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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

A gentleman having done something wrong
in public garden of Paris, and being called
to an account for II by one of the guardians,
said to him: "lf | were to put dollar upon
each of your eyes, could you see!' The an.
swer was: "No, and If had another upon
NV mouth could not speak,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

CAUTION TO WESTERN TRAvELERs.-The
Pittsburg Chronicle states there is n consid.
erable business done in selling bogus rail
road tickets and conductors checks for Sick
cts in many of the more prominent cities of
the West. Those wishing to travel on rail.
roads should never purchase tickets of any
person who hawk them about. The regular
offices of the companies are the only safe
place at which genuine tickets can be obtain.
ed There should be some additional pre-
caution adopted in the manner of protecting
strangers from impOsilOn.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

eas- A man with large family was com.
planning of the difficulty of supporting all of
them. "But," said friend, "you have sons
Dig enough to earn something for you now"
"The difficulty is they are too big to work.
,yas the answer
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

SWIFT When they do nab
scoundre in England crime can be
leagally punished, they make short work of
him. About the same time that Hunting.
ton, the great forger, was arrested here, a
man named Robson, who had deIrauded the
Crystal Palace Mt Sydenham OF ten thousand
pounds, WIS arrested in England. The City
of Washington brings the intelligence that
Robson has been indicted, tried, found gull.
ty, and sentenced to twenty years imprson.
ment. Huntington, on the contrary, has not
yet been indicted.-Nep York Times.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

HEAVY REoEPTs.--We learn that the freight
train of the Va. g. Tenn. Railrcnd, which
came down Wednesday evening was compos.
ed OF 80 cars, all heavily ladened with hogs,
-four and wheat The receipts for freight
alone for that day amounted TO the enor-
nous sum Of 81 Virginian.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, DEC. o, 1896.

Sepurp IrsuRRKcTIoN.-The Nashville
Bonner. of the 9th says: We learned yester'
day from gentleman just up from Clorks-
vile that considerable exctemen: exsists in
that place and throughout the country ada
cent on account of the discovery of the pre-
liminary preparations of an insureclion
among the slave population, to come oil on
the oath of December. Quite number OF
negroes had been arrested and confined, and
several had made confession. In the neigh.
bo,bood of Louisa Furnace, plan to blow
up church was discovered and thwarted-
A keg of powder had been placed under the
building read, for the fatal match. large
collection of arms and ammunition had also
been, discovered and seized. One white man,
we learn, who was caught in the act OF fcoun-
selling the insurrection, had been arrested
and imprisoned. Among the negroes arrested
and confined are the supposed ringleaders-
the Generals and Captains, as they are called
of the movement The general opinion
prevails in Montgomery county, as we learn
from our informant, that the plot is deep
laid, and embraces the slaves throughout
wide extent of territory, ranging from Ken
tucky South and West.
At Clarksvi>le strong extra patrol are on
duty every night, and so well assured are the
citizens that there is ground for precaution,
that nearly every housekeeper is prepared
with arms for any emergency.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

e9g- Since 1888, the gross product of the
gold mines Of N. Carolina, rs far as indicat-
ed by the mint returns, are four million two
hundred and thirty.three thousand, three
hundred thirty five dollars, and of Georgia,
FIVE million, six hundred and eighty.six
thousand, eight hundred and sixty.four dol
lars; total nine million eight hundred and
twenty thousand one hundred dollars; ag-
gregate expense for the whole period four
hundred thousand dollars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

tY- A dreadful accident occurred on the
line of the New York and Erie Railroad at
the tunnel in Bergen hill. There is shaft
rs feet deepat this place which had been left
for the purpose Of getting out debris and let
ting the workmen down. Five laborers got
into tub to be let down and when they had
been lowered about five feet the rope broke
and the whole party were dashed to the bot.
tom of the shaft, three of whom were in
stantly killed, the fourth was fatally injured,
and the fifth seriously.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

Rpssa and France seem to have come to
n ,aeit understanding, that each Power be at
liberty 20 fulfil its "religous" mission In Tur-
kev. Russia is 10 be allowed to further
The interests of the Greek Church on both
sd.s of the Balkan and at Mounts Athor and
olympus, while France is doing the like for
The Roman Catholic Church In Syra.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

Is THE Sun INHABIrED?-Sir David Brew
ster states that so strong has been the belief
that the sun cannot be a habitable world, that
a scientific gentleman was pronounced by his
medical attendant insane, because he had sent
paper to the Royal Society, in which he
maintained that the light of the sun proceed.
ed from dense and universal aura, which
may afford ample light to the inhabitants be-
meath, and yet be Mt such distance aloft as
not to be among them; that there may be
water and dry land there, hills and dales, rain
and fair weather, and that as the light and the
seasons must be eternal, the sun may easily
be conceived to be by Ear the most blissful
habitation Of the whole system. In less than
ten years after this apparent extravagant
notion was considered us proof of his in
sanity, it was maintained by Sir VIM. Hers
chell ms a rational and probable opinion,
which might be deducble from his own OBJ
servations on the structure of the sun.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

