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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22
,5y-The true foundation Of beauty In wo

rE-The true foundation Of beauty In wo-
man is exercise in the fresh air. No cosmetic
is equal to this English ladies Of rank are
celebrated, all over the world for their splen'
did persons and their brilliant complications
and they are provcrbal for their attention 70
walking and riding. The salow cheeks
STOPPING figures, susceptibility to cold ana
almost constant il.health, which prevail
among the American wives and daughters
generally are to be attributed almost entirely
to their sedentary life A woman can no
moro become beautiful, or remain so with
ont bealthful exercise IN the open mir than
nlant can thrive without light.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

tY- In Accomac county, Va, an amiable
young man named James Ames had dispute
with his stepfather, and ripped open his
bowels from the breast down, laid open his
heart an inch or two, then propped him up
against fence and cut his throat from ear to
ear, and was convicted in court, Of murder
in the second degree, and sentenced 10 Is
years Imprisonment. Hon. Henry A. Wise
defended him, and saved his life by one of the
most thrilling appeals ever listened TO.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

"You'l catch your DEATH" cries the good
lady, who hovers over hot stove in close
room, to her boy who wants to dash into the
snow drifts, or fill his lungs with fresh air,
and set his cheeks glowing and his eyes
sparkling by an hours glorious skating
Madame, let him 60. Ten persons catch their
deaths by staying in hot close rooms, where
one is hurt by exposure to the cold. Live as
much out of doors rs you can; and have pure
air in the house.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

"THE RESURRECTION OF PoLASD."-This
dream, said to be haunting the brain of so
practical a man as Louis Napoleon because
some Of his newspaper organs happen TO be
amusing themselves with it-meets with a
derisive laugh from the organ of the British
arstocracy and British government the Lon
don Times, which says:
awe shall not follow those writers who, in
Paris or elsewhere, amuse their readers by
speculations on the resurrection of decayed
nationalities, or by large territorial nnova-
tions on the map of Europe The real situa-
ton of Europe is too critical the real prob
lens before us are too intricate, to admit Of
these fourishes, which anticipate in PAM
phlet the work Of Congress, and achieve oy
a stroke of the pen the results of success
full war"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22
THINGS IN KANsAs.-A correspondent writes

THINGS IN KASsAs.-A correspondent writes
as follows:
Those who bring with them $500 or $1,000
to buy land and implements for their farms,
and are young, or have good constitutions,
get along very WE'LL but for men without
capital or whose health is none of the best,
it were better for them to stay at home
There are various opinions in regard to the
territory, or that part of it where the emf
grants calculate to plant themselves. be-
lieve, however, they all agree in regard to the
fertility of the soil, the scarcity of woodland,
and timber, and wood to burn.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

s8- The Rev. Antoinettc Brown says
that it Providence had given her an "nvalid
husband and half dozen children, her sala-
ry as clergyman is amply sufficient to pass
them comfortably through life" Here is
hint that our bachelor friends should mme-
diately attend to. A young lady with suf.
ficiency of salary to supporta husband and
six children should not be permitted to freeze
her feet in n single bedstead. That is so.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22
MARRIED AND SINGLE LIFE.

We extract the subjoined from a speech
delivered by Mr.. Alexander Frizell, in reply
to the toast of "The Ladies'" at the recent
banquet of-the Quarter Sessions Grand Ju-
ry:
"Mr. Frizell, after some Introductory re-
marks, said: ] remember reading an anecdote
which cannot forbear mentioning, it so beau
tifuly illustrates the force Of female affec-
ton. When the Emperor Conrad besleged
Hensburg, the women of the city found it
was impossible the place could hold out
They, therefore, unanimously petitoned the
Emperor to allow them TO leave the city with
only as much as each could carry with her.
The Emperor, believing that the burden of
each would necessarily oe light, conceded TO
their request A flag of truce was hoisted,
and silence prevailed, when the gates few
open. The women marched out rank and
!ile-and what do You think they were carry.
ingl Peace be to their ashes, and honor 10
their memory, Every one Of them had HER
HUSBAND on her back. (Cheers) The En-
peror was so stricken by their conjugal fideli-
ty that he restored the wives back 10 their
husbands and the city to all its former priv.
ileges.
"Now, Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen I ask
you, could all the bachelors in the wide world
this day produce an action comparable to
that? Oh, that had the reasoning power Of
Socrates, that | might induce these young
men whom see around me to consult their
own happiness by renouncing what is falsely
called single blessednessp (Great cheering)
Socrates, once, ON delivering lecture TO the
Athenians on love and matrimony, pressed
home his subject so powerfully and convinc-
ingy on the hearts Of his audience, by show
ing them thecomfortsand advantages the mar.
ried man possessed over the bachelor, that all
the men rose up in one body solemnly de-
claring that they would marry on the first
available opportunity. Of course ladies will
not be the first to declare their love. No!
they would rather let concealment, like the
worm i the bud, feed on their damask cheek
They are like the golden nuggets in aurifer-
Gus regions-they will not come to you nn.
sought But, do you seek the inestimable
treasure of wife, and you will be rewarded
by bliss, the adequate description Of which
would alike defy the pen of poet or thepencil
of ist."-(Great Cheering.)
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

