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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 26,

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. %.
The steamship Oizaba has arrived at this
port, from Very Cruz, with advices to the
22d.
Santa Anna left the city of Mexico on the
9th inst. with an escort of $500 men. Two
days after, however, seven, or eight hundred
of them reyolted, killed one or two officers,
and joined the insurgents, thus swelling their
numbers. Santa Anna then determined TO
abdcate, and embarked on the 18th inst. at
Vera Cruz for Havana. The Alvarez plat.
form has been adopted.
Gen. Carrierra has been appointed Provis'
ional President, and LaVega Commander in
Chief. All state prisoners have been liberia
ted. The mob Quilted most of the houses
including that of Santa Annals mother in law
The appointment of Sig. Vidal as U. S. MIN,
lister has been revoked. Sig Vidal arrived in
this city by the Orizaba.
Fuller advices state that Santa Anna left
the City of Mexico under the pretence Of
quellng revolution in Vera Cruz. On the
18th the citizens adopted the plan Of Ayutla,
The Universal newspaper office and many
other houses were destroyed. Forty persons
were killed and many wounded by the mill
tary.
Delegates met in the City of Mexico on
the 10th inst, according TO the request of
the Provisional government, and elected Car
-iera as President for six months, and ordain-
ed the freedom of the Press. The statue of
Santa Anna was thrown down by the pop
ulace.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

81 Prentice, Of the Louisville Journal
has got his neighbor of the Democrat in .
tight place. The said Democrat, while peace.
ably passing along the street in a buggy
with friend, received several shots from the
window of an Irish house, and one of the
shots found Judgement in some unmentiona.
bic part of the Editors body. But notwith.
standing this assault, he has been laborinr
necessarily TO prove that the natives were al.
together to blame-and the poor harmless
Irish grossly outraged. When investigations
were being made, the Editor kept mum, and
never would have disclosed the bullet in his
rump, lest 1t might upset his cause and do
injury to his Irish allies. But his companion
was not so politic-and then the Editor was
forced to the confessional.
From the Louisville Journal
"The Democrat of yesterday has an edito-
rial article under the head of "An Eyewitness
at the First Ward" We suppose the head.
ing is intended to imply that one of the Edi.
tors of the Democrat, the writer of the article.
was an eyewitness of what he processes to
describe. We respectfully suggest TO him
the propriety of giving an account o. his in.
teresting personal experience in the lower
ward. Mr.. Kennedy states that he and the
editor were riding peaceably along the street
in buggy, when three shots were fired from
the window of an Irish house near by. Hav.
ing observed no particular cOmmotion in the
streets, they stopped to see wat was the
object of the firing. They saw at once, very
considerably to their Consideration, that then
were the object of it, and so they put whip
to their horse and made their escape, but not
until Larry White, who happened to be near,
had said to the Editor-"Do,i forget 10 ,orite
that dozen in your note book"
ave think it not at all unlikely that the
Editor is at this moment carrying piece of
Irish lead about him in some part of his
frame, but he is too faithful n partzan to
utter complaint. He conceals the bullet as
bravely as the Spartan boy did the fox that
was eating his entrails out"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

.Y" We find the following paragraph
without paternity, on the outside of one Of
our exchanges;
RAGLAN AND ScoTT-If "Republics are
ungratelul" to their military men, England
is not. Lord Raglan dies in the Crmea with
out accomplishing the purpose for which ne
was sent, in the midst of disaster and calami
ties, with the past almost vain, and the future
well nigh hopeless, and with his policy con
demneG at home and abroad, and with loud
charges Of want of energy and capacity made
against him. The news of his death reaches
England, and Parliament forthwith votes a
pension of FL 900 to his widow, and anoth-
er of double the amount to the inhertor Of his
title for two generations.
Gen. Scott, honorei with the title of the
"Great Pacifcator," and burdened with sue
cess in Mexico, after having covered his coun-
try with glory, and added millions to the ma
tional wealth, receives the testimonial of a
medal. After eight years, Congress confers
upon him a new military rank, and the gov.
eminent encounters penny-wise difficult
ties about the pay to which it entities
him.
The contrast is n strong one, and veri-
fies the adage that "Republcs ARE migrate
ful"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

