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tY Persuns OF nervous temperament are
apt to offer, rs it were, their diseased minds
to the influences of Imagination. These might
profit by practising the courage over self,
once evinced by II nervous and imaginative
High Bailtf of Westminster. As this official
was, on one occasion, in bed, with his arm
extended to extinguish the lighted candle on
the table by the bedside, he behed Satan
himself seated in the chair near the table,
gazing at him with sail his eyes," The nerv-
Gus digniiary was terribly startled, but he
was courageous man, and choosing TO think
himself constitutionally sound, with no dis
ease about him over which Imagination should
have the mastery, he quietly turned on his
elbow and looking steadfastly at the Father
of Sin, he quietly remarked, "l'll tell you
what it is, if you have nothing to do but to sit
there staring, have something better to do
than lie and look at you. Pm going TO sleep"
And Herewith he put out the light, and con-
scious of U victory over imagination, slept like
a conquefor, and was never again troubled by
shadowy visitations.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

say- Some ardent young gentlemen of
Springfield went serenading, and while do
ing their sweetest with sentimental songs
under the windows of the fairest Of their
lady acquaintances, the sash was thrown up,
and tbs man OF the house exclaimed: go
aOay Go apay! if you can't make a better
noise than that 1 thought somebody's sick
c0D vas duing."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

WANTS TO GET DATED BAcK-On beau
tiful Sunday afternoon last Fall, n young cou'
pie from an adjoining town came down to our
village, stopped at one of the iotels, sent oui
for u clergyman and were married. The
young man paid the fee, took marriage Ger
tifcale, and they left the hotel happy cou-
pie. A few days since the young man call
ed upon the clergyman with his certificate,
"dnd wiShed TO get 1t dated back" How far
back do you wish ii datedf" inquired the cIer
gyman. why as near as zoe can calculate,
about couple Of months replied the young
man. This the clergyman seemed to decline
doing, but the young man wished he would,
"as he Douid rather gire five dollars than not
hare il dated back" The clergyman regret
ted the necessity of dating back the ceriil
cate, and was very sorry he could not COM
ply nth his wishes: 80 the young man left
with his $5 and marrage certificate, the lat
ter being "aS near as they could caicu-
late about a coupie Of months Too short-Ha-
pdnd Jour-
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CHEAP lIvINe.-Pcople who wish to live
well and cheap Mt the same time, should go
to Antioch. Mr.. Neale, in his recent works
on Syria says he tried to be extravagant
there, but ionnd it to be impossible, "house-
rent, servants, horses, board, washing and
wine included" to spend more than E4o a
year. Oh, that Antioch were in London =
Fancy " lbs. Of good mutton for ls!-fnt
fowls for ID. apiece 10 lbs. of fish for Is
and all possible fruits and vegetables suffi-
cient for ones household for I'd. n week II
we remember Alright, the garden Of Eden was
somewhere near this place"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

WEALTH OF THE RoTHscHILDs.-Acc
to the National .lnteligeneer, the aggregate
wealth of the whole concern of the Roth
schilds is only about $4O,0OO,000. A stale
ment going the rounds of the press, which
must of course be incorrect, represents them
as worth seven hundred millions of dollars
in money, besides three hundred millions
more in real estate, the annual interest OF
which would amount to 100000 900, II
greater sum than the whole of their present
fortune. However, forty millions is better
than nothing.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

LOOKING GUlLTy.-Nothing can be more
absurd than the idea that "lOoking guilty"
proves guilt. An honest man charged with
crime is much more likely to blush at the nc
cusation than the real offender, who is gen.
orally prepared for the event, and has his
fa,e ",eady made" for The OCCASION. The
very thought of being suspected of anything
criminal will bring the blood to an innocent
mans checks, in nine cases out of ten. The
most "guilty looking" person we ever saw
was u man arrested for stealing horse
which turned out to be his own property.
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REMARKABLE CASE OF SUPERsTIrIos.---
Near Lancaster, Pa, on Sunday of last week,
the bodyofNlss Sophia Bauman WINS exhumrd
by her surviving relatives, TO see ii the corner
Of the winding sheet was not ia her mouth.
Since her death, by consumption, several Of
her relatives have died from the same disease,
and those who survived believed the sheet
had cotton into tho mouth of the corpse, and
il was "sucking them into the grave" Miss
3. had been dead nine years, and both body
and sheet had crupbled into dust H
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

