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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

FAULT FINDING. Having in my youth,
notions of severe pietv, says celebrated Per.
sian writer, ! used to rise in the night 10
watch. pray, and read the Koran. One night
ms was engaged IN these exercises my fifth
er. man OF practical virtue, awoke while |
wus rrnding.
"Brhod," said to him, "thy other children
are lost in irrrligious slnmber. while alone
awake to praise God"
"Son of my snu', !; is better to sleep
than to wake to remark the faults of thy
breLhren."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

IMPORTANT MsSEMENT IN REGARD TO
CENTRAL AMERicA--'rhe New York Tri-
buns OF wednesday, contains the following
paragraph, which is ofthe ''important-if-true"
order:
European officer apparently OF very
superior military eduNton, is now actively
engaged in different Safes Of the Union in
-nlisling officers fw ome unknown military
purpose. Only officen of artillery and engi-
neers ,ble TO direct the construction Of for
ii6cations are wanted. These enlistments are
made with the osiepsille design of forming
n standing army In Central America and
putting that country in an efficient state Of
defense against any future attack of fillibus-
terers. According to statements made in
connection with thpse proceedings, the live
repub les of Central America are to be trans.
formed into one monarchy The plan is to
be carried out with the aid of political
party in Mexico, and the landing of a militia.
ry force to be effected in one of the posfs
on the Mexican coast south Of Coatzacoal-
COS. The whole intrigue may be in connec-
tion with the movements of Santa Anna,
though il would appear that the immediate
destination of the officers to bs enlisted is
really Central Amefica, and as it is known
that the individual who is enlisiing them has
lately made tour through the State Of
Guatemala.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

WHAT IT Is MAZE UP oF.-A fgrrin' ge-
MUS says that the d'nsns OF the United States
shows that we hav two million and a half
of farmers, one hu ,dred thousand merchants
sixty four ,housanl mnsons, and nearly two
hundred THOUSAND carpenters. We have
fourteen thousandbakers to bike our bread
twenty four thous nd lawyers to set us by
the ears; forty thousand doctors to kin or
cure ns and fifiea hundred editors to keep
this motly mass il order, by the power oi
public opinion, coarolIed and manufactured
through the press
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

tW- The mind Of New England is of that
intense activity, that it oscilates and vi.
bra,es, mt like pendulum, but very unlike
the regularities of pendulum. The days
of Salem witchcraft are not yet reached there
but almost,--and the very Spiritualism
prospers, and all other isms, among our New
England population, which seems to indicate
a return Of the Salem scenes, and the Gays
of Mrs. Hutchinson g. Co.
What's 10 be done with such brain, pom
py-lke, all running to seed! When it de.
velopes itself upon mntter and machinery
that mind becomes genius,-but when II
runs upon "spirit," "social" or "mind,' 1t is
as near infdelity in everything as anything
can well be that is not really infdel. Suc'
cessfui in turning lath, or making useful
waterfall, omnipotent over wood, and brass
and iron,-it fancie. itself to be just as ON
nipotent over mind as over matter,-and
hence, in New England, faith is failing, rev.
eTeHCo 70 EoHts HVCcueHtS "to hssio w "o'"-
ing. experience is a mockery. Even the
Deity is doubted,-if Deity's scriptures
conport moi with Yankee definitions. What
the world has been accustomed to call Re
ligion, seems now 70 have but very feeble
hold upon much Of the New England mind.
But what's to be done with this 6rai3-
this seed without. stalk this balloon with
out anchor,-this steam without rudder OF
stop cockl II the teachers of New England
will stick 1t down to cypherng, as well as to
1readng and wriling,"-if they will put il
through course Of severe mathematics, the
higher order of geometry, comic SECTIONS
&C., &c, there may be some hope. Euclid
is now Of great deal more importance in
New England than Emerson, or Evertt, OF
Lorgfellow.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

