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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

HUNTER AND WlsE-OLD VIRGINIA ON THE
FESCR.-rhe Richmond Wing has curious
article upon the coming Senatorial election
by the Virginia Legislature. The Wing
thinks that Hunter will win, provided that
the election is brought on early in the session;
but that If Wise gets chance to dine and
wine the rural members, the aspirations of
his opponent will he knocked into a cooked
hat. Wise, according to the Wing, will be
backed and sustained by the whole power
and influence OF the Administration al Wash
ington, and by all the defenders and suppor-
ters OF the Kansas policy OF Walker, in Vir-
gnia and in the South and in the North;
whereas Hunter vii! be compelled to rely
upop the aid oI s.n.-- ~ .''"
Walker ana dstrust the Admlnlstraliun.--
This Senatorial election, then, will necessarl-
ly turn upon this question whether maJor'-
ty of the Democratic members OF the next
Legislature endorse or condemn the Kansas
policy of Walker and Buchanan"
The Enquirer is very earnest in advocating
the necessity of sustaining the Admlnlstra-
ton, and looks with extraordinary compia-
cency upon the prospect OF Kansas becoming
a free State. The speck in the horizon is
growing bigger.-N Y. Herald.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

A Gross SwISDLE.--Fort Smelling, rem
dered useless rs government outpost by
the advance of civilizalion, has recently been
sold by government tor the sum oi $4,000.
The sale includes 1000 acres of surrounding
land, the whole beautifully locoied at the
junction of the Mississippi md Minnesota
rivers, near st. Anthony's Fails. Iti.ampg-
nificent site for II great town, in one of the
most valuable and rapidly rising seetions Of
Minnesota, and had the properly been opened
to public bidding would have brought many
times the paltry sum which some administra-
ton favortes have been permitted to guip
the prize in ut. Hall million dollars would
have been small figure for the property
thus pocketed Tor less thnn hundred thou
sand Who are the lucky holders under
this swinde, and may we not know by what
greasing OF fingers the thing was accom-
plished!- Boston Traveller.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

"THE HEALrmGsT COUNTRY IN CRBATIoE."
-DeBow's mortality statistics show that the
people of the United States are the healthiest
on the globe. The deaths are three hundred
and twenty thousand per year, or one and
one-thrd per cent. of the population. In
England the ratio ia over two per cent, and
in France nearly three per cent. Virginia and
North Carolina are the heathiest Of the States,
and have six hundred and thirty-eight inhabr
tants over one hundred years Of age,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

A MAN OF BusINEss.-ln one of the vest
ern counties of New York, is man BY the
name of Zadock Pratt, one of the bone and
sinew, an intelligent mechanic and farmer'
who has contributed greatly TO the general
prosperity, as well as to his individual wealth.
In a speech at an Agricultural Fair in Greene
county, New York, he said that, since he had
been engaged in farming, he had employed
over fifteen thousand years of other mems
labor; had employed thirty thousand men,
and paid them for their labor over two mil
lions five hundred thousand dollars. He had
cleared over ten thousand acres Of land, used
over two hundred thousand cords Of hemlock
bark, and paid over half million Of dollars
for it. He had used and worn out five hun
dred horses and one thousand yoke of oxen;
used two hundred thousand bushels of oats.
one hundred and twenty thousand tons OF
hay, thirty thousand barrels of beef and pork,
nearly one hundred thousand barrels OF Hour,
and potatoes without number ormeasure. lie
had tanned over Que million and fifty sides oil
leather; his usual disbursement is over hive
thousand dollars per day; and he has used in
his business over ten millions. lie has never
had side of leather stolen, and never was
sued On account of his business transactions.
We should say that ZadOck was valuable
member of society. Moreover, he shows tho
advantage of diversfying labor, and OF BRING
ing the man who consumes by the side Of
him who produces.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04
THE POST.
ATHENS. FRIDAY, SEPT. 4, 1857.