ANOTHER BANK DErAuLrER.--A teller in
one Of the oldest banking houses at Chicago
is said to have disappeared, being defaultcr to
an amount ranging from $4,000 to 10000.
Il is supposed to have been squandcred in
gambling.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

ANOTHER WILD CAT BANK FALURE.--The
Southern Recorder, of Tuesday, announces
the failure of that Wild Cat swindling shop,
the Bank of Milldgevle, thus:
"This institution, which it will be remem.
bered, turned Wild Cat last spring, closed
doors on Wednesday last. We presume It
has but few bills out in Georgia. Is il not
time for the people everywhere to reform
their system of bankingp
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

ey- The Scientific American says II may
be interesting to housekeepers, when cistern
water is scarce. to know, that teaspoonful
of Sal Soda will soften from three 10 four
nails of hard water.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22
rE-The shoe business is said now to b

tWThe shoe business is said now to be
duler than ut any previous time since 1910.
There is less demand abroad, especially in
California and Australia, than last year, and
money in the South and West to purchase,
while stock and labor have been enormously
high. In Lynn and other manufacturing
towns of Massachusetts,, the " bosses have
reduced their hands, and many men are ou!
of employ.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

Law IN New ORLEAHs.-The New Orleans
lawyers are getting reputation equal to the
Philadelphia lawyers at legal quibble. Ac-
cording to the Picayune man was on trial
for having entered house and stolen some
property.
The testimony was clear that he had made
an opening sufficiently large to admit the up.
per part of his body, and through which he
protruded himself about half way, and stretch
ing out his arm, committed the theft. The
Attorney for the defence addressed the jury.
"What an outraged" Cooking Mortified, and
with out.stretched and trembling arms.) II
repeat, what mn outrage upon your intclli-
gence and common sense is it for the States
Attorney to ask at your hands the conviction
of my client on such testimony The law is
against entering house, and can man be
said to enter a house, when only one half of
his body is in and the other half OUT Gen.
tlemen, look to the Divine Law on this point
God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat
the apple-i. e. the whole of the apple. And
all the commentators agree that, if they had
only eaten one half, they would not have been
expelled from the blooming garden Of Eden"
The jury brought in verdict Of "guilty" ms
to one-half of his body from the waist up,
and "not guilty" as to the other half. The
Judge sentenced the guilty half to one years
IMPRISONMENT.
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icy Newspapers are the first blossoms and

eB- Newspapers are the first blossoms and
the promising signs of American civilization,
wherever it plants itself. Hardly is log
cabin built, or a tent pitched in the wilder
ness, before presses are at work, and the
active minds and the aspiring souls Of the
settlers express themselves in paper Of
their own, devoted TO their interests and 10
the promulgation Of their views.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

sg- Governor Manning, of South Caroli-
ma, in his Message to the Legislature, recon-
mends repeal OF the usury laws. Money,
he says, like every thing else, should have a
relative. not n fixed value.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

!W- Whether you are playing on the stage
or the world, your character should be well
dressed. Broadcloih is generally received
with smiles, though coveringa rascal; while
linsey woolsey Is rather run upon, though
covering n patriot.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22
CRUMBS FROM THE DUTCHMAN'S
TABLE


