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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

CONSOLATION FOR THE DULL.--There is no tai
ent so useful towards rising in the world, or
which puts men more out of the reach of for
tune than that quality generally possessed
by the dullest sort of people, and in common
speech called discretion-a species Of lower
prudence by the assistance of which, the peo-
pie of the meanest intellect, without any 9th
err qualification, pass through the world in
great tranquility, and with unusual good
treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.
The SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH ACROSS THE BLACK
SEA.-The London Times speaks of the de-
parture of Il steamer with the wire for n sub
marine cable, intended to be laid between
Varna and Balaklaya a distance of 400 miles.
Morse's system OF telegraphing is to be used.
By the end of Februarya direct telegraphic
communication will be opened between the
head quarters of the Allies in the Crimea and
the two great western capitals, London and
Paris; for the French and English Govern
ments have made such arrangements that the
gentlemen who are proceeding out to the
Black Sea confidently expect, by the time
their vessel reaches the Euxine, the overland
telegraph from Varns to Bucharest will be
finished, thus completing the electric commu-
nication of the Crimea with England.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

.15- Ohio is estimated to contain n coal
field equal in extent to twelve thousand
square miles, or one third the surface of the
State. The amount of coal now dug in that
State is estimated at nearly 24,O0O,0OO Of
bushels.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

s1Y- The Maine law has been introduced
into Africa. Moshesh, chief ruler Of Basotn-
land, has prohibited the importation and sale
Of liquors in an cfIectual decree, containing
only three clauses.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

l4y- A despatch, it is said, has been re-
ceiyed at Washington, asserting that the re-
call Of General Gadsden is requested by the
Mexican Government, on the ground Of his
interfering in the internal discussions Of
Mexico.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

~" The Erie Railroad Company has re-
tired about S2,5OO,0OO Of their Income Bonds
due on the LIST inst, leaving less than $780,
900 outstanding, which will come in slowly.
This is one OF the few instances extant Of n
Railroad loan paid off at maturity.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

~ An editor out west offers his entire
establishment, subscribers accounts, &C., for
clean shirt and good meal of vlctuals.-
He has been trying the experiment of trying
TO please every body.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

The COOLEST PLAcE.-The coolest spot yet
heard from is West Randolph, VT, where the
mercury has indicated the extreme cold Of
As degrees beowO 0. Spirit thermometers are
used in that region, rs mercury becomes solid
at 40 degrees below zero in Fahrenheit's
scale.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

The best heater to resist winter with is n
benevolent heart. Those who have tried i'm
proved stoves and failed, will please TO re-
member that load Of wood given to poor
person warns you almost as much rs it does
bin.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

.73- Within the past three weeks upwards
Of five thousand three hundred and Fifty bales
of cotton, valued Mt more than quarter Of
million of dollars, have been destroyed by fire
at the South.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

~ The total number of immigrants ar
rived at New York during the last two years
is said to be 6O4,l6s, of whom more than
one-third were Germans.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

RUSSIAN Loss IN THE CEMEA.-According
to accounts from Odessa, stated to be derived
from official sources and documents, the total
number of men put hors de combat, from the
2sth of September, exclusive consequently
of the defeat of the Alma) to the 9th Of
December, does not exceed 26,763, including
prisoners taken, and deaths from diseases or
other causes not resulting from wounds. The
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

ey- We have received pamphlet copy
of speech made by Col. Smith, Represen-
tative TO Congress from this District, upon
the Naturalization Laws and against the
Know Nothings. Our talented and efficient
Representative appears very ambitious Ofmar-
tyrdom.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

sB- Jno. NJ. Bates, of Charleston, is an
nounccd in the Cleveland papers, as candi-
date to represent Bradley county in the popu-
lar branch of the next Legislature.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

csy- Monkeys have been dying Of cholera
in the Island of Trinidad and their nearest
relatives, our city handles, are all in trem-
bic in consequence.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23
CINCINNATI, Feb. 10.