FLOOD AT STAUSTOS.-S;aantOn, Va ~.
recenetly visited with a very heavy food
Their editor of the Spectator says of it. i, .,
extra:
Our town was this evening visited h.. 4,
most destructive and terrific flood ever ~. I,e
messed in this section of country. The
| commenced gathering in the North W
about 3 o'clock, +. NJ, and betokened, BY ia
intense blaekness, very heavy storm, but nom,
anticipated the terrible freshet that il sphss,
quently produced, The windows of beovsr,
seemed literally wide open, and the water do.
scended in torrents, soon oVerflowipO oll
the streets in the western portion of The
town.
By o'clock we found ourselves unoba %
get out of our office, and remained there ami
city for several hours, watching the rise o,
the water on Augusta Street, until relieved
from our imprisonment by an accommodating
coored man, who kindly consented TO taks
us on "behind."
About dusk the waters entirely subsidrd
and crowds have been on the street. survev,
ing the scene of desolation, and wandered
"where the water came from" 1t is indeed
hard to realize and we have cause for thank
tulness that it was no worse. Buckets md
tubs, and barrels, and piles of wood and
chickens, and dogs, and even large stones
came floating down our streets, and the
great wonder is that some human being
was not hurried to destruction. 1t is gener.
ally conceded that the water rose higher IN.
on the occasion than it did in the memorable
freshet of 1916. We do not think, however.
that there has been as much damage done to
prOpertY.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

SENsIBLE.-The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer,
n paper conducted with marked ability, in re-
fering to the move of 4 portion of the Amer
lean press in Tennessee, says:
The Memphis Eagle and Enquirer places at
its head the name of Millard Fillmore rs the
American candidate for President at the next
election, subject to a decision of National
Convention of the party. With Difference
to the opinion of our able and generally well
informed contemporary, we incline to the opin-
ion that this move, in advance of the tele-
graph, is rather premature. 1t is year yet
before it will be necessary to place the Pres
idential candidate on the field, and in the
mean time the public mind should be left as
free as possible TO look calmly over the whole
country and select from its worthy citizens
one OF talents, integrity and patriotism that
will do honor to the high office. In saying
this we would not be understood as drawing
any invduous comparison between Mr.. Fill
more and other distinguished statesmen of the
Union. The distinct and only opinion we
wish to advance is, that in view of the impor-
tant events that may transpire during the next
twelve months, it is Dad policy now to turn
the minds of the people to fill the highest
office of the country. Wait for the moving
the political waters, and lie. coming events
indicate the man for the times that await
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

The New-York Courier remarks that one
of the singular features of the money market
of the past six months hns been the deprc-
ciated value of sound State loans bearing six
per cent. These securities, in previous years,
when the market was easy, bore large pre-
MUM. Maryland skies have in former years
sold at l6a 10 per cent premium; Kentucky
lOa IL, and other securities, equally substan-
tial, at 5olO per cent Whereas now, while
money is worth only 5a7 per cent, Virginia,
Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri and Louisiana
six per cent. loans are quoted below par
There is, however, n marked improvement
now goinp on in these bonds
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

Disastrous FIRE.-The extensive Flour.
ing Mill, known us the Knoxville Steam Mills,
owned and worked by Mr.. NJ. w. Williams
has been totally destroyed by fire. This
calamity occurred on yesterday morning, be-
tween midnight and daylight. The establish.
ment was valued, we believe, at about $685.
600, upon which there was insurance to the
amount of $4,000. A considerable quantity
OF wheat stored in the building was also do.
stroyed- about 5000 bushels, we understand.
-PreSbyierian Witness.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

