The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-26

ATHENS FEMALE CoLLEGE.-Ihe WORK on
the College building is progressing, aud We
understand the Trustees expect to have il
resdy 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 studously avoided.
Tbs NEws.-With the exception Of on
occasional item in reference to Kansas, the
advices from Washington are almost devoid
Of interest. The latest accounts give notice
Of several anticipated duels, originating in
matters outside of the National Legislature
u 10 said the advocates of the Lecompton
Constitution are confident of being able to
carry il through; while the other side are
equally confident that the "swindle," as they
torn it, will be defeated. Andy Johnson has
made speech in the Senate, in opposition 10
the proposition to increase the Army, and in
which he anmadverted, in strong terms, upon
the tendency of democratic administrations
TO run into extravaganza. He says, substan-
TALLY, that the party cry is, Retrenchment
and Reform, but its practice is altogether in
an opposite direction; and that at the rate
they have been progressing for the last few
years, by 1860 il will require one hundred
and twenty-five millions per nnnum to carry
On the government. In conclusion, he ai-
monishes that henceforth they should prac-
tics what they preach, least the people be-
come indignant and hustle the party out of
power.
From Nashville we have an occasional in
timation that the Legislature "stl lives"
and that the session is drawing its slow
length along towards protracted CLOSE
The bill to increase the capital of the Bank
Of Tennessee is among the more important
measures being acted on. The proceedings
In reference to il will be found in another
column. Business at Nashville is said to be
improving.
The news from Utah and Salt Lake City
Is contradictory. Brigham Young continues
to breath vengeance against the Gentiles, but
the opinion begins to prevail that there will
not be much fighting, but that the Mormons
will succumb rather than risk serious en-.
gagement with the United States troops.
The papers from the "Far West" contain
about the usual amount Of conflicting state
ments in regard to affairs in Kansas Terrific
ry. We have not the remotest suspicion
that any one outside the limits of Kansas,
ever has learned, or ever will learn the Truth
about the condition of things there until the
miserable business is finished up. We give
the "news," such as it is, from that interesting
region, in another place.
At last advices from New Orleans the Gro.
Gerry market was active, with an advancing
tendency. At the sams time Bacon and
Breadstuffs were dropping.
From the almost sudden and total dsap-
pearance of the subject from the papers, il
would seem that the Nicarauga excitement
has about died out, run its race, and been
consumed of ito own fierceness. At last ac-
counts, Gen. Walker was at his fathers, at
Nashville, medta,ing, perhaps, another bril-.
liant campaign on the territory of his former
hopes and more recent disappointments.
Recent udvices from the milk-sick region
represent the excitement about the location
Of the Southern University as quietly sub
siding-mnrmuring itself away, gently and
sadly, as the soft breeze that follows in
the wake Of the fierce hurricane. There are
reasons for believing that the whole subject
will be re-considered, and the location chang.
ed TO some less Questionable point. The
success o: the enterprise certainly demands
such course.
From Knoxville and Chattanooga the pa.
pers bring us nothing of peculiar interest,"
AT the former, the Islander and libel suits
against Brownlow seem TO have been an ab-
sorbiDg topic for several days. We learn
verbally that 10 one case the defendant was
acquitted, aud in the other the jury failed TO
sgres-ten being for acquittal and two for
conviction. Libel suits are but poor specu-
lations under any circumstances, in our opin.
ion, and we have never known any one 10
make either money or reputation by engag-
ing in them.
Chattanooga has recently been blessed
with a great religious revival, and we see, by
the Gazette, that il has extended to the town
OF Harrison. There seems to have been, for
some time, great dearth in that portion Of
the moral vineyard, and should the work Of
regeneration now going on spread through.
out The county, we may safely count on a
heavy fall of from the criminal side of the
Hamilton docket.
The Accelerated Gipsey Case" has been
the principal thing on the tapis al Cleveland
for the last two weeks, and for few days Il
was thought that "eotfee and pistols" would
be the result. But a note from the Banner
Office advises us that the difficulty will be
satisfactorily adjusted on the LIST Saturday Of
March without resort TO tho 'code."
In regard to local matters, with the excep-
ton Of fight or two in the "cnvirons," the
result of bust.head whiskey, we have nothing
Of striking interest to record this week.
ET Circuit Court for Rhea county will
nsst at Washington next Monday, LIST inst;