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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-05-03

We clip the extract below from n
long correspondence in relation to the
Cincinnati Convention, which met yes
tcrday. Its interesting as regards two
Of the prominent aspirant5 for the Pres
Idcniial nomination:
Nothing is quccrcr than the pcrvcrSi.
ties Of political parties, Here is TrunI-
bull, n Democrat by cduactOn, prciu-
dice aud long public service, under
standing the Democratic doctrine and
subscribing to il rs implicitly rs Mr.
Hendricks or Coy. Seymour: vet be.
cause he left the Douglas party IN 1871
and organized that celebrated anti-Nc-
braska revolt and took the lead, rs ut
present, in framing the laws for rcor-
ganiIing the Republic. he has but do2-
en- or twenty Democrats OfnOtc IN Con-
grcss behind him, although TO day he is
more Of u democrat ut heart than n Re-
publican. lie believes in less than Il
low tariff, State rights and also what
are called the reforms which now All
tate the country. He voted against
JohnSon's conviction, and spent months
seeking 70 get that old Democrat,
Joshua Hill, into the Senate. TO this
the Democrats in Congress reply:
"TrumbulI is II good man. but we
don't want to 90 into the campaign
with fourteen years Of record in the
Senate against us, If he had the best re-
cord Of all the Republicans, aud had
been that long in the Senate. there
would be so many flaws in his record
that we could not 20 before our Dem
ocraiic constituencies and smooth them
out"
On the other hand. Davis is an old
Wing. He has been in the habit Of be-
licving moderately in protection. Fed
cral authority and the traditions Of Clay
and Hamilton. When Lincoln made
Davis a Justice he spoiled n Wing, and
That sturdy old gcntlcman's inclinations
have for the last four years. been setting
in towards the Democratic party. rath-
or from cardinal INDIGNATION than from
any wcilgroundcd affection for JciI'cr-
Sonian principles. Davis isa Democrat,
rs taras he can be called Democrat.
from his new associations mainly and
the education Of the supreme bench.
Trnmbull was Il Democrat from his
mothers milk. And yet to-day the
Democratic party is up everywhere for
Davis. When he wrote the Milligan
and HoWlcS decision, he struck chord
in the Democratic breast, and one chord
at II time in the Democratic breast. is
II, i,ln ,,,l, IL, :,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-05-03

TIE New York Hcr0H predicts that
either Palmer, OF Illinois. or Graft
Brown, of Missouri, will be the Cincin-
matt nominee.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-05-03
Eruption OF VcSHviuS.


oi'' q the most fearful crup'lonS that
has occurred for years commenced on
thc 18Th, Tho frs, rcuorts onnourcod
Observation-Disclosures -, .,,,,.....,l,.,.
Wv y " ~" ''I " ,'''N'' anu '''''''c'S
.! 'h' 'aVa' ANA the destruction OF many
lives. Later accounts. however, show
that the loss of life was moi halras orco,
a.. o., fr,, e,o,ol 1,,o r,o n
49,, ''''' '''"' ''''''
VI Tue -''h says
Telegram from Minister Lana states
that only twelve persons have thus far
been Killed, and twelve injured by the
lunnln" lava. The villages Of san Sa-
oaNllano and MasSadizomma have been
almost entirely DESTROYED Int fine i'm.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-05-03

THIS far the President has approved
thirty-thrcc bills originating in the SEN
ate and one hundred aud twenty in the
House.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-05-03
Convenient,

The Methodist Church has built on
the line separating Ohio and Pcnnsyl.
vanIa, So that the preacher stands in
Ohio and disrourscs to congregation
in Pennsylvania, aud which is said to be
very convenient on nuptial occasions
especially for parties who elopc. as no
license is required in the Keystone
State.
We have heard it suggested that Col.
John ID. Lowry will probably be the
Republican candidate to represent Me-
Mimi in the lower branch of the next
General Assembly.
y DATE from Salt Lake says forty-iivc
prisoners, including twenty-four arrest
ed for murder, are about being released
under a decision of the Supreme Court
LOUISVILLE, MAY live mounted
men robbed the Deposit Bank ut CO.
lumbia, Adair county. after killing the
Cashier. The citizens are following the
gang and will lynch them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-05-03
(hnttAnOOra.

