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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01
WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT.

A Democratic paper having asked, "What
do The people want!" the National lnteli-
gencer mentions few of the things which
the people "want" very much, some of which
we reproduce, and would like to have, but
whether they will ever get them from the
Democratic party is little more than doubt
full, judging from the past and the present
one e.hundred millions per annum condition
of things:
The people want an end put to sectional
agitation, as well iii It's causes as its effects.
They want u well regulated national cur.
rency.
They want just and adequate protection
awarded TO American industry.
They want judicious system of internal
improvements, instead of the present partial
and spasmodc legislation of Congress-.
They want the public lands carefully
husbanded, if their proceeds cannot be
equally distributed.
They want remedy applied to the abuses
connected with the dispensation of the pub
lie patronage--abuses which provoke COM
plaint even from the party which first lnaugu-
rated the "spoils era" in politics.
They want an economical administration
of the government MS well in the collection
us in the disbursement Of its revenues.
They want the Executive power restrained
within its ancient restrictions.
They want tho Judiciary, both State and
Federal, respected alike for the purity and
independence of its decisions
They want no more "deluslons and decep-
TONS" growing out of an ambiguous legis'
lation with respect to the Territories, or
other topics Of national concern.
They want the Federal Legislature gov
erned more by the felt necessities OF the
country, and less hy the exigencies of par
ty. ~, .se t5a aH
The people Of this county are so much
accustomed to the rule or ruin policy Of the
party in power; they have so long borne the
abuses which this party has either brought
upon The country directly, or which have
arisen naturally enough out of its policy, that
they have actually almost lost sight of the
great fact that this same party now in pos
session of the immense and pro6igate patro.
mage of the government, is really nnd literal
" minority party. How often is this
thought present to the minds OF the millions
of this country who are opposed in many i'm.
portant respects to the tactics and measures
of this dominant yet minority power! 1t
has only been through the divisions and
chickering's of the majority that the country
is now governed by the minority, and while
it beautifully illustrates the workings of our
institutions, while it shows how readily the
real majority bow to the minority, when, by
the forms prescribed by the Constitution, the
power of that minority is invested with tho
reins of government, it shows also in sri-
king light the folly of that majority in keep
ing up those leuds, those differences, which
prevrnt them from exercising th"se ghtt
Which the theory and genius of our govern
ment award TO the real and actual majority
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01
"ALwAYs SINGING. While talking with
n neighbor, heard n sweet plainiive voice
singing that beautiful hymn:

"ALwAYs SINGING. While talking with
n neighbor, heard sweet plain,ve voice
singing that beautiful hymn:
"Jesus, lover of my soul l'
The child was up stairs; knew it was
childs voice from its svery softncss. !
listened 70. while, and then said, "That
child has n sweet voice" .--. ----'---' .- 3.
ayes, she has," returned my friend. "She
is always singing"
Always singing
| passed that way again. Summer was
here in her fullness, strewing earth with
flowers, and the sky with stars. The same
sweet voice was thrilling on the mir. 'a
"oh, had wings like dove, ! would lyP'
This time the little singer was in the yard.
gnzed upon the spiritual softness OF her
features-lhe sweet eyes like "brown birds
flying to the light" the fine, expressive lips,
the dark siken curls; felt that she would
soon have her wish answered, and find n
refuge in heaven. .... ....
Autumn came; the wild swan was turning
toward the south; the leaves were dropping
from tho trees, and spears Of frost gli'icrng
among the grass.
A strip of Grape huttered from the shutter
of the house where my little singer lived
Ry the great white throne, by the river OF
eternal gadness, she was striking her golden
harp, and singing in the gushing fulness of
imperishable glory!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

A CAUTION TO UNHEALTHY MOTHERS.
Invalid mothers often prolong their existence
by daily contact with their children. once
knew woman who by weak lungs and
mineral doctors, had been prostratcd with
ncurable consumption. Her infant occupied
the same bed with her almost constantly
day and night. The mother fingered for
months on the verge of the grave, her de-
mise being hourly expected. The child,
meanwhile, pined without my apparent
disease. Its once fat little checks fell away
with singular rapidly, till every bone in lis
face wae visible Finally II had Impaired to
the mother its last spark Of vitality, and sim
ullaneously both died. saw recently sta
ted in newspaper that n man in Nlassa-
chusetis had lived forty-onc days without
eating anything, during which period lie had
been nourisbed altogether by u littly water,
ana by the influences absorbed by him whle
daily holding the hand Of bis wile.-Dr. q.
II. FOOte.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, OCT. /, 1858.

