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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10
AN AppARrrIos.-The editors of the Nasl

AN APPARITIoN.-The editors of the Nash
vile News are amusing their readers with a
Cock-lane story of ghost which is to be
seen night after night near lonely and de-
serted building in the neighborhood of that
city. 1t is said to be something resembling
woman in state of nudity. We are not
very timd nor overburdened with modesty,
but if we were to meet with female
ghost in TINT sort Of an undress, and the
night was very dark, we think it likely we
would travel. We give portion of the ac-
count in the News with the remark, that whe-
Their ghost or not-spirit of darkness, or IN
angel of light, bringing watts from heaven
or blasts from the other place-it ought to
make its toilette as it is very thoughtless to
leave its petticoats, &C., at home when STEP
ping out to ''visit the pale glmpses of the
moon"-especially when bachelor editors are
watching about How that News man must
have been frightened. But here's the ver-
sion: r.f. ..t.
SIN company with number of our citizens,
we last night visited this place of haunted
fame, for the purpose of being convinced as
to the truth or falsehood of these strange re-
ports Detachments Of the party approached
the house in four different directions, so that
there could be no egress undiscovered. AT
ter entering the ghostly establishment, can
dies were lighted, and the parties made
thorough investigation of the premises, but
discovered nothing more mysterious than a
few rats nests and an old hen with family
of juvenile chickens under her motherly care.
The lights were eytingushed and the party
retired from the house, took positions at va
rious points in the yard, and patiently waited
for what might transpre. We were not kept
long in suspense; the apparition appeared in
the usual manner-the figure of woman
destitute of clothing. II answered no ques.
tons, but shook its head and hand in n
frightful and forbidding way, then suddenly
disappeared, how and where we know not
The house was again searched, but with no
better luck than before We returned to the
city satisfied that we had seen something for
the existence and appearance of which we
were unable to account"
After all, now, we suspect that "lonely
house" is one of the places where the rascal
ly Know Nothngs meet, and the story about
the naked woman strap TO catch unwary
democrats" Sound the tocsin, Eastman;
beat the tomtom, and wake the fuzzyguzzy,
least some of "the faithful" be taken in and
done for!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10
s5y- The New York Herald stotos ,b,,

~ The New York Herald states that
during this year twenty homicdes have been
committed in that city. This does not speak
well for the enlightenment of the nineteenth
century, that we hear so much about in the
churches, religious anniversaries, missionary
meetings, lecture rooms, newspapers, and so
forth. The primary cause of nearly all these
murders has been Dad rum, and thousand
people selling without license.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

TIE STATE MADE BY iEsEcTs.-It appears
that the State of Florida lies on series of
arches of great magnitude above the chan
ncls of innumerable rivers and the gurgling
of springs and subterranean creeks. There
are two thousand mineral and thermal springs
in Florida. Professor Agassiz says that
Florida ows its existence to the coral worB
and other marine Gmmdlcuia and that those
wonderful little architects spent over 100000
years in laying its foundation and building
il I'D.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

INFORMATION WANTED-The Warrenton,
N. c., News, says: orr o. Hancock Jour-
neyman Printer, who left Warrenton, N. c.,
in July 1853. lie is about FIVE feet six inches
high, medium size, has a scar on his face, and
has but one eye. He was last heard of in
Wilmington, N. c. Any information con-
corning him will be thankfully received at
this Office.
Papers throughout the South will confer
favor on distressed mother by copying the
above notice.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

tB- Hon. Geo. NJ. Dallas is out in letter,
giving in his adhesion to movement in Penn
sylvania, (centering in Philadelphia to form
constitutional party"-that is to say, n
party pledged TO maintain the Federal Consti-
tuition, as paramount to oil other isms, of a
local or national character. The new party
PROCESSES TO have in its embrace Wings rs
well MS Democrats. The Ex. ". p. bids them
God speed, and tells them they have not or
panized moment too soon, seeing the pow
erfal elements of sectionalism and disunion
that are now at work.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

tS Among the many ingenious and labor
saving machines on exhibition at the New
York State Fair is one invented by gentle
man from Connecticut, who says that when it
is wound up and set in motion, it will chase
hog over ten acre LOT, catch, yoke, and ring
him, or. by a slight change of gearing, it will
chop him into sausages, work his bristles into
shoe brushes, and manufacture his tail into
corkserews all in the twinkling of bed post.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

