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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14
TATTI.ERS

| Oh, could there in this world be found,
| Some little spot Of happy ground,
| Where village pleasures might go round,
| without the village tattlingl
| How doubly blest that spot would be, a
| Where all might dwell in liberty
| Free frsm the bitter misery
| or gossp's endless prattlingl
| Every community is cursed by the pres
ence of n class of people who make it their
business to attend TO everybody's business
but their own. Such people are the mean-
est specimens of depraved humanity which an
al-wisr Providence permits to exist on this
sin cursed earth. 1t is well known that al.
most every person is, sometimes, disposed
to speak evil Of others; and tatling is n sin
from which very few claim to be entirely
exempt. But the object of our present arti.
Gle is to speak of that distinct class of tat
tiers who make tale bearing the constant
business of their lives. They pry into the
private affairs Of every family in the neigh
borhood; they know the exact state of one
neighbor's feelings towards another; they
they understand everybody's faults, and no
little bunder or misdemeanOr ever escapes
their vigiant watchfuness. They are par
ticularIy well posted up on matrmony, know
all who are going to marry whom, and guess
the exact time when it will take place.
They watch every movement of parties sus-
pccted Of matrimonial intentions, and if there
is the ightest chanc, to create disturbance,
excite jealousy, or 'break up" match. they
take immediate advantage of it, and do all in
their power to keep people in constant
state of vexation. They glide quietly from
gentleman to lady, from mother to daughter
from father to son, and in the ears of all
they pour their dark, bitter whispers of Sian
der and abuse, and at the same time pretend
to be the most sincere frieids of those they
talk to. Their black and lauseous pills of
malicious sander are sugar coated with
smiles and honied words OF friendship.
TattIers are confined to no particular class
of society. They belong to all classes, and
operate in all. We find them among the
rich and poor-"upper ten" and the lower
miion,-in the church and out of it. They
are people who have no heart and less brains
who have no higher ambition than to be
well Informed in regard to other peoples
private business, o retail scandal to their
Leighbors, and exult in fendish triumph over
the wounded feellhgs and bruised hearts of
their innocent victims. They seem to take
to tattlmg from the promptings of a natural
instinct, and they prosecute it with an energy
that would do inerhal honor 10 their great
leader-the Prince of Darkness himself
Our contempt for such gracecss creatures
knows no bounds, and we can fiud no " ords
in which to express their inIamy. What
punishment thesiNeserye We cannot know;
but God knows, aud rs sure rs his eternal
justice relgns, they will receive a retrbuton
in proportion to the magnitude of their often
ses against the laws OF God and the interests
of humanity.
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MoNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn, Aug. |, 1857.


To The Editors Of The Eagle and Enquirer:
to-day attended n trial in the First Dis
trct IN this county, before Esquires Gooch
and Morphis, which brought to light some
startling developments. The parties arraign-
ed were Hugh Freeman and John Kennedy,
charged with attempting to decoy and steal
negroes, and counterfeiting. The principal
witness implicated many persons not hereto
fore suspected He said they tried to get
him to join their band, gave him some signs
(Which he showed to the Courl,) and wanted
him to make dies for counterieitiug base coin.
Those implicated were IS follows (besidcs
those arraigned) David Lewis, CONSTABLE of
said Distrct) Samson Carper, AleA. Carper,
V. d. Hoffman, james B. Crocker and NJ.
Claxton; and he said they told him there
was large bard of them; sufficient to pro
tcct any one of their party that should get
into difficulty. The parties arraigned
were bound over in bond OF 81 900 each.-
freeman could not give the requisite secn-
rity, and was sent to Jail.
Yours truly, McNATRY.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

~ Forney's new paper, "The Press"
has been issued in Philadelphia. In the
first number he speaks of having acted in
"conc,rt and confidence" with Mr. Buchanan
for II great many years, and thinks him
great man. This is n compliment which we
suspect Old Buch had rather should have
been omitted. Being in "confdence" with
Forney is something which, we should think,
he would prefer not to be generally known.
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NIcNAIRY.
Yours truly,

