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BOUNTY LAND.

The following letter from the Commission
er of Pensions, which we take from the last
Cleveland Banner, will show who are enti
tied to the benefits OF the late Bounty Land
law, passed by Congress:
H Pension OFFICE, March 10, 1858
Sir:-ln reply TO your inquiries as to what
classes of persons are provided for by the
late Bounty Land act, and if those who were
called out by Governor Cannon of Tennes-
see, in 1886, are entitled under the same
and whether record evidence exists of the
service rendered at the battle of Nickrjack:
have the honor to state that the act of
81 of March 1855, embraces within It's pro-
visions all officers, non-cnmmissianed officers,
musicians, and privates, whether regulars,
volunteers, rangers, or militia, who are shown
hy record evidence to have bren mustered in
to the service of ;he United States, and off
GERS, non-commssioned officers, seamen, ma
rines, clerks, and landsmen, of the navy, also
wagon masters, and teamsters, who were EN-
ploypd in the transportation of militia stores,
and ehaplins, who served during any war
since 1890, also flotiliamen who served in the
war of 1912, and officers and soldiers of the
the revolution, provided they are shown by
record to have served not less than fourteen
days. Also, those who are shown to have
been called into militia service by the eauthor.
tiles of any State or Territory, and regularly
mustered therein, and served not less than
fourteen days, and were paid for the same
| by the United States. Also, without regard
| to length of service, those who were actually
in battle in any war in which this country
has been engaged, and those who served nj
the invasion of Patt>burg in September,;8l
and those who served at the battle of Kings
| Mountain in the revolutionary war, and those
who served at the battle Of Nckojac and
! III who served ut the attack on Lcwistown in
the war of 1872
Inlians are placed on the same footing with
white men under the provisions Of this and
all other bounty land acts.
| I he troops called out by Gov. Cannon in
| 1886, are consequently included, if not less
than fourteen DAYS service is shown bv the
record to have been rendered and paid for by
the United States.
This office is unable TO inform you wheth-
or record evidence Of the service rendered at
the battle Of Nickojack can be obtained, rs
most Of the written evidence belonging to
the government, of service rendered in the
different wars, is in charge of other Bu-
rpaus.
Very respectfully. your ob't serv't,
... :. p WALDO, Commissioner.
Hon 8 A Smith Charleston Tenn.
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SPUNKY.-The ST. Louis Republican says,
that few days ago, a man and his wife in
that city were engaged in arranging sepa-
ration. The principal difficulty was the baby,
which the woman tearfulIy begged to be al
lowed to keep, while the man as nngrily re-
fused. AT length, the wife almost threw"the
child into the husbands arms, and excam.
ed, "rake it, ! soon can have another"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, March II.
When Nicholas, the late Car of Russia
was in Paris, on a visit, some years ago, il
was remarked by French lady upon him
aud his splendid retinue as thev passed
along: "'rhere hs goes, preceded by the
assasins of his father, accompanied by the
assassins of his brother, and followed by his
opn assassins." This reminds one also OF
the remark of Madam de Stael upon the Rus
sian Government, that il was "an absolute
despotsm, tempered by the dagger" All the
world is ready enough TO believe that the
Car Nicholas has fallen BY assassnati0n.-
1t is not impossible. All history, and especi-
ally Russian history, is full of such events.
But there is also very good ground to be-
Iieve that Nicholas was, rather more than
some other morlals, of his own age, likely
to meet his death in II natural way, and Just
in the way in which he is reported to have
died. He was of full plethoric habit-subject
to inhammaiions, to ieverS aud to disorders,
which, in such habits, terminate in apoplexy.
Thirty years ago, according TO very good
authority, he was near losing his life from
SOME inhammatory disorder. He was also,
about the same time, MS is recorded, advised,
Uy MS pll1SlcilllS, ludl Hc l"o"iu SoihS w MS
end by the formation of ''inttrnal fat" and
that, TO correct this tendency, and prolong his
life, he must addict himself to severe bodily
exercise and low diet. Accordigy, for thirty
years, he has pursued strict rtgimen-be-
ing very spare in diet-and almost living on
horseback, or in some exercise iI the open
air. He never allowed himself TO eat n full
meal, or to satisfy his appetite toI food. 1t
is recorded by those intimately acquainted
with his private habits, that his breakfast was
cup of tea, and biscuit, and his dinner,
very slight, aud never accompanied by more
than single glass OF wine, and that he par
took OF no subsequent meal. His death can
only he accounted for, notwithstanding all
his care, BY reference to Ills constitutional or
ganizaiion, and to the bodily and metital Ia
bors by which-he was always oppressed.
So falls the greatest monarch of the age,
and the finest looking man in christebdoul.-
Many books have been written. He was ex-
tensiyely known to all travellers and sojour-
ners in Russia, England and America. and
was accessible and aiiable to all, and hence
he is well known, personally, us well polite
ally, TO the world. He will .iIl as large Il
space in history as he has done among his
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sdg- At u camp-meeting, last summer, not
more than fifteen hundred miles from Bos.
ton, the trumpet had c,lled the congregation
together, but u crowd of idlers and rowdies
stood outside the range of seats and would
not come in. The presiding elder invited
them twice with no effect. Then, after sing
ing hymn, he turned to the crowd and said
---"As many of you as hav'nt got the itch,
or small pox, or any other cutaneous disease,
we shall be glnd to have come forward. All
others willreman outside" No one was left
out ".s.t. #.. .. H.. .
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SoLITUpE.-Soliiudc though it may be
silent as night, is like light, the mightiest of
agencies for solitude is essential to man,
All men come into the world alone; all leave
it alone. Even little child has dread
whispering consciousness, that If he should
be summoned to travel into Gods presence,
no gentle nurse will be allowed to lead him
by the hand, nor mother to carry him in her
arms, nor little sister to share his irepidatons.
King and priest, warrior and maiden, philoso-
pher and child, all must walk those mighty
galleries alone.
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CoEcoRr, March l3,

