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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17
Hon. It. H, CLAW,

A worthy son of noble sire, thus
closes stirring letter which we find in
the Louisville (Ky.) journal:
We have good and cheering news from
all quarters. Missouri will throw off the
yoke of Democracy. She has no longer
Benton to pilot her through this Scylla
and Charybdis. The New England States
are awakening from the dream of Sec
tionalism, aud the guidance of incompe-
tent politicians. Their true and conser-
vative men are putting on their old armor
and will advance to the conflict with the
golrious motto Of the "Union, the Con-
stitution, and the Enforcement of the
Laws" emblazoned on their shields.
The limits of a letter will not allow me
to give the many and strong reasons
entertain for believing in the success of
this great Union movement in the cleo
ton Of November next.
Very truly, your friend,
Tuos Ii. CLAY.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

A FACT IN FAVOR OF HooP SKIRTs.--We
learn from the Taunton (Mass.) Gazette
that boat containing six men, two wo-
men and three children, was capsized in
Mount Hope Bay on Sunday afternoon
Eli Irving, one of the party, swan three
quarters of n mile, when obtaining the
assistance of some boatmen, the whole
party were picked up in comparatively
comfortable state. Hoop skirts were the
means of saving the women.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17
Young America Wonders.

Wonder why mamma keeps Bridgt at
home from church to work all day, and
says it is wicked for me to build my rab-
bit house on Sunday?
Wonder why our minister bought that
pretty cane with the yellow lions head
on the top and then asked me for my
cent to put IN the missionary box? Don't
want a jewsharp just as much as he
wants a cane?
Wonder what makes pa tell such nice
stories to visitors about hiding the mas
ter's rattan when he went to school, and
about his running away from the mistress,
when she was going to whip him, and
then shut me up in dark room, because
tried just once to be as smart as he was ?
Wonder why mamma tells tells pa he
is cross, when he comes home at night
and says his tea is weak, and ties a hand
kerchief over my mouth, so that | can
neither speak or breathe because / hap
pen to say she is cross?
Wonder what made pa say that wicked
word when Betsy upset the ink all over
his papers, and he snapped my ears be-
cause | said the same thing when my
kte-string broke?
Oh dear! there are lots of things that
,oon ! Mapt t" know! How wish I was "
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

Tng LEADERS or TIE BErcXISRIrGrrs. .--
At the Huntsville mass meeting OF the
Yancey- -Baeckinridge Democracy, de-
signed TO comprehend North Alabama,
and portions of Tennessee and Mississip-
nj, but at which there were only about
fifteen hundred people plesent, Gov.
Chapman introduced the principal speak
er, Hon. w. L. Yancey, as "Jeog more
identified ,oiM the issues than any man in tie
country." Will the followers of Breckin-
ridge still deny that they have been sold
out to the Disunionists?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17
CHE gost.
Athens, Friday. August II, 1860.

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS GOING FOR BELL.-
The last Rockingham, Va, Register con-
ta,ns long communication from Charles
Grattan, Esq, who was one of the delega-
tes of Rockingham in the Legislature,
from which we take the following signifi-
cant extract:
"Now, sirs, our object is to beat the Re-
publicans, and for one | am willing to see
that done by Bell Ofcourse | should pre-
fer Democrat, but even supposing the
worst phase the case can assume, we will
have a Southern man infinitely preferable
to Lincoln, and in all probability q Demo-
crat. How is it to be authoritatively un-
derstood who that strong man is without
general consultation? 1t surely can do
no harm, it is open to every element of
good. ] am very decidedly opposed to
the double ticket arrangement which has
been spoken of. l sincerely believe it
will lose us the State. Already | see
many of the grey-headed fathers Of the
Democracy going off because they can
not remain in house divided against
itself, and against which the judgment
of heaven has been pronounced"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

A SNuG WATERMELON "PATcH.".-A
market gardener in Southern Indiana
has 'patch," containing LOO acres,
planted in watsrmelons. His markets
are Cincinnati, Louisville, New Albany,
and Chicago.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

