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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

LARGE DRAw.-The Peoria and Oquawka
Railroad Company have just finished bridge
across the Illinois river at Peoria, in which
is draw 293 feet long, the largest in the
United States, and probably in the world
1t is supported in the centre by heavy stone
pier, 35 feet in diameter, and at each end by
piers of similar structure, leaving an opening
of 1870 feet either side when open.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

sS The parent who would train up .
child in the way it should go, must 60 in tho
way he would train up his child. Example
is before precept. Just remember that before
applying the rod to "little breeches" next
Tina .
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

az Children nre inquisitive bodes--for
instance; "What does clears mean, father!"
"lt means to unite together" "Does John
unite wood when he clcaves itl" alien
well, It means TO seperate." swell, father
does man seperato from his wife when he
cleaves to her!" "Hem, hem, don't ask 50
many foolish questions, child"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

TiGnT AoAIS.-By the last advicos from
Liverpool We learn that the money market
il 'slil tight" We should like to know
what is the matter with it; it is nearly al
ways tight of late.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

FEY An editor publishes punning mark ct
report in which he states that Tin plates are
fiat, lead heavy, iron dull, rakes not much n-
quired after, champagne brisk, rhubarb and
SIENNA are drugs, starch is siifi.ning. and pa
per is stationary. There is no life in dead
hogs, but considerable animation in old
cheese"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

eB- Too much sensibility, says Talley-
rand, creates unhappiness; and too much
insensibility creates crime.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

QUITE Equal TO DAvY CRocKET.-The
Banbrdge Argus says Mr.. VIM. Gregory,
residing just below ltcoe's Bluff, on Apalach
icola river, killed twenty.one bears last year
and says from the destruction of his pigs
there appears to be no decrease in their mum.
ber in his neighborhood. When he can
spare the time from his crop ne expects To
"pitch into them" again, and try to improve
on his last years operations.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

CHICAGO, April 22.-The Democratic press
learns that band of Sioux, numbering 600,
was committing deprrdutions on the south
bend of Minnesota river. 1t is rumored that
Manketo WIS attacked and destroyed by fire.
Many inhabitants have been murdered by the
lndlnns, which are the same band that CON-
mitted murder in the Spirit Lake settlement.
The inhabitants Of the surrounding country
are flocking to st. Peter for security. Several
companies of troops from Fort Ridgeiey are
in persuit. Cavalry has been sent for to Fort
Smelling. Great panic existed in the various
settlements. The farmers are arming and
preparing 10 join in persuit On the 4th inst.
Wilson's Mills on Menominee river at Chip
pewn, Dunn county, Wisconsin, were destroy.
ed by fire. Loss $4,000. Supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary. Several
houses were burned at Chippewa Falls on
the same night. The ice is still strong on
Lake Pepin.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

~ There is a gentleman in Boston 50
polite that he begs his own pardon every
time he tumbles down. Being good naiured
he always grants II.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01
THE CONFLICT IN PROSPECT.

