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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

KEEPING AppoINrMEurs.-If there Is any
thing unpleasant in this world, it is to be
compelled to bite ones thumbs in public
place-or, in truth in any place at all-while
waiting in the hope that friend will even
tually fulfil a dishonored appointment. Nc
person is excusable for breaking m appoint.
ment under any circumstances save those
embraced by sickness or death. If mar
forfeits his appointments, be sure the less
business YOU do with him the better.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~ It is dangerous to speak the truth,
sometimes. Tell woman she is homely,
though she be as frightful as an eleven
headed ogre, and the chances are that you
will have nm Introduction to the broomstick
and the hospital for broken heads. Tell her
she is pretty, and lie like sin, and you are
smothered in honey and similar saccharines,
besides nm invitation to tea about seven times
a week.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

uR. BUCHANAN WILL NOT KErURn.-A
Washington letter says "the rumors to the
effect that Mr.. BUCHANAN intends to return
are unfounded. He designs shaming the Brit
ish Government ost Of making his dress n
question of international comfy. Messrs.
MARCY and CRAMPTos had m interview to
day relative to Lord CLAREsDos's declaration
that the alliance between England and
France on the Eastern question, was design.
Cd for the Western also. The result has moi
yet transpired."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10
Tie WAR IN EURoPE.-A Washington
letter dated the Goth inst, says:

letter dated the goth inst, says:
ave do not know how soon we NAV DO.
come PARTIES to that contest, fJr the bcllger.
EMS may find 1t convenient to plunder our
commerce, rs heretofore, upon one pre,ence
and another. 1t is also suggested that our
neutrality may be compromised by giving
/ facilities in our ports to the equipment Of
/ Russian fleets, cnIisting seamcn for the Rus.
| sian Navy, and even fitting ont Prvateers
| under Russian commissioners and Russian
officers. Our people are so greedy Of gain,
and the commerce of England will present
such tempting prizes, that there wnl not be
wanting persons who will urdelt.kr priva.
| tccring enterprises, no matter undr what
/ flag, or agaH St what natlon-,hougii the rcr.
cral sympaihles of the American public, are
entirely hostile 10 Russia in this contest.
II may require some wisdom and energy.
on the par. of our government, 10 keep on; of
the contest in which the powers Of Europe
will br engaged.
Some OF the foreign diplomatcs here ex.
press III" opinion that the Car will Vet bavk
out, aud give up the PROVINCES; but that n
general war in Europe may arise from m
attempt, attributed To Napoleon to add Bel.
gium and SPAN 10 ils dominions.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

GEN. HAsEELL.-The Memphis Enquirer
of the 26th announces the departure Of Gen.
VIM. T. Haskell, on the "Julia Dcan,' for his
new home in Arkansas. Tennessee has lost
q gifted son, and Arkansas has gained no.
bic and generous citizen.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

OF Take your hat and leave clergymen
who preach long sermons. If there is any
thing that calls Satan right up into mans
head, il is a sermon about eleven miles long,
with recapitula,ions, extra exhortations, high
hecled doxoloSie,, and similar institutions.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

TIE NEBRASKA BILL.-"Potomac," tho in-
telligent correspondent of the Baltimore Pat
riot, says
Il is thought by some Of the wise ones,
that tho Nebraska bill in its present shape.
repeating the MISSOURI Compromise, will not
pass the House of Representatives during the
present Congress-. Every day the opposi,
zion to it grows stronger and more resoIute.
The Cabinet will be compelled yet to break
up on it, or cut loose entirely from its free
soi. afiiliates, who never will and never in.
tend TO 90 for the bill.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

fv The British and French Ministers on
Thursday called upon Secretary Marcy, for
the purpose of protesting against the fitting
out of Russian privateers in this country
II ia alan mndarstoed that they informed the
Secretary that snch vessels would be treated
as pirates by their respective governments
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~ Near San Francisco is farmer who
plants 100 acres of potatoes, $500 acres
of wheat, and $500 acres of barley. He
owns or,SiaI1issInoat and two schooners,
which n. Ely employed in bringing
his produce to market. The capital invested
fs about half million"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~ Nebraska embraces the whole OF the
unorgnnized territory of the Union-the ex.
tent of its boundary is over three thousand
miles-its area about hundred thousand
square milcs-capabe Of being formed into
dozen states, each as large rs Ohio.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10
~ A terrible accident occurred q fe,

~ A terrible accident occurred few
nights ago, at the French Opara House, in
Orleans street, the upper gallery having Civ
en- way during the performances, crushing
the second tier of boxes and falling into the
pit. Three white persons and several ne
eroes were killed, and forty or fifty seriously
injured.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

