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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-10-07
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MUTUAL CoxroRr.-The Ohio Statesman

MUTUAL CoNPoRT.-The Ohio Statesman
says that at Mansfield, Ohio, the other
day, douglas gracefully introduced
Judge Ranney as the next Governor of
Ohio, amid great cheers he then intro
duced Mr.. Pugh, as the next Senator to
be elected, who was also received with
great cheers. The people then called for
Douglas once more, and when Pugh in
troduced him, as the next President of
the United States, there was a perfect
storm of tumultuous applause" ..
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Apropos.


The following parody on "Hohenlinden" is
ppropriate exhibition of the times in many of I
est regulated printing Offices that have not adol
l the cash system:
In seasons when our funds are low,
Subscribers arc provoking slow,
And few supplies keep up the flow
OF dimes departing rapidly.
But we shall see a sadder sight,
When duns come in from morn till night,
Commanding every sixpence bright,
To be forkcd over rapidly.
Our bonds and due bills are arrayed;
Each seal and signature displayed
The holders they must all be paid.
With threat of law and chanccry.
When to despair we are almost driven,
There's precious little fun in living,
When our last coppers rudely riven,
From hands that held it lovingly.
But larger yet the duns shall grow,
When interests added on below,
Lengthening the chain foot or so,
While gazing at them hOpelessly.
'Tis so, that scarce have we begun
To plead for time upon dun
Before there was another one
Demanding pay ferociously.
The prospect darkens! on ye brave,
Who would our very bacon save,
Waive, patrons, all yow preterts maire!
And pay the printer honestly.
Oh! it would yield us pleasant sweet
A few delinquents no,o to meet,
Asking of us clear receipt
For papers taken rcg'larly.
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A SEVERE SENTENcE.-Benjamin Buff
ington, resident of Fisherville, Pa, who
was convicted at the last court on the
charge of selling liquor to minors and
persons of known incorporate habits,
was sentenced on Tuesday, by Judge
Pearson, on each count, to pay a fine OF
$50 and the costs of prosecution, to un-
dergo an imprisonment of fifteen days on
each count, and forfeit his license. Buff
ington is quite an old man, and after re-
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nay Doctor johnson told Mrs. Piozzi
that he "hufied" his wife so often about
the dinner not being well prepared, that
at last she called to him when about to
say grace, with-'"Nay, Mr.. johnson, do
not make farce of thanking God for a
dinner which in few moments you will
pronounce not eatablo." ttHrr
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eD~ A suit against the crown of Sweden
for loaned money two hundred and twen-
ty-three years ago, is now drawing to a
close. The sum lent was GS000 crowns,
which, with compound interest, now
amounts to about 50,000,00O.
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nsS- A Henchman has recently inven-
ted an apparatus for stopping locomo-
tive almost instantaneously when At its
highes. speed; and it is said to have bees
tried successfully.
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s9r Mr.. SIN IN oBrien has been in
Armagh, where he received complete
ovation" TIL mob cheered him, tar
barrels blazed he street, and the spa
triot" briefly a. {ressed the molly crowd,
declaring his dherence still to those
principles whii in 1874 caused him to
join the Rel Association. Toward
nightfall the c4duct of the mob became
uproarious, and considerably alarmed the
peaceable inhabitants.
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Che gost.
Athens. Friday, October 4, 1850.