The DECLINE IN SuGAR.-The stock of sugar
on hand in New York yesterday, as we learn
from the New York Post, is not less than
100000 hhds., besides from $4,000 to 10000
hhds. Melado. The Post states that the de-
cline IN price on this stock since the l't in
stant, including reduction Of duty, is at last
two and half or three millions OF dollars
The fall is fully II cent per To-, on general
qualities and the market remains depressed
Recent importatons from the West Indies
costing H. cents, have been sold in lots at %
cents. AS we stated some time since, the
Eastern and Western States have produced
largely from the maple tree and the decrease
OF demand on the New York market from
that quarter is enough of itself 20 affect
prices seriously Every table in the West is
supplied with maple syrup and sugar OF home
make. We think that the price of sugar has
reached the highest point, and from the pres
ent time q rapid decline may be looked for,
BALI, Pat. 2oh Wit
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

New lHEoRY.-A writer in the Ma
tional lnieIligencer is advocating the theory
that the moon is simply the indicator of the
earth's electric changes, and that the moon
itself has no appreciable effect upon this planet
that the moon is fragment of the earth
and is negative to it, and revoIves upon its
own axis, within the earth's atmosphere; that
the earth, is enveloped in an ocean of elec-
trio vapor, dense and compound upon its sol
id surface, whose gasses separate, however, as
they deepen outward, the rare always en-
anating from aud resting on the more dense
until we reach in outward order fluorine,
electricity and magnetism, that subtler ele-
ment pervading all space; and that, observing
the various atmospheric strata above and the
solid strata below us, it is not difficult 70
perceive that men, animals and vegetable
forms are existing in the centre of the earth's
stratitication. The electric lines of variation
are those extending from the North to the
South pole; the dia-magnetic or dia electric
lires are those extending around the earth
from West to East, and are ever variable
II is the vara bleness of these dia-eectrc
currents, says this writer, that produce all
the phenomena attributed TO the influence
of the moon upon the earth.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

bD Senator Brown, in his speech at va
zoo, Missssipp on the evening o: the l4th
speaking of the Walker Kansas policy, is re-
ported by the Yazoo Sun to have said
"lle did not believe that Mr.. Buchanan
would suffer Walker to retain his place as
Governor Of that Territory, hut If he did, the
south should rise up and denounce him MS
iaIse to the great principles OF the Kansas
bIlI, and traitor to her best interests. He,
Tor one would do so, and 80 would every true
southernrr."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

DoMEsTIc DRAMA.-"Henry, dost thou
love ne, dearest?"
"Why askest thou, lIeenoram
Not that fear thy answer, dearest Henry,
but because love to hear thee speak-say,
dearest Henry, dost thou love me?'
"Ask the stars if they love TO twinkle, or
the flowers it they love to smell, or the rose
to bloom. Love you! All, us the birds To
warble, or the breeze to watt its balmy inilu
ence--why askest thou me, flame of my
hcart?'
"Because my soul is grieved; care has DER.
cas-, the JOY which once spread sunshine DER
thy face; anguish sits upon Thy brow, and yet
YOU lIelenura knoweth not the cause-has
mutton riz :"
"No, my Ielenora-tha the gods No /!
but nv credits fell Cleaver, from this day
forth sells meat Tor cash y
[llelenora taiuts, screechrs, and falls into
her husbands arms, who, in the anguish OF
the moment, selz knife and-stabs him.
self, -ousr The lef.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

SUICIDE OF A UNITED STATES SENATOR
The telegraph brings us the distressing in
telIigence of the death by suicide of Thos.
J. Rusk, U. S. Senator from Texas. No
cause is assigned, but merely the announce
MIR. Rusk's term of office would not have
expired until 1868.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

The New COMET AGAIN.-It is not be-
lievrd Mt present that the new comet, of
which there has been 80 much talk, is that
OF Charles the Fifth, and destined to have
come in collision with the world on the 9th
OF last June. On the 9th inst, Mt the sitting
of the French Academy NJ. Verrier confirm
ed the details already given of the appear
ance of the new comet. II was noticed at
the Paris observatory on the night of the
23d of June, by NJ Diem, but had been de-
tected bv Berlin astronomer on the 22d.-
Its position is in the constellation Persrus
From observations made by NJ. Yvon ViIer-
cenu, the orbit of the new celestial visitant
had been calculated. 1t appears to be ap-
preaching the earth so rapidly that it will
soon present fine ohjec, to The naked eye.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

