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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14
VOL. VIII.--NO. SIT.
TEST OF ABoLITIoNIsM.

All is not gold that shines, and the loudesi
mouthed phianthropists and reformers some.
times cave in when put to a severe practical
test, like tho following:
| i had q brother in law said Nose Parkins,
'who was ono Of the rayenest maddest red
dest hottest abolitionists you over soc. liked
the pesky critter well enough, and should
have been very glad to see him cum TO spend
a day, fetchin' my sister to SEQ me and nv
wife, if he hadn't lowed his tongue TO run
on so bout niggers and slavery, and the equal
ity OF the races, and the duty of overthrow
ing the Constitution of the United States,
and lot Of other things, some of which made
Inc mad, and the best part of 'em right sick.
puzzled my brains q good deal TO think how
could make him shet up his noisy head bout
abolition. - rsr
Wall, one time when brother in law como
over to stay, an idea struck me. | hired .
| niger TO help me haying time. He was tho
biggest, strongest, greaslest nigger you ever
see. Black! he was baeker than stack Of
black cats, and jest as shiney as new beaver
hat. | spoke TO him. Jake sez l. when
you hear the breakfast bell ring, don't you
say word but you conc into the parlor and
sit right down among the folks and eat your
breakfast The nigger's eyes stuck out OF
his head about a feet Your jokin' massa,'
sez he 'JokenT sez I, 'l'm sober as dea-
con- But SEE be, 4 shan't have time to
wash myself, and change my Shirt so
much the better sez ]. Wall, breakfast
come, so did Jake, and no sat down long
side my brother-in-law. He stared, but he
didn't say a word. There warn't no mistake
about it. Shut your eyes and you'd know it
for he was loud tell you. There was
a fust-rate chance to talk abolitionism, but
brother.in law never opened his head.
Jake, SEE |, you be on hand at dinner
time and he was. He had been workin' in
the medder all the forenoon--it was hot an
hickory and bilin' pitch-and--bu leave the
rest to your Imagination.
Wall, in the afternoon, brother-in-law come
up to me, madder than q short tailed bull In
hornet time.
'Mose,' snd he, 4 want to speak to you.'
Sing il ont sez |.
4 hain't but few words to say sez he, but
If that 'ere confounded niger comes to tho
table again while I'm stcppin here, Ill clear
OUT
Jake ate his supper that night in the kitch-
en-, but from that day to this, never heard
my brother-in-law opon his head about aboli-
tonism. When the fugitive slave bill was
passed, | thought he'd let out some, but he
didn't, for he knoO'd that Jake was still ,oork.
ing on the tarm.-Ohpe Branch.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

New York GAME MARKET.--lt is estimat.
I'd by the journal of Commerce that there are
sold in the markets of New York, during the
year, 10000 woodcocks, $4,000 patridges,
10000 rabbits, 10000 canvas back duck, 5000
brant, 1000 mallard, and 10000 black duck,
5000 wild geese, 10000 dozen plover and
snipe, and $4,000 dozen wild pigeons. Large
quantities of game, however, are shipped 10
Europe from New York by the steamers
Canvas back ducks command high prices In
ELpland.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

MIXTURE OF COPPER WITH lRoH.-Dr. Di-
onysius Lardner says that tho admixture Of
one per cent. of copper with cast iron, while
in state of fusion, was found by Mr. Per.
kins, the inventor OF the steam gun, to prevent
it's bursting under extreme pressure-a fact in
metallic manipulation that is of much impor-
lance to mechanics.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

A SrrscISo AST.--ln Australia there is q
species of ant about an inch long, called the
"bull-dog," which stings with it's tail as
fiercely as a wasp. They are very tenacious
of life, and the only way to kill them is to
crush them to pieces. Speaking Of them, VIM.
Hewitt says "as 10 killing them by cutting
them to pieces, that is hopeless; cut them In
two, and the head will Immediately seize Che
body, and grippe II ficrcely with its nnippe.rs,
and tho tail will ting away at the head
They never trouble themselves to die
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