PErsoSAh-we take this opportunity Of
thanking our fiiend in Polk county, for the
cordial invitation to visit his locality, and to
say that we will be on hand in October, mo
intervening providences," prepared to do full
Justice to all interests and parties. AS to
proceeding to the Copper Mines "to zee the
kingdoms Of this world"-although the ee-
walton up there is great and the prospect mag
nifcent, like all good men our hopes point to
higher heights and more enduring glores.-
The Copper Mines are great institutions but
after all. The men who subdue the forest and
till the SOIL causing the waste places TO be
made clad and the wilderness to bloom and
blossom as the rose. are carihs best benefac-
tors and the real heros of the land
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

.5g- The Decrease of the Brandy Trade is
strikingly illustrated in the absence of all
American vessels from the port of La Rochelle
never occurred before. The French papers
ascribe it TO the failure of the grape crops and
the temperance movements in the United
States. The former is probably the most
effective cause; but if French brandy is not
now imported, what an immense amount Of
poisonous substances must brandy drinkers
be using,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31
PETERSBURG, Aug.

fHIENSnUNV, mug 81
The accounts received here from Ports
mouth are truly appalling.
DR.. Trugien writes that he saw and pre-
scrbed for one hundred patients, in many in.
stances, whole families are lying III, without
the means of getting drop of water to COO
their parched tongues.
Physicians and nurses are much wanted
and their absence is proving terribly ia
tai.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

s5y After three months incessant labor,
the Russians have replaced the great bell in
the tower of ST. Juan, on the Kremlin, which,
our readers perhaps recoleet, on being tolled
for the late Car, fell and broke through no
less than three separate stories of vaults,
killing five persons on the spot. The bell is
said to be the largest in the world, weighing
no less than 10000 hounds.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

~ The "Freesoers," in the House OF
Representatives of the next Congress, will IL
in large majority. What they intend doing
no one can with certainty predict In the
Senate lies the public hope, although il pre-
sents sad spectacle, compared with what it
was when Calhoun, Clay and Webster com
posed part of it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

WHITE MAN SoLp.-As they have no ne.
groes to sell in Illinois, they sell white men,
An freshman named Jimmy McFrepy, was
put up for sale at Decatur, the other day, and
knocked off to the highest bidder. The
purchaser was boy named Barnes, and the
purchase money was fifty cents, principally
in cash." we suppose. The sold man was a
drunken bit of an Irishman, but very harmless.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

sy- Courts Martial have been held on two
officers IN the Crmea for drunkenness while
on duty, and they have been sentenced to be-
cashiered. The officers in question are Cap
tain Colin Maxwell, 9Sd Hghlanders, and
Captain Chas. SPENCER Gaynor, 9th Regi-
ment. The Court in both cases recommended
the prisoners to favorable consideration.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

;9y" The local editor of the GAINESVILLE
Chronicle complains that we published one
of his paragraphs without the proper credit,
We beg his pardon, although we believe the
paragraph in question appeared on the out
side of our paper, and of course was not in
tended to be appropriated as our own. We
will endeavor to be more careful in future.
Whenever we get up paragraphs worthy of
being transferred, which seldom happens, we
consider ourselves complimented by seeing
them in the columns of our contemporaries
whether accompanied by the proper credit or
not. The local column of the Chronicle has
an attractiveness for our scissors, but we will
endeavor so to manage hereafter that his
gems which there appear,
"Like orient pearls at random strung"
shall not be. reprinted without the evidence
necessary to indicate their paternity.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31
WASHINGTON, August 20

The reply of Colonel Isaacs, District At.
torncy for Kansas, to the charges made
against him, similar to those alleged for the
removal of Governor Reeder by the President,
have been received. No reply has been re-
ceived from Judge Johnson.
Andrew b. Moore, of Alabama, declines
the appointment Of Associate Justice Of The
Supreme Court of Kansas, vice Judge Gilmore,
removed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31
New ORLEANS, August 81.

