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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14
0coee Male Academy

Ocoee Male Academy,
BcntOn, Tenn.
VENlE Fall Session OF this Institution will commence
IL on Monday, the 3D. day Of September next, un-
der the charge Of Rev. j. l.. MILBURN whose abilities
aud character as Teacher well known that the
Trustees deem II unnecessary to trump his fame. Being
graduate OF one OF the first Colleges Of East Tennes
see, he Is competent to teach the pupils science and
language, and to conduct the School with proprety, ever
ready to guide, morally well as mentally. Parents
and guardians may patronze Oeoee Academy with as
surahce' The location is healthy and pleasant.
Terms Of Tuition, per Session Of 20 ,ceeks:
First Glass. ~ 90
Second " ...,................... $500 & m
No extra charges. Board can be had IN private fan-
lies on very reasonable terms. Those who pay In ad
vance can have reasonable deduction from the regu
lar rates OF tuition. By order Of the Board.
Aug 10 W. b. REYNOLDS, Sec'y.
rS-.Ch air0s
OH DOZEN Cottage, Rocking and Chidren's Chairs,
~ Tor sale cheap for cash. Apply to
Jan. H. j. s, BRIDGES. Athens Depot.
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HArP0 OF CO1xzzaa191a.
WE now have the e., Largest and Best as.
Book we have ever had.
z. +. & T. i. GIBSON.
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Interesting from Japap.


Another letter from Silas E. Burrows
appears in the Ata California, which We
condcnse as follows:
While in California Mr.. BIS commercial
business enabled him to obtain various spec
linens Of sculpturing from the natives o
Queen Charlotte's Island, in Latitude 81
N. The natives take slate rock from thph
J Mountains and sculpture it, with beauii
ful polish. He was impressed with the
great resemblance Of this work TO that o.
Japan, and took with him TO Japan various
specimens. When 10 Jeddo Bay, with the
Vice Governor Of Uraga. and many Of the
chief men on board, he had these labors oI
the sons of Queen Charlot,e's Island placed
on the table, without a remark being made.
The japanese, with evidently great sur
prise, las they had their police regulations
50 perfect that nothing could come on board
the ship without their knowledge,) } said,
"Where, Mr. Burrows, did you get these
japanese artieles::" He replied. "are these
JaPanese?" Certainly they are Japanese"
said several Of the party, and anxiously
looked at him 20 ascertain in what manner
they had been brought on board. s@
Mr. b. replied, cit is with great pleasure,
and this alone repays me for coming to ia
pan, that you recognize these articles to be
the workmanship of your family, but the
workmen were not born in Japan but in
America" The position of Queen Char
iotte's Island was then pointed out to them
on the charts, and when they again exam
ined the sculpturings and saw how perfect
ly japanese they were all satisfied that the
inhabitants of Queen CharloI!e's Island
we're their descendants.
The noble specimens of the North Amer
lean Indians, Tecumseh, Logan, Uncas,
King Philip and Pocahontas, were perfect
specimens of the japanese, and were no
doubt of the same blood and family.
The proof presented, Mr.. B. thinks con-
elusive evidence that the red men of Amer
lea came from the family Of Asia.
Many of the habits and customs Of the
Japanese have survived the wreck Of ages
The japanese have a tradition that many
years ago, their vessels had a communica-
ton with the land of the rising sun, now
called America; and I hope your readers
will feel the same interest iu the subject as
DO as it lessons in some degree the spec
llation SO long existing as to mans crea-
ion. -5.-4
When Columbus frst conveyed TO Spain
he natives of America, who appeared SO
different from the inhabitants Of Europe, as
o impress all that they were distinct Gre
ltion of man, could they have been accom-
,anied BY the japanese of Asia, they would |
lsve ranked as the same family.
The japanese made it perfect jubilee
Turing the time we remained in Jeddo Bay,
md had not the Emperor interfered to ar
est the intimacy, the Japanese would soon
ave been Americauized.
Never were a people more desirous of
he closest intimacy; but the Emperor and
'rince, prefer the old state Of things to the
ew, and time will be required for the
haDge.
