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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

PROVIDE FoR the BlRDs.-There nre few
who object to eultivatng an intimate ac-
quaintance with the birds; to having them
nest, ring, chatter, rear their young, prey up.
on the worms and bugs in orchard, garden,
and strawberries Invite them by putting
up small bird.houses, and furnishing them
facilities for nesting. A half gallon empty
oyster keg turned down, will attract the
wrcns, and in all tho feathered family there
is no more sociabls singing and chaitering
summer companion. Bring them near your
bedroom, and their voices will be mingled
with the hcalthful morning air that enters
lis Niagara Democrat.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

From nature man derives every thing
The spider taught him weaving; the fish fur
nished the idea of boat the swan, the pleas
ing model of the bail; the palm led to the
erection of tho pillar; the skin OF brutes gave
us tho idea of dress; ane the cocoa nut led
to tho beer-jug. The tax on wood alone ap-
pears to be !. human invention.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, AUG. 3, 1855.

w-A dispatch from Cincinnati states that
General Sargent on Thursday made formal
demand upon each Of the military companies
composing the Irish battalions, for the deliv-
cry forthwith to him Of all the arms, appen.
dages and accoutrements in their possession,
which order was obeyed only by single
company.
Gen. Sargent then sued out writs Of re-
pleviu, and the Sheriff took possession Of the
entire accoutrements Of the other companies.
A simillr demand is to be made on the Ger.
man companies. The cause of the proceed
ings is some alleged insubordination, on the
4th oe July. Con nsiderable excitement has
arisen from it,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

CHARACTER OF THE PREsIDENT.-T The
Washington correspondent of the New York
Courier and Enquirer, thus graphically
sketchcs the character of President Pierce:
The great defect Of the Presidents charac.
ter is vacilati0n and infrmity of purpose
lie is the instrument of the strongest will
which approaches him. His resolutions yield
to opportunities entreaties and menaces. He
gave Grund written order on the Secretary
of State for the consu!ship at MarselIes-
The Virginia and Pennsylvania delegates in
Congress protested, and the appointment was
refused Thus was presented the scandal Of
q foreigner carrying about the dishonorcd
order of the President of the United States
for paltry Office. The President promised
Colonel Wilcox, son.in.law, of Major Donel.
son, the mission to Chill. The Ohio delega.
tion made united demand for it, Henre
Donelson perambuates the country, pro-
claiming the teachery of Pierce.
The President promised Mcdonald, of
Maine, the office of 5th Auditor in return for
his vote for the Nebraska Bill When the
time for fulfilling the promise arrived General
Pierce nsked the permission of Mcdonald to
tender the appointment to Judge Minor, the
law partner of the former, in expectation that
Judge NJ. would decline il: lie accepted it,
to the dismay OF the President; and it became
necessary to pay Mcdonald with The superin-
tendence of petty Custom. house. In the
same way he at first erected the infamous
scheme of repudiating the Missouri Compro-
mise, but yielded to repeated deputatiOns of
insOlent advocates of the measure, while pro.
testing against the treachery and dishonor of
which he was made the instrument. Such a
man is not fit to be President. In fact he
cannot be President, because, though the
nominal occupant of the place, all the real
power which it is his duty to exercise de
wolves upon other men, not responsible to
the country.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

SNAKE IN HEN's EGG.-The Editor OF
the Shenandoah Tenth Legion, a few days
since saw an egg on the shell of which was
plainly raised the outlines of snake-the
iorkcd tongue and eyes being easily discerr.
able. Unfortunately, the egg wass broken,
and in it was found u rcl snake, correspond.
ing in dimension with the raised outlines on
the shell. The snake had no connection
with the vital principles or germ of the egg,
but was formed between the membrar ous
coveringand shell, and was entirely iudepend-
ent of both.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

A GREAT SALE.-It is stated that the iii.
nois Central Railroad Company sold the
other day a piece of land fronting on the line
of their railroad near the foot Of Lake street
Chicago, at 5000 per front foot, or $4,000
for forty feet.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

sY-A quiet exposition of truth has n bet
tor effect than violent attack on error. Truth
exirpates weeds by working its way into
their place, and leaving them no room to
grow.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03
July l9, 1855.

