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He denies our statement that at q cer-
tain time Catholic Maryland was the only
place where religious toleration was prac-
ticed. We will give our authority. Our
readers are Of course aware that Calvert.
Lord Baltimore and the Proprietary are
the same person.
alt is certainly very honorable to the
liberalty and public spirit OF THE pRopR1E-
TARY that he should have introduced into
his fundamental policy the doctrine Of
Christian sects. (for he does not appear TO
have gone further,) end have thus given
the earliest example Of a legislator inviting
his subjects TO the free indulgence Of re-.
ligious opinion. This was anterior to the
settlement of Rhode Island, and therefore
merits the enviable rank OF being the frs,
recognition among the colonists of the
glorious end indeieasible rights of con.
science"-Siory's Com. on Constitution,
p. 1. ch. 9, sec. toe.
"Calvert deserves to be ranked among
the most wise and benevolent lswgivers OF
all ages. He was the first in the history
Of the Christian world to seek for religious
security and peace by the practice OF JUS
tice, and not by the exercise of power; to
plan the establishment of popular ins,itu.
tions with the enjoyment of liberty Of con-
science; to advance the career of civil.
cation by recognizing the rightful equality
of all Christian sects! The asylum OF
Papists was the spot where, in remote
corner OF the world. on the banks of rv.
ers which as yet had hardly been explored;
the mild torbearance Of a proprietary
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

THE RUSSIAN SU BMARTNE SHELL.-lt is sta
ted that the inventer of the internal Subma.
rine machines, said to be in the possession Of
the Emperor of Russia, by which ships can
be blown up through the agency of the elec
tive wire, is Frenchman, and that when he
communicated his invention to the Gar, he
expressly stipulated that in case Of war be-
tween France and Russia, he should be at
liberty to give his own country the benefit
of the discovery. 1t is further stated that on
recent occasion, this gentleman was receiv.
ed at the Ministry of Marine, and in the
presence of NJ. Ducos and board Of naval
officers, explained the fearful means Of de-
struction which he claims to have originated.
The board, incredulous at first, closely ex-
amined the matter, and in the end were much
struck by the demonstration, and little
alarmed. Sir Charles Napier, on the admission
of the inventor, was already prepared for
what he might have to encounter. A tele.
graphic despatch was Immediately sent to
warn Admiral Parseval Deschcnes.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05
TERMS

THE POST is published every Friday at
81 per year, payable in advance, or SO, if pay
uent Is delayed until the expiration OF the
year.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be charged 81 pei
square of IL lines, or less, for the first inser
tion, and 25 cents for each continuance. A
liberal deduction made to those who advertise
by the year. Persons sending advertisements
must mark the number Of times they desire
them inserted, or they will continue until for
bid and charged accordingly.
For announcing the names Of candidates fol
Office, SS, CASH. ~.
JOB WORK, such as Pamphlets Minutes, Cir
Sulars, Cards, Blanks, IIandbills, de-, will be
executed in neat and workmanlke manner
at short notice, and on reasonable terms.
All letters addressed to the Proprietor, post
paid, will be promptly attended to-.
Persons at distance sending lis the names
of four solvent subscribers, will be entitled to
. fifth copy gratiA g.,,
No communication inserted unless accom-
panied by the name of the author.
rE Office on Main street, next door to the
old Jackson Hotel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

0rA Nebraska Emigration Convention,
which was held in Worcester, Mass, on the
18th instant, of persons favorable to the es.
tablishment of colony or colonies OF New
England men in the territory Of Nebraska,
was attended by about fifty delegates repre-
ssntiug some twenty towns in Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Connecticut. Resolutions
were passed commencing the enterprise, and
pledging to oppose the introduction of slave
nv into the territory.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

~Tears Of compassion are like dew drops
falling from roses upon tho bosom of the
earth"
Spanish shillings and ten-penny pieces fall
ing from pockets, are much more efficacious
than all the clears Of compassion" that ever
fell in this world. The latter are but the
smoke Of benevolence; the former the fire.
Tears don't pass current at the bakers shop.
SYou can't feed capons so."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

