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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

A VERY Touch SToRY--Sixiy yoke Of
reb bulls, according to the Frontier News,
were seen last week, by nm old lady in Kan.
sas, hitched to ar empty wagon, which was
mired in the streets Of this city. The team
reached entirely from hill to bill, across one
of our valleys, vulSarly called CUTS. Tho
Wagon, being very tight in the mud, re-
fused to move; the consequence was, when
that portion of the team in the lead, over
on the other hill, spread themselves in strong
pull, and Strengthened the chains, that twcn-
iy seven yoke Of the bulls in :he centre were
suspended in mid air, by their necks, some
thing less than fifty feet above ground
We did not see it, but understand that a
profile view was taken on the spot for tho
News oiiice.--Knsas City Enterprise.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

PRovING CHARACTER.-"Uo you know the
prisoner, Mr. Jones'
ayes, to the bone"
"What is his character"
"Didn't know he had any"
"Does he live near you!"
$50 near that he has spent only five shil'
lings for fire wood in eight years"
"Dd he ever come in collision with you in
any matierl"
"Only once, and that was when. he was
drunk and mistook me for lamp post
"From what you know of him, would you
believe him under oath!"
"Thit depends upon circumstances. If he
was so much intoxicated that he did not
know what he was doing, would. If not
wouldn't.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

A MODEL SpEEcH.-We commend the fol-
lowing speech to the careful study of all can
didates before the people. 1t was delivered
in Ilinos by n candidate for the Legislature,
is brief and pithy, and the man who made IL
was elected as he deserved TO be:-Fellow
citizens am no speech-naker, but what say,
III do. I've lived amol & you twenty years
and I've shown myself clever fellow, you
know it without speech. am candidate
for the Legislature; if you think I'm the.
"clear grit" vote for me; If YOU think Major
,K-, of better stripe then ! am, vote
for him. The fact is that either Of US will
make blamed good representative.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

Curious STATE OF 'rHTEes-The editors
of the Washington Uniun stand charged
with being interested in the Kinney expedi-
ton and with privately aiding ard abetting il.
This charge against them is unqucstionably
true. Several months ago they put forth'an
elaborate defence of the expedition; and
they have never retracted it as they undoubt-
edIy would have done in, obedience to the
will of the administration but tor their own
personal interest in the project.
Now the President of the United States
treats the Kinney expedition as piracy and
has given orders that it be arrested, and that
the severe penalties of the law he enforced
against the participators in it So we have
the spectacle of an administrations employ
ing as its organ an editor who is taking
part in an enterprise that makes him accor-
ding to the administrations own proclama-
ton pirate. Well, what must the admin
stration be, when the organ is a pirate?--
Lou Jour.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20
FOREIGNERS,

A LIQUOR Law TRIAL.-Portland, (Me.,)
June 3O.-At the law term of the Supreme
Court of Augusta, in the case of John Hers.
ham, sentenced iE the police court to fine and
imprisonment of selling a glass of liquor
Chief Justice Shepley discharged the prs-
oner on writ of habeas corpus, deciding that
the municipal judges are justices of the
peace, and have no jurisdiction in furnishing
liquor sellers. This can only be done by
indictment and trial by jury in the Supreme
Govt. This completely nullifies the law o
far as the manner and form of execution has
been attempted.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20
JUDGE CONE.

