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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-11-22
Salt! Salt !
Cotton Batting.

A LOT OF LIVERPOOL SALT JUST RE-
IA ceived aud for sale low down, for cash only,
by Nov 80 robson Il KNOX.
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Valuable LanSs for Sala

valuable LANDS TOR Sale.
II NOWN AS THE patton FARM" LY-
IA ing on the Hiwasscc river, at the mouth Of
Oeoee, ten miles above Charleston, in Polk county,
Tenn, containing, by estimation, 642 acrss-275
acres cleared and more good Land to clear-about
iJv acres vi Gu;ioin' ian,l--al in high state Of
cultivation-with fine, large Brick Dwelling
large barn and all necessary out-buildings. Said
Farm Is we'll timbered and watercd-water in all
the fields, two good Springs, good Well and Cis-
tern. Terms made easy.
Further information may be had from Judge
Gant and Thos. II. Galloway, Cleveland, Tenn; X.
C.Jackson and DrJ. M. Alexander, Athens, Tenn;
Robert Russell, Madisonville, Tenn. or from the
subscriber. j, II. ALEXANbER
July L. J95N--tE-56l
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inr.1
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Hardware and Farmers Implements.
JUST RECEIVED. THE BEST AssORT.
y ment that has ever boon offered In this place,
OF almost every thing that Farmer or Mechanic
wants Call aud examine. -
Apnl5 GEOR. w. ROSS.
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LATEST NOVELS, &c.
SPEAKERS.

The Studsut's Speaker; Sargent's Primary, Uni
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Speaker; Fields Scrap Book;
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Blank Books.
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Two Horse Wagon,
LNFOR SALE ON GOOD TERMS. BY
l. Nov is S. X. REEDER.
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REMOVAL.
ROBSON q KNOX

HAvE REMOVED THEIR STOCK OF
IL GOODS to their Ncr Store House, on the
West corner of the Public Square, where they ars
offering Goods low down for Cash. Give them =
call All good Produce taken in exchange 70,
Goods. March 2g, 1861
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ScovIL & MrAp. No. III Chartres street, Now
Orleans, General Wholesale Agents for tho South
ern States, to whom all orders must he addressed.
Sold by Il. I. MARSHALL Athens; J. II. MAaILL,
Mouse Greek: REYNOLDS & DONALDSON, Benton.
Jan 4, 1S60-ly-64l
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MRDICAL sERVICFs.

WYE TENDER OUR MEDIcALsERvICEs
w Ora TUITOCSL 10 all families OF per
sons, in the bounds Of our practice, who are now
or may hereafter be left destitute by the absence
Of relatives or friends who have entered, or may
hereafter enter, the army in defence Of the State.
Once, Ten Mile. g. N. CLEMENTSON,
N. C. CLARK.
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lINoINNATI, HAMILTON AND DAYTON.
The Growth OF Cotton IN PennsrIHnnin.


The Philadelphia Press has an article in
which the possibility of successfully cultivat-
ing cotton in the Middle States is discussed
at some length. II is the general opinion
that the climate of the Middle States is al
together unfavorable to the growth of this
product; yet the Press publishes letter from
a well-known gentleman residing in Brazil,
which goes to show that in the table lands
there, where the climate is nearly identical
with our own, species of superior cotton is
produced on plants which flourish year after
year amid frosts that are fatal to vegetation
of less hardy character. The writer was
formerly a resident OF Lancaster County,
Penn, and, seeing paragraph in the Press,
inviting farmers to try the experiment of
growing cetton there, he sent Mr.. Forney
some seeds of peculiar kind of cotton grow
ing in Brazil, for distribution among his
friends. OF this cotton he says sit is culti-
vated in the province of Minas Geres, on
high table land, where they have severe
trosts and can not grow rice or sugar-cane,
but have all the fruits of the Middle States,
U. S. The European grass, Triticum repens,
is entirely killed every year. not the root.
There are two kinds of this cotton, white
and nankeen, of which l send you the two
varieties"
Referring to a cotton tree growing from
seeds of the latter quality, which had been
planted some six years before, he says: "In
Ituus1 lNdDlh LulS Wuulu DeCoIue du duuudls
1t produces cotton the first year; and have
reason to believe that it will bear the climate
of Pennsylvania. There have been here this
year some heavy frosts, and the grass re-
ferred to is entirely killed; but on this cot
ton tree the leaves were still green, and there
still remained some flowers" Mr.. Forney
has distributed the seeds as requested, and
the matter will now at least get fair trial.
We perceive that experiments with the COM
mon seed are being made this year at Phila-
delphis, some of which promise well. Mr..
II. B. jerks has an acre of cotton, some of
the plants of which are from three to four
feet high and having mostly blossomed, the
balls vary in size from large pea to good
sized cranberry. In a months time, pro-
vided the frost does not kill them, they will
reach the size of walnuts, and burst when
the cotton will be ready to pick. Messrs.
CARED & Bro, Frankford,I have three-quar-
ters of an acre of plants set out They are
now about two feet high, with occasionally
stalks of three or four feet, their bolls being
generally smaller than those of the plants
grown by Mr.. jerks. A good deal of care
is being bestowed on these experiments, and
the result whatever it may be, will be looked
for with deep interest.
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Fanny Fern on sOps.in-Iaw.

