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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

Condition of the Religious World.
We don't know that we couldrill the
same space with more interesting arti-
Gle than the following from the New
York Herald of the llth:
CONDITION OF THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
One of our cotemporarics takes heart OK
grace over the improved condition of the
evangelical world, as made apparent by
certain statistics which have been collect
ed as to the number of regular attend
ants upon divine worship in New Eng.
land and elsewhere at the North. 1t is
stated that the number of church goers
has been sensibly augmented of late, and
and we have noticed that the annual
camp meetings have been more largely
attended and more remarkable for the
fervor of the participants therein than
heretofore.
We presume that this general awaken
ing may be accredited, in good degree,
to the circumstance that the Northern
clergy, as q general rule, have latterly
paid more attention than usual to their
own business, and have tacitly resolved
to let the politicians go to perdition In
their own way. In 1856 we had plenty
of sensation parsons preaching sedition
from Northern pulpits. No less than
three thousand godly men signed petit
ton to Congress in relation to the affairs
of bleeding Kansus. Others, including
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Interest,"
ed themselves in raising contributions to
carry the Gospel to the border ruffians
through the effective, though not exactly
evangelical, medium of Sharpe's rifles
During the campaign of Sc religion was
at a low ebb the. sacred vestments hav.
ing been polluted by the mire of politics.
In 1857 we had the crisis. Almost every
body was poor; Mammon had proved q
false god, Satan had deserted his own,
and men of all degrees joined in the re-
vival movement which commenced du--
ring the hard times that succeeded the
panic.
The clergemen of different denomina-
tons have labored earnestly to make up for
lost time, and the revivals. instead oil be-
ing mere temporary eXcitements, became
permanent matters; at least the religious
papers say that such is the case. We
have no religious element in the present
campaign. The political parson is scarce
ly heard of even. Mr.. Beecher, former
ly the type of the order, says but very
little about politics now-a-days. Like the
merchants, the priests have learned wis
dom by experience. The former are
selling more goods than ever before, and
| the latter are more industrious and more
successful in the saving of souls. So we
have revival in practical religion as veil
as in practical trade and commerce.
Every body is doing well, except the poll
ticans, who are bothered that they hard
ly know whether they are on their heads
or their heels. 1t will be hard times this
winter for some of the blower ana
strikers, in case matters do not take o
more practical turn. Some of them may
have to join the church on account of
the mere lack of something to do.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21
Douglas Barbecue in New York.

The Douglas barbecue at Jones' Woods
to-day was attended by vast throng,
said to number 10000 people. Douglas
and johnson were enthusiastically re-
ceivcd.
In the course Of his remarks, Mr.. Doug
las said he was IN favor of a cordial
union with every Union man who was
true to the Constitution, and with every
man who was in favor OF enforcing the
laws in all contingencies. If Mr.. Breck-
inridge was in favor of enforcing the
laws against secessionists, disunionists,
and Abolitionists, in all contingencies,
then he (DouglaS) was with him. Be-
lieving the Union in danger, he would
make any personal sacrifice to save It,
II a Withdrawal Of his (Douglas') name
will defeat Lincoln he would, at this mo-
ment, withdraw it--more especially, if
his Withdrawal. would secure the election
of some man true to the Constitution and
who would enforce the laws. He appeals
to all Union-men TO rally to one elector-
al ticket, and beat the Abolitionists, but
conjurcd them to make no fusion, no bar
gan, no compromise with any candidate
who has not pledged himself to sustain
the Constitution and the Union, and en-
force all the laws under all circumstances.
Douglas and johnson were serenaded
this telegram, 1911.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

Geiy" a great many explanations have
been made since the adjournment Of the
Baltimore convention, but we think the
following which we take from the Fred
ericksburg Recorder, will be satisfactory
to the Democratic voters of Virginia:
1t is a notable fact that the Virginia
delegates to the Charleston convention
voted iifty-seven times to put r. NJ. T.
Hunter on the same platform that Ste
phen A. Douglns low stands upon, with
out the dottny II an l.; and yet they
now maintain and ask us to believe that
they seeded on uinciple. Why didn't
they secede at Charleston? Mr.. Irving
gives the reason. lie says: Because a
portion were for Air Hunter and por-
ton for Mr.. Wise, and they are willing
to take them on any platform.
Mr. |. remarked that he knew it might
prove offensive to use this language, but
he mnst tell the whole truth and be re-
sponsible for its utterance.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

The LAST HorE DEPARTED.-It is said
that the postmasters, rout agents, and
custom house collectors, are now leaving
Breckenridge by the dozen, in the North.
By the time of the November election
he will not be able to muster more than
a corporal's guard of supporters in the
free States. The bread and butter allies
of the present administration will be
looking out for new crumbs from the
next.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21
MASS MEETING
a r SNUIeef~ ~a,fer.