GEN. WIN. Il. HAsKELl.-The Nashville
Daily Gazette says: We regret to learn, as wc
do from a gentleman lately returned from
Kentucky, that this distinguished son of
Tennessee, now confined in the Lunatic Asy-
lum of the former State, is still afflicted with
the severest form Of mental derangement.-
Lately it has been necessary to keep him in
the closest confinement. But little hope is
now entertained that his reason will ever be
fully restored.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

'Sg. LOUIS, Sept, Is, ls5s.-A train on the
hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad met with
, n serious accident at Platte river bridge, ten
niles east Of ST. Joseph, on the morning OF
the 18th, BY which two laborers were drown
ed George Thompson, the engineer, and two
firemen, badly injured aud two or three pas-
sengers slightly hurt, The bridge is sup.
posed to have been fired by an incendiary,
and was so much burned below that when
the locomotive reached il the entire structure
fell, precipitating the whole train into the
river ru .U.Hit HIf iu ''..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01
THE CONFUSION AMONG PARTIES
AND PARTY LEADERS.

|
Political matters are gradually getting into
perfect snarl. Scarcely day passes which
| does not witness some new disintegration or
combination of the elements. Confusion is
the day-god that for the moment appears to
reign supreme. Parties are broken up, and
their constituent PARTICLES take as many
shapes and assume as many hues as the ka-
| lridascopp. II is a general scramble for pa
trotlsm and-the oaves The aspirants for
| the succession in 1860 are Enthusiastically In
the field thus early, setting the pulleys in or
der, brushing away the cobwebs from the
ropes and placing things in trim generally
Each patriot is only for himself, for the sole
object of saving the country by carrying out
his principles.
To disinterested spectators and impartial
patriots like ourselves, the scene presented
upon the political chess board is highly
amusing, and we watch the fight with nearly
as much interest as the woman did whose
husband had been collared by huge bear,
ana who encouragingly exclaimed, "Go it
husband, 90 it bearl"
Seriously, we never witnessed so general
breaking up of parties, and so general a
confusion TO prevail among their members,
or former members, rs at the present time.
| The odds, ends and fragments that fuse
| through the potent and subtle alchemy of
politics, principles and patriotism, or some
thing else, or which present antagonistic np-
pearances and repelant properties, furnish
some of The drolest and stnngest character
stcs Imaginable, and exhibit phenomena
that set the laughing philosopher into hys-
terics through nn excess of pure delight
We are not certain that the philosopher is
! far out of the way, either, enjoying himself
to the full length Of his teiher al the patri-
otic evolutions of the political wheels that
are constantly turning up something new,
unique, bizar@
First, there is the debris OF the late Amer
lean or Know Nothing party, whose eandl'
date, with the suffrages OF great many
thoroughly independent meE, received about
epht hundred thousand votes at the last
eection-no contemplate item in a hardly
contested struggle. Mary of these have re-
suned their places as conservative independ-
en.s, and are doing battle against sectional
ism and every form of political Don Quxot-
ism, from whatever quarter they may hail
Some of these have gone back into the DEM
ocratic party, and nre now arranging them
selves along with the various fragments OF
the no longer united or formidable unterritl-
ed: and n few, a uery few, forgetful Of the
hnrning and patriotic words of the noble
standard bearer whom they supported, or at
least professed to, have gone clean over into
the pyrotechnic department, and now con-
slider all former disunionists and revolution
| ists as so far behind the true point OF virtue
NJ TO be scarcely worthy of their fellowship!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

