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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

W A missionary, writing from the Cri.
mea, complains of the profanity of the army.
TO overcome the habit, he proposes a cargo
of tracts. These are good, but to produce
effect, they should be preceded by flannel
shirts and whole boots. AS long as men nre
uncomfortable they vii swear, Tracts or no
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

A good old Quaker lady, after listening TO
the extravigant yarns of n storekeeper, NJ
long as her patience would allow, said to
him:
Friend II. what pity tits that it is sin
to lie, when it seems so necessary in thy
businessv
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

eB- A bill has been reported to the New
York Senate, which provides that no estate,
real or personal, shall hereafter be bequeath-
ed, devised, or conveyed TO any corporation,
body polite, or person for pous or charita-
BILE uses. except the same be done by deed or
will, duly acknowledged and attested at least
six months before the deceasc of the tesla-
tnr ...
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

r- Capt. Benjamin McCulloch (renown-
ed as the Texan ranger) publishes in the
National Intelligencer, the letter he address
ed to the President, declining the appoint
ment of Major of Cavalry, which the Presi-
dent conferred on him under the new bill au.
thorizing an increase of the army. His rea.
son for his declining is, that as he was the
only person not in commission in the regular
army, who was appointed to an Office under
the new bill, he could not consent to be
placed in that position, as if he were the on
Iy person out of the regular army, who de.
served the appointment.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

VETo OF THE COLLINS STEAMER BILL
The New York Tribune has the following
remark upon President Pierce's Veto of the
Steamer Bill:
"Th0u Shall Not Steal"-We breathe
freer and deeper. The President has done n
good deed. He has come down to Congress
with the Decalogue in his hand, and uttered
the most appropriate of its ten command
ments to the case in hand. The Collins grant
Is vetoed; corruption is rebuked. The at
tempted swindle is arrested at the moment of
its triumph. We congratulate the friends Of
honest legislation everywhere. Wecongratu-
late the Senators of Ohio; they, at least, have
done their duty during the operation Of this
huge batterng ram at the walls of the Trea-
snry. Their cflbrts and votes will be remem-
bered to their honor hereafter. Gentlemen of
the South have done well. We never expect
ed TO applaud the President. We do oappIand
him. A bold stand was necessary against the
overwhelming surges of venalty that broke
over a debauchrd Congress. The President
has made it. We thank him for what he has
done, whether his action had any reference to
the coming New Hampshire election or not.
1t will give him votes there, and lose them to
the other side But we don't care for that.
We would not have the thing gchanged le. the
consequences be what they may.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

" VIM. Lloyd Garrison, at a recent anti
slavery lecture in NewYork, displayed eleven
yards of newspaper paragraphs Of crime at
the South in few months The same
"length of infamy" might be cut from the
New York papers in any one week.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

tw- One of our Western villages passed
an ordinance forbidding taverns to sell liquor
on the Sabbath to any person except trave'
lers. The next Sunday, every man in town
was seen walking around with valise in one
hand and two saddle bags in the other. In
genious people, those gin and sugar imbi-
bers,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

EB George Thompson says of Barnum's
Autobiography that it is the most extraordi.
nary and revolving instance of selfconressed
depravity he has ever seen: it is a record of
fraud, deceit, and living lies.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

You say, Mr.. Smith, that you don't like
Jaycocks, why not"
"Because, he is always dealing in iruen-
does. No longer than last night, he said |
was id thief, and what's more, said he
could prove it.
The Court admitted that such 'inuendoes'
were out of character, and gave verdict ac-
cordingly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

ICY It is said that rum.seller, living in
the State of Massachusetts, imported poi
sonous drugs by which he made eight hun
dred hogsheads of brandy, selling at the rate
of two dollars and half gallon that which
cost him thirty cents, and pocketed, as the
profits of the villainous enterprise, about
100000
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

When a Lake Superior Indian gets the
small pox, he closes the door of his hut
kills his dog, and then shoots himself. For
arresting contagion, we can imagine no plan
more simple or eAectual. .....
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

tYA certain poordyspeptic,whose physi-
cal inability to work was attributed to indo-
lence, was advised by medical friend that
the only way he could ever convince people
he was sick, was to die.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23
To its work in the morning gay.

