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American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-02-14

EDWIN W. lcN SIX,
NOV okrrs Tor sale, 1 a Lots to mi: psrc,.r
L Y ems, tho following Tracts Of Land.
,.. IN VIRGINIA.
At prices ranging rrnl ono dollar and twsr.A-
hNe cants to four dollars per acre.
5000 acres in Calhoun county, Gu tho wSs, ,
.aaot Little kauswha.
oooacros M Monomgais county, mOuntci., .N,. -
miles east ui Notgau;owu. Isl. ..,-. ... .
J,VCO acres In MuTouguLar aud Pres.up, .p4avt
tan land, from 80 /. miles sVRtaCasi 49,
NurSautown.
AGO acres an Monougaiil county. poor Gl.a.Uw
Furnace. H'.t .".'
200 acres IA ii"nongalia, miles e1at Of Mtt8
gantown--b1rlo tract. ME4.. #l 80
VI and 9facre tracts IN Mouongal.i, near Cii'H
ton Furnace! -..r..-a.
so acres, pant OF tie Riiy%ay land, uppOa..u
M"rrnntown; prlco SO 10 500 pcracn,
wv acres near aorsanlOwn, on tme Hlanuw.
saheIa ritet, aud apple orchard, we'll sricU-
ted grated ,rnit.
~ acres miles northeast CT Motgantown,
Price S23 oollats per acre. -. }......s...E
sll aores IL MOnougaiin county, ON nunkBgd
creek, Daniei Burton tract. f' .- ..
"a iowh Lots IN West Morgtntown, piice S!C0
each. ....... ...
! small Brick House, 4 rooms an Kite! en- Ia
Norgahtown (; $500 on time.
other House and Lo, in Nj organtown p.;uo
5000 cash. .......
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-02-14

OT- We received the following "Card 9
from our Representative in Congress, DR..
kidwell, little too late for insertion in our
last weeks paper, hence the present is our
earliest convenience" to acccede to his
polite request to give ii publicity. The Dr..
returns his thanks 10 the ''opposi,ion pfess,' y
for favorable notice Of his Stewardship and
defines his position as 'good Democrat
acqniescing in the party usages which gives
his place TO new man. So far as we are
concerned in the trade, we do not Ike the
idea of swapping DR.. Kilweil, for Sheuard
Clemens, asa Representative, without some
boot" but with the DR.. we suppose we
must knock under to the behess of '.King
Caucus" OF whom Clemens is undoubtedly
the favoriie. rfs.sr .w
For the American Union.
A Card. 1h"
DIR. KIDWELL tenders his sincere ac-
acknowledgements to the Opposition Press of
the 10Th Congressional District for its many
and very KIND expressions OF respect aud
confidence. To receive the applause OF all
parties IS exceedingly gratifying TO an Off.
Ger of The people who had earnestly labored
10 MAINTAIN aud promote their true interests.
II is due to the Democratic party, to the
opposition, and 10 DR.. KidwsIl himself, to
say, with perfect lrankness, that. being a
party man.. and supporter of the usages Of
The Democratic party, his decleusion Of u
canvass for II re election TO Congress was u
duty. and being duty, was absolute and
irreversible. In no case, therefore. could he
consent, consistently with his honor and
duty, to be candidate for nomination
before the Democratic Convention on the
10Th OF the present month, or to be an indie
pendent candidate in disregard Of its deci-
sion
The nominee Of the Democratic Conven-
ton will DO entitled to receive from DR.. X
a sincere aud earnest support, such as was
most un2rudsingly accorded to him under
similar circumstances. y, Hes..f,.,. %
WASHINGTON CITY, February Q, 1887.
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TO THE FAIR SEX,