ARKANSAS REcREATIoSs.-The charming
freedom of Arkansas life is well illustrated
by recent occurrences in Ouachita county
An old man named Joyce has large family
of children, who do not live in perfect har-
mony. A short time since n married daugh-
ter, named Miller, getting angry with sin
Gle sister, who was visiting her, thrashed the
hapess maiden without ceremony. The old
man, theleupon became enraged, and in com
pany with son retaliating by beating Mrs.
Miller and her husband. For this exploit
they were bound over to keep the pence, and
in default of bail, committed to Jail, from
whence they escaped, and with or l0"lewd
fellows of the baser sort" commenced burn
ing the houses and other property OF their
prosecutors. At last accounts they had not
been arrested.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

,B- Edward Tucker, the engineer of the
Nav Haven railroad train, which ran off the
drawbridgc at Norwalk, FIVE ycnrs ago, aud
resulted so disastrously in the destruction Of
human life, committed suicide in the city OF
New York on Thursday evening, by sevoring
with razor the main arteries Of his left arm
He has not run any engines since the Nor
walk disaster, and this calamity is said to
have prcyed on his mind so fofcibly as TO
have rendered him at times nearly insane
II, was 40 years of age, and has left wife
and two children residing in the vicinity OF
Trov r . a... .u ...a a.HH
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01
A DAD TO A MUsKEETER.

You wiked blud suker, why doant
You urn yure liyin some wa beside
Liten down Oh people and nsurten yure
Long bill to git blood, liten on ..
Foalkses noses, and when they get mad an
Begin to slap leaves
Hant you got no feelinksY
Great seezerl how yude git nocked eff you
Was as large as sum legged blud sukers as II
Round here wot wears oloas Viii don't
You lite down sli, as tha do, and bleed em
Foar tha no it without hollerin all the vile
You kanablel yu do big kiznes on a b
Smawl skail; you suck more blood out OF a
Feller than Eleffant can, and yure smel!el
Amt half so long. You wake up folks
When tha are sleepin, and tha swair
Vengens How do you work it to keep
Yure bill SO sharp without grindmf Viii
Doant yon pek wurms out of trees,
And etc insex, you long legged GUST
What tewn is it you syng so much,
Going rown with yur fethers shott oph.
Seekin whom yu may devower3 Yu
Seam to be a con ten It'd bird from yur
Singin, and syng loudis wen yur
Hungryist. l shud thynk yud want on
Boots or panty lets to keep yure long
Legs from bein koald this wether.
Inseck, yure useiss you kant chaw, but
Yure sum on suekin, kaus yn nevir s|
Git weaned. Inseck, adewl ....
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

It will thus be seen that in these cities,
containg l66,597 voters, the number OF ma
tiye-born voters exceeds that Of the foreign
born only about 10000. This proportion of
nnturalzed to native voters is not peculiar to
the cities of New York or OF Atlantic States
In many of the Western cities. as in Buffalo
and Chicago, the foreign vote greatly pre-
ponderates, and in Others, as in Cincinnati
and st. Louis, ii is about equal to that Of the
native-born citizens. giY ed
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

t8s- A Yankee in Kansas, occupying an
old wagon by the road side, WAS discovered
short time since securing an old gun-bar-
rel. On being asked what he intended to do
with it, he replied that he was fixing up to
20 into the liquor business, and to avoid tho
law was going to make use Of this tube in
stead of glasses, thereby making it appear
that he was selling Iiquorby ihP ta'rel The
fellow is doing thriving business. a great
many persons have been "shot in the neck"
by the novel contrvance.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

MASSACHUSETTS AMERICAN CONVENTION.
The New York Times, of the nth, says:
p.e;. 49,. erican party of Massachusetts, yes.
or es".s "s'Tiiy State Convention for the
nomiSati6Tfrs' e,ss H's dates for State officers,
at the Tarsnt Temple, in Boston. The
,,jn. Amos A. Lawrence, of Brookline, was
nominated for Governor; Increase Sumner,
of Great Darlington, for Lieutenant Cover
nor; r. l.. Allen, of Boston, for Secretary OF
State; and A. G. Underwood, of Milford, for
State Treasurer. Hat H1ta
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

