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The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-09-11

August 10, 1856.
"DEAR SIR: We can have as little donbt &C
Old Virginia, her ample power, and good faith.
as you have, and still her Stock and Bonds take
a low range of price in all the markets of the
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

HlNTs OF FEEDING Mich Cows.-Thomp.
son, in his work entitled Experimental re.
searches on the food of animals" says that
the COW, If fed for two days on an Insult.
cient quantity of food as Indicated by loss of
weight, and diminution Of milk, will require
at least double that time to reach the condi.
ton from which il deteriorated, and the req.
son of this is obvious, because the partial
starvation has caused It to lose portion of
the substance of It's body, which requires a
longer time to re. establish than to pull it
down.
This rule, he says, is applicable to the
dietary of men as well as to inferior animals.
An increase Of labor should always be ac-
companied with an increase Of food, both at
sea and In prison. A short walk, for one
confined in solitary cell, calls for some aug.
mentation Of food. A slight increase of
temperature, or the irritating influence of in.
sects, will effectually diminish the milk of a
cow, and indicates the propriety ofincreasing
the amount Of fodder.
During his experiments on feeding milch
cows, he found that the milk of one day was
derived from the food eaten the day previous,
and that Il takes at least sixteen hours for
the digestive organs Of COW to fully take
up the nutritiye matter which she feeds up
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07
SUNSHINE a MArRmosY.-aI. is folly for

SUNSHINE or MATRmoSY.-"lt is folly for
girls to expect to be happy without mar.
riage every woman was made for a mother
consequently children are necessary to their
peace of mind as health is. If you wish to
behold melancholy and indigestion, look at
on old maid; If you would take peep at sun
shine, look inthe face of young mothei.-
Now, won't stand that, replies my aunt
I'm an old maid myself, and 'm neither mel.
ancholy nor indgestible. Ny piece Of
mind Pm going to give you in minute; 1
never would touch a~baby, during my exist
ence, except with pair Of tongs. Young
mothers and sunshine, indeed! why, they are
worn to fiddle strings before they nre FIVE
and twenty. When an old lover steps in, he
thinks he sees his grand mother, instead of
the dear little Mary who used to make him
feei as If he should crawl out Of the toes Of
his boolay Yee, my mind IL quite made up
about matrimony. But, as to babies
sometimes think, and then again don't
know, )-on the whole, believe consider
'em decided humbug. It's one.sided
partnership, this marriage he Dife casts up
all The accounts. The husband gets up in the
morning, and pays his deuoirs to the look.
ing glass, curls his fine head of hair, puts on
an immaculate shirt bosom, ties an excruci
aiing cravat, sprinkles his handkerchief
with cologne, slows away French roll, m
egg, and a cup of coffee, gets into an omni-
bus, looks slantendicahr at the pretty girls,
and makes love between the pauses of bus
mess in the afternoon. The wife must her.
meticaly seal the windows, and shut out the
fresh air (because the baby had the snuffies
in the night,) and sits down, gaspiIg at the
table, more dead than alive, to finish her
breakfast. Tommy spills cup of hot coffee
down his bosom; Juiana has torn off the
strings os her school bonnet; James wants
his geography covered; Eliza can't find her
satchel; the butcher wants to know If she'd
like Joint of mutton, the milkman wants
his money; the ice man wants to speak to
her just minute; the baby swallows pin;
the husband sends the boy from the store
to say his partner Will dine with him; the
cook leaves all, flying to 60 to her sisters
dead babies wake; and the husbands coat
must b. ironed before noon. Sunshine and
Young mothers! Where's my smelling
!. .botte!"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

HEAVY LOCOMOTIVE AND INCREASED RAIL-
WAY SPEEp.-The Philadelphia Ledger cites
the exhibition in France of a locomotive
weighing sixty tons, with ten feet driving
wheels. and stated to be capable of attaining
II speed of 100 miles per hour. Its centre of
gravity is placed so low as 10 render it safer
than ordinary engines at the usual speed, SO
far us getting off the track is concerned. The
Ledger doubts whether the speed named can
be reached without much larger driving
wheels, but cannot doubt the practicability Of
achieving it with larger one; or that by ele-
vating the track so as to allow of a very low
centre of gravity, together with widening'the
space between the rails and avoiding common
roads by bridges and tunnels, railroad trains
can move with ease and safety $50 miles per
hour.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

