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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

PooR BOYS CoLLEcE.-The printing OF.
flee has indeed proved better College to
many poor boy, has graduated more useful
and conspicuous members of society, has
brought more intellect and turned it into
practical, useful channels. awakened more
mind, generated more active and elevated
thought, than many of the literary colleges
of the country. How many Ounce has
passed through these colleges with no tan.
gible proof of fitness other than his inani.
mate piece of parchment; himself, if possible,
more inanimate than his leather diploma =
There is something IN the very atmosphere
of printing Office calculated to awaken the
minds and inspire'a thirst for knowledge
A boy who commences in such school, will
have his talents and ideas brought out; if he
has no mind to deaw out, the boy himself will
be driven out -4vD York, k,6Iobe.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

Annual capaciiy-TonS
Montour, Danville, Pa, $4,000
Rough and Ready, Danville, Pa. 1000
?heuix Iron Works, PGniyville, Pa, 24O0O
Safe Harbor Works, Safe Harbor, Pa, 10000
Lackawanna Mill, Scranton, Pa, 10000
Trenton Mil, Trenton, N. j., $1,000
Massachusetts Mill, Boston, $4,000
Mt Savage Mill, Mt. Savage, Nd, 10000
Cambria Iron Works, Johnstown, Pa, 10000
Console Mill, Newcastle, Pa, $4,000
New Mill, at Pittsburg, 10000
Great Western Mill, Brady's BeLd, Pa, $4,000
Pottsville Iron Works, 1900
Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond Va, 10000
Washington Mill, Wheeling, Va, 5000
Crescent Works, Wheeling, Va, 5000
New Mil, Portsmouth, Ohio, 5000
Troy Mil, Troy, New York, 1900
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

tSg-lt is said that the Russian war has al.
endy made eleven thousand widows in Eng.
and
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

sB-If you want your neighbors to know
"who youare"-give party and don't invite
the folks "wbo live next door"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

eB-No men are so deep but that shallow
places can be found in them
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

The EASTERN WAR.-The following is
an extract from letter received from u reli-
able correspondent in Paris:
The war occasions general gloom. The
feeling in regard to the war is one of regret
and grief. The sutlerngs Of the soldiers the
death of so many brave men; the demoraliza'
ton of the youth Of the country; these are
general subjects Of conversation. There are
no enthusiasm at our successes. The war
is regarded as frghtIul calamity Nobody
talks about glory. Even the military men
deplo,e the war as dreadful necessity. ]
am told that in England the feeling is very
much the same.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12
T'ntnl-

Such is the productive capacity of this in.
terest II is an interest which now employs
10000 men, supporting over 100000 persons;
and involving u permanent investment ol
Sl20OO,OOO.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

MANUFACTURE OF RAILROAD lRoN.-The
following is about the present number and
capacity of American Rail-mils
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

PRICE OF LABOR AT THE NoRrn AND SourH
1t is strange that while there is such de
cline in price of white labor at the North
there continues to be scarcity ofslave labor
at the South, where prices are exhorbitantly
high. The last Norfolk Argus says:
In both town and country, servants oi
different ages bring very high prices. Corn.
field" hands readily command Sl25 to $3.50.
In the city, cooks and house servants are
in great demand, the price being $50 to
SIS"
The New York Express refers to a late sale
of slaves in Virginia, where woman and a
child eight months old, brought $3.50, and
says, it is like house rents in Broadway, "run-
ming the things into the ground" and must
produce a reaction. 1t adds:
$3.50 for a negro woman and child gives
an interest, at per cent, of S9l 7O-and
this, with life insurance, 3 per cent, 80 80
taxes, doctors bills, and clothing aud food,
must run up the cost of such a negro TO at
least 1925 per annum. Now we ply for our
woman servants from to 81 per month
which averages only S72 per annum. Children
we would not take with the women if they
were given to us. The South cannot, then, it
is certain, stand for any length of time this
sort of competition in labor; and the cost Of
the negro slave must come down--decidedly
down; and hence we give the warning, stand
from under
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12
POINTS OF LAW,