HARvtsr.-The Abingdon Virginan says:
Harvest is pretty well over in this county, and
the wheat, ms general thing, is very heavy.
Corn and oats will yield II fair average, un-
promising as the prospect was a few weeks
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

JUST Sol-"l never knew any man." says
an old author, "who coud not hear anoihe,'s
misrortunes perfectly like Christian" which
reminds us of the old lady who thought eve
ry calamity that happened to herself trial,
and every one that happened to her friends
Judgment
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TnUspeR AND SUSsHlSE.--The Cincinnati
Commercial slales that terrific clap of ihun-
der at about half past live on Sundy after
noun startled the city out of It's propriety.--
The sun was shining brightly ut the time
and moi cloud narred the cenr azure of
the sky. Its heightened rumbling roll was
Ike the growing woodworking of an earth
quake.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

l7Ss- SiSly-dve burgIaries have been com
mil'ed in Chicago within the past three
weeks-and none ofthe offenders arrested.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

The HARVEST IN KENTUcKY-The Louis.
VILE (ky) Conrer says: "rhe harvest is now
nearly, or quite over throughout Kentucky,
and IN yield of grain is the finest, largest,
heaviest, aud best ever known in this State
The yield is not only cxtra ordinarily large,
but the quantity of ground cultivated was far
beyond any previous season."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

ANOTHER VETERAN GoNE.-Archbisho
Campbell, revolutionary soldier, aged lOl
years, died in Greenbrier county, Va, last
week. He was the last veteran Of rs, resi-
ding in That county.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

ALApY's IDEA OF KIssISG.--The edtress
of the New York Ladies' Repository thus
defines this luxury:
Kisses like the faces Of philosophers, vary
Some nre as hot as coal fire, some sweet as
honey, some MS mild as milk, some as taste
less us org drawn soda. Stolen kisses are
said to have more nutmeg and cream than
any other sort. As to proposed kisses
they are not alike at ALL
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

The PASSAGE OF ANIMALS TO AND FROM
THE ARK-lhe following is from Hugh
NIilrr's Testimony of the Rncks:-"A con-
tinuous tract Of land would have stfticed-
when all the oceans we're continents, and all
the continents oceans-beiween the South
American and Asiatc coasts. And il Is lust
possible that during the hundred and TWEEN
ty years in which the ark was in building,
pair Of soths might have crept by the inch.
ts across this continuous tract, from where
the skeletons Of the great megatheria are
buried, TO where the great vessel stood
But after the food had subsded, and the
change in sen and land had taken place, there
would remain Tor them no longer a roadway
and so, though their journey outwards might,
in, ALL save the impulses which led to 1t,
have been altogether natural one, their
voyage hOmeward could not be otherwise
than miraculous. Nor would the exer,on
of miracle have had to be restricted To the
transport Of the rcmoter travellers. How,
We NAV well nsk, had the flood been univer-
sal, could even such islands ~ Great Britain
and Ireland have ever been repcnshcd with
many of their original nhahilantsl Even
supposing il possible that animals, such as
tie red deer aud the native OK, might have
swum across the Straits of Dover, or The
Irish Channel, to craze anew over the de-
posite in which the bones aud horns of their
remote ancestors had been eutonbed long
ages before, the feat would have been surely
far beyond the power OF such feeble natives
of the soil as the mol" the hedgehog, tho
shrew, the dormOuse, and the ied-vole,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

IMPROPER INsTRUc rIoS.-1he Rev. Mr..
Simpson, of Pitlsburg, Pa, who was appon.
ted the instructor of Miss Henderson, taught
her lessons which the Presbytrry of Ailegha
nv do not approve, and for which they are
now debating in what manner Mr.. s. shall be
punished. These naughty ministers make
a ureat deal of trouble.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

19g- His Excellency Governor Johnson
has appointed George D Rice, Esq, of Cobb
county. Judge of the Blue Ridge Circuit, in
place OF Hon. Joseph y. Brown, RESUMED.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

rsg- We have just learned that the Board
of Public Works of Virginia have made a
third ffths subscription to the Cumberland
Gap Railroad, and have appointed State d.
rectors and proxies The completion OF the
road may, therefore, be regarded as fixed
4.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

