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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
WAsUIyGToN, Nav 90.

The State Department hps received infor-
nation from Mr. Perry, announcing the Span
ish Cabinets acceptance Of the proposal of
the United States for the arrangement of the
Black Warrior affair.
The Queen of Spain has signed the Eeele-
siastical Property Bill.
- The Hon. Edward Bates, of Missou-
ri, is nominated for the next Presidency
by the GaIena (Ill) Advertiser. The ST.
Louis Inteiigencer seconds the choice.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

TORNADO IN GEoRGIA.-A letter from Ce-
dar Town, Ga, dated 22d May, says:
On the evening of the 18th, severe storm
of wind, rain and hail swept across the cen.
trail portion of our county, from the North
west to Southeast, doing immense injury to
the plantations over which it passed. Wheat
crops in particular, now too far advanced to
recover, having been almost entirely ruined,
at time when, on account Of the scarcity
of grain, they were held in more than ordina.
cy estimation. Forests have been denuded
Of their foliage, fowls in abundance destroy
ed, and millions of noisy ocusts forever
sienced. Reliable persons residing in the
track of the storm say that the hail covered
the ground TO the depth of foot, and that
there were drifts of hail three feet in some
places. The damage done to some fields
10y washing has been estimated--probably
with shade of extravagance--as equal to
the ordinary washing of a century Several of
the families most seriously affected by the
storm were also principal sufferers by the ter
rible tornado which visited our country on
the 18th of March last.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
SALT RIVER

The Richmond Wing thus philosopli..,
about a little matter recently occurring i
Virginia in which it was slightly iate.e.,
ed
We speak from experience when We s,v
that there is no more pleasant and drliuLtfri
stream in the world than Salt river. ~
have lived upon its banks all our DAYS ,rJ
nearly all the best friends we have in ,ba
world live there with us, aud we are ut,erIv
astonishcd at ourselves, that We should ever
have felt or expressed a wish TO leave il e.,
less inviting regions. To be sure, there ara
no "Spiies" there TO gladden. the hesrts Of
worldly and selfish natures; but We hay,
never been accustomed TO the "spile.n and
indeed we feel entirely too spiritual ever Ia
care about things So gross and so far beneath
the aspirations Of immOrtnls. We are ey.
ceedingy gratified that We are thus happily
constituted.
If this election should result in continuing
us as soiourners at this attractive retreat. i
will do no more than all preceding elections
have done, and we shall bow TO the populor
will with the profoundest reverence, and with
the best possible temper.
To each and every Know Nothing in the
State, we tender our sincere coincidence and
sympathy-remarking merely, that they de.
served success, foI they worked like beavers,
and did some immensely tall Dragging. We
are not advised, that the Wing party was in
the contest at although We all gave What
aid and comfort we could to our friends of
the American party, and shall cheerfully, do
so again whenever the conflict reeurs between
them and our ancient enemies.
. TO the world at large and the I" rest of
mankind, we will merely state, that we mean
to battle against Juntosm, and Locofocoism,
and the furrin power in this country, SIS long
as we can wag tongue orwield pen. De-
feat hath no terrOrs for our soul.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

~ The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald suys, now that Mr..
Wise is successful, the President is going to
remove some of his enemies from Office whom
he refused to remove before election. B. b.
French is mentioned is one of the number
The charge will be nssOciating with the
"my steriOns individual"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

GB- j. N. Cate Esq, has purchased the
office of the North Georgia Times, Dalton,
and the paper will hereafter be under his edi.
torial charge. Mr.. Cate is gentleman of
fair talents, and.will make an interesting and
readable sheet.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

i53" The Charleston Courier says, it is
gratiiied to learn that all the railroad compa-
MES in that State have agreed to allow dele
gates to the National and Grand Divisions of
the Sons of Temperance, which are to meet
in Charleston city on Wednesday next, to 60
and return for one fare.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

cF The announcement that Samuel C.
Gage had been nominated Governor of Maine
BY the Know Nothing State Convention, is
a hoax. No State Convention has yet been
held.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
New York, June 4.

