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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

ALLEGHAYY TuNNEL.-Thc Grrenbrier
Era gives mn account Of the progress in tun-
neling the Allegheny Mcuntrn, from which
we learn that the distance so far accomplish
ed is 2,4H5 feet, being more than one-half
the entire length. The work is progressing
at the rate of 800 feet per month. The rock
through which tunnel excavation is being
made is n firm blue clay slate, the stra.iica-
ton being nearly at right angels to the di-
rection of the tunnel, generally inclining from
sixty to seventy'tive degrees from the hori.
zon'al, thus forming firm and compact roof
and side.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

CASE OF Col. WHEELRR's SLAVES
Judge Kane, of Philadelphia, delivered an
opinion on Friday morning adversely to the
reception of the petition of Johnson to quash
the writ of habeas corpus, in the case Of Pass
more Williamson, prononncing her to have
no status in Court, being entirely without
its jurisdiction.
The opinion is very elaborate, reviewing
the whole case, and re-allirming his former
opinion. lIe asserted the law of nations
guaranteed the right of transit of slaves, and
of every species of property, through terrific
ry where slavery was not recognised.
If the contrary principle was sanctioned
the time might come when the cotton OF
Louisiana, the rice Of Carolina, and the rum
Of New England, would be restricted from
transportation, without the bonds Of the
State producing them.
He maintained that the Federal Constitu-
tion recognized slaves as property, and up to
1880 slavery existed in the thirteen original
States. lie said that Wiliamson's duty, then
as now, was to produce Jane Johnson's chill
drcn.
Were the petitioner here to abide the ac-
ton of the court she would have right to
be heard, but being without the jurisdiction,
the records of the Court cannot be opened
or stranger.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26


ADVICE, GRATIs.-We don't know where
the following originated, but the author has
evidently been around some:-
Young man! keep your eye open when you
are after woman Is the pretty lace or
form attractive? Or a pretty face, even p
Flounces, boy, are no consequence. A pret-
ty face will grow old. Paint will wash Off
The sweet smile Of the flirt will give way to
the scowl of the termagant. The neat form
will be pitched into calico. Another and far
different being will take the place of the
lovely goddess who smiles sweet and eats
sour candy. Keep your eye open, boy, when
you are after the woman. If the little dear
is cross, and scods at her mother in the back
room, yoti may lie sure that you will get par
ticular fits all around the house. II she apollo
gises for washing dishes, you will need n girl
to fan her, If she bushes when found at
the wash tub with her sleeves rolled up, be
sure, sir that she is stobbsh little breeding
and little sense. If you marry girl WHO
knows nothing but to commit woman -saugh-
ter on the piano, you have got the poorest
piece of music ever gotten up. Find one
whose mind is right, then pitch in
Don't be hanging around her like poor
sheep thief, us though you were ashamed to
be seen in the day time, but walk up like
chicken to the dough and ask for the article
like man.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

s5sy"A a Mrs. Campbell, of Canoeharie, six
weeks since, gave birth to Il daughter, which
is now only ten inches high. and weighs but
two pounds. Its feet measure one inch in
length!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

How TO BE EIAPP7.-I will give you two
or three good rules which may help You to
become happier than you would be without
knowing them but as to being completely
happy, that you can never be till you get to
heaven.
The first is, "try your best to make others
happy" 81 never was happy" said certain
king, "til began to take pleasure in the
welfare of my people; but ever since then, in
the darkest day., have had sunshine in my
heart"
My second rule is, "Be content with little
There are many good reasons for this rule
We deserve but little, we require but little
and "better is little, with the fear Of God
than great treasures and trouble threwith."-
Two men were determined TO be rich, but
the one strovc to raise up his means to his
desires while the other did his best TO
bring down his desires to his means. The
result was, the one who coveted much was
always repining, while he who desired but
little was always cOnteuted.
My third rule s, "Look on the sunny side
Of things"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

t9y-fn the mill Of f. II. Hall, of Melville,
Mass, are now being woven,in wool, the por-
trait Of Washington, and pictures of the 10.
comolive and fire engine all of which arc
new designs, executed on that wonder Of
mrchanic ingenuity, the jacquard loom.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

