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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02
The Secret of Success.

"Gcod luck is aliY the ancient proverb breaches;
But though 1t looks very grave and wise,
Trust not the lazy lessons that 1t teaches,
For, Us IL stands the musty maxim lies
That luck is something, were truer story
And in lifc's mingled game Of skin and luck,
The cards that win the stake of wealth or glory,
Are Genius, Patience, Perseverance, Pluck!
To borrow still another illustration,
trife more specific and precise
Small chance has luck to guide the operation.
When cunning Wit has loaded all the dice!
The real secret of the certain winner
Against the plottings of malicious Fate,
Learn from the story Of gaming sinner.
Whose frank confession will here relate:
"In this ere business, as in any other,
By which chap an honest living earns,
You don't get all the science from your mother,
But as you follcr it, you lives and learns
And I from being much behind the curtain,
And getting often very badly stuck,
Finds out, at last, there's nothing so uncertain
As trusting cards and everything to luck!
So now, you see--whIch naturally enhances
Tho Faith in Fortune that used to feel
take good care to regulate the chances,
Andairays has a finger in the deair
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02
ALBANY, August l3. 1850.


10 he Editors ofhe AUny Eceniny Jounvi.
In perusing this mornings paper, OBJ
served case of hydrophobia, which thus
far has been stumbling block for physi-
clans in general to overcome. feel in
duty bound, gentlemen, as | am. in pos
session of an inmllible remedy for that
most-to-be-lamented disease here to max g
it public, especially when attended with
scarcely any expense, hoping those affiict-
ed will make timely use of it;
Recipe--Dissolve apint of common table
salt in pint of boiling water scarify the
part effected freely, then apply the salt
water with cloth as warm as the patient
can bear 1t, repeating the same for at least
an hour.
The same recipe has been successfully
applied for the bite of rattlesnal<es. Ho-
ing thus to be instrumental in rescuing
human life,
lam, gentlemen, yours, respectfully,
iENArus BATcHMANN.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02
Lessons Of the War.

ihc liusTdteu HeWs oi tue w WOrlu tHuS
sums up what the recent war has taught:
That the rulers of mankind have no
faith in the intelligence, justice, or hon
esty of one another; that they have no
regard for either the happiness or pros
perity of their subjects; that they look
upon those over whom they are placed as
mere machines without the faculty of in
dependent action, as instruments of brute
force to be used for the accomplishment
of objects which they cannot comprehend
and in which they have no interest. 1t
teaches us that the despotic monarchs of
the world imagine that mankind were
made for them, and not they for mankind,
that their ambition, and revenge and
abominable selfshness are the only i'm
pulses to be felt and the only rules to be
obey ed by the millions subjected 10 their
sway.
ltteaches us that they despise the in.
tellectual power of the mass on humanity
and look upon their fellow men us Of
value only as they assume the nature of
so many dangerous beasts whose ferocity
is intensified by higher kind of instinct.
and rendered more destructive by the
appliances of science. Hence, though
the despots know that their protocols
and bulletins are all false deliberate mis-
representation of facts and coolly con-
trived faisehoods, intended to deceive
the crowd, such is their confidence in the
stupidity and folly Of mankind, that they
do not hesitate to launch their fraudulent
delusions before the world; nay, they
even expect them to be admired and be-
lieved in. Ashley regard not man neith-
er do they fear God. They play upon the
-ls = II -
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

The NATURALIzATIoS QuEsTIoN.-ln re-
lation to the effect in Europe of Cass' last
letter about naturalization, we quote the
following from the European Times:
"The German Powers, however distaste-
full it may be to them, will give way, and
they will respect the rights OF Gemanic
Americans who return from the Far
West with handsome amount of dollars,
with which to pass the evening OF THEN
DAYS in their native country. 1t is re-
markable fact, that there is no great Pow
er in the world with so small an army
and navy as the United States, and yet
which makes itself more feared and re-
snected abroad"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