The following of Judge Cone, CON-
pimenting his course in the Philadelphia
Convention, we find in the Charleston Eve
ming News, the Editor Of which was also a
member of the Convention:
JUDGE CoYE OF GEoRGIA.-This thorough
man, of ripe. experience, powerful mind and
honest heart, was the Chairman of the Plat
form Committee at Philadelphia, reported it
to the Convention, and both within and with
out, sustained It with great ability. His
speech was the master effort in the body,
calm, searching, decided and complete, and
delivered with the earnest animation of deep
conviction. He is no ordinary man either in
mind, will or tome. 1t was his privilege to
close the debate, and eager attention waited
on every word, the swords OF wisdom and
of truth" By that time the leakage of what
transpred in the body had been stopped; and
the interest of the speech became absorbed
in the intenser interest Of the vote and its
important results. Hence little or no men.
ton hid been madcinsthe press of his high
services, and powerful argument. 6.
Judge Cone is one of Georga's noblest
sons, one of the leaders of her old Democ-
racy, and now one of the head and front of
the American Party. He also was the states.
man who reported in the Democratic Con-
venion the platform on which Polk was
elected President; and to which, if there had
been adherence, the country would not now
be in its distracted condition. lie would
have this new platform 'engrafted on that of
1874, aud all the conservative elements OF
the country rallied uponit.
That portion of the platform on the slave
ry iSsifes was constructed by himself and n
few othcrs-lhe embodiment, however, Of
the common thoughts of the Southern dele
cations, and the national conservatives With
the exception of the threatening features of
what is known as the Georgia Platform"
adopted by a constitutional Convention of
that State a few years since, it is substantial
ly the same. For our part we regard our
selves standing upon both as one. Upon
them the South must concur, and the only
common party into which all the old factions,
Democrats, Wings, and States Rights men
can come and unite, without jealousy or
shame or inconsistency, and with pride and
patriotism, is the American party. Political
demagogueism may kick against it, a petty
factous vanity may deter superficial men,
and local preJudiccs may for time mislead,
but the double urgency of good sense and
necessity will consumate the proper fu-
sion
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

What would the world be without Yam.
KEGS In this aye of human improvement
generally and baby shows in particular, how
refreshing it is to hear of such "real bless
ing to mothers" (aud fathers, too, for that
matterD as the following:
Mr.. Elphalet Stubbs, a live Yankee from
Connecticut, intends to exhibitat the Muse
un, on June 5th, his "Patent Back action
Spanker, which, on being attached to baby
of any age, watches over it like n mother
makes il hush when it becomes naughty;
obiges it to desist from swallowing thim--
bes, chalk, marbles, three cent pieces, pins,
or any other food unsuted TO his stomach;
compels it to 60 to sleep when il doesn't
want To-, and Il somewhat older, it sees that
it keeps its hands off the sugar-bowl and
jam pots, besids making it keep its face clean;
and all by the power of its "Back. action"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

FRAvcE.-A letter from Paris, says:--Nore
troops are being despatched TO the East, and
SO confident is Louis Napoleon of the speedy
fall of Sebastopol, that he Is already dcba-
ting upon the next point OF attack. Cron-
stadt again and again is spoken OF as the
onley key to ST. Petersburg, but a Nelson
would be wanted to accomplish this work.
1t is not unlikely, however, that the Allied
fleet in the Black Sea may join that in the
Baltic, and make some attempt this summer
Louis Napoleon, himself, is willing TO cross
The Rhine and deposc the Prussian King for
his obstinate neutrality.
But, what about the balance Of power, to
preserve which, England took part in tho
Wnr
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

R-To speak truth, reader, there is no ex.
celent beauty, no accor plished grace, no re-
liable refinement, without strength as excel
lent, as complete, as trustworty. As well
might you look for good fruit and blossom
on n rootless and sapless tree as for charms
that will endure in feeble and relaxed M.
ture. For little while the blooming sem
blance of beauty may flourish round weak
ness, but it cannot bear bast it soon fades,
even in serenest sunshine.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