A POWERFUL ARTEsIAN WELL.-ln bor-
ing an Artesian well at Bourn, Lincolnshire,
England, recently, q spring was struck, which
threw the water 25 feet above the earih's
surface, at tho rate 265 gallons per minute,
or 1911 $4,000 gallons in twelve months
It has only one equal, and that is in Paris.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

PRRsosAL.-About the year 1890, branch
of the Roseburgh FRANKLY left Sussex conn
ty, New Jersey, and settled somewhere in
North Carolina. The descendants of this
family, some Of whom are supposed 10 re-
side ia North Carolina and Tennessee, will
hear OF something 70 their advantage by
communicating wilhA. NJ, Roscburgh, itha-
ca, MY. Southern papers viii confer IA
vor by copying.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

BOMBAY, Sept. 9.-The Rebels near Kntu-
ritz were defeated by Gen. Robertson.
The Chinese treaty tolerales Christianity
throughout the Empire. .,-.a li,
New ports are to be opened, travel is to be
unrestricted, piracy suppressed, and Mission
aries placed under the protection of Chinese
authorities. r.tiHt..aUI re I1 ralf'H.f q.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

s,serSe.--A New York paper says: A few
sundays ago, at one of our suburban
churches, the choir sang hymn. toa tune
wLib commences as followsi "My poor pol
nv poor pol-my polluted heart" Anoth-
or line received the following rendering
SApd in t1e pi-and in the pi--apd 10 the
pious he delights" Aud still another was
snnc: "And take thy pil-and take thy pit
and take thy pilgrim home
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

iaaI 200 I.1 NEw YoRY, Sept. 90
TO Telegraph Office, New Orieans:-A
dispatch from Trinity Bay says the Ocean
Cable is in good order again, the electric cur
rent passing through as perfectly as ever.
New York OFFICE.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

FLORIDA SUGAR PLANTING.-An Alabama
paper says that some Of the sugar planters
of Louisiana are turning their attention to
that part of Florida from which the Indians
have lately been removed. II is thought that
in few years not only will sugar become
one of its principal productions, but that cof-
fee will be successfully cultivated.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

eY- The Democrats of Delaware have
nominated DR.. Burton for Governor, and
Hon. William G. Whiteley (their present
Representative for re election to Congress.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

HUNTING A GovERNoR.-The Wetumpka
iAla) Spectator says: ave have heard of
several persons lately hunting the governor.
The last Legislature passed an act Increasing
the governors salary to five thousand dol
lars, and requiring him TO reside at the capl-
tai. But we fear this law will do no good,
except that of increasiry his pay. Before
the law, our governors lived at home. ~asr-
ever that may have been, and visited the cap
ital occasionally. Now, the governor lives
al the capital, stays ut home occasionally,
and is off on visit the rest Of the time"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

NJ The Alexandra (VN) Gazette says
thai the agent for the "Pnre Caiawba Brau.
dy" for that city, had some Of the ARTICLES
an,lyaed by a eumpctent chemist last Friday
and found il TO he "pdre old rye whisky,
colored with burn, sugar" The agent, nc.
eordinply, has thrown up lis agency.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

o. A Spanish SLAYER, which had been
abandoned, was recently found off the Colo
RADIO reef. She had landed 900 Africans at
Cardenas. I.-.,... .....
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

TREMEHDoUs EXCITEMENT ABOUT A KISS.
AT Palmer, Massachusetts, the whole town
ia in an uproar, because the principal teacher
Of the high school has been discharged for
kissing n female assistant ngninst her will
that is, when one or two foolish Soung girls
were looking al them through the crack Of
the door! The school committee are indie-
nnnt. The people Of Three Rivers, howey-
er, intend to keep the teacher employed nt
their own expense, aud hayepelitioned for n
general town meeting TO be held on Monday.
the 10th, TO see whetherthe voters are unwil-
ling that n school tenchcr shall continue 10
be nman. All the beautiful young ladies Of
.he town are on the side of The expelled
teacher, and are preparing 10 get up slrong-
minded indignntiop meeting. a,. ...as s,il gl
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

.g- That was bright idea of the hard
shell preacher, who, when discoursing OF
Daniel in the den of lions said
There he set all night, looking at the
show for nothing, and it didu't cost hun
cent
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

.9s- Late intelligence from Russia states
that powder magazine at Astrnkan, on The
Caspian, containing it is said two hundred
thousand pounds Of gunpowder had explod-
ed, destroying half the town and killing half
the inhabitants. The loss of shipping was
also fearful.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01
VOL. XI.-N0 523.