How any young fellow can have the face
to walk into your family, and deliberately
ask for one of your daughters, surprises me.
That it is done every day does not lessen my
astonisbment at the sublime impudence of
the thing. There you have been, eighteen or
twenty years of her life, combing her hair
and washing her facefor-him 1t is lucky
the thought never strikes you while you are
doing it. that this is to be the end of all. What
if you were married yourself2 That is no
reason why she should be witcned away in
a separate establishment just as you begin TO
lean upon her and feel proud Of her; or, at
least, 1T stands to reason that after you have
worried her through the measles, the chicken
pox, scarlet fever and whooping cough, and
had her properly vaccinated, this impudent
young man might give you a short breathing
time before she goes. He seems to be of
different opihion-he not only insists upon
taking her, but upon taking her Immediately,
if not sooner. He talks well about livery
well; you havO no objection to him, not the
least in the world, except, that when the
world is full of girls why couldn't be fix his
eye on the daughter of somebody else
There are some parents who are glad to be
rid of their daughters. Blue eyes are as
plenty as berries-why need it be this par.
ticular pair2 Isn't she happy enough as she
rs? Don't she have meat, and bread, and
clothes enough, to say nothing of lover
What is the use of leaving certainty for an
uncertainty, when that certainty is mother,
and you can never have but one2 You put
all these questions to her, and she has the
sauciness to ask if that is the way you rea.
soned when father came for you. You dis
dain to answer, of course-it is a mean dodg-
ing Of the question. But she gets round you,
for all that; and SO does he, too though you
tryyo best not to like him; and with
"Well, if | must, must" you lust order her
wedding clothes, muttering TO yourself the
while, "Dear, dear, what sort of a fist will
that child make at the head of house?
How will she ever know what to do in this,
that, or the othersemergency 2--she who is
calling on mother fifty times day, to
settle every questiOn-what folly for her TO
set up house for herselfP How many
mothers have had these foreboding thoughts
over daughter And yet that daughter
has met lite and its unexpected reVerses with
a heroism and courage as undaunted as if
every girlish tear had not been kissed away
by lips that, alas may be dust when the
baptism and WOmanhood comes upon her.
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A CompIVment "a whIttIer.

