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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

A REQUEST IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN
ITY.--The people of Taylor Co., (Va.0 in
Convention, passed the following, among
other resolutions;
"'pS'' '"'oi w 'no W! ~
may consider this country part of their
moral vineyard for the future, to send among
US only such ministers as have wisdom and
grace enough to enable them to preach the
gospel without medding with the civil in
slitutons Of our country.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

SoRGHo SUoRE SYRuP.-The New Orleans
Commercial Bulletin says: "We are indebted
to Col. J. B. Ives. of Terreaux Beufa, Parish
of Bernard, for a sample of syrup from the
Sorgho Sucre or Chinese Sugar Cane. 1t has
rich flavor slightly acid, and very much
resembles sugarhouse molasses. Col. Ives in.
forms US that he has sent sixty-fve barrels of
this syrup made by him to Mr.. G. de Blanc,
and that he shall make this season from two
to three hundred barrels Of it. 1t yields
about three barrels to the arpent-a little
less than an acre-to the cutting, and may
be cut twice year, in August and November,
making six barrels to the arpent year.
Col. Ives says it costs little to raise this cane
five acres being cultivated with about the
same labor it would take to cultivate one
acre of sugar cane. One great popularity
about it is that it makes excellent fodder for
cattle. The cane before the juice is pressed
out and the residum and the begasse are good,
and are devoured by stock with voracty. 1t
can also be dried like corn stalks, with all its
saccharine matter retained. Col. Ives is de
cidedly of the opinion that IL is a valuable
crop for Southern planters to cultivatej an
adjunct to the cane and corn crops, unlike
each in some RESPECTS, and like both in others,
and possessing properties which neither does.
AT the same time, he has no tears of its ever
superceding the regular cultivation OF the
sugar cane in Louisiana. He has made sugar
ont of it of good color and grain, and when
the Louisiana sugar cane fails, and the price
of the article is very high, this sorghum sac
eharatum will help out the planters most op-
portunely. 1t will also doubtless be cult.
waited and syrup and sugar be made of it in
small quantities, when the price Of sugar is
high, in the Western aud Middle States. But
he does not think it will pay the farmers in
those sections of the country to cultivate it
on large scale for sugar making SO well as
grain and other commodities.
We trust our planters all over the State
will raise enough of it at least for their COWS
for the sake Of its value in enabling them to
make butter. The small farmers in the pine
woods should at once turn their attention to
dairies and rising Chinese suagar cane for
fodder"
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~ Such IL the rapidity of travel NJ

W Such is the rapidity Of travel now
a.days that the Holy Land can be reached in
less than month from Philadelphia. An
exchange gives as the best route the follow
ing; "Frst to Liverpool, II days thence to
Marseilles days; thence to Alexandria, 8
days; thence to Jaffa, days; and from Jaffa
to tho Holy City, on horseback, . days"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

A FEMALE CONVICTED os MASsLAUGHrRR.
"A Mrs. Drummond has been convicted be-
fore the Circuit Court Of Shenandoah county,
Virginia, Of siabbing and killing q deputy
sheriff of that county, named Huichinsoni
while he was in the act of arresting her for
shooting one of her nelghbors cows. She
was sentenced to the penitentiary for four
years.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

KILLED by A WoMAN.-A nian by the
name of Jno. l. Bass was killed in his own
house one day last week, by a Mrs. Hudson
The parties all lived in Hancock county,
1t appears that Bass came home drunk, NAL
treated his wife and drove her and children
and Mrs Hudson out ofhs house. Mrs Hud
son bnrsied two caps at him, and then she
went home, and rext morning very early, just
MS Bass was getting up, she entered his room,
placed pistol to his breast and fired, killing
him instantly.-Georgia Federal Union.
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THE POST.
ATHENS. FRIDAY, SEPT. a5, 1857.

THREE MoRE.-The Constitution of Min
nesota, lately adopted, will he submitted to
the people on the second Tuesday in Octo.
Der. 1t will be ratified beyond a doubt At
the same time m election will be held for
three members of Congress who will take
thcir seats as soon as Congress admits Min.
nesota into the Union. Thus at the next
session, the North, already in an overwhelm.
ing majority in Congress, will be reinforced
by three additional members in the House,
and two more in the Senate. What cores
ponding gain does the South make? Moth
ing, but the satisfaction of submitting to the
Freesoiism Of Kansas under the regime of
National Demurrucy.n
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

tB- An unoving woman is M inipossi-
bility, unless wo can imagine pillar Of ice
to stand against July sun. But all women
love, and that passionately. Those who
profess that they do not are only trying to
hide a bilIer disappointment behind the
transparent mask Of affectaiion.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

