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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

AMENDING CONSTITUTIONS. We this week
give place to another communication from
Vor Populi, on amending Constitutions
We informed our correspondent when his
first article appeared that he was welcome to
the use of our columns to discuss that sub
ject, and we repeat it now, with the single
remark that we know him to be man Of too
much sense and cando, to reiterate time and
again his Expressions Of confidence in the
intelligence of the Masses" A reasonable
amount Of that sort of thing is well enough,
but most men when on popular questions,
indulge il too often. And We certainly don't
agree with the novel doctrine of our cores
pondent that each generation is smarter
than the one that preceded it, and, per con-
sequence, that we Of the present day must
10 TO work and undo all that was effected
by the wise and good thirty years ago. By
no means Again: Our correspondents I'M
der.tanding of the term "Progress," is, il
seems to us, like Corkscrew's physical Wis.,
ion, n little on the oblique order. Many n
gallant ship that has been going along at the
rate of ten knots an hour, has brought M
on lee shore at last by veerng occasionally
from the chart and compass of the older
nayigators. "Progress" is not always ad-
vancement in the right direction, aud be-
cause the popular majority, under certain ex-
elements and stimulants, sanctions every
thing, it does not follow, as necessity, that
every thing is right. Vor Populi por De-
was the rallying cry Of the Jacobins as they
overturned all order and caused the streets OF
the French metropolis 10 run red with the
blood Of their slaughtered felow-cilzens.-
The king can do wrong, and 80 can the ma
iority sometimes, although it is only q
few men who have the courage to tell either
of the fact.
These, however, are our views, which we
give freely. Our correspondent has the
same right to express his through this pa
per, on all matters OF general polity, that we
have, and no shall always enjoy that privi-
lege while we continue to publish It, though
we may differ in our sentiments as widely as
the poles ARE asunder II is only by discus
sion and conflict Of opinion that we can
hope TO arrive at correct conclusions.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

o. The Bohemians have devised an in
genious means of rolling iron-necessariIy
of good quality-into sheets of extreme
fineness, so thin, indeed that some of the
sheets have been proposed to be used rs a
substitute for paper, under certain circum-
stances. 1t is no small evidence of the in
genuity of Bohemian artisans 10 have been
the first in rank in this direction, for though
the iron should not be fitted for paper, the
uses of such thin sheets are very numerous.
The article is now successfully initiated in
England and elsewhere.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16
A REMARKABLE occunRrsos.-we find

A REMARKABLE OccURRENcE.-We ma
the following in an exchange:
A few nights since United States soldier,
bound with his company for Leavenworth,
Kansas, accidentally tell off the railroad
bridge, ut 1arper's Ferry, into the Potomac
river, q distance of thirty feet. The night
being dark, the soldier came out of the car
and walked off the platform upon what he
supposed te be the ground, until he found
himself in chaos. When he struck the wa
ter his hat Aoated down the stream, and
when the soldier blew the water from his
mouth, instead of making Immediately for
shore, he swan after his beaver, caught it,
and padded towards shore withouta scratch.
This feat astonished all who witnessed it,
and created much excitement.
Now, if the night was so dark that the
soldier could not see the platform, they who
witnessed his aquatic performance must have
had unusually good eyesight.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

tJg" II is vain TO stick your finger in q
pool of water, and on pulling it out, look fol
hole that it has made; and it is equally vain
for patrons o: newspaper TO believe that
the publisher can successfully carry on his
business without money. We therefore hope
that every one who owes us any thing will
pay up.
And we must remind our friends for whom
we execute Job Work, that such work is al
ways regarded ms Cash. We frequently re-
ceiye orders for Job Work, accompanied by
n request that the Bill be forwarded with the
work, and the amount "wil be RENTED i'm
mcdis.ely"-and that is the last we hear Of II
for the next twelve months. No business
can be kept moving under such ms.man-
agcment.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

