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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

RAISE MoRE FooD.-The New York Post
gives some "advice to the tillers of the soil" i"
from which we take the following sensible
and timely remarks:
The revolt in India is the harbinger of
famine; one hundred and eighty millions Of
human creatures will need large supplies of
food FROM the products of other regions. The
army of India, the transport fleet for that ar
my and its supplies, the necessities growing
out Of the disturbed state of that great Eng
ish dependency, will call for much of our
surplus beef, pork and -four. The two last
articles are the product of every year, but
beef requires years of nourshment before it
is ready for nse. The wicked, wanton waste
of breeding power, which is the besettng sin
of American tanners ought to be checked
Every farmer ought TO be required to give an
account of himself who kills female calf
We ought to preserve every "cow calf" for
five years to come. By this method we might
soon have a supply of beef, not only for our
selves, but for any emergency abroad.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

We are indebted to the Nashville Patriot
for the synopsis Of the Governors Message
which follows:
In the commencement the Governor calls
the attention of the Legislature 10 the actual
Indebtedness of the State, which is stated to
be S4,l90,856 &c, on account of Internal I'm
provement Bonds, Union Bank Bonds, Bank
Of Tennessee, State Capitol Bonds, and the
purchase of the Hermitage. The stocks own
ed by the State in Banks, Internal Improve
ment Companies, &C., amount to So 292,7l6
&C. These stocks when reduced to their
market or estimated value will amount to
$2,444,827. This would leave the actual liza
biIites of the State Sl,O47,O79 &c in excess
of its cash assels. In this connection the
Governor remarks
II is the opinion of some correct thinking
and judcious persons, as well rs my own,
that it would be sound policy and economy
to dispose of all the stock owned by the
State, in Banks and Internal improvement
Companies, or otherwise, as soon as it can be
uone on advantageous 'eIhls; anu W aPP'y tho
proceeds of the sale of the shme to the reduc-
tion of the actual indebtedness Of the State,
and for the State as soon as practicable to
become entirely disconnected with all corpo-
ratons whatever, either as partner or stock
holder. The six per cent. which would be
saved upon the Bonds, will amount to more
than all the dividends which will be paid upon
the stock so long as it is owned by the State.
The following tabular statement will show
the amount of stocks owned by the State, in
Banks, Internal Improvement Companies, ETC.,
its original cost and its estimated value at the
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16
very grateIuIly YOURS,
DAVID PAUL BROWN.
pR1ce or NEGROES IN rHE RIcHMoNg MAR

Price OF NEGROES IN THE RICHMOND MAR
KET Millions of money have been (isburs-
ed ia Richmond, during the past ID months,
for negroes, who have, during that time, com
manded more exorbitant prices than ever be.
fore. All negroes are sold for cash, which is
supplied by means of northern sight drafts,
which are disposed of to the brckers.--
Enough of these sight checks are sold to
supply the Richmond market with northern
exchange. AS before remarked, at no peri
cd before did this species OF property COM
mand so exorbitant figure. Many sell be-
cause of the high prices obtained. In proof
of this it may be stated that if the market
declines, say $50 to 800 per head, the re-
eeipt of negroes are visibly affected. 1t is
said, by those who assume to know, that the
increase of slaves is greatly more than coun
terbalances the number sent from the State.
The following statement of the ruling
rates, and which i is confidently asserted are
likely to prevail for some time to come, is
subioined for the information of our readers:
No. men sell readily for S 800 to So 900,
something extra n shade higher. No. girls
(ield bands) from Sll00 to $1,000. Likely
girls (seamstrcsses) command from $l400 to
1900. Boys from twelve to fifteen years of
age, $l 900 to $1,000 Girls from twelve
to fifteen years old, $3.50 to $1,000. Good
backsmths, fine size, ranging from twenty
to thirty years old, sell at $1,000 to $4,000.
Carpenters command the same rates. Brick
layers bring from $1,000 to $500. All 9th
ers in proportion. These prices are for ne
groes free Of defects, and sound and healthy
At the present time, however, it is safe to
say that negroes, good or had, command all
they are worlh.-Richnlond South.
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PRACTICAL WORKINGS OF AN ELEC-
TIVE JUDICIARY.

