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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11
The Maryland Elections.

As regards Baltimore. at least, the re-
cent elections were marked by scenes of
the most brutal and outrageous character.
Shooting and stabbing were about Us COM
mon as voting. and in some of the wards
the right of suffrage could only be exer-
cised at the risk of life. The statements
in the papers are contradictory as to who
were the aggressors, but whoever they
are, or to whatever party they belong. they
should be dealt with in the severest man
ner. The practice Of working the wards
on election day with bullies and rutiisns,
inaugurated by the democratic party of
New York in 1874, is becoming general
with all parties in the larger cities of the
Union, and such scenes reported as hav-
ing occurred at Baltimore the other day
have characterized every election in that
city for the last six or eight years render
ing its name hy-word and Il reproach
1t would seem that there ought to oe law
and order men enough in Baltimore-mo.
raj power and force sufficient to put down
the clubs and cliques of scoundrels who
at every recurring election arm them
selves for slaughter and commit act:
such as are common under no other gov
ernment. If the civil power is inefficient
to protect the citizen in the exercise o.
MS rights, why not call out the military
and shoot the raseals dn,s,, "~ thoy would
any other wild and ravenous animals!
BtE- The next Congress will be the
most important body that has assembled
in the United States for the past fifty
years. Its members will be called upon
to discuss the present condition of our
national affairs, which have lately as
sumed very grave, not to say alarmin 9
and dangerous phase. The debates Of
the next Congress may 60 far to demon
strate whether or not our governmental
experiment is a failure, ard they will be
watched with the most intense interest
by the whole civilized world
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Athens, Friday, nov. ~, 1850.
Removal.

Before next publication day, the print
ing office will be removed to the building
recently erected on the lot-adjoining the
residence of the proprietor, where we
shall be pleased to see our friends and
patrons, at any and all times. particularly
the paying portion of them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

Daniel Horton, Esq, has recently pur-
chased this property, south of the public
square, and is rehtting and furnishing it
throughout. He is clever man, and will
make all who call on him comfortable in
two of the great essentials of life-eatng
and sleeping
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

ssS- The Fall Fights opened on Mon
day evening with good deal of ANNA
ton. One of the participants got his
mouth mashed and his head caved in,
and two Others were pretty genteelly cary
ed up with knife. Our regular reporter
being in the country at the time to see
gal, we did not learn particulars but sup
pose the muss had its origin in bust-skull
whiskey. "The names of the parties are
suppressed on account of their distressed
friends and relatives
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

PREMIuN PoTAToEs.--Hon. VIM. G. Swan,
Knoxville, has our thanks for bushel of Sweet
Potatoes-the largest of the large and better than
the best. They were the real premiums, beating,
both in size and qnality, anything in the later
line we have ever met with. If Mr. Swan could
have seen the little Posts testing the merits of
that present, he would, no doubt send us few
more of the same sort next year--provided any
more like em should ever be grown.
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Roane Circuit Court.

UNeal, who was tried last week for plac-
ing distractions on the East Tennessee
and. Georgia Railroad, was convicted and
sentenced to six years in the penitentiary.
johnson, for murder, penitentiary for
three years. Markham, murder, mis-trial
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11
Foreign News.

Below we give the latest intelligence
from abroad:
The battalion of Military for China has
been ordered to depart by the overland
route.
The Builders strike continues. The
workmen are about appealing to the pub
lie for the support Of their families.
Parliament is prorogued to December
the fifteenth. -..
The Paris Correspondents of the Lon
don Journals indulge in gloomy forebo-
dings.
The correspondent of the Herald says
the impression has gained ground that a
rupture between England and France is
imminent.
Several OF the Provincial Journals pub
lished simultaneous and violent articles
against England, which it is understood
We're suppressed by the Government Of
ticials, with a warning to England, that
the hour of trial approaches, which may
eXtinguish her greatness forever.
The correspondent of the Post asserts
that negotiations are making to complete
u joint expedition against China.
The correspondent Of the Herald SAYS
contrariwise and that French prepara-
tons are suspended.
There has been an inundation in South
France, causing destruction to life and
property.
Germay.-Great preparations are ma
king for the Schiller festival.
The Prussian minister OF the Police has
refused to allow torch light procession
in Berlin. Democratic demonstrations
are feared.
1t is stated that the French Soldiers ia
ken prisoners by the Moors, on the 3lst
of August, were burned alive. The
French troops are burning for revenge for
the outrage. There are rumors OF an in
tended interview between Austria and
Prussia, but they are unfounded.
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Legislative.

