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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02
VOL. X.--NO. All.

PRAcTIcrEG MEDICINE UNDER DHFIcuLrfEs.
"A Philadelphia correspondent of the New
York Despatch relates the following:
A wealthy Irish citizen and an eminent
Doctor of this town had high time on Tues
day. Mr. Mahony was taken sick, and sent
for Doctor. Doctor drove up to the door,
! pulled bell, and entered sick room. He then
examined pulse, and shook his head three
times at dollar shake. Having done this,
he left seven little papers of nasti1ess, one to
be taken every ten minutes. The next day he
called again, and was ushered into the pres
ence OF the sick man, who was sitting in n
chair by the back paror widow.
SLOW dye do by this time, Mr. Mahony 2"
asked the doctor.
"Beither--a good dale 6etiher, glory be to
Godl"
"Ah, yesl Pm glad to hear i'll OF course
you took the pOwders"
"Nary powdher."
"What, didn't take 'em :" exclaimed the
wrathful doctor.
"Divil powdher Pm not cannon, am II"
"Who said you was cannon ?" asked the
doctor in high KEY,
''Nor | ain't the Fourth Of July continued
Mr.. Mahony, not needing the doctors inter-
ruption;-"nor the battle of Waterloo, nay
thur. la course I'm not. Why the diyil, thin,
do you undertake TO touch me off wild yer;
murtheriG' powdher"
Doctor then endeavored to reason with Mr..
Mahony. Mr.. Mahony talked back. Doctor
then got excited, and hit Mr.. NJ. over tho
head with cane. Mr. NJ. then fred up. He
caught Doctor by the scruii of the neck and
seat of the unmentionables, and chucked him
out of the back window. In his fall. Doctor
descended into tub of soap suds while the
servant girl in her fright sealed the back
fence, and ran down the street, yelling like
an intoxicated Indian. The police soon came
up. Doctor soon cooled down while in soap
suds, and declined TO make any complaint,
especially as he struck the first blow. Mr..
Mahony magnanimously let Doctor escape
arrest He thinks, however, that Doctors
treatment is better calculated to break cram
inms than fever. Doctor has made up his
mind to lose Mr.. Mahony's patronage
Shouldn't wonder
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

A NEW ARGUMENT FOR PACIFIC RAIL.
RoAD.-The Philadelphia Bulletin cites the
recent calamity to the Central America ms
an argument for Pacific railroad. Had
such thoroughfare existed over four hun.
dred lives would have been saved, besides a
million and half dollars in specie. good
argument, certainly, so far as the specie is
cnncarnpd
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

NEBRAsKA.-The board of canvassers Of
The Territory of Nebraska, which met at
Omaha City on the 9th, decided on the cleo
tion of delegate to Congress. After deny.
ing that they had authority to investigate the
illegal returns, or correct the frauds in certain
Mormon precincts, they gave Mr.. Furguson
acertihcate as being elected over Mr.. Chap
man by SO votes, Mr.. Chapman will contest.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

A CURIOUS DocUMENT.-The Missouri
Republican publishes a curious document
which had been forwarded to that paper TO
be reprinted for the use of the Cherokee
Indians, all the copies in their possession
being mech dilapidated by constant handling.
1t purports TO be a true account of the rela
tions sustained by Pontius PLATE to Jesus
Christ, as given in the words of Plate him.
self and of the scenes attending the trial and
cruciixion of Jesus 1t claims to have been
translated from an old Latin manuscript
found in monastery in Vienne, in France,
where, according to tradition, Pontius Plate
was buried. This document is much priced
among the Cherokees, and is read in their
families with all the faith of veritabe histo-
ry. II is probably the work ofsome imagin.
ative monk Of the middle ages.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

:g- Some of the farmers near Spring.
field, H., are offering their corn at Is cents
per bushe in the field, others at So per acre.
The ,ora crop will be enormously large.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

