The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-02-04
TERRIBLE WEATHER IN BRITISH
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TERRIBLE WEATHER IN BRITISH
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The news rom Fraser River, brought BY
the Stsanshlp Qsakst city, fepressots the
weather Ii thas region ne having been terrible
In shs extreme. AasIsgfsphic abstract inlhe
Clipper, has already informed " that miners
wess frozen md frost.biitsn BY scores, and
suinny Of them frozen 10 death. The details
sosroborats every word Of that report. and
shoogi, We lsnve 10 yet no personal narrative
from any Of the sufferers. the reader Is pre-.
scented will, a scene Of distress which has
seldom had a parallel. We quote from the
vicsofia Gazette Of the 10Th ul,imo, as fol-
lows: ?
Grsat suffering has been experienced by
The miners coming down. A pnrty OF about
Sa0 came down the river In canoes, until they
strnck the ice below the mouth OF Harrison
river. They then started for Langley, over
land, supposiug II AZ miIes distant.s i'hs DIS
tance WINS greater, A trail had to be made
over high nicuntains, through ten inches OF
snow; sloughs, wMis: deep, were wnded, the
cold being Intense, md the underbrnsh thick,
and passed with diligently. They had only
oDe days provisions, and were three days
without provisions. Many we're frost. bitten.
Dutchmnn and wife, name unknown,
were frozen to death. Completely exhausted
many sat down to die. AIR. Bryant, late Su-
perintendent Of l.illooet mail, gave up four
miles from Langley, and advised his son to
go on. He also gave out, two miles farther
on. Geo. French, hardy pioneer, late Lii
looet muil surveyor, formerly surveyor of
Butt county, laid down, worn out with toll.
When hope was waning fast, the whistle of
the steamer Enterprise, which had got out of
the ice, wns heard, aud they were saved, and
carried to Langley. Rumors are conflicting
us to the number Of deaths.
Three men nre said to have been found
frozen TO death on the river In canoe
Names unknown.
A man who came direct from Fort Home,
tells us that ON Saturday night last, he camp.
ed At the cabin Of miner named Fngn, about
Is miles below Hope. He says there are
upwards Of 100 men there who had been
caught on the river, and had sought this cabin
for protection against The inclenency of the
weather. A.
THE CUBAN QUEsTIoN.-A correspondent
of the Charleston Courier, writing from the
Federal Capitol says of the Cuban question
1t was strongly rumored last night, at re-
ceptions and parties where politicians were
congregated, that the Republican leaders
would, at proper moment, jump upon the
Cuban question as II safety. plank for their
party. 1t will be soon, If it is not now, q
lending political issue, though, for the pres
ent, il offers merely theoretical, and not n
practical question. No person here believes
that Cuba can be purchased. II is not proba-
BILE that the President or Mr.. Sidell so think;
but it may be polite TO show to the world
that We intend to obtain possession of Cuba,
"peacenbIy 1t we can, and forcibly If we
must"
The movement in the Senate for Cuba is
much deprecated by some of the Democratic
party. But if we consider not only the Presi.
dents suggestions in his message, but the
general tendency OF the country towards ter.
ritorinl expansion, it is not remarkable that
tue Democratic Senators should consult upon
the subject. The Bill which Mr.. Slidell 10
trodueed, appropriating thirty millions of
dollars to enable the President to negotiate n
trenty for the purchase of Cuba, might or
might not have been prompted by tho Presi-
dent. At all events, 1t falls in with the
Presidents views, and Mr.. Slidell, more than
any other Senator, has the Presidents conf
dence
But the Democratic Senators did not meet
in caucus for any idle purpose. They have
at lenst expressed the opinion that the acqui
sition of Cuba, ut proper time, would be
highly desirable to this country. Henceforth,
the declaration that Cubn must be ours will
be inscribed upon the Democratic banner, and
possibly upon ull the party banners. The
strongest speech ever made in Congress for
the acquisition of Cuba was from Gerrt,
Smith, of New York, a gentleman who de-
votes his powerful abilities and large fortune
TO the anti-slavery cause; but who yet desired
to grnsp Cuba, slavery, sIave-trads and all.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A PRINTER.-Mr. John
iIichler, Foreman ind Superintendent of the
Job Department o: the Memphis Bulletin
Office, was stricken down the evening Of the
26.h, while engaged at his work, and fell
senseless to the floor. He died at O'Clock
next morning. The Bulletin says:
In his death we have lost friend, ms wei
US M invaluable auxiliary, while the commu
nifty at large has been deprived of one OF il.
most useful citizens. lie was temperate, rs
siduously industrious, and prs-eminently
skillful in his profession. A loyal and true
man, the death-stroke fell upon him while b,
was in the harness of his duties. ..-..
~ The editor of the POntotoc, Alississip
pi, Democrat, seems 10 be disgusted with al
the political parties ofthe day. After declar
ing he is not Wing, he says further:
"And vet we are no Democrat--ns tina
trrm is understood aud expounded by tn
Union, Appeal, Avalanche and the Misslssip
plan. We nre not of those who are willing
for the snke of being called Democrats, I,
jump nj every beck of the administration
bark when Old Buck grows, and throw vi
their hats and huzzah for the "Great Demo
cratic Party North," every time the Nationa
Convention meets. NY
FREE NEGROES IN ARKAEsAs.-A bill hat
been introduced into the Legislature of Ar
kansas whose object is to, rid the State Of FIRE,
negroes. 1t provides, in substance, that al
free negroes now in the State may becom,
slaves, by choosing their own masters or own