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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

SADNEss.-There is mysterious feeling
that frequently passes, like cloud, over
the spirits. 1t comes upon the soul in the
busy hustle of life, in the social circle,
in the calm and silent retreats of soli-
tude. Its powers are7ifssS 4Preme over
the weak aid the iron-hearted At one
time it is caused by the fitting of single
thought across the mind. Again, sound
will come booming across the ocean of
memory, gloomy and solemn as the
death-knell, overshadowing all the bright
hopes and sunny feelings Of the heart
Who can describe it, and yet who has not
felt its bewildering influence? Still it is
delicious sort Of sorrow; and, like a
cloud dimming the sunshine of the river,
although causing momentary shade of
gloom, it enhances the beauty of return
ing brightness.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

MADRiD.--On the 30th of September
the Spanish squadron blew up the Fort at
the mouth ofthe Tetnan. THE tribes are
not willing to continue the war and have
withdrawn to the Mountains.
MADRID, Jan. lon Friday evening
the Moors attacked our encampmcnts
but were repulsed. Our loss was incon-
siderable. The Spanish army defeated
the Moors on the whole line, and have
advanced as far as Gaspillegas. The
Moors were forty thousand strong, and
lost at least fifteen hundred. The Span
ish loss was from 400 to GOO
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

FUGITWE SLAVE LAW IN New JERSEY
1t is curious fact, not generally known,
that New Jersey has a fugitive slave law
of her own, enacted in 1893, and re-
enacted with notifications in 1886 and
1916. The STAKEHOLDER or his agent can
apply to common pleas judge and the
arrest will be made by the sheriff, and
the question of property decided by three
judges. This law is in accordance with
that Interpretation of the Federal Consti-
tuition which makes the restoration of
fugitive slaves the duty of the States
New Jersey has, also, law authorizing a
STAKEHOLDER to take his slaves through the
State, and to make Temporary residence
with them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

SOUTHERN TRADE IN New YoRK.-A gem
tleman from New York says that the
stories of the withdrawal of Southern
patronage from that city, in consequence
of the Slavery excitement are not exag-
iserated. The arris'l us at the st. Nicholas
Hotel, the favorite resort of Southerners,
do not amount to over twenty-five per
day, whereas it requires three hundred
daily arrivals to meet its vast expendi-
tures. No Southern orders were coming
in, and this stagnation of business, coupled
with enormous importations and the
drain of specie to Europe, lead many men
to fear crisis like that of 1857.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

ss1- Here is something good about a
fretful man: ave know man with a
patient, good, Christian wife, and we nev
er heard him speak kind, pleasant
word to her, and doubt if he ever did in
the half century they have lived togeth-
er. He is always in q fret. Every thing
goes wrong. You would think that he
was made of cross grained timber, and
had been trying to digest a cross cut saw.
He is eternally cross, and thinks that his
wife and children, and all tho domestic
animals, have entered into combination
to worry him to death. He is not only
rusty, but fairly crusted over with it.
He is encased in shell of acid secretions,
through which no sweet juices ever dis
til. Friction has literally worn him out,
and he will soon worry himself to death.
No doubt Of it. OF course he has never
worked to any advantage to himself or
anybody else. With him everything al,
Ways goes wrong. He superstitiously be.
lieves it is because the devil has spite
against him, when in truth it is nothing
but his own fretfulness."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

"a NEyER-FAILING REMEDY" FOR A
CoucH.-A correspondent of the Chatta-
nooga Gazette recommends, from exper-
ience, the following remedy for cough
Take a sufficient quantity of mullen
leaves to make about two quarts of strong
decocton, (uso u preserve kettle strain
it off, and add about one.Soound of loaf
sugar; then boil it down to the consis-
tency of New Dreams syrup, when it will
be ready for use. Take a tablespoonful
as often as there is an inclination to
cough.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27
Mrs. Stephens to Victor Hugo.