Bd'- The Livingston Messenger, anoth-
or Alabama paper that has heretofore
been claimed for Breckenridge, has run
up the flag of Bell and Everett. Every
thing is moving auspiciously for our cause
in Alabama,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

WASHINGTON, June 2G.--The president
has determined to remove Hart, the Su-
perintendent of Public Printing, and
appoint Glossbrenner.
Hart will refuse to 60 out. 1t is now
arranged that Douglas shall address the
Democracy at Atlanta, Ca, and johnson
stump the State for him.
RoDERICK RANDOM.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

HUNG IN ErFIGY.--The Ocala (Fla.)
Companion states that on Thursday night
of last week, Douglas was hung in etfigy
in that place, while johnson lay at the
foot of the tree looking up in despair
On the following night the figures were
committed to the flames.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

ES~ During the Convention at Balti-
more, the hotels did quite a profitable
business. The Barnum took over SOS, 900
gross receipts; the Eutaw probably $780,
900; the Gilmor and Guys about $4,000;
and others in proportion,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17
CRop RETuRNs.-The New York Times

CRor RETuRNs.-The New York Times
says:
According to the returns already re-
ceived at the Census Bureau at Washing
ton, the crops in all the Northern and
Northwestern States are immensely
heavier this year. In Pennsylvania they
are represented to be nearly if not quite
double those of last year, and in other
States they will probably be correspond
ingly heavy. This fully comedies with
what we have been led to expect from the
accounts which have reached us from
other sources. The census returns, how
ever, come in very slowly, and it will
probably be some time before we shall
be able to learn the full extent of our
agricultural prosperity, although Superin-
tendent KenRedy manifests commend
able desire to satisfy the public curiosity
on the subject at the earliest possible
moment,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

WILLIAM l.. YANCEY'S
friend, John C.. Breckenridge, of Ky
Sickness IN PAuLDIyG MIssrssrrr.-Th

sickness IN PAULDING MISSISslPPI.-The
Paulding Clarion of August lst, says:
The unusual condition of the weather,
or some ineXplicable cause, has produced
in this usually most healthy region, more
sickness than has been known for years
Since the opening of spring number of
valuable citizens have died, but the num-
Der of cases of illness throughout the
country, we are glad TO learn from physi-
clans is, perhaps, less now than recently.
Dysentery and typhoid fever have been
the prevailing diseases, and the fatality
is probably owing to the excessive heat.
YANcEy's CoLT.-Gov. Neil S. Brown,
of Tenn, in his speech at Louisville, said
he would not charge Mr.. Breckenridge
with being disunionists, but he had cer-
tainly been seduced by disunionists to
aid them in breaking up the Democratic
party, and into accepting their nomina-
ton. 1t may, therefore, be properly said
that as candidate he is of Disunion get.
lie is Yancey's colt.
SOUTHERN LEAGuE.-The Washington
correspondent of the World, writing on
Tuesday, says:
Private letters received here to-day say
that the old Southern league is being
re-organized at the South. Keitt's bonn
bastic disunion letter is reckoned here at
its true worth; power is passing from his
hands, and he knows it, and whatever
rash things South Carolina may do, she
will not learn her law from the mouth of
Keitt. She has other and wiser CANA
liels, and they are too shrewd to trump
up the old disunion and secession cry.
nay Some malicious persons assert
that the letters M. D., which are placed
after physicians names signify "money
down."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