MERITED PUNIsHMEST.--A letter from
New Orleans says the unprincipled men who
swore to criminal intimacy with Miss Caro-
line Hardy recently, have met with eOndign
punishment. The letter says:
Our merchants and business men have Ia
ken the punishment of their crime into their
own hands, and ii | am to Judge the results
by what has already been done, they will be
| outcasts from this community in n very short
time, and will be forced 10 travel far TO hide
their shame. Simmons and Maurer were
clerks at a cotton press up town. Simmons
was to have been given an interest; but seve-
raj banks notified The proprietors OF the press
that if he was in any way interested in their
business, they would decline discounting any
more of their paper. The commission mer.
chants who had cotton pressed and stored by
| the concern, also sent them notification
that they would do no more business with
them as long MS Simmons and Maurer re.
manned in their employ. Simmons has been
unanimously expelled from his lodge by the
| Odd Fellows, and both have been ignomin
iousIy turned out of houses where they for.
mery visited us favored guests. Ring is q
married man, and his wife is one of the
| finest ladies' of our city. Shortly after the
trial he signfed his intention, to her, of go.
ing TO BIadon Springs; she told him to go,
but never come back, as she never would live
with him again. He is cotton weigher and
sampler by profession, but heuceforth will
have TO follow some other calling, as all OF
| his customers have notified him that they
will not patronize him any more; and it is al
so ntimated that he will be expelled from all
connection with the Nlasons.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16
ou,n Pro ouo-A letter from Italy tell.

QuID Pro Quo.-A letter from Italy tells
n good story of the display of tho right
sort of "Americanism," by one of our
countrymrn in Florence. The church of
England has a congregation there, the ex-
penses of which are paid by an admission
fee of two paus, demanded Of all who enter
the church. The receipts from this source
being insufficient to provide for the support
of the minister and sexton, the vcslrymen
GALL English) had to make il up from their
own private purses. One Of the members
resigned, ard an Americ III was requested to
take his place. Knowing very well the OBJ
Ject of the proposition, our eountryman de-
termined at least to make the best bargain he
could, and consented to serve on condition
that prayer for the President aud his Cabi-
net should be inserted in the service along
with that for the Queen md the royal family,
The terms was accepted, the new vestryman
was installed into Office the worthy clergy
man and the vigilant beedle are now provided
for, and public prayer is made for the Ameri.
can President and his ministers on the banks
Of the classic old ArnO--a!l the result Of a
good Yankee bargain.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

The LIFE OF AN EpIroR. clip the
following true sketch of the life Of an edl-
tor from the Richmond South. There are
few persons outside the fraternity who can
appreciate it:
There are no strains upon the mind, no
trials upon the temper, like those which beset
writers for the press. Their work is never
done. There is no covered walk Of acacias"
no "Iake"--no "mountains"-nO "serene
sky"-nO "silver orb Of the mo0n"-no "year
of jubilee period Of rest to the Editor
His work never ends. He has no time
to mature great works-to fashion out
poems-to mediate stately histories. He
must write, write, write; brlliantl and well,
il he can; but under any circumstances the
busy pen must glide on, with no lake Of Lau-
same cleaning in the perspective spiendor
of future moon rise of rest or quietude.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

The NEXT PREsIDENT.-The electoral
vote in 1856 consists of 296 votes. The nd
mission of Minnesota will increase that mum
Der TO 800, and should Kansas and Oregon
be admitted, the entire vote will be BOG, re-
curing l54 for the choice Of President
or this BOG there will be 100 from the slave
holding States, and 1876 from the noE.slave
holding States. In the Charleston Conven-
ton, under two-thirds rule, il will require 204
votes to make n nomination. 1t will require
81 Northern votes, even with the united
South, to make nomination. Exchange
PdDer
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