| The Charleston Mercury derives no assn
rance of further peace from the triumph of
Buchanan and the national Democracy last
.all. The Mercury is u Southern Democrat
ic journal: and yet it SCOTS bitterly at those
who predict peace in consequence of hav-
ing Democratic administration. See what
il says in the following paragraphs:
"The democratic party, overwhelmed In
every State north of Mason and Dixons
line, excepting three-hnlf drowned, sink
ing, struggling in the boisterous, swelling
tide of abolitonism, clutching Mt and cling
n5 at every passing piece Of driltwood--
| finds its head still, for little while, above
water, by means of the staying power of the
Southern Right party, and shouts in its de.
| lmions joy-eterral calm!
al he Supreme Court, repudintpd in pol
tiles by South Carolina in 1888, de6pd and
scotied in law by the North in 1857, derives
It's opinion upon matter about which there
never has been any doubt, except in the
minds of those very men who now laugh it
TO scorn, because they chose to doubt, and
are hence still determined to doubt, and
forthwith the potent opinion is proclaimed
like Perry Davise's Painkiller and Town
| sends Snrsaparilla, universal panacea for
all ills pertaining to the body polite, past,
| present and to come
"Liberal Southern politics, by their ingen.
ions, If not altogether 10y their ingeuols pol
icy and politics, nre to creep, some into Il
corner of the Executive Depnrtment-some
would like to 60 abroad, with Uncle Sam to
pay expenses and give presingc to their en-
tertainmenls-othrrs facilitate themselves in
"a lively sense of favors 10 come in speaker
ships, senatoriai hOnors, &c; while the par
" tools, political hacks, and undrrlngs, from
Maine TO Texas, gorge and snarl, and reve
over the "ffals o. government patronage that
are thrown TO them in every nook and Gran
ny of the United States. As logical Sc
qnence in the minds Of those worthies, and d
matter ot course, there reigns over the whole
land the yer, harmony of the spheres: new
| lif, has been instilled into Southern institu
tions, and enlarged prospects op"ned."
The Mercury closes its rdicule of those
who prophesy peace, with the following
gloomy forebodngs:
"'The victory we have won may indeed be
glorious-uore glorious because of the dis
aster of the engagement. But it is victory
more fatal perhaps than defeat, the forcrun
ner OF complete suhjrction. Like the sol
dIers OF our revolution. they rise up strong
from each struggle, with renewed vipor and
more determined resolution. We, exhaust
ed by every rffort, stliken, iniinated, bu,
beat back momenarially their fierce assaults
mat We may cover our next reirea! and leave
them in possession of our camp fires. 1'hi.
ms been the history of our gallant confess
,a..Nl |, L., 4.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

t1g- The Americans and Wings of JEFF
ferson have nominated Col. WIN. n. Brad
ford as candidate for the State Senate.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

R- Washington Coner has been appointed
District Attorney for South Carolina, and
Jas. T.. Pence Marshall for the same State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

sN Insults, says a modern philosopher,
nre like counterfeit money, we can't hinder
their being offered, but we are not compelled
to take them
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

eH- Pantaloons that cost $50 pair are
among the spring fashions announced for
gentlemen in New York.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

The TEN Losr TRBEs.-The Boston
Journal notices Mt length a successful mis-
sionary establishment among the Ahghans,
who are believed by many to be n portion Of
the Ten Tribes of Israel. They claim de-
scent from King Saul through grandson
named afghan. Their legends describe the
capture of the ark of the covenant by the
Phillistines, the amounting Of Saul by Sam
uel, the battle of David and Golah, and 9TH
er events of Scripture history, which they
Claim 40 their own.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

WHAT THE DEsERTERs PAID FOR GET-
TING HoME.-Some hundred and twenty
men who served under Walker, and some Of
whom had deserted while the others had
been taken prisoners have reguined their lib.
erty by signing their names to paper
abusing Walker, and calling upon their old
comrades TO turn traitors likewise.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

Who WOULD NOT BE FARMER.-The
Louisville Courier pays the following tribute
to the occupation of the farmer:
"lfa young man wants to engage in a
business thatw insure him in middle life
the greatest amount of leisure time, there is
nothing more than farming. If he has an
independent turn of mind, let him be Il far.
mer. II he wants to engage ina healthy oc.
cnpation, let him till the soil. In short, II
he would be independent, let him get spot
Of earth, keep within his means, shun the
lawyer, be temperate to avoid the doctor, be
honest that he may have clear conscience,
improve the soil, so MS to leave the world
better than he found ii, and then if he can
not live happily and die contented there is
no hope for him."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

"s "How are you 'Pat,' aud when did
you leave ould Ireland" "Ah, mo honey
and this amt me you are talking to, for Pm
oil the way from Sharmany." -. nasfl
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01
: CAN ] HELP YOU.
Can I help you! Just say the word.