The subjoined letter, says the National In
telligencer, from distinguished lawyer of the
city of Philadelphia, affords signal illustra-
ton of the mschieyous consequences which
attend the modern pnctice of rendering the
judiciary Immediately elective by the people,
and of subjecting the incumbents Of the
bench to the contingencies, collisions, and
degradations of political canvass. For the
first effect of this system, as seen in the pres
ent instance, is to repel from such distaste-
full and humiliating competition the men who,
by their legal lore and forensic ability, would
grace while they fill this responsible station,
since these are the me-, who, as they know
best the qualifcatops'rf judicial place, so are
the least willing to Se the latter by n
method and to hold il !. tenure which may
even seem to imply Il lection to the bias
of "political and party iistiiug." And hence
il is that the self respect of those whose
moral sensibilities and Judicial learning would
best qualify them for Judicial station is con-
verted by this jacobinical system into the
means of depriving the public of services the
most valuable, and Others, in whom the sense
of propriety is less keen, and whose quaiif-
cations we may suspect of being proportion
atcly inferior, are elevated in theil stead
1t surely becomes unnecessary, under these
circumstances, to characterize an Innovation
which is seen to be as mischiet ols in its
practical working as it is demapgical in
origin and theory.
VIRGINIA SPRINGS, August %, 1857.
To the "American" City Conuen.ion Gentle
men: While enjoying myself at .h{ Virginia
Springs. for the first time learn hat am
indebted to your favor for nomination to
the bench of the Court of CommonPl Pleas
Accept my acknowledgements for the un-
merited kindness and allow me, in declining
it, to say that am already too gooda judge,
at least in one sense, to accept Judicial
position in the Court Of Common Pleas, or
any other Court that is dependent rpan the
elective franchise, or political or partyteeling.
voted against rendering the judcaT elect
i've, and should be dishonest to accept an
appointment under law which opposed.
Very gratefully yours,
DAVID PAIL BROWN
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

MAN LOST IN A Corn FIELD, NOT FOUND
UNTIL THE FOURTH DAY.-Great solicitude
was created short time since by the absence
of our old friend, Daniel S. Morrison, of Hot
Spring county. He has very remarkable
field of corn, and walking down one evening
to see what damage the coons were doing,
lie chanced TO stroll too far from the fence,
soon became lost and bewidered in the
immense growth Of the corn. He wandered
for three days, subsisting during that time
on green corn. His negroes becoming alarm.
ed about him commenced diligent search
and found him on the fourth day. lie was
then busily engaged in rubbing two dry
sticks together to make fire, the green raw
corn having produced nm unpleasant sensa-
ton in his stomach. He thinks he would
have found his way out on tho third day but
he got into patch of Black Republican beans,
and then gave up.-LiHle Rock Gaz. Sept. 8.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER.-That was
noble, and truly American trait, of charac-
ter, which was exhibited by the men who
we're carried into the ocean, as the Inst sea
swept over the Central Amercn, and she
went down into the dark, unfathomable caves
of the ocean. "As we rose TO the surface"
said several of the survivors, "and hoated
about on fragments Of the wreck we cheered
each other with words Of encouragement,
until the rescue came" There is lesson in
this peculiarly fitted for the present time
There was, in that dead hour Of night. In mn
open and stormy sea, every motive for alarm
and despair every cause for panic and dismhy.
Less heroic men would have been mute with
fear or garrulous with lamentation. Bnt
those struggling sufferers were both heroic
and wise. They cheered and encouraged
each other, and thus nerved and helped, each
by the other, they sank moi, but combatted
the bilows until succor and snfsty came
Might not the mercantile community Just
now read lesson in this fact!-M Y Com.
mercioi.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

