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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, NOV. IT, 1854.

le5-The Washington Union noticing that
some of the British journals have recently fa-
vored the idea of the United States getting
possession of Cuba, says it has been the "un-
falterng purpose" of President Pierce to ac-
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
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

To YoUSG MISUNDERSTANDING trans
forms the saucy girl into the demure wife /;
but good deal depends on the husband
whether the animation of the girl does not
turn into what is called the spirit" of the
wife. A woman's temper in the early months
of marriage must be managed by unfailing
kindness and comfortable circumstances
When Il has sci the danger is over.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

l9s- To restore drowned miser to con.
sciousness-W Whisper in his ear that stocks
have gone up" This was tried in Paris, with
the happiest effect. A money broker was
restored to life by it. after lying in the water
for over three weeks.
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.Y- A dispatch from Washington, dated

.B 4 dispatch from washington, dated
the 9TH instant, says:
"The arrival of Capt. Gibson yesterday
caused much commotion in this city, it being
supposed his visit is in some way connected
with a forthcoming letter, threatened by Mr.,
Belmont relative to his case. The captain
brought valuable collection of Oriental
works, valued at one thousand dollars, for
warded by Mr.. Vatteme-e to the State De-
partment 1t is thought Captain Gibson has
some important disclosures 20 make relative
to the late ministerial conference at Ostend.
The important documents which so providen-
TALLY fell into his hands will be given up to
the State Department Capt. g. had an inter-
view with Secretary Marcy yesterday"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

sSy IL you want an assault to take the
shape of battery, all that's necessary, is mix
up a pint of brandy with the combatants.-
Toddy stands wonderfully on its dignity, and
won't take an insult from anybody not even
the"perleeoe"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

PROCLAMATION OF MARTIAL LAw-Martial
Law, as everybody knows, is never proclaimed
except in very grave exigencies. When, there
fore, we see it resorted to for the avowed
purpose of saving the far-famed Democracy
of the Old Dominion from decentralization and
dsorganization, we may be sure that dangers
great and imminent encompass them. Here
is the proclamation, as published in the edito-
rial columns of the Richmond Enquirer:
"If we tolerate heresy and insubordination,
decentralization and defeat will be the conse-
quence. In crisis Of unusual peril the Sc
we're sway of martial law is essential to the
safety of the army. The democracy are en-
compassed by many foes, and vexed by much
strife. Shall we suffer every man to 60 his
own way, as caprice or treachery may sug-
gest! Or, shall we draw tight the reins of
party and exact rigid conformity to ancient
usage? The Democracy must consider and
settle these things. struggle is before us,
and we cannot afford to neglect any precau-
tons essential to success"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

SPIRITUAL MAIRIAGE.--A mau by the
name of p. s. Backman, of Painsvile, and
a young lady by the name of Julia Ilurlburt,
daughter of DR.. Hurlburt, of Kirkland were
spiritually married at the latter place, on Sun.
day, Oct. 18th. The ceremony consisted Of
matrimonial declarations made by themselves
in the presence of the friends, about fifty be-
ing present The services consisted of the
following poetlcal announcement: slave you
seen the morning sunbeam kiss the opening
blossom! Thus did our spirits meet and
greet at the first interviews and as the nysi-
bic elements ofnature unite and blend in one
harmonious impulse, so are our spirits nllini-
tzed into one accordaut living force. Who
ever are thus united by the eternal laws Of
affinity, naught has authority to separate
We thus introduce ourselves unto you in the
relation of husband and wife."-Ohio Paper.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

New YORK IssUE-At "hard" demon
stration in New York, Ex-senator Dickinson
made n speech in which he said the issues in
the coming election were-"Bronson and
good liquor" Seymour and poor iquor," and
"Clark and no liquor at ALL"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17
JEFFERSON Cry Nov 1