tR- The people Of Memphis were very
much lnuded for their magnanmity and phi.
lanihrophy, because of their treatment to the
passengers Of the Inflated steamer Pennsyl-
vania. The hearts aud the purses of the
citizens, it was said, were opened 10 all the
unfortunate passengers who could be taken
to that place. An incident of very differ
ent nature has been brought to our notice.
Among the sufferers there were gentleman
and lady from Mobile. The lady is a widow,
and the gentleman was n young man, her
nephew, who had hardly attained the age of
maturity. She was not hurt by the explo.
sion, but lost everything except her money
belt and watch. He was asleep in his berth
at the time, and very much injured. They
were both taken TO Memphis. He lived for
n week, and Ind the consolation of mothers
care and attention. His mother is a widow
also, Of very Strengthened means, and had
been supported for years by the exertions Of
her son. She was teegraphed Immediately
upon their landing in Memphis, and reached
them before his death. These poor widows
in strange place, without acquaintances
and friends, had the assiduous attention of
two physicians upon their dying friend, one
Of ,ohom charged them the snug sum Of one
hundred dollars, and the other SIXTY dollars
There We're other generous and kind-hear-
ted people in the place, who managed 10
charge them the nice little sum $240 for
other services, which took nearly every dollar
they had. Lou. DEM
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

WHERE ARE THE MoRMoNs GoING?-A
Washington letter. writer gives currency to
the conjecture that the Mormons are taking
their way to some convenient place on our
Pacific coast, in order, ultimately, to embark
for the great and fertile island of New
Guinea, or some other locality in the South
Seas, near the polygamous communities o!
the Erst, where they can enjoy their peculiar
beliefs and practices unmoested by any 9th.
er people.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

.B- One of our western villages passed an
ordinance forbidding taverns to sell liquor on
the Sabbath to any person except Travellers
The next Sunday, nearly every man in town
vas seen walking around with valise in
one hand and n pair of saddle.bags in the
other
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

School TEAcHERs.-Rev. Arson Smith,
State Commissioner o! Common Schools in
Ohio, in his report to the Legislature, says:
"Every teacher should read at least one good
newspaper, otherwise he will live in igno-
rance of daily occurring facts, in regard to
which his profession requires that he should
be informed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

The LOST FoUND.-We find the follow
ing paragraph in the Boston Herald of the
3Oth inst:
The Milford Journal states that the money
recently found in some old mail bags, bought
Of the govern ment for shoe leather, has been
returned to its owners. Mr.. Walker to whom
the bags belonged, ut once communicated
with the owners, Austin g. Brothers, Mitch
elvile, Tennessee, and received in reply a
description of the money and request for
the finder to help himself for his trouble, and
transmit the balance. The entire sum, 1898,
was Immediately returned. The letter con-
thinning the money was registered.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16
ATHENS, FRIDAY. JULY 10. 1883.

H- We IRE again compelled to publish
that we cannot insert obituary notices Of
inordinate length unless paid for at usual ad-
vertisiug rates. Where such notices do not
OCCUPY more than fifteen or twenty lines,
they will be inserted without charge.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

sE- Very serious depredations were com
mitted III Cairo during the late high water.
A large portion of the town was stolen, the
depredators pretending to mistake it for
drlt-wood. In some cases the mistake was
probably an honest one
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

rg If you know something that will
make brothers heart glad, run md tell IT.;
but If It is something that will only cause
sigh, bottle il mp; and be careful that the bot
tie never gets broke.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

icy The Louisville Journal makes the
following hard bit at the submerged city Of
Cairo: Cairo on the Nile and on the Assls-
sipp are both in crocodile or alligator regions;
but the ugly reptiles never swim over the
tops of the houses Of the Egyptian Cairo, MS
they recently did over those Of tho Illinois
one.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16
Icy A woman in Lancapster county, p

eY A woman in Lancaster county, Pa,
recently got man named Lochln TO marry
her, BY giving him S75. Ever since the mar
riage the affcctionat couple have been on a
erusken spree, which resulted, on Thursday
night, in the husband throwing his wife
out of window. She was very badly
hurt.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

NAsHvILLE-The Nashville Daily News
of the l 9th gives the following statement Of
the market at that place.
WHEAT.-For new wheat, buyers are Of
ferng 65c. for Rel, rs for White, delivered
in July; IS ard IS in August; 50 and 50 in
September.
BAcos.-Shoulder &c., Hams &c., Clear
Sides stc., from wagons. From store, 81,
ga ct and 81 vt, Choice Hams are in
considerable dem nd merely for domestic
consumption, and will command 8 sic.,
from wagons.
SUeAR.-Nlnrket quiet, quotations as be-
fore-say, 7 &c. according 10 quality.
MoLAssEs.-ln barrels, 30 35c.; in half.
barrels, 81 a40.
COFFEE.-l2 n l3c.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

