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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

LEAKS SIMPLY STopPED.-The Lynn
News says:
=. "Some years ago I had leaking L.
Every northeast storm drove it waters in.
made composition of four pounds of
rosin, one pint linseed oil, and one ounce
red led, applied it hot with brush to the
part where the II joined the main house.
II has never leaked since. then re-
commended the composition TO my neigh
Dor, who had o lutheran window which
leaked badly. He applied it. and the
leak stopped. made my water-cask
tight by this composition, and have re-
commended it for chimneys, windows,
etc., and it has always proved cure for a
leak"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

LIGHTNING DURING Snow SroRM.-The
Concord IN. II. Democrat states that on
Thursday, the 14th inst, during brisk
snow storm, vivid flash of lightning
lighted up the leaden atmosphere. fol-
lowed after considerable interval by a
peal of heavy. rattling thunder. The
fluid took the wires leading to the tele-
graph Office in Concord, and came upon
the operator with an unceremonious flash
and report as of pistol, and with heat
which melted the wire in one of the
magnets.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

RErLEcrroN OF Low THrRF.--A philoso-
phical convict who is doing the State
some service at the Ohio Penitentiary.
breaks out in the following touching strain.
which the lacal of the Cleveland Plain.
dealer, lucky man, picked up in the street:
My name is Jim Origins. Pm low thief.
My parents were ignorant folks, and my
advantages for getten an eddycation was
limited. l have been to the penitentiarZ
locked up for stealing two or three ornery
overcuts, Pm to stay here three years.
I shall also censure my parents for not
eddycating me. Had bin eddycated I
could, with my brilliant native talents,
have been a big thief-I believe they call
them defaulters." .-.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

B6s- That was strikingly intelligent
person who called upon a sign painter, to
have Sunday School procession banner
painted, and said
"We're goin' to have great time with
our Fourth O. July Sunday School Celebra-
ton, and our folks wants to have ban
ner."
"well," naturally enough responded
the painter, 'you ought to have one
What will you have painted on it?"
"Wall, i d'n know; we ort to have q
text O. skripter paintedint it for mot
to, hadn't we?" -
= Yes; that's a very good idea; what
shall it be?"
swell, think that would be about
as good as any, "Be sure You are right and
60 aheadW A
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

VEIoCIry or ruE WIND.-When the
wind moves at the rate of one mile an
hour tits hardly preceptible, at two miles
and hour it fans us Is the gentle zephyr,
and at six " becomes q pleasant Wind
From ten 10 twenty, IT becomes high, and
thirty TO City characterize storms from
light 70 hard; IT eighty miles an hour it
sbsoomes . hurricane, and st one hun
dred tornado.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

sy- A lady; who began to weary Of the
witicisms of party of gentlemen on
crinoline, exclaimed: $50 long as hooped
skirts keep foolish people at distance,
lust SO long will they bo tolerated"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

D6y- The Canadian Parliament are con-
plan to establish penal colony
in the wilderness, ON the northeastern
shore of Lake Superior, and to employ
the convicts in road making and other
pioneer labor. -
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

DREADFUL DEATH.-On Monday morn
ing Jno. B. Glmer, son of Secretary Gil
mer, who was killed some years since by
the explosion of a gun on board the Price
ton, committed suicide by throwing him
self undesShe wheels ofa locomotive near
the depot in Washington City.
Mr.. Gilmer was editor of the Charlottes-
vile (Va) Exponent, and was a law
yer by profession. He was a gentleman
of high character and ability, and his
death is deplored by large circle Of
friends.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

DG- A Western editor thus fills up a
blank in a column: "rwas the dead OF
night---an awful silence reigned. The
stars cast their soft rays from the dome
above. Young Lucius was not to be in
timidated, though he was that night to
peril his life-column full"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

Gag Digs saw a note lying on the
ground but knew that it was counterfeit,
and walked on without picking it up
He told Smithers the story, when the lat
ter said:
"Do you know, Digs you have commit
ted very grave ofience?"
"Why, what have done?"
"You have passed counterfeit bill
knowing it to be SUCH" said Smithers
without smile and fled.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

sy- Last week, says the La Crosse
(Wis.) Democrat, one of our Eastern
friends coming from st. Paul, stopped at
Winona over night. Being stranger,
he inquired of the landlord "what kind
of land they had back on the prairie9"-
"D-d splendid land, sir!" "AnG what
kind of country have you back off the
bluff" Odd splendid country, STRIP
"And what do you raise mostly around
here?" "We raise h-I"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

D6S- There is man in Indiana'so thin
that when the sheriff comes to arrest him.
he crawls into his rife and looks through
the touch-hole.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

WASHINGTON, April 26.-The acquittal
of Sickles. to day, produced great excite
ment throughout the whole city. A large
procession was formed, and the counsel
for Sickles and his friends were serenaded.
The result has been received here with
intense satisfaction.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