A man down east has invented machine
to renovate old bachelors. Out Of good
sized, fat greasy old bachelor, he can make a
decent young man, and have enough left to
make too small puppies, a pair Of leather
breechcs, and small kettle OF soft sosp.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

NorlcE TO QuIr.-The London Morning
Advertiser states that some days before the
Russian Minister left London, orders were
given from the Embassy to all persons in
any way connected with the Russian Govern.
mcn:, and also to military and naval officers,
to quit England on the morning of the 4,h.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

E A frightful accident occurred at Nj
agara recently. Several persons, it appears
were at work at the suspension bridge, when
the scaffolding on which they were standing
gave way precipitating two of them from q
height of 24O feet They were Of course
instantly killed. Two others saved them
selves by catching hold of the cables, to
which they clung until rescued.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~ The following arc the nges Of the
principal reigning Sovereigns: Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, "a; the King Of the Belgians,
60; the King of Sweden and Norway, SO;
the King of Denmark, A; the King of the
Two Sicilies and the King Of Bavaria,
40; the King of Hanover, 80; the Sultan, 80;
the Emperor of Austria, %; Louis Napo.
leon, A.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

A SOLEMN THouGMT.--It has been OBJ
served with much significance, that every
morning we enter upon new day carrying
still an unknown future in its bosom. How
pregnant and stirring the reflection! Thoughts
may be born to day, which may never be ex.
tingushed. Hopes may be excited to-day
which may never expire. Acts may be per.
formed TO day, the Consequences Of which
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

Az EXTREME Tksr.-If you wish to ~
certain the temper of young lady. look at
her nails, and the tips Of her gloves. If they
are jagged and much bitten, you may be
sure she is peevish, irritable, quarrelsome.
and too ready to show her teeth at tho
smallest provocation. This is IN infallible
test that every il.tempcred young lady car.
res at her tingers-enis.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

Sir Archibald Allison says to the detrac.
tors of Glasgow, that, although there are 2.
coo spirit shops in that city, there is also
sum Of E6lG,OOO at the credit Of the work.
ing classes in the savings bank.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

II is estimated that England has $50 ocean
business steamers available for transport,
blockade and the like purposes, If they were
wanted. England. has been for some Years
past, building up this powerful steam marine,
by giving it mail contracts in all parts of tho
world, and thus now, in her onset upon Rus.
sia, she is able 10 make such a dash at ~
start as the world never saw before, -
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~ The editor of the Warren Star m.
nounces that, owing to the high price Of
flour, original notices of marriages will be
charged twenty. five cents.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

W Show me an indolent man, and will
show you an unprncpled one. Show me
an industrious man, and will show you one
possessing some virtue, if not in all cases all
that could be wished.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

eJs-On n cannon shot, fired from the right
bank Of the Danube, which fell close to the
quarters Of Prince Scharmanoff, were the
words, Good morning TO you, Prince Gort.
chakof :"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

ey-"Ah, doctaw. does the choleraw awfcc,
the higher awdow! :" asked an exquisite of a
celebrated physician in New Orleans.
mo replied the NJ. D., "but its death on
fools. and you'd better leave the city imms.
J;,,alr"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

Be Qulgr.-The three approved modes Of
expression i'll three different languages, are
French, taisezvous! English, hold your
tongue. American, shut up!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10
Mr.. SouLE.-The Paris correspondent Of

Mr.. SouLE.-The Paris correspondent Of
the New York Commercial Advertiser says
ut is understood here that Mr.. Soule's po-
siton is one of almost complete isolation, rs
to society, in Madrid. The character that had
come before him, with his challenge Of Tur-
got. have crented feeling against him that
nothing can overcome, and which makes his
situation alike humiiating and painful.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

o. The total estimate of expenses for the
public schools of Cincinnati, for 1884, 10
Sss5Ooo; of this $4,000 is for tuition-aa
advance Of SOS. 900 over last wear.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~ If you wish TO be happy, keep busy.
Idleness is harder work than ploughing, a
deal. There is more fun in sweating an hour
than in yawning century.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

tits an old saying, that charity brgins al
home; bu, this is no reason that il should
not 90 abroad A man should live with the
world as citizen Of the world; he may have
preference for the particular quarter, or
square, or even ally in which he lives, but he
should have feeling for the welfare of the
whole
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10
THE EMPTY CRADLE.

