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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

A Know NOTHING PAPER.-We have re,
ceived the prospectus of"The American Or
gan," daily and weekly paper to be publish
ed in Washington City, by an association of
Native Americans. We annex the following
extract from its prospectus: ..
"a new era is at hand; an era which will
be characterized, in the future history of these
States, as the era of patriotism Throughout
the length and breadth of this great and Clio.
rious Union, the masses of the American peo-
pie have spontaneously and simultaneously
started the inquiry,"Ar not Americans capa-
Bile of governing their country?" This inquiry
is as universal us it is natural and pertinent.
The response is being given in the thousands
of associations springing up in all portions of
the United States, and resting on the single
basis, that the native born citizens of this
Union, have the capacity and the will to ad-
minister their own government, to protect the
rights which they have inherited, and to per-
petuate the freedom and independence of
their native land
"Sbal we trace the causes Of this sponta-
neous and universal uprising Of the masses of
our countrymen The evils incident to the
indiscriminate immigration of foreigners into
our country-the consequences of permitting
such immigrants to enjoy the right Of suffrage
and the degrading effect of elevating for
eigners to posts of honor and trust under our
government; all these have been seen and
known to our people for years past, and yet
until now, with few exceptions, the American
people have seemed to be blind to the pro-
gress of foreignism in the land. We need
not, on the occasion of presenting this circu-
lar prospectus to the country, assign the
causes for this sudden and general manifes.
tation of the purpose of the American people
to take the regns of governmen; into their
own hands, it is sufficient, for the object we
have now in view, to state the undenable and
obvious fact, that such purpose exists"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

The FOUNDER OF MoRMoNIsM--The San
dusky CO., Mirror notices the rejection by
Thurlow Weed of the job of printing the
Mormon Bible many years ago, which was
published in the Tribune, and says:
"The veritable Joe Smith, the Mormon
prophet, about thirty years ago loafed about
the taverus on the Susquehanna, near the
Great Bend. He courted the daughter of n
respectable farmer named Hall, but the old
man forbid him his house. He took advan-
tage one Sunday of the absence of the old
man at church, took yoke of oxen and wag-
on, the girls bedding, loaded them all up
and put off, got married and then cheated his
father.in-law. 1t was near Great Bend, on
the New York side Of the river, that Joe pre-
tended to find his revelation on stone! We
were then printers devil, and carried one
horse mail from Montreal to Great Bend, and
well remember of heaiug frequently Of the
pranks of Lazy joe"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

CONFIDENCE IN ONES SELr.-When crisis
befals you and the emergency requires moral
courage and noble manhood to meet it, be
equal to the requirements of the moment and
rise superior to the obstacles in your PATH
The universal testimony of men, whose OK.
perience exactly comedies with yours, fur
nishes the consoing reflection that difficulties
may be ended by opposition. There is no
blessing equal to the possession of stout
heart. The magnitude of the danger needs
nothing more than greater effort than ever
at your hands. Ifyou prove recreant in the
hour OF trial, you are the worst of recreants,
and deserve no compassion. Be not dismay.
ed nor unnamed, when you should be bold
and daring, unlnching and resolutc. The
cloud whose threatening murmurs you hear
with fear and dread is pregnant with blessing,
and the frown whose sternness now makes
you shudder and tremble, will ere long be
succeeded by smile of bewitching sweet
ness and benignty. Then be strong and
manly, oppose equal forces to open Difficult.
ties; keep stiff upper lip; and trust in Provi-
dence.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

rW-"A story has been circulated in Liver
pool, and has been repeated in Cork and
Limerick with many additions, to the effect
that the United States will give l60 acres of
land to the chief of every family arriving at
the ports of New York and Boston," This is
founded on the Nebraska bill, no doubt. The
effect will be astounding; every man who can
raise, borrow or beg three pounds sterling,
will embark for the United States. When
this shalt told tale" reaches Antwerp, Bremen
and Amsterdam, it will greatly increase the
emigration. These emigrants have no idea Of
the distance of Nebraska from the Atlantic
shore, and the runners take good care not to
say anything about it."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08
10y The Chief of the London City Police,

sY- The Chief of the London City Police,
who says he has fivc-and.thirty policemen sick
every day with Diarrhea, prescribes the fol-
lowing remedy for cholera, which he used in
ls4s-49, and which experience has approved:
"For an adult the remedy is as follows, and
should be had recourse to Immediately on the
surpervention of the attack:-30 drops of
laudanum and so drops Of the common sui
phuric ether with small quantity Of pepper
mint water. Half of the above quantity must
be taken every four hours until the purgng
has ceased. The ether and laudanum should
not be mixed until required for use, but
should be kept in bottles with round glass
shoppers. lf.I. lf is
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