"THE LATEST The latest
style Of hoop-skirt is tho grand. self-ad-
iusting, double back-action hustle, etrus-
can lace expansion. spiral Picoolomini at
tachment, gossamer indestructible! It's
a "love Of thing. -
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

D6y- There is no sight more repulsive
than an habitual loafef, forever hanging
around drinking saloons, and wearing
away the golden hours of life in meaning
less phantasy, without thought for any.
thing except the qualification Of beastly
appetite 1t is strange that men will thus
sacrifice home, reputation, friends and all,
for that which stultifies them and makes
life only dark and hideous dream.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

PHILADELPHIA, April Bishop George
w. Doane, the Protestant Episcopal Bish-
op of the Diocese of New Jersey, died at
Burlington to day ut noon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

ABOUT GIRLs.-The best thing about a
girl is cheerfulness. We don't care how
ruddy her cheeks may be, or how velvety
her lips, if she wears a scowl, even her
friends will consider her Unlocking, while
the young lady who illuminates her
countenance with smiles will be regarded
as handsome, though her complexion is
coarse enough to CRATE nutmegs on. As
perfume is to the rose, so is good nature
to the lovely. Girls, think OF this.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

paS- The world is great tread-mill,
which turns all the while, and leaves no
choice but to sink or climb.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

Rd" A Frazierrive correspondent writes
to California paper: We had a splendid
dinner on New Years Day. This is the
bill of fare: First course-bean soup
Second course-boiled beans: then some
baked beans, with .trigois plain; then fried
beans: frigohs gisados coy manteca. Desert
coffee and beans. After this sumptuous
repast We oil adjourned to Sam Berry's
whiskey battery and played bean poker
for o sack OF beans.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

bGS- A child recently died in ST. Louis
with what il called the blue sickness
Black instead Of red blood circulated
through It's system,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

PHILADELPHIA, April 2S.-Ex-Judge
Vondersmith, of Lancaster county, has
been convicted of forging pension claims.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

No. Mynheer Drinkenof makes dis
tinction thus: "roo much whisky is
too much, but too much lager beer is
shoost right"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

n6s- A farmer being asked If he had
done much farming before, replied "No
but last year farmed considerably 6stinaP'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

Southern Commercial Convention:
This body b to meet within FEW WesAa
in the city Of vicksburg. So e. e Ne
are informed 1t has not yet sucossdsd in
accomplishing anything for The oouth.
and there 4 Httlt doubt Of the fhpt thas
II has not the confidenee Of me 6outhsla
people. It = supposed by many 70 hAve
departed from its original purpose md
degenerated into political asssmblaaA
and in proportion - that view Of II eaina
ground, will its power for good abats. A
contemporary, the South CAselins Duile-
tin, has the following. taken from an Cd
paper, which 1t commends TO tho atten-
tention of the delegates who propo1e
to attend that assemblsee. We know
Of nothing that illustrates DO forcibly The
dependence Of the South updn the
North.
"If the delegates to the Southern Cons
vention will take note of few particulars
on their way, perhaps they may end food
for reflection more valuable than has hith.
erto been submitted in resolutions end
They WI start IN sons. s.Assscr . r.il.
road coach made in the North; an engine
Of northern Manufacture will take their
train and boat along; at every meal they
=
kee table, spread with Q Yankee cloth.--
With Yankee spoon they will take from
Yankee dishes sugar, salt and coffee,
which have paid tribute to Yankee trade,
and with Yankee knives and forks they
will put into their mouths the only thing
Southern they will get Oh the trip.
At night they will pull of pair of
boots with s Yankee .bootjack; and
throwing lot of Yankee toggery on .
Yankee chair, lie down to dream of South
ern independence in Yankee bed, with
not even thread. of cotton AEoxhd them
that has not gone through . Yankee
loom, or come out of Yankee shop.
In the morning they will get up to fx
themselves by twelve-to-fourteen look
ing-glass with Yankee brush and comb,
and, perhaps, washing off o little Of the
soil of the South from their faces with
water. drawn in Yankee bucket, and
put in Yankee pitcher on Yankee
washstand, the partner in honorable exils
with a lot of Yankee wares that make
up the sum of the furniture.
Think of these things, gentlemen, and
ask yourselves is there no remedy for this
dependencef Ask yourselves ii there be
not some mode of action which will bring
about change and keep your cotton.
wheat and tobacco crops from going out
of the South to buy for you the things you
must have to be up with the age.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

sey- A little three year old girl was ri
ding in the cars with her mother, few
days since, when lady remarked, That's
pretty baby" The little girls eyes
flashed FIRE as she drew herself up to her
fullest height, and replied. II amt baby
i wear boots and hoops."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

s&- The greatest wonderin the world,'
now announced, is a new bank look
without any key or key-hole-the inyen-
tion of man named Bacon, Of New
Hayre, Connecticut. ~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