Our readers are aware that Mrs. Ann
=. Stephens, of New York, has written
spirited reply to Victor Hdso's defence Of
Old Brown. The following is an extract.
Virginia sovereign State, has main
tanned her authority. John Brown is
dead. Proven guilty of treason-coh-
DENIED for atrocious murder-he has
atoned for these crimes on the scaiiold
1t is impossible for a man to stand upon
the verge of eternity, into which he must
be launched by violent death, without
filling every good heart with grief ahd
compassion; but when he is brave
when his path of blood has seen light
ed by the lurid torch of fanaticism
or insanity-such minds as yours, atfluent
Earnest and poetical, may be expected to
| clothe his crimes in white garments, and
forgetting the murderer in the bravo
man, sing peans to the martyr of vivid
imagination only.
| am of sex and of nature to whom
these feelings are kindred, | cannot
think of old John Brown upon the scai-
! fold without q shudder throughout my
| being. | cannot think of man made
| in the image of his God, suffering an ig-
nominious death, without thrills of pain.
But find it impossible to fix my mind
on the scafiold of this old man. 1t goes
back te his victims at Harper's Ferry-=to
the women made widowsby the outbreak
of single mornipg-to the orphans, who
had never wronged him, SO cruelty be-
reaved by his crimes. | see the two sons
who blihdly followed his lead fall mar
tyrs to his rebelious spirit.
look beyond all this, far away into
the beautiful Sohth. and instead of an
old hiat OH the gallows | see thousands
of my own country-women, gentle, good
and lovely, given up prey to wild insur-
rectioh--l see those murderous pixies,
manufactured with such cruel fore
thought, piercing their bosutis-I hear
the cries of children calling for mothers
who will i1ever answer them again-I see
proud, strong men struggling against tho
brute strength of their own household
servants. This picture strikes my COM
passion dumb, and can only cover my
face and pray God TO have mercy ON the
old mans soul.
John Brown was tried, condemned, and
executed as a traitor-a guard of Amer
lean citizens stood around the scaffold,
sad at heart, but steady in their devo-
ton to the laws. The Legislature of u
great Commonwealth sat, deliberately
after his sentence, and pronounced it
just The Federal Union, in which mil
lions of souls throb, stood by in solemn
silence while the Treason of this man
was expiated.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

EaJ| Ireland was an inhabited country
at the earliest period of recorded history.
1t was well known to the Greeks of the
time of Aristotle, and is correctly discrib-
ed in the Roman Biographies. Tho ira
dition is that it was conquered by Span
ish adventures about 1000 b. c., and
that line of one hundred and seventy
Kings descended from the invading
Prnce.-Thc Greek name OF Ireland was
Ierne.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27
DrAru OF AN INDIAN CurEp.-Gov. Blacl

DEATH OF AN INDIAN CuIEF.-Gov. Black
snake, the cold Indian" died at his resi-
dence on the Allegheny reservation, eight
miles from East Randolph, Cattaraugus
county, n. Y, December 20, at the ad-
vanced age of l23 years. He was, proba-
bly,, before his death, the oldest Indian
living He was in the French war pre-
vious to the revolution; also, in the rev.
olutionary war, and sided with the Ameri-
cans. He was great aid to Washington,
acting in the capacity of runner and
bearer of dispatches. Ills family have
now in their possession silver medal that
was presented him by Gen. Washington,
and on which the "old Governor" put
more value than on all else he had.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

BOYS IN TRounIE.-A couple of thought
less boys in Colchester, Conn, caught a
horse worth 5000, belonging to VIM. A..
Williams, tied tin pail firmly to his tail
and started him on q run. lie was terri
bly, frightened, and ran headlong over an
embankment, breaking his neck, and
killing him almost instantly. The boys
have been arrested and committed to
Drison
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

bss- An eccentric friend of ours, says
the Litchfield, (Ct.,l Enquirer, stopped
into store in the village, which shall be
nameless, where some " colored brethren"
were doing little trading. "Ah!
Mr." said our friend, "you have
your cousins in, see." The young mer-
chant said nothing, but looked mad
Our friend stepped out, but il few mo-
msnts returned, after the sable customers
had departed. 81 hope you wont take
any offence with what remarked here
just now," said he. "Oh, no." said the
merchant, 81 never take offence at any
thing you say" "Glad Of it," replied
our quizzer, 1.-THE niggers are as mad as
the devil!" And then he sloped, mar
rowly missing flying yard stick.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