THE LoUDos STAGE LNE.-An article in
the last Knoxville Wing informs us that
complaints are being made in every quarter
against the Company who own the line of
daily coaches between Loudon and Knox
vile," because the fare is not rs low as it was
some time ago, and the editor of the Wing,
himself, expresses the opinion that it is too
high. Let us see whether there is really any
ground for these complaints. At one time,
as charged, the fare was $500, which barely
paid;-Corn could then be had at from two
shillings to 40 cents per bushel, and hay ut
from 37i to so cents per 100 lbs,-delivered
ut the stands. The fare is now $500 be-
tween Loudon and Knoxville;-Corn is now
difficult to get at 10 cents per bushel, and
hay costs 81 90 per 100 lbs, and the stage
contractors sometimes have to haul it eight
or ten miles at that. A proportionate adj
vance has taken place in the price of oats
and fodder. Formerly farmers on the road
would keep the teams at from $4,000 to
$4,000 per year; now they refuse to take
them at $4,000 per year. Formerly good
drivers were readily obtained at from $1,000
to $500 per month; now the contractors
have to pay them $500 per month"; And
so of blacksmith work, repair Of coaches, and
all the expenses incident TO keeping up the
line. This plain statement Of facts is more
than ample to show that the stage contrac-
tors were not only justifiable in advancing the
fare, but compelled to do so or incur heavy
pccuniary loss; and if the "travelling public"
would look at the matter in business light,
it would be less disposed to grumbe. But
selfshncss makes US all sensitive about our
own pockets, forgetting that our neighbors
have pockets, too. Every thing else has gone
up, and why not stage fare! The advance in
the latter has not been in proportion to the
advance in all items of expenditure necessary
to keep up the line; and passengers certainly
do not expect to be carried at the same rates
now MS when every thing entering into the
maintenance Oh tue iile WIS nuHuItu per
cent cheaper than at present However, as
the Wing says, it's Stree thing"-people are
not obliged to stake the stage" if they think
the fare is too high. This is free, as well
as a fast, couniry--if one hasn't shoes he en-
joys the privilege to 60 barefoot, and those
who think the coach fare extortionate have
full liberty to seek some other mode Of con-
veyance, or to tramp, as we used to do when
VIC hadn't money to pay for riding, or were
in too great hurry to swat for the wagon"
There is no obligation to avail themselves of
the facilities offered by the stage line, any
more than there is for the contractors to
"work for nothing and find themselves" AS
TO the steamboats, not being able to run, the
stage contractors are not chargable with that
tho same cause that produced the scarcity
of grain and provendcr, and the consequent
asd necessary advance in the price Of these
and Of stage fare, dried up the river and laid
by the boats. We shall have to 60 back to
"first principles" to reach that branch of the
case.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10
WASHINGTON. Nov. Z

The Union of this morning publishes an
official proclamation confirming the conven-
ton between the United States and Russia
perpetuating the principle of the right of
neutrals at sea. The convention provides
that free ships make free goods-that the
property of neutrals on board the enemy's
vessels is not subject 10 confscation unless
con.raband of war.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

0FA special despatch to the N. Y. Tri-
bune, dated New Orleans the goth ult., says.
81 learn from head quarters that the new
Cuba expedition, which was to have left the
States under command of Gen. Quitman, has
failed, and there is no probability of future
hope or success. | have been promised BY
one of the "head men," n full history of the
present organization, the names of the com
mttee here, the amounts subscribed and the
names of the subscribers, as also the names of
parties in your city who have been connected
with the movement. All of the facts which
are of any public interest will be forwarded to
you for publication. The gentleman from
whom have obtained this information in
forms me that one of the members of the
grand jury who pretended to investigate the
truth of the rumors of ilibuster expedition,
was the Recording Secretary of the Cuba
Committee"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

