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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19


A COMMON FAULT REBUKEp.-How an
noying it is when seuted nlone in yonr Office,
to have some one open the door, look all
round the room to be satisfied that You a-e its
only occupant, and then nsk, "Mr. -Oour
partner, perhaps,) is not in, is he!' The
custom is as common as it is ridiculous and
annoying. The Buffalo Express instances u
casein that city, where one of these askers OF
needless questions was effectually taken
down. A member of law firm in tina, city
is sitting ut his desk, busiy engaged in i'm.
portant business, when the door opens, MIR
Auger walks in, takes his seat, and says in d
drawlling tone, "Mr. - isn't in, is hep
The question was useless, of course, MS there
was TO one else in the room but the two; but
the counsellor arose, and with great urbani,y
replied, ~ will see, sir" liz looked under his
chair, behind the stove, into the "pigeon
holes" of his desk, and saying, II don't see
him." sat down and went to writing. "Hold
on, squire" said the visitor, "yon have taught
me a lesson, sir, and III send you peck ot
apples" and departed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

ANOTHER LARGE DEFALcATIoN.- Henry
d. Stone of Worcester, Mass, lawyer by
profession, but better known as Spectator
and note shaver, has failed and left the city
taking with him from $5O,0OO to $4,000 in
current funds, and leaving debts of more
than $4,000, with no assets to pay any
portion ofthem. The Worcester Spy draws
a very unpleascut picture Of his character and
operations under the head of"a smooth vii
lain"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19
SLAVERY IN NlIssoUul-We find in the St
Louis Daily Evening News the following

SLAVERY IN AlIssoUnI.-We find in the St.
Louis Daily Evening News the following
paragraph:
"rhe proftableness of slavery in Missouri
is not becoming so attenuatcd MS the emanci.
pationisls aver. Notwithstanding the ire
parable damage which we are told, vas done
to the institution BY Kansas becoming prac.
tica free State; Notwithstanding the rapidity
with which, according to MIR. b. Gratz Brown,
(that rising PoIvphenus,) slaves are being
removed from the wheat farms Of Missouri to
the cotton plantations of the South; notwith-
standing the wonderful influx of population
from the North, which is deposiing supply
Of Write labor all over the State; notwith-
standing thatnpparent tcrjfency of things in
Missouri to theiabolition OF slavery, which is
causing the political South to abandon us,
and the political North to claim us; notwth-
standing the operation of all these potent
| agencies against him, Sambo triumphantly
maintains In Missouri the credit of his race by
fetching the best of prices. The panic has
not affected him. He still brings one thou
sand five hundred dollars when sold, and fif-
teen per cent. Of that sum when hired. He
not only refuses to depreciate, like suspend
ed bank notes, or manufacturing company
stock, during these hard times, but even has
vitality enough to go up little, while every
| thing else is going down." ..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

uni whom ], in an urgarded moment of lone
illness, was thoughiless enough to adopt MS
my husband. He is good looking and fee
BILE individual, knowing enough, however to
go in when it rains, unless some good look
ing girl offers her umbrella. Answers to the
name of Jim. Was last seen in company
with Julia Harris, walking with his arm
around her waist, up the plank road, looking
more Ikea fool (f possible) than ever
Anybody who will catch the poor fellow, nnd
bring him carefully back so that may chas-
tise him for running away, will be asked to
stay to tea by HENRIETTA a. SMITH.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

PORTLAND, Me-, Feb. l0.-The Montreal
Ocean Steamship Company's first class screw
propeller, Indian, has arrived, with Liverpool
dates to Wednesday, January 9th.
The grand affair of the week, the marriage
of the Princess Royal Of Great Britain and
Ireland, Victoria ADELAIDE Mary Louisa, with
his Royal Highncss Prince Frederick William
Nicholas Charles, Of Prussia, took place at
the Chapel Royal of st. James, Monday, the
25th Of January, at half past twelve O'Clock.
Some little additional news from India has
been published in the English papers, an
nouncing that the insurgents were threaten.
ing to attack Alumbagh. Very little, howev.
er, is known beyond the intelligence brought
by the Bombay mail of the 29th of Decem-
Der.
The Leviathan iron steam vessel is not vet
completely launched, but she was moved on
her ways eighteen feet in two days, and no
doubt can now be entertained of her success
iul launch. The expense of launching her
according to the London Observer, will be
about f25.OOO
serious riot occurred at Belfast, Ireland,
on Monday evening, the 25th of January, (the
day of the marriage Of the Princess Royal.)
The riot act was read, and numerous arrests
were made.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

