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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

UNAccoUSTABLE.-According to letter
received in Lynchburg, from highly respec-
table source, says the Vrginan, a neighbor-
hood not far from Scottsvile has been thrown
into great excitement and consternation by
the following remarkable phenoncnon: About
II o'clock every day rocks commence falling
and flying in every direction around certain
negro quarter, and contiu9s wilil about
o'clock in the evening. Tl&negrocs have, in
consequence, had to abandon the houses. A
party of gentlemen had left Scottsvile to in
vesiigate the matter. A minister who had
been present vouches for the accuracy of the
statement.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

PROHIBITION IN CHISA.-The eastern
Prince" of the Chinese insurgents has issued
proclamation forbidding all princes and no.
bIes, ministers of State and people, men and
women, to indulge in the use of wine, even
privately, under penalty of being bcheaded.
This is certainly nevel mode of enforcing n
prohlOllory liquor law, and one decidedly eff
i'e'u"l' so far as the individual offenders are
concerned.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

There Is singular case of aIcdged slow
poisoning now under inyosiigationin London.
A gentleman, occupying n respectable posi-
lion. is charged with having destroyed his
yiCe .bv the administration Of continuous, but
minnie. doses of arsenic; and the medical at
tendants testify to their suspicious, and to
their having watched the process, as it were,
bnt 10 having been compelled, from fear Of
disturbing their patients mind, from intcrfer-
ence Some Of the proofs seems very strong;
bnt il must not be forgotten that there is
theory touching arsenic, which, if tenable,
oyerthrows many chemical tests upon which
reliance is generally placed. SO says tho
London illustrated NeioS.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26,

The Virginia State Council of KnowNoth.
ings were in session at Richmond on Mon
day. An informal resolution was offered by
John M. Bolts, embracing the sentiment that
the religious test of the party ought to
be abolished and the naturalization laws to-
tally repealed. His object was merely to as
certain the sense of the Council upon the
question, which was unanimously decided in
the affirmative.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

eB- The evil OF divided commands in the
Crimean army has become so manifest that
the English leading papers are urging the
necessity of giving the command of both ar
mics to one general. The suggestion, it is
supposed, comes from the English govern
ment, which is therefore presumed to be
ready to act upon it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07
New ORLEANS, August %.

The San Antonio Sentinel mentions the
arrival of Col. Bddle from the headquarters
of the Revolutionists in northern Mexico
He says that Vidanry is willing to deliver up
to the owners all fugitive slaves escaping to
Mexico, and is anxious to conclude treaty to
that effect
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

.s5- A printer not long ago being "Aung"
by his sweetheart, went to the office and tried
to commit suicide with the shooting Stick
but the thing wouldn't "go off," The "devl"
wishing to paciy him told him to peep into
The sanctum where the editor was writing
duns to delinquent subscribers. He did so,
and the effect was magical. He says that pic,
ture of despair reconciled hun to his fate
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

.35- A bercaved mother request, the pa
pers throughout the country to publish the
following: A boy named James Nesbitt,
now about seventeen years of age, left his
mother, Mary Ann Nesbit, nearly two years
ago, to procure employment and assist in
supporting his only surviving parent who Is
an educated and intelligent lady in poor cir
cumstances, and who is much distressed at
the absence or loss Of her only son. Mrs.
Nesbtt is residing at Erie, Pa, and will be
most thankful for any information about her
lost boy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

Y-The census takers in the city of New
York have completed their labors, and show
total population of 624,l79, which is m
increase since 1850 of lOs,624 souls. There
is decrease 10 ten of the twenty two wards.
The aggregate increase is much less than
was expected.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, SEPT.7,ts55.
New YoRK, Aug. 27.

A reliable letter from Paris, asserts that
the new Spanish contingent force will not be
sent to the Crimea at present, but will march
into France and supply the places of the
troops ordered to the princpaities. o.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07
New York, Aug. 80.

