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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

The people Of Massachusetts, seem de-
terminod to outdo their brethren Of the
Free States in making asses Of themselves
about "Old Ossawattomie Brown" The
whole population are getting ready to
20 into mourning as the day of his execu-
ton draws nigh, and sympathetic meet.
ings are of daily and nightly occurrence
How deplorable that State with glorious
recollections clustering every page of its
earlier history, should have become so de
generate as to seek to immortalize incen
diaryism and red-handed murder.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
Opposition Convention.

An Opposition State Convention is to
be held at Richmond, Virginia, on the
l4th of the present month. The object is
understood as preliminary to National
Opposition Organization We shall have
to wait short time to see what success is
likely to attend the movement.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
Free NaprOaS.

There is proposition before the Legis-
lature of this State to expel all free ne
groes from its limits after the first day of
January, 1860. A similar proposition is
before the Legislature both of Georgia
and Alabama. 1t will probably be adopt
ed in all three of these States.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

THE OREGON WAR DEBT.-The Wash.
ington States and Union says:-It is sta.
ted that large combination is organi
zing here to lobby the Oregon war debt,
amounting to several millions of dollars
through Congress. 1t is ascertained that
an agent was sent to the Pacific by bank.
ers year ago to buy up claims for promi.
nent and wealthy parties. The scheme
will be thoroughly ventilated.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

"RoNEo."-The lines in reply to Romeo" arc
inadmissible. "Romeo" is a clever young man,
and is only suffering from one Of those attacks of
green and yellow melancholy to which we older
folks have all been subject at least once in our
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

SEND THEM NoRTH.-Among the negro
population in the South, bond and free,
are many ill-favored, ugly, repulsive, dis
gushing, skunkish specimens of the black
race, whose moral character is as black
as their skins. 1t would be a good thing,
if possible, to COLOMBO the chief abolition
districts in the North with such 'niggers,'
as these. We would, if we could, says
the Richmond Wing, surfeit the "malig-
nant philanthropists" with ringers until
they should be forced to cry aloud, while
holding their noses and grasping their
pockets, "Peccavi-enough,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

He HAS COVE We had, on Thursday,
a call from our friend and distineaishs
brother, Maj HEARD, the President OF
the Ugly Club. He is looking as hand
some as ever, and wears the honors of his
position with becoming grace and mod
esty. We commend him to the brethren
wherever he may 90.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

PEELER's ECONOMICAL PATENT STEEL BLADE
PLow.-Ms. Heard, who is selling rights for the
manufacture Of this celebrated Plow, Is now in
our town. One Of the great advantages Of Peel
ers Patent is, that all descriptions Of blades can
be put on the same stock. He wishes TO dispose
Of the right for AcMinn county. and has one Of
The plows on ezbibiion AT Horton Brysn''
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

RErENTANT-This is the day appointed
for tho execution of Capt. John Brown,
the leader of the IIarper's Ferry insur-
rectionists. The last telegram announces
him as greatly changed in his demeanor
and manifesting lively evidence of repen-
lance. Should he fail to die game, his
Abolition friends will be greatly disap-
pointed, as they expect to make much
capital out Of his execution. An admis-
sion from him under the gallows, that he
waswrong and his punishment just, would
call dowu their heaviest excavations upon
his memory. Additional troops were still
being ordered to Charlestown.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

PoRK.-We have no late advices from
the Western Pork Market this week. Six
dollars per hundred, nett, is the price
asked here. But very few engagements
have been made.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
Hogs-Hogs.

Over one thousand head of fat hogs
have been shipped at this point, per rail
raid, for the South the present week. And
several large drovcs have passed through
for the same market.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

UNDER CoNTRAcT.-The Southern Rail-
road, from Vicksburg to the Alabama
line, and thence to Montgomery, has been
let to contract from Brandon, Miss, to
the Alabama line, to be completed du-
ring the next year. 1t will cross the Mo-
bile and Ohio Railroad at Meridian, and
the Tombeckbee at Demopolis as is sup
posed; thence via Uniontown, Selma and
Marion to Montgomery.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

HoRsEs.-The prices of horses keep up.
We saw man on the square the other day
asking a hundred dollars for one that
looked as if his prime had been passed
long before the Cherokee emigration &C.
CURED.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
Valuable Property For Sale.