Weep! childless mother, thy tears are sane.
toned. None need question their sincerity,
for they well.up from mothers heart. Who
would not weep truly weep, over the vacant
cradle of their little one! The morning comes,
the little prattle is nushed; at noon.day it, is
still; but evening, when the hour 70. retiring
closes with his ms1!le around us, then comes
the heartfelt Ion illness, stealing softly, but
cmphatically telyg that the loved one is
gone. The vacan, crib-the silent pay.room
the childish but happy chirup are missed.
The little one is u heaven.
Mother, look a that bud 1t is sleeping
in dormant beaut. Watch it closely. Petal
after petal unfold, but so gradually that We
are scarcely aware Of lis o'einess till it has
withercd Then VI remember eaeh leaf, and
think of It's native loveiness. So with the
infant. Earth cannot expand the dormant
beauty that lies slumbering in t'at cherub.
One net after another unfolds the capabilities
Of his intellect; but God took him to his home
where every capabiIily would increase with
out contamination. Weep not, mother,
though thy babe wa, snatched from the par
ent stem. 1t will blossom with greater beauty
and newborn loyeliuess in the garden of the
Father, and will never, never die, nor fade
away at MONDAY. But its little gui!ess spirit
will hover around Thy aching heart and cheer
thy toiling way.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~" The Chicag" Journal gives the namcs
Of ten railroads which centre in that city,
and over which scventy-ive trains daily
leave and arrive
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

The Cincinnati Price Current publishes
a statement ofhogs packed in Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee, this season, embracing all
the principle points. The total number is
1906, ,555, against 975,7ss last ycar-being
an increase in the number Of 2s9, and in
weicht FIVE per cent.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

Ex-Presiient Lamar, it is said, drew, few
days since, the last quarter OF his salary No
President Of Texas. lie has been . long
while getting it,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

eN- Legislatures are not the only place
where "bills ure introduced" Taiors are
much addicted to making motions of this
kind.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

81 1t is rumored that the Hon. Jno. j.
Crittcndcn is opposed to the Kansas-Ne.
braska Bill, abrogating the Missouri Com.
promise.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10
eJs Some idea of the immense patronage

ebs Some idea Of the immense patronage
of the Heads of Departments under the Fed.
eral Government may be had from the fol.
lowing statement showing the mount of sal.
aries paid in each of the Departments in
Washington, not including the army of Post.
masters, Land-agcnts, Pension agents, and
other officials scattered though the country
and all dependent on the Executive:
Sta e Dept, annual salaries, S4l.9O0
Treasury Dept, annual salaries, 63s,7l0
Interior Dept, annual salaries, 4OAl3O
War Dept, annual salaries, So $50
Navy Dept. annual salaries, l23,I9O
Post Office Dept, annual salaries, l24.A00
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

Mr.. BADGkR stated on the floor Of the
Senate, at the close Of his late able speech
on the Nebraska bill, that erery southern
Whic Senator sustained the bill.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

6Ss,- T;.- .... who viii ssas for infOrma.
tion, and not pay his postage, has no more
claim 10 our consideration than barbarian.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

The city Of Paris is supplied daily with
twenty-five millions Of gallons, London
forty-iiye millions, Boston ten millions New
York thirty millions, and Philadelphia fifteen
millions Of wafer.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

STATE GEoLoGIsT.-Prof.J J. NJ. Stafford
of Cumberland University, Lebanon. has
been appointed State Gcologist.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

E Deputy Sheriff Robinson was shot
in Columbus, on ihe night Of the 9th, by
man named Wright. He died in half an
hour. Wright has been arrested and is in
mil
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10
E A Washington letter in the N. Yorl

w A Washington letter in the N. York
Times says:
We can count up at least fourteen or tif-
tecn Senators who propose W speak On the
Nebraska bill ere the vote is taken: so that
it is good for at least three weeks more in
in that branch, unless extraordinary mea-
sures nre taken to cut off the debate. Mr..
Douglas is evidently considerably worried
about the prospects ahead.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~ The Wings of North Carolina have
nominated General Alfred Doekery for Gov.
erDur.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

BAcKcAMnoy.-An absurd gamc. which
ladies play with a bonnet.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10


PowER.-Power is queer thing-isnt it!
That strange agent, we mean, that men OBJ.
tain by wheels and levers, and all those COM
binatons known under the name of machine
ry-that cut shoc.pegs one minute, and lock
the chariot wheels of the sun the next; that
weave to-day, the swaddlng bands Of infancy,
and tomorrow, narrow the five zones Of earth
into selrege for the robe of space.
We saw it yesterday, irving marble into
slabs, and making ribbons of the glittering
steel. 1t brought to US papers damp from
the presses beyond the great Lakes, and we
read last night, by its agency, the words of
those whose legendary forms have faded
from the eye Of Time.
The wonderful word inscribed upon the
scimcier of Arabian story was "power,' but it
has been transferred to the pen and the plane,
the plow and the press. Man has rendered
it obedient to lis will. He mprsons il in !,
cellar under his feet, or he sends it, on the
wings of the wind, around the world. lie
times the fall Of the hammer: it weighs to an
ounce, its stroke; it checks it within i hairs
breadth of the anvil.
! Ia ,''"s "I.'a oT ,Vuis ,Vu 0"'Iy power
immured in box, and bound around with ,
chain. You have rugged an anchor and q
cable TO time itself. When you wound that
watch this morning, you did in a moment
with u few turns Of the key what it would
take twenty-four hours to undo you diil'used
little atom of power over II day and night:
you sent il on long journey from wheel to
wheel, round and round, into time to come.
It's commission might have been good, and
the lease Of your life have expired hours
before.
A queer and docie thing is Power.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

"Sally, what time does your folks diner
.Soou rs you goes away, that's Missus or.
ders."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

Total amount of salaries paid in
Washington, Sl,33l,l8
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10
WASHINGTON, March I.

