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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-18


THE AGrrAroR.-The agitator is the gren.
test curse that ever afflicted any people,
The ordinary criminal is but an excrescence
upon society, that is eusly Topped Of, or, ut
the worst, nothing more than slight tumor,
that is soon cured, but the ngita,or is very
cancer upon the body polite, uncurable, in
its nature, and destructive in its rayages-
When the william, with stealthy steps and
bloody hands, enters at midnight the dwell
ing of citizen. nnd destroyes his life and
hears away his property, he creates jar upon
society, from which, however, 1t soon rscov.
ers: but the fierce and unrelenlng ngtafor,
that with clamOrOus rhetoric and denuncia.
tory malice. is sternalIy railing out his cur
ses and anathemas against his neghb0r, and
thus embroinga whole community in dis.
cord and strife and hate, disturbs and derau.
ges the whole machinery of ofgovernment.
In this country We have the agitator in his
worst form. tie seems to flourish and thrive
mostin republics. Every excellence has itsevil
connected with it, and this is one of the al.
Toys that will mix itself with free einstItutions.
Here we behold the monster in his completest
Developments. His hideous proportions rise
before IN at every step, and his loathesome,
gaunt visage follows society every where
WnI M.. i,s 1,",,e'oaS nna. ana '''-ooalhg 'eer'-
1'asA''lss DaMner.
DAN NICE HAS fIGHr;-During the visit
OF Dan Rices Clrcus to Upper Canada, m
English oaliy allowed that he con'd lick "any
TWO fansers that ever was born" Dan
doubled this, ana informed the Engishmen
ina. IN the absence Of "a pair oi Yankees
he might Try his hand on him. The English
and hit IN, EnClishmon under his lsf, eor
The EngIshman went ND about 1--WE feet.
leaving his boots behind. Epglishman came
down again, and fell like log Dan cot a
physician, bled the Englishman, and brought
him too. Having done this, he sent Rim
home on shutter. The affair occurred about
twenty miles from Niagara. The lickjnp
was so we'll deserved, and 40 haudsomelS
finished off, that il added TO Dams popularity
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-18

taH- Atkins majority over Elhridge for
Congress, is H.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-18

THE ATLANTIC TELEsRApH CABLE-Wds
it Snapped by Design'-An extraordinary
article appears in the New York Commercial
Advertiser, in relation to the brenking of the
Atlantic submarine cable. II is directly inii-
mated that the ielegraphic dispatches from
Vnleniia stating that the wire was broken in
consequence Of the application Of the brakes
by the engineer, were prepared by persons in
the interest of the company, and not to bc
relied upon.
We are then told that, on enquiry, 1t will
be found that the cable was broken on pnr-
pose, il having become apparent that the
rapidty with which the lateral currents were
running off with the wire, would use up the
line before the vessels were one-third the
way across, and that :his alternative was
adopted under the conviction that it was bet
ter to lose 300 milos of the wire than to pro-
ceed in the face Of the certainty that the
whole Of il would be lost in mid-ocean. II is
broadly asserted that the directors have not
told the truth, and some very pertinent qnrs-
tons nre put TO them which It will be difficult
TO pass over without answering. If all this
be true, then-that is to say, If the lateral
currents offer so serious nm obstacle in the
success of the plan, whnt becomes Of those
"deep sea-sounding" reports, which aver that
no obstacle would BE- met with on this score,
ind that the wire would sink TO its bad in
still winter, undisturbed by any influence
whatsoever?
The Significance Of this article consists, not
in the fact that it appears ms newspaper
editorial, but in the wel-grounhed suspicion
that il is the product of s"me pers"n on the
other side, whose position qualified him to
write undrrstandingly upon the subject.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-18