John Stanfeld, Philadelphia, Tennessee, will Of
fer at public sale, on Saturday, the 3lst of De-
oember, unless previously disposed Of, his yalua-
BILE Lands and Mill Property. Also, on the same
day, some horses and wagons. There are about
700 Acres of Land, good buildings, out-houses,
barn and stables, with Grist and Saw Mill.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
Democratic Meeting.

The democracy of McMinn, hards and
softs, are to have meeting at the Court
house, Monday next, to appoint delegates
to . State Convention, which will assem-
BILE in Nashville January Is, 1860.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
REMARKABLE ANNouNcEMENT.-The Lo

REMARKABLE ANNoUNCEMENT.-The Lou
isville Democrat is responsible for the
following: "a revival commences this
evening at the Portland Baptist Church.
The regular pastor will preach, assisted by
the Rev. j. V. Scofeld, of Quincy, Hi
nois." The man who announced at what
time that "revival" would commence,
must be relation of the preacher who
posted a notice over the altar, at a pro-
Hcted meeting: mo conversions after
~ is out"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
ORIGIN OF Clubhouse FlREs.-Alluding

ORIGIN OF Clubhouse FiREs-Alluding
to the large number of Clubhouse fires,
this season, the Montgomery Mail says:
1t is well known that the collision Of
flint rock and steel will produce sparks of
fire, and this fact may account for the
destruction of some of the ginhouses
lately burnt. May not the contact of the
cast steel saws with grit, or coarse, finty
sand, produce sparks of fire, in the pro-
cess of cotton ginning? There are many
reasons why care should be taken to ex-
clude sand from cotton.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

GooDs AT AucrIoS.-Isaac Guthman will have
IN auction of Ready Made Clothing and Dry
Goods, in Athens, commencing on the 18th, and
to continue through Court week. The advertise
ment appears on tho next page.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
DucktoWn Railroad,

Mr.. Mayfeld introduced bill in the
House, on the 2Sth, to give State aid to
the Cleveland and Ducktown Railroad
Reed first time and passed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
Florida.

The Legislature met at Tallshassa, on
the 28th ult. In East Florida this year
the cotton crop has been an almost en-.
tire failure. In many places u will not
average more than one bale to Ave acres.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

FRUIT TREEs.-J. J. Bell, Loudon, has large
assortment of choice fruit trees, which he pro-
poses to sell on reasonable terms. See his adver-
tsement next page.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

CoRTEsAs Nor HuNG.-The despatch
published last week announcing that Cor
tenas, the outlaw chief of the Rio Grande,
had been hung, was incorrect. A subse.
quent date represents him as alive, and
we'll as could be expected.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

The MOUNT VERNON EsTATE.-A New
York paper says: "John A. Washington,
the late owner of Mount Vernon, has
burst up and gone to smash; speculation
is the cause of it, whether faro or stock,
can't say. The ladies who have paid him
one hundred and seventy-fve thousand
dollars, are swindled out of their money.
He can't give clear title until all his
old liabilities are cancelled. He owes
five hundred thousand dollars, it is said"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
Double Daily Service.

Double Daily Mail Service is to be
commenced on the Central Route on the
first day of January.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

A HoAx.-We published Geographic
dispatch from Lafayette, Ia, last week,
giving an account of an attempt to arrest
fugitive slave and the discovery of a
box of pixies. From later dispatch it
seems that the discoveries made here last
Thursday prove fish story. The pixies
found in Cox's cellar were of the scaly
kind used for eating; and the fugitive
slave belonging to Sanford Rising was q
wooden darkey manufactured by Mr.. r.
for the front door of cigar store.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

