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gsS" When we see very big newspaper,
edited by a person of no ability, we are
always reminded of the ejaculation of
Switts capering little dwarf, make a
ring around me, gentlemen, half mile
in diameter, and just see how | will kick
up my heels"
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HsD~ Mr.. Lamountain the Aeronaut, is
safe, he landed 300 miles north of Water
town, New York, in the Canada wilder
ness. He was four days without food
He was brought out by the Indian guides.
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~ The Democracy of Hickman, KY.
in county meeting held on the 10th ult.,
pronounced against squatter sovereignty.
and recommended the nomination Of
Hon. James Guthrie for the Presidency.
They have appointed their delegates TO
the State Convention under these instrue-
tiens.
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Athens, Friday, Oct. 4, 1889.
NOTICE.

An persons indebted to this Office for subscrip-
tions, Advertising and job Work, are requested
70 pay as early as possible, as oil accounts must
be closed up by the expiration of the present year
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

pH- An account of the organization of
the two Houses of the General Assembly,
will be found in another column.
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FoR SnERIrr.-S. w. Foster and l.. +.
Cantrell both announce themselves for
the Office of Sheriff. The present incum-
bent, John A. Gouldy, will not be can
didate.
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pea- a cigar making machine has been
invented and patented by Frenchman
and is now in use. II makes forty-two ci-
gars in ten minutes, or two hundred and
fifty-two in one hour. g-af
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BsS" We will state for the information
of those of our readers as do not under
stand such matters, that those gentlemen
who received the votes of the Opposition
members of the Legislature for the yari-
GUS offices of the Senate and House,
were not candidates for those positions, but
were only selected by their political
friends. as suitable persons to receive the
complimentary vote Of their party.-Nash.
Banner.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

~ Several letters addressed to this
office, reached us this week, via Athens,
Ga. Correspondents should be more par
ticular.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

wHEAT-Is selling here at from so to 30
cents per bushel. Not much on the mar
ket.
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Organization of the New Congress.

a New York print, in the support of
the administration, says it is well known
that of the four or five parties and fac
tons in the House of Representatives
which will meet in December. no party
will hold Il majority, and that there must
be a coalition of two or more of these par
ties or factions to organize the House un-
der the majority of the rule. The repub-
Leans, however, will lack only six or eight
men of a clear majority, and they are be-
ginning already to negotiate among the
anti-Lecompton democrats for these re-
cruts. But the whole business of the
control of the House could be much more
easily and much more proftably arranged,
in reference to the Presidency, by the
simple plan of a practical coalition Of all
the opposition forces, North and South,
upen the practical issues of retrenchment
and reform and general overhauling of
democratic eXtravagances, leaving the
Niger agitation entirely in the hands of
such men as Seward, Douglas and Wise,
and the Northern abolitionsts and the
Southern fire-eaters. Otherwise, the sir
repressibe conflict" of Seward will be
very apt to bring about an "irrepressible
conflict" among the several parties and
factions concerned, from December, 1859,
at Washington City, to November, 1860,
throughout the country, and how much
longer God only knows.
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ptas~ Rev. A. Is. Wheeler, clergyman
of North Bridgewater Mass, recently
failed for $4,000. He proposes to settle
with his creditors for forty-three cents ON
the dollar
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DeS- A Philadelphia paper says as the
days grow shorter and colder, old bache-
Tors become more and more restless and
dissatisfied, and after while panacea is
sought for in pair of dimples, a marriage
certificate, and five hundred dollars worth
OF household furniture, and congratulatos
the clergyman that the coming winter is
foreshadowed as one of unusual asperity
and marriage fees will be plethoric."
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ANOTHER Opposition" PARrY.-The
Missouri Statesmen has the following ex-
cellent and truthful hit
The Democratic Party is itself rapidly
becoming mere Opposition party with
but one idea, and that is opposition to Civ
ing up the offices to better and truGr
men,
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PoNDERoUs.-We see it stated, says the
Memphis Appeal that the amount of
iron thus far used on the dome of the
new capitol at Washington is about $780,
600 pounds; to complete the first section
will require 100000 pounds additional,
making total of 100000 pounds
The total weight of iron for the whole
dome will be about 100000 pounds
This great weight will only be about fifty
pounds to the square inch, in the thick
ness of the walls.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

CHATTANOOGA GAZETTE. This old Jour-
nal, we regret to learn, has been compell-
ed to suspend. We hope to hear of its
resumption at an early day. If two demo-
cratic papers can be sustained at Chatta-
nooga, one opposition journal ought to
manage to live there. There are now
three democratic papers and one opposi-
ton in this Congressional District.
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The Gold Going to Europe.