New ORLEANS, Sept 30.-Major Neigh
bors, Indian agent at Fort Belknap, Tex
as, was killed on the 18th, by two resi-
dents. They have not been arrested.
The defeatof the liberals under DeGola-
do at Leon, by Gen. Wolls is confirmed
Wolls' forces were decimated.
Miramon has re-established the de-
cree of Santa Anna in 1S43, forbidding
foreigners entering Mexico with arms,
and invading designs under penalty Of
DEATH
Gen. Alvarez is preparing to march on
the city of Mexico with 5000 well armed
infantry and artillery
The yellow fever is raging at Browns
vile, and for thirty miles above there.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The Secretary
of the Navy has arranged for the admis-
sion of forty or fifty additional acting
midshipmen at the Navy Academy.
The treasury receipts last week were
$780, 600. Drafts paid "a, 100000. Drafts
issued SS49,000. Amount subject to
draft s., ,l63, 800.
The President has appointed VIM. G.
Jones, Judge of the United States Court
for Alabama.
Gen. Jessup has returned to Washing
ton convalescent.
NEW YoRK, Sept. .2s.-The steamer Per-
sia sailed for Liverpool to-day, with S47O,-
600 specie.
The steamer Granada has arrived with
uavanna dates of the odd. News unim-
portant. Freights were dull. Havana
was healthy.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 2S.-Flour has an adj
7ranced tendency, 75@4 so; Corn firm
,7SCas0; Whisky %; Oats 43945; Provis-
ions active.
. NEW YoRK, Sept. 2S.-lsambart X.
Brunei, Designer of the Great Eastern is
dead He died with paralysis.
Orders have been despatched to India
for the troops there to proceed to China
10 prosecute the war.
The French laws in relation to the
Press are not to be modified.
Rentes closed firm Friday at 6S 95
centimes.
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DIVIDEND WORTH DRAwING.-lt is sta
ted that by the recent 4l per cent. divi-
dend of the Virginia Central Railroad
Company, the Treasury of the State will
receive 100000. The State has an invest
ment of S2,000,000 in the stock of the
Company.
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A Thrilling ,ne.

The English paperwN Dved by the
Africa are full of th,s eeedings of a
most interesting murds'. ssal which has
just taken place in Ls.. yen, and the de-
tails of which possess. features as re-
markable as the famous Palmer case.
which excited so much attention few
years ago. The case was that of phsiy-
clan named Smethurst, who committed
bigamy and then poisoned the second
wife to get her property. The London
News says:
When the Lord ChistSc Baron put on his
black cap, and was alarc .a.'..pass the SELL
tence of death, IT, -s5 are 49,. shecked him
by reading speeting \Sese in calm,
composed topmox in = Aaivring the
!. !. J ! ! :! ! !! J !
time he wa wss ie NEARLY
fivs, Nudti26 51uce
the.9F 100 :. 400 ~
nocent of H. thing
wrong to the d H that /
acted illegally iif> II when my
wife was alive; butt - FOR her sake.
She was lady of tortlfhe and position,
and her friends were very respectable,
and l married her toprotect her from
self-reproach, until we could contract q
legal marriage after the death of my
wife, who is now seventy-four years old,
and who could not in the ordinary course
of events be expected to live many years.
We loved each other with great attach
ment. During the time we were togeth-
Il
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By The son of a worthy merchant il

by The son OF worthy merchant in
Philadelphia, doing an extensive bust
ness on Chestnut street, suddenly disap-
peared few days ago. A good looking,
but rather frail young lady, and about
10000 of the old gentleman's funds, dis
appeared about the same time.
Rly- Madam, has your piano an Eolian
attachment? asked Stubbs, the other
night, of the wife Of man who appear
ed to live fully up to, if not beyond, his
means. Hush! whispered Stiggins in
his ear; it has Sh~i6's attachment :
Stubbs dropped the subject,
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MONEY LOST IN THE MAILs.-The Aus
tin (Texas) State Gazette of the 10Th inst,
says: We are informed that some $780,
600 have been lost in the mails lately be-
tween Galveston and New Orleans.
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FIFTY-Two MILES DAY TO ATTEND COL

