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The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-09-15

lhSN htu S''''S N'N~''
time" At last, angry with himself, his
wife, and his guest, Philip left the room,
excusng himself on the plea of business
but adding, that ''two such old trends
must have so much to