Our friends will see from the following
from the Knoxville Wig, that there will
be Mass Meeting at Sweetwater, on
Saturday ODD instant. We hope to see
all McMinn county there.
Mass MEETING AT SwEETwATER.-The
friends of Bell and Everett will hold a
Grand Mass Meeting at Sweetwnter, on
Saturday. 22d inst. and Thos. A. X. Mel
son, Horace Maynard, o. ?. Temple, and
Reese B. Brabson will be present to ad-
dress the people. The Railroad will
bring and return passengers at half price.
Come one, come all. and hear able speak
ers, who are well posted upon all the is
sues of the day. The whole country,
North and South. is turning over to
BELL AND EVERETT,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND TIE TAX
LEvY.-Thc report that a tax had been
levied on Government employees for po-
ltical purposes has resulted in calling
the attention Of Secretary Cobb to the
act of 1924, which requires Nll his sub
ordinates to swear that they have not
been required 10 contribute to any po-
litcal fund, but have received their full
salary. This law has been dead letter
for many years, though it is still in force.
Will it now be executed? Immense
amounts are being received by the Breck.
inridgo Committee here, who disburse
liberally.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

From TExAs.-A letter received at New
Orleans, on September lst, from Bolton,
Texas, has the following:
Gen. Houston has withdrawn, and the
entire press that supported him vii! at
once launch out for Bell and Everett
Not less than nineteen papers will hoist
their names in ten days. A number of
the people who have been for Breckin-
ridge have announced themselves for
Bell. Their names float high here on a
fine flag. You will soon have good news
from Texas.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

B9- A manin stopping hispaper wrote:
81 think folkes doant ort spent thare
mummy on papers, my father never did
and evry boldly sed he wos the smartest
man in the kountree, and had got tho
intellgentist famely of bouys that ever
dug taters."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

By VIM. H. Crabbe, a prominent
young lawyer of Philadelphia, has mys-
teriously disappeared Since his depar-
ture sundry swindling transactions, in
which the young lawyer figured, have
come to light.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

A QuIsrIoy.-At best, life is not very
long. ! few more smiles, few more
tears, some pleasure, much pain, sun
shine and song, clouds and darkness,
hasty greetings, abrupt farewells-then
our little play will close, and injurer and
injured will pass away. Is it worth while
to hate each other?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

THE MosT ENCOURAGING Sign YEr.-The
New York Tribune daily devotes nearly
its entire editorial page to fusilade of
Bell and Everett ane the Union men OF
New York, while it totally ignores the ex.
istence of Breckenridge and Lane.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

KENTUCKY ELEcTIoN.-At the late Ken
tucky State Election vote was taken on
the question of an additional school tax.
1t was carried by majority of 2G,0O0.-
The people of Kentucky are determined
to increase their educational facilities.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

BA. The Madison wis., Patriot, says:
Look at your image in the bowl oil .
spoon turned perpendicularly, and YOU
will see type OF the long and dismal
faces of the Breckenridge men. Look at
it in the same bowl held sideways, and
you viii see representation of the mer-
ry and laughing faces of the Union men.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

George Buckley, Of X. g. c, notoriety, has
ordered large quantity of arms of n
manufacturer in Massachusetts,. They
are to be delivered at Matamoras, Texas,
by Oct. |, 1860. lie promises to pay for
them in cash at that time and place.
According TO late intelligence from
Mexico, the Generals prospect for partici-
pating in one or more Of the difficulties
Of that distracted country is by no means
so discouragng it has been.-C Columbus
iGd.) San.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21
Ess~ The political excitement has riser

EaS- The political excitement has risen
so high in the town of Selma, Alabama,
that some of the politicians, unwilling to
await the result of the election in October
next, have canvassed tho voters of that
place in order ascertain their preferences
among tho three tickets competing for
popular support, The result was as fol-
lows; Bell two hundred and twenty-eight,
Douglas one hundred and forty-three,
Breckenridge seventy-seyen.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21
Public Speaking.