The steamship Herman, with additional for
eign news, arrived today.
The Queens speech on the Propagation of
Parliament, was delivered by proxy. She
deeply regrets the failure of the Vienna Con-
ference, and says there is no other aterna-
tive but vigorous prosecution of the
war.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

CHItr ENGINEER OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY.
James Z. Thompson, of Albany, N. Y, has
received the appointment of chief engineer of
'ns Russian Navy land is now in Washington
making the necessary arrangements with the
Russian minister The offer is made for
ulrcO years at "a salary of $4,000 per annum,
will house rent free.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07
TIMES CURE.
Mourn, o rejoicing heart!
fnL - L..


The hours are flying,
Each one some treasure takes,
Each one some blossom breaks,
And leaves it dying;
The chill dark nightdraws near,
Thy sun will soon depart,
And leave thee signing;
Then mourn, rejoicing heart,
The hours are flying!
Rejoice, o growing heart,
The hours fly fast,
With each some shadow flies,
Until ut last
The red dawn in the east
Bids weary night depart
And pain is past.
Rejoice, then, grieving heart,
The hours fly fastl
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

s5y" Chauncey G. Burr, sort of editorial
confidence man" has started paper in New
York, called the "Natton." 1t is to be more
National" than the Ne,0S. It is to be, in
word, darnational
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

Love your neighbor as you love your
self, said parson to an honest member
of his flock. "The Lord help him, then, for
| hate myself like pizen ever since | let
Righteous Skinhint cheat mo out of the
bobtaied mar"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

sY- A gentleman said he woald like TO
see boat full of ladies set adrift on the
ocean, to see which way they would steer.
"Oh," replied lady present, "that's very
easily answered. They would steer to the
Isle of Man, to be sure"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

Cool AND CoMPAcT.-1he Springfield
Republican says: ''lt has always been n mar
vel with us how Christian men could sport
with tho melancholy hallucinatons and in
frmities of their fellow men, as those are do
ing for instance, who are melting the hopes
of DR.. Mcllen, Daniel Pratt and Franklin
Pierce, of success us Presidential candidates
in lS5Gn
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

s53 Mrs. Swisshelm, the famous editor Of
The Pttsburg Visitor, has come out for the
American party. She can take any two of
the Sag Nicht editors in Pennsylvania and
knock their heads together.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

Mr.. r. A. ALEXANDER, of Woodford'
KY, has visited all the herds of short horn
cattle in England lately, and shipped for this
country forty-eight of the best animals select
ed thereirom, us also twenty-five South
down sheep. He is said to be the largest
importer of short thorn cattle in America, and
every year he spends several months in En-
gland, to attend the fairs there and purchase
the best animals.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

e5sy" After clergyman had united hap
py pair, not long ago, an awful silence ensned,
which was broken by an impatient youth ex-
claiming
Don't be so unsreakahly happy ~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07
NEw YoRK. Auu. 90.

New YoRK, Aug. 90
Cotton is dull, and only 300 bales huve
changed hands since the reception Of the
Canada's advices. Flour IS easier, but not
quotaby lower. Corn is dull, with decIin
inc tendency.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07
New YORK, Ang. 90

It is rumored that terrible accident occur
red upon the Jersey Railroad, near Burling-
ton by which there were 80 persons killed
and wounded.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

s5y" Mr.. Samuel N. CAN'T, of Spawn
Springs, New York, writes to the New York
Herald, 10 inform the public that he is not
the man who was found murdered in Prince
Georges county, Maryland.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

s-xs" There is said to be woman ont
west" who has had eleven husbands during
the past sixteen years. The strong mind
ed" ones talk of running her for President on
the Woman's Rights ticket
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

s3g@ The Dutchman who refused to take
n one dollar bill because it might be altered
from ten, prefers stage travelling to rail.
roads. The former, lie says rides him eight
hours for dollar, while the latter only rides
him one. "De beeples can't sheat mel"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

~" A dispatch from st. Louis, dated the
25th inst, Says:
awe are in receipt of dates from the Great
Salt Lake TO the lst of July. The third crop
Of grain had been destroyed and the pros.
poets of famine were still imminent.
"The Hon. l.. Shever, one of the Judges
of the territory, was found dead in his bed on
the 29th of June, and was buried with great
cpremony"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

"Here lies Old Thirty.three Per Cent!
The more he got the more he lent;
The more he lent the more he craved!
Good God, can such soul be saved 2"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

