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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

MEMPHIS AND LITTLE Rock RAILROAD
The Memphis Bulletin Of the 2s.h has the
following:
The Railroad Question ended The aid
Rendered.-It will he seen by the proceed.
ings Of the City Council, that the ordinance
extending aid 10 tho Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad, to the amount Of $30O0,0O
passed the Board last night bv a vote ol sew
IN 10 FIVE. Il now awaits the approval of
the Mayor. before it can go into effect
Should that functionary refuse his assent, il
requires vote Of two.thirds of the Road to
pass II into law.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

RAILROAD TRouBLEs.--The Boston, Con-
cord. and Montreal railroad Of New Hamp-
shire has gone into the hands Of assigners.--
The Company owes debts exceeding $l,oo0,-
600, on which the stockholders are PERSONAL
ly liable.
This road extends from Concord to Wells
River, ninety.three miles, and cost about 49,.
100000. The laws Of New Hampshire
make any stockholder liable for all the debts
of corporation, in the same manner as part
ners.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

H The Auburn Adveriises says that
John Ford, one Of the eccentric citizens OF
that town declares he knows the weather is
getting colder, because his feet are so much
warmer than usual. For two winters, now,
this man has gone bare footed. He says his
feet are never cold. He wears shoes in the
summer, but nothing can induce him to do
so Ia the winter. We doubt II another ex-
ample like this can be found in the State of
New York, or indeed in the United States,
except among the aborigines.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

PHILOSOPHY UNDER DIFFIcULTIEs.-The
publisher OF paper at Lake Superior having
been without mail for three weeks, on ac-
count Of "stress Of weather" says:
"Should the mail not arrive this week, we
shall make our regular issue next Tuesday,
for this number was made up from IN old
magazine and a religious almanac of last year;
and so long rs this material holds out we
shall be independent of the mails"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13
w-As, Loui. paper furnishes us with the

H A st. Louis paper furnishes US withthe
following item Of news: awe put down the
custom Of endorsing what is called accom-
mediation paper, as Ia grdnde Jolie OF the
age. In the first place it may be set down
ss a general principle that no man who can
raise money on bona fde securities, VIII stooP
to the despicable meanness Of begging his
friends endorsement. What right has nny
man to ask US to shoulder his responsible
tiles! to take all his risks without any OF his
profts-to entrust our fortune, honor, repu.
taiicn-everything that is dear to us-to the
casualties and chances Of private specula'
lions, in which we have no interest and over
which We have no control! The habit OF ex'
changing endorsements, pursued during
business career of ordinary length, in nine
cases out Of ten involves all the parties in
ruin. Walter Scott lost the accumulation
Of years, and died in debt, from endorsing
his friends paper. Fhe shrewd Barnum,
who had piled fortune on fnrtune, till his
name became a synonyme Of success, was
stricken down in a moment, and plunged in
to irrelrievable bankruptcy by an endorse.
ment. But if this habit OF mutual endorse.
mrnts among business men which in fact
constitute sort of partnership in which
each CANDLES on the credit of the other-if
this deserves denunciation, what shall be
said of the consummate impudence of the
man who takes advantage Of your private
friendship to en,ungle you in the snurl Of
his financial embarrassments! That man
ceases to be my friend, who asks me If will
be good enough to allow him to ruin me-
Every man has risks, cares and anxieties
enough of his own. 1t reqaires all the pru
dence, caution and foresight which the
gloomy lessons of the business records of
the country are constantly teaching us, to
enable one 20 steer clear OF the disasters
which lie thick in ones path. The man who
would entail his own perils on his friends
head, is not friend but a-well, yes-a fool
or rascal"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

The TURKISH SoLpiER.-He marches to
meet the foe with the same nonchalance MS he
smokes his pipe. He is taught from his birth
that the moment of his death is fixed and
that whole chnrge of artillery aimed at his
heart would miss him If destiny had decreed
his time not come. lie Is taught also that
he will GO straightway to Paradise the mo.
meni Of his death; with both these idens he is
so fully impressed that no danger moves him,
and he lies on his death bed as calmly as on
bed for sleep. Ns
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13
An EsERcErro AND HUMANS GOVERNOR

