The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-07-22
News from the Pixies Peak Gold


LEAvrNwoHTn, X. 4, JnIy2, 1859.
The Times publishes communication
from the gold region dated june II, which
Is considerably later than previous advices;
also . letter from Horace Greeley, who says
there is nomistake about the existence Of
goldin paying quantities.. The last three
dnys Norkingof Defrees. Barber and Shot
web : claim produced Sl,700, estimating
the gold At SlS per ounce. One hundred
dollars b dry to the shiiee "a considered q
fair average Of the Operations Of other par.
ties. IL Is calculated that 500 sluices will
BE- IN operation blythe lstof Aurtist Now
and rich discoveries were beingfn0dce every
day. Lnrge prospecting parties were also
being organlzed for n thorough oSamin-
alton Of the mountain district as far as
Medicine Bow ON The north. and the Great
Basin on ihe.wost.
Considerable aetiyity in business pre-
vailed in Denver City. The effects OF the
late prostraton had entirely disappeared.
ard further discoveries Of rich solid gold
bearing quartz were being made. The
express which left here to-day was crowd
ed with passengers.
ENoLASp's IDsA OF KISo 0oTroN.-The
quantity of cotton wool brought into
England every year might be piled into
a pyramid which would rival TINT Of
Chcops. The eight thousand five hun
dred and seventy two millions of miles
of yarn spun in England ina year, might
be wound round and round tie earth as
a boy winds string around his tops or,
we might throw the shuttle over distant
Uranus, and then tangle together the red
planet Mars" the Earth, Venus, Mer-
curry, and the Sun in our net Of cotton.-
The whole of the British Islands might
be trappedlip in cotton wool and put by
carefully for inspection Of future ages. in
not very many years consumption Of that
raw material.
Ninety. years ago, ct the. commence
ment of our manufacturing career the
population of Britain was about eight
millions Now it has reached twenty-one
millions. If it were not for cotton. we
could not keep our millions in England,
clustering in masses round the central
mapufacturing towns. If it were not for
cotton, we could not clotie them, and il
il were not for cotton, we could certainly
not feed them.-Househoid Words.
PoLk AND TnoNAs.- The Shelbyville Elk
positor of the 18th says:
Whilew got press, Polk and Thomas
are taking the hide off each other at the
Court House. 1t is none Of. our quarrel
Polk, we believe, is gaining ground.
DIVIDED ALLEoIAScE.-Th Washington
States says;
Demagoguism has rarely ever made (
more wild, repreheusible manifestation
than in engendering the absurd doctrine
that American citizens are upon an equal
ity, in every respect, in all countries they
may visit.
Well, then, says the Memphis Bulletin
letit be understood that the Democratic
party will not protect naturalized either
from the claim of his European master.-
Let it be understood that, according {,
this same party, it is useless for an alier
to flatter himself, when lie swears allegi
ance to the United States, that he is any
thing more than half citizen, and tina
if lie visits his native country his neck i
at the mercy of his former master. Thi
is American Democracy.