About every fourth man in Chatta-
nooga is named for Congress, and each
because Of his avowcl capacity TO serve
the peculiar interests of the immense
territory embraced in the corporate linn
its of that city. Would it be il order TO
ask our friends down that way to cult
waite little moderation! 1t i, n big
town, and numbers among its popula-
ton many gentlemen of heavy mental
calibrc and long intellectual range, but
there are fifteen or sixteen other coun-
ties in the District besides Hamilton.
and Chattanooga surely don't want all
the spoils-thc Supreme Judgcship,
Congressman, Chancellor, District Flee
tor, and so ON.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-05-03
The Liberals Of this Section.

We assure the Athcnian cOrrcspon-
ATHENS POsT ALWAYS means what it
SAYS, and sometimes good deal more
than the mental eye Of the casual reader
will catch at the first glance. The con-
ncction in which we employed the term
Liberal Republican" wa, no, susccpti-
bic OF misrepresentation. We are, how
ever, glad TO learn that ~ great MAORI
" Of the Republicans OF thi, section of
Tennessee desire some of the reform.
demanded by the Cincinnati Liberals"
As the most plausible and efficient way
to obtain and secure reforms ofanv Kind
is through the parties who propose them
and make their necessity aud accom-
pliShmcnt the guiding star of their faith
and action, of course we shall have the
Republicans of this section voting next
November for the Cincinnati nominees.
II would be folly to expect any reforms
through Gen. Grant. That distinguish
ed military chicitain and diminutivc
civilian is unable to reform himself
much less to work any reforms in the
government. The Athcnian corrcspon.
dnnt should have gone to Cincinnati BY
all means. That was his opportunity.
1t is apity he missed it.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

A DEAF AND DUNE MoTuER.-Ntarv.
Countess Of Orkney, in Scotland, was
both deaf and dumb. She. was married
by signs. Shortly after the birth of her
first child, tho nurse, with considerable
astonishment, saw the mother cautiously
approach the cradle in which the infant
was sleeping, evidently full Of some deep
design. The countess, having perfectly
assured herself that the child really slept,
raised an immense stone which she had
concealed under her shawl. and, to the
horror Of the nurse, who was an Irish
woman, and like all persons Of the lower
orders IN her country, and, indeed, in
most countries, was fully impressed with
an idea Of the peculiar cunning and ma
lightly Of " dumbics," lifted it with mn
apparent intent to fling it down yehe-
mently. Before the nurse could inter-
pose, the countess had flung the stone
not, however; rs the servant had appre-
hcnded, ut the child, but on the floor,
whore, Of course, it made great noise.
The child Immediately awoke and cried.
The countess, who had looked with ma
tcrnal eaRorness to the result of her ex-
pertinent, fell on her knees in transport
ofjoy. She had discovered that her child
possessed the senses which were deficient
in herself She exhibited on many other
occasions similar proofs Of Intelligence,
but none so interesting.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

SEEING THE Sun AT MIDNIGHT.-In
July, 1860, tho Hon. j. IL. Campbell, L.
). Minister to Norway, with party Of
American gentlemen, went far enough
north to see the sun ut midnight. Ii was
go degrees north latitude, and they as
ccnded cliff 200 feet above the Arctic
sea. The scene is thus described: "It
was late, but still sunlight The Arctic
ocean stretched away in silent vastness
at our feet the sound of the waves scarce
~ reached our airy lookout away in tho
north the huge old sun swung along the
horizon like n slow beat of the tall clock
IN our grondlother's parlor-comer. We
all stood silent, looking at our watches.
When both hands came together at II,
midnight, the full round orb hung tri-
umphantly above the wavos-a bridge Of
gold running due north gspanglod the
waters between us and him. There he
shone in silent majesty which knew no
setting. We involuntarly took off our
hats-no word was said. Combine the
most brilliant sunrise you ever saw, and
its beauties will be pale before the gor-
geous coloring which lit up the ocean,
heaven, and mountain. In half an hour
the sun had swung up perceptibly in its
beat, the colors changed to those of
morning, fresh breeze ripplod over tho
lorid sen, one eongster after another
piped up out of the grove behind us
we had slid into another day"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