How RAIN IS FoRMEp.-To understand
the philosophy Of this phenomena, essential
to the very existence of plants and animals,
a few facts, derived from observation and a
long train cf experiments, must be remem.
bered. Were the atmosphere everywhere,
at all times. at uniform temperature, we
should meyer have rain. hail or snow. The
water absorbed by it in evaporation from the
sea and the easth's surface would descend in
an imperceph5le vapor, or cease to be ab-
sorbed by the air, when il was once fully sat
urated. The absorbing power of the atmos-
phere, and consequently its eapability to re-
tain humidity. is proportionably greater in
warm than in cold airs The air near the sur
face OF the earth is warmer thar ii is in the
region of the clouds The higher we ascend
from the earth, the colder we find the atmos.
Phere. Hence the perpetual snow on very
nigh mountains, in the hottest climates
Now, when, from continued evaporation, the
air Is highly saturated with vapor-though il
be invslbe-if its temperature is suddenly
reduced by cold currents descending from
above, or rushing from higher to a lower
latitude, its capacity TO retain moisture il d.
minisbed, clouds are formed, aud the result
is rain. Air condenses as il cools, and, like
sponge filled with water and compressed.
pours out the water which its diminished ca
pociIy cannot hold. How singular, yet how
simple, is such an arrangement for watering
the earth.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16
VOL. X.---NO. 473 .

THE LOVE OF HoME.-lf nobler sent
ments than the following, which were utter
ed BY Daniel Webster, ever fell from human
lips, we have yet to see them. They are, in
deed, pearls of the rarest value, and should
be cherished in the very heart of hearts by
everybody;
1t is only shallow minded pretenders who
make either distinguished origin a matter Of
personal merit or obscure origin matter of
personal reproach. A man who is not asham-
ed of himself need not be ashamed of his
ea:ly condition. II did happen to me to be
born in log cabin, raised among the snow.
drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early
that when the smoke first rose from its rude
chimney and curled over the frozen hills,
there was no similar evidence of white mans
habitation between it and the settlements on
the rivers of Canada. Its remains still exist;
make it an annual visit carry my chill
dren to it, and teach them the hardship en-.
dured by the generations before them.
love to dwell on the tender recollection, the
kindred ties, the early affections and the mar.
rations and incidents which mingle with all
know Of this primitive family abode. Iweep
to think that none OF those who inhabited it
are now among the living and if ever 1 fail
in affectionato veneration for him who raised
it and defended it against savage violence
and destruction, cherished all domestic COM
forts beneath its roof, and through the fire
and blood of seven years revolutionary war,
shrunk from no toll, no sacrifice, to sRve his
country, and to raise his children to a condi-
ton better than his own, may my name and
the name of my posterity be blotted from
the memory of mankind.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

A SAFE MAN TO lEsURE.-By n steam
boat explosion on the Western river, pas
seuger was thrown unhurt into the water, and
at once struck out Justify for the shore,
blowing like porpoise all the while. He
reached the bank almost exhausted, and was
caught by by.stander and drawn out PAN
ting. swell, old fellow" said his friend,
you "bad hard time, eh?" "Ye-yes, pre-
pretty hard, considerin." Wasn't doin' it for
myself, though; was workiu' for one them
insurance offices in New York. Got pol
lev on my life, and ] wanted 10 save them.
dident care" .t
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

ray- The Bombay Courier alludlng 10 tho
superstit ions of the natives Of India, says that
"t is the belief Of millions that 10 possess tho
Koh-i-noor is to be doomed 10 ruin. The
natives say that from the time il was discov-
cred in the mines Of Golconda until Il came
into the possession of Bonjeet Sing misfor,
tune and misery have dogged the footsteps
of its possessors." The idea has great effect
on the public mind. as has also the prophecy
long current that after a century of rule tho
power of England in the East Is 10 fall---a
cycle now about accomplished
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

SPrcY.--A report, doubtless more true than
such reports generally are, has been going
the rounds of the papers that ex-President
Fillmore is about to marry Montreal lady.
In noticing it the editor of the Somerset De.
mocrat asks his eotemporary of the True
American "what he thinks Of Fillmore mar
rying d--d furriners7 Whereupon the edi-
tor of The True American replies, swell, we
think he is marrying laliy who manifess
more good sense in this single act of hers,
than you ed. Dem.) have in all your life;
for she is willing to be ruled by an Ameri.
cam"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

HeAvy Loss FOR NEWSPAPER EDITOR
The New York News, in noticing the fail
urc of Persee g. B rocks, paper manufacturers,
says:
"Ths house owes James Gordon Bennett,
of the New York Herald, $4,000, they be-
inc his bankers, and have been for some
time past. Bennett bought recently eoun-
try seat for Si0O,000 but instead of paying
for it in money, as he might, placed second
mortgage on il, preferring to allow Persee d
Brooks to use his funds. This is hard on
our neighbor."
The Washington States says Bennett will
not lose dollar by the failure,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

