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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20
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The PHILADELPHIA FALURE.-The Phia.
delphia Ledger of the 9th inst, speaking OF
the recent failure of Nlessrs. Reed g. Broth.
ers, wholesale clothing merchants, in that
city, says;
The announcement yesterday of the failure
of the dry goods and clothing house of
Messrs. Reed a. Brothers. Market street, for
the sum of about n million of dollars, was the
subject of free conversation and very unre.
served censure in all commercial circles. The
firm, we understand, claims to have an excess
OF liabilities of some three hundred thousand
dollars, and give as an excuse for their sus
pension, the very llimsy and unsatisfactory
pretext that they wish to go into liquidation
and wind up their affairs. We have never
heard ofa failure in Philadelphia characterized
with harsher terms than was that of Reed &
Brothers, yesterday.
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es- A new Waterman on the Columbus
and Xenia Railroad the other night growing
to take nap. and to make sure of hearing
the train when it should come along he laid
his head on the rail and went to sleep. The
Statesman says, "Failing, however, to heat
the cars he was struck by the cow-catcher in
such n manner as to be thrown off the track
and thus saved from an instant and horrible
death. His Senses (what few he had) have
not returned.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20

The VALLEY OF THE MlssIssIPPI.-T
Valley of the Mississippi is yet to contain c
population to the square mile, equal, if not
greater than any other part of the globe, il
there be any truth in the saying, that where
the food is, there viii be the mouths to eat III
Unsurpassed in fertility of soil, even by the
celebrated Valley of the Nile, crossing paral-
lels of latitude from the frozen North to the
sunny South, adapted to every variety Of
American products, from the wheat, corn,
potatoes and lumber Of the North, TO the SUI.
gar, molasses, cotton, oranges and other tro.
pical fruits of the South; stretching from the
inland seas Of the North, to the Gulf of Mexi-
co on the Soutl, bounded by the Alleghanies
on the East, and the Rocky Mountains on the
West, penetrated through its length and
breadth by the mighty Mississippi, and its
thousand tributaries; populated by an ener-
getic, Industrious, intelligent and moral peos
pie, from every part of the globe, whose mum.
bers are swelling like the waves of the ocean,
as they flow in from every direction. 1t is not
strange then, that this mighty valley, with its
future prospects, should command the admis
ration of the world, nor that it should be
looked to, from the old world, as well as from
the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific of our
own nation, ms the seat of an immense inland
commerce, to be carried forward by railways
to the ports and commercial cities of the At
lantic, for transportation to every part of the
world where our enterprise has introduced
our flag.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20

GRAND LODGE OF MAsoNs-AKNUAL ELEc-
TloSs.-The Grand Lodge, recently convened
at Nashville, went iuto the Annual Elections,
with the following result:
John S. Dashiell, of Nashville, Grand
Master
John Frizzell, of Winchester, Deputy G..
Master
c. ID. Venable, of Paris, Senior Grand
Warden.
James A. McKamy, of Maryvile, Junior G.
Warden.
w. II. Horn, of Nashville, Grand Treasurer.
CA. Fuller, of Nashville, Grand Secretary
Rev. DR.. Lapsley, of Nashville, Grand
Chaplain.
L. NJ. Stark, of Jackson, Senior Grand
Deacon.
Jo. Parsons, of Knoxville, Junior G. Deacon
Thos. w. Wisdom, of Clarksville, Grand
Marshal.
w. d. Brgance, of Cotton Grove, Grand
S. Bearer.
Jas. A. Bostick, of Triune, G. Pursuivant.
Jno Rains, of Nashville, Grand Steward.
Nj. Il. DeGrove, of Nashville, Grand Tyler.
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THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, oCT. 90, 1854.
New YoRK, Oct. 10

