The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-01-25
VOL. VIII.--N0. 1888.
CALIFORNIA MINORS.

and passages of life in California, which may
be interesting to many readers. We begin
with the Inauguration Of the New Collector"
and append a few specimens of the epistoIary
favors received by that important parsonage.
1t will be seen that there is 50 great deal of
human nature in men," even in-California.
LETTERS TO THE NEW COLLECTOR.
NO. l.
my Dear Friend IL presume YOU will be
perfectly surrounded this morning, us usual,
by crowd of heartless oifice.seekers. /
therefore take this method of addressing Won.
| | thank God ! want no office for mvself or
others. You have known me for years and
have never known me 10 do mean or dis
honorable action. | saw W up at
Stockton the other day, and he is very anxious
that should be appointed Inspector of
Steamboats,. lie said that needed it, and
deserved it, and that he hoped you would give
it to me; but told him | was no Office seeker
i should never ask you for any Office. He
said he would write 20 you about it. Please
write TO me as soon as you receive this, care
of Parry g. Batten.
"Your affectionate friend"
"P. S.-My friend John Smith, who YOU
know is true Pierce and King man, is
anxious to get the appointment of Weigher
and Guagcr Of Alaccaroni. He is an excellent
fellow, and true friend of yours. hope,
! whether you can spare an Inspectorship for
me or not, you will give Smith chance.
NO. H.
"My Dear Str:--Alow me to congratulate
! you on your success in obtaining your wishes.
have called twice 10 see you, but have not
been able to find you in. You were kind
enough to assure me, before leaving for
! Washington, that might depend upon your
friendship. j think it very improbable that |
| shall be re-nominated. The waterfront Ex-
tension project has not been received with
that favor that | expected and what with
Roman and the Wings and that id Her
aid, feel very doubtful. You will oblige me
by retaining in your possession, until after the
Convention, the Office of - to the Custom
House. must look about me to command
the means of subsistence. will see you again
on this subject. Very truly yours
"P. S.-My young friend, Mr.. John Brown,
wishes TO be made Inspector of Vermiceli.-
He is pnre Democrat dyed in the wool, and
trust in making your appointment you will
not overlook his claims. Brown tells me he
considers himself almost relative Of yours
His aunt used to 60 to school with your
father. She frequently writes to him, and
always speaks of you with great esteem.
NO. III.
"M0a Amie:-l ave been yer malade since
that hay arrive, yer muche thank you for
you civilite on la vapor which we come lei,
juntos. The peoples here do say to me, you
81 pued give TO me the lite offices in your
customs house. ! wish if 81 usted GUSTAV YOU
me shall make TO be Inspectors de cigarrtos
Je i entends muy ben Come to me see.
Counties de-
"Aister Jose Jones he say wish TO be entree
cerky. You muche me obige by make him
do it.
"Thc following was evidently dictated by
some belligerent old Democrat TO an aman-
uensis, who appears not to have got precisely
the ideas intended:
"SR:-l have been dimocrat of the Jack
son School thank God for twenty years II
you sir had been erected to an oriice by the
pusillanimous sullerngs of the people as
was onst would have no clam but sir you
are appointed by Pierce for whom voted and
King who is dead us Jnliu's sister and ex-
pectorate the Office for which my friends will
ask you sir ! am plane man and wont the
orificc of Prover and faster of Brandy and
wish you write TO me ut the Mantle where
sick three days and have to write by young
gentleman or come to see me before eleven
O'clock when generally get sick. Yours
"P S.-My young man mr.. Peter StokesI
request may be made inspector of pipes.
TIE DIFFERENCE IN AlEN.-We often sec
an old and well-beatcn man who never had
success in his life, who always knew more and
accomplished less than his associates, who
took the quartz and dirt Of enterprise, while
they took the gold; and yet, in old age, he is
the happier man, and all his life long he was
the happier man. He had n sum of hope, and
they of desire and greed--and amid all this
misfortune and his mysterious provdences he
had that within him which rose up and carried
his heart above all troubles, and upon their
world wide waters bore him up like the old
Ark upon the Delugc. 1t was the Deuge
that gave out--not the Ark. God has distri-
buted his gifts. 1t takes n score of them TO
make one man. One supplies the swift sagaci.
ty; another the cautious logic; another the
impelling force; another the hope, another the
practical iact-one supplies general princi-
pies, another the working plans. Men seldom
unite by the strong points. II is mens-weak-
nesses that bind them together. By distribut-
ing gifts, God makes one man dependent
upon another, and YIELDS society together by
making every man neccsstous, in some place,
rs regards other men.-H w. Beecher.
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INTEREsT.-Reverend Henry Ward Beecher
in his last letter in the New York Indepen.
dent, thus gives his opinion upon farming
upon borrowed capital:
"No blister draws sharper than "interest"
does. OF all industries, none is comparable
to that of interest. II works day and night,
in fair weather and in foul. II has no sound
IT, its footsteps but travels fast. 1t gnaws at
mans substance with invisible teeth. 1t binds
industry with its film, as a fly is bound upon
a spiders web. Debt rolls man over and
over, binding him hand and foot and letting
him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long
legged interest devours him. There is no
crop that can afford to pay interest money on
a farm. There is but one thing raised on
farm like il, and that is the Canadian thistle,
which swarms new plants every time you
break its roots, whose blossoms are prolific,
and every flower the father of n million seeds.
EVER leaf is an aw, every branch a spear and
every single plant is like an armed host
The whole plant is n torment and vegetable
curse. And yet man had better make his
bed Of Canadian tbistles, than attempt 10 lle
at ease upon interest. ----
An UgLUcKY KlcK.--J. w. Gilman, OF
Al ..,l;fo of tuork in anu