DAVID WILNoT.-Thc Constitutionaist
saws that this celebrated or notorious indi-
yidual, is the Black Republican and American
candidate for Governor Of Pennsylvania
This is false statement. Isaac Hazleburst
is the American candidate for Governor rs
the Constitutionalst ought to know, il il
does not. AS well say what is far more
true, that Wimot is the Black Republican
AND Democratic candidate, for he is both a
Democrat and Republican, but never an
Americdn.-lfac0n Citizen.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

BREAKING THE SABBATH.-Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, deprecatng the custom of
repeated services on Sunday, says that the
first service is usually cream, the second
milk, and the third milk and water, and the
last is the one that usually sticks by the
hearers of the three. A man who has fam-
ly, and goes to the Sunday school in the
morning at nine o'clock, to church at half
past ten o'clock, to church again in the after
noon, and then again, perhaps, in the even
ing, ought to be tried for breaking The
Sabbath! If he could hear three sermons
proftably, he must be an extraordinary genius
at hearing.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

FINANCIAL AFFAIRS AT WASHING TON
Orders were sent from the Treasury Depart
ment Wednesday to the New York assay Of
fee for the transfer Of large amount OF
bullion to the Philadelphia mint, to be COIN
ed into small pieces to meet the pressing de-
mands Of business.
The Treasury Department is still engaged
in doing all it can in legitimate way to re-
lieve the money pressure. Applications for
a large amount of United States stocks are
steadily on the increase.
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NOTHING Losr.


II when thou watch silvery star,
1t soon shall disappear;
Let not the thought that It hath aed
Bring to thine eye tear;
But in thy inmost heart rejoice
That in the lonely night,
It once again shall bless the earth
With its sweet gentle light.
II when thou tread the pleasant path
OF garden walks and bowers;
Weep not that death has come unto
The fragrant summer flowers;
But shelter take from thy sad thoughts
Beneath hopes sunny wing;
And let thy heart rejoice to think
They'll bloom again in Spring.
II thou hath friends who sleep beneath
The cold and silent sod;
Mourn not for them, for they have gone
To Heaven and to God;
But rather let thy soul rejoice
That they are free from sin;
That God who gave them unto thee
Has call'd them home to Him.
In every sorrow which may come
Upon thy soul 10 prey,
There is reflected through the gloom
bright enchanting day;
And this true lesson all may learn
Its teachings ne'er forget
That in thy cup of bitterness
There is some sweetness yet.
The star that faded shall again
Throw light upon the gloom;
The summer flowers shall once more
In magic beauty bloom;
And cen loved ones who now sleep
Beneath the earth's green sod,
Shall meet us with angelic smiles
Before our maker-God.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

OnIo.-The Cincinnati Gazette says that,
in addition to on abundance of valuable tim
Der. one-thrd Of the whole State of Ohio is
underad with bitgminous coal, forming the
best and cheapest uel, while her iron-ore is
equal in quantity aud qualify to that of Great
Britain. Her population is 100000. The
value of her agricultural productions, orcor-
ding to data based on the census o! 1855,
is Sl96,9OOO00. The value of exports in
Ohio exceeds the value of exports in New
York, as to Ogricu lure and mining, by thirty
one millions of dollars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16
SPEAKER AND CLERK OF THE NEXT HousI

SPEAKER AND CLERK OF THE NEXT HOUSE.
The correspondent of The Richmond En-
quirer writes that it seems pretty well set
tied that Col. Orr and the Hon. James c. Al
len, ex-member from Illinois, will take the
highest prizes, and the small oaves will be
scattered around to those who may be the
most noisy. All the Democratic members
with whom have conversed seem to be
unanimous on this ticket. 1t is rumored
however, that Senator Bright, who is now
here in the arena, has different programme,
which he will endeavoI 20 have adopted.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

FArLuREs.-The number of failures re-
ported within the last month throughout the
country is little short Of four hundred; aud
they involve liabilities to the amount Of
between fifteen aud sixteen millions Of dollars
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