PERSONAL lNDEPENDENCE.-By personal
independence, we mean that selfreliant spirit
which leads one to regulate his conduct by
the dictates of his own judgment-that ster-
ing quality which distinguishes the man
f,om the mere automaton. Founded on
conscious integrity, and strong, determined
will, il may be regarded one of the surest
evidences of true manlincss. Let n man be
clothed in the garb of his own Individuality
let him act always in accordance with an
educated sense of duty-lct him hold and
feel himself directly responsible for his acts
and he must deserve, as well rs win, the ad-
miration and respect of his fellows. Man, it
is true, is n social being, and can find hap
piness only by communion with his kind;
but mentally, each should be for himself
each should think for himself-so that the
modified results of action and reaction may
be realized. There is, indeed, in personal
independence, dignity and lofliness which
make it an adoring characteristic of manhood
and youth. We cannot conceive of grand
er spectacle than that afforded by him who,
amid danger and temptation and scorn, calm
ly pursues the path of duty, rough though it
be, and hedged in by numerous perils.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

ey- The old belle and the fast girl are
skeiched by the Newport correspondent of
the Times:
"A melancholy spectacle is the old belle
not the contented matron, who, having en-
joyed the prestige Of beauty in girl-hood,
subsidies with grace and dignity into the do
nestle woman or old-school ludy-but the
unfortunate creature whose only pleasure
consists in admiration, and whose lifelong
motive is variety. The affection of youthful
costume, the childish lisp and inane ogle, the
artifices of the toilet, the eagerness for notice.
and an Unsuitable appetite for compliments
are, morally speaking, in hideous contrast to
gray hairs, crows feet, and the ful.grown
evidences Of maternal responsibility. To see
these traditional charmers on the gi rire for
beaus among younger and farer ;spirants, to
watch the sickly smile, the fitful glance of
triumph or envy, the faded yet uneasy look
and dubious complacency, and 70 associate
these with one who has gone Though the
deepest human experience, and VT remains
frivolous and vain, is far more provocative of
sorrow than of mirth; it is old age without
the love and honor which should Intend it
a phantom of folly,an effigy of vorldliness!
Such one was found weeping in the corri
dor Of the hotel here; and when asked the
cause of her tears, sobbed out, 'Ne one ad-
mres me now An old horse, pasured in
lonely field to die in peace, is a more dignifed
spectacle.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

s3S- There is not an oath in the language
OF the Sandwich Islands. The hardest ex-
preston used is, "You are good for nothing;
eat dirt"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

The Peruvian navy is an institution. It
consists of three captains, eleven boys, five
fiat boats and an eleven ounce cannon. A
DANGEROUS body, that.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07
The Columbia Times of Monday, srys:

awe regret to learn that an elephant at
tached to Bailey g. Cos. Circus, while eros
sing bridge between this city and Camden
yesterday, became unruly in consequence of
the breakagc Of plank, and killed one Of
the horses belonging to the company. The
keeper of the elephant, in the attempt TO pun
ish him, omilting to take the prccaution to
secure him, was instantly killed by the en-.
ragged animal. The name Of the keeper, we
understand, was West, and he had had charge
of the elephant for eight or nine years"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

lation and government. Foreign immigration
will still be welcome to our shores, and the
blessings of our institutions will be extended
as freely as ever to the oppressed of every
country; but We must be allowed to rule
America after our own heart, in accordance
with the enlightened principles we Inherited
from our fathers. This is the American sen.
timent, and foreigners will rail against it in
vain. 1t is a part of our nationalty,-and
will gain additional strength as the fabric of
our greatness towers above all opposing
nationalities.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

.9g- 1t is very unwse to ask lady her
age. Mr.. R, one of the New York Cen
sus Marshals, in taking his account, met
with female who gave her age as 81 years,
and in enumcrating her children, announced
the eldesr as being rs years old Being n
very modest young man, he supposed she
made mistake, and heightened her life (nu-
mcricallyl BY adding ten years to her oxls-
tence.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

If you want to get people do,oa just trip
them M.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-07

sY- The old belle and the fast girl are
sketched by the Newport correspondent of
the Times:
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