CASE OF DIR. HoUARD. On the 18th
of December, 1870, DR.. Houard was ar
rested by the Spanish authorities for par
ticipation in the insurection, was after
ward tried, convicted, sentenced, and
imprisoned. He appealed to the United
States for its interposition in his behalf,
claiming to be a native-born citizen. On
inquiry, the State Department ascertaned
that he was born in the United States in
1878 /; that his father was a native French
man, who was naturalized as a citizen of
the United States about 1903 that when
DR.. Houard was five years of age, as he
alleges, his father emigrated, as a colo
mist, with his son and other members of
his family, to Cienfuegos, Cuba, and con-
tinued to reside there until the day of his
death that the son (Dr. Houard) also
continued to reside in Cuba until the day
of his arrest, nearly fifty years, with the
exception of three or four years while he
was attending college in Philadelphia.
Immediately of his graduation in Phila-
delphia he returned to Cuba, commenced
the practice of medicine, married and
brought up a family Of native Cubans.
1t is not shown that he ever resided in
the United States other than as a student,
after his fifth or seventh year that he
ever did business, held property, voted,
paid taxes, or did any act indicating
bona fde citizenship in this country.
The utmost that can be said in favor Of
his citizenship is that he was born here,
and the Spanish Government are unable
to prove his formal naturalization rs Il
Spanish subject.
On the other hand, the Spanish author
tiles insist that his father became sub
ject of Spain while his son was n minor /;
that under Spanish as well as American
laws the minor child follows the national
ty of his father; that after his majority
he did not abandon the citizenship in
Cuba thus acquired that if an admitted
citizen of the United States while resid-
ing in Cuba, he was amenable to their
laws and that, having been found guilty
Of crime by the courts, he must suffer the
penalty Of his otlense like other residents.
In this condition of the controversy
Secretary Fish insisted on Dir. Houard's
release, and the WOrtd says the Spanish
Government, without yielding the point
of their right to punish him, agreed to
release him, and have, in fact, set him
free, as an act of comfy, Now, in the
name of common sense, what difference
does it make to the United States what
the Speniards call it-whether an act Of
comfy or an act Of justice? Having
done what our Government requested,
ought we not to be contented Is it
necessary that this Government should
insist on the formal humiliation of Spain?
Washington Chronicle.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03
WEAVERV1ILE CALIFORNIA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1872
THE OPEN POLAR SEA.

The open Polar Sea must be discovered
soon, if at all. At least, so argues a wri-
ter in the Nature, (an English periodical)
who believes that sea will soon cease to
exist. Land is said to be rising every
where between the pole and the ffty-sev-
enth parallel, and the greatest movement
is at the pole itself. Some interesting
facts are quoted ih support of this theory.
Pliny said that Scandinavia was an ar
chipelago, and spoke of bold seamen who
had crcumnavigated the group of islands.
Ptolemy confirmed the statement. Ce-
lesius said, in the seventeenth century,
that Norway is rising at the rate of four
inches year. Sir Charles Lyell endors-
es the theory. The water level in the
Gulf of Bothnia falls one foot every ff-
teen years. Near Geae are low pastures
where old men remember se0ing boats
atloat, Near Stockholm, seventy feet
above the level of the sea the remains of
shell-dsh identical with the present coast
species are found. At Soduleige, ninety
feet above high water, there is bed of
sand which contains some wrecked boats
and an old anchor. In tho interior of
Spitzbergen skeletons Of whales have
been unearthed above sea level. The
fisherman say that the land has risen so
much that the shallowness Of the water
had driven away the right whale, which,
once abundant, is now rarely seen. On
the Pacific, the shores around Behring's
Straits are low and flat, but, mile or two
back, there are ranges Of bluffs, parallel
with the coast, and containing innumora-
bic shells Of the littoral species. II the
theory is true, it offers us curious case
OF compensation. While the ocean is
washing away Great Britain, France,
Holland and New England, away to the
north the continents are encroachng on
the sea. The only thing to regret is that
the process cannot be reversed, and Nep-
tune enriched at the expense Of the frozen
North, and to the gain of the more habit
able South.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

WEALTH OF THE ANcIEYTs,-Speak-
ing Of wealth, what are Astor, Stewart,
or the Rothschilds, compared to Ptoemy
Philadelphus, of Egypt, who amassed
$3.50, 600, 600! Mr.. Stewards new house
in Fifth Avenue may have cost 100000;
yet Clodius paid $3.50, 600 for his "brown
stone front" on the Palatine, while Mes
sala gave 81, 100000 for the house of An
tony. Seneca, who was plain philoso-
pher, was worth Sl2, 900, 600; and Tiberius
left Sl20,000,0O0. But Mare Antony
whew! When he was young gentle
man, and before becoming member OF
any "ring," he owed Sl4 900 900, and
purchased the friendship of Quesor for
s2,5O0,0O0. This, however, was nothing,
for before he got through he squandered
$72O,OOO, 900 of the public money!
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