WHAT THE FREEsoILERs SAY.-The Gin
cinnati Gazette, an ultra Abolition journal,
says:
I'VE publish 20 dav in full, on our first
page. the article in the Washington Union,
the Administration organ, which it has arca.
DIV been stated was authorized as embodvinp
the views of Mr.. Buchanan on the Kansas
question. From this article it is considered
that Mr.. Buchanan intended from the first to
exercise all his influence to make Kansas a
Free Strte, and to conciiate the Sonth by
using Southern men AZ the Instruments and
officers to effect that result"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

PoLIrloAL.-The political intelligence Is
not specially interesting.
Spain accepts The mediation Of England
and France, in the settlement Of the difficult
ties with Spain and Mexico.
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AGENERAL MAssAcRE.-The Philadelphia
Ledger is out in favor of the utter destruction
of the entire canine race. After recording n
terrible death of a man from hydrophobia, it
says:
With such facts as these so frequently oc-
curing, we wonder that people will continue
to keep dogs. Can any one tell what earthly
use they are in a city, except to howl and
bark through the night, to the discomfort Of
the sick, and run about all day, endangering
everybody's life? Instead of publishing re.
cipes for the cure of hydrophnbia, the most
sensible course would be to remove the cause
of disease. The best aud the surest remedy
-one that is never known TO fails to cut
off every dogs tail close behind his ears.
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Jusr So.-A wicked old bachelor, when
no heard that a friends wife had n baby,
said that "maryug was nothing, but tho
next darned thing troubled him"
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A Mormon IN rRouBLE.-rhe Richmond
Dispatch says Last week n disciple OF Brig
ham Young attempted TO preach the Mormon
doctrine in Smythe county, Va, and though
warned by the citizens, refused to desist. lie
was accordingly seized, tarred and Ieathered,
after which he made rapid exit.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

A CUNNING Fox.-In Ireland a sharp fellow
is said to be "as cute as Powers fox, the fox
of Ballybotherem, which used to read the
newspapers every morning to find out where
the hounds were to meet.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

,ag- Spider bites can be cured, II is said
by weiting the place with cold water, as fast
as il absorbs or dries up.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

SAD ACcIDENT-On Sunday morning last,
ms the o'clock morning train from this place
to Macon, reached the crossing of a small
stream about seven miles below the depot,
the track gave way, preciPitating the loco
motive, tender and baggage car into the
water and mud below, killing the fireman,
Mr.. jackson Bryant, of this place, and so se'
verey iniurng Mr.. Patrick sullivan, tempo
rary baggage master, that he died during his
transportation to town. Mr. George smith,
the engineer of the train, also had one leg
aud arm broken; and il is something remark
able how he escaped thus lightly, as he was
found on the body of Bryant, who was not
only killed outright, but so scalded by the
hot water, that he had the appearance OF
having been par boiled. The passenger car
was not thrown from the track, and therefore
no one else was injured Columbus Eng
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

NEw ORLEANS, August 6.--The Tehunr-
tcpec company publishes card this morning
announcing its dissolution stating the cases
to be their inability to arrange with the own
ers Of the Garay grant, the impossbility OF
getting the mail contract, and the discovery
OF the fact that the Soo title is not in thia
company. The President, lAsen, Brnbmin
and Soule went To Mexico by the lust steam
er TO make new arrangements.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-14

CoNsIprRArE advertisement in Phila-
delpha paper read as follows;-"Stolen' a
watch worth a hundred dollars. II the thiei
will return it, he shall be informed, gratis
where he may steal one worth two OF it, and
no ouestiona asked
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T0L. IX.--N0. 464.