OINOINNAII, TVU, To-
The river has risen thirty inches. The
weather is cloudy.
Nothing doing in -four. Provisions are
firm but quiet-bulk meat 4ta5I, for Shout
ders and sides; rump pork IS.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.

WASHINGTON, Feb. l6.
The President has approved Of the bill
comforting upon Gen. Scott the rank ofLieut.
General.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

AUGUSTA, GA.-The long establishedCom-
mission House of Thos. p. Stoval g. Co.,
Augusta, solicit consignments of Produce
from this section. Their arrangements for
storing, &c, are ample. See advertisement
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

gB" The Convention system does not mp
pear to have gone entirely out of "vogue" on
the other side of the mountain, notwthstand-
ing several papers over that way were very
anxious to dispense with such an assemblage
in regard to the candidate for Governor. In
the Nashville Congressional District, now so
credtaby represented by Gen. Zollicoiier,
and where there is really no cause or excuse
for change, the proposition to take that
gentleman up and re.elect him without the
Formally Of n regular nomination, was scout
ed ut once and met with no favor ut all, and
for the last two weeks the Nashville papers
have been filled with communications por-
traying the beauties of the Convention sys-
TEN, aud urging the fitness of holding one
TO nominate a candidate for Congress in the
9Th District
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

C55- The Legislature Of Florida has changed
the name of st. Lucie county in that State, to
that of Brevard, in honor Of Ephraim Bre-
ward, tie author of the celebrated Meckleh-
burg Declaration of Independence.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

l9y- The Nashville Evening News, in no.
ticing the appearance of Mr.. Gentry's Gard,
announcing himself as a candidate for the
office of Governor, makes the following en-
quiry:
"Does Mr. Gentry run as the Wing, Pro-
hibitory, or Know Nothing candidate! or,
does he turn his back upon these parties,
and run upon his own individual merits!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

TAKE a HOME PAPER.-The following
remark from, the Southern Waterman, is wor-
thy attention:
We are satisfied that many persons are
governed by erroneous views, in regard to
sustaining their HOME papers-many of them
believing that they contain little of interest,
while those from a distance are brimihl of
every thing great and good. Now the truth
is, that precisely the contrary is the fact. A
home paper is better than any one from dis
lance possibly can be- because it contains all
the foreign and general news to be found in
a distant paper, and besides this, the local
news, advertisements, &c, which can never
be found in a distant one. The man, there
fore, who takes but one paper, stands greatly
in his own light, if he does not take the one
nearest his place of residence-and no one
can take so large number Of papers as to
make i: desirable to dispense with theroading
Of his local sheet.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

Is IT soi-Some of the papers state that
when the news of Stewards re election reach
ed Washington City, Gen. Cass and Mr. Doug
lass approached him and congratulated him
upon his success Mr.. Seward has always
been trucking to the foreign vote and the
influence of the Roman Church-and if we
are to believe Democratic authority, he is the
'head and front" of that faction which has
so long been warning upon the institutions of
the South and against the integrity of the
Union, contending for law higher than the
Constitution of his country. Gen. Cass and
the Little Giant knew his reelection was
triumph of the antslavery sentiment of the
North yet they could overlook his fanaticism;
the many injuries he has inflicted upon the
country by kindling and keeping alive the
fires of sectional prejudice and fury, and con-
graduate him upon bis being retained in a
position which enables him to do an amount
of injury which he could not nflict in any
other simply because he is with them in his
love for the alien. Verify, we have fallen
upon strange times when Lewis Cass can
leave his place in the Senate chamber to con.
graduate VIM. II. Seward upon his being re-
tanned in that body-when the leading Dem.
ocrat of the Union and the leading Wing Alb
olitionist can fraternize and shake hands over
result at which the whole country is ex-
pressing profound regret.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