THE SUN.-A correspondent of the
Oneida CfFcHiar says that Prof Young,
Of Dartmouth, in II recent lecture at New
Haven upon thegrcat luminary, impaired
much information. The theory which
he most seemed to favor respecting the
suns constitution he illustrated very sim
ply thus : Put pail Of water in n room,
the temperature Of which is below the
freezing point; the temperature Of the
water settles slowly till it reaches 32 deg.
and there remains till every drop is frozen.
The sun may be quantity Of merely
gaseous matter, which is gradually liquo-
tying, and accordingly will not change its
temperature until this process is entirely
accomplished ; then the temperature will
fall, perhaps thousands of degrees, till
solidficaton begins, when it will again
remain stationary. One authority be-
lioyes the sun to be surrounded with n
liquid coat already, and the sun spots are
places where the surrounding metallic
clouds have opened, and we sec the liquid
surface below it. The theory that the
suns heat is kept up by matter constantly
falling into it, he doubts,--arguing that
if such masses Of matter existed outside
of the sun, they would exert some slight
influence on the surrounding planets, no
evidence Of which is discernibc.
Speaking Of iron, no said That If the
word were written in great letters across
the suns face, the proof Of its existence
there would not be 80 satisfactory as that
afforded by the spectrum. He pointed
out lines in the spectrum mndo by metals
which exist in the sun, though entirely
unknown to us.
lie gave several Illustrations of the
heat of the sun. fla pillar Of ice cover
ing nine square miles extended from the
earth to the sun, and all the heat Of the
htter should be directed upon it, the
whole mass would be melted in exactly
one second. If an icicle forty-iivc miles
in diameter were to be thrust in the sun
with the velocity Of light, say twelve
million miles II minute, it could never
touch the sun it would melt as fast as IL
came. StiIl physicists are as yet unable
to determine the exact temperature, one
placing il at $1,000 deg. Fahr., another
at 20, 600, ,000-some difference.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

An EEoRMoUs ROBBERY. "A letter
from DeBeers in the African diamond
diggings, has the following: son May
8, the post for Cape Town was exceeding
" valuable. 1t is difficult TO say how
valuable. 1t is certain that it contained
six pounds weight of diamonds, and the
value Of this, with the money orders,
bank notes, and other currency, is roughly
estimated at from 100000 to 5000.
The mails were made up and heaped by
n window only fastened by II bolt, without
the security Of shutters or rods. The
Postmaster was absent from his Office
about ten minutes, during which time II
pane Of glass was taken out OF the win
dow, the bolt drawn back, the window
opened, and the bag walked off with. An
amateur detective force, hundreds strong,
was at once organized, and commenced
searching for the thief. The post was
detained for some hours, but all in vain.
Not the slightest clew had the robber
left behind him, and it is questionable
whether, after the long start he had nc
will ever be found.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

REV. Mr.. Dye, of Fairfield county,
Conn, was travelling through Western
Ohio, mounted on tall, lank and raw
boned animal "a good frame to build Il
horse ON, when he came to the junction
of two roads, and not knowing which
might lead him TO his destination, asked
II ragged, dirty looking urchin, which of
the two roads would lead him to W.
The boy in a rough and uncouth manner,
said, Who are you, old fellow ?" Mr..
Dye, being greatly astonished at the
child's inciyility, replied, "My son,
am follower Of the Lord" "a follow
er Of the Lord, eh? Well, it makes
mighty little difference which road you
take, you'll never catch him with that
hoss. ."-Iemperdace Staadard.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1872.
OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

Over and over again,
No matter which way l turn,
always find in the Book of Life
Some lessons have to learn.
must take my turn at the mill,
l must grind out the golden grain,
l must work at my task with resolutC
will
Over and over again.
We cannot measure the need
OF even the tiniest flower,
Nor check the flow of the golden sand
That runs through single hour,
But the morning dew must fall
And the sun and the Summer rain
Must do their part and perform it all
Over and over again.
Over and over again
The brook through the meadow flows
And over again and over again
The pondorous mill wheel goes;
Once doing will not suffice,
Though doing be not in vain;
And blessing, failing us once or twice
May come if we try again.
The path that has once been trod
Is never so rough to our feet;
And lesson we once have learned,
Is never 50 hard to repeat.
Though sorrowful tears may fall,
And the heart to It's depth be rivcn
With storms and tempest, we need then
all
To render us meet for heaven.
The household.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03
THE ROMAN MALARIA.