SINGULAR FATALITy.-There is a disease
peculiar to cattle which has been. pre-
valent in the vicinity of the reservoir
A few days ago three men, two of them
named Weiland and Wamhetf, took the
hide off a COW that had died of the dis
ease and in so doing became poisoned. =
All three men were brought to their beds,
began swelling, and yesterday afternoon
Weiland and Wamhoff died. The other
is not expected to survive. DR.: Hutsig'
who was called, could do nothing to af-
ford relief-,S. Louis Republican.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

EFFECT OF THE FALL IN GRAIN uroN
DERToRs AT THE WEsT.-The Buffalo Re-
public presents discouraging view of the
resources of the grain-raisers at the West,
who contracted debts in 1856 and 1887,
which are yet unpaid When wheat was
selling in Chicago at 81 20 per bushel, far
mers bought lands ut SIS per. acre, and
now those lands must be paid for with
wheat selling at IS cents per bushel, or
they must revert to the seller. The same
is true of other debts contracted when
wheat was high. The business created by
building railroads. has subsidized. Some of
them have suspended dividends, while a
largo class have repudiated stocks and
bonds alike. By susbending Decessary
repairs some have paid interest on their
mortgage bonds. The whole country is
richer in crops, than was ever known, but
there underlies the whole u mass of debts,
made upon the inflated scales of 1856 and
1857, which will require all the skill of
the debtors to manage.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

SALE OF NEGRoEs.-On Monday last, at
the Courthouse in this place, Mr.. Prcston's
negroes were sold at prices unprecedent-
ed, in this part of the country at least
One negro man, small in stature and deli
cate in constitution, sold, with his infant,
for S2,925. Another boy, carpenter
sold for 81, ,450, and another, blacksmith,
for l,S20. Some 81. negroes, sold for S37,-
600.
Next day the cattle were sold, at prices
equally high in proportion, One COW sold
for Sill, several for 80 to 800, and year
lings at from 40 to $50. A pair of carriage
horses mot matches) brought 5000 and "A
pair of mules S435.-1Jingcion Vayiniaa.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

THE WAY CALIFORNIA CoNvIcTs ESCAPE.
A California exchange says. an exami-
nation of the State Prison whence NUM-
ber of convicts broke out not long since,
has shown that when the pisoners were
building the cells they laid the stone
with special regard to the best plan of
breaking through the walls, and buried
in the mortar numerous drills, bars, cole
chisels, &c. Such discoveries show how
admirably the interests of the State are
managed over there.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02
Sam. Houston.

HOppne neipuo1V tho Waa1,ip pfo,, pprrns-
- Is p'.:... .,a e.,
po"'o''. VI rorpey iress' gives '''o "'
lowing oriet but comprehensive sketch oi
the life of the hero of San ,Iacinto:
II l. roro 20 roo,,, ,h,, ,;eo of on, ono
man go crowded with noIitjcal bonors and
so ;denti6ed with noiit;cal revcrses and
trinmbhs. If vo,r readers will recollect
that Sam Uous,on ho.an bis oorlv life
lv after that be was clerk and county
auditor II, Tonnosseo. tLat in JsIaLe on
listed in the army and served under(;en.
Jackson in the Crock wor. that he was
wounded and rose m tbe rank of n lion.
tenant in that war. that ho studied law
at Nashville. thot bo served from 1902 IN
1907 as n memLcr of tbe National Uousc
of Reprcsentatiyes from Tennessee: that
he was two yoors thc Governor of that
State: that he resigned that office. went
hack and renewed his residence among
the Cbcrokces in Arkansas. flat he went
to Washington to protect the aborigincs
from fraud and returned to them dis
gusted with his little success: that he
went to Texas on a visit. was elected a
State constitutionsDrior to the admission
vi tlldt iNtVtt 11ltD inc NeN1tun t1llO1l.
that he headed the disaiicction growing
out of the rejection OF the constitution by
Santa Anna; that he assisted in arousing
the Texans to arms; that he was elected
the commanddf-in-chicf of the troops {;
that he conducted the war vigorously,
and brought it to successful termination
at the battle of San Jacinto; that he eff
fected treaty acknowledging the indie
pcndcncc of Texas: that he was elected
first President of the Republic: that he
then became n member of the Texan
Congress, and vas again elected President
of Texas that he contributed greatly to
the annexation of Texas to the United
States; and that, in 1874, when Texas
came into the American Union. he was
elected Senator in Congrcss-in which
body he served until MARCH, DISTRIBUTING
from it to begin n new round oe offices as
Governor of his State: I saw. if your
readers will cast their ewes back over this
marvellous record. it win be difficult to
induce them to believe that Sam. Houston
was but 6G years of age on the ID of March
last-beinG Younger ,han than the Presi.
dent of the United States. If YOU could
see him as | saw him. shortly before he
made his farewell speech in the Senate.
which like the farewell speech of some
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