To GET Rib OF BAD NEIGHBoR. A
Mississippi papsr tells how fellow of doubt
full character was induced to leave. Some Of
his neighbors made up sufficient sum Of
money for him TO travel ON, and left il lying
about loose. lie found it, but, supposing he
had stolen it, he left-not the money, but
the county.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

t4Y- In the Salem custom house in future
the pay of the inspectors is to be SO per day,
while employed, instead Of SO the year
round, MS heretofore.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

E- lfyou wish TO increase the size and
prominence Of your eyes, just keep account
Of the money You spend fooishly, and add ii
up al the end Of the year.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

.- The youngest graduate ofnny Amer.
can college was William Willard Moore, who
graduated at Dartmouth College in 1905, at
the age of twelve years. He was brilliant
youth, the pet Of his class and of the college.
At his graduation he took part with two Of
his Oldest classmates in Hebrew dialogue.
The above, which we copy from an ex-
change paper, leads us 10 say that we should
be glad, us the public doubtless would also
be, to hear from that brilliant youth" and
to learn something Of his subsequent Gu.
rcer.
The propriety of forcing boys through
college, rs the gardner forces the plants in his
hot house, so rs TO bring them out before
their time, can hardly be defended upon any
good grounds Brilliant students do not
uniformly make distinguished men, and we
are curious to know whether boys, who
graduate with high honors at twelve, ever
reach distinction in after life.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

eSg- There seems to be very general
impression that the regular democratic can
didate for Governor of North Carolina will
be elected, over his independent democratic
opponent The election occurs in August.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

The Boil WoRM.-The Wrtumka (Aln.)
Spectator Of the 25th ut, says the cotton
boil worm has already made its appearance
on several plantations in the vicinity Of that
place. 1t says, Mr.. J. N. Norris brough, to
the Dispatch Office stalk Of cotton, Nil tho
forms of which had been DESTROYED.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

w- One day last week, dentest named
Morse volunteered to extract oil teeth need
ing extraction from the boys Of the Baltimore
House of Refuge. lie drew out two hun
bred and ifty. The boys bore the operation
as cody as they would pick pocket.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

CHoLERA.-The Cholera is reported to be
prevailing at ST. Louis There had been as
many as 23 deaths in one day, out Of 40 70.
ooTted cases.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

THE MoRMoNs.-The Baltimore Clipper
thinks that the Mormon war is not ended
yet 1t says that it is very probable Brigham
Young is only waiting for the United States
troops to be withdrawn, to make another
revolt against the authority of the Govern
ment. Says the Clipper:
We announced some time since, that the
Mormon trouble was at an end. The annun-
citation was made upon the authority OF the
President of the United States. Neverthe.
less, we have expressed apprehensions that
Brigham Young was practising deception
and the latest accounts of his proceedings
tend to confirm the suspicion. He appeared
to be hand and glove with Gov. Cumming,
but il seems, that, since his exodus with his
followers, from Salt Lake City, Brigham has
spoken in the most disparaging terms of the
Governor, and Intimated that he could crush
him 10 moment, should he think proper so
to do. Indeed, the indications are, that
Brigham has been practising a ruse upon the
Governor and the government-and that il
he can manage to prevent the army from
marching to Salt Lake City, he will be as
troublesome as overland will put the gov.
eminent to an additional cost of ten millions
of dollars to reduce him to obedience.
Seriously, we doub, whether the Mormon
war has reached its close, Notwithstanding
Presidents proclamation to that effect. Let
the troops be once removed from the vicinity
of Salt Lake, and Brigham will be apt to re-
trace his steps, and to hurl defiance once
more at government.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

OF 1t is supposed that over thirty millions
of dollars worth of property has been de-
stroyed by the floods Of the present season.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