.5y-T s. Green g. Co., recently cut into
, vein of the black oxide of copper, in
Pol county, Georgia, which was from six to
light feet wide, and worth from 40 to so per
,ent.--AHana In.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

THE BED As AN iSsTITUTION.-'Thea almost
forgotten French romancer, Clemcnce Ro-
bcrls, thus warmly expresses himself on the
comforts Of The bed: "a bed is certainly
the most precious and most favorable asylum
to be found here below. In fact when look
at it and when | think, when | step into it.,
how one is suddenly, as if by enchantment,
rid of fatigue, cold, wind, dust, rain, importu.
nate visitors, tedious conversations, common.
place remarks, pompous assertions, Dragging
putting forth hcadstrong opinions, contradic,
tons, discussions, travel ing stories, confden.
tial readings Of a poem or Il whole tragedy,
explanations of systems in long words, in
tcrminabe monologues, and that in place of
all these one has pictures, thoughts, memo.
ries, to be called up, that he is in the midst
ola chosen society ofphantoms and visions,
lust tn his mind, and all these dreams, which
n foreign writer calls moonlight of the brain;'
when think of all this, as look ut II bed,
know not what words to make use of to ex-
press my enthusiasm and veneralon and
am almost ready to bow in alteration before
IL"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26
New York, Oct. Is

A freight train ran of the track on ine
Harlem Railroad. Two cars ana an engine
were smashed. The engineer and brennan
were killed. A rail had been placed across
the track.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26
Look up with hopeful eyes
Though all things seems forlorn;
The sun that sets to night will rise,
Again to.morrow morn

The skipping lamb, the singing lark and the
lcaping fish tell us that happiness is not con.
fined to one place. God in his goodness has
spread it abroad on the earth, in the air, and
in the waters. Two aged women lived in the
same cottage; one was always fearinga storm,
and the other was always looking for sun
shine. Hardly need say which it was wore
forLidding frown, or which it was whose
face was ightoncd up with joy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

~ The Zritung, leading German paper
in Texas, advises its countrymen to Storm
good well grounded German schools-to be
proud that they are Germans, and deny not,
from u cowardly fear Of men, those better and
freer convictions which they brought with
them from Germany"
Now, it is precisely such advice as the
above, says n Y. paper, "whch is cacu-
lated to estrangc the German and other emi-
grants from the country of their adoption
l'y following such evil cOunscls, they have
already incurred the hostility of the Amcri-
can people, to degree dangerous to their
welfare. What is needed to make the Ger
mans good citizens, is to forsake their foreign
pre'posessions; to endravor to become Amer
leans in language, spirit and feeling, and to
identify themselves with American principles
and interests. The formation of German
schools, the clinging TO German manners and
sentiments, can never make them good Amer
lean citizens. German materialism is not
what is needed to promote the welfare of our
institutions. On the contrary, it scaIcuated
to undermine our liberties, and to alienate us
from the pure fountain of our nationality
Protestant Christianity, So long as German
as well as all other emigrants to this country,
cultivate a spirit of iorcignism among MS, and
adhere TO their respective national character
iSti.S nrnfnrrinrr ia hn Si1orn1 ~ nI;,,,
rather than as American citizens, they will be
strangers in strange land. They must
adopt different policy, and become Ameri.
canzed, if they desire an uhobstructed ad-
mission to the privileges of American citizen
shin
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26
THE AGE OF DISCOVERY.