Gan help you! Just say the word.
There speaks the whole-souled, whole
hearted man-the man whose very shadow is
worth more than the body, soul and estate,
personal and spiritual, of two.thirds Of the
human race bearing that name. How he lifts
the Responding spirit of his brother in trou-
Bile! All day he has met with cold eyes, cold
smiles, cold words and colder sympnthies--
Men fly him because they have heard he was
unfortunate; and-be william, thief, mur.
derer, says the world in action--but don't be
unfortunate. III lend sou ten thousand if
you are worth fifty; if you arc unfortunate,
I'm very poor myself would like to help you
could have done so three days ago, or three
hours ngo-but positively havn't got three
cents, nor shan't be in possession of that
amount while your misfortune lasts. If Your
old aunt dies or your uncle, or in fact, any
body who chooses to leave YOU a fortune
then just call upon NELL manage to have
little loose change on hand.
But look yonder comes broad shouldered
frank browed man, who meets his poor broth.
er with hearty slap on the shoulder, and can
! help you?-just say the word. Don't be
afraid now; what is your trouble! Gu. with
it and if you'd like n little cash, just say so.
Don't be downcast-what if you have failed
in your expectations once, twice, or thrice
Havn't some Of our most successful merchants
done the same thing! made the same mistake e!
And where would they have been if they
hadn't found friends! Come what do YOU
wnnt-how much? He dosent clap his hand
on his pocket with a styx.like frown which
says ns if he had bawled it out in your ear, nc
entrance in here. He is not one of those
dyspeptic, cross grained, surly, moneyed ma
chimes, that squrezes sixpence till It squalls
and reads newspaper with 2 very greedy
voracous engerness, for fear he shall not gel
two cents worth. He lives for something
else, than gain. His passport to heaven is
written on his face, his religion on the hearts
OF the downcust and orrowing-in the homes
he has mnde happy by his benevolence.
Can help you?
Write the words in golden letters, for they
are only heard on rare occasions. The sneer
the scorn, The doubt, the refusal, they com.
with every niiht-fall and sun rising. Niggards
grow like mushrooms, but angels are scarce
Niggards can never look beyond their own
comfort and convenience; no matter who
stnrves next door! they scatter curses ant
discouragements, nnd blight, God only knows
how many gentle hearts. They never say, car
! help him.
But the angelic ministry of these helper
of humanity-mrh who believe they wer,
entrusted with powers, the gods well nigh
envy; that they might be used TO some good
purpose-what shall we say of them? how
give them the burning praise they merit
Good whoe-souled generous men, the an
gels, and God himself smiled approvingy
when with beaming eyes and hopeful words
YOU said to disprited brother, "Can help
you ?"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

" It's u good sign to have man enter
your office with the friendly greeting: "Hers
is two dollars for my paper"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

APRIL lS.-Full.r, Of Maine, has been
appointed Second Auditor of the Treasury.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

A ISLANDER REFUTED.-The ST. Louis
Republican having stated that the Amer.
leans of st. Louis dropped their own cand.
date for Mayor and voted for the Emapcipa.
tion candidate "a statement which was cop.
led into the Memphis Appeal the st. Louis
Intelligencer thus brands the slander: 1--WE
have met scores of Americans who acknowl.
edge having voted for PIntte on Monday
We have met but one who admitted that he
voted for Wimer-and that on purely person.
al grounds. And yet their great revier-
the Republican-deiberatey repeats its false
charges that the Americans voted for the
"Back Republicans"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

v- Owls look wiser than eagles, and
many a sheep skin passes for chamois. 'o
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

A ROBBERS 'CAvE-DIscovERY OF GREAT
WEALTH.--lt has been known to very few
persons in the city for some time that dis
covery of great wealth has been made in the
interior OF Kentucky, on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, by poor family who
lived in this city. The discovery wns made
by young man while plowing in the field
about six months since. As he was plow-
ing leisurely along, the earth suddenly gave
way under his feet, aud he was precipitated
into an immense cavern. Much injured by
the fall, the young man in casting about him
for some means wherewith to get out, dis.
covered numbers cf iron safes and strong
boxes, which upon investigation were found
to contain gold and silver coin, jewelry, and
other valuables 10 fabulous amount. The
plantation upon which all this treasure WAS
found does not belong to the fortunate dis
co,erers, who only lense the property, and
from motives o security they have kept the
secret Of their good fortune to themselves.-
An eminent legal gentleman of this city is
about interesting himself TO secure the for.
innate family in the ownership of these
great treasures, the results OF whose labors,
in connection with other particulars, We will
give in n few days.-Lou. Democrat.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