In Meredith village, this forenoon, while
citizens were balloting for Moderator in the
new town Hall, the floor fell in precipitating
about 800 people about IS feet upon stone
ana rubbish beneath. George Clark, John
O. NJ. Mead, John Leavtt, Hiram PIummer
X. C. Tuttle, and Thos. Eastman, were SO
badly injured that slight hopes were enter
tained of their recovery. Forty-six Others
were taken from the ruins, maky Of them
with broken limbs and other serious inju.
res
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tTThe Texan Rangers who were recent
ly mustered into the United States service
for the purpose Of fighting the Camanches,
after their own peculiar fashion, have already
got tired of the undertaking, and are publish
ing letters in the Texan papers complaining
of hard fare, bad water and no fighting
These men were all extremely anxious to bo
accepted by the government, and, when it
was supposed they would be rejected, Tho
Secretary of War was talked of in no COM
plmentary terms; but their enthusiasm seems
TO have abated most rapidly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

Hon. John Nj. Bolts has written to the
Richmond Whig that he is not nov, and new
er has been, candidate for the nomination
Of governor of Virginia. He says he is sick
of political life, and shall never seek to Gil
another public station. He SAYS that if he
has loud call to fill public office, he will
obey the call but the call must come, rs the
Krntuckian said, by&'spontaneous combus.
ton"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

The RIGHT TALK.-The WashingtonUn-
ion takes very sensible view of want, labor,
and cold potatoes:
"'rhe great mass of men in the United
States, if they become wealthy ut all, must
necessarily practice economy and self-dcnial;
and what is considered by them as no hard
>hip ought, in like manner, To be submitted
to voluntarily BY the laborlug classes, if moi
in the hope of becoming rich, at least from Il
prudent foresight, which every mans rea-
son and experience teach him is necessary
to meet these accidents or providentia dis
pensations which are almost sure 10 occur
sooner or later. If iaboring man earns
from one TO three dollars day, and spends Il
portion of it, not in necrssaries, hut luxurles,
equally injurious to himself, his family and
society, he has no more rghtto demand from
the Stale other employment or bread, than
The rich eXtravagant spendthrii who has was-
ed his substance in riotous living and llcen-
lious indulgence. He may claim relief on
the score OF humanity, but cannot justly de-
mand it rs II right"
The good sense contained in these remarks
must commend itself to every reader. II men
wish to get above poverty, they must learn to
be economical us well us industrious.
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Very respectfully. Your ob't. seryt,
..... :. p. WALDO, Commissioner.
Hon. S. A. SMITH, Charleston, Tenn.