MORTALITY AMONG U. $. SEsAToRs.-Of
the members of the Senate during the last
Congress, no less than five have passed away
since the first session commenced, to wit:
Messrs. Clayton of Deleware, Bell of New
Hampshire, Adams Of Mississippi, Butler of
South Carolina, and Rusk of Texas. The
body has been nearly decmated in the short
space of about twelve months, which is a
fearful mortality indeed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

~ Everybody has red of Jules Gerard
the lion.killer, and his wonderful encounters
ttfL.... T.,s- 81
came back.to Paris the last time from his
iavorite amusement in Africa, he suggested
to Devisme, the well known gun-maker of the
Boulevard des Italiens, the idea of invenlng
a ball that would explode when it arrived at
the animals body. The new projectile is
about the size OF the Minnie ball; its penetrat-
ing force is equal to the common ball. Ar
rived IN the animals body it explodes like u
bomb, and, of course, causes the sudden
death of the animal. If shot into the lungs
OF an elephant for example, the ball in ex.
ploding disengages carbonic acid gas, and
the animal, which from its size might other
wise survive for short time, will suddenly
fall asphyxiat,d. A few days ago party of
gentlemen accompanied NJ. Devisme to a
horse slaughtcr-house in the environs of the
city. There the new projectile was tried on
five horses who were standing tied to fence
waiting to be shot. They were each shot
in the lungs, the ball exploded, and the an
ima fell dead. The experiment was com
petely satisfactory.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

eW- As to the other opposition members
defeated in the South, and the general route
of the whole Know Nothing party of that
section, the result is to be rejoiced over.
Such is the language in which the Aboli-
tion correspondent of the New York Tribune
announces the result of the recent elections
in the South. 1t only confirms what we
have all along maintained-that the Free
Soilers are anxious for the consolidation OF
all parties in tho South into one. In that
event the North would range itself into q
grand opposition party, and the fate of the
South would be sealed. The evidences OF
this ,hicken all around us. On no other
ground can we explain the delight with
which Black RepubIiconism chuckles over
Democratic victories in the South.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

sW- Quite n business has been carried
on in London by some witty swindlers, who
have notified numerous gentlemen that tho
degree Of ILL.,. ID. had been conferred upon
them by the Rackensack University of Arkan-
sas, and notifying the new doctors that a lee
OF two pounds must be forthcoming in order
to secure the honors II is not known how
many have been caught by this bait, but Ar'
Dallas had numerous inquircrs touching the
Rackensack University.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

NOVEL INvsSTioN.-A down-east mechani-
clan has invented bed which is made up Of
spiritual springs, and constructed with an air.
chamber in the centre, so curiously arranged
that every motion made by the sleeper pro-
duces bellows action, and forces out the air
which has become affected by the perspiration
of the'body, and at the same time new sup
ply is taken in. The act Of rising from il 10
the morning completely airs ii. II at onoe
expands to shape, and can be made and put
in perfect order in one minute, thus saving
much time and Inconvenience.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

A FIeHTING WoMAN.-In New YORK the
police have several times been repulsed in
attempting to arrest an old German woman
of seventy years, rag picker, named Chris.
iiana TIadley, whose den was guarded by
five ferocious dogs. On Tuesday they made
another attempt, and were met by the old
woman with pitchfork, and by the dogs.-
They shot the dogs, knocked the woman's
ptchfork from her hands, and even then it
was only after desperate struggle that they
were enable to pinon her, hand and foot,
and remove her to the station house. She
was sentenced to the penitentiary as vag-
rant
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

"TIr FOR TAT."-A youngster fell in love
with sour old maid, who, believing she
knew all about the observation-disclosures of men
SAID to her "loyer:"
You men are angels when you WOO the maid,
nut depiLs when the marriage vow is said.
The lover, not TO be out done, replied as
follows:
The change, dear girl, is easily forgiven
We end ourselves In hell, instead OF heduen.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