Gy Mr.. Jenkins was dining at a very
hospilable table, but piece Of bacon near
hlm was. so small that the lady of the house
remarked to him
spray, Mr.. jenkins, help yourself to the
bacon. DON'T be afraid ofIit."
"No, indeed, mad'm, shall not be, I've
seen piece twice as large, and il didn't
scare me n bit.
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fsw- Samivle. Snmiyle havana nf 1

tY Samivle, Samive, beware of the
vimmen that reads no newspapers! Your
father married a woman that read none, and
you arc the sad consequence! You're ns
hignorant us a 'orse. Hignorant people say
ifs throwin money away to take papers, and
foolin' away time to read 'em.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

GOLD AND ITS Uses. entire amount
ofgold in circulation in the world is estima.
ted at about S240,O00 900, OF which the wesr
and waste is stated to be 3 l.2 per cent. an
nually. The consumption ofgold in the arts
and manufactures is set down at $4,000, 900,
of which about one-third is consumed in Eng.
land. III Birmingham alone there is n week.
ly consumption of gold for chains only,
amounting to one thousand ounces; the
weekly consumption for god-leaf in London
is four hundred ouEces, and in other places
in Great Britain, one hundred and eighty four
ounces. One of the potteries in Stafford
shire consumes S3,50O worth of gold anna
ally in gliding; and the whole consumption
for gliding porcelain in England is estimated
at about five hundred ounces annually.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

STEAM BETwEEs FRANCE AND VIRGINIA.
The Norfolk Argus states that the mission
OF the Hon. William Billiard Preston, in be-
half Of the Virginia and Western Railroad,
has been successful. Mr.. Preston has sue
ceeded in making arrangements with the
Paris and Orleans Railroad Company to run
four steamers between the ports Of Orleans,
France and Norfolk, Virginia. u.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

W The Philadelphia American says the
aggregate os gold in the banks throughout
the Union s now, as made up from the re-
turns Lear TO January lst, and since that time,
fully eighty fre millions Of dollars, or twenty.
seven millions more than at the LIST of jan
uary, 1857. Ther the total in all the banks
of the United States, ns made up at the
Treasury Department, was $58, ,350,0 900, now
exclusive of States reporting Ss,0OO,OOO Of
specie in January, 1857, the footings arc
$76,5O0,OOo, all from recently published re-
turns.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

RuMoRED EXPEDITION FOR MEXICO AGAINST
SANTA ANNA.-There is a rumor current in
New York that a formidable military expedi-
ton is fitting out at that port for Mexico, to
assist the present Commonfort government
against Santa Anna and his revolutionary
friends. A recruiting Office for the enroll
ment of volunteers has been opened in Grand
street, and advertisements are published in
some of the journals for gentlemen OF militia
nv experience to command the brigade.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

"lMPRovED RED MEN."-The Winnebago
Indians in Minnesota raised, last year, over
5000 bushels of Wheat in the Reservation,
being more than half the entire amount pro
duced in Blue Earth county. They have nine
townships of land, and of this 1000 acres are
under cultivation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

The NATIONAL HOTEL DIsEAsE.-The
causes of the malady at the National Hotel
at Washington, says an exchange, were fully
revealed when the new occupants undertook
the operation of cleansing. They found in
the enormous cellar decaying and poisonous
matter enough of all sorts to have killed an
army of men, If subject to its cxhalaiion.-
There were removed from this part of the
house sixty-seven cart loads of putrd stuff;
and when it is said that part Of this con-
sisted Of the contents of the privy vaults
which had overaowed in the cellar from
choked up drains, and the remainder was the
refuse of the kitchen and pantry-all in the
most offensive condition-no one will be sur
prised that the National Hotel became pest
house. Yet all this corruption the stupid
Washington Board of Health, composed Of
doctors and scientific men, after repeated ex
aminations Of the premises failed to find.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY. FEB. 10, 1855.

