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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12
Ex Gov. RKEDER.-We published a wee

Ex Gov. REEDER.-We published week
or two since, that ex-Gov. Rceder had been
nominated for Congress-the pro.slavery par
ty having nominated Mr.. Whitfield. In nc.
cepting the nomination, he made speech,
which sis as Ominots of n conflict as tre-
mendous and terrible as that resulting from
the declaration of war against Russia BY the
Allied Powers. lie smells the battle afar
off, like the war horse of Job-he speaks of
the last resort, and Of the STEADY eve and
the strong arm,' and quotes the warlke ad-
dresses of Marco Bozzaris, with the stern
resolve of a leader enlisted for the war. The
convention nominating him, too, recommend
the arming and regular training of the free
soil squaters for active service against the
Missouri legions and their Territorial allies
should the worst come to the worst. In this
dilemma, all that we can do is to plead for an
armistice between the bcligerents until Con-
grrss shall have decided upon the respective
claims of the two contesting Kansas delegates
that may be expected at Washington on the
first MoEdav in December. Let both parties,
then, arm themselves if they will, call in
their reserves, arrange their encampments,
head quarters, and stores for munitions and
supplies: but let there be truce till the
meeting of Congress; and there may be
peace.
The investigation of the whole subject by
Congress will determine exactly the past po-
Iicy aud present position OF The administration,
which is an important thing in view of the
contingencies Of border war. Let String
fellow and Atchison, therefore, hold in their
horses, and let the wrath of Ex-Governor
Reeder aud his volunteers be tempered with
mercy till the meeting of Congress. We
plead for peace"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

The DUTIES OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
Judge Potts, in charge TO the Grand Jury
Of Burlington county, N. j., said:
"lf he whose duty it is to ring the bell or
blow the whistle, as the law requires, upon
approaching a crossing, and until the engine
has passed the crossing, neglects to do 81,
and in consequence Of the neglect Of that duty
death ensue he is liable to be indicted for
mansaughter. So, il the loss of life had
been in consequence OF the culpabIe negIi-
gence or carelessness of any employee charg
ed cith particular duty on the train-thal
Is, if by culpabIy negIecting to do IA specific
duty assigned him, or by negligence or care
lessness in the manner of doing it, he is
found to have occasioned the mischief-he
ought to be in like manner indicted"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

How A CHILENo CAN plE.-A convict, d
culprt, named Sebado, was recently execu-
ted at Sonora, Cal. He addressed the Spec
tators in Spanish from the galows rs follows;
lie said if he had been an American ho
would not have been moested, and he nd.
vised all Spaniards, when they met man
with n white skin and fair hair, to put q
knife into him up 10 the hilt lie com plain.
ed much ofinjusticc, but he wouldnow show
the people how Cbileno could die. He in
sisted upon having woman brought upon
the scalloId to play the harp for him to dance
his way out of the world, otherwise he would
die unhappy. IN conclusion, he said if any
one present desired to send word or money
to their friends, where he was going, he was
lust the man to take it..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12
II E IL NJ s.:

THE POST published every Friday at s2 per year,
payable in advance or s3 II payment is delayed until
he expiration OF the year.
Advertiseme euts will be charged 81 per square
Of 10 lines or less for the first sertOn and so cents for
each continuance. A liberal deduction made to those
who advertise by the year ~ Persons sending adver-
tIsements must mark the number OF times they desire
them inserted they will be continued until forbid and
charged accordingly. &s
For announcing the names Of candidates for Office, IS,
C1sh.
Obituary notices 12 lines, charged at the regular
advertising rates
All communications intended to promote the private
ends interests Of Corporations, Societies. Schools
Individuals will be charged advertisements.
Job Work, such as Pamphlets, Minutes Circulars,
Cards Blanks, Handblls, &c, will be executed in good
ttyle aud on reasonable terms.
All letters addressed to the Proprietor, post paid will
be promptly attended to.
Persons at distance sending MS the names OF four
solvent subscribers will be entitled to fifth copy gratis
No communication inserted unless accompanied by
the name OF the author.
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

tw- A month later advices have been re.
ceived from Salt Lake by the arrival of the
mail Mt Westport yesterday. The train met
General Harney twenty miles this side OF
Fort Laramie. It, Heath was killed in the
recent battle with the Indians.
The same Indians subsequently, met party
of emigrants between llalIow aud Laramie,
who, after shaking hands in friendly man.
ner, began shooting at them, woundng one
man. The health OF the troops was rood.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

