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American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-06-06
The Original bred SCOtts First Appearance
After the Decision. ..". '

The real original Drcd, says the St.
Louis Ledger, was the lion of the Court
llousc Saturday morning. About 10
o'clock he made his appearance, on the
steps fronting on Fourth street. lie
was soon recognised and surrounded
by score of lawyers, all congratulate
ing him on his onviable notoriety.--
Some said he was the most celebrated
character Of the present day-that he
caused greater stir in the u. States
than Lafayette himself, and advised
him to go to Boston, exhibit himself
there, and from thence to London, but
to be sure before he left for England,
to get an introduction from Mrs. Stowe
to the Duchess of Sutherland, and
that doubtless his fortune would be
made. Others advised him to Join the
Black Republicans, and stump it thro'
the State for Major Rollins during the
ensuing canvass, while some others adj
viscd him to join the church. "No
massa," said Drcd, "me not 20 to
Boston, nor to England, nor to the
stump neither; me stay in ST. Louis
with massa Labaum.' Dred is small,
pleasant looking negro, between So
and GO years of age, (of coursc) some
what the worse of wear and tear. lie
wore a moustache and imperial, and
was dressed in a suit Of scedy black.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-06-06

In the course of few weeks the new
coin will be plentiful enough at par, the
Spanish coins will 60 out of the hands
of the brokers just as they already
have disappeared from ordinary circu.
lation, and as regards the old cents,
there will be "nary red" to be seen,
except such as will be found in the cab.
inets Of coin collectors.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-06-06
4nR AMlRlHAN Dl1DM.

TRRMS..-Sl.50 In Advance, otherwise $500
No subscription received for u shorter period
thcn six months; and no paper discontinued un-
ill all arrearages are paid.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at usual rates:
One square, three weeks, Sl.00, and 20 cents for
each additional insertion. Yearly advertise
ments inserted at discount on the above terms, +,
per contract. Candidates anaounc emcnts So.
Printing Office OH Front street, corner OF
Court Alley. g. .. ........... .s..I'
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-06-06

a Nice Country TO LIVE rN-Ar
extract "f Il aleuer from an officer nf The
U. S.Artny, dated Fort Cass, Florida
May 6'h, is pobiished IN tho National
loteiligencer The writer's s1ys:
ave are nearly dovoured by rnusdui.
toes. l do oil my writing in bed undor
tho bars, which viii account for this
letter being in peucil. For the las,
ton days have not been able 10 write
at my desk, aud have slept but two
nights during the same period. The
men are no better or than | AIN, aud
they are not far rrom being uesd up. -
Besides the mosquitoes we are troubled
with scurvy aud dysenrery, aud il fact
nearly all the ills hat ilesb is heir to-
1t would take the Indians al least twenty
years to Kill as many men as the climate
Of Florida does III six months"
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-06-06

The Duich Catholic Bishops of liar.
lem, Utrecht, and ether Diucrsrs have
issued pastoral instructions protesting a.
eainst the doctrine Of the lmmnculA'o
Conception Of tho Virgin Mary. SO
says a Boston paper. There, is ,hore,
fore, some hope that a little time and
due reflection will explode that most
sublim9 Of all humhugs.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-06-06
The French Army in the East. Gen.
Jesup's Critique on Marshal
! f... Vaillant's Report.
WASHINGTON, May 26, 1857.

+ The following is an extract from a
letter of Major General JEsUp, Quar-
termaster General of the army ofJthe
United States, to friend, on reading
the exposition by Marshal VALIANT,
the French Minister of War, of the
whole of the administrative arrange
ments for the late war in the East, and
their results. 1t is particularly inter
esting: f.. .n. H".a'.. ..".
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-06-06

Two reviyals in Ralriqh, North Car,
olina, have resulted IN rs additions to
the Methodist Church, and 90 TO tho
Baptist
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-06-06

Tbcy call Jenny Lind, Jenny. .Rosity,
in England, for her large aud frequent
charities.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