DEcFAsE OF BRILLIANT GrNIUs.-Dr.
Jno. Dunn, son of the late Hon. George H.
Dunn OF Indiana, died in New Orleans on the
9Th instant. DR.. Dunn was man Of more
than ordinary ability. The New Albany
Tribune says:
"As poet, as painter, as physician, or as
a man of science, he could have acquired a
brilliant name in the world II he had not
wrecked his early prospects in the FLOWING
bowl And yet, strange to say, no man has
ever written more strongly against the use Of
intoxicating liquors than DR.. Dunn. His
poem, French John excels the bitterest de-
nuncialion OF the traffic we have ever rrad.--
His pencil has also bsen used in the same
gssnsb gssn sbasl lhfes fsss hs ,sepd snl" on Tor time
now, in public hall in Indianapolis, one OF
these pictures, in which is represented a wo.
man trying to prevail upon her husband, pen
in hand, to sign the pledge. On the other
side appears his satanic majesty, tempting
the poor fellow with mint julip.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

A HoRsE SUICIDE The Washington Star
SAYS: "The other evening, n middl--aged
horse of respectable appearance walked de.
liberately over the river bank, at n point
where it was almost perpendicular descent of
twenty-five feet. After performing this ex-
lraordinary feat, he walked out on the wharf
of the Messrs. Gafl g. Young, md cody step
ped on board the schooner w. II. Burns,
which lay close 70 the wharf. He then
walked across the schooner and jumped in
to the river from he waist of the vessel, and
after swiming ou as far MS his strength
would permit, he SINK to make food Ior the
fishes. The motive for this extraordinary
suicide was locked up in the breast OF this
poor beast, and perishrd with him, aud il re-
mains "A secret whether he was crossed in
love, or was labormg under morbid forebo-
diugs in view OF The coming hay crop.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

A GREEN Ros,-The editor Of the New
Orleans Picayuns US seen curiosity in the
shape of a green Hse--the leaf, stalk, bud
and flower, like N "red, rose" except that
all Ia of one unifotn color. The specimen
show n the editor the Picayune was deli
ciously fragrant, living the full scent of the
wild sweet briar. l'rhey are said to b. by M
means rare there, Tor have they been for
years.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

tF- A Lawyer, in addressing jnry, mrds
n strtement that greatly rxnsprrated hT oppo
neni, who spranp to his feet and Sclim' d:
"Sir, do v0u say ,hn. as n mnnl u Won say
itns u lawyer, Il Is all right: but II you s"y It
us "A man Ion ip!"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

tR- Mr. and Mrs. Mahony live in Chicogo.
They quarrel. The other day they got to
throwing soda bottles ut ench other and cnt
each Others faces badly. Then Mrs. NJ. had
Mr.. NJ. arrested; hut the next morning she
appeared and averred there had been n"
trouble between them. To this was opposed
the evidence Of "a black eye upon her counter
ance and cut upon his head. She said the
COW kicked her and he said the horse kicked
him, and they got of.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

SABA Fort Dodge paper wants infor
nation of any friend of a little boy now il
that town, h single survivor of n whole fami
" butchered by the Indians at Springfield
Minnesota, in March. He gives his name II,
John Sidman Stewart, son of Josiah Stewart
formerly of Indiana county, Pennsylvania -
His mothers maiden name wns probably
Fleming. Also Of the friend ofa young lady
about sixteen years old, named Elizabeth
Gnrdness, who alone of her family escaped
death. Her father was formerly from Steu-
ben comfy, New York.-She too is at Fort
Dodge, but knows none Of her relatives.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

SPIDER BIrss The Boston Traveller,
noticing another death from the bite of a
spider, recommends the trial OF whiskey as
nm antidote to the poison. lhvrrt small
glass bottle, containing the liquor, over the
wound, no that the whiskry cannot rvaporate,
until the poison is extracted, md II the virus
has got into circulation, drink a little whiskey
TO cOunteract II.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

tw- Swift held the doctrine. that there
were three places where man shonld be
allowed to speak without contradiction, viz:
the bench, the pulpit, aud the galows."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

TAKISe AN AUcrioStER AT his W,RD-
Ladies' and gentleman, I'm not selling these
goods, Tn giving them away Then, said
Finn, coolly, III thank you TO hand me that
silver tea-pot you have in your hnnd.' A
roar of laughter, in which the auctionpsr
joined, greeted The remarks Of the profession
nj wag.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

