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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-14
WAslIIgGToY, March G

The Minority report of the Committee on
Elections presented by Mr.. Stephens, in the
House of Representatives yesterday, argues
in favor of sending Commissioners to Kansas,
to take depositions
In the Senate, Mr.. Brown introduced bill
to construct rail road to the Pacific, from
some point South in lat 81, granting for the
purpose forty millions Of acres,N Mt 80 cents
per acre, the company to deposit half Il million
of dollars MS security for the performance oil
the work. One hundred miles must be COM
pleted in eighteen months-Government pay
ing 5000 a mile for carrying the mail until
the road is finished, and ten years thereafter
the road TO be forfeited il not built in ten
years, with right of way of 400 yards. The
bill was referred to Special Committee to
report next week.
The Fertilization bill has passed. The
House has passed the Military Acadcmt'nnd
Invalid Pension bills and discussed the Kan
sas Election case.
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RUsSTA.-A letter from st. Petersburg, of
the goth January, says that the Government
does not relax in the precautions to meet the
eventuaIitcs OF war. On the previous day
the nobility had given grand banquet to
Prince GOrtschakoff, Asthe Prince was the
first TO utter words of peace to his sovereign,
this demonstration is regarded as a proof that
the mobiles share in the pacific sentiments en-
tertaned by the Gar.
At Odessa, and several manufacturing
towns of South Russia, all the houses were
Illuminated when the news OF the decision in
favor Of peace reached them. The Merchants
Club of Odessa have decided upon IN address
of congratu!ation to the Emperor.
st. Petersburg letters to Jan. 3lst, describe
increased confidence among the merchants
and further improvement in the exchange
An erroneous announcement that an armistlcC
had been already concluded appears to have
given new impulse to the markets.
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CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFAIRs.-Thc New
York Herald says that five hundred Amer.
leans leave the United States every week
for Central America. At this rate Walker
will soon have an army sufficiently large to
maintain himself against all opposition, and
which may even enable him TO make good
his claim to Mosquito. Judging from recent
intelligence from Central America, we may
expect soon to see the flag of Nicaragua
waving over Greytown, and then irremans
to be seen whether Great Britain will inter.
pose her arms for the protection of the Mos.
quito King.
If Walker acts up to his declarations with
the same resolution which has hitherto char
acterized his course, the Central American
question will be brought in one way or
another TO aspeedy solution.
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WHAT THEY SAY OF HIM.
[From the Baltimore Democrat

AeetA--NAN
At the head of our columns this morning
We hoist the name of Willard Fillmore as n
candidate for the office of President Of these
United States. We do not say Willard Fill
more Of New York, because he has shown
that he belongs to the Union. We are Sure
that we but anticipate the sentiment that stirs
the heart of every well-wisher of this coun-
try, when we say that his nomination will be
hailed with reclamation. tits Il work almost
of superiority to mention his precedrnts.-
His life of recttude; his ability and un.
equaled industry when member of the
| popular branch Of Congress, and the chair.
man of its principal committee; his selection
unsolicited, under the most complimentary
circumstances to fill an office which required
presidence over the Senate, vet, who by
the disposition of an inscrutable Providence,
! was called to preside over the Gestinies of
this country; the distrust with which he APP
| preached the office of President and the EN-.
| inent ability with which ne discharged its
| high esponsibilities-all these things are in
the memory Of every one. II is recOllected
| how he directed the course of the ship of
| State, under circumstances trying and fear.
full; how he was true to his oath, the COnsti-
! tuition and his duty; the man who never
| failed in time Of need; who never LETT the
field of law and order when the guns began
to smoke, and illustrated his high position of
doing justice and enforcing right, though the
! heavens fell BY his nomination, party NAL.
ice and vituperation is hushed, and the mouth
Of political SANDER shut.
The masses of the cOuntry-thq people
they who like the air, are seldom heard, save
,rh tho, -, &c tb,,l.r x,;tl
send back shout of approval and joy to the
selection of the National American Conven-
ton, and mere politicians and spoil seekers
who could utter word Of dissent, will he
crushed before them us an elephant trampIes
down a cane brake.
1t is the people of the Union who, with
the instructive perceptions common to homes
ty know the high qualities Of the Presidcn-
tal nominee.
They know that this man, Willard Fill
more, administered the government with
Justice, n conservatism, n nationality, pur-
ty,a1 honesty to which the history of former
Presidents furnishes no parallel, or furnishes
4 parallel in Washington alone. They bear
in mind that the robes of the highest Office
that it WAS ever vouchsafed for man to hold
on earth, never sat more gracefully on any
shoulders than they did on his; and that
when, with all the honor of n Cncnnatns,
he laid down the power of his high position,
he went into retirement, without leaving be-
hind him even the smell of smoke on his
official garments and the sentiment that is
sued Spontaneously from every lip, and well
ed up in every honest heart in the land, with
more than ordinary fervor, was: Wei done,
thOu gOOa and fihGl sorrdnk. They know
that this man, Willard Fillmore, "borc his
faculties so meek, and was so clear in his
great Office" that the universal sentiment of
the country will demand his return to it in
November.
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For the Athens Post.