SoLD.-Observing wag the other day
grinding up some white domestic guuno, and
carefully enveloping il in n paper, we asked
him what he was going to do with it,
"Come on, and III show you," was the re
ply.
Following him into n doctors shop, he
handed it to Pills, and asked him what it
was, saying that he had found il in the road,
and il il was medicine he might have il.
The "doc" first applied il to his nose, then
tasted il, looked wise, and answered.
"'l'he very best article Of quinine!"
The result Of this scrap is-there are
two of us who will never take any Of that
doctors quinine.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

ORIGIN OF THE PEEDULUM.-Galleo, when
under twenty years of age, was standing one
day in the metropolitan Church of Pias,
when he observed lamp which was sus-
pended from the ceiling, and which had been
disturbed by accide, t, swing backwards and
forwards. This was n thing so common that
thousands, no doubt, had observed il before;
but GaliIeo, struck with the regularity with
which il moved backwards and forwards, re-
tlccted upon it and perfected the method now
in use of measuring time by means OF a pen.
duum.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

THE POST Is published every Friday at W per year
II.in ADVANCE, or AZ, II payment is delayed until
ne s,dgcrtise m ents will be charged ~ per square
nss or less for the first insertion, and 80 cents for
sa.b Continuance A liberal deduction made to those
Who advertise by the year ~ Persons sending sdver-
Elements must mark the number Of times they desire
them nserted they will be continued until forbid and
charged accordingly. Ia
For announcing the names ofcanddatesfor once 80,
Cash.
Obituary notices over 2lines charged attheregular
advertising rates.
All communica tion intendedto promote the private
ends or interests Of Corporations Societies schools or
individuals will be charged as advertisements.
bob Work. such AS Pamphlets, Minutes, Circulars,
Cards, Blanks, Handblls &c. will be executedin good
ttyIe and on reasonable terms.
etters addressed to the Proprietor, postpaid VIII
be promptly attended to.
Persons at distance sending us the names offour
olyent suhscrihers viii he entitled to hfth copy gratis
No communication inserted unless accompanied by
the name Of the anthor - ,
s Office on Main street, next door to the old Jack
sen Hotel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.-The Harrisburg
Pa) Telegraph, of the 10Th, says:-Two
gentlemen arrived in this borough last eve
ming, driving n line bay horse, with which
they had made the trip between here and
Philadelphia by way of Lancaster and Co
hours, having started from Philadelphia in
the morning at 81 o'clock and arrived here
6 O'Clock exactly. They fed twice on the
journey. This taking into consideration all
the hcIs OF the case, is one of the greatest
feats of travel we have heard of lately.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

WAsHNGToN, June 2.-Gen. Scott has
Just issued orders to transfer two companies
from Fort Randall to Fort Lelvenworrh the
Col. of the 2nd infantry to detach three COM
panrs from that regiment Tor Fort Smelling
and one for Fort RidgeIy; the fifth regiment
to he replaced hy volunteers and proceed to
Jefferson barracks, there TO await further
orders; the 10th infantry are ord red to Fort
Leaveuwor,b, in all eight companies to pro-
ceed, first the two ut Fort Smelling aud Ridge
ly as soon us relieved by bther companies
movements to be made forthwith. The
above orders have been telegraphed to New
York and l.eavenwOrth.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

tY- A man tried in Boston for stealing n
horse and wagon, being called upon to speak
for himself, said:
Il have nothing to say in particular. The
fact is, when | get half or two thirds drunk
think everything belongs TO me-
Whereupon the Boston Post makes this
parenthesis: ...........,,
There are some very sober people who
act as IL they think just as Joe does when he
is drunk
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

NAPOLEON AND ALgxANDER.-A Paris cor
,,aw York Con4.-r nlipd-
ing to the intimacy that has grown up be-
tween Alexander ii and Louis Napoleon,
says;
know that the Emperor Alexander II has
iniimated to his Imperial brother, Napoleon
Ill, desire to meet him ut Berlin, in the
month OF August next, and that that inter-
view will take place il the Russian Autocrat
declines the pressing invitation to come to
Paris, which the Count de MOrny was en-
powered to convey, and is endeavorlng to
have accepted.
The writer states further that an alliance,
offensive or defensive, will soon take place
between the two Empires, and that it will
lead to the dissolution of the Austrian Empire.
This is rather startling, but by no means i'm
possible.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