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Ihiscnveriesin siann

A Bryrout correspondent Of TIE JoQra
al of Con,merce notices some recent discov
erics in the ancient City Of Sidon Som.
three years since, MosIem obtained per
mission TO dig for treasures in the old grave
yards Of Sidon and in the winter If 1853
4. lie took out three copper pots, each con
/ timing eight hundred piccpa Of gold, oftl.e
value Of about 95 each, and all bearing tbe
nane or head of Philip or Alexander--
This discovery lead to further excavations,
and on the l0lh Of January last, sarcoph-
agus was uncovered. upon the lid Of which
4 there was long Phenician Inscription,
which has been partially translated by the
Rev. Mr. Thompson, an American hiission-
AIRY at Sidon. and Whieh, il is expected, will
soon be partially Translated Speaking Of
the Sarcophagus, the correspondent re
marks: fr q .ff-9
"The lid is of blue-black marble, in
tensely hard, and taking very fine roIish
The lid is about eight feet long by four feet
vide. The upper end is wrought into the
figure Of female head and shoulders of
almost giant size. The features are F.
gyptian, with large, full, almoud. shaped
eyes, the nose fattened, the lips remarkably
thick, and somewhat after the negro mold.
The whole counteDance is smiling, agree
able, and expressive beyond anything /
have ever seen in the disinterred monu-a
ments Of Egypt or Niueveh. The head
dress resembles that which appears in E.
gyptian figures, while, on each shoulder,
there is the head of some bird--a dove or
the bosom is covered By Whist
appears TO be sort of cape, with a deep
fringe, as of lace. On the lid, below the
figure head, is the inscription, consisting of
twenty-five long lines closely written. The
letters are in perfect preservation, and can
be read with the utmost ease and accuracy,
and the whole forms by far the longest, and
most perfect inscription yet discovered in
this most ancient language and character
It appears TO be mainly genealogical his
tory Of the person buried in the sarcopha-
gus, who, as it appears was King Of Sidon
The names Of BaaZ and Asltoreth, the we'll |
known gods Of the Sidonians, occur repeat
edly in these inscriptions. Some Of the
words are Hebrew, as n1elek, king, while |
'he forms Of some or the letters are so much |
ike those of the ancient Greek as at once
o indicate the relationship. Letters were
nvented by the Phoenicians Here we
ieem to see them dropping from their hands
a the fret casting"
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TnE NEr F1rlra MAcuInE.-The Pari!

The NEW FLYING MAcHNE-The Paris
Patrie has the following: a-
The Academy of Sciences is a good
deal interested by the invention Of flying
machine, by Don Diego de Salamanca
With this machine, Don Diego,s daghter,
Rosaura, rose in the air, some time ago, at
Madrid, 10 the great astonishment of the
Spaniards, who are but little accustomed
to this sort of miracle. Don Diego de Sal
amanca and his daughter are about 10 ar
rive at Paris, TO show the effects of his
marvellous invention. The machine is very
simple; it consists of case 2 feet long, and
a foot wide; adapted to q band ofleather
round the waist, buckled behind. The 2
iron rods, fastened to the case, support a
small piece of wood, on which the feet re-
pose. The case contains simple and in
genous mechanism, similar to that employed
to set an automation in motion. The me-
chansm is worked by a handle. II sets in
work 2 large wings, 10 feet lorg, made Of
very thin caoutchouc, covered with feath-
ers; and the wings may be so worked as
to produce verticle, perpendicular or hori-
zontal fling, The number Of turns given
10 the handle determines the height which
it is desired to 90. The handle has 10 be
turned every quarter of league, TO regu-
late the distance; the operation Of turning
lasts a minute. Horizontal flying is the
most difficult; the wings beat the air like
the oars of boat, or rather like the feet
of swan when he swims. By means of
this curious machine, man can 90 as fast
as carrier pigeon from the Hotel-de- Vile
to the Arc de Triompbe de l'Etoile, in s
minutes, and in half an hour to Versailles.
The experiments, which will be made in
Paris, will be on a small scale, and the
flights of Don Diego will not extend beyond
the departure of the Seine; bu: at later
period be proposes to go to Lyons, Bor-
deaux, Toulouse, Marseilles, and Tours,
and to take the lines of railway. He pre-
tends that he can travel quicker thsn by
rail The price of each machine will not
exceed l,270f. for men, and lO00f. for wo-
men. If the experiment exceeds. Don Die
go will take out patent, and will make the
sale of the machine branch of commerce.
Although greatly astoniShed at this new
invention, several members of the Academy
have pointed OUT the inconvenience of bring
ing it into general use. In point of fact
there will be no security for any one, if,
by the aid Of such machines, all our usages
and customs be overthown, and If malefac-
tors can fly on the roof of houses. after
wards get into apartments, and commit all
sorts of depredations. 1t will be curious
TO see policemen in France and England
pursuing thieves in the air, in order to lock
them up on earth. 1t appears that 1855
promises all sUrts of marvels.