Last Saturday, says the Philadelphia
Inquirer of the 9th, the small sum of
two millions and half of dollars in gold
was sent out to Europe, as a small por-
ton of the tribute that American work.
men are obliged by their very Democratic
governors to pay over to the laborers and
capitalists of Europe. If this were the
end of the drain upon our people we
would bear the infliction with scarcely a
murmur; but as we are all destined to
submit to many a similar evil, till the
country escapes from the delusions of a
sham Democracy, we must show the fact
in all its force. We find no adequate de-
mand for our products to counterbalance
the effects of this drain, by which the
entire country is impoverished. Our
purse is cleaned out by the process, and
yet we continue to 90 on headlong in the
fatal policy that closes our mills and
mines, or reduces the wages of operatives
in them to the pauper standard of Eu-
rope. A callous mind would say that it
serves people right to be so treated,
when they themselves foolishly establish
the absurd policy that causes this drain
upon the basis of our currency; but we
will not 90 so far. All that we can do is
to deplore the grave facts, and to try the
effect of reason upon the needless men
of labor who put persons in power to
keep up system that destroys enterprise
and paralyzes industry.
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A CUCUMBER.-A New York letter says,
ga gentleman of Brooklyn grew in his
garden, this season, one cucumber which
measured fifty-one inches in length and
thirteen and half inches in circumfer-
ence, weighing fourteen pounds. He rails
ed another, which was forty-four inches
long, and weighed seven pounds.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

Gs1r The State Constitution recently
submitted to the vote of the people of
Kansas for ratification, has been rejected
by decided majority. Kansas will not,
therefore, come regularly before Congress
at its next session for admission AS a
State.
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Athrus gost.
TERMS /:

Two DoLLARs A YsAs, payable In advance.
Announcing names Of candidates for Office $500,
Cash.
Obituary Notices over twelve lines, charged at
the regular advertising rates.
All communications intended to promote the pri-
vate ends or interests Of Corporations. Societies.
Schools or Individuals viii be charged as advcr-
tiscmcuts.
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ras- II didn't dare to tell you. wife, boz
fore we were married, that my teeth are
false" "a could get along we'll enough
with you, husband. II your teeth were
the only false thing you carry il your
mouth" % .i.h n, ss7'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

CHANcERY CLERK.-W. j. Isbell, ESQ.,,
has been appointed Clerk of the Chan
Gerry Court of DeKalb county, vice Thos.
Whaley, resigned.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

FRAscE.-Recent dates state that the
harvest Is twenty per cent less productive
than last year. Flour and wheat ara
slightly advanced. Silk is stagnant. At
Lyons trade is better under American or
dsrs. "
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TRUsrEE.-Chas. Staples is announced
in today's paper for County Trustee.
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PICTURE OF AN EDIToR.-The Mariposa
(Cal.,) Star thus describes the personal
appearance of Horace Greeley:
lie doesen't look like a vegetarian
wears specs-declines to drink-neyer
smokes--seldom swears. and among 9th.
er peculfarities, seems to be in devil of
hurry to get back to New York.
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asH~ The New York Herald's Washing
ton correspondent says that Judge Dou-
glas is greatly discouraged since his re-
turn to Washington, by the gloomy con-
dition of his Presidential prospects and
personal affairs. There is abundant evil
dence that he has overreached himself,
and must have high and hard fall.
Judge Douglas must fail in the object OF
his ambition. No man can survive the
parading and bandying of his Presiden-
tial pretensions in the public journals as
long as his will have been by the time the
Convention shall meet.
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The SUGAR CRoP.-About month or
six weeks ago, the prospect for an unusu-
ally large crop of sugar, this year, was
most flattering. But the continued dry
weather since that time, has so checked
the growth of the cane and otherwise in
jured it, that the yield will inevitable be
very much Enthusiastically one-third.
Our cotton planters are having just the
weather they wish, and are making hay
while the sun shines. Point Coupee Echo,
24U inst
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AaS~ A first-rate joke took place re-
Gently IN courtroom. A woman WAS
testiiying in behalf of her son, and, swore
that "he worked ON the farm ever since
he was born" The lawyer who cross-ex-
amined her said: You assert that YOUR
son worked on farm ever since he was
bornT IL do" "What did he do the
first year?" "lIe MIXED" The lawyer
evaporated. IL. .-.n- - 49,.
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TAMMANY.-The New York News, demo-
cratic, says of the Tammany Hall leaders
that there is scarcely man among them
who don't hold, either directly or in
directly, II half dozen offices or avenues
to the public treasury. 1t would be an
amusing statement to take up the Gen
eral Committee in the Wigwam and show
that eVerg member has an office or con-
tract. We shall undertake this interest
ing task at the proper time. If we were
to commence with the Chairman and give
the history of his dsiaterested services to
the democratic party, our readers would
be overwhelmed with gratitude toward a
man whose whole life has been devoted
to the patriotic duty of doing nothing for
the party but spending the public money"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