We particularly commend our sheet. Thor d O.
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Theic Iowa lands are al! situated in the .lcin-
ny OF the Roch Island, Iowa City, Fort Des-
MONIES and Cougsli Biuf Railroad, Tho Duhuquo
and Sioux City RaIl.oud, nnd the ArG-cgor's
Landing and ST. Peters railroad, increasing
III value, and have been selected with great cals
by experienced surveyors, and are all Warranted
to be good dry farming lande, CO.. ."..
..... IN MlCHIGAN. ....rr
..'. At 10 per acre. ....
loo acres first rate land, heavy timbcrcd ..
acres cleared, wi IN small log house Abort
miles from the town Of Ridgway, d.. ~"
.. IN ILLINOIS. Co.,.
iSO Town Lots 81 by 1873 feet, in the southern
suburbs Of the city OF Chicago, on Stewart,
Duncan and Wentworth avcniGs prlcc $500
ana $500 each, one half cash and the bail
ancc IN ~ moniHs with interest
"a rcres III the western suburbs OF tho city OF
Chicago, price : go pcr acre, cash.
.' T.. W.VuWER,
horgantown, MUnorgalGa couaty, Va.
December 20, 1856. '.'
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

Pay AS You Go.-This is an invaluable
motto. John Randolph said that he had
found the philosophers stone-so much
sought after-and that these words contain.
ed the vaunted secret Out of debt man is
safe. He can feel independent. Even if he
does not own a dollar himself, il is great
deal to be able to say that he does not owe
one Debt is a great nightmare that strad-
dies across mans peace of mind and de-
stroys his happiness. IL he can keep clear of
this, he is truly free.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27
THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY.

Certain journals of another complexion,
says the National Intellegencer as might
have been expected, have seized upon the
present occasion to wage crusade against
all banks and against eeery species Of paper
money" There is nothing easier, and, un-
fortunately, nothing is more congenial to
many, than thus to indulge in vague and idle
defamation against institutions which, with
all the evils that now attend their existence,
must still remain of indispensable necessity
to the trade and business intercourse Of the
country. 1t is not unlikely, however, that,
in so far as financial questions may hereafter
come up for popular consideration and de-
bate, public opinion will be found to oscilate
between the issues presented, on the one
hand, of National Bank, which shall serve
as conservative regulator of our monetary
affairs, and the delusive chimera of a hard
money currency on the other, which shall be
established on the ruins of our present bank
ing system.
This latter alternative being clearly i'm.
practicable, since none can suppose that all
Gf any of the States of the Union will ever
consent to renounce the banking privileges
they have SO long enjoyed and exercised, it
would seem that the expedient of Great
Central Regulator presents at once the most
feasible, as under the circumstances, it would
certainly prove the most immediate and eff.
oient agent for the establishment Of cur
renoy at once uniform and stable. The jaco
binical clamor agains: all banks and against
all "paper meney" will be as short lived as
it is senseless, insomuch that useless some
conservative measures be taken, such as we
have indicated in common with many of our
contemporaries of different political faith, we
may expect that the admitted defects in our
banking system. under the operation of the
same public economy which now prevails,
will, in the end, bring about q recurrence Of
the same reverses through which we are now
passing. The absurdity of destroying insti-
tutions because of defects which we are CON-
petent to remedy, would be apparent in any
other department of human thought except
politics, in which passion and prejudice are
often found more potent than reason and ex-
perience.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

CAPE RAcE.-Cape Race is situated at the
South east extremity of Newfoundland, in
latitude 46 40 North, and nearer to the coast
of Ireland, or England, than any other point
in North America. st. Johns is the capital
of the colony OfNewfonndand, and the most
eastern seaport. The distance from st.
Johns to Galway, in Ireland, is one thou
sand six hundred and sixty.five miles, and
the shortest distance between any two sea.
ports of Europe and America.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

SILVER MINE IN ALABAMA.-We learn,
says the Huntsville Advocate of the 18th in
slant, that an old silver mine has been redis-
covered in Hancock county, in this State,
near the Morgan and Walker lines. 1t is on
the lands of man named Blake, and party
Of Georgians are now at work at it. 1t was
walled up with solid masonry, which had to
be broken up with powder and then the mire
was opened again. 1t must have been work.
ed hundreds of years ago, as trees are now
growing over and around it. The ore is said
to be rich
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