NOTES OF THE BANKS OF TENNESSEE,
Reoeved by the State, Union and Planters Banks o
Tennessee, at Nashville.
ByMe Planters Bank.
p,nt NJ Tennessee. Bank OF Memphis,
JTnion Rank Northern Bank Of Tenn.
pianters, Bank Bank OF America,
Merchants, HANK Citizens Bank,
Earmars, pank Bank of Chattanooga,
panI Of Paris Bank of Middle Tenn.
Bsnk of Comrerce, Commercial Bank.
Bank of the Union, southern BANK
BY the Bank Of Tennessee ana Me O'iton 6oh''
Rant NJ Tennessee. Bank Of Middle Tenn.
Planters Bank, Sitzens Bank,
nant NJ America Farmers Bank,
RAM of Chattanoopa Merchants Bank,
Bank of Memphis Northern BANK
RAM of Paris Southern Bank,
Rant of the Union. Traders Bank,
Duck,s pank Kentucky Banks,
Exchange Bank. New orleans bahhs'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

AlD TO RAIL RoAD.--At u vote Of the
citizens Of Atlanta on Saturday last, as to
whether the city should subscribe an add-
tional 100000 to the Air line Rail Road, it
was decided in the affirmative, by vote Of
458 to SO. y
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

f5g- A young American lady In Paris
threatens to sue President Buchanan for
breach OF promise; she says that dining at
her fathers table years ago, he said to her
"sly dear Miss, If ever should be President,
you shall be mistress Of the White House,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19
u STANZAS zt0- -1tfs
On the Portrait Of My Dasghtsr, Painted BY

On tie Portrait of My Daughtsv, Painted BY
.,s,f,si. Geo. A. Baker, M d. j a1e.
My Daughterl On thy beaming' face
The smile Of happiness l tracss ii
The Artists skill has waved thy hair, ~.
Marked every lineament 80 fair. sd' gfe
With thee the Picture doth compare
Almost | see thee breathing there! ~
Almost thy tones, so soft and clear,
Float to thy Mothers list'ning ear.
Ny Daughterl Blessings on the skill
Which. sep'rate from thee, brings thee still
Before thy doating Mothers eyes,
A constant and q sweet surprise:
That pictured semblance, rapt and rare.
With deep blue eyes and soft brown hair:
A thing to love, such as thou art,
And cheer an absent Mothers heart.
My Daughterl Fate and Fortune sway
The breeze that bears me far away;
And time may sweep my frail bark Ger
Rough reas to many foreign Shore
Meath scorching or meath chilling skies,
"From all l love and all prize:"
But Oh, this pictured face and form,
Shall cheer my heart through many q storm
And while my boat is on the tide,
Mem'ry shall gently, fondly glide
Back to my darling daughters side,
Who was, and is, my joy and pride:-
My only daughter, on whose cheek
breathed the prayer could not speak
The hope, that she might richly share
Life's blessings, without grief or care.
Back to t:y infancy rove
Back to thy childhood and thy love,
Wrapped in my heart, and in my arms,
gaze upon those girlsh charns:-
I'll wipe away the falling tear I.
Ere may press thy soft cheek near
My own. My ownl Ali cold and chill,
That smile is beaming bn me still.
My Daughterl Oh, not mine thou art
A babe is nesting on thy heart;
Thou art another's, and his love
Hath stolen thee, my litei my dovei
And hid thee in his breast:--Oh, Godi
Bless theml and keep them.-Let thy rod
Still fall on me; and IL no more
We meet 0, bear us to thy shorei
Before TnEE; let the mothers heart
Be veiled:-but never more to part
From its beloved.-else there's no balm
In Gilead left, to soothe or charm.
, | Tho Mothar'e Toya u;thout .nat,o1
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

az Some idea may be had of the amount
of silver coin lent by the Austrian National
Bank TO the merchants of Hamburg, when
we state that ii took sixteen double horse
wagons to convey it from the bank to the rail
road depot for shipment.
A Coon HIr.-The Lodi (Ill) Garden
State gets off tho following sharp one:
aWhy is Nebraska shinplaster like an
impentent sinner? Because it don't know
that its redeemer liveth."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