~ The Giraffe tells Of young lass who
went to camp-meeting and came back full
Of the revival which they had, and who did
nothing for the following week but sing,
"Shout, shout, we're gaining ground.'
She had the tune so pat, that all she said
was but continuation Of that song, and not
unfrequently the rhyme was not long for the
tune. Old JOlcr slipped in md took bone
off the table, and just rs he was making for
the door, she sung out
"If you don't 60 out I'll knock you down,
Halle. haleluja,
You nasty sinking, Aop-cared houud,
U, glory Hallelujar!"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

SALERATUs-What is alcratus!-Woo,
is burned to ashes; ashes nrc lixiva,ed icy
is tho result Ley is evaporated by boiling
black salts is the resdum. The salts under
90 publication by fire, and the potash Oi
commerce i, obtained. By another process
we change potash into pcarlash.
Now put these in sacks, and place them
over dis,illery wash tub, where the iermen-
tation evolves carbonic acid gas and the pearl
asl, absorbs and renders it solid the product
being heavier, dryer, and whittier than the
pearlash. 1t is now saleratus.
How much salts of Icy and carbonic acid
can human stomach bear and remain healthy
is a question for saleratus eaters.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

WItis stated that Commodore Newton
has communicated to the government the
important fact, which had come to his knowl.
edge at Havana from a source he deemed
perfectly reliable, that the Captain-Gencral
has in possession royal decree, authorizing
him at any moment ho may deem proper, to
emancipate all the slaves in the Island. This
is the measure of defence which has been
hinted at by English and French papers, and
is intended to cary out the threat that Cuba
must be Spanish, or else second Hayti.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05
Major GRAHAM. DAN'L WEBSTER.

A New METHOD OF FIRING GUSpowDER
UNDER WATER.-At a meeting Of the Royal
Institution, January Goth, Prof. Faraday re-
ferred to the following experiment: Some
copper wire had been covered with sulphu-
retted gutta percha, and after some months
it was found that n film of sulphuret Of cop.
per had formed between the metal and the
envelope. When half the gutta purcha was
cut away in any spot, and then the wire re-
moved for about quarter of an inch, so that
the only conducting medium was the thin
film of sulphurct adhcring to the remaining
gutta percha, it was found that an intensity
battery would cause this film to enter into
intense ignition and fire gunpowder with the
utmost case. The experiment was shown in
the lecture room of firing gunpowder ut the
end Of eight miles Of wire; and Mr.. Faraday
stated that he had seen it fired by this means
through one hundred miles Of covered wire
immersed in canal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

~ Among the remarkable changes in
the Post Office system Of the country is the
largely increased transportation of the mails
by rail roads. Instead Of 4,327, 400 miles, as
in the fiscal year ls47-s, the transportation
of mails by railroad last year was no less
than l2,ss9,7O5 miles. The changes are OBJ
servable mostly in New York, Ohio, and
Michigan. The former having increased from
735,o76 miles in ls47-s to 20 3OO6,95s miles
in the year 1923; and in Michigan from
l49,79O miles to 6O2,36s in the same period;
and in Ohio from 9692s miles to 1926, 1882
miles.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

The Religious Anniversaries will soon
commence in New York. The pecuniary con-
dition of the various societies is said to be of
very satisfactory character. Ten Of them
show an aggregate Of contributions amount
ing to 81 ,399,2s2, which is an increase of
Sl26,9l6 over last year. The receipts Of the
American Tract Society alone reach S4l4,l59,
being an increase of $29,532; and those Of
the American Bible Society amount to $685..
600; increase S48,458.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

The CHANCES OF WAR.-Tho Life Insu.
rance Companies in England have calculated
the chances of being killed or wounded in the
battle and fixed the rates of insurance. A
party may be insured against "dcath by acci-
dent or violence from any cause including
death in action, for f3 3s, on the flOO per
annum; and if to include payment in case Of
loss of limb of half the sum insured, and
payable on death, f3 3s. per cent extra" It
would seem, from these terms, that a man is
twice as likely to lose his leg as he is to lose
his head, probably because he has two legs
and only one head.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05
t~The Hon, Luther Severence, of Maine

