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A DEPLORABLE DRUNKARD.
WASHINGTON, April


DEAR SfrRIr:-The following is too good
TO be lost, and it is too true to make joke
of;
Some years ago, Congress numbered
among its members several who were much
given to love Of liquor, and were frequent
ly seen about the streets of the metropolis
ION SPREE" Such conduct on the part of
our Lawmakers didn't impress the outsiders
with such an exalted opinion of NJ. C.'s as
they once had, as the incident m.about to
relate will show.
One hot, moonlight night, during a long
session party of gentlemen, including sew.
erai Members of Congress were seated
around the door Of the house of a friend,
trying to get cool, when an old topper, aall
tattered and torn" known MS Bill Scraggs,
made his appearance in midst, asked for mon
ey TO obtain nights lodging and something
to eat. The Hon, Mr.. W, avery kind.heart.
ed and respectable Member Of the House,
soon engaged Bill In conversation, and at
once discovered that he was an educated
man, and remarked to him: any friend, YOU
appear to have seen better days. | would
like to know something of your history."-
Bill drew himself up, and, after a short pause,
said: "Sr hare seen better days! NV
parents were well-to.do, they gave me good
education and profession, and one time, nv
prospects in life were as bright as any mans;
but alas! sir, in an evil hour became addic.
ted to drink, and from that moment have been
gong down, down, until have become an
Outcast, n loafer-Ofno account-m for moth
ing on This earth but 10 be Member of Con-
| greSs!"
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE
SLAVE QUESTION.

The Archbishop and Bishops of the Cath
Ollie church, have issued pastoral letter to
the clergy and laity of that denomination
Among other subjects to which it refers is
the slavery question. We make the follow.
ing extract
The peaceful and conservative character of
our principles, which are adapted to every
form of government and every state of soce.
ty, has been tested and made manifest in the
great political struggles that have ngitated
the country on the subject Of domestic slave
ry. Although history plainly testifies that
the church has always befriendcd the poor
and laboring classes, and effectually procured
the mitigation of the evils attached TO servi-
tude, until through her mild influence il pass
ed away from the nations of Europe, yet she
has never disturbed established order or en-
dangered the peace of society by following
theories of philanthropy
Faithful TO the teaching and example of
the apostles, she has always taught servants
to obey their masters, not serving to the eye
merely, but as to Christ, and in His name she
commands masters to treat their servants
with humanity and justice, reminding them
that they also have Master in Heaven. We
have not, therefore, found it necessary to
modify our teaching with a view of adapting
it to local circumstances. Among us there
has been no agitation on this subject. Our
clergy have wisely abstained from all inter
ference with the judgment of the faithful,
which should be free on all questions Of poll.
ty and social order, within the limits of the
doctrine and law of Christ. We exhort you,
venerable brethren, to pursue this course, so
becoming "the ministers of Christ and dis
pensers Of the mysteries of God" Let the
dead bury their dead. Leave to wordlings
the cares and anxietes of political partizan-
ship, the struggles for ascendency, and the
notifications of disappointed ambition. Do
not, in any way, identify the interests of our
holy faith with the fortunes of any party; but
preaching peace and good will to all man
kind, study only to win to truth the deluded
children of error, and to merit the confidence
of your flocks, so that becoming all to all,
you may gain all to Christ.
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BUSINESS IN CANApA--A letter from Mont
real says; "From all parts of Canada we
hear nothing but the same UNMARRIED story OF
hard times, dull trade, and scarcity OF money
No harder winter, we suppose has ever been
passed through in this country and there Is
but little if any Improvement yet: Mr.
Buchanan, of Hamilton, has declared in Par,
lament that there are five hundred thousand
persons in Canada without employment and
without money--a statement which is great
ly exaggerated but there is no doubt ina,
much depression and distress prevails. u
was expected that the opening OF the nHvi
CATION would bring relief but the very low
price Of wheat and flour tends so to retaro
operations and diminish returns that the eN
pected relief 10 very imperfeOtly realized
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w- The dialect of the west is rather