"Th0 Union, " shall be preserved!'
Was Jackson's stern command;
His Proclamation quite unnervcd
The Traitor Calhoun band!
From North to South from East to West,
Beyond the setting sun,
To jackson was these words addressed,
"H'eH done! TeH done! peH done!'
We then behcld the Union Star
With joy, and hope, and pride;
Old jackson Democrats Ror swear
They'll "lot the Union slide!''
There's Lincoln with his drunken crew,
And "John Brown" ON his flag:
And if "0ld Nick" could get his due,
How quick he'd make them wag!
There's Douglas with his Free Soil clan,
And he's "Giant too;
do despise his "Squatter' plan,
Such principles won't do!
There's Brcckinridge, n Southern man,
Hes from the land of Clay;
lie heads strong "DismioH' clan,
And he is like ''poor Tray"
"Disunion Yancey" leads the way,
With Rhett and Davis too;
If John Calhoun was here to-day,
He'd join the Dreckinridgc crew!
The gallant BeH sec with pride,.,
And Edward Everett too;
The "Constitutiou" is their guide
They are both tried and true!
The "Union Flag" now waves on high,
Will Bell desert it! never.
The Union is his 6dnio-cry.
The Union, no,r-,,torerer!
If Jackson was alive to-day,
Ono thing | could ioretell;
To Union men he'd boldly say
"Cast all your votes for Bell"
Come, good Old Jackson Democrats,
Whose hearts with Union SWELL
Lets raise the shout and wave our hats,
And ring the Union BcH!
Nc.Ninn Co., Tenn. NouGH AND READY.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

ray~ "Tom what's monomany?"-why,
you see, Dick, when poor woman steals
it is called larceny; but when it's rich'un
the jury says its monomany, and can't
help it-that's it,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

THE SLAVE TRADE OF New YoRK.-A cor
respondent of the New York "Post" sends
to that journal detailed list of eighty
five slavers fitted out at that port from
February, 1860, to July, 1860. He adds:
Added to the eighty-five above slavers
some half dozen have gone through the
Sound, and the names of which could not
be obtained. This is about as correct
list as can be got up and derived from the
New York city papers and the Eng
lish journals. Some twenty vessels have
been detained under suspicion. A great
many others have cleared from European
and South American ports.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

TEXAS Coal BED ON FIRE.-The Navarro
Express says; A coal bed between Wild
Cat Bluff, on the Trinity, and Mound
Prairie, which has been burning slowly
for number of years, has, during the
present dry season, made wonderful pro-
gress, and that ten or twenty acres have
been burnt off, and the fire is still pro-
crossing rapidly. Recently, on gen.
tleman and lady riding near it, the hor-
ses broke through the crust of earth,
which covers the fire near the edge, and
were severely burned before they could
get out
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17
Scientific Observation of the great
MCIeor seen in the East.

Professor Bartl-,t, of the Military Aca-
denny at West Point, n y, has this ac.
count of his observations, for making
which he had peculiarly favorable oppor-
tunites:
The meteor passed over West Point on
the evening of the Goth inst, about Oh.
SOM 7. NJ. 1t made its first appearance
in the west, and moved, apparently very
slowly, to the east; its motion resembling
that of a fire balloon propelled by the
burning of a feeble rocket composition !.
At nearly equal intervals it threw of mass
es of burning matter, which Immediately
took the shape and velocity of the princi-
pal body, with, however, greatly dimin-
ishad luminosity; the whole suggesting
the idea OF parent followed by a numer-
Gus progeny, dotting her path through
the heavens. just before it disappeared,
the principal mass divided into two nearly
equal portions.
The color, which was intensely bright,
was at first blue ard then white, which
at the close took tinge of yellow. The
altitude seemed not greater than that at
tanned by ordinary signal rockets; and
this, together with the seemingly slow
motion, led at first to the inference that
it was some new and marvcllously sue
cesslul pyrotechnic device, fired from the
western hills. 1t lasted about one minute
and quarter. As it eliminated, its pro.
lection on the celestial sphere was neal
to Corona Borealis. 1t must have had
great altitude. from the slowness of its
appale motion. If its projection car
be had from other stations, its parallaX
and therefore, its true distance from the
earth may readily be inferred"
Professor Baltlett's theory for the eX
planat!on Of these phenomcnas is as fol
! lows:
These bodies are of the nature of plan
cts, and circulate abou. the sun in orbit
as unerringly as their larger brethren
| When they and the earth COME simulta
neously to those points Of their orbit
which are nearest together, the action o
| the earth often becomes superior to thN
of the sun, and the small masses are thci
drawn to the surface. Plunging with ell
ormous velocity INTO our atmospher
these little bodies compress the air il
front and tab against it with such vic
lence ON the sides, as to produce hea
enough to fuse, and sufficient TO illu
inmate the most refractory and darkes
of substances. The exterior and moltel
crust is swept to the rear by the resist
ing air, II new surtrcc becomes exposed
this. in turn, is fused and carried back
ward and SO on till finally the Who'll
track of the meteor is strewn with group
of disintegrated and scintillating materi
al.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