AWFUL WAGEs.-We learn from tho Tri.
bupe that steamboat hands are demanding
S75 per month, in Mobile; $50 to $50 and
found are offered. Seamen are deserving to
get these prices. There is great scarcity of
Iaborers, and they wish to make pile before
the great decline Of wages expected next
Spring.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

POPPING THE QUEsTroN.-"What strange
thing is acquaintance" said beautiful girl
the other day to friend of ours;"a year ago
we had not seen each other; many season
had rolled its course, bringing hope, happi-
ness, and perchance sorrow to each without
the cognizance OF the other; and now zoe are
so intimate" Our friend says she looked so
lovely he could not help pressing her deli.
cate cheek; he asked her "if he had aught to
do with the happiness of her future" ""You are
in all my dreams OF the coming days. repli,
ed she. We consider this one of the neat
est "poppings," especially as it happens in
leap year.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

Kansas correspondent of the St. Louis
Republican writing from Westport, Mo-, says
that on the return of Governor Geary to Le-
compton, from his tour in Southern Kansas,
he brought with him fiftv.fve Free Soilers
who had been arrested during his trip. The
same authority says that the famous Free Soil
leader, Captain Brown, had escaped from the
territory, concealed in straw bed in a cover.
ed wagon, and that he had passed through
Davenport, Iowa, ragged and emacated.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

Too MUCH LASD.-The great error with
our American agricultuirists is morbid de-
sire TO own and. occupy more land than they
can cultivate. Farming is n scientific bus
mess, and is capable of being reduced to rules
as precise and accurate, and we may add, as
successful as those which regulate the ma
nipulatory process Of the practical chemist
Washington, whose discriminating powers
were certainly of an exalted order, in one Of
his valuable epistles to the celebrated Arthur
Young says:
"The agriculture of this country is, indeed
low, and the primary cause of its being so
is that, instead of improving little ground
well, we attempt too much, and do it ILL.,
A half n third, or even n fourth, of what we
mangle, we'll wrought and properly dressed,
would produce more than the whole, under
our system of management" o
Few apothrgms, uttered by the sage Of
Mount Vernon, are possessed OF greater
force than this, even at this day, and it would
be well for our agricu,urists who are so
anxious to extend the limits of their farms,
without manifesting any further desire to
augment their productiveness and profit, if
rhey would ponder it more carefully, and act
more in accordance with the system it sug-
gests. The most successful farmer with
whom have ever met, in anv country, was
a man whose entire homestead consisted
of but fourteen acres: Let the Roman, Cres-
sian, he managed to admirable advantage, ev.
cry thing within the amplitude of his profes.
sion, and derived, from this limited scene OF
operation, a living far superior in point of
comfort and responsibility, to that obtained
by its more laborious neighbors, from farms,
or free holders rather of quadruple the ex-
tent. We may form something like cor
rect conception Of the actual capabilities of
the soil, under proper management, by wit
Messing the operations of our gardeners
What is done or accomplished on small
scale, may certainly, with due care and effort,
be accomplished on large one; for garden
ing, which is SO profitable, is nothing but
farming in miniature.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

GvAs ceremony is the invention of wise
men to keep fools at distance, so good bree-
ding is an expedient to make fools and wise
men equal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

GAN OpISIoN AS is AN OPIsIoS!"-"Dr. Ka-
lorum do you think my darter will get wel!"
-aWel, II she don't get no wuss, and does
get some better, she may possibly get over
/. 1'ha, is my opinion, Madame, and think
ort to know"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

t9y- "Neighbor jones'" said rigid church
member" VI have been informed that You often
drive your team, and even go a fishing or q
hunting on the Sabbath" "True,' replied
Jones, abut then on those occasions always
vbistIa psaln tunes"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

ray-A sharp writer says people go accor-
ding to their bruins. If these lay in the head,
they study; il in the stomach, they eat; II
in the heels they dance.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

r-y- Gov. Adams, of South Carolina, in
his message To the Legislature urges the re-
opening Of the African Slave Trade,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

Tommy, my son, what are you going to
do with that club!
Send II to the editor, Of course;'
But what are you going to send 1t to the
editor for.r
Cause he says IL any body will send him
n club he will send him copy of his paper
The mother came pretty near faintlng but
retained consciousness enough to ask;
But, Tommy, dear, what do you suppose
he wants with clubF
We'll, don't know replied the hopeful
urchin, unless II is to knock down subscr-
bers as don't pay for their paper.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

