The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-05
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, OoT, 5, 1855.
NEW York, Sept. 26.

NEW YORK, sept. 70.
The Governor of Connecticut has removed
the Adjutant General for neglccting to dis
band the Irish Military companies
BosToN, Sept. &c.
The Wings had meeting and appointed
delegates to the State Convention. Speeches
were made opposing the Fusion and in favor
of straight whig ticket.
The news from Norfolk is cheering. Cool
weather is having favorable effect. The
first frost occurred on the oath.
The Know Nothing and Hard Shells Of
New York have made State nominations
The Wing Convention is still engaged with
preliminarirs. They are al well attended
a3Ey" A committee of the late Lexington
(Mo) Convention have issued nm address to
the people of the United States. Itdenounces
the emigration from the Eastern States un-
der the aid of societies, rs without precedent
and dangerous calculated TO defeat the true
intent of the Nebraska bill. 1t declares that
Missouri will take the position that the rejec-
ton of Kansas us slave State will be the
grossest insult to the South, and an unequi-
vocal step towards dissolution.
Among the signatures is that of Judge
Napton. Gov. King refused to sign it,
ezY- 1t is said that Pennsylvania now pro-
duces as much iron us was manufactured in
all Great Britain thirty years ago. as much as
the present manufacture in France more
than Russia and Sweden united; and more
than that of all Germany.
f9Y- JAS NJ. Drake has recovered in the
Court of Common Pleas, New York, $4,000
damages against the Harlem Rail Road
Company, being the amount advanced by
him on fraudulent shares by Kyle, the late
transfer clerk of said company
w Many of the traders in New York,
decline to take the new American quarters
for more than "a cents. A writer in the Jour
nal of Commerce, calls upon the public to re-
sist this eytortion. He argues that "the lc-
gal coin of the country" has n just claim to
pass for what is stamped on the face in dis.
tnct figures. 1t is fraud to extort per
cent and ought to be resisted.
New York, Sept 23.-The Washington
correspondent of the Herald states that the
Provisional Government of Mexico have
found documents relating to negotiations be-
tween Santa Anna and Gen. Gadsden for
another Mexican Land Treaty. The new
Government repudates the whole matter,
and Gen. Gadsden declares the reputation n
breach Of national faith.
IMPORTANT IF TRUE.-We are credibly
informed from Washington that the Presi-
dent has "marked out the line of policy he is
to pursue in his message to Congress in De-
ccmber." Squatters of Kansas and "border
rnilians," do you hear that!
THEN AND Now.-The N. Y. Express says
When Solon Borland was prominent actor
in n not very creditable disturbance at Grey
town, the Washington Union, we remember,
was one of his sturdiest defenders. And, to |
avcnge The Insult of having bottle thrown
Mt his head, (by mistake) did not the Admin
istration send off Commodore Hoskns, to
lay Greytown in ashes!
All that was fifteen or eighteen months
since.
BorIand, rs il now appears, has manfully
resolved on atoning for past dcrelictions, by
repudiOting 'sham Democracy" and confess.
ing the creed of the American party. The
Union" therefore, turns upon him and calls
MN all sorts Of names-"ingrate," "deser.
Ter" &c. &c. Just like the Union!
The VICTORIES OF THE PREss.-Much
has already been accomplished in more than
people are aware, so gradual and silent has
been the advance How noiseess is the
growth of corn! Watch it night and day for
week and YOU will never see it growing
but return after two months and YOU will find
1t all whitening for the harvest. Such, and
so lmperccptible in the stages OF their mo-
lion, are the victories of the press.
HrNRY CLAY,-Thcre is good deal of
point in the following paragraph which we
quote from that excellent paper the Frank
Tort (ky9 Commonwealth:
Among the toasts drank at ;hc dinner
gwen 10 Gov Powell at Louisville, was one
orIy rr'snry Clay, the bold and eloquent advocate
,, ", tN'l and religious liberty" This will do
I,r',G wen Tor company mainly composed
o,J'S "S 'SoHers OF party which by calumny ,
sN''u9eu ienIy Clay from the Presidency he ,
,T ,p ''i,,oen'ly deserved, and pursued him to
sh .ho gI"vS w, WIN loathsome ISLANDERS. We
Snou'u ,i ''Se TO Know whether the old demo-
or",'e n. leaders who drank that toast, but who
lew years ago were accustomed to de-
hGunse i",,e Henry Clay rs the embodiment of all
,n.yultes' personal and political, private and
p"I,w' regard themselves as slOnderers then
or hypocritos nov?
.g lhe American vote in Texas, as far
as ,s, heard from, exceeds the Whig vote in !