ba- A tough" subscriber to coun-
try paper was struck from its mail list be-
cause he wouldn't pay up. The delin,
quent's wife insisted wrathfully that she
knew what was newspaper law-that she
did. The proprietor was obliged to send
the paper until "all arrcarages were
paid"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

WHERE TO PLANT Peach TREEs.-Those
intending to plant peach orchards would
do well to consider the following before
determining upon location:
After several years experience and close
observation the writer has found that
tirose peach orchards planted upon an ele-
walton having height greater than the
surrounding lands, produce pof fruit
each year; whilst those planted in ravines,
or on level land, usually fail, at least two
years out of three.
The cause of this difference in fruiting,
think, is this: upon elevated locations
the winds are more constantly in action
than in depressions and on level lands,
and in consequence, evaporation iscarried
on more rapidly, drying up the humidity
there. Therefore, the frost does not pen
citrate the vita. part of the bud or bloom.
On the other hand, if water remains up
on the buds, it congeals by only an ordi-
mary frost-thus killing the fruit.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02
The Wheat Crop Of the Country.

lt Is .acmtteds says the the n. u. Plea
yune, that an unusually large wheat crop
has been gathered the present season.
The figures representing the amount are
eagerly seized and hastily made the basis
of calculations, that, are erroneous and
deceptive. 1t does not follow because the
crop is large that prices are to rule very
low. The question first to be settled is
whether the supply will exceed the de-
mand in this country.
When the crop is small and prices rule
very high, other grains are consumed to
considerable extent, in the place Of
wheat, by the people of this county,
But wheat is the great staple for bread,
when it commands medium price.
1t has been estimated that the crop, the
present season, will reach two hundred
million of bushels. Each inhabitant of
the country, doubtless, consumes an aver
age of about five bushels, allowing for
seed and wastage. Deducting the slave
population of the South, and estimating
the remaining population at about q ,OO0,.
600, the home consumption will be not
far from $35, 900, 900 of bushels.
A surplus would, upon this calculation,
remain. But this must be considerably
reduced by the consumption in factories
of the country, and the greater supply
demanded by families at present prices
1t is difficult to see that surplus can
be calculated on that will justify ma
tcrial reduction in the present price O
flour, or to cause this staple to fall to tn,
point at which it may be protitably ex
| ported.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02
The gust.
Athens, Friday. September g, 1850.

THE SLAVE TRADE LAws,-Piers Of Tie
.South.-A report having been circulated
in the Second Congressional District of
Mississippi, that the Hon. Reuben Davis,
member of Congress, was in favor of re-
pcaling the African Slave trade laws, and
of supplying Southern plantations with
Africans, that gentleman has published
letter correcting the statement. He
says:
al have constantly said that, in my
opinion, it would be extremely impru-
dent for the South to initiate this new
element into the political issues OF the
day; as it could only, without practical
good, produce discord at home and IT,
ritation abroad, and disturb the settle
ment of the grave questions now pending
between the North and South, and be-
ing brought to a close in such manner,
hope, as will restore harmony to the
Union. I have and do repudiate it as an
issue in the canvass"
Such seems to be the prevailing sent-
ment among the soundest men in the
South.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