~ The oldest married couple alive nre
supposed to be a Mr.. Snyder and his aie.
who reside In Burnside, Pa fisi Ill aud
she lo7 years old, and they have been lnarfi-
ed about 92 years.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

IMPORTANT LAND BILLs.-Besdes the
bill introduced by Mr.. Morrill,, for dstribu-
ting portion Of the public lands of the
United States for the endowment of State
Agricultural Colleges, there are other inpor-
tant bills before Congress affecting the dis
posal of this national real-estate. Mr.. Foot
of the Senate, has introduced n bill to grant
IN homestead of one hundred and sixty acres
of public lands to actual settlers" and Mr.
Johnson, of Tennessee, another of like i'm
port, requires Occupancy aud cultivation" OF
the land so granted, for the period of five
year. A bill has slso been introduced by Mr..
Grow, the object OF which is to check the
land speculatons which have hitherto been
so greedily entered into, on every occasion
of bringing new lands into market, and to
encourage actual settlement. This bill pro.
hibts the sale of public lands under proclu-
nation of the President, until the same shall
have been surveyed for at least fifteen years
This bill would have like practical effect as
the foregoing.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

s9g- 20, Mr.. Grubbls!' exclaimed young
mother, shouldn't you like to have family
of rosy children about your knees!" "No ma
am" said the disagreeabe old bachelor; "l'c
rather have lot Of yellow boys in my pocket
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

NEw ORLEANS, Feb. l0.-The steamship
Tennessee, from Vera Cruz, is coming up
the river with President Igupcio Comonfort,
and Garcia Conde, from Mexico, MS passsn-
gers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

"GREAr GRANDFATHER BUcHAsAs."-The
Indians now visiting Washington must either
be very fond of joke, or very much struck
with the venerable appearance of our bachelor
President. Heretofore they have called the
Cheif Executive their "great father" but Old
Buck rejoicss in the designation of the red
mans "Great Grandfather"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

The UNIVERSITY OF THE SouTH.-A card
appears in the Winchester, (Tenn.) Home
Journal, signed by about 400 citizens of
Franklin county, in which the charges in
reference to milk sickness in the region of
Sewanee, is denied. They assert that there
has never been a case of milk sickness in the
neighborhood of the place where the univer-
sity is 10 be located, and only one case has
occurred in all that country, for 90 years.
They assert, ION their honors," that there is
not in their opinion place on the globe
where there is more safety from disease of
any kind, than Rowe's Spring, the place
chosen for the location of the Institution.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

"THe EASTERN BANK OF ALABAMA."-Tls
new Bank charter passed the Senate yeslsr-
day, says the Montgomery Mail of the 9Th
inst, and the institution was located at Eu-
faula,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

AN ASEcDoTg.- g.-Frederirk of Prussia, had
no opinion of phrennlogy, and one day he
sent for the professor, and dressing up
highwayman and pickpocket in uniforms
and orders, he desired the rhrenologist to
examine their heads, and give his opinion rs
to their qualifications. The servant did so,
and turning to the King, said, "Sir-, this
person." pointing to the highwayman, "wlia,-
ever he may be, would have been II great
general, had he been employed. As for tho
other he is quite in u different line. He may
be. or If he is not, he would make, IN admi-
rable fnancer." The King was satisfied
that there WAS some truth in the science
For" as he very rightly observed, "what is
n general but n higbwayman, and what is \
nuhcicr but pick pocket" ?" !.
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t5ie- A creditor in Cannda ndopted a xery

.-e- A creditor in Canada adopted very
novel method OF collecting debt. He went
to the church which the debtor attended,
and during mn intemission in the service he
arose, anduddressing tho congregation, said
THAT he wished to intorm them that no had
worked for member ofthe church (pointing
his finger ut and naming the Individually for
three months, at thirteen dollars per month,
and that he had refused to pay him" The
reverend gentleman informed him that it was
no place for entering such complaints, but
said he.would see what coad be done. The
money was paid next day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

New York, Feb. lO.-The Hartford Say
ings Institution offers reward of five thou
sand dollars for the apprehension and delive-
ry Of Seymour, the defaulting Treasurer Of
that Institution.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