The Nashville Union and American of
the 9th, says:
In the Senate on Tuesday last Mr.. AL
lens bill to amend section 1874 of the
Code, was taken up on its third reading,
when Mr.. Wood offered bill in lieu, en-
titled. A bill for the relief of the State
Bank" which provides that the Bank OF
Tennessee and her Branches and all other
Banks which have accepted the provisions
authorised to pay out the notes of the
Bank of Tennessee and Branches.
Mr.. Richardson offered an amendment
providing that AL the Banks in this
State may pay out the notes of any specie
paying Banks chartered by the State,
but no bank bill shall be issued by any
Bank which is not payable where it is
issued"
The bill and amendments were refer
red to the Committee on Banks, who re-
ported on Thursday recommending the
adoption of Mr.. Woods bill.
On Wednesday Mr.. Richardson offered
bill to authorize specie paying Banks to
pay out the notes Of each other. but that
no bank bill shall be issued by any Bank
which is not payable where it is issued
The same paper, in another place, says
Mr.. Richardson's bill passed its third
reading in the Senate by vote of II to o.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

\ New TEERIToRY.-A the last session
of the California Legislature, provision
was made for submitting to the voters in
the counties of Los Angeles, San Ber-
nardipe. San Diego, Santa Barbara, San
Luis Obispo and Tuare, the question as
to these counties being separated from
the State and erected into a Territory to
be called Colorado. The law required
that two-thirds of those voting should
make valid the consent given by the
Legislature of the division of the State.
The returns received show the vote to be
for the Territory, 2,4j7 against sos
This decides the question. as far as the
people nrc concerned, III the Affirmative,
though it seems strange that the matter
of dividing the State ohould be left to
5000 voters out of 10000, who reside
there 1t is probable Congress will be
asked to organize at its next session the
six counties above named into Ter
ritory.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

It. is said there are Ave millions of
horses IN the United states--being one
and "a half million more than any other
country on the globe has.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

SI- We 60 to press in advance of the
regular day, in order to gain time for
moving the office, which will account for
the meagreness of our news department
this week.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

GREAT TURsIPs.-We acknowledge the recoipt
Of a bushel of the largest turnips grown in Me-
MINI county this year, averaging 8 lbs per tur.
nip-sent by Mrs. 7. N. Van Dyke, who has our
thanks.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

RAILROAD LIABILITIES Connecticut rail
road companies are held to be liable for
fires Lieutenant-Governor Trask has re-
covered from the Hartford Rail Road
Company verdict of $4,000 damages for
the loss of buildings in Springfield, di-
rectly alongside of the rail road, which
were destroyed by fire in April last
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

A STRIKING SIMILARiTY.-We were dis
cussing with some friends short time
back as to which animal nearest APP
preached man in its instincts and habits.
As the general opinion, the monkey was
thought to be the one. But we differed,
and proved by the following facts that
the Hog is nearest our type: lst, The
Hogs are the only animals, we believe,
that steep together. I'd, The Hogs is ON
nrerous. Sd, Remarkably selfsh-always
for No. |. 4th, Will run to the cry of
distress, If it it comes from one of his kind.
9th, Ready to Cypress and drive away
the weaker to get all the good. 9th,
When filled to satisfaction, never looks
to the wants of others. It'll, Would not
hunt food unless necessity compelled
9th, The only animal we ever heard the
devil getting into except man. The above
eight similarities to the human race, in
a general point of view, cannot be found
in any other animal, we think; if so, let
us hear which. Erchanqe.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