H- Cape Coax Is "pluce." Has plen.
ty of sand, the pretIiest girls, plenty Of fish.
and regular preaching three times every Sun.
day. Besides, not the least important--all
the men folks are of fishing--out Of tho
way-during the Summer-eaying calico 10
preside.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

s8- How may man bo known from
fatigued dogl One wears shirt and the
other pants.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

A STILL MARKET.-The Providence (R.
l.) Journal of Tuesday says.
We have not n sale of printing cloths to
report this week, not piece nor do we hear
Of single sale of stocks. This is without
precedence since our acquaintance with the
market, and is as striking m Illustration ms
could be given of the condition of CONNER
cial affairs
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

sE- Jas. ]. White. one of the best far
mers in Carol ne, Va, raised one hundred
and two bushels Of wheat on two acres of
ground. The soil was regarded as poor, 90
Mr.. W. applied 400 lbs Of gunno 10 the mere.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

tbs WRoSe Person HUNG.-Eliza Flem.
ing; a domestic, recently hung 10 London.
for poisoning her mistress. A Baker, who
recently died, confessed having done the
docd ont of snita
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

IMPORTANT ARREST OF CoUNTERFElTERS.
"A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch,
writing from Christiansburg, on the 18th inst,
says: The officer sent to arrest William A.
Poff, spoken Of in my last, returned with him
on yesterday, and after an examination he was
sent to Jail. He was found at the house of
Dr. Isaac b. Scott, about half mile from the
New River White Sulphur Springs, in Giles
county. While arresting him, several things
occurred to excite suspicion against DIR.
Scott himself, who was Immediately taken
into custody by the officers, and search made,
when large quantities Of newly coined half
dollars, in an unfinished state, with the dies,
mouldS, electric battery for plating, and sever
al letters from houses in New York and Phil
adeIphia, from which they had purchased
copper and tin, were found.
DIR. Scott, wife and two daughters, one of
whom was to have been married to POff on
the day of his arrest were committed to Giles
county Jail, to await their trial. Pof is iu-
dicted for passing counterfeit halves in this
county. He formerly lived here, but now
resides in Newport, Giles county. Several
other persons in the neighborhood of DR..
Scott are suspected, and we hope that some
clue may be had to the counterieiis that have
been SO plentiful in Giles. The New York
correspondent, who furnished the dies and
m0ulds, &C., writes under a fictitious char
acter. :
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

B- The Bank of tho Capital, a, Iudia.
napolis, Ind, has failed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

e3H- A daughter of D. d. Stone, in the
town Of Essex, ILL.,, felt some object moving
at her feet in bed, few nights since, and
rising quickly, struck light. The intruder
was huge sattesnake. The way the young
lady dropped the clothes and scattered" was
a caution.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

ANOTHER CoMET.-The doctors at Cam.
bridge have lately announced another com.
et-not the June Comet, which lost its tail
and vanished into thin alr--but decent,
respectable peacebe comet, which has no
idea of striking anybody, but is going it
"lck-e te.splt" tail foremost through infinite
space, away from the earth and the rest of
mankind faster nor telegram. One OF the
astronomers says it may bo seen in the
constellation "Boots-or the bear driver
Well
Walk along John
For here comes the Comet with the Booleso on
"Go it boots" Where is Prof. Comings!
Augusta Dispatch.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

CORRUPTION OF THE NORTHERN Pass
The Philadelphia News publishes state
ment relative to the subsdizing of the press
in Pennsylvania during the late Presidential
election, which illustrates in a striking degree
its venality. A list of fourteen different jour
nails is given which were thus subsidized, to-
gether with the amount paid to each respec-
lively, for the purpose of inducing them TO
support Fremont. These amounts range
from ore Thousand dollars, paid to metro.
poIitan organ at Harrisburg, to seventy five
dollars paid to the Lswis,own Gazette.
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The SUPPLY OF SUGAR IN FRANcE.-Mr.
Walsh, in his Paris letter, says:

Walsh, in his Paris letter, says:
Sugar is falling; the beet root factories
will supply this year two hundred mil
lion pounds. The Isle of Reunion (BOarbon)
will produce one hundred and twenty million;
the French West Indies will probably send n
hundred million; altogether the supply will
exceed the demand in France.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