GRIEFs OF BoYHooD.-God have mercy on
the boy who learns to grieve early? Condemn
il rs sentiment, if you will; talk as you VIII
of the fearIessness and strength of the boys
heart, ye. there belongs to it many tenderly
strung chords of affection, which give forth
low and gentle music, that consoles and RI
pens the ear for all the harmonies OF life
These chords little rude or unnatural ten
sion will break, and break forever. Watch
your boy; then, if so be he will bear the strain;
try his nature, il it be rude or delicate; and
if delicate, in God Is name do not, as you val
ue your peace and his, breed harsh spirit in
him, that shall take pride in subjugatins and
forgetting the finer affections.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

tE-A story is gazing the rounds of the
papers Of merchant in New York, who,
when first married, told his wife, that for
every "scion she produced he would place at
her disposal $4,000. After lapse of years
he failed, and upon informing his wife OF bis
embarrassments, she quickly placed in his
hands bonds to the amount OF $4,000, MS the
products of her industry, remmking at the
same time, "You see, Charles, that have not
been idle, and if you had been half as indus.
trious as your brother over the way, should
now have 100000.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

GREAT GuNs.-Wrought iron guns, OF
monster size and calibre, are in course oil
manufacture at the iron works OF Messrs'
Nasmyth, near Manchester. They will be up
wards Of three feet IN diameter and about
twelve feet long, weighing upwards of 20
tons each, and will discharge shell OF at
east 900 ID. weight at distance OF about
five miles. The forge and machinery espe-
cially required Tor the manufacture Have cost
10000.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

INYRsosMssr roR DEBr.-The new law
Of Massachusetts, abolishing imprisonment
for debt, went into operation on the 4th inst.
There were nine poor debtors set free by the
new law, TO enjoy their freedom and ccle'
brate the anniversary of their country's inde-
pcndcnce. Besides tho above freed ones,
over t'oo hundred captves, imprisoned for
non-paymcnt of fines and costs, were set free
by orders from the police court.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

I,oANIsG NEwsPAPERs.-Subscrib to
newspapers make complaint of the non ar
rival oil their papers, and, in some instances
intimate that the loss is occasloned oy tne
fact of the postmaster loaning to his neigh
bors the papers of Others for perusal. The
papers fail to lie returned to the proper
place, and hence the dissatisfaction. Post
masters are strictly forbidden to loan newspa-
pers that are in their office for delivery
Union
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

tSy- "You are very stupid, Thomas," said
country teacher to little boy eight years
old. aYou are like donkey, and what do
they do to cure them of stupidity" "They
feed them more, and kick them less" said the
arch little urchin.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

tB-Nevcr decide till you have heard both
sides of question. Then you can freely
sit in judgment, first having taken care to
lock prejudice outside the door. 1t isal ways
best to make the latter worthy an "outsider."
He is none of the blandest inmates at any
time. or i'm any place.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

NORTHERN DEMocRACY.-The Richmond
Wing quotes an article from the New York
Evening Post, in which it says there is a vast
proportion of the members Of the old Demo
cratic party who will support no candidate
nominated on any other ground than that OF
opposition to the finality of the Nebraska bill
The Wing says this assertions true, and the
only common ground upon which the North.
ern and Southern Democracy will ever meet
is the "spoils."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20
r1w-A Grahalnjte suggests the fol

r5y-A Grahanite suggests the following
for the million in these hard times. He
saws il can, at the option of the consumer,
he taken as bread or pudding
"Cut up four atbs in peck of sawdust
When we'll Mixed bake it by placing nap
kin containing it, in the sun, for halt fan hour.
Serve up with sause made by soakinga ce-
dar shingle in pail OF water"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

e5w Always do the best you can with the
expectation of being blamed by your most
intimate friends for not doing better. You
will thereby preserve good conscience and
nyoid disappointment.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

tJy- Mr.. A. ]. Daniels having lately lost
$500 in Chicago, and recovered it through
the honesty of n boy, named Robert J. Hunt,
who found it, testified his. appreciation of the
BOYS conduct by presenting him with hand
some gold watch, chain, key and seals,marked
al Rnwnrd of Mert"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

ty- Plant tree-traiu vine-fostcr
n shrub--deposite howerseed and nurture
its blossom-paint the fence-"Slck up
the yard"-ix the side wnk-erect tool
house-prune the orchard-make hen
coop in short, give heed to neatness and to
the little things that constitute the grand ag-
gregate Of health and public beauty.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

n-rA diligence was robbed by five men on
the road from Toluca and Moreia to Mexico,
while there was at least double the number
or men in it, and among them nm officer who
gave up his pistols and sword withouta Il word,
mprh less fight
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