Mr.. Editor: 1t is to be regretted that, in
the mids;of such great Improvement rs is
visible in Tennessee at the present day, and
particularly in East Tennessee, that local
prcjudices and sectional luminosity should so
far govern our people as to retard improve
ment and cripple Legitimate enterprise. The
true character of East Tennessee needs only
to be known to ensure the means necessary
to make all the great internal Improvements
required by the peculiar position and conlor-
nation of country. This morning | started
copy of Prof. Saff,ord's Geological Report,
to some gentlemen in London, with nv en-.
dorsement as to its accuracy and truth with
regard to all that portion of the State which
| have examined. My first object is to call
attention to the immense coal fields of An.
deTson, Campbell, Morgan and Hamilton, and
other counties in East Tennessee in the Cum.
berland range. The wealth of those noun
tain counties will amply repay the men who
will build the railroad, and do the other work
necessary TO their full development.
Examine Prof. Sailord's Report, and make
your own comment. Very respectfully,
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LATER rRnn EI1RnpE

NEW YORK, MARCH S.-The steamer Afri
ca has arrived with Liverpool dates of the
23d ult.
The lTessrs. Rothschild had taken the
whole English Ioaa.
The Peace Conferences were progressing
favoraby.
Consols had advanced to 81. Cotton was
quiet owing to the stringency in the Money
Market.
Breadstuffs had slightly advanced.
The general news is important
The whole amount of subscriptions to the
English loan reached f5O,OOOOOO.
Russia continues immense warike prep
arations.
Advices from London, dated 23d ut., state
that Count Orloff had arrived in Paris, on the
2lst ult., and that the Conference was to
have opened on the 25th. Everything was,
also, progressing favorahly. Letters, how
ever, from st. Petersburg and Warsaw, pub.
lished in some of the German papers, give
reasons for the belief of their writers that
the war will continue, and state that in no re-
spect, whatever, has the energy OF the Mill
tary Department abated.
It is said that the amount Of frauds CON-
mitted by Mr.. Sadlier, who recently com
mitted suicide in London, is not much short
of $l,OOo,OOO Sterling.
A portion. of the advanced squadron of
the Baltic fleetwas ready for sea at Spilhead
on the evening Of the 22d ult
The proceedings in the British Parliament
had been unimportant.
From the Crimea no later intelligence had
been received
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~ The Polynrsian Gays that the lTaw.
aan nation, which seventy years ago WAS
estimated variously at from 100000 tos4OO,.
600, now only counts 72oOO decrease with.
in this period of at least two-thrds. Vast
tracts of land do not harbor human SOUL
Fertile kalo lands, once under cultivation, are
left to the rule of grass and weeds. The is.
land OF Kauai, remarkable for the prodnc-
tiveness Of its soil and capable to sustain
population ofat least 100000, contains only
1000. 1t isnot to cruel and devastating wars
that is attributed this unparalleled falling off
in so short time.
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ANOTHER FREEsoIL APPoINTMENr.-The
Now York National nemocrrt, of the a1st
ult., SAYS: Mr.. james Z. Quinan, the editor
of the Hard, Nebraska, Old Line Democratic
paper-Thc Watchman-at Monticello, New
York, has been removed from the Post Office
of that village, and Mr.. F. A. Devoe, the edito,
of the Soft, Anti-Nebraska, Frecsoil paper
The Union Democrat, "a paper controlled by
John c. Elolley, the Soft delegate to Cincin.
natD appointed in his stead. Mr.. Quinlan
says:
ave believe the credit of our removal be.
longs to Isaac V. Fowler, John Cochrane
ex.Speaker Ludlow and George B. Wool.
ridge. Ludlow was in Washington a week
10 accomplish it, we are informed. Having
been convicted of lying so clearly that he
was dumb, he was u 1t instrument of the men