A BABY ELEPHANT-One of the female
elephants belonging to Barnum's travelling
Menagerie has recently given birth to an in.
FAINT, thus disproving the assertions Of Button
and Goldsmith that these animals never ges-
tate while in state of captivity. Several
wears ago a similar occurrence took place at
the Geological Garden, in London, and soon
after another at the Jardin dcs Plantes at
Paris, while this is the second instance in
this country. The New York Sunday Times
says the one in question is perfectly formed,
md differs from its parent only in size, but
that difference is so am zing that il becomes
ludicrous, and when one sees the "baby'
walking to and fro under its mother, the i'm.
pulse cannot be restrained to laugh at the
oddity of the comparison. The bulky moth
er's care of her "baby" is described as ex'
tremely humanlike and affectionate. II an
apple, for instance, is given to the latter, the
mother takes it in her trunk, examines it
closely, and then, as if satisfied of its HARM
lessness, returns it to her infant to eat. The
watchiul care, the jealous fondness, the assd-
uousness and untiring attention of the parent
monster, is emnently worthy ofimitation by
many being who makes profession OF Il
much greater share of intelligence.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

YELLOW FEVER DoMESTTcATED.- The
Montgomery (AIabama) Mail thinks that no
fact rests upon palmer or more abundant evil
dence, than that yellow fever is now domrs.
licated through the South. 1t says:
"Up to time within two or three years,
we have been accustomed to consider il II
di>easc peculiar to marine localities, and
hardly To be transferred to the interior. Under
the old, slow modes OF intercommunictlion,
aud when the amount of travel was far from
its present enormous extent, the disease did
c0nfine Itself most generally within our sea-
ports; only one or two instances having occur.
:ed, in which it penetrated the interior.
Such is no longer the case; the two last
seasons demonstrate that though not indi.
grnous in the Southern cities and towns it
finds remarkable adaptedness in the malari-
Gus atmosphere of All the Southern interior,
where the situation is low or contiguous to
large water courses. Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama and Georgia will hencelorih have no
exemption for their towns, except where they
happen to be- off the great thoroughtares.
This oeing the condition of things, our
people should quietly make up their minds to
submit to the dispens 'tions of providence,
and 20 provide rationale y forexigcncies which
are to be reasonably expected. The disease
will doubtless lose II portion of its deadIness,
when custom has iamliarized us to its ap
proach. Panic has AS many victims as yellow
fever
In all likelihood, after the present season,
there will be an exemption for II series OF
years. The tempest of disease will sink into
II calm, profound and heightened in proper
lioG to the violence with which it has ragged,
during these later years. This we look for,
because it is in accordance with the general
laws of the disease"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