A CUBERNAToRIAL RAcE.-One of tho
Albany State street hardware stores boasts
of two clerks who are sons Of ex-Governors.
One is the son Of Ex-Governor Seward, of
New York, and the other of Ex-Governor
Gibbs, down east Governor. On Tuesday
Seward bet Gibbs FIVE dollars that he did rot
dare to start out bare.headed and in his
shirt sleeves, and carry a scut.le Of coal a.
round the block in eight minutes. Gibbs
took up the bet and propelled. Sewnrd fol.
lowed after, and by starting the cry of stop
theft" undertook to geit Gibbs dragged to
the station house, and thus win the bet BY
stratagem. II was no 60, however; Gibbs
put on steam, rolled up his ifowsers, and
won the race by a neck.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27


From New YoRK.-The Express furnishes
the following under the head of "Ne~s OF
the Day"
Events out Of the City lose their impor'
tance in the presence of occurrences here, at
home. The demonstrations of the working
men in Tompkns Square and the Park-the
concentration of Police at the City Hall
and the show of Federal troops in the pas,
sage ways ofthe Custom House--are all sights
which arrest the attention Of every body, and
set men Of all classes talking All Monday
afternoon, New York, to the eye of a stran,
ger, looked like place on the eve of some
insurrection or rebellion. There were some
very alarming rumors in circulation, in refer
ence to certain information said to be IN pos
session of United States officials here touch
ing designs upon the Treasury vauts-bnt
these we fsrbear to repeat, until certain they
are founded on fact. But, we may add, that
when the whole truth comes out, possibly it
may be found that the Marshal and the As
sistant Treasurer did not call for protection
moment too soon.
The contagion is spreading. At Newark
and in Philadel phia they have had several
rdemonstrations'- leading men and the
orators there, as here, being foreigners So
wA pO.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

RESUMPTION. banks of Ohio, it is
said, will be prepared to resume specie pay
ments as soon as those of the East. Gold
is daily becoming more abundant and cheap
er at Cincinnati, and there are more sellers
than buyers at two and half and three per
cent premium.
The accounts from Chicago and st. Louis
are of similar tenor.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

MORAL INFLUENCE OF CoTTos.-Since the
stoppage of the cotton mills in Amherst, N.
H., the Jail there has been filled to overflow
ing with persons charged with petty thefts-
a melancholy illustration Of the old adage
that "ideness is the mother of crime" The
North and England would be in pleasant
fix if cotton--the product of slave labor
should chance to be cut off from them alto
nathar
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

How TO GET TO CoSeREss.-The follow
lowing story is told, by the Mobile Tribune,
of Judge Hawkins, the present Represents
tive to Congress from the State Of Florida
man, by the way, brimful Of genuine wit.
During the war with the Florida Indians, he
commanded volunteer company. On one
occasion they fell upon party OF the enemy
concealed in n swamp. The Captain sprang
upon log with more valor than dlscretion,)
waved his sword, and cbeered his men to the
charge. Just then he was shot down. One
of his officers ran TO ask IL he was much
hurt. "Not very badly" said Hawkins, lust
about enough to send me to Congress" The
prediction has been verified.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

EY A New York letter says-The ex-
citement in relation to the demonstrations
of the unemployed is rapidly subsiding.-
The Central Park commissioners have put q
large number of laborers to work at the rate
of ten shillings per day. About one thou
sand will be employed, to work alternate
weeks. The city comptroller has agreed to
draw his warrant for the necessary funds
to foot the bills. l..f .
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

NJ Quaint old Fuller says; "Let him who
expects one class of society to prosper in the
highest degree, while the other is in distress,
Try whether one side of his face can smile
whilo the other is pinehed.'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