NEw YoRK, Sept. 8.-Several failures are
reported on corn exchange. Names pnsn-
nopnced.
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SELECTING HoGs.-A correspondent of
the Ohio Farmer gives some practical hints
on hog raising. He says that farmers
should, in selecting hogs, get short cared,
short-noscd, short-legged, and short. haired
animals. They will fat easier, and when fat
tened, the pork is white, tender, and good.
A slice of sugar cured ham from such hog
would almost tempt Jew to violate his
vows of abstinence from unclean animals
The By6eld, Berkshire, China, Grass breed,
and Suffolk, have all been tried, and some
of them condemned. The China for instance,
fats easy, but is too small limbed, perhaps, for
profit. The Suffolk, perhaps, is too destitute
of hair for our climate, unless well sheltered
in winter, but mixtures are undoubtedly
good. Mix the China with the large framed
Berkshire, and we shall get large framed
hogs easily fattened. Far better for our farm
ers, who are cursed with these long -nosed,
aap-eared, grisly.haired squealers, to kill
them and throw them to the buzzards, than
to try to fatten them.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-17

HINTS TO RMERs-Toads are the best
protection of cabbage against lice.
Plants, when dropping, are revived by a
few grains of camphor.
Pears are generally improved by grating
on the mountain ash.
Sulphur is valuable in preserving grapes,
etc., from insects.
Lard never spoils in warm weather. if it is
cooked enough in frying out
In feeding corn, sixty pounds ground go
as far as one hundred pounds in the kernel.
Corn meal should never be ground very
fine, it Injuries the richness of it.
Turnips of small size have double the nu-
tritious matter that large ones have.
Rats and other vermin are kept away from
grain by sprinkling of garlic when packing
the sheaves.
Money expended in drying land, by
draining or otherwise, will be returned with
ample interest
To cure scratches on horse, wash their
legs with warm soap suds, and then with
beef brine. Two applications will cure the
worst case.
Timber, when cut in the spring, and ex-
posed to the weather with the bark on, de-
Gays much sooner than if cut in the fall.
Wild onions may be destroyed by culti-
vating corn, blowing and leaving the corn in
the plowed state all winter
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-17

MIXED GRAMMAR.-A great many pet.
pie find much difficulty in saying what they
meal as much perhaps as some editors find
in meaning what they say. A certain wit
ness in an assault and battery suit we once
heard mix things up considerably in giving
his account of the affair. After relating
how Dennis came up to him and struck him,
he proceeded:
$50 yer honor, just hauled off and
wiped his jaw. Just then his dog cum
along and | hit him again and dropped
him."
"Hit the dog"
"No yer honor, hit Dennis. And then I
up with stone and throwed it at him, and
it rolled him over"
"Threw a stone at Dennis?"
"A.the dog yer honor. And he got up
and hit me>asain."
"The dogT'
"No, Dennis. A wrd>dat he stuck his
tail betwixt his legs and run OFF,
"Dennis ?"
"No, the dog. And when he come back
at me he got me down and pounded me, yer
honor"
"The dog came back atyou?"
"No, Dennis, yer honor. And that's all
I did to him yer honor, and he amt hurt
any at ALL"
"Who isn't hurt"
"The dog, yer honor"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-17

A SMALL DOSE OF LINE ON WHEAT
Several intelligent gentlemen think that they
found much benefit the past year by the ap-
plication of a few bushels of water slaked
lime, in checking the ravages of the fly
The dry powder is sown lightly over the
wheat early in the morning or in damp
weather. 1t is safer to SOW both 10 the Fall
and Spring, about the time the fly is likely
to make its appearance.
1t is supposed TOO, by some, that this
Homeopathic does frequently repeated is the
most effective way of using lime. 1t is one
of those things which can 10 no harm, but
may prove on further experience to be valu-
able, and is therefore we'll worth trying.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-17