Town MAKIYG.-A gentleman recently re-
turned from the West relates that, in setting
out early in the morning from the place
where he had passed the night, he consult
ed his map OF the country, and finding that
very considerable town called Vienna, oc-
cupied point of his road, but some twelve or
fifteen miles off, concluded to journey as far
as that before breakfast. Another equally
extensive town, bearing as sounding n name,
was laid down at convenient distance for
his afternoon stage, and there he proposed
halting for the night. He continued to trav-
el at a good round pace until the sun had
risen high in the heavens, and until he COM
puted that he had accomplished more than
twice or thrice the distance which he propos-
ed TO himself in the outset. Still he saw no
town before him, even of the humblesl kind,
much less such magnificent one as his map
prepared him to look for. At length, meet
ing solitary wood-chopper emerging from
the forest, he accosted him and inquired how
far it was to Vienna. "Viennap exclaimed
the man, "why you passed it five and twenty
miles back. Did you notice stick Of tim
Der and bIazed tree beside the road! That
was Vienna" The disInayed traveller then
inquired how far it was to the other place,
at which place he designed passing the night.
"Why you are right on that place now" re-
turned the mani 1t begins just on the other
side Of yon rayine, and runs down to a clump
of girdled trees which you will see about a
mile further on the road" "Are there no
houses bulls" faltered out the traveller.--
"Oh, no houses whatsoever" returned the
woudsman; they hewed and hauled the logs
for blacksmith's shop, but before they raised
ii the toUn lots oere all disposed Of in the
Eusten States; and everything has been left
just us you now see il ever since"
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rss- A new American paper, called the
Echo, has been started in Paris.
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A LAND SPECULATION Suggs
opened his saddIebags TO pay the Indian wo-
man for the land, General Lawson, who
wanted a slice, came to Suggs and said, "Mr.
Suggs, Id like to have an interest in your
contract and I'm willing to pay for it; I'll
find the money to pay the Indian and give
you an interest OF one third" "Not thout I
was willing, would yeW asked Snggs ieering-
ly. "l'Il do better than that" said Taylor,
wiping the blood from his nose; "l'l furnish
the money and give You half the land sells
for when we part with III" "Very proberly."
rem rked Simon, "but unless some on ye
counts me out five hundred, and furnishes
your own money to buy the land with, |
shall have to unlock these here" paiting the
sande bags, 'and buy it myself" "l'll do
III said Colonel Bryan, who had been maxi
ing calculation on the inside of the crown
of his hat--"l'l do it!' "Ah," suid Suegs,
hGtS what made the chickens squal! -
You're the man I'm hun,n'l Draw your
weepug,p The land was forthwith certified
to Suggs, who Immediately transferred il TO
BRYAN. "Now geulcmeu,' snid the captain,
"every hod,'s satsf, d-aint iheyP "lf they
aint tuey ought to be-" replied Colonel Bry-
an, Wh0 was delighted with his bargain. IL
think so, too" remarked Suggs, "and bein,
as that's the cas,," he continued, opening his
saddle bags, "as had act before you all
as if my saddle bags were full OF gold and
silver, or else lose my chance Of profit here,
I'll now throw out these here rocks and old
iron, for it's mighty tiresome to IN old
hOrse!" and the captain did throw ont the
rocks and old iron Tor he had nota dollar in
the world The spectators vanished.
"Th,s here's a mighty hard world" MUIR
INJURED the captain to himself, musingy, "to
get along in. Ef feller don't make every
aidge cut, he's in the back ground directly.
LIS tile and strive and tusseI every way to
make an honest iven'. Well!' he continued
in strain OF unusual piety, us he threw up
and canQht roleau of dollars; swell, there
is providence that purvides; and ef n man
will only stand squar, up to what's right 1t
WW prosper his cndeayors 20 make some
ihln, to feed his children on! Yes, there isa
Providence shonId like to see the man
who says there ain't no Providence, YOU may
be sure there is something wrong here and
striking in the region Of his breast pocket
and that man will swnde Won, ef no can
certain! Scenes in Georgio.
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LAND CPECUbAIlONS,- - ] lie IIiCaBO Jour
nal predicts bankruptcy of spectators in
western lands. 1t says:
Such n result is inevitable, sooner or later.
1t cannot be otherwise. In the new States
and territories lands are held and sold at al
most fabulous prices, and all Glasses Of peo
pie are wild with the land mania. In han.
sas disturbed and agitated us that territory
is, town lots are sold at hundreds of dollars
per foot, and wild lands, scarcely trod by the
foot of civilization, are held at prices very far
above their real value for any practical use.
At some promising business points, in the
more recently organized States, thirty, forty,
fifty and even one hundred per cent, is Of
tered for money to invest IN real estlie-
1t is impossible that such state of things
should longer exist. Lands cannot continue
to 90 up and up, ad infnitum. There must
be II stopping place somewhere, and when
that is reached, they will drop to their real
value for practical purposes.