New YoRK, Jan. l9.-Christopher p.
Uewill, Teller of the Market Bank has
committed suicide.
The accommodation train on the Ilud-
son river Railroad from Sing Sing, ran
into the express train from Albany, both
were proceeding to New York. Mrs.
Fields, of Brooklyn, was killed; Bishop
McClosky, of Albany, was seriously in
jured; Mrs. Thompson, wife of the pub
Usher of the Bank note list, had both legs
broken; Several others were injured.
"A similar accident but less disastrous
ocoarred between the early Harlem, and
New Haven trains in tire Yorkville tun-
mel on the Harlem road, yesterday morn
ing. Elijah Bradford, of Wbiteplains,
was seriously injured, Others slightly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

LOUISIANA LEGIsLATURE.-rhe Governor
in his message recommends the State to
be prepared to meet her sister States of
the South in Convention, in case Of GER
tain contingencies. He favors retaliating
the hostility of the North, by licensing
and inilicting determinations against
Northern goods, amounting to absolute
prohibition. The House passed joint
resolution, declaring the Harper's Ferry
affair an attack on the rights and priv-
leges of the South, and showing the hos.
tility of the North, and also declaring tine
election of a Black Republican President
Il sufficient cause for dissolution of the
Union.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

A New ERA IN JouRNALIsM.-A daily
religious paper is TO be started in New
York, for the alleged purpose Of recon
Cling denominational differences. and to
represent, as it is stated, all the Christian
sects except the Episcopalians and Ro-
man Catholics. AS result of this, the
New York Clergyman, the organ of the
High Church Episcopalians, will forth
with be merged into daily paper, for
the purpose of combating whatever may
appear schismatcal in the former. The
New York correspondent of the Phila,
delphia Ledger says:-"These twin, but
rival religious enterprises, will inaugura.e
Il new era in metropolitan journalism
1t will present the Church Militant on
the one hand and the Church of the
Puritans on the other, and between the
two, the world, the flesh and the Devil
are likely to have q Jolly time The
abolition propensities of Mr.. Spaulding
and the Republican leanings OF Mr.. Cum
mings, (who are to edit the paper first
alluded to- some think, may damage the
enterprise at the South; but as strict
neutrality in politics is to bo its rule, this
apprehension is needless"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

psS" 1t is better to love a person you
cannot marry, than to marry a person
you cannot love. This is short text fol
long sermon, which human experience
will continue to preach "until tho last
syllable ofrecorded time"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

ORANGE AND ALEXANDRIA RAILRoAD.-A
dispatch from Lynchburg Of the 18th,
says:
Yesterday, the cars on the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad made their first
Through trip to thi, city, arriving at the
Temporary terminus of the road, OH the
opposite side of the river, about 6 p. NJ,
with the President, Directors, attaches,
etc, together with o. NJ. Churchfeld,
Speaker of the House of Delegates, be-
sides several other gentlemen Of note
about sixty in all.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

Bey~ A fact Of much interest to young
ladies of fashion and old ladies of juvenile
ideas, has just been brough to light in
Paris. This is nothing less than the dis
covery that the "pearl powder" used for
whitewashing the skin, is slow poison.
The carbonate of lead used in its compo-
sition, works gradually into the system,
producing at last fatal results,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

n0- A poor vagrant was found by the
police wandering in the streets of Phila'
delphia. He said he wanted to freeze to
death, that no had no home, but was
afraid to kill himself, The parties left
him, and in the morning the poor wretch
was found on cellar door, a frozen
corpse,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