FLoyR AND Wharf.-The Albany, (N.Y.)
Argus, abiding TO the fact that the Canal
navigation will continue only few weeks
.onger, says that the receipts of -four are over
of in wheat is equal to 100000 barrels Of
flour. As an offset, however, to this, the re-
ceipts of corn show an increase over last year
of over 100000 of bushels, and will proba-
bly, continue increasing until the close of the
season. No doubt more wheat and flour will
find its way to market via. canal, during the
remaining few weeks of navigation, than has
reached tide-water in double that length of
time
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

regret to learn, says the Mobile Tribune of
the lsi inst, that the Yellow Fever has broke
out in Selma. Our information comes from
a gentleman who came passenger in the
steamer Lucy Bell, arrived yesterday from the
Alabama river. The greatest panic prevailed,
and all who could, were leaving for the coun-
thy. One train of ears took of more than
two hundred, for Montevallo and other points
on the Railroad. One case occurred on Fri
day and three on Saturday. The people, it
is said were so badly frightened that it was
with extreme difficulty any one could DO got
TO act as nurse.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

gy3 A liquor dealer in Worcester, Mass.
charged with violating the law, sent 80 bill
to the judge in order TO buy him off-for
which cheap estimation of the ermine he was
sent to the house Of correction for three days!
The man must have dealt in three cent nip
pers who could thus deliberately expires be-
lief that an honorable judge could not with.
stand two dollar temptation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10
FROM KANSAS TERRIToRY.

We acknowledge the receipt of the "Her-
aid of Freedom" published at Wakarusa,
Kansas Territory. 1t is large sized sheet
embracing thirty-two columns, and the me-
chanical execution is superior to that display
ed in majority of the papers of this State.
The "Herald of Freedom" is Free Soil all
over, and is established, rs its editor boldly
and frankly declares in his salutatOry address,
to contend and combat against the admission
of any more slave territory into the Union.
He formerly published paper at COnneauts-
vile, Pa, and declared his intention while the
Kansas-Nebraska bill was pending in Con-
gress, in the event Of its passage, to remove
to Kansas for the purpose now being carried
out. We quote from, what he then said to
show our readers the spirit that is animating
very large proportion of the emigration
row pouring into that vast region, the late
Legislation about which the southern people
were asked to believe would rebound largely
to the advantage of the South. He says, in
the event of certain contingencies, one of
which was the inducing one hundred families
of Free Sellers TO emigrate with him
"'rhen we will start with our household
gods for some locality on the eastern Dor
ders of Kansas Territory, and contribute our
humble influence in beating back the advanc-
ing hordes of southern chivalry and their
human chattels;;' and with the aid of the
Press will invite the free sons Of the North
to contribute their share IN building up an
empire there which shall be sacred to Free
dom. Slarery shall neper be permitted to ex-
tend its blighting influence over the western
valley of the Missouri and its tributaries"
He now says
GAIL the conditions included in the forego-
ing paragraph have been literally fulfilled,
and in accordance with that resolve the Her
aid of Freedom is now established in this ter
ritory."
Such is the spirit That animates a very
large proportion of the population pouring
into the territory opened by the act of last
Congress, heralded specially as a Southern
measure, and believed TO be such by ma
jority of the South. Itmay turn outatlast that
JNo. BELL was right. The fruit was guided
and looked pleasant to the eye, but we fear
will turn to bitter ashes in the mouth.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

~ 1t is sight, visiting some of the stu
pendous curing establishments of st. Louis,
to observe the gigantic scale on which they
are carried on, and the new and curious con-
trivances employed in the process, by which
n pig is killed, scaded, cut up, and reposing
in salt, in the twinkling Of an eye, so that the
echoes of his last grunt have not well died
away ere he is transmitted to bacon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