PRETTY GooD.-- The Janeville Times
says several young gents went to the resi-
dence of young damsel few evenings
since of young damsel few evenings
footing for some time the door opened
and male servant stepped out, who,
walking up to the harpist and laying his
hand on his shoulder, exclaimed, ''My
friend, the folks are all abed, You CAN'T
GET A CENT HERE TONIGHT" Imagine the
feelings of those young men.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

"CHARLEsroS COURIER."-This standard news
paper has recently been enlarged and fitted with
new dress-and it is no disparagelnent to others
to say, that it is the handsomest sheet, us it has
always been among the best, receive. We have
been regular reader Of the Courier for nearly
twelve years, and we can say we have never yet
seen hurtful article in its columns, or one that the
most fastidions criticism would reject. Business
men and others who wish reliable Southern pa
per, should order the Courier
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07

Mrs. GoosEY's Mother,
old Mrs. Partington's gone to settin'."
"On how many eggs, Susan ?"
"Well, you know that tin box full of
pills you threw away, because pa wouldn't
help you take 'em when you were sick
well, she's settin' OH that, and on two
brick bats, and one old sardine box !"
"Shes an ambitious hen certainly =
Remove them out of her nest, Susan, and
put in fifteen or sixteen eggs"
"Yes'm. But I'll let the box of pills
stay, ma, you know she might hatch us
out little young doctor might'nt she ?"
"Oh dear what horrid idea Go and
do as | bid you, Susan"
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State Bonds.
Speaker of the Senate.