How TO Manage BUsINEss.-The fol-
lowing advertisement appeared in the New
York Herald:
Aaron rompkins begs to return his thanks
to the many friends who have patronized his
stores, and begs repetition Of their iavors,
and to inform them he has made Ia 900 dol.
lars by his years trade, and, to prevent any
questions being asked, he begs to tell them
how he made it. He made $1,000 by at.
tending TO his own business, and $1,000 by
letting other peoples business alone; and to
all concerned he respectfully advises the
same proper attention to their duty"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

CoPPER IN VIRclSIA.---I'ho receipts of
copper at Lyncbbnrg, from the Carroll coun.
ty mines for the aSt six months, ii is stated,
has been I,454,36O pounds, or more than tho
whole Lake Superior mining region for the
same length Of time.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

HELr ONE ASorHER.-Sir Walter Scott
wrote:
"Tho race Of mankind would perish did
they cease to aid each other From the time
that the mother binds .he child's head, till
the moment that some kind assistant wipes
the de"th-damp from the brow of the dying,
we can not exist without mutual help. All,
therefore, that need aid, have right to ask 1t
OF thelr fellow mortals; and no one, who has
~ IN ms power to grant, can refuse without
iDcurring guilt"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

LARGE YIELD OF CABBAG ss.-The Cali
fornia Farmer says; "We have been shown
the fact of the most productive acre of cab
bages we have yet known. The parties pre-
pared one acre of ground in the best order,
and selecting the best plants of the drumhead
cabbage, covered the entire acre; this was
near the Mission Dolores. From this mere
the produce was $4,000. A large proportion
of the cabbages weighed from twenty to
thirty pounds each. One load of cabbages
brought to market realized ninety dollars
This speaks well for California.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

BEAUTIFUL PAssAGE.-1he following is
from the pen of Walter Savage Landor:
81 he damps ofautumn sink into the leaves
and prepare them for the necessity OF the
fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close
around us, detached from our tenacity to life
by the general pressure of recorded sorrows.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03
THE RAILWAYS, THE PRESS, AND
THE FARMERS.

Since the late reforms ia railway manage
ment, including the looping off of the dead
heads and other incidental means of stealing
a ride at somebody's else cost, there has been
considerable hue and cry in different parts of
the country against the managers. We are
somewhat surprised at this, and more sur
prised, too, that any respectable newspaper
should join in this crusade against reform
of what every person knows to have been
most gigantic evil. Newspaper editors have
profted the least from the free pass system,
and as they had, untruy, TO bear the stigma
of being bought up by this cheap bribe, they
should be very thankful that the system has
now passed away. We are glad to see that
some editors are satisfied with the new order
of things, and copy below portion of an ar
ticle from the Ohio Cutivator upon the
matter.
1t has been quite fashionable of late to say
al! manner of hard things against the rail
roads, because they thought proper to dis
continue an enormous free list, which had
| oNS"biS " OlNlJS tNll. vi tHtSt
fanlt-finders, were not the editors of the Ohio
Cntisator,. True, in the days of free passes
we enjoyed large liberty, FOR which we were
very grateful, but saw too clearly the justice
OF the reform, to complain when they were
no longer rendered us. And at the meeting
of the Ohio Editorial Convention in Zanes.
vile last Writer with Col. Schouler, of the
| Cincinnati Gazette, we We're nearly alone in
our opposition to the condemnatOry. resolu-
tons sought to be passed by that body, and
for which opposition we were charged with
being subsidized by the secret favors of the
railroads. This is a mistake. Since the ex-
piratlon of our passes of 1854, we have paid
for every mile that we have travelled.
But we have larger view of this subject
than our own personal convenience. When
our farmers can send fat bullock from the
Scoto Valley to New York, in four days, at
Il cost of ten or twelve dollars, it becomes
matter of no small moment in the vast cattle
trade Of this region, as compared with
weary journey of as many weeks, with its
wasting of flesh and drain upon the purse
When we find ourselves with too much wheat,
or too little wheat in any locality, it is now
an easy and speedy work to equalize the sup
ply or distribution. When, as last winter,
we find ourselves in want of hundreds of
thousands Of bushels of potatoes, and no
surplus within five hundred miles, how could
we procure seed and feed the babies till
another harvest, without these iron sinews
which bear them to our doors as with the
speed of the wind! Let those who denounce
railroads as mean and stingy, think of these
things, and hundred others that these will
suggest, and revise their opinions.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

Mrs. Smikes says the reason children are
so bad this generation is owing to the wear.
ing of gaier shoes instead of the old.fasI,-
ioned slippers. Mothers find it too much
trouble to undo cutters TO whip children, 50
they 20 unpunished; but when she was n
child, the way the old slipper used to do its
duty was o caution.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03