CoMPLIMENTARY.--flo John A. Jones
Of Georgia, in a note to late contribution OF
his to the columns of the Richmond South,
thus compliments the Hon. Howell Cobb,
present Secretary of the Treasury:
"If ever we have another Southern Presi.
dent it will be Howell Cobb. He can pre-.
sent the North the cleanest record, one less
soiled by any attempt to Southern rights and
honor, than anv man alive or dead
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

tY The House of Representatives con-
sists of 234 members-llS members consti-
tuting majority. From the foregoing table,
therefore, it would appear that the Demo.
Gratis have % majority of the whole House.
This majority, it says, will be increased to
25 at an early period of the session by the
admission of the three Democratic members
from the new State of Minnesota,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

The TRUE LADY.-A celebrated writer
says: "No woman can be lady who would
wound or mortify another. No matter how
beautiful, how refined, how cultivated she
may be, she is in reality coarse, and the in
nate vulgarity of her nature manifests itself
here. Uniformly kind, corteous, and polite
treatment of all persons is one mark of a
true woman.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

ScAIpxa MnK.-T'he beVohshte mode
of managing milk, whether intended for the
churn or otherwise, Is TO scad il Immediately
as il is strained from the COW. After this
operation, 1t does not sour so soon. even in
summer; and II il is intended for butier.mak-
Ing, you have sweet milk for family use, after
the cream is taken of. In winter the cream
that is taken from scale,d milk will not 70.
qure more than fifteen minutes to bring 10
butter.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

eSg- II is stated that there are six Of the
New York City Banks ready and anxious to
resume specie payments without delay, aud
Others preparing for the event, so important
TO the interests OF the community.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

Patrons OF NEwsPAPERs.-We publish
the following very modest request on the
part of the publishers Of the National Intel
ligencer, and solicit consideration of the
t.maiters involved" to the good sense Of the
subscribers to journals generally:
ITO The subscribers of the National Intelli-
gencer:--Thero is, perhaps, no class of the
business community which feels more sensi-
bly, than the propretors of the many public
journals the effects of arrangement of the
currency, and other consequences OF the pres
ent money panic, which has so pertinaciously
embarrassed the whole country for several
weeks gone by, and which still continues
Under certainty Of this fact we feel that no
one of our readers will take exception to the
general request which we address to oil Of
them, that every one who knows himself to
be indebted to this establishment, and is in
circumstances TO afford it, will forthwith remit
20 us, in notes or drafts on solvent banks,
the amount of his Indebtedness, or so much
of it as he can conveniently spare"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

A FATAL AccIDENT.-Mr. Chas. Shaw, Of
Charleston, Conductor on the South Carolina
Railroad, while engaged, on Friday last, In
passing from one ear to another accidently
fell from the platform. The wheels Of the
train passed over his legs below the knees,
completely scvering.one and dreadfuliy NASH
inn the other. The accident happened upon
the afternoon up-train, ut the Fort Motto
station. Mr.. Shaw was conveyed TO Colum.
bn, but he was so severely injured that he
died Just rs he reached the Depot.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

UeH.-In looking over the schedule Of ar
ticles to be presented to the different Indian
tribes, for which the Secretary Of the Interior
invites proposals, We observe the item "two
hundred dozen scalpihg knives.' Our hand
went up involuntatily TO the ''place where
the hair ought to grow."-Butler Telegraph.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

tsY- The Buffalo papers afe 10 be redu-
ced in size after the lot Of January. The
Cleveland Plaindealer, and Journal, Press
and Tribune, Of Chicago, have already drop
ped column from zach page and made cor
responding reduction in length.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