WASHINGTON, March !.
A.O.P. Nicholson is elected Public Prin-
ter in place of Armstrong, deceased.
Mr.. Clayton spoke on tho Nebraska bill
to1ay
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

The Richmond Examiner. under the head
of "Paragraphs showing that the public debt
(of Virgnia) is growing up like Jacks Bean
Stalk says:
The letter of the Clerk of the House of
Delegates transmitting statement of the ap.
preparations solicited from the State at the
present session, will produce many trown
npon the honest brows of the Virginia
people. 1t will be observed that all Of the
appropriations sought are not there enumera-
ted; many of the bills being Of the character
of Simon's net, fashioned to catch many or
few fishes, mot to mention the loaves) rs
fortune may decree. This is more especially
the character of the Turnpike bills, and the
grand aggregate of wants, all computed, will
not fall short of fifteen millions of dollars.
That sum, piled on top of the present State
debt of twenty-scven millions, will elevate
the tax payer into n region of bcatitudc
very similar to that in which Jack of the bean
stalk found the huge Giant, with 4 club large
enough to crush, at one blow, as many peo-
pie of Jacks size as there are taxpayers in
the State of Virginia.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~ The public debt of Great Britain is
in round NUMBER, es,Al0, 100000.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

That tendency towards the lands of the
setting sun, which drove the patriarch TO the
shores Of the Mediterranean, has never lost
its power; it survived in Paul when he sough,
Rome, and in Augustine rs he faced toward,
Britain; it was not lost when Columbus plan.
ted tho cross on the soil Of n new world or
when the Mayhowcr dropped anchor in the
harbour of plymouth. 1t is moving still the
earnest hearts of the world TO look westward
with hope, and calling myriads to bult
homes aud altars upon the far Pacific shores
The Liberty Mo .)Platform of the 3D. says
The prospects Of the coming wheat crop IL
this region are very gloomy. Our farmer
are no, expecting ore half the average yield
The winter has been very uniavorab'e; nnj
the most iattering spring cannot mend tn,
matter. There is but little complaint from
other parts of the State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

~ "ThcAusburg Gazette announces that
the Emperor of Austria has definitely signed
the decree consummating the emancipation
of the peasantry in Bohemia, Moravia, Hun.
gary, Seryis, Arabia, the Banat, and thu Wo'
iewodina, from all statute or service.labol
hitherto paid to the nobleman, or original
owner of the soil The decree prescrbes
that the peasant shall receive farm with the
necessary buildings on it, in n word home
stead, as his own property. The worth Of it
is to be valued, leaving the peasant to pay it
on easy terms, which are settled by special
commission, formed to mediate in the mat
ter between the mobiles and peasantry. In
com plete as this emancipation may be, it US
sures independence to the people, sewers all
the ties between master and peasant, and re-
deems the latter from the extorlons and right
of arbitrary election hitherto exercised by the
former. The value Of the homestead once
paid, the peasant is free and wholly indie.
pendent, master of his land, time aud labor.
This we may call the best Of the measures
forced on the Austrian Government by the
revolution Of 1913.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-03-10

KILLED HIMsELr.-On Monday morning
last John NJ. Gates, imprisoned for debt,
was found dead in the debtors room Of the
Jail in this place, with his throat cut from
ear to ear. lie was for several years enga-
gcd in merchandising in the lower part of the
county, was unfortunate, failed, and being
suspected of aU attempt to defraud his cred.
itors, was thrown into prison, where he had
been but II short time confined, when he
committed the act of self-destruction. lie
has left n wife and several children to mourn
his loss. lie is snid to have been kind faith
or and nm affcctionate husband. Surely
/ inv .j.~s Sc. 10 .--.s .-..- .;.- -".~s.~
nate, having families dependent upon then
for support, to such desperation as above re-
lated, should be repealed or materially mod
flied. A mans family has higher claims up
on him than his creditors, and it is the duty
of our law makers to see to it that his wife
and children are not deprived ofthcir protcc.
tor by confinement in dungeon, even though
he may be unfortunate and owe debts he can
not possibly pay.-.Ne~nan, (Ga) Banner,
24h.
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