,9g- You say, Mrs. Jones, that you have
lived with the defendant eight years. Does
the Court understand from you that You are
married TO him.
In course it does.'
'IIaye you a marriage certlfcOtel'
Yes, your Honor three on em, two gals
and boy
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

BANKS FAILED AND DIscREDTTED.
Bank of West Tennessee, Memphis.
Citizens Bank of Memphis and Nashville
Tennessee.
Bank of America, Tenn.
Bank Of Paris, Paris, Tenn.
Ocoee Bank, Tenn.
Shelbyvile Bank, Tenn.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

GRAIN CROP OF MINNEsoTA--The St.
Paul Advertiser estimates the grain crop Of
Minnesota the present year as follows:
Wheat, 100000 bushels In addition to
this it puts the yield of potatoes at 100000
bushels, and other products of the farm in
prOportion-"an aggregate" says the Adver-
tiser, "nearly sufficient to feed the large an
nual increase of popuIation-whch has here
tofore made us dependent on the neighbor-
ing States to supply the deficit"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

A spot where flowers of JOY and peace
Spring from the fertile sod,
And breathe the perfume of their praise
On every breeze to God.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

ATTEMPT TO DIscREpIr TENNESSEE BANKS. Z.
We find the following paragraph in the
Louisville Courier of Monday. There seems
TO be studied effort somewhere to break
down Tennessee Banks. All of the Banks
mentioned are in solvent condition. There
is no foundation whatever for the Courier's
statement.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02

RULES FOR BANK CUsToMERs.-The fol-
lowing rules, which we find in an exchange,
for those who patronize banks, are sound
and sensible Banks are like individuals, linn
tied in their capacity to do business, and are
obliged 10 choose the most reliable and best
customers. When they have money they
want borrowers; they want deposits always.
Borrowing money at bank ought to be like
every other business transactiOn-for the
benefit of both parties. These hints are
meant to show how it can be done:
!. Keep good deposit; it will not only
assist you in getting discounts, but an un-
expected call will not put you in anxious To-
comotion to borrow from friend; so you
will save your friend, your honor, and your
shame.
2. Offer for discount good business paper
rather than accommodate notes
3. Always apply for discount some time
before you need the money, as such custom
ers are preferred.
4. Circulate tho notes of the bank.
5. Never let note lie over that has your
name TO it,
6 Bear in mind that n bank is often short
of funds, and however desirous the Directors
may be to serve customers. there are times
when they are not able to do so.
Z. If young yoyager upon the uncertain
sea of trade and traffic, wishes bank accom-
modations, it is for his interest to give in n
true statement of his pecuniary condition.
This will insure him all the bank facilities his
circumstances will warrant; and lack of such
definite information often causes loans to be
withheld from worthy applicants.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-05

BLACKBERRY WINE.-There is no wine
equal to the blackberry wine when proper
ly made, either in favor or for medicinal
purposes, and every person who can con-
veniently do so, should manufacture enough
for their W use every year, as it is inval-
liable in sickness as a tonic, and nothing
is a better remedy for bowel disease. We
therefore give the receipt for making it,
and having tried it ourselves, (says the
Petersburg Daily Express. we speak adj
visedly on the subject:
Measure your berries and bruise them
Ito every gallon adding n quart of boil.
ing water. Let the mixture stand twenty.
four hours, stirring occasionally; then strain
off the liquor into a cask to every gallon
adding two pounds of sugar cork tight
and let it stand till following October, and
you will have wine ready for use, without
further straining or boiling, that will make
lips smack as they never smacked under
similar influence before
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School Advertisements.
R~dgewoeth Female Seminary
Raleigh Female Seminary,