TABLE.
Men take as naturally to hypocrisy as they
do to women and suspenders. Almost every
body is writing sermons on the virtue of well
water, and labor, temperance, and perspira-
tion. Give "every body" riches, and see what
a change comes over their "feelinks." Well
water will be succeeded by Burgundy, while
"love of labor" will subside into cushion
ed armchair, and break out in series of vel
vet yawns on rosewood ottoman. People
seldom praise virtue until they are too poor
to violate the commandments. Make note
and look around for yourself.
For purifying the heart, there is nothing
like tears. A man is never nearer heaven,
than the day he buries "his only little boy"
A late writer says, thas people should so
live, that "when age brings wintry white
ness to their hair, it may be warmed by the
autumn red which glows upon their cheeks" I"
To do this, they should fear God and eat corn
bread. The former brings refreshing sleeps,
and the latter keeps away dyspepsia
"Bridget, where's the tea kettle?"
"Please marm-Mr. O'Neil the new boor.
der, is washing his feet in it." The last seen
of Mr. O'Nel, he was going down the front
stoop, about six inches in advance of an emp
ty coal scuttle.
Z
The attempt to wash Aanncls with soap
stone, has failed. The gentleman who start
ed the idea, is now teaching weather-cocks to
crow. We shall watch his progress with
some interest.
Step mothers are so called, because the
day after they are married, they take 'steps"
for kicking "the other womans" children into
the street. A bad institution that step.
mother.
Banks in Arkansas manage business in
rather primitive manner. A friend of ours
writes us, that before he could get fifty dol
lar note discounted, he had to deposit as ''col-
laterals," cook stoves and cross-cut saw.
Ifcongress would have honest officers, it
must pay salary somewhat in keeping with
the price of beef stakes and suett dumplings.
The clerk who robbed the New York post
office had a salary of $3.50 per year. Now,
every body knows, that no man can support
family on such a sum il this city, without
splicing it. now and then with little petit
larceny.
We do not write this to excuse the robbery,
but to account for it. The employer who
gives man 200 dollars less year, than he
can live on, offers that man every twelve
months, premium Of 200 dollars to turn
scoundrel and rob his money till.
We suppose that times will become better,
when the Banks get done bursting. But
when will that be?
Not to be sneezed at-an empty snuf.box.
A Western editor says that dull times are
owing to the scarcity of grindstones.
An editor out west, in speaking of his do
mestic increase, gives the following:-
Sound the stage-horn, blast the trumpet.
That the waiing world may know;
Publish it throughout our borders.
Even in Mexico
Seize your pen, o dreaming poetl
And in numbers smooth as may be,
Spread afar the joyful tidings,
Betsy's got another baby.
A farmer who married long nose and
peaked chin, says: he produces vinegar by
simply getting his wife to look into the cider
barrel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22
THE KNOW NoTHINGs.

Under this heading the New York Pick
has the following remarks:
"For twenty years the masses of men in
this country have heard of nothing but Whig
and Democrat, Free Soilers and Abolitonists
1t was up and down, in or out, with one or
other of the two first named parties, until the
public mind became perfectly bewildered with
these parties, while, ut the same time, honest
men became perfectly satisfied that both and
all parties were corrupt and rotten, and that
every election was but movement in favor
of II few plunder-loving, wire pullers of both
parties. Hence sprung up n new party-an
Aaron's Rod party, which will swallow up
all parties. They chose the significant name
of Know Nothing, meaning thereby that they
know nothing in reference to amy other party
For years about 80 per cent. of the voters in
every State in the Union have voted as 10
per cent OF the wire puller voters and party
hacks directed. We hail with joy the sue
cessfnl advent of the Know Nothing party.
ii is the greatest movement in favor of the
Union that has ever been started. The Know
Nothing party is American 1t is conserva-
tive, federal-a State's right party-a patri-
otc and dsinterested party. 1t is American,
and cannot go wrong although it may err,
but il has the elements of correcting its own
evils in its own ranks. 1t is funny to witness
the consternation of old party hacks and par
ty newspapers at the result of the new move
ment. They are too scared to rally, and
rally of any or all the old parties, is as use.
less as it would be for dying man to enter
the prize ring for a fight with young, hardy,
and well trained boxer From Maine to Mex
co, the Know Nothings will sweep everything
before them. God grant it,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

THE Philosophy OF CRIME.-The N. Y
Times has an article on this subject, in which
gives the result of its observations, nearly as it
follows; The desire for crime is strongest ut
about 25 years of age; from that time, crime
gradually changes from violence to stratagem.
The proportion of female criminals is only
one in three. The Times remarks:
As we have already said, the seasons and
climate exercise in their turn very marked
influence on the desire for crime. Hence it
is during summer that we find most crimes
against the person, and the fewest against
property committed, while in the winter the
reverse is the case. In the summer the pas
sions of men are the strongest, while the
struggle to live is comparatively small; but
with winter the passions become cool, and the
temptations from want to commit crimes
against property grow stronger. very little
reflection will show that it is during the sum.
mer that the greatest murders have been per-
petrated, while petty larceny and robbery
fact well known to our police-preyail to the
greatest extent in the winter season. Asre-
CARDS climate, we find that in the extreme
north, crimes against the person bear but a
very small proportion to those against prop
perty, while in the south the reverse is OBJ
served to be the fact.
To the profound and sagacious conclusions
of the Times, we wish to make some kindled
additions. In committing crime strong peo-
pie exert the most strength, and ingenious
people the most ingenuity; criminals who al-
ways stay at home rarely prey upon the prop
erty of their neighbors, while those who al
ways keep abroad, seldom commit personal
violence on their own families. The phios-
ophic Times may also derive much instruc-
ton from the following facts: Hen roosts are
most frequently robbed at night, while barns
are set on fire with sun glasses oftenest in
the day time; orchards are generally plunder-
cd in the autumn, whereas clothes lines are
molested at all seasons.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