who employed him."
He then proceeds to show the opinions
expressed by Post Master Devoe and delegate
ilolley on the Nebraska bill in 1854.
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.a5-We are daily looking for Democrat
ic journals to reproduce the letter written by
Mr.. Fillmore some twenty years ago when
he WAS candidate for Congress, hastily as
sen,ing to opinions on the subject of slavery
which he has not to this day acted on. Some
account too, of the ncgro.steaIer who was
pafdoned out Of the Penitentiary at Wash
ington, on the recommendation of Mr.. Crtten-
den, would be very appropos, and exciting.
We hope we shall not be disappointed in
these expectations Perhaps the enemy are
saving their ammunition till the forces get
close together. Or, perhaps, they know that
powder has been shot off once, and would
not be likely to do much execution on sec.
ond attempt
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AMERICANS, ArTENTIoN.-We find the fol
lowing in the Cincinnati Commercial Read
it people of America, and answer if there be
not necessity for an American party. An
swer if Democracy BIO free from the faint OF
abolitionism. Answer if foreign combina.
tons are not forming in our country, hostile
to our republican institutions. Answer if in
the success of the American party lies not
the only hope of our country!
A German Increment In Galend.-The
German citizens of Gaena had meeting al
the court house in that city few days ago
which was addressed by Mr.. Stibolt, the ed.
itor of the Vorwarts, n liberal paper, the
publication of which is about to be revived;
and after his address the following, among
other resolutions, were subscribed to by l57
persons of German birth.
ReSOired; That we, as true Democrats, for
the present will preserve our indepcnde nee
% all political parties, and so only for prin-
cple.'
ResolrPd, That slavery is n curse to our be.
loved republic, Il stain for free nation; and
that we therefore will stand with all free men
shoulder to shoulder, fighting against the
propagation Of slavery oyer free territory,
and against the Nebraska bill and lis consc-
qucnces.
Resolred, That the slavery question is the
most urgent and important question of the
present time.
Resolred, That we will support only such
candidates for State officers as are opposed to
the Nebraska bill and to ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Among the sigrers are the names of the
old wheel horses Of the Democratic prarty of
10 Daviess.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-14

The AUrHoRs.-Less than twenty-five
years after the landing of the Puritans, thei,
colony passed the fugitive slave law. This
il avery important fact.
Pitkins Civil and Political history Of the
United States, vol, |, pages so. 81 in aludine
to the articles of government formed for the
Plymouth confederacy says
ut was also very wisely provided in the
article, that RUNAWAY SERVANTS and
fugiives from justice shoudsbe RETURNED
TO THE COLONIES WHERE THEY BELONG OR FROM
WHERE THEY HAD FLED"
Thus tho north was the author of the fugi.
tive slave law-kept Saves so long as it was
proftable-and engaged in the slave trade
until the government prohibited it. We
have but little reason 10 reproach the south
whose climate and productions actually require
negro labor in some iorm.-Keene Republic
can.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-14

sF KANSAS AFFATRs.-The independence
Dispatch states the mlita of the border coun-
ties of Missouri were to rendezvous ut Fort
Scott, in Kansas Territory, on the 29ih ult.
Military organizations have been in progress
everywhere along the border in Missouri,
consisting generally of mounted ri6cmen.
Gen. Atchison, in his late speech ut Plato
City, told his friends to be in readiness for
the 4th OF March, that their services would
then be demanded; that they would be called
upon to march into the territory.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-14

