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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

CONSERVATIVE 'Tazewell Democrat
deems John Bell unsound on the Slavery
question, and supports Mr.. Breckenridge
for the Presidency as a sound man upon
that subject. Mr.. Bell, it is said, Gums
t'co hundred slaves, and Mr.. Breckenridge
never owned Niger in his life! Which
of the two is most interested in the in
stitution ?-AJingaon Vuginian.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
ny We have heard some PRAYERS wbic

Dz5- We have heard some prayers which
were designed to effect the nearer rather
than to reach Heaven. The following
characteristic anecdote of John Randolr h
is keen rebuke of the practice:
In one of his spells of repentance and
sickness, he was visited by minister,
who, at his request, prayed for and with
him. The minister began on this wise ::
"Lord, our friend is sick. Thou knowest
how generous he was to the poor, and
what eminent services he has rendered
to his country, and how he is among the
honored and great men of the earth"
stop, stop" said the impatient Ran
dolph, ''no more of such stuff, else the
Lord will damn us both"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

The Convention which met at Grenada
on the 18th inst, completed the Douglas
electoral ticket, by the following addi-
tons:
For the Fourth District-John Calhoun.
For the Fifth District-Col. j. +. Ii.
Claiborne.
For the State at Large-Frank. Smith,
Col. j. X. Clinton, alternate.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
Wisconsin,.

The following is the Bell and Everett
ticket in Wisconsin:
Electors al Larye-ITugh Cameron, of
Lacrosse, and Talbot c. Dousman, of
Waukesha.
First Congressional Dis.-Robert Chand-
Ter.
Second Congressional DiS.-B. +. Pixley.
Third Congressional DiS.-Richard Dart.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

RayTelegraphic dispatches from WASH
ington say that President Buchanan sus-
poets there is treachery in his camp at
New York, as reliable information reach
ed him that all the officers at the late
Breckenridge meeting were Douglas men,
as were also the Committee who reported
the resolutions. AS most of these are
Federal ofiiceholders, it is understood an
investigation will be made.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
RM% Every political paper in Sou

Da" Every political paper in South
Carolina is for disunion, and every one
zealously supports Breckenridge and Lane.
Every disunion paper and every disunion
electioneerer in the whole South are at
work earnestly for Breckenridge and Lane,
and most of them are predicting the cleo
ton of Lincoln, and labolfng to fire the
Sothern heart with view to precipitate
the cotton States into revolution"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

FLoUR.-Our friends are anticipating a
scarcity of Flour in this region, and con-
sequent high prices. We are now, and
have been for the last six months, paying
SO per barrel for good article, and we
don't spprehend il will rule above that
figure through the present year. Good
Flour, from st. Louis, and other Western
towns, can be laid down here at from 81
to IS per barrel
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

DEATH BY SUICIDE.-Mr. James Sum-
merfeld Slaughter committed suicide in
Atlanta, Ga, on Wednesday, by taking
laudanum. Mr.. Slaughter was a young
man of genius, and was connected in 1850
with the Alabama Press, and in 1S58-'59
with the National American of Atlanta,
and was the recipient of the celebrated
Scarlet letter of Hon. VIM. l.. Yancey,
of which there is so much said at the
present. time. He leaves wife and an
infant child.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

The SUICIDE MANIA ON THE INCREASE IN
PARIs-The latest Paris papers are filed
with deplorable accounts of all kinds of
suicides in different parts of France. In
Lyons, young man of twenty-five years
of age assembled the steeple of church,
and threw himself into the street. Other
different means are constantly recorded
to make an unhappy end to less I'M
happy existence. Women by the dozen
have lately made an untimely end to their
lives; and razors, firearms, and even
charcoal, are again in great demand by
that class of French malcontents.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
Observation-Disclosures Picket.

