand, five hundred and sixty.six
persons arrived in New York, from foreign
countries, last month. Over eighteen thou
sand were Germans, twenty-five thousand,
British, including Irish, and nearly thirteen
thousand were French. Three hundred and
forty.three of the five hundred vessels which
brought these large cargoes of humanity, be.
ionged to the United States.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16
SArrsFIED.-The Boston Journal Of Tues.

SATIsFIED-The Boston Journal Of Tues
day week says:
Yesterday there were more people in town
than on Saturday, every train that arrived be-
ing crowded. Most Of the strangers went
up to the Courthouse, took a good look at
its old walls, its massive doors, and its pom
derous pillars; stared at the police who guard.
ed every approach, speculated on the probable
success ten thousand men would have in an
attempt to rescue prisoner, spent few shil-
lings for dinner, aud went home perfectly
satisfied, as n general thing, that there is
physical force enough in Boston to execute
the laws,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

gB- 1t is estimated that the entire bill of
expenses attending the proceedings in Boston
Tor the recovery of Burns will exceed the
sum OF $4,000. Our Boston exchanges,
however, state that the President has been
consulted, so far as the military are concerned,
and replies that the United States Govern.
ment will assume all the expenses of the
military-either for services of United States
troops, or Of the Massachusetts Volunteer
Ml;tia.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

eY- The Leeds Times believes that q
Government order for cannon balls of new
shape is being executed by a local foundry
They are long, three-sided, and terminate in
three cornered point. 1t is coDjectured that
they are intended to be used against fortress
es, but nothing positive can be pronounced
on this head, rs the casting of them has been
kept MS secret rs possible.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16


DOWNFALL OF SAsTA ANNA-His Serene
1ighness, the illus;rous Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna, seems to be again growing into
disfayor with his unstable and fckle-minded
countrymen, and his speedy downfall is con-
fidently predicted by those best posted up
in the affairs of that unhappy people. Speak
ing of his late expedition to Acapulco, and
which it is now said terminated in an inglor-
Gus retreat, writer says:
"Viewed in purely military light, Santa An
ma has evinced both rashness and folly. As a
political movement, he has committed fatal
error. He has left Alvarez stronger than
ever, and the revolt IN the South, far from
being suppressed, is rtarded as unconquera-
BILE by the result of tAs campaign. tits dali
iy expected TO sprcshfn5nl point 20 point,
until it reaches the frontiers of the federal
districts. In short Santa Anna has lost his
imperial crown on the highway, and his days
are numbered"
He further adds that Santa Anna has openly
expressed his disapprov,l of the notifications
of the Mesilla treaty, ard swears he will not
take dollar less than $2O,OOO,OOO. But we
look upon this as mere" stalk" for the Ameri-
can "Buncombe."
His Minister of Finance, Senior Parres, as
surcs him that they can do without the mon
ey of the Americans, and that he will create
ample pccuniary supplies by iner easing the
duties on imports so per cent, and by pro-
hioiting the expectation of coin. Such is
the financial wisdom Of the present Cabi-
net
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16
e1y The senior editor OF the Wasb,npto,

eY The senior editor OF the Washington
Star, who has just returned from Boston,
says that not more than hundred or so were
really engaged in the riot in which Bachelor
was killed, and that Boston sentiment will
surely punish his murder to the extent of the
law, OH all who may be proved to have par
ticipated in the outrage. Yet, but for the
timely presence of the troops of the United
States, the thousand abolitionists present in
Boston would have rescued the negro.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16
THE POST.
Athens, Friday. June Is, 1854.

THE New NEBRASKA CANPAIGN.-Ihe
Cincinnati Commercial says:-The new Ne
braska campaign has commenced by move
ment of the Anti-Douglas cohorts. On Sat
urday there passed through this city seven
hundred and thirty German emigrants on their
way to Nebraska. We were informed yes
terday morning, that these were only the ad-
vance guard of a large body moving Nebras-
kaWards.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

Icy The late news from Lake Superior
reports that the Minnesota miners have taken
out some so tons of copper during the past
month, and expect to take out as much more
during the present month. One mass of cop
per taken out, weighing 500 pounds, is re-
ported to be about one half silver.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

eB- Three prisoners lately escaped from
the Armstrong county Jail, Penn. One Of
them left letter behind him TO the jailor, in
which he apologised for leaving so abruptly,
but said he thought his establishment was
rather secluded for man of his habits, and
IN fact, quite an unpleasant, inconvenient
summer residence.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

W- DR.. Wood, of Philadelphia, argues
the protective value of cod liver oil from the
fact that the obituary tables give much d.
minished numbers of deaths from consump-
ton, since it came into general use. "Prob-
ably" says he, 1--WE have cured in cases
Of consumption by its USE"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