The Hon. Luther Severence, of Maine,
late Commissioner at the Sandwich Islands,
has returned to his home, afflicted with an
incurable cancer; which, it is said, has already
eaten away his lower lip and chin and is ex.
tending among the glands of the throat,
where the flesh is rotted out and requires
constant dressing. lie is actually being eat
en- up alive. Mr.. 8. was formerly highly
respectable editor of a newspaper,and mem.
ber of Congress from Maine.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05
LEY There died recently at the residen

eB- There died recently at the residence
of his son, in Miami county, Indiana, VIM.
Martingalc, aged one hundred years, eleven
months and sixteen days. The deceased had,
at his death, living in Indiana, children, grand
children, great-grand children, and great
great-grand children, there being five genera
tons of the family living at the same timo.
The offspring of the deceased, at the time
of his death, counting the dead and living,
amounted to over two thousand persons.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

W- Two prisoners, handcuffed and chain.
cd together, made their escape from the cars,
on their way to the Auburn, New York,
Pcnitentiary. One of them feigned sickness,
and desired to be taken to the PLATFORM
When there, ard the train was going thirty
miles per hour, they threw themselves Oft.
Before the train could be stopped and the
officers get back. they had disappeared, and
could not be found. It was daring, but
successful feat.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

CURsING A RArLROAD.-The Parkcrsburg
Gazette, informs US that some Of the coE-
tractors operating upon the line of the North
western Railroad, having declined to collect
for the Catholic Priest in that ncshborhood,
the Peter.pcncc due him from tho hands
working on the road, his reverence formally
cursed their section, forbade Catholics to
work thereon, under severe penalties, and
summoned the church to enforce his behest.
Eaton's Section is one Of those cursed af.
ter this fashion; so of course those at work
there arc under ban. Forgetting or disre.
garding the fact, the friends Of laborer late.
ly killed on that section, brought him near to
town for interment in the Catholic Cemetry
-cousecrated ground. The Priest refused
the corpse the right Of burial in the church
grounds, and after some war!ike demonstra-
tions against his Reverence, which nearly re-
suited in fray, the friends of the deceased
wcro forced to forego the interment of the
dead in consecratcd ground and buried him
without the enclosure.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

SESsIBLE-The st. Louis (Mo.) Republ!'
can in noticing the intention of u friend to IS
sue new weekly paper in that State ut one
dollar per annum, makes the following sensl.
Bile remarks:
ave may be allowed to say that the price
is the only thing about the proposed paper
that we object to. 1t is not living price,
and the more subscribers paper gets ut this
rate, the poorer the proprietor is likely to be
in the end. 1t will not nett more than or l0
cts. profit on years subscription,and this on
the suppositon that all who subscribe pay up
promptly, which is never the case. Why has
it come necessary to cheaper the value OF
printers labor, when every other occupation
Is conducted so us to have substantial, tixed
proft-and prices are to 60 up, instead Of
being put down!-WhO is there that work rs
many hours, or as increasingly, or so much
for the benefit Of the community, and OF every
valuable public and private enterprise! Who
is called upon to make MS many sacratices of
time, labor and convenience! Who so often
takes the lead in all just, noble and phiIan.
thropic efforts and this from an honest and
correct impulse, and without the hope or ex-
pectation ofreward! And yet, with n prop
er conception of the important relation
which they hold to the public, they have been
going on, from year, to cheaper the publ.
cation of newspapers, and Of course to les.
sen their efficiency, until they have placed
the subscription at price which leaves no
margin for profit, or the support of the es.
tablishment. They may continue to make Il
living, for they seem to have, in too many in
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