POWER OF ENDURING coLp.-The myste.
rious. eompensations by which We sdapt our.
selves to the climate are more striking here
than in the tropics. In the Polar zone the
assault is immediate and sudden, and. unlike
the fnsidious fatality of hot countries, pro.
duces its results rapidly. 1t requires hardly
n single winter 10 tell who are to be heat.
making and acclimatized men. Peterson,
for instance, who has resided for two wears
at Uppernavich, seldom enters aroom with n
fire. Another of our party, George Riley,
with vigorous constitution, established
habits of free exposure, and active, cheerful
Temperament, has SO Injured himself to the
cold that he sleeps on our sledges JOURNEYS
without blanket or any other covering than
his walking suit, while the outside tempera.
ture is 80 degrees below zero.-Dr. Kane IS
journal
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

LlFE IN PAEIs.-The fashionable clubs have
recently been thrown into some excitement
by the publication of the names of the most
popular dandies in Paris with their debts
which are to be put up at auction and sold to
the highest bidder. 1t looked at first like
sort OF "black list" and nothing was talked
OF but horse whipping the imper;inent scoun-
drels who asked for money which belonged
to them. But it soon appeared that this pub.
lication was matter of form consequent up.
on the dissolution of a partnership, and men
reputed to have large fortunes were found to
have bills of seven and eight years standing
unpaid.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

The OCEAN TELEGRAPH.-The Journal of
Commerce gives some interesting facts con-
cerning this novel and most important under.
taking:
"The arrangements for laying the wire are
not yet complete, Mr. Field being at present
in England with reference to this matter; but
we learn that the telegraphic connection be-
tween this port and ST. Johns, N. F., is very
nearly complete Ar unexpected delay arose
from n miscaculation as to the length of the
wire required for going through Nova Scotia,
occasioned by inaccurate surveys, so that it
was necessary to return to England, and pro-
cure twenty five miles additional making the
whole length OF atmospheric wire 1875 miles.
This portion is nearly finished, and the two
submarine cables between St. Johns and
Prince Edwards Island, and across the Gulf
of st. Lawrence-one over fifteen miles in
length, and the other eighty-fve-are found
to be complete, and in the best working Or
der. The entire expenditure on this impor.
tant enterprise, up to the present time is be.
tween $600,000 and 100000. The cost of
the ocean survey is betrayed by tho United
States Government"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

as-The following paragraph is "going
the rounds" of the newspapers. 1t is decid-
edly "interesting, if true:'
Mr.. Dcanc, managing editor of the Lon.
don Times, it is said, comes to this country
to pick out nm American editor to place
among the corps Of able writers attached to
the columns of 1.-The Thunderer"-to Sc
ect person sufficiently well informed 20
take charge of American affairs in that ia
mons journal, and write on that subject, with
the proper amount of knowledge in regard
to our country, its habits, its policy, politics
and politicians. lie is to have six thousand
u year, comfortable berth, position of
honor and an opportunity to do his native
land II service.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

NArURE.-No performer has so few np-
preciating spectators as Nature. 1t is proba.
bly, because her entertainments are so cheap
Stingy, grasping men us men often are,
they still think nothing good unless it has a
price annexed. No man or woman would
sleep through thunder shower if they were
obliged to pay twenty five cents for scat
to witness it. They would willingly pay
for it, and make rush to get preferred seats.
They would carry opera glasses to peer at
the lightning as it glanced along the sky
The danger of being hit, that now more or
less affects us all, would depart if we had to
pay for being in danger. A person is now
safer in his own house, even if the thunder
wall and the lightning glare around it during
all the hours of the day and night than he
is on the cars in the serenest day. Yet he
shudders ut every bolt of the lightning, but
is perfectly calm behind the slaughteriEg en-
gine. We wish some philosopher would
show us the reason ofthis distrust and dis
regard to nature and her works.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