New YORK, Oct. 10.
The jury have returned verdict of man.
slaughter in the second degree against DR..
Graham. They were out eight hours. His
sentence will not be less than four nor more
than seven years Imprisonment in the Peni-
Tertiary. The Court, however, has postponed
delivering the sentence for twenty days, in
order to afford DR.. Graham's counsel time to
file bill of exceptions.
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A SAD AFFAIR.-Some days since, young
man named c. d. Brewer, living in Herkimer
county, N. Y, stole $24o0 from his father
and decamped to Syracuse, who went there in
company with friend and found him. They
then took lodging Mt a hotel. On Thursday
last, the father got drunk; and while the friend
was out seeking for help, the son threw him
self from the window and was picked up
dead.
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SHARP SHooTNa.--A letter ia an English
paper says that during the action at Barmas
sund, there was one Frenchman who did good
service. He crcpt on his face and hands un-
der the fort, his only protection being large
stone. He was there for Is hours, and fired
no less than 200 rounds of ammunition, and
killed about $50 Russians. According as
fellow would put out his head, pop went the
Frenchman's gun. The French are dead
shots at 800 wards.
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EDITORIAL DIscUssIoN.-The Albany Eve.
ming Express thinks it is difficult to point
out how far the law and public opinion will
justify man outraged by libels on his per-
sonal character, to take the law into his own
hands. There are cases in which the remedy
would be very excusable, as it always is very
natural. But the better plan for sensible
journalists is to avoid all personal quarrels,
and to confine their discussions strictly to the
matter in hand. The public take no interest
in such affairs, except to laugh at them, and
to discuss the merits of the combatants as
they would those of a pair of pugilists. And
even if the victory is won, it is but sorry
and dirty victory, and generally proves not
who is the best editor, but who is the great
est blackguard.
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RAILROAD SUIT DEcDED.-It will be re-
membered that some time since portion of
the citizens of White county filed n bill in
the Chancery Court against the President
and Directors of the Southwestern Railroad
Company, to stop the payment of taxes for
defraying the expenses of a survey AT White
Chancery Court last week the suit was de-
cided against the plaintiffs, and that they pay
all cost.-Sparta Times, 3Oth uH.
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c5g- The Cincinnati Gazette states that on
Saturday last the proprietor Of the Straub
House, in Rossville, Butler county, entered
into wager for $40 with another man, that
he could drink the largest amount of whiskey.
The two commenced drinking. The proprie.
tor of the Straub House drank gallon and
q half pint of raw whiskey. lie was rolling
on the floor when he drank the last drahght,
and died thereafter in about fifteen minutes.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20

Ey- A young lady says, "When | goto
the theatre am very careless Of my Dress
as the audience are too attentive to the play
to observe my wordrobe-but when | go TO
church am very particular in my outward
appearance, rs most people go there 10 see
how their neighbors dress and dePort them
Selves"
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eB The "Know Nothing" victory in Nash.
vile last week was silent, impressive and
complete.-Sparta Times.
Yes, says the Daily News, more silent, i'm.
pressive, and complete than anyvictory ever
before achieved at the ballot box in Nashville
But not more "sent, impressive and COM
plete" than will be the victories of Know
Nothingsm in every part of Tennessee at all
future elections. The tide is just setting in,
and in less than two years from to-day, will
sweep over the entire State, in n manner so
"silent, impressive, and complete" as to strike
terror and dismay into the souls of those who
yainly throw st.aws as inpediments to its
progress.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20

rW-In Australia It costs half dollar TO
look at beefsteak. II vegetables are with
in view, an extra quarter is put on. To in
dulge you must draw v, and be served
llghtIy nj that
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Loss OF THE ARcTIc.-New York, Oct. IL.
The U. S. mail steamship Union has arriv-
ed at this port from Hayre, which port she
left on the 9th uli She brings the melan.
choly intelligence that on the 9th ult. the
U. S. mail steam ship Arctic, Capt. Luce, rau
into steam propeller at sea, and commenced
to leak so rapidly that the fires were soon ex.
tinguished. The crew and few of the pas
sengers took to the boats, but Capt. Luce
the mates, and a majority of the passengers
remained by the ship, and constructed a raft
Unfortunately, however, a sudden panic oc.
Cured, and numbers rushed upon it and the
only boat renainlng-the sixth. In three
minutes afterwards the Arctic sunk, aud only
one out Of seventy-two on the raft escaped.
Those who were on the last boat were saved
having been picked up by the barque Huron.
Out of 43l souls on board the Arctic, only
32 are known to be saved.
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A SHARP RERuKE.

