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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

CoXGREssioNAL.-On the 10Th, the House
passed joint resolution authorizing medals
to be struck for the Kane expeditonists.-
Col. Lane, Of Kansas, challenged Senator
Douglas for his structures on Lane in debate.
The Senate has passed bill to retire from
circulation all Spanish coins.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

sSy- The Jail ut Goochland, Va, was set
on fire by n prisoner few nights ago and
entirely destroyed. The incendary was con-
sumcd by the flames.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

The MORMON IlowLED.-ln Jersey City
on Tuesday, the Bogus Democracy were
defeated by 22l mnj"rity. The American
Party seem To lie "pla,ing on n harp Of a
thousand strings" about this time.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

lN-Tho Legislature OF New York has ad'
iourned. but forgot, or neglected, to pass the
appropriation bill, which will oblige The State
to rely upon its credit to maintain herself
without going to the poor house.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

tSs. The las, number of the Brazos States
man, published Mt Waco, Texas, speaks of u
deer hunt which took place near that village.
One of the hunters, in less than one hour
after starting out, killed nine dear ut two
shots Pretty good luck, we call TINT
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25
VOL. VIII.--N0. 1876:
HOW TO BEHAVE IN CHURCH.

For GESTLEMES.-Fancy, upon opening
the door, that every body will look at you
and bear yourself bravely till you get to your
seat. Then pass your hand over your hair
to see if the hours labor that you spent On
II has not been in vain, then take good long
stare over the congregation to see who is
there. If you chew Tobacco, blaze away into
the seat behind, If unoccupied, or else let
drive at your neighbor's patent leather
Scratch your name on the back of the front
seat, with the likeness Of one eyed hippo
grif; stare frequently at the pretty looking
girl behind you, and # possible send her
note assuring her that she has the pretiiest
hand or the most exquisite eye of blue this
side Of Paradise. After having exhausted
all reasonable amusemenis You may shut
your eyes, open your mouth, and favor tho
congregation with an extempore snorc. At
ter the service is over do the agreeable, to
some divinity; thereafter write yourself q
brick.
For YOUNG LADIEs.-Spend four hours in
fixing out before starting, for il is every
young lady's duty to look pretty, bearing in
mind that ladies were created for the espe.
cinl purpose of being worshipped by gentle.
men, and attracting their unqualified admira-
ton. Step daintily up the aisle, seat your.
self again, and repeat this six consecutive
times. Pull the outer garment n little way
over the left shoulder, then buck on the right,
and after doing this u few times leave it
where you found it. Straighten down your
collar, then straishten i, up, pull out II high.
ly periumed pocket handkerchief pass it over
your lips and return it, smoothe down
both sides Of your dr. 81, and thrust the toe
of your exquisite foot little out, and then
after rising up and sitting dawn again, you
will be prepared for further Developments.
Being properly fixed, You will rise up again
and sii down, and then, after rising up and
sitting down once il would be well to repeat
it. II the gentleman in front sends you
note, hide it under your prayer books, or fan,
and read II when he is not looking; you need
pay no particular attention to the preach.
ing; that will he for the benefit of sinners-
If you haze blue eyes, turn them upwards
once in while, il black, partly close the lids
and look dreamy. If there is n gentleman
at church you particularly fancy, don't look
but once at him and then drop your glance
Immediately. After church don't accept n
gen,leman'- company, unless he proffars it,
and let your Judgment guide vou thereafter.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

,9y- The New York Ilerald's Washington
correspondent states .hat the French and
English ministers declare that detachments
of men will be landed from the respective
squadrons on the coast of Central A meriea t."
assist the Costa Ricans in their war against
Nicaragua.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

A dandy is noticed in chicago of such
nice taste that he greascs his boOls with The
oil of bergamo,. lie is first cousin to the
youth that sleeps ON bed ofsponge cake.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

:9s- The strong minded women will hold
n National Dress Reform Convention ut Syra
ruse, N. Y, in June, when The subject OF
lopu petticoats or short ones will BE- decided
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25
LAWS OF TENNESSEE