NEGRO RESURRECTION IN ARKANsAs-We
learn from the Memphis papers that there is
great excitement in Union county, Arkansas,
on account of the discovery of a plot among
the negroes to rise in rebellion on the 18th
of October. Fortunately the plot was dis.
covered in time to prevent one of the most
bloody massacres in the whole annals of in
surrections. Tho plot was very extensive,
and negroes who were taken up aud made to
confess, implicated Others twenty miles off.
Some of the negroes say the rising was
to take place the day of the Presidential
election. The men all being from home on
that day, the plot was to murder the women
and children first, and then attack the un-
armed men at the polls. Several white men
have been implicated, and notified to leave
the country in given time or be hupg. The
letter states that on the Colorado the excite
ment is intense, and that several negroes
have been hung. The plot seems to have
been very extensive, reaching as far as Texas.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

A DIsTIEcTIoS.-Many years ago when
new sects in New England began to break
the good old congregational barriers, and
make incursions into the sheepfods of the
regular clergy, a reverend divine, whom /
well knew-a man, at once, Of infinite eccen.
tricity, good sense and good humor-encoun.
tered one of these irregular practitioners at
the house Of one Of his flock. They had
pretty hot discussion on their point of differ.
ence, but, at length the interloper, finding
more than his match at polemics, wound off
by saying
"WelI, doctor, you'll at least allow that it
was commanded to preach the gospel to eve
ry crtter."
"True," rejoined the doctor, "true enough.
But then never did hear that it svas com.
manded to every 'critter' to preach the gos
pei"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. ga letter from
Port Washington, dated 25th, gives particu-
lars of the loss of the Toledo-all on board
were lost excepting two deck hands and one
steerage passenger. They report having seen
in the cabin three ladies' and two men, in the
steerage man and his wife, four children
and two men. There were doubtless many
others. The shore was strewn for miles with
pieces Of the wreck. The storm was the
most terrific ever known. The sea is still
roaring, and is too heavy to make thorough
search
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

DEATH AT REvIvAL.-A young woman
named Temple died at Vernon, Connecticut,
on Friday last. She was at n religious meet.
ing, and while laboring under much excite.
ment, and giving utterance to her feelings in
shouts, fell TO the floor dead.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

FORTUNE FOR ALBERT PIKE.-The Memphis
Eagle of the llth has the following: at is
said that Capt. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, re
Gently gained n suit at law for which he gets
the comfortable fee of 100000. The case
was an Indian claim to the value of S32O, 600.
which he has been prosecuting for several
years. upon an agreement that if he gained
the suit he would be entitled to one half if
not, nothing. The suit was lately decided by
the United States Supreme Court at Wash.
ington, in favor of his clients"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

A Coon ENDoRsER.-On the night of the
election some dispatches were sent from
Philadelphia to Savannah, with a postscript
to send the news forward. The direction
was mistaken for the name of the person
who sent the dispatch. A knot of democrats,
tn Savannah News says, were in confab over
the gratifying intelligence it contained, when
one Of the company inquired: "Who is this
Mr.. p. s. Forward-is he to be relied on?"-
Whereupon democrat present declared that
he had known him for many years, that he
was good democrat, and highly respecta
b'e citizen of Philadelphia! With this en-.
dorsement the news was accepted as worthy
of credit.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

New York, Oct. 29.-The steamer Qua.
ker City has arrived from Havana with
dates to the 26th.
Runnors Of wnr with Mexico and the an.
fexation of Dominica continue to occupy the
attention Of Havana. The Governor is busy
making the necessary preparations.
Arms for st. Domingo were on board the
man.of.war which was to leave 80 soon as
the Government had decided its course.
Sugars irm-best quality low grade de.
clined half cent,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