:aY The correspondent of the New York
Evening Post says; stt I q
"When Col Benton was being tried in the
furnace of affiiriion by the burning OF his
dwelling, the President called on him and
rendered to him the hospiialitits Of the
White House. This was too much for the
stern old Roman, who could defy a world in
arms against him, but melted to tears at such
consideration and kindness from the PrrsI-
dent He declined with suitable expressions
of gratitude, accepting, however, the profier-
I'd use of the library and manuscripts"
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:Y-W We clip the following from the Home

iOurnal. .... .Hr#
"Mnsic is the one pleasure of life, in which
the less novelty the better. The oitener a
story is repeated, the more we tire Of il. The
oitener We hear tune, on the contrary, the
more We love it,"
The writer of the above has evidently nev.
er lived next door TO young man who blew
his brains out on n trombone, or who, foI
eight mortal months, undertook TO make an
eight keyed bugle understand the merits oi
Roslin Castle or 'Bonypares' March.
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A TOAST FOR THE LADIEs-"Old bache-
lors, may they lie on bed of necdes-sit
alone on wooden stool-eat alone on
wooden trencher-minus the bosom and shirt
collar buttons all winter, and--be their own
kitchen maid" Shockingl Nearly as bad as
the "Pope's curse"
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TIE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, MARCH 80, 1885.
leg The Baltimore Patriot has special

.g- The Baltimore Patriot has special
dispatch from Washington, dated the 10th
inst, which says-The Russian Minister here
says he believes the reported death of the
Car TO be an unpardonable hoax, gotten up
entirely for sinister effect. He has no infor-
nation whatever on the subject, and feels
confident, had so important an event taken
place, he would have been promptly inorm-
ed ..-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

THE PREsipENCY.-T South Side Dem.
ocrat, makes the following nomination.: We
desire 10 presentto the Democracy and other
people, name for the Presidency, which for
faithful devotion to principles, unsullied char
meter, splendid administrative talents, pecu-
liar merit, and exact fitness cannot be excel
led; that name is the Hon. Benjamin Fitspat-
rick, United States Senator Of Alabama.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

s%- There are 10000 street gas lamps in
New York, which burn $4,000 feet of gas per
hour, or 100000 feet per night. The cost of
one nights burning is about fourteen thou
sand dollars.
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.Ns- Gen. SCOTS Brrvet Rank OF Lieuten-
ant General does not create u vacancy in the
place he formerly held. He is still Major
General, Commanding in Chief Next to him
on the Army Roll is Gen. Wool, who has the
actual rank of Brigadier and brevet rank of
Major General. Next to him is Gen. Twiggs,
who has the same titles, though his commits.
sion is of Il later date. .... ..r-
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USrRuE.-The Port Gibson Herald says
the story which appeared in the KosciuSko
Sun. to the effect that DR.. Woodward was
stabbed by an expelled member of the Meth
odist Church at Port Gibson, and immediate
~ expired, is wholly untrue.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

eP- The Bank of Cape Fear, on the 18th
inst. accepted their nea charter, passed by
the last Legislature. According to this char
ter, they could not, after that day, pay out
any bank note of less denomination than %,
except in settlement with bank.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

icy At the election in Reading, Pennsyl-
vonia, on Friday, Baird the American candi-
date for Mayor, was reelected. The vote
stood Baird 1914; Young (dem) s45. The
whole American ticket received about the
same majority. Much excitement prevail
ed
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

NAPOLEON 1.-THE Austrian Government
has given directions that the remains of the
Duke de Rclchstadt Napoleon H., according
to the present French nomenclature) should
be placed at the disposal of the French Com
missioners appointed 10y the Emperor of the
French, with u view to their removal to Paris
for inierment by the side Of the first Napo.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

tw- The San Francisco Mint, during the
Elk DAYS preceding the 25lh ultImo, coined
1886 900, which is at the rate of nearly
$500 dar. The coinage for the month
OF February, would rcach about 81 $50, 900.
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WASHINGTON, March Is.