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MRs MowATT RITCHIE AND SWEDEN
DoRGIAN FuNERAL-Most of our reader,
who have witnessed the chaste and classic
performances OF Mrs. Mowatt, or who have
read her fascinating autobiography, vii
not find it easy to shake off the interes
which centers around her name, or, in hel
retirement to private life, to forget the
hours of grathcation they have received
from those precious gifts with which she
has been so richly endowed. "What is she
doing in private life ?" This question VIC
have often been asked, and now recent
letter from the locale of her new home,''
containing brief narrative of matters and
things in that delightful city Of the "Old
Dominion" gives US an opportunity to an
swer it. Mrs. Mowait Richie devotes her
hours of leisure to many useful pursuits,
and contrives, besides, many cbaste and ele-
giant recleations for her young friends, such
as tableaux, readings, &c. Besides these
she is Corresponding Secretary in The mat
ter of the purchase of Mount Vernon by
the Virginia ladies, whilst she is an occa-
sional contributor to her husbands journal,
doing well whatever she undertakes, and
ever bringing the charm of buoyant spirit
towards each new enterprise, whether do
mestic or literary.
It will be remembered tha! Mrs. Mowatt,
in less affluent days. bad adopted an or
phan child, around the story of whose life
there we're many things TO interest. This
Young creature seemed, hewever, TO "bloom
but to die" Notwithstanding the kindest
care and the most gentle fosterage, that
baneful disease of our climate.-consump-
tion.-laid her low, and she passed away
last week. A friend writes US that Miss
Grey was buried from Monumental Church
on the 7lh inst. The funeral services were
performed ty Episcopal clergymen, all
omOard observsnces being arranged after
the Swedenborgian method, although there
is no preacher Of that sect in the place
The coffin was borne into the church by
six gentlemen with aOhite Grape tied around
their arms with white ribbon. II was en-
tirely covered with a0kite merino; at the
head and foet were wreaths of evergreens
and white flowers, and in the center a bou-
quet of the same, and kind Of drapery was
looped up round the lids with evergreen
and white blossoms. The hearse was
drawn by white horses, and draped with
white instead of the usual array of black.
Mrs. Mowatt Ritchie, as chief mourner,
was clad entirely in white,-and thus paid
the last token of love TO this otherwise
friendless orphan girl, whose short life she
had rendered comfortable and happy, and
whose last moments were full Of beautiful
tranquility.-Boston Transcript.
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Bet--Better--Best.

One summer evening, last year, we were
costly seated in one of those arm chairs al
the Clinton Hotel, skmoking one of the pro-
prietor's best segars. conversing with friend
P, of Long Island, when be asked US
whether we ever heard of bet that was
made BY two young gentlemen who were
seated on a former occasion in about the
same place which we then occupied. B
No" We replied what was the 5et::'
"There was two young fellows made a
bet, aud just then Mr. Hodges, who kept
the hotel at that time, was coming down
Beckman-street, one Of them said
Mr.. Hodges, We have Just made bet,
which we will leave TO your decision. The
bet amounts to only two bottles OF cham
paigne, which we will drink TO day at din
Der, provided you will charge it to which
ever you shall decide has lost, and you
must join US in drinking the wine"
81 am agreed" replied Mr.. Hodges.
"You understand the management dis
tinctly, do you?"
"Yes-yes. | am to charge the two bot
Ties to whichever loses?h - al.
ayes, that's it; and we will pay you as
soon as you decide the bet, which had bet
ter be decided Immediately after dinner"
The dinner came off at the usual hour,
the wine was drank, and Mr.. Hodges, who
had joined them at the table, became some
what impatient, and asked what the bet
was
"R--has bet me that when DR..
steeple, opposite. falls, il,
will be in the direction of the East River !;
and l have bet him that it won't. When
you decide who has lost. be will pay.
The amazed landlord looked at the par
ty, shook bis head, laughingly threatened to
pay them off for the article they had sold
him, and sloped. The wine was never
charged to either of the young men.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-04-06
The Farmer;sH Home.

What signify all the improvements in ng-
ricultural processes, which are constantly
urged upon the acceptance Of farmers, if
the farmers Home is not what it ought 10
be.
Deep cultivation, draining, drawing
ditcbing, mulcbing, composing, &e., are all
important, as a means; bu: the proper end
to be accomplished is no, the multiplication
ot dollars and eents-not the laying up il
store Of "much goods" but the most desi.
rable Of all earthly ultimates, pleasant, at
tractive, happy Home.
