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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10
Foreign News.

New YoRK, July 31.--The steamer
Prince Albert has arrived at st. Johns
with Liverpool dates Of the oath.
Manchester advices are uniavorable,
there being but little inquiry, and prices
weak. Breadstuffs have an advancing
tendency. Corn dull. Provisions dull.
Consols 93Ic@93s.
The Steamers Adriatic and Anglo Sax
on had arrived out. News unimportant.
Affairs in Syria unchanged.
Tho Emperor Of Austria and the Prince
ofPrussia are about to hold a conference.
France announces powerful interven-
ton in Syria. Troops are to leave Mar
settles Immediately.
Advices from China to June 9TH an
nounce that hostilities will commence
Immediately. 1t is rumored that 10000
Russians are marching upon Pekin.
The Paris Bourse was dull. Rentes
GSf2jc.
The Ncapolitan Ministers Withdrew
their resignations, the King having ta-
ken decisive measures to secure the adj
hcsion OF the troops to the constitution.
The Ncapolitan Government has or
dcred the removal Of the Royal Guard
and the abolition OF bastenading and the
suppression of secre! legions.
y Sicily telegram says that Garibaidl
announces his intention OF anneXing
Sicily to Sardinia.
LoHDoN. Wheat has advanced IS.
SYRIA--BEYRouT. July ll.-The attack
Of the Dr,lscs on the Christians at Damas-
Gus, commenced on the eve of the 9th
Several men were killed and many
wounded, and several woman corricd oil.
The French, Russian and Greek Consuls
took refuge in the house of Abdel Kachee.
The attitude OF the Turkish authorities
was rather injurious than useful to the
Christians. Three thousand Turkish sol
diars arrived to-day. The fears of the
Christians are redoubled, and Commits
sioners Derby and Norwich are expected
with Impotence. Details to the first of
July say that it was then asceWained that
the Druses had burned and pillaged l0l
villages since the 29th Of May, while
from 800 to 5000 Christian inhabitants
of Lebanon, many of whom were wealthy
men, and all strangers to anything like
poverty, are homeless beggars, depending
ON charity for their daily bread. Over
and above the number of Christians shot
in actual warfare, it is believed that 7, ,O00
or 5000 have been butchered in cold
blood.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

BG5~ We are panied to learn of the death
Of the estimatle lady of j. Knox Walker,
Esq, who departed this life Tuesday morn
ing last, in Memphis after an illness OF
several months.
The Memphis appeal also contains the
sad intelligence of the death of the con-
sort of Mr.. D. j. Dupree, of Memphis, el-
dest daughter of the late Gov. JAMES C.
JONES.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

Das- "Do you love me Jonerthan?"--
"Do love? AK the sun if it loves the
Aowers-ax sister Sal if she loves ingerns
AK sick kitten ifit loves warm brick.
Love you, Lucy? Show me the man what
says don't, and I'll cave his head with
a cistern polsh
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10
Five dollars" only. That is cheap.

ANSWER TO CoRREsPoNDENTs.-U
this head, we find the following sound adj
vice administered to a timid young lady:
Observation-Disclosures are not more addict
ed to dissipation than men of other pro-
tessions. A few of the Kallook type take
gin toddies and liberties with females,
but the great majority of them are as good
as lawyers and doctors. If you want a
true Christian, marry an editor.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10
Judging Horses by their Color.

Dr.. Nash presents the following con-
clusions, he says, as the result Of long
experience and observation:
Sorrel, or chesnut, with white feet and
head, are marks of kindness; if broad
and iull between the eyes can be depend
cd on as a horse of good sense, and ca
pable of being trained to anything. He
is not one to stand the whip, however, ii
well fed.
y dish-aced horse indicates too much
go-a-head activeness, and therefore is not
safe for everybody.
\ deep bay, without a white hair, indi-
| Gates Il horse of great bottom, but rather
| trici<ey and'uusale.
| 4 black horse cannot stand heat, nor a
white one cold. White ohout the h"ad
/ the more the cbettcr-indlcatos doctlty
Some suppose the parti-co.red horse-
| belonging tdcircusses, shows, &c., were
selected for their Oddity--not so, the Sc
! lection was made on account OF tleil
| great docility and gentleness.
New York DAY BooE.--That the read
er may see how much credit the Day
Book is entitled to, we extract the fol-
lowing from n New York exchange:
"rha Troy Budget has lowered the
Douglas flag in exchange for that o
Breckenridge and Lane"
We find this statement in three diller
cnt paragraphs in the New York Day
Book. 1t is not true. Mr.. Whitman
the former editor, has taken hold of the
Budget, and is doing ten-iod service ir
the cause Of Douglas. Mr., Whitman
was Postmaster of Troy' under Pierce,
administration.
The same paper puts down the Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser, the Delaware
Republican, and the Hudson Gazette, a
for Brecliinridge. The thst is for Lincoln
the second don't exist, and the thirl
puts up neither Breckenridge nor Doug
las.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