A NUMEROUS FAMILY.-Mrs. Mary Car
per. whose death, Mt the advanced age of
eiohty.six, was recorded short time ago,
left rs many AZ one hundred and fifty de-
scendants. The Winchester, Va. Republi.
can says:
.'One ~ her sons can number twenty-nine
grandchildren, and n great-grand tchild or
two. The Capers Of this county, who are
descended rron, her, belong to the worthiest
and most industrious portion Of our inhabi-
tants."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

t3@- II is almost as criminal to hear a
worthy man traduced without attempting his
justification, as to be the author of the ca.
iumny against him; il is, in fact sort Of
mlsprison Of person against society
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

The Rev. F. A. Ross late minister of the
Presbyterian Church at Chattanooga, has re.
ceved n call to the church in Huntsville, to
succeed DR.. Hall, who has been rendered and
accepted the Presidency of Miami College,
Oxford Ohio.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

sy- More hearts pine AWAY in secret an
guish for want of kindness from those who
should be their comfort, than for any other
calamity in life.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

The Washington Star of Saturday says
that no Captains for the new Regiments have
been appointed-that not more than half IL
80 many, of the appointments will be made
from the nrmy-that the President has re-
ceived no autograph letter from the Emper-
or of Rnssia-and adds. "What we hero
say may be relied on" .>.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

In affairs of the heart never employ
friend-thnt is If you don't want to see your
Ariminta taking to pair of pants different
from yours,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

sg- Dabster reduces everything to mathe-
matics. He got married because kissing saves
80 per cent. on his sugar tax. Old bachelors
will please notice.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

Matrimonial secret; or, who wears the
breeches:
GenL-My dear madam, why do you look
at me so savagcy! 1t cant be that We are
acquainted.
Strong Minded Womdn.-Know you, no
but took you for that good for nothing
scamp of husband Of mine.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

CUTTING RKroRr.-"You haven't the prin-
siple of dog" said one individual to another
in our hearing. mo, but you havc;" asthe
Quiet rcjoinder.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

sY- The Chief Of Police of New York, in
his semi-annual report, just paesented, an
nounces that there were 43 arrests for mur-
der and l55 for assault with intent TO Kill,
during the six months endingwth December
lnsti
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

W Hckorynut oil, considered equal to
the best lard or sperm oil for burning and
machinery, is now manufactured at Dayton.
Ohio.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

sR- Mrs. partington advises nll young
people afflicted with preparation of the heart,
to apply the cataract of mustard, to draw out
the information, and she says she has never
known fdure where this device was fol.
lowed
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23
The AMERICAN PARTY.-The st. Louis
of the Cd inst. saws:

THE AMERICAN PARTY-The st. Louis
Intelligencer of the Cd inst. says:
zone of the best features of the American
party, to which it owes, no doubt, much Of its
success, is the determination not to have
what is technically called "organs," that is
newspapers fed to utter and defend its prin.
eiples. Trusting the merits of its cause to
the deliberate judgment and patriotism Of
the people, it has left the conductors of news
papers, as other people, free to adopt or re
pudiate its principles at pleasure"
The editor of the same paper, in his i'm.
preston of the Sd inst, has the following
in reference to the religious feature of Know
Nothingism;
"No religion is made test Of fitness or
nnfitness for office by the American party, as
understand It. But TO own allegiance in
matters political, to higher power than the
State, whether that 'higher power be Pres
bvtpranism, the POntiff, Quakerism, Con.
science, or what not--that is the political er.
ror, the crime against the State, that the
American party plants its foot against. 1t is
in the propriety of this principle that the
American party is strong and challenges the
contradiction Of sound argument"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

