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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-05-28

TIt will be seen by reference to our
Southern commercial letters, that the Bacon
market is depressed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-05-28

BAcoN.--The Nashville News Of the 22d
quotes Bacon as follows Clear Sides, 8;
Hams, Z; Shoulders, 8.
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CINCINNATI May 20.-Connelly, CONVICTED
Of harboring fugitive slaves, was refused II
new trial, and sentenced to 90 days confine.
ment in the common Jail, and fined $40.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, !

" May ZISt, 1905. J
AT the request of the above Committee, l
witnessed the counting of the State Bonds,
deposited by the Free Banks as the basis of
their circulation, and fully concur with the
Committee in the above statement.
IsuAM G.. HARRIS
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RIcH.-The London Times says of the
sable men out on the coast of Africa:

"There it is a never-ending discussion
whether they should be shot, sold or carried
off to slavery, or encouraged to emigrate, or
apprenticed to planters, or enlisted into the
Indian army, or taken into the navy, or taken
to grow cotton or palm trees, or-let alone"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-05-28

icy To make man patriot, all the. Is
wanting is pair of circumstances, wife and
baby.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-05-28

THE Iowa GOLD MINEs.-~- Great Cry and
Little Wool-The Keokuk Gate City says OF
the Iowa gold dggiDgs We have seen a
large number of our old friends who live in
the immediate region of the Iowa gold dig
gngs, and are personally cognizant of much
that is going on there. That there is more
or less gold lying about in fine bits and tiny
scales, they assure us Of their own knowl-
edge; and that number of people have spent
a considerable time in hunting it they also
know. They have not known any remarka-
Bile discoveries of gold in large quantities,
and seem to think that there are six men who
get none where there is one who gets two
dollars worth, in day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-05-28

gSY- Poverty is like n panther-look it
steadily in the face and it will turn from you.
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tB- James II. Yerger, Esq, died at Vicks-
burg, Miss, on the 18th inst.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-05-28

SOUTHERN PUBLIcATIoNs-ln the Report
of the agents of the Southern Methodist
Publishing House at Nashville, Tennessee, it
is stated:
"Our success has greatly exceeded our ex-
pectations. The House has been in opera
ton for only about three years, during which
time we have stereotyped, manufactured, and
now have on sale, 322 different books of our
own catalogue, varying in size and style from
the little 72mo. S. School book Of SO pages,
up to Watson's Dictionary of TIA pages
royal octave. Besides these, we have ster-
eotyped and published 800 different tracts
and pamphlets, on vast variety of subjects,
within the wide range of Christian Theology.
And here it may be proper to remark, that
with few exceptions, these valuable works
have all been edited and brought out since
the commencement of our operations in this
city,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-05-28

Shelbyville, May %, 1858.
The report that the Shelbyville Bank had
failed is a base slander she has not nor will
not fail. w. s. JETT, Cashier.
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SHELBYvILLE BANK.-We find the follow.
ing in the Nashville Patriot
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ule adopted on this route /:

Making the whole distance from Washing
ton to Nashville in 62 hours.-NaSh. Ban.
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A GRoss OUTRAGE.-On Thursday night
last gang of thieves, probably four or FIVE,
broke into the smoke house OF Mr.. F. J. Al
fred, editor of the Stanton Vindcator, and
took therefrom about two hundred pounds of
bacon, a lot of soap, and other articles. The
Spectator says it is mean enough to steal
anybody's, but language is inadequate to de-
scribe the indispensable rascality of robbing
printer of his hard edrned provisions. No
one can deny the doctrine of total depravity
with such an illustration before his eyes.
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rY- One of the Washington etterwriters

eY- One of the Washington letterwriters
confidentialy asserts that the President is
negotiating for liberal extent Of Mexican
Territory, being all that portion lying north
of straight line from the mouth of the Rio
Grande to that of the Mayo river, on the
Gulf Of California included. This embraces
the greater part of Sonora, chihuahua, Coah-
hula, and is about one third of all Mexico.
tV- The bar of Lcavenworth, Kansas,
now numbers over 100 members, and il is
said TO possess much legal talent
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DEAD SEA JoURNALIsM-"Who was Jun
ius?" Don't know-but the Boston Adver-
User, we see, devotes an editorial column to
it-going over all the old hypothesis as to
the authorship-of course without shedding
single ray of light on the subject, above
and beyond what the world had before. Are
there no live questions for discusson-that
the dead ones must thus be restored TO life I?
"Who wrote Junius 90 slave we Bourbon
among us?" "Did Noah's ark rest on Chin
borazo or Popocatapetl 2" "Was the Garden
of Eden in Central America :"
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sB- Paradise is not so far off as is some
times thought. The garden of Eden is now
spread out in the width of the world. Our
homes are bowers in it; our roads are walks
in it, and always within reach hang forbidden
fruits, though now they are such as are often
their own punishment in eating-apples OF
Sodom, golden in the rind and ashes inside.
There is in the garden still the tree of know
ledge of good and evil; this we may eat of
now, for it is full grown, and the fruit has
become ripe.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-05-28