A DIsUNIoN THE following
was one of the regular Fourth of July
toasts at the celebration in Henderson
vile, South Carolina:
"By Robert r. Snead.-THe election Of
Old Abe LincoAa-The shortest way to a
Southern Confederacy."
That explains the object of the Breck-
inridge movement, which is to elect Lin
coin if possible, and SO pave the way to a
Southern Confederacy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17
August G, 1860.
A Gloom Over Texas.


The New Orleans Delta, OF Sunday last,
sends forth the following gloomy report
of the present agricultural condition Of
Texas:
No State has suffered so much from
the drought as Texas. That rich State
will not produce enough grain to supply
the demand of their own people, and
actual lamine is feared in some portions
of the country. Lands that have pro-
duced as much as eighty bushels Of corn
to the acre, will not yield twenty bush
els the present season. 1t is pitiaLle to
| observe the appearance of all the farms
! the corn is withered and destroyed, the
grass on the prairies is burnt to crisp,
| and the stock everywhere is furnishing
! for food and water. In some parts of the
! State there have been no rains for seven
| teen weeks, and the heat is more intense
| than has ever been known. The change
| in this prolific and beautiful land, caused
| by heat and the absence of rain, is such
as to render the country scarcely recog-
nizable. 1t is impossible to eXaggerate
the damage.
glyaThe unfortunate Cass-llcrran Trea-
ty with New Granada, after being ship
wrecked twice, has at length reached
Washington in charge OF our Minister,
Ex-senator Jones, of Iowa, who returned
by the Ariel. 1t was first lost ON its way
to Bogota for ratification, on the Magda-
lena River, and subsequently, after ratiii-
cation, on the passage from Carthagenia.
Even now, however, its benefits cannot be
realized before the passage of a law by
Congress providing for a commission to
| the settlement OF claims under it, and
making an appropriation to de!ray the
necessary expenses.
Coon FOR HEuDEBERT.-Everybody knows,
or ought to, James lIeudebert, eX-Consul
to LYONS, a gallant French Wing, whose
| devotion to the cause of Henry Clay
Whiggery is proverbial. Heudebert was
met by one of our fierce iire-e0ters the
other day, in jackson, who in his boasting
way, remarked, "Well beat you TO h-ll."
"Sir," said lIeudebert, taking Off his hat
and bowing 81 have not the least doubt
of it, am not going that way. Ficks-
Jny Wig,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

MORE METEoRs CoMING.-A scientific
correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
says that the week beginning the 10th
and ending the 23d of July, was favora-
bic to the production of electoral phe-
nomena, and on the 10Th and Goth, the
Aurora was beautiful, quite unusual for
July the meteor Of the Goth was magnifi-
cent. Conditions will be again favorable
during the week from the 18th to the
22d Of August, and from the 18th to the
10Th of September; and those who have
leisure will, in all probability, be highly
entertained should they look heavenward
on the nights of those days, particularly
the 10th, l1th, and 18th of August, the
18th, 18th, and 10th of September
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

EGlyn 1t has been asserted and will be
proven, that Breckinridge, in lS4S, at
tempted to inauguratea movement for
the utter destruction of the democratic
party. He failed at that time, but, with
the aid of Iancey, he has now accom-
plished his object, and has substituted
dsunion, for the democratic party; but if
he expects to preside over a southern Re-
public he will find himself mistaken, for
Yancey will push him aside as useless
tool when the work is DONE Clark. Uyon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

GEN. ANDREW JACKSON'S

UEN. Al ANDKEW JACNSUN'S
friend, James X. Polk, OF Tennessee.
As the hero of the Hermitage was the
great patron of Mr.. Polk, it would be judi
cious for Mr.. Breckenridge to show lit
tie of the humility of client towards his
particular patron. We therefore suggest
that the Seceders' ticket be thus printed ::
THE DISUNION TICKET.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