The London Times gives the Pope's re-
Gently issued "Encyclical Letter" a terrible
oyerhauling. His Holiness, in that singular
document, intimated or seemed to intimate
that the awars," "pestilences" and "famines''
with which the world is just now afflicted,
were so many manifestations of Divine dis
pleasure, because the world was departing
from the Catholic faith.
The Times with bitter irony observes:
We are of opinion, before the Pope made
up his mind to empty this pailful of slops
upon all who disbelieve in his mission and set
his authority at defiance, he might have been
at the pains of taking an inventory of his own
possessions and examining into their condi-
ton. According TO our notion, the question
of Rome or Canterbury had little enough to
do with the quarrel between the Russia : and
the Turks-that is, between Greek and n
Mahomedan.
The earth, no doubt is afflicted in conse-
qucnce of this dispute, but most assuredly, If
vengeance from above has been provoked by
Propagandism against the Roman See, il is a
most roundabout manner Of furnishing the
transgression to slay some 100000 Russian
soldiers, who believe Papist and Protestant to
be equally in error This is the doctrine of
vicarious chastisement with witness. The
Gar of all the Russias certainly cares as
much for the Pope's authorty-just as much
AS the Sultan Abdul Mejd-that is to say
not the slightest degree. Again, with regard
to the cholera, surely if the Divine wrath has
been kindled at the falling off of belief in the
Roman See, it does seem little hard that the
devout Lazzaroni, and the pous King Bomba,
should be so severely afflicted, while the Pro-
testant countries of Europe have not suffered
from the pestience in an equal degree.
We content ourselves in thanking the Au-
thor of all Mercy that we have been so gra-
cously dealt with; we do not, therefore, begin
bowling in triumph over the Pope ard his
followers, as though they were detected pick
pockets If half dozen Cardinals were to
die of cholera, would that be proof that the
wrath of Heaven lay heavy upon mankind for
not holding fast to the Roman See! With
regard TO the cholera, MS in other matters, we
must with all humility assert our own belief
that certain general laws have been laid down
for the government of the world, which are
not lightly abandoned. Sin brings misery, it
is true; butan Encyclica letter from Rome
with more ample references to the benefits TO
be derived from ventilation, yellow soap, and
wholesome food, than TO the remedial infiu-
ences arising from meditation upon the In
maculete Conception, or frequent perusals of
that very telling letter launched by st. John
Chrysostom against the AEomaci would be
far better calculated to do good.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20

s9- Have the courage to cut the most
agreeable acquaintance you have, when you
are convinced he lacks principle; friend
should bear with a friends infirmities, but
not with his vices.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20

tsv- A Jersey editor excuses himself for
not publishing some letters Of Com. Stock
tons, by saying It would require more eePi-
tai Is than llo could muster In his printing
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s9e Billy Bowlegs says it is out Of tho
question for him to leave Florida, he must
remain and die there. He will injure no one
if they will let him alone, but if attacked he
will fight till he dies. He has now about two
hundred warriors left.
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r3y- The following UNIQUE items are OK.