An ENERGErIc AND HUMANE GOvERNoR.-
Gov. Newell had to walk from his residence,
In Allentown. IN. J.) to Trenton, distance
of twelve miles, on foot, in order to reach
the capitol in time to be inaugurated, as the
weather forbid travelling either in sleighs OF
on horseback. Just as he was about starting
man arrived at his house requesting him
(he being physician) to visit professionally
achld who was very sick. Though this
obliged him to 60 considerable distance
out Of his way. he promptly consented to
do SO.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13
w- Since Mir. Buchanans arrival

E Since Mr.. Buchanan's arrival in
Washington, the speculations in reference to
his Cabinet officers have considerably in.
creased. The friends Of certain Lending de.
mocrats are pressing their claims with much
zeal, but with what effect il does not appear.
Every democrat who has an exc to grind is
putting his finger into the pie, and If old
Buck does not keep his eyes fully open, he
may rue the day he went to the Capitol.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

ORrrsTAL PHILosoPHY.-First class ori
entail philosophy vii! stand mp. "Tibbets'
what is liter "Iife consists Of money, a
horse, aud fashionable Wife" "Good.-
Next, what is deathl" "A pnymastrr VIII"
settles everybody's debts and gives them
tombslopes rs receipts in full Of all de-
mands." "Whatis poverty" "l'he reward
Of merit, genius generally receives from q
discriminating public" "What is religion!'
"Doing unto Others just ns you please, with.
out allowing them return OF the comPli.
mcnt." "What Is famcm IA six line puff
in newspaper while living, and your for.
tune 10 enemies when dead"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

NOBLE Acr OF HUMAsIrY.-We have just
heard pf one the mobiles, deeds Of humanity
that Il has ever BEEN our lot To record Pc.
ter Falcon, OF Cohassei, during the late terri
BILE storm, saved the lives Of eleven ship
wrecked sea'nen. Although strongly urged
not to leave the shore, Peter Falcon fnsien
I'd lite prrservrrs To his knees and went on
his hands and knees on the ice upwards OF n
quarter Of n mile to the barque New Empire
and ship California, wrecked on the coast,
and rescued the lives OF eleven men. All
honor to Peter Falcon Boston Ledger,
27fh. -.. t..r
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

The causes of revolutions are often unwrit.
ten and as often unknown. A woman,--but
this is nothing remarkable, for women are
always bringing us nnocents, the men, into
straits,--is said to be the cause Of the war
between the Persinns and The Britisb,-but
the cause Of the Revolution in Peru is novel,
as well as remarkable. Thus, q Peruvian
correspondent Of the N. o. Picayuue writes:
But the great reason, and the one that
lies at the bottom Of all revolutions n Peru,
In latter years, Is the struggle for the posses.
sion Of the spoiIs accruing from the Chincha
Islands. As long as the guano lasts, there
win be continual quarrels among the differ.
cnt clans and factions for the stealings.-
Take these away, and the country would, no
doubt, emerge from chronic revolution, 10 q
quiet, healthy state"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13
POLITICAL ASPECT OF THE WORLD.