WuAr is DEMocRAcY:- - Tho Grand
Junction Quid-Nuno, which advocates the
election of Breckinridge and Lane and
Douglas and johnson, claims to be the
Sig true Democratic paper in the State
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

A PLAN To RUIN THE ABoLIrIoNIsTs.-A
French philosopher is at present main
tanning the hypothesis that the feeding
Of the negro race continually on exclu-
sively animal food, would effect their con
version into white mon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

HD- The San Francisco politicians are
perplexed by the action of the Baltimore
Convention, There will probably be two
electoral tickets.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

New YoRK, July 3l.-General Houston
writes to his friends that he will not de-
cline the nomination for the Presidency
in any eYont.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

THE GsME.-Long John Wentworth, the
editor of the leading Black Republican
paber of Illinois, gives the following ad
vide to his co-laborers:
All that the Republicans have to do is
TO sec that Breckenridge tickets are put
in nomination and supported in every
Northern State. We observe that this is
already being done to very considerable
extent. Even up in Vermont we per
ceive that Breckenridge ticket is to be
-.nw
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

nlg'A tremendous reaction. saya the
Petersburg Intclligencer, las taken place
in this section OF country in favor OF ). \.
Douglas within the last ten days. Ena
Breckenridge storm which swept Owe. the
South. Just after he was nominated, has
subsidized, and the political atmosphere Is
now gradually becoming purer. The pep-
pie are beginning to see the worthless
ness of the slave code doctrine, and Dis-
union in the new ccy-BrecSiu.,dga
movement. In less than six months eve
~ Breckenridge man will be ashamed %
acknowledge that he ever had anything
to do with the Disunion scheme.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

psg" The Chicago Times says that since
1858 there has not been day that the
Republicans have not lost ground in IL
linois.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

A THRouGH TIcEET.-There was negro
netting heldat Petersburg, Va, taeother
Sunday, says an exchange, which, as usu-
al was superintended by white preacher,
though black brother was allowed to
preach. After announcing his text, the
latter went ahead, and soon began to
speak raptrously of the other world, and,
among other things, said:
"Yes, my dear bredren an sisters, here
we see a might hard times; but when we
gifts into Caanan, we'll eat Just as much
po5sum sop and taters as we wants. Well
have muffin to do, dear brueders and sis
sels. but to eat all the tings is just now
spoke about, and everything else that is
good and den 20 to slecp-and den get
up and eat-and 60 on forever"
When this declaration was made with
50 much earnestness, an old black sister
present broke out and said;
"Tank de Lord And bless that sweet
mouf of yourn, brudder Jim. wants a
through ticket right now for de happy
land you is 'scourcing upon"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

BREcKINRIDGE ORATORS STRUCK DuMD.-
A discussion took place in Marion county,
KY, last week between Jas. i. Clay and
James b. Beck representing the Breckin-
ridge-Yancey ticket, and j. F. Bulltt and
j. Young Brown representing the Doug
las ticket. The Louisville democrat"
has an account Of the debate, concluding
as follows:
"IIe propounded a question to Messrs.
Clay and Beck, which is significant, and
which, hope, will be insisted on. That
IS: "Whcn you fail to obtain that Con-
stitutional right protection Of slaves you
insist upon, what will you do about it p
Will you submit, or will you secede from
the Union, as you did from a Democratic
Convention?" This is tic question. Mr..
Brown got no response. Let every voter
in the State demand an answer to this
plain question. Let us know now where
these leaders are going before we start
with them"
This is a question which the boldest oi
the party in Kentucky and Tennessee
dare not answer. 1t will dumb-found
them all.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