ley The following unique items are OK.
tracted from the Kansas Weekly Herald;
A large number of hands arc engaged in
cutting om the streets Of this cityi
The population of this city is nearly as
follows: 80 men, woman, and 0 babies.--
fotal, 100. Truly flouIishing and promis-
ing town.
Subscribers will call at .he Office (under an
elm tree) for their papers, until the carrier
boy learns his route.
Of the 90 male inhabitants of the city, 10
advertise themselves as "Atiorneys and
Counscllors at Lawl There is one physician,
a hotel, a steam saving mill, several dry
goods stores, n book store, drug store, and
other trading establishments.
NEY ORLEANS, October Q.
The deaths in this city last week comprised
Qbs Including 1O7 from yellow fever.
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~ The barn of Josiah Collins, Esq, in
Washington county, N. c., was destroyed by
fire on the 26th nit, together with 5000 or
1000 barrels Of Corn, and 6OOO or 5000
bushels of Wheat Loss S25,O00 A few
weeks since violent hail storm injured Mr..
Collins growing crop to tho amount of
$4,000 or more.
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eSy- II is stated that during tho last six
years and half, $4,000 persons have left the
Romish Church in this country, and become
members in Protestant Churches, while more
than $4,000 have become unsettled in their
old opinions.
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THE PRESS.

"Thc stick of type hath more Of might
Than warrior hosts or fortress wall,
And il shall batter towers to dust
That laugh at siege or cannon ball"
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NATuRALIzrSG FoREiGNERs.-Judge Mel
son, of the Campbell county (Kentucky)
court on the 25th ult., at the instigation OF
J. X. Hallam, Esq, of Newport, decided that
his court had no jurisdiction to naturalze
foreigners, claiming that Congress had no
power to confer jurisdiction on State courts;
and that the county courts of Kentucky are
not courts having common law Jurisdiction.
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OF VIC Beman, who has been for some
months in custody, on the charge of robbing
the mails, died in the jail at Savannah on the
9th instant of yellow fever, He was to have
been tried at the November term of the U.
s. District Court OF Georgia. His DEATH
however, dispcnses with the attendance of
witnesses.
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Fg-The Petersburg Inteligencer says that
Mr.. I. II. Bond of that city, while drinking
water from pitcher on Monday night last,
felt something enter his mouth, which he
spurtcd back into the pitcher; and on exam
ination found it to be live snake aoout ten
inches long.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20

lB- Have the courage to show your re-
spect for honesty, in whatever guise il ap-
pears, and your contempt for dishonesty and
duplicity by whomsoever exhibited.
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0E- The latest foreign arrival brings intel
ligence that Prince MensichoiI had intcrcopt.
ed the Allies at the river Alma, and news of
battle was hourly expected. 1t was proba-
bly, fought on the Goth ult.
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TIE New York NOMINATIONS. Daniel Uhl-
man, Esq, the telegraph tells us, has been
nominated for Governor OF New York by tho
Know Nothing State convention, In session in
New York city.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20

s7Y 1t is thought that champagne will fisu
in price on account of the anticipated failure
of the grape crop One of our exchanges
thinks the price Of champagne depends much
more on the apple orchards of New Jersey
than on the vines of France. A very rational
remark.
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TnE RUSSIAN LoAN.-1he Paris correspond.
ent of the New York Tribune states that the
Russian loan has been taken in the name and
through the agency Of Mr.. Belmont. the
American Minister at the Hague, for his father
and uncles, the Brothers Rothschi1.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20

