The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-05
THE POST.
ATHENS, r,.sDAy. oCr. 5, 1855.

New York, Sept. 26.
The Governor Of Connecticut has removed
the Adjntant General for neglccting to dis.
band the Irish Military companies
BnsToN, 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 a favorable effect. The
first frost occurred on the 2lth
The Know Nothing and Hard Shells of
New York have made State Nominations
The Whig Convention is still engaged with
preiminar $. They are all well attended.
.5ag" a committee of the late Lexington
Clo.) Convention have issued IN address to
the people of the United States. Ttdcnounccs
the emigration from the Eastern States un.
der the MD of societies, as without precedent
and dangerous, calculated to defeat the true
intent Of the Nebraska bill. 1t declares that
Missouri will take the position that the reiec.
lion OF Kansas rs Il slave State will be the
grossest insult TO the South, and an uneuui
vocal step towards dissolution.
Among the signatures is that of Judrc
Napton. Gov. King refused to sign it,
- 1t is said that Pennsylvania now pro.
duccs as much iron as 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.
ets- Jas. NJ. Drake has recovered in the
Court of Common Pleas, New York, s25 900
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.
s-y 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-
sst this cy,ortion. He argues that "thc Ic.
gal coin of the country" has Just claim to
pass for what is stamped on the face in dis
tlnct figures. 1t is a fraud to extort 4 per
cent. and ought TO be resisted.
New IoRK, 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 rcpudiates the whole matter,
and Gen. Gadsden declares the reputation n
breach of national faith.
IMPORTANT IF TRUE.-We are crcdibly
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 "bordcr
rnllians,' do you hear that!
THEN AND Now.-The N. Y. Express SAYS
When Soon Borand was Il prominent actor
in not very creditable disturbance ut Grey
town, the Washington Union, we remember
was one Of his stuldiest defenders And, to
avenge the insult of having bottle thrown
Mt his head, (by mistake) did not the Admin
istmtlon send off Commodore Hoskns, to
lay Greytown in ashes!
All that was fifteen or eighteen months
since.
Borland, as il now appears, has manrully
resolved on atoning for past dereIiciious. nv
repudiating "sham Democracy" and confess
ing the creed of the American party. The
"Union," therefore, turns upon him and calls
him all sorts of names-"ingrate," "deser.
ter" &c. &c. Just like the Unionl
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 noiseless 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
50 lmpeereeplible in the stages of their mo-
ton, are the victories of the press.
HENRY CLAV.-There is good deal of
point in the following paragraph which we
quote from that excellent paper the Frank.
fort (Ky) Commonwealth:
"Among the toNsts drank at the dinner
given to Gov. Powell at Louisville, was one
''llenry Clay, the bold and eloquent advocate
of civil and religious liberty" This will do
pretty well for company mainly composed
Of the leaders Of party which by caumny
excluded Henry Clay from the Presidency he |
SO eminentIy deserved, and pursued him to
the grave with loathsome ISLANDERS. We !
should like to know whether the old demo- |
cratic leaders who drank that toast, but who |
II few years ago were accustomed to de- |
nounce Henry Clay rs the embodiment of all |
nlquitles, personal and political, private and |
public, regard themselves MS slunderers then
Or hypocrites now?