To THE PoIST,-Some person having sug-
gested Hon. VIM B. Campbe! as candi-
date for Congress, the straightforward old
man replies as follows, through the Nash
vile Wing:
Ed True IVhig:-Permit me through
your paper, to state briefly, in reply to your
correspondent from Wilson county, that
will not be candidate for Congress in that
district. | have not Withdrawn from the
house of Perkins, Campbell g. Co., at New
Orleans, nor do intend to do so, and will
be more thankful for consignments of cot
ton, tobacco and other produce to our house
than for votes. w. B. CAMPBELL.
Nashville Feb s. 1855
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

tay- Attention is invited to the advertise
m.nt Of Prof Kuabe, 10 be found in this
paper
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23
To The People Of Tennessee:

HILLSIDE, Bedford co., Feb. II, 1855.
Fellow-C itizens-Grhteful for the gener-
Gus sentiments expressed for me in the news
papers, and in private letters, deem it my
duty 10 respond by respectfully announcing
that am n candidate for the office Of Gov
ernor Of Tennessee. at the neyt election.
Faithfully, your ob't serv't.,
NJ, p, GENTRY.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

r5s" Our thanks are due Hon. Jas. C..
Jones for several volumes Congressional
Globe, and Appendix.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

ew- Mr. Breckenridge declines the np-
pointment Of Minister to Spain.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

We learn from the Lebanon Herald that
r. +. Thompson, Esq, is candidate for
Congress in that district.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

The PRosPEcT.-The Philadelphia Enqui-
rer concludes an article on the prospect of
better times, rs follows:
"The drain of specie seems to have ceased.
Everything leads us to expect that our banks
will continue to increase their reserve of coin.
Confidence, however revves but slowly
must expect some failures in the spring, but
that period once passed, we look forward to
permanent improvement. Should Europe
renew on large scale, her investments in our
securities, rs we have reason to believe, the
revival ofprosperity will be more rapid" The
prospect, indeed, is full of encouragement.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

DUFF GREEN.-Gen. Duff Green is out for
the American movement. The American
Banner sys:
"This veteran politician and editor-who
was rendered famous in the quarrel between
Gen. Jackson and Mr.. Calhoun--is out in n
strong letter, endorsing the Native American
doctrine. 1t is addressed to Senator Hunter
of Virginia. He truly remarks that the two
great issues created by the American move
ment are, "that the control of our govern
ment properly belongs to native born Ameri-
cans, and that the Papal supremacy is incon-
sistent with republican liberty" He says the
tendency of party organization, from the day
of Washington until now, has been to array
the North against the South in miserable
struggle for the Presidehcy-every four
years making new issues and creating new
platforms" all for the sole end and purpose
of electing President. There is volume
of truth in these suggestions"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23
ATHENS, FRIDAY, FEB. es, 1855.

CANDIDATE FOR GOvERsOR.-We find the
following Card in several of the Middle Ten.
nessee papers:
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

CAPITAL OF NEBRAsKA.-The Cleveland
Herald has received the following special
dispatch
OMAHA City, Nebraska Ter, Jan. 80.
Both houses of the Assembly have passed
a bill locating the capital of Nebraska at
Omaha City, opposite Council Bluffs, and the
Governor has signed the bill.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

sB The following shows the complexion
OF the votes for Seward, by which he was re-
elected
In the Senate 10 Wings and KnowNoth-
ings voted for him, and in the House 81
Wings, Democrats and Know Nothings.
He had a constitutional majority of only in
each house. Daniel S. Dickinson received
the votes of Is Democrats and Know
Nothings, and Gov. Seymour the votes Of 0
Democrats and A Know Nothings.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23
BRADLEY.
Yours,

rN" We had call on Tuesday from
friend Crandal!, of the Chattanooga Adver-
tiser. Were pleased to see him looking so
well. 1t is astonishing how much marrying
improves some people.
.B- The vote in the House of Rcprcsen-
tatives on the French Spoliation Bill, vetoed
by the President, was ll3 FOR and SO against,
not being a two .thrd vote, as required by the
constitution, it was negatiyed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

CHEATING ALL RoUSD.- The BostonTmes
sums up the amount of the foreign intelli-
rence rs follows:
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