W- The dialect Of the west is rather
strong, and slightly hyperboIical. One
Brown, who has lately been travelling in the
Occident, as far as Kansas, says that whc,,
a man in that region desires to say that
would like drink, he declares that "if he ha1
q glass of whiskey he would throw
outside oft, almighty quick" A mn
merating his family, goes point bey5l
John Rogers list, and says: "There is,
and Sal, and Sam, and Dave, and job
Mary Ann, and the baby, and the II
That will do.
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lSDUsTRY.-Every young man should re-
member that the world has and always will
honor industry. The vulgar and useless idler,
whose energies of body and mind are rusting
for want of exercise-the mistaken being who
pursues amusement rs n relief to his enervat-
ed muscles, or engages in exercises that pro-
duce no useful end, may look with scorn
upon the smutty laborer engaged in his toll.
But his scorn is an honor. Honest industry
will secure the respect of the wise and good
men, and yield the rich fruit of an easy con-
science, and give that heart self.respect which
is above all price.
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The SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONVENTION AND
THE KANSAS BmL-The Richmond South,
whose editor was member of the late South
ern Commercial Convention. at Montgomery,
commenting upon the statement which has
been repeatedly made. t1at nine .tenths Of it's
members were opposed to the bill for the ad-
mission of Kansas into the Union, says:
'In our Judgment the opinions of the mem.
bers of that assembly are entitled to no con-
sideration as an expression of the popular
sentiment of the South.
"For the simple and sufficient reason that
it was composed of men who did not repre-.
sent the popular sentiment of the South. We
are not begging the question.
ave maintain that its utterance should not
be taken for the voice of the people, because
its members, however respectable as individ-
uals, were not the sort of persons to repre-
sent the sentiment of the masses. 1t is a
question if one.fiftieth proportion OF the dele
gates were from the country. 1t is ques-
ton if ne.half were appointed by any re-
the cities and villages, and instead OF being
selected with reference to their views on the
particular subjects agtated in the Conven.
tion, were appointed from caprice or regard
to the chances of attendance.
"By the very principle of its organization,
the Montgomery Convention was an ineom-
petent representative of southern sentiment.
1t was composed of men with partial and ex-
treme opinions. The drift of its deliberations
was directed by foregone conclusio Its
action was not affected by the influence OF
the great body of quiet and conservative citi'
zens, and the result of its demonstrations be-
trays the narrow bias of clique rather than
an Intelligent regard for the interests OF the
whole community"
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=. Commodore Paulding had interviews

= Commodore Paulding had interviews
the President ana Cabinet, during which
lated that he had supposed, in orresting
lker, that he was carrying out their wish
10 the letter. He first doubted this after
te fiibusters were safely on board his ship,
When Walker told him that two members OF
Pthe Cabinet were privy to his scheme, and
had signifed their approval off it, and one of
these Ministers was no other than the Prem-
er himself. Gen. Cass replied to this that
he thought he should be able to prove an
alibi. The other Cabinet officer implicated,
as rumor has it, is Thompson. The Commo-
dore's reception was courteous but not cor,
dial.
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CRIME IN MEMrnls.-Thc Appeal despairs

Of the morals of that devoted town. 1t says;
"whiskey fruit is abundant, The nine
o'clock law is dead. The ridiculons'iipI,nng
Ordinance is gone to the tomb OF all The
Capuets. Employment for the police Is IN
creasing day by day. There will bG no ne
cessi,v for reducing the force. The Recorder
already finds his docket swelling, and the
am noun, of serious crimes on the increase
Finds mount up, but the cost of prosecuting
criminals will expand in a still greater de
cree. It is rot the influx of strangers to the
ety that is the main cause Of the change, for
tho business season is nearly over, and the
arrivals at our wharf are greatly reduced
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INFANTS FooD.-W What a baby costs in a
Year-When it is necessary to feed infants
artifcialy, and cows milk is used, il should
be first boiled, then skinned, then sweetened
n little with sugar, and ne xt n little salt ad.
ded, not enough to give il a satish taste;
milk thus prepared will not only prevent the
indigestion and consequent acidity, flatulencc,
cholic, diarrhaa, &c, from which sucking
children suffer SO much, but it will actually
cure them.
A hearty infant will swallow, during tho
first year OF its life, fourteen hundred pounds
of milk, in which are twenty ono pounds Of
cheese, thirty pounds OF butter, and one hun
dred and twelve pounds of sugar. At ak
cents n quart, with necessary sweetening,
each "dear" little creature costs, for food
alone, fifty dollars for the first year.-haus
Journal Of Health.
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Free Thought-Free Speech-Free Land
-FremonL-The Kansas Herald of Freedom
says of the English Conference bill:
at is needless to say that if that PROPOSE
ton is passed, the Lecompton Constitution
will be defeated by the people, and then we
are remanded back to our Territorial condi-
ton. II the people have any chance to repu-
date the fraud, they will do so. They never
will vote to accept pro-slavery Government
to be organized under the lecompton con-
s,itut;on-they will sooner hang every man
that attempts it,"
Well, hang aud be dorned, who cares for
Kansas!-M Y. NepS, (Dem.)
Icy" The Kansas Weekly Herald, of May
9th, says, in speaking of the passage Of the
English compromise bill:
The question is now localized, and the
people of Kansas are the only parties con-
cerned Whether the proposition 10 accepted
or rejected, the question Is at an end. What
ever the issue may be here in Kansas, its ef'
fects will only be felt here. The excitement
which has too long agitated the whole cOun'
try, must now necessarily die away, for The
material by which it was manufactured is nj
length exhausted.
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cS- The great majority Of our Southern
exchanges oppose the re.opening Of the Afri
can slave trade.-Mobie Tribune.
And they represent vast majority of the
Southern people.-N o. Pjcdy,tle
You are right, MIR. Pick. At least ninety,
nine hundredths Of the Southern people arc
correctly represented in that short paragraph
Indeed, we know Of no man in the South
unless it is some crazy fellow, that wishes tC
SEQ the African slave trade reopcned. Nash
riNr Ddiiy NcrS
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AScARLET RAINBow.--The Carlislc.t
Patriot of April 10th, says singular"
nomonon was observed in the neighborhC
of Wigton, on the morning of Wednesdl
April 7th. 1t was rainbow of a brM'9
red hue, in the west, opposite the sun -
sing, at about A. M. Its appearance is d,
scribed rs very startling.
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STATE BANK Bulls BunNr.-This morning nt
oil o'clock. the Governor, Treasurer. Comp
,rolIer and Secretary Of state, in accordance
with law, committed to the flames one mil,
Ion one hundred and forty three thousand
dollars, in notes Of the old Bank Of the state
of Alabama and its Branches.-ho"tgomery
Mail, 26th,
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THE POST.
ATHENS. FRIDAY, JUNE II, 1855