DOUGLAS COMING Ur.-Douglas' prospects
for the Presidency are said to be looking
up again. As an item, it is not improper
to state that one or two prominent politi-
clans of this county, hitherto acting with
the Opposition, are said to have recently
declared a preference for him--as the on
ly man likely to carry Free States enough
to elect over the Black Republican oandi-
date. Politically, the times are sadly out
of joint, and the poor politicians are all
at sea, ready to catch at any plank that
promises to assist them to shore. How much
would the country be loser II they were
all swept off into the boundless ocean Of
obscurityl
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

noy- A man named Turner, confined in
Jail at Wilmington, recently managed to
escape from durance, in company with
several of his fellows. He Immediately
waited on the Attorney General, in.
formed him of the Jail delivery, and
plead in justification of his conduct that
he was afraid if he staid longer in his
apartments he would catch the scarlet
fever from woman who was sick with
the disease in cell near him. He was
under sentence of death!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

CHINESE LUcK.-There are about 40C
Cinnamon mining eleven claims on Horse
shoe Bar, California, on the middle Fork
of the American river, and they take out
about $35 900 every week,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

CHArrANoooA.-The Chattanooga papers
quote Flour at 1925 90 per 100 lbs
Corn, IS cents per bushel. r.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

Dsy- Demonstration is the thief of
time" And, reader, you are another
when you unnecessarily disturb man of
business OF his work.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

NoRroLK.-Thcre has been terrible
commotion down at Norfolk about the
"rescue of Old Brown" Read the fol-
lowing from the Argus, of that place:
Excitement. esterday hundreds crowd
ed around the Southern Argus bulletin
boards to read the reports of the threat
ened rescue of Brown. We noticed the
staff Of the "bloody 54th" in commotion.
The Rifemen and Greys were picking
their teeth, mot flints,) and volunteers
for Harper's Ferry were as thick as flies
around plate of molasses. One patri-
otto surgeon has rendered his services to
the Riflemen, and says he will pay his
own expenses to be on the spot to see
that the broken arms and legs are set
straight. One gallant revenue officer
thinks he could defeat the 1.-TWO hundred
and fifty armed men encamped at Berry
Vile Ford" with light brigade of negro
washerwomen, armed with bars of soap
and scrubbing brooms. Our devil says
he anticipates free fight, and wishes to
be counted out.
P. S.-The United States ship Pennsyl-
vania, is to be anchored Immediately
across the mouth of Pudding Creek to
keep the Abolitionists from circumven-
ting our city. Orders have been issued
to the Riflcmcn to arrest every suspicious
looking individual and make him treat.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

A MAMMOTH SoUAsH.-Mr. George w.
Carter, informs us that he raised squash
this year, which weighed one hundred
and five pounds, and measured five feet
nine inches in circumference. Is our
friend certain that it was not pumpkin /
--Rhgsrse &zr.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

SPEcIE.-The steamer Baltic arrived al
New York from Aspinwall, on the 9th,
with Sl,75O,000 in specie, end $50 pas
sengers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

HJ- The conditional subscription of
$3.50, to the Southern Pacific Railroad
has been effected in our city, and the
committee will TO day receive the requis-
lite securities. 1t is there intention, we
learn, to leave here for Philadelphia in a
few days and tender the amount to j. Ed
gar Thompson, who thereupon will signi-
fly his acceptance of the Presidency of
the company.-Louispile Journal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

Srocxs.-Thirteen shares of Bank of
Kentucky stock sold at III in Philadel-
phia on Monday. ~'le
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

DEArH.-Col. McCalley, prominent
citizen of, Chattanooga, died at that place
few days since. .,s,..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
Meeting of Congress-.