The official vote Of Illinois siands-Buch-
anan l05,344, Fremont 96,lso, Fillmore 37,-
45i. Buchanan's majority over Fremont
9,l64.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

MURDERER ARREsTED,-A man named
John Molesby, was arrested in Memphis on
the Goth, for the murder of man in Leaven.
worth, Kansas Territory, named d. Neal. He
is charged with the commission of a murder
near Macon, Georgia, some time since, and
large reward was offered for his apprehension.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

News BY LIeHTNISG.-ln noticing the
triumphs of Prof. Morse, in gird!ing the earth
with telegraphIc wires, the Philadelphia
Ledger thus prOgnosticates:
"There is now every reason to believe that
in less than two years, and probably less than
one, the Ledger will each morning be able to
furnish to its readers, at 6 A. NJ, an account
of the London and Paris money market up
TO its close the day before. In London, lid.
ings from St. Petersburg in one direction.
and Bombay in another, will be hourly COM
ing in, and from wall street to Calcutta, the
records of the stocks and prices one day will
be read in the London papers Of the next,
and floor Of news from all the great cities
of Europe. Steamships will not be looked
for rs they now are, but as slow coaches,
they will be valuable only as bringing in
files of old newspapers, and just rs the spi.
der, sitting in his web, touches few threads,
and by and by sucks all the juice out of
fly, and leaves only the wings legs and bones
10 be picked at leisure, so will the telegraph
operators sit spider like in their web of wires,
and suck and digest all the juices each day
from the worlds news, for the nutriment of
commerce. For anything we can now see,
we may constantly obtain information from
Calcutta to New York in very few hours
This is all the labor and ingenuity Of one
man.
"When the battle of Waterloo was fought,
i: took from Sunday till Tuesday evening for
the news to reach London. Rothschlld got
the tidings six hours before the govern.
fhent, and made millions by buying stock,
after which he sent his information to the
Kings Minister. No more such delays in fu
ture. There will soon rot be battle fought
on the broad earth, but the result of it will
be known in New York and London in
few hours"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

ILLINOIS CoNGREssMAs.-Owen p. Love.
Joy, who has just been elected to Congress
by the Republicans of Illinois, is the brother
of the Rev. Z. P. Lovejoy who was killed by
n mob in Alton many years ago while defend.
ing his anti slavery newspaper establishment.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

rR When Judge Mclean was Postmas.
ter-General he was grossly abused by a dis.
appointed applicant for disappointment us
postmaster in one of the small towns. He.
at length demanded to bs informed in writ.
ing why he was not reappointed. He was
so informed; aud il is said ihat the following
is copy of the letter which he was favored
by the Postmaster-G
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT, June 6, 1923.
Sir: The allegations against you are nu.
m ferrous and strong, and are chiefly these:
That you can not write or rend well
enough; are not safe accountant; have been
guilty Of the grossest negligence in not de.
livering letters when called for, n negligence
always inconvenient and often attended with
injury: deliver letters frequently TO persons
for whom they were not intended, and suffer
them to be taken away; fail to send letters
and packages by the mail in proper time;
sometimes sending off the mail without put
ting into it any letters or packets that had
been lodged at your office; reverse the des.
tination of letters, and ssnd them back to the
place whence they came; have not sense
enough to discover the error after letters had
been repeatedly returned make frequent and
gross mistakes in the bills forwarded TO 9th.
er Offices; upon packages addressed to other
post Offices; when the mail is called for by
neighboring postmaster, handing out any one
wright or wrong; disobey the regulations re-
spectng dead newspapers; appropriate hnlf n
zen of them to your own use for two or
three years, and resort to the miserable spec
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

Gocuria publishes the contract with Wal
ker, in which the latter pledges his honor TO
cooperate with men and resources in the con-
quest Of Cuba.
Walkers letter of instruction to Goicaura
in relation to the mission TO England, con.
tans the following:
"You can make the British Cabinet see we
are noteRgaged 10 any scheme Of annexa.
ton, and can make them see that the only
way to cut the expanding of the Democracy
of the North is by powerful md compact
Southern confederation based on military
principles"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

DoN'T GRUMBLE.-lle is fool that grum.
bIes at every mischance. Put the best foot
forward, is an old maxim. Don't run about
and tell acquainiances that you have been
unfortunate. People do not like to have un-
fortunate people for acquaintances. Add TO
vigorous determination cheerful spirit; If
reverses come, bear them like philosopher,
and get rid of them as soon MS you can. Pow
erty, is like a panther-look it earnestly in
the fnce and il will turn from yon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05

t5sy- A Southern editor has purchased a
race horse at cost o: $4,000, for the pur.
nose of cntching bis RUNWAY subscribers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-12-05
VOL. K.---N0. 42S.