The Douglasites in Kentucky met in
Convention on the 10th and nominated
a full Electoral ticket. The Douglas pa
pers represent the Convention as having
been largely attended, and its proceed.
ings characterized by harmony and enthu-
cioSp,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

LEAVING THE SECEDERs.-IIon. A. NJ.
Gibson, a Breckenridge and Lane sub
Elector in Blount county, Ala, has de-
clared for Douglas. So also have Mr.. Sla-
ton, Senator, and Mr.. Aldridge, Repre-
sentative and colleague of Mr.. Gibson,
from the same county. Rats leave q
sinking ship.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
Nor VERY PRoBApLr.- The Elkhart

(Ind.) Times has the following;
We overheard one of the unterrified
get offa good one, in expressing his private
opinion the other day: "Well Robbie
the Dem-hic-racy are a-hic--powerful
nation--hic-but I'll be id ifI-hic-
believe they hic-can elect two-hic-
Presidents in one year, nohow."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

p0- "Where are you going?" said q
young gentleman to an elderly one in a
white cravat whom he overlook few
miles from Little Rock. 81 am going to
Heaven, my son. l have been on the
way there for eighteen years" Well, good
bye, old fellow, if you have been travelling
toward Heaven eighteen years, and got no
nearer than Arkansas, I'll take another
route"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

s1- A writer In the Chattanooga Re
.fector wants to know whether John l..
Hopkins ever Joined tho Know Nothing
orderi He could probably have his curl
osity gratified by applying to Maj. Key,
Breckenridge eleotor for the Third Dis
trict.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
THE OATu.f,oUNp LEAoUEns,-It is said

THE OATH-BoUND LEAGuERs.-It is said,
with confidence, that the Southern
Leaguers are now actively engaged secretly,
and under oaths and signs, in organizing
their forces throughout the South, and
that they are all for the Disunion candi-
dates of Yancey, Rhett & Co., Mr.. John
G. Breckenridge, of Kentucky. The
whole State of South Carolina is a League
of this character. The object of the
Leaguers is to "precipitate the cotton
States into revolution" by indirectly aid
ing in the election of Lincoln to the Presi-
dency Georgia Citizen.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

KEEP MATCHES FROM CHILDREN.--A few
days since, in New london, little boy
three years old went into one of the cham
bers of his fathers house, and getting
hold of some matches, ignited them, and
nearly set the house on fire. Some cloth
ing burned.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
Athens, Friday, Aug. "a, 1850.
Meigs County.

Circuit Court will commence at Decatur
~ Monday, the 9th. Key, Bridges and
Caldwell, District Electors, address the
people there on Monday.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

BS5~ Some sixty houses and the Meth
odist Protestant Church, embracing large
portion of the business part of Salisbury,
N. c., were destroyed by fire last week.
Loss, about 100000.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

SOUTHERN RIGHTs.-The President of the
and Lane New York Conven-
ton, Henry T. Randall, was a Free Soiler
in 1913, and very ardent for Van Buren,
aganst Cass.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

Da~ Bill Yancey, who has been lee
turing in Middle and West Tennessee
upon the blessings of disunion. has left
the State and passed into Georgia. Every
wherethe arbitrator appeared in this
State, he was taken in charge and feasted
and toasted and trotted round by the
special and leading friends of Mr.. Breck-
inridge.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
HEELING AMONG THE OFFICE
Washington correspond
lYhelphia Inquirer says:

ent of the Philadelphia Inquirer says:
"Mr. Buchanan is more unluclly about
the post-oiiice officials at Rutland, VT,
than at any other point. Thence has his
arrow sped and sped in vain. Mr.. Kane
was removed for Douglassm in March
last, and Mr.. Hall was appointed. The
latter having recently proved unfaithful,
a person named Mcdaniel was appoint
ed in his place. Now it turns out that
Mr.. Mcdaniel left town to meet Judge
Douglas on the occasion of his visit to
Rutland, and rode about the town with
him in procession, and introduced friends,
&c. So saws the Rutland Courier.N
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
H8- A good story is told of

RB" A good story is told Of a private
political discussion in Kentucky the 9TH
er day, between Bell man and Brock
inridge man. Breckinridger was certain
that his candidate "would carry as many
States as Buchanan" "And how many
did Buchanan carry? asked the Union
man. "iSepeng-one" was the reply-"he
carried every id one of 'em but Mary
land p
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

p%- Mr.. Jones, Of overton, has been
made Elector on the Douglas ticket, in
the Second District, and is now engaged
in the canvass.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

Ba1~ In Pennsylvania the Douglas men
have determined to run straight out
ticket, rejecting the proposition made by
the Breckinridgers to fuse, altogether.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