- The learned RussiAna eeanseted
with the collegetn Pelin hsye Iecantly
sas returns, China contains pepalstoa
Of four hundred ind hf6-avs nilbdAn
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

n@- As the season for bugs approach
es, says she Cincinnati Times. it will DO
well to bear in mind the advice of tho
Country Gentleman Persons not desi-
rous Of being carried out of this world by
bugs will be glad to learn that they can't
stand hot alum water. Take two pounds
of alum, bruise it, and reduce it nearly to
powder; dissolve it in three-quarts Of boil
ing water, letting it remain in warm
place till the alum is dissolved. The
alum water is to be applied hot. by means
of a brush, to every joint and crevice.--
Brush the crevices in the floor Of tho
skirting-board if they are suspected places;
whitewash the ceiling, put in plenty of
alum, and there will be an end to their
dropping thence
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06
The National Voice.

Ahe EhhaoeiPhih evening journal,
neutral paper, edited with~dignity and
ability, has the following article on the
proclivities to politics of the citizens of
this country, which it properly calls our
national voice. 1t says:
"'The national voice is politics. Young
men, with health and hope for brave and
generous deeds who might easily be
welldoers for the world and themselves;
who make foot-marks in the paths of hon.
or and ambition, turn aside from the grand
purpose and kindly ministries of early
life from all that is really ennobling and
profitable, and blather politics. Bad
whiskey, rough caresses, dismal and dirty
jokes, pot-house fumes, the glare, shouts
and vulgar CAB of mass meetings, and all
mean and scuryy tricks, are their portion.
They learn, in hurry, to be loud, un-
clean, and dunscrupulous, without remorse.
They feel thefullest pride and the most
profound complacency with their clever
ness and Importance, when they are maxi
ing the most noise. The clink of the
glasses, tossed high to the health and vic
tory of their ''man" and the glory of their
cause is sweeter music to their ears than
the low home tones of love and content
ment, than the sisters song, the good
mothers benediction. Have they daily
work to do? 1t is let it alone. Do they
fly the workshop, the counting-house. the
study, the store? Is the privilege theirs
Of having others dependent upon them
for the means of existence2 They throw
it away and become beasts and brutes to
those who need their love, sympathy and
support-inaamed as they are with the
horrid patriotism of the tavern, the club
room and the speakers stand. The in
dulgence in the fascinating vice soon gets
to be all to them happiness, and their
earthly hope is bounded by conventions,
caucusses and the polls. If by chance
they survive the hot drink and fierce dis
sipation incident to a campaign, they will
be professional politicians. Is there q
drearier sight on earth than this pimpled
fellow, who smells rank, and who is seen
of men hard at it, his arms saving the
air, and his eyes wild with alcoholic zeal,
at the street corner, in the low groggery,
wherever there is vote to catch or dis
honest penny to turn2
Is it not vice? Think Of the belle
wives of aspiring Senators canvassing the
country with winning smiles and gracious
words Think of the ladies of the lob
peoples representatives were in Wash.
| fences and the brick walls Hear the
four-horse omnibus! Watch the faces OF
the crowd who have come to yonder
grand rally" as the waves come when
navies are stranded The fever consumes
slowly but surely. 1t has seized our ma
| tiana1 x,ifals aud ;,,1,rotrxr and
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06
py- The Louisville Courier contains the
following naraCraph:

lOIIOW1HB PurdSrHPH:
A KENTUCKY CorrIS.-The undertaking
house of w. Wyatt, corner of Jefferson
and Seventh streets, was the observed OF
all observers yesterday. 1t contained the
coffin of James D. Porter, ESQ.,, the Ken
tucky giant, whose death is noticed in
another column. The coffin was nino
feet one inch in length, and two feet
across the breast. 1t was covered with
black cloth and lined with white satin--
1t is the largest coffin ever made in this
city, and attracted more attention than
anything of the kind that ever enclosed
the lifeless remains of one of our citizens.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06
Andy in a Snap! !

