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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

DEATH OF NJ. DE TocQuEvILLE.-Th Pa
ris correspondent Of the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, in his letter of April
q, says: ........... ............
M. de Tocqueville, whose death was an
nounced two weeks ago, was not then
dead. He was only very sick, and SO faru
recovered afterward as to give hope of d
permanent or at least partial recovery !
He soon got worse again.. however, and
died on the 10Th this month. -.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27
The Deficiency Bill.

Cob. Sam. Smith, In his opening speech
at Benton, asserted that the Opposition
of the Thirty-Fourth Congress appropriate
ed more money than the government ask
ed for. Yet at the next session the gov.
eminent came into Congress- with def.
cheney bill petitioning for 80, 704, 2O9, SO to
meet expenditures beyond the appropria-
tons of the Extravagant Opposition Thir.
ty-Fourth House. Among those who
voted in the affirmative on the final pas
sage of the Deficiency Bill, we find re-
corded the name Of Hon. 8. A. Smith Of
Tennessee.-Cong. Giobs, p. 1850.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27
Virginia.

The elections in Virginia occurred yes
terday. Buchanan's majority over Mr..
Fillmore, in 1856, was 1896. 1t is ex-
pecting too much 10 claim that such ire
mendous odds can be overcome in sim
gle contest-though many of Goggin's
friends were hopeful of success. We shall
know the result in few DAYS.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

~ An Exchange, while commenting
upon the prevailing corruption in high
stations under the present powers that be,
suggests that the past has furnished TO
the world an age of1ron, and q golden age,
and leaden age, and age of brass, and
lastly thinks that the present must be an
age Of steal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

BRIGHAM YoUNG.-The democrats charge
the Mormon war to Mr.. Fillmore. Fill
more appointed Brigham Young Cover
nor of Utah. The appointment was sub
sequently renewed by President Pierce.
So Pierce, and not Fillmore, is directly
responsible for the Mormon Rebellion
and Utah war, according to democratic
argument. r..u-.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27
r Emma :
Supper at Charleston.

The Ladies of Charleston, Bradley CO..
and vicinity, will give a supper At that
place, on Saturday the 4th Of June, for
the benefit Of the Methodist Church.
Hon. s. A. Smith viii deliver an address
on the occasion. As the object is COM
mendable, we trust as many Of our citi-
zens as can will attend.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

!, ~ English papers record the death of
the Rt. Rev. Dr. Bethel, Lord Bishop of
Bangor, the Oldest preiate on the Episco-
pal bench: The vacant seat is worth four
thousand I'VE hundred pounds per annum,
with patronage Of eighty one 1ivings, the
aggregate annual value Of which is
twenty-three thousand pounds with other
gifts.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

NJ In 1858, Illinois sent to the New
York market 81, AGA head of cattle, while
the States Of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and
Michigan together, only sent 53.O25 head.
Illinois is the greatest grass growing State
III the, confederacy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

UNION AND PLANrNRs' BANKs-The
Memphis Avalanche, one of the leading
organs of Democracy, acknowledges that
the Democratic party are opposed to the
re-charter of these Banks, and vindicates
this purpose in leading editorial! Speak
ing of the purposes of the democratic par
ty, the article concludes thus:
at has resolved to put an end to the
corrupt, rotten and. swindling banking
system of Tennessee, and, as one of the
first steps towards the accomplishment of
its objects, the Union and Planters banks,
being among the Oldest and worst sinners,
must go by the board. Let them prepare
to die the DEATH"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER AND
BANK RoBBER.-.The jackson Wing of the
Goth says: 1--WE understand that James
Rigdon Irwin, a party suspected of being
concerned in the late murder and bank
robbery at this place, on the Sd of Febru,
airy last, was arrested by parties from this
county in pursuit of him, asfew day ago,
in Iishamingo county, Mississippi, where
he had been ivingas laborer in. "a mill
since Odd of February. He will be imme-
diately brought to this place and an exami-
nation had as to the completely he had in
that awful and mysterious deed, so famil-
lar in all its details to all our readers aud
so fresh in the memories of the people
of this place."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

~ Cincinnati is . wonderful cit, -
They never seem to die naturally there.
Recently, q despairing old man Of ninety
tried Intellectually TO commit suicide BY
taking morphine. "A -. =
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