GOOD HuMoR.-keep in good humor. II
Is not great calami.ies that embitter existence,
1t is the petty vexaiions, the small jealousies,
the little disappointments, the "minor mise.
ries," that make the heart heavy and the TEN.
per sour. Don't let them. Anger is pure
waste Of vitality. II helps nobody, and hin.
ders everybody. 1t is always foolish, and al.
ways disgraceful, except in some rare cases
when il is kindIed by seeing wrong done to
another aud even that "noble rage" seldom
mcnds the matter. Keep in good humor.
HIcH ComPLIMEST.-At the Dorchester
celebration on the 4th inst, Col. Aspinwall
late U. 5. Consul to London, and an officer
IN the war of 1879 who lost his arm in the
service stated in his speech, that tho late
Duke OF Wellington, (no mean authority
styled the march of Gen. Winfield Scott to
Mexico, "the military miracle OF the age"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

How TO SUccEED.-Alany persons give
themselves much uneasiness in their anxiety
after wealth. They strain their vision in
looking at those who have succeeded, and
without thinking how they became wealthy.
jump at the conclusion that was by some
lucky stroke of fortune. 1t never enters the
brains of those well wishers, that the price
of success is industry and honesty; and that
to succeed now days, the same rugged path
of fortune must be traversed, as long ago,
travelled over by those whose position they
envy. There is no rozal road or short cut to
wealth. 1t can only be gained by indomta-
BILE industry and retained by prudence. Wish.
ing, without working will never build up
fortune. How many deceive themselves by
attempting to grasp sudden riches? How
many ruin themselves by their desire to jump
into wealth? 1t is true, some may hit on
lucky vein, but not all-such is an accident,
and exception, the majority turning up shovels
full of sand, until they reach the ore. Look
at the parties who have made their fortunes.
Are they your smart men who, despising the
plodding method of accumulation, think to
enjoy without labor! On the contrary, the
architects of their own fortune, have been re.
markable for their industry, perseverance and
honesty, and to these means alone, are their
"good fortune" to be attributed. If you want
to be as they, you must initiate them. Pur-
sue any other method to gain riches and you
will find, perhaps, when too late, you have
been graspng at a shadow while you have
Let the substance slip through your hands.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

Believe nothing against another but upon
good authority; nor report what may hurt IL
mother, unless it may DO greater hurt to
others 10 conceal IL.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

W-They who abandon friend for one
error know but little Of human character, and
prove that their hearts are as cold as their
judgments are weak,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03
TER vi s.:

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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

fB- Wiggles thinks that the label on a
certain popular nostrum, "Buy me, and I'll
do you good" should read t6us--.Buy me
and III DO you-good"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-03

Tho rain it raineth every day-Sunduy
not excepted.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-12-01
The Recent Elections.

We see nothing i'll the recent elections winch
should dishearten the American party OF the INT
led States, while there is much that should Stmu-
late 2nd strengthen the members thereof torenew-
ed exertic1l Ir the first place, they esssentl-
ally right. They are contending for the suprema-
cy of principle which has never been questioned
in any country under Gods heaven, saving and ex-
cepting the United States. The consciousness OF
right is a tower Of strength and when properly
persevered in and carried out must lead to victory,
Just az ture " truth is omnipotent and public JUS
tce certain"-a saving Of HENRY CLAY, the
truth of which he did not fully realize until the
shadows of the grave gathering around his
earthly form. But the principle he enunclated in
his own sublime diction is eternal, and does not ap
ply to men, Men die, but principles never The
ruler departs this life and goes to final Judgment,
but the nation lives on-the principles OF its gov
ernment still exist-the "nation never dies. so
with the principles of the American party, Its sio-
ricus principles will never die although its leaders
and oriSinators may. A defeat here and check
there on an insulated battlefield, amount to moth
ing. As yet, the American party has never had
fair chance-an open tield--in which to display its
real strength. Dead weights, side issues local in
terest and disaffections, with some Objectionable
features in the plan of its organization, have all
contributed to whatever dsa sters it has encounter
| ed.
| But its losses have been more than counter6al
anced by its gains So far the late fall elections
are concerned, the American party is ahead We
have lost Louisiana and Mississ;ppi-thirteen cleo
toral votes-and have gained Maryland, New York
and Massachusetts,, as per last accommodating
about sixty electoral votes. We see no cause for
| dependency in such state of affars-nothing in
dicative of aught save Of complete triumph at the
grand pitched battle next November, when the
forces of the nation will be arrayed one side or
the other-when there can be no installing the
doctrines emblazoned on either banner-when the
field will be broad and fair, and when the people,
having the welfare of the country at heart can not
be deceived and led away by the arts of the des-
igning demagogue. -Baton Ronge Gazette,
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-12-01
What Railroads do for Farmers.