LroIsLArrvE.-The following resolution
has been introduced In the House of Repre-.
ssntatiyes:
A resolution declaring it unwise and in.
expedent for the State to extend any fur
ther aid to internal improvements, and pledg-
Ing the present Legislature not to grant any
further aid Of the kind.
A bill has been introduced to protect note
holders, providing that the tax collectors
shall receive the notes of all Free Banks,
having the Comptroller's endorsement, in
payment Of taxes; also, bill to establish a
conventional rate OF interest.
On the 9th, the two Houses INST in Con-
vention to elect United States Senator
Mr. Dunlap nominated Andrew Johnson, Of
Greene county, and there being no further
nominations, the Convention proceeded to
vote piva poce. Mr.. Johnson received 81
Notes.-The American members voting for
Neil 8. Brown--and Mr.. Johnson was de-
clared duly elected United States Senator,
for the term of six years from the 4th Of
March, 1857. On the 9th, a bill was intro
duced to relieve the State from contingent
liability on account of aid extended to Inter-
nal Improvements; also, bill to repeal the
scs passed February Is, 1856, authorizing
Grand Juries to send for witnesses in GER
tain cases.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

W The news from the North and East,
since our last issue. Is not of the most en-
couraging character. Many Of the large
manufactures are stopping, and thousands of
operatives are being thrown out of employ
ment. The Banks Of New York and Boston
are making tremendous efforts to sustain
themselves, and TO las. adyces were succeed
ing; but the hourly failures of large business
houses show that they were doing 10 at the
expense of the business aud commercial in
terests. As yet we have heard of no sus
pensions In Georgia, while three or four in
South Carolina are noted. The old Stock
Banks of this State, and the Bank of Chat
tanooga, continue to pay. The prospect is
a little gloomy at present, but we trust il
will soon improve, when we shall again have
a fair sky and prosperous gales.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

MISSISSIPPI WIDows.-Dr. E. II. Bryan,
of Mississippi, a member of the late West
Point board of visitors, has returned home,
says the Vicksburg Times, by the way of
White Sulphur Springs in Virginia. The
doctor asserts that he found there most
brilliant company, Mississippi alone having
three hundred representatives, and among
them sixteen widows, representing fifty
thousand bales of cottonl
These Mississippi widows are grea. inst-
tutions, especially those Of them that repre-
sent the cotton interest. Marrying men will
take due notice of the foregoing information,
and govern themselves accordingly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

PAY SMALL DEBrs.-In money crisis like
the present, there is a too common propensity
to lay by specie for which there is no imme.
date use, under distrust in paper currency,
whose safety is largely contingent on popular
confidence. This is often done while little
debts remain unpaid. Persons who do this
are likely, if they let out money at all, to de-
mand ruinous rates of interest on it, and are
exscting Shyock's toward those who happen
to owe them. There is, perhaps, no remedy
for such a state of things as long as Mammon
is SO popular an object of alteration. But the
first duty of all, in II time like this, is the pay.
ment of all little debts, as far as possible. A
few dollars paid out in this way starts on
mission of mercy which is felt, perhaps, in an
hundred households.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

"REyEcrEp."-rhe llres "To Fannie H"
are inadmissibe. Having been young once
ourself, we always feel sort O. sorry for n
fellow in the green and yellow melancholy
fix our correspondent evidently is, but if he
will have patience, keep stiff upper lip, and
cultivate good sense in his advances, II is
possible he may regain the smiles of the fair
Fannie. If, however, we were 10 publish
the lines he addresses her, we are confident
she would never let the light Of her counte-
nance beam upon him again. They are ex-
ecrable, having neither rhyme nor reason.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

The BoMBARDmENT OF GREYTowN.-A.
B. Durand, an American merchant at Grey
town, who, it is said, lost property there
when the place was bombarded, has brought
suit against Captain Hollins. The defend
ant sets up that he simply obeyed the or
ders of his Government, but to this the plain
tiff demurs, on the ground that the President
of the United States had no right to direct
the bombardment without the concurrence
of Congress. The question involved is an
important one, politically as well as pecuni-
ariy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