Stocks are better; Money abundant Cot.
ton unchanged with moderate demand;
Flour easier but not quotably lower, sales of
1850 bbls good Ohio at $40 06 a SO 81,
southern firm; Wheat dull and declining;
Corn trne lower, $4,000 bushels mixed sold
at 81 l0al La.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

.5y- The Herald has discovered the scat
in the bag" in regard to the Kinney plot,
and snys-or rather condenses from letter
written by Kinney to Texan FRIEND
His (Kinney's) plan is to get a legal foot
hold in Nicaragua for colony of four or five
hundred American settlers, and thus getting
snugly into the country, they nre to pro.
coed to conquer the whole of it and divide
the spols."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

GONG TO SLEEP.-It is delicious moment,
certainly, that of being well nestled in bed
and feeling, that you shall fall gently to
sleep The good is como not past; the
limbs have just been tired enough TO render
the remaining in one posture delightful; the
labor of the day is gone. A gentle failure
Of the perception creeps over you; the spirit
of consciousness disengages itself more and
more. and with slow and hushlng degrees,
like mother detachng her hand from that
of her sleeping child, the mind seems to have
balpy lid closing over il, like the eye-'tis
closed. The mysterious spirit is gone to
take its airy rounds.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

CHoLERA.-The New Orleans Delta states
that owing to the extraordinary and pro-
tracted drought, the atmosphere of that city
has become insalubrious, and tendency 10
cholera has been manifested among the citi-
zens for some days past. The deaths have
been quite numerous.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
sg- The following We take from the
Boston Post:


sT- The following We take from the
Boston Post:
at has been nscertained by carefully con-
Quoted experiments, that the loss by friction
or wear, upon gold coin, when in use rs eur
rency, does not exceed n twentieth of one per
cent. per annnm, and upon silver, a half of
one per cent. per annum. In other words, a
gold coin kept constantly in circulation would
last two thousand years before it would en-
tirely disappear; silver coin would last two
hundred years; 900 new eagles outweigh 90l
which have had one years circulation, 900
dimes outweigh 907 under similar circum.
stances. After the surface Of the coin be-
comes smooth, the friction becomes less, like
the surface of bar of railway iron. The
average cost, therefore, of IN exclusively
metallic currency, would be an eleventh OF
one per cent. per annum upon the amount re-
Quired. The amount of bank notes in circu-
lation, at the present time in the United
States is estimated to be Sl6O,0OO.0O0; and
the amount of specie in the vaults Of the
banks to be S6O,OO0,0OO. If, therefore, an
addition of Sl00,000,000 were made to the
specie basis of our currency, and bank notes
entirely dispensed with, it would cost about
100000 to maintain it; anam0unt far below
the average annual loss accustomed bv de-
prcciated bank notes, to say nothing OF the
losses consequent upon the expansions and
subsequent sudden contraction Of paper
issues. The largest denomination Of coins
being gold, which is the least liable to depre-
eiation by wear, the cost would bo even less
than the amount stated"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

PROHIBITION IN BosroE.--The varioushotel
proprclors and liquor dealers arrested at
Boston, last week, were brought up before
the Police Court on Tuesday morning. and
all discharged owing TO some trivial flaw in
the form of the complaint Considerable ex-
ciiement was manifested.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

sS- One morning lately about four o'clock
in the afternoon, small man named Jones,
or Brown, or Smith, with heel in the hole
of his trousers, committed arsenic BY taking
n dose of suicide. The verdict OF the inquest
returned jury that the deceased came to his
facts in accordance with his death. He
leaves child and sixsmall wives 10 lament
the end Of his uniimely loss. In death we
are in the midst of lie.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
WASHINGTON, june 4.