The farmers home should not be 80
much his castle, as his sanctuary. Over
its threshold, disorders and discontents
should never be allowed TO step. Harmony,
order, love and peace, as well as plenty,
should reign within the formers abode,
making it paradise. as little marred by
gross and corrupling desires as may be;
where the intellect, the taste, and the affec-
tons may seek aud fad their appropriate
and full qualification. What desolation, nay,
what wants abound within those walls,
where mere animal desires are cloyed with
material profusion, to the exclusion ofthat
higher food of the spiritual nature, which is,
in fact, "the bread Of lifel" There, the
physical man may grow and fatten, and re-
ioice in its ease, and its incidence, with a
sort of porcine satisfaction; while the inner
life. the manhood, the God spark, faints,
famishes and dies.
The fields are the palaces where the
head, aided by the strong arm, should tri-
umph in material achievements. In the
true home, the heart, aided By the head,
should emulate the industry of the bee, in
storing lis treasures, and ike the treasury
of the bee, those of the human Home
should be Of the honeyed sweetness.
Wealth may build palaces to shelter
misery. Poverty. BY making true home
in an unpretending cottage, hallows ITSELF
and sh1mes the power of gold.
1t is astonishing with what facility the /
cultivated spirit changes even maternal OBJ
jects into high spiritual individualities. a
tree, a shrub, flower, nay, stone, may
have its history-a history the recital Of
which shall palpitate the listeners heart
with JOY, or blur his eyes with tears and
sadness. Inanimate objects--only SO, per-
haps, to cur thinking-may speak Ian
guage which the heart shall hear, and feel
and answer. Around the true home, sa-
cred as were held The household duties Of
olden times. cluster these objects of mans
aesthetic nature. They make him better,
happier and wiser; opening up to him to
read sermons in stones, and to behold good
q everything.
Verify, we are sorry to say it, but so it
s-verily, the farmers Home needs i'm
1rovement more than his plow- shares, his
hreEher, or his reaper. 1t needs more
nan improvement; it demands new Gre
'tion, fashioned on plan Of such beauty
md harmony, that it may be a temple wor-
hy to be tenanted by beings who have
pirits as well as bodies Then, what fol, !
oss in the way of even unlimited improve
nent in modes of material production, will
'e Of the utmost importance, for the far
ner's Home will be what il ought TO be-
Ohio Farmer. t
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Reciprocity Act-.PrOcianaItOn.
The President issued bis Proclamation on
the 18th of March, 1855. declaring that
the following articles, being the growth
produce Of Canada, New Brunswick. Nova
Scotia, and Prince Edwards Island, shall
be introduced into the United States free
of duty, so long as the treaty between the
United States and Great Brlaih, of June
9th, 1854. shall remain in relation TO the
trade to Canada on the condition mentioned
in the fourth article Of the said treaty: to
wit:
Grain, -four. and breadstufs Of all kinds;
animals of all kinds; fresh, smoked, and
sailed meats; cotton-weOl; seeds and vege-
tables; undried fruits; dried fruiIs; fish of
all kinds; products Of ish and all other
creatures tina. live in the water; poultry:
eggs; hides. furs, skins, or tails undressed;
stone or marble in its crude or unwroughs
state; slate; butter. cheese, tallow; lard
horns; manures; ores of metals Of any
kinds; coal; pitch, tar, turpentine; sshss;
timber and lumber Of all kinds, round. hew-
ed, and sawed, unmauufactured in whole or
in part; fire-woOd. plants, shrubs, and trees;
pelts; wool; fish oil; rice; broom-corn and
bark: gypsum, ground or unground; hewn
or wrought or uuwroughs burr or grind
stones; dye-stufIs; FAX, hemp. and tow, un-
manufactured; manufactured tobacco;
and rags. srs
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DYIEG WORDS OF NAPOLEON AND JOSE
PHiEE.-The dying words fingered slowly
away during which inartieulate murmurs
were occasionly heard from the lips of the
ilustrious sufferer. Twice thought says
Montholon, that distinguished the uncon-
.nected words, 'Francs- of
tie army josephine This was at six
O'Clock in the morning. During the rest
of the day until six o'clock in the evening.
he was lying upon his back with his right
hand out of bed, and bis eyes Fixed, seem
ingly absorbed in deep meditation, and
without any appearance of suffering. A
pleasant and placid expression was spread
over his features, as if be were sweetly
sleeping.
A dark and tempestous night succeeded
the stormy day. The gale, with increasing
fury. swept the ocean and the black rocks,
and vailed as mournful a dirge as could
fall on mortal ears. The very island SEEM
to shake before the gigantic pillows. hurled
againt its craggy cliffs by the spirit CT the
storm. In the midnight darkness of that
elemental war the spirit of Napoleon passed
the earthly vail. and entered the dread un-
known.