WINTER READINc.-The long evenings
of winter offer capital season for men.
tai improvement, and we would advise
our young readers especially to profit by
it. Let them read much. No source Of
enjoyment is so lasting, SO beneficial, or SC
economical as reading, and none so fraught
with interest for the voting. We don't be-
lieve in laying down any rules for reg
ular course of works to be gone through
with; but the individual must decide foi
himself, and choose those which seem
the most instructive.-R. Whig.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

DtlD" The following good story is told
at Washington of the Hon. Thaddeus
Stevens, Of Pennsylvania At the time
when several of the Anti-Lecompton
men voted for Mr.. Gilmer, of North ca
rolina, one Of the prominent Southern
Democrats approached Mr.. Stephens say
ing he was very much astonished that
these men should vote for Mr.. Gilmer,
who owned nearly n hundred head of
niggers." "Does he?" said Mr.. s. /;
"then ! think | shall vote for him myself,
for it is your little onc-hoa6ed niger iiieh
who make all the trouble Mr.. Stevens
did vote accordingly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

Sy- We see it stated that the Mail
Contractors in various parts of tho coun-
try continue to throw up their contracts,
finding it impossible to continue the SER
vice, owing to the failure of Congress to
make the necessary appropriation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

TEMPORARY SpEAKER.-A despatch from
Washington says; Buchanan in an inter-
view with twenty Mail Contractors said
it would be constitutional for the House
to elect a temporary Speaker.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27
pisunion in South Carolina.

The Columbia Guardian, in its issue of
tho 10Th, thus expresses itself on the dis
union resolutions bef5re the legislature
of that State:
1t is variotsly proposed TO annoSince
our readiness to establish Southern Con-
federacy, and invite other States TO in
augurate the movement. This PROPOSE
ton contemplates and takes for granted
a state of public opinion that does not
exist, even in Alabama and Mississippi,
much less in Virginia. Neither of those
States is ready for disuniop, on account
of Browns raid, or the election Of the
Black Republican Speaker. There is not
the slightest probability Of a dissolution
of the Union on either of these issJes.
The excitement of Browns invasion is
stbsidihg, and the Black Republican
Speaker, if elected, would not of itself
indicate the transfer of the Government
to that hostile party, and js.po Rew thing
to excit A,ss ftliNNs1feady been
submittedt 70, in the case of Mr.. Banks,
and the Southern politicians at Washing
ton viii elevate their course to no such
high standard of action, Our invitations
are then i'll vain, and have no essence of
practical revolution in them. We are
piping to those who will not dance, and
the result is idle breath and disappoint-
ment. And while such announcements
are idle, is any good to be got by them
Will they have any stimulating effect up
OH other States who are not ready for
the issue and the action we PROPOSE
On the contrary, will they not tend to
strengthen the Nationalist in other
Sp,,tha,,, ,y1, ,,,n hold 4,
Carolina as impetuous and extreme, am
bilious of leadership, and over prone to
disunion? That the disunion sentiment
is stout and growing cannot be doubted
That prodigious strides have been made
in the last few years, and the last few
months, in bringing home to the South
ern heart the necessity of applying that
remedy, is unquestionable; Jm Ma Il can
not Just now be tried, on either Of tic matters
bctore tie country, is eYnaLy certain"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

BJ- William Byrd, citizen Of Ran
dolph county, Alabama, was killed by his
son, John Byrd, on the evening of the
25th ult. Both father and son were un.
der the influence of liquor at the time
of the occurrence.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27
ny "The National Union Contra

pSy- "The National Union Central
Committee," of which Mr.. Crittenden is
Chairman, has issued Circular recon-
mending the formation of Union State
organizations, and of Union Clubs in
wards of cities and in towns and election
districts throughout the country. The
alleged purpose is to form National
Union party that shall stand between the
two extremes.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

CHEF JusT1cz TANEy.-~The National
th'telligencer announces the convalescence
of Chief Justice TaGey, and expresses
the confident expectation that he will
resume his seat in Court very shortly
His attack was severe catarrh, of pneu-
haosaic form, and over which Il well-pre-
served constitution, under the skillful
treatment of his medical advisers, has
triumphed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

