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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

ANOTHER WHorrER NAILED,-Wc under
stand it is currently reported in the surround.
ing country that the cholera is prevailing at
Athens, and that several deaths had occurred.
There is not the shadow of a foundation for
such reports to rest upon, and the individual
who started them is u greater liar than Tom
Pepper, and he beat the devil after giving the
old gentleman three in the game to start on.
1t is true one citizen Of this place had, last
week, severe attack of the bellyache (our
lady readers will please pardon us, as we like
to call things by their proper names,) and
another, of costive habits, was visited with a
rather sudden operation on his bowels; and
these two cases are the nearest approaches TO
cholera that have occurred here this summer.
Athens is proverbially healthy, and if there
is any place on Gods green footstool where
one might hope to live always, II is here
The population numbers some eight hundred,
and the truth is, there has not been over a
dozen deaths in the town, exclusive of those
who have died with old age, since the Indians
lei. the country.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

THE WEATHER AGAIN.-The weather in
this neck of the woods continues very warm
and dry, with a bad prospect for rain until
The moon again fills her horns. 1t will be
six weeks tomorrow since the thirsty earth
was moistened by the tears of heaven, and
during that entire period, with the exception
of two or three days, the thermometer has
ranged, in the shade, between 80 and 90, and
most of the time near the latter figure The
craps in this immediate neighborhood are
pretty essentially cooked up and done for
the blades and stalks of the corn in many
places look as Try and sapless as a last years
cracklin, and it would take small deluge,
got up on the most approved modern plan,
to do any good. In some portions of the
county, however, we learn the seasons have
been more favorable, and the prospect is fair
for an average yield. Without sudden and
copious showers there will not be much two.
shilling corn sold about here the ensuing fall.
p S. Since the above was in type, this
place and neighborhood have been favored
with heavy showers, which, as a friend of
ours in Polk county would say, is having n
'very vivifying effect upon vegetation" The
tendency of the corn market just now is
slightly downward.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

"Babies are blessed institution" but like
all other peculiar institutions" they are most
charming at home. When carried abroad
their laughter and their cries are sure to be
il.timed; the former disturbing death scene
and the latter checking laugh. We hope
the time may come, when, by common con-
sent, they will be excluded from the church,
the lecture roem, the concert and the theatre
Doting parents can put up with the way OF
waywardness Of babies in arms but audiences
cannot dorchester Transcript
We like that, now. We recollect when
the present editor of the Transcript was a
pulling infant in the armAof his nanny, and
that said man used to tote him to church
every Sunday, and that he was nasty,
squeaking, squaling Sucker" MS ever broke
the reposo of slumbering congregation
That same editor has now been married some
eight years, and no infantile pratte, as CRATE.
f1 to the rightly-tuned ear as the pattering
of the rain.drops upon the cabin roof, as YET
gladdens the heart of his help-meet and
breaks the monotonous and oppressive quiet
OF his home. No wonder he don't like ba.
bies lmpotency is never pleased with results
it finds itself unable to accomplish.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28
A PRonIBIroRY LAVA State Temper

A PRomBIToRY LAVA State Temper.
ance Convention was held at Murfreesbor-
ough, in this state, on the 4th of July, at
which resolutions were adopted declaring,
among other things, "that it would be right
before God and man that the Legislature of
Tennessee should repeal all laws upon the
subject of the liquor traffic, and pass a law
prohibiting the manufacture and sale Of in
toxicating liquors except for medical, mechani-
cal and chemical purposes" In the spirit Of
this declaration, resolution was adopted re-
commanding "the friends of temperance and
humanity to meet at an early day next spring,
say the first Monday in April, being county
court day, or earlier if need be, in each county
town in this state, and nominate candidates
for both branches of the Legislature, who
shall be men of character and talents, who
will pledge themselves to vote for a prohibit
tory law, should they be elected" The men,
bers of the convention "pledged themselves
as Wings and Democrats 20 support the pro-
hibitory candidate offered to their suflrages
by the temperance conventions of their re-
spective counties without reference to his
party politics"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