The WHIGs OF BOsTOy-The Whig meet.
ing held in Boston on Wednesday evening
was from all accounts, quite enthusiastic.-
The President, in taking the chair, said the
Fusion party, conscious that they cannot
succeed alone, ask the Wing party to abdi-
cate in favor of the new party, based on the
single idea of opposition to the extension of
slavery. The Wing party have always been
opposed to the extension of slavery-but OPP
position has always been inside the C0nStitu-
tion. The Wing party cannot act then with
those who are not content to abide by the
limits of the Constitution, with those who
have placed on the statute book of Massachu-
setts the rankcst qualification, or with those
who do not offer to remove that stain; who
have repudiated nobody and nothing connect
ed with the present State administration ex-
cept Governor Gardner, who was the only
man that stood between the legislature and
the rankest treason and corruption. These
sentiments, says the Advertiser, were endors.
ed by the meeting, with Il protracted burst o!
enthusiasm. After the appointment of dele
gates to attend the Convention at Worcester,
among whom are enumerated Robert C.Win.
tIirop, Rufus Choate, Nathan Appleton,
Charles Warren, and ]. p. Bigeow. Thomas
f. Nutler Esq off red the following resolu.
lions, which he prelaced by a briel speech in
which he urged that the Fusion Convention
nominated Mr.. Rockwell in preference to Mr.
G ,rdner, because the latter, by his veto of
the personal liberty bill, and refused to re
move Judge Loring-acton in which he is
sustained by the conservative and aw-abiding
people of the State--had shown he was un.
willing to go to the iuI lengths expected in
the anli-sIavery path.
Resolved, That in view of the many OBJ
cts and interests which demand the care
and attention OF the State administrator,
the Wing Convention at Worcester ought
not to put in nomination any man who is
wiling to plant h'mscIf upon the single
issue presented by the late Fusion conven
ton.
This resolution was unanimously adopt
ed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

TURNING THE TABLEs-It is stated in the
Zanesville Courier that the attorney of the
Central Ohio Railroad Company has, in ac-
cordance with the instructions Of the compa-
ny, commenced suit against the owners of
the cattle by which train was thrown from
the track with considerable damage, some
time ago, with view to recovering damages
for the same. The company is also determin-
ed to prosecute the owners of all cattle that
may be found upon The track hereafter, by
which injury is done to the property of the
company.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

.y" The Providence Transcript says, that
about three weeks since, two men by the
name of Rufus NJ. Rose and Francis Godon,
discovered behind II bridge abutment in
Wickfork, which they were repairing, seven
pieces of copper pipe, filled with Mexican
quarter dollars, amounting in value to about
three hundred dollars. The discoverers re-
solved to keep the matter secret, and Godon,
buying the share Of Rose, carried the whole
to the Blackstone Canal Bank, in Providence
and exchanged it for gold. Subsequently,
the teller discovered that the quarters were
remarkably well executed counterfeits, and
seeking out Godon, informed him Of the fact
and effected re-exchange, and the poor
man, who for few days past had been build
ing castles in the air, found his bright hopes
dashed to the ground as suddenly as they
had been awakened. The Transcript says
that several quarter dollars similar to those
counterfeit coins have recently been dscov.
cred in circulation in Providence, which
leads to the suppostion that the rogues are
not far distant.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

HORRIBLE SACRIFICE OF LIFE ON THE
WESTERN WATERS IN Al YEARs.-FrOm
Floyd's forthcoming Steamboat Directory, we
learn that since the application OF steam on
the Western waters, there have been 39,672
lives lost by steamboat disasters, SSl boats
and cargocs lost, and 70 boats seriously in
iurcd, amounting, in the aggregate, to The
enormous sum of S67OOO,OOO. 1t is to be
hoped that this forthcoming work will have
the effect of arrcsting the attention OF the
Government to the importance of Western
interests, ~ far as our rivers and lakes are
concerned.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12
MEMPHIS, Oct. 3.

Death by yellow fever average about five
daily, 1t is still confined to South Memphis.
The weather has been quite cool lortwo days
past and there was slight frost last night
Sickness nbating
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

:4s- According to the Courier Des EtdfS
Unis, the Russian flag counted at Sebastopol,
in the month of September, 1854, seventeen
ships, five Of l20 guns, the remainder OF 81
guns; four frigates Of sixty guns; four cor
vettes or briggs; twelve steamships; and e'gh-
ty-two ships of inferior rank; in all los SHIPS
carrying 2,2OO guns. This colossal armament
was destroyed by the Russians themselves
to prevent it from falling into the hands OF
their enemies.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

Jay Within the past six months, eleven
post masters in Ohio have been arrested and
ne'd to bail on charges of robbing the mail,
0y cmOeilling letters containing money, &c.
SO saws the Cincinnati Ga,e,te.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