TNHE next session of this In institution will open
Il on Monday the 10th of August, under the
control of Rev. WILLIAM E PELL, as President,
assisted by a full corps of efficient instructors.
1t is the purpose of those interested in the
seminary, that its facilities for the education of
young ladies, in all respects, shall be ample
this, together with the central position of our city,
its social, moral and religious advantages, and
the fact, that during the past Is months a physi-
clan was not called to a student boarding in the
institution, strongly commend it to the public.
Under the charge Of our excellent President,
the former patrons of the Seminary and his nu-
muerous friends in the State, have a sure guaran-
ty, that students committed to h.s care will be
watched over with parental solieisude, and that
every effort will be made to improve their man
ners, their intellects an their hearts.
The terms per session o. 81 weeks are as fol-
lows: Board, lights, fuel, &C., exclusive of wash
ing, SEQ per session.
TUITIoN.-In Primary Department $3.50; in
Academic Department SIS, per session, for Eng
fish course.
ExTRAs.-Music on Piano or Guitar $40
French $40 Latin or Greek S.; Oil Painting
$50; Drawing 5 to SO; Embroidery, Wax-work
&C., S. each for use of Piano 80, and day stu
dents 81 for incidental expenses, per session.
Students will be charged from the time of en-
tering until the end of the session, except in case
Of sickness protracted 2 weeks.
: Hereafter the sessions will in Janu
airy and July. For further particulars, apply t
: the President.
: By order of the Board of Directors
/ A. M. GORMAN,
Secretary of Board Directors.
> Raeich. .Tnne 90 1887. Q6-43-
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rous speed an the sti1e, broad shouldered,
strong jawed, with a fist that has half horse
power. When they whistle down breaks,
he brings up the train so sudden that it Of
ten breaks the coupling chains. When he
eats, 1t takes enough for six men, and he
drinks whiskey out of a quart cup, then
knocks the Landlord through board fence
or inside of a house, if he wants any pay.
lie is under a five hundred dollar bond not
to strike a man at Sandoval for fear Of in
jurlng the buildings, they being slightly
built. HIS hair is as coarse as hay, and
stands up like the quilts of a 'fretful por-
cupine.' 1t takes two table cloths to wipe
his nose, and he generally feeds himself
with a scoop shovel and dung fork. When
he exerts himself in a trip, he usually ac-
cumulates fourteen pounds and six ounces
of lamp oil and dirt and is not allowed to
wash himself in any stream smaller than
the Wabash for fear of cholera.
Once when old jerks Ecussed' him he
turned and whipped nineteen Irishmen out
of revenge. He has to ride with his back
to the car and let his toes stick out over the
platform, it being too narrow for the length
VI lis tUGG' LIS ShGdb GOS lOUhS INC u oSc
turtles head, and his nose like a youne
robin held by the head with the big enc
down, brilliant and pitted like a ripe straw
berry his eyes have a twinkle of good hu
NOR and a great fascination for the fair
) The skin of his face lays in folds, like tn
skin of a rhinoceros; his teeth look lik
, cogs in mill wheel; he has to have his ha
made to order, and when he looses it, b
wears a water bucket with the bail unde
!, his chin. lie will travel this summer bu
can be seen fora few days at Sandoval, fire
} of charge. He thinks he dead heads hi
living, but the company secretly pays Nj
j.. Merritt dollar a meal.
A tall, keen eyed c%ountryman steppe
t into the court room at Detroit, the otht
day, during the progress of the railroa
3 trial. Stepping up to a spectator, he r
y 1uested that the prisoner might be pointt
out to him. The man acoosted beir
J. somewhat of a wag, pointed to the jur
The fellow scanned the twelve with a d
e. trusting eye, and when satisfied with t
;. scrutiny, turned to his informant a
IN whispered " Well, they are a hard loo
ID ing set, amt they? 1 know by there loo
they ought to go to the States prison, e7
Of ry one Of them"
gg Adam Good has a bell founda
JIG at Buffalo. The pious are scandalized
slowly reading on his sign-A dam G
Bell Foundry.
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For the Spirit Of the Age.
TO