An Irish War-The Irish hands on the
railroad, from Tipperary county, working on
the tunnel and for miles below, turned out
200 strong, some say 300, and started for JEFF
ferson City, to kill and destroy all the prop
erty of the Corkonians in Jefferson City, and
run them away from the railroads. They only
came in sight of Jefferson City, and on per-
ceiving the citizens ready TO meet them, they
halted. Capt. Parsons being Informed some
time before, ordered out the Metropolitan
Guard and citizens, which order was promptly
obeyed, and a company Of 1876 to $50 men
were ready with cannon and rifles. Squire
Harrison and the priest went to them and
read the law, and they promptly promised to
60 home. They did not go on at the appointed
time, and Captain Parsons company advanced
with the cannon loaded with chain, which put
them to flight without any firing. They pur-
sued them mile or so, and overlook some;
they all promised to be quiet The cannon
are still loaded, and ready at moments
warning. Another attack is expected tonight.
The Tipperary men were all well armed with
rifles and knives. The town is quiet The
fuss has been going on for some time. Yes
terday the Corkonians went to the tunnel to
whip the Tipperary men away, but found
them too strong. They made excuses and
came back.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

s5y" The Macon Journal of "Wednesday
states that considerable excitement was Great
ed in that place on Monday morning, by the
announcement that Samuel d. Scoyil, Book
Keeper in the Agency Of the Marine Bank, in
that place, had absconded with $4,000 Of the
funds of the institution 1t has subsequently
appeared that he left that city at o'clock
Sunday evening, on the train Of the. Macon
and Western Railroad for Atlanta, but be-
yond that point il has been impossible to
trace his progress.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

sY-The grand jury of Dane county, Wis
consin, 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
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

sC7o Never hesitate about doing good
thing Be sure it will all be right in the end
whether the deed is marrying a pretty girl,
giving to the hcathen, a dinner to the poor
family, orrosy glances to Mary, the pleasant
chamber maid. Never hesitate, but plunge
at once into the good things of life and other
tandem luxuries.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

.B- The New York Tribune says that
Russia can still concentrate an army of three
hundred thousand men at a given point, and
adds:
"And there are people who believe that
Nicholas will sue for peace if Sevastopol be
taken Why Russia has not played one-third
of her trumps yet, and the momentary loss of
Sevastopol and of the fleet is hardly felt at all
by the giant TO whom Sevastopol and the
fleet were but Il plaything. Russia knows
full well that her decisive action does not lie
along the sea shores or within reach of de-
barking troops; but on the contrary, on the
broad interior the Continent, where massive
armies can be brought to act concentrated on
one spot, without frittering away their forces
in frultless coast defence against evanescent
enemies. Russia may lose the Crimea, the
Caucasus, Finland, ST. Petersburg and all
such appendages; but as long as her body,
with Moscow for its heart and fortified Po-
land for its sword arm, is untouched, she need
not give in an ota."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

eSs~ In the city Of San Francisco, of which
so many hard things have been said, there are
twenty church congregations, embracing nine
thousand members.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

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

STRANGE WoRDs.-The n. Y. Churchman
refers TO the public school system, as "the
goddess system which unhappily finds such
favor in the public mind" Did we not learn
ed on these shores, we should be surprised to
find such statement in so respectable a jour-
nal. What wonder iS it, that the citizens Of
native birth are outraged and unite to repe!
the numerous attacks made upon the insttu-
tons of the country, by writer's and orators,
who have left their own country for its good.
-B0Ston Transcript .-...r
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OF Here's the experience of the editor of
the New York Dutchman in the opium trade.
He's about right.
awe never could understand how people
can get taste for opium fastened ON them.
We tried small quantity of it the other day,
for spain internally" We were ordered to
take two pills day for four days. The first
dose was really delicious. 1t gave us pink
tinged sleep filled to the brim with girls made
of rose-leaves. We indulged in dreams of
the most oriental order. In one of them we
had mother-of.pearl hand-sled, with golden
runners. With this we gided down rain
bow made of ice cream, and brought up on
spars of emerald. The second night things
began 20 change. About the supports of the
terrace anscondas began to appear, while in
the distance, \ lot of green monkies, with
Their tails burnt off, were quhrreing about
the propriety of making pin cushion of us.
The third evening matters grew appalling
The terrace had gone, and 50 had the rain
bow, and the girls made of rose-eayes; and
in their stead we had bed filled with rattle-
snakes, and on the head. d.board four grizzly
hears pulling at u hauser, one end of which
was fastened.to our neck, and the other to an
iceberg. That men should use opium for
day, does not surprise us in the least; that
they should do so, however, for month,
seems really wonderful. Rather than become
confirmed opium eater we would throw
ourselves into Etna We can imagine noth-
ing more terrible"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