BELL AND EVERETT IN CoNNEcTIcuT.-A
very enthusiastic State Convention was
held on the 4th inst, in New Haven,
composed of n large number of the most
prominent and influential citizens of the
State. The following Electoral ticket
was nominated. Nearly every one of the
nominees have been prominent men,
holding the highest offices in the gift of
the State. and have signifed their willing
ness to take the field for the National
Union Ticket:
Dennis Kimberly, of New Haven.
ELenezer jackson, of Middletown.
Charles llawley, OF Stamford.
John A. Rockwell, of Norwich.
IIezekiah Huntington, of Hartford.
Charles Il. Alsop, of Middletown.
A BAD SPLIT.-It is said that Chang
and Eng, the Siamese twins, differ i'm pol
itics. Both are veteran Democrats, but
Chang is now for Brackinridge, and Eng
for Don rlas,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

WANT HIN ELEcrED.-Every proposition
for combination in the free States to de-
feat the Black Republicans, is spurned
and rejected by the leaders of the Se-
cession ticket. They evidently intend
Lincoln shall be elected.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

GREAT YIELD OF WuEAT.-A few days
ago DIR. Rheinhammer, residing near
Rockville, Park county, Indiana, thresh-
ed five acres of wheat, which produced
sixty-four bushels and fourteen.nounds
to til" ,;-ise :1ae-Sf, -. = - I,a, IsS ,
which is eduivalent to at leas per
acre.
One Of his neighbors had a forty-acre
field near his liye-acre tract, which yield
ed a fraction over forty-three bushels per
acre.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17
A Fiendish Outrage.


We have rarely heard of more dia-
bolical and fendish outrage than the one
perpetrated yesterday eight miles above
this place, and two miles above Russell.
vile. in Hawkins county. Ii seems that
man, or rather a demon, by the name
OF joshua Ballard, armed himself with a
lSeytiz9 blade, and started from his home
HE intention of numbering some
The first man he encountered
Ns a Mr.. Bewley; but it appears that
Bewley escaped without material injury.
he then went to the house of q Mr.. Hor-
ner, and told him he intended to kill
him, and commenced cutting him with
his scythe blade. Horner received eight
severe wounds upon the head and other
parts OF his person. We are informed he
| cannot possibly survive. Ballard then
went to the house of Mrs. Robinson
she saw him cor iR", lam l6e> pr5pths, ,dHd
Ballard, howeihation wanted in regard to it.
went i--pne Quarter cash down, and the BAL
and ia, and years, -. ,i,u.;a,..i Lond~
| \ lhfy. and lie.
lars. adyess.es, ne
fe1essAcn7fdren, in
upon their bodies. byUliis n
OF the neighbors collected to take him
but Ballard swore he would not be taken,
ana started In run for his home he
was hotly pursued, however, and barely
reached his house and secreted himself
in his cabin loft, when he was fired upon
through the cracks between the logs.
There was a bag of cotton in his loft,
which he used to screen himself from the
bullets; and our informant, gentleman
OF veracity, says that some seventy-five
shots were fired before he was killed. He
stood and cursed his pursuers till he fell
dead. His mother also stood in the yard
during the time, swearing she would send
the whole party to HI before she was
done with them.
1t appears that Ballard was desperate
character-addicted to strong drink and
all kinds of dissipation. lie was the
champion of the neighborhood, and most
men were afraid to encounter him single
handed. We saw him engaged in row
with the Irish in this place some five years
ago, and he made party of about twenty
leave the street. We are opposed to
Lynching man, but in this case there
was, it seems, no other alternative.-H-
tcliycncer, WoyriStown.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

HORACE GREELEy.-It is said that some
of Mr.. Greeley's most intimate friends
think he is becoming insane, and that
there is talk of placing him under the
charge of the doctors at the Asylum.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

Eey- Seventy-two white females were
married to negroes in the State of Mas
sachusetts last year.