CRoAKIsG.-The Augusta Dispatch in
'dulges sensible remark upon the almost
universal practice of croaking about crops
It says: d
Already we hear mutterings about dis
asters to cotton--about frost, flood-worm
rust, and the Lord knows what. These
predictions, whether urged to bolster uE
prices, or asthe weak opinions Of those
who take counsel of their fears--are ali
unworthy of . commercial people. The
world will want more cotton than we can
possibly make, and there will be mar,
ket for all our produce, whether the croE
be large or small. Why then dabble in
petty devices TO occasion temporary mis-
conceptions, which can only end in disas
ter 70 their credulous drpes.
49, -. ss~&o~..kf~~- ~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

A GovERsos PRisssvxD. The. Grand
Jury of AlachYa county. Florida, have
presented Gov. Perry Of that State, as q
nuisance" Theirindignation was aroused
by his course on the railroad question.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

OPPosED TO BorH.-The Augusta Dis
patch ssys:-Our friend NJ. o. Gull, who
is candidate for Office, says there are
two things he would like 30 have abol-
ished-banks and penitentiaries. t
Probably he disfikes them for very diff.
ferent reasonable can't get into the
banks, while it is the easiest thing in the
world to get into the Penitentiary. ~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

~ A desperate effort is occasionally
made by some locofoco leader to show that
the expenditure, by Buchanan, for tine
last fiscal year, did not exceed fifty-four
millions, and figures are used, falsely, OF
course, in order to make the people be-
iieve that there can be no mktake about
it. Well, az figures are good against
figures, and facts against falsehood, we
will see how this false estimate stands the
test. For the last fiscal year, the receipts
from customs amounted to forty-fve mil
lions of dollars; from the sales of public
lands, and other sources, four millions,
and the Government borrowed forty-five
millions. These three sums added to-
gether, make ninety-four millions, and
where is i'll Is there dollar in the Trea-
suryi Mot redf" Then what has be.
come of 1t, II the Administration has NOT
spent i'll Post-ofiice contractors are hawk.
ing certificates about, trying to pay their
way with them, and this surely would not
be permitted if any of the $94, 600, OOO
remains on hand.- Clrkssb Chronicle.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

STAND FROM UNDER.-The reaction in
the breadstuffs and provisions speculation
would seem to have begun in earnest, and
much earlier than was expected. See
market reports OF Yesterday: flour low
err" "corn lower" wheat lower" pork
lower" Stand from under. Everything
is coming down apparently as rapidly as
it went up.-N YErpress, May 20.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

~ A deserted dalnsel struck her low
er with poker, and exclaimed with
ssobs. "you have broken my heart, and III
break your head sir" ,fsi
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

~ In Illinois Mr.. Bush and Mr.. Bird
we're rival candidates for Office. In that
case thepeople had to beat the Bush to
get the Bird.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27
Nail Contractors.

If any of the mail contractors should
be Inconvenience by the inability of the
General Post. Office Department to pay
for services and meet its obligations, they
will please bear in mind that the post-of.
ice appropriation bill was defeated in a
Democratic Senate by Democratic Sena-
tor speaking against time. The skirts Of
the Opposition" are clear of completely
with that great wrong. I'll
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27
Attorney General.