HEAD AND HEART RIGnT.-Thc Rome
(Ga.) Courier publishes the following:
" In the last number of the Southerner
and Advertiser, ! see my name as one of
the delegates appointed to attend the
Breckenridge and Lane State Convention,
to be held in Milledgeville on the sth of
August next. 1t concerns the public but
little as to what my preferences may be
in the present campaign, yet no party or
clique has the right to use the name of
any citizen, however humble, for their
own selfish purposes, and thus place him
in a false position. left the Cincinnati
Platform before it split, and wish it to be
distinctly understood that / am now on
neither fragment, and shall support the
nominees of neither faction. The only
National ticket, Bell and Everett, receives
my most cordial appreciation, aud ex-
pect to give them my earnest and humble
support"
,JOUN r. HART
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

W- At a large fire in New Orleans on
the 10th inst, by which every building
on the upper side of Poydras street, be-
tween New Levee and Tchoupitoulas,
were destroyed, an old lady named Mary
Jane Schooler, was burnt to death, sew
eral others badly injured. An ice house
on fire, covered with patent roofing, sud-
denly blew up like gunpowder.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

PLENTY OF Corn IN Observation-Disclosures
has planted this year fifty per cent. more
corn than ever before. Some of it is cut
short, but the greatest crop ever made
stands on the ground. 81. Lewis News.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

a JUST CONFIDENTIAL Breckenridge
and Lane meeting in Mason county Ca,
Col. j. g. MclIenry, one of the speakers,
complimented Mr.. Bell as a sound, honest
man, and Mr.. Everett as ''pure, high-ton-
ed, noble gentleman, whose sense of jus
tice lowered above the storm of fanaticism
which has distracted the country and
jeoparded the rights of our section of the
Union"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

Our friends in Georgia are confident of
carrying the State for Bell and Everett
The prospect for a thorough defeat Of the
Democracy was never so fair.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

THE VIRGINIA DOUGLAS STATE CoNvEN-
TIoN.-tSta,mtan, Va, Aug Is, 1SG0.-Late
last night n Douglas electoral ticket was
adopted, as follows
George Blow, II. L. Hopkins, j. B.
Stoveall, James Garland. Benjamin Ran
dolph j. II. Cox, j. b. Ellsworth, G. II.
Rowe, G. w. Brent, Israel Robinson, J. A.
Leggett, q. p. Hodge, g. w. Hopkins,
c. Il. Stuart and w. G. Brown.
The Convention adjourned this evening
after harmonious session of three days.
The Convention denounced the Char
lottesville Committee of Conference as
treacherous, and condemned severely the
course of the administration.
The convention has directed the cleo
tors to vote for Douglas he can be elect
ed. If he cannot be elected, then to
vote so rs to beat Lincoln. The Conven-
ton prefers Bell to Breckenridge.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

Bes' The following from the Louisville
Democrat is not bad:
1--WE have nominated for our State
electors the Hon. John G. Mason and
Governor Archie Dixon. Breckenridge,
it is said, will take the stump. He had
better go further South. He must not
cross Mason and Dixon's line.'O
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

DdS- The Queen of England is most
exemplary woman.-N. T. Times.
And so is Mr.. Buchanan.--Memphis
Bulletin.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

sS- Circuit Court, which met on the
18th, adjourned on Wednesday, 22d.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

OHIo.-The Bell and Everett ticket is
complete, and our friends are at work.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

MAINE MovING.-The Constitutional
Union men of Maine held a mass Conven-
ton at Portland, on the 18th instant, and
organized for the coming fight. Hon.
Phineas Barnes, of Portland, was unani-
mously nominated as the Bell and Ever
EFT candidate for Governor. a commit
tee of seven was appointed to nominate
candidates for Electors at Large, to report
hereafter in print Resolutions were a.
dopted, endorsing the nomination of Bell
and Everett, repudating all political COM
promises, and recommending n change of
the present State Government for purer
one.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
Virginia Breckenridge and Lane
Democratic State Convention.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Aug. IL, 1850.
In the Breckenridge and Lane Demo-
cratic State Convention yesterday, a reso-
luton was adopted modifying the electo-
raj ticket, and appointing Senators Hun
ter and Mason, Ex-Governor Wise and
Messrs. Smith and Russell as electors.
A resolution was also adopted instruct
ing the electors, if Mr. Breckenridge can
not be elected, to vote as unit so as to
prevent the election of Mr.. Lincoln.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Aug. Is, 1860
The correspondence between the two
Conventions shows that all overtures for
a compromise were rejected.
Senator Mason, in his speech to-day,
declared that the path marked out by
Douglas led directly to the abolition
camp.
The speeches of Senators Mason and
Hunter have been requested for publica-
ton.
Amidst the greatest enthusiasm the
Convention adjourned sine dc.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

