The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-15
In a Sinking Condition.

II seems pretty clear that the old ship,
Democracy, is sinking, and the rats arc
leaving IL. The Washington correspofil
dent of the Philadelphia North Americafi,
says:
Even some of the officeholding friends
of the AdministrationAthdt patriotic
band who desert last-do not seem dis
posed to stand by it in this hour of trial.
Half the term is gone and the future n
not particularly promising for those whon
have any future before them. Governorj
Denver has resigned, Gen. Mcconnell hasv
resigned, Judge Hughes has refused,
Gen. Jones has declined, Mr.. Appleton
means to retire, and there are others in
the same category. These sudden suf-
renders are significant. In Mr.. Jeffer-
sons day it became an aphorism, that few.
died and none resigned. Before the sepaF
ration Of Congress, there was a general
conviction that breakup was inevitable.
Mr.. Toombs was frestp declare no other
party but the Democratic could havc
stood the blunders and follies of tbs Adj
ministration, and doubted if that could
endure two years more of misrule. This
sentiment is general, and has been utter
ed even more emphatically, and With
by the very men who are most relied up
on in Congress to sustain its policy
There is no concert of political action or
bond of social sympathy between the par
ty as represented in the White House and
in the Capitol. And nothing but the
| most ceremonious intercourse exists be-
tween them and such as Mr.. Hunter, the
pivot-man of the Democracy in Congress.
1t does not become us outsiders to inquire
why is this, but certainly no such condi-
ton of things has fallen under my OBJ
servation in range of eighteen years.
Even the public plumber, which Mr.. CAL
houn graphically described as the most
potent of all political plasters, has not
furnished bond of cohesion. And it
has been fully tried as the investigations
show.
B6y" A New York paper publishes an
account of the trial and conviction of
James II. Johnston, of Rappahannock
county, Va, who poisoned his wife with
strychnine in glass of lemonade-lemon
juice being the most effective mode of
administering strychnine. The prisoner,
one day, brought into the room where
his wife and visitor were seated. two
glasses of lemonade, handed one to the
wife, and retained the other for himself.
She remarked to him that it would be
more polite to attend first to his guest, and
to that he rejoined that his guest could
help himself from the pitcher, but that
the lemonade in her glass contained aloes
bitters which, he said the doctor had re-
commended her. She tasted the liquid,
and objected to its intense bitterness
He prevailed on her to swallow the nau-
seous draught, and then ceolly rode out
for pleasure, leaving the poison to do its
work, which it did in an hour or so.
Domestic GINGER BEER.-Two gallons Of
ginger beer may be made as follows:
Put two gallons of cold water into pot
upon the fire add to it two ounces of
good ginger and two pounds of white or
brown sugar. Let all this come to boil,
and continue boiling for half an hour
Then skim the liquor, and pour it into q
jar or tub, along with one sliced lemon,
and half an ounce of cream of tartar
When nearly cold, put in teacupk,l of
| yeast, to cause the liquor to work. The
beer is now made; and after il has worked
for two days, strain and bottle it for use.
Tie the corks down firmly.
seT- Louis Napoleon has determined to
remove the remains of his great uncle
from their mausoleum in the Invalides,
to vaults at st. Denis. 1t would seem as
though Napoleon's body were never to
have permanent rest in death, any more
than it had in life. ...
a6r Mr.. Shields, one of the Democratic
Senators from Minnesota, in the course
of an incidental debate in the Senate, n
few days ago said: 81 think IT is not say
ing too much to declare that this country
has gone faster and farther in ten years
extravaganza, than most other countries
have done IN centuries"
BsN~ There is one thing that must not be
overlooked in connection with the doings
of the late Congress. While they reduced
the appropriations some few millions of
dollars, they made no attempt at any eco
nomical reform: consequently the expens-
es will 20 on as heavily as before, and the
next Congress will be called upon to sup
ply the deficiencies. Indeed, it was very
convenient to shove off the payment Of
present pressing liabilities upon their sue
cessors, as it will be asserted, for political
effect the eve of the Presidential election,
that the Both Congress spent more money
than the 35th.
MORE 'INFIDELITY."-Rev. Prof. Hitch
cock, of Union Theological Seminary, N.
Y, (son of the eminent Geologist) has
created great alarm among the faithful by
declaring in public lecture on the histo-
ny of the Bible, that the "Pentateuch is
pictorial epic, composed of various frag-
mentary poems collected and arranged by
Moses" These certainly are perilous
times for ancient dogmatism.
A FACT WORTHY OF NoTE.-By taking
up shrubs or plants at this time, with
some of their own soil about the roots, and
placing them upright in cellar until o.
tober, then transplanting them into pots,
and watering them with solution Of half
an ounce of salt ammonie to pint of
rain water, you will have summer flowers
in winter.
| Day" Col. Seaton, Of the "National In
telligencer" celebrated, On the Both ulti-
mo, his golden wedding been
married fifty years, and for about that Pc
Rod connected with the "Intelligencer."