The following paragraph, from the Athens (Fenn)
Post, shows what railways do for farmers. The
farmers of the three counties named derive clear
profit this year Alone the single article of wheat
of more than $4,000 from the railway. Their
100000 bushels of wheat sell for 100000 more
than it would have realized if there had been no
railway to take it off:
WHARF.-The price continues at 81. One hundred and
nineteen wagons unoaded at the depot here Thursday,
the 9th This county will export of the late yield of the
harvest hundred and sixty thousand bushels. Other
counties along the line of the railroad will perhaps do as
we'll The three counties of Bradley, Mcann and Monroe,
from the information in possession, We have
doubt will sell for export over 400 600 bushels at an aver
age dollar per bushel Here, them is the
of between four and five hundred thousand dollars dsed
among the people of these counties for the single article Of
wheat alone, the product of single harvest. How much
wheat did these counties export before the railroad was
built and at what price? Not than % GOO bushels and
that small amount sold at average Of fifty cents per
bushe In the meanwhile lands have quadrupled in value
and have actually become rich by the enhance
ment talmost without an effort OF their own.
The foregoing remarks have the same application
to Louisiana that they have to Tennessee; and, al
though none of our railroads have been completed,
equally wonderful effects have been produced.
Lands that would not have brought dime per
acre three years ago. cannot now be obtained at
less than FIVE, ten and fifteen dollars per acre.
Large tracts have been brought under cultivation,
and larger tracts being brought under cultiva-
ton, the produce of which will find ready and
remunerative market. Smiling villages have leap
ed into life by magic as it were, and population,
progress and prosperity now reign, where, not long
SINCE almost primeval solitude prevailed. All this
has been effected by our partially completed rail
roads. And if such glorious results follow uncom-
pleted undertakings, what may We not anticipate
on the completion of the whole grand system.
IN o. Crescent
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-12-01
A Travelling Library.

Professor Person, the celebrated Grecian was
once travelling in stage-coach, where a young
Oxonian, fresh from college, was amusing the
ladies with a variety of talk, and amongst other
things, with a quotation, as he said, from So
phocles. A Greek quotation. and in coach
too, reused the slumbering Professor from a
kind of dog-sleep in sung corner of the vehicle.
Shaking his ear and rubbing his eyes, 81 think,
young gentleman" said he, ssyou favored US
just now with quotation from Sophocles; do
not happen to recollect it there"
go, SIR replied the tyro, "the quotation is
| word for word as 1 have repeated it, and from
| sophocles, too; but l suspect, Sir, it is some
| time since you were at college"
The Professor, applying his hand to his grea,
coat pocket, and taking out a small pocket edi-
ton Of Sophocles, quietly asked him if he could
be kind enough to show him the passage in
question in that little book. After rummaging
the pages for some time, he replied, "Upon
recond thoughts, now recollect that the pas
sage is in Euripides."
s'Then perhaps, Sir" said the Professor,
putting his hand again into his pocket, and
handing him similar edition of Euripides,
"you will be so good as to find it for me in
that little book
The young Oxonian again returned to his
0e'oA, oOH "A1iA Ao oC'eSA SNSeo - AANSsSAAAAEs
however, to himself VOW neveragain to quote
Greek in a stage-coach. The tttering of the
ladies' informed him plainly that he had got
into hobble. At last, he said, "Why, Sir,
how dull am! recollect now; yes, now I
perfectly remember that the passage is in
Eschylus."
The memorable professor returned to his in
exhaustible pocket, and was in the act of
handing him an Eschylus, when our astonished
freshman vociferated, Goodman! holloa,
goodman let me out; say instantly let me
cut! There's fellow here has the whole
Bodleian library in his pocket"
"BoRN ORArNRs."-ss S. S. Prentiss," says
Putnam's Magazine "was a born orator.
Such was not the testimony Of the late Alex
ander K. McClung, whose intimacy with Mr.
Prentiss during the most glorious part of his
life, gave him peculiar advantages for forming
correct judgement McClung used to say
that he had known, in his time, but two " born
orators men who talked eloquently always,
because they couldn't help it-because they were
perpetually inspired and needed no previous
preparation; one of them was Tom Marshall,
of Kentucky and the other, Sam Corwin, of
Ohio. All the rest, he had ever met, including
Prentiss, the most eloquent Of all, had to pre-
pare themselves carefully and laboriously be-
fore-hand. Prentiss, he said, sometimes failed
Marshall and Corwin never.-Memphis Eagle