A CAPITAL HIT.-The Gainesville Tenn }
Chronicle, in a capital article on the "Bun-
combe and Humbug" recently played off by
Gov. Johnson and Judge Pepper, of this
State, in their "Shovel and Coat" correspond
ence, thus happily hits them off,
"The whole tone and tendency of the cor
respondence is mischievous. 1t is false in its
assumptions, perncious in its moral and po-
litical teachings, and we fear, hypocritical in
its professions. Does any one believe that
Governor Johnson would cheerfully 60 back
to his trade, if necessary, and would work
for support! The thing is absurd, and the
secret of his exultation is, not that he was
once the companion Of goose, but that he
is divorced galder; and 80 long rs he can
fill his craw at the public crib, he'd scorn to
crop cabbage with tho flock he so long ago
abandoned"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

Nor MAN OF THEM WILL BE ELECTED
The New York True Democrat, strong
Democratic newspaper, notes the erasure OF
Catholics and foreign names from four thou.
sand of the eleven thousand tickets polled at
st. Louis, in order to s"y that =
"There will be from eight to ten thousand
tickets scratched at the polls in New York city
at the coming election. That is, ten thousand
voters, of all denominations, will scratch from
that number of ballots of all denominations,
the name of every nominee not born in this
country. There will not be a single person
elected who was born in Ireland, no matter
who may nominate him, or under what pre-
tence he may have succeeded in placing his
name before the public. And every man be-
sides, will be signally defeated, for whom the
Catholic Church openly or secretly lends its
influence" ... ... ...
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

BREvITY IN PRAYER.-An instance of the
efficacy of short prayer is related in connec
ton with the history of Wyoming Valley
An American who had strayed into the woods
beyond the protection of the fort was sur
prsed by a body of Indians who had beer
living in ambush. A savage yell and foot
race resulted In his flight, the American
discovered an aged man upon his knees, pray.
ing for protection from the savage foe, and
in passing near cried out: 1I., A.
'Old feller, you'd better make that ID
short if you want to save your scalp!'
The old man profted by the suggestion by
Immediately pronouncing the 'amen,' then
jumping up, seized the extended hand of his
young friend, by which means they both
barely escaped the tomahawk. ..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

eB- The Providence Journal thinks that
the annexation Of Canada to the United States
is growing more and more probable, and adds
"lf it ever takes place, il will be done with
oul war; without purchase, and by the free
consent OF all the parties in interest, and for
.ne oeheht OF all. The people of Canada
''aVe naue and are making great strides in
prosperity. They are hardy, enterprising,
ana in.e'igett people, accustomed to free
,nsu'utions' ana accustomed to regard the
United States with admiration, tempered, in.
deed, with envy, but still genuine and sincere
If any more annexation is to be made in n
southerly direction, the North will demand \
balance beyond the lakes, and if it can be
obtained peaccably, the demand cannot be rc.
fused"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

MOURNING FOR BENToS.-The downfall of
old Benton, says the Richmond Dispatch, has
given great distress to the free soilers and
abolitionists. They mourn over him with
more bitter amentation than did David over
Jonathan He was their chief hope and their
main stay in the future aggressions which
have been planned against the South. Destl-
tute Of the nerve to carry out their wicked
purposes, they uniformly chose a Southern
man for their leader, and consider it glory
enough to march to battle at his coat tail
But Benton is dead, slain on his own dung
hill, and will soon be in state of decompo.
sition. The groans of the mourners are sweet
music to our souls 1l ..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

How TO AVERT THE ATTACKS OF MUsQUI-
ToEs.-An old pilot on the Ohio river says
"Never kill or drive off 'skeeter, let him
have his fill; expose your body so as to gel
bitten all over, after which no, 'skeeter will
bite you; for 'skeeter was never known to
place his sucker in the same place that one
has been in before him, even if it were fifty
years ago"
We cannot vouch for the above remedy
against the annoying attacks of Mosquitoes,
but our readers can try it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08
ROADSIDE CONFAB.