W~ Mayor Tieman, of New York, seems
to be extending his jurisdiction in the great
moral reformation he has undertaken. We
learn, through the Express, tina: our Georgia
neighbors are to have the benefit of his Of
fetal abors in order TO stop their downward
career through the fundamentally Of that
invention of the great enemy of souls, Sam.
Swans Lottery. Within the vision and IN
der the nostrils of this great moral conseT-
vator, fraud, peculation, adultery, fornication,
wife-whipping, arson, robbery, theft, prosti-
tuition, seduction, abduction, rape, rapine, and
murder, exist, flourish and spread, and in nine
cases on. of ten 60 unwhipt of Justice
And one would think that the worthy Mayor
had business enough on hand at home-that
the unexampled wickedness, vice and crime
of modern Sodom would afford full exercise
for his official energies. He evidently be-
lones to that bilious class who 60 about So
Letting aims for the conversion of the hea-
then of distant lands, while the devil is per-
mitted to rage rampant in their own house
holds. Commend us to such disinterested
solicitude and benevolence, always.
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KANSAS PATRIOTS TURNED BRIGANDs.-
The latest intelligence from Kansas repre-
sents that bands of brigands are roaming
through the country, committing sundry
depredations on the property of the citizens,
and numbering those who resist. The Kan
sas question beng settled peaceably in Con-
gress, the gangs of ragamuffins sent out there
by the New England "Emigrant Aid Society"
find their occupation gone, and many of them
naturally fall back upon their old trade of
highwaymen and burglars. They were EN-
ployed for the purpose offghting and distur-
bing the peace of the Territory for political
objects; and, as they care nothing for politics
themselves, they do not seem to be disposed
to abandon their fighting and peace breaking
principles now that their services are no lon
ger valuable to their employers. 1t must be
great consolation to Parson Beecher and
his friends to know that their Shapes rifles
are not permitted to rust in the hands of the
"patriots" to whom they supplied them.
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OF A correspondent of the Spiritual Tele.
graph says that DR.. Hare, of Philadelphia, is
having manifestations, in his laboratory, that
must convince the most ncredulous-such,
for instance, as the transmutation of copper
pennies into gold. This is a dangerous mode
of manifestation, and the courts may prove
too incrednlous for the doctors comfort and
honor, should he try TO pass off those trans
muted coppers. He should remember that
even spirits are not authorized to counterfeit
the current coin of the United States.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-04-15
Accident to I.W. Gra1

We are panied to learn t at J. w. GRAY,
Esq, OF the Cleveland Plain Dealer, ha.
suddenly lost the sight of his right eye
The circumstances are thus reported:
Last Thursday evening, Mr. Grsy's little
son was amusing himself by exploding per
cu'siOn caps on toy gun, when about one.
third of a cap struck Mr.. Gray, who hap
pened to be standing about FIVE feet distant,
entering the right eye, very little to the
right. and below the center of the pupil,
passing entirely through the cornea, giving
Tree discharge to the aqueous humor, ard
lodging in the anterior chamber of the eve.
Drs. Ackley and Garlick were immedi-
ateiy called, hut the piece being longer in
one direction than the other, and having eyi.
IDENTIFY entered leng,hwise, and changed DO.
sition' it was found very difficult to 60 fast
en- the instruments to it as to extract it with.
out enlarging the aperture, but skill and
endurance proved equal to the occasion. and
was successfully extracted at little be-
fore eleven o'clock.
Hopes are entertained tha, the ball of the
eye may be saved, though the vision will be
lost.
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WASHINGTON CRY, April 8.-Enough Il
known to warrant the assertion that Cover.
nor Powell and Major M'CulIouqh, the
Peace Commissioners to Utah, will be in.
structed to assure the Mormons that It ia no,
the desire of the President and the United
States authorities to make war upon them,
but to secure the enforcement of Federal
laws, to which end they will be counselled
to participate. The Commissioners will al
80 inform them that some troops will be re.
tanned in the territory to proted enigrants 10
the Pacific from the attacks of hostile Tndi.
ans. The Commissioners will 20 with the
next reinforcements despatched 70 Utah.
This forenoon q man named Peter Besan.
con-, formerly Of Louisiana, had violent
words with the Secretary of the Iuterior in
the hall department. When the former
struck or attempted to strike the Secretary.
the latter turnee and discovered Besancon
drawing q pistol on him. Thompson than
seized and thsew him Upon the Roor. dialo.
eating and isaoturing Besacon's arm. lis
believed that Besancon, who is well known
here. was refused an Office BY Thompson,
which, with pecuniary embarrsssments, had
temporarily debilitated his mental facuities
Besancon had been several years In the Gov.
erament, employ ar Washington, and was
!. ,ooked upon with respcct W all whe knew
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YIEe ATLANTIC TeleCranh