THE RIVER AND ELARBoR Bill TO BE We
ToED.-lnformation from Washington renders
it probable that Mr.. Pierce will not permit
the river and harbor bill to become law,
should it pass the Senate, if his veto will
arrest it. The bill consists almost entirely
of appropriations to finish works which have
already been begun, and which must be fin
ished to prevent the appropriations hitherto
made from being a total loss.
The Washington correspondent of the N.
Y. Times writes rs follows in his letter of
the 18th instant
We have had to-day an authoritative de-
caration of principles of the Administration
upon one of the great political questions of
the day. The River aud Harbor Appropria-
ton Bill was taken up in the House, when
Mr.. Barksdale, of Mississippi, took the floor,
and declared it to be the unalterable purpose
of the Administration to set its face against
any such measure. Mr.. Yates, of Illinois,
asked him whether he spoke for himself or
for the Administration, and he unequvocally
declared that he spoke for the latter and for
the party. Subsequently Mr.. Barksdale NOV
ed an amendment to the bill, providing that
it should not go into effect until it has been
approved by the Secretary of War This is
supposed to be another 'indicaton of the
great principle of popular sovereignty" Not
only the President shall possess the power
to nullify the will of the people as expressed
through their representatives,, but cabinet
oflicer-appointed by the Executive, chosen
in no sense by the people ard not responsible
to them-must also Say aye and sign his APP
proval, ere appropriations for needed improve
ments Of great harbors or rivers can be made!
This is a species of "Democracy" which will
hardly be appreciated upon the lake shores
and great rivers of the West.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

EX-SENATOR CLEMENs.-Connectcd with
the investigation ordered oy the House OF
Representatives into Mr. Clingman's charge
of improper influences having been brought
to bear upon members to secure an exten.
sion of Colts pistol patent, the following in
cident is related by the Washington cores.
pondent of the New York Tribune:
Ex-senator Clemens has addressed letter
to Mr.. Fletcher, of Va, saying he is the at
torney for Samuel Colt, and that he desires
to appear MS witness before the Committee
of the House, and that the examination
should be thorough into the influences EN-.
ployed to carry through measures of legisla-
ton. But he hopes the enquiries will he con-
fined to Col. Colts application for the exten.
sion of his patent, for if they should be
made into the influences used to carry the
Nebraska bill, it would cause great delay
which might effect Col Colts interest. This
allusion to Nebraska is the unkindest cut OF
nil
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

w. A dispatch from Washington says
that it seems to oe settled that the Home
stead Bill will not pass the Senate. Many
Senators originally friendly to the measure,
have changed front upon the feature extend
ing the provisions of the bill over aliens, and
will not only vote against it, but use every
other means to defeat its passage. Some
wish it to pass, in order to place the respon-
sibiity on the President, it being understood
that he would sign the bill, notwithstanding
his veto of the Miss Dix insane bill The
prevailing sentiment is hostility to the entire
measure as presented
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

MURDER AND LYNCH Law IN TExAs.-Dr.
Linton, formerly surgeon in the United States
Navy, shot two men at Laredo, Texas, re-
Gently. He was subsequently seized by
mob of United States soldiers, and hung on
gallows erected upon the public plaza. Lin
ton. it is said, was on board the United States
brig Somers when young Spencer was hung
by Commander Mckenzie. The two men who
were killed were Achilles Centre, an Italian,
and band master of the fifth regiment of in
fantry, and Don Pedro Carera, Mexican. It
is alleged that the difficulty grew out of an
insult by Linton TO the wife of the band mas
ter, Linton, in attempting to shoot Centre,
killed Carera, who was endoavoring to quiet
the parties Centre was killed at the second
fire.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

gB- Punch represents Nicholas as an ass
who has allowed himself to be shut up in a
a pound, and all the European nations, con-
spicuous among which is John Bull, standing
looking over the fence at him, but no one
dares to get inside to put the bride on
Turkey has let down one bar, and reaching a
hand through has got hold of his tail, and
implores France and England to go and take
him by the head, but they manifest most
decided Discrimination to take hold of the
biting end. A better Illustration of "the
war" which was going to shake the whole
continent Of Europe we have never seen.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28
ATHENS, FRIDAY,JULY as, 1854.