A REsoLUTE NJ. D.-Dr S. +. Reynolds
was bitten on the thumb at New Orleans, a
few days ago by young rnttesnake. He
Immediately seized hatchet and cut the
thumb entirely off before the poison had time
20 extend.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

W- In Louisville, few days ago, a ne.
g-o woman in the employ of DR.. Rogers,
bled to death from having tooth pulled
The flow Of blood could not be stopped, and
she actually bled to death.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

w- "My DEAR" said l'oot's amiable
spouse, "what is the difference between ex.
portalon and transportation"
TOots reused himself 10 meet the issue
which had been forced upon him, and replied,
81 will explain the difference by illustration.
For example: if you, Mrs. Toots, were ex-
ported, !, Mr.. Toots, would be transported"
Horrd man, that Toots.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

| stem, mode OF inflo'escence, and appendages
Of the seed, 10 constitute several distinct
species. Its saccharine qualities remain vet
to be tested. II Mr.. Wray can make sugar
from the Tmphee, by an easy, simple, and
economical process, or If II Yields more of
good syrup than the Chinese Sorghum, II will
probably eupplant the latter. In few days
the Imphee cane will be ripe enough for the
mill, and we shall then have the issue of the
experiment. r.
p. S.-Snce %fiiing the above article, /
see communication In the Courier of the 4th
inst, in which the writer makes several Que.
ries on the subject Of cane growing. I will
reply, as far rs my Information goes. The
first two questions are answered above.
Sd. The juice should be boiled within half
m hour after expression, otherwise Il will be.
come sour, nnd njnre The quality Of syrup.
4th and 9Th. Wids and rather shallow pans
are preferable, as the boiling is done sooner,
on account of greatcT evaporation. Iron
pots aroused altos .asr,as far as have
learned.
9th. Lime should be added, soon after the
juice is expressed, ut the rate of tea spoon
fu to five gallons of juice. This correcis the
acidity, and renders the syrup more fit to be
kept; though, for present use, il is unnecessa-
ry, as a good clear syrup may be made with
out lime.
7th Cost of mills may be learned from the
manufacturers.
sour correspondent kindly accompanied his manu-.
script with little jar of delicious preserves made of
the native wild gooseberry and his Sorghum mOasses
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

A DAeUERREoTYpE.-The Madison (Wis.)
Patriot, Jealous Democratic paper, gives the
subioined picture of its own party. We have
seldom seen so striking q likeness. The
daguerreotyping must have been done under
the most favorable circumstances-when the
artist and his machine were exactly in The
right condition and when the sun was shining
in oil its briliancy:
Why is our party to-day on its knees be-
fore the world? 1t requires no soothsayer or
sorcerer to answer that question. The party
has played with edged tools, as dull as old
hoes at that--and has got cut; it has frted
with political cyprians and got Tilted; it has
slept with pilfering shavers, scoundrels, and
knaves, aud has caught the BARRIERS itch. 1t
has breaihed the pestientinl malaria fuming
from the airs of old, rotten, unprinciplod,
scurvy-headed, mik-and- water, broken down,
cast-of, leprous pukc., cancerous thieves, SUI
perannuated pick. pockets, treasury plunder-
ing, refuse oftics--eeking, whiskey-sonked,
doubled distilled buttons and penitentiary
scalliwags, who have preyed ard gorged upon
the party and the people until the substance
of each is almost exhausted, and they look us
lean, lank, thin, savage, and cadaverous as
starved hyenas confined il the Dismal Swamp
of terror and adversely, through thousand
eternities Of snow, sleet, hail, rain, thunder,
lightning, tempests, and irretrievable famine.
Such is the fetid mnlndy that has overtaken
the Democratic party in Wisconsin. 1t has
been laid on thick and fast, with double
coating, shining, mortared, plastered, and rub
bed in, until the party resembles more the
ghost of spring dead, deceased, and
done for, without skin, flesh, or bones-than
anything having life, longevity, elasticity,
vigor, vitality, or widc-awake component
parts.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

VINO WILL FEEL THE MosT!-It has been
aquestion in several quarters, who will feel
the present financial crisis in the severest
manner, and what region will be most affect
ed by it, According to all appearances, the
violent fanatics and anti-slavery politicians
of the North and Northwest will suffer the
most by the pressure. All those regions,
humbugged and belogged rs they have been
by anti-slavery agilators, will feel the pinch.
Singular to say, the Southern States will
hardly be conscious Of the storm that is pass.
ing over the financial world.-Ne,o York
Herald.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