EFFECT OF WORSHIP ON THE ISsAYE.-N
is stated on the authority of Miss Dix, the
phan,hrophist, that among the hundreds Of
crazy people with whom her sacred missions
have brought her into companionship, she
has not found one individual, however fierce
and turbulent, that could not be calmed by
scripture and prayer, uttered in low and gen.
tie tones. The power of religious sentiments
over these Shattered souls seems miraculous.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

Us" The Post Office Department has re d.
ceived information of the fact that man
down East was lately subjected to the pay.
ment of 5000, on conviction of having used a
second hand postage stamp contrary to law.
Dear not 'cheap postage"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

A SMALL FEEIING.-A man of an exceeding
ly contracted mind, was one day complaining
to an acquaintance, that he had very acute
palma little sharp pain, not bigger seeming
ly than the point of a pin. ats amazing
strange" he continued, don't you think it
isl"
''What do you suppose is the cause of III"
"Why, really don't know" replied the
other "what part Of you should be liable to
SO very minute pain, unless it be your soul."-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

.4y" If there is one word in the English
language more distastiu and repugnant to
our feelings than another, it is the term "pat-
ronage." We execrate, defy, spurE and detest
the very name, origin and meaning. News.
papers refer to their "patrons," and thereby
derogatc from their own dignity. A prop.
ery conducted paper is never patronized.-
Not dollar goes into its Golfers that is not
earned. A good paper gives
'quid pro Quo."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

The SouSD OF TIE CnuRCH GoiNG Bella
letter from Widden, Turkey, of August 27th.
says 1--WE have this morning heard Il sound
which the people of Bulgaria have not heard
for ages, the sound of hell calling the Chris.
tians to cirurch, 90 thank G cd that the Sultan
has been pleased to restore to us our liberty
of worship. Widen is the first Bulgarian
town that has received bell"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

gs9y- Deep in the foundation of his char
acter, like the inimovable blocks whereon
great edifices reposs, each man has to lay
down for himself certain thoughts, sooner or
later, of passing consequence, got out of Sc.
cret ind manifold communings regarding the
vast mysteries Of here and hereafter.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

E Tho editor Of the Arkansas Travel.
Ter offers to bet his establishment valued at
$4,000, and dozen clean shirts, that Millard
Fillmore will be our next President, and
adds: awe will also 60 our whole wardrobe
that we can whip the individual who wins
our money"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07
WASHINGTON, ID. C., Oct. %

Geary's official report is received, giving the
particulars of the late arrest. The emigrants,
he says, were armed for resistance to the
constituted authorities. Geary explained to
them his determination to suppress all Illegal
bands, when they dissolved organization and
greeted him with cheers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07
COLUMBIA, Oct. 90

The steamer Illinois has arrived at New
York from Aspinwall with Sl,6O0,OoO in
specie. Business is improving at San Fran.
cisco. The mining intelligence is encourag-
ing. Ex-Governor McDougal was arrested
on his arrival out, on charge of illegal vot-
ing. The rest of the news is unimportant.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

"Thank you! these are but little words,
But precious ones they are,
For when they fall tr9m graceful lips,
Oh They are better far
Than false and idle compliments,
Paid in some sportlve mood:
They are grateful words; and what
Excelleth gratitudei
Then scorn not these few words to speak
In thankfulness, pray;
For to some mourning, sorrowing heart
They pleasure may convey.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07
THE SWELL.-HEAD DISEASE.

