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DEFEAT OF THE ADMINISTRATION.

DEFEAT OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
The resolution of Mr.. Harris, of Illinois, for
select committee on the Lecompton COnsti-
tuition was the test question with the Admin
istration, and yet the Administration was
shamefully defeated, notwithstanding the De-
mocracy have an overwhelming majority in
Congress, and were aided, besides, by ten
Southern Wing members. Commenting on
this extraordinary fact, the Raleigh Register
remarks rs follows:
ave said weeks ago that the Adminstra.
ton of Mr.. Buchanan had failed egregiously
in the first year of its existence, and while
backed by Congress of its own party kid
ney No preceding Administration, coming
into power under such auspices, has ever in
Cured so miserable fate. Elected on the
ground that his success was necessary to quell
the fell spirit of Abolition, and thus save the
Union, he finds himself deserted as soon as
the issue is made in Congress upon the great
test question of the canvass, by the vers men
upon whom he had most claim for support
From his own Keystone State, of which he
vaunts himself the 'favorite son. no less than
five members. to wit: Messrs. Hickman, Owen,
Jones, Chapman, Montgomery and Dewari,
have deserted him, by responding aye to the
resolution referring the Presidents message
recommending the Lecompton Constitution
to select committee. Had three of these
natural allies Of the South and Pennsylvania
Democrats, voted the other way, the message
would have been referred to the Standing
Committee on Territories, and thus the
| friends of the Lecompton Constitution would
have attained their object Besides these
Pennsylvania Democrats who thus contribut-
ed to thwart the President and the other
friends of Lecompton, Messrs. Harris, Smith,
Morris, Shaw and Marshall, Of lllinois-Eng
lish, Foley and Davis, of Indiana-Haskin of
New York, and Groesbeck, Miller, Burns,
Cox, Lawrence and Hall, of Ohio-all roaring
Democra!s-all Cincinnati platform men, and
natural allies of the South went for The Sc
lect committee, or, in other words, against
Lecompton, or, in other words still, against
slavery in Kansas. The effect of this decision
will be to keep the question open tor an in
definite time, and, in the end, bring in Kansas
as Free State. We see now the true value
of Democratic professions and pretences.-
With full power TO perform all they proms-
ed, they have failed at the first pinch os the
hill. Will any body hereafter have the eff
frontery to tell Southern men, that they must
look to Northern Democrats for aid and com
fort? And what will be said by the sheep
stomached gentry who rated the Wing and
Joined the Democratic party, because the lat
ter were the especial friends of slavery p
Will they not say to themselves in the plural
what Fastaf said of himself in the singular
-'Whdt thrice doubled asses ,oere pe?' At
any rate, If they don't say it, they'll think it,
and we, for one, will say it of them with the
JUNCTION of one who speaks gospel truth.n
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

INTERESTING FROM CESTRAL ANERlcA.-
Advices from Nicaragua announce that the
treaty negotiated between Mr.. Yrisarri and
our government, had been ratified, and also
that the treaty between Costa Rica and Mica.
ragua had been rejected BY the first named Re.
public. These events would, it was thought,
lead to the renewal of hOstlities. There
were great reiOicings in Granada on the re-
ceipt of the news of the capture of General
Walker BY the United States naval forces.
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sW- The friends Of humanity and religion
will be shocked, as well as grieved, at the
tidings of another fearful persecution of
Christians in Madagascar. This last perse-
cution, which followed the expulsion of a
number of Frenchnen from the capital in
July last, seems to be more severe than any
by which it had been preceded. Thirteen
persons have been put to death; between fifty
and sixty had been subjected to the ordeal of
tangent, or prison water, under which eight
had died; nearly sixty were bound in chains,
Of whom two had died; while number had
been reduced to slavery.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

The BANK BILLS PAssEp.-lt will be seen
by reference 10 the letter of our Frankfort
correspondent that the bill rechartering the
Bank of Kentucky, Northern Bank, and the
Bank of Louisville (Which was amended in
the House of Representatives. has passed
both Houses-the Senate concurring in the
House substitute-by vote of % TO H.
We congratulate the public on the settle
ment OF this vexed question in manner
which seems to be satisfactory TO the people
and the Banks.-LOuisrills Journal.
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A WORKING LEsiSLAruRE.-The Legisla-
ture of Texas is remarkable body, and its
labors without parallel. They have large
amour, of business on hand, snd for some
time have been holding three sessions day
forenoon, afternoon, aud at night To
these they have recently added fourth, a
session before breakfast. The Austin Gazette
says the House now meets at o'clock, a N,
and goes TO work.
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IMPORTANT TO RAILROAD CoMPAEIEs