Tennessee Skies sold in New York on
the Both ult at $50.
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COUNTY SuRvEyoB.-E. l.. Miller has
been elected County Surveyor for McMinn,
vice Jas. r. Lane resigned.
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How CAN SEWARD BE ELEcTED.-A wri-
ter in the Chicago Tribune" who is an
earnest Republican" takes the follow
ing view of Mr.. Stewards chance for the
election to the Presidency. He says:
Suppose Mr.. Seward nominated. how
is he going to be elected? What assurance
have we that the 37,444 Americans in
Illinois, who voted for Fillmore in 1856,
will support the man whom, of all the
Republicans they hate the mosR Is
there any guarantee for the 72,2O2 Fill
more votes in Pennsylvania, every one of
which will be needed to carry the Kew
stone State? Who believes that the
22,3S6 Fillmore Wings of Indiana, or the
%, Is friends of Fillmore in New Jersey.
will conquer their prejudices, march up
to the polls and deposite their ballot for
William III. Seward Now, without the
votes of these men Seward could no more
carry either of these four States than he
can escape death. And how are the Re
publicans' to elect President unless
they receive their electoral votes ?'
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A FAT HORSE CoNTRAcT.--A Leaven-
worth correspondent of the New York
Times, says:
The last subject under discussion here
is contract given to Virgnian named
Gillespie for 400 cavalry horses, at Sl75
apiece. The lucky reakpient of this job
sold out to st. Ii Ter at a profit
of $4,000; that khorse dealer
filed out thee - horse.-
But this w ~. the
Government want
ed; certainly lson. Two
hundred and fiW kdmals how
ever, were sent toS ninth and the
balance, 295, to this Ply, and an officer
was sent on to inspect and receive them
and turn them over to the Quarter
master.
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SUICIDE OF AN ARMY OFFICER.-News
reached Baltimore on the 2Sth, by the
Norfolk boat that Major w. w. Chap
man, ,Quartermaster at Fort Monroe, COM
mitted suicide on Tuesday, by cutting
his throat. He was found lying on the
beach outside the fort, dead, with the ra-
zor with which the deed was accom-
plished by his side. No reason was given
for the acts. Major Chapman was ma
tive of Massachusetts,, entered the army
in 1887, and was made Major by brevet
in lS47.
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RATES OF TRAVEL SIxTY-Two YEARS AGO.
The Alexandria Gazette furnishes the
following:
On the Doth of Feb kry, 1897, Thomas
jefferson set out for Philadelphia to en-
ter upon his duties Al Vice President of
the United States. e following time
and fare table, takeI rom his Pocket
Account Book" will deemed curious
in this fast age: v Left Alexandria
after dinner, FebruarV23d, and reached
Baltimore on the 2Gth The fare S475.
Thence reached Philad elphia, March I'd.
Fare 81. Whole amod ht of travelling ex-
penses from hence, including $40 to send
home Jupiter and the. horses from Alex
andria, S49,03." Fare table now: From
Alexandria to Philadelphia, time ~ hours,
fare 81,
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sas" An Iowa paper{ relates very
singular occurrence. Ill ays that during
harvest, man caught rattlesnake by
the tail, thinking to sn< its head off by
fling or jerk. In tn peration, one Of
the snakes poisonous n IS flew out and
hit him in the face, t point entering
the cheek, The man 2vered, but the
snake died.
The POSTAL DEFIcIEN&.-The returns
of the Post Office Department to June
30th, have been revised, and the de-
ficiency to be provided for by Congress
is 81, 2Sl 900. md f...
DkY- Milton s. Latham is undoubtedly
elected Governor of California by per-
haps 10000 majority. Scott and Burch
are probably elected to Congress. Both
Branches of the Legislature are Demo.
cratic Leoompton.
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BAPTIST STATISTICS OF lS5S.-rhe "grand
total of regular Baptists in North Aneri-
Ca" shows that there are i'm the United
States five hundred and ninety Associa-
tons, twelve thousand one hundred and
sixty-three churches, seven thousand five
hundred and ninety ordained ministers,
one thousand and thirty-five licentiates,
nine hundred and ninety-two thousand
eight hundred and fifty one commune
cants, and that the number baptised in
1858 was ninciy-eight thousand five hun
dred and eight, nearly one hundred thou
sand baptisms, and little less than mil
lion of members! The largest number of
Baptists reported from any State is Vir-
ginia-onc hundred and fifteen thousand
one hundred and forty-six. The largest
number baptised in any one State is New
York-ten thousand eight hundred and
two. and the next largest Georgia-seven
thousand nine hundred ard forty-four.-
The Baptist Almanac gives the names of
thirty-three colleges, fourteen theological
semnaries, twenty-nine weekly newspa-
pers, sixteen monthlies, and two quarter
lies, that depend on Baptists for their sup
port. The names are also given of sixty
four new church edificcs erected in 1858,
of two hundred and thirty eight new
churches constituted, of sixty five minis
tiers deceased, and three hundred and four
ministers ordained-a number six or sew
EN- times larger than the whole number
graduated in the same year, 1858, from all
our theological NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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nslya The pulpit, the DRESS and the pub.

