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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

The Avalanche, after quoting the fifth
resolution of the Democratic Platform,
says:
When the institutions, the existence of
which is so deeply regretted in the resolu-
ton quoted, shall have died out-when
the power to create money is taken out
of the hands of soulless and irresponsible
corporations, and paper rags are no longer
recognized as a standard of value, and
not until then, the promises they have
made in the platform before us will hayet
been fulfilled, and the duties they have,
imposed upon themselves will have beeu'
performed by the Democracy.
If this is what the Democratic Platform
means, the banks had as well begin to
look out for winding-sheets and graves,
for their days are numbered, and they
know exactly the hour when. the axe of
the executioner descend upon their
naked necks. Be it remembered, there
fore, that after the expiration of their
charters all the banks in Tennessee are to
be put away snugly in death by the De
mocracy-if they can. Taking the Ava
lanche as true exponent of the platform
and let the man stand forth who denies
that it is--the issue is clearly defined up
on the Bank question between the Demo-
cracy and the Opposition. Fellow-citi-
zens of Tennessee, shall we have sound
specie-paying banks, or shall we have only
gold and silver for our circulating medi-
um? Will you go with Democracy that
t1f Will you drive five millions of capi-
tai out of the State to find investment
in ATTITUDES less hostile to it than ours?-
Memphis Bulletin.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

DEcLIvITY OF RvERs.-Asvery slight de-
clivity will suffice to give the running
motion to water. Three inches per mile,
in smooth, straight channel, gives We
locity of about three miles an hour. The
Ganges, says a writer, which gathers the
waters of the Himalaya mountains, the
hottest in the world, is,nt ls00miles from its
mouth, only eight hundred feet above the
level of the sea-that is, about twice as
high as st. Paul's church, in London; and
to fall these eight hundred feet in its long
course, the water requires more than a
month. The great river Magdalena, in
South America, running for a thousand
miles between two ridges of tliesAndes,
falls only five hundred feet in that dis
tance. Above the commencement of the
thousand miles, it is seen descending in
rapids and cataracts from the mountains.
The gigantic Rio del la Plata has so gentle
a descent tosthe ocean, that in Paraguay,
1900 miles from its mouth, ships are seen
which have sailed against the current all
the way, by the force of the wind alone
that is to say, which, on the beautiful
and inclined plane of the streams, have
been gradually lifted by the soft winds
and even against the current, TO an eleva-
ton greater than thu ofs'oF lofticsti
spire.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

ADDRESSED TO THE NIGGER.-Uscful mig
ger! You are the needle of our national
compass, the coloring matter of all our
affairs, the active principle of our agita-
tions, the director of our political ceremo-
nies; you make Presidents, you make
Sehates, you raise small men and knock
down great ones Oh, wonderful niger!
you are the black prince of fusion, diff
fusion and confusion. You ought to be
broke of your Office, kicked out or re-
uuested to resign
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

hs~ The Cincinnati Gazette has letter
from correspondent at Iowa Point, who
has seen several persons who have return
ed from Pixies Peak, several of whom he
knows to be reliable and truthful who
concur in saying that all the gold accounts
are humbug, and the many favorable ac-
counts sent to the States emenate from
town-lot spectators, who are seaping a
rich harvest from the credulous.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

CAUSE OF DEATH.-It is stated that the
young lady who died in Troy last week
from the effect of having her ears pierced,
instead of placing silk in the wounds, as
is customary, used colored worsted, which
wss probably the cause Of her death.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

By WHOLEsALE.-On the 9th inst the
Supreme Court of Rhode Island pronoun-
ced the sentence of divorce in favor of
thirty-two wives from their husbands, and
of seven husbands from their wives.-
This may be considered a tolerable brisk
business, for small State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

The UNITED STATES Army FULL, AND RE-
cRuiTiNG SroPPED.-In pursuance of Or
ders from the War Department, the re-
cruiting service throughout the United
States was discontinued on the Both ult.
The ranks of the army are now not only
full for the first time in twenty years, but
there is a considerable surplus of recruits
from which to fill future vacancies.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

THE DEAD PARTY.-The actual condi-
ton of the Democratic party was stri-
kingly exhibited by the last Congress-,
1t could not pass Lecompton nor buy Gu
ba, nor establish protectorate over Mex
leo, nor make war with any of the weak
States threatened by Mr.. Buchanan, nor
revise the Tariff, nor pay the overdue
Treasury notes, nor do anything but wran-
gle and investigate. Its history proved
the great fact that democracy" could no
longer govern the country Wheeling
IincS
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

