The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-09-17


galized. fleets of the like character would
openly bldcken the ocean.
I. The vely agitation of the question is
calculated to distract and divide the South,
the harmony and unity of which is especial
ly necessary in these disjoin,ed and distem-
pered times, when a large portion of the
Northern people, faithless alike to the cOun.
try, the Constitution and their Oaths, are
waging lnternecine war against the rights,
interests and domestic peace of the cOnstEya-
tive and the Consttuton-loving South. Its
tendency, too, is to ALLEVIATE friends and
strengthen enemies, and to precipitate the
downfall of the Republic, on the perpetual
tion of which, in its whole constitutional in
tegrity, rest at once our own happiness, great
ness and glory, and the hopes of our race.
8. Lastly we are happy to say that our
views are in conc ,S--"pce with those of most
of ths leading men and minds Of the State
and the South.
TRAGsDY AT KSIGHTsTowN, INDIANA
The Indiana True Republican, of the 10Th
inst, says: The citizens of the quiet little
village of Knightstown was thrown into the
most Intense excitement on Friday evening,
by the discovery that Miss Ann Rngae,
daughter of most respectable widow lady
of that place, had been most foully murder
ed.
On Tuesday evening the deceased was
taken i'll, and continued TO grow rapidly
worse until Friday, when she died while in
np n
post mortem examination was held, and il
was aseertained that on abortion had been
produced upon the body of the young girl
by mechanical means.
This sad account is not without its moral.
The murdered girl will rest in her dishonor-
ed grave, the poor old broken-hearted moth
er will bend under the great weight Of her
sorrow tina! has been cruelty thrust upon her
heart, until she sinks into her grave; but the
seducer-who will require this blood at his
hands? Who will meet him with a less
friendly grasp! What young lady will de-
cline the honor of his company? What moth
er will forbid her daughters to associate with
him? What "crcle" will refuse him adms-
sion, because of the stain of outraged inno-
cence and murdered womanhood upon his
hands! And yet this is society; the society
that our daughters, sisters, and wives move
in.
Since the perpetration of this dark act, we
have seen the principal actor in it, in . COM
pany of respectable men, laughing gaily and
talking lightly. This was the day after her
burial, and there was no shrinking back
among these men, as though the plague was
among them. And why should they shrink!
Her blood is upon his hands; but then you
know his fine kid gloves will hide all that.
ExpERIMENTAL STEAM SHIP.-A steam
ship of novel construction has arrived at
Hartlepoo from Greenwich, where it has
been built by Messrs. joyce, to test the util-
ity of an ingenious contrvance of detaching
portions of the vessel and leaving entire car
goes at any port on the route. The vessel'
which is about ninety feet in length and very
narrow in the beam, is built of iron, and con-
sists of three separate movable compart-
ments, which fit together in sockets and
fastened TO by strong iron stays. The FORE
most section is occupied by the crew, the
middle compartment contains the entire car
90, and the aftermost part the engines. 1t is
said that the central section can be dlscon-
Dectcd from the other two sections IN lew
minutes, and an empty hold substituted III
its place, so that the vessel can proceed on
its course either with n fresh cargo or in
search of one. The steamer is now loading
with coal for the London market, and will
take in between thirty and forty tons. If
the experiment should answer, vessel OF
two thousand tons burden is to be construct
ed on the same principle.
TBs HOG AND Corn CRoP.-We have
been, says the Louisville Courier, politely
shown by mercantile friend, two letters
from different parts of Ohio, conveying in
tereslng and important information concern
ing the hog and corn crop. One of these
from Piquu, lin the Great MiamiVa'ley0 says
that in that section there will be produced
from ono.half to three forths the usual
quantity. Some of the latest planting can
not mature, even though the season should
continue favorable. As to hogs the same
author says there will be no falling of in
number from lS57-5s, and the crop will be
equally as large as in ths; prolific season.
The letter from Steubenvillc says the corn
crop in that portion of Ohio will be an av-
crage one. Hogs are plenty and are now
selling cheaper than they did last season.
We understand that number Of Ken
tucky farmers had recently gone to Ohio and
Indiana after stock hogs, where they were
very abundant.
SPRINGS LiFE.-The editor Of the Freder-
icksburg News, writing one ofhis lively letters
from the Greenbrier White Sulphur, draws
il (ra,her strong, we fear,) as follows:
auere We are, n community of seventeen
hundred, nobody working, all well dressed,
with nothing to do but to enjoy themselves
all rich apparently, and by reputaiion!-
Would YOU believe that man came here to
find poor girl for u wife and could't find
one? They are all wealthy aristocrats. One
lady was here for two weeks, who wore
three different dresses every day, and left
because her other trunks had not arrived and
she would have to wear n dress second
time. To see $4,000 worth ofdiamonds, lace,
g., on one lndv at n ball, is not considered