JUVENILE WIT.-An old physician was de-
claring in our hearing the other day, upon
the propensity which majority Of people
disply in eating unrpe fruit and vegetables
Said he: "'rhere is not vegetable growing
in our gardens that is not best when arrived
at maturity, and most of them are positively
injurious unless fully ripe"
81 know one thing that amt so good when
it's ripe ns It's when it is green," interrupted
little boy, in very confidential but mod
est manner.
"What's that!" sharply said the physician
vexed at having his principle disputed by 0
mere boy. tt ..1
"a cucumber" responded the lad.
The doctor winked at US with both eyes,
but said nothing
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

WASHINGTON, June 2.-Richardson, of H.
linois, il ppointed Governor of Nebraska
Territory; Wright, Of Indiana. our Minister
to Russi,; II. G. Mnrphy, of New York, our
Minister TO the Netherlands; J. r. Dller of
Illinois, Consul to Southampton; Gabriel
Fleurat of New York, Consul to Bordeaux.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

TuE CoMEr-He is going of. And, as
he goes, they abuse him. They say he has
los, his tail. Was ever comet so scandaliz-
ed! Wcnowun understand, says the Richmond
Dlspalch, why he will not hit the earth on
the l4lh of this month, at 20 minutes past
40, A. NJ. A comet, like fox, is nothing
without tail, although his tail itself is only
nm infinite deal of ofnolhing, On the 18th ult,
the comet was nearest the earth, aud was
twenty millions of miles away, Since then
he has been running off as fast as he could
scamper, with his tail, or, what is left of it,
between his legs. 1t is believed that he has
gone to try and persuade the other comets
TO cut oil their tails also. This Great Bore
is nnw near tho constellation of the Great
Bear. The editor of the Petersburg Demo-
crat saw him lately through telescope of or
binary power. Alas! pcor comet! he has lost
his tail. Possibly it may be found in the
next number cf the New York Ledger.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

t9Y- A waggsh fellow, somewhat trou-
bled with an impcdment in his speech, while
one day sitting at public table, had occasion
to use q prppef-box. After shaking IL with
all due vchem.ncc, and turning it in various
ways, he found that the iepper-corns were in
no wise inclined to come forth. "1-t-th-this
p-pe-pepper. box" he exclaimed, with face-
tious grin, "is so-sonie-somcthing Ii like my
self" "Why so?" inteuogated neighbor.
"p.poo-poor delivery" was the reply.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

UNFoRTUsATE TYPo.--A young man
named Knox, printer, has met with n sad
bereavement. An uncle whom he had never
seen, died the other day, and left him, $76,-
900. Mr.. Knox has the sympathies Of the
entire craft.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

WASHINGTON, June 2.-Yestrrday n Com
pany of A, tillery from Fort McIenry, Balti-
more, were ordered to relieve the Marines, and
have arrived. Ten are placed as guard around
the Mayors house and other threatened
places.
There is, however, no disturbance. II is
ascertain d that there were eight killed and
fifteen wounded I he Anti-American ticket
is elected, and have also a majority in Coun-
ru
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

PECAN NUrs A letter writer, addressing
the United States Patent Office, from Kerr
county, Texas, expresses surprise that that
departmept had not noticed the pecnn nut,
which grows abuudanty in Texas. About
200 900 bushels Of the nut have been expor-
ted from that State to Europe aud elsewhere,
producing 100000.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

r5g- The steamboat Marengo arrived Mt
Mobile on the 2Sh May, from Aberdeen,
Miss, with only one bale Of cotton on board
The Captain said that ait was entirely too
early for the new crop, and he brought all
of the old crop he could lird."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

0t.-The Salem (llass,) Gazette snys that
since that paper was established by Samuel
Hall, forty mine other newspapers have been
started In that city, foriy.six OF which have
been broken up in bankruptcy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