The present is emPhaticaIy the age of
discovery. At no period since the DAYS of
Columbus and Cortez. has the thirst for en-
poraton been more active or universal than
now. One by one the outposts Of barbarism
are stormeG and carried; advanced parallels
are thrown up, and the besieging lines of
knowledge, which, when once established,
can never be retaken, are gradually closing
around the yet unconquered mysteries of the
globe. Modern exploration is intelligent and
its results are therefore positive and perma.
nent. The traveller no longer wanders be-
wildercd in cloud of fables, prepared to see
marvels and but too ready to create them; he
tests every step of his way by the sure light
of science and his pioneer trail becomes a
plain and easy path to those who follow. The
pencil, the compass, the barometer, and the
sextOnt accompanying him; geology, botany
and ethnoogy are his aids, and by these
helps and appliances, his single brain achieves
results now which it would once have requir-
ed an armed force TO win.
Within the last twenty-five years all the
principal features Of the geography of our
own vast interior regions have been accurate
ly determined; the great fields of Central
Asia have been traversed in various directions,
from Bokhara and the Oxus to the Chinese
Wall; the haf.known river systems or South
Amesica have been explored and surveyed;
the lev continent around the Southern Pole
has been discovered; the North Western Pas
sage, the ingus fatus Of nearly two centuries,
is at last found; the Dead Sea is stripped of
fabulous tcrrors, the course Of the Niger is NJ
longer myth, and the sublime secret of the
Nile is almost wrested from his Keeping
The mountains of the Moon, sought for
through two thousand years, have been be-
held by Caucasian eye; an English steamer
has ascendcd the Chadda to Tie frontiers of
the Great Kingdom of Bornou; Leichardt and |
Stuart have penetrated the wilderness of Aus.
tralia; the Russians have descended from IT.
koutsk to tie mouth of the Amoor; the anti |
qnated walls of Chinese prejudice have been !
cracked and are fast tumbing down, and the
canvass screens which surround Japan have
been cut by the sharp edge of American en-
terprise Such are the principal results of |
modern exploration. What quarter of a
century, since the form of the earth and
the boundaries Of its land and water were
known, can exhibit such list of achieve.
ments!
To this may now be added the iutercs-
pstng discovery of DR.. Kane in the Arctic
seas.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

liz WoE'T Go.--I'hc Albany Atlas, read
out Of the Democratic party by the Washing.
ton organ, won't 90 out. Free soil as tho
Atlas man is, he regards Mr.. Pierce as "a man
and brother"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

.zgy- Jim Snicks puts everything to use
his wife has a bald head, and he strops his
razor on it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

sSy'The Spnniards say, 'at eighteen marry
your daughter TO her superior, at twenty TO
her equal, at thIrty anybody that will have
her.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

r4y" There is village in Michigan whero
the church bell is rung every day at ~ o'clock
for the people to take their qunine, as they
all have the chils ard fever.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

Mrs, Darlington says that the only way
to prevent steamboats, explosions is 10 make
tho engineers bile their water on shore. In
her opinion all the Dustin is caused by cook
ing the steam on board.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

Our readers have heard of the old lady
who had played cards for twenty years with
out having trump. She always misdealt
when it was her deal. We have met persons
who were afraid to play whist too often lest
they should exhaust their number of posi-.
bic games. Mr.. Galloway, however, in his
Treatise on Probability, has crumb of com
fort for the old lady and for those prudent
economists. 1t appears that If 100000 900
persons, about the population of the earth;
were to deal the cards necessarily, night and
day, for 1,OOO,O00,00O years, at the rate Of a
deal by each person a minute, and even il
eaeh of these deals were essentially different,
they would not have exhausted the one
hundreth-thousandth part of essentially dif-
ferent ways in which the 50 cards can be
distributed between four payers.-BoSton
Adp.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

The editor of the Rutland Herald (jdst
married to Boston gaD says:
"A pair Of sweet lips, pink waist ribbon,
n swelling breast, and n pressure or two of
delicate hands, will do MS much to unhnge a
man rs three fevcrs, the measles, n large
sized whoopng cough, pair of lock Jaws,
several hydrophoo bias and the doctors bill.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