For KAYsAs.-The parties already sent out
by the New York Kansas League have
amounted altogether 10 about 600 or 700
persons, and among them have been a number
of families. One thousand or more are pre-
pairing to follow this month"; many of whom
belong to the American settlement Company,
whose leaders went about three weeks since
to choose location, occupy n large tract, and
lay out city. o.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

s1y- Epscopalianism is said to be making
Roadway against Romanism in Ireland. The
Bishop of Dromore reports an increase in his
diocese Of 1000 attendants at church, 700
COMMITMENTS, and $4,000 Sunday scholars.
His cathedral, said to have been built by
Bishop Jeremy Taylor, has lately been rosto-
red at considerable expense. II is proposed
TO erect n monument TO that distinguished
prelate and theologian, who is buried in this
cathedral
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

az The hotel keepers in Washington
have demonstrated TO the Aldermen against
the liquor law which goes into effect on the
first OF November The Inteligencer says:
awe are not advised of the ground taken by
them, but we should suppose that n hotel in
Washington without authority to sell liquor
would be something like mill without water
the wheels can scarcely be kept in motion"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

CUBA.-A letter in the New York Times
from Havana, says:
Three cargoes Of negroes have beeu recent
" landed upon the Island of Cuba-two on
the south aud one on the north side-about
1850 in all. Two Of the vessels burned
one (Spanish) got TO sea without observation,
for another part OF The island.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

sW Messrs. McGhee g. Niles advertise q
large amount of valuable property for sale in
Knoxville. The rapidly increasing Importance
of Knoxville makes it a very desirable place
for investment The advertisement appears
on the next page.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

OF We had the pleasure of call on
Thursday from friend Patterson, Of the King
ston Gazetteer. We are pleased to learn that
the Gazetteer is in healthy condition, and to
state that the editor looks reasonably well for
a Bachelor. Think of the long, cold nights
just approaching, friend, and "hurry up the
cakes" and other fxens.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

MoNTGomERY.-The Montgomery Journal
of yesterday, says that there is no more sick
ness in that city now than there has been at
the same date for previous years. If there
are any new cases Of Yellow Fever 10 report,
the Journal has not heard of them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

ISS' How true it is of too many preachers,
that which Sidney Smith says of Kennel,
"that he is too apt to put on the appearance
of holy bully, as if he could carry his point
against nfdelity by big words and strong
abuse, and kick and cuff men into christians"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

"DASDRIDGE uERALD."-The first num-
Der of the "Herad," cambridge, Tenn, has
been received. 1t is of imperial size, well
printed, and looks rs neat as n new pin. It's
columns evince ability and judgment on the
part of the editor; and we hope the "Herald"
will receive large and substantial support.
S. RAMsEY-Editor and Proprietor. Terms,
$500 year in advance.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

~ The Free Democrat State Convention
Of New Hampshire have nominated for Gov
ernor Asa Fowler, Of Concord, formerly an
old line democrat and the law partner of
President Pierce. John p. Hale addressed
the convention.
A dispatch from Fredericton, N. B., an
nounces the defeat of the ministry. Tie re-
ciprocity treaty is now sure to receive confr-
nation by the Legislature,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

s8~ Some ten or twelve freight conduc.
tors on the line from Columbus to Erie, were
dismissed from employment last week. The
cause, the Columbus Statesman understands
is, that they were in the too frequent habit
of constituting themselves silent partners of
the Company, and declaring dividends with
out owning stock
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

~" We saw in one of our daily journals
once the following advertisement-@T Cap
italists-Wanted $500 to go on a spree
References exchanged" We dare say the
wag who wrote it also penned the following
on the back of bank note This is the
last Of five Thousand left me by my dear de-
parted grandmother, one year and half ago.
| wish il had been ten ~
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BosToN. Nov. a