IMPORTANT TO RAILROAD COMPANIES.
A very important principle to railroad
companies, as well as to the whole travelling
public. was ruled by Judge Woodward, ofthe
Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania, in the long
contested suit of O'Brien VS.. the Philsdel-
phia. Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
Company. The Philadelphia Ledger
'The suit was brought for damages for per-
sonal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while
crossing In two horse wagon the track Of
the railroad. The case was prosecuted and
defended by several Of our ablest counsel
and the trial occupied three or four days, re-
sulting in verdict for the defendants, every
point being deliberately discussed. Judge
Woodward charged the jury substantially as
follows: "lst. That q person absut to cross q
railroad track, Is in duty bound to stop and
look in both directions, and listen before
crossing. I'd. That if the plaintiff contribute
ed in the slightest degree to the accident in
question, he could not recover, although the
railroad company were negligent" This, in
our opinion, is not only good law, but com
mon sense. The idea that has so long pre-
vailed that railroad companies are to be made
responsible for all the consequences from col
lisions on the lines of their respective roads,
whether they were negligent in attending to
their duties or not. needed the check which
Judge Woodward, in his ruling has given it.
Heretofore. the tendency of the decisions of
courts and verdicts of juries have all been in
the wrong direction. Instead Of tending to
make private travel careful in crossing the
tracks of railroads, the disposition to consid-
er the railroad company always in the wrong,
and the individual always the victim, award
ing him promptly, full, and sometimes exem-
plary damages. has tended to make them
reckless Of the damages that may ensue to
the railway companys property, and the lives
of their passengers and employees. If courts
and juries had set out in the first establish.
ment Of railroads with the principle of hold
ing private travel liable for damages to rail-
road companies and their passengers the
number of accidents would no doubt have
been greatly lessened The tendency has been
not only to make individuals criminally care
less, but has even opened the door to the ma
licious and knavish, to put, comparatively,
valueless property, in the shape of horse flesh
and cattle, in the way of danger, that good
round price might be obtained, and perhaps
some private pique and malicious purpose
gratified. The Wilmington Railroad Com.
pany has acted wisely in resisting this wrong,
and Judge Woodward has done himself sig
nal credit in righting it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

GAINESVILLE, Feb. 2O.-A shocking mur.
der was perpetrated about 7 o'clock, las.
evening, in the town Of New Providence, by
a negro man upon his master Mr.. Jos. H.
Harris, respectable tobacconist of that
town. Mr.. il. was setting in his Office when
the negro entered and split his head terribly
with an axe, dragged him to the fire, burnt
him severely, and then set the office on fire.
The negro was brought here and placed in
Jail, but this morning crowd of Mr.. HIS.
friends took him out of Jail and hung him
upon the scene of his crime.
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For the Post.

Will the Trustees of Forest Hill Academy
procure the services Of Female Teacher in
connection with U. L. York, the present able
and worthy Principal Of that Institution
BY an act Of the General Assembly Of the
State OF Tennessee, the sum Of $3.50 wa:
appropriated to Forest Hill Academy for the
benefit of the children of McMnn county
without regard to sex, which sum was to
be always kept at interest and the interest
used exclusively in keeping up the school
And in addition to this the State pays to the
Trustees every year bonus Of $3.50 for the
same purpose. There are many persons who
wish to send their daughters and avail them
selves OF the benefits Of this School, but will
not do so unless the long established custom
Of having Female Assistant Teacher is con.
tinued. A CITIZEN.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