BAlLIE PEYroN, LANDoN c. HAYNES and WM.
ii. Polk, Electors for the State at Large, have
published list of appointments, commencing at
Winchester on the 30th August and ending at
Chattanooga the I'd of November. We subjoin
the appointmcnts for East Tennessee;
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21
THE CONSTITUTION, THE UNION,


ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS,
rs the only means of restoring peace, con-
fidence, and prosperity to our distracted
country. Come up from Roane, Monroe,
Meigs McMinn, Knox Blount, and 9th
er counties-meet your brethren at Sweet
water, and let us show you a real ground
swell, after the fashion of 1910! Show to
the world that while Douglas and Breck-
inridge are on the stump hunting the office
of President, we, the real people, are out
in search for tie man for tie 9bfce, and that
we have found him in the person of
JOHN BELL!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

BSDH The Hon. Isaac y. Morris, (dem,)
of Illinois, has addressed a letter, through
Forney's Press, to the Hon. j. L. Orr Of
South Carolina. Mr.. Morris is one of the
men who voted for Mr.. Orr for Speaker,
and tells him:
81 am in some measure responsible for
the position you occupy before the eoun,
try, and the influence you exert. feel
it my right, 10 less than my duty, to
protest against the alarming and danger
Gus sentiments you promulgatc."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

ssI"" "The seceders give up all hopes of
,arrying Virginia." So says the Washing
ton correspondent Of the N. Y. World.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

Be,~ A resident on the line of the Lou
isville and Portland Railroad placed Il
fence across the line of the road on FRI
day morning, which embarrassed the
passage of the trains somewhat, The re-
fractory citizen was arrested.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

RayH What is the difference between
truth and eggs? Truth, crushed TO earth
will rise again" but eggs won't.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

D1- The Union cause is progressing in
New Jersey. A correspondent says, "put
down little Jersey sure for the Union
Electoral ticket. We think there is not
a ghost of q chance for long ALs,"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

rGy~ 81 am afraid you will come to
want" said an old lady to gentleman.
II have come to want already" was the
reply; II want your daughter"
The old lady seized the poker and stir
rcd up the fire.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

gGJ~ 1t has been discovered that the
respectable and world-renowned monarch,
Old King Cole, was defendant of Anth-
racite and that his jolly old soul was
nothing but shoe leather.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21
Republican Warfare on Bell and
Everett.

1t is now well understood throughout
the North that the Union ticket is the
only serious obstacle to the success of Re-
publicanism. The contest is simply one
between Bell and Everett and Lincoln
and llamlin. Hence we find the Repub-
licans engaged in a most bitter and unfair
war upon the Union ticket Out of many
evidences of this fact, we extract the fol-
lowing from the late address of the State
Republican committee of Massachusetts,:
"Of Mr.. Bell it is known only that he
is defender of slavery, and pledged by
his life and associations TO its interest.
The recent elections at the South indi-
cate the confidence of the people, and
assure the country that his policy in re-
gard to slavery would conform in all es-
sential particulars TO that of the present
Administration. This is not the time
when the people can be expected to trust
the great interests of freedom to men
who are not fully committed to its sup
port"
After a service of thirty years in the ma
tional councils, in which Mr.. Bell took a
high stand among the most eminent Sta
tesmen of that long period, and partici-
patcd in all the more prominent ques-
tions of national concern, it is left for
these ignorant or knavlsh committeeman
to say that "of him it is only known" &c.
OF Mr.. Everett they say:
"Mr. Everett, his associate, is pledged
to the institution Of Of slavery by solemn
and repeated declarations in its behalf
"ln 1926 he stated, in speech made in
the House of Representatives, that the
great relation Of servtude, in some form
or other, with greater or less departure
from the theoretic equality of man, is in
separable from our nature. know of no
way by which the form of servitudc shall
be fixed, but by political institutions. Do
mestic slavery-though, ! confess, not
that form of servitude which seems to be
the most beneficial to the master-cer-
tainly not that which is most beneficial
to the SERVANTS not, in my judgment
to be set down as an immoral and irreli-
gious relation"
We ask earnest, rejecting men to con
trast these attacks, with those made by
the Breckenridge faction Of the South, or
the noble standard-bearers of the Union
cause, and see who are playing the part
Of allies in the contest
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21


STuDY.-"let our teachers" remarks
the World, "have the moral courage to
assign very short lessons, especially to
young children. Insist that these short
lessons shall be most accurately learned,
and recited at brisk pace without the
least halting or hesitation. Practice Il
proiuse questioning and cross questioning,
leading your pupils just near enough to
the inicrences you wish them to draw to
enable them to take the final steps them
selves. Applaud them when they sue
ceed, encourage them when they fail /:
but don't for an instant let them lose
their interest or their alacrity. The les
son being short, this strain on their facul-
ties will be snort also; but recurring two
or three times every day, year in and year
out, it will gradually build up the most
valuable habits man can possess, who
wishes to go through the world wide
awake, with all his wits about him. Nor
haze we any doubt that when school days
are over, pupil so trained will have not
only better health and better mental
habits, but q greater fund of available
knowledge, than one who has been com.
PEELED to plod heavily and YEARLY through
long hours Of spirtless study, at the eX-
pense of health and chcerfulness."
w A pious scoundrel out in Valpa-
raiso Ind, who taught school week days
and preached las occasion oilercd) on
Saturday, is found to have added to his
employments that Of night burglar. Al
most every body lost something, from
wholesale robberies of the village store
to carrying off of heavy freight from tho
deport and cleaning Of clothes-lincs.-
His house when entered and searched
was filed with booty, skeleton keys, &c
The man had gone for the cows when
the officer came, and although his wife
sent their little boys to call him, lie has
not yet appeared.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