"YoUR PAPER DID NOT COME, Sir !"-We
recommend careful perusal of the following
plain statement both to post masters and to
all subscribers. 1t is from paper called The
Advance, published at fernando, Mississippi
"The uncertain arrival, or uncertain delive-
ry of papers, at country post offices, is often
the ground of complaint against publishers
and editors. Many Of the Offices are poorly
supplied with the conveniences of taking care
of papers, no matter with what certainty they
arrive. The papers are jumbled up into a
few pigeon holes, or piled upon desk, box
or barrel, to await the call of the subscribers.
In the midst of boots, hats, brides, horse
collars and other coarse wares which may be
called for during the day by customers
Country post masters in most cases, being
engaged in some mercantile business, many
newspapers 6nd their way into some obscure
corner, where they are hid for time from
human eyes, as completely as if buried in a
mountain cave. In the, meantime the man
comes for his paper, and as ID can't be found,
of course it didn't come. The indignant sub
scriber consequently abuses the rascally edi-
tor, and perhaps calls for pen, ink and paper,
to write a letter of complaint about not send
ing his paper punctually, when if said paper
were endowed with speech, it would cry out,
'here am, squeezed to death, behind this box
or under this BARREL We have seen just such
things at country post offices, and elsewhere
as well as the country. These remarks have
no reference to any particular office, and are
meant for all where they will apply"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

BATcHELDER's WIDow.-The Washington
Star learns that the Senate's Pension Com
mittee have agreed to report bill granting
$4,000 to the widow Of the late deputy mar
shal Batchelder, who recently lost bis life in
Boston in aiding in the execution of the laws
Of his country. Right
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

tB' The Courier des Etats Unis, of New
York, journal that will hardly be charged
with pro-slavery sentiments or particular
friendship towards the administration, con-
tains an article in which it takes a candid and
sensible view of the Nebraska question, and
from which we quote the following passage
"To take the Nebraska bill by itself, it re-
poses on principle so clear in its moral and
constitutional equity that its spontaneous
adoption by the moderate men Of all parties
and Of all latitudes would in other times not
have been met with either doubt or difficulty.
To leave to the population of the territories
full and entire liberty in their domestic insti-
tutions is evidently much more consonant
with the dogma of popular sovereignty and
the absolute independence of the States, than
to fetter the future of any portion of the
Union under pretext of its geographical posi-
ton; il is also no less incontestably the
simplest means of putting an end to all con-
Hicts between the North and South, to all
pressure of the latter on the former, and to
all distrust between them"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

HANDSOME SrEcULATIoN.--General c, M.
Reed, of Philadelphia, recently sold number
of lots in Buffalo, to the New York Central
Railroad Company, for the sum Of 100000,
for which, in the year 1876, he paid only
about $4,000 adding thereto some $4,000
or $4,000 in the erection of buildings.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

bP 1t is anticipated that upwards of IF
teen hundred thousand bushels of Wheat
will be harvested in Monroe county, New
York, this year being the largest yield ever
known in that district.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

rHy- John Van Buren, is reported to have
said that the Nebraska bill was the best cv-
er passed in Congress, for tho reason that
ait will kill of every man from the free
States who voted for it,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16
SAM. HOUSTON.

The New York Mirror has correspondent
at Washington who is racy writer. The
following is from one of his late letters:
designations among Senators seem to be
contagious, a sort of political epidemic. The
Hon. Edward Everett the Hon. Truman
Smith, and rumor predicts Gen. Sam Hous.
ton, have resigned, or will very soon. That
the two former Wing Senators shonld die or
resign, there is no marvel but thatGen. Houston
should resign at time nf all others when he
may successfully bare his brave breast to the
storm of renewed agitation on the Slavery
question, growing out Of repeal of the Mis-.
souri, Compromise, and arrest the evident
and inevitable tendencyof things to dsunion,
and separate aud Snthern Confederacy,
according to the plan md platform of Mr..
Calhoun, is passing strhge to the Northern
people, who regard thegreat Texas Senator
as the only living exponent, save perhaps
Col. Benton, of the principles of Gen. Jackson.
For him morning and evening, the three
thousand and fifty clergymen are Offering up
prayers and supplications, while the young
men and old women are capping their hands,
and CRYING Amen /! Hallelujah and Glory to
Ohui liOuoIOus
The administration don't like him; the pol
iticians never did like him; and the needy and
greedy followers of availability will like
him. Were he more pliable and tractable-
less obstinate, and more yielding in his prin-
ciples, few men woald stand better chance
for the next Presidency than Gen. Houston;
but as it is, they will play the drop game on
him. He stands no more chance than an
onest,unsophisticated farmer does among the
mock auctions of New York. Judge Douglas
hates and fears him; Gen. Cass has no affec-
ton for him; and Gov. Marcy sneezes at him;
and still Sam Eouston is not to be sneezed
at. But then Gov. Marcy takes snuff, and
must sneeze at somebody. The President is
very much elated at the passage of the Ne
braska bill.-He regards it as one of his tri-
umphs-as all his thunder-and if Judge
Douglas don't bach down and give the credit
of the whole affair TO to the President, you
may look out in distant newspapers for long
and severe attacks On Judge Douglas, from
the prolific pens of Caleb Gushing, Col. For
ney and Sam Green Jr. Look out for 'em,
for they will surely appear.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

rY- II was rumored at the moment the
America sailed, that the London Sun received
dispatch announcing the capture of Cron.
stadt by the allies. Three thousand killed on
both sides.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

gB~ The training institutions are "some"
down east Wenotice that company has a
captain, one private, and two guns, minus the
barrels. The country is safe. Let down the
bars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-06-16

r9y- In Newark, Ohio, tavern keeper
was bound over in $500 to answer at the
Probate Court, on .be complaint of a wife,
for selling liquor TO her husband. This is
the first case under tthe new law.