W We have no sympathy for Gen.
Walkers lawless forays into Nicaragua, nor
for any other filibustering adventure. The
nation which encourages them is degraded
in the eyes Of all who believe in govern
ment regulated by law. We have treaty Of
peace and amiiy with Nicaragua. Now, to
violate that treaty because We have the pow
to do so, regardless Of right, is to act
with no better warrant than the pirate Or
the robb.r.--M Memphis Eagis d. Engairere
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.E- Don't carry your handkerchief in
your breast pocket. Ifyou do, says Punch,
you take rirer 10 your bosom lfNs'f &
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

H- The New Hampshire election for
State officers will take place on the 9th Of
March.
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TRAVELLING AT THE WEsr.-A western
paper says the only two classes Of travellers
on our Railroads this winter are those who
are running away and those who are after
them. Very few ladies have been seen in
the cars since the panic set 10.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

BALTIMORE, Feb. 9-The Rev. Beverly
Waugh, one of tbs Bishops of the Metho.
dist Episcopal Church. died at his residence
in this city this morning.
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H- Definitions from a new sohoo-book;
"John, what's baksryl" "A place where
they bake, sir" Whats a brewery" "a
place where they brew" "What'sa gallery!"
"Ti-hi--a place where there is gals"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

AN ESTERPRIsE OF some MAGNITUDE.-A
French savan thinks he has invented an ap-
paratus that will enable human beings to
breathe as freely at the bottom of the seas as
on the earths surface, and this grand object
attained, he proposes to form an association
forcollecting all the treasure, in the deep
bosom of the ocean buried, in the track OF
the East India commerce. The value of these
treasures he estimates at four billion dollars
which of course, divided up into shares, will
make very respectable "fancy."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

EY A late traveller, in speaking Of Aus
tria, says that one half the people are under
arms to keep tho other halfin gaol.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

The PRosPEcr BRIGHTEKs.-1'he National
Era in an article touching the condition of the
Banks, &C., remarks:
Prices, generally, we have no doubt, have
touched bottom. Real estate and produce
are as low as they will be-lower, We think.
Panic, as well as necessity, compelled con-
traction of the currency. The panic is disap.
pearing, and the necessity abating-money
boarded is reappenring. That there has been
large increase in the actual amount of spe-
Gle, and that this Increase must 60 on to an
indefinite period, necessarily keeping up il
not carrying up prices, is certainly true. Cali.
fornia and Australia are pledged for this.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19

PLAIN TRuTH.--Some one who under.
stands the subject describes the education Of
young gentlemen and ladies', Of the would-bs
fashionable sort, which tends only to mem
tai weakness and fashionable decay, as fol-
lows:
A young gentleman-u smooth-fncad strip.
ling, with little breeding and less sense,
ripens fast, and believes himself nice young
man. He chewsand smokes tobacco, swears
genteelIy, coaxes embryo imperials with
bears grease, twrls rattan, spends his
fathers money, rides fast horses-on horse
back and in sulkeys--donble and single
drinks Catawba, curses the Maine law and
hirs with young ladies,' hundreds Of which
nre just like himself, though of a different
gender; and this is the fashionable education
of the day. The fathers and mothers Of
these fools were once poor Good fortune
has given them abundance. Their children
go through with an inexhaustibe fortune,
and into the poor house. Parents you are
responsible for this folly. Set your sons and
daughters to work, and let them know ony
in usefulness there is honor and prosperity.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-06-18

bcrs !" Never having much luck in
raising them, l cheerfully agreed to
his proposition. He commenced b,
making holes in the eartb,a distance
intended for the hills, that would hold
about a peck---ho then filled them
with dry leached ashes, covering tho
ashes with very small quantity of
earth, The seeds were then planted
on level with tho surface of the
ground. was willing to see the ex-
pertinent tried, but had no expectation
Of anything but loss Of seed, labor
and soil. But imagine my astonish.
ment, Notwithstanding dryer season
was never known, and almost an uni.
versal failure Of garden vegetables, J
when | beheld the vines remarkably
thrifty, and as fine crop of cucumbers
as any one could wish to raise, and they
continued to bear for an unusually long
time. l will not philosophize on the
subject, but say to all, try it and
instead of throwing your ashes away,
apply it where it will be Of use, and
will reap rich reward.