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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

DAMAGEs.-A lady named Purnell has re.
covered from the Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad Company S4,l58 damages for inju.
ries sustained by herself on the road; S2,40S
for injuries to her son, and 5000 for the loss
of servant who was killed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

FRAUD OF FLOUR DEALERs.-A correspon.
dent of the Boston, Mass Herald, says:"A
few days since bought barrel offour, and
to satisfy myself that it weighed 1876 pounds
thought that l would weigh II, and 1t fell
short % pounds. Last fall bought bar.
rel of -four. and in the middle Of the barrel I
found paving stone weighing l5a lbs.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

Judge James R. Dooltte, the republican,
who was elected to the United States Sen
ate from Wisconsin on Friday last, is n na.
tive of New York, where he was at one time
n Jealous democratic POLITICIAN. In lS4S,
however, he supported Van Buren, for the
Presidency, and in 1850 emigrated to Wis.
consn, and was soon after called to the
Bench of that State. He is large man, ol
powerful voice and an orator of much pop
ularity.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

, LAND PAYING rou ITSELF IN OSE CRoP.-
The late sheriff of Sp0ttsylvania county, Va.'
Robt. C. DuersoD, sold farm Of 200 acres
for $500. The purchaser put acres in tobac.
co, which he cured and brought to Richmond,
and after paying all expenses, carried home
q mn r.H
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

eg- It will be learned with regret, that
the Hon. l.. NJ. Keitt, of South Carolina, has
been attacked with disease similar to that
which put an end to the life of his colleague,
Mr.. Brooks
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

OF The next United States Senate, as
near as can be assertained, after filling the
vacancies, will contain twenty Republican
members, which is a gain Of five over their
present vote and is nearly Onc-third of the
Senate,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

A ToAsT.-"Newspaper borowers"-may
theirs be n life of single wretchedness; and
may their paths be carpeted with cross.eyed
snakes, and their nights be haunted with
knock kneed tom cats, provided they do
not live next door to subscriber who has
nnid for his paper.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

.Ss- An intelligent nurseryman, NJ. b. Batch
am, of Columbus, Ohio, states that the fears
of injury to the fruit buds by the recent in.
tense cold are groundless. He has examin.
ed the buds, and they are uninjured.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

CHuRSISe.-In churning butter, if small
granues of butter appear which do not
gather, throw in lump of butter and It will
form nucleus, and the butter will come.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20
VOL. IX.--NO. 439.

gambling for amusement! That is human
enough, OIL oh! oh {! ] know what they are at
now-trying to make il up BY a little quiet
game among themselves. Ho! no the poor
devils. Going it sharp and hungry enough
no doubt. What prime field human nature
is, afte: all The soil is deep, rich and gen.
erous, and to look at it in an agricultural
point of view, how well il pays the man who
knows how to cultivate IT," .lL
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

sY- James A. Bayard. Senator from Della
ware, is said to be the best billiard player in
the United States.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

fE-Tbe citizens of the Upper Peninsu.
la of Michigan last week petitioned the
Michigan Legislature for the erection of a
separate State, to be called Ontonagon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

A Waggish spendihrift said-"Five years
ago wss not worth n cent in the world; now
see where am through my own exertions."
Well, where are you?"
"Why | owe more than three thousand
dollars"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20
RuRKf Co IAN. 3lst.,

BURKE Co, jan 3Ist., 1907.
Mr.. r. G. ToMLIs: The
most surprising thing that has happened is,
that Tal,on b. Butler, timber cutter of
Scriven, went to Savannah since Christmas,
to sell timber, and was taken sick and II was
thought died. There being boat about to
leave his remains were deposited in coffin
and sent home. On opening the coffin after
its arrival, he was discovered to smile. Medi-
cal assistance was Immediately called, and 1t
is said that he is fast recovering. He was IN
the coffin nearly two days and nights
-Casspille Standard.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

sw- 1t was said by an observing philoso-
pher, many years ago, in the Cincinnati mar
ket, that-"Whereve you see many of them
ere sossingers, you don't never see no dogs"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

tR William Waddill, an Assistant Post.
master at Selma, Ala, was arrested on the 9Th
inst. by d. p. Blair, special agent of the Post
Office Department, charged with robbing the
mail
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20
.9g- The Lafayette (Va.,) Journal say