Prolonged Absence-No leare for Second
Marriage.--It is vulgar and very dangerous
error to suppose that any term of absence OF
one OF two persons married will, while that
party is living, permit or the other marrying
again. This misconception, but too fatally
prcvalen, among the lower classes, has arisen
from clause in the statute relating to biga-
my, the 9 Geo. w. C. 81, &. %, which provides
tha, no punishment therein enacted shall ex-
tend to any person marrying second time,
whose husband or wife shall have been con-
tinuaIly absent from such person for the
space of seven years then last past, and shall
not have been known by such person to be
living within that time. Thus the party mar
rying under these circumstances is by this
clause certainly protected from a conviction
for bigamv, and its consequent pains and
penalties, but that is all. The second mar
riage will nevertheless be absolutely void
should the party absent turn out at any time,
however long, to have been alive when it was
contracted. Nothing but death or divorce
a pinculo matrinonii can sever a marriage
once legally performed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

NICE HoNEY IN GLASS JARs.-Mr. B. A,
Manchester, of Western New York, has
probably the most accommodating family ol
bees that are known in this vicinity. lie
places over hole in the top of his hives
large glass tumblers reversed. The bees
come up through the holes and fnsten thell
comb and honey in the inside of the tumb'
lers In the most ingenious manner possible
beautifully clear and white. When each
glass is filed, the bees 90 below, the tumb'
Ter is taken off, and there is nice jar OF
honey already put up for family use by the
bees themselves.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

RECONSTRUCTION OF PARTIEs.-The New
York Herald says: "lf Kansas is admitted as
slave State right or wrong, the Northern
Democracy will disappear from the earth
like a vapor; ii she is admitted MS free State
Justly or unjustly, the result will be split
of the Southern Democracy and the organ
ization of the secession wing as the nucleus
of rabd Southern sectional party. We
take it for granted that Kansas will come lR
as n free State, and the Southern sectional
party indicated will be the first consequence
Thus. perhaps, as early Ms next summer we
shall have Southern sectional party, on the
platform of the sccessionists, brought out up
on the course, while our Northern anti-slave-
ry forces will unquestonably gather conf
dence and buldness from the free State So
luton of The Kansas test question"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

A PRosER.--A calm, bue.eyed, seli-com'
-r i ~ .----....d s-,s4ssa 'sAs' ~
village down east, received long call the
other day from u prying old spinster, who
after prolonging her stay beyond even he'
own conception. of the young lads endurance
came to the main question which had
brought her thther: "l've been asked good
many times it you was engaged to Dr. C
Now, if folks inquire again whether You be
or not what shall tell 'em Think" "TelI
them," answered the young lady, fixing her
cain blue eyes in unblushing steadlness up
on the inquistive features Of her interroga
tor, "tel them that you think you don't
know, and you are sure it is none OF your
business"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

New YoRK, August a6.-Warren Bank of
PENNSYLVANIA, Kanawha Bank Of Virginia, and
several other bank failures are reported II ia
also reported that Benedict & Co, and Fish.
or g. Co., have failed. The reported failure
Of tho Hartford Bank is untrue.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

HATH 80 EARs.-l, is stated that there is
negro woman in Virginia who has no ears
vet distinctly hears what is said to her by
opening her mouth. Ii this be true she musI
have an admirable capacity for drinking in a
discourse"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

.-Y" Fun should be cultivated as fine
art, for it is altogether fine thing. Who
ever knew "funny man" to be bad one!-
On the contrary, is he not nine times IN Ten
generous, humane, social, and good? To be
sure he is! Fun is great thing. 1t smoothes
the rough places of life, makes the DISPOSE
ton ms sweet and rosy AS maiden's kiss
scatters sunshine and flowers wherever we
90, gives The world u jolly counten"nce
makes all the girls AZ pretty as June roses
and mankind one OF the best families out
We 90 in for fun.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

'-1- A writer in the Augusta Chronicle
" Sentinel dating from Sheltonville, Ga,
says "Mr Henry C. Rogers, who had 70
acres sowod in wheat, has just finished
'hresh'ng IT, which made 1895 bushels, being
an average OF 2si bushels per acre, and weighs
63 lbs. per bushel.n
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