RETURNING TO ILFE.-It is reported that
an officer who was supposed to have been
killed in the CabuI campaign more than thir-
teen years ago, whose place has long been
filed up in the Army List" whose wife has
contracted n second marriage, and given birth
to second family, has suddenly turned up,
tie has been prisoner during this long peri
nd in Kokan. His name is no secret, aud his
brother has in the mean time become gen.
eral ofiver.-B Bombay Telegraph.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

l7g The advantages of litigation are illus
'ralcd IN the case of a school district in Cor
n'Nh' New Hampshire, against Ariel Comngs,
Tor the recovery of an old broken box stove,
worm probably from so to rs cents. The
Nourt OF Common Pleas, at Newport, last
week. gave verdict in favor OF the district,
sWtg 81 81 damages. The verdict carries
WIN taxable costs amounting in all to mor
,'on I'VE hundred dollars, to say nothing Of
.ne amount expended which cannot be taxed
70 the deeated purity.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

The "FREE LOVERS" New York
correspondent Of the Charleston Standard
gives the following brief description of the
last development of Northern picty;
We are in the midst of revolution. An
ism has sprung mp, and is rapidly spreading
among us, that threatens to turn our existing
social institutions up side down. 1t is the
the doctrine of "Free Love-" This entirely
ignores the present marriage system. It's
disciples contend for an unrestricted ndnl.
gence of the passion Of love- A paper WINS
published here for more than n year, that sd
vocated this new idea. A few associations
were formed in New York and Brooklyn,
where the theory was reduced to practice,
and now the leaders of the movement have
gone West in order to purchase land and live
as n separate community. Their headquar-
ters for the present is Cincinnati. 1t is sid
that they already number more than 100000
The association is called the "Progressive
Union" The admission fee is 25 cents, and
every member is required, after being nitia
ted. should he desire TO remain with the sect,
to surrender All his worldly goods. 1t is fair
to presume that those who have joined were
not very wealthy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

.y" A Roman Catholic clergyman of the
diocese of Cashtl, says the London Watch
man, has received II letter from an Irish
priest, the Rev, Thomas Reardon, pastor of
Eastern Pennsylvania, in the course OF which
the writer imploringIy cntreats his corrcspon
dent to use all his influence to check what
he designates the insane spirit of emigra-
ton to America which seems to possess the
people of Ireland. "They are rushiny," says
the writer:
"On the almost certain ruin of their souls,
while their temporal condition is Mt best but
little improved. | have had much experience
ot the mode of life inlo which nearly all our
peop.e are drawn, and | solemnly believe
that If the vessels which bring them over
were suddenly to founder and carry every
creature on board to the depths of the ocean,
they would have II better chance Of salvation
than they have after they have lived for some
time in this country. So entirely convinced
am ] of the fearful havoc OF souls which is
the resnlt of Gaming here, that were the Al.
mighty God To give me power Of building Il
wall of fire round Ireland to prevent its pco.
pie from leaving it, it should be built before
the ink with which am writing this line
would dry. For the love of Jpsnstrv TO keep
your people at home, for every individual you
keep you snatch II snu from hell"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

ABoLITIoNisTs AND FREEsoILERs COURT.
ING THE FOREIGNERS AND CATHoLIcs.-The
Republican convention that assembled q few
days ago at Gaena, in Illinois, adopted the
following resolution:
Resolred, That, in the formation of party
standing on the platform of the Constitution,
in regard to the ubject of slavery, and op-
posing the extension of that curse into terri
tory now free, we rest upon the fundamental
principles of equal rights to all men; that
those principles are utterly hostile to the
prescription of any one on account Of birth.
place OF religion, and that this convention is
opposed to all secret societies and political
organizations which favor prescription.
1t is very plain that this is n call on the
foreigners and Catholics to come forward and
help the misnamrd Republicans to put down
slavery and the American party.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

s4g- Pure native Iron, the existence of
which the scientific world has been disposed
to doubt, has recently been found in Liberia
1t WIS sent to this country, and has been
analyzed in Boston by Dr. Hayes, who pro.
nounccs it, by conclusive proof to be n true
native iron, not meteoric, nor reduced in any
way from M orc,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