Isle of E7ba-Napoleon,' we're the last
words of the gentle Josephine. France
the army-Josephins.' were the last
words which trenbled upon the lips of the
dying Emperor-John G. AJ5oh
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pottrp.
Old EHrIisI, PoefrY.

We have been much struck with an old Eng
| lish ballad OF the time Of Cromwell. The po
etry written in England, before the bastar,
classicism of the Pope school had been introduc
from Frsuce, by Charles H., was OF bold, tho
sometimes Of hammered and exlravagant or
der. It's expression was, in general, very fre,
! and fgurative, and some of the prevalent fan
cies or eonesits, when well expressed in III
plain English of the people, have very haPP
effect. There is much OF the old English spri
in the fOllowing-the epithe is and figures ar
fresh and forcible, and the fine extravsgsnce o
the solaado-one of the fiery cavaliss of the timl
doubtless--is well carried off:
"Tell me no more of peace,
'Iis cowardice disguisedi
The child Of fear aud heartess ease,
A thing to be despised.
"Lel dafFodis entwine
The seely shepherds brow;
A nober wreath IN win for mine
The laurel's manly bOugh.
"May garlends filter show
On sWaiRs who dream Of love,
And all their chersance bestoH
Upon the whining dove.
''l'll have no dove-not [!
lts softness is disgrace;
love the eagles lightning eye
That stsrss in Phebus' face!
81 marked that noble thing
Bound OH his upward flight,
Scatter the clouds with mighty wing,
And breast the tide oflight!
-'Sconing the things that creep
Prone-vsaged on the earth,
To eat its fruits, TO play, to sleep,
The purpose Of their birth.
Such softlings take delight
In Cynihia's sickly beam;
Give me Heaven Of coal black night,
slsshed with the watch ares gleam!
''They doat upon the Lutte,
The cittern, and the Tyre:
Such sounds my ear do !ittie suit
They match not my desire.
1.-THE trump blast-let II come
In shrieks on the fitful gale drum,
Let the chargers hoof beat time to the
And the clank Of the riders mail.
"NOt for the heaps untold
That swell the miser's hoard
claim the birthright Of the bold,
The dOwry Of the sword!
"Nor yet the gilded gem
That coroners the slave;
clutch the spectre diadem
That marshals on the brave!"
In all this there is the ringing, per,mptOrY
lone of the sOldier-overstepping perhaps the
nOdesty of the peaceful muse-but sill true TO
ss lyric e,5or.
The young poets Of the present day, it will
be remarked, seem 10 be coming back to this
eculiar style. They practice the same wild
reedOm Of speech, and impetuosity of meta
hOr, conveyed in pure, strong vernaculsr,
nd they fling aside the last remnant of the
Georgian met rical canons with which the older
nd more English fashion has been overlaid. We
slisve the Frenchifed correctness introduced
y Pope and others greatly msrred the native
rength and subtle inspirations ofEnglish poet,
2. There was certain wildness aud rregn
,r;;.tjy in these, something like natures own,
,hich were i'll exchanged for the clearness,
,guIarity and sententiOusuess of the succeed
lg school.
For the future, our poets viii all Try back-as
ornds do when thcJ have lost the scentin tbs
hase-and employ themselves in deepening
le cOurses-of the early lyric riils.- GraFGz's
hGgasiae for March.
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Coon SPuNK AND Coon LUcK.-A per-
son in England, rummagipg among his fam
lily documents. found written on the back
Of an old deed some words indicating that
a pot Of gold was buried in certain place
in the garden. 1t was at first regarded as
a hoax, but digging in the spot, an iron pot
came to Eight, containing fifteen thousand
guineas, and scrap of parchment, much
decayed, on which was written, "The devil
shall have it sooner than Cromwell"
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MILK AN ANrlDoTE FOR CAMPHENE.-
The Washington Star mentions fact that
may be of use to some of our numerous
readers. A child three years of age swal-
loved a quantity Of camphene; the father.
hearing its screams, administered draught
Of fresh milk, which afforded immediate re-
lief, the child, in few minutes. being en-
tirely free from pain.
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Nor WORTH WHILE.-A couple were
married in this city on Wednesday last, the
bride being II and the groom 70 years of
age. The old codger asked the parsOn
whether it "was SIM" to which the par
son responded that he didn't think it sin
before God. but it was hardly worth while
for all the time il would last Statesman.