The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-04-08
VOL. XI---NO. $50.
More Missouri Rloauence,

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A legislator, "whose bright home is Ia
the setting sun, delivered the fol.
lowing in the Missouri Legislature, in re-
ference to the project of forming . new
county: u..t.r..t ~, sni.io,.e as
81 predicate my objections to this new
county OH different grounds, ono of tho
main and most important of which Is,
that / am confident il would not be en-.
titled to representative in the next fifty
years. Mr.. Speaker, did you ever visit the
territory sought to be created into the
county of Carter? Did YOU ever have an
opportunity of beholding its multifarious
beauties and of examining its boundless
resources Well, sir, I have, I have been
all over it, and all around it, and do saw
here, openly and defiantly, that there Is
not level ground enough within It's entire
limits to buiid a pfyspcrf on. daughter. i
fhe' soil rs 50 poor It would not grow pen-
nyroyal Sir, you might NOW the county
with a razor and rake it with fine tooth
comb, and you wouldn't get enough fod-
der to keep a sick grasshopper through
the winter. Renewed laughtcr.1 Sir,
they plant corn with crowbais, and hold
the sheep by the hind legs while they nib
BILE the grass in the cracks of the cliffs
Increased laughter. Sir, the fera nature
OF that section are principally ticks, and
must in justice say, that variety Of insects
attain a splendid size in this new county
OF Carter; the smallest that ever fell under
my observation being at least as big as
saddle bag locks. Laughter.l
As to internal Improvements in that
section. this Housr can form some idea
when assure it that the only thing re-
sembling road that ever saw there was
when one of the barefooted natives drag
ged a wild boy seven miles through the
snow. Laughter and cheers. With such
a country as this, Mr.. Speaker. they pro-
pose to make new county, and the rea-
son given for so doing is, that the conve-
nience of the inhabitants will be promo
ted thereby Sir, if it were possible to
hold their courts under shade of post
oak and blackjack sapplings, to keep
Clerks Office and the records of the coun-
ty in the recesses of a hollow sycamore,
and to make a jail out of some of the
dark and Shiny caves beneath the craggy
hills of that rough country-if it were
possible to establish the machinery for do
ing county business out of such materials,
we might entertain the project as feasible
and plausible. But, alas even such ad-
vantages as these are denied the nature
of the country. Great laughterl 1t il
true there would be no difficulty about
the caverns for a Jail, but the necessary
post-oak and blackjack sapplings, to sup
ply with their foliage q canopy for the
august tribunals of justice, could not be
found. They are not in the county. And
as for sycamore tree, suitable for a de-
depository Of the archicvcsof tire county,
it would be sought in vain. The winds
even refuse to blow sycamore pods in that
direction. cheers and laughter. And
the idea of the people ever being able
to build houses, in which to transact
business, is deeply, dari<iy, probationary
and preposteriously absurd. l.le
DeS- Mrs. Partington, after listening to
the reading of an advertisement for
young ladies' boarding school, said: ..
For my part, can't deceive what on
airth edication is coming to. When +
was young, if girl only understood tho
| rules of distinction, provision, multiply
ing, replenishing, and the common do
neiator, and know all about the rivers and
their obituaries, the covenants and domi-
tories, the provinces and umpires, they
had eddication enough. But now they
have to study bottomy. algierbay, and
have to demonstrate supposition of syco-
plants, of circusses, tangents and Dioge-
mes and of parallelogramy, to say nothing
about the oxhides, corostics and abstraso
! triangles. 5e..l s.s
Thus saying, the old lady leaned back
in her chair, her knitting work tell in her
| lap, and for some minutes she seemed in
meditation.
nas- A shoe-peggins-machine has re-
Gently been invented in Massachusetts,
| Its operation is described as very simple.
| The shoe, fitted on last ready for peg
ging, was placedin an iron frame or jack,
attached to the machine, and borne up
against it by the hand of the OPERATOR
The machine, being then put in a rapid
motion, seized hold of the shoe, gave it q
rapid turn or two, and then, after few
seconds of rafting and clattcring, off
came the brogan with the sole firmly peg
ged. s5.,s
OnIo.-The wheat crop ofSouthwestern
Ohionever looked better. There was much
more than the usual quantity OF seed sown
last fall and the fields not only generally
look well, but particular fields which it was
feared were ruinously winter-killed, have
within the last three weeks so revived
as to promise an average yield. Prospects
at this season of the year were never
brighter. -. ID.
The Ohio Statesman says that the wheat
crop appears generally in good condition,
and where it was otherwise it was evidently
I owing to mskilful or negligent tillage.
The winter seems not to have injured it
Except whore it was sown very late, the
crop pomises to be affair yield, at least, and
some farmers say that it is uncommonly
promising.
OvrBwuELulSo.-K reader let us
indulge in figures little. 1t has been
{ truly said they will not lie. President
Buchanan's administrations costs the
country One HUNDRED MILLIONS or Dol
LARS per annun. This is three dollars
and seventeen cents per second; one hun
dred and ninety dollars and twenty-nine
, cents per minute; eleven thousand -four
: hundred and fifteen dollars per hour, OF
two hundred and seventy-three thousand
nine hundred and sixty dollars per day
Just look at the overwhelming amount
/ that the extravagant and corrupt demo
; cratic administration is spending every
second. minute, hour and day.--Rather-
ford Telegraph
Nor BAp.-A story Is told of docto,
in the goodly town Of B.. not hun
, dred miles from Vermont, The, doctor
l kept missing his wood, and set watch
: .As expected. ii proved to be the work O.
a | a near neighbor, who soon appeared, snd
!, carefully pulling out all dry wood, startee
Of with an armfuIl. Tho doctor hastily
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