BROADWAY, New YoRK.-A correspond
cnt of the Atlanta Inteligencer, writing un-
der date of New York, Oct ~, says "f ever
there was prospect that Broadway would
be relieved, it has now past. The railroad
which was to have stamped that avenue with
the latest seal of freshness and progressive
ness, must now lay on the shelf of postpone
ment Whalcbone has been too much for
iron. Our ladies' skirts demand more room
for their distending hoops, and the pare is
hardly large enough for the increased majesty
Of the red, blue and green plaids, which are
now beginning TO glare, in autumn hues,
along our over crowded thoroughfares. Car
riages consequently need more space along
the sidewalks, and omnibusses are in worse
jam than ever before. The old is thus battling
with the new. The high-heeled shoes OF
our great grandmothcrs are usurpng the
place of tri colorcd gatcrs. Gentlemen are
going back to the rufiled shirts Of '76, and
short clothes, cooked hats and bright shoe
buckles will inevitably turn up in n few years.
Red republicans and Young America must
brace for the conflict, for costumes often
effect opinions, and aristocracy in govern
ment may follow knee buckles and lace waist
bands.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

A STARK OF THE ANGEL LEFT-An en-
change says that n number of abandoned wo.
men in Norfolk, Va, have since the breaking
out of the yellow fever in that city, been most
unceasing in their attention to the sick, and
have proved the most valuable nurses.
They have been the means of saving a
number of lives, and in such angelic labors
for the deeds are heavenly things perform.
ed by the daughters of sn-scveral Of them
have died-died at the post of duty and
mercy, administering to the victims Of the
plague.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26
The Scientific Bulletin of Paris says:

"Chemistry is about TO drag from an anti
cipated death thousands of men, who, in the
exercise of their cruel professions-gilding,
looking-gloss plating, white lead manuiac-
turing, etc; and also those whose system
has been ruined by mercury in its various
forms-for this, scenec-has raised her right
arm and arrested their misery and dcstruc-
ton. This discovery extracts from their bo-
dies, atom by atom, every particle of metallic
substance from every part of the human sys-
tenn. The invention consists of nm oppIica-
ton of chemical electricity to accomplish the
purpose, and of all the many and marvel lous
things that electricity has achieved, this is
the boldest and most triumphant"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

,-y- When Socrates was asked why he
had built for himself so small II house
Small MS it is" he replied, 81 wish | could
fiji il with friends"
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sg-A young lady describes her fcelings,O and

sR"A young lady Describes her feelings, an
courts sympathy:
Nv heart is sick, my heart is sad
But obi the cause | dare not tell
| nm not gri>ved, am not glad,
am not i'll, am not well
I'm not myself-Pm not the same:
am indeed, know not what;
I'm changed in all, except in name
OH when shall | be changed in that
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

.B- What is stronger in death than in
life! An old yellow-legged hen. If you
don't believe it, try to disscct one while boil
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

C5S-lt is intlmated that in France, before
the bread reaches the consumer, the grain
and flour of which it is compounded, passes
through the hands Of hccnty spectators.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

rsy- The purest metal is produced from
the hottest furnace, and the brightest thun-
dcrbolt from the darkest storm.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

AN EXCITING lYCTr ENT.-The Pittsburr
Post relates the following thrilling incident
Son THURSDAY, after the BairsvilIe train on
the Pennsylvania Railroad Con which Lough.
BRIDGES great Amstidan car. .braker is con.
structed) had got under full hpadway beyond
East Liberty, the engineer, Mr.. William
Wills, espicd something on the track which
he took to be Il lost package, when within
about one hundred and seventy five feet of it
he discovered it was n little child, about four
teen months old, sitting between the cross
ties With astonishing rnpidity he struck
the steam eavcr, and cut off the steam, drew
back the hraker lever, and applied at the
brakes. The fireman, J. Snyder, got down
on the step at the side of the engineer, await
ing the moment that the momentum of the
train was sufficiently checked to permit him
to Jump off and run ahead to snatch the child
from the track, which soon occurred; when,
by superhuman effort, he gained inch by
inch on the engine, and the babe was picked
up safely and handed over to its father. The
engineer performed his duty 50 well that the
train was brought to Il dead stop within lif.
teen feet of where the child was sitting.
"l'ne sight of the infant, the deiverance
to its parent, the running of the men, the
movements of the engineer the screcching
of the brakes ard sparks of fire that flew
from the track, rendered it n moment of the
most Intense eXcitment-one that will be
held in pleasant circumference by those
who, by their extraordinary presence of mind,
saved the child from M awful death"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