A majority of men allow themselves to be
hoodwinked, cajoled and cheated out of their
rights, by class of lawyers who spend their
time in nothing else, but in cropping through
the foggy atmosphere of the law, for point
upon which to hang an argument to invalidate
witness, to perplex jury, to throw aside a
Just verdict, to quash indictments, to convict
honest men or to send criminals forth again
TO prey upon the community.
The rules of law are not alwavs the rules
of right, and are very frequently in opposi.
tion to common sense. Any common man
who sits upon jury can see aud understand
this ''point" of ours in less than twenty-four
hours experience. We undertake to affirm
that no conscientious man can sit as jury.
man during the term of Conrt, without
feeling disgusted at the chicanery and petty
tricks lawyers resort too, to defeat an oppo-
neut and establish case for their clients
They are encouraged in this kind of petty
fegging by the genius OF the law itself. 1t
sits upon the bench like the bird of wisdom,
looking sage aud profound, and judgellke,
but it is the same to-day that it was when a
Lord Chancellor argued, not quite two hun
dred years ago, that witchcraft must be a
true fact because there were law against
it.
Enveloped in precedents that had their ORR
gin in barbarious and bloody era, and wrap
ped up in traditions, the origin of which may
have been the courage of some crazy brain, the
profession of the Jaw makes no progress will
lingly. 1t cllngs to its precedents and tradi-
tion like barnacles to n rotten ship. While
all around is advancing-whie every other
profession is rising in dignity and usefulness
that of the law is content to remain anchor
ed fast by what it calls the wisdom of ages,
as though, freghted with that wisdom, it
could not sail on for new discoveries and
more valuable acquisitions. Like an immac-
ulaie church it claims to be infallible, and
like that church it hugs its errors. nor will it
be convinced of them, though the elfulgent
stream of the full orbed sun of knowledge
exposes their errors to the light of day.
Points of law are very singular things
They are microscopic. No infusovia are SO
minute. A million anmalcule could sport
upon one of them and at least a million of
parasite contrive to grow fat upon them
The rule which governs microscopic investi
gators holds good with the discoverer of points
of law. If point smaller than any other is
discovered, the lucky dog who has hit upon it
imagines he has made his fortune. To receive
the profound attention of the Judges, a point
of law must be so amazingly small that it
cannot be seen. Then, the bench will bestow
all its tediousness upon it. Then will come
decisions portentious for their length which
nobody pretends to understand but which
from that very circumstance, receives the un-
qualified admiration of the world.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

cB- At Troy N. Y. Winslow, Corning 4
Co.'S iron works have been closed and 500
men thrown out of employ. To day, it is
stated, the iron works of Mr.. Burden of the
same place will be closed for month, when
they will be resumed, If the hands consent to
reduction of wages, ifnot, they will remain
closed, and 500 men be unemployed.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22
POLICE Court.

MONDAY May 81.
Before Jitdqe Green Mrs. Michael BOLIVIAN,
for being drunk on the Goth instant, was fined SO
and costs, and in default was committed
Clarrissa Smith, of New Worcester for being
drunk on the Goth inst, was fined SO and costs,
and in default was committed
VIM Glascoe, for disturbing the peace on the
10Th inst, was committed to the House of Cor
reetion for one month
1t appeared by the evdenc of Mr. Chapman.
City Waterman, that he heard loud cries issue
from the house of Glaseoe, on Saturday night
Upon entering he found Glascoe's wife bleeding
and crying, which she represented was caused by
the abuse of her husband
In defence, Glaacoe alleged that he caught his
wife in an equiyocal situation with one Michael
McGrath, and was taking her toiask on that ac-
count. His DRY was not very credible one
Lawrence O'ConnOr youth about Is Yeas of
age, was sentenced to the House of Correction
for one month, for disturbing the peace on the
10Th inst
He was sentenced to an additional month in
the House of Correction, for assaulting Joseph
Chapman, an officer in the discharge of his
duty.
Michael Fallon, boy II years of age. was
brought up for disturbing the peace on the Goth
instant.
1t appeared in evidence that this boy and 9TH
ers have been in the habit of playing games on
the Sabbath, to the annoyance of every well dis
posed citizen in the vicinity of Pond street. The
Judge permitted him to go this time, upon the
assurance of his father, that he would prevent
him from Decorating the Sabbath in future We
are glad that the officers have taken cognizance
OF these shameful exhibitions of the negligence
OF parents, in relation to the moral culture of
children, and of the indecorous conduct of the
children themselves.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22