Next Monday, the 5th, Is the appointed
time for the meeting of the National Lee
gislature. Since 1920, when the Missouri
Compromise was adopted, no Congress has
met having as great and delicate respon.
siblities to deal with as that which is to
convene at the Federal Capitol next week.
Angry elements are in commotion and
discord and elimination prevail to an ex-
tent sufficient to render q collision be-
tween the sections imminent. But we
still have hopes that some means will be
devised to allay excitement-thatw wisdom
and good temper will prevail among the
members, and that out of the strife and
confusion now manifest and alarming,
will como, harmony, order, and long
season of peace and quiet. And in any
event, that the Southern portion will be
found a unit upon all matters affecting
the rights, interests and equality Of their
section under the Constitution. Their
constituency expect 1t from them, and
they will not disappoint them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

,4Swill be seen, is dead. Hunter,
PIPER, pioneer and soldier, few men
have risen up from the depths of wilder
ness to such wide fame. He conducted
the first and principal exploration across
the continent, and subsequently held po-
sition of high trust under the Govern
ment. He was an embodiment of Coop
er's great conception Of the character of
Misunderstanding"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

RETuRNED.-Senator Sumner has return
ed from Europe, with his health complete
ly restored and ready TO take his seat in
the Senate.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
State Bonds.
Ex-GoY. Johnson

Tennessee Skies are quoted in the New
York papers at 00l,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

Rd- "TRIPPrso," the humorous CORES.
pendent Of the Cincinnati RAILROAD
Record, lately made trip East, over the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, and re
ports his nights coquetry with Somnu,
on the cars, in the following pleasing
vein:
At Wheeling took a slss bar just
to try it. The "chambVn 1kessed
in male attire, was ver1 Sinl
and pleasant, and ~
berth, where
noticed -
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

The Southern Reflector, Chattanooga,
declares decided preference for the Hon.
Andy johnson for the Presidency in 1860.
FALsE-The report that the Governor
Of Pennsylvania had rendered troops to
the Governor of Virginia. We thought
SO, when We first read the despatch; but
it as true as two thirds of the dispatches
being flashed about the country, bearing
upon the same subject. We are appre-
hensive there is an effort making South,
as we'll North, by certain leading men, to
manufacture political capital out of the
Harper's Ferry business, and magnify it
to their own peculiarimportance and ends.
Brown and his confederates richly deserve
the punishment they are about to receive,
and the people in the immediate vicinity
of their outrage are excusable for the
excitement and alarm they have been
manifesting, but we submit there is no
necessity for the whole country getting
nervous and acting fool over it.. The lead
err of the band will be hung today, and
his comrades in the outrage at the APP
pointed time. 1t would be unfortunate
indeed, if the great State of Virginia was
unable to do justice upon the criminals
who invade her soil and violate her laws.
SrAruARY.--The following appears in
the House proceedings of the 2Sth:
"M.. Ford offered resolution instructing the
Commissioners Of the State Capitol to remove the
statuary recently erected at the East front of the
State Capitol, on the ground of indecency. Mr..
Ford is the Representative from DeKalb."
The Representative from DeKalb"
must have been thinking of something
while looking at the statuary in question.
You've done it, Mr.. Ford. To the pure,
all things are pure. ~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

CALroRNIA.-The Grand Jury has in
dicted Judge Terry for killing Senator
Broderck, and he has recognized to ap-
pear in bond of $4,000. Business is re-
ported very dull at San Francisco.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
Historical vindications.
Iron the National Intellissuccr.