FIFTY-Two MILES DAY TO ATTEND COL
LEGE.-One of the most striking proofs of
the regularity and dispatch of the facili-
ties for business afforded by steam trans
portation, is found in the case of son of
distinguished mechanical engineer of
Trenton, n. j., who attends daily the
scientific courses of the Polytechnic
College, Philadelphia, and returns home
in the afternoon. The distance between
the two cities is twenty-six miles. The
Interruptions during the last year were
fewer than those which ordinarily cause
detention when the distance is but few
squares. What a contrast is this to Shake
speare's time, when the school-boy went
"like snail" The student referred to
has made his two trips daily for nearly q
year.
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ps5~ German Psychologists affirm that
Of twenty deaths of men between Is and
% years of age, ten originate in the waste
Of the constitution induced by smoking.
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PROGRAMME OF THE ANTI-LECOMPToN
DEMocRArs.-It is currently reported that
the Illinois Democratic Congressman will
go into the Democratic House caucus, but
that the other Anti Lecompton members
will not 1t is confidently affirmed that
they will support Mr.. Forney for the
Clerkship, if he desires the position, and
this point being gained they will support
a Republican for Speaker.
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Ra5H There is mail carrier at Enfield,
n. c., who has carried the mail on horse
back tifty-fve miles, twice a week, for
forty-five years, missing but one regular
day in that time.
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he struck the key to initiate the sudden
knell of the departed hour, when a re-
specially dressed woman CALCULATED, to the
astonishment of everybody Wouldn't
| have fetched him home!
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Ban A Kentucky paper says it is get
ting to be fashionable in that quarter to
enclose dollar with marriage notices
when sending them to the printer A
goodly custom that ought to prevail
everywhere.
Six dollars to the printer and priest,
No sensible man could refuse
Five dollars to render him blest,
And one to publish the news
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pay- An analysis of Pixies Peak gold
made at the Philadelphia mint proved
to be worth only Sl5.SO.li ounce gross
weight.
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New York Democracy.

The following little illustration of Now
York Democracy we find in the cores
pondence of the Charleston Courier, in
some comments upon the late Syracuse
Convention. Before the Convention adj
.journed, Marshal Rynders made a speech
denouncing the STRIKERS" and shoulder
hitters," who had come up there to over
awe the proceedings. The captain paid
his compliments in especial to one Andy
Sheehan, whom he charges with being
one of the chiefinstigators of the trouble,
urged on by Fernando Wood"
This man, Sheehan, cannot bear the
disgrace put upon him by the U. s. Mar
shal. So in answer, he had placard is
sued and posted in the most popular
places, several having been judiciously
distributed very near the us. MarshaPs
office. Sheehan thus pays his compli-
ments to Rynders in a card:
Il Cdrd-A ruffian known to the public
us Isaiah Rynders having attempted to
calumniate and defame me in harangue
made by him at the recent Syracuse Con-
vention, hereby pronounce him to be
false hearted, lying cur, who would not
dare to utter his abuse of men had l not
been absent from Syracuse at the time,
and he safe from immediate chastise-
ment. This coward has, for the past
twenty years, been the leader of gang
of professional assassins, and has lived
by roping in his ropes to faro banks,
black mailing timid politicians, and new
er held an honest position until elevated
to his present post, which he dishonors.-
The public have not forgotten the part
this wretch played in the Astor-place riot,
in which his victims were brutally mur-
dered, while he shirked in the by-streets
the responsibility of his acts.
] have here to add, in relation to this
over-rated blackguard and mercenary
camp-follower of the Democratic party,
that it does not become fellow who mas
been carried in handouts from one end
of the United States to the other, on a
charge of felony, to assail any one at ALL
much less a man like me, who have lived
to be thirty years of age without charge
of any kind being preferred against me.
My visit to Syracuse was entirely indepen-
dent of Mr.. Wood, and only exercised
that right which every Democrat claims.
defy this wretch to place his finger on
any act of mine that is either mean,
cowardly or dishonest.
ANDREW SHEEnAN.
CINcINNATI AND HER PRoDUCTs.-The
Cincinnati Gazette contains very elabo-
rate abstract of the Trade and Commerce
of that city, that is deserving of careful
study. The whole occupies twenty col
umns of the Gazette, and no abstract
could give an idea of the result:
SYNOPSIS OF MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL
PRODUCTS.
lS4l, value, 17,7S0,O33; 1851, value, 54,-
550,l34; 1859, value, ll2, ,254, 400.
The heaviest items in making up the
above are.
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SCENE IN A NEWSPAPER 0rFoE.-Fore-
man-Please, Mr. Editor, send me para
graph to fill out column.
Editor-What shall it be? Let me see.
Poreman--Anything; big lie of any
kind.
Editor-Here, boy, bring q locofoco ex-
change, THE editor clips at random.
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Bsy- Mr.. VIM. Harding, of Cincinnati,
offers to back Benz. Smith, of the same
city, aged so years, to run foot race
against any man in the world for S., 900.
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pD- Cant you credit me, Mr.. Butch
or, for little meat this morningw "No,
you owe me for that already on your
bones" .-
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pI- Lee county, Virginia, has voted
to subscribe $4,000 to the Virginia and
Kentucky Railroad.
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pD- "John, did you ever bet on horse
racer" "No but I've seen my sister Bet
on an old mare" - irs'
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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 25.-The statement of
gold received from Denver and Aurora is
$4,000. Shipments $4,000 ata valua-
tion of seventeen dollars per ounce,
which is much below iss real value. The
above does not include gold brought by
private individuals. Gregory left Denver
on the l4th for Georgia with about S25, 900.
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BSsn A jew, residing at Lyons lately
lost his purse, containing 1900 francs, and
advertised it in the usual way. The next
day he received this letter:
AMIABLE IsRAELiTE 1T is ] who have
found your 1900 francs, and you may
weep for them, for you will never get
them back again. | am leading the life
of a Sardanapalus. Here is an account
of what have this day had for breakfast
and for dinner. "A detail of the two
meals were here given.) ! shall continue
to live in that manner, gracious Hebrew,
until your 1900 francs are exhausted,
and will finish by drinking a glass of
wine to your health.
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RsH" RUSSELL the singer was singing in
a provincial town: "The Gamblers Wife,"
and having uttered the words
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g6- Fourteen persons are confined in
the Cincinnati Jail charged with murder
in the Arst degree V3,c,w 'h'sni .l
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Discovery OF A CHEST OF GoLD.-A New
Orleans correspondent saws:

