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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

MAIL BAG SToLEs.-A mail bag was sto.
len from the front Of the post Office in Gin
cnnaii containing large amount of remit.
tances from Louisville East via the former
city. A boy fourteen years old has been ap
pretended as the thief.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

GENrEEL.--An editor out West says: "If
we have offended any man in the short but
brilliant course of our public career let him
send us a new hat, and say nothing more
nbout IL"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

tR- Amos A. Lawrence, of Boston, mas
received one thousand dollars from M. Owen,
of Hartford, to be devoted to the relief of the
Free State Men of Kansas.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

A LEAN .sE.-They have man in Mis-
issp", :, 80 lean that he makes no shpdow at
all A rattlesnake struck nt his leg six times
IN vain, and then retired in disgust He
makes all hungry who look at him; and when
children meet him in the street, they run.
home crying for bread,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

at is n singular faet that women cannot
look from precipice ofany magnitude with
out becoming dizzy. But what is still more
singular, the dizziness departs the very mo-
ment somebody puts his arm around her
waist to keep her from falling" Queer,
isn't il?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

csY- The Albany. Ga. Patriot Of the 29th
ut., says ''most of the crops are in an un-
usually healthy and growing condition.
The late showers have refreshed everything
in the shape of vegetation, and we imagine
the plow and hoe is being nimby applied
Should the season continue good from now
out, our section will boast of the largest and
best crops ever made"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

DIVORCE FOR VoLUSTARY ABsENcE-In
Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday, J. p Halap-
IN, who was Kossuth's aide camp in the Hun
garian army, obtained divorce from his wife
Kara, on the ground Of wilful absence for
three years. She is in Europe, and refuses
to Join her husband in this country.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

ARRIVAL OF TRoors IN CAsADA.-On the
10th draft of the Royal.Art!llery, consisting
of 80 gunners and drivers, arrived at Quebec
in the ship Escourt from England. The
same vessel brought about 1000 pounds Of
gunpowder for the arsenal at Quebec.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

tW- Rev. Thedore Parker, having received
a letter from an Alabamian, calling him a
sd white hearted slave-stealing scound.
rel" says he never before had the title Of d.
d. conferred on him, even in small letters.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

eB- The Archduke Ferdinan Maximillan
has authority to offer the Emperor of the
Freuch the restoration Of the mortal remains
Of the Due de Reichstad;. The ashes of the
son Of Napoleon !, will be conducted to
France with great pomp.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13
A MAGNIFICENT NIGGER.

Dickens gives the following description, in
late number of the Household Words, of
"a dandy darkey he encountered in Paris
restaurant.
would have borne half hundred disap-
pointments similar TO the dinner for the sake
Of the black man. Legs and feet he was
character! He sat opposite to me, calm,
contented, magnificent, proud. He was as
black as my boot and as shiny. His woody
head, crisped by our bounteous mother Ma.
ture, had unmistakaby received a recent
touch of the BARRIERS tongs. He was per-
fumed; he was oiled; he had moustaches (as
live) twisted out into long rat.tails by means
of pommade Hongroise. He had tip. He
had scarlet Turkish cap, with long blue
tassel. He had military stripes down his
pantaloons. He had patent leather boots.--
lie had shirt studs of arge circumference,
pins, gold waistcoat buttons, and gorgeous
watch chain. | believe he had a crimson
under-wastcoat He Aad the whltest of
cambric handkerchief, ring on his FORE
finger, and n stick with an overwhelming gold
knob. He was the wonderfulest nigger that
the eye ever behed
He had pretty little English wife-it is
fact, madam-with long auburn ringets, who,
it was plain to see, was desperately in love
with and desperately afraid of him. II was
marvellous to behold the wrapt, fond gaze
with which she contemplated him, as he lean-
ed back in his chair after dinner, and refresh
ing his glittering ivories with tooth.plck--
Equally marvellous was the condesension
with which he permitted her to eat her dinner
in his august presence and suffered her to tie
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

W- A Washington letter in the New
York Commericls Advertiser says: "a mum.
Der of the more judieous Senators, Soutern
as well as Northern, state freely their opinion
that the spirit of the Union is gone. Its har,
mony is gone, though its power may be for a
brief space preserved"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

LOLA MoNTEz IN FIGHT.-Lola Montez
has been playing at the Victoria theatre, Bal
larat, Australia. A fracas had taken place be.
tween her and Mr.. II. Seekamp, of the Bal
larat Pimes. It appears that writer in the
Times had made some remarks rejecting on
the character of Lola, and a few evenings af-
tcrwards Mr.. Seekamp called at the United
States Hotel, where she was residing. Lola
rushed on him with riding whip, and he
retaliated with n cane. A general row en-
sued, in which life preservers and revolvers
We're drawn. When separated, Il WAS found
that the beligerents had fast hold Of each
other by the hair. At the theatre, the next
evening, she appeared befor the curtain, sta.
ted that she had offered to fight the unlucky
editor with pistols, but he had declined. -,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

sR- The Washington Star says there is no
truth in the telegraphic reports circulated at
the North about the critical condition of Mr..
Sumner. No consultation of physicians was
had as reported, and the physician in attend
ance, says Mr.. s. could have left his room the
next day Il he had chosen to do so.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13
icy The New York Herald says Of the
dismissal of Champion:

We are under no apprehension whatever
as to the least serious difference arising be-
tween the two countries out of Mr.. Cramp-
tons dismissal. Neither the government of
England nor the government Of the United
States dare to take such course on any of
the pending questions as might lead the two
nations into hostile attitude. The people in
both are too intelligent, and have too many
interests in common, for 1t to be possible, un-
der any circumstances, for the politicians and
diplomatists to break up their present peace.
full relations.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

New WEEAT.-The Augusta Constitu-
tionalist o.yesterday says new white Wheat,
of the finest quality, is now coming into mar
ket and that in few days they will have
new -four
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

DEcENcY OF THE PREss.-The F.ysns.,
vile IN. " Journal aluding to Karsas af.
fairs calls the President Of the United .,totes
a "villain," a "trnitor," a "creepine crewling
sycophont," murderer" and .,6'e most IN.
famous mnn." "
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

HoRRBLE CRME.-The house Of Jocot
Friend, four miles from st. Joseph, Mo-, was
fred by some unknown person lately, ant
Mr.. Friend, his wife and FIVE children wer,
burned. il is supposed that they were mur
dered before the fire.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

SOMETHING NEw.-A Mr.. Lamar adver.
tises in the Columbus, Ga, papers that he
has discovered receipt for making honey
without the aid Of bees.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

tg Meaghers Irish News accuses Eng
land of being at the bottom of all the Cen.
trail American troubles. 1t says:
"England is there-a deadly serpent In
the chapparel of that rich and beautious re.
pion-and it will be hers, unless driven
from il by such volley Ms made her reel at
the Bayou Benevenue, and sent her home
a cripple from New Orleans"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

The Galveston and Henderson Rail Road
has been graded for distance Of twenty
two miles, and is under contract to be com.
pleted for distance Of twenty-five miles bv
the 3Oth of July.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

SPIRirUALrsM.-The following is set forth in
one of our exchanges as the creed of the
'Spirtualsts." The reader will admit, il
this is all, that there is nothing very mon.
strous or blasphemous about it:
They all believe in and teach the exis-
tence of GOD, the great eternal and first
cause, who rules and superrules all things
that Jesus Christ was the spiritual son of the
Most High, more fully developed than any
being before or since, empowered and dele
gated by the Father to perform the mission
and accomplish the work assigned him-that
man has within him an immortal principle
which must, in accordance with the laws If
his creation, progress in holiness purity and
virtue throughout the ceaseess ages Of eter-
nity-that death is an improvement in knew
ledge and progress, and every one when born
into the spirit land, enters that state of ex
istence exactly as they leave the earth form
that the whole human family are an unit,
and that the happiness of each depends upon
the happiness Of the whole, and vice versa-
that il is the first great duty of man to love
God, and one another, and that no opportu-
nifty should be omitted to do good to our fell
lows, more particularly the lost and down
trodden of the land-that sin is violation
of the law of God, and in no case can the
sinner go unpunshed-that sin debases those
who indulge therein and cannot, according
to the immutable laws of God, produce any
thing but contumely and disgrace, and in the
end debasement and ruin. These are a few
of the general outlines of the teachings of
the Spiritualist."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

t#-A writer in the New York Tribune
states that 4,3s2 hand organs are daily
ground in the streets Of that city.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

BITTER, BUT TRUE.-The New York Mir
ror, commenting upon some of the late scenes
in Congress, says:
Where will this looseness of tongue end,
but in the downfall of the Republic itself!-
The Congress of the United States is no
longer an honorable body" of high toned,
high hammered, high minded gentlemen. II
is composed largely of political gamblers,
rowdes and ruffians; the spawn of low bar
rooms and groceries, whose only ambition
arises from that love Of power which enables
its possessor to punder the public treasury.
These men who have risen to the surface,
by the agitation of the dirty pools of partizan
strife, are no representatives Of the .especta.
Bile people of the United States. 1t has be.
come notorious that the noisiest, vainest most
empty headed and unscrupulous demagogues,
fight their way into Congress, and when once
there, what can we expect of them but n
struggle for rself-aggrandizemen and personal
advancement They go there reeking with
the slime from which they have crawled; and
corruption is their natural element. They sell
their votes for money and for Office; and play
the part of traitors to the Republic, by advO-
eating measures which soon or later must
disrupt the Union.
A low, vulgar, dram.drnking, gambling,
ruffianly, brutal set of political gamblers are
triiiing with the lives, the liberties and the
fate OF thirty millions of freemen. And it
requires no prophet to predict the swift de.
struction that is coming upon this people,
The dignity of the law.gver, the refinement
of the scholar and the grace of the gentleman
are no longert to be found in our highest halls
of legislation; but in their place, the most
vulgar backguardism, the most ruifianly man.
ners, aud the most brutal violence. And it is
this that makes our Republcanism a kissing
and bye word among the nations.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