;g- The Lafayette (va.) Journal says
"On the Friday night down train, on the Wa.
bash Valley road, the conductor, in passing
around for tickets, asked passenger, who
was sitting near the stove, for his fare when
instead of ticket, the passenger thrust red
hot poker into his hand, burning Il terribly.
The train was stopped and The hend put of.
We understand that one Of the brakemen
avenged the indignity by soundly thrashing
the scoundrel
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

81 Gov. Pollock, pennsylvania, declines
being candidate for reelection.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

tR- Caroline Van Dusen, widow of
seventy years, hung herself at Hudson, New
York, few days since.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

MOBILE, Feb. l0.-Several cotton presses
have been destroyed by fire here, involving n
loss of $4,000 bales Of cotton.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

BLUE RIDGE RAIL RoAD.-We have beer
Informed, from a reliable source, that good
deal Of excitement prevails in Anderson and
Pickens district, in relation to this important
enterprise, and that active exertions nre De-
ing made to raise the amount required oy
the State as the condition of its second sub
scription on S5OO,O0O. Anderson, It is said,
subscribe $4,000; Pendleton and its neigh
borhood $4,000; and Walhala S2O'OoO.-
CLAYTON is also aroused TO the necessity OF
doing something, and will, we learn, sub
scribe $4,000; and most of The contractors
will add to the amount of stock taken by
them in payment for work.
We have been permitted to make the fol-
lowing extract from letter dated Ander-
son, the 9th of February:
"Since we returned from Charleston, we
have held railroad meetings, at Pendleton and
Walhalla. Our proposition TO raise $4,000
in the upper country has met with the most
hattering reception. considerable amount
was subscribed promptly at both places, and
committees appointed to canvass the coun-
try for aid. There is an appointment for a
mass meeting at Walhala on Saturday next
Mt which time we hope to rnise the subscrlp-
tion at that place to $2O,OOO We feel GER
tain that we shalt be able to redeem our
pledge TO the Board of Directors at an early
day."
With these encouraging tidings in relation
to the subscription, we also learn that satis-
factory progress is making in the tunnels
The work is going on at both extremities in
the main tunnel, and the first shaft is so
nearly sunk to the grade line that the head
ing has been commenced in both directions
and several gangs can now be worked at the
same time, and there is every motive, cer-
tainly, under circumstances so encouraging,
to persevere this great work; and If this
Road will do for Charleston what its friends
claim, we hope that the sum necessary to BE-
raised to secure the second State subscrip-
ton will not be withheld Cou.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

REMEDY FOR CHILBLAISs--The N. Y,
Journal OF Commerce says; "Heat brick
very hot, and hold the foot over Il as close
lv ss /. can be held without burning. Cut
an onion In two, and dipping II repeatedly In
salt, rub II over the foot The juice Of the
onion will be dri, into the foot, and effect
n cure In very short time. II this Ia done
a few times, II is almost certain 10 cure your
feet"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

The SUFFERING MoRMoNs.-A letter from
Salt Lake under date of October 3lst says:
ave have dreadful accounts of the sufferings
among the Mormon emigrants by the hand.
cart train, which is row in the mountains
The train contained $50 souls. One. seventh
are already dead and they are dying at the
rate of fifteen per day. There are some 600
more bphnd, of which we have heard moth.
ing. We hope they have stopped at Laramie.
1t is impossible for them to get through this
fall. The Mormons estimated that there are
not less than 1900 of their brethren yet to
come in, and the snow is reported to be not
less than foot deep in the mountains"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

sY-"Wake up and pay for your lodgings,'
said the deacon a- he nudged sleepy stran-
ger with the contribution box last Sunday.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