FOREIGN NEws.-Ne,o York, Dec. 5.-The
Africa has arrived at Halifax with Liverpool
dates to the oath ult.
Cotton is dull, fair grades having declined
t to I'd.
Flour has declined Cd. Wheat has declin-
ed I'd. Canal Flour is selling at 42s. Cd. to
ABS. Mixed Corn is quoted at 46s. 3D.
Market closed dull. Provisions are unchang-
ed.
Money is tighter, but consols have advanc-
ed to sss to /, owing to the rumors of
peace.
1t is stated, but is doubtful, that Gen. Can
robet has concluded Il treaty with Sweden
to Join the Western Powers in the spring, on
the condition that Finland shall De restored
Sweden.
There are rumors that Denmark will also
join the allies. ......
The London Post says that the Prussian
envoy saw the Gar at Ncolaieff, and OBJ
tained permission for Prussia to inform the
Western Powers that Russia was willing TO
treat. f..
There is no news from the Crimea, except
that the allies intend to lombard the north
side of Sebastopol.
The difficulty between Greece and the
United States was settled.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14
New ORLEANS, Dec. 4

The steamer Nautilus has arrived with
Brownsville, Texas, dates to the Gath ult.-
Her news is unimportant, A company of
Americans had bought the silver mines near
Caltove. The difficulties between Tamaui-
pus and Nueva Leon is unsettled.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

TT A Western pedagogue, in teaching
the Young idea how to shoot" found il very
difficult to impress the letter &c" upon the
memory Of an urchin Of four years. He
finally asked the young hopeful, by way Of
illustration "What does your father say to
the horses, whom he wants them to turn to
the right" "Hepl get along 2.4oi'' ex-
claimed the youthful prodigy, his counte.
nance lit up with animation. The teacher
has since adopted different manner Of illus.
trating his subjects
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

R- In Vermont, according to the new
Liquor Law, it costs five dollars TO get drunk;
ten dollars to procure liquors under false pre-
tences, and three hundred to sell or furnish
adulterated liquors.
In the same State kidnapping aud negro
ing are not regarded as offences against law
or morals
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

WooL.-The manufactures who groan
now under the high wool duty-which, in
fact, prohibits manufacture Of woolen cloth
in the United States-have had conferences
with the Secretary of tho Treasury, who it
is said will strongly recommend that unman-
ufac;ured wool, with chemicals and dye
stufIs, should hereafter be admitted free of
dutv
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

JUVENILE RAscALITY.-Some of the news
boys of New York have been detected with
newspapers of the day having the Halifax
dispatches cut out Of papers month or two
old, with view to selling the counterfeits as
"extras" whenever a steamer arrives. The
trick is an old one, but it has never been de-
taoted ill now
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

ES The report that Sec. Dobbin is about
to resign is denied, and he has resolved, since
his health has improved, to comply with the
earnest solicitations of the President to con.
tinue at the head of the Navy Department..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

FRxK LOVE, OR PAssIoNAL ATrRAouoS.-OI
Abigail Moses, a recent convert to the Ere
Love doctrines, gives vent, through the co
umns of the New York Post, to her "feelinks
in the following strains: ...
amt doin' nothin' else
But walkin' paths thas's thorny;
For him as meets my VERY soul
Is gone to Oaliforney;
And now I'm left to bear the brunt
OF life with Hiram Moses;
He's just as different from me
As poppies is from roses.
He eats an drinks, an works an sleeps,
An aint bad provider,
But neetar's all the same to him
As so much beer and cider
hate this way OF doin' life
In sums of vulgar fractions;
My spirit yearns for sympathy
And passional attractions.
My spiral natur's innard sense
Has gone and been divided,
OF course can't be nothin' else
But innardly lop-sided;
keep graspin' after things
That's neither here nor yander,
Just like goose that's yoked Tor life
To him that aint her gander.
know we'll meet in spirit yet,
But somehow human natur',
Let's try 10 squeneh it all we can.
Develops soon or later.
And if it's true ''all flesh is grass"
It's times old Hiram Moses
Was greenin' In the pickle now
For that Metemphyschosis.
He amt got no ideal Of life;
An pivotal revolvin"
He don't begin to comprehend
Or even think of solvin';
l sometimes wish my views of things
Was all confined to wittals,
To maxim bread and punkin pies,
An scourin' pots and kettles.
An then shouldn't feel so bad,
Because aint rewealin'
To some one else's tother self
My undeweloped feelin's.
wonder when the time'll come,
That in Association,
A studyin' Of the Beautiful,
I'll follow my vocation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