The HoRsE.-Among the great mass of
folde-rop delivered in the shape of lectures,
il is refreshing to come across such gem as
the following
Ike Partington is well advanced in his
class. He is in something beyond the teach
er's art, and could, in factgiv1 that function
ary some lessons in arts wherein he is per.
feet Ike dislikes composition" where a
theme Is given out to be written upon by
scholars, and his credits are not very great
for his efforts in that direction generally; but
the other day he astonished the master and
every one in the school by an elaborate ar
article on the horse. He was called upon
to read 1t aloud to the scholars, and on get.
ting upon the platform, he made bow and
began
"The Horse The horse is a uuadruped
with four legs, two behind and two before.
He has tail that grows to the hind part of
his body, that nature has furnished him with
to drive the flies away. His head is situated
on the other end opposite his tail, and is
used principally to fasten brdle to him
by, and to put into basket 10 eat oa:s with.
Horses are very useful animal, and people
couldn't get Along very well without them,
especially truchmen and omnibus drivers,
who don't seem to be half grateful enough
because they've got 'em. They are very con.
venient animals in the country, in vacation
time, and go very fast over the county roads,
when the boys stick pins in them, species
of cruelty that would not ecourge. llors-
es are generally covered with red hair,
though some are white, and others are grey
and black. Nobody ever saw blue horse,
which is considered very strange by eminent
naturalists The horse is n quiet and intel
ligent animal, and can sleep standing up,
which is very convenient gift, especially
where there is a crowd, and il is difficult to
get a chance to lay. There is n great vari.
ETY. of horses-last horses and slow horses,
clothes horses, horse mackerel saw horses,
horse flies, horse chestnut, chestnut horse,
and horse radish. The clothes horse is n
very quiet animal to have around house,
and is never known to kick, though very apt
to make row when it gets capsized. The
same may b. said Of the saw-fforse, which
will stand without tying. The horse fly is a
vicious beast, and very annoying in the sum
mer when n fellow is in swiming.. Horse
mackerel ] don't know anything about, that
they swim in the water, and nre n species of
fish. Horse-chesnuts are prime to pelt Mick.
les with; and horse.radish is n mighty smart
horse, but bad to have standing around where
there are children. The horse is found in all
countries, principally in livery stables, where
they may be hired by the mile, and are con-
sidered by them as can get money great
luxury especially in the sleighing season.-
ln South America they grow wild, and the
Indians catch them with nooses that they
cast over the horses heads, which must be
thought by the horses n great noosence.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-03-14
Newspaper Profits.

We copy from the Mobile Tribune: " The Mirror
of New York estimates of the net profits of the
papers of that city Those of the Tribune last year
were $95 900, those of the Herald exceeded $75 900
The Courier and enquirer and the Journal of Com
merce pocketed each $4,000, whilst the Commercial
Advertiser slowed away $25,O0O whilst the Ex-
press and Times it is ntmated, have "feathered their
nests" with similar down. The chief weekly papers
Give of them) cleared each from five to ten thousand
The New York newspapers, therefore, may generally
be considered comfortable
1t may be to some people little surprising that
the Herald, which is the organ of material humbug
has cleared less than the Tribune, which is the organ
of all manner of mental humbug. But the matter will
be easily solved, when it is understood that the one
appeals o1y TO the temporal appeltes while the
other appeals also 20 the baser spiritual Cor fanatca
apetltes The Herald prostitutes tselfas though there
hereafter. The Tribune unes the baser ideas
of the hereafter with the baser ideas of the present
And thus the latter has ''two strings to its bow."-
We would advise Bennett to take to some manner of
pety in order to overtake his brother of the Tri
buDe"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-03-14

ENGLAND RECRUITING AMONG THE HEssIANs AGAIN
"A correspondent of the Independence Beige writes
as follows, under date of Hamburg, February 3:
"In spite of the prospects of peace, which is re-
garded as certain by our merchants and business men
engaged in the trade with Russia, the English Gov
ernment is still engaged in recruiting its armies
among the States of Northern Europe, and new Or
ders to this effect have recently been transmitted TO
this city from London. Last week several vessels,
having board large number of new recruits, left
the banks of the Ebe and the shores of the Black
Sea, deposng their cargo on the island of Heligo-
land, where England is at this moment forming her
fifth regiment of light infantry
"At the same time, quite large number of Ger
man officers have already received commissions in
the regiment from the British Secretary of War
most of these officers, as we'll as their comrades,
have served in the former army of the two duchies
of Schleswg Hosten.
"The Government of the Electorate of Hesse is
already prosecuting hose of its subjects who have
accepted rank in this regiment. This causes great
astopishment among the people, for they remember
very well under what circumstances and at what a
price so many thousands of Hessians were furnished
England in her war against the North American col
Onies'