The London Times ans ounces that tho
general programme of the second, and, il is
hoped' hnai attempt to submerge the Allan,
TIC telegraph wire, has already been decided
on. The four hundred miles of cable order.
cd to replace the three hundred and eighty.
four miles, which were lost last autumn ofF
Vale ntia, have been completed, and it is in.
tended, in order to make provisions for casu.
alties, that en- additional three hundred miles
shall be at once proceeded with. The
Asfmemnon and the Niagara are the yea.
sels again to be employed in the attempt to
isy the wire, and the operation will, this
year, be commenced in the middle of June.
in which month, it is said, there are some
five or six consecutive days during which
gale in the Atlantic was seldom or never
known to occur. The line will be ioi, ed
ana laid from the centre of the ocean, the
Niagara bringing her end of the cable TO
ireland, and the Agamemnon conveying
hers to America. The NIAGARA is daily ex.
pected at Plymouth, where she will take on
board at the Keyham DockyarJ, ore thou.
sand five hundred miles Of the wire.
On this occasion the cable will not be
piled away i6 one huge mass, bu, will be
distributed equal in the fore, midship md
aiter'part of the vessel, in three coils of five
hundred miles each. AS soon as the wire
has been slowed away, the two steamers
will proceed into deep water, when a nun.
Der Of experiments will be made with th.
paying out machinery to ascertain, pructi.
eni'y' ii any difficulties exist in the propos.
90 Pisn for submerging the wire from the
centre Of the Atlantic.
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A New State-OntOnouon

The prolific Northwest is apparentl,
about to give birth to another member o
the American family of States. We ma,
expect soon to "welcome the advent of !,
little stranger" on the borders of our great
est lake. IT is proposed, in short, thai The
portion OF Michigan Iyicg west of Lake
Michigan, and known as the "Upper PENN.
suia," shall be joined with the northern
part OF Wisconsin, bordering upon Lake
superior, the two to constitute new State.
bearing the title Of Ontonagon.
| This movement originates in the riobt
I quarters. Michigan passed legislative re.
solves lust year recommending the project,
and similar resolutions are now about to he
adopted by the Legislature of Wisconsin.
Inc Constitution of the United S,atss
provides that "no new State shall be form.
ed or erected within the jurisdiction of anv
other State, nor any State be formed bv ,hs
!u!'sule'loh OF Two or more States or parts
q STATES, 'S'thout the consent Of tie Leoisla.
tares OF the States concerned, as well as NJ
Ms congress" 1t will in this case only re.
man to obtain the consent of Congress. tha,
OF "ihe states concerned" being proiiered
Ohtonagon ls to have for it's southern
boundary line drawn from the Mepominee
RIVER near its mouth on Green Bay, wester.
y I'LL such line intersects the western bonn
cary OF Wisconsin, necr Hudson on the s.
Crolx River. This line will not be far from
the 45th parallel Of latitude.
Ihe new State will thus contain Ao mn
square miles, nearly equal to the area 'IT of
New York. 1t will embrace the en,irs ~
southern coast Of Lake Superior, and in
clude the rich mineral region which stre,cn.
es along that vast inland sea. There ia al.
ready population of 10000. which is = ran. ~,
10y increasing, in the territory referred TO-
These people are anxious to have a govern.
msnt Of their owu, finding themselves cut
OF BY the Peculiarity OF their location and
pursuits from communication with Micbioop
or Wisconsin. Unless Congress should in.
Eerpose objections, which cannot reasonable
be aPprehended, we see no cnuse why the
new Estate Of Ontonagon" should not
speedily take her place az. an independent
member Of the Union.--N. Y. TInes.
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True 20 their CoInra.