VIM. B. Reese, jr., ESQ.,, is announced
in the Knoxville paper as candidate for
Attorney General, to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the resignation of John L. T.
Snead, Esq, who is running for Congress
in the 10th district. Mr.. Reese is very
clever and a very amiable young man,
But the position sought is, perhaps, more
important than any in the State, and it
is reasonable to expect that the people
will not be hasty, but deliberate in Sc
lecting person to iillit. We would,
also, like to suggest that East Tennessee,
at this particular juncture, may, with
peculiar propriety, exercise moderation
in pressing her claims.
PERsoSAL.--We had the pleasure of
seeing at our Office, day or two since,
Mr.. KNOWLES, of the Journal and Mes
senger, Macon, Ga. He visits East Ten
nessee to look at the country and the grow
ing crops, and for recreation and health.
We trust his sojourn among our hills
and valleys may prove both pleasant and
beneficial TO him. I,
KILLED ON THE RoAp.--The passenger
train on the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, ran over q man about IL miles this
side Chattanooga, on last Friday, killing
him almost instantly. He was sitting on
the track at sharp curve, and the engi-
neer could not see the unfortunate man
until the train was almost upon him. He
was stranger in the neighborhood
SrRAwBERRiEs.-Our neighbor, Squire
Ballew, placed on our table a day or two
ago, bowl of Strawberries of larger
grade and more delicious quality than our
palate has encountered for a long time
They were from the garden Of Hon. VIM.
G. Swan, Knoxville, whom we take to be
q man Of taste as we'll a. Of judgement.
Our neighbor, DR.. Alice, has placed us
under obligations for 4 similar compli-
ment 70 our appreciation Of good things.
We may NV that no one has nicer relish
for such favors than the editor of the
Post. and u there are any more Of the
same sort in store Tor him, he hopes they
WIN not Be backward in coming to hand.
Suoh Strawberries - they do grow at
Knoxvills!
WHEAr.-Sincs the late rains Wheat on
the better lands has improved some. A
good deal q Y, however, stial looks
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27
IMPORTANT ARREsr.-The Memphis Fl

IMPORTANT ARREsr.-The Memphis En-
.quirer of the Goth, says:
We understand that the murderer of
Mr.. George Miller, the Bank officer, at
jackson, was arrested near Iuka, on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad and
fully identified. He was employed in a
saw mill at the time of his arrest.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

New STYLE ENvELorEs.-The Postmaster
General has under consideration the pro-
priety Of adopting in the preparation of
stamped envelopes new style, just COM
ing into use. These envelopes are so pre-
pared that black lines on the inside of
the back of the envelope, and invisible
from without, become patent on the front
when the envelope is pressed, and serve
as ruled lines to guide the superscription.
The additional expense Of these envel-
opes, which are gotten up in superior
style, is trifling and their convenience
has commended them to the attention
of the department.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

FIoHr.-Mr. Beaumont, of the Mash
vile Banner, and Mr.. Poindexter. Of the
Union and American had . difficulty :
few days ago, and subsequently mst On
the street and exchanged shots, Mr..
psaxmopt reserved . painful, though not
. dangerous wound in the leg.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

~ The Nashville Union and Ameri.
can isrepeating al the horrid know moth.
ing. oaths. We thought when brother
Eastman Joined the Catholic Church he
would auit--cussii,,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27
RuxoREp REINsrArEurNr or Doro, $

RUNORED REINSTATEMENT OF DOUGLASS
The st. Louis Democrat from authority
states that Senator Green, of Missouri,
according to advices from Washington,
has succeeded in reinstating Judge Doug
las in full communion with the President
and the National Democracy.
1@- Death to the seducer is and should
be the unwritten law, higher and more
certain of execution than written codes.
The poisonous reptile, the rabid dog, the
stealthy assassin, do no more merit swift
destruction, than the william who corrupts
and defiles the psrityof Woman, an blasts
the hopes and happiness Of the domestic
circle. RI
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27
Distributing Post ofaces.

The Chattanooga Advertiser has been
informed that the Post Master General
has ordered the discontinuance of the
Distributing Offices at Abingdon, Tus-
cumbia and Chattanooga, after the LIST of
July next. The Advertiser is somewhat
indignant at this move of economy on the
part of the Democratic head of the De
partment, and thinks the work of re-
trenchment might commence in some
other branch of the public service. We
entirely agree with the Advertiser on that
score. If it was necessary in order to re-
plenish the public treasury that the prun-
ing knife should be applied at Chatta-
nooga, why not commence with the Sur
veyor of the Customs, and let the Post
Office alone? Why continue Chattanooga
as Port of Entry, and at the same time
reduce its postal arrangements to the
grade of an inland village like Cleveland
or Benton? That's what the public would
like to know. We are afraid Mr.. Blu
chanan's new Postmaster General is strik-
ing about in the dark.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

WHsAs.-Sincs the late rains Wheat On
the better lands h~ improved some. A
good deal y \, however, stial looks
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

homA toplxnrneat and bread and honest,
hard everyday work, simply because he
indulsesin French Plate Mirrors, Velvet
Carpets, Bronze. Doors, Carryalls, and !
most inordinate quantity Of Snuff Scotch
Snuff, Maccabcy Snuff, Martinique Snuff,
and American Gentleman's Snuff--eigh-
teen Bottles and thirteen Pounds of SNUFF!
Recall gentleman for thiss And send
q plain, upright man in his stead! Pre-
posterouSi
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27
The Governors at Covinston.