Kingston, Roane county, Friday, October II
Clinton, Anderson county, Saturday. l3
Jacksboro', Campbell county, Monday, A" 10
Tazewell, Claiborne county, Wednesday," IL
Beams Station, Granger CO., Thursday, " Is
Rogersville, Hawkins county, Friday, 10
Kingsport, Sullivan county, Saturday, 20
Blountvie, do do, Monday, %
JOnesboro, Washington CO., Tuesday, " %
Greeneville, Greene county, Wednesday" "a
Newport, Cock county, Thursday, % 70
Dandridg9, Jefferson county, Friday, +" 70
Knoxville, Knox county, Saturday, " y
Maryyillc, Blount county, Monday, /" 20
Jacksonville, Monroe county, Tuesday, g 80
Athens. McMim county, Wednesday" 81
Cleveland, Bradley county, Thursday, Nov. ]
Chattanooga, Hamilton co., Friday,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21
NATIONAL UNION
At Memphis, Tenn.

AU l1P1lS, iCHE'
The friends of BELL and EVERETT will hold
a grand National Union Mass Meeting in de ".,y
of Memphis Tenn, commencing on Monday. tie
Sth of October, and continuing during the wcck
The abest Orators of the country will be in At
tendance and no expense will be spared to make
a demonstration worthy of the great interests in
volvcd in the present contest.
All friends of
The Union,
The Constitution, and
The Enforcement Of the Laus
are cordially invited to be present, rs ample ar
rangements will be made for their accommodation.
Arrangements will also be effected with all the
Railroads leading to Memphis, by which persons
will he conveyed to and from the city at great
reduction of fare.
BY order, COMMITTEE OF INVITATION.
Memplis September Z, 1860.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

pas~The Louisville Democrat makes the
following estimate of the amount wagered
on the result of the recent election in
Kentucky:
"A friend who is pretty well posted in
such matters estimates the bets lost on
McClarty by the Breckites at one hun
dred thousand dollars. They have at
least two hundred thousand more at
stake on the November election in the
State, which is as good as lost; add to this
the hundred thousand dollars sent from
Washington, to say nothing Of the smaller
sums expended in the canvass, and we
think it will be conceded that they have
paid pretty round price for dead
horse"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

Mr.. YANcEY's CALCULATIoN.-Mr. Yam
cey, in his speech the other day at Hunts
vile, said:
"Thc contest in 1856 was barely won
by united Democracy. We are now di
vided-have only l27 votes, the whole
Southern States, with Oregon and Caliior-
MIA divided between Breckenridge, Bell
and Douglas"
Thus we see, says the Nicksburg, Miss,
Citizen, that the leader of the Brcckin-
ridge party, the man who played the part
in tho disruption of the Democracy at
Charleston and Baltimore, now proclaims
that very disruption as evidence that the
Democracy will be defeated and Lincoln
elected in November, eXulting and chuck
ling all the while in the undisguised idea
that this result will and must rend the
Union in twain. lie thinks he secs at
last, only little way in future, the con-
summation OF the measure in which his
whole heart has been bound up for years
and his soul revels and riots IN iiendish
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21
Public Speaking,

THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
The undersigned will address the people of the
Third Congressional District at the following
times and places, beginning exactly at eleven
o'clock, A. NJ, each day, viz:
Chattanooga, Hamilton, Saturday, Sept. %
jasper, Marion, Monday, "a
Dunlap, Scquatchic, Tuesday, 20
Pikevillc, Blcdsoc, Wednesday," 26
Washington, Rhea, Thursday, 27
Sulphur Springs" Friday, 2S
Euscbia, Blount, Tuesday, Oct. 0
Maryvillc, 4" Wednesday, g." 10
Morganton, Thursday, II
Other appointments may be made hereafter.
ID. NJ. KEY,
G. w. BRIDGES,
A. CALDWELL.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-21

B9~ Judge John Petit, one of Buchan-
ans Federal Officials, says if the policy of
running and supporting Breckenridge will
elect Lincoln, "iet ii be so, rather than Doug
las should be elected" Democrats can see
from that where the Breckenridge lead
ers intend to conduct all who follow them
right into the Abolition camp, if that
is the only way to defeat Douglas.