The steam ship Nautilus has arrived with
later ndvices from the Rio Grande. The
passengers state that nothing decisive had
occurred. The revolutionists, confident OF
the downfall of Santa Anna, were awaiting
that event. General VOL held Matamoras.
A letter from Brownvile states that Zacatecas
was to have pronounced on the 10th ult. st.
Luis Potosi had already pronounced. Vidauri
had been reinforced by 1900 men, and was to
have moved on Matamoras on the Goth inst.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

DEAD AT LAsT.-John Smith is dead
He lived in Milen, Duchess county, N. Y.
He was revolutionary soldier and attained
the good old age of one hundred and two
years.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

FATAL ArFRAY.-In an affray at Little
Rock, Arkansas, on Sunday, the 9TH instant,
between John NJ. Butler and Edward Marcus,
brothers.in law, both were killed. Mr.. Butler
was the publisher of the Arkansas Wing, and
Mr. Marcus merchant tailor, and both highly
respected. A bad feeling had existed be-
tween them for long time.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31
ATHENS, FRIDAY, AUG. 81, 1855.

eB- The Circuit Court for Bradley county
meets at Cleveland next Monday, the Sd
September-and at Madisonviile on Monday
following, the 10th.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31
The New York Evening Post says

"The New flour that comes to market is Of
remarkably fine quality, and in very superior
condition. Prices are now about two dollars
per barrel below the highest of the season.
The decline generally anticipated later in the
season is about another dollar The month
of October will probably be the time when
prices will show the greatest decline of The
year"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

FINE TIMES AHEAp.-An Arkansas paper,
speaking of the prospects in that State says:
"Corn will be at Is cents bushel; beef at
cents pound, pork at 81 cents pound; and
babies to give awayW
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

sB- A. Boyd, correspondent Of the Sci.
entlic American, states that he has practced
a peculiar method, with much success, Of
preserving milk sweet in the pans. 1t simply
consists in placing piece of new hammered
iron or three twelve-penny nails in each Tin
pan, then pouring the warm milk on them
He believes that electricity has something to
do with producing the result He has tried
many experiments before he hit upon this
one, which he found to preserve the milk
sweet for a longer time than any other plan
tried by him.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

A highly respectable citizen of Versailles
writes to us, offering to send us an affidayit
that German residing liz Woodford county,
who was in Louisville n few days before the
election, declared on his return that the Ger
mans here had collected n great number Of
revolvers, swords, and other weapons and
put them in order for election day. We
need not trouble our friend to procure the
affidavit, for the facts are well known here
already-Lou. Journal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

eB- There are but two cities in the civil
ilized world that now exceed New York in
population. viz: London and Paris, and in
half a century it will doubtless pass the latter
and equal the former.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31
NEwORLEANs, Aug. 9

Yellow Fever is abating in this city. The
deaths last week comprise All, including 357
from the fever.
The majority for Pease, Democrat, for
Governor of Texas, is 6O00.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

.g- 1t is stated that Mr.. Hughes, one of
the editors of the Louisville Democrat an
Anti.American paper, was himself shot at by
some Irishmen during the late riots. Mr..
Hughes has failed as yet to publish the fact,
and If it be true, his silence on the subject
dipays the sublimest instance OF partizan f.
deLitv upon record.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31
w- A dispatch from Pittsburg saws:

"Flour is beginning to move eastward and
consequently is in active demand throughout
the west. The effect of the fine condition of
the milling streams will soon be felt in the
increased delivery of -four eastward.
"The river here is now five feet, but will
probably rise higher, in consequence Of the
heavy rains last night"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

STOCKHOLDERS CoNvESTIoN.-The annual
meeting of the Stockholders of the East
Tennessee and Georgia Railroad will be held
Mt Knoxville on "Wednesday next the 9TH
September.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

The PRESIDENT AND HIS SPECKLE SHIRT.
The Charlottesville Advocate says Presi-
dent Pierce's checked calico shirt, worn rs he
passed through Charlottesville, has given
rise to much severe criticism on the part of
the old citizens and has afforded much wished
for countenance to the fast young men of the
place who had already ventured to fy in the
face of public opinion by wearing the spotted
calico shirts. The old gentlemen of the place,
who have been taught to believe that spot
less white linen shirt is indispensable to n
gentleman's toilet, cannot understand why
the Chief Magistrate of the Union should not
dress as q gentleman; the young men exult
that Frank has put, thus far, his foot upon
sold fogyism," and has adopted the costume
Of the Bowery boys. Probably it was this
innovation upon old Virginia ideas, which
caused our railway conductors to put him in
n separate car under lock and key, and some.
what excused the little boys of the place when
they cried out "there is Frank Perce-the one
with the calico shirt on-bring him out"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