The London Athengum, which abuses
American books on principle, and does not
soy good werd for our authors when IL
can help IL, can not say any thing but
praise Of Mr.. Whittiers last volume, Home
Ballads and Poems" The English critics
usually 80 surly, says:
Here is poetry worth waiting for, poet
worth listening TO. Mr.. Whittier may not
ascend any lofty hill of vision, but he is
clearly seer according 10 his range. His
song is simple and sound, sweet and strong.
We take up his book as Lord Bacon liked
to take up the bit of fresh earth, wet with
morning and fragrant with wine. II has
the healthy smell of Yankee soil with the
wine of fancy poured over it. We get
gush of prairie breeze, weird whispers from
the dark and eeric belts Of pine, watts Of
of the salt sea winds wsnderingi inland, su-
perb scents of the starred magnolias and
box-tree blossoming white. We hear the low
of cattle, the buSzing of bees, the lusty song
of the huskers, brown and ruddy, the
drunken laughter of the jolly bob-o-link.
Here are green memorials of the New
Worlds spring of promise, golden meme
autumn is poured into the overfowing lap
of man; we see the white horns tossing
over the farm yard wall, the cock growing
in the sun with his comb glowing o most
vital red, the brown gable of the old barn,
roses running up the caves of the swallow
haunted homestead the June sun "tangling
his wings Of fire. in the network of green
leaves, the aroma by the river lighting up
the swarming shad, the river full of sun
shine, with the bonny blue above the blithe
blink of sea in the distance, and many q
sight and sound of vernal life country
cheer. No American has more of the home
made and home -brewed than Mr.. Whittier.
His poetry is not filtered from the German
Helican; it is spring fresh from New
World Nature and we gladly welcome its
"sprightly runnings."
Our Yankee bard is among poets what
Mr.. Bright is among the peace men. He
has the soul of some old Norseman bat
toned up under the Quaker's coat and the
great bursts of heart will often peril the
hold of the buttons, while the speaker,
with all his native energy and q manly
mouth is preaching brotherly love and
driving il in"
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Cincinnati September IL, 1861.
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visit to a Turklsh Harcm.

The Jerusalem correspondent of the Bos-
ton Traveller thus describes visit recently
made to Turkish Harem, in company with
Miss Frederika Bremen, the popular Swed-
ish authoress:
Miss Bremen having expressed wish to
visit Turkish harem, gladly accompanied
her to the house of some of my old acquaint-
ances, who were reioiced to see me after my
long absence, and Immediately ordered the
slaves to prepare O feast of the most elab-
crate kind in honor, no doubt, Of their dis
tinguished visitor; for, on our entrance,
had told them of the widespread fame of
the lady to whom l had just introduced
them. The napkins accompanying the deli
cious shebert, which was handed to us by
slaves as soon as we had taken our seats,
were fringed and embroidered in gold,
and the little table on which the refresh
ments were spread were inlaid with pearl
Many European articles of furniture had
been introduced into this house, among
which were bedsteads, mirrors, and arm
chairs. Miss Bremen asked them many
questions, and their replies betOkened more
enlightenment than 1 have anywhere else
found among the tabooed occupants of the
harem. On asking what would become Of
them after death, they replied, that " they
could not read, and therefore had never
seen what the Koran said about the matter
but their husband had always taught them
that the good would go to Paradise, while
the wicked would be doomed to punishment"
So much for having associated with Euro
peans: for in their immediate neighbor-
hood are several English and Prussian fam
lilies with whom they are quite intimate.
Indeed, to such an extent were they follow
ing the example Of the ladies of these fami-
lies, whose liberty they no doubt greatly
envy, that on conducting us to the top of
their house, they ventured to peep over the
parnpet into the street below, but on seeing
their dreaded lord and master approach,
their old fears returned-the greatest con-
sternation was exhibited, and darting with
lightning speed into their rooms, they seated
themselves on the divan, and having drawn
from their girdles strings of beads, they
leisurely commenced passing them between
their fingers, muttering their prayers in a
slow and solemn manner. 1t is useless to
say that the dolefnl and sanctimonious
manner in which they greeted their hus-
bands gave him no cause to suspect the
horrible offense of which they had been
guilty. o..
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A STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL FIsH.-The
Museum Aquaria have been further en-
riched by the accession of new and rare
specimen, taken in net from the bottom
of the Gulf of Mexico. 1t is called the
paradise Fish," and may rank, among the
mysterious inhabitants Of the deep, in the
same position that his feathered namesake
takes in the tropical woods. The paradise
Fish" seems to delight in exhibiting his
beauties, for he constantly moves to and fro,
presenting all the prismstic hues, exceeding
in their iridescent luster the finest mother of
pearl. He is a semi transparent ,fat-sided
creature, of geometrical proportions most
unusual in fish being exactly square in
shape, Of which one corner moves foremost,
and is entirely monopolized by his mouth.
To the corners, pointing up and down re-
spectiVely, number of gilded and changing
plumes one foot long are attached, making,
as the fish turns about, a constant exhibi.
ton of fine flowing lines of beauty. The
paradise Fish" is so rare fellow that the
curious should not delay obtaining sight
of him, lest he might suddenly take it into
his scaly head to "kick the bucket" and
cheat the great Snowman of his latest nov
city, and the public of a new sensation.
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SALT FROM THE SEA.-A correspondent of
a Philadelphia paper communicates the fol-
lowing:
Many years since Fennell, a distinguished
tragedian of his day, projected a plan for
making salt from sea-water by solar evapora-
ton, and if | remember Alright, works were
erected at Cape Henlopen for the purpose,
but from some cause the scheme fell through,
probably from the want of business capacity
to carry out the plan. Sea water contains in
general 2.7 per cent. of salt, and there are
various ways of evaporating it, well known
TO chemists. Salt thus obtained is called
Ebay salt" 1t is obvious that the sea-water
used should be as far from river-water as pos
sible, as the sea-water diluted by that of a
river would render the evaporation more
tedious and expensive.
The use of anthracite coal as a fuel for the
evaporating furnaces would be more reliable
than evaporations by the sun, and the coal
could be taken by the vessels which go for
the salt. There is a constant and increasing
demand for salt upon which we are now
mainly dependent on foreign countries, and
in the event of war with Great Britian the
supply would be cut off. This should induce
our people to manufacture for themselves,
and be independent of foreign supply.
Salt is very extensively used in Scotland
and in England in the manufacture of the
impure carbonate of soda, the quantity of
which used in the arts is enormous. Mr..
Musprat, an extensive manufacturing chemist
of Glasgow, states that in one year alone
fifty thousand tuns of soda ash, and twenty
thousand tuns of crystalized carbonate of
soda were manufactured in Great Britain, and
the demand was constantly increasing. Salt
enters very largely in the composition of
these articles, and when we have extensive
salt-works in our own country, we can make
these articles also, immense quantities of
which are now imported.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-27