.9y- Two of the papers in Kansas are hav.
ing it thick and hot. One says Of The other:
ave look down upon the impertinent,
puddleheaded, rattleblained. empty black
guard as the lordly bull dog on the dirty ant
hill, whose puuy inhabitants he crushes with
his footo -
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

sB- During recent encounter before Se-
pastobol, Russian bugler, quite n young
boy, leapcd on the top Of the British parapet
and sounded the charge. He was instantly
shot with numerous balls and his body fell
into the English trench.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

f5g- With love the heart becomes fair
and fertile garden, glowing with sunshine
and warm hues, cxhaling sweet odors: but
without it, is black desert covered with
nshea
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

.yy-The mortality in the Austrian army
In Gallicia is so great that tho bodies are no
longer buried separately, but in large pits
About $4,000 men have died and $4,000 in
the hospitals.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

~ Byron's pariiality towards America is
well known but perhaps never more strongly
expressed than in a letter to Tom Moore
where he observes:-I would rather have n
nod from an American than snuff box from
an pInperOr.
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ado Won think" asked Mrs. Peppe

"Do you think" asked Mrs. Pepper, rather
sharply, "that little temper is bad thing
in woman~ "Certa;nly not, ma'am," replied
the gallant philosopher, "it is so good thing
that she ought never to lose IT," Mrs. +. did
not consider that this view of the subject ex.
actly met her case, but she took the Phi!oso-
piers and went down to supper with him
quite gra.iuusly
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

r.y-A letter from Sdon, of recent date
10 The editor of the Albany Atlas, says that
the distractions OF the present war have pro-
duced literal anarchy in Turkey, and that
the Ottoman authorities are completely par
alized.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

tE- Butter was selling in Albany, N. Y.
last week, for sixteen cents per pound, be.
ing fall of twenty cents per pound III one
month.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

THs Law or LIBEL in Connecticut was
materially modified by an act Of the recent
legislature, by which the defendant may show
the intention with which he made the publ.
cation, and the plaintiff must prove malice
before he can recover
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, JULY go, 1855.

VIRGINIA g. TENsEssEE RAILRoAD.-Re-
ceipts for the month OF June, 1888:
From freight Sll,o22,44
and United States Mail s,959,56
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

There is no nobility like that of a great
beurt, for il never stoops TO arlifice, nor is
warting in good offices where they are sea-
sopable. That is true nobility.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

rW-It is said to have been remarked by
nm old politician, that II tho people OF the
extremes could change work for u yeMr--if
thc southern people could come to The North
and the northern people occupy the South
for twelve months-it would care them both
of all III feeling.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

The number ot teachers employed in the
schools Throughout the Empire of Austria
amounts to $4,000 Of whom 10000 are ie-
males.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20
A QUESTION FOR THE GlaLs.-Why wi

ACQUISITION FOR THE GIRLs.-Why will
cold water settle hot coffee!
Ansper.-From the fact that heated fluids
have u tendency to rise from expansion, cold
water will produce downward current, and
carry with it the PARTICLES of ground floating
about. The coffee must be hot and The water
cold.
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l9,9S2,4O

Total, l9,982,4O
being over so per cent greater the receipts
in June, 1854.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

OtR MuRDERERs.-By table published
in the Compendium of the Seventh Census,
giving the number Of conviets in the prisons
and penitentiaries of the several States, out
of every ten thousand of the population, of
natives and foreigners in that number is as
follows:
In Maine, out Of every ter thousand, rs five
foreigners to one native.
In Kentucky, six to one.
In Mississippi, ten to two.
10 New York, three to one.
In Tennessee, fifteen to two.
In Vermont eight to one.
In South Carolina, twenty-eight to one.
in Alabama, fifty to one.
In Georgia, six to one.
In Indiana, four to one.
The average in all the States is fraction
less than six to one.
For capital offences, out Of two hundred
and twenty convictions which took place. IN
about eighteen months, in seven States VIZ
in New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Lou's''
ana, New Jersey, Massachusetts,, and Mary
land, there were one hundred and thlrty-elght
of foreigners to eighty-two of natives.-Bos-
ton Patriot.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