New BELL AND EVERETT PAPERs.-The
last number Of the Livingston Messenger,
(Sumpter county, Ala.,) has announced
itself in favor of Bell and Everett.
The jackson (Miss.) Daily News an.
nounces that it is now for the support oi
Bell and Everett.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

TnE DIGNIrY or LABoR.-The following
from Ruskin, tho most poetic writer on
art that ever lived, are as truthful as they
are beautifully expressed:
Eve are always, in these days, endeav,
oring to separate intellect from manual
labor; we want one man to be always
thinking. and another to be always work.
ing; and we call one gentleman. and
the other an operative; whereas, the work
man ought often to be thinking, and the
thinker often to be working, and both
should be gentlemen in the best sense
AS it is, we make both ungentle-the one
envying, the other dcspising, his brother
and the mass Of society is made up of
morbid thinkers and miserable workers.
Now it is only by labor that thought can
he made healthy, and only by thought
that labor can be made happy; and the
two cannot be separated with impunity.--
1t would be well if all of us were good
handcraftsmen of some kind, and the dis
honor of manual labor done away with al
together"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

Your MONEY OR YoUR LIrE,-The Post
masters all through the Western country
are receiving circular from Washington.
the nature of which may be guessed, from
the following extract
"The Central Committee, under the di
rection of the meeting that appointed it,
have had the duty imposed upon it ofre,
minding you that all who are occupying
official positions are expected to contrib
ute to the expenses Of the campaign. Ii
is hoped, therefore, that you will respond
promptly to this notice, and that you will
not regard the sum Of five dollars toe
much for you to advance.
"Please direct your remittance to
-, Of -, Treasurer.
JOHN DAWSON,
chairman of State Exec. Com
own. A, NEAL, Secretary.
"To-."
"Five dollars" only. That is cheap.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

WHY Nor UNITE on BELL AND EVERETT?
The New York Tribune, (says the
Nashville Patriot, is in towering ras-
sion over the apprehension that there is
likely to be combination of all the ele.
ments of opposition to Lincoln in the
State of New York, in the Presidential
election. 1t justly fears that such a
union would inevitably defeat Lincoln in
New York, and, therefore; for the Presi-
dency. Take the 80 votes of New York
from him, and he could not be successful,
even if all the other Northern States
should go for him. This should teach
the South lesson. II shows very plain
ly that the Republicans do not hope to
triumph by tho votes Of majority oil
the people; but by division of their OPP
ponents. Why not then, the conserva-
tive Union-loving majorities which cer-
tainly exist in most of the Southern
States, unite upon Mr.. Bell and thus
crush the Republican organization, and
restore peace to the country? With such
union sustained, as it unquestionably
would be, by the conservative States of
the North, Mr.. Bell would achieve a sue
cess that would permanently overthrow
sectionalism in all quarters, and lay the
foundation for future Of peace and safe
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

Internationally night man
named Powers, overseor on Mr.. James
Rogers plantation, at Walnut Bend, be-
low Memphis, on the Arkansas side, was
murdered by party of negroes belong
ing to the plantation, The murderers
have been arrested and lodged in the
Helena Jail.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10
To Editors and Publishers.

A poor besotted wretch, who has been
vagabandizing about here for some time
pasta drunken journeyman printer,
named John Davies-ran away from this
town on last Saturday night, leaving scv-
eral small sums of Indebtedness unpaid.
We had given this creature employment
whenever his drunkenness would permit
him to work, on account Of his highly re-
spectacle connections and in the hope
that his bad habits might be rclormed.-
He has requted this kindness by taking
off with him little boy we were endavor-
ing to train up to usefulness and respect
ability-the son of worthy poor man
who Sesides here and is unable 70 follow
his lost child-who was beguiled by this
bad man to run away las is bclevcdl that
he might get the control of some eight or
ten dollars The little fellow had.
Our object in making this statement is
to request any Of the fraternity who may
know whore the poor boy IS, - communi-
cate the fact to the editor ofkhs paper.
in order that he may be rest9(ed to his
much afflicted father
BzS~ Will our brethren OF the press
have the kindness to attend to this mat,
ter!-SoWhc1m Waterman.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