A MADy."-Peope have queer IDEAS in
some sections us to the constituent qualities
which make lady, irrespective of the mil
inery and soundings. The New York Ex-
press gives an instance:
"Not long since we saw a lady in an omni
bus, very fashionab!y dressed, present bank
note to The driver, who returned it, unable to
change il, or not satisfied with it. The lady
in returning il to her portmonnie. discovered
the fact that she had plenty OF silver yet she
did not offer to pay her fare, and went scot
free--the driver taking il for granted she had
no change.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

FIRE.-We are sorry to learn that the
dwelling and outhouses o: the Rev. w. d.
Carnes, of Spencer, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the lst inst, together with
nearly all his furniture aud valuable library.
The Sparta Times says the fire is supposed
to be the work of an incendiary.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

Very APPROPRIATE CoMPASv.-The Phil
adelphia Press says that if Mr.. ToOmbs and
other Southern Senators intend to carry out
their threat and reject the nomination Of
Walker, i. will be done by a union between
them aud tbs Black Republicans Of the
No.Ib
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

CooL CALcULATIos.-One Of the passen.
gers who was saved from the Central Amer.
ca, had his head closely shaved, and, on be-
ing asked the reason, he coolly replied that
he aid it before the ship went down, in order
10 prevent the other passengers from laying
boid of his hair. Hir
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

IGNORANCE OF GREAT PHYSICAL Truths
How few men really believe that they so
journ on whirling globe, and that each day
and year of life is measured by its revolu-
tions, regulating the labor and the repose of
every race of beings. How few believe that
the grea. luminhry of the ornament,
whose restless activity they daily witness, is
an immoyable STAR controlling, by its solid
mass, the primary planets which compose our
system, and forming the gnomen of the great
dial which measures the thread of life, the
tenure of empires, and the great cycles of
the worlds change How few believe that
each of the millions of stars-those atoms of
light which the telescope can scarcely descry
are the centre of planetary systems that
may equal if not surpass our own. And how
very few believe that the solid pavement os
the globe upon which they nightly sumber
is an elastic crust, imprisoning fires and
forces which have often busrt forth in tre-
mendous energy, and are at this very instant
struggling to escape-now finding their way
in volcanic fres-now heaving and shaking
the earth-now upraising islands and cont.
nents, and gathering strength for that final
outburst which is to usher in the new heav-
ems and new earth, "whcren dwelleth right
eousness." Where these great physical
truths objects of faith as well MS deductions
of reason, we should lend a better life than
we do, and make qpicker preparation for
its close.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

1B The Philadelphia Press says that
some OF tho merchants there are buying up
their own paper at 6 per cent month
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NEW YonH, Oct. 3.-1he barque Bremen
mas arrived, with J. rrice, second engineer;
neAander Grant, fireman, and G. NJ. Daw
so"' passenger, rescued from the wreck OF
t"e central America. These persons had
oeen elght DAYS Ofoat, without food or wa.
Wh NO Intelligence received of the safety
of any other person.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

a KEG OF SPECIE DUG UP.-The Oswego
IN. W Times of the 2Sth ult., tells the fol.
lowing story: Two men named, respectively,
Ward and Hall, were at wokk down the lake
shore, some miles from the city, getting out
hoop-stuff, when they discovered a small keg
buried in the sand. This they dug out. and
opening it, found ii contained sirtee7 hun
dred silper pieces! The coins were of an an
cient French east and Of the denomination of
seven france pieces, valued at s % each.-
The two men with their treasure have left
for Philadelphia, where they intend TO ex-
change their coin at the mint. II isprobable
that the money was secreted in the place
where it was discovered by some French Off
GERS during the Old French war, and after
wards the officer may have been killed, leav-
ing no trace where the treasure was con
ceaed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

RoANE County FAIR.-The Fair of the
Roane County Agricultural Society will be
held at Kingston, on the 9th, 2Sth and 29th
days of this month. We learn that the
grounds are being properly prepared and a
fine exhibition is anticipated.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

RocHssrRR, N. Y, Oct. 3.-John u. Rob
erston. cashier of the Eagle Bank, has been
indicted by the Grand Jury. for attempting
to destroy the life of his wife BY. poison
Rumor says that of twenty three jurors only
two were opposed to bill. Roberston gave
bail this morning. ef a le l ti