The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

vored the idea of the United States getting
possession of Cuba, says it has been the sun.
falterng purpose" of President Pierce to ae.
quire that Island honorably, and he believes
duty TO be binding upon him still, no matter
whether the question is considered in its re-
lations to humanity, to commerce, or to free.
dom.
ry~The AlIlerites of Boston, assembled
at the corner of Fourth and sts., on Tues
day night, with their robes on, expecting the
world to come to an end, in accordance with
previous arrangements and belief Our dirty
planet, however, at last accounts had not come
to an end--but the lunatics are quite conf
dent that there would be grand smash up
before the week is out. 1t was only postpon-
ed night or two until the fog cleared off
CATHOLIC ASSUMPTIONS AND INTOLERANCE.
The Meagher Grenadiers of Jersey City
have held an indignation meeting, and passed
strong resolutions in relation to the denun-
citation of them by the Rev. Messrs. James
Kelley and Messenger, at st. Peters on Sun
day last.
A Roman priest, the Vicar General at San
Francisco, has annuled marriage in that
city, on the ground that the female had not
been baptized nor received the proper dispen-
saton from the Romish Church--thereby
presumng to set the civil law regulating mar
riage aside. We have always contended that
Romanism does not acknowledge the author
ity of our laws and institutions.
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e5s Recent official reports from the Erie
Road state that less than one in hundred
who pass over the road free, were connect
ed with The public press On the New Ha-
ven Road, out of8,l76 free passes, only rs
were for members of the press. II is due to
the press to state these facts, rs n contrary
impression has prevailed.
~" Another duel took place near New
York on Tuesday morning, being the third
affair OF the kind which has originated in that
city within two weeks. The combatants were
two young men, one merchant in South ST.,
New York, the other n custom house broker
in the same city, and the cause of their quar-
rel was beautiful young lady residing in
Brooklyn, to whom each made pretensions.
They met at Fort Green and fired one round
which resulted in one of the duelists getting
n ball through his hat and the other ball
in his left arm, injuring it quite badly. The
seconds then interfered, settled the dispute,
and the parties left the ground
eY-The grand jury of Dane county, Wis
consn, recently indicted the Secretary of
State and Attorney General for wrongful and
illegal acts, as commissioners of the school
lands. The indictment is founded upon the
facts which have transpired touching the sale
of very large body of the schools lands
The vote on finding the indictment is said to
have been nineteen 10 one
e#-A Paris letter says, the Sultan, Abdul
Medjd in spite of ancient Nlahometan usages,
offered his palace of Therapia to Mines de
St Arnaud, TAlonville and Yusuf. A cross
was publicly planted on the Sd of October, in
the French cemetery at Constantinople, and
no protest has been made against an act un-
eXamped since four centuries. Would it not
seem that the old prejudices of Moslems
against Giaours, are beginning to be extin-
guished!
NEw PHASE OF DEMocRAcY.-The Balti-
more Argus says that "new organizations are
already in the field, whose objects are the
overthrow of the Constitution and the estab-
ushment of tyranny, without law, based
simply upon the ,ciH Of a mqjority" TO this
the American replies; What wonderful
change adversity makes in the views of a
professional politician. "The majority" has
heretofore been regarded as infa,hble and al.
most omnipotent.
sC5S Never hesitate about doing GOOD
thing Be sure il will all be right in the end,
whether the deed is marrying n pretty girl,
giving to the heather, dinner to the poor
family, rrosy glanees to Mary, the pleasant
chamber maid Never hesitate, but plunge
at once into the good things of life and other
tandem luxuries.
lSs- A letter from Lafayette, Ind, states
that the Merchants Bank of that place has
suspended payment The notes are selling
in the street at fifty cents in the dollar. The
securities of this bank are all Indiana SIS.
e=Ey- In the city Of San Francisco, of which
so many hard things have been said, there are
twenty church congregations, embracing nine
thousand members.
lLISols.-The result for Congress is seven
Anti-Nebraska Congressman, aud two dis
tricts TO hear from.
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