The Secretary of State adveriises, TINT the
Department is now ready TO pay awards un-
der the Convention with Great Britain of the
Sth Feb. 1853, to persons in whose favor the
awards were made or their legal reresenta-
tives, after deducting expenses of commits
sinn IL
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

tE;- Mr.. Toombs' letter on Know Nothing.
ism has not yet been published, but he made
speech at Augusta few evenings since in
which he took substantially the same ground
MS that occupied by Mr. Stephens. Here is
another illustration that Know Ncthingism
is not "Whig trick"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
DolNcs IN BuNcoMbE.-Jesse Holmes.

DolSGs IN Observation-Disclosures Holmes, the
"fool killer" has been down in Buncombe
county, N. c., and gives the following brief
history of his adventures through the col
ums Of the Milton Chronicle:
Here am, in "Buncdmbe," with uplifted
club, and throttng the last of the immortal
Jury who presented the Know Nothings.-
Every rascal claimed my mercy upon the
grounds of being Know Nothing by nature
and education, and said that they themselves
would never have dreamed of such thing
if II certain man namd CIingman had not
put it into their heads. They declared that
every time Clingman took snuff they were
obliged to sneezc, and that Judge Saunders
told them it wond be perjury not to do it.
found them laboring under the impression
that Know Nothing was n kind of guyas-
cutus varment going about like roaring
lion seeking prey. pitched into the boo
bies and made the blood ny-but tho old
mans club dear Editor,is still unstained
with brains.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

eE- We are indebted to the Hon. S, A.
Smith for pamphlet copy Of the addresses
in the Senate and House of Representatives
Of the United States, on the occasion of the
Presentation Of the Sword Of Gen. Andrew
jackson.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

r5Y' Tho Advertiser, Chattanooga, learns
that the Cleveland Dispatch and l.oudon
Free Press, are to be amalgamated, and here
after published at Chattanooga.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
Disguise or perfume him,
Or do what you will,
The rank scent Of the coon
Will gtick ia him still.

The MASSACHUSETTS LIQUOR LAVA
carter was arrested in Boston, on Friday for
driving u load of ale through the street, and
bail being refused he was committed TO an-
swer. The ale belonged olhis employer. His
horse and cart was also seized.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

eB- The Liquor Dealers in New York have
raised the sum of one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, TO try the consttutionality of
the Prohibitory Liquor Law adopted at the
last session of the Legislature Of that State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

The act lately passed over Governor Gar.
diners vetosby Legislature of Massachusetts,,
multiplying the fugitive slave law, contains
the following provisions:
I. Allows the writ of habcas corpus in be-
half of fugitive slaves, and trial by jury.
2. Heavy fines and the State prison for
five years against any person who shall at
tempt to carry of, unlawfully, or come into
the State for the purpose of so carrying off,
an alleged fugitive slave, who is no fugitive
according TO Massachusetts law.
3. No State officer allowed to do anything
in behalf Of the return Of a fugitive to his
master. Judge Loring compelled expressly
to resign his office of U. States Commissioner
or his office of Judge under the State.
4. State officers who may Edare to assist
in aresting, impri.oning, or OBTAINING iu-
gitive slave, are subject 10 heavy fines and
the State prison.
s. Closes the jais and prisons of the State
against the acts or Congress in relation to
fugitive slaves.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

~ A Photograph wil--or, to follow the
Endorsement, the last wishes-of the late
Emperor Ncholas-written in 1874, has been
published at st. Petersburg. The first clause
is q kind of address to his family. After
enumerating the various kinds of property
belonging to She Empress, his wife, the En-.
peror expresses a wish that her Majesty shall
retain for her life the use of her apartments
in the different palaces, and the clause con-
cludes us follows:
"The legacy which | bcqueath TO my chill,
dren is to love and honor their mother to do
everything TO promote her tranquility; to an
ticipate all her wishes, ard to endeavor to
render her old age happy by their devoted at
tentons. Never must they undertake any.
thing of Importance without FIRST asking her
advice and demanding her maternal bene-
dctionp
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