ANOTHER VETo.-On Monday forenoon, Gov
ernor Gardner returned the Personal Liberty Bill
to the Senate without his signature. In his mes
sage to the Senate refusing to approve of the bill.
the Governor says g L have taken solemn oath
to support the Constitution of Massachusetts and
the Constitution of the United States. No earth
ly power influence should induce me to be
knowingly dsloyal to that sacred obligation."-
Having in this manner reaiiirmed his well-known,
scrupulous regard for the sacred obligations Of
truth, Governor Gardner goes on to argue that
the Personal Liberty Bill would place Massachu-
sets in conflict with the United States and,
therefore, as a judicious statesman and dutiful
patriot, he refuses to sign it.
We had no idea that Gardner would sign this
bill. Such an act would have committed him to
the anti-slavery party, and we do not believe that
he ever had any idea of being so committed 1t
is true he appeared at an anti~slavery meeting in
Boston, with Senator Wilson and Hon. Arson
Burlingame, but that appearance, like his cele-
brated letter. was only for Buncombe. When he
was called upon to act, in the case of Loring and
in the present case, he took shelter behind the
subterfuge of patriotism, and refused either to
relieve the justiciary of Massachusetts of hui
initiating disgrace, or to throw around the poor,
colored citizen of this Commonwealth, the pro-
lection of habeaS corpus and trial by jury. Gardner
has been urged, by the bunker presses, to veto
this bill, and he has done it. Southern Know
Nothings have urged him to veto it, and thus in
fuence the Virginia election, and he has done it.
The Legislature and people of Massachusetts de-
sired him to approve it and he has not done it
Is Governor Gardner less a Governor of Massa-
chusetts chan subject of Virginia? The SEN
ate, however, passed the bill over the veto by
vote of 80 to 8, and the House by a vote of 229
to rs, SO that the bill is a law, Gov. Gardner to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22

THE REASON WHY.-Among the political
rumors of the day, is one to this effect, viz !:
chat Governor Gardner had made up his
mind to remove Judge Loring from his office,
and that he was induced to refrain from do
ing so by the interposition of ex. President
Fillmore, who certainly did arrive here verv
opportunity for Mr.. Loring's interests, if he
had any inclination to promote them. Mr.
Fillmore is said to have urged upon Governor
Gardner the impolicy of offending the South
at this time, just on the eve OF the Virginia
election, the decision of which must 90 far to
effect all the Southern elections of the present
year, and so bear upon the great Presidential
election of 1885, when spoils so immense will
be the prizes of the yictors. The Governor is
said to have listened to these arguments, not
only because they were weighly in the uselves,
but out Of respect to the distinguished source
whence they came Boston Times.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22

PRosPEcTs. much depends upon the
next CROP A general failure Of the leading
articles of produce would be a calamity almost
without parallel We rejoice, therefore, to
see IN our country exchanges so many indica-
tions that, so far, all is WELL and promising
better The spring in the Northern and
Western States is late, but late spring is free
queiltly the harbinger of an abundant harvest.
Our farmers seem generally alive to the nee
essity and the duty of sparing no effort to aise
the produce of their lands above the average OF
former years. There is an unprecedented de.
mand for concentrated manures, tons of which
are conveyed from this port by every freight
train that leaves. Wheat in most sections
looks well, not Uery well, but well enough to
afford promise of fair yield. Let no man re-
lax his efforts until after his corn stalks are
stacked, and the yellow wealth of his year,
exertion is safe in the crib. Til then the
country will not breathe freely.
There need be no fear of prices in any event
falling to an unremunerating point. This is
great country, and hungry one. We can
eat great deal in the Course of next winter,
and the experience of the past season teaches
us that It's quite as well to have little over.
Europe is too busy fighting and negotiating
TO pay increased attention to farming and as
Europe had great crops last year, it stands to
reason and precedent that this year it is our
turn. Plow, farmers, plowl Plant, farmers,
plant Plow deep Plant wide And keep
the hoe handles polished = Life Illustrated.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22

