The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-01

WHAT Is POLITICIAN Such remarks
are frequently made as these; 81 cannot bear
politicians" 81 do not believe that there can
be an honest politician" "Politicians are a
curse 10 the country" Almost every one will
have heard remarks of this kind. Ii is well
that they should be considered. Are they
true! Before we can determine the answer
to this question, we must first determine
what politician" is. The term must be
defined. Ask the man who declares that he
does not believe that there can be an honest
politician, TO explain himself, and he will find
himself at loss. Does he mean that all men
who concern themselves about the election of
those who are either TO make laws or enforce
them, are politicians and therefore dishonest!
Ii 50, then is our country on the verge Of
ruin, when in government of law only ras.
calls interest themselves in the selection of
public agents who are to make our laws or
see that they are executed. This cannot
therefore be his meaning. What then does
he intend by politicians! He may reply that
those are politicians who seek for Office for
selfish ends, and who will resort to dishonest
means and cOrrupting influences TO attain
those ends. In this view the conclusion
would be the sheer truism that dishonest men
are not honest. This would DO equally ap-
plicable to the public and to private life. For
unprincipled men will act out their true
characters no matter where they may be
placed. But TO conclude that, in govern.
ment which makes us what we are as n peo
pie, all who participate TO any considerable
extent in the agencies necessary tor sustain
ing and carrying on that government, inevita.
bly, become lost to virtue and correct prnci.
pie, must be contrary to reason and 10 truth.
CHICAGO ILLINOIS, May "a.
Further particulars confirm the accounts of
the terrible tornado that passed over the town
of Jefferson, last night, by which four persons
were killed, and five wounded by the blowing
down of house on the line of the Illinois
and Wisconsin railroad. 1t commenced in
the afternoon by revolving funnel shaped
cloud passing swiftly along near the ground
about I6 miles north of here, carrying up
large sticks of wood, stones, &c. IL described
II semi.circle towards the southeast, and
twisted off large trees and whisking them out
of sight instantly.
The whirwnd then broke in two, and dis.
appeared, but almost immediately formed
again, and passed directly back north and
west, WITH TeuOWDItu NibieUCt. AItcT ut-
molishing the house in which the loss of life
occurred, it took up II barn and threw it upon
the horses ana cattle it contained, crushing
them ut once The tmbers of the house and
barn were hurled down to the ground with
such violence rs to hurry them almost out of
sight. The house belonged to Mr.. Page,
whose wife, son and two grand children We're
killed.
Accounts are given of persons being carried
up one hundred feet in the air, and then
hurled down with great violence. A number
of eye.wltnesses have testified to the ravages
of the tempest, and describe it rs most terrific.
The same afternoon hail storm occurred
in this city, after which the sky presented n
singular appearance to the nOrthward, and
the weather changed from the most oppres.
sive heat to the most chilling atmosphere.
Chicago, May 25.-An eye witness of the
late whirIwind reports still more loss of life
and destruction of property The families
who suffered by it are in n dreadful state of
restitution and misery.
cY George Sand, the famous French
writer is the great-grand. daughter, by an ille-
gitimate channel, Of the celebrated Marshal
SAKE, who, at twelve years of age, ran away
from home and fought in the trenches at
Lille, under Marlborough, and at thirteen had
his horse killed under him, and his hat riddled
with balls at the seige of Tourney. lie was
himself one of the three hundred and sixty
two natural children of Frederick August,
King of Saxony and Poland.
e4s- A western editor thus apologies for
the non.appearance of his paper at the usual
times:
"Owing to the facts that our paper maker
disappointed US, that the mails failed and de.
prived us of our exchanges, that Dutch
pedler stole our scissors, that the rats ran off
with our paste, and the "Devil" went to the
circus while the editor was at home tending
TO the babies, our paper is unavoidably delay
ed beyond the proper period of publication. i"
W- A strenuous effort is nov making in
Louisiana for the suppression Of the practice
of carrying concealed weapons. The new
law passed by the Legislature of that State
makes the carrying Of concealed weapons
a msdemeanor, and subjects those who
are accused of it to trial before the Grimm.
al Court.
tR- Hall, the colored Dunkirk barber, re-
Gently arrested in New Orleans for robbery,
has been convicted at Maysville, New York,
and sentenced to Is years imprispnment.-
While in Maysville Jail, he attempted to hang
himself. bu: was cut down before his
purpose was accomplished, by a fellow prs-
oner.
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s:Y- A correspondent Of the Consttu-
tionaIist and Republic, proposes a fusion Of
the Democracy of Georgia with Toombs,
Stephens and all other wings opposed to
know nothinglsm. So the old parties are
fast being forced to yield to the necessity,
which declares they have outlved their use.
funess.
MATRIMONIAL SPECULATIoN.-A gentle-
man in ke.ooshoo, Ark, was married to
young woman, and after four months connu-
bal felicity, was presented with u black baby.
He called on his lawyer, related the clrcum-
stances, and asked his advice. "All right"
said the man Of law; "et me have the papers,
aud you shall have divorce instanter." "Oh,
hang divorce" replied the gentleman, ~
only want TO know ii can sell the cussed