The TIPPLMs LAVA bill has been in
troduced In the House of Representatives to
restore the tipping law repealed by The act
Of January 23d, 1856. We, o: course, have
no means of ascerlaining how many mem
bers of the present General Assembly con-
template going into the grocery business y
but it is hoped sufficient number of them
have regard enough for themselves and for
the well-being of communities, to prevent
the adoption of another license law. The
act of last session has not proved as efficient
in the suppression Of intemperance as was
believed by many persons who advocated its
adoption; but it has certainly been promo
tive of good in several respects. Every man
who guzzles Buckeye" and stultfies his
mind and vision with "Strychnine," will tell
you that there are more "hard drinkers" now
than there were under the license systemj
but every one who so asserts either sees dou-
BILE, or has not taken the trouble to learn the
truth on the subject. There may be as much
drunkenness and dissipation in some of the
larger towns, or "cities," but it is not so
throughout the State. In many Of the VIII
lagos YOU will now hardly ever meet with a
drunkard, and the inhabitants are entirely
freed from what was great source of an
noyanee under the tipping law, when men,
who were too lazy to labor for living, paid
the State a bonus for the privilege Of putting
the bottle to their neighbors' mouths. There
are evils enough affecting society without
the Legislature passing an act to re-establish
"hell-holes" OH every street corner and at
every cross. roads In the country, where men
may congregate, under the sanction of a law,
to drink, quarrel and fight, and annoy those
who have no disposition to engage in such
"sports and pastlmes;" and we hope the as
sembled wisdom of the Commonwealth will
have the good sense-and the good taste,
TOTO let the liquor business alone-at
least until time shall demonstrate that the
public good demands return to the license
system. In fact, we think it possible, as
general proposition, that the Legislature can
do the State more real service by letting ex-
listing laws alone, than by the enactment of
new ones.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

sB-The Sumner (Kansas) Gazette says
of that town: sit is only sixteen weeks old;
contains between 300 and 400 inhabitants
has one of the best steam saw mills in the
western country in active operation, and two
more building; has one good hotel, and one
commenced that will cost $4,000 when
finished; has seven stores, one wagonmaker,
one shoemaker, one blacksmith, and three
carpenter shops; has subscribed $1,000 for a
church edifice, and has printing Office and
free school,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

APPREHENDED FAMINE IN lNDIA.-Com
mercial letters from Bombay, dated Angus
IA, say that, owing to the neglect Of agr
culture in India, in consequences of the I'M
settled state Of affairs, serious fears are enter
tanned that n scarcity of provisions will gen
orally prevail. The Governor-General wat
cndeavoring to avert such an evil, by direct
ing the military, in all cases where pract
cable, to collect grain ard provisions and
have them stored for future use.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

COURAGE IN MISFORTUNE. There is moth.
ing like courage in misfortune. Next 10
faith in God, and in his overriding Provi.
deuce, mans faith in himself is salvation
II is the secret of good luck, so-called. Il
makes men strong as the pilared iron, elias.
tic as the springing steel. 1t opens the gate
Of enterprise and wealth. And while thers
bow 10 chance and accident, he makes chance
and accident bow TO him, and moulds them
to his purposes and harnesses them to the
car Of his fortune.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

BLACK MAIL.--A writer in the Richmond
Enquirer, Extensively copied without contra
diction into their Virginia papers,) makes
the astounding statement that some of the
virginia banks are in the habit of bribng the
brokers who infest that State TO let their notes
circulate. The writer asserts that 100000,
and even "a high asSao, 900, has been loaned
without interest for one or more years, by
single banks to the brokers, no q considera
ton for the latter not bringing in the
notes Of those banks for redemption.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

The Love OF GoLD.-This master pas
sion was terribly illustrated in the Central
America disaster. One OF the survivors says
Several poor fellows went to the bottom
with rolls Of stolen gold around their waisi!n
In another place he remarks: II beleve-I am
sorrow to say it--that M--and some of
his friends went below to play, and that they
went into the presence of their Maker with
cards 10 their hands"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