DISCOVERY OF CHEsT OF bOLD.-A New
Orleans correspondent says:
A rumor is current in the Second Dis
trict that an old seller of charcoal has
suddenly stumbled upon handsome for
tune. He lives in a building at the cor
ner of Orleans and Bourbon streets, da-
ting back to the years of Spanish rule,
There are many such in this city, and so
worn and dilapidated by time as to be
hardly habitable even for the most miser-
able tenant. While repairing decayed
floor with his own hands few days ago,
the vendor of charcoal (so the story goes)
discovered beneath it what had once been
strong, oaken, iron-bound box, which
fell into dusty fragments under few light
blows, disclosing to his amazed and greedy
eyes, a glittering pile of Spanish doub-
looms, amounting in the aggregate to
about So, 200. BY whom they were thus
deposited, or for what purpose, are ques-
tions not to be answered at this late day.
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MAYOR OF New Baltimore Pa
triot says: ........... .....
Mr.. Fowler, the Postmaster of New
York is to be the Tammany candidate for
thenext Mayor. Poor Fernando is over
board at last. ,f.
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SEDUCTION Vista, Tennessee,
was the scene Of a tragedy few days since.
Some weeks since Mr.. John f. Jackson,
an opulent gentleman of that village, was
informed that his daughter, lovely girl
of eighteen years, had been seduced by
DR.. F. NJ. Bunch. He forthwith sought
the man who had brought disgrace upon
his name, and demanded that he should
repair the wrong by marrying his victim.
The Doctor declined at the time, and
jackson gave him three weeks to recon-
slider or leave the country. At the eXpira-
ton of that time, Bunch still declined to
heal the wounds he had inflicted, the de-
termined parent, restive with the sense of
wounded honor and desperation, shot
Bunch down in his Office. He died in
stantly. jackson delivered himself into
custody and when our informant left was
in the Paris Tenn jail.-LouiSviNe Courier.
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MARvELous.--The very last curiosity
spoken of in the papers, is a wheel that
came of a dogs tail when II was isassg,ia
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pa. One day last week train on the
Mississippi road made the run of ninety
miles, from Prairie du Chen to Madison,
in two hours a}d ten minutes, This is
the fastest time ever made for that dis
tance in the Ndthwest.
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A SCENE NOT IN THE BILLs.-On Thurs
day night, says the New York Express,
while the audience in Laura Keene's
theatre were silently pondering over a
beautiful overture, between the acts of
World and Stage, middle-aged lady,
dressed in black, and sitting about the
centre of the parquette, arose, and in
wild and incoherent manner cried out
at the top of her voice, "Now is the
time! now is the time let's have real
old-fashioned camp-meeting. Glory to
God? ! want to serve God and not man.
Join in, brothers and sisters, and come
to Jesus" together with other favorite ex-
pressions of religious monomaniacs.-
The lady was well dressed and was accom-
panied by two genteel looking gentlemen.
OF course the officers of the house were
using every effort to quiet the lady all
this time, but the cries from the gods of
the gallery to "go it old gal, I'll hold
your bonnet" and other ridiculous ex-
pressions, the shouts, laughter, Kisses and
screams of the whole audience made the
scene very hard indeed to be described;
she was eventually taken out, schreech-
ing in the widest manner and the World
and Stage was permitted to proceed.
THE WAR OF lSl2.-A Washington cor
respondent of the journal of Commerce,
says: 1T is a matter of historical re-
cord that the invasion of corn field, in
Rhode Island, by tillibuster hog belong
in. to an adjacent farm, brought on the
war of 1872 between the United States
and Great Britain. the speck of war
which has arisen on our Northeastern
boundry is caused by another hog, which
animal owed allegiance to the lludson's
Bay Company, but made havoc among
the potatoes of an American squatter in
the Island of San Juan. The squatter
shot the hog, and resisted an order for
his arrest and transfer to the town of Vic
toria, for trial. This caused threatened
Withdrawal of the protection which had
been afforded to the American settlers by
the Hudson's Bay Company, from India
hostility and depredations. Hence, an
appeal was made by the settlers to Gen.
| Harney for protection, in compliance
with which he sent Capt. Picket and two
skeleton companies to the place. This
procedure ON the part of General Harney
will be approved and sustained; but such
explanations will be made, and such
measures taken, as will prevent any col
lision between our troops and the Brit
ish authorities.
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The Ditching Plow,