NEw YORK, April 22.-The steamer City
of Washington has arrived, bringing dates as
the Fulton. At Liverpool sales of Flour had
be enforced at Is decline. Corn dull and
tending downward.
Two million and half of gold are on the
way from Australia.
Gen. Ashbernham had been appointed to
the principal command Of the English forces
in China.
The Neufchatel Conference had been in
definitely postponed on account of the i'm
practicable demands of Prussia.
A dispatch from Madrid says that Mexico
recognizes the justice of the demand of
Spain.
At Havre on the 18th cotton was dull with n
declining tendency.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

MEN WITH TAlLs.-All the scientific re.
search bestowed on Africa fails to confirm
the reported existence of u caudated race of
negroes in the interior OF Africa. Mr.. Il. J..
Bowen, who spent several years in the inte.
rior of Central America, us n missionary of
the Southern Baptist Board, makes the fol.
lowing reference to the subject in his re-.
Gently published narrative. In speaking OF
Nasamu, the executoner of the King of Lilo
rim Gan interior city Of at least 10000 inhab.
itanls,) and others with whom he conversed,
he says:
The Moors and Arabs " ho had been every
where, had told them wonderful stories of
still other countries and tribes far off in the
east. Somewhere on the other side of Ya
kobn ls a tribe of people called Alakers,
none Oi whom aIe mure than three feet in
height. The chiefs are little taller than
the common people. The Aakers are very
Ingenious people, especially in working
iron, and tseyare 50 industrious thai their
towns are surrounded by walls. Beyond
these are tribe ca led Alabru, who have
short intlexible tails. As the stiffness of
their tails prevents the Alabiru from sitting
flat on the ground every man carrrs sharp
pointed stick with which he drills hole in
the earth To receive his tail while sitting
They are industrious manufacturers of iron
bars, which they sell to surrounding tribes
A II the fine swords in Sudan are made of
this iron. The next tribe in order are the
Alabiwor, who have asmal goat lkehorn pro-
jrcting from the middle Of their forchead.-
For all that. they are u nice kind of black
people and quite intelligent. A woman Of
this tribe is now in slavery at Otfa, near llor
rim. She always wears n handkerchief Ground
her head, because she is ashamed of her horn.
There are other people in this "Doko" region
who have four eyes, and others who live en-.
iireIy in subt.rranenn galleries. These won.
ders were attested by natives and Arabs.
Rather tough. But Mr.. Bowen does not
seem to regnrd this testimony rs conclusive.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1857.

DIscREDITABLE.-ltis is stated that the Hon.
Richard A. Thompson, of Indiana, whose
claim for 100000 for services rendered to
the Cherokee Indians, was disallowed by the
honest watchdog Of the Treasury, Secreta-
ry Guthrie, has succeeded in getting 1t ac-
knowIpdged by the present Administration.
This is n piece of business anything but
creditable (says the ST. Louis News) to Mr..
Buchanan, or his Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. Cobb, when its whole history is made
known. Thompson was a Fillmore elector
in Indiana, at the last Presidential election;
but while he had his name on the American
Ticket he was really supporting the Demo
cratic ticket. He has the credit of throwing
the vote of Indiana for Mr. Buchanan. He
has just received the reward of his dirty ser.
vice, in the acknow ledement of claim of IL
very questionable character, which the for.
mer Secretary of the Treasury was honest
enough to reject. 1t does not speak very
well for the integrity of the administration.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

How THE GOVERNMENT Is FLEEcEp.-A
letter from Spezzia, in the New York Journal
of Commerce, speaking of the stores sent
over TO our naval ships, says the flour is gen.
orally poor, often sour. The butter, after n
few casks have been opened, turns out to be
filled with lard and grease, and is ntoernble.
Sailors jackets, after few packages have
been served out, are discovered not to be of
the substantial cloth mentioned in the con-
tract, or exhibited as the specimens. Shoes
are of n worthless quality, made OF the poor
est leather, and not worth the binding. The
Constellation was taken into the dry dock at
Genoa to copper, when it was discovered that
the nails were not made Of copper, and if the
vessel had gone to sea she would probably
have lost all her copper.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01
THE COMING COMET.