.s- The Nashville Banner says, we notice
that the depot grounds of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company in Edgefeld are
advertised by the Sheriff to be sold next
month, to satisfy an execution in favor of Mr.
E. Goodrich. Another illustration this of the
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

s5g- There are two reasons why "some
people" don't face the advice of "mind your
own business" First they havn't any busi-
ness, and second, no mind, TO bring Bit
Rather poorly of, that style of humanity.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

lLlINois.-The result for Congress is seven
Anti-Nebraska Congressman, aud two dis
trcts TO hear from.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

ey- Girls either run to love or piety. If
they are not married at thirty, they grow SEN
timento, and join the church. We are sorry
to say that all this is very often done without
at all increasing the sweetness of their dspo-
sitions. Old maids are as peevish as they are
moral, and take as much delight in uttering
little inuendoes about "those frights" next
door, as they do in sending flannel neck ties
to the neglected youths of Timbncto. There
are exceptions to these remarks, but they are
so.few, that they only establish the business
of the rule. The only way to keep woman's
disposition from souring, is to sweeten it with
the sugar of matrimony, as soon after she
reaches twenty, MS possible.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD
The Enquirer gives the following statement
of the receipts Of this road for the past month
of October, with the receipts for the cores.
pondng month Of last year:
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

The above statement shows an increase of
S6,52s over the receipts Of October of last
year. This is most convincing evidence of
the increase Of prosperity Of the road
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

SNGULAR.-The last line ever set by M,
Charlton, Pittsburg printer, whose death
occurred recently, was this:
"And even at last the solemn hour shall
Gomez
Having done this, he staggered from his
case, under sudden attack Of disease, and in
a few days died and was buried The solemn
hour had come.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

l.J- The New York Evening Post publish
es the project of an important scheme for the
promotion of emigration from the United
States to Australia. 1t is designed especially
to attract the free negroes of the United
States. The terms, which are fully stated in
the letter from the Sydney house of Bier g.
Lowe, eontempates the accommodation of
poor persons who are healthy, but have not
money to pay their passage. They nre to
enter into an agreement TO work out their
passage money when they reach Sydney, the
Colony having passed a law designed to en-
force such contracts strictly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

.R- Women when they talk of "a good
figure" must mean the figure 8, for that is the
figure which is most pulled in at the middle.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

A FRONTIER WAR.-An expedition is to
be organized during the ensuing winter, to
wage a war of determination against the ST.
oux Indians, and other hostile tribes who
have been engaged in the late outrages on
the plains. This force is to be assembled at
Jefferson barracks early in the spring, so that
operations may commence as soon as the
weather will permit. The force will consist
of the second regiment Of infantry, three
companies of the second Dragons, and one
section of the light battery, now stationed at
Baton Rouge-the whole under command of
Col. Sumner. This force will also be joined
by all the men who can be spared from the
garrisons of the forts which are scattered
through that region, and there is a probabi-
ty that at least two companies of mounted
volunteers, composed of frontier men, will
be added to the command. After they have
accomplished their duties in that region, they
will turn their attention to the Camanches,
and will cooperate with the forces now sta
toned upon the frontiers of Texas.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

SUDDEN AND AWFUL DEATH-On the Goth
ut., negro woman, aged about 80 years,
while picking cotton on plantation belong
inr to Mrs. Il. r. Williams, in the Parish Of
Rapides, La, was bitten on the hand by a
snake, supposed to be a"bind moccusin, and
in five minutes was corpse. 1t is seldom
that death so suddenly follows the bite of a
snake, and probably the wound was inflicted
upon vein or artery.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

l55- "Faiher," said a juvenile to his pater.
nal guardian, who had the bad habit of alter
mating from piety to profanity. 81 do think
YOU ought to stop swearing or prnying--l
don't care which,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

!W- The War in Europe is exhausting
the resources of England, and is said to be a
large cause of the commercial embmrass.
ment there. The Liverpool Times of the
18th remarks:
War will soon prove itself as great an ex-
hauster as famine. The cost of our army
for the present year has been estimated at
considerably more than the support Of the
Irish peasantry in lS47. The people required
$4,000 600 worth of corn, which threatened
to exhaust our banks. Our fleet and troops
will require ES,428O99, before the close of
the current fiscal year. The bullion receipts,
week after week, are immense, but the bullion
returns of our banks show no increase. The
demand for the precious metal appears to be
greater than the supply, which is infinitely
larger than at any former period of our his
tory. This proves that an endless quantity
of gold does NOT supply people with mo
ney; and that in trade, despite all legislation
to The contrary,s is simply dealt as commodi-
ty, like all other articles of commerce.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