yCJs The total applications for bounty
land, received, is ls5,sOO. Total number
issued under the new law 1867. Total
number acknowledged 10000. Land worth
Yesterday 81 O5 to 81 10.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

s9S' One Of the John Smiths, who rode on
. horse belonging to John l.. Bridges and
forgot to ride him back again, has been np.
pretended and is now in "durunce vile"
awaiting The devious and uncertain course Of
lhs law.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

t5y- Mr.. Morse, United States District
Attorney for Louisi ma, has resigned, on nc.
count of his having been superseded, in the
prosecution of Postmaster Kendall, by the
order Of Attorney General Cushing. Thomas
S. Mccoy has been appointed in ihc place of
Morso
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

.9g- Maj, VIM. II. Polk, is a candidate for
Joint Representative in the District compos-
ed Of the counties, of Williamson, Lewis and
Mnufv
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
NV ORLtANs, Nav 30.

Mr. Soule has published letter, stating
that there is not one word Of truth in Mr..
Perry's late letter, and that the baseness and
impudence Of the writer are only .equalled by
his hypocrisy and cowardice. He says that
he is preparing for the press picture OF Mr..
Perrys conduct at Madrid during his mis-
sion.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

w If there is any one sin more than
another which ought to sink man to Tho
"dcep profound" it is that Of ingratiinde--
turning against and trying to strike down the
arm that has sustained and supported you.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

CB" Attention is invited to an article on
the outside of to days paper, in relation to
new secret political organization which has
sprung up in this country and is said to be
rapidly increasing in numbers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

WHAT Horace GREEDY THINKS OF For
EIGs INrLUEYcE.-"'lhe foreigners are the
men who have made these States free, and
they are the men who will carry aboillonism
into the territories"
Southern gentlemen who plead so sympa-
thelically for the "poor furriner" will please
cut out and paste in their hats.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

~ We regret 10 learn that Mr.. Mortimer
Thomson, better known to the public as
"Doestichs," was accidentally killed on Thurs
day morning, at Ann Arbor Michigan, where
he was spending n few days. lie was out
shooting at mark with some companions,
when an accidental ballet put an end to his
life.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

~ The Sag NIGHTS are talking about nom
mating John Hughes, Catholic Bishop, Of New
York, as candidate for the Presidency in
1856.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

When you pity the suffering, do not put
your hands upon your heart, but in your
pocket.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
WAsHINGTos, Nav 81.

'ASH'N"ipNi may "''
The Pension office will issue TO morrow
two thousand land warrants, under the late
law of Congress, and afterwards at the rate
Of two hundred day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
BosTOy. Nav 4

Several prominent hotel keepers and liquor
dealers have pleaded guilty of violating the
new prohibitory law,and have been sentenced
to pay fine of $40 and to be imprisoned
twenty days. They appealed and gave the
required bonds. Other cases will come up
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
AUGUSTA June 4.

AUGUSTA June 4.
Cotton-The stock on sale is very small,
and transactions necessarily limited. The
market is very firm and prices full.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

szY~ Circuit Court meets at Benton, Polk
county, next Monday, nth instant.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

!sF- a ship recently sailed from Liver
pool for Australia with "cargo" Of tive
hundred and sixty two unmarried femnes.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

"JAMrsrowS. Friend sehorn has present.
ed us with u plug Of first rate Tobacco, and
has plenty more of the same sort at low
figure
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