The last census reveals the appalling
fact that there are yearly three thousand den,
lists in the United States. 1t probably costs
the people two million dollars and ten million
wrenches of agony per annum to keep their
teeth in order
The State Engineer of New York re-
ports that over twelve million passengers were
carried over sixteen principal railroads during
the last year Out of this immense number
bull twelve were killed, and of those twelve
eleven were standing on the platform.
The train which conveyed the EInper.
or Napoleon to Windsor, on his recent visit
TO England, ran at the rate of " miles an
hour The distance was % miles. BIunell
the great engineer managed the locomotive.
The drouth in Texas is very severe.
and crops are consequently suffering. In
some localities, -four sells at eighteen to TWEEN.
ty dollars, and water at eighteen to twenty
cents per barrel.
A Toronto paper contains an adyer-
tisemont Of q lost dog which answered 10 the
name Of Sam" He must be native.
for no " furriner' would dare have that name.
The owner desires his return before the cleo
tion in Virginia.
Mrs. Green Worneley, Of Memphis.
tainted and died Immediately, upon a young
man telling her, in jest, that her husband had
boon run over by cart and injured.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22
OBJ IlalIp Spg,
FILLMORE and The Presidency,

Willard Fillmore has gone to foreign parts, TO
nut himself in good running trim for the Presi-
dental election Of 1856. He was initiated into
the X. N order at Buffalo, few days ago, with
Pickwickian solemnity; and then he went into
voluntary exile with the assurance that his coun-
try would soon recall him to save the Union. The
account we have seen of the ex-President's init
alton into the mystic order, was very affecting and
graphic. When the high priests of the chapter
administered the oath to him, and asked him If
he subscribed to it, he laid his right hand upon
the left side of his waistcoat, boohooed, sniveled
drew his left arm across his streaming eyes, and
then sobbed out the words-"I do, with all my
heart g Mr.. Fillmore, this will make you
President of the United States in 1885, said one
of the officiating K. Ms. Il hope so" replied
Mr. Fillmore, with emotion; 81 hope so, for the
sake of the Union" When the imposing cere-
mony was fuished--the Councils from Maine to
Georgia apprized of the fact that Fillmore was
one of 'en"-and the mind Of the illustrious
neophte himself, had attained its usual repose,
he took the steamer for Europe, that he might
behold, on her classic Shores amid the wreck of
Empires, the beautiful effects of exclusive aristo-
cratic legislation.
1t is asserted, in various quarters where the
fact is likely to be known, that Mr.. Fillmore is
positively the choice of the Southern x. Ms, as
their candidate for the Presidency. The South,
they say, has tried him, and can trust him. He
is not one Of those chrysallis candidates that
body can tell what he viii turn out. He has been
in the White House before, and has both expert
ence and policy. He will consent to ignore the
wisdom of our ancestors-to deny the princi-
pies of the Reyoluton-and to alter the Consti-
tuition: but he will stand or fall by the Union;
which, being interpreted, means, he viii stand by
Slavery.
We do not know, in this natter, whether most
to admire the modesty If Fillmore or the bold
ness of his friends. All that Fillmore expects,
for approving the Fugitive Slave Act is re-elec-
ton to the Presidency. All that the Southern X.
Ms ask of the North is to vote for the man who
threatened to march United States troops upon
Boston, on account of the escape Of Shadrach;
and who, as far as he could, legalized kidnapping
in every State North of Mason & Dixon's line
The Southern Councils will probably succeed in
drilling their Northern brethren into the arrange
ment. The South has always controlled the 9TH
er parties; what reason have we to believe it will
not control the X. Ms also, and compel that
party to nominate Willard Fillmore for the Office
to which he again aspires His nomination
would present remarkable aspect of our politics,
but it would be still more remarkable to find An
ii Slavery men voting for him.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22

GAS Tara new discovery has lately been
made in Ohio in the use Of this substance
gardner, whose frames aud lighthouses 70.
CURED painting decided on making them
Dlack, as likely to attract the heat better, and
from principle of economy, he made use of
gas tar instead OF paint. The work was per-
formed during the winter, and on the an
proach OF spring, the gardner was surprised to
lind that all The spiders and insects which
usually infested his dollhouse had disappear
ed and also that a vine which for the last two
years had so fallen off that he intended 70 70,
place it by another, had acquired fresh force
and yiSor, and gave every sign of producing
a large crop Of grapes. He afterwards used
The same substance on the posts and trelis.
works which supported the trees in the open
an ana met with the same result all the cat,
erpillars and other insects completely disan.
pearing. 1t is said that similar experiments
nave been made in some of the vineyards of
the Gironde with similar results.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22