Fiftren years ago, and Miller the Prophet,
or the interpreter Of prophesy, was dreaming
that the Millennium was about to dawn
Now, il seems, instead as IL Satan were about
to be unloosed again. for season. A little
while ago, and war was thought horrible
thing, and men seemed universally about TO
beat their swords into ploughshares. But
now the pruning hooks ARE fast learning the
utilities of the Bowie knife. china is desc
lated by civil war, and the Cape of Good
Hope by the Hottentots. Burmah hns just
been rem, in twain, and Persia is at this mo-
ment the seat Of active war. Russia and
England seem as if about to fight pitched
battle in the heart of India, decisive Of the
fate Of a larger portion of the world than that
which followed the fate Of all Alexander's
battles. Europe having wasted half million
of men, and hundreds millions of dollars
In one. war, seems at greater unrest than ever.
Turkey, where the war begun,is worse off as
to debt, as to independence, and AS to terri
tory M before the war begun. While the
other great powers have b. en- figuring in the
Principalities, Austria holds the stakes, and
like the monkey with the cheese, chews il up,
while the others quarrel. 1t used to he
thought that the five great powers had the
control, at least Of Europe, and yet little king
Bomba laughs at them all, England and
France included. The fact is, there is not
one of the great powers that has the control
of any thing Just now, or that know on what
side they will be month hence on nny great
question that may present itself Take Eng
land Does she know whether or not she is
drifting ngain into war with Russia! She
has no idea. Not at all. Nor is there a
Frenchman who knows where France will he
month hence-wheiher in the arms of Rms
sia against England or with England agninst
Russia. II we come over to this continent,
look at Mexico, with civil war raging eternal
w. Like regular volcano, il is deep down
in her heaving breast, and sending for three
thousand Americans to come to her succor.-
Central America is as bad off as any country
can conceive and none can tell il Walker will
be in power one week hence, or what will be
the result of his government, ultimately, or
the destiny, not of Central America alone, but
of this whole continent. There is no doubt
Mr.. Soule has concocted with him the scheme
of some Southern Coniederacy to seize Cuba
and re- establish the slave trade and slavery.
They reckon on the support of the South,
but with what reason is not so plain. Such
is the situation of things on this little globe
at the present time.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13
THE WEATHER.

Take map Of North America, (says "Life
Illustrated, y draw a line across it. from
Washington, west to the Rocky Mountains
Draw another, from Washington TO Buffalo,
N. Y. thence along the Lakes and the st.
Lawrence, to the northeast corner Of New
York State; then across the country to Port.
land, and SO down the Atlantic coast to
Washington again. OF the two areas thus
indicated, the first, viz. all North America
east of the Rocky Mountains and north Of
the line, has been the theatre Of q tremen-
dous inhction Of cold; the second area. which
might include large space Of adjacent ocean,
marks out, roughly, the space covered by
snow storm still more tremendous, for guam
tity of snow for tempestuous violence, and
especially for the uncommon and unremitted
rigor Of the accompanying cold.
No such season has been felt since the bit
ter winter Of 1866, the winter Of the great
fire in New York Already, during the week
from Jan. llth to nth, it was known that
throughout the whole country, from Maine
to Florida, and westward to the Kansas
prairies, theie prevailed terrific and steady
cold. At New York, the East River was fro
zen over; which happens hardly half a dozen
times in a century; and during Saturday the
18th, probably twenty thousand people
crossed 1t ON foot; a dead loss Of four hun
dred dollars to the blockaded ferries Among
them was Rev. Fl. W. Beecher, who had to
scramble smsrt!y to get off in season and
some five hundred more were rescued by
steam tug after the ice had started to go
down the harbor at turn of tide. All that
week the ferries had nearly stopped; and
indeed so had the Sound steamers; the har-
bor was dotted with vessels imprisoned in ice
a ta
and freight were delayed everywhere by
frost.broken axles and frozen locomotives.
On Sunday the 18th (speaking Of the lati
tude of New York; without any diminution
in the ferceness of the cold, the gray baze of
a coming storm gathered in the sky. AIT
morning it thickened and grew, and in the
afternoon the threatened snow began to fall,
in little, hard, dry pills, as usual in the fret
of long storm, but through air so cold that
we could not believe it would last 1t did,
however; and with savage tempest Of wind
and with thermometers at all sorts Of figures
below zert. In one place-Watertown, N
Y.-at a temperature two degrees below that
where the mercury froze, it came steadily
until Monday evening; whirled and flung
into huge drifts leaving much ground BARE
but depositing a sheet Of snow averaging
probably eighteen inches in depth, over more
than two hundred thousand square miles of
territory.
Nothing can more forcibly suggest the
power Of this vast operation Of Nature. than
the fact that for some days it flung the coun.
try century backward and more, as to all
travel and transportation. The telegraph
lines Saved by the dry, unclinging nature of
the snow, sent the news back and forth,
where mails and passengers were But, like
the Irishman's teakettle at the bottom of the
sea, though we knew where they were, they
were for practical purposes lost.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