To DELNQUENTs.-The close of the 9Th
volume of this paper draweth nigh; and all
persons indebted to us, either for subscrip
tions, advertising, or job work, must pay up,
rs Brother Jonathan would say, "immediate-
ly and to once" We have waited on many
of them with patience and long sufIering-we
have labored, for 10 I! these many years, for
their edlfication, improvement, and pleasure,
and as we have neither the inclination nor
the ability to work for nothing and find our
self nothing would afford us more gratifca.
ton than to be employed for a few days in
writing receipts for them and balancing the
books No wonder we hear so many CON-
plants about the drought when men become
SO reckless about their printers bills.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

CAPITAL PRIzEs.-The following num-
bers drew the capita! prizes in Class C. So.
Military Academy Lottery, drawn at Mont
gomery, Ala, on the Goth:
No. 9953, $500; No. 1911, $4,000; No.
1925, $4,000; No. ll9, $l,5O9; No. 9I5,
$500; No. 5665, $780, No. 1853, $500; No.
500, $500, No. 1858, $500.
Class D. will be drawn on the 2lst August
SEQ advertisement next page.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

MONTGOMERY MAn."-"The Mail" pub.
lished at Montgomery, Ala, and edited by
JoScE HooPER, is No. sheet, and will do
to take and pay for It is a large imperial
we'll printed, and always contains good deal
that is rich and readable. The railroads have
brought us within day and half's travel OF
the capital of Alabama, and We commend
our friends who feel any interest in that di.
rection, to order up "The Mail'-the invest.
ment will pay. Subscription price $3.50, in
advance.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

.5y- A correspondent of the Washington
National Intelligencer says that the awful dis
aster of the wreck of the steamer franklin,
and many other wrecks whics have occurred
within three years, might have been prevented
if the Government had erected lighthouse
on the Moriches beach. This was recon-
mcnded by Lieut.. Woodruff two years ago,
but nothing was done.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

10y The cravat is the thermometer Of
character. Show us the man who wears an
article with a four acre knot full of fire and
figure, and we have before us an institution
whose brains hang entirely on the outside;
while he who supports neat little tie, the
paragon of taste and toggery, is sure to be
man of sense, parts and popularity, no less
than christian and great favorite with tho
dmity family.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28
w- We find the following in the Loudor

Free Press, of the 25th
COME BACK oh, We panic-stricken citi-
zens of Loudon, return, and do not let un-
godly fears harrass you any longerl The
panic has entirely subsidized here, and our citi-
zens, looking calmly at the comparatively in
significant cause there was for the excite
ment that prevailed last week have become
disguised with their fears, and are now busily
engaged in denying that they participated in
the panic! Indeed it does seem astonishing
that Sir deaths, attended with more or less
symptoms of cholera, in population, too, of
near thousand inhabitants, should have pro-
duced such profound sensation. But such
things will happen sometimes. We have Of
ten read of armies becoming thus affected.
There are n thousand and one false and
silly reports circulating through the country.
But when the truth comes out that only sir
deaths accompanied with anything like chole-
IA symptoms have occurred in this place, peo-
pie will be led to exclaim, "behold what n
great fire little spark kindeth ~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

1.-THE PosT,"--Ths paper now has a
weekly circulation of twelve hundred copies,
is issued every Friday morning, and affords
the best and most reliable medium for ad-
vertising. The mail facilities at this point
are such that we are enabled to get the paper
into all the adjoining counties the same day
1t is published, so that all subscribers are
poSted at the earliest hour. Advertisers will
best consult their interest by availing them
selves of our columns.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