f56y- The Philadelphia Ledger, in speaking
Of the manufacture of watch cases, is carried
on extensively in that city, says there sre
eleven firms engaged in the business, oil
ofwhom employ over 800 hands, and turn out
Mt least 500 cases per week, at a cost of some
$4,000, or more than S1,000,000 annually
The gold manufactured into cases weekly
will not amount to much less than $4,000,
OF over q half million Of dollars annually.
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The AMERICAN PARTY IN CoSsEcrIcur
The Hartfore Courant says OF The American
party in Connecticut:
Inc party never was so strong; so well
organized; so certain that they are riubt md
50 quietly determined to stand to their INNS
and give the enemy fits" as just now. The
principles of the American party wear well
rub well and shine the hrig htcr for bciny
rubbed. Its platform is broad encouuh for
all men of common sense and conservative
ideas to stand on. Fanatics are not wanted
and are not at home there. Men of one idea
who can think of rothing, and talk of moth
lng and dream of nothing but slavery, negro
slavery, IN one monotonons strain, from week
IN to week out are invited to keep along; the
church Is full but every patriot who can do
justice to the acquisitions of the constitution.
is welcomed to the embrace of the American
party.
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IMPORTANT TO LInrRs nr SLAvEs.-The

IMPORTANT TO IImERs OF SLAvEs.-The
Supreme Court Of Tcnpcssee at its last term
in Nashville, decided that the hirer of a slave
had no right to re hire him without the con-
sent of the owner, and if he did so, the own
er might treat it rs Il conversion of the me-
gro and recover from the hirer the whole val
ne of the slave.
They also decided that n slave hired in
Tennessee, by person residing here, could
not be carried ont of the State, and that if
the hirer and owner lived in the same couu-
ty, the presumption would he that the slave
was to remain in the county and could not
be removed from the county. So if hirer
remove from the State or county, or re.hire
him without the permission of the owner,
and any accident happens to tho slave eubsc-
quentIy, the hirer will be made to pay the
whole value Of the slave.
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rY- Last week the New York Heral

cyT Last week the New York Herald
which is sadly disappointed because the Phil.
adelphia Convention did not take up George
Law, whose money made him great favorite
with the Independent Press, assigned Fill
more three States-Maryland, Kentucky. and
Delaware. This week, the Herald does a lit
tie better, and adds Tennessee to the Fill
more column. We think that in q few weeks
that journal will be satisfied other States may
be set down for the National Ticket. The
sober second thought is always the best.
c9y- 1t is gravely asserted by the Nashville
Union, and other organs of the political
trinity" that the approaching struggle will
be between the Democracy and the Black
Republicans, and that the Fillmore ticket
wont be anywhere. If it should turn ont that
this assumption ia correct, the contest will be
most unnatural one, as about two thirds of
the leaders of the Black Republicans were
but recently leading members of the demo-
Sumner Wilmot, Giddings, &c. The hand of
brother against brother--it makes one shud-
der to think of it. Seriously, if our demo-
cratic contemporaries are in earnest abou. the
contest being between their party and the
Black Republicans, it would perhaps be best
for them to turn their guns against the latter
and let the American ticket slide, otherwise
people will doubt what they assert on the
subject. Assertions don't carry much weight
with them, when the practice is contradicto'
rv
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-14

RAILROAD LAw.--On another column will
be found the law enacted by the last Lcgis-
lature inrcation to accidents on railroads.
1t is very stringent, if not unjust, in some of
its provisions; and owes its enactment, par.
TALLY at least, to an unfounded prejudice
against the enterprises which are doing so
much to develope the resources and build up
the prosperity of the State. 1t is right to
hold railroad companies to rigid aecounta.
bility for all accidents resulting in the de.
strucion of property, or other injuries,
where such accidents occur through, ncoli.
rcnce or want of care on the part OF their
employees; but III is not quite right to require
parties charged with such negligence, to
proyc themselves innocent. The result of
this law will be to enforce the Companies
TO fence the roads to the full extent of their
right of way, as soon as possible. Ii the
meantime, let every one read the law care
fully, and "when you hear the whistle look
out for the engine"
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WHERE Do THE NlGGER WoRsmPPERs
GET THEIR Submissive learn from COM
potent authority that many Euporean politi.
clans hope to hasten the dissolution of the
American Union by assisting in the triumph
of the NIGGER WoRsHPPISG Presidential
ticket, and the leaders of the party are in ac-
tive correspondence on the subject. Their
supplies will come from abroad. The only
hope for the Union is in tIiepatroiism of
the masses.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-14