cg- Connecticut sells to England 300 900
clocks annually. The Yankees evidently
mean to bring tho mother country "up to
time"
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eDo you keep ma.chesl" asked a wag ofs
retailer. 10 yes, all kinds" was the reply.
uWel, then, III take trotting.maicb."--
The retailer Immediately handed him
hnx OF DR. Brnndreth's pills
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c7y- A despatch from Buffalo mentions tu-
mors TO the effect that Senator Douglas con.
templates retiring entirely from public life.
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.Y@ Mr. S. N. Carvalho, the artist, pub
fishes in the San Francisco Herald some ex-
tracts from his journal of his recent trip
from Great SaltLake toLos Angeles, through
the Cajon Pass, by which it appears that on
the S0th of May, after getting some twenty
three miles beyond the Jorando and Muddy
river, he discovered n large spring, thirty-fve
feet wide and forty feet long, surrounded by
accacius, in full bloom, containing clear and
delicious water, over fifteen feet in depth,
and so peculiarly Duoyant that when he and
his companion, Perey Pratt, went in to bathe
they found it impossible to sink. 1t was not
salt, but perfectly sweet.
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THE RUMoRED Fusion IN New York.
The Albany Argus says that the Democratic
State Committee (Hard) which met in that
city on Thursday, adjourned "after agreeing
upon an address to the Democracy OF the
State, and transacting other business with a
view to the thorough organization of the De-
mocrlcy." The Argus notices in the follow
ing emphatic terms the rumor that n union
was proposed and in contemplation between
the two sections of the Democratic party:
at is perhaps scarcely necessary, but We
prefer to remark that the above is bold fab
ricaiion 'out of the whole cloth There is
not word of truth in the entire statement
No such object was contemplated no such
plan suggested; no such 'labors' were even
entered upon; no such propositions made;'
no such fusion coveted-at least MS far rs
the Democratic Committee was concerned.-
What the Solts did we do not care beyond
the fact that they did not venture to approach
the Democratic Committee with any such
ovcrtures."
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Css'- The noble address Of La Roche Jacque.
lin to his soldiers is fine specimen of la.
comic: "lf | advance, follow me; if fall,
nvcnge me; ii finch, kill me-"
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|
DAME FoRTUNE-A COUPLE OF VIcTMs.-
George Law is another memorable example.
He is now estimated to be worth between
J five and six millions Of dollars, and owns a
line of steamships that could carry iiiibusters
enough to take Cuba in forty-eight hours
| Besides he owns n sufficient number of mus
kets to equip IN army of 10000 men; and he
has the money, too, TO subsst that army
The only reason then, we presume, why he
has not revolutionized Cuba and wrested the
Queen of the Antilles from the grasp of Spain,
is the want of inclination His opinion on
Change is of some importance now, and he
would find little difficulty in negotiating n
loan of a million; yet, when the Pennsylvania
canal was constructing, George Law contract
ed for two small locks, on section near
Huntingdon, and came very near falling, be-
cause he had taken them too low! We al
luded some days ago to the fact that h. p.
Christy, of minstrel notorety, had in eleven
years amassed an immense fortune; that he is
now worth nearly $500, ,O0O-intended to re-
tire from business and take his ease in free
stone on Fifth Avenue. Since then we have
learned from a Buffalo paper, that, twelve
years ago, "Ned Christy," us he was then
hUOWu, Iluuc HlS uCUub Sit1s WV
having the means to do better, he and his
brother George fitted up room in the garret
of store, and there achieved their first sue
cess. Then ''none so low rs to do him rev.
erence," now he has become capitalist, deals
in ships, houses ard lots, stocks and mort
cages, and some of the men who were FORM
erly wont to ''cut him dead" are now most
happy to take him by the hand. If any one
feels dissatisfied with his position and has the
ring of the true metal, let hlm look at these
examples and determine lis own destiny.
Nor so BAp.-.The following lines on the
marriage of Thomas Hawk to Miss Dove, we
copy from the Boston Post
s1t isn't often that you see
SO queer kind of love:
Oil what savage he must be
To Tommy Hack Doue p
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e5y- A man may be great by chance, but
never wise nor good without taking pains for
n
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The Administration is making strong ef-
fort to heal the division among the Democra-
cy in New York. The Post says
The agents of the administration are at this
moment very active in negotiating to bring
about the fusion of the Hards and Sofls into
Il compound, neither very hard nor very soft,
like the amalgam Of quicksilver and antimony.
The scheme however, is not to take up Judge
Bronson us the candidate of the Softs, but TO
make Governor Seymour the candidate of the
Hards-a substitute which some of the Hards
are disposed to accept, means having been
found to remove their scruples of conscience
but which others among them require time to
consider.
The Times also says
We heard yesterday, from quarter entitled
to respect, that Judge Bronson had determin-
ed to withdraw; that the Hard Central Com
mittee had resolved TO transfer its support to
the Soft ticket and that n vigorous effort
would be made to override and exclude the
Nebraska issue, and with the financial and
vigorous aid of the Anti Maine Law interest,
to carry the State on the Temperance issue
alone"