bay small boy lately died in New
buryport from swallowing an oat grain,
which lodging in his intestines grew and
caused death.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

THE LADIES FOREVER THE Brandon
Miss Republican says that at the con-
clusion of Il Bell and Everett meeting in
that town last week, q gentleman present
said that inasmuch as Mr.. Everett, by his
disinterested conduct in furthering the
views of the ladies of America, in the pur-
chase of the grave of Washington, had
placed the ladies under obligations to
him of a very sacred character, he thought
it would be a graceful acknowledgment of
the obligation for the ladies present to
subscribe their names as members of the
Club. The proposition was received with
rounds of applause, and all the ladies pres
ent except two, permitted their names to
be subscribed. Hurrah for the Brandon
ladies! "Thcy will do to tie to-"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
FOR PRESIDENT,
J 0 H n B ELL,
OF TENNESSEE.

The Constitution, The Union, and The
Enforcement Of Ae Lars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24

B35n Col. Hodge and James B. Clay,
Breckenridge stumpeIs in Kentucky,
when they were asked if they were for
dissolution of the Union if Congress
would not pass slave-code whcn they
thought it necessary, refused to answer. The
individual who put the query was John
Young Brown, NJ. c., from the Bardstown
district. 1t is safe to infer that they are
Disunionists, since no friend of the Union
would have hesitated moment in saying
d" No. with the greatest emphasis.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
The Richmond Convention.

The Convention which assembled at
Richmond, it will be remembered, was
composed of avowed disunionists. After
Breckenridge was nominated by the frag-
mentary section at Baltimore, the Rich
mond Convention took him up and nomi-
mated him, and appointed committee to
inform him of such nomination. The
Chairman of the Committee perform
ed that work, and below is the distin-
guished gentleman's response. We hope
such democrats round here as dislike to
hear Mr.. Breckenridge designated as the
candidate of the disunionists will read
his letter accepting nomination at the
hands Of the disunionists, and that they
will also remember that, according to
all custom and usage, when candidate
accepts a nomination ut the hands of
such a body he is the acknowledged head
and representation of that body, and that
he is bound as a man of honor andby all
precedentto carry out tho views of that
body if elected. Here is the letter:
iic LuliN \hllDuiIiil lnutltuucnI
Observer of the 3D. inst, says: "Hon.
John Erwin, President of the Richmond
Convention, has handed us the following
letter from Hon. John G. Breckenridge,
accepting the nomination Of that Con-
vention:"
LEXINGTON, July 26, 1860.
"DEAR SIR: In answer to your letter of
the Goth ult., containing official Informal
ton Of my nomination for the Presi-
dcncy Of the United States, by the DEM
ocratic Convention assembled at Rich
mond, have to say that | accept the
nomination, and shall strive to merit the
confidence implied by the action of the
Convention.
81 trust that full discussion of exist
ing issues will result in establishing the
Constitution and the Union of the States
upon immovable foundations.
with good wishes, am your friend,
JOHN G. BRECKENRIDGE,
"lIon. John Erwin, President of the
Richmond Democratic Convention,
Greensborough, Ala"
lie accepts, and hopes to merit the
confidence of the Dsunionists!
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Roll on the Ball.

