The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-30
r NEWS.

Stock 10000. A SLAYER was captured OIL
the Coast with $40 negroes. f a..-
NEw ORLEANS, Oct. 2l.-Cotton saies'
4.OOO bales middlng 9tal0. Nothing doing
In Western produce Whisky l9cts'
Financial matters are still more gloomy
MANY persons are in favor of general sus-
pension. lrrt :,
sr LOUIS, Oct 9s.-CaPt Van SIiet re-
morris that the Mormons al oait Lake refuse
70 allow the u. S. troops TO enter the city
Younq threatens 10 burn the pralries TO de-
o,iye their animals OF subsistence, and to
burn Salt Lake City If necessary 10 prevent
the troops from Quartering there. The Gov
eminent forts along the route are in bad
repair.
Nsw YosK, Oct. 23.--Money more sttin-
gent. Prime paper selling at to 8 per cent
The whole amount of sterling bills returned
from London protested is 10000 pounds
sterling, including 10000 drawn by the Bank
of Pennsylvania on George Peabody and
Lord Warren.
Evans g. Co., dry goods dealers, have sus-
pended. ,l.
New ORLEANS, Oct. %. p, M.-The sales
Of cotton to-day wers 1900 bEirs, and
Middlinp cottons sold a 10 cents. The sales
of the week are I'll 500, and the receipts
$4,000 against $4,000 same time last year.-
The decrease in receipta at this point &c.
600 bales, and at oil the ports 1850. The
stock on hand and on ship5oa,d lll,O0O
bales.
S,tgar-The receipts continue light, and
sales of new crop runge from IL to L cents.
Afolasses.-New crop command from 40
- int limit tod
Cofee.-Rio, prime, quoted at 10 cents.
ETchange-1'he market for sterling Is
very unsettled ana depressed, and quoted
ut,9o to 95. New York sight checks TWO to
three per cent discount.
Busiaess.-A gloom seems TO pervade all
channels Of business, money is tight, nego-
Citations difficult, aud prices for all kinds of
produce unsettled.
Bosros, Oct. 24.-Bank statement shows
two million eight hundred and eighty eight
thousand dol lars specie in the banks. In
c.ense, four hundred and thirty-seven thou
sand dollars since the suspension. TT.
NEw YoRK, Oct. 24.-Busness dull |;
weather stormy; rates for money lower, and
irregular, rangingfrom three to one and a
half per cent
Business n; the clearing house nine mill
iors. Balances six hundred thousand.
Beebee g.. Bro, Tea Dealers, have sus
pended. -.
ST.. LOUIS. Oct. 26.-Several prominent
citizens of Kansas have signed II protest
against fraudulent returns from Oxford, Per-
ciyal and Johnson counties. Walker and
Stanton after u personal examination pub
lished a proclamation declaring their determi-
nation to reject the entire vote of Oxford
county and give certificates to the free State
candidates. Fes,g
The excitement among the pro.slaverv men
Is intense. They threaten vengeance against
the Governor and Secretary.
On the 10Th mass convention was held
ut Lecompton, and protested against the as
sembling of the Constitutional Convention.
The Republican" publishes the discourse
of Heber e. Kendall, at Salt Lake City on
August the 30th in which the determination
is expressed to resist the Government troops
to the last extremity. The women and chill
dren are called upon to ann themselves and
to lay up graiL and prepare for the conflict
Young made an equally bold speech, declar-
ing hostility against the United States.
New ORLEANS, Oct 96.--Cotton bales ex-
tremely dull and irregular. The ruling rate
for middling was lOc. Strict middling to
good 10 l-S to 10 Ia. Sugar irregular n
10. Molasses opened % 80. Bulk Of sales
at Is for prime new.
Nothing doing in exchange; no change in
money matters for the better.
New York, Oct. 26.-Cotton and Flour
firm Wheat heavy; Corn dull; Lard IL /;
Sugar declined one and one-eighth.
The Bank statement of the week shows
nm Increase Of specie, two million FIVE hun.
bred and sixty weight thousand. Increase Of
deposits, four million six hundred and thirty
five thousand. Decrease In loans, one mill
ion six hundred and ifty-twot thousand. De-
crease In circulation one million two hundred
and two thousand.
CINCINNATI, Oct 26-Flour buyers refuse
81 90. Whisky Is IA. Grain unchanged.
Money unsettled.
New York, Oct. 26.-The U. s. Mail
steamship Baltic, Captain Comstock, arrived
last evening from Liverpool, which port she
LEFT on Wednesday afternoon, the l4th
Octob Der.
LIvERPooL, Oct. l4-The sales Of cotton
for the past three days reached 10000, of
which spectators took 1000 and exporters
1000 bales. The market opened buoyant
but closed quiet and steady. There is no
change In the quotations for cotton.
LONDON MosEY MARKET.-The money
market was very stringent. Consols had de-
clined, and were quoted at SO. The Bank of
England had advanced its rate of dcount to
seven per cent.
The mutneers still held Delhi, but it
was believed that the garrison ut Lucknow
would soon be relieved.
On the 18th October, Mr.. Ten Broeck's
mare, Prioress, woa the Cesarewtch Handi
cap, at Newmarket. The race was two
miles and 1913 yards, with 100 subscribers.
Thirty-four horses we're entered. On the
first triu, there was dead heat between
Prioress, FL Hakim and Queen Bess. Prio-
ress, however, won the race by a Icing aud
a half Tho value of the stake was $4,000.
Breadstutis were inactive, aud all kinds
have slightly declined. Flour was compar
atively steady.
WY Is EXCHANGE SCARCE Our neigh
Dor of the Constitniionalist asks this ques-
ton and answers il by stating that there were
shipped ftom Augusta and Hamburg TO
Charleston, during the month OF October,
1856, over fifteen thousand bales Of Cotton,
while during the same. month, this year, the
shipments are less than fire hundred bales,
There were over four thousand bales Of
although Cotton" in October, 1856, (or Cot
ton that IL forwarded through 10 Charleston