HEAVY FINE.-A jury in the Police Court
of Louisville on Thursday imposed fine OF
five thousand dollars upon Mrs. Cathnrine
berg, found guilty of most cruelty abusing
m orphan child, aged six years. Mrs. Berg
is the matron of Catholic Orphan Asylum,
and the small boy was nearly murdered be-
cause he would not say his prayers at night
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

r3g- The bill prohibiting the selling of
liquor on Sunday has passed both houses of
the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and will no
doubt receive the Governors signature. 1t
will pe into effect on the first of April.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

The STORM AT NASHVILLE. the
Wing Of the l4th inst, we learn that the
storm that ragged no violently there on Mon.
day night last, caused great damage at Nash
vile. The wind blew so violently that houses
fences and trees were prostrated. The tin
roofing of the First Presbyterian Church
was rolled up in immense scrolls and blown
away. The rain beat through, damaging to n
considerable extent the ceiling, carpets and
other property of the church, 7. .
"The expensive copper roofing of the State
Capitol was also blown off, and the ceiling of
that building much injured-to what extent
We have not learned. The old "Brewry"
building, situated North Of the Lick Branch,
was completely blown down and dem olished.
shade trees in various portions Of the city
We're taken up by the roots in some instances
ana IN Others snapped off by the careering
In the country we hear Of various instan.
ees IN which damages were sustained by fen.
ces and out.houses being blown down"
A TmEvEs' BALL.-A letter from New
York says:
A grand thieves ball was given at the hall.
corner of Henry and Oliver streets, on Thurs
day evening. The principal pities on the
floor, together with the manager and commit
Tee men, the police says, were composed Of
professional gamblers, pick pockets, and pros.
titutes, together with fair sprinkling of Jail
birds Of the most case-hardcned description.
The police entered the hall just ny the first
quadrile was commencing, and took nine of
the parties prisoners. The Others scattered
sans ceremonies The next morning the per-
sons arrested were all sent up to the peniten-
fnry MS vagrants.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

tV- Timothy II. Williams, ESQ WAS elect
ed Attorney General for the 4th District of
this State, at a special election held last
week.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23
THE OCEAN AND IT'S DEPTHS.

Prof. OImstead, of New Haven, has con.
tributed to the last number of the New
England "a quarterly publication) an article
entitled "A Philosophical Survey of the
Ocean," from which we extract the following
paragraph. The author commends highly
the labors of Lieut.. Maury.
The wnters of the ocean cover nearly
three-fourths (or more exactly, five sevenths)
of the surface of the globe; and of the ihir.
ty-eight millions of miles of dry land in ex-
istence, twenty-eight belong to the northern
hemisphere. The mean depth of the ocean
has been variously stated, but may for the
present be taken at four miles; the numer.
Gus soundings now in progress will soon
enable us to speak with more defniteness on
this point. Enough has already been done
to prove that the depth is exceedingly unea-
quail; that like the surface of the earth, the
bottom of the ocean here rises in mountain
peaks, and there sinks in deep valleys. Un-
I'll recently the deepest sounding ever made
was that by Captain Scoresby, in the Polar
seas which was short OF mile and a half
As late as l848, the maximum sounding was
that of Captain Ross, in the South Atlantic,
and gave 27,600 feet, or little over five
miles, without finding bottom. But more re-
Gently, at n point of the Atlantic farther
north, Lieut.. Walsh, of the U. s. schooner
Taney, sounded, without reaching bottom to
the depth Of $4,000 feet, or nearly 81 miles.
Within a short time Captaih Denham com
municated to the Royal Society report of
having reached the bottom of the Atlantic,
in passage from Rio Janeiro to the Cape of
Good hope, Mt the astonishing depth of T.
7O6 fathoms, or 81 miles; depth so pro-
found, that the plummet occupied in its de-
scent from the reel nearly 81 hours. From
these results it appears that the depths of the
ocean exceed the heights Of the mountains,
since the oitest summit of the Himmalaya
are little more than $4,000 feet, or 81 miles.
Notwithstanding these enormous depths,
there are large tracts of the ocean compara-
lively shallow; and in the immediate vicinity
of places where no bottom could be found,
were spots of no uncommon depths. These
facts indicate that the bed of the sea is diver
sficd like the surface of the earth. The
Gulf of Mexico is thought not to exceed, on
an everage, one mile; and the Greenland seas
are Of such moderate depth, that whales,
when hnrpooped, often run to the bottom,
as is indicated by their appearance when
they rise again to the surface. Whales nre
even supposed to seek part of their food at
the bottom of the sea-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23
NEw YoRK. MInrcll Is.