CURE FOR NEURALGIA.-The Alta Cali
fornan gives the following recipe for the
cure of neuralgia: Hall drachm of sal
ammoniae in an ounce of camphor water;
to be taken teaspoonful at dose, and
the dose repeated at intervals of five
minutes, if the pain be not relieved at
once. This is believed to be the most eff
fectual remedy ever discovered for this
most painful malaCly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

REvENGEs OF NAPOLEON III.-An edito-
rial article signed &C." and we suppose
from Caleb Cushing, in the Boston Tray
eler, concludes:
Napoleon by the actual aid of Great
Britain, has balanced the Russian success
of Moscow by the reduction of Sebasta-
pool. He has with the passive counte-
nance of Great Britain, balanced the Aus
trian occupation of Paris by the victory
of Solferino. The debt to Prussia re-
mains to be paid off; but above all that
to Great Britain. Trafalgar and Waterloo
are memories of rage and shame in the
hearts of all Frenchmen, and especially
of all Bonapartes. And il, in this respect,
the turn of Great Britain is to come, she
will only have herself to thank, for the
present powerful and proud position OF
Louis Napoleon is her work quite as
much as that of his own genius. Ger
tain we may. be, that of this great drama
of the Second Empire, the Fourth and
Fifth and greatest of its acts are yet to
come.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

TERMS:

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All communications intended to promote the
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jackson Hotel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

LOUISVILLE, Aug. 24.-Jesse Williams,
charged with numerous crimes, was ta-
ken from the Princeton Jail by the resi-
dents of Caldwell county and hung
His two sons escaped lyRching by abscon-
ding. Several others suspected Of being
connected with William's villianies wero
punished and ordered to leave the coun-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02
Hg- The following brief paragraph
from the Detroit Tribune speaks volumes
ogainst the administration:

VV uc IolloWHiS DIlel IuTuSTupH
from the Detroit Tribune speaks volumes
against the administration:
4 Startling Record Of official Misconduct
and Cr;mc.-Never before has there been
such set of Federal Office holders in
Michigan. as under the present Admins
tration. The facts are truly startling
First. we had the case of Postmaster
UFlyn, charged by his party organ, with
illegal official practices, with downright
peculation and subornation of perjury,
and these charges the same organ assures
us were SO far proven as to procure his
dismissal. Then comes the case of Mr..
Shoemake, Collector of the port of De-
troit, who is also charged by his partizans
of the grossest official corruption, inclu-
ding the whole range of possible dishon-
esty in the circle of official action. We
have given specifications and need not
repeat them. And now We have still
more astonishing development. The po-
lice on Friday last brought to this city
from the scene of his late crimes in Lex
ington. Sanifac county, Mr.. Maybee, q
Postmaster and United States Deputy
Marshall charged with riflng the mails
and being engaged in the manufacture
and circulation of bogus money. We do
not know whether other States can show
such record of Federal otiice-holders as
this. In all humiliation of spirit, at the
bad eminence of our own State, we hope
not.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

WEsr. .PoINT.-Thc urtl,ious duties of u
West point Cadet are not more than half
realized by the hundreds of young gen.
tlemen seeking appointment there. Rise
at five in summer and six in winter, bed
clothes put away, and room arranged
for inspection in half an hour. Study
until seven. Class parade at eight. Re-
citation and study until one. Dinner
and recreation until two. Another class
parade. Study until four. Sunset, gem
cral parade, supper, and in thirty min
utes the call to quarters. Until Q! study,
and at 10 every light extinguished. Of
course these duties are sometimes evaded:
but it is dangerous business. Such is
but an outline of the days work, repeat
ed from day to day for five years, with no
interruption but Sunday. At the end of
the first two years there is fiirlough of
several weeks, this being the only time
during the course in which the Cadet is
allowed to leave the academy. There are
endless opportunities during the military
exercise for incurring demert, and if any
Cadet incurs one hundred in six months
he is declared deficient in conduct. For
all this drilling, the Cadets receive $50
per month. and are required to pay for
board 50 to $40 per month, and 80 for
washing. Other expenses as clothing,
etc consume the whole Their fare is of
|. '.he piainest kind.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