s8- The Lynehburg Virginian says from
all accounts, the split in the Democratic par
ty, growing out of the question Of the ad-
mission of Kansas, bids fair to be permanent
and irreconcilable. A caucus of the Demo-
cratic members Of Congress was held in
Washington city few nights SINCE for the
purpose Of restoring harmony to the party
but the result was only to show that the diff
ference between the two wings, was SO wide
as to preclude all hope of union. The men,
bers opposed to the admission of Kansas,
fearful of their popularity at home, and their
defeat at the next election, maintained their
ground firmly and decisively. On the other
hand, the friends of the Administration, I'M
willing to allow insubordination in the par.
ty ranks. evince disposition to expel these
men the party, and to excommunicate them
from the church Of the faithful, without quail
ifcation or hope of return.
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RIDING THE EAeLE.-The dog-star mus
be raging in the latitude of Aberdeen, Miss
The editor of the Sunny South seems to be
in high state Of excitement. Hear him in
his call to his countrymen:
aRse in the majesty of Southern chivalry
and rebuke the foul spirit that courses
through the land. snow is the winter oil
our discomfort" and shame upon the syco.
plant that lcks the hand that is raised to
smite him. The Southern waters are agita.
ted. Pangs and curses upon him who cries,
"Peace, be still J"
He evidently forgot to add, "Root diminu-
tive swine, or del"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

CLERICAL ITEMs,-Rev. J. J. Dana, of
South Adams, Mass, has caused n sensation
ic that village, by sermon entitled "The
Hole in the Wall, or South Adams as vt isl
Its rebukes seem 10 have been aimed at sins
at home, instead Of the faults of the heather
in Asia, or the stubbornness Of the Jews
1000 years ago, and could not fail, therefore,
to be rather exciting. Mr. Dana said the
sixth commandment Of the manufacturer is,
"Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy
work, and on the seventh make thy REPAIRS"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

LEGsLAnvE-In the Senate on the 18th,
the bill to appoint an additional Director for
the Branch Of the Bank Of Tennessee at Ath-
ems, such director to be citizen of Blount
county. passed the third time. On the nth,
HOuse bill to incorporate Savings Institutions
at Knoxville and Chattanooga. was indef.
nitely postponed. In the House. bill to regu-
late the sale Of spirituous liquors, license
$40 and ten per cent on stock was read
Mr.. Hamilton offered bill in lieu. repeating
quart law, and giving manufacturers free
privileges. Motion to table both, lost Bill
in lieu adopted, and Withdrawn for amend
ment.
In the House, 18th, Mr.. Richardson offered
a resolution rendering the thanks Of both
branches of the Legislature to Messrs. Heis-
kell, Bullock and Bicknell. the sub-eommit.
tee. appointed by the joint select committee
on the Code, for the labor and attention
which they have bestowed on this work, and
declaring that they merit the confidence and
ought to receive the thanks Of the whole PEG.
pie. The resolution was adopted and order.
ed to be sent TO the Senate.
The House adopted resolution. 40 to Q, to
adjourn sine die on the 18th Of March.
In the Senate, Mr.. Hill offered resolution
instructing the bank committee to inquire in
to the erpsdisney of so modifying the bank
act passed at the present session, SO as to
postpone the retiring of small notes until
Jan. l, 1859; and to allow the stock and free
banks which accept the provisions the bank
act, to receive and pay out the notes of the
Bank Of Tennessee and branches.
The following bills were rejected: To re-
peal the law requiring the notices of land
sales to be advertised; To amend the prac-
tice in Circuit Courts; Authorizing Bank Of
Tennessee to issue 81 200, 900 post notes. pay
able in twelve months, tabled 80 to 30.
In the Senate, 2O.h, the bill to amend the
law of 1856, to prevent incompetent persons
from teaching school, passed the third time.
House bill to incorporate the East Tennes-
see Telegraph Company and the Nashville
and Paducah Telegraph Company. passed the
third time.
In the House, Senate bill to extend further
time to the Knoxville and Charleston, and
the South. Western Railroad Companies, pass
ed first reading.
22d, Senate resolution to amend the constr
tuition so as to make the election of Governor,
members of the Legislature, de-, quadrennial,
passed first reading.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

COUNTY JUDGE ELEcTIoN.-The Nash
vile Banner, of the 2lst, says: The House
yesterday took final action upon the bill es-
tablishing County Judge for the counties Of
Davidson, Shelby, Knox, Williamson and
Montgomery, and the same is now the law.
The bill provides that the election shall be
held on the first Saturday in March. The
law takes effect Immediately, and the first
election will take place next month.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