New YoRK, June 23.-SheriG Church and
his deputies, while proceeding io u --"Ie Of
certain property for rent on Saturday 10
Berpe county, was fired upon from ambush.
The parties we're arrested and the sale pro.
caaI.d
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

n-rA cn,ious juxiaposiiion OF names 90
Cured VI Lowell some twenty yrnrs ago..
There we're elk physicians in the Iben town
two of them bole the name Of Tootbake,
two Pillsbury, and the other two that Of
Grnves,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

RkcRulrIso FOR WivEs-A man named
Charles Bird-and very nice bird he must
be--is travelling in Pennsylvania. -ndeavoring
~ recruit wives for the Utah Saints. He held
forth at the Markei-house in York, Pa, last
Sunday, hut wns interrupted by the police,
who broke up the meeting To prevent the
Mormon Bird from bring mobbed by the in
dignnnt neople.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

edw- Whenever you 20 TO drown yourself,
always take along your corks, for after you
get into the water, you may change your
mind to take n bath.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

~ A boy, nj recent examination In an
English school, vas asked who discovered
America! u wish may die" says British
editor, "ii he didn't answer--Yankee Dood-
ilei~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

A YANKEES ESTIMATION Of TRuTH-"A
Yankee" says Wendell Philips, the "a
Yankee don't care for trutl,---he won't nc.
crpt it unless you first prove to him that il Ia
worth at least ten pei cent. per annum!"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

IMPRovE! IMPRovE!!-Dont wait for others
TO commence, but begin yourself. Agricul-
ture woud have been reformed long ago, II
Farmers did not look for others to commence,
rather than themselves.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

t9w Rev. Samuel Bryson died in Centre
county, Pa. lately, nped 90 years. His broth
er. Rev. J. Bpson died some time ago, aged
90.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

A MIDNIGHT APPARITloH--ln Wisconsin
In the midst of the terrible storm which pre-
vailed on the night of Saturday, some Of the
residents on the line OF the Belot aud Mad
ison Railroad heard, ut midnight, the very
unusual sound of n railway train laundering
along the track. MANY sprang from their
beds, and locked out into the darkness, and
the tightening revealed TO their aston;sed
eyes glimpses of a baggage car and two pas
senger cars rushing by without locomotive
or tender, and not snn to be seen on bpard.
Occurring at the time when the fierce st"rm,
with its heavy thunder and lurid Tightening,
was prevailing, the event assumed t. many
minds n supernatural character, and there
we're those even who loDgrd for The day TO
come with trembling hearts, tor all must bs
awnre that superstition and credulity are not
vet bnnished from ihr enrth II was just
the night for such n thing to happen, accor-
ding to all the established rules laid dawn
for ghosts aud demons ~ indulge their
fearful revels.
In the morning, locomotive containing
an engineer nnd conductor came quietly by,
and The people learned that the cnrs they
had seen We're nothing more nor Less than
runaways They had been standing on the
truck at Fortvllp; the high wind had started
tncm tIey wcre sriown grade, all ut-
tempt to stop them after they had got under
way, was useless; ard so they went rushing
along the inclined rails With graduulIy nc
c. cterating speed, ill several miles distant
coming upon n level, the force of their for
ward motion wns exhausted, and they
brought up at Alton, where the conductor
found them uniniurpd A very uood uhnet
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

Hg- The "retired physician" who adver-
t,ses himself in the papers as Dr.. H. James,
Jersy City, "whose sands of life have nearly
run out" the Courier says, is doing an ex'
cellent business, and is corresponding with a
large number of deludrd victims, for very
moderate consideration from each. He is
said to be young man, about twenty-five
years old, in good health, and engaged most
of the time in writing for the New York
Sunday papers. The Courier says his "sands
of life" will continue to run as long as sands
of gold run into his pocket.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

AN EcoNoMIcAL HAN-Nr. kupp, Pennsyl.
vania Avenue, Wilmington, was on Monday
serving up julrp' made of halstones, OF
which he gathrred three Kegs on Sunday
afternoon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

New YoRK, June 29.-F"ur serious riots
occurred IN this vicinity on Sunday last At
the Hudson Park German picnic was attnck-
ed by sumo rowdirs and several Of the form
or were injured.
H. the ilth ward a gang Of rowdirs at
tackled Capt Mckinley Of the 18th ward po-
lice, seven of his men were dangerously in
iured.
Al Williamsburg the German md Irish
had fight, at which three persons were stal''
bed. The frrmen also hud u free fight" at
Brooklyn, two rival fire companies had a
conflict and several were injured.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