~ The Spartanburg Is. CO. Express
says: We learn from the agents, in our
town, of the bank of Newberry, that there is
new counterfeit ten dollar bill out on the
Bank of Hamburg, South Carolina, of the
old issue. The Cashier of the Bank of
Charleston says it almost defes detection
Look out for it,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04
INDIANS IN TExAs.-The Galveston News,

INDIANS IN TExAs.-The Galveston News,
OF the 10Th, furnishes the following:
The Indians tribes of Texas are passing
into rapid decay. In 1853, the Indians of
Texas were estimated at 10000. In 1856,
the number, from official accounts, did not
exceed $4,000. Some i50 Indians till the
reservation on the clear fork of the Brazos,
and make good crops; 5000 sem-eivilized
Creeks, Delawares, and Cherokees are in
Eastern Texas. In the North 1000 Wachi-
tas and Wacos. There are 1000 Canaan
ches, 1000 l.ipans, and 1000 of all others
straggers. From this report it will be seen
that in the course Of n few wears from the
very nature Of things, tho whole Indian
tribes of Texas will become extinct.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

tys- An lrishman attending Quaker
meeting, heard young friend make the fol-
lowing Observation-Disclosures and sis
,ers, aln going to marry n daughter of the
Lord" "Ihe devil ye are" sald Pat, 'Fath
an bejabers, an it will be a long time before
ven see yer father-in.law."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

WoSpERFuL.-In alusion to speech oi
Col. Barry. writer in the Carrol'on' hsS'
Democrat says: 81 could see, ] faneied' run
ain, throuph the whole of his speech,
prea, gushing stream of Democracy pure
and unsullied aud refreshing TO the hearts oil
Tho ufaitbrul."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

ATLANTIC TELsGRAPH CABLE I,osT.-The
Atlantic TpegrapA Cable parted $50 miles
from The shore on the morning of the | lth
and the vessels were returning to England
The directors were, however, sanguine of
ultimate success. A conference was held at
London on Saturday to determine whether
10 90 on or wait another summer.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

Icy On Saturday quite a scene occurred
at the New York Hotel, a gentleman resd-
ing in the neighborhood being discovered by
a wealthy downtown merchant on terms OF
too great intimacy with his wife. The of
Tending party made his escape almost in pu-
ris naturaiibus, and was taken, by those who
saw him, to be unatc. He ran pretty fast,
for the injured husband had revolver. All
the parties belong TO "our first society,"
". Y. Times, Aug. II.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

e9y- The Alabama costume just now is
cool and comfortable. II consists Of n straw
hat, shirt collar and fan. or course, 70,
address purty," il Is II little more "full."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

r4g- A young widow has established pis-
toI gallery in Orleans. Her qualifications rs n
teacher of the art of dueling are ofcourse un.
doubted, for she has killed her man.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

,sy- Insults, says modern philosopher,
are like counterfeit money; we can't hinder
them being offered, but VIZ are not compelled
10 take them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

EXTRAORDINARY METsoR.--Letters from
Bagdad announce an extraordinary fall OF
rain on the l4th of June at that place, which
from It's bloody hue, gave the surrounding
country the appearance of battle Held
The meteor seen at Malta on the l4th Of
June was likewise observed on the same day
throughout Syria and Palestine; and letters
from 'rrebizond, Samsoua, Snope, Constan-
iinople and Smyrna, report heavy ia!l oil
rain, and tempestuous weather on that day.
to the great alarm Of the Inhabitants VINO
had for some weeks been anxiously looking
out for the comet crash. The evening oi the
18th of June was the remarkable meteor and
whirlwind in New York.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

O-The rule by which diamonds are val
ued, is to multiply the square of the weight
in carats, by forty dollars. A carat is equiv
aent to tour grains, Troy weight di
amond. by this rule, weighing three hundred
carats, and about as large rs small hens
egg, would be worth in the market three
million six hundred thousand dollars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