LrBERALsM.-Mr. Wheeler presented a
pctition from a number of inhabitants of
Richland County, praying that tho Legisla-
ture Of Wisconsin would adjourn over on the
2sth JAM, out of respect to the memory Of
Thomas Paine. On motion it was referred
to tho committee on charitable and religious
institutions.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

o. A dispatch from Buffalo says that n
terrible riot occurred at Saginaw on Friday.
Several hundred persons turned out, in def
ance Of law, and attempted to rescue several
prisoners who were in Jail. The Sheriff and
his posse attempted to sustain the law, and
in doing so the Sheriff was killed. Several
others badly wounded. The prisoners were
not released,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

The Delaware State Journal says much
anxiety is felt for the peach crop, as tho trees
were in full bloom when the late snow storm
was experienced. The most reliable accounts
from Ohio represent the peach and sppls
crop as unharmed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

One of the happicst hymcncal epigrams
tha, We ever remember, is the following up
on a late marriage-Married, in Pine Grove,
Alabama, Mr.. Jonas Pillow TO Miss Sarah
Scripture, both Of that place.
Some keep the Scripture for show
Lcttcred and gilt, on their bureau-
And some to dust and moths degrade it;
But Jonas took the wiser part
lie pressed the Scripture to his heart
And even on his pillow laid it."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

INTERESTING MEMoRIAL.-People are in the
habit of expressing surprise at any cccentrici-
ty in the weather; such, for instance, MS the
heavy snow storm of day before yesterday.
The annexed note, handed to us by friend,
while it will remind our readers Of similar
meteorological incident five years ago, pre-
sents an interesting memorial Of lamented
statesman, who hardly ever penncd an ordi.
nary note without conveying some fact or
idea impressive and instructive :-NaL Int.,
18Th inst.
Thursday Morning, April 10, ls49.
My Dear Sir received your note last
evening. The snow storm will delay our de-
parture for Norfolk, and shall be happy to
see Gen. Mason any time to-day.
The 10th Of April, ITS, was so hot day
that many British soldiers, on their return
from Concord fight" fell down on the march,
quito overcome, and othars lolled tho tongue
like over.heated cattle and dogs. Here we
are on the same day, four degrees further
south, in the midst of u snow storm.
Yours, truly,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

eB- Private letters by the Asia, from ship.
ping houses at Liverpool and Havre, bid US
expect large immigration the coming sum-
mer. The Germans, it is said, will be very
numerous. Many Of the better classes, ap.
prehensive of troublous times at home, are
coming to settle out West; and to the West,
it is said, they will be great accession. The
Irish immigration will bo extensive, but the
enlistments for the war will absorb all the
sable bodied men" it is feared. The immi-
grafton from Scotland is also expected to be
heavy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

~ Chicago is the great central point OF
business in the northwest. In twenty years
the place has grown to be great city, and is
now progressing SO fast that house rents are
higher than in New York. She has twenty.
four track railroads, with thirty-seven branch
CO, and forty.six trains Of cars leave and enter
the city daily.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

The voters of Chicago, by n majority Of
200 votes, have decided in favor of construct
ing Tunnel under the river. tits supposed
the Tunnel will answer the purpose of those
of the present bridges. The bridges cost
$4,000 each, and tho expense of repairs and
tenders for 1853 was about $4,000 each. 1t
is estimated that the Tunnel will prove a
saving of money to the city in ten years, be.
sides doing away with the bridge nuisance.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

~" The following sentence, passed upon
an old soakcr by Judge Pratt, reminds us
forcbly Of the lamented Dicky Ricker's meth,
cd of doing business :-"Doty, how old are
you" "Fifty-tlrec, your honor" "Doty, the
enormity of your offence demands that you
be sentenced to the State Prison for twenty
years. But, Doty, we are reminded by the
wolds of Holy Writ, that the days of man. S
years are three score years and ten. shall
therefore, IN clemency towards you, and in
being guided by the scriptural limit of human
life, sentence you to the State Prison for only
seventeen years." Doty was almost over.
whelmcd with 4 sense of his deep obligation
to the clemency of tho Judge.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