A COLLEGE ANEcDoTE.-A correspon-
dent of the Troy 1Thig, writing from Mid
dlebury VT, gets off the following good bur-
lesque of the shallow metaphysics and num-
merry of most modern colleges:
You have published the anecdotc of a
College student who kept barrel of ale in
his room for the benefit of his health, and
who thought it much improved from the
ease with which he could lift the barrel in
comparison with that operation on his first
using the medicine: there is another auec-
dote of the same person which has not ap-
peared in print 1t was the custom at the
college where this gentleman attended, for
the professors to put to the class miscellane-
Gus questions, which they were expected to
answer off hand. On one of these occasions
the professor turned to our hero and asked
him the following:
"To which, sir, does the united voice of
all antiquity ascribe the seniority, poetry or
prose %
The stndent rose with the utmost gravity,
and turning to the large crowd assembled,
said:
"Gentlcmen, the learned professor asks
me to which does the united voice of all an
tiquity ascribe the seniority, poetry or prose ?
I would say in answer to the question, to
which does the voice of all antiquity ascrbe
the seuiority,-poetry or prose, that have
not the remotest idea to which it does as
cribe the seniority, and furthermore l don t
care straw"
The student took his scat, amid not the
laughter, but wild demoniacal shrieks of the
class. Even the sober professor could not
restrain himself. But discipline must be en-
forced, and our hero was summoned to ap-
pear before the President AS be was not
unused to summonses of that nature, he
sauntered leisurely to the executive mansion
and confronted the head of the faculty.
This awful parsonage charged him with the
crime Of impertiuence in the class, and ask
ed him what he had to say for himself The
student made a long speech in exculpation,
the groundwork of which was-that from
his earliest years he had possessed great
love for truth, which compelled him to speak
it on all occasions That when asked the
question, to which the united voice of all
antiquity ascribed the seniority, poetry or
prose, he felt that he didn't know or care a
straw; and such was his regard for truth,
that he had to say it right out.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-17
DICK DAILY's STUMP SPEECH.

TELLER C1TIzENs-This are day for the
poperlation of Boonville, like bob,tailed
pullet on rickety hen roost, to be lookin'
up. A crisis have arriven, and somethin's s
bust What are We? Here is, and I'd
stand here and e4pirate from now till the
day of the synagogues, if you'd whoop for
Dick Daily.
FeVcr Cui:ens-Jerusalem to pay and we
amt got any pitch hot. Our hyperbolical
and majestic canal of creation has unshipped
her rudder, and the captains broke his neck,
and the cook s div to the depths of the vaSty
deep in search of dimuns. Our wigmam'
torn to pieces, like a shirt on brush fence,
and cities of these ere latitudes is vanishin'
in blue fame. Are such things to be did !
I ask you in the name of the American Ea-
gle, who whipped the shaggy-headed lion,
and now sets roostin' on the magnetic tele-
graph, if such doin' is to be conclomerated? ?
I repeat to you, in the name of the peacock
of Liberty that's aewin' over the cloud cap
ped SUBMITS of the Rocky Mountains, if we's
goin' to be extemporaneously begogged in
this fashion?
"Oh, answer me,
Let me not blush in ignorance"
as Shakapeel says. Shall we be bamboozled
with such unmitigated audaciousuess? Me-
thinks I hear you yelp, "No sir, hoss fly"
Then 'lect me to Congress, and there'll be a
revolution certain.
FcVer Chi=ens-If was standing on the
adamantine throne of Jupiter, and the light
min was fashin' around me, I'd continue to
spout I'm full of the bilin' lather of Mount
Etny, and l won't be squenched! I've
sprung leak, and must howl like bear
with sore head. Flop together jump in
to ranks and bear ME through.
Fcller Citiseas-You know me, and rip
me out with a mill grab if won't stick to
you like brick dust to ba. of soap. Whar
is my opponent? No whar I was brought
up among ye, feller citizens, and papped in
a school house, but he can't get around me
with his hifalutiu, big words-Hictum,
stric:um, catnip, abaranto, Brazeel, Engloo-
ney and Baffn's Bay! What do you think
o. that?
$50 it porkey-root hog or die,
as Shakapeel said when Caesar stabbed him
in the House of Representatives.
Feler Citisens-'Lect me to Congress,
and I'll abolish mad dogs, muskeeters and
bad cents, and 60 in for the annihilation of
niggers, camp meetin's and jails. I'll re-
pudiate crows and fustifben hawx-1'll have
barn raisins every day, and Ticker enough to
swim in. Yes, feller citizens, 'lect me to
Congress, and shall be led to exclaim, in
the terrific language of Bonyparte when
preachiugin the wide wilderness
Richards himself again."
On, then onward to the polls !-'gallop
apace ye fiery footed steed," and make the
welking tremble with anti-spasmodic yells
for Daily.
"Hence, ye Brutus! broad axe and glory
Let's licker!
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We WILL ALL take A RIDE ~
MILES JOHNSON, ESQ.