The correspondent of the Atlas from Mar
settles says that the English Consul there has
reliable information of the fearful ravages by
the cholera in Messina. 1t is devastating the
country. Sixteen thousand have already fall
en- out Of a population of forty thousand.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

o. When you see young man who has
hollow feeling about / / o'clock in the fore
noon, and four in the afternoon, which re-
quires "liItle suthin" to carry it of, make
up your mind that unless he drives that insti-
tuition out of town, it will some day carry
him off.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

s5y- There has been a great excitement at
Cincinnati within few, days past, owing to
the failure Of banker named p. b. Manches-
ter. On Monday morning Inst, there was
found posted on the wall of magnificent
building which Manchester had erected,
piece Of foolscap paper on which was written:
"Ths building was erected oy widows tears
and orphans cries."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

dFThe New York Tribune is emptying
the walls of its wrath upon the heads of the
Know Nothings. The Know Nothings must
be against Abolitionism, or Greeley would DO
less vindictive on the subject.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10
New ORLEANS, Nov. 3

Cotton is active at previous rates. The
sales to-day have comprised 10000 bales,
making the total during the week $4,000.
The Banking House of Horace Bean g. Co.,
of New Orleans has failed. Their liabilities
estimated ut 100000.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

COLUMBIA, Nov 4.-The difficulty between
the Post office Department and the South
Carolina Railroad, as to the transportation Of
the mails, has been settled. The mails are
conveyed North and South to-day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

yPA Accounts from the South report the
Yellow Fever as having almost entirely dis
appeared, and the cities once more beginning
to wear business aspect.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

.5y- Jump out of bed the moment you
hear the knock at the door, The man who
hesitates when called is lost. The mind
should be made up in minute, for early ris-
ing is one of those subjects that admit Of no
turning over.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

B At last advices from the East, Sevas-
topol had not been taken, and it was likely
to prove more serious undertaking than the
allied GeperaIs had calculated upon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

FURTHER Accounts ny THE AaABrA.-Se-
bastopol, at the latest accounts from the Cri-
men, was not expected to hold out more than
three days.
The German press indicated IN approach
ing rupture between Austria and Prussia
Great anxiety on the subject was felt al Berlin.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10
s.P, WINS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, NOV. 10. 1854.

EB Persons wishing to purchase valua-
BILE property-Lands and NegrOes-are refer
red TO our advertising columns.
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CHICAGO, November 3.

The passenger train hence for Rock Island
broke the axle of the engine. The train was
thrown off and thirty or forty first class pas
sengers were killed or wounded. The en-
gneer, Brown, had his ribs broken, and about
a dozen were sraded and must die
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cg- A dispatch dated New York the

!9y- A dispatch dated New York the 3lst
ult, says: "The excitement in reference to
the unhealthiness of oysters, is undated. 1t
has operated seriously against the trade and
curtailed the business of vendors. Hundreds
of boat loads are lying Mt the wharves without
being able to find purchasers. A vast number
have spoiled, some of which are carried off by
poor persons and eaten. These are, without
question, unhealthy, and have, doubtless, pro-
duced sickness in many cases. Here we have
market and consumers for almost every
thing, even bid fish and spoiled oysters"
AUGUsTA.--The Board of Health of Au-
gusta report one death by yellow fever for
the 4s hours ending on Monday at o'clock,
p. NJ. As that city was visited by fine
white frost, as well as ice in several places in
the vicinity of the city, on Monday, all danger
from the pestilence which has prevailed there
so violently for some time past, may now be
considered at an end.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

PUBLIC LANDs.-During the last month,
seventy thousand acres of land were
entered at the Land Office in st. Louis under
Mr.. Orr's graduation act of the last Congress.
The most Of it was taken at the BIT price,
The Land Office is now closed, and will be so
until the first of next month, to bring up bu-
siness. Then there will be another rush.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-10

.4s- A modern Psychologist notes the ex.
traordinary fact that, at the dining. table, ev-
cry time a man crooks his elbow his mouth
opens.