DEAR Eees.-This indispensable for
housekoepers, were selling at so cents per
dozen last Saturday at Richmond.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

BosToN, Feb. l2.-1he tclegrnphic reports
of the thermometer down East, show range
from zero to 80 degrees below.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

O-rOut Of the entire command Of Col.
Jack Allen, which left Louisville in June last
for Nicaragua, only eight remain nllvc accor.
ding TO the last accounts.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

TRUTH Is STRANGER THAN Fiction =
From letter received by our countyman,
Mr.. Robert G. Tomln, we take the following
extract 1t is from gentleman whose veraci
ty for truth cannot be doubted:
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

"Pray, Mrs. Znpriskn, why do you whip
your children so oftenl"
ala, Mr. Worthyl ! do II for their enlight.
eminent. never whipped one Of them in
my lie that he didn't acknowledge that u
made him SMART"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

H-" is the portrait Of father torn"
asked little cherub Of three summers,
"No, child why do you askl"
"why, this morning he said darn my pic.
tura
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20

'TIellon! say, what did you say your med
icine would cureT
oh! i,'ll cure everything-heal anything!
'Ah! well, I'll take n bottle, may be It'll
heel my boots--they need 1t badly enough!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-02-20
GREAT FRESHET.

CHICAGO, H., Feb. 9.-The food has con-
siderably damaged the Milwaukee Railroad
bridge. No trains are running. The Galena
Railroad bridge, at Elgin, was also swept
away, and number of cuverts were destroy
ed The Fon Dulnc Railroad track was car
ried away in several places. The Aux Plains
bridge and the Burlington Railroad bridge
over Bureau river are gone. The Rock Is
land Railroad bridge at Dupagi river was
moved by the ice on Friday night, and an
engine, tender and six cars were precipitated
into the river. A Anumber of Railroad bridges
were carried awav on the Illinois river. At
Lasalle it rose % feet.
HARRIsBuRe, Pa, Feb. 9.-Severnl piers Of
the Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge were
injured by the food, ard are in danger OF
being destroyed; the cars have stopped run.
ming. The scene along the Susquehanna is
awful, and great destruction of property is
threatened.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 9.-The ice in the
SchuyIkil broke up last night. The water
carried away coal, wood and lumber, anu then
subsiding, left canal boats on the wharves.-
The damages are not so serious rs it was
anticipated they would be. We have similar
accounts from Oswego, Trenton and Easton,
Pa. At Albany, N. Y, the water is three
feet higher than it was ever known before
Wrecked houses are coming down stream;
cattle and horses have been drowned; cellars
are filled with water, and fires breaking out
in the lower part OF the city from sackening
lime. There is great confusion and ALARM
Railroad trains are landing passengers out.
side of the city, and no trains are leaving
The Hudson River and New York Central
Railroads are engulfrd. The city of Troy
N. Y, is nearly ovrrfowed.
The freight depot at Grand Island has
been burned, it was set on fire by slackening
lime.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-Amost all the Railroad
river bridges in northern Illinois and Miclli
gan are impaired or destroyed by the freshet
with vast amount of other property.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-03-12
FREE NEGROES.

