The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, JAN. .1e, 1858.


GovcRYoR OF MIssoURI's MEssAG E.-The
Governors message was sent to the Legisa.
ture Friday. 1t states that the balance in the
Treasury Of that State on the lst of October,
was $235,0O0; he recommends its application
to the payment of the outstanding debts.-
He also recommends an extension of the
charter of the Bank of Missouri, and allow
that corporation to increase its capital to
$5OOO,OOO.
He favors additional aid to rail roads in the
State aud discountenances all new rail road
schemes until those now in progress are com
pleted. lie recommends the enactment of
law imposing an additional school tax, in
stead of appropriating portion Of the sur
plus funds of the State treasury.
He INDUCES in the hope that the Great
Pacific rail road will pass through the State,
and endorses, in the meantime the great mail
route as at present established, and the Pa
cifc telegraph scheme.
OF Congress, it is said, will make an at.
tempt TO revise the Tariff next week. There
is a steady falling off at all the Custom
Houses, and the entire reduction for the
present fiscal year, compared with the past, it
is also said, will reach Sl6,0OO,OOO, or SI7-
100000. One of the Philadelphia correspon-
dents writes, in reference TO this contemplated
change, MS follows:
at is understood that a general order has
been issued by Mr.. Guthrie, addressed to the
party in the House, through Mr.. Houston,
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and
Means, directing the work of revision to begin
Immediately after the holidays. No bill for
any general change can be carried through
without res0rting to the arbitrary and tyran.
Meal measure of enforcing the previous ques-
ton. The friends of the tariff rs it is, until
it can be superseded by an net better adapted
to the altered state of the country, and mark.
ed by more decidedly protective features, will
resist this course of proceeding with all their
power, and are preparing themselves with
facts and arguments to demonstrate the inu
tilily of any action on the subject at this ime
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.
The Senate to-day discussed bill granting
bounty to certain officers aud soldiers
The House of Representatives debated the
bill of last session to graduate the price of
public lands.
The President of the United States sent in
amessage giving his reasons for vetoing the
Internal Improvement bill.
New York. Jan. 2.
Messrs. Wadsworth d Sheldon, Bankers of
20 Wall St. and IS Exchange Place. have sus-
pended payment. Their liabilities are said to
be s2,5O0,00o. Their assets however proba-
bly, exceed that amount 100000.
New ORLEANS, Jan. l.
A riot occurred in this city on Saturday
evening among some lrishmen, in the course
of which, four were cut-there mortaly. Two
persons were arrested
In Boston on Thursday the Freesoilers
Of Massachusetts, assembled for the purpose
of debating the propriety of sustaining a sep
arate and independent political organization
of the party. A variety of speeches were
made and resolutions to that effect adopted.
They repudiate the Know Nothngs. Mr.. C. |
+. Adams and Stephen c. Phillips were
prominent movers in favor of the distinctive
prect
eB- There nre sixty one houses "to let
on Broadway, New York This is the best
commentary on the signs of the times in the 4,
mercantile department of New York.
cB Reports are current in Washington, |
that some of the leading democrats there con-
gregated, are moving to secure the next Pres.
idential nomination of the party for Senator .
II. NJ. T. Hunter of Virginia.
eB- At Troy N. Y. winslow, Corning 4
Co.'S iron works have been closed and 500 |
men thrown out of employ. To day, il is !
stated, the iron works of Mr.. Burden of the
same place will be closed for a month, when
they will be resumed, If the hands consent TO .
reduction oil wages ifnot, they will remain
closed, and 500 men be unemployed.
eS-The Cincinnati Gazette of Wednesday
says that Arrison, the torpedo man, is rapidly !
failing in health, and begins to exhibit in his .
features hopelessnes Of escape from the sem
tence which hangs over him. The Gazette :
adds; Almost daily he is visited IN his cell I
by young lady to whom it is iatimated he
is betrothed. Their conversation, although Of b
confidential character, is had in the pres
ence of the Jailor Mclean. Efforts are being
made to discover the person who was so skill
ful in making the machine.