DsS~ In some of the counties in Penn
sylvania the Dutch have been voting all
their lives for General jackson. The in
formation that jackson is dead has just
reached them, and they are all going
against the democratic candidates. The
late losses of the democracy in the Key
stone State are thus accounted for.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

The FRUIT.-The Indiana Farmer of the
8th, announces that the peach crop is un-
injured. "a few of the tenderest sorts,n
it says, "are slightly affected, but these, il
is believed, are really only thinned out to
their advantages, ! few tender cherries
are worsted. The tenderest apples are
safe"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

The PREsIDENcY.-When Mr.. Buchan-
ans term ends, eleven years will have
elapsed since the office of President has
been held by Southern man, and that
Southern man Wing; and twenty-nine
years will have passed, since, with asingle
exception, the nombaton of the Demo-
cratic party for that Office has been given
to Southern man.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

BasH The amount of taxes annually col
lected in Cuba is thirty-eight million dol
lars, which is equal to about sixteen dol
lars to every inhabitant.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

Rs1" Some Scotch lady, who has more
reverence for the inspiration she draws
from Helicon than that imported from
Havana, comes down after the following
style upon the patrons of the weed
May never lady press his lips, his progercd love re-
turning,
chimney burning,
May each true woman shun his sight, fear his fumes
might choke her,
And but those who smoke themselves have kisses
for q smoker"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

kas" Judge Douglas is reported as say
Presidency in 1860. because 'the Opposi-
ton are sure to succeed in the next Presi-
Dental election"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

ktB~ The Richmond Whig tells pretty
good story of Virginia negro boy who
professed to be dreadfully alarmed at the
cholera. He took to the woods to avoid
it, and was there found asleep. Being
asked why he went to the woods he said,
"To pray" ''But," said the overseer,
show was it you went to sleep?"
Don't know massa, zactly,' responded
the negro, but spec must have over
prayed myself!"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

The HIBERNIAN VIEw-Arrah, Paddy,
and what is that they are having such a
pow-wow about up there at the Capitol"
Faith, Johnny, and don't axactly un-
derstand it, but heard them saying
that they We're going to send the Govern
or to the Netherlands" "Begarra, and
what are they after doing that for."-
Sure and can't till you unless it is be-
cause they don't want to be 'harris-ed any
longer" ."-Lights dc Shadows.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22
Gnnnral CaSs

The health of General Cass is rapidly
failing. His great intellectual faculties
are no longer clear and powerful. An ex-
change says "his temperate and industri-
ous habits enable him to withstand the
wear and tear of half century of public
life, but it is evident that he has run his
race, and is about to take his rest. We
hear frequently of his fits of illness, and
he makes no mark in his Department that
can be recognized by the party. The
world and all that it contains grows shad-
owy to the old man, for his eyes are dim.
That he is drowsy in his dotage is appa-
rent in his relations to the Administration.
The doctrines with which his political
fame is identified are spurned by the
President as incendiary nonsense; and yet
he allows himself 10 seem to indorsc the
contemptuous rcprobation of the children
of his own brain. If his great age and
declining health did not compel his retire
ment from official position, it might be
supposed that considerations of personal
comfort would induce him to withdraw
from place in which he can never add
to the luster of his name, and in which he
can only be fretted by the vexations in
separable from public life"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

UsENUL REcEIPs.-Erysipelas, disease
often coming without premonition, and
ending fatally in three or four days, is
sometimes promptly cured by applying a
poultice of raw cranberries, pounded, to
the part over night.
Insect bites, and even those of q rattle
snake, have passed harmless, by stirring
enough of common salt in the yoll of a
good egg to make it sufficiently stiff for a
plaster, to be kept on the bitten part.
Costive bowels have an agreeable RENE
dy in the free use of tomatoes at meals
their seed acting the same way as the
seed of white mustard or figs, by stimu-
lating the coats of the bowels, over which
they pass in their whole state, to ncreas-
ed action. A remedy of equal efficiency,
in the same direction, is cracked wheat
that is, common white wheat grains broken
into two or three pieces, and then boiled
until it is as soft as rice, and then eaten
mainly at two meals of the day, with but
ter or molasses.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