RAIN.-The long drought, which has caused
some fears with regard to the wheat crop Of
the southern and middle states. appears to
have been succeeded by rain which was ex-
pected to be Of much service. There was rnin
in New York on Saturday afternoon, at Balti-
more aud Philadelphia in the morning, and
the telegraph reports fine rain at New Or
leans on Friday night. The last Kanzas
Herald informs us that the long drought
which has prevailed in that region ''since last
June, with scarcely any rain or snow 10 cool
the atmosphere or moisten the earth, was end.
ed on Tuesday last by copious showers, which
have been followed at intervals from that time
down to the present"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22

The National Know Nothing papers in the
North echo the stupid cry Of Their National
leaders and say, as does the Buffalo CONNER
ctaS OF the 10th inst: e" The best thing the
American party can do in relation to the sub
Ject Of Slavery, is to let it alone" Yet thew
Know full we'll that it is impossible to Let it
alone. They know full well that when they
say, let it alone, they mean" let if have its
own way. Submit to the aggressions of sIav-
cry; yield to the Nominations of the Slave
OIigarchy; wear the yoke of Southern VIC.
lence and dictation.' The Northwest Terri
tory was Free Soil. 1t was shielded by bar
rer OF over thirty years standing. The Slave
OhSarehy assaiIed and DESTROYED that barrier
ana opened that vast region to Slavery. We
say, replace that barrier, restore the country
TO freedom. The National Know Nothines
reply" Let Slavery alone" A Government
IS gwen to Aanzas. The hordes of Slavery
rush III from Missouri, and overpowering the
actual settlers in the territory, send a scion
and representative Of the Ohgarchv to Con-
gresS, to represent the infant settlement. n let
Slavery alone, cry the National Know Moth.
ing Organs The Territory req uires a Legis.
lature. The Governor calls am election. -
Slavery bristles all over Missouri, arms its
m'mohs, and with pistols and bowie knivesin
the.r belts, aud preceded by artillery charged
10 the muzzie, preciptates them by thousands
upon the delenceless precincts and amid
Dacchanalan orgies, violence and bloodshed,
the farce Of election is performed, and the
Legislature filled with the harpies of Slavery.
We say, rebuke the outrage, repel theaegres-
sion, restore the country to peace and free
dom. The National Know Nothing ORGANS
sun respond in sepulchral tones and with sto
lid front" Let Slavery alone"
Men Of the North do you not see what
letting Slavery alone msans: Do YOU not
perceive that il means this and only this. that
you are basey to submit to be rode over rough
shod by the slave oligarchye That YOU are
to submit quietly to the infamous Nebraska
bill, nay, ratify it by the admission of Kanzos
as a Slave otates That you are tanely to
surrender the entire territory of the nation,
present and to come, into the possession If
the slave drivers; That you are to submit to
see Freedom hemmed in and restricted to It's
existing limits, under the principle of No
Freedom outside the Free States: That is
what Is meant by letting Slavery alone, 1t is
to abandon the Government to the rule of the
slave drivers, to abandon our territories to the
shareholders, to acknowledge that Slavery i,
better than freedom, and to cover in abiect
sublecllon to Southern masters. We ask the
Northern men everywhere, are they ready for
the Illuminating sacrifice ;-Ne,o York Yyij,,0e
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-22

AVALANCHE IN THE PYRENEEs-SIxTY PER-
SONS KILLED. The inhabitants of Coreion i,
the Pyrenees, on the Spanish side of the from.
tier, seeing before that an avalanche of snow
was about to fall assembled in houses which
they thought the least exposed to danger
Unfortunately, the snow came down on those
very houses, leaving almost untouched several
others which had been abandoned. BY the
TALL, fourteen houses and forty four barns were
completely destroyed. Seventy.two persons
were buried in the ruins, and sixty OF them
were killed on the spot. The remaining
twelve, though got out alive, were SO dread,
fully injured that some of them died soon af
ter, and cthers were considered in desperate
state. The loss of cattle was very considera-
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