ANOTHER HONEST DEMoCRAT.-An old line
makes the following comment, in the Macon
Telegraph, Buchanan organ, on an extract
from letter to the Charleston Mercury, in
which it is stated that Whitfield and other
favor of the Walker-Buchanan policy:
Let Inc add a little by way Of calling the
attention of Southern men to the low estate
to which they have sunk by the corrupting
system of buying up Southern leaders with
federal Office. This man Whitfield holds a
most lucrative federal office, in the manage
ment Of which he is enabled to know and Sc.
leet by himself and friends, the best lands
throughout the Territory, and it is important
to the land speculators that Kansas come in
as free State so as to cut 1t up in small
farms to suit the Freesoilers from Germany
and New England. And who are these "Na-
tional Democrats" with whom Mr.. Whitfield
irDpudently dares to threaten, to denounce
and crush the few brave patriots, who cannot
I've bought nor frightened from their love of
the Southi They are the same who lately
nominated Gov. Ransom for Delegate to Con.
gress, who, when Governor Of Michigan, ut.
tered in his message to the Legislature as
vile abolition sentiments as ever came from
Gardner, of Massachusetts
Whitfield is sure OF his instruments-they
will gladly serve his purpose, in crushing out
the friends of the South.
But what unheard of audaeity have we
here! two ''satraps" of the Government
Whitfield and Walker, lecturing, nay, threat.
ening! members Of a Convention, with which
they have no connection nor control over
to compel them to prostitute their conscience
and betray their mother, the South. If Mr..
Buchanan does not Instantly remove both
Walker and Whitfield shall say with Judge
Thomas, "he is worse than Arnold" for Ar
mold, after he turned traitor, never pretended
to be an honest man and say further, that
if Southern men quietly submit to this. they
are worthy to have negroes marry their chill.
dren and set with them on juries. They will
merit and receive the contempt of mankind.
john UAMPDEN,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

W- The first camp-meeting in the United
States was held in Kentucky, fifty years ago.
Methodist, Presby yterians and Baptist, cor.
daily united on that occasion. .s a.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

A FAT SALARY.-A New York paper
states that Richard Busteed, Esq, counsel
to the corporation, receives n regular salary
Of $4,000 year; he further receives S8, 900
for clerk hire. Besides this, he is entitled
to receive his proper fees and taxable costs
in all proceedings conducted, prosecuted, or
defended by him, from all parties thereto ex-
cept the corporation. From these salaries
fees, and other advantages of position, it is
estimated that the place can be made, with.
out stretching the possessor's conscience un-
reasonably, to pay SAC, 900 or s5O,OOO u year.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

KEoKUK, lowA.-A FIRE occurred on the
llth. Loss 100000. The principal suffer-
ers are Wooster g. Temple, Marcourt &
Page, and Dustin, Morrison, McLearing and
Huskamp.
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tH- The following, from the Providenc,

tW- The following, from the Providence
Journal, is certainly correct. Itapplies more
forcbly to Europe than to this county:
The decline in sugar seems to be caused
by real diminution of the consumption.-
The stock was short, and had the consump-
tion held on, the high price would have been
maintnined. 1t has fallen because so dear
that people wocld, to considerable extent,
60 without it rather than pay for it. 1t will
be so with cotton, The law IL UNIVERSAL
The process is slower in the case of cotton,
because there nre large investments that de.
mnnd the raw material, and for time with
out reference to the consumption of the
manufactured article. The manufacturers,
by their policy and practice, keep up the
price of cotton. But when they cannot get
back new dollar for an old one, except by
selling their goods at such price rs repels
the purchaser, then the same operation which
has brought down sugar will commence upon
cotton.
The people will not pay more than GER
tain price for cotton goods, and cotton must
be sold at such prices as will enable the man.
ufacturers to supply their goods within the
limits that the consumers impose. When
they cannot do this, the mills necessarily must
stop, and then cotton, going through the
same process that cotton goods have suffered,
falls by the operation of the same laws.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

Discovery OF COPPER.-A vein of copper,
four feet wide, and of unknown depth and
yielding from l2t to 65 per cent. of pure cop.
per, has recently been discovered in Haywood
county, N. c., by couple Of Virginians..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

.45- The Louisiana Courier, a Democrat.
ic organ, advises the carrying out Of the
Democratic platform, and we are disposed
to concur in the advice As the platform
isn't fit to stand, let II by all means be scar.
ried out" and thrown into the nearest con-
venient pile ofrubbsh.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

Bosros, Sept l6.--The Democratic Con-
vention nominated E. d. Beach for Cover
nor.
WIN. c. Godfrey, connected with the Kean
expedition, was arrested for stealing gold
watch, and is charged with marrying five
wives, the last of which he married to-day,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