!Sy" In New Orleans large numbers Of
citizens are acting upon recent discovery by
celebrated French physician, CDR. Burq,)
whereby cholera, it is said, Is prevented, by
wearing band of sheet copper three inches
wide and six inches long around the neck, or
on the arm as bracelets. Dr. Burg has, by
investigation, discovered the fact that all
workers in copper, &C., are always free from
cholera. 1t is n simple thing, and may be
tried Mt little expense.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

.Y- 1t is claimed that gold has been dis.
covered in Richmond county, Ohio. A gen.
tleman from the gold district showed the edi-
tor of the Sandusky Register some spcci-
mems of the shining ore, lately taken out of
the gulches near Belevlle, which, it is said,
have every appearance of being pure gold,
and it is so pronounced by scientific persons
who have examined it. The quantities taken
out are small-$5 worth having been taken
out by two persons inone day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

sI- Michigan is entitled to the honor of
being the first State in the Union offering the
student from all portions OF the United States
complete courses of collegiate instruction free
of charge. The income from her University
fund is now about $4,000 per annum, and is
increasing. Ample buildings have been erect
ed at Ann Arbor for the Medical and Literary
Colleges, town remarkable for its health
and cheapness of living.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

FEARFUL MoRTALITY-Th Danville Reg
lister states that dysentery has been prevailing
to an alarming extent in the neighborhood of
Leaksville, N. C., within the past few weeks.
In one family, three out of five children died
of it. In another, its ravages were more fatal
still, sweeping off some ten of its members in
rapid succession. In Leaksvile, a few Sab
baths ago, the cloth for 25 shrouds were sold
in one day. In the upper edge of Pittsylva-
mia, the country has been scourged with this
disease, to an extent but little inferior.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28
NFw YORK, July 10,

A cowhlding and revolver encounter oc-
Cured yesterday between Meagher of the
"Citizen" and McMasters of the "Freeman's
Journal" The latter shot the former, slight
ly scratching him on the forehead, when
Meagher knocked McAlasters down and beat
him terribly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

eR-The Gronauts who went up at Hart
ford on the Fourth, say that as they reached
a great height over the river, the water be-
came perfectly pclucid, and they could see
any object in it, even to the bottom, as dis
tinctly as they could look through clear wa
ter in glass.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

n1Y The statement that cholera may be
prevented blythe exclusive use of rain water
is contradicted by the Madison Qa) Banner,
which says: "ln Madison, where cistern water
has always been used exclusively, until with
in the last few years, the cholera has been MS
bad as in any other place of the same size in
the country. We have known many persons
to die of cholera, who have never used any
other than cistern Matern
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

sN- OF dsunion, the celebrated Fisher
Ames once said: al wish it part of the cate
chsm to teach youth that il cannot be. An
Englishmar thinks ne can beat two French
men. wish TO have every American think
the Union so indissouble and integral, that
the corn would not grow, nor the pot boil, if
it should be broken
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

eY" Hope is a great invention. The
world could not cleverly get along without
It. Give young lady a pair of June sky
gloves, love of n bonnet, and breast full
of hope, and she will 60 through life as hap
py rs an infant kitten. For young dimty
and folks generally, hope is the best thing
yet out of shell. you are skeptical catch
mess and see.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

eB- The New York Post says it is I'M
derstood that the Hards intend to make Bron-
son their candidate for tho Presidency, and
that his letter to the Syracuse convention
was written with an eye more to Washing
ton than to an Albany future.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

sB- As many writers have taken the trou-
BILE to define what wife ought to be, we may
as well add our idea on the subject to the
general fund. A wife should be like roast
lamb-tender and nicely dressed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

U. S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR New YORK.
John McKeon has received the appoint
ment of District Attorney for the Southern
District Of New York in the place of Mr..
O'Conner, resigned. The Tribune says it is
good appointment in itself; Mr.. McKcon,
though a strenuous partisan, is a man of emf.
nent ability and high character. But we are
not aware that he is great admirer or n zeal,
Gus supporter of Mr.. Pierce and his behavior
since he has occupied the Presidency. The
appointment is evidently intended to placate
the Adamantines; we shall see how it works
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28
Columns, GA, July "a