DR.. Dewey was charged with saying that
if it was necessary to save the Union he
would see his own mother sent into slavery,
in n recent lecture he took occasion TO deny
this. What he said was;
al would consent that my own brother, my
son, should go into Slavery-ten times rather
would | 90 myself than that this Union
should perish for me or nine"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

THE BEALE CAsE.-It is stated that Mr..
Throckmorton, the husband of the young
lady who preferred charges against DR.. Beale,
has m.,de an affidavit that he does not believe
the lady's story in regard to the violation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

sN- One of the Texas papers remarks
that, "at the recent sitting of the court Of
San Antonio thirteen gentlemen were assign
ed places in the Penitcntiary."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

PoTAToEs-A farmer in France stuck pea
into potato and planted them together in
March. The pea produced n stock which
was covered with pods, and the potatoe gave
eleven healthy roots He thinks by this
means double crops could Ge obtained and
the potato disease prevented.
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RnsroN. Dec.

Smith, Know Nothing, is reelected Mayor
by a majority of 1858. The Wings will
probably elect some councilmen.
AT Worcester the entire municipal Know
Nothing ticket is elected.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

e5y The Know Nothing movement is all
the talk in Texas, and it is rumored that
lodges have been established in most of the
towns throughout the State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22
WASHINGTON, Dec. l3.

In the u. s. Senate to-day, bill was intro
duced to extend three years for the payment
Of duties on rail road iron imported by CON-
panies.
In the House of Representatives, Mr.Mace
bill to prohibit slavery in Ne
bruska and Kansas, which gave rise to an ex-
ceedingly hot debate.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22
THE WINTER OF THE HEART.

Let il never come upon You. Live so that
good angels may protect you from this terri
bic evil-the winter Of the heart.
Let no chilling influence freeze up the
foundation of sympathy and happiness in its
depths; no cold burthen settle over its with
cred hopes, like snow on the faded flowers;
no rude blasts of discomfort moan and shrek
through lis desoated chambers.
Your life path may lead you amid trials,
which for time seem utterly to impede your
progress and shut out the very light of heav-
en- from your anxious gaze.
Penury may take The place of ease and
plenty; your luxurious home may be exchang-
ed for single, lowly room-the soft couch
for the straw palet-ihe rich viands for the
coarse food of the poor. Summer friends
may forsake you, and the IMPLYING world
pass you by with scarcely a look or word OF
compassion.
You may be forced TO toll wearily, steadily
on, to earn a livelihood; you may encounter
fraud and the base avarce which would ex-
tort the last farthing, till you well nigh turn
in disgust from your fellow beings.
Death may sever the dear ties that bind
You TO earth, and leave you in fearful dark
ness That noble, manly boy, the sole hopes
of your declining years, may be taken from
you, while your spirit clings to him with
tenacity, which even the shadow of the tomb
cannot wholly subdue.
But amid all those sorrows, do not come
to the conclusion that nobody was ever so
deeply afflicted as you are, and abandon every
sweet anticipation of "better days" in the un-
known future.
Do not lose your faith in human excellence,
because your confidence has sometimes been
betrayed, nor believe that friendship is only
delusion, and love bright phantom which
glides away from your grasp.
Do not think that you are fated to be mis-
cradle because you are disappointed in your
expectations, and baffled in your pursuits
Do not declare that God has forsaken you,
when your way is hedged about with thorns'
or repine sinfuly, when he calls your dear
ones to the land beyond the grave.
Keep holy trust in heaven through every
trial; bear adversely with fortitude, and look
upward in hours of temptation and suffering.
When your locks are white, your eyes dim
and your limbs weary; when your steps falter
on the verge of Deaths gloomy vale, still
retain freshness and buoyancy of spirit
which will shield you from the winter Of the
heart.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

rB- A dashing and fashionable widow
threatens to sue some gentleman for breach
OF promise merely to let II be known that
she is in the market
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If pound of ham costsa shilling, what
should be the market value Of "Bacons Phi
losophyl ." Debating clubs will please no.
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DR.. THOMPSON HUNG IN EFFIGY.-The
Buchanan Recorder SAYS: "On opening our
door this morning,the first thing we saw was
an eiligy of DR.. Thompson hanging on
high gallows, and having over his head the
following inscription:
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OF In country like ours, the most hum
BILE person in society," may give the first i'm.
pulse to an influence that will revolutionize
the world
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

sSy- The Legislature of Sonts Carolina
has elected Gen. Jas II. Adams, of Richland
District, Governor of that State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-22

szW- All that nature has prescribed must
be good and as death is natural to us, II is
absurdity to fear IL