BG- On Monday, of last week, the Rev.
DR.. Bangs led the Fulton-street, New
York, prayer meeting, and mentioned in
the course of some remarks, that .fty-Ser-
en- years ago he had entered the ministry,
and in that time he had witnessed many
powerful revivals of religion, but never
anything like the one that has been steadi-
ly in progression for over year past.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

HARD TO PLEAsE.-Two German broth
ers, in Calhoun county, ILL.,, married two
German sisters. The elder brother fell
sick, and the younger brother ran away
with the sick mans wife. The GONZALES
cent brother then followed with the other
wife, and now wants to swap back, but his
own wife, who has tried both says neither
of the brothers is worth having.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

MRs. PARTINGToN PATRIOTIC --"HurrahY
said Ike, as he read the fact in the papers,
"here's O'Regan admitted to the Union.''
"a filrriner, should judge" remarked
Mrs. Partington, looking very wisely at
the steam that rose from the teacups and
formed in one cloud near the ceiling,
"but I'm glad they've let him come in to
enjoy our political rights and lefts and
otherprerogatives. There room enough,
and the rear of our Institutions should be
extended. don't believe a man should
be cut off because he wasn't born in this
country for twenty-one years, which, of
course, wasn't any fault of his, for every
bodywould be born here if they could
have their own auction consulted" at
means, said Ike, "a new State.' "Well
child, "replied she, "the odds is only the
ditierence-States or men, 'tis all the
same. Let 'em come into ourNgrand con-
sternatiap, swirere the eagle shall spread
its broad opinions over EN-, and make EN-
happy in an unlimited bondage of broth
erhood, like the Siamese twins"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

WASHINGTON, april l3.-Information
received here proves the existence of a
deep laid scheme to rcvolutionize Cuba,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

A REMARKABLE SAFE.-At one of the ex-
press offices in Third street, yesterday,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, we saw a
small iron safe, still in use, which lay at
the bottom of Lake Erie, containing 800
600 in gold, for six years. The safe be-
longed TO an express company at the time
was on steamer that blew up and sunk,
and was raised by a diving-bell after the
lapse of time mentioned.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

DIPPING SNuFF.-This pernicious habit
seems to be prevalent to a sad extent in
Marion county, Va. The Fairmont Vir-
ginian says, in that town alone one firm
sells 400 pounds of snuff per annum, the
greater portion which goes to dipping"
In another store the proprietor regularly
every morning makes up hundreds of lit
tie papers of snuff, which are sold to the
"ladies."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

. eD" Never fall in love with another
mans wife. II often terminates indeath,
the first year,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

16y- The two shortest words to pro-
nonnce--yes and no. are those which de-
mand most examination,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

pas" At Leghorn, on the last day of the
carnival, a person disguised as the Em-
peror of the French walked down the
streets with a volume in his hand. on
which were inscribed the words, "The
treaties of 1867 At every few steps the
mimic Emperor stopped and tore page
from the book, scattering it to the ground
in fragments. After some time, however,
the police interfered and put an end to
the representation
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

DD~ Wisdom is the olive which springs
from the heart, blooms on the tongue, and
bears fruit in the actions.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

REDucrioN.-A very large meeting was
held in Spaultling county, Ga, without
distinction of party to talSeinto considera-
ton the propriety of reducing the num-
her of members of the legislature of that
State. The meeting passed the following,
as well as number of other resolutions
number of our Senators and Representa-
tives in our State legislature is demanded
as u measure of economy to secure equali-
ty and to ensure speedy, wise and efficient
lepislation
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

psS~ The receipts of the Wesleyan Mis-
sionay Society of England, for 1858, are
put down at one hundred andthirty thou
sand pounds sterling, about six hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22
More Corrllption.