FUNERAL PRocEssIoN.-The funeral pro-
cession at the burial Of Ex-Governor Jones
is said to have been the largest ever seen
in Memphis. 1t was over mile in length.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

"PASoLA SrAR."-The Pamela miss. J
Star comes to us in a new dress and an
enlarged form. 1t is an excellent paper,
and its publisher, Frank A. Duval, one of
the best fellows in the world.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

r ~ Some of the Northern prints are
insinuating that, because Gov. Wise is an
aspirant for the Presidency, he may be in.
duced TO commute old Browns punish.
ement A dozen Presidencies would not
: tempt Henry A. Wise to such n sten
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

HeS- The Contested Senatorial Election
has been finally disposed of by re-award-
ing the seat to Mrs. Grundy. Let US hope
we shall hear no more of it,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

GERRIT SMITH's WmEREABoUTs.-The
Hamilton Union, printed few miles
from Gerrit Smiths residence, says:
"On the reception of the news from
Harper's Ferry, report says that this
gentleman conferred with the Hon. Tim
othy Jenkins, about what he had better
do. He advised him to leave the coun-
try. Rumor says that Gerrit is about to
start for Canada"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

Hon. John A. McClernard is the Doug
las candidate for Congress in the Spring
field, ILL.,, Congressional district, in the
place of Col. Harris, who died since the
election.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

CLEREsnrP or THE Houss.-A Washington
despatch says, Mr.. Underwood,a Kentucky Mem.
her of the last House, will be presented by the
Southern Opposition as candidate for Clerk.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

The hog cholera has prevailed to an
alarming extent, of late, in Wayne coun.
ty, and the Southern part of Pulaski
county, Kentucky.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

fANs.-A bushel of Premiums Vans from the
plantation Of L. R. Hurst, Esq, for which we
tender our Acknowledgements. They are wbonners
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

Bay~ Fred Douglas, who it was sup,
posed, had run away, has turned up at
Rochester, N. Y, and, in card in the
newspapers denies Indignantly of ever
having had anything more to do with
"Old Brown " than to simply, on one oc-
casion to invite him to eat dinner.
If it be clearly established that "Old
Brown" accepted the invitation, Gov.
Wise ought to heighten his gallows at
least sixteen feet.--NashpiNe Gazette.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

TENNESSEE BoNDs.-Tennessee six per
cent bonds, due in $780, were quoted in
New York on the I'd inst, at 9Ol.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

John r. Slower, the present Circuit
Clerk, is announced for reelection.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

Bay~ There is a popular notion, says
DR.. Nichols. that an Irishman can drink
whiskey. 1t is an utter fallacy. A Scotch
man will drink them blind. A Yankee
will drink them into conniptions. Irish
men are great and unequaled in many
things but whiskey drinking is not of
their accomplishments. Whenever they
attempt it they are sure to be BEATEN
Invariably they get the worst of it. Why
will they persist in attempting to do what
nature has denied them the power to ex-
Gel in? insist that an Irishman is the
last man who ought to drink whiskey.-
The English swallow 32,000,0OO gallons
of spirits year, and wash them down
with oceans of hale, alf-and-alf," or
porter. The Irish. even with the help of
their Scotch-descended cousins of Ulster,
are barely able to worry down 5000, 900
gallons.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

FAT Hoes FOR SALE.-L. l.. Thomson, Post
Oak Springs, Roane county, has 700 fat hogs for
sale, now ready for delivery. Average weight,
200 lbs.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

coRs.-Mr Beard, McMinn county, left an ear
Of corn at our Office, containing 1868 grains. The
grains are not as large as friend Reynolds' corn,
butt few more Of thom.
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Washington Hall, Atlanta.

