The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-12

present crisis in the business affairs of the
country:
The cry Of Hard Times reaches us from
every part Of the country. The making oil
roads is stopped and the road-makers, de
prived OF wages, cannot buy cloth or shoes
The building of houses is rapidly coming to 4
close, and will be absolutely closed so soon
as those now in course of construction are
cOmpleted-for of them, there are few that
eoDld this day be sold except at loss OF 20
or 80 per cent, OF perhaps much more
1hencetorward, the carpenters, brick-layers,
and laborers will be in the same condition as
the road-makers. The building of ships must
stop, for ships can only now be sold at enor-
nous loss and theneeforward the ship-buld-
ers will find it as difficult to purchase clothes
ms the road-makers and the carpenters. The
stoppage of the power to purchase on the
part of all these men will stop the factories,
and thus will paralysis 90 on, until it will
have embraced every pursuit in the country.
OF printers alone, there are now 1t is stated,
not less than five hundred in this City out Of
employment, with q fair prospect of seeing
the number largely increased-as men who
I cannot sell their labor cannot buy either
books or newspapers.
The cause of all this stoppage of circulation
is to be found in the steady outflow of gold. to
pay foreign laborers for the cloth, the shoes,
the IRON, and other things that should be pro
4 duced by American labor, but which cannot
be produced under our present revenue sys-
TEN. If we could stop the import of the for
eign articles, the gold would cease to flow out
to pay for them, and money would then again
/ become more abundant-labor would then
again be in demand-shoes, clothing and 9th.
! er commodities would then again be in de-
mand-and men would then cease to starve
in the streets of our towns and cities Fit be
not stopped, the gold must continue to 90
abroad, and employment must become from
day to day more more scarce, until we shall
again see the time when, as was the case in
/ 1912. men shall be everywhere crying: Give
me work Only give me work! Make your
own terms-my wife and children have moth
ing to eat!"
1t is time for laborers and mechanics of all
kinds to look into these matters for them
selves. If the gold shall continue to flow
ont at the rate of million week, the result
must be- every where through the country
ruin to the employers. and poverty and dis
tress, even if not starvation, to those who
heretofore have been employed. We are now
but at the commencement N paralysis that
threatens to equal, if not even to exceed, that
ofthe last period of British free-trade, and
whose threatenings must be realized, unless
those who have labor to sell will exert them
selves in the effort to produce such change
of policy as will keep the gold at home for
the payment of American laborers instead Of
. sending it abroad for the payment OF German
French, and English labor.
~" In New York last week, by consent,
and at the request of DR.. Graham, and on
motion of Mr.. Whiting, one Of his counsel,
an order was entered yacating the order stay
inc proceedings Dr. Graham will, of course.
90 Immediately to State Prison, and COM
mence to serve the term for which he is sen.
fenced. This looks little as though the
new District Attorney, A. Oakley Hall, Esq,
intended in his new capacity to obtain from
the Governor that freedom for DR.. Graham
which, as his counsel, he was unable TO obtain
from the jury.
OF There is Il stampede threatened in
England of the Red Republican propagan-
dists and exIes, sllch as Ledru Roln, Kos
suth, Mazzini s. Co., who have sojourned
there SO long, Theyare angry that England
should presume TO enter into IN alliance with
Austria. The entente cordiaie with Louis
Napoleon has CALLED them terribly, but this
Austrian alliance is 100 much for their endu-
rance; therefore they threaten to leave Eng
land en- maSse
- In the English census returns, Iitera-
ture made by no means a conspicuous figure,
only five hundred and twenty-iour authors
being SET down, one hundred and forty-one
literary private secretaries, and one thousand
three hundred and twenty editors and writers,
together with two hundred and seven rcpor-
tiers for newspapers and short hand writer's.
W A letter from Berlin says that Prince
Menschiiof's having given in at lnkcrmann
when the day was not near spent Nhough
his infantry was) has not been viewed with
indulgent eyes in st. Petersburg, the less so
that Gen. Dennenberg had urged HIM repeat
eddy to recommence the battle with his over
powering force of cavalry. AS far as a CT
william can Judge from the description of the
battle, it would seem mere fool.hatdiness TO
attack strong force on such an elevated
plateau with cavalry, the more so when the
enemy was fully on the alert, had got rein
| forcements with his guns in position, and
! when there was no more force TO keep their
approach from his knowledge, Thee seems
TO be considerable apprehension entertained
in st. Petersburg, that landing in force will
speedily be made at Eupatoria, and so take
the Sebastopol troops in the rear; the state Of
this latter force is described as pitiable in the
extreme for want Of provisions and ammuni-
ton.
~" One of our contemporaries seems to
think it a shame even to name the Doctorate!
Hence wishing to inform his readers that a
certain Reverend gentleman is a Doctor, he
goes about it thus:
Success to lsaacl His name is sometimes
/ written with two letters after 1.-THE fourth
OF the alphabetic series, we are informed.
WHAT A City EATs-The New York
Tribune gives II statement Of the number Of
beeves, cows, calves, swine, sheep, and lambs
brought to that city during the past year for
slaughter. Estimating these animals at the
present market value, it appears that New
York paid TO the farmers the year past four
teen million six hundred and sixty.nine thou
1 A.