The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-10

We'll might Il. g. Scott, says the Nash
villo Patriot" a delegate from Alabama,
as he is reported to have done at Rich.
mond, unfurl the Breckenridge banner
with the war cry Of PROTECTION OR
BLOODw
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Breckenridge in Ohio.
The breckenridge party are playing
thunder out in the Buckeye State, eide the
following from the Cincinnati Eaguirtr Of
last week.
Az IMMENSE BRECKENRIDGE DEMoNsTRA-
TIoN On Saturday last the Yancey-
Breckenridge men of Butler County, Ohio,
met in mass convention to appoint dele
gates to the Boilers State Convention, at
Columbus, next Tuesday. 1t was az out
pouring that did the soul good to contcm-
plate. 1t betokcned Il triumph of the
true Nationa! Democracy" (ridc John G.
Breckinridge) that made the Republicans,
Bell mon and common Democracy quake
in their boots" except some OF the latter,
who have no boots to quake in. These
latter, however, trcmblcd in their toes.
tremor commencing in the little ones and
extending to the big ones. .Nmc hun
whom was the Postmaster, who sat on the
floor, making mouths at the President
who looked like the knight ofruelul coun-
tenance--to force smile from him, which
might be contagious 10 the faithful pres
cnt. The main object Of the meeting was
to appoint delegates to Columbus. That
work they proceeded to perform with be-
coming dispatch. The nine present APP
pointed fourteen delegates, including them
selves. The Democratic vote of Butler
County Is three HouSaad ice i,mdrrL We
are told this mass meeting OF the faithful
closed its laGors by singing the following
doXology:
"lTey, diidlc diddlc, didilc,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow iumacd over the NOON" DC.
LATEST FoREIGN NEws.-Thc New York
"Times" of the 9th gives under its news
head the following item, in regard to the
state OF Europe:
The steamship Australcsian, which ar
rived at this port on Saturday evening,
brings us European advices to the 2jth
ult., and the Kangaroo, which arrived Oft
Cape Race on Saturday, to the Goth
The news by these arrivals is highly inter-
esting and important. From Syria we
learn that peace had been restored be-
tween the Druses and the Maronites. the
latter ofwhom there seems to Uc good rca-
son for charging with the original rcspon-
sibility Of their own disasters. and that
the Porte had protested agains. the inter-
vention of France. 1t is also reported
that the Syrian question will be dealt with
summarily in Conference of the Pow
ers at Paris. Sicily had been entirely
evacuated by the Royal troops, and Carl
baldi, III whose councils the Mazzni mis-
leaders seem to be gaining pcrlous in
tlucnce, was supposed to be on the point
of passing over into Calabrio The inter
ests of-the public, however. will be par
TALLY drawn away from the Syrian and
Siciiian questions by very remarkable
speech Of Lord Palmerson on the nation
al dctences, which had caused n fall of the
funds at Paris, and provoked strong eX-
pressions of dissatisfaction from Mr..
Bright and Mr.. Bcrnal Osborne. the latter
oi whom declared that cordial relations
between Franco and England had been
made impossible 10y the language of the
Premier.
GREAT EyClTEMENT.-That Bull swamp
Meeting, South Carolina, Of which we
gave a short announcement last week. is
producing great connection among the
conservative men North. The predomi-
hant sentiment "' Dun swamp WAS II
WIN NC ic''''iiioe'c'' ~ VIZ
"Let Northerncrs be Northerners, and
a,.ror. y
~ ,,bi.b tho Now yorl, ryrro,s TO-.
.,o,siyoIr ovo1,in,,.
rool, 'p,tr,b,. ala not ou,.p,, e,yor,,
friends make a beginning to be Souther-
ners. just where they were? Why was
not the Monongahela( Northern Whiskey
ic" u. o"V 40 n! tio".ioii ~ '"e lemon
,,onmf,nf,rn1 hootS on thn cooi tol,on na2
The Connecticut clock, which told how
near midnight II was when they al got
70 r;oons and not ono Of thn Massochn ~.
sets made rifles that were stacked on
the ground outside but should have been
made n bonfire of.
CHARLESTON, D. C.-lhe attention OF
Merchants and others is invited to the
advertisement in another column. head
- Avn. A.. ,r...,.-t..e A.. CIV, ,',
o"' 'i'e -heioi'"ii's Vi 'iie 'oou'h al"
Southwest" 1t is Business Directory
of the Wholesale Houses in Charleston.
r. C.
nN'L AHp r'hHLlr IN NE" ORLEANS
a New Orleans dispatch OF the LIST inst,
says political meetings have become the
order of the dav here. last ni,bt onc
po1I AL r..
bo'i anu L'etett lrieHus hlu their grand