SOLEMN AND TRAGIC During the
night of the storm on Sunday evening n
scene occurred at house in Green street Of
character to render it indellible upon the
mind of spectator. The mora! that il
tenches is fearful. A family was seated
around u table engaged in ordinary conver-
saion when dispute among some Of the
children and yonng people took place.
Words grew high, and the mother attempted
TO quel the disturbance. In turn, she was
made the oject of their anger, and while the
heated blood was finding vent in words the
parent arose from her seat and once more in
terposrd. 1t was ONO avail, and the par
ties nearly came to blows. At that moment,
while from her own children Goals OF mental
fire were being henped upon the mother, she
suddenly sunk down dead! and her last
breath WAS drowned bv the angry voices of
her offsprings, The feelings Of those pres
ent no words can adequately describe, but
on their minds for years to come we should
imagine that an Impress would remain Of the
angry group, the little room, and the dying
mother reviled BY her own chdren.-Phil-
adelphia Euening Journal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

Grhis reported that Gen. Martinez Is
provisional President Of Nicaragua and Gen.
Tunsy 10 named as Foreign MiDistsr Of War.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

sAe- Some man, from considerable why
down East, has invented what he calls the
"Pasent Never-fai'ing Garden-Preserver. or
Hrn-Walker." The invention consists Of a
small instrument, something like spur, only
considerably longer, which is attached to the
hind part Of the hens leg, painting at the
angle Of iorty-fve degrees towards the
ground. When the hen, with this instru-
ment IN her legs, enters the garden In the
spring after the seeds and puts her foot for
ward TO scratch, the "walker" catches in the
ground and forces her forward; and thus she
Is walked in her Efforts to scratch, entirely
out of the garden. That will do!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

TOBACCO IN CHURcH-When reforms are
once commenced IN the West, they are car
ried out with vigor-"done brown" in the
very brownest manner. They have new
church in Davenport. Iowa. The following
notice appeared with the opening Of the ed
ihce:
"The chewers Of tobacco are requested to
avoid the use of the article in church, or else
spit in their hats"
A new church in Ohio has large spittoon
at the entrance. labeled, "Gentlemen are re-
quested 10 leave their tobacco here"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

WAsHISeTos, July, 1.-The overland mai
route To California has been selected, begin
pig at st, Louis and Memphis, thence form.
ing junction at Little Rock, Ark, in the d.
rection Of Preston to the Rio Grande, neal
Fort Fillmore or Donna Anna, thence along
the road being constructed to Fort Yuma
thence through the best passes to San Fran
caco
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

road by the MarIes, and came along after
wards in their rer sithout molestn.ion, and
those killed and goUnded by the Marines in
connection with he circumstance of the cap
ture of that littA gun proving to be Anti
Know Nothings,it would seem that they
must have belonIed 10 that party. will
only add that thge b no stronger proof in
support Of the SOY that gang of "Plug
Uglics" were hen rom Baltimorr, than there
il in support of be pther report that band
of "rnffi MS" calling themselves the "Empire
Club" came here f1m the Eighth Ward in
Baltimore, for the prpnse of interrupting the
election in our Fourh Ward, which had be-
fore given small njoriiy for the American
party, in the hope, terehy, of preventing the
election of an Ameicrn Alderman for that
Ward, and conseQunty securing for the
"Anti Known -Nothins" a majority in that
branch of the City legislature. But, really,
there is no reliable ,vidence in support OF
either,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10
THE SWITCH OF rHE COMETS TAIL.