From THE UTAH ARMY.-A letter has
been published, written by Col. A. s. John
ston, the commander Of the Utah army, TO
member Of his family in Louisville, Ky,
dated at Camp Scott, near Fort Bridger,
December 18th, 1857, the following extract
from which embraces all that is Of any gener.
al interest:
"SOme think the Mormons, when Il is neces-
sary to make the issue with them, will sub.
NIT to the Government. | do not agree with
them. think their fanaicism and villany
will lead them to try one encounter at least;
and think our government ought 10 desire II,
as aiiording simple solution OF difficult
political question. II they resist, a fnai
settlement would be on the basis Of con-
quest. We could then dictate TO them the
terms Of adjustment"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

GARRoTIEG IN BALrIMoRE.-On Wedpes.
day night last, about nine o'clock. as Mr..
Frederick Wright was passing along Calvert
street, Baltimore, he was accosted BY two
men, who spoke Familiarity, asking him where
he was going. He told them, perfectly un.
susPecting anything wrong. Immediately
one OF them threw rope around his neck
from behind, while the other robbed bin Of
gold watch and chain, valued a, fifty dol.
lars, eight dollars in money, and a check for
5000. When he found the fix he was iu, be
told the robbers not to kill him, but take all
he had. They cleaned him out and left him.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

HEAVY DEFALcATIos OF BANK AGENT.
1T is currently reported in Augusta, says
the Savannah Georgian, that the Agent Of
two of the interior South Carolins Banks, at
Memphis, Tennessee, has disappeared, leav-
ing $4,000 Of cash unaccounted for, SIC 900
in bills of exchange. of very doubtful charac.
ter taken for their hccount-every part oil
which, that has fallen due, had been protes-
al
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

ATHENS FeMALE CoLLEGE.-The work on
the College building is progressing, and We
understand the Trustees expect to have it
ready for the School early in the Summer
The enterprise is one in which every member
Of the community ought to feel deep in
tsrsst, and we hope to see every obstacle to
lie success studiously avoided.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

WRiTNs.-Life Illustrated, speaking Of
the long, prosy articles to be met with in too
many of the so-called newspapers" says;
1t is the easiest thing in the world 10
write a newspaper to death, or to make ones
self dull and the reader sleepy. All that is
required is long articles in the one case, and
the use of all the words one can dilute his
ideas with in the other. No one whose
thoughts are not precise and clear can ever
write short articles. Anybody can make
long ones.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

COMMERCIAL GEsIUs.-Fond parent Ito his
son)-'Yes, New York is the place TO get on
10. Look at James he started without a
penny, and has lately failed for hundred
aud fifty thousand dollars. or course that's
an extreme case. don't expect you to do
as well as that Still, with honesty and in.
dustry, SEQ no reason why you should not,
in few years, fail for fifty thousand dol
lars" 'rai ba p"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

lloMlcIDE.-On Thursday morning last .
Coronor's inquest was held over the body oil
Sophia Phillips, of this place, who was found
dead in bed. The verdict Of the Jury was,
that deceased came to her death from blow
on the head with piece Of iron, inflicted oy
her husband, George Phillips. Phillips Is
now confined in Jail TO wait his trial. BON
drunk.-DdhlOnega Signal.
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tw- Friend Parham, Of the Chattanooga
Gazette, gives notice that he will not sell
that establishment We are glad of it, The
Gazette is one of the institutions of that
promising town, and we should dislike to see
il pass into incompetent hands, as might be
the case in the event of change.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

DAVIS BANK BILL.-We understand the
following to be the main provisions of the
bill substituted by Senator Davis, to increase
the capital of the Bank of Tennessee:
"Provides for the sale Of the stock Of the
State in the Turnpike Companies, the pro-
ceeds to be paid to the State Bank. The
bonds of the State, payable in thirty years.
bearing six per cent. interest, to be issued TO
the amount of sl,25O,0OO; 100000 TO es-
tablish branch bank at Memphis; Sl50,000
to establish a branch at Knoxville; the re-
mander to be divided between the mother
bank and old branch banks"
After an Intellectual attempt TO lay the bill
on the table, it was made the special order Of
the day for Tuesday last, tho proceedings of
which day had not reached US up to the hour
of going to press. A gentleman from Nash.
vile expresses the opinion that the bill will
pass The Senate, but that its passage through
the other House is doubtful.
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w OF the two hundred and thirty tn,