C. Mclean. one of the gallant defenders
Of North Point near Baltimore, during
the last war with Gfeat B.tain' diea at
d"e ' n '',; ,a, l,,. .uryysd ~ 10" M hin, m rnIy two @
davs. 1t the time of The battle M. Nc
~ at, .I''sh i"" J,'f IN r,oiorio,s NAY Gn i5o
sabbath morning when the express took
the news of the arrival Of the English
Aeet IN E1'IinGg' n, h'Fi ana 'IG ,, i'Ng2 NI ol
,'',,i'I no., .h,,,n, .,id +"
'onc'u.ior called upon ryery man to raj.
ly to the defence Of his country, himself
sr,'tne the eNnNpie', and the neN' dNy
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

pflY" The Hon. T. c. EIindman, Repre-
sentative in Congress from Arkansas,
says in a card to the Arkansas people,
that there is design on foot, couutenanc-
ed and promoted by a portion of the
Democracy, to give the electoral vote to
Bell and Everett, and he is evidently APP
prehensive that it will be done.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

ELoPEN2NT EXTRAORDINARY. Mr. Jones'
dog eloped with Mr., Smiths dinner.
pzg@ Tho Black lepgosy terrible dis
ease. communicated by a CAinaman, Aas
broken ogt in New York ely.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

NEw DaUGLA: PAF-a II NEE YoaE.--
The HsraLt announce. taai Hon, R. j.
Walker and Geo. Sanders are ahou; 10
establish first class daily paper in New
York city.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

DEMOCRATS FOR BELL.-rhe Southern
Nonitor a Democratic paper, published in
Philadelphia, says:
This week a good work is begun in
Philadelphia Il Union Club ofDemocrats.
and before the dcs Of Augusta, this Club
will be legion of not less than eight
thousand effective Bell and Everett DEM
ocratic voters"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10
From New Jersey, nobody.
Dickinson Charged with being an
a hlnnlitin-n


The n. Y. L.cR-' Of he 2lst inst, re-
wives the following reminsccnce of NJ.
Dickinson of New York, who has Of late
become so great a fNvorite with the Breck-
inridge-Y party 0! the South:
CATER the Presiden tial campaign of
1913 resulting in the defeat of the great
Michigauder, it will be remembered that
a Convention Of tine Democracy of this
State was held at Rome for the purpose
Of uniting both wings Of the party Hon.
w. i. Marcy, we believe presided at that
convention, and during the deliberations
of the body Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson
the same Daniel who has so recently
'come to judgment"-del himself
in the following words: 4 too said Dam
iel, am in favor of, treeSoH and free tc1Titory,
and l. too, wopld Sia,,d on the Jor,lr Of. free hr-
riiory ,oW aftming s,oord in my hand, aid
,cocc back tie approach Of tie Slareholdr.'-
Records are dangerous things for politi-
clans, and the same Daniel who. while Il
Senator from this State, offered non-in-
| torvention resolutions in the Senate, can
very easily make pro-slavery speeches in
1860, forgetting when it suits his purpose,
! his abolition sentiments in 1910. This old
| political prostitute aspres to great fire.
eating virtue now, but will some day or
other, 90 back to his former Abolition
habits. 1t is the nature of such charac,
ters to rave when they think that their
| price has been denied to them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

DESPERATE REycouNTEn.-We learn that
a desperate rencountcr took place in Clay
county, near Smithvlle, on Friday last,
between DR.. Jordan and FIVE others. The
affair grew out OF trial for rape in that
county, and the persons killed had sworn
vengeance on the doctor for the evidence
he gave at trial. On last Friday business
called the Doctor to Clay county, and
while sitting in store conversing with
some friends, the other party, five in num-
ber, entered with guns, and told him they
came to take his life. The Doctor imme-
diately drew pistol and commenced iir-
ing, killing three of his assailan,s and
woundmg the other two. These are facts
as we received them from a gentleman O.
this city. The Doctor was not arrested,
although he offered TO give himse.fup t.
an officer. The community in which .Ac
, affair occurred justified the Doctor in b..
course, on tho ground tha' he octeI IN
self derence.---,S. J35eph G4-she, -ith.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10
What Mr., Pryor Says.