Ds1~ The pulpit, the press and the pub
lie rostrum may continue to warn, to
teach, to admonish, to persuade, to en-
treat-they may war upon folly vice, i'm
morality and crime till doomsday, yet so
long as every man considers these shafts
all aimed at his neighbor, instead of him
self, the great world will continue to ''wag
on" without becoming whit better, and
without one single motion towards re-
form.-Quid Nimc.
Exactly You've said il.
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as,s- The other dov a ladv fell off the

Bkfs The other day lady Tell OF the
Brooklyn boat into the East river; a
poor lrishman sprang over and rescued
her. When she was safe on deck again,
her husband, who had been calm spec
tator of the accident, handed the brave
fellow shilling. Upon some of the BY
ISLANDERS expressing Indignation, Pat said,
as he pocketed the coin; "Arrah, don't
blame the jintleman-he knows best
mayhap if haunt saved her, he'd have
given me a doicrH 4.. Y..,.
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A PERFECT LAwYER.-An English writer
of the 18th century has given sketch of
"the character of perfect lawyer" The
concluding sentence of the eulogy is as
follows:
In word, whilst he lives, he is the de-
light OF the court, the ornament of the
bar, the glory of his profession, the patron
OF innocence, the upholder of right, the
scourge OF oppression, the terror of deceit,
and the oracle OF his country; and when
death calls him to the bar of heaven by
habeas corpus cam capsus, he fin DIS the Judge
his advocate, nonsuits the devil, obtainsa
iherate from all infrmitiee and continues
still one Of the long robes IN glory.
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-eD~ We always think of very mean
man, that he was made by one of natures
cobblers, and like an unfinished boot,
thrown off without being souled.
PHYSICIAN TO THE LuNATIc ASYLUM
DR.. Cheatham who has SO ably and so
well filed this responsible post for sever
al years past, was unanimously reelected
at meeting of the Trustees on last Sat-
urday.-- Union and american. ,f,fsd
The WIFE's ADvIcE.-A wife whose
husband recently started to visit the city
of Washington is represented to have
said:
"Now my dear don't mix with the pub
lilo officials in Washington-especia
with their wives! You know about Sick
les"
saS- A Black Republican up in Maine.
was recently bitten by rattlesnake.-
The snake died from the effects Of the
bite, in about twenty minutes
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-20
by TELItCfRAPIL

tlEiL DELTHA, May i?ln Flour there been Isciivd
reaction and prices 25c lower YESTERDAY; sales
eGr hundred Ibis good western extra family - sales
the trade at I,I!9r25 for good supcTfEe
F"ur ana corn A"a quiet; quote at % form
and 81 2}3 for latte Wheat eclne &c;
- re Rye has declined ;Si and fifteen hundred bushels
PeHna sold AT u! Corn lUl; sales yellow CSC in III.
cars Dui buyers refuse pay this lower;
three thousand se:S Penra. sDI at Provisions
continue to UPWARD; Mess Pork held $l95Ca2;
sales hundred Cnsks hams at lal2c; smoked
held at lus4 and shoulders at three thousand
solid packed Butter sold 949J4c Whisky
Ohio and 81 for Pruua.
Yo-x, Mav I9.-Cotton nominal; lie for ,niI,llnE
upland. -Four declined $50 2"c IT, bbS
i5,gG go for State, $T5"T,1j OHIO $:.75
Sou. Wheat declined 6GG sales ~ 80
a 5 wlite western! nominal at $lIIG2. torn declined;
sales twenty tr= Thousand bushels 81 J}c for
and gS Tor YELLOW. Pork sells o. al> Mess
and $l5,5oel5,,5 Tor prime. WHISKY Gle
ders. Sugar quiet Ia GGa. for MuscoNado. e-i OIL
heaTy GGGGTc. TaiIyw ira. Hides Ermer; Bueuos
AyreS 2654 a2I; dry western @uc, green 10 /, =.
CiNCINxATI May l9Fiour very dull and prices
sales trlur; suPeTne DeEsd below !! but buye
med nk $500 about All they COuli venture give
Whisky declined TO =. and closed dull Provisions
tied and prices entirely noniaa buyers holding of; impa
SiUe give aniug ike quotations; 30 hhds bacon sLcs
SOLD -, this the only sale which tranSpiTr bulk
OF rei 81 SIC. Mess Pork neglected: i:
il offered is Lard be quoted nominal 1T II 4
"a; little demand. Money MARKET unchanr-
Inaud moderate Exchange firm and in active demand -
\ premium. GToc, rirS unchanged.
BALTIMORE, May I9-Flonr cn,I 25c; yard St and
Ohio +.25 Wheat que; at !io'l ,95 f-r w.tc AID -
rcd Corn white declined 2s1-; GLOW
- ag.c Provisions 4ai ! Wni,Ey duh.