LosT IN THE CLoUDs.-The New Orleans
Exponent, on the French side Of the sheet,
gives the following amusing anecdotete:
"Two policemen lately presented them
seltcs at the workshop of the Great West
ern railway, in order TO arrest one MIR. Smith,
engineer of locomotive. Smith, appreciat-
ing their good intentions, Immediately raised
the safety valve, and an impenetrable vapor
spread on all sides around him. The inves-
legations of the policemen were without re-
suit. The cunning Mr.. Smith, by the help Of
the steam, had disappeared along with it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

EXPORT OF WHEAT FROM THE SoUTH.-
The Savannah News of the 18th gives the
following ITEM
The ship Southport, which was cleared for
Liverpool by Messrs. Dana & Wnshburn, on
Saturday last, took, as pant Of her cargo,
2,O97 bushels of wheat. This is the first
export of this article from our port to Flu
rope, and we hope it may prove the begin
ming of u trade which will be profitable both
to our entcrprising merchants and our coun-
try friends. ,.r
With our railroads connecting MS directly
with one of the most productive corn and
wheat growing regions of the Union, what is
in the way to prevent Savannah from bccom-
ing an extensive grain market and shipping
port! 1t is but recently that the wheat and
corn growing sections of Georgia and Ten
nessee have had an outlet to the sea, and that
planters have been encouraged to plant for
foreign market But already the production
is so large, that prices in first hands rule
much lower than in the Northern States
We have no ice.bound canals and snow-clog-
red railroads in winter to close the avenues
to market, and we can see no good reason
why our merchants may not successfully
compete with Baltimore aud New York in
supplying the West Indies and European
markets direct from our own port we
hope soon to see the matter fairly tested.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

SrMr. Dubbs, grave digger at Norfolk,
after burying $500 persons, victims of the
yellow fever, the last Of whom was his WIFE,
has at length himself died of that disease.
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Nsw ORLEANS, Oct. l6.

Galveston dates to Sunday have been re-
cCiycd. Capt. Callahan, of the Texas Ran
gers, had battle at Eagle Pass, on the 4th
inst, with 700 Mexicans and Indians. -Four
ct the Texans and 40 of the enemy were
Killed The latter rctreated.
capt Callahan calls on the State ot Texas
ior assls'ehce to eXtcrmnate the Indians, VINO
say they are determined to kill rs they go.
Capt. Z. is expecting another attack.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

COOPERATION OF THE WIFE.-No man
ever prospered in this world without the CO.
operation of his wife. If she unites in mu-
tn al endeavors or rewards his laoors with an
cndearng smile, with what confidence will he
resort to his merchandise or farm, fly over
lands, sail upon seas, meet difficulty ana en-
counter danger, if he knows he is not spend
inc his strength in vain, but that his labor
will be rewarded by the sweets of home! =
Solieitude and disappointment enter the his.
tory of every mans life and he is but hal!
provided for his voyage who finds but an as
socatc for happy hours, while for his months
of darkness and distress no sympathizing
partner is prepared.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

c1g-A gentleman inquired Of a carpen.
tcr's boy: 'My lad when will this job your
master has on had be completed:
Icant tell, SIR said the honest boy, art.
lessly, 'it's day job, and it will be depend
upon how soon the old man has another
ordpr
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-26

HOWELL CoBB's majority for Congress in
The Sixth District in Georgia, is 1000.