GooD.-The Louisville Democrat now
and then gets off good thing. The 9th.
er day it had occasion to castigate, with
some severity, the editor of the Courier.
Among other things it said:
He has written as yet nothing that was
not generally INSCRIPTIONS and false, un-
less by accident; and if he keeps on he
may one day boast that some excitable
gentleman has kicked HMM which
case he can revel in the honorable wound,
and make n cross of honor of the cloth
from the place where the boot applica-
ton was made. Let him not be discour-
aged by the opinions of others. What
ever blame may attach to the boot ap-
plier. the editor can sit calmly down, un-
less indeed it inconvenience him to sit
down, in the assurance that he has been
honored as Hamlet said of the customs
of Denmark-in the breach.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

rsy~ In u certain village the editor of
local newspaper had room in the ho-
tel. Being absent one night, and the
house being crowded, the landlord put a
stranger in his bed. The next morning
the following lines were found in the
room:-
sleptin an editors bed last night,
Aud Others may say what they please;
say there's one editor in the world
That certainly takes his ease.
When thought of my humble cot, away,
coiild not suppress u sigh,'
But ! thought as rolled in my feathery nest
HoW easy editors he.
The editor, Of after making some in
quiries of the landlord, made the follow
ing addition to the abovc
The chap whose form has rested here,
Aud left his copy behind,
For bad t~prsssioa should he locked np,
As the cut Is most unkind.
Behold a proof Of hoW he ies,-
In the morning he went away,
And like many that use an editors sheet,
Has forgotten the bill to pay
-Erchange,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

p6y-There are 10000 kernels Of cornin
a bushel; $4,000 apple seeds IN bushel;
and II, 900 seeds in an ounce of tobacco,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

pGy- Liberty viii not descend to peo,
pie a people must raise themselves to
liberty--it Is blessing that must be earn
cd before it can be enjoyed,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

Bay The London Athen@um speaks of
new Armstrong gun killing flock of
geese six miles and seven furlongs from
the English shore. A coast defended by
batteries of such range and accuracy,
none but geese would attempt to invade.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

STATE on TERRIroRy.-The people of
the Pixies Peak region have not only
formed territorial hut State organza-
ton. They have adopted State consti-
tuition, and fixed the boundaries of a
new State. The people are to vote upon
the question whether they will take the
Territorial or State government. In two
or three years at the furthest We may
prepare to receive this State into the
Union, if she does not come in before
States are multiplying with rapidity un-
known before in all political history.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02
Bay The story started by a correspon

Bay The story started by correspon-
aent of anew York paper in relation to
the dangerous conaition of the Niagara
Suspension Bridge is fatty denied by the
builder. He says that in consequence of
the contraction and expansion of the
cables the Niagara bridge rises and falls
inversely with the temperature, amount
ing to two feet for a hundred degrees
Hence the cry every summer that the
bridge is giving way rapidly. The work
has undesgone no change since its com
pletion, and Of all the railroad bridges on
this continent it will be the last to fall.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02

MY The following is u list Of broken
and worthless Banks in this State, which
it may be well enough for our country
friends to preserve:
Agricultural Bank, Brownsville:
Central Bank of Tenn, Nashville.
Farmer and Mechanics Blk, Memphis.
Mechanics Bank, Memphis.
Memphis Savings Institution.
Exchange Bank. Murfrecsboro'
Miners and Manufrers Blk, Knoxville.
Bank of East Tennessee, Knoxville.
Bank of Claiborne, Tazewell.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-09-02
SEWARD THE REpusLIcAN CANDIDATE FOR

PREsIDENr.-Lhe Detroit Daily Tribune,
referring to the next Presidential election,
speaks of W. II. Seward, of New York,
as "the first choice at the people of Mich
igan in the last two Presidential contests
and noww The Milwaukee Sentinel says
that the State of Wisconsin shares in this
sentiment, and will gladly give her cleo
toral vote in 1860 to Senator Seward "as
tho sblcst statesman of the day."