The friends OF the Administration here
assert that President has ordered that
extreme measures be taken, If necessary, to
exact instant reparation at Havana for the
late outrage upon the steamer Il Dora
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

A writer in the Edingburg Review esti-
mates that the laborers of England alone
squander S25O,0OO,O00 per year on spirits,ale
and tobacco. This is a large sum, but the
authority is first rate.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

.F- Col, Sleptoc, aud tho U. S. officers at
Great Salt Lake Ciiy, it is said, have sent a
petition 10 the President to re-appoint Gov.
Brigham Young. Col. Sieptoe had not then
heard of his own appointment.
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who vowed to "love, honor and CHERISH"
Another year, and a long procession, in all
the pomp of woe, wends its way from the
mansion of the millionaire, 10 costly maus-
oleum in 'the city of the dead" The crush
ed heart is broken-the weary one is at
rest!
II is night; and how desolate is that homo
from whence the lOye-light has Departed
Tears rest on the cheeks of the little ones
who have ut last sunk into an uneasy slum-
Der without a mothers prayer, her "good--
night" kiss. The servants move about with
hushed footsteps-they loved their gentle
mistress.
In the sumptuously furnished, but now
desolate paror, the widowed master Of that
princely abode sits alone! alone with his
thoughts; alone with the fadeless memories
of the past. Comes there no retributiou
now! Dare he arraign Providence for remov-
ing his precious wife to that "better land"
when his own hand inflicted the slight but
oft-repeated wounds, that, like the life-blood
tricking drop by drop from the scarce OPEN
ed vein, at length drained the purple fountain
Of life. a 7t
Alasl alas! the scales have fallen from his
selfish vision now; but it is too late! His
own hand has dashed from him the cup Of
JOY; and the words of Wisdom, ale that is
slow to anger is better than the mighty; and
he that ruleth his own spirit than he that
taketh city," reverberate in thunder-tones
through the halls of his guilt-stricken soul.
ELLIE HOWARD.
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sF- The Richmond Wing states as n
fact which may be relied on, that the late
Know Nothing Convention q. Winchester,
Virginia, wnscomposed of"iorty-threo Wings
aud iorty-seven Democrats"
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R- A passenger from New Orleans, late
" arrived at Cincinnati, reports nineteen Or
twenty slaves had died of cholera on the
plantation of Hr. Banon, not sar from Baton
pa,,,a 'e r1au
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t3g- The Emperor of Japan seems to hn

tY- The Emperor of Japan seems to have
a sharp eye to his rights and privileges. lie
evidently is not believer in ''popuar sover
eirnty." He directed that all the American
gold pieces which Mr.. Burrows, who lately
visited Jcddo bay, gave ohis subjects, should
be returned. The Interpreter discovered
Liberty" on them, which alarmed the En-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30
ras- Cnurnrc IS bad for health. Show n

.sy- Courage is bad for health. Show us
n prize fighter, and we will show you gen.
tleman who is troubled with bruised head
more than bali his time. 1t is only the
timid who reach old age The man who ran
away at the battle Of Saratoga is living vet,
aged ninety.ihree. His brother, who wished
TO see il out was run into the ground the
dav after the surrender Of Burgoyne.
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CINCINNATI, March 90.