N. o. City Work House.-Number Of
prisoners committed to the City Work House
of New Orleans for the week ending June
22d, SO
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

l9w-The first train passed over the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad on the both ult
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

ELEcToRAL--An auricuar member Of
Sam's vast Argus-eyed and Briarean body
polite supposes he would have overheard
conversation between couple of the repre-
sentatives of imported genus, somewhat in
this wise, if he had been near at the time it
took place
"Jamc, an is it yersef thatI vote wild me
next Mondayp "No Mickey" "An' why
not, Jamie!-ye voted last year" "Truthi,
thin, Mickey, an it's Inc self that amt nat
ra!ized at all, at ALL" "But We shwore to il
last year," "Shure an ] did, but didn't /
make mental reshervaton!' "Then, can't
We make a mental reshervatiOn this year!-
"Its the Know Nothings, ye spalpeen! A
mental reshervation will satisfy me conscience
but it won't 90 down wild the Amirican par
thy at all, at all. They'd find it out shure as
there's no shnaiks an toads in oud Ireland,
blessed be Saint Pathrick, an throt me
through"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20

sW- The Protestant ministers in this coun.
try used to be allowed to speak of the dan
gers of Romansm, without affronting mem
bers of their own churches, but they cant do
it now. Oh, no; they would be charged by a
certain class with making political speeches
in the pulpit, disgraeing the house Of God,
and all that. Such has been the case here in
Tennessee. But we suppose there are but
few ministers anywhere who will suffer them
selves to be thus driven from the faithful dis,
charge of their duty. Good men fear not
devils in any shape! Verify, times has come
to pretty pass.
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+ The Boy WHO LOVES To DEIEK.-.You
will generally find him with a cigar in his
mouth and it is chance if he does not swear
occasionally and sometimes pretty hard; TO
parents he will speak an impudent word, and
he will not be over civil to persons walking
in the street; he lovesto hang around grog
shops and saloons, there covcts the very leav4
ings of the glasses. What will such boy
come to but miserable end! Not that all
drinking boys are like him. Some are very
genteel, and sip their wine with nice grace;
but all have the same appetite, scorn the cold
water which their Heavenly Father has given
them; and hence il is that we at last find the
sons of many rich men, who are brought up
with great delcacy and refinement, in the
same poor house, or gutter, or Jail, with the
sons of some poor miserable boated drunk
ards. There is but one safe path. boys fo-
any of you to walk in-the path of total alb
stnece. Never go by the name of n drink
ing boy, if you would not finally have that
of drunken man.
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MAJOR HEERY.-This distinguished orator
addressed an American meeting on Wednes-
day night in the Courthouse. We have
heard Major Henry in his palmiest days. We
heard hlm in the exciting canvass Of 40 and
"A when he spoke as none could speak, but
those who have the blood of Patrick Henry
in their veins. We have heard him in the
advocacy of his own claims before the peo-
pie. We have heard him at the bar, when
juries and judges would smile when he
smiled, or melt in tears when he poured forth
his strains of pathetic eloquence. We have
heard him, when we thought he surpassed
his own unrivaIed excellencies. But never
have we listened to such n speech, even from
him US the one we heard that night. The
facts were strong and well selected, the logic
fotcible and irresistible, and his audience
were spell bound by his rhetoric. II was
not only good speech, an excellent speech, a
soul.staring speech-it was more, it was a
living speech-it viii be forgotten by none,
--and the young men who heard him, will
talk of it to thelf children long after the
great orator sleeps in his grave Cidrksuine
Chronicle.