In the dim recess of our spirits chamber,
How oft lies grief, though the face does not
tell
And Hope would forsako US, did we not re-
member,
Our heavenly Father, who sees and knows
US WELT
God knows it all.
How oft are we drawn in the way of tempta-
ton,
And want to do good, but evil prevails;
And think mid the waves of deep tribula-
ton,
When our hopes earthly refuge entirely
fails.
God knows it all.
Perchance, melancholy and heavy hearted
Sorrows sombre cloud around us arrayed,
Borne down, depressed, no comfort impaired
No friendly voice to say be not afraid"
God knows it all.
Perchauoe we mourn! the tear drop flowing
For the loved ones from us so early gone:
In grief no human spirit knowing.
We feel it, we bear it, how oft alone
God knows it all
WILL: WAMPUM.
Camden county, July, 1857.
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GREAT ATTRACTION AT A..
CREECH,S STORE.

THE Subscriber is now receiving a superior
stock of rich and fashionable Spring and Summer
dry goods, No. ~, Fayetteville St., to which he
invites the attention of his friends, customers, and
the public generally. He fatters himself that he
can and will offer them at prices so low as to as
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toners generally, who wish to secure great bar
gains, should not fail to examine his large and
attractive assortment of Staple and Fancy Dry
Goods, embracing almost every style of Ladies'
Dress Goods, ofthe newest and latest importations.
$50 pieces of the newest style Prints 100 pieces of
Muslins and Lawns, from 10 cents up. Organizes,
Jackonetts, Barrages, Brilliants, Challies, Barage
DpLain, Ginghams, Embroideries, Mantillas, Silk
Parassols and Fans, at all prices, Straw, and Silk
Ronnets, from 25 cents to SO. Did 1 say at IS
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Linen and Gotten goods for men and boys wear, of
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of cord.
Now, customer, allow me to say one or two
words. You talk about this New Store selling
goods cheap, and that Old Store,-young folks and
old folks. Why, customer what are you thinking
about? Why, I will sell you goodsjust as cheap as
you can buy them of any honest man that intends
paying for his goods, in this City, County, or State.
I ask you to call and examine my stock, and if the
styles, prices, and quality do not suit you, pass
them. You will find me always ready at my post
ready and willing to serve my customers, and to
give them them the worth of their money.
I return them my grateful thanks for the liberal
patronage they have bestowed, and i hope to merit
a continuance of the same. A.
March. 25, 1857. 81
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A KIN INSTITUTE.
DAVIDSON COUNTY. N. G.

THE FALL session of this Institution will open
on Monday the 9th of July, 1857. The location
on the Danyille and Lexington road, 8 miles from
Fulton, 9 from Lexington and II from Salisbury,
offers every lnducement to those who value cheap-
ness, health and freedom from all manner of dissi-
patton. We have five regular boarding houses on
the campus and can commoda one hundred and
eighty boarders within one mile of the place.
Board Sc 90 per month. Tuition varies from S to Is
dollars per session of twenty one weeks, one dollar
matriculation fee. Tuition required at the close of
the session. Books and stationary furnished at
the Institute. For additional information ad-
dress. &. w. HEGE, Principal.
Yadkin Ins .itute, Davidson Co. N. C. Aft
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June 3, 1857. 40
HILLSVILLE

COUNTY, z.
THE fourteenth session of this Institution will
the first Monday in August, and close
the third Friday in December.
Board can be had in town at six dollars per
month, in good families. Hillsville is q small
village near the top of the Blue Ridge, command.
ing a view of the most picturesque, romantic and
sublime scenery. 1t is well supplied with whole
some water and pure air from the surrounding
mountains. It is renowned for health. 1t affords
as good society as our smaller towns generally.
It'll situated on the main thoroghfare from Tenn.
to N. C. over which passes a daily line of stages.
1t is within a few hours travel of the Va. & Tenn.
Railroad.
The last scholastic year numbered one hundred
and ffty-three students. An annual Catalogue is
issued, which will be sent to any person, at any
time, desiring further information about the scho oil
B. F. THOMPSON, Pres't.
Assisted by a full corps of efficient instructors
Hillsville. Va, July l, 1857. 45-5mpd.