Mr. Roger A. Pryor, u Democra ic mem
Der of Congress from Virginia, and with
whom our readers are 80 we'll acqusint.d
by reputation, was at Charlottesville lately.
and he is reported by the Revieg as FOL
lows
On Faiday night, a serenade was cotton
up in honor of Roger A Pryor, Esd, who
has been sojourning here for several days.
in the discharge of his duties as Visitor OF
the University of Virginia. On being cali
ed out he made handsome address. in
which he frankly and candidly gave bis
views OF the present condition Of the pub
lie affairs. lie said the National Demo
cratic party had no longer an existence
that it was perfectly iilpotent, and enyel-
oped by corruption that il absolutely
needed to be cIiastened by defeat and pri
vati, n He spoke in the highest g.L5 @!
,he old Whig party and ; iescors, an /
said that he would ccrC." - t..t r~ MI
end Everett If he thought there ,sss any
/ prospect of their success, and concluded
BY drawing a most gloomy picture Of the
future. In isopinion, Lincoln's election
was inevitable. and nothing was left the
South but to show an undivided front to
the aggressions of the foe.
Other gentlemen, upon the same occa-
son, spoke as follows. And they are all
Democrats:
Mr.. VIM. T. Gordon, after repeated
| calls, followed in the same strain, antiri-
pating the same results. The crowd then
adjourned to Hon. Shelton F. Lakes rc-i-
dence, who made them short and point
ed address. He paid high tribute to
I the patriotism of the Union party, admit
ted that the Democratic party was now
purely sectional and powerless, and con-
| cluded with the same ominous predictions.
Mr.. P. II. Aylett, another member Of The
| Board OF Visitors, was then callcl on, and
compelled to get out of bed and address
the crowd, He made strong appeal to
his party in Virginia to harmonic, tut
| gave them no encouragement to hope for
anything save temporary State success
The general tenor of the speeches OF the
night was the utter futlity of relying on
the Democratic party as aparty, any long.
er; that it was divided on sectional grounds
and unable to defeat Lincoln.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-01

OF arsenic toc many years, aud is now pact
middle life, astonishing every one by his fresh,
juvenile appearance. lie says to his friends, See
Row strong ond fresh | an and what din advantage
| have over you all | In times Of epidemic fever
or cholera, what a fright you are in, while l am
sure of never taking Infection Another case is
cited, of q chamois-huntcr, nged 81, who was al
ways actively engaged in his ccdpation-'Bvery
evening, regularly, after rem lining a little too
long over his glass, he took a dose Of arsenic,
which enabled him to get up next morning perfect
" sober and quite bright Another, aged 40,
took twelve to fifteen grains Of arsenic every day,
lie commenced from curiosity, but always, be-
comes sickly and falls away If he attempts to leave
it off.
1t is added that in some criminal cases the
knoNn habit Of arsenic eating was successfully
pleaded in favor of the accused. The first by Dr..
kottowitz, Of Neuhaus, was that of a girl taken
up in that neighborhood on strong suspicion Of
having poisoned one OF more people with arsenic,
and though circumstances were strongly against
her, yet the systematic arsenic. eating in the dis.
trict was pleaded so successfully in her favor, that
she was acquitted, and still lives near Neuhaus,
but is believed by every one to be guilty. The
other case was mentioned by DR.. Lorenz. A wo.
man was accused Of poisoning her husband, but
brought SO clear proof that he was an arsenicseat-
err, as fully to account for the arsenic being found
in the body. She was, of course. acquitted,
Further, it is said that arsenic, under the name
of hydrach, is found in at least one house in every
district Of Upper Syria. 1t is used for the com.
plants of domestic animals. to kill vermin, and as
a stomOchic to excite appetite for this last pur
pose about two grains a day are taken. 1t is en-
ployed in small quantities in the manufacture o
cheese, being supposed to bring out q larger guam.
tity of 9urd from tho milk.
Lastly, one of the Syrian doctors reports, IT
this part Of the world, when q grave yard is full
it is shut up for about twelve years, when all thu
graves which are not private property by purchase
are dug up, the bones collected in tho charnal
house, the ground ~ploughed over, and buryiug be
gins again. On these occasions the bodies of mr.
senic-eaters are found almost unchanged, and rec
equitable by their friends. Many people supoos,
that the finding Of their bodies is the origin Of tn
story of the vampire
By the way, arsenic has one quality which tn
builders Of the Great Eastern might have availec
themselves of. When introduced into the iror
employed in ship-building, it prevents the attach
mcnt of barnacles and other animal matter to tn,
bottom of ships, and this preventive check con
tinues while any Of the iron lasts.