tB- Georgia is nearly chequered by rail
roads, and yet stands before the world with
debt of only two millions six hundred and
forty.four thousand two hundred and twenty
two dollars against her ON the balance sheet
No other State in the Union can point to the
same amount Of works of internal improve
ment, and show so small an indebtedness.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

eB- The President of the American Ma
tional Council has issued a call for the elee,
ton of delegates by Congressional districts
to the National Convention of that party,
which is to assemble in Philadelphia in Feb
ruary, to nominate candidates for President
and Vice President.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, DEC. IA, 1885,

From WAEHINGToN.--Bah Dec. g.
In tie Senate today, Mr.. Adams gave notice
that he would introduce bill to amend the
naturalization laws
The House is still without organization.-
Six ballots were had today for Speaker but
without effect. The last ballot stood for
Campbell, 80; Richardson, IA; Banks, 8; and
Fuller, 49, after which the House adjourn
ed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14
r-Ss-OId DR.. Barry, a member of The Row,

E3g- Old DR.. Barry, member of the Royal
College of Surgeons, died few days since
in the hospital in London, Upper Canada
For FIVE days before his death he had taken
nothing but whiskey. His habits of intem.
perance had reduced him to rags, but ho re.
tained the manners of gentleman. He was
once mayor of Bytown.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14
A RIcn AcouIsnIoN-A letter in the New
York Sun, from Washington, says:

The reports from the Mesilla Valley are ex-
ceedingly interesting, and the private notes
of the U. S officials are worth their public
reports. twice over The whole country is a
vast ore.feld; silver, iron pldtind, gpysum,
and coal, in vast beds, abound in every direc-
tion, and are in the richest quantities in the re-
gon along the Pecos, and up to the 33d paral-
lei, which have been thought the poorest sec.
tions of the Rio Bravo Valley.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

ELECTION RETURNs.-City of Knoxville
Bullock PAT; Harris I46; NJ. Brown, Ito
tai 1894.
Davidson Co.-Dist. No. 20-Harris, /
Bullock, 81.
Franklin Winchester-Harris, 1877
Wright 20; Bullock, A; Turney2.
u Maury Co.. Columbia-Bu mail.
Bedford Co.. Shelbyrille-Bullock's maj
(perbaD 300.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

t8 The Richmond whig says that pcriodi
cal explosions from Gov. Wise, and occasional
srnpt'ons of Vesuvius are equally in the
course OF nature. PIT
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

CHAPPEp LIps.--During the coming wcnth-
er it will be found by many, ladies' especially,
rather difficult to keep the chaps from them.
We can, however, recommend the following
means for keeping lips smooth. Get lemon,
and having cut it into two parts, rub Herewith
the lips frequently daily, and more particu.
arly before exposure to the open mir.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

THE MoRmoNs AND SLAvERY.-The Kan.
sas correspondent of the ST. Louis Demo
crat writes:
! met n prominent citizen of Salt Lake
City when at Weston. His name is VIII.
liams. He is the principal merchant of the
Latter Day Saints; and also, believe, one OF
the twelve unholy apostles. inferred from
his conversation that the name Of his Deity
is Gum. He asseverated by Gum. When
he wished to be solemny emphatic he de-
clared "My Gum" and then would make
his statement. am inclined to believe that
the Gum he invoked is Gum Arabic. But |
will refer to this curious problem on another
occasion. herd him say that when Utah
applied for admission into the Union, she
would seek to be enrolled MS a slave State
He said that he owned slave; that all Of the
apostoles did; and that polygamy Brigham
Young owns several negroes. This state
ment, although at variance with previous ac-
counts from Utah, is undoubtedly true. !
submit it as text for political essays aud
Buncombe speeches. He told me that the
accounts of famine in Utah had been enor'
mously exaggerated; and that there is corn
enough in their Egypt yet for two wears to
come. ... ....
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14
NASHVILLE, Dec. 7.