An Aci 10 secure Ihe icidoic her dOicer in Ger.
tain cases.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Tennessee, That hereafter when
the husband shall mortgage his lands, or con-
vey the same to n trtistee, to pay debts or
liabilities by deed Of trust, and shall die
before the mortgage is forecosed, or sale
under the deed of trust is made, In such case,
his widow shall be entitled to her dover in
sucl lands MS in other cases Of dover in his
land.
Passed February ,7ih, 1856.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

A SENSIBLE MAH.-An old democrat who
has tried the "Rrgular Old Line" Democratic
party faithfully, thus writes to the Hartford
Courant. Thousands Of others entertain
similar views, having left the present sham
democracy in the same way, and identified
themselves with the Americans:
al acknowledg that for more than forty
years OF MY past life have been barking up
the old Democratic tree, sometimes loud aud
long, like thousands of my fellows around
me, ignorant Of what | was yelping at. A
little more than n year past discovered that
the trunk of that old tree was hollow, its
roots rotten, and that there was danger in
remaining longer under its dccaying branch
es, and escaped "with the skin Of my teeth"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

ty-Col. Thomas Z. llowa'd, editor Of
the Atlanta Intelligencer, has been appointed
postmaster Of the city.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

.9g- One of the political events of the
day, is the revival, in New York Of the fa-
nous Empire Club under the notorious Cap
tain Rynders, for the purpose Of carrying on
the campaign of SO, on the "Pclk end Dal
las" plan. The Club is understood to so for
buchanan
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

TRICKS ON TRAvELLERs.-The Washing
ton Organ, referring to Forney's retirement
from the Union, and the contest between the
Union and Pennsylvania, expresses "the be-
lief that il is sham fight between these pa.
pers, carried on in pursuance Of welI.concert.
ed.plan between Messrs. Nicholson and For.
ney for the we'll understood purpose of so
presenting the views of Mr.. Buchanan on the
Missouri Compromise question, MS to destroy
all chances of lis nomination by the support
ers of the Nebraska bill"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

tH- The Louisville Journal is responsi.
bic for the following:
Several of the Sag Nicht papers are sneer.
ing at Mr.. Fillmore because he was elevated
TO the Presidency not by the people but by
the decree of Providence. They think that
an election by the Almighty is discreditabe
ia comparison will, m election by the un.
washed Democracy.
Here is another from the same paper
The Philadelphia Pennsylvania, of last
Saturday has an article ten columns long in
favor Of Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency
We shoulnt be at all astonshcd, knowing
Mr.. Buchanan rs we do, if he were to read
every word Of il.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

FRoM CALroREIA.-'rhe steamship George
law has arrived, with million and half of
gold. The war is very popular in Costa Rca.
The total number of troops levied there is
nine Thousand. Punta Arenas was full of
troops, and foreigners were rendering their
services to the Government. The prisoners
taken in the engagement, between Col. Sc!es,
singer and the Costa Ricans, and who have
since been shot, were Irish and Germans
II was anticipated that Gen. Walkers army
would te totally defeated.
Wos'T TELL THEIR AGEs.-The ladies'
won't tell their ages, and lawyers need not
attempt to get il out of them. In the Girls
void divorce case, in Philadelphia, the depo.
sition Of Mrs. Anne S. Stephens AID Mrs
FL znbe,h F. Elet were read last week; one
says she is "over twenty. one;" the other says
81 don't know my age, Of my own knowl.
cdgc"-whrh is equivalent to saying she
can't remember when she was born.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25
The noDlest death that man can die,
Is when he dies for man."

sB- The following is the annual message
of the Governor of New Jer'ey in 1918, and
the reply of the Legislature to the same.-
They are sound on the score of brevity:
"Gentiemen | am heartily glad to meet
you here after SO long an absence; and be.
lieve you are not sorry to meet me in SO good
company"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25