'And so, Squire, you don't take your coun.
ty paperp l
No, major. l get the city paper on much
better terms, and so | take couple Of
Them -r. ...
But, Squire, those county papers prove a
great convenience to us. The more we en-
courage them the better their editors can
make Them sE'
'Why, I don't know any conyeniences they
are to me-
The farm you sold last fall was advertised
in one of them, and you thereby obtained a
customer. Did you not?
Very true, major, but | paid three dollars
for it, ..... .- .
'And made much more than three dollars
by it. Now, if your neighbors had not main.
tained that press and kept it ready for your
use, you would have been without the means
of advertising your farm. Ii saw notice of
your daughters marriage in one of those
papers, did that cost anythingP
mo, but r.-t
And your brothers death was published
with a long obituary notice.
'Yes, yes, but r-r- rr.' ...
'And the destruction of your neighbor
Briggs house by fire. Ycu know these
things were exaggerated till the authen-
tic accounts of our newspapers set them
rightp ..-t. -. ..s...
'Oh, true, but -...,. ....... ....
And when your cousin Splash was out
for the Legislature you appeared much graft
fed at his newspaper defence, which cost him
nothing -.
Yes, yes, but those things are news for
the readers. They cause people to take
papers, aal F.
No, no, Squire Grudge; not if all are like
you. Now, tell you, the day will come
when some one will write very long eulogy
on your life, and the printer will put it in
type, with heavy black line over it, and
with all your riches this will be done for you
as grave is given to a pauper Your wealth.
liberality, and such things will be spoken of,
but the printers boy, as he spells the words
in arranging the types to these sayings, will
remark of you, .Poor mean devil, he is even
sponging for an obituaryp Good morning
Squire ru.1 Iar.H.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

CosT PER MILE OF SEVERAL IMPORTANT
Western, Mass $64, $50; Bos-
ton and Worcester, S70,25l; New York and
New Haven, S8l,6l4; New Haven and Hart
ford, S54,355; New York Central, $67,l8l;
Hudson River, $sl ,sl2; Camden and Amboy,
S66,576; Pennsylvania Central, $54,4OO;
Baltimore and Ohio, $5l ,292; Michigan Gen.
trail, S35,657; Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day.
ton, S44,327; Little Miami, $l3,359; Michi-
gan, Southern and Northern Indiana Rail
Road, $23,5O0 Cleveland and Toledo, $685.
OnO
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

AN IYcENDIAY BURyBt TO DEATH by HIS
Own AcT.-Thc Jail in St. Joseph county,
Michigan, at Centrevile, was burned on Sun.
day night last, and one of four prisoners con.
fined it, and who, while it was burning con.
fessed to having set it on fire, perished in the
flames. The jailor, in the confusion, lost the
keys, and before the man could III reached
by chopping through the logs Of which the
Jail was constructed, he was dead. .......
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF lSI2.-Judge
Sutherland states for the information of the
many thousand soldiers and widows and chill
dren of the men of the war Of 1912 interested
in the bounty land bill, that it will be pressed
to consideration in Congress early at its
next session. The Judge was at Washington
when Congress adjourned, and says from a
conversation had with the Hon. Mr.. Church.
well, of Tennessee, who reported the bounty
land bill to the House of Representatives
that he has no doubt that the bill will be
taken up soon after the session opens in De.
cember next. The Judge gives it as his
opinion, that the bill will pass if the soldiers
and the widows and children justly entitled
to land from Congress will write to or person.
ally call upon each member in their reprcsen-
tatve districts to vote in favor of the bounty
land bill now before Congress.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

eW- The capital employed in the milk
trade of New York is estimated at 8 100000;
and it is affirmed that no less than S3,OOO,0oO
per annum are expended to purchase an arti-
Gle totally unfit for use. This, on being ana
lyzed, has been found to contain the diseased
secretion of the swil and slop-fed for cows
penned up in the milk stables of the city,
magnesa and salt to disguise its blueness,
stale eggs, flour, molasscs and burnt sugar, to
supply the desideratum of creamy and yell
low color,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08
LIFE ON THE SIDEWALK.