COvINGTON, may 10, l6Cyi
Editors Memphis Bulletin The candi.
dates for Governor addressed large and
attentive audience here to-day. The dis
cussion was opened by Gov. Harris, who
devoted the principal part of his speech
to the "ngger" question. He made a
lame attempt to set himself right on tho
currency question but it was so like at
tempting to ride on both sides Of the sap
pling at the same time, that it was any
thing but clear to his audience or salts
factory to an unprejudiced mind. He Ia
bored hard throughout, and looks con-
that Col. Netherland has got him down.
yincing, logical. He is an able. earnest
calculated to please the people. He in
statesman-like views, and at the same
time spices his speech with an abundance
of good humor. / wish / had the timc
to give you an outline of his speech here
to-day; but as you and most of your
readers will hear him in few days, 1
will defer that purpose. He riddled the
democratic platform upon which Gov.
Harris was placed by the Nashville Con-
vention-knocked his currency position
into "pi"-showcd up the sham Demo-
cracy in their true colors, and took all
the hide off of old Buck and his Admin
istration, which he could get Governor
Harris only to endorse generally" 1t
was mastery effort. and will tell at the
ballot-box on the election day. Before
the crowd, and it was largely democratic,
Col. Netherland had his competitor good
Our friends are all in the highest spirits,
while our democratic friends don't begin
to look SO cheerfully as they did two years
ago.
The Opposition are thoroughly aroused
in this county, and they go into this cam
vass with the determination to work as
they did in the good and glorious old
days of 1910 and IA, and you may look
out for a good report in August next
Put old Upton down "ALL RrGur."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

~ For interesting Foreign News see
next page. e6
- ...l.....
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-27

GREAT MORTALITY OF Hoes IN ILLINOIS,
Mr.. Wiley Grafton, farmer of Pleasant
Plains, Sangamon county, writes to the
State Register, under date of May 5th, as
follows: a-.....
Last night fed my hogs as usual;
they all seemed to be feeding and doing
well on pasture. l went to the pasture
this morning about eight o'clock, and
found seventy hogs dead, and many that
were dying. At ten o'clock there were
ninenty dead, and ct twelve o'clock one
hundred and nine. The average length
of time that they would live after taking
it, would be from fifteen to thirty minutes.
All efforts to administer relief were i'm
vain. .....
This fatal disease is carrying away
large numbers of hogs in the vicinity Of
Decatur. 1t is said that Sangamon river
bottom is covered with their dead bodies"
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-13
TIE POLICE DECISION.

EI Mayor Woods family organ informs Its read
ers that "ths Republican Press recommend the
Comm ssioners to refuse submission" to the late
decision of the Court of Appeals. The statement
is utterly false. Sh.mefuly partisan and wickedly
unjust as that decision is-condemned as is by
the present aud the late Chief Justice Of that
Court (both Democrsts), we have never dreamed
of advising resistance to IT, aud We have no. seen
such resistance advocated by sDy Republican
journal The Court of Appeals BY a bare majority
Of its Jujges, has decided that the men who re.
ssted and defed law which that same Court has
pronounced unconstitutional shall take the places
Of those who were necessarily appointed in their
stead because of the cOntumacy and rebellion of
the old force; and Say, Let the Judgment of the
law be obeyed. They have decided that four or
FIVE hundred men, WHO have done nothing for our
City for the last twenty months, shall be paid BY
our tax payers in full for the services
they have not performed-that, because Of their
contumscy, Others have well performed in their
stead. Some of these men have been working and
earning elsewhere, as all should have been, 50 that
the thousand to fifteen hundred dollars each which
this iudament will wrench from our taxpayers to
put into their pockets will be 30 much clear gain
but never mind: if the Court says we must psy
We must. and We are utterly opposed to any resist
apee to q lawful judgment, however unjust. But
let us know Just what the Court has sdjudge3, aud
what it condemns our citizens to psy-whether We
are to pay the Kissners who obstructed and de.
feated the regular service Of process on their men,
as well as the men who conniyed at such obstruc-
tisn-whether the judicial bubbles about McVlne
and McUne, &C., are to avail for those who cannot
pretend that their names were misspelled in the
Commissioners citation, as We'll as those in whose
behalf that dodge is so successfully attempted.
just look at the palpable iniquity of this judg.
ment. The Captains Of Woods Police refused in
any manner TO recognize the authority of the Com
missiOners, ard their men generally followed suit.
OF course, the Commissioners bad no accurate lists
of the men claiming to be members Of the old Po
lice, and could not trace them to their residen'e sea
TO ,erye process there. They could only make out
their names as fully q, possible, aud serve notices
through the (Od) Police Stations. This they did
more they could not do. And just because they
failed TO do what was morally impossible, FIVE
Democratic Judges say that our City must pay the
revolving Policemen over MlIon Dollars This
is Democratic decision for party purposes, fore
shadowed from time to time before it was made
and intended TO gain votes for the party which has
coerced majority in numbers (bu. not in weight
of the Appeal Judges into making it. We DO not
believe this job will pay.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-13
THE NEXT HOUSE.