15w The democratic Legislatures of Penn.
sylvania and Missouri have legalized the hank
suspensions in their respective States with
ont taking single step in the direction OF an
exclusive gold and silver currency or dmi-
mutton of the amount Of bank paper. Loco
focos are often giants in talk and pigmics in
ncIinn
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

sSs- Some few years ago Mr.. Kdwellwaa
preaching to large audience in wild part
of Illinois, and announced FOR his text "Tn
my Fathers house are many mansions" He
had scarcely read the words, when an old
coon stood up and said;
81 tell you folks, that's ie know his
father well. He lives fifteen miles from Lex.
ington, in old Kentuck, in an old leg cabin,
and there amt but one room in the house."
At another time the same Universalisi
preacher was holding forth in meeting
house in Terre IIaute. He had gone about
half through his discourse when man came
in, quite the worse for liquor, and reeled up
in front of the pulpit, where he steadied him.
self and listened. The preacher was earn
est in proving that there is no hell, and urged
theUniversalisl doctrine with great eloquence,
till the poor drunkard cried out to him.
"Thats it, Kdwel', my old friend; make
them words true, or ifyou don't I'm goner."
That brought the sermon to close. II
was an application quite unexpected, but oil
the more forcible on that account.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

THE WEAKEST BREw.-Bil, what's the
weakest brew you ever heard Of, barring wa
ter?"-'Why, sir, the beer now days."--
al know something weaker than that
What think you Of Mother Scuitle's ten, that
she made so weak IL couldn't get up the
spoutl"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

.B- The Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company has declared sem-nnnual divi-
dend of three dollars per share, payable on
and after the S,h Of December next.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27
THE POST,
ATHENS, FRIDAY, NOV. 2J, 1857.

CosrEsrlSG.-Th lyuchburg virginian
SAYS an adventurous gentleman named
Brooks, who ran against Winter Davis for
Congress, and was beaten six thousand five
hundred and thrty-six votes, has announced
his intention Of contesting Davis seat. Very
likely he will win! In so close contest as
that, where there is majority Of only some
six or seven thousand, it is impossible 10 tell
who is elected until the polls are purged!-
Why does not Imboden contest John Letch
er's seat! His majority was not more than
million or twol Does he not know that con-
testants nearly always get their pay-whe-
ther successful or not"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

1sg- The Goshen Bank, at Goshen, N. Y.
was entered on the night of the 10th instant
and robbed Of $4,000 in bills and about
$4,000 in specie. No clue to the perpetrators
had been discovered.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

MARIAN HARLAND's LAsT.-An exchange
says that Mrs. Terbuone, "Marinn Harland, v
has given to the world another production
It has not head the title yet, but it weighs
seven pounds, and has blue eyes and light
hair
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

A NOBLE AcT.-The Milwaukee News re-
cords, as follows, one Of the bravest and no.
best acts ever perfermed by railroad eagi!.
neeE-- ....
On Wednesday last, as the train on the La
Cross Railroad was coming east, and when
about mile east of Cambria, the engineer
saw little Boy about five years old, on the
track. He Immediately whistled to "brake,"
and reversed the engine, but rs it was on the
down grade, he found he could oct stop the
train, which, when the child WIS first seen,
was under full motion. The engineer sta
toned himself on the forepart of the locomo-
tive, and watching his chance, jumped ahead
of the engine, snatching the boy from the
track, and thus saved his life. The train pass
ed on some distance before it stopped. The
name of the engineer is l.. Il. Meads, who
deserves unqualified praise for his noble act
There are few men that possess the courage
and the nerve to perform such a feat
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

PROBABLE SPEEDY RESUMPTION THE banks
in New York are making preparations to re-
sumo specie payments on the LIST Of January
next
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

BRIcKs.-Mr. Arthur, of England, has
taken out patent for making bricks from
common earth, by means ofpressure only
Many scientific gentlemen have witnessed
the pressure, aud consider II altogether sue
cessfu. 1t promises to introduce new era
In brickmaking.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-11-27

t5Y- The land sales Of the Illinois Central
Railroad Company for the ten months Of the
current year were s4,3S6,oi4.