Mr.. Foster, author of New York in slices
and other similar works, In his last produc.
ton, "Fifteen minutes around New York" !"
makes the following reflections, propos of
Taylol's great ice-creaniery in New York:
This gigantic establishment, where we are,
is but IN exhaation from the hollowness,
hypocricy, and insincerity, Of the tines
We live on the sidewalk; we dine, dress, talk
and make society public; we marry for money,
and live for appearance, Our shops have ali
their goods in the street window; women are
made of cotton, and the ideas that should
enrich their brains are developed in Haunting
fnery upon their bonnets. Even our splen.
did hotels and public houses are veneered
with marble and stuffed with old brick bats
their magnificence is only skin deep. The
parlors are paatical, whilst the bedrooms
would disgrace country tavern. Our steam-
boat builders spend hundred thousand dol.
lars in useless fummery and gaudy uphol-
stery, and save two dollars month by em-
poying IN ignoramus or drunkard for en-,
gineer, who blows the whole concern to the
devil on the first fair opportunity.
Our newspapers cut each others throats,
anu sPenu thousahus, III printing the largest
sheets, and getting the earliest intelligence
by telegraph, of events which would be
deemed utterly insignificant, had they trans
plred under their own noses-and even our
churches exhaust the purses of their congre-
cations in building spacious edfces and fur
nishing them extravaganty, while hundreds
of miserable, God and man forsaken wretch
es, sweter in vice and fifth and starve and
rot, around their very walls. Ostentation,
and beartlessness are the vices of the day
and their worst feature is, that whilst they
make so many wretched, they do not confer
either dignity or happiness upon their owners.
A little taste, little aspiration for refinement
and little genuine human nature, would be
a million times better than this universal hu-
man crystal palace into which the world is
arranging itself
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08
VOL VINO. 3l1.
FATHER LANGLEY'S OPINION OF
MEN AND WOMEN NOWADAYS. p

Failed, has he! wonder they don't all
fail. For what with the extravaganza and
good-for-nothlngness of the men and women
nova days, where is it all to end! Call
themselves "Sons of Pilgrims" to-day, do
they! wish to mercy their fathers could
see them. They were the true grit-real
"hearts of oak"-but these popinjays are
nothing in the world but veneeringl When
was boy, it used to he the fashion for
boys to be apprentices till they learnt their
trade; but now they are all bosses! There
amt no boys nowadays. They set up for
themselves as soon as they are weaned--
know mighty sight more than their fathers
OF grandfathers-you can't tell them anything
they know it all. Their fathers sweated and
tugged in corniieId, at the tail of plow,
or else over an anvil, but they can't do it'll
They are far too grand to dirty their fingers.
They must wear fine cloth, and shirt collars
up to their ears-be made into lawyers, learn
doctoring set themselves up as preachers,
telling us we ought to do this or that; or
else get behind counter to measure off rib
bon and tape. Smart work for two,fsted
men. MEN, did | say' They aint morn half
men. If we go on at this rate the race will
run out by another generation-we shant
have nothing left but mixture Of coxcomb
and monkey! The women, too, are no bet
ter-it is just even! They are brought up
good for nothing under the sun but to put in
n buffet! When was boy it wasn't so.-
The spinning wheel stood in the kitchen, and
the dye-tub in the corner. They were put
to work as soon as they could walk they
didn't have no nursery maid to run after them;
their mothers warn't ashamed of their own
babies. They could sew on patch, and
rock the cradle besides. The gals were good
for something in those tines they could
spin and weave wool and linen, linsey WOOL
sey, red and blue, and wear it too, after 1t was
done.
They could eat bean porridge with pew
ter spoon, and they were enough sight hap
pier and better suited than the gals are now,
with their silk gowns, the French messes and
silver forks, yawning and moping about, sill.
ly, pale-faced things, with nothing to do
Set them to work, Set them TO ,0ork !! Put
them at it early. Idleness is the DEVILS fore.
man; and no chain is so strong as the iron
chain of habit. Watts was nobody's fool,
can tell you. He knew what's what. Folks
don't stand still here in this world; they.nre
going one way or tother. If they aint draw
ing the sled up hill they'll be sliding down.
Adam was a farmer, and Eve hadn't no Irish
gal to wait upon her. What do these popin-
jays say to this! Ashamed of the old folks,
I'll warrant. Adam wasn't nobody-Eve
wasn't nobody. They knew it all. ..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08
FOREIGN NEWS.