BY reference to our Congressional col.
unR it will be seen that the House Of Rep
retentativcs have resolved to adhere to the
House amendment on the Kansas bill. Mr..
montgomery, the author OF the amendme nj
as passed the House, made motion ,c
achere, which was passed by a vote Of ls
10 Ill.
The country cannot but admire the politi
csl nerve as well as the patriotism which sc
n'ani'estly binds together the majority of til.
House OF Representatives. The concious-
ness OF rectitude has retained every mar
hrm in HE opinion end true to his vote.-
The nation now looks to the Senate to pu,
hnalty upon this questica, by the prsmp,
ud'P'ion Of Mr.. Montgomery's amendment
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From 81, LOulis.

ST. LOUIS, April 9.-The Leuyenwortt
correspondent of the Democrat saws Iha,
the policy recommended in On address to the
public, framed by one of the .Conyention
Committees, is, that they give the Leaven.
worth Constitution their hearty ratification
ana refuse to accept any organic law deriv.
ca rom the LecomPton Constitution or the
Federal Government. The address does
not positively recognize the Lecomnton
Constitution as Fundamental law. even
though Congress should receive It. a. with.
out the sanction Of the people il will he
null and void. 1t is distinctly understooJ
that the Convention would moi tolerate the
policy OF any Free State man ouallifvino =
himself under the Lecompton bill of riSh,s
and declOres the right of all men to coStro.
Inelr own personal affairs to be law, and in
The st. Joseph Gazette notices the arriv.
o. IN tnat place of Alexander Constant.
from Fort Kearney, on the 3Oth NH M.
Constant reports that Brigham Young had
notified Col. johnson to leave the Ters;,orv
the 10th Of March, otherwise the troons
would be snnihilated. Brigham Yo,,ra UUpS S!S
rendered to the army sufficient provisions "so -
last them to the States. Mr.. Constanf. rnst
supply train Of one hundred and .;vtv
wagons. accompanied BY four companias -
troops, On the LEI inst, on Little Blue. n.
dians oil PeacesbIe. ~
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Executors Sale.

TO Ma;il Nell, John NJ II, William Nell;
i Michael Nell, Adam Nell, jacob MN, Isaac
isenhower, the unknown heirs Of Ellaale.h isea.
no Scr, deceased, and the unknown hsirs Of SafAh
You are hereby informed, that on tho 9th day Of
APRIL D. ej3, Jacob V. Nell, as Executor OF ~
last will and test ,ment of Willam Nell, late "f
Portage county, oaip, deceased, nled my peliIiUn In
me Probate Court Of Portage county, Ohio tho OBJ
Jeet and prayer Of which, to oh4a!u m order ~
sell and convey the following real estate OF which
the said William Nell died scix as Nv hIs lid viii
was and Is provided, aE chat the sHINs will be for
hearing n said Court, Saturday. the 18th day OF
May 1888 The said land is described as follows -:
Situate In the township Of Deerfeld, coosty Of PSr.
tage, and State Of Ohio and is known as being apeFt
OF the west half Of lot No. 4o, ap,i Is bounded "
c'mmencingtw tw htv rods and seventeen links ess, ar
the corner Of said M running north 10 the
norm line OF said bot; th,hcc east four chains and
thrty-eight IirEs thence souh TO the highway run.
ming east and west through the centre of said Iown.
snip: ttence west our chains and thirty-oght links
to the place Of beginhing-cont lining seyente ca.
acres OF land. JACOB v. NELL,
Executor Of William Nell, deceased.
STRAwnER q HART,
Attt's for Petitioner.
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DR., ]. G, WILLIS, DEyTIST.