The RICHARDSON DEFALcATIoS.-It seems
that the deialcation Of the late Gen. Jacob
Richardson, former collector Of the customs
at Oswego, New York, is destined to prove
enormous. The Syracuse IN. " Standard
has been looking into the case, and learns
that it will be over 100000.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

W- The happlest man in the world is
the man with just wealth enough to keep
him in spirits, and just children enough to
make him industrious.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

ENGLISH MISUNDERSTANDING British
writers, even of acknowledged intelligence,
undertake to discuss the sectional relations
of the Northern and Southern portions of
our country, there appears TO be no argument
too absurd for their use, and no story so
mons.rous as to exceed their power Of belief
In an article appearing in the Westminster
Review, for the July quarter under the head
of'Manifes: Destiny of the American Union,"
we have singular instance of this. The
writer assumes that the poisoning affair Of
the National Hotel, in Washington, last win
ter was Il deeply laid scheme of the negroes
TO avenge themselves on their white oppres.
sors, and adds that such things are common
throughout the Southern States, and are
only "hushed up" as matter Of policy
Again he gravely asserts that so fierce is the
animosity raging between the citizens of the
free and slave States, that the Norfolk pco-
pie would not permit the bodies OF Philadel-
phia victims of the yellow fever, which had
been buried there during the peslilence, IL
reman within the precincts of their town, and
that accordingly they were removed 10 Phil.
adelpha.- Baltimore American.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

A DHFEREEcE.-In New York city there
are about hfty-eight banks with ten millions
Of specie. In New Orleans there are eight
banks with ten millions specie also.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

ANOTHER DUEL.-We learn from the
Vcksburg Wing that duel was fought in
Louisiana, opposite that place, on Monday
last, between s. s. Calhoun and e. J. Bow
ers, both of Madison county, Mississippi
Weapons, Mississippi rifles; distance, sixty
yafds. At the first fire, Mr.. Calhoun was
shot in the left knee. The wound is said to
be bad, but not dangerous. Mr.. Bowers had
the pantaloons Of both legs cut and the skin
grazed, by the ball of his opponent.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

WILL BE PAID.-One hundred and eighty.
four thousand dollars Of the State funded
deb. Of Virginia will be paid on The slst Of
October,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

WASHINGTON, Sept. l6.-The Bank Of
Commerce at Georgetown, and the Banking
houses run on yesterday, continue TO redeem.
Confidence is generally restored.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

FooD FOR Cows.-Durymen state that on
an average of the season through, the cream
from fourteen quarts of milk is required to
make pound of butter. One who feeds
pumpkins to his dairy cows claims that with
this food nine quarts of milk yield pound
Of butter. Farmers and dairymen who have
tried pumpkin feed, state that there is invara.
bly, large increase in butter and cheese
AS pumpkins can be raised at small expense,
there is no reason why they should not be:
come profitable article Of food for cows.
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az Unsophisticated boy-"Mamma, papa
a gettinu yery rich, isn't he?"

Mamma--"I don't know why, childr'
Unsophistcated boy-"Cause he gives me
so much money. Almost every morning af-
ter breakfast, when Sally is sweeping the
parlor, he gives me sixpence to 60 out and
play on the Battery"
Sally received short notice TO quit
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

New York, Sept. l4.-The Bank state
ment, ending Saturday, shows decrease in
loans of two million two hundred and thirty
five thousand dollars. Decrease in circua-
tion three hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. Decrease in deposits three million one
hundred and three thousand. Increase in
specie one million nine hundred and fifty.
four thousand.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-25

ABOUT KossUTH AND THE MONEY HE Cor.
Some persons wonder, says the Richmond
Dispatch, how Kossuth supports himself in
the expensive capital of London. This is
nobody's business. But it is none the less
fact that Kossnth arrived with very limited
means in the United States and that his
mission to this country however barren Of
political fruits, was, in a monetary point of
view, eminently successful. Ninety thou
sand dollars was the amount of that distin-
guished gentleman's levy in the American
Republic in the short space of nine months,
being nearly as much as the President of the
United States receives in four years. This
sum Kossuth declared should be devoted to
the political redemption of Hungary, cour-
ageous ms well as patrioNc declaration, when
we consider the immense disproportion of
the means to the object to be accomplished.
1t is probable that, on a sober second thought,
the Hungarian has made more judcous in.
vestment of the "matera ad," the interest
Of which, though inadequate to the emanci.
patton of Hungary, is sufficient for the com.
Portable support Of single patriot.