OF The last Okaona, Mississippi, Prairie
News has the following paragraph, which the
ladies' will please skip"
Nobody seems 10 have heard Of that chap
in Aberdeen who just cline home from n
years absence in Nicaragua. On his way up
from the landing he met quite number Of
ladies'. After kissing his sister, &c, spray"
said he, "are all the girls in Aberdeen mar
ried? met Miss A." "Why, brother,
Miss A-isn't married. "Not married !
Nor Miss B.! nor Miss c.! nor Miss
-w "Oh, pshaw! brother" said Sis, just
beginning TO catch the idea, "thafs nothing
but hoops"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

FALLEN FRuiT.-No fallen, unripe fruit
should be permitted to decay on the ground
under or about the trees. Fruit that drops
offbefore It is ripe, does so because an insect
is in il which has diseased ii. The insect
natures in the fallen fruit and rises TO infect
the tree or leave its Larvae for another crop
of its kind. Fruit.growers cannot be too
careful in gathering the fallen fruit, that the
grounds beneath their trees do no. become
insect nurseries---that their orchards do not
become swarming households for insect
tribes.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13
Feb. LIST, 1857.

The INFLUEscE OF THE Suns RAYS IN
CossumPrIos.--We COPY the following re-
marks from the Boston Medical Journal, in
which they are credited to DR.. Coventry, as
forming portion of an address delivered
before the State Medical Society:
"There is one ubject which requires more
extended notice than it has usually received
from our systematic writers. refer to the
influence of the suns rays. Every physiolo
gist knows how absolutely necessary they are
to the growth Of plants, and the etiolatng
effect their absence or withdrawal has upon
the complexion. Is it unreasonable to sup
pose that they may have some influence IN
causing or preventing tuberculosis? ]; seems
well established, that tuberces may be form
ed in animals by confining them in close and
dark apartments, on meager diet. DIR. Hall
says that, by this means he produced fatty
degenerations in animals, which he considers
analogous to, not identical with, tuberculosis
In the city where reside, there was an office
connected with large mercantile establish
ment, so situated that the sun never shone
upon it. 1t was in the rear of the building,
with single window, and that so surrounded
with buildings as to exclude the sun. The
occupants of the office died, one after another,
until the proprietors became alarmed, and had
the office removed to another part Of the
building. One of the occupants ! attended
when in the last stage Of his disense. He
entered the office n strong, healthy man, with
no hereditary tendency, to the disense, and
tpmperate and rpuulnr in nj! his habits: but in
less than two years he was carried, like his
predecessors, to the grave, a victim TO con-
sumption. In his case was never able to
discover any cause, unless il was occupying
that fatal office, where he was book keeper"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

EET The N. Y. Mirror says: "Messrs Tiff
fany g. Co. sold last week a single diamond,
to he worn in ring, for $1,000 cash. 1t
was the central stone Of a $4,000 necklace,
which has been exhibited Tor some tim. past
al this establishment"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

E Great excitement has prevailed in
the staid city Of Boston for the past week,
on account o: the detection Of Rev. ]. s.
Kalloch, in taur pas with a Indy acquain.
tance. After the discovery Of his error by
the public, MIR. Kalloch went South, but in
o. few days returned, and preached ser.
mon to his congregation upon "Plunder."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

W Editing newspaper, says cotem.
porary with truth, is good deal like making
fire. Every body supposes he can do it
"a little better than any body else" We
have seen people doubt their fitness for ap-
plc peddling, driving oxen and counting
lath; but, in all our experience, we never yet
met with that individual who did not think
he could "double the circulation Of any pa
per in two months"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

WAsHrseroS, Feb. 4.-The House to-day
decided the Iowa contested seat in favor Of
Mr.. Hall, and adopted resolution giving
each branch of Congress entire control of it's
contingent funds. A motion to lay the Sen.
ate Submarine Telegraph bill on the table.
was lost by vote of 1913 against to 81 in
favor. The bill will come up turn orrow on
its final passarp.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