HE MONEY CRIsrs-We have said but lit
tie. says the New York Express, upon thil
crisis in our editorial colunms-beeause it is Of
no use to reason with pane, no more thar
to reason with q whirlwind or an earthoua Ike
all very unreasonable and irresistible ele
ments of human destruction. The panic here
must have its course and exhaust itself, and
the very effort to stop but enrages it. New.
erthelsss. it is public duty to examine the
causes of this panic, for by the examination
perhaps, we may hereafter arrest like causes
and so save the public from disturbance
fatal as this has been to commerce, trade and
manufactures
The first cause, doubtless is our paper
money system, which is both a public curse
and public blessings curse in that it i.
subject to such panic as this, and thus be.
comes the means of such destruction as we
see; and blessing, in that it gives to the
credit and character Of the poor, the humble,
and the enterprsing, the capital and the
means Of the powerful and the rich The
curse Of the system is obvious now in violent
and frightful contraction, which the Banks
have been scared into making, Of the eurren
cy Of the country, but the blessing is obvious
too, in the way poor men Of character rise,
and in the way the country and the people
shoot ahead of all other countries on the
earth. specie currency alone is a barbaric
idea, and an impossibiity among commercial
men-the merest chimera in the world, which
theorists and ignoramuses may reason ad-
mirably about on paper-but which, whenev-
err and wherever practiced, grnds the face Of
the poor under the mill Of Capital. Never.
theless, gold and silver are the only test Of
values and the great means of interchange
with the world; and hence, whatever cannot
stand their test must crumble and fall when
the test is demanded. Houses, lands, ships,
farms and railroads, may be the bodies of
Trade and Commerce, but the soul. the spirit,
is the precious metal-and the body cannot
exist without the soul. As health is indis-
pensable-to life, SO is specie indispensable to
move the elements of this life-commercial,
and agricultural. To active
business minds, these facts are clear; but they
are not clear to the multitude who, because
of the excess of credit, would sink the coun
try into the slough Of hard money currency
only.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

The TRADERS BANK.-We notice in the
New York Herald a dispatch from this city
giving list of the Nashville Banks which
were paying specie for their notes. In this
list the Traders Bank is not named and we
presume that omission was accidental. The
Traders Bank has continued to pay gold for
all its issues, and we have every assurance
that it is upon as healthy basis as the best
Of them. This Bank is under the manage
ment of A. r. Crozier and w. Is. Dorteh.-
Nash Union.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

CoMHEEDABLE.-We learhfrom the Lynch
burg Yirginian, of the 9th inst, that the
Board Of Directors of the Va. and Tenn.
Railroad Company, withcommendablep
titude, convened at the commencement OF
the present monetary crisis, and passed a
resolution instructing their agents and officers
to take in payment Of dues, the notes of all
the Virginia Banks.
This action of the officers of the Va. and
Tenn. Road is worthy OF all imitation, and is
somewhat in contrast with the action of the
railroad companies of Richmond, who at the
beginning of the present crisis, greatly to the
annoyance of travellers, determined not TO
receive for freight or fare on their roads any
other notes than those of the Bank of Virgin
ia, Farmers Bank Of Virginia and Exchange
Bank of Virginia. They also require trave-
lers to pay il specie for all ''fares" under
90 so. When the fare is over that amount,
the ticket agents will furnish the change
Bristol Ne,os.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

W- These times lead everybody to
preach economy; one writer says funerals
might be conducted much cheaper than they
are. Another calculates that il all persons
in the United States would wear their clothes
an extra six months, for one year, $25O,OOO,-
600 might be saved-or if each family would
omit the use of meat one day in every week
for year, $l25,OOOOO0 more might be
sayed-bu. these calculations must stop, or
we shall be too rich-in rags, empty stom-
achs, and shabby hearses.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

