The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-04-20
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From washington.
We take the following extract from A
Washington letter to the Augusta Constii
nationalist. We are not aware that ia
speculations amount 10 anything, still il
will do to read at this time:
i WASHINGTON, April 9th, 1860
The past week has tissipated somewhat
the fog that overspread the battle grounds
of 1860. Several of the most prominent
candidates for the Presidency have been
I in effect retired, for the present, though
their names would doubtless be placed at
the disposal of the party to adjust any
differences which may arise.
i 1t may be said with entire inpartiality
4 that the names of breckenridge, Doug
lnsgand Hunterare more prominent than
! any Others. and accordingly, the batteries
Of the enemy are all turned TO impair
the public confidence in those gentlemen.
Absurd stories of combinations amongst
these friends, are circulated everywhere.
The impression derived, from all sur
rounding circumstances, is, that whilst
Douglas cannot himself getM reclamation, he
may, uUtnaUy, determine tie nominee.
On the other side, the question is.
in the opinion of the writer, settled
Seward will be tho choice at Chicago
Immediately after the Brown Outrage the
Opposition at the South, and the moder-
ate Republicans. were aiming to effect RI
combination upon some such nominee as
Bates, Bell, or Bolts
No sooner was this demonstration oh.
vious than the men who made and man.
aged the Republican party, set about
placing the nomination beyond compro-
mise. Their great leader reiterated his
sectional heresies. 4 resolution asking q
bill for Setting free every human being"
received the vote OF sixty Republican
members and within few days Love-
joy, of Illinois, has made deliberate
and premeditated assault upon the peace
and good name of the southern States.
The result of all this will be that con-
sentative Unionists will find themselves
excluded from the nomination, and even
from the support of the Chicago conven-
ton.
This is a wise step on the part of the
Black Republicans. They could not
command a single southern State by any
concessions whilst any modification of
their doctrine would be followed by all
abatement of zeal on the part Of their
northern partizans.
Nor do the leaders of the Republican
party desire to diminish the distributive
quota OF spoils by including amongst the
divisors those who would reduce the ratio
without contributing to the victory.
Seward may, therefore, be set down as
the nominee at Chicago
The Constitutional Union party"
which neither says whether they prefer
a strict or latitudinous Constitution nor
whether they recommend an Union en-
forced by bayopets, are still in committee
Mr.. John Bell is here, as the newspapers
assure us upon strictly private business"
Mr.. John NJ. Bolts has Just taken leave
of Virginia politics, in violent letter to
the Richmond Wing. In reply to this,
the Wing says Mr.. Bolts has before at
tempted to destroy its influence but that
he had as well undertake ''to tunnel the
Blue Ridge with a tooth pick"
Mr.. Bates is now recognized as Re-
publican, and is, perhaps, the most pronii-
nent antagonist of Mr.. Seward.
Mr.. Crittenden awaits the troubling of
the waters, but not having any one to put
him in, another will very likely "step in"
before him.
SO this third party. like the Scotch
Greys at Waterloo, will stand exposed to-
a fire which they cannot return, and will
find their men dropping around, until
reduced to skeleton Perhaps they
may be rallied for charge in the great
battle, and may aid the Constitution and
the Union by falling in under the Demo-
cratic banner. They can do nothing
else, and 20 nowhere else. The inycsti-
cations are going on, and will, perhaps,
be productive of great good. They in
volvc all parties, and from that there arc
cowboys in every camp.
California Beer Moss.
The Constitu!ionalist, Augusta, of the
18th says:
We have published several paragraphs
in reference TO this new yeast and beer
making plant. in some of them it is
asserted that the moss taken into the
stomach is not only deleterious into
health, but dangerous to life itself I'm
der this statement it would, perhaps, be
well for our readers to observe caution
in the use of the article until something
definite as to its nature and properties
can be determined. We esk the asten-,
ton OF our physicians and chemists to
the subject, and suggest that they an
alyse the moss at their earliest convent.
ence, and give the result of their inyesti-
cations to the public.
The Daily Post, Montgomery, Ala,
contains the following paragraph:
California Beer Sted-Quite number of
our exchanges are warming the people
against the use of this seed in the pro-
duction of beer. Several deaths have
been attributed to it in Madison county,
in this State, as well as elsewhere. In
some cases it is said that it has been
found in the viscera of individuals upon
post norton examination. If there is
danger, we think it accruing when some
of the seed is swallowed, the precaution
not having been observed to strain the
beer before drinking. 1t has been used
here and hereabouts for year without
any deleterious or fatal effects and we
may add, that in California where it orr
ginated, it has always been considered
innoctious. 1t would be well, however.
for some chemA. to analyse the seed
and set all doubts to rest, and in order to
suggest such course, We allude to the
subject at this time.
PRESBYTERIAN VS.. BAPTIST The Pres
byterian Witness wants to know if bap-
tie means only to dip or immerse, where
Baptists find the authority for raising the
subject out OF the water after plunging
him in; whereupon the Mississippi Bap-
fist answers the question by asking, "if
1t means to pour, what authority have
Pedo- Baptists to stop pouring when they
have begun 2"
STARTLING PHENoMENoN.-On Saturday
night last, March l0th) q phenomenon
occurred over Drogheda, Philadelphia,
which for some time struck with the
deepest terror those who happened to be.
outside doors The moon shone out clear.
~, the atmosphere was calm, and the sky
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