The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-05-04

be tolerated at BIllingSgatc.
If 4 Northern man, drunk or sober.
were TO go into Kentucky or any other
Southern State, and say of Southern
citizens what Tom Marshal has said here
of our people. he would be cut into
mince meat with bowie knives. 1t is
not because our people are towards that
they tolerate such insolence. They treat
it and its author with the contempt both
merit.
CROPS IN SOUTHERN ILLlNoIs.-The St.
Louis Republican says the prospect for
wheat in Southern Illinois is not so dis
couraging as some have supposed. All
wheat sown as early as the first and
second week of Septor,',or. locke ,voI-
The recent rains have brought out wheat
in many fields, where, two weeks ago,
the indications were altogether untavOr-
able. Undoubtedly much wheat has
failed, but there will be a fair harvest,
Judging by present appearances.
Fruit, including apples and perches,
will be very abundant, in the section of
the State mentioned.
BYs~ Joseph L. Ball, of jefferson coun-
| ty, Ohio, was arrested on Thursday last.
| and taken to Cleveland, on an indict-
ment before the United States District
Court for making and passing counter
| felt money. Ball is an old man-sixty
years of age, and is reputed to be wealthy.
| He has fine house and large farm and
ranks among the substantial men of JEFF
l..
been suspected of being connected with
an extensive gang of counterieiters, but
his position and power in the neighbor-
| hood were such that no one dared to
| give information against him. Ball is a
magistrate, and his position was used to
shelter the counterteiters and oppres>
any one that was suspected of interfering
with their operations.
| DEPRIVED OF THE GOSPEL BY Foxes -
That was a novel but not 50 bad an argu.
ment which the mountain member urged
in the Kentucky Legislature:
A few years ago bill proposing pre-.
MUM on foX-scalps was under discussion
1t had been somewhat roughly handled
in debate by members the more populous
| regions, where foxes were scarce, and Mr.
| L. from one of the mountain counties
rose to reply. | give only his peroratlon
And are we, Mr.. Speaker-we of the
mountain reglOns-nOt only to witnes:
the annual destruction OF our crops, huI
actually to be deprived by these varmint.
Of the consolation Of rehgonl" This woke
the House up, and set it agape for an ex
PLANTATION. He continued: You know
Mr.. Speaker, that we live in a rough
country; that your fancy churches-you1
Presbyterians and opalians-neve
send preachers among us. We depenC
for the Gospel upon circuit-riders Of til,
Methodist church; and, sir every body
knows that they can not be induced tC
travel where there are no chickens. anC
that chickens can Lot be raised where fox
es aboundn'
The argument was unanSWerablC, anC
the bill became Il law.
BGy" "Breeches of faith! screamed
Mrs. Partington, as she heard that tern
applied to Mexican violations of an az
mistice. "Well, | wonder what the,
will have next. have hearn tell o
cloaks Of hypocrisy, and robes Of purity
but have never heard of breeches o
faith before. | hope they're made o
something that won't change and tea
out, as old Deacon Gudgins' faith did
for his was always changing. He Wen
from believing that nobody would b
saved, to believing that everybody woul,
be, and last turned out phrenologel
and didn't believe in nothing. l won
der if its as stron5 as cassimere?" An,
she bit off her thread and prepared
new necdleful.
Bag- Samuel Lover remarks in one {
his novels, that the man who constant
interrupts his fellows in conversation
will invariably be found Of superficis
! mind,