MILES JOHNSON, ESQ,
To his numerous friends,
His work go admirable commends,
Where grace and strength in beauty blends,
And cheapness, not less lovely, lends
Her true poetic fire.
Come one, come all!
Come ye trudgers through the sand!
Come We gay and gallant band,
Who ride for show, for pleasure and
Digestions, sake ;-MILES JOHNSON can
Relieve you ALL
He's Brides, Saddles,
Buggy .fxings also nice and fine,
And trappings to suit every mind,
And everything that's most divine
In the Horse .contraption line,
To suit oil straddles.
The beautiful
Assortment which he has on hands,
Now awaits his friends commands,
His Martingals, Bits and Crupper-bands
Your close attention too demands;-
Be dutiful.
Come all and see
MILES JOHNSON; on the second floor,
Over WEIKERT & McCANTS'-once more
He invites you-furthermore,
He has something nice in store,
Call, call and see
Sept II 81 If
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THE DEcLARATT A GRoG SELLER
Not one hundred 8 from this place,
there may be foun'au who is regular.
ly engaged in bu, the evident effects
of which are bitiars, poverty, rags,
blood-shed and de,ut who is honest
enough (if a grog can be honesty to
declare, that he alknew that it was a
mean business, an only difference in a
mans stealing anog liquor for a live
lihood, consisted e ones having the
sanction of the lnd its being denied
to the ether.
Hear it, oh " sharks; yourselves
being judges; yoleDgaged in calling
as bad as stealin!or an unholy, rum
loving, drunken law makers, cannot
make stealing, hy roberry or murder
right, much less lest of all the hellish
crimes that is noing the country with
hard times and immoralities, (viz:)
selling intoxicatiuors.
Spirit Of the Age.
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RAMS SAYS
HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
WILL be repubished early in 1853, in tw,

! WILL be republishcd early in 1853, in two
w lnrge Volumes octave, $50 pages each Vol
une. printed on fine, white paper. bound in SUBJ
s'antial c'oth-gilt. 1t seems hardly necessary to
add anything to the above. Ramsay's History of
South Carolina is great work; he hns an eye
witness, and participated in many of the events
about which he writes. We, South Carolinians
are too ignorant of our own history, and the Pub
Usher has undertaken the work with view to
supply demand which has been felt for some
time. The fact is there is more interest felt nov
in the History of our State, than ever was before
All accounts of our ancestors are now beginning
to wake up our minds to lively interest Whea
we see them bravng the hardships of the desert,
overcoming every difficulty from savage foe, and
meeting the stalwart Briton in long, distractipp
and bloody war, we are pleased with every danger
they escaped, and wish to trace out the most mi
mute events Of their history. Send on your name
early to the subscriber.
intend to get out the Work early in 1866
Price, in substantial Cloth, 1925 per Volume:
Half Calf, $1,000. Sold by subscription. payable
on delivery. W. ]. DUFFIE,
Bookseller, Newberry, So. Ca.
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FARMERS CLUBs.-Every school district
should have Farmers Club. Friends, s. to
work, all over the country, and organize such
societies. You must do this, or something
like it to keep up with the times. Hold a
weekly meeting for mutual improvement in
agriculture, for the next sixteen weeks, and
mark down the result, and we think you
will be convinced that such an arrangement
will be useful.
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TO PLANTERS and HOUSE BUILDERS.