JUST AS WE SArD.-Whenever our neighbo1
of the Cleveland Banner visits Knoxville
Chattanooga, or Athens, and compares the
life, activity and enterprise manifest in these
really prosperous towns with the dullness
and steriity from which he has temporarily
escaped, he at once gets huffy, goes home in a
bad humor, and after consultation with
that facetians old gentleman, "the Major
drops down in his chair and in a spirit Of
sheer envy, writes q whole column, in which
his own little village is magnifed into the
commercial Importance of a New York,
while the places above.named dwindle into
the insignifcance of mere roadside villages.
To the former we certainly have no sort OF
| objection if our neighbor thinks Cleveland
needs, or can be benefited by, that sort Of
| putting but we do protest against the attempt
to depreciate the business interests and i'm
portance of more prominent places Instead
of manifesting disposition to drag every
other place down to an inferior condi-
ton, how much more commemorate would it
be for the Banner to infuse into its home read
ers spirit of enterprise and go-aheadative-
ness that would enable them, in the course of
time, to compete successfully with the indus
try and thrift of their more prosperous neigh.
borsl We have a very kindly feeling toward
the Banner man, and we know he will par.
don us the sug gestion that his continuous
filings at neighboring towns are in rather bad
taste for n man having such large and COM
prehensive interests under his special protec-
ton; and that while little silly humor may
be endured now and then from those juvenile
! editors who are presumed to receive OCCASION
al visits from the ghost of some departed wit,
such extended links as he threw off last week
are calculated to breed contempt in the
mind of the distant reader for the place, the
business interests of which, from their con
slant repetition, may be presumed by persons
unacquanted with the facts to require such
extraordinary appliances to keep chem up
From the last consideration, if no other, we
hope our neighbor will cease his puerilties,
and by way of varying the monotony of his
editorial columns, favor us occasionally with
pieces on the essentialities of foreign influence,
the doctrine of the harmonies as exemplifed
in the parallels between the Jeffersonian and
Johnsonian democracy, and the patriotic pro-
prieties of Sag Nichtsm as contrasted with
the Nervousness and disloyal purposes of the
Know Nothings. Or, if he has no appetite
for these, few practical essays on Truth
might do by the way of novelty. The last
might be incomprehensible to us, but would
be Ineligible, if not really refreshing, to his
democratic readers
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

Vag- During the past year, Tennessee sent
sixty-six emigrants to Liberia, and contributed
the sum of 81 ,55s,5O towards defraying the
expenses of their colonization. About thirty
emigrants are ready to go on the expedition
to be sent out next fall.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

1t would seem from n report published in
the Utica IN. " Teetotaler that July was
very sickly month in Utica. The number
of liquor sales, which were mostly for medi-
cinal purposes, was 1900; value of the medi-
rinps Gl 22l
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

sB- Some men are very entertaining for n
first interview, but after that they arc ex-
hausted, and run out. On second meeting
we shall find them very flat and monotonous;
they are like hand organs, and we have heard
all their tunes. s.u
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

DEATH OF DAUGHTER OF LAFAYETTE
Madame Maubourg, the eldest daughter and
last surviving child of the Marquis Lafayette,
is dead.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

NEwORLEANs, Aug. 25.
The deaths in the Charity Hospital this
week have comprised 1913. The physicians
say that the fever has abated in private prac-
ticp
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31

s4y' A New York Journal, in review of
Life of James Gordon Bennett, just publish
ed, refers with great satisfaction to the many
beatings Bennett has received. A cotempora-
ry with great truth, remarks:
"The amount of cowardice and utter base
ness in this world, is positively beyond calcu-
lation; there can be no greater proof of its
individal existence than a personal assault on
one who is not expected to resist"