In the late District Convention at Green
vile, Senator Andy johnson was called
upon for speech, and spoke somewhat
at length. We find his speech reported
at length in his home organ, the Greene
vile Democrat, and of course he would
not let such speech go without being
revised and corrected BY him. Here is an ex-
tract from his own speech
1t was sometimes charged that there
was wasteful extravaganza in furnishing
the new Hall of the House of Representa-
tives; and he only adverted to that as an
illustration of what he had stated in gen.
cral terms. The enlargement of the Capt.
tol and the consequent necessity of furn-
ishing it all, was Jeg,ss under Mr.. FWlmore's
administration, and a large portion of the
furniture purchased by gentleman of
this State, one Will u Cullom, who was
then Clerk Of ~. elected by q
''Know Noth.sewinig .ks Represents
tives with Mr.. Speaker Banks at their
head.
This would serve to illustrate how these
wholesale charges of waste and extrava-
gance, when squared by the truth Of history,
vanish into Thin air; and he warned the
people when they heard such charges to
understand them before they decided up
on them.
Come, Andy, this miserable effort to
falsely impress the public mind, that the
Wings are responsible for this "enlarge-
ment of the Capitol won't do. The
House at the time was Democratic, though
Mr.. Fillmore was President, by virtue of
the death of Gen. Taylor. Nay, the
Journal shows that more Democrats voted
for the enlargement, than Wings. Their
motives were, that they expected to car
ry the next Presidential contest, then en-
suing, as they did, and they desired the
privilege of squandering millions, and
this they have done under Pierce and
Buchanan!
As to his unblushing denial of the
"charges of waste and extravaganza" we
meet it with resolution adopted by a
large Green County Democratic Conven-
ton, on the 4th of April, 1859, and pub
lished in Johnson's home organ:
7, Resoived, That the expenses of the
federal Government, under improvident
Legislation, have grown beyond the Just
demands of a plain, simple and republi-
can administration, and that reform in
the legislation Of Congress, and retrench-
ment in eperg department Of the Government is
imperatively demanded by the best in
terest of the people.
If the foregoing does not fix upon this
administration, ''these wholesale charges
ofwaste and extravaganza" we call atten-
ton to the following extract from recent
Speech by Andrea johnson, in the United
States Senate:
1t is in the power of Congress to pre-
vent these enormous expenditures; and if we
do not interpose we are responsible fol
them. This hisGovernment, siXty-nine years
of age scarcely out its swaddling clothes
is making more corrupt uses Of money in pro
portion to the amount collected from the
people, as l honestly believe, than ans
| other Government on the haJitable globc.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06

FoREIoN.-The latest intelligence from
Europe says-War rumors of very alarm
ing character have prevailed for several
days, but the latest intelligence from the
continent is of more pacific nature
Cotton declining.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06
The gost.
Athens, Friday, May O, 1850.

New YoRK, April 28.-The steamer Af-
rica has arrived. Her dates are anticipa-
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-04-06
A capdldsts ~ City CLERK


A very absurd prr,euc9sh has been set mp by
the Dayton Gazette, ,lal MI. Andrew Hall
sometime editor Of Dat paper, who within
some mon,hslsfi tlds city aud State for new
homo elsewhere, has been elected City Clerk.
Itseems Mr. Hall about the eleventh hour
or the hour Of eleven on the election day, pro.
dnced aud circulated large hendbill sunoun,
cling the important intelligence That be was
going to run for City Clerk, before The people
From the best Information we have been able
to obtain he dd run, and got several votes
some forty fifty, or perhaps twice thatnumber
He issued his own proclamation to the people,
acquainting them Of the passage of law the
other day by the Legislature, aud tellingt them
that they should vote at the election fot "City
Clerk" he being the candidate TO be voted for
This might well be regarded as a farce were it
not. that there is nm element in IT, that people
dou't generally laugh at much, called yulgarly
andsrhsHdsdaess. IL indicates sort Of sharp
ness" that is too snail TO be funny, II is per.
fectly apparent TO every one, that so far as City
Clerk is concerned, there was no election held
for that officer. Hence Mr.. Hall was not chosen
by the people. It Ia to be hoped that decent
regard for his own reputation, for we believe he
has hitherto borne a fair character, and is gen.
orally much respected, will indicate to Mr.
Hall that the least said about this matter will
be the soonest mended, aud that he had better
postpone his aspirations for the City Clerkship
until next Spring Election.
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-04-06

ACQUITTED. Newcastle CInd) COuTi'r
says that William Il. Keam, Methodist preach
er from Boone County, and his youag wife,
whom it is alleged he seduced and afterward
married, were tried at CenterVill last week for
the murder Of their infant child on the cars
some months sgo. aud were acquitted, no evi.
dence being produced against them to varaE.
their conviction. at is believed, however"
says the Courier" by many persons acquainted
with the circumstances, that they are guilty
Their conduct was such as TO excite the strong.
est suspicious. 1t will be remembered that the
infant was dead in trunk at the hotel 10 Center
Vile, where the parents stopped of the cars,
and where they were arreAted."
As we had something TO say about the matter
at the time Of the arrest, we publish the result.
The Rev. gentleman is either guilty Of the
charge, or he did not possess enough intelli'
gence or decency TO know how to dePcrt him
self under the circumstance Of the death Of the
child, The latter may probably be true, and
the jury gave him the "beneft Of the doubt.
Let him pass.