VNHE Subscriber returns his thanks for the very
Il liberal patronage received for the past, and
takesthis method to inform the citizens ofYork and
the surrounding Districts, and the 7hole South,
thath he has effected another improvement in the
Cotton Gin and Wheat Thrasher,
that excels any that have ever been introduced
heretofore; and from long experience he has no
fear in challenging any other Factory, either North
or South, to produce an equal. He feels very con-
fdent in saying to the public, that his Gins excel
in performance any other make or pattern now in
use. With dry cotton the roll cannot be broken
or made to spew over, which no other pretends to
claim, and with good driving power and attend
ance, As saw gin, will
Gin from 4 to 6 Bales or more in Day
weighing from $50 to 400 tbs which is as much
as any one hand can we'll handle in day. Any
person wanting a superior Gin or Thrasher, can
be supplied by sending on his order to me at
Lewisvile, Chester Dist, s. C.
Work will be shipped to any place desired. RE.
PAIRING done at the shortest possible notice.
To House-bulders, will say that am manu.
featuring
SASH BLINDS AND DOORS,
of every description, made of the best material,
and dry lumber, and workmanship the very best.
All work carefully packed and forwarded to or
der. JOHN SIMPSON.
June -, 1856 "a If
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a8ADon't beed my honest boy, c

Hg-Don't beed my honest boy, of
that patch on yot. 1t is more an evil
dence of indust, of disgrace. 1t tells
that you have az, industrious mother.
That bright bluh is thousand times
more beautiful onorable than the ugly
oaths that are efrom the sinful lips of
that proud, 6nessed boy going down
the street towaIgrog-shop. No good,
higtminded bomake sport of you be-
cause of that pnd if that profane boy
curses ~, for!verty, go straight away
from him-he make you swear Be
honest, indus land never fear. You
will make gan yet. Fine clothes
and riches aree security against the
misery Of a dis life and terrors of
his fearful eirsevere in the right,
patch or nop' -
Spirit cTrae-dae.
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~CHINEsE SUGAR CANE SEED..-The Gin
cinuati Gazette says that Messrs. Higman Il
Cox, of Sharouville, have a spirited horse,
which has been fed on this seed for four
weeks, and was neverin better case, although
worked hard all the time. Many other hor-
ses in the same place, have been freely fed
on the sorghum seed without any bad effect,
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SEWING MACHINES.
TO Manufacturers, Planters and Private
Families,

In purchasing such an article as q SEWING
Il MACHINE, the true policy is to buy the best.
!. NJ. SINGER g. Co.'S GAZETTE, beautiful
pictorial paper, contains full and reliable inform
alton about SEWING MACHINES, and answers
all questions that can be asked on the subject
All who read this paper will learn how to pur-
chase Sewing Machine with which 81, 900 year,
clear profit, can be made, and will be protected
from being imposed on by some of the humbug
Machines now before the public. Singer & Co.'s
Machine is arranged to do coarse and fine work of
every description. The Gazette may be obtained
gratis on application at any of Singer & Co.'S Off,
ces. A machine can be seen in operation at the
Tailor Shop Of Mr.. W. C. OWEN, of Yorkvlle,
5. c. L. NJ. GRIST, at the ENQUIRER Office, is
an authorized agent.
Singer & Co.'s Charleston Office, 324 Kng-st
Principal Office, 323 Broadway, New York.
July g 1857. 26 If
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S. D. WATSON,
MONTGOMERY, ALA,

MONTGOMERY, Ala,
" EEPS on hands for sale, good assortment
IN of PLANTATION NEGROES, HOUSE-SER-
WANTS, MECHANICS. CARRIAGE DRIVERS,
&c. Also, sells on Commission at Auction or
Private Sale, and hopes liberal share of patron
age from his native country
REF EREN ICES:
TorkviUe, S. C.-Col. l. D. Witherspoon, G. W.
Williams, Col. VIM. C. Beatty, Samuel Young
blood, Jno. L. Miller.
Charlotte, ". C.-R. H. Maxwell, S. A. Harris,
James A. Sadler, Capt J. X. Harrison, James II.
Davis.
Columbia, S. C.-P. NJ. Huson, Capt Jesse
DeBruhl, A. NJ. Hunt, Richard O'Neall
Feb II ly
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TO THE PUBLIC,

PHOTOGRAPHY in all its various bran
Il ches, is still practiced by the subscriber, one
door West of the PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
will attend to taking PICTURES EVERY SAT-
UhDAf as heretofore; and on other days between
the hours of half past eleven and two o'clock.
Yours thankfully for past favors.
]. R. SCHORB.
Sept 10 SO 1y