R OF the two hundred and thirty thou
sand Continental soldiers, and the fifty-six
thousand militia, who bore arms during the
Revolution, and went forth to fight for free
dom in America, probably not two hundred
are now out of the spirit landl Precious
indeed should they seem to Ibis generation,
for 10 the merit they will all be gone.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

W- Owing, we presume, to the bad con-
ditiou of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Road, the mails from the State Capital are
not as regular 10 their arrival as could be de-
sired. However, occasional Inconvenience
Of the kind are what the public must get
nsa1 To
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

IsDIAs DEPREDATIoSs IN TExAs.-Startling
intelligence has been received at Austin. Tex
rs, of Indian depredations in Brown county,
Of that State. Five persons had been mur-
dcred in cold blood, and the settlers gener-
ally, alarmed at the unchecked enormiiies Of
the savages, dividing into three separate par
ties, had taken refuge in the adjacent forts
The legislature Of Texas has passed bill
for the raising and equipment Of one hundred
men, and an appropriation for the purpose of
seveny.fve thousand dollars. A public meet
ing had been held in Austin, when resolu-
lions were adopted urging the legislature 10
provide the most ample and speedy means
for the protection and security OF the frontier
settlements.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

WAsHIseToS, Feb. l7.-In the Senate To-
day MIR. Houston. of Texas, introduced his
resolution about assuming prOtectOrate
over Central America. The resolution was
laid on the table. The army bill again dis
eussed.
The special committee in the House, ap-
pointed under Mr.. Harris resolution, met to-
day, and refused to subpoena Messrs. Wal
ksr, Stanton and Calhoun, to give testimony
before them, under the belief, as is under
stood, that the information they can obtain
from the Executive department will be sui,
fcient for all the practical purposes of theiI
investigation.
II is reported that the majority of the
Senate committee on Territories have prepar'
ed simple bill for the admission Of Kansas
under the Lecompton Constitution.
Feb. 1S.-Mr. Green's report from the
Senate Committee on Territories, recites al
length Kansas matters, and charges the alb
olitionists of Kansas with having no desire
to settle the question at the ballot box and
concludes that Kansas must be admitted IN.
der the Lecompton Constitution.
Mr.. Douglas report dissents because
there is no satisfactory evidence that the
Lecompton constitution is the act and deed
Of the people Of Kansas or embodes theil
will. He says that the election of the fourth
of January is the only lawful one.
Messrs Collamer and Wade say, that the
Territorial Government of Kansas has never
been organized or provided for, in the organ
c act but was usurped by Foreign forces
conquered and subdued BY arms and minori-
ty installed and the administration sustains
this to perpetuate slavery.
SEHATE-On motion of Mr.. Hamlin the
army increase bill was limited to two years
service.
Feb. 19.-The Democrats of the Senate
will amend the Lecompton Constitution to
allow the people of Kansas to alter at pleas
ure.
Feb. 22.-No hostile meeting has yet ia.
ken place between Mr.. J. B. Clay and Col.
Cullum. Both are said to be absent from
the city, and their friends seem anxious to
prevent decision on the field.
Ex.LieutenaDt Rhind and his friend Mr..
Corrie, from South Carolina have been held
to bail in the sum $4,000 each, for posting
Commander Boutwell,.
An alteration took place yesterday be-
tween Lieutenants Bell and Williams of the
Army, and it is said blows were exchanged,
and duel between them is now pending.
Feb. %, p. Mt is understood here that
Mr.. Clay and Col. Cullum have left with
their friends. Every effort TO reconcile the
parties proved uuavailing.
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EXEMPTIONS LAVA copy Of the Exemp-
sion Law, passed by the present Legislature,
will DO found On the outside Of this paper
II allows every family as much as they need
want, and good many of them more than
thsy will ever get.
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HANGING OF A PoIsOSER.-James E. FL
bridge but twenty one years of age, was
hung in the Jail yard at Canton, New York,
on Friday last, for having murdered, by pois.
oning,a young widow named Sarah J. Gould,
on the 3Oth of May last, under the most dia-
bolical circumstances. Eldridge was school
teacher, respectfully connected; his victim
!wenty-four years of age, and represented as
worthy woman, to whom he was engaged
To be married