"Venerable Joe" thus bitterly "lets on"
about the girls Joe must have been Tilted
at some time by one of the coquetish little
misses-thats clear. But hear him :
Love-" observed Venerable Joe, sarcastic-
ally, Gloves imposition. There's been
more people imposed upon by that are word
than by all the professional swindlers in
natur. It's a gros, universal himposi-
ton; and it's on'y very wonderful to me
that it ain tlong ago expunged. A gal says
she loves yer. Very well; but are you
consequently obligated to make a fool of
yourself2 No; you've only got your hip
sey-dixey, and vots the good O. that
Marry her, and you'll very soon see cow
sweets the love as meets return But about
that, look ear on'y just for hinstance; a
gal loves a sojer-vich they all do; it's
reg lar; he's private, still she loves i'm
O. hout, AN houtl Very well; don't yer
think she'd give i'm up for hofficer? In
course she wood And why2 Why, cos it
nd be- better chance. Has for love, it's
the wickedest, the swindlinist himposition
as is. The chances is vot gals look out for.
The on'y question with them is, I" Is it a
good chance2' Ifit is, they'll have it if
it amt, they wont, unless they can't get
nothing better. It's the deadest take in, is
that love, ever heerd on; deader do never
was hinwented. You take my advice, and
don't be fooled. Veneyer you hear the
word love, always view it as gros himpo-
sition. Hif yer don't you'll be done, and
on'y find out the difference ven it's too late.
Look at me just for instance. was sixty
two in Jannewerry last; look at that
Sixty-two and l amt done yet. I'm in
wited to all the parties. Pm never forgot.
There's the old uns as is single a-hoglin' on
me reg'lar; and the old uns as is married,
settin their darters upon me it I'D be
such chancel and all in course, COS I'm
single. Why, dyer think they care about
my company provided l vos married Does
it stand at ali to reason they'd invite me
as they do, hif they didn't believe I was
yet to be done2 Not a bit of it not if l
vas worth matter O. fifty times more than /
ham. But as it is--as I've allus escaped
the himposition-there am l. never missed,
allus thought on, looked up to and respected,
yieh, let me tell you, is very great ad-
vantage" - a-a- - =.
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Or the Chinese Emperor every one, even
those Of his own chamber, stand in the
greatest imaginable awe, and in no pretext
does any one ever address him save with
the use of all his, grand and glorious titles.
II is the etiquette in the Chinese courts for
the Emperors physician to apply the same
titles to his diseases as to himself, and ac-
cordingly they talk of His High and
Mighty Stomach, ellis Imperial and God
like Dyspepsia" and "His Eternal and
Eeyer-ending Diptheria."