The CINCINNATI CoNvENTIoN-It is an old
adage that straws show the way the wind
blows. Perhaps this may explain why the
next Democratic national convention is to be
held in Cincinnati, instead of Baltimore. The
Washington Union has talked, of late, about
the "free soilisp Democracy. 1t might have
been thought more congenal to the taste of
these gentry that the convention should not
assemble on 'soil cursed with slavery" We
wonder how many of the Southern Delegates
10 Cincinnati will carry their servants with
them! Last January twelve months ago, the
Democratic State Convention Of Ohio adopted
the following resolution:
"Resolred, That the people of Ohio, no,c, as
then hare aipdys done, look upon slavery rs
an evil, and unfavorable to the development
of the spirit and practical benefit free insti-
tuiions, and that, entertaining these senti.
menis, they will al all times feel it to be their
duty, 10 use all porer clearly gipen by he
terms 9f The National Compact, to prevent its
increase, to mitigate, and finally to eradicate
its eUHs."
How will the Virginia Delegates feel when
they find themselves llob.nobbing with cattle
of this stripe!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

"Your Eacellsncy: 1t is with the greatest
satisfaction we meet your Excellency In such
good company now, and hope we shall be ia.
vored with it often"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25

AMERIcAsisM IN COSG GREss.-San. Smith,
Representative of the Third District in
the House of Representatives, recently made
speech in that body-an electioneering
speech, intended for the canvass in this State
in which he took occasion to give his views
of the American party and of the position of
his colleague, Gen. F. X. Zollicoffer. The
General responded on the 9th, and we doubt
not our good Democratic brother feels about
as fiat as fellows do who "go out after wool
and get shenrcd themselves" Be Of good
heart, Sammy, and try again. There is
nothing like perseverance. Neither of the
speeches has yet appeared in print. We
find the following notice Of Gen ZoIIicoffer's
in the Washington correspondence Of the
Philadelphia Times:
In the the House Of Representatives, Gen.
Z0llicoffer, whom his colleague (Mr Smith)
styles "lhc life and soul of the American
party in Tennessee" obtained the floor and
addressed the committee of the whole House,
Mi. Stanton, of Ohio, being in the chair, on
various topics OF public interest, and particu-
larry in answer TO the campaign effort of Mr..
Smith. Time will not admit of my commen-
ting at length on the truly sensible, judicious,
discriminating and statesmanlike speech of
Gen. Zolicoffer. Let it suffice that he acquit-
ted himself with his accustomed ability,
much to the qualification of the House, and
especially to his American friends. lie was
often interrupted by questions from Mr..
Smith and Others, but his answers were so
prompt and telling that they, after a while,
desisted. The General acquired new aurels
in parinmcntnrY Mnrinre To day.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-20
THE HOUSE COMu,TrvHs.

For thirty. years the South has controlled the
House of Representatives, and nodded alike its
Committees and its action. Now for the first
time since 1920 the North is as potent in that body
The South AYERS that during this period it has acted
Justly and fairly by the North, and through Tae
Union, as well as its grumbling representatives in
Congress, asserts that the North, by its chosen
Speaker has now not reciprocsted its fair play.
But is it true that the South, when controlling the
House by the machinery of certain political parties
has acted fairly and justly toward the North And
now, when the North has the control of the House
has ii acted unfairly toward the South,
Thus far, nothing has been done beyond the mere
organizing Of the House. Has the North there.
fore effected this organization in disregard either in
the letter or the spirit Of the presidents afforded
by the South And if so, in what particular How
did the South habitualy organize the House ?
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-20
TO bis own; and tast Mr.. Speaker Dsvi, named but