The press of other States Of The
South are discussing the proprieiy
Of passing n law to rid the South OF
the presence of free negroes. In
our opinion, the movement is a good
one, and becoming more and more
necessary with every days expert
ence. The free negroes among US
are lille drones unified by the fiat
of nature for the labors of agricul-
ture, and equally incapable of sue
cess in The mechanical trades. Be-
ing constitutionally too lazy to Gull
tivate The soil, they collect about
or cities aud towns, and live by the
most degraded means to which it is
possible for human beings to stoop.
AS they are in daily intercourse with
our slaves, they not unfrequently
exert most pernicious influence on
them, both morally and physically.
and yet afford no sufficient pretext
for legal punishment. 1t has always
appeared bad policy to us to suffer
them to remain among US, and since
Abolitionism has assumed so porten.
tous ashape and belligerent attitude,
We are satisfied that they should be
made to leave. Moreover, we Wish
TO see as great an influx of free ne
groes, into the North us possible,
as We think it would cure them of
negro philism. -
The present lull 10 politics, is pro-
pitious to the consideration of those
questions Of domestic policy which
more Immediately concern the peace
and we'll being Of our own people
In periods, Of high partizan excite
ment, when men are struggling for
success at all hazards, there is not
mere neglect Of but a Discrimination
to, the consideration Of local ques-
tions. f !
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-03-12
Hmm nc ESaaasfyt lkgj Hsmses -.
The Matrimonial TrlbulalioHs eI
Jane Parker.

We received tb. folIowing cOmmu.
nication by mil from a neighboriDg
village, With request to publish it.
We assnrs our readers Of its genu-
ineness, so fr as We are posted, and
we call down tbuneers Of female
vengeance on the rrfrobate Bill.
This is designed to let all the
world and rest Of mankind know that
William Parker, my husband, has left
my oed and board without cause or
provocation. Scarcely had the hon.
eymoon passed by before be sod my
house and lot in Scott, near Stamping
Ground, and took me- TO wretched
hut in dcsolate place in the Frank
lin Hills, whrre he commence col
lecting ali that WAS due me, and sell
off all | possessed; after selling my
negro woman and child. be left and
located in Lexington, where he is now
ranting with the gals, rigg.d off from
top to toe in broadcloth, bought with
my negro money, and left me forlorn
desolate and wrrtched.
..Said old Bill Parker is about SIX
ty-fve years of age, low in stature,
heavy built, round should red; bald
headed, makes wretched attempt to
be polit. and agreeable, and a eounte-
nance sufficiently base to convict him
to the penitentiary or galIows.
dear SIT, you will do justice to
right by publishing the above, and
requesting the editors throughout the
Union to give it place in their col
umns.
Oh that his bed may be made of briers,
And his path beset with thorps
And the balance Of his days,
Be haunted by the Beast with heads and ten
horns.
Wedlock has been woeful thing to me
For marrying is not whatits crarked up to be
! l thought my pathway would be s,rewed with
| flowers aud roses,
But the way Old Bill has made me wretched
isa sin to Moses.
feel like tree by the north winds shaken
Wretched, forloru sad aud forsaken.
January II, 1857. JANE PARKER
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-03-12
Rich in The Matrimonial Line.

The Pontotoe (Miss.) Examiner
contains the following novel anti.
matrimonial compact:
To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
This is to certify that Mr.. Mallet
has been a faithful and kind husband
and has never mistreated me or my
children in any way; but owing to
dissatisfaction, arising among my
children and friends, have thought
best to separate from him and live to
gether 10 lOngeras man and wife; and
| do hereby release him from any obi.
CATION to support me, in any man.
ner whatever. A. +. WALLET.
With such an endorsement, Mr.
Mallet is in clover That there is
a probability Of nuptial reunion, the
annexed benedictine response would
seem to indicate:
In consideration Of the above
separation, | hereby notify all per-
sons that | will not be responsible
for any debt contracted by my wife,
Angiletta f., whatever, while she
continues to live separate from me.
J. G. w. WALLET.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-03-12