A fire occurred in this city at two o'clock
this morning, which destroyed the Variety
Works, involving loss of 100000, On which
we regret to state that there was no insurance.
The Palace Mill, also, caught fire in several
places, but it was eventually saved, having
sustained but trifling injury.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

sB- There is slight improvement in the
Bacon market-see commercial letters next
page. We know the writer's personally, and
our friends having produce to consign can re-
Nv upon their statements,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

"THE GREAT WEsT."-We are requested
to state that F. S. Smith, the agent for the
sale Of the book entitled "The Great West"
will be in Athens on The Cd Monday of Au-
gust, with the work ready for delivery to
Subscribers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

MATRMoNIAL.-The Washington Star of
the 18th understands that "NIajor VIM. II.
Polk to-day espouses Miss Lucy Williams, of
Warrenton, N. C. The on dit is that she is
a great heiress."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

o. We are authorised to state that the
reports which have been put in circulation
that Philadelphia, Monroe county, was sickly,
are base falsehoods. We received letter
from there few days since, from gentle
man in whose word we have every confidence
and which we would have published but I'M
fortunately misplaced It, assuring us that the
town was never moro healthy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

The weather is just as warm as it ought
to be-actually so warm that we can't cross
the street to examine the thermometer
Nash. NewS.
That's nothing, sirs, to what we have had
over this way. On Tuesday, about high
twelve, the mercury in our thermometer rose
so rapidly MS to knock the top out of the ma
chine-two specimens of the genus loafer,
who, in fiji of abstraction, ventured from
the shade, melted right down into soap
grease, and one gentleman of thin habits,
who is MS grim and 0eshless as the ghost of
the "Living Skeleton" and who had not been
able for twenty years to get up the least
sign of perspration, 'swcat great drops'
and "arded the lean earth" as he moved
along. Such weather is dreadful on super
fuous flesh! We are rather social in our feel
ings, and not at all inclined to solitude, but
we are almost tempted to exclaim:
ooh, for lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28
New ORLEANS, July 90

The U. S. Mail Steam Ship Crescent City
has arrived at New Orleans from New York
ria Havana, which latter port she left on the
10Th inst. The advices from Cuba by this
arrival, are unimportant.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

" The New Hampshire Legislature, be-
fore its final adjournment on the 18th inst,
passed acts to prevent fraudulent issues Of
stock in banks, railroads and other companies;
making cities and towns liable for damages
done by mobs and riots; and empowering
married women to make testamentary dispo-
sition of their estates.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

icy" We have been shown head of rye
from the plantation of J. Hamilton, Esq,
McMiun county, measuring seven inches
and half in length, and containing ono hun
drcd and four well.formed grains,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

~ We learn from our exchanges that
the French Empress is about to bless her
husband and the French people with one OF
those costly favors which have made glad the
hearts of the English people annually since
the importation of Prince Albert.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

eY Susan Ann Hubbard, alias Smith, has
been arrested at Brooklyn for marrying more
men than the law allows.
Glad of it. Mrs. "Susan Ann" wanted a
little "too much of good thing"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

gB1 The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Pennsylvania says he learns
from good authority, that the President will
veto the River and Harbor bill as it passed
the House. The Pennsylvania is in high
favor with the administration, and its cores
pendent foreshadows, probably, the determi-
nation of the President.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28

g5y- When young man vainly boosted in
the theatre, and said, 81 am wise for | have
conversed with many wise men" Epictetus
made answer, 81 with many rich men yet am
not rich"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28
NEW YoRK. July 90.

The Steamship Franklin is total loss, Her
cargo is valued at n million and half.
The Tribune says, a treaty has been con-
cluded for the annexation of the Sandwich
Islands