One of the leading papers of New York
gives an encouraging account of the pro-
gress of the Union sentiment in that di-
rection. 1t says
"The opinion is daily Strengthening
everywhere,-and with everybody that Is
free TO speak his mind.-that John Bell
will be the next President. 1t is antici-
pated that the revolution which has al
ready commenced at the South will en-
tend to the North, and that we shall
have recurrence of the scenes of 1910.
Many of our citizens who have recently
returned from Massachusetts, report that
there is no enthusiasm there for Lin
coin, and that thousands of Demo-
Gratis will vote for Bell and Everett
From Pennsylvania, too, we hear of nu-
merous secessons from the rail-spli.ters.
Philadelphia is in blaze for the Union
ticket, and in many of the interior coun-
ties the excitement is unprecedented
If the conservatives of all parties do their
duty between this and November, the
country will be redeemed from the thral-
dom Of angry and selfish factions, and
be placed once more under the guardian
ship of men who are 'honest, capable,
and faithful to the Constitution"
B9y" Our contemporary of the Louisville
Journal, in his paper of the 18th, says:
Revolution is unquestionably the set
tied and deliberate purpose of the lead
ers and controllers of the Breckenridge
party, which is therefore popularity
and properly known rs the Disunion par
ty. 1t is the undisclaimed and more than
half-avowed purpose of those leaders.
They will not deny that, in the event of
their failing to obtain at once from Con-
gress that protection for slavery which
they know in all the depths of their souls
they cannot at present obtain, they are
for the dismembermeBt of the Union.
Nor will they deny that, in case Mr.. Lin
coin shall be elected to the Presidency, a
result which they confessedly anticipate,
and which, by the disruption of the Demo-
cratic party, and by the setting up of
Breckenridge tickets in the Northern
States, they have been doing and are
doing everything in their power to bring
about, they will strike instantly for the
Unions humiliation. They are at the
head of party which they are leading
and welding for disunion purposes, and
they neither expect nor desire that the
present confederacy of States shall re-
main in existence another year. They
must be taught solemn lesson, or tho
nation will be taught q terrible one.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-05-02

INFORMATION WANTED. Information
is wanted of William McLeun, who came
to Ohio from Ireland and remained until
1855, since which time he has not been
beard from by his relatives. He is about
IS years of age, and dark complexioned.
At last accounts he was at Cumberland
in Guernsey county, Ohio. Any informa.
tion in regard to him will be thankfully
received by his nephew, VIM. McLeun
at Panora, Guthrie county, Iowa
Editors are requested to copy the above
if convenient, and assist in restoring the
man to his family.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-05-02

~ The st. Clairsville Gazette recent
sly got up an article on the subject of the
court then in session at that place, pun.
ming on the names Of about dozen law.
I yers and half q dozen county officers. The
. Guernsey Times gos up an imitation OF
the Gazette, saying some very funny things
= about the Cambridge lawyers. Now, the
Caronicle. Bro. Davy's spicy and lively
paper, makes an effort in the same line.
We give it below. Won't the buttons fly
though :
A FISHING PARTY from this place,
J started for Powhattan on Tuesday morn.
] Ing to spend sevsrel days in fishing. They
we're well prepared to Prosecute any shoai
of suckers that fell within the grip of the
Eaecutsr of mandates bearing the stamp OF
. Notary Public. Nor were they without
their Poor Man to fatten on the fish. To
succeed they must take to the water
.ud we will not be surprised to finds ONE Of
them looking SsOaney enough when they
return.
The laugh comes in at the italicised
words.
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SOLO METHODIST.
SHERIFES SALE.

SHERIFFS SALE.
Joseph II. Thompson and James w. Thompson,
against
John G. Thompson.
DY virtue of a writ of execution against
~ plaintiff for costs to me directed from the
Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County
and State of Ohio, will offer for sale at pub
lie auction, at the front door of the courthouse
in .he town of Woodsfeld, in said county, be-
tween the hours of 10 o'clock q. m, and 4
clock p. M, on
Saturday, the 26M dog Of May, 1860,
the following real estate, situate in said coun-
ty, to wits
The west half Of the north west quarter OF
section twenty, township six, OF range seven:
also the south east quarter of the north west
quarter of the same section, township and
range; also the west part of the north east
quarter of the south west quarter of the same
section, township and range; containing one
hundred and ffty-four acres more or less.
Taken in execution and levied ON as the
property Of Joseph Il. Thompson, ct al.
C. NJ. MORROW,
April rs, 1860. $4,20 Sheriff, M. C O.