We find in aveteran Wing journal OF
the South, the Columbus (Ga., Enquirer,
of the 9Th inst, some comments on GER
tain positions assumed by his exceliency
Gov. Brown, of that State, in an address
delivered on the occasion of his recent
Inauguration in Office. .
1t seems that the Governor gives it as
his very decided opinion that our public
affairs during the last six years have been
constantly going from bad to worse, until
at the present day spirit OF sectional
animosity has taken permanent posses
sion of the body polite. As during this
period the Democracy have had undis-
puted control of the Federal Government
in all its great departments, plain minds
might be led to suppose that they were
possibly in some way and to some degree
responsible for the unhappy deterioration
which he deplores; but this is an infer
ence which does not appear to have sug-
gested itself to the Governors mind
Accordingly our Georgia contemporary
ventures to recall few facts in our re-
cent political history, as serving to shed
some light upon the relations of this
much canvassed subject:
"When Mr.. Fillmore retired from the
Presidency, and Wing rule gave place to
Democratic misgovernment, there was
] not a threatening speck of 'Aboltionism
the political horizon. The slavery
estion was regarded rs settled upon q
firm and constitutional as to de-
III sectional agitators to get
Ged- but
Id bfon. 0l5dt Democracy
Ids pit the South against the
D|6rth in another domestic eme,,tc; it must
Istimmon the two sections each to the sup
port of its 'squatter sovereigns' in Ter
ritorial fight for Kansas; and out of this
localized conflict grew a new excitement
ovcrspreading the whole Union, ant
building up Northern sectional party
that almost carried the last Presidential
election. The whole Governmental man
agemcnt of this controversy has been il
the hands of the National Democracy
and it has temporized until neither sec
ton has the least confidence in lis abiHt,
or is ,cW 10 pacify country bristling all ove,
Nth sectional repugnancies and conflicts. Ye
our Governor says that this is the onl,
party that can be entrusted with the
settlement of the slavery controversy, anC
that its expulsion from power must be tn,
knell proclaiming dissolution of the
Union"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

feelings. The1
public sleeping -.
legged to talk across IT, Rsh-
Dor more than an hour a. % one
feeling privileged to makl than
twice as much noise as theyvwould in
another car. The odor of forty pairs of
boots laid along the foors-the perfume
Of the coal and lubricating oils, and the
aroma of tobacco squirted over the pas.
sage between the berths, intermingled
with forty breaths, is all ventilated at
each station, by opening the doors and
letting the way passengers walk through.
l commend the sleeping car as variety
to spice travel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

p6S- Our exchanges this week contain
about the usual number of murders, fatal
accidents, Opponents, &c. Aside from
these, and the Harper's Ferry business,
they are pretty generally without interest.
Who Is HE?-The great question of the
day is no longer, who assaulted William
Patterson, Esquire, but "who is John r.
Tompkins?"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

sD- Both houses of the Gen lssem-
bly, adjourned, on the annouI cement of
Maj. Eastman's death, out OF respect to
his memory.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02
ROBBED OF Ten THOUSAND DoLLARs.-Th

ROBBED OF len THOUSAND DoLLARs.-The
New Orleans Picayune of the Oath says:
Yesterday afternoon, between l and Q
o'clock, the clerk of Messrs. Cutrer, Har-
rison & Co., p Carondelet street, was rob-
bed of ten thousand dollars, whilst at
tending to the bank business of that firm.
He went into the Citizens Bank to make
a deposit, and laid on the counter along
side of him, the bank book of the firm
with the Merchants Bank, containing
six bills of one thousand dollars, be-
lieved to be Of the Louisiana State Bank, J
and bill of exchange drawn by Walsh,
Smith Co., of Mobile, to the order oil
Cutrer, Harrison Il Co., on VIM. s. Mount,
cashier, for 1000. Having transacted his
business with the Citizens Bank, he turn
ed round to take up his other book,
but it had disappeared. The young mans
CONSERVATION may be imagined. A young
lad who was present, waiting to get bill
changed, said that he saw man take the
book away, but supposing it belonged to
him, did not think it strange.
Complaint was Immediately made to
the Chief of Police and reward offered
for the detection of the bold thief.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

Victoria BRiDGE.--The first railroad
train, consisting of an engine and sim
gle car, passed over the Victoria bridge at
Montreal on the oath. The. time occupied
in passing over the bridge was twelve and
half minutes. Two of the ore yet
unfinished, but it Is exp the
structure will be coYRl ayp
open to the pub
.n,o,oo+ -, -, ~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-02

UNExPEcTED.--The New York Courier
and Enquirer, a leading Black Republi-
can organ says, eff Brown is sane" he
should be hung. and that 'every aboli-
zionist who would interfere with slavery
where it constitutionally exists, is trait
or to the Union and merits DEATH" The
Courier and Enquirer is high in the con-
fidence of Mr.. Seward. Does it reflect
his views Of the nattera -.