Our Corn, Wheat and Flour markets were
active yesterday, but we hear of no further
advance in either. There are more buyers
than sellers in the Corn market at 40 cents
per bushel-tho buyers furnishing sacks.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

A QuERY.-Jehils wants to know what
,nakes the women cut up so over wedding.
cake He says that the rubbing and purr.
inc inc Of pussy over a handful Of catnip. !.
only eauaIed by a women with slice Of
wedding .cake.-Cdpitai fact.
We suppose this to be the reason that
the cake Is "the substance Of the thirg hoped
for, aud the oveidence Of things not SEEM
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

.g-Always adhere strictly to truth; but
while you express what is true, express it in
a pleasing manner Truth is the picture; the
manner is the frame which displays it to nd.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

eB There is printing office in Paris ca.
paole OF printing the Lords pray er in three
hundred different languages.
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NICARAGUA.
The following description of Nicaragu.

The following description of Nicaragua
will, at the present time, be interesting:
On the West it is washed by the Pacific
Ocean, and partly or the East by .he Car.
rbean' Sea. The Mosquito Territory forms
large share Of its Eastern boundary. Hon.
duras borders it on the North and Costa Rica
on the South. Its area is about forty-nine
thousand square miles, and the population
is estimated at two hundred and forty-seyen
thousand. The females are said to greatly
exceed the males in number. Not more than
twenty thousand of the people are whites.
the rest being negroes, Indians and mixed
races. Most of the population live in towns,
many of them going several miles TO labor in
the fields. The plantations are scattered
pretty equally over the country, and are
reached by paths so obscure as almost to es-
cape the notice of travellers, who are thus
liable to the, error of supposing the country
is almost uninhabited. The dwellings of the
people are usually of canes, matched with
palm, athOughsthe better classes construct
their residences of adobes, and BY the help of
fruit and shade trees planted in the court
yard,render many Of them exceedingly pleas
ant. A range Of mountains extends along
the west coast Of the State, at distance of a
few miles from the sea- but attaining no great
elevation until they approach the confines of
Costa Rica, when they reach the height of
from FIVE TO eleven thousand feet. In the
central part of the State is an immense level
tract, known as the plains of Nicaragua, CON-
prisipg in its area the lake of that name. M.
merous volcanoes exist along the Pacific
coast. There are considerable number of
rivers, but none Of them except the San Juan
are navigable in n commercial sense. Veins
of copper and silver ore Of exceeding richness
are found in many parts, but they remain al
most all Of them either unexpored or super
ficialy worked. Gold, also, is said to exist.
The climate is healthy though varying. In
the interior and mountain parts the tempera-
ture is more dry and cool than on the coast,
where it is hot and approaching to humid
The greater portion Of the State consists in
plains and gentle slopes formed of rich
black loan, Of which but small portion is
made available. The productions are rice,
indigo, wheat, coffee, cotton of superior quail
ity, corn, sugar, &C., besides oranges, lemons,
and fruits of various kinds. The great bane
of the country has been civil wars, and twas
one of these which enabled Col. Walker TO
achieve his almost bIoodless conquest.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

That wrinkled old crone, who begs alone,
While the sharp wind cuts her TO the bone
Hark to her burden, sad and wild,
I'VE are born, bat zoe are not buried, child"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

1B The Georgia Methodist Annual Con.
ference will meet at Lagrange the 18th inst,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

WHEN you GET GOOD AGENT, KEEP HIM.
Such is the dictate Of common sense, recog-
nized and practiced upon by every good busi-
ness man. But yet the people of the United
States, in allowing avery large proportion
of their subordinate officers to be displaced
at every change of the Federal and State ad-
ministrations, act as if good agents could be
obtained by making political opinions, and
not honest, industrious services, the security
of a permanent situation. No wonder the
work of the government is SO badly dOne-it
would seriously injure the business OF most
merchants were they to act upon the silly
"rotation in office" principle.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