Terms:-ts a year, payable in advance, or IS at
he expiration Of the year.
CN- Nc paper discontinued until all arrearages are
AID, except at the option Of the Publisher
For Announcing the q Candidates for Office IS,
Cash.
Obituary Notices l2 lines charged at the regular
advertising rates
All commanic stions intended 10 promote the private
ends interests Of Corporations Societies Schools
individuals, win be charged advertisements.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

s3g- The President has vetoed the French
SpoiatiOn Bill.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

"Aus:ria is cheating the Allies-Prussia is
cheating Austra-and Russia is cheating
them all.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

~ Mayor Wood, of New York, seems TO
be n thorough going public magistrate. lie
has now taken in hand the grocers and others
who cheat by false weights and measures
He proposes to furnish II set of weights and
measures for every station house in the city,
twenty-five in number, and to place them in
charge Of the captain of police Thee
weights and measures are to be regulated by
those in the City Hall, which are said to be
the only accurate ones in use. The poi;c
captains are to be privileged TO go into
store at any time, aud cXamige the weights
with his test scales In this way the cheats
will be pounced upon unawares
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

g7y" The Westminster Review for Janu.
airy is upon our table. Contents: The An
glo-Frenrh Alliance; Ballads of the People;
Prussia and Prussinn Policy; The Prinzcn-
raub-a Glimpse of Saxon History; Poland
Her History and Prospects; Cambridge
Reform; Austria in the Principalitles; Con-
temporary Literature.
New Volumes of the four Reviews and
Blackwood commence with North British for
November, 1854, and the other Reviews and
Blackwood for January, 1855. Terms o.
SubScripiion.-Any one Review or Black.
wood, SO u year. Blackwood and one Re-
yiew-or any two Reviews, So. The four
Reviews and Blackwood, $40. 4 copies to
one address $50 Postage on the four Re
views and Blackwood to any Post Office in
the United States, only 80 cents year. Viz:
IA cents a year on each Review and "a cents
a year on Blackwood. Leonard Scott & Co.,
Publishers, 70 Futon.st, New York.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

GETTING ExciTED.-The editor of the
Portsmouth Chronicle thus commences a
leader:
"The signs of the times are ominous. The
world is turning over very fast. Wisdom
sprouts out of sap heads, like toad.stools
from n manure heap. We shali soon see
wonders. Won't it be glorious time, when
all the girls wear breeches, and 90 counting !
Jolly will be that joyous day."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

Ley At the Printers festival recently held
at Manchester, NH, the following sentiments
were offered:
Women-The fairest work of nature: the
edition being large, let no man be without
copy.
Principal PoOers-Printing Presses, Pull
pits and Petticoats.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23
FnRElGN lNTEIIIGENCE.

RUssiA-M PeierSburg, Jan. a4-ln
consequence of the difficulty Of hilin- mp the
ranks Of the army, the Emperor hys ordered
that men shall be liable 10 the age OF 81 iT-
stead Of 80 IS heretofore. The sons OF aged
or widowed parents hitherto exempted ARE al
So now ordered 10 serve forming separate
corps.
The military forces of Russia have been
divided into five independent armies, rs toll
lows: The Baltic army, the army OF tn,
Danube, the army Of West Poland, the ar
my in the Crimea, the Caucasian corps d'ar-
NEE.
Il is expected that Prince Menschikoff will
undertake a second and decisive blow against
the allies rs soon as the Grand Dukes arrive.
The two Princes have probably by this time
reached SebastopoL
The most recent letters from ST. Peters
/ burg say that what are called the "pacihc de-
/ iusinns" of the Western Powers are laughed
/ al there. Every voice is still for war. The
| nobility of Nischgorod have presented an adj
dress To the Emperor, stating that II II should
/ he necessary TO make the same sacrifices they
/ did inlsl2 they are quite ready.
81 Petersburg, Jan. 2s.-ln order TO avoid
/ the increase of public charges attendant upon
/ the prosecution of 4 long war, an uknSe or
| ders the issue of paper money, which shall be
redecmable by the State three years after the
conclusion Of peace
EurAroRiA.-The Turks at Eupatoria are
/ in very bad state. A captain of one of her
/ Maiesty's vessels who has lately arrived,
states that the place is blockaded 10y the Rus
sians and that the Turks are pershing from
cold and hunger. The enemy have driven all
! tho rut tlp iuto the country.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