HAUNTED HOUSE, IN MoNTREAL.-Among
the objects of interest shown to strangers at
Montreal is "'rhe Haunted House." an un-
finished granite building Of massive and im-
posing architecture, commenced about ihe
beginning ofthe present century by Coi' NC,
lavish, the grandfather of the celebrated
Mrs. Howard, whose attractions were so
highly appreciated at the Court of Louis Ma
poleon. 1t stands near the foot of the noun
tain, in situation of unrivalled beauty
While the house was in process of erection,
n costly mausoeum was built by Col. Mae
lavish, on the side of the mountain adloih-
ing his estate, and soon after its construction
he committed suicide, and was entombed
within its walls. Since that event, every at
tempt to complete tho unfinished mansion
has been frustrated by some mysterious
agency. Unaccountable noises were heard,
heavy blocks of masonry displaced, and tho
tools and implements of the workmen were
thrown about in the widest confusion. After
many unsuccessful experiments, the attempt
was finally abandoned. The easements were
bricked up, and the mansion now presents
four blind and cyeless walls of masonry,
without loop-hole or window. MIR. Moore,
the Consul General of the United States 70
tho Canadas, n resident at Montreal, informed
me that the estate, after having remSined for
nearly half century in its unfinished condi-
ton, is, during the present month, to be sold
at auction. TO add to the fatality attending
the house of MacTavish, n son of the old
Colonel has also perished by his own hand.
DANDIEs IN DEMAND.-The following no.
tce emanates from the Warsaw (R. l.) Tele-
graph:
Wanted-One hundred and seventy.fve
young men, of all shapes and sizes, from the
tall, graceful dandy, with hair enough on his
upperworks to stuff BARRIERS cushion, down
to the little upstart. The object is to form II
Gaping Corps, to be in attendance nj the
church doors on each Sabbath, before the
commencement of divine service, to stare at
the females as they enter, and make delicate
and gentemanly remarks on their persons
and dress. All who wish to enlist in the
above Corps, will please appear al the various
church doors next Sabbath morning, where
they will be duly inspected, and their names,
personal appearance and quantity OF brains
Irrgistured in II book kept for that purpose,
aud published in the newspapers. 10 pre-
vent a general rush il will be well to state
that none will be enlisted who o.possess in
telectual capacities above that of an ordinary
wel-bred donkey. .r
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

,Sy- Tho treasury receipts for the past
week were Ss55,ooo, being $376.OOo less
than the previous week. Total amount on
dsposit $lA6sl.OOO of which Sl2.s7scoo
are subject to draft; S969l.ooo are in New
Nork t.I..|I -II
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

t4y- Counterfeit five dollar bills on tho
North Western Bank at Wheeling, Va, are
in circulation. They are said to bear strik-
ing resemblanceto to the genuine notes, aud are
only to be detected by observing the five in
the right hand yigpette, printed upside down,
-Ddilu Netns,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01

tSg- The Rothschild's are said to be
worth sOO,0OO,0o0 of dollars. They must
have at least the half Of this large snm en-
garcd hctytly in trade, which will Yield
them ten per cent, thus adding 10 their iip
mense wealth S4O,0nO,O60 per ahnnm.--
This income added to their eapinl every
year, with its compromising Of iuterest, will
soon make them iclt wherever trade and
commerce extend upon the hubiablc globe.
II is stated rla they own q quck-sily,r mnc
which yield them M au9ud income Of thirty
mIliors. The world will soon oe bankrupt,
owing Ro,hschid's more money than exists.
Memphis Ledger