WOULD respectfully inform the c;tizens
w of this and adjoining counties. that no has
as mas bHen reported; ut that he IS sill prepared
I" perform any operation in DENTISTRY, whieh
may be entrusted TO him, In the highest style Of
the art Whole partial sets of teeth Inserted ON
the atmospheric pressure principles; drcayed teeth
plugged with gold or tin foil, which will pressFvo
them for years. Pivot teeth inserted. Teeth Temay.
ed with us III e pain sposslbe with no pain d
oil,f desired, by the use of chIorurorm. Aipcrsone
wanting anything In the line ofDentistry are invited
to give him call before engaging work eseshere--
All work VIII be warranted and full satisfartion
guaranteed. 80
Reference given to any number Of persons who ARE
wearing his work with perfect success. -
u. WILLIS.
IPofce In West end of Brick Block, over the
exchange Office Of Robinson, King g. Co.
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A Prodigy.
The New York Day Book says:

lhe New York Day Book says:
A young lady named Susan X. Brown,
daughter Of Philip c. Brown, Esq. :, a retir.
ed merchant Of this city, residing on Finh
Avenue, near Twerty eighth street, has oil
late been, and is most singular and extro-
ordinary somnanbuIist. Almost everv nioh,
after she has fallen to sleep, she gets up,
lights the gas, and taking paper and pen.
Gil writes several star zns of poetry. Mr.,
Brown, one night last week, fearing that
scme accident might occur from a sleepipo
person having light, took the precou,ion
to have the fixtures removed from the room,
and place beyond her reach. That night
she rose in perfect darkness, and wrote an
other piece ofpoetry, which, upon examin-
alton by daylight, was found to be well writ
ten, correctly spelled and punctuated, and
the ruled lines as accurately followed as it
could have been by the best penman with ,
light, and this has been repeated almost ev-
cry n,ght, each time new piece being pro-
duced. She has no knowledge of the mat
ter herself, cannot repeat word of the DO
etry she writes, and insists that she does mot
write it. Her friends watch her closelv.-
He health is not very good since her SOM
nambulic exercises, and she seems gradual
ly to fail Physicians have attended her for
some time, but as yet afford tat little re-
lief.
WhO, the quality Of this sleepy inspira-
ton if' We do not learn. 1t is probably al
together narcotic. Indeed, such verse as is
written now n-dnys, nigh. equally we'll be
written either sleeping or standing. Wedo
not see, therefore, why the young lady
she uld give herself the trouble to 90 to sleep,
W hen she could probably write just ss good
poetry If she were wide awake.
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sectional Feeling Growing In
tense,

The following is sad enough to believe
AID yet unhsppily, every word Of i. is sub.
stantially true; por can any one we'll doub,
It, who' without even being present in on,
national capital, has watched the growth O.
that state OF things which the extract de-
scrbes:
The editor the Richmond Examiner.
calm and disPassionate observer, who ba,
recently been sojourning at Washington,
says that the ill.tesling between the slave.
holding and non-slaVehoIdiug sections OF
the Union, which has been rapidly increas.
ing OF late years is apparent in the bearing
towards each other Of the members from the
various sections. "1'he representatives. Of
me several Stutes," saws the editor. "no
longer meet as brethren Of the same house.
noIc' or es members Of the same firm, with
enc feeling, one interest. one destiny.-
lney meet rather hssthe representatives OF
two hostile nations, the one seeking to in.
sade the rights and crush the power of the
otner. i isprobably, not going too IA "a
assert that there was, in l775, as much :, M.
psthy between the people of the American
colonies and the government of the mother
country, as exists at this moment between |
We majority Of the Representatives Of The
tWo grand sections Of the Onion. Th;. 81.
seE.ion may be deemed BY some ae 4 bola
a3v Eeckleas one, but every calm obserser nj
passing events at Wasiiinefon mus, ,5m;,
iaet.s' s'arthng
4llaf5. s-@. ~ 3 !,
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HON cs OF the Poets.

The house in which Moore was born j,
now whiskey shop; Burns native cottage
is public house; Shelly's house at Greal
Marlow, beer shop; the spot where Scott
was born is occupied by building used fol
a similar purpose; aud even Coleridgs's resi-.
dence at Neither Stowey, the very house in
which the poet composed his sweet "Ode 10
to the Nightingale" is now an ordinary
beer house. A house in which James Mont.
gomery lived for forty years at Sheffield, is
a beer shop. .E. ~
One would fancy. by this singular list,
that whom an English poet goes to his bier.
ms house 10 certain to follow Ia the same
dirsetion. a .~,, ''ss 4 9.ss 81