THE SWITCH OF rHE COMETS TAIL
We observe that certain OF our cotempora
ries have taken up, in humorous way, th'
assumption of the possibility which some o
our friends advanced week ago, that in tlm'
to come, the non-appearancs Of the grea
comet, Charles v. would lead to the settled
conviction that the prophecy Of certain crazy
savnns of Europe that the comet would strike
the earth on the 18th Of June last, or there
about, had been verified by the singular pse'
nomena Witnessed in this and the middle
States, and, to certain extent, all over the
country.
We think the comet struck, according to
prediction, and did its work unseen, except
by comparatively few individuals. And the
unparalleled tornadoes, or whatever else you
please TO call them, in this and other States,
together with the singular weather which has
prevailed for many DAYS past, showing die
turbed state o: the electric current, are evil
drnce to support our theory.
II, as is generally admitted, comets are visi-
BILE nothings; or ii, as more minutely stated
by Hrrschel, who gives his reasons for the
faith that was in him, some comets are solid
bodies, others nebulous, and Others still only
most rarely gaseous--in which latter category
Charles v would come-there is no palpable
reason why, coming head on instead of tail
foremost, we should nothrrive at the con-
clusion that we have been hit, "fair and
square," by this celestial vagrant, whose head
is "nothing," and in 50 much whose tail is his
head, and of course nothing also.
The phenomena, and the effects of the
phenomena in this State on the 18th instant,
have no parallel in the annals of atmospheric
curiosities and powers, as manifest in the
singular luminous appearance of the cloud,
and in the fact Of child being stripped of its
clothing without being injured, and at a time
when there was no appearance Of electrical
actions. together with u thousand other mar.
wells of the occasion, entirely unaccountabIe
ercepi upon the assumption of the furious
action of elements lighter than the atmcs-
phere, piable as nothing at all in contact with
solids, but swift as lightning.
Coming upon us in daytime, at the rate of
hundreds of thousands of miles in an hour, an
aggregate Of bankrupt elements many times
lighter than our atmosphere, only luminous
by borrowing the rays Of the sun, which are
so many times more vivid in our atmosphere
than in its elements, there is no rational reas.
on why il might not have crossed the earIh's
orbit and wasted its fury upon our innocent
planet without our having marked its ap-
proach except in its meteorological effect
'Tnat approach, However, ny disturbing tne
current Of our system, would have produced
effects for the time and season.
We have had those remarkable effects, as
everybody knows. Depend upon it, the comet
has struck. This decides one bet. Before
we can decide another, we must wait a cou-
pie of centuries or so to see whether it will
strike again.-N Y. Times
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10
VOL. K.--N0. 459.

THE UMBRELLomErER-BY PUNcH.-We
think the umbrella can be taken rs a very
good test Of q persons character. The man
who always takes an umbrella out with him
is cautious fellow, who abstains from all
speculation, is pretty sure to die rich. The
man who is always leaving his umbrella be-
hind him is one generally who makes no
provision for the morrow. He is reckless,
thoughtless, always late for the train, leaves
the street door open when he comes home
late at night, and absent to such degree 40
to speak III Of baby 10 the presence OF its
mamma. The man who is always losing his
umbrella Is an unlucky dog, whose bills are
always protested, whose boots split, whose
gloves crack, whose buttons are always COM
ing off whose change is sure TO have some
bad money in it. Be cautious how you lend
a Thousand pounds To such man The man
who is perpetually expressing nervous
anxiety about his umbrella, and wonderingif
it is safe, Is full of n,eanness und low suspi-
cions, with whom Il is best not to play at
cards nor drink bottle of vine. He is sure
to suspect you are cheating him, or that you
are drinking more than your share. Let him
be ever so rich, give hot your daughter to
him; he will undoubtedly take more care Of
his umbrella than of his wife. The man with
cotton umbrella is either philosopher or
an economist. He deh-s the world and all its
fashionable prejudc,s, or else he does il be-
cause it is cheaper to lose than silk one
The man who goes to the horticultural feie
without an umbrella is simply II fool, who
richly deserves the duckng he gets.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-10

hibit the comparative weakness of the South,
without such Southern "aid and comfort."-
In one breath they directly intimate to these
Black Republicans, that the South is divided
on this question (Which they know is :alse)
and in the next, they advocate a policy which
empties the jails and poor houses of Europe
of half million annually of their inmates, to
swell the ranks Of these very Black Repub-
licans. We ask any man of common sense,
of common love for his native South, If this
is either just, wise or patriotic. And to still
further expose their rottenness, they wish to
ignore the great questions which lead direct
ly to such disasters to the South, and talk
continually of such unmeaning sounds as
lS6O-"An undivided South" IL the Sontb
need saving, would it not be better for these
Solons to tell us the source of the danger
and the best way to avoid or meet that
danger!- Columbus Emo.