NOTES OF THE BANKS OF TENNESSEE,
Received by the State, Union and Planters Banks o
Tennessee, at Nashville.
ByHe Planters Bank.
Bank Of Tennessee, Bank OF Memphis,
Union Bank, Northern Bank of Tenn.
Planters Bank, Bank Of America,
Merchants Bank, Citizens Bank,
Farmers Bank, Bank Of Chattanooga,
Bank OF Paris Bank OF Middle Tenn.
Bank of Commerce, Commercial Bank
Bank OF the Union, Southern Bank.
BY the Bank Of Tennessee and The Union Bdns.
Bank of Tennessee, Citizens Bank,
Planters Bank, City Bank,
Union Bank, Farmers Bank,
Bank of America, Merchants Bank,
Bank of Chattanooga, Northern Bank,
Bank of Memphis, Southern Bank,
Bank Of Paris, Traders Bank,
Bank of the Union, Kentucky Banks,
Bucks Bank, New Orleans Banks.
Bank of Middle Tenn.
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w- "Billy, spell cat, rat, Il.
only one letter for each word?"
at can't be did!" ,lrN
"What! you just ready to repolio
phonetically, and can't do that! Of IA
here! 80 cat, 80 rat, h 80 hat, b ioI
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THE SPoILs OF WAR.-The English troops
had n rare time of it in Lucknow. 1t was
impossible, the officers say, to stop the plum
der, and from the accounts given they did
not seem disposed TO attempt impossibilites.
The place was given up to plage. All the
evidences of barbaric magnifccnce, furniture,
embroidered, hangings, chandeliers, statues,
mirrors and china were knocked about in
search of treasures. Those who could not
got in at once to carry on the work, searched
the corridors, battered off the noses, legs and
arms of the statues in the gardens, Or diving
into cellars, either made their fortunes by the
discovery Of unsupported treasure, or lost
their lives at the hands of concealed fanatics.
The amount of spois carried off by the SOL
ders is said 10 have been very large.
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HrGH Prices FOR NEGRoEs.-The Herman
do Press reports the sale of some of the ne
groes belonging to the estate of Mrs. Dement,
of that county, last week, at the following
figure: Gil Amanda, twenty years Old
field hand, with infant five weeks old, two
thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dol.
lars; boy Jesse, twenty.one years old, field
hand. two thousand dollars; girl Tennessee,
field hand, twenty years old, one thousand
seven hundred and fifty dollars. The sale
was on six months time.
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Mr.. EvERETT's SOUTHERN ToUR.-Mr.
Everett has returned from his southern tour.
Since the month of November he has repeat
ed his discourse on "The Character of Wash
ington," for the benefit of the Mount Vernon
fund, twenty-three times, with m aggregate
net receipt of Sl4,645; and his address on
"Charty" fourteen times, for the benefit of
various charitable institutions, with an Og-
grcgate net receipt of Sl2, 43s. The net
receipt of Sl2,43S. The net proceeds of his
oratorial laborers for the last six months, for
the benefit of the Mount Vernon fund and
various charitable institutions, is S27,G7S.
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s5g- The highest waterfall in the world is
in the Sandwich Islands, and is stated to be
between four and five thousand feet high
The stream on which the fall occurs runs
among the peaks of one of the highest noun.
toins-so high that the water actually ncrer
reaches The boitom-so great is the distance
that the water is converted into mists, and
nscends to the clouds again. ..
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Total