SOUTH CAROLINA Cause.-The Augusta
Despatch Of the 10th containes the follow
ing paragraph:
From private dispatch we learn that the
Bank of the State Of South Carolina has
suspended.
The paragraph below appears in the Dis
patch Of the 18th:
More Suspensions.-T South Western
Rail Road Bank and the Bank Of South Car.
oina have suspendedAn addition to the Bank
of the State OF South Carolina, reported Sat.
urday.
Our city banks have to-day thrown out the
Exchange Bank, Columbia, and the Planters
Bank, Fairfield.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

ANOTHER Know NoTHiEe SrArR.-The
State of Dade, Georgia, goes the Know Moth.
ing ticket-having elected Know Nothing
Senator and Representative at the election on
the 9th. This unexpected result is said to
be mainly attributable to the Chattanooga
Advertiser, n journal which generally mo-
nopolizes large interest 10 the affairs Of
that galorious little commonwealth. Hur-
rsh for Dadel Who will now assert that
Know nottingham is defunct institution!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16
PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENCE.
PHILApEIrmA, Oct. 5, 1857.

PHILADELPHIA, oct. D, 1857.
Editor Post The merchants who have re-
Gently returned to East Tennessee from the
North, have, no doubt. given information at
home of the hard times here. The utmost
gloom prevails, and hope for the future is
founded rather upon the wish than upon any
satisfactory reason. Saturday, Sd October,
was the last day of grace on purchases made
by the merchants in February last. There
were not as many failures to meet these
debts as was anticipated. Every exertion
was made, and it may be that the worst day
is now passed. 1t may be. however that the
force work of Saturday may react and pros
trate those who lived over that perilous day.
There is full expectation here that the New
York Banks will suspend. They have made
such boast over Philadelphia that their fail
ure is rather desired here and the failure Of
some small Banks in Brooklyn and other
points in the State of New York, together
with the suspension of a leading private
banking concern in the city, on last Saturday.
go a great way to prepare us for a general
suspension there. The fact is, they are not
meeting their liabilities promptly with specie,
but use policy and stave off by prudential
rules lately adopted They are working hard
to establish the CHARACTER of their city as the
great central powek Of the Union. They
urge all other BAN to suspend. If they
should actually do y, the Legislature could
not reinstate them, the Constitution says
that a suspension % specie payment shall
never be legalized ei o morrow the Pennsyl.
vania Legislature meets in called session to
consider of relief measures 1t is not proba
bic that they can grant substantial relief,
and as they have but six days to work in,
and don't now know what ought to be done,
/ do not think they will do anything, unless
the Banks shall have matured plan and will
take the necessary steps to have it carried
through. This will require large bribery
fund, and as their charters depend upon it
they MAJ pay their way. l cannot see how
relief can be permanently secured by placing
all the power in the hands of those who have
failed tosustain themselves. They must re-
deem their issues at some time, and if they
are permitted to issue more paper for the re-
lief Of Merchants this new issue will add to
the burten that broke them down ten days
ago. Tley ought to buy gold and pay their
debts. and then ask for favor. The question
is assuming political aspect since the Gov
ernor Issued his proclamation. Many Demo-
Gratis ale assailing she called session. others
are afrfid to take position, so that the result
can moi be foretold, but think the intrinsic
difficulties will preclude action in six days,
and some Democrats will try to throw the
odium Dn the opposition, and thus defeat any
relief measure. 1t is very difficult problem,
and No one ought to seek the responsibility
Of dissolution, for mere party purposes. l
presume our Banks have not yet felt the full
force Of the storm. They ought to buy gold
and be ready. L. F.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-16

GEN. VIM. u. Observation-Disclosures has
been received from the authorities of the
Lexington Asylum, by the friends of this
gentlemen here, that strong and background
ed hopes are entertained of his speedy res
toration to reason. To his immediate fam
lily and relatives in this city this news will
carry much joy, while his numerous friends
throughout the State will receive the news
with the iiveliest satisfaction.