MASSACHUSETTS, the best once and
now the worst State in the Union
is thus bit off by the N. Y. Sunday
Times : a portrait the correctness o
which all will admit. Pity It's true
But SO it is-for it is now the chosen
home of fanaticism in all its Proteau
for ms:
Massachusetts seems to be the hot
bed Of almost every species Of social,
religious and political fanaticism, as
well as Of some Of the noblest qualities
that have yet graced human nature
That State has sent out more noble
and lofty minds, liberal ideas, more
men devoted TO heroic principles, and
women devoted to the cultivation oil
the juvenile intellect, than many VI
its sister States combined. But alas!
it has disseminated more treason TO
the rights Of God and man, more BIAS
pbemy, more false philosophy, more
licentious theories, and more seditions
propositions, than all the rest Of the
Union put together. 1t is morally
speaking. the worst and the best MEM
Der Of the confederacy.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-03-12
Couldn't Come Ii,

The Washington correspondent OF
the Charleston Evening News says:
The yisitof Andrew johnson, Gov
ernor of Tennessee, to the Capitol
was, it appears, to tender, on behalf
of Tennessee, to the General Govern
ment the Hermitage, upon condition
that it erect a Military Academy
upon it. This was shrewd device
of Tennessee to get a Military Acad-
envy established there. 1t won't do.
The General Government can see
through mill stone as well as Ten
nessee. There is no necessity for
two Military Academies. One is
enough to manufacture all army Off
GERS we have any necessity for.
Why this should be a "shreWd de-
vice" merely, we cannot comprehend.
Northern Schools Military, OF Of other
descriptions have become so thor
ougbly tinctured with Fremontism,
that while the people are being taxed
to sustain them, we would have our
share of the money invested in the
South. We would also have South
ern young men educated at home.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-03-12
A Neblc Tribute.

10 a recent speech in Congress,
Mr.. Stephens of Georgia, Used the
following emphatic language 10 ref.
erence TO the Northern men who did
jastice!o the South in the last can
vass. 1t is noble tribute and well
deserved by those to whom tits ap.
piled: 3
Sir. il is an easy thing for a man
to drift along with th5 popular cur
rent. Any man can do that. Hon.
ors thus obtained are as worthless as
they are cheap; but it requires nerve,
it requires all the elements that make a
man,io stand Up and oppose men in
theirerrors,and advocate truth before
a people unwilling to hear and receive
il; to speak to those who ''having
ears hear not aud having eyes see
not" History furnishes some ex-
ampies of this sort; but the history
Of the world, in my judgment, has
never furnished nobler and grander
specimens of this virtue than the late
canvass 10 The North. When mau
discharges his duty upon any occa-
sion he deserves respect aud admira-
lion, but when a man discharges his
duty against the prevailing preju-
dices of those around him and even
against bis own natural feelings and
iDclinations, that man commands
something higher than respect and
admiration, The elder, Brutus pro
nounced sentence against his own
son, silencing the adverse prompt
ings of a fathers heart made himself
the modest Roman of them all, "
and those statesmen at the North
to whom ! allnde who had the
nerve, in the crisis just passed, to
stand up and yindicate the right
under the circumstances in which
they we're placed, give to the world an
instance ofthe moral sublime in human
action mover surpassed. before. Oll
history furnishes 90 parallel with it
They bore the burden Of the fight. To
them the preservation of the Re-
public is due: aud if our republic
proves not to be ungrateful, they
will receive patriots rewards. more
to be desired than monuments oil
brass or marble-bonored names
while living and honorcd memories
wheE dead.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-03-12
Slavery in Georgia.
A correspondent Of The Ma

A correspondent of the Macon
Telegraph says:
There is a negro woman IN blpl
county, who has one hundred and
nineteen descendants, and is yet IN
the possession of all her faculties, ex-
cent sight--she has been blind fol-
six years.
sixty-sayen other descendants, as
well az herself, are now owned by a
gentleman in this county. Another
hen owns fifty-two in another county.
The name Of The woman is Sena.
She Was one of three slaves inherit
ed by lady married in Louisville
jefferson county. Georgia, In lolO.
/ mention this as fact in slave
statistics-from which the inference
nav be drawn, that negroes are not
very hardly used in Georgia, or they
would not increase at such a rate.