thing so unusual in democratic candidates
that We can't help noticing it in his case.-
Modesty is a very eommendabie virtue, but
we can't now recollect of any one having
reached the Legislature by practicing it large
ly. As Il friend we must protest against the
Coils apUlogetie remarks at the commence
ment of his speeches-they are too much on
the order of
"YOu can scarce expec. one of my age,
To speak in public on the stage"
No, Colonel-you must quit that, throw
down your diflidence, pitch in, and never
make apologies. When Mr. Jarvis had con.
cluded, Col BalIew stepped forward and
made, as he always does, pretty little speech
rather ornamental, slightly didac;r, and
little discursive. lie is "lornenst" the Know
Nothings, but pressed their toes very gently.
He promised, if elected to make the best sort
of Senator. Next came the Floaters-Mr.
McKamy, Of Polk, who is straightforward,
practical man, and talked nsibly-Mr. Pow
Gl1 vi hCtlltl, WIN 10 u Ihi'N ANO'hi'-1 "hN'
in the estimation ofmauy made he speech of
the day-and Mr.. Cobb, of the same county,
who is always entertaining, as well as good
looking. If we had room, we would like to
90 on and tell of the debate between tho
candidates for Representativc-how Major
! Hurstdiscussed the constitutional pints on the
Liquor Question, and how his competitor, Mr..
Carlock, dwelt with peculiar force en- his own
great physical powers and huge ponderosity.
! But times out, and we must close this arti.
Gle. The next time thirteen candidates, two
wings and eleven democrats, make their ap-
pearance at our Court-h house, may all be there
to see and hear for themselves, or somebody
else be present to report.
=. S. Jno. Queener and Hiram Gee must
excuse us for not noticing their speeches
the gentlemen We're both entirely too meta
! physical for a plain, matter. f.fact sort of
man like ourself to comprehend any thing
either said.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

SHOWING UP SAM.-Tng have got up. a
earricature of Sam in New Orleans, which the
Mobile Register thus descrbes:-
il represents "Sam" in two remarkable at
titudes-frst, "before the election" he stands
as fat and erect coon, with jimmy hat
stuck jauntily on the side of his head, his
arms akimbO, with walking-cane beneath;
he wears hunting coat with broad flaps, and
fitting tightly 90 his back, while his tail juts
out and curs saucily between the skirts. His
legs have the coon bend, but are firm and
muscular, and encased in beautiful pair of
pants, while his pedal extremties are adorned
with killing pair of shoes with large ribbant
bows. "Aller tito election, he is at the foot
of an "old gum tree" in 'the which" large
hole appears. His tail is hung clear out of
sight between his legs, his nose is prone to
the earth, and his entire appearances is that of
n "gone coon" The moral OF the pictured
tail is pointed in the following significant
verse:
Disguise or perfume him,
Or do what you will,
The rank scent Of the coon
a
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

"Siana Aside Corn Bread and let Biscuit
COme"-Col. Blackwell and Lieut. Lilard
have both withdrawn from the canvass for
Congress, and we understand the Hon. S. A.
Smith will be, or is already, a CANDIDATE
Las. Fall the last named gentleman made
a speech in the town of Cleveland, in which
he furiously assailed, as we were Informed at
the time, the Know Nothings. Know Moth
ingism, at that time, was in the full tide of
success in many States of the Union, aud was
looking up even in Tennessee, and it was be-
levcd by many of Col. Smiths friends that
he had "put his foot in il" and injured his fu-
ture political prospects Subsequently a
letter appeared from him in whicn he
declined recollection in consequence of his
tprivate affairs claiming his undivided atten-
ton. If it be true that he is TO be candi-
date again, what has brought about this sud-
den change in the gentleman's determination!
Is Know Nothingism on the wane in Ten
nessee, or has the result in Virginia had any
thing TO do with bringing the Co.'s "private
aif,irs" to n sudden and satisfactory termina-
ton!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

t-S-The communication signed " Female
Prohibirionist" unavodably crowded out
il vilhappear next week,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

:" NHANLESIUNf IUIIN u
Coitun-The stock on sale is light, bnt
there is an active demand and the sales to-
day foot up 900 bales at 8 to I2tcents. Pri-
Goa fnll
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08

HEAVY DAMAGEs.-A young man by the
name of Dent, was sued at the late term Of
the st. Francois Circuit Court, for damages
for the seduction of the daughter of Thomas
Order. The trial excited great interest, and
resulted in verdict of $4,000 for plaintiff,
81 Lnnis ReuMb.