The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-01-04

found a correct list of the Senators and Rep
resentatiyes comprising the present Congress,
which viii be useful TO preserve for future
reference.
.S- Our subscribers on the route between
this place and Wetmorewil hereafter receive
their papers every Saturday as before the
the change that was made few weeks since.
No SPEAKER YET.-Our advices from
Washington City, are to the 3Oth ult., up to
which date no Speaker had been elected
The following is the last ballot: Banks 90,
Richardson 66, Fuller 20, Pennington 6, scat
terng A.
II would perhaps be better for the mem
bers TO dispense to their homes, than to re-
main there in quarrel rs to whether their
presiding officer shall be II man who opposes
the Nebraska measure because he believes it
flvors slavery, or one who is in favor of it
because ne believes il is a free measure which
will forever prevent the admission of any
more slave States into the Union-the posi-
tons, precisely, occupied by Banks and Rich
nrdson, the prominent candidates, over whom
the House has been contcnding for Il month,
unable to organizeand setting an example of
righteousness and sectionalism that cannot be
without bad effect upon the country The
Gods truth is, there is more hulnbug and
CANNON about that Nebraska business, and
really less substance in il, than any measure
that low, dirty dcmagogneism ever cast be.
fore the country, aud the men who are using
u Tor base party purposes, whether "lve
wings" or "dead democrats" "skulking know
nothings" or "hypocritical freesoilers," de-
serve to be branded with mark of nfamy
as indelible and terrible as That stamped by
offended Justice upon the Fraricide's brow.
he Athcns Post, Is II newspaper, which, in
tnc general gives its readers fine variety.
and makes readable selections. But, we have
noticed for years, and with sincere regret
tlat whenever lis editor can dccently stab the
temperance cause, or the Christian Religion,
through its ministers, it does so.-K,lorriHe
Wing. ''''
After acknowledging the very pretty com
pllment conveyed in the first period OF the
above, we must beg to express our regret that
we should be so unfortunate as to occasion.
ally shock the moral sensibiIities Of our
Knoxville contemporary. We believe this is
about the third or fourth time that paper has
taken us to task aud gently raped us over
the knuckles on the subject of Religion and
Prohibition. We certainly have 70 objection
10 any one crticisfng our course as a news
paper cnndnctor, or placing what consruc-
TONS they please upon the articles, either
original or selected, that appear in our col.
umns, SO long as they don't travel beyond the
facts in regard to the charge above wehave
to say, that we have never in the whole of
our life pcnned n sentence or line that could
be construed into an attack upon, or dsre.
speet for, the Religion of Jesus Christ, or
those who gave evidence that they were real
ly his followers, On the contrary, for that
Religion and those who practice it-for the
Religion that show itself by good worksand
notify mere professons--we have a reverence
almost amounting to awe; bat for pretenders,
who hang their hopes on mere outward forms
WHO have the shadow without the sub
stance--we entertain feelings as near akin to
hatred as it is possible for Christian to en-
terrain for fellow creature. And we beg
our Knoxville ncigl,bor when he sees any
thing In our columns hereafter that looks
like an attempt to stab Religion, 10 believe
that II is intended to rdicule the spurious and
not the genuine articIe-;hat we are not
striking at the truly pious professor, but
merely at those "who steal the livery of
Heaven to serve the devil in"
In regard to Prohibition, we hare expressed
our individual dissent from the efficacy Of the
plan proposed--or the inadcquocy of lcgisla-
ton to correct the evil; at The same time we
have told those who have conversed with us
on The subject, that we were willing TO give
tia trial, and it they would separate the
question Of Prohibition from the political
elections, we would 60 MS far in It's advocacy
as the most ultra would dare 10 90. They
thought best, however, to make it side
issue, and f the cause has suffered the fault
is not with the "Athens Post" but rests, with
its own especial frlends--a fact so evident
that we presumed every man in the State
was acquainted with it, Prohibition in Ten