.y- "Joe, what makes your nose SO
redl"
"Frendship."
"Friendsh:pl How do you make that
out?"
"i've got friend who is very fond Of
brandy, and he is too weak to take II strong
pye constituted myself his laster."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

VIRTUE ExTRAoRpISARY.-The Shasta
(Cal.) Courier says that two gentlemen oi
that county, who were each rendered the
appointment of county judge, by the Cover
nor, declined on the ground that they did
not think themselves fully qualified :or The
position. Can any other State in the Union
produce two such meh.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

WHAT IS NORTHERN DEMocRAcY?-H, b
Payne, the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor of Ohio, in accepting the nomination is
reported to have said:
"Under Mr.. Buchanan's administration,
Kansas, protected alike from New Eng
and the South, is working out the peaceable
fruits of righteousness. Alta day no. dis.
tanl or doubtful, as from the beginning has
been predicted, Kansas will be admitted into
the galaxy of States with a Free State con
stitution by the votes of her own people,
abolishing forever slavery in her midst, thus
furnishing an application of practical Demo :
cratic doctrines"
This isa specimen Of Northern Dtmo-
crat who is so national, and whom Southern
men are exhorted to rely upon. II. b. Pavne
is an much the friend of the South as any
man in the North. How do you like this.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04

WROUGHT IRON CARs.-The Hudson Riv-
er Railroad Companyhave ordered four OF
these to be made and used on their road by
way Of trial. The fame work is to be n
very strong, yet elastic basket, each JOINT be-
ing protected BY rivels, and the whole furl1-
er protected by making the entire platform
at each end one strong spring of steel. Cars
thus made will be lighter it is said than wood
en- ones, yet so safe that fatal accident with
them is Il thing hardly possible, as they Will
spring, bend, or twist, bat remain whole as
a shield to their occupants, no power being
able to break them into fragments or spllnl-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04
A GD HIT.

The New York tald, paper in which
we seldom see anyhg to admire, makes the
following admirabhit at those hypocritieal
philanthropists of l North, who profess
desire to place the gro upon an equality
with the white ma
"TAe Vote on Nro Suffrage in To,oa.-
II is not little sin lar that the vote on that
clause of the new clstluton OF Iowa which
placed the negroes IN equality, in point of
political rights, withhe whites, should have
been so decidedly fgatied by the people
| of that State. IOwas cosldered repu6li-
can State; the republican saders in this part
of the world have lkely lade practice of
counting upon il as Athn certain. Yet 1t
seems that the rppubhcanof Iowa do not
carry their republcansm far as to admit
the negroes into commllty oil polItlcal
rights with themselves.
Very few political comunlties OF whIte
men have been proved wing, IN their pres
ent day, to admit the nSo to political
equality with themselves Northern men are
ready enough to sympatse with the alleged
wrongs of the colored re in the South, and
to make an outcry abouthe injustice OF hold
ing of the human crelures in bondage by
another. But when tlse same Northern
men are asked to sit at he same table, or
ride in the same ears, oto occupy the same
apartment, or to vote ae by side with the
black human creatures. .heir idea oil The an
alogy becomes materily altered. In such
States rs Rhode lsan, free negro suffrage
may pass muster; but New York and Iowa,
it seems, prejudice ofcolor" operates to de-
bar the colored man Fl IN the privilege.
We presume that, in New YORK, the
people of Iowa will cnpromise the matter
by tacking on II propety qualification to the
negro suffrage, and wi declare that black
man who is worth on hundred dollars shall
be held to be human Ireature to all political
intents and purposes, while the negro VINO
has nothing shall be My hybrid between
humanity and chatte Hom. We, therefore,
atfectionately recomm nd all negroes wnhio
the State OF Iowa eiter to get hundred
dollars worth of prohrty without loss Of
time, or to hurry backto the South. We are
full of compassion hire in the North; but
black humanity, to gddown with US, must
be moderately gided.