This dreadful disease sometimes attacks
horses and other animals, but men and boys
are more subject to 1t, and with them 1t is
more fatal.
CAUsE.-Vacuity in the Uranium. tits often
augmented by fattery, especially when the
cerebrum is small and ilshaped Men Of
large information, however, are sometimes
afflicted with it, in which case there is found
an inordinate swelling in-the upper region
Of the head, just back of the apper cranii.--
The protuberance is called selfesteem.
SYmpToMs.-The poor creature usually
fancies himself the Biggest smartest, best,
and handsomest man in the crowd-loves
the "uppermost seats in the synagogues"-
is given to impudence, impertinence, and
usually bad manners in company--is censo-
rious and fond of finding and exposing the
foibes Of his associates-hns few friends and
no lovers, and has generally bad odor to
polite and well-bred people-given to swell.
ing and struttng, as if in one moment he
fancied himself toad, and the next moment
n turkey.cock. He is egotistic, and pas.
sionately fond Of high-sounding titles, ns
Squire, Captain, Colonel, General, &c. The
miserable patient is sometimes so infatuated
as to attempt to stride the ocean, or jump
over very high mountains. These are only a
few symptoms of this malady, but enough to
identify it.
TREATMENT.-When IL is caused by emp.
tiness of the Uranium, it is only necessary to
fill up the vacuum with good ideas, n solid
education, or common sense. When induc-
ed by diminutiveness or malformation of the
brain, the cure is slow and difficult. We
have known some cases which defied every
remedy and destroyed the patients. A cure
must be attempted by exercising and cultiva.
ting those faculties which are deficient, such
rs the judgment and the understanding, and
depicting self.esteem. The skulls of those
patients are generally very thick and hard, so
that it is hard pounding anything into them;
but they are excessively fond of soft soap
give them pound or two every day, and it
will soften the skull so that you can prob :
ably get little gumptiop into it, or modi-
cum ratiocnation, and they will soon be well.
When this will not cure, soft soap will pal
late.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, NOV. Z, 1850.

SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CoNvENrioN.-
The next session of the Southern CONNER
cial Convention will convene in the city of
Savannah, Ca, on the 9Th of December next.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

Iron FOR THE EAST TENNESSEE RAIL.
RoADs--A correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatcb, writing from the junction, says: /:
"A train Of cars passed this place today,
on the South Side Road, with the first iron
for the East Tennessee road. The train con.
sisted Of eleven fats. The iron reflects great
credit upon the President of that road, for
saw" '''
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

OFFICIAL ATRocIrY.-A correspondent of
the New York Times says that one of the
inmates of Bluckwell's Island prison at that
city having lately offended one of the keep
ers, was buried 10 his waist in the earth. his
hands tied behind his back, and there kept
for two days without food except a little
bread which was put into his mouth by
poor lunatic.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

A New lDEA.-Among the premiums award
ed at the late Fair at the Mechanics Institute
in Nashville we notice that one was given to
shirt for an embroidered child. Great
child that we'd like to see it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

rSY- "You iatter me," said a thin exquisite
the other day to young lady who was prais.
ing the beauty of his moustache. "For heav.
ems sake, MAN." interposei an old skipper,
don't make that monkey any ,Rdttcr than he
il nown
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

ScIENTrIc.-A wrought iron cannon has
been manufactured in Liverpool, England,
which weighs twenty-five tons, and sends a
ball of three hundred pounds weight dis.
tance of four miles.
Whew! What next! Look out, Jona-
than. So moderate a sized ball might be
dangerous.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

NoRrH CAROLINA GoLD.-At the late State
fair held in Raleigh, North Carolina, a lump
of soil! gold from the Ports Mines, was ex-
bibited by T. X. Thomas, of Lewisburg, N. G.,
valued at 5000.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

a COURAGEOUS MAN.-W. II. Palmer,
pianist, was attacked in Washington sty,
late at night, by two robbers and dog. He
tore De dogs jaw from the socket-struck
one Of the villains blow that laid his cheek
open from the eve to. the chin, and then pur-
sued the other and thrashed him soundly. A
pretty good story. When does Mr.. p. give
concert?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

W The man Nout Of debt, though with
flaw in his jerkin, crack in his shoe.leather,
and hole in his hat, is still the son of lib.
,erty, free as the singing lark above him; but
the debtor, though clothed in the utmost
bravery, what is he but a serf upon holiday
"a slave, to be reclaimed at any distance by
his owner the creditor?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-07

A New PIsroL,-The Albany Times. states
that pistol has been invented in that city
which will fire ninety times psr minute, car
ry ball forty yards further than any pistol
now in uses and that it is much lighter and in
every respect superior to Colts celebrated
pistols. IL