BRIEF BUT TO THE PolNT.-A friend, re-
Gently travelling in Mississippi, had an oppor.
tunity of attending wedding of the real old
fashioned sort in one of the remote rural dis.
trcts of that State. The words of the par.
son officiating on the occasion, struck our
friend as slightly peculiar, and he therefore
pencied them on his bootleg, for :uture ref
erence. Here they are:
"Mr Solomon Huesbrit, do you take Miss
Teresa Brilton, who you hold by the right
hard to be your bed'ed and welded wife
iorsaking all other women but her-promis-
ing to love her ia sickness and in health
in madness, in illness, and in ,ontrariness.-
so long rs you shall live on this yearth?-
Miss Teresa Brlton &c, &c. Sich being
your promises pronounce you Husband and
Wife, and bid you 20 in Peace, and may the
Lord keep both sraight-Amen."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

DANvILLR, Pa. June 2.-Tbe Coroner's
jury rendered verdict, that David Twiggs
and Mrs. Clark died by poison, supposed to
have been administered by w. J. Clark and
Mrs. Twigcs, who were committed for trial.
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tagT The steamboat, ouisiana. was burnt
in Galveston Bay on the morning of the 3lsI
MAY. There Vert eleven lives lost, among
whom is Col. Bainbridge, of u. y. A.
Thirty, ne are missing. Twenty-Five were
saved by seamen from Galveston.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

The WAY OF THE WoRLD.-E'irst boy
"Say Bill, then you're getting dollar n
week now"
Second boy-"Well, you might knew
that, by seein' all the fellers come soapin'
around me, that wouldn'ta noticed me when
| was poor"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

tW- The duties levied on barrel Of -four,
at Havana, and at all the ports IN Cuba,
amount to 90 S5. The duty on corn q frar-
,ion over forty cents per bushel.
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NFw ORLEANS, June 4.-Advices from the
City of Mexico, bring no positive intorma-
ton regarding the fate o. Crahbe. 1t is
probable that the first report of this destruc-
ton will be realized.
The elections, generally, were progressing
favorably for Commonfort.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

tW-A character In Mrs. IIentz's story Of
"Love After Marriage" lays down the law
thus: "Ifa man is not ugly enough 10 fright
en- his horse he is handsome enough to mar
r,U ..||# U.F
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

,R-A thief broke out of Jail on the Sab
bath, but being captured, told the policeman
that he might have escaped,,but he had con-
-cipntious scrupIes about travelling on Sun
dnn
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

tW-The bread Of life is love; the salt of
life is work; the sugar Of life, poetry; the wa
ter of life faith" Hand us the bread and
sugar, never mind the salt.
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tsg- A young gentleman Mt ball, in
whiskiuV about the room, ran his head against
alady. lie began kind of dandy-like npol-
ogy Tor his hecd-work. "Not a word, sir"
said the lady, "it is not hard enough to hurt
anybody" Dandy disappeared among the
crowd.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

tsw Never break your neck to bow at all
to a"sweet sixteen" with hounced dress, who
is ashamed of her old fashioned mother; or
to strutting collegiate who is honitied at
his grandmother's bad grammar.
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THE GRAvEYARD.-The following ei.
oquent and beautiful extract is from "The
Graveyard" written by the Rev. Mr.. Green
wood of Boston: .e
never shun a graveyard-the thoughtful
melancholy which it inspires is grateful rather
than disagreeable to me; il gives me no pain
to tread on the green roof OF that dark man.
sion, whose chambers must occupy so soon
and often wander from choice to place
where there is neither solitude nor society,"
Something human is there-but the folly,
the hustle, the vanities, the pretensions, the
competitions, the pride of humanity are gone
men are there, but the passions are hushed
and their spirits are still-maIevoence has
lost its power Of harming appetite is sated,
ambition lies low, and lust is cold; anger is
done raving, all disputes are ended, all rev.
elrY is over, the frlest anmosity is deeply
buried, and most dangerous sins are safely
confined by the thickIy piled clods of the
valley; vice is dumb and poweress, and vr-
tue is waiting 10 silence Tor the trump of the
archangel and the voice Of God.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

Hoops Lately, as a lady was stepping
from the cars of the Toledo, Wabash and
Western Railroad at Napoleon, her dress
caught on the steps, and, the cars being in
motion, she was drawn some 80 feet before
her hoops gave way. She was not seriously
injured, though the hoops were badly
wrecked,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