MADRID, Aug. IL.
The Junta Malaga and Thernida refuses
to recognize the new Government.
The forts Tyree and Nottck at island
Aland have been taken, one by the French
and the other bv the English. Loss of the
allies was small.
VIENNA, Aug. is.
1t is reported that Gortsohakoff notified
the Austrian Government that as long as the
Turks were in Wallacha the Russians would
retain certain points in the principalties.-
Austria has given up the intention of propos-
ing to the Germ mic diet to put the Federal
army on war footing.
The Paris Moniteur announces that on the
7th and 9th of August the French expedition
force landed on island Aland, at the North
fortress Bomarsund-at the same time the
English and French Marines landed at the
South, and effected Decentralization, covered
by the war steamers, without man getting
his foot wet. They then erected batteries,
while the Russians destroyed theirs and fell
back on the main fortress. On the 18th the
French carried redoubt of 8 guns without
losing man. Another account says q
strong fort was taken after several hours
fighting.
The bombardment of the main fortress
commenced on the 18th.
report in the English papers says the
inhabitants had risen against Russia, and it
was proclaimed by order of the French Ad-
miral from the pu!pits. Russia's sway over
the island has ceased. The aspect of affairs
on the Danube is unchanged. The Russians
continue 20 fortify all strategic points.
The "London News" correspondent says
the British troops are camped in Monastry
near Devna and are decimated with the ma
lignant cholera They are totally destitute
of medicine, and are furnishing for lack of
food. The Times correspondent corrobo-
rates the above.
Paskiewitch returned from Moscow on the
18th, and will again take command of the
southern army.
Constantinople letters say that the expe-
dition against Crimea is still progressing
The embarkation is deferred on account of
the cholera. No important news is expected
from the East before the first week in Sep
tember. 1t is reported that Admiral Lyons
bomharded Owapa "a hours-result not
known. The Sultan's daughter Falina was
married to Pedschid, Pacha's son, on the 10th.
The Russian fleet came out of Sebastopol
and was soen off Odassn, hut rnturno cd safely
An offensive and defensive alliance has been
concluded between the Porte and Schamyl-
terms not transpired-it is said that Schamyl
insisted that the Porte should recognize the
independence of Circassa. He in return
offers the assistance of 10000 mountaineers.
1t is reported that Schamyl gained great
victory over the Russians.
The Emperor of Morocco has announced
his intention to present the Sultan with thirty
millions piasters and 10000 troops annually
while the war lasts. Parliament has been
prorogued. The Egyptian tribute was open
at Paris. London, six per cents taken at 2 to
per cent premium. The U. S. sloop Mari
on left Cambria on July 9th for Cape De
Verde. Accounts of the potatoe disease in
North Ireland are more discouraging-it is
spreading but not rapidly. The cholera is
with considerable severity at Bel
fast
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

TREASURE FoUNp.-Whle some work.
men, in the employ of Geoage Gibson, con.
tractor, were removing some earth at Harlem
New York, on land belonging formerly to
Samuel Benson, deceased, they come to a
box Of Spanish dollars, which contained some
two or three thousand, which was deposited
there during the revolutionary war by Mr.,
b., but could not be found on the restoration
of peace.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08
HALIFAX. N. s.. AUGUST 81

The British and North American ROYAL
Mai Steam Ship Europa, Capt. Shannon, has
arrived at this port from Liverpool, which
port she left on the 18th inst.
General Intelhgence.-Informatio was re.
ceived in London by the Submarine Tele.
graph, just prior to the departure of the Eu.
ropa from Liverpool, to the effect that Bo.
mersund had surrendered to the allied Forces
on the 10th inst, and that 1000 Russians
had been made prisoners.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-08

.Y- 1t appears from the last English GEN.
sus that on the day of taking of the census
there were 56,665 foreigners resident in
Great Britain, half of whom were in London.
In the former were included over 1000 Rus
slams. According to the United States cen.
sus, there were at the date of the taking OF
the last census, resident in Massachusetts,
10000 persons of foreign birth, and in the
United States, 2,2l0,s39. OF the latter num-
Der, I,4l4 were born in Russia.