'S Ir" Smoot, Postmaster at Lions
near'' Sewer county Ark, was arrested for
Foo0'ng the mail, but escaped from custody.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

oLAvEHoLDgRs IN KAHsAs.-The Kansas
'''""e says there are not more than fifty
s'"'t"oders in that Territory, and if slavery
20 e'''o,'S"ed there, it will not be by resident
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12
PITTsBUGH, Oct. |

The new Liquor Law is in operation, few
resist. Judge Mcclure in his charge to the
Jury, defines the law as strictly constitution
nj, and declares his intention to enforce it
strngently.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

iB- The BiIancia, of Milan, announces that
hity Mazzinans had arrived from London,
designing to kdnap and carry off his Holiness,
the Pope when he should proceed to inspect
The works in progress at Porte d'Anzio. The
plot, however, was known to the police, and
The eonsplrators were obliged to take to the
woods OF Vamontone and Palestrina, where
They were pursued by the gems d'armcs.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

The Montgomery journals announce the
death, from Yellow Fever, of Nat. Harris,
Esq, prominent citizen and eminent lawyer
Of that city.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12
THE NEW YORK FUsIONIsTs.

The New York Herald has graphic arti-
Gle upon the late Fusion Convention assem-
bled at Syracuse. We quote n portion be-
low:
Notwithstanding the tremendous and all
absorbing news from Sebastopol, We cannot
overlook the importance of the anti slavery
fusion proceedings of the last two OF three
days at Syracuse, which have resulted in II
new abolition league for our November cleo
ton and for the Presidency.
The materials thus fused together in this
tanatical and seditious conglomeraiion are the
Seward wing of the whig party, portion of
the Van Buren Buffalo wing Of the demo.
cratic party, the old free soil party proper,
and all the loose odds and ends, rags and
tags, of the various anti slavery cIiques and
philosophical, agrarian, amalgamalion, social
istic and iniideI sns of the day, including
all coIors, and both sexes, upon the broad
general issue of abolition. The State ticket
OF this fusion Of the hybrids is piece of
mosaic OF the most interesting variety of
shapes and colors, from the old fOgy whig,
moderately seasoned with free soil to the
most inveterate blue backed ab0litionist.
The platform of this indescribable coali-
tion of demagogues and fanatics, white, vel.
low and black, is fine specimen of artfu
dodging, thimbIe rigging, and open-mouthed
sediion. They relinquish, first, their late
universal hobby of the restoration Of the
Missouri line as an impracticabe absurdity,
and they fall back upon the old worn ont
dodge of the Wilmot proviso-the exclusion
OF slavery from all the Territories, and the
admission of no more slave States They
refuse even a vote of thanks to the admins
tration for the appointment of Reedcr as
Governor of Kansas but denounce it in good
set terms for his removal. They applaud the
conduct of the free soil squntters, but give
no quarter to "the armed bands prccipitated
upon them from Missouri" They drop Il
word or two of comfort for Passmore Will
hanson in limbo, and are particularly explicit
in defining their position aglinst the Know
Nothings, (not the Seward branch, but the
conservative Know Nothings,) "and their ST.
cret constitutions oaths, rituals and organiza.
tons" They throw in bit of humbug and
clnptrap on the canal queation, and wind up
by appropriating II passage from the immor.
tai Jefferson (Which reminds us of the devil
quoting Scriplure) as authority for their ne.
tarious designs. And they cap the climax
OF their inpudcnce and cool hypocrisy in
saying never II word upon the Maine liquor
law.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-12

The CORs CRoP.-In an article on the corn
crop, the New York Tribune of late date
says:
"From Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. and Ken.
tucky, our information is full that the corn
crop is safe, and by far tho heaviest ever
grown in the West. In this vicinity we are
assured that unless n killing frost comes un-
preccdentrdly early the crop is safe.
Upon the whole, We think we nru safe in
saying that the country ut large is already
assured Of one of the most extensive crops of
Indian corn ever grown in the United States.
AS far rs Tennessee is concerned, the samc
may be said of her in this respect rs of tho
other States mentioned above.