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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-04-23

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THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, APRIL ss, 1853

NOTES OF THE BANKS OF TENNESSEE,
Received by the State, Union and Planters BANKS
Tennessee, at Nashville.
Blythe Planters Bank.
p.,t NJ Tennessee. Bank OF Memphis,
Jaio, Rant Northern Bank Of Tenn.
pi.ntsrs, RAINY Bank Of America,
usrcha nts pank Citizens Bank,
Farmers Bank, Bank OF ChauanOoga'
Bank OF Paris, Bank oi Mdnle iehh'
Bank Of Commerce, Commercial BANK
Bank OF the Union, southern BANK.
BY the Bunk Of Tennessee ana the Oni0h D'"''
p.nt NJ Tennessee Bank OF Middle Tenn.
Planters Bank, citizens BANK
IInIon Taot City Bank,
psnL ~ America Farmers Bank,
pans of Cbattanooga. Merchants Bank,
Bank OF Memphis, Northern BANK,
psnl NJ paris. Southern Bank,
Bank Of the Union, Traders Bank,
r,.r.. pank Kentucky Banks,
exchanges Bank. New orleans bahAs'
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rg- Lowell has over nineteen mHes of
girls, cndwse.
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The PRINTING SwIsDLE.-The printing
of the Pacific Railroad report, ordered by
Congress, cost of itself over one hundred
thousand dollars. For lithographing aid
printing in colors single OK for the Patent
Office Report, we find the sum of Slo,576
paid to Wagner e. Michigan. For similar
service for one bnll, the sum Of Sl0,576 was
paid; for COW the sum of S7,5oO, and for
one horse the sum Of S5,576.
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"Alas, what Ierils do environ
The man wht NEEDLES with cold iron"

The duel did not come off. The parties
were all on the ground-Mr. Posey sent his
challenge. Mr.. Reid accepted, to fight with
Mississippi rifles at thirty PAGES. Mr. Posey
declined to fight with rifles, and was there.
upon notified that Mr.. Reid and his friend
would be on the ground at A. NJ, Thursday,
the sth inst, with rifles, to give him the re.
dress he had demanded, and that failing to
appear they would feel discharged from any
further obligation to remain. They had pre-.
viously refused to receive any further com.
muneation from him. They went to the
ground, waited one hour, and returned. Mr..
Posey attempted to reopen negotiations"
they refused to notice any communication
from him, and returned by the morning tram
from West Point. SO ends the contemplated
tragedy.
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RECKLESS TKMEmTY.-An exchange relates
the following instance of reckless temerity,
which we have never seen paralleled:
A minister was walking in his garden the
other day, when he discovered two saw horses.
Struck with their appearance, he had them
broke for his private use. Having no harness
suitable, he put the yolk of an egg on their
necks, attached cart to them with the
traces of a thunder storm; blanketed them
lie then eaped upon the cart, sat upon the
seat of government, took the whip OF top
in one hand and the reigns Of terror in the
other, and drove off; passing through the
gate of cripple, over the grounds of coffee,
and when he crossed the track of snail, he
was run into by a train of circumstances. 1t
being heavy train, he was thrown over
fifty cent bluff into stream of eloquence,
where he was dashed to pieces against the
rocks of n cradle. by hard work he soon
gained nm island, formed boat from the bark
of n wolf fitted it with a mast made from
the north pole and two auction sales. Leev-
ing his horses, he sailed down the river to its
mouth, and landed on tongue Of land
Here he was seized by a sensation and con-
veyd to cell, where he was secured by a
cord of love to thunder bolt. The jailer
read to him the report of a cannon. and gave
him his liberty as birthday present. He
then mounted the wings Of the morning, and
arrived home in time to hear that day broke,
and that his fortune had vanished; when,
catching up the scythe OF time, he put an end
to his existence by cutting of the head Of his
sermon.
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sR- Never abuse one who was once your
bosom friend, however bitter now.
Never insult poverty.
Never speak contemptuously of womab-
kind.
Never blow your nose between your thumb
and fingers.
Never eat hearty supper.
Never stop 10 talk ir church aisle, after
service is over.
Never smile at the expense Of your reli-
gion on your Bible.
Never reply to the epithet Of n drunkard, a
fool or a fellow.
Never taste an atom when you are not
hungry; it is suicidal.
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THE RESULT OF TIE WEST POINT DUEL.-The
Montgomery onfsderation of the 9th inst,
says:
We have been called upon to state that the
duel which was to have been fought at West
Point yesterday between Ben Lane Posey,
Esq, and Samuel c. Reid, did not take place,
owing to the refusal of the challenging party
(Mr Posey) to agree to the terms proposed by
Mr.. Reid. The weapons chosen by Mr.. Reid
were Mississippi rifles, and the distance thirty
PAGES.
The Montgomery Advertiser of the 9th
inst, says:
| IL NAlns. what Ierils do environ
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VOL. X.--N0. 500.

