The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-05-23
"Pioughed up the seas
TIL both the Po,es have knOck'd J"

traveller, having
| "Pioughed up the seas
| Till both the poses have knOekd"
Notwithstanding the fact that agreed. in
my last letter. to dispense with politics, yet
symPathze 50 earnestly with our friends, the
Democrats, in their present tribulations that
feel disposed to help them in every possible
way, except voting with them, which is STEP
farther than my "0ld Line Whiggery" will
permit me to go, whatever may be the feeling
Of others Of the humber columns Of that
magnificent temple. reared by the Clays, the
Websters, the Bells, the Everetts, and other
like spirits" The dose lie little too strong.
Ny political stomach revolts at it, as much as
| suppose that Of a Simon pure Democrat
would have revolteti at the idea Of swallow
ing HENRY CLAY in the days of bargain, in
trigue and eruption" What is that say
ing about wink being as good as a nod to a
blind horse Enough on this branch Of the
subject for the present. was saying that
felt disposed to render any reasonable assist
ance to the Democracy in the maze of doubt,
difficulty and danger in which they are at
this time involved. 1t would seem, however,
a task Of some magnitude to undertake to
pilot them out of the waste Of waters" by
which they ar, environed. There is, indeed,
trouble in the camp, and much fear me the
Cincinnati Convention, now near at hand,
will only preciPtate the catastrophe which
appears to be impending over the heads Of
all the great lights of the party. Old Bucks
friends, since his return from bis remarkably
unsuccessful mission, seem determined to car
ry him through with hip, hip hurral They
say that since the severe depletion to which
he subjected himself some forty years ago, he
has been enabled by the most persevering
and long continued pulls at the treasury bot
tie, to charge his shrunken. withersd veins
with the very purest, life instilling, Demo
cratic blood" lie is 'the man for the time"
and none else
The wire. workers Of the "Little Giant are
not idle. They are prepared to sacrifice eve
ry thing and every body to further the inter-
ests Of their candidate-double faced, hypo-
critical little demagogue as he is. They are
even proposing conspiracy with other prom
ineut aspirants to kill of the "cock Of the
walk" Buchanan, in the first place. They
may succeed, but it will be none the better
for Douglas He is "bad egg," and will
never touch bottom. Truly, his is the
"vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on T. otler side"
As for my friend PIERCE he, poor man, has
been much scandali1ad of late by report
gotten up, no doubt, by the parties last men,
toned. to the effect that he would not suffer
his name to go before the conventionl Now,
this is unfair. after four years hard working
on a man tits cruelty absurd
While these three "big dogs" are fighting
for the bone. our old acquaintance. Andrew
johnson don't it sound very much like An
dre~ Jackson,) sits in his comfortably cushion.
ed Gubernatorial chair at Nashville, and
awaits in calm dignity the grand result. He
will not interfere in this triangular contest
not he He "does not wish to wound the
Feelings Of the t-enderest sensibility |" and
so he is hands off-but relying on his infalli-
BILE political luck, he secretly chuckles at the
fair prospect before him. Of getting the bone
yeti 1t will be proud day for Tennessee
when he takes his seat in the White House
the third President she will have furnished
know l will get something handsome then,
for the Governor is a particular friend of
mine. At this moment feel such an abiding
confidence in that political luck" whereof |
just now spoke, that am resolved to blow his
horn, and no other, from this out
The city authorities are pushing toward
the public works with commendable energy
and perseverance. Water street is to be
paved from the river to the Railroad depots-
and when completed this will undoubtedly be
the best route between these two points,
The recent unparalleled influx of fat-boats
from the up-country, laden with country pro.
duce, Ct which you have read in our papers,
much Of which was re-shipped here by Rail-
road, amply demonstrated the Importance OF
increasing the facility of the transit Of freight
from one point to the other Unless the first
mile Of the Rabun Gap Railroad could be
completed, know, of no better mode of eff
fecting this desirable object than by the i'm
provoment Of Water street. It avoids the
hill encountered in the other streets, and
thus renders the trip comparatively easy
That part of Gay street lying South Of Hill
street, which has heretofore been considered
an uninhabitable, il not an unexplored, re-
gicn, has been graded, curbed and guttered,
so that it is at least passable. Still, drivers
Of vehicles should be careful not to get on
too full head Of steam before approaching
the descending grade" lest by being brought
up all standing in the middle Of the Holston,
they might furnish practical illustration of
the proverb, which teaches that oftentimes
where there is most haste" there is "worse
speed"
The Post Office has been removed to the
corner of Gay and Clinch streets, where, in
the building recently fitted up by Messrs. 7.
J. d G. Powell, the Post Master has far more
commodious and suitable rooms than he had
at the old stand. 1t is an undeniable fact
N that ,Lo -, ~ Ia varv inonnvap