W At the celebrated clock maLufactory
in Connecticut, $50 men are employed, and
the clocks arc manufactured at the rate Of
600 day. Each clock passes through about
60 different hands. More than half the clocks
made in Connecticut are sent to Europe.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05
THE POST.
Athens, Friday. May 5, 1854.
WASHINGTON, April

WAsHiseToN, April %
The Senate ratified on Tuesday the Mex
ican Gadsdeu Treaty with the amendments.
The Sloo grant is protected. $lO,oOo,OoC
is the sum to be paid Mexico.
The Garay claim has been thrown out.
Col. Benton spoke for two hours in the
u. s. House of Representatives, on Tuesday,
apainst the Nebraska and Kansas bill.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

W In relation to the proposed emanci.
patton of slaves in Venezuela, it is stated
that there are only about 10000, the greater
part of them being old. Their average val.
ue will not exceed 5000, which gives total
of two millions dollars. The proposition of
the President for the abolition of slavery was
received by Congress with acclamations, as
he himself had set the example by freeing
all his own slaves. They resolved upon
such method of indemnifying the slave
owners that in the three years all their claims
will be satisfied.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

wT The Hon. Thomas H. Benton notifies
his friends and constituents in the city Of St.
Louis,ths he will not receive letters through
the St. Louis Post Office because an anti.
Benton man 10 Postmaster. He tells his
correspondents to use Adams e. Cos Ex.
press.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

w The Washington National Inteligen
cor states that there is in that city no sucl
Bank as the "Nletropoliton Bank" nor an,
one nearly in name to it, except the ole
"Bank of the Metropolis" established forty
years ago.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

DELAwARE.-The Taverukcepcrs intend,
IN the event of the passage of the Maine
Law in this State, to raise the price of meals,
not permit the country people to bring their
own blankets and sleep on the floor, but
charge for bed; nor to feed their horses in the
tavern yards with their own oats, but charge
for NIL
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

SUPERSTITION OF THE TuRKs.-English
cotton shirts, on which the concise contents
of the Koran are roughly printed in blue, are
now selling in the Turkish camp. They are
eagerly bought up at tcnfold their value, as
the Turkish soldiers attach to those tails
manic extracts the gift Of making the wearer
invulnerable in battle.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

WIf plump, juicy man, weighing one
hundred lbs. were squeezed flat under hy.
draulic press, seventy-five pounds Of wateI
would run out, and only twenty-five pounds
of dry residue would remain. Now, such an
experiment would not be very agreeable
especially if the man was alive when put
under the press; but the fact is interesting, as
showing US of what stuff we are made,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

eW, Mr.. G. Moore, late assistant editor
of the New York Courier and Enquirer, con.
tradicts the report that he is no more. II
seems he tainted in the street and was re.
ported "dead" by the news writer's. lie mp.
pcals from the Coroner,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

CURE FOR CoSsUMrTios.-Dr. Simpson, of
Edinburgh, acting upon hint recently thrown
out in Chambers Journal, has been working
wonders with consumption patients, BY hav.
ing them well rubbed with warm olive oil.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

W A huge anchor, lying high and dry
on hill three hundred feet high and one
thousand feet from the sea, at Sinope, fear.
fully records the terrific explosion of one un-
fortunate ship, while tho half finished frame
work of a new Turkish corvette on the stocks,
which escaped all damage during and after
the action, forms strange contrast with all
this havoc and ruin.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

B- A day or two since, during the pre-.
valence Of heavy gale, water spout form.
I'd in the Delaware, short distance below
Gloucester, N. j., the top of which was car.
ried over the land towards Red Bank. A
short distance over the land it broke, and
quite number of fish, it is said, were scat.
tered over the ground.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-05-05

eV- Tall ing comes natural to women.
We suppose it is born in the dcars. While
man runs clear ashore for words, and has no.
thing more to say than stone post, woman
keeps up flow of verbals rs fast and as
wide as Niagara. There is no more end to
a woman's tongue than there is to a cart.
wheel.