TO bis own; and thst Mr.. Speaker Davis named but
two. one being for Claims the other for Manuisc-
tutes And even those two would not have been
bestoved but for considerations OF decency, since
nsblic opinion would not have countenanced the
Sneaker in sighting two such statesmen snd
public servants 90 John Quincy Adams aud Gov.
Vance Of Ohio Mr.. Speaker BOYD also appointed
ere chairman from among bis political adver.aries,
namely. Mr. Chandler TO the Library. The chair
rpsuship OF that Committee is now held by Gov.
AIKEN of South Carolina, under the appointment
of Mr. Banks.
Ii is thus seen that The tni0n'S statement is
fase-t North having in the first year OF its as
tendency, accorded to its opponents several times
as many Chairmen ss the South has bestowed on
its foes in ten years But even ii The Union had
spoken truly. still-as the Northern Speaker would
in that event but have followed Southern prece-
9ent-modesty would demand quiet submission On
its part But the important fact still remains that
the South ia ably represented on all the Commit
tee,-a fact that must ever stand in proud contrast
with the conduct Of the South in excluding from
COMMITTEES it, Northern opponents when il had the
power
In conclusion, let US hope that new era has
been inaugurated, and that hereafter public
opinion, unequvocaly repudiating the One-sided
precedents of Southern Speakers, will demand
that the example of Mr.. Banks be followed. The
people will care bu. little who is named first or
who last on Committee but they viii care, aud
they will imperstively require, fair and equal
representation on all the Committees OF the great
sections and interests Of the country. They will
not cOnsent-and with the South will do well to
remember ths-to revival of the system of ex-
clusiOn and smothsring which enables one miser-
able clique, representing minority of the States
minority of the people and minority of property
to arbitrarily Oyerslaugh an abused aud cheated
majority. The reign of equal representation has
begun; and it will be stoutly and resOlutely up
held by all just men, in the South IS we'll as the
North. Stubborn opposition will bat insure its
perpetual success.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-20
- ,,,.,,,.;o, os sbuss day after dsy

~
hesped in the columns Of The J0S'r@ % Co"-
mere upon the Emigrsnt Aid Soeieties ana 'n'
Free. State settlers Tomorrow we suPPo|e
il Will be prepared to admit th'' 50 'a'
from being criminal or reprebensbe' this enor' 20
Gil ND Kansas with Free State men. and thereby
TO obtain preponderating influence Ia the aa'
.nini stration OF its atairs." was tho very course
70 which "ths doctrine Of popular sovereignty
.nbod;ed in the Nebraska bill United. and the
only means let TO the people Of the Free States 70
secure TO the Territory Of Kansas thst freedom
which. for a quarter Of century preceding the
massage Of the Nebraska bill. was supposed to
have been guaranteed to it By the Missouri Com
proni.e
Nor ia this the only concession into which Inc
Journal Of COmmere, has been forced Though
still casting sances Of tender sympathy at rs
friends. the Border Ruhsns, it finds itself never
tbeless Obliged to admit that they have committed
ooutrsges." and 'lamentable acts of violence and
bloodshed" resulting in the "alleged Illegally oil
the elections within the TERRITORY"
Having got thus far in its peccavi and confession,
The Journal Of Commerce, by sudden jerk. giveslts
good angel the slip, and, transformed all at once
from an anxious penitent to hardened sinner
takes 70 again cursng the Prostate men "a' IN
state of open Instruction and armed defiance oil
the laws" which have necesStated the torelble
interrogation of the General Government.
This is tota!-but we would fam hope not in this
case. awillfu and neutrality-suspicious. AS
tn, Journal Of Commerce has retracted so many pre-
vious charges. we hope tomorrow it will take back
this The Free-Statc are in arms not TO DEFY the
laws. but TO protect themselves against the rencwa
oftbose "ourages' and aots of violence and blood
she'd" By the inhabitants Of the bordering state OF
Missouri. which The Journal Of Commerce itself
admits and laments, and the renewal of which has
been threatened on larger scale than ever All
that these alleged rebels and insurrectiOnists ask is
that .'the principle of popular sovereignty en-
bodied in the Nebraska bill, and which The Journal
of Commerce seems so much to admire, should be
left freely TO operate, uninterfered with by illegal
violence from without. All they ask is that they,
the bona fide settlers of Kansas, who have emf
Grated thther on the faith of this doctrine Of popu-
lar sovereignty should be protected by the arms OF
the United States against Border Rufiian Invasion
and its consequences in the shape of sham terrific
ral laws and officers attempted to be imposed on
the Territory by external force, and should be left,
in the words of The Journal Of Commerce, to act
las they think best in their own interest" This
is what they ask, and all they ask, and we are
anxious to see by what dodge The Journal Of Com
meyee, that patriotic advocate of " the principle of
popular sovereignty, will excuse itself from in-
dosing this as il seems to us, SO reasonable and
moderate request
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-20
Dough TAKING A NEW SHAPE.