ApvERsIrY.-"Ah Sam, you've been in
trouble eh?'
ayes. Jem, Yes"
"Well, well, cheer up, man; adversely tries
us, and shows our better qualities"
aAh, but adversely didn't try me; it was n
County Judge, and he showed up my worst
Qualities"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

tg- An ordinary locomotive contains five
thousand five hundred and sixty pieces.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1a, 1856.

The KANSAS BUsNEss.-Jhe exngger
ations put forth by recent telegraphlc des-
patches respecting the civil war in Kansas
have had their day. We have now some
reliable intelligence by mail, by which the
civil war is made to dwindle down to riot
of inconsiderable dimensions, in which life
was lost on each side. At the last authen-
tic accounts the civil war had terminated in
the fight of all the leaders of the anti slave
ry. The whole Of this business originated
with President Pierce and his adviser, For
ney. By appointing as Governor Mr.. Reed
er, who turned out TO be land Speculation,
and who invited host Of antislavery land
jobbers like himself into the Territory, they
started all this excitement. Reeder's anti.
slavery movements and land speculations
naturally stirred up tho blood Of the bor-
ders of Missouri and the pro-savery men of
the other States. The latter accordingly
focked into the Territory; but on the first
appearance Of civil war all the anti.slavery
learders fled, and left the niger drivers tri-
umphant throughout Kansas. Reeder and
his associates are now roaming about the
country, raging like madInen, and calling on
the Northern States to fight the battle which
they had not the courage themselves to see
out. The consequence is that Kansas will
be slave Territory, and will probably ask
admission into the Union as slave State
lift should doso we see no reason why il
should be refused. Her admission in this
character will serve to make an equpoise to
heinhuence Ofthe Northern States. s.-Herah.
WHISs OF 1ENSEssEE.-A gathering of
"Od Line Why's" was held at Memphis last
Saturday week. On taking the chair, Leroy
Pope, ESQ.,, delivered an eloquent speech
commencing as fahows:
We have come to see and to inquire il the
little rennant.0f the good old Wing party,
in and about Memphis, is SO broken and
dshcartened, and disbanded, as to find "none
so poor as to do them reverence" Of that
ghrious phalanx were there but three hun.
dred, nay, were there but three, ! should be
proud to be recognised as one Of that three,
and should hold myself ever ready 10 treat
the pasS of new ThermopyIe in defence of
its time honored flag. l stand by the men,
ory of the halowed dead.
Sufficient unto me are the genius, the wis
dom, the eloquence, the patriotism and the
glory of the Past feel living spirit here
that tells me that there is.somethng within
different from all that see around me. De.
serted, but not nnnihilated, our little band
seems to be standing on The shore of the
wide ocean of American freedom, and there
watching the tempestuous play of the waves,
as they are driven to and fro by the breath
of contending factions.
The following was among the resolutions
passed:
RESOLVED, That the Chairman of this mee-
ting appoint fifteen delegates to the Wing
Convention to be held at Louisville on the
fourth of July next, and that our Wing
brethren, throughout the State, are reques.
ted in their primary meetings to appoint del
egates to the same.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

JUSTICE TO FULLER, THE AMERIcAs-The
editor OF the Grenada (Miss.) News, in his
last issue, with an Independence and love of
truth that should be initiated by all his Sag
Nicht brethren, publishes the following par.
agraph:
"Justice TO an eneny-We have seen it
stated in the papers hat Mr.. Fuller, the late
American candidate br Speaker, wrote a let
ter stating that he vas 'Wilmot proviso
man up to the hub He denounces the let
ter as base forgery,and contradicts other
similar charges whichhave been made against
him. We have misl,id his denunciations of
these ISLANDERS or wewoud publish them.A
The Democracy are rbt without the base in
their ranks; and, in OF very humble sphere,
we do Mr.. Fuller justice. A plague on pc
itical scoundrels!"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13
LANDS GRANTED TO IOWA FOR
RAILROADS.

