The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-08-27

Tbs QUEEN AND THE PREsIpEST.-The
Savannah Republican, of the 18th, says
The triumph is complete. We publish this
morning under our telegraph head the frs,
achievement of that wonderful work that
connects, by bond of iron, the New and
the Old World-a friendly greeting from the
Queen of the first nation of Europe, to the
President of the Great Republican Empire of
the West-the message having been trans
mitird and received all in the space Of few
moments time. II sped its way on the light
ning's wing through the roaring pillows and
over the mountains and caves of the mighty
Atlantic, and with an accuracy unerring
reached its destined goal The rulers of two
great nations, three thousand miles asunder,
are brought within speaking distance and ex-
change friendly snlulations with each other!
What thought.
The mind pauses and stsnds bewidered at
the magnitude of the consummation. 1t is
plain and simple in its operation, yet there is
ubuui u tii't tODS ~ VI It's
reality. Before the laws that govern the
mysterious agency were understood, and in
deed long after, the fictons of the Arabian
Knights contained nothing more wonderful
or harder of belief. Yet it is accomplished,
and the ingenuity of man has trumphed over
imaginary impossbiIities aud the ncreGuity
Of ages.
AS an American citizen, proud of our de-
scent from II nation that has produced the
grandest specimens of the human race, and
shed over the world the lights of liberty,
Christianity and civilization, we accept the
friendly greeting of England's noble Queen,
to our government and people, and send back
our best wishes for the happiness of her
royal household, and her long and successful
reign.
CAss, GRUSD, WKoFF, &o.-The Rich
mond South has long and furious article
respecting the appointment of Miss CANDLES
Chevaer Wikoff and that famous or rather
Infamous llessian, Francis J.Grund, to secret
foreign missions, and concluded in this wise:
awe have only to add, that, if General Cass
has had the temertv to select either Of these
renowned adventurers as nm agent of the
Government, the country will not hold him
harmless for having outraged public morali-
ty Better, far better, for the Democracv
that the head of the Department were in the
darkest recesses OF the most mpenrtrnbIe
forest of Michigan than he should thus
stealthily encroach upon its purity or trtle
with its integrity. We call on the Secretary
of State, in behalf of the united Southern
Democracy, to revoke at once the appoint
,nent of these twin brothers in inqnily."
VALENTIA iIARBoR.-'l'his place, hitherto
compurati, ely unknown is about to assume
vast Importance as the European terminus of
the Atlantic Telegraph. The following de-
scrpiiun of the island and town we copy
from Lippincott's Gazetteer:
"Vaenti,, or Kenmore, m island off the
west coast of Ireland, Munster, county of
Kerry, three miles :. W. of Cahrclveen, and
separated from the main land by strait one
and quarter miles in breadth, and which
forms the most western harbor in the British
island, Lat. 81 deg. 55 min. N Ion. 10 deg.
10 min. w. Length "fisland seven miles,
breadth two miles. Itgives the title of Wis
count to the Annesley family.
"Vaientia, or Valencia, II town or village at
the southeastern extremity of the island oi
VaIen,ia, ireland, is beautifully enclosed
among brown mountain slopes. Population
of town and parish 2,4s2. The h"rbor IS
deep, capacious, and completely land locked,
nnd, being the most western part u! Europe,
has lately attracted considerable attention in
consequence of n proposal TO make it the /!
western terminus Of railway communica-
tior and principal station for Atlantic
steamers"
GENERAL NEws.-The rebellion in Cen
tral India has been elfeclually crushed.
1t was rumored that the Paris Credit Mo-
biier was about to wind up and fuse with |
the Bank Monseur ST. Paul.
A dispatch from Vienna states that thirty |
three thousand troops are concentrating |
on the Danube, at the nearest point to
Turkey.
Large embarkaions Of troops are going
forward to India.