sSy' Several physicians of Wnshinsi"n
City, on tie night of the 9th inst, proceed
ed to the Almshouse Graveyard, with horse
and wagon. to take off the body of n lately
deceased woman. Her husband was near by
watching them, and firing upon them put
them TO flight, leaving behind the horse and
wagon, of which he took possession. At
last dates the owner had not called for his
property.
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.z5"A lawyer in Chicago, on Wednesday
week, was fined $25 for contempt of court
! he contempt consisted in the lawyer say.
ing, in violent manner, that he had receiv.
ed IN indiguiiy from the court, and that "if
the Judge were upon the floor instead OF the
bench, he would give him what he deserved"
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CosT OF ROUTES To THE pAcIFIc.-Of the
three railroad routes to the Pacific, the North
ern is 2,035 miles. the Middle 2,032, and the
Southern 1921. Thus the last is shorter than
either Of the others by something over 400
miles and can be built at cost Of sixteen
millions less than either of the others.
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HOLD YOUR HORSES.
[From I'D RlehmoId NhlE.l


The nomination OF Mr. FILLMORE has fal
len upon our Democratic contemporaries like
a peal Of thunder from clollless sky
They are amazed and angry bytnrns, swear
ing the whole thing wa. "fraud." Witness
the following amusing paragraph from the
South Side Democrat of yesterday:
"The nomination of Fillmore is agioss
fraud, put on the country by scheming pclit-
zeal harlots, who hSpe BY producing diver
sion in his favor at the South, to assist the
Black Republicans 10 preventing an election
by the people, and in carrying the contest for
President TO the present House q Repre-
scntatives. They have no expectation of his
election. The proceedings of the Conven.
ton demonstrate tSat even with no platform
there can be no unisn between the Northern
and Southern wings of the party. Their co.
.jec. is TO throw the election into tie House,
and then to strike hands with the Black Re-
publlcans over the spois.
"The whole thing was preconertcd, and
the result doubtless of deliber!te under
standing. Whether the huckster' will sue
coed depends ON the action OF the Southern
people"
We concur with you-the "result," that
is the election of Fillmore, does materially
depend upon the action Of The Southern
people," And we tell you another thing
the southern people" prefer Fillmore, whom
they have trusted, tried and found faithful,
to any man your party may nominate. They
have nothing TO fear from Mr.. Fillmore's
administration of the government. On the
contrary, they have every reason to look to
it with undoubting hope and confidence
The man who signed The Fugitive Slave law,
and did every thing in his power when Presi-
dent to have it faithfully executed, is not the
man whom the southern people" will fear
to trust Not at all But they will evlnce
their gratitude by supporting and sustaining
him against any and III competitors. Mark
the prediction, o! ye Pf little faith.
But says the .Dcnpcrat-"the nomination
is gross fraud!'-S agacious mani We
like such ."lrands," andif your party could ever
manage to perpetratcIsuch a onr, we should
have more respect fcr, and confidence in it,
than we now have. Int they never commit
the "flaud' Of nominating man sound, re-
liable md worthy to le trusted on the great
question of Southern rights. Not at ALL
But they do, every fop r years, continue to
make the Sonth the within Of "gross fraud"
in nominating men whom they themselves
are compelled TO repudate in less than twelve
months after his Inauguration. We are will
ling TO submit to such. "frauds" rs the nomi.
nation Of such man Is Willard Fillmore all
the time But not tolsueh "frauds" as the
imposition upon the country of such charac-
ters rs Martin Van Bur.n and Franklin Pierce.
And the Southern people" concur in opin-
ion with rs.
The Democrat is mistaken--we have Eek
pcctation" of Fllmor's election. We be-
lieve he will carry more Southern States
even than any man whom the Democratic
party can possibly nominate. These are our
sentiments, and they will be yours, too, be-
fore very long.
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r9S- A Paris letter of recent date, says
81 believe that within these few days very
large number Of arrests have been made in
the provinces, and in and about Bordeaux
$4,000 men are talked of as being thrown into
prison. The sectaries of the Marianne are,
| believe, increasing fearfuIly in the lower
classes, from the fact of the universal distress
and want of food.