The banking house of Nessrs. G, ii.
Monsarat g. Co., in Louisville, KY, has sus-
pended.
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ne" The Alilerites of Boston, assembled
at the corner of Fourth and c 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 a night or two until the fog cleared off
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

o. The Richmond Dispatch of Friday
says that Mr.. Elliott having made prepara-
tions for balloon ascension from that place,
was prevailed upon by young man named
Carrier to allow him to make brief ascent
held by cords. Carrier having got into the
car, soon rose above the heads of the multi
tude, when, to the astonishment of every
spectator, he cut the cords which held the
balloon to the earth, and sailed off rapidly
towards the sky. The disappointment of Mr..
Elliott, who was anticipating a magnificent
aerial voyage, so affected him that he tainted.
Carrier succeeded in making a safe descent,
very much to the surprise of everybody.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17
~ The Clarksville Chronicle in speaking
,f tba Knou Nntbinrs s,yS.

of the Know Nothings, says:
The Know Nothing victories are too nu-
merous for us to mention separately; they are
spreading far and near all over the United
States, and thousands are added to this great
party every day. In our mind, it is destined
to be the great party of this nation, and all
true and good Americans will unite them
selves with it, unless it be some Of the politi-
cal demagogues OF both parties. Such party
hacks as stand aloof from this organization,
will receive the first blow, and feel the power
ful influence it brings to bare at the polls
Political demagogues and trcksters, be on
the LOOK out!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

AN OLD MAN.--There is now living, says
the Annapolis Republican, in the lower Sec
tons of this county, man by the name of
Mr.. Richard Crandell, who is one hundred and
sic Years old, and is said to be very nctve and
sprghtly, and speaks of the improvements he
intends to make on his farm like man of
forty or fifty.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17
VOL Vino. 321.
BOYS OUT AT NIGHT.

Ii is impossible to exaggerate the evils re.
sulting from permitting boys to wander at
random through the st:eet after nightfall.--
The streets are the gathering places of all the
vicious-the portico to the temples of profit
gacy. The distance from one to the other is
but step, and that step is generally taken.
We speak that which we do know, and testi.
fy what we have seen. We hope every pa
rent will read and ponder the judieious views
expressed in the following extract found in
one Of our exchanges. The writer says that
he knew Of no habit more surely tending to
ruin than that Of parents permitting their sons
TO be in the street after nightiall. 1t is ruin
Gus to their morals in all instances. They
acquire, under the cover Of night, an unhealth.
full state of mind-bad, vulgar and profane
language, obscene practices, criminal senti-
ments, lawless and riotous bearing. Indeed,
it is in the street after nightfall that the boys
principally acquire the education of the bad,
and capacity of becoming rowdy, dissolute,
criminal men. Parents should, in this par.
ticular, have a rigid and infexible rule that
will not permit son under any circumstances
whatever, to go into the streets after night.
fall with view of engaging in out.of-door
sports, or meet other boys for social chance
occupation. A right rule of this kind, inva.
riably adhered to, will soon deaden the desire
for such dangerous practices. Boys should
be taught to have pleasures around the fami-
ly centre table, in reading, in conversation,
and in quiet amusements. Boys are seen in
the streets after nightfa behaving in man
ner entirely destructive of all good morals
Fathers and mothers, keep your children
home at night, and see that you take pains to
make it pleasant, attractive and profitable to
them; and above all, with view of their secu-
rity from further destruction; let them not be-
come, while forming their characters for life, so
accustomed to disregard the moral sense of
shame as to openly violate the Sabbath,dayin
the street passtimes during its day or evening
hours
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

eg- The editor of the Louisville Times
boasts that he never had any faith in the
truth of the telegraphic despatch announcing
the capture of Sebastopol, in reply to which
the Louisville Journal thus poetizes:
"No teegraphc falsehood him deceived
lie scented truth and it alone received;
His genius quick as Heavens electric fire
Gmsped trulh-and left the lie upon the wire.'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

a1-Tn a late number Of the London Times
,be fact is mentioned that four English pau
oers had arrived who had been sent back from
Boston, Mass, by the authorities Of that city,
because of their having been paupers when
they were shipped to America.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

"Thc best laid schmes of mice and men
Gang aft nRie,n
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PRrcE OF Hoes.-An offer Of $4,25 per
cwt. for 1000 fat hogs, payable on the lst of
January, with eight per cent. interest, has
been refused at Lexington, Ky. Several lots,
however, have been sold there at $4 gross,
on time. e
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-17

t5y- The "Fusionists" Of Ohio are TO hold
a mass State Convention at Columbus, on tho
22d February, to nominate State ticket.