n French writer about Italy says that
he once met a poor family of peasants
driven by the malaria to seek at Rome
gratuitous death in the hospital. The
husband walked first, his head buried in
his cloak; he had struggled to the last
moment against his invisible assailant,
but implacable nature had conquered.
The young wife followed him, faded by
suffering, dying, and carrying upon her
bosom dying child she went on me-
chanically, needless of the way, to deposit
her burden in grave and rest beside it.
Man still persists to wiring out harvests
from tracts in this fatal soil. During tho
first Autumnal rains peasant army de-
sconds the SABINE mountains, under the
guidance of the piflorari. The farmers
enroll these moving columns and send
them in battalions to their districts; these
battalions sometimes attach a hundred
plows in order to turn up the earth moro
rapidly. The day ended, they sleep on
the ground, and the next morning regain
the frontier Nine months after they
come back to the harvest,tbut this time
it is to n veritable field of battle, the corn
is reapcd more hastily than it was sowr,
and when they have tied the sheaves, the
laborers receive their salary and return
home. But all do not return there are
some who, in the first hours of their la
Dor, totter and drop, turn towards their
mountains last look, and wrap their
faces in their mantes aud a few DAYS
afterwards the pious brothcrhoods pass
over the plains to bury the dead fallen in
the harvest field Of battle London Ec.
0Nillry.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03
TRINITY COUNTY.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
COURT TERMS

District COurt-Second Monday in April,
August and December.
County COurt-First Monday in Janu-
ary, March, May, July, September aHd No
vember.
Probate Ceurt--(Same as County Court. }
Board of SupervisOrs-Firs Monday
February, May, August and November.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

Ir keeps poor Whitelaw Reid busy
nowadays taking back what Mr.. Gree
ley has said in past days, and explainin-
what is not altogether retracted, while
Horace himself has lost his temper and
says he won't answer any more Internal
letters.-Ec.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

WHILE the valuation Of PROPERTY has
been trebled throughout the State under
the new assessment law, there has been
no set effort made to secure general
reduction of assessments outside OF San
Franciso. The wealthy men Of that city
are very earnest in their efforts to avoid
the payment Of their just amount of
taxes.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03
LINES OF TRAVEL AND EXPRESS.

Canon City, Junction City and Weas
vervilIe Express and Passenger hine
c. W. DAY, Proprietor. beaves Weaver every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning
returns on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Hay Fork and WeaverviIIe Pass
en%er and Express Line. j, KELLOGG
Proprietor Weekly. Leaves Hay Fork on
Monday morning of each weeks leaves W Wea-
yer Tuesday morning of each week.
u. y. Mail and Express Line, from
WeaVerviIIe TO Arcata, JOHN CLIFF
EORD, Proprietor. Leaves Weaver every
Thursday morning. Leaves Arcata, every
Monday morning.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

A YOUNG gentleman recently created
quite sensation while reading to circle
young ladies a poetic effusion ITO
beautiful Belle" by pronouncing the
last word in two sYllables.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

Acknowledging that we have been in
the wrong is only showing to the world
that we are wiser to day than we were
yesterday.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03

A METHODIST church in Madison,
Wis, lately got up an excursion to
"Deyil's Lake"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-03
TRINITY JOURNAL
OUR AGENTS

THOs. BOYCE. Room No. 30. New
Merchants Exchange Building, San Fran
cisco, is our only authorized agent in that city
NEW YORK :-Hudson & Menet, fl Park
Row Geo. p. Rowell & Co., 40 Park Row S.
NJ. Pettingill & Co., 81 Park Row.
The Republican journal., 1872-10-10
The Alabama Claims.

Mr.. John A. Parker. whose prominent
position among underwriters and in com
mercal circles is we'll known, writes an
interesting letter relative to the disllbu-
ton of the Geneva award which is pub
lshed in the Boston Post of Saturday.
Mr.. Parker shows that the award is ample
to cover the claims for deprelations by
the Alabama, Florida and Shenandoah.
with interest. He assumes S17, ,765 ,O65
OF claims now filed in the State Depart
ment will be cut down to at least SILL
100000, which with interest for nine wears,
amounts to $40, 900 The Sl5, 900 900
in gold awarded is equivalent to $3.50,
900 IN currency, which, it is seen, more
than covers the amour. OF the claims.
Mr.. Parker considers that the whole Of
this sum belongs to the individual claim
ants, and that the Government will charge
nothing for its expenses in the arbitration