KASsAs,--A gentleman direct from Kan
sas informs US that the Lecompton consti-
tuition will hardly get thousand votes in the
whole territory.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

ARCHIBALD WRtoHT. This gentleman Is
announced Ms candidate for Supreme Judge,
and will probably have no opposition. Flee
ton I'd September.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

RAILROAD FRElGHTs.-1'he rates OF car
rying freights on the East Tennessee and
Georgia aud roads South have been reduced.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

tE- All the Banks in Alabama have re-
sumed specie payments. We believe there
is no State institution in that Common
wealth.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

.4Y- 1t is estimated by Memphis paper
that there are only one hundred and twelve
retail whiskey shops in that city.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

Of That petted humLug, Liberia, and its
colonization experiments, are undergoing
proper exposures, as the truth leaks out.
The following is the latest instance of
this kind:
Among our foreign intelligence, we pre-
scented, the other day an account of the sez-
ure of the French ship Regina Ceb, by an
English cruiser off the coast of Africa. Her
cargo of African apprentices, who had mu-
tinted, were landed, it will be remembered, at
Monrovia, and were allowed to 90 their ways.
A letter from NJ. Eugene des Bruia;s, who
was surgeon upon the French vessel, adds
many graphic details of the revolt and sub.
sequent events, and among them the start
ling fact that these tVo hundred and sixty
five negros were shipped from Liberia, with
the consent of the President Of that Repub-
lie, and were nearly all sufficiently well edu-
Gated to read and write; a circumstance indi-
eating suspicion that they all primarily en-
igrated from this country.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

WALKER.-At last adyices, the Great FIJI
libustcro was in Alabama making speeches.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16
, tB- A New York correspondent of the
Boston journal writes:

Business is dul-vrry dull. Hundreds Of
young men have no work. -Four thousand
clerks have left the city for want of employ
ment. fine looking, intelligcn, and capa-
BILE yonng men, take any meniai service rath-
or than not have work to DO Our young
man, n capable book-keepcr, may be seen
daily on a day, with his horse, getting n liv-
ing on that plan. AT no time since the panic
began, have 'times" been SO bard for men Of
moderate means. We have great many Of
your Boston young men here, out Of en-
ploymeDt, who left good, comfortable situa-
tons at the East, attracted by the glare and
temptation of New York. Many of them
wish themselves at home. All business is
overdone-ihe Law, physic, merchandise, trade
clerkships-all but preaching. If any man,
fright smart" wants to come into the mission
field of our city, work like n galley slave,
and get his "victuals and his clothes" tho
frs! scanty, and the last coarse, he can come
to New York and get employment. All 9TH
ers had better stay away.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

sY" Mr.. Henry Wikoff is about to pub.
ish in England his disclosure as to his con.
nection with the Foreign Office, and his re-
collections in regard to the state of French
politics between the Revolution Of l84S and
the coup d eiat-the movements of the lead
ing men in France during that epoch, the
inner life and opinions of Louis Napoleon,
and the manner in which lord Palmerston
introduced his opinions to the people of the
Continent,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

MuRDER.-A man named Gates WINS shot
and killed ut Maryvile few days ago, while
assisting the Sheriff to arrest couple of
desperadoes named Batnes and Young. The
murderers are under arrest.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

sY- A London letter to the New York
Commercial, mentions report from France
that the Emperor had notified Spain that
although England has threatened to leave
her to her fate on the Cuban question, he will
support her to the last
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-07-16

FOREST Hill AcADEMY-Absence ina
neighboring county prevented us from at
tending the Examination at Forest Hill
Academy last week. We understand, how
ever, that it was satisfactory to the friends
and patrons Of the School. We regret to
learn that Mr. York, who has had charge OF
the Academy for the two last sessions, has
closed his connection with it-having deter
mined to devote himself to the profession
of the Law. We know him TO be an accom-.
plished scholar and a thorough gentleman
and trust he may prove as successful in win
ming causes for his clients as he has been in
"teaching the young idea how to shoot"