The Know Nothings Of Virginia have
nominated Stanhope FIounoy and Mason
Beale, for Governor and Lieutenant Govor-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

tB- Know Nothing Societies are being
formed in Canada; but there is new cle-
ment in the Order there which we nre not
disposed TO quarrel with. 1t is said that the
independence of Canada is the most promi.
nent object of the Order, which is gaining
strength rapidly, with view to declare the
province free republic before long.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

Never Joke with the ladies' on mntrimony
or bread making. They are both very sa-
cred m One refers TO the highest interest Of
the heart, and the Other to those of stom-
nch.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

I9g- To make man think rs you do
Endorse his notes, and lend him a Y now and
then.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23
SLAVERY AND COMMERCE.

The following just observations are taken
from the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch. Hunts
Merchant Magazine copies them and remarks
fright or wrong, there is more truth than
poetry in its statement"
'"The whole commerce Of the world turns
upon the product Of slave labor. What could
Commerce be without cotton, sugar, tobacco,
rice and naval stores? All these are the pro.
duet of slave labor. II is settled fact that
free labor cannot produce them in sufficient
quantity to supply the demands of mankind.
II has been said that one free laborer is equal
to five slaves. II this be SO, why has not
free labor been employed in the production
of the above staples! II has been attempted,
and in every case in which it has been intro
duced, has failed. The world follows its in
terests, and if free labor was more valuable
than slave, it would be employed at this mo-
ment In the United States, Cuba, and Brazil,
which are all open to free labor. And herein
note the greater liberality and self reliant
strength of the slave over the free States.-
The former freely permit the Northern cap
italst to come in with his free labor and COM
pete with slave labor. The latter pass laws
prohibiting the Southern capitalist from COM
ing in with his Slaves to compete with North
ern labor. Their prohibitory laws are passed,
because they are afraid of slave competition;
whereas the South, in the face of the rre.
tense which has been handed down from
Wilberforce to the times, that one white Ia
borer is equal in value to FIVE slaves, throws
her door wide open and invites the free labor
to walk in and try it's hand, and it dare not
come. What would become Of England, the
arch agilator of abolitionistn, but for cotton,
by the manufacture OF which she has waxed
fat and strong, while she curses the system
by which it is produced! Bv the way, will
some one inform us why the English con-
science has never suffered so much from
slavery in Brazil as slavery in lhe United
States!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

A LEGAL KsoT--Judge Trumbull, who
was chosen by the Fusion Legislature of Ill-
nos to take the Senatorial seat of Gen.
Shields, will first have to get legal knot un-
tied before he can permanently locate him.
certificate of election. He has based his re-
fusal on the ground that the Judge is not
eligible under the clause of the Constitution
which prohibits any Judge of the Supreme
Court from accepting any other office during
the term for which he was elected Judge, nor
for one year after the expiration of such
term. Judge Trumbul has resigned the
Office of Judge, but the term for which he
was elected is not yet expired.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23
GEO. LAW AND THE PRESIDENCY.