sY- The Atlanta Republican closes well
written editorial with the following, which is
worthy the attention of members of the
press in States other than Georgia:
"Truth is mighty, it is the only weapon an
honest man needs, and the only one he will
WELD, and every resort to falsehOod only
weakens the cause it was designed TO sustain,
and soon or late recoils upon the one who
uses it,
Truth crushed to earth viii rise again,
The eternal years Of God are hers;
While error wounded writhes in pain,
And dies amid her worshippers."
Adopting the sentiments of the poet in
view Of the exciting political canvass in our
State, we call upon our conireres the press,
to come up to the consideration of the claims
of parties and men, with determination to
write nothing aud publish nothing but what
is true. And we call upon every honest citi-
zen of the State, to diseountenance Islander
and falsehood, by Withdrawing his patron
age from every press, guilty of knowingly
giving currency to either.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-02-23

sB- The Wilmington Daily Journal, of
the l4th instant, says:
A telegraphc dispatch from friend in Ra-
leigh, received by us this morning, reads as
follows
Raleigh, ~ c. FEB. Estate Bank re-
chartered. Cape Fear Bank probably will be
tomorrow.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-10-20
Proceedings of the City Council.

gs ssr,sa MONDAY EVENING, Oct. Is, 1855.
Council met pursuant to adjournment Pre-
sent Mayor Hopkins and Councilmen Steele,
Scantlin, Stephens, Elliott, Hedderick, Kron,
Pushee, Hunnell and Mentzer.
Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
Allowances were made for street labor, &C.,
to the amount of $2o,42.
j. F. Williams was allowed the sam of
1915 for securing nuisance notices.
Peter Burk, SIS for one quarters Salary as
city Marshal.
John s. Hopkins, $3.50, for one quarters
salary, as Mayor.
Neptune and Young America Fire Co.'S
were allowed $500, two-thirds of the annual
appropriation made them from the city, the
other third to be paid March LIST.
A cash order was made on the city Treasur-
er in favor of the School Treasurer, for $3.50,
for the benefit of the Public School building.
IS. NJ. Warner, Esq, offered verbal petit
ton to allow him the privilege of tearing down
the large frame warehouse upon lot No. 81 0.
p, erecting in its stead one of frame of half
size Referred to a committee of Messrs.
Stephens and Hunnell.
The petition of Messrs. Krengle and Hop
kins was laid over till next meeting.
John S. Gavitt made statement to the
effect that there was now in the city COM
pany formed for the purpose of purchasing a
new Fire Engine, and that arrangements had
been made for said purchase, including q hose
carriage and 800 feet of hose. Also that the
price Of the same was $500. That the first
payment had been made upon the same, and
that the said Gavitt appeared upon the part o
the said company, to ascertain if the city
would endorse the notes of said company, the
company giving the city mortgage upor
said engine and apparatus, Immediately upo1
che arrival of the same.
On motion Of Mr.. Elliott, seconded by Mr.
NScantlin, it was unanimously ordered that tn
city endorse said notes-one for S425 an,
the other for $500, payable one in six and tn
other in twelve months, after date, upon tn
terms aforesaid.
A number of bills were laid over.
The Marshal presented his quarterly repor
for the quarter ending Oct. 1, 1855. whic
after being read was referred back to the MAJ
shall for correction.
Council adjourned till next Monday evenin,
.sss4ga.s WELL a. WALKER, City Clerk.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-10-20

" DR.. Ross, Of Kentucky, brought us
yesterday six well defined and almost perfect
ears of corn, all in one shuck! One tall ear
rose from the centre, and was surrounded by
five small ones, the whole presenting a tulip
shape, and very pretty as well as curious. 1t
is curiosity in its way. The Doctor also
brought US some more fine samples of his yell
low corn, two big ears on stalk.