A Quaker once hearing a prison tell how
much he felt for another, who was suffering
and needed his assistance, dryly asked him,
"Friend, hast thou felt in thy pocket for
hjm?"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

Eg- Polygamy is allowed in Zealand. but
the head wife is the only one who is allowed
10 commit suicide when the husband dies
The other wives are denied this privilege.
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ONE PRAYs AND ANOTHER PUmPs-The
ship Senator, which arrived at New York
with very severe gale of wind just after
leaving port After several days of hard
pumping, the crew notified the captain that
they should not pump any longer. Captain
Coffin said, coolv: at is now just q o'clock;
at the rate the ship Is now LEAKING, | calcu-
late we shall all be in the other world at
about half past 2. am going below to say
my prayers" and went into his cabin. Que
old fellow declared he had rather pump than
pray. In few minutes, the Captain heard
the pumps going again as lively as ever, and
they did not cease go ng, except at short in
tervals, until the ship arrived in New York.
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AND J.-There are not two letters in the
manuscript alphabet Of English language,
which causes so much misconstruciion MS
and ], as most people write them exactly
alike. The rule for writing them properly,
and which deserves to be universally adopt
ed, is TO run the below the line, and the |
even with the line.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-12

tEA shark preys upon all small FRY in
the waters, in like manner does the do-Doih-
ings Of the world prey upon honest labor,
and fatten upon IT, nit I...u.
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t4y- II Is said that no fort ever suffered
so much from a single battle, us has the piano.
forte from the battle Of Prague.
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LIFE ALL AoUND US.

Life presses all arOui us, wherever we are
curious, solemn, anmysterious. We can
scarcely wonder at y Hindoo superstition
which holds life sacrs On every side, in
small things MS in gnt, man finds living
record of eternal goness as well as eternal
wisdom-of neutrality-suspicious. as vel as
creating power. w read il in atoms as
well as in words, and mot less gloriously
written. Every fragent of the mighty
whole bears the same Ii'ine autograph. The
animalcule, TO whom drop Of water is a
shoreless sea, in its tautifnl form, and ex-
qui lie C, loring, and Rrfect organization, at
test MS truly the autiintic impress as the
mammoth forms Of arearlier creation. The
scum which floats tneviry stagnant pool re-
solves itself into avegdation MS perfect and
graceful as any that iclJhes our valleys, or
waves upon our bills. The very foambells
which crest the bre,khg wave-having their
brief life in death-rhect such colors ms
mock all the resource of art, and are such as
Gods own glorious tinbow alone can equal.
We hear of the one eeat Artificer in the per
feclion of every souli-in the soft summer
breeze as it iustles fully among the ripen-
ing corn, and in lheeintry blast as it roars
through the leafess foods, making rude har-
mony with desolatid; in the palter Of the
falling rain; in the plsh of the mountain
stream us it falls frod ledge to ledge, spread
ing us il falls; in the strange tumultuous up
roar of the rising seapr in the thunder whose
mighty peal shakes zen the everlasting hills,
and wakes up thousand echoes, as it wan
ders, now here, now here, seeking place in
which to die.
But If there is lif ard beauty all around
us, it is precarious life, n transient beauty.
About the glory then is not defence. The
swelling bud, the falling leaf, the shifting
unquet tide, clouds Iucceeding sunshine, and
darkness chasing liht, are true comment
on the fashion Of tits world, which passeth
away. The grass wlhereth; the flower fadeth;
for the earth is bIiglted and accursed. Death
is the perpetual handmad and servitor of life;
life itself is but SUSPENDED death. In the glo-
rious chord of universal harmony is one sor-
rowiul note outspeiking all the rest; in the
great symphony is dne plaintive strain which
cannot be mistaken, and Natures choral hymn
is her own requiem Tie whole creation
groaneth and travaieth together in pen.-
There rises from it one long, loud wall OF
anguish and despaiy and the oudest of all
from man-anguish that is only alleviated by
the prospect of another life, an undying state
new heavens and new earth, wherein
dwelleIh righteousness.
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icy Jones, (who thinks that Smith has
been little too free) -4'Mr. smth, ] wish
to speak to you privately. Permit mo to
take you apart for few moments" Smith
(who isn't in the leas frightened )--"Cer-
lainly, sir, if you'll prouie to put me together
again"