Madaml tits sweet to be young and fair,
And well to be rich, and free from care;
But the poor are flesh and blood like you-
'Tis i'll to scorn them as you do.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

.ag- Every bitter has its sweet. When
beef is eighteen cents pound, poor mems
children never get their bowels deranged
from over.rich soups
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

THE BRlTIsH ARMY IN THE CRlMEA.-A cor,
respondent of tho London Times gives sad
account Of the moral condition of the British
army in the Crimea. Speaking of recent
Sunday, he says:
81 rode into Baaklava at p NJ, through
Kadidoi Major, and returned, towards dusk,
through Kadidoi Minor. The sights I saw,
both going and returning, were enough to
make an Enclishman despair of his country
men. All along the road were men-not only
privates but non-commissoned oficers--in
every stage of drunkenness SObriety was
really an exception, utoxication the rule
Noisy groups, flushed and unsteady with
drink, were interspsrsed with staggering sots
who could not keep on their legs. Two High.
landers, one of them on the ground, the other
making violent and fruitless efforts to get his
comrade to stand dup, were affording, at 2 in
the afternoon, great amusement TO a number
of French roadmakers."
He states further that the drunkenness and
insubordination in the army are matters of
common conversation and regret The Off
GERS commanding regiments look on with sor-
row, but are unable to check the evil.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

CY- Gen. Cass has been invited oy the
Kansas Free State Committee TO present their
State Constitution to the U. 5. Senate
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BORN, BUT NOT BURIED.

Lift your dress as you cross the street,
And show your dainty little feet;
Your steps are light, your eye is gay;
no fairer lady greets the day!
Your rivals smile with bitter hate.
Humbled to death with your scornful state
Each gallant eyes you through his glass,
And the poor stand by to let you pass.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-14

WAR IN THE DEMOCRATIC RANKS.
A violent war continues to be waged in the
Democratic ranks. We give few particulars
below:
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Agricultural Fairs.


State Fairs seem to be growing into the
great annual festival in many of the States
eclipsing all other gatherings by their
comprehensive character, bringing into
contact aud communion men Of oil occu-
palions and tastes. from the most remote
portions of tbs State and by the great
aggregation OF stock, vegetables, fruits
and mpllments for exhibition illustrating
the perfection to which, by still. care and
observance physiological and mechani-
cal laws, animals, vegetable and fruits.
and rude implements of the farmer can be
sought. They cleave from the eyes of
ignorance. They sweep away the films
of prejudice like cobwess. They infuse
into the mind of the young farmer an am
bitioa to excel in his profession. They
teach the money loving votary ofthe pro-
fessions what fearful wastes, what exhaus-
tlon OF MS soiI, wnap arSvcr arsUu Or ssss'
crops and stock have been the conse-
quence of presisting in dogged. and his
ish, and unnatural course, because his
father did before him. They impress IN
ten thousand ways the superiority o. In.
telisent over mere brute labor, and tell
with ten thousand illustrations that a
sharp intellect is as necessary at one end
of the plow as sharp coulter at the other;
in word, the supremacy of mind over
matte Toledo Blade.
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*. DOUGHTY & co.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers

I'm Stable and Fancy Dry Goods, Groceries,
\ Hardware, Boots and Shoes, Queensware
Liquors &c, at the sign of"Cash Store, South
side of Broadway. Council Bluffs City, Iowa
Would respectfully announce to the citizens of
this vicinity, that they have permanently loca-
ted, intendirS-ta make this their permanent
place of busN+sss. They hope, by strict mteg
rity and close attention to business, to merit
reasonable share of public favor, A large
complete, land we'll selected assortment of mer-
chandlze Will be kept constantly on hand, in
Guiding every necessary and comfort required
by either citizen or emigrant. Goods sold at
,he lowest figures. Terms, pay down in cash or
nerchantable country productions at current
value.
Those intending to purchase are respectfully
invited TO examine our stock and prices before
purchasing. '1'is pleasure to show our wares
Remember the Cash Store" formerly occupied
by 5. II. Riddle, Esq Our motto: examine,
try, then buy q. DOUGHTY, 4 co
Dec. ID. '53-n3i-tf.