This popular hotel has recently passed into the
proprietorship of L. X. Sasseen. Mr.. Sasseen is
an East Tcnnesseean, and his experience in hotel
kicking justfcs US in commencing the Hal, as n
first rate house.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

The DEEPEST ARTEsIAN WELL.-The ap-
propriation for carrying on the Artesian
Well at Columbus, Ohio, has been ex-
hausted, and the work has stopped I'M
finished, with the well at depth of 3
$40 feet, four feet deeper than any other
Artesian well in the world.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

!s0- Any paper can publish the ap.
pointments after the coming of new adj.
ministration but what paper in the world
is large enough to publish half the dis
appointments q. ,-t,I.-. =.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

JOIN N. DuSN, Esq, Cleveland, is a
candidate for Attorney General. See list
next page.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

DOUGLAS IN OHIo.-The Douglas paper
published at Columbus, Ohio, by Birney
Manshall has died for want of support,
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sN The wife of Senator Douglas is reported
as seriously i'll and not expected to live.
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scRiPruRE.-what shallit profit man If he
publish paper whole year and lose his sub
scription?
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FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REwARp-Tl

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REwARD.-The
Louisville Courier says:
Gov. Magoffin has offered reward of
$500 for the arrest of Robert Champ, who
a few days since made his escape from
the Lexington Jail. He was under q sem
tence of fifteen years in the penitentiary
for committing rape on his brothers
widow.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

s6y- AS the business before the Legisla-
ture is beginning to assume more i'm
portant shape, we will hereafter try to
give fuller reports of the proceedings.
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Bsy" Fred Douglas writes letter from
Canada West, to a New York paper, de-
nying that he had promised to be at
Harpcr's Ferry with Brown. He evil
IDENTITY was fully cognizant of the conspi-
racy, and could tell great deal about it..
In regard to the charge of cowardce made
against him by Cook, he remarks:
81 have not one word to say in defense
or vindication Of my character for cour-
age. | have always been more distin-
guished for running than fghting-and
tried by the Harper's Ferry Instruction
test, am most miseiably deficient in
courage-even more so than Cook, when
he deserted his brave old captain and
fled to the mountains.
He has no apology for going to Canada,
and adds:
"lf l have committed any offence
against society, have done so on the
soil of the State of New York, and |
should be perfectly willing there to be ar
raigned before an impartial Jury; but |
have quite insuperable objections to be-
ing caught by the hands of Mr.. Buchan-
an, and Jagged' by Gov. Wise. For this
appears to be the arrangement. Buch-
anan does the fighting and hunting, and
Wise bays the game"
He concluds by saying he is going on q
visit to England.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

SUPPOSED SEARCH FOR Fred DOUGLASS
The Rochester Democrat, October the
9th has the following:
Some suspicious looking characters of
gentlemauly, but official demeanor, have
been hang about town for "a day or
two past, and it is supposed that their OBJ
.iect in visiting Rochester. is to call on
Frederick Douglass for explanations re-
Carding the recelt cHievr at Harper's Fer
nv. 1t so happens, however, that Mr..
Douglass is out OF town. and his present
whereabouts does not seem to be gene
rally known. The strangers are said to
he connected with the United States
Marshal's oiiice-deputies Of that gen.
tlcman, in fact"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

THANKsGIyING.--The return of the
cereal season is happily recognized by the
Governors of some fourteen States of the
Union, who have suggested, designated
or appointed, as the case may be, the
24th of this month as day of general
Thanksgiving.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

Ras" Columbia, one of the prettiest
towns in the State, is certainly looking
up considerably. The Mirror says:
The once small village of Columbia has
now almost reached the dignity of a
medium-sized city. Within the last ten
months sixty-three new buildings have
been erected, most of which are now al
most entirely finished. The advent OF
the two railroads in our midst seems to
have aroused our citizens from the leth-
argy that prevailed among them for SO
long time, and the spirit of improve,
ment is installed in every bosom.
AN IMPUDENT HORSE TnIEr.-Thos. A.
Reece, of Rutherford county, n. c., stole
mule from a man by the name of Allen
and made his escape into Tennessee, but
was followed, brought back and placed
in the Jail at Rutherfordton, and wrote
on the wall the following: Zone day after
date promise to break this Jail, and
steal Aliens other mule" and the sequel
shows he did.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

~ A'great many of our farmers make
bad fences; they should go to fencing
school
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~ An Irish lover has remarked that
u is great pleasure to be alone especial
~ when your "swstebcart is wild YOU"
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viro;n;a and Tennessee Road.