VEScsAscE.--Ane ex.c;erqyman and botanic
physician, by the name Of Pire, residing in
S,owe, VT, being charged with the offence Of
having carelessly communicated the small
pox In that town, was taken by some OF the
citizens I" a tavern, wl'ers they forced him
TO drink liquor. after which they shut him
up in a smoke.house and smoked him with
burning leather shnviugs. ..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

cB- A case is being tried in Pittsburg in
which Mr.. McKibben, prominent Democrs-
ticpolitician and proprietor Of the Merchants
Hotel. Philadelphia, has sued Mr.. Craig for
the seduction Of his daughter. laying the
damages at $4,000 Miss McKibben is deaf
and dumb and her seducer is her brother-in.
law. She was living in his house at the time
OF the alleged offence. 4tsl
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

AToueH SroRY.-On the Sd inst. the
steamboat Emma Brown was sunk in the
Ohio river. The papers gravely announce as
fast, that she had on board lot Of hogs,
and that the swine rooted hole through
the bottom Of the boat and sunk h-ri They
must have been very enterprising hogs, or
the timber Of the boat was exceedingly rot.
ten and wormY.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

LIVING UP TO RuLEs.-Mr. McCallum, Su.
perntendent of the Erie Railroad, is a strict
constructionist and severe disciplinarian !;
he discharged a conductor for passing the
family of director who had pass, as the
conductor knew, but had left it at home
Soon after the new year came in, Mr.. Mccall
lum took the cars himself; and being asked
by another conductor, who had the case of
the other fresh in his memory, for his pass
showed one for 1856; the conductor refused
to acknowledge it. and, though the superin'
tendent explained and said it was all right,
and if not would be made right, the conduc.
tor would not yield, but made him pay his
full fare. and we trust the FIVE cents extra
for rot buying ticket Mr.. McCallum will
probably not venture abroad again without
having pass up TO time.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

Mopksry.--An exchange says there is
young woman "out in Afkansaw" so modest,
that she had young man turned out Of
doors for saying the wind had shifted"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

tw- The returns show that one hundred
and fifty vessels were driven ashore, and
eighty totally wrecked, with many others
damaged, during the late frightful gale, on
the coasts of the United Kingdom, involving
great loss Of life. B84gA
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

PRoLirIc.-A lady recently stopped at the
Madison House, Covington, KY, with her
husband and thirty two children. She was
about 60 years Of age, but looked young and
hearty. She is the mother Of all the chill.
drep.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

ew-The prosperity Of man lies in this one
Standardization. Convey humanity to this
fountain Of happiness, and you bestow ev.
erylhiug--all msans o: power and greatness.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

.W When you heara young lady express
aversion for little children-infer that her
bear. has been ossified by tight lacng.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

NEw FillxouE soSe--sung at the cutting
down Of all the Fillmore poles:
"woodman, spare them poles.
Touch not single one;
Last fall thel cheered our souls
lust let 'em stand for fun"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

Go IT WHILE You'RE YoUNe.-This appears
says the Mobile Register, to be the motto of
the youth of the present age Yes, go it
while you're young, no matter if you violate
every law Of nature, no matter If you palsy
the nerves of youth. no matterif II you weaken
the mind which God has given you, no matter
if you peril your immortal soul. Go lit while
you're young Life is short at the best. and
a few years more or less will make no differ
ence. Go it, and show your recklessness of
life, by laughing to scorn all the laws which
should regulate your existence. Go it, peril
your soul and scoff at the goodness of God,
by showing that you entertain no fear of ca
loric, or, in the language Of drunken boy
whom we met in the streets the other night,
"hurrah for HI, whose afraid of fire."
Yes, go it while you're young-smoke your
cigar chew your tobacco, drink your whis-
key, spend your nights in revelry and licen-
tiousness, and be man. Yes, by all means.
60 it-laugh at the old foges who tender you
advice--tell your father he Is not fast enough
for this progressive age, and when your mo
ther demonstrates with you upon late hours,
inform the old lady that in your opinion
women are weak minded, and know very
little of what is proper for a man.
Yes, by all means, go it while you're
young" for rest assured that "when you get
old you can't" Plant the seeds Of dissipa.
ton in the garden Of your heart. and if the
devil don't reap the fruit of your husbandry,
we are not true prophet, that's all. Go it
while you're Young.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-13

Y- Scarlet Fever is raging throughout
Northern Mississippi. ag