The two negroes who were arrested on
last Saturday on n writ of habeas corpus,
were brought into court today, when Judge
Storer informed them they were at liberty TO
90 free, but they preferred 10 return with
their masters, and they were at once con-
yeyed across the river without excitement.
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esw- The Washington (Ark.) Telegraph,
of the 7th instant, says: "We regret TO learn
that the illness Of the Ex.Goy. james S.
Conway resulted fatally. He died at his res
idence, in Lafayette county on Saturday tho
Sd instant, in the 59ih year of his age.
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t4ss- 1t is stated that all Napoleon's prepr

t4g- 1t is stated that all Napoleon's prepn-
rations are making for visit, not to the Gil
mea, but 10 Berlin; that the Allies have aban-
doned all hope of taking Sebastopol, or at
least have concluded, that it will cost great
deal more TO take the place than il is worth,
aed that they will march through Prussia, il
She consents, and over if she resists, into Po-
land.
The Crimean destination, and the rumored
opposition of the British Cabinet, is deemed
merely a ruse to ward off suspicion until the
result OF the Vienna Conference is disclosed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

rB- II is stated that already some fifteen
hundred applications have been made for
bounty lands under the law passed by Con.
gress ut the last session. On Monday three
and fifty such applications were received
The Star SAYS:
ri at is estimated at the Pension Bureau that
about three hundred thousand such appIica-
tions will BE- made under the new law requir-
ing 35,OOO000 of acres to satisfy them. The
amendments made in the bill by the House
reduced the quantity of lands to be taken up
under il from more than l00,000000 acres to
about the quantity we name abcvc."
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,Sy- The Legislature of Arkansas have
passed resolutions denepncing the order of
Know Nothings by avoie of ninety-nine to
six. .. r H.
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ROCHESTER,, March I9.

...'.. ROCHESTER, March 10.
The body Of Emma Moore, whose mystic
rious disappearance II few months since caus-
cd much excitement, was found in Mill
race by a boy who was drawing water. The
bonnet and ear jewels were identified.
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Comfortng-to los. a small fortune in an
unlucky speculation, and have all your friends
wonder how you could have been "such a
fool"
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tg- The Du,chman says, poverty runs
strongly to fun. An lrishman is never so full
of Jokes as when he Is reduced 10 one shirt
and two potatoes. Wealth is taciturn and
fretful. Stock brokers would no sooner in
-dulge in hearty laugh than they would lend
money on 'second mortgage" Nature is
great believer in ccmpensatons. To those
she sends wealth. she saddles with lawsuits
and dyspepsia. The poor never indulge in
awoodcock, but then they have style of ap-
petite that converts No. three mackrel into
n salmon, and that is quite as well.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

, Mr.. Thompson, the U. S. Vice Consul at
Ssrua, has been arrested and taken to Ha-
yana.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-30

Miss Somebody, the great Bloomer Advo-
cate, has got new suit. She has adopted
the old fashioned "barn-door flap" to breeeh-
es, .
What fall!
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- Nirhnlns hold .lIis throne bv the rirhI

ry- Nicholas held lis throne by the right
of direct descent from the. founder of the
i,np.riai house, Michael Romanof, who was
elected by the national council and crowned
NJ Moscow in April 1913. IN the course Of
lbe two hundred and forty-two years that
have since elapsed, Russia has had thirteen
monarchs of that family. The order Of their
succession was as follows: lst Michael; I'd
Alexis; Sd Feodor; 4ih Peter the Great; 5ih
Caiharine |; 9th Peter u; 7th Anne; 9Th
Elizabeth; 9th Peter III; 10th Catharine III
llth Paul; 18th Alexander; 18th Nicholas.
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t8s- The applicants for bounty land will

sR The applicants for bounty land will
hardly be able to procure warrants prior to
the first of July, as we learn from Washing
ton it will not be possible for the Commis.
sioner Of Pensions to make preparation be.
fore that date. This officer and his clerks
are said to be pushing the arrangements with
all possible speed, but the evidences of the
innumerable claimants which will appear,
promises a very heavy business, and will re.
Quire extra employees for season at least.
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NEW YoRK. March 10.

The steamship Cahaba, with dates from
Havana to the l4th, arrived at New York.
The Military Commission have tried and
sentenced to death, Don Ramon Pineto, Don
Juan Cadobra, and Doctor Don Nicholas
2ineto. Ea -z
General Concha refused TO receive the
American Consul's application for cemen-
cy, .s
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Harsh words are like halstones in summer,
which, II melted, would fertilze the tender
plants they batter down. .
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tzts A Northern editor, who is bachelor,
says-alve never cared iarhing about get
tine married until we attended an old bache-
lor's funeral .. aHr rau