HoA
We find the following card, from the
SUPERINTENDENT of the Virginia and Ten;
,ossoo p,;,rood in tho Lvncbbure Wiz.
".'.eo ,o,
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OFFICE,
Va. & TENN. II. r., LYScIBuRG Nov. 3.
1oMe Editor Of The L.ynchJny pngi"'dn::
DEAN SiRi--The editorial article pub.
l;shcd in your paper OF the "a INST, ana
copied rom the Athens (lenn.,l Post,
contains so many erroneous Statements
relative to this road, that feel IT to be
my duty to correct portion OF them.
1t is not true, as the editor states, ne
believes that the East tennessee iines pro-
pose to discontinue the double daily ser
vice in consequence OF the repeated Iaii-
urcs to connect on the Virginia ana len
nessee Railroad as VIII De seen by the
following letter. stating their reasons Tor
proposing todiscontnue II;
KNOXVILLE, Oct. S, 1859.
joins r. Mcdaniel, SAaULE TATE, V. x.
STEVENSON, Presidents.
Unless the Post Office Department
comply in good faith with their contract,
and give us their second mail, we shall
take OFF what is now denominated the
second train, on the 9Th OF November.
Respectfully,
c. WALLACE, President,
SAM'L Is. CUNNINGHAM, Pres't.
| X. &. JACKSON, Superintendent.
NJ. 5. TEMPLE, Superintendent"
!
1t is not true, that there has been but
one failure to connect ON the Tennessee
and Virginia Road during the year, nor
do believe it to be true, that the Vir-
ginia and Tennessee Road has failed to
connect oitencr than the roads connect
ing with it.
That the East Tennessee Companies
las stated desire to continue the double
daily for the accommodation OF their local
travel. is not at all probable; as they
originally came into the measure with
great reluctance. and one OF them after
very great persuasion, and in order to ac-
complish the object, the Virginia and
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

BsT' Elizabeth Trail fortune-teller,
who some time since cheated Hezekiah
Faris, wealthy Tennessee farmer. out OF
$1,000, has been arrested in Belleville,
New Jersey, on a requistion from the
Governor of Tennessee She did OF rel
ish the idea of going back to the South,
and offered TO restore the money, but the
victim of her sorcery preferred to have her
punished.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

- n. Li't. e .Pssniuns svssdsg vt ts.
late RoAas County ysiI, viii h. psblisb.d ns.s
week,
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Bay" Great efforts have been made to
induce Gov Wise to pardon John Brown.
He will not do it. The Richmond En-.
quirer says about the matter: Virginia
will execute Brown and his associates,
and feels herself able to meet all the con-
sequences that may arise from that fact y
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

No HANGING, AFTER ALL-We understand
that Governor Wise has decided not to hang Old
Brown and his companions but to set them to
work in the State pcnitentiary, and have strict ex-
animation made as to their sanity about which
there seems 10 he u little doubt At the cxpira-
turn them over to his successor, Governor Lctch-
or, probably to be again respited. Brown, Cook
Co., will be kept in the hope of catching Sew
ard, Giddings Co., who would be much more
welcome in Virginia than their half crazy TOOLS
SO says the New York Herald of the 4th.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-11

SToRKs.-The stork, after spending its
summer in Europe, migrates in the Fall
to Africa Or Asia. A Polish gentleman
having caught stork which lived upon
his estate, put around its neck an iron
collar, with these words upon it: "This
stork comes from Poland" and then set
1t at liberty. The next year the storlS
came back again with gold collar, in
the Hindoo language; "India sends back
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The New York correspondent of the
Rinl,

Richmond Enquirer writes:
Zone of the worst symptoms at the
North, is the paliation, or sympathy at
tempted in behalf of old Brown, shared in,
not alone by the reasonable abolition pack
ofpraying and bowling fanatics. but by the
press and members of the Black Repub-
lican party.