The Louisville journal of the 9th con-
tains the following account of valuable
labor-saving machine:
The Ditching Plow exhibited last week
on the fair ground by Gates q Tennis, is
one of the most laborsaving improve
ments in farming we have ever seen.--
An immense knife several feet long cuts
the sod, and at the bottom of the knife
is a Mole about four inches in diameter,
to which another egg-shaped Mole or fol-
lower is attached, with a fin at its base to
cut groove in the bottom of the drain.
The Moles work under ground at any re-
quired depth, and eXcavate an oval drain
SO compact that years must elapse before
it will give way, and at the same time
heavy roller follows the knife, which
closes up the seam which had been cut
The power is obtained by capstan, and
we saw one horse move the immense ma
chine with ease. The advantages of this
plow consist in closing the seam made by
the knife to prevent the surface water
from destroying the drain and the COM
pactness of the drain ITSELF which is q
complete arch with the deep groove at
the bottom to give free entrance to the
water. bitches made with these plows
have stood the test of five years, and in
deed the principle Of construction is such
that they must be as permanent as any
thing can be without the aid of Masonry
The advantages of drainage to land are
but little known; it deepens a soil, allows
pulverization, prevents surface washing,
freezing and drouth, warns the soil and
supplies air to the roots, lengthens a
growing season, improves the quality and
increases the quantity of crops.
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REMEDY FOR THE BITE OF MAD DoGs.-A
saxson forester named Gastell, now of
the venerable age Of 50, unwilling to
take to the grave with him secret of so
much importance, had made public in
the Leipsic journal the means which he
has used for SO years, and wherewith he
atfirms he has rescued many human beings
and cattle from the fearful death of hy-
drophobia. Take Immediately warm
vinegar or tepid water, wash the wound
clean Herewith, and then dry it; then
pour upon the wound few drops of
hydrochloric acid, because mineral acids
destroy the poison of the saliva, by which
means the latter is neutralized.