Every day brings some new develop
ment of the corruption of the Government
We have witnessed the most humiliating
exposures of the completely of the Presi-
dent and member of his Cabinet with
the most improper and corrupt expendi-
ture of the public money in promoting
the success of Democratic candidates for
Congress, and we are now called upon to
record the fact that the Attorney General
ofthe United States, another member of
the Cabinet, is a party to most corrupt
bargain and sale, by which the official
patronage of the Government is to be
prostituted to the base purpose of pur-
chasing newspaper for the benefit of a
minion of the Administration. Without
comment we otfe: the following paragraph,
from the Washington States:
We have already announced the change
of proprietorship in the Washington
Union, by which the official Journal as
our grave cotemporary of the Intelligen-
Ger courtcously characterizes- it, passes
from the control of Mr.. Cornelius Wen
dell into the hands of Brigadier General
George Washington Bowman. The COM
plete, details of the transaction, though
now in our possession, we reserve for fu-
ture exposition, when the public will adj
init that the proceeding is altogether
without a parallels in so far as it exhibits
thc'Attorney-General of the United States
negotiating and attesting the sale of a
newspaper, TO be paid, not by the indi-
vidual purchaser, but with the funds of
Government distributed in the shape OF
Executive patronage.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

BeD~ good action is never thrown
away" This is the reason, probably, why
we find so very few of them lying around
loose"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

CABBAGE WITH Corn.-Mr. Brooks of
Princeton, at one of the Legislative Agri-
cultural Meetings in Boston. alluded to
the practice of planting cabbage among
Indian corn. He knew aninstance wlefe
cabbage was planted in alternate rows
with corn, and the cabbage sold for $3.50
per acre.
The Cabbage was highly esteemed by
the ancients. Phillips tells us that the an
Client Romans, having banished physicians out
q Their territories. preserved their health
for six hundred years and soothed their
infirmities by the use of this vegetable
alone.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

WAsHrNoToN's MOTHER mother had
hard temper fitted to,6aommand, and
when Lafayette visited SdnSa the revolu-
tion, he found her weS Dyfn her garden,
and she had the good mgot to change
her attire, but CANA = at once to
welcome her courtly v Washington
acquired much. Of he ~ He was
trained, too, not by b (cvents.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

The PuBLc LANDs.-The public land
sales to be held in Kansas and Nebraska,
in July, August and September, will en-
brace, in the former $3.50, 900 acres, and
in the latter, 4,300,00 acres.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

Bes- 1t is believed that the father of
mankind never reproached his wife but
once for the unhappy cause of their ex-
pulsion from Paradise; she bitterly and
recklessly replied, q don't care A-dam!"
He never again mentioned the subject.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

PHILADELPHIA, April l4.-The Ledgers
New York correspondent in relation to
the Cuban revolution, says that on the
2Sth of March the bark "Giaza" cleared
for Havana. 1t is believed she had 100
filibusters aboard, with a supply of arms
and ammunition. The next day the "Ma-
zatlan" cleared for Fernandina, Florida,
suspected of being filibuster. j. Il.
Ward & Co., cleared the last vessel The
principal of this firm is related by mar
riage to Genl. Goicouria. The Spanish
Minister at New York is sadly disturbed.
The United States Marshal is watching u
couple of schooners anchored off the bat
tery.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

~lIow OLD p. REDEEMED NorE.-The
Okolona (Miss.) News tells the following
story:
Old P. is well known in some parts as
one who never pays a debt if it can be
avoided. Has plenty of money, however,
and is a jolly, rollicking old chap; gets
pretty drunk occasionally, when of course
some friend takes care of him. A few
days since he fell into the hands Of a
friend who held his note for sum of
money, and as it was last chance the
friend dived into Old P's wallet, took out
the amount of the note, and put the note
where the money had been. When he
awoke to consciousness, as was his wont,
he took out his wallet to count how much
money he was out. Finding his purse al
most depleted he thundered-''How in
the HI did | spend all my money ?"-
You paid off that note held" answered
the friend. "Well," muttered old p,
quietly slowing away his wallet, 81 must
have been id drunk?"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-22

The LAZY OrrICIALs.-The Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
says: "We cannot walk from the Capitol
to Willard's Hotel without hearing the
angriest and sometimes the most touching
denunciations against the heartless and
utterly worthless heads of Departments,
who are either too lazy or too incompetent
to attend to the business of the people,
and who are more than half their time
closeted with politicians, instead of dis
patching the business of their citizen mas
ters. One case in particular has been
much commented on, of gentleman who,
on small matter of business, visited one
of the departments thirty-five times, sat
waiting in the ante-room two hundred
and sixty hours, and walked between his
hotel and the department tifty-one miles
before his business was disposed of, and
when disposed of, his tavern bill had
nearly absorbed the amount of allowance,
to say nothing of the loss of time and de-
tention from his engagements ut home.