The Journal Of Commerce denounces as false, and
as the principal and, indeed, only cause Of all the
existing Kansas troubles, which it admits TO be
exceedingly serious, the assumption " that the sole
'obect of those who originated and framed the
Nebraska act was the introduction of Slavery
" into the Territories 1t assures us that, on the
other hand, 1.-The Kansas-Nebraska act was the
embodiment of the doctrine of popular soyer.
eighty, TO the free and unfcttered action of which
sit was intended to leave the solution of the vexed
question, which abstract mOralists had failed to
" settle and which politicians had vainly attempted
1" to decide"
What people intend is best judged of not by their
professions at the time OF acting, but by their
antecedent character and their subsequent conduct
We take il The Journal Of Commerce does not in
tend bubble in the statement it makes of its first
proposition. No doubt the Nebraska act was
- or ginated and framed, 50 far as Mr.. Douglas,
its putative father, was concerned, merely as a
political maneuver to gain Southern favor FOR the
moment and in utter carelessness of what might
be the ultimate results political or social to the
Territory or to the UnOn and doubtless, too, it
was precisely in that spirit that the bill was sus-
timed by the Administration and by those Northern
doughfaces that gave it their support Journal
Of Commerce included.
But Mr.. Douglas the President, the doughfaces
and The JsuTHa! Of Commerce can count as but
mere m0keweights in the ascertainment of
motives. They are but ciphers without signif-
cancy, except as they receive it from the Southern
men under whom they act and whose tools they
are. The actual intention of the passage of the
Nebraska act is to be sought for at the South, to
please which il was passed, and in whose sense,
so far as the Administration could control things,
it has been from first to last administered.
But this pretended doctrine of popular sOver-
eighty" set forth by The Journal Of Commerce is not
recognized at the South. The idea that the settlers
in the Territory had or have any right to exclude
slaves, is secuted as an intolerable heresy. The
Journal Of Commerce, at the very time that it is
attempting to palm its sophistries upon the public,
knows Just as we'll as We do that the Nebraska bill
was supported at the South with the sole object
of the introduction of Slavery into the Terri
tories"
There are some things SO clear that the most
brazen impudence hesitates at their repeated
denial, and TIE Journal Of Commerce has at last
been driven reluctantly to admit that what it I'M
potently attempts to stgrnatize the regular
system Of agitation, commenced in the Free
States to force Frees Soil settlers into the Terri
tory, and thus to obtain preponderating inau-
" ence in the management OF its Affairs, was " no.
in itself absolutely criminal or reprehensble.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-20
DOINGs I'm CONGRESS.

SkkATE, Feb. l9.-Kansas was discussed. Mr..
Geycr defended Mr. Atchson from the charge of ie-
gal invasion of Kansas Territory. Mr.. Wilson spoke
MT considerable length upon the general subject. He
segarded Mr. AtchsOn as the moving spirit of the
citement, and spoke very strongly of the bad charac
ter of Gov Shannon, saying that he was the compan-
ION of gamblers and drunkards in California was in
ioxicated, and guilty of other disreputable conduct
The subject was postponed to Monday Adjourned.
Housr, Feb l9.-The Committee ON Elections Of
fered resolution asking for power to send for persons
uud papers in Kansas. Mr. Phelps of No. opposed its
adoption, and defended his constituents against the
charge Of being Border Rufisns. Mr.. Washbune of
e. took the other side and regretted the exciting re-
sharks Of Mr. Phelps. After some further debate the
resolution was lost by tie vote. Adjourned.
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