Learned Astronomers are discussing the
comet of 1857, and the chances Of coils.
sion between Il aud the earth, an event which
has been confidently predicted. "A dis,in.
guished astronomer of New Jersy is said 10
urge the following objections to cometic col
lissions generally, and the foulishly appre.
hended collisions now talked of partinularly.
There is nothing new in the IDEAS, but they
may tend TO quiet the nerves of the very
weak:-
LIST. The earth and the comet would have
to arrive ut the same part of the enr,b's or.
bit exactly nj the same time-if either ware
II little too soon, or too late, there would be
no concussion. Now the probability OF
them keeping such time Is very small. In
the year 1864 comet crossed the path of
the earth's orbit about a month before the
earth arrived ItAhe place where it had cross
ed, nnG wns1 H,s.,licns Of miles d,stan, Mt
the time OF iTparossing
2nd. Even if the collision should happen,
IL would not injure the earth. comet NAV
be said to be almos, all tail; now tine uuan
tiy of matter proved to be contained in any
comet is small, and dtfused over u large
space; indeed, some say the tail is due TO
electrical action, and its density canno. much
exceed that Of MR. Stars have been seen, by
means of telescope when the tail of comet
was directly between them and observer
1t is II fact known 10 all astronomers, that
about the year 100, q comet passed so near
the planet Jupiter, as 10 be more strongly af.
frrted by his attraction than il was by that
of the sun and thprptOre il y,s tnrred opt
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-01

SENATOR A. G. BRowN.-SenatOr Brown,
in his celebrated Minnesota speech in the
Senate, is reported to have said:
But let me wan the Senators that, in my
feeble judgment, il foreign influence takes
possession of the American Senate, the Amer
lean people will rise up aud rebuke it.
"l protest most soleinnly against this pro-
reediIg. It will make five hundred thousand
Know Nothing votes in the Union, and all the
e!oquence of the Senate cnnnot prevent it. =
= Do it, and you shake the Democratic party
to its very foundation"
The protest was like sounding brass, and
the "proceeding" was proceeded in-the bill
was passed by Seward, Cass, Douglass, &c.
Now, we shall expect to see those five hun.
dred thousand Know Nothing voters. The
Senator again says:
"Who does no. know that they foreign.
ers) are led up like cattle to the ballot box,
and vote ms they are told to vote? Thnt n
wooden machine would perform the services
MS inielligently, If the crank was properly
tarned, is true beyond all question"
The Vicksburg Sentinel endorses Cover.
nor Brown, and says large majority of the
Democracy of Mississippi do likewise.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1857-03-07

THs Law aF TaE FisGas sssG.-lf Il
ganli.,Ilan wants !, wife, b. wea's ring
On the FIRST fing-r Of the left band, i h-
ii engaged, he se:srs i on the second
finger: Unmarried. on the third; and on
s;t.e fourth, If he never Intends 10 get
snsrrra. When alaady is no. e,gage.i,
he wears d,amoanJ ring O, h-rsfissi
finger: # engaged. IN the second il
married, on the third and ol. IT,. iat.th,
if size inrsnds To be mad. When \
gentleman presents = fan. sowes or
stiuke,s TO iatiy, with the left hand, this,
On his part. is All overture OF regerd
should she receive it with the left hand.
il is considered as an acceptance OF his
.st-e,n but if with the right hand, it IS
a refusal Il the offer. TITUS BY few
simple tnkens, explained BY rule, tha pas-
sion Of lov. Is expresse