We want the particular attention Of our
readers to the following article from the
Richmond Wing to a subject which concerns
Tennessee Just as much as it does Virginia,
and to which we had occasion short time
ago to refer:
The act passed by Congress granting lands
to Iowa for railroad purposes, and recently
approved by the President, sets apart lands
for four different railroads, about forty miles
apart, running from the Mississippi to the
Missouri river, thus crossing the whole State
four times from east to west, and averaging
nearly three hundred miles each in length
The following is an estimate showing the
quantity granted which would accrue for each
road to the State, allowing that there would
be unsold lands enough without the prescrib-
ed limits of fifteen miles on each side of the
road to satisfy the grants:
Routes. Estimated length Acres
In miles. granted.
Dubuque, via Fort Doge,
to Sioux City. 295 I,l32,S0
Lyons City, via Maquo.
keta, due west to the
Missouri river. 1916 l,24s,oOo
Davenport, via Iowa City
and Fort Des Moines,
to Council Bluffs. 900 lIl6,6OO
Burlington, west to the
mouth Of the La
Platte river. 255 $4,000
Total. I.l65 44736OO
Deduct for the Des
Mones river grant,
which crosses four
times, 10 x4. 40 l53,66O
l,l25 4,320,00O
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

~ ,r-At Bangor, Waterville,
..,ue ihis morning IL was showing
| ana !La nsth ssather VISA very cold,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13
OUR TICKET.

HoN Edwin L. READE has recently writ
ten a long and telling letter to his constitu
ents in N. C. We annex an extract:
AS for our ticket, it was made with the
view to enable the conservative men of both
the old parties to unite uponit, without any
forfeiture of self respect, or of their long
cherished political attachments. If there is !
man in the United States who had the entire
confidence of the Wings, and the respect Of
the Democrats, it is Mr.. Fillmore. If there is
one o: whom the same may be said as 4
Democrat, it is Mr. Donelson. One a Whip
the other Democrat. This is our ticket
MIR. Fillmore, after General Taylor's death
discharged the duties of President for nearly
four years, with great ability and general
satisfaction. He came to the government
when it was in storm, as now, upon the ex.
citing subject of slavery. And such was the
propriety Of his measures and the firmness OF
his administration, that he left the govern.
ment in calm, ssch as it had not enjoyed
for many years. ln that calm, the present ad
ministratiOn camt in and such has been
its course of impoicy and weakness, that
the very storm which Mr. Fillmore had qui.
eted has been raised again, and threatens us
with destruction.
Give him back the government, and every
factionist, North and South, would dwindle
down into such a meie speck of a statesman
that you might handb him with tweezers,
and confidence will le restored, and the
storm will pass without hurt.
OF course / do not know whether our
ticket will succeed ornOt. But do know
that it deserves to succeed. and think that
it will. Asis the strength of peace and union
to the strength of factionand disunion, so is
the strength of our ticket'n IN the coming elec.
tion. ] have given you tn. sum the answer
is with you.
And now let me urge you, my fellow-citi.
zens, to the contest. Ii Nhe cause were
trifling, or not your owu, would not press
you. But it is your own, md you cannot
over-estimate its Importance. There may be
a crust of partizanship aroundsome, that for
bids me to approach them, bit to the old
men who have had long life of liberty and
happiness, and who may have retired and
left the young on guard, say put on your
old armor and help US once a@n, To the
young men with whom must bethe strength
ofthe contest, say the cause / worthy of
and demands your whole strelgth Civil
and religious liberty is the cause America is
the field, and Union the watchw,rd.-Strike
the word "fai" from your Lexicon. Put
none but Americans on guard. Look TO your
leader. If he never mounted war horse, he
never fell from one. He has been tried and
is worthy. He is one of you, is near by you,
and will never deprive you Of your honor or
your bread because you are Americans, but
will encourage you to rise, as he has risen,
from the humblest to the proudest position
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13

TESTIMONY OF LEWIS CAss IN Favor OF
Mr.. FILLMoRE.-1n March, 1851, Gen. Cass
delivered speech on the floor of the Senate,
in the course of which he paid the following
compliment to Millard Filmore's integrity,
and to his efficiency in "pacyying the coun-
try" We quote from the Congressional
Globe:
The Administration has placed itself high
in the great work of pacyying the country,
and they havexeceived the need of approba
ton from political friends and political foes.
l partake Of the same Sentiment. do them
justice. But lam Democrat, and God will
ing, mean to die one. This is a Wing Ad.
ministration, but there is no reason why /
should not do them justice; and | will do it
with pleasure, in this great matter of the SAL
uation of this country, if ] may say so. |
have done so; shall continue to do so, what
ever sneers their papers may contain, for
do il not for their sake, but for the sake of
the country.-Speech of Mr. Cdss in the Sen
ate of the United States, March 10 1851.
This was manly tribute from devoted
partisan, and will serve now as whitening
rebuke to those small specimens of Democ.
racy that assay to defame one of the noblest
statesmen of America-Milard Fillmore
Err