Thus it will be seen there is plenty of
room for our officers to distinguish them
selves, aud good field for the Government
to engage the best men of the service.
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New York, June 2.-The IIrrald's cores
pondent says that an American vessel was
fred into off Pensacola and one man killed.
The steamer Fulton has gone in chase of the
cruisers.
The Times correspondent says that con-
siderable uneasiress is felt at the British En-
rssy at Washington, lest collisions occur in
Re Gulf between the English and American
ar vessels before Lord Naper's dispatches
ch the British Admiral there. Dispatches
to be sent by special steamer from Hall
70 Bermuda.
.mors are current, but unfounded, that
sion had already occurred between the
IN and Styx.
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WASHINGTON, June 2.-rhe Senate yester-
day discussed the miscellaneous appropriation
bill, and the House the Fort Smelling Sale
report. There was no conclusion by either
when they adjourned last night.
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LoSG wnIsrLr-The MarysvIlle Herald
gives the following account of something new
under the sun, whistling match:
whistling match lately came off at Mo
Lolumn Hill, Two whstlers commenced al
o o'clock in the evening, and kept it up Til
ton minutes of two next morning, when one
Of them caved in, and was forced to stretcf
his mouth in all sorts Of shapes to get th'
"nucker" taken out Of it, He allowed" his
lirs felt "like they was the toe of an old boot
with n large hole in it"
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A MIXED UP LAwsUIT.-An exchange pa.
per tells of n "mixed-up lawsuit" which came
off in Vermont last fall. 1t seems that Smith
shot a rabid dog that was trespassing on his
lot, and belonging TO one Davidson. Dog ran
into the road and frightened horse belong
ing to Shuret. Shufet's horse ran away,
upset n wagon, and broke leg belonging TO
w. II. Patterson. The question now is, who
shall Patterson sue for damagos-Smth,
Shufelt, or Davidson? AS Smith had caused
the accident, Shufelt allows that Smith
should foot the bill. Smiths counsel objects
to this by saying that Smith was doing n
lawful act in lawful manner, and that, as
the horse was frightened by the dog, the
owner of the dog (Davidson) should pay the
damages. Dayidson's lawyer claims, on the
contrary, that he is not holden, because the
dog was not mad and, if he were mad, he
would not have frightened the horse had
Smith attended to his own business and let
the dog alone. How the question will come
out will be known in June, when the court
eli
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The Washington correspondence of
forcsis informed by Mr.. BernhiseI,
nav Utah, that the mission of
Z to salt Lake City, would re-
Hement of all difficulties now eX
Tween the general government and
Die of Utah.
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DEATH OF WILKINS TANNEHILL, EsQ.-We
are panied to be called upon to announce the
death of Wilkins Tannehill Esq, which
event occurred at the residence Of his son-in
law, VIM. Il. Berry, Esq, near this city, at
one o'clock yesterday.
Mr.. Tannehill was well known through
out the State as journalist and literary wri
ter. For several years he has been suffering
from blindness, and, Of late, from slight men
cal afflictiou. He was aged seventy one
years.
We content ourself with the bare an
nounccmcnt of this event this morning,
hoping hereafter to be able to present notice
more worthy of the talents, and high position
which the deceased has occupied in the ltcra'
ry and political history Of the State and coun
try. -NdshyilLe Banner Jine 3.
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THE FORCES IN OR FOR The GULF.-The
Philadelphia Inqnirer states that the follow
iEg is q correct list of the number and names
of American vessels of war in the Gulf, or
nnder orders 10 nnnnar there.
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SmAs WRIGHT's WEALTH-The Daily
Wisconsin, speaking of the wealth Of the
most eminent American statesmen, concludes
its list with the following reference to Silns
Wright:
"Silas Wright, with his estate Of $4,000,
was really Weather than many others are
with 100000. lie owed no man anything;
he met his obligations with the utmost
promptness, and never indulged in any luxu-
ry that he could rot pay for lie was
model OF republican simplicity. 1t should
also be understood that he was moi mean In
saving money.
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WASHINGTON, June LIN the Senate to-
.doy bill was reported to project The proper
! of American citizens against outragcs in
3lcxico or Central America.
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Total number Of guns

Total number OF guns I4U
Preparations are being made to send more.
The British already have on thei: West
India Station fleet Of ships of twice and
half the amount of guns o: the above list of
American vessels. They have seventeen
vessels in all, twelve of which are steamers,
carrying, in the aggregate, 357 guns, as fol-
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tg- Patience is a tree whose roots are
bitter, but the fruit is very sweet,
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Ed- II is estimated that ibs hshsonAh ~
our lakes receive s6IOOOO Psr aapsul
the Gsb they CATCH