La w hlND
We have read with some care the reply of
George Law to the members of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature, but are unable to make
much out of it. There are great many
words and very few ideas in the manifesto
After diligsnt search we collect the follow
ing points:
-, lst. That old party issues are dead, and
the men ARE dead who maintained them; that
We are at the close Of one revolutionary cy.
Gle and at the beginning Of another; and that
the people Of this country are preparing for
change and n Reorganization of the present
ele ments of Republican Government.
I'd. That sectional agitation is the war
point of the Union, and invites the interfer-
ence of our enemies abroad.
Sd. That our system of indirect taxation
is most imperfect and must be so changed as
to promote the interest of the whole conn-
try.
4th Our land system is also defective and
must be changed.
5th. Our foreign policy also demands in an
eminent degree the attention of the intellect
of the country.
9th. That all religions and all sects of
christians are alike protected under the agis
of the American constitution, but when the
highest clergy of any sect attempts to mo-
nopolize the political power of their fiocks
or pecuniary means of their congregations, it
is time for the people of the country to take
warning.
Perhaps the initiated may know what the
old "musketeer" is aiming at. We are com.
pletrly in the dark as to the mode by which
he will attempt to effect his reform, except
that he relies upon the Know Nothings TO
burst the manacle with which noble intel
lects and free minds are bound;" and antici-
pates that the "new revolution will end in as
glorious triumph us that set in motion by
the Declaration of Independence itself"
Our private opinion is that George Law is
makiug fool of himself. No man whose
attention to politics has been limited to put
ting quietly his vote into the ballot-box," as
he says his has been, is fit to preside over the
affairs of this great people.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23
SWEET THOUGHT FROM SWEET LYRIC

SWEET THOUGHT FROM A SWEET LYRIC.
The word goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And Yesterdays sneer, and Yesterdays frown,
Can never come over again,
Sweet wife,
No, never come over again.
For woman is warm, though man be cold,
And the night will follow the day;
Till the heart which Mt even was weary and old,
Can rise in the morning gay,
Sweet wife,
To its work in the morning gay.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-23

OPEN AMERICAN ORGASIZATioN.--The
Know Nothing paper in Boston has come on,
in avor of an open organization o: its party
and declares its belief that for the safety and
perpetuation of the American party such a
course is an actual necessity, With regard
to the most prominent persons now before
the order for nomination to the Presidency,
as they are affected by the secret mode of
operations, the editor says:
"An. evil result of the secret action of n
political party is its liability to sacrifice prn-
ciples to men. This is an evil from which
the American party is in no wise exempt as
we propose to show "by way of ILLUSTRATION. +"
InjudiciOus partizans of n certain prominent
man have so well succeeded in coupling his
name with term well understood by every
member of the secret American party, that
the public outside, and many of the members
within, begin to look upon the Hon. Sam.
Houston as the head and front of the Ameri-
can party-as the only exponent of its prin-
ciples--as its only eligible candidate for the
Presidency. In a measure it has already be-
come, not party of principles, hut :he party
of man; and for the impertections Of that
man, whoever he may be, the party must con
sequcntly suffer. This state of things has
naturally excited the jealousy of the parti-
zans of another prominent citizen. and we
find that "Stockton Clubs" are being secret
ly organized in every part of the Union
This, of course, will arouse the friends Of
Others, and unless this evil is checked we
shall suon find that instead of working to-
gether MS unit for the advancement Of i'm
portnnt principles, the American party will
be divided and subdivided into partizan clans
for this, that and the other man, until its to-
tai disruption is accomplished
Cows AND BRooMsTIcKs.--The Detroit
Democrat says that a COW of MIR. Clark, of
Sprngwells, accomplished her death, day
or two since in most singular manner
The COW was very gentle, and would suffer
the children to play about hel with the ut
most patience and would often come to the
door, as if in search of company or fodder
One day last week she came to the door, but
the weather was too cold for the children to
venture out, and therefore she was left alone.
In her grief, the only thing which attracted
her attention was common corn broom
At the bush of this she began chewing, and
after sturdy labor of her jaws succeeded in
swallowing it. But unfortunately, the ham
die, was too hard for her teeth, and too long
for her stomach, and so she could neither spit
it out nor swallow it down. And, alas a
butcher had to be called in to "cut her throat
to save her life;"-a not uncommon opera
ton in the case Of cows eating broom
sticks.