D1" An introduction of the Spanish
custom of SHcer anklets for those who
choose to walk out in short petticoats, is
thought of by the ladies in New York
1t is not necessary to attract attention to
pretty ancle by any such guys, for the
men will look as often as they can.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

a&- South Carolina is continuing TO
build her Railroad to the mountain re-
gions. She has devoted 100000 to the
Blue Ridge Road.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

THE SKY AN lNDlCATER OF THE WEATHER
The colors Of the sky at particular times
afford wonderful good guidance. Not
only does rosy sunset presage fair wealth
er, and a ruddy sunrise bad weather;
but there are other tints which speak
with equal clearness and accuracy. A
bright yellow sky iii the evening indi-
Gates wind; n pale yellow wet; q neutral
gray color constitutes a favorable sign in
the evening, an unfavorable one in the
morning. The clouds again are full of
meaning in themselves. If their forms
are soft, underlined, and feathcly, the
weather will be fine; if the edges are
hard, sharp, definite, it will he FOUL
Generally Speaking, any deep, unusual
hues betoken wind or rain; while the
more quiet and delicate tints bespeak
fair weather. Simple as these maxms
are, the British Board of, Trade has
thought fit to publish t,ssss Spc the pur-
pose Of seafaring NEIL.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

MACON AND WESTERN RAIL Road
from the late report of this Company, it
api' ars that it's Road is 100 miles long !;
its ross earnings have been S300,057 95,
and expenses Sl65, 5,465 rs, leaving for net
profits S225, 400 90 on a capital of 81 ,43S,-
800 In the last twelve years, this Com
pany has divided Sl,5l4,79S so, besides a
surplus of Sl59,S9 on hand.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

SPECULATION IN TIE WAY.--'rhe Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette says:
There is rumor in town that the Or
gapization is delayed by speculators.-
Immense quantities of Post Office certifi-
Gates have been bought by Auguste Bel
mont. He is still eager to buy. Of course
he gets these certificates at very large
shave. Belmont contributed thirty thou
sand dollars toward the election of Buch-
anan, and it is not improbable that Buch-
anan may reciprocate Belmont's advances
by allowing him to buy in large quantities
Of these claims at q discount, and then
when he has enough, so influencing the
Democratic members as to allow Sherman
to be elected. This is the way specula-
ton runs. OF course an appropriation
will be Immediately made, and Belmont
will realize very comfortable sum.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

ExrELLED.-Abraham Cooper, citizen
of Chattanooga, has been expelled from
the Masonic lodge of that place. ..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

ANOTHER RAILROAD BRIDGE FALLS
The Montreal Gazette Of Thursday last
says:
Yesterday, as the freight train from
Montreal to Portland was crossing the
bridge at Lennoxville the structure gave
way, and the entire train, consisting of
seven cars, was precipitated into the riv-
er, the engine and tender alone being
saved from the general wreck. No lives
were lost, we believe. The bridge was a
comparatively new, having been renewed
within year and half.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

Mr.. BRoDERlcK's WILL.-The Washing
ton correspondent Of the Cincinnati Com
mercial says:
The will of the late Senator Brodericll
was found among his papers left here
1t awards ten thousand dollars to John
A. McGlynn, of San Francisco, and the
remainder to George Wilkes, of New
York. 1t is estimated that the whole
estate, after paying his debts, will amount
to between eighty and ninety thousand
dollars. The executors are John A. Nc
Glynn, of California, George Wilkes, OF
New York, and Andrew J. Butler, of
California. The will was made in 1855.
The generosity of Broderick towards
Wilkes arose from the fact that they were
tried personal friends, of long standing,
and Mr.. Broderick was induced by Mr..
Wilkes to acquire q taste for literature
and devote himself to the study of histo-
ry, which Broderick always afterwards
acknowledged to be the best advice he
ever received.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-27

a0- Concha, late Governor General of
Cuba, made fortune of seven millions
of dollars during his administration.