"A Pennglvania Republican" writes from
Washington letter designed TO upset calculation
by The States tha. the Black Republicans can
not possibly have majority in the next Hou,e.
To show this, The States places Messrs. Clark,
HAHN and Reynolds Of this State, Adrain and
Riggs Of New.Jersey, Hickman and Schwarts Of
Pennsylvania, and John G. Davis Of Indiana, in an
tsgori.m to the Republican,, thereby cyphering
dewn their tally to III Members, with only spOs-
ability of more from ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS it
thus sums up:
"On the whole we have 70 fear Of Back Repub-
can ma orty in the next House OF Representatives.
The Democracy, however, may not DO In the sscen.
dsnt. Thstwil be q calamity 10 the country, but an
advantage to the party"
That " advantage" " the party" IL very sure 10
erjoy. We propose to enter upon no discussion Of
the political proclivities Of the gentlemen above
named. They have spoken for themselves, and in
due season will vote Likewise. Meantime, no per.
son connected with The States unless in some very
humble capacity, can be 30 blind a. not to know
that the House viii be organized By Republican
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-13

tragedy, disgusting ss il is vii pre'o al angel Of
warning 10 thousands, warning them In seassa 70
beware OF tie serpect hiddea under the lowers
Of gslsrtry and compliment, OF aistey and seem
ing devotion. 1t will be . revelation Of the sword
of D.mocks suspended BY "a single hair over the
throne OF sduAhon or the couch of luxury. HsPPy
are they who shL thus be rudely startled from
dreams Of dizzy elevation or Of guilty JOY
Mr. Graham's speech viii be to tens OF thOu'-
AIDS revelation of the fearful guilt of Adultery
-its trescheTy, its bsseness, its h!pocrscy. And
il has been snd will be read by hundreds Of tbou'-
snds who could 10 otherwise have been 80 thor
ovshy confronted by thsse truths. Admit thsttse
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher could have presented
a. strong sn array Of scriptural denunciati)ns OF
this besettirg sin, ard could-by taking time
enougb-hsve prepared g sermon agsn,t it equally
massive and forcibe with the cOunselors open
ins-he could never have preached it or published
i. 90 that the grest mass of loose livers and
of youth now dancing heedlessy on the very
brink of the yawning crater OF lecherous In
ulg,nce, would hsve heard or intenty read IT,
This Mr Graham has done, and done edectusliy
Whatever may be thought in the main OF bis law
or bis logic, his demonstration Of the Nervousness
of Adultery his arrsy of the testimony OF the Good
Book in reprehensiOn Of it, are most fcrcibe aud
impressive. We should not be surprised to learn
that even Mr. Sickes was thereby made scquAias-
ed with some truth which had no. heretofore made
adequate impression on his mind, while We are
sure hat no one else can have heard or read that
speech without imbbing from It Salusary lessons
not soon to be forgotten So let US hope that very
many of us will be fortified in virtue or scared out
of vice BY the Developments of the Sckes tragedy.