FuYERALs.-One who had been taught the
true character of Christ's religion, and its
necessary effect on the human heart, would,
when for the first time attending one Of our
funerals, need be told that we were Chris
tians. He surely would not detect evidences
of the fact CD in the deep gloom investing
the house, like the pail Of midnight! As If
cheerfuness were sacrilegious, every beam Of
JOY is excluded from the darkened roomsj
and the bereaved friends gather about them
the drapery of blackness, as though they
were heathen, groping blindly through the
valley of the shadow of death, in utter igno.
rance of the spirits Immortality.
Is this deliberate, voluntary withrawal
from the light of the ull.orbcd, risen sun Of
Joyous ife-ihs assumption of cheerless
sorrow, this putting on of gloom-a duty of
Christians! Is it consistent with the spirit
of Christ's Gospel! We tell you, nay!-
Gloom should never be associated with death.
Sorrow at the death of friends should be
modified by joy for their spiritual exaltaiion,
and by the anticipation of future blissful re.
union. Then eheerfulness would not Die out
of the hearts and faces of people when they
gather TO celebrate the obsequies of the de-
parted
Christians! do not obscure what Christ has
illumined. Why throw all the darkness you
can conceive on the spot shining with tho
intenscst glow Of revelation, radiant with the
overwhelming hrilliancy of triumphant Life!
Why COUSINS SHOULD NOT MARRY.-In
the annual report of the Superintendent of
the Kentucky Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb, is the following argument against the
marriage of cousins: "From ten to twenty
per cent of deaf mutes are the children of
cousins. 1t is greatly to be regretted that
the law forbding the marriage of first cousins
did not pass the recent legislature. These
marriages are violations Of the law of nature,
as is evidenced by the atllic,ion visited in al.
most every case upon their offspring in deaf
ness, blindness, and idiocy-and ought TO be
n violation of human laws also. The COM
monweath has clear right TO protect itself
against these ill-starred matches whose off
spring it has TO sustain, frequently for life
1t may be hoped that this important subject
will not escape the action of our Legislators
many years longer. 1t is confidently believed
that by forbidding marriages of this kind, and
by proper attention and care of infants labor
ing under the disease stated, the number of
deaf mutes in the community might be re-
duced by one.half in generation
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-07-30
The Pnl-in.Rar ,ssiebratiou

The Erie Constitution, in endorsing the pro-
posed Grand Pic Mic at Putin Bay on the 10th
Of September next, (Which. by the way, bids
fair to be generaIly adoPted,) recalls some Of
the local incidents connected with Perry's ex-
pedition. The building of the fleet, it says,
was one of the fastest" enterprises of the age.
Com. Perry arrived in Erie on the 27th of Feb.
1918. He Immediately commenced arrange
ments for building his vessels. Early in Au-
gust following his fleet was ready Tor sea
The timber Of which the vessels were built was
standing in the forest when Perry arrived and
was cut and prepared under his supervision
His feet consisted of nine vessels carrying 81
guns, and the British fleet consisted of sixves-
sells carrying 63 guns. While Perry was get
ting the fleet over the bar which then existed al
the entrance to Erie harbor, the British feet
PASSED up the lake in full view. As the Ameri-
can vessels were lighiened to get them over, II
would not have been a difficult matter for the
British to have disabled them had they known
their condition They did not discover theiI
advantage, however, and in few days had an
opportunity of testing the qualify of American
live oak, and the bravery of the forces undel
Perry.
The flag ship Lawrence is sunk near the old
government house on the north side of Presqu'
Isle Bay, and the hull is visible short dis
tance under the water Most Of its best plank:
have been torn up and converted into canes
and good many dollars have been realized Il
the operation If enough timber can be pro
cured from the remains Of tie vessel, We sug
gest that large basket be made Of the same
in which to carry provisions to the Put
in-Bay party. It would certainly be an inter
esting relic to all the visitors on the OCCASION.
BHfa!s Express.
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The Vice PresIdeut's Land speeuIations-

The Vice Presidents Land Speeulations-
Vice President Breckenridge has, with other
Government officials, some Lake Superior in
vestments more pleasant than profitable. SuPe-
rior City got its wonderful start into importance
through Washington capital and influence, but
the Vice President appears to have found a
planting spot for his money among the islands
this side of the famous city. A Cincinnati
tourist on Lake Superior thus describes it;
Shortly after leaving La POinte, our attention
was called TO a small island Of this group, as
the one which (or rather part of which, Vice
President breckenridge bought some two years
ago. Ieeompr ses about four hundred acres in
extent, and is covered with an almost impene-
trabIe growth Of dwarish FIR, spruce, balsam,
&c. It is entirely uninhabited, and likely to
continue SO, for mountain goat would starve
to death on it, unless he imported bis provisions.
The only visible evidence of human intrusion
any where to be seen, was small opening, or
"elearng on one side, about trenty feet square,
Immediately upon the edge Of the bank, and IN
that solitary spot stood little log hut and
hewed logs at that but there was no roof on it,
nor ehinks between the logs, (probably for the
same reason given by the Arkansas chap: that
be couldn't do it when it was raining, and when
It was dry he didp't need if. This is called
Mr. Breckenndge's summer house.
Whether the Vice President took this heaven
forsaken piece of real estate on bad debt, or to
what earthly purpose he intended to appropriate
it, is more than can conceive; but if be is at
q loss upon this point, can make a suggestion
which no doubt will meet his approval: 1t is
politician who didn't want to retire Now
let him, after his term is over, withdraw to this
seA-giTt isle, J." there to do Psnance for his ma
ny political sins; and by all means take Mr..
Buchanan with him, for he especially stands In
need of it.
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National Teachers' Association

The First Annual Meeting Of the National
Teachers Association will be held in Cincin-
natl, commencing August Ilth- Lectures are
expected from the following distinguished edu-
Gators, viz Introductory, by the President, L.
Richards, of Washington City; J. D. Philbriekr
Superintendent of Schools, Boston J. n. Nc
EIligott, New York City Daniel Read, of the
University of Wisconsin John Young, of the
North.western Christian University, Indiana
John B. MAlliard, of Georgia; and Calvin H
Wiley, Of North Carolina.
Subjects for discussion are-lst, The exPe-
diency and justice Of maintaining free schools
throughout the country by general taxation
%, Parochial Schools Are they in harmony
with the spirit Of American institutions and
Sd, Mixed Schools The PrOPriety and exPedi
eney Of educating both sexes together, in the
same classes.
The meeting cannot fail TO be one Of great IN
terest to teachers and the friends Of education
State, County, and other Educational Associa'
tions are invited to send delegates 1t is an
nouneed that reduction Of fare on the PrineiPa
railroads has been made
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-07-30
Liueoln's ChaIIenge to Douglas.

Mr.. Lincoln who is Petted against the Little
Giant in Illinois, is long, lank, Kentuekian
who early emigrated to the Prairie State, and Is
really an able man as well as popular speaker.
He likes the old Kentucky fashion of measur-
ing ar-.s with political oppone Mt before the
Douglas TO make an arrangement to DIVIDE the
time and address the same audiences during the
present canvass. This Mr.. Douglas defined to
do, assigning nearly half column OF objections
the main ones being that arrangements had been
made for Democratic meetings. at which Dem
oeratie candidates for Congress and for the Le-
gislature, would occupy portion OF the time;
and that recently an arrangement hsd been
made to bring out third candidate for the u
s Senate TO divide the Democratic party for
the benefit of Lincoln Mr. Douglas does not
entirely dodge the encounter, but expresses q
willingness to make an arrangement with Mr.
Lincoln for discussion with him at one prom
inent point in each Congressional District ex-
espt the Second and Sixth, where both have al
ready spoken.
Ex Senator BTeese Is the third candidate
talked of, to whom Douglas refers He will be
the Buchanan candidate, and the Nationals"
will rally earnestly and if possible raise b-eeze
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The SEASON AND Crops ABRoAD.--Letters
from Europe and India speak of the remarkable
heat Of the season. The last accounts from
India reported the intense heat of the country
appears to have fatal effect upon the English
troops. In the 35th regiment eigkty-four
deaths of apoplexy are announced. The Lon
den theatres have been deserted on account OF
the great heat, and several persons are report
ed to have died from the same GAUGE.
The drought throughout France is excessive.
The Seine Is reported to be nearly as low as it
was in I7l9. In England the crops are re-
ported to be very promising, except in districts
where the drought has affected them. In
Spain the harvest is very fne.--Cm. GGz.
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TONIC,

TONIC,
From Col Albert Pike, NJ C. from Arkunsas.
Washington, D. c, June II.
II haye usedtwo hottles Of your BGRHAVE'S HOL-
LAND BlFTERS. and have found il very useful IN case Of
Indigestion and Headache and recommend il to all Who
need pleasant aad ecaeiOus remedy and valuable tonic
Dyspeptie Women NOtice-E05RHAYE'S HOLLAND
BiTTERS has Ired ne Dyspepsia BY using it only ore
week. recommend il confdenfly to all saIsTing from
tins disease.
CLARA E. sCHUCH8IAN.
Pittsburgh, Oc.. "a ls56
(1irs- S. is the wife oftke Eoted Lithographerl
The late High shsr Of Allegheny county gwen Us The
following
Il was aietsd with Debility Of The Digestive Organs
a0uHiIns 70 aseFers attack OF Dyspepaa which lad
cused ny ies inside, ably. Ny wife was als3 aisted
under the same ccumstances and ae disease HaV
ing used your nsdicine called BG RHAvE'S HOLLAND
BTTTERS Sesoth ob,zined relief and happy aord
you this pubic evsdsces sfGts value"
Pittsburgh. January I'd. lsSI.
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FATHER STARVING HIS CHILD TO DEtT---
Wm. Lally, brute of a man, in
recently married a secoDs ''De' ana snail
child bv the fr.t &C being troublesome the
- -Aed in a back kitchen and inhu-
only starved When discovered the child
was greatly emacisted. Lally and wife were
arrested. On examination the woman was dis
charged, and the unnatural parent held to bail
in $500 for attempting to starve his own child
To Isstb.
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COLONY or WALDESsEs Il LLISOIs.-We
learn by the Chics 60 Press that colony OF
Waldenses, from the French Alps, has been
commenced near the Odel station, in Living
ston county. ThiIty-fve hundred acres Of land
have been purchased, and eight heads Of Ami-
lies have become pioneers of the settlement
others are expected 70 join them. The colony
is represented as very poor, and in need of as
sistance to place them in selfsuPPOrting con-
dition
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R.anpearunce on the Plague.

The plague, after an intermission of twenty
years, has reappeared in district of the Pash-
Olih of Tripoli, named Bengaii, and at last as-
counts was continuing to make ravages as an
epidemic There was arumOr that it had reach
ed ConstantinoPle, but it was thought to be un-
founded The most stringent quarantine regu-
IatiOns had been resorted to, and it is to be hop
ID that this seOurge of the earth will be con-
fined to the precincts of the districts in which
II has Ieappeared.
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SLAVE WHIPPED TO DEATH.-The Memphis
Eagle furnishes striking commentary on the
humanity of the peculiar institution" A ne
gro man belonging to Mrs. Starke, near Mem
Phis, ran away and was caught. The Oyerseer,
VIM. S. Montgomery, had the fugitive tied over
barrel, and gave him 500 lashes in all The
negro was whipped each day for ten days, and
in two weeks from the first abuse the victim of
human slavery died, the lseerated flesh Of his
back having mortified. The murderer was per
mitted to escape.
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Kentucky EIeetiOn-viee President stumDIn

Kentucky ElectiOn-fiee fresideht SiunPA
An important election is approaching in Ken
tueky-Judges of the Court of Appeals. The
Buchanan Democracy and the Americans are
in the field with their tickets. Vice President
Breckenridge has taken the stump to save Ken
lucky. The Pittsburgh Gazette aPpositely
says:
1t Is the first time in our national history, We
believe, that Vice President has lowered his
dignity by taking the stump and making par
tisan speech and the necessities Of his party
must have been great, indeed, to induce him to
such a step. Il remains to be seen whether he
has not degraded himself without benefting his
party.
few DAYS since, lays the whole blame of nation
al extravagance upon the " Black Republican
Congress" when no one knows better than he
that the Republicans never had q majority IN
eitherbranch Of Congress; advocates an increase
in the rates of postage; and endorses Lecompton
as thoroughly as the veriest party hack could
desire He goes for the English swindle in all
lis length and breadth. But the great burden
of his speech was his overwhelming sense OF
the power and prospects of the Republican par
tv. He sees and admits that IT is a living.
growing party, having strong hold upon the
masses Of the people. He knows the danger
that it will not only gain earnest sympathy, but
an actual foothOld, in such States as Kentucky.
He wishes to arrest this vigorous rival Of the
Democracy. as it first crosses the dividing line
between free and slave soil He comes up 70
the very border TO assal the enemy, and keep
him as much as possible within sectional bounds.
He has an eye to the canvass of 1860, and he
does not deceive himself with the notion that
another contest with so formidable an opponent
is to be won without desperate exertions, if at all
He tells his friends that the Republican party is
the second, if not the first, party in the Union ;
holds up the spectre Of disunion before his aud
itOrs, as the result Of its success, and teehngly
implores the old-line Wings and Americans Of
Kentucky TO vote the democratic ticket as the
only means of arresting the progress Of this
formidable party. VIII they DO it! We shall
I see
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OREGON EIection-A state NOT state.

oregon EAe-Ac AoA - |h-~N~-
Oregon was only half admitted as State by
the last Congress, the Democratic House having
failed to pass the bill of admission sent down
by the Democratic Senate South probably
thinking that the admission of one Free State
at a session would be quite as much as the Union
could survive. The neglect to let Oregon
in seems to have had no particuler effect on the
people of the Territory, for they have gone
n. ht on and enjoyed the luxury of contest
for State officers with as much gustO as if Ore
gon had fully stepped in when Uncle Sam
opened the door to welcome vigorous young
Minnesota. The election took place on the 1th
of June, and the two factions Of the Democracy
had the contest to themselves, the Republican
candidates having Withdrawn their names Just
before the election The Salem faction was
victorious. and elected the following officers
John Whitaker, Governor; L. +. Grover, Con
pressman; l. Heath, Secretary of State; J. D.
Boon, State Treasurer; and Asahel Bash, State
Printer. The Sham or Hard Democracy vote
was 4,229, Opposition 2,6s6. The same fac
tion have msjorty in the Legislature 1t Is sup
posed, and it is expected that Gen. Lane and
and Delazon Smith will be the United States
Senators. Delazon was well known in this
quarter long ago as the PrOtege of Dr.. Under
hill, Justice Of the Peace, DC, and as the authoi
Of "OberIin Unmasked" He turned up IN Of
fce in the reign of John Tyler, and is quite ri
to represent Oregon under the Administration
of James Buchanan How DelazOn now stands
on the goose question" is not exactly clear
as the National Democrats that split of from
the Hards indorsed Buchanan, LecomPtOn
and the Dred Scott decision in the canvass
The Republicans, or many at least, would nO'
vote the National ticket
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F1rHER EE4xcIP1riss HIS 0wN SOS.-This
is queer world, and queer csses turn up un-
der our bOasted model free government Fog
instance, Mississippi planter named Allen
Motley appeared in the Probate Court, Cinein-
matt, on Monday, and took the necessary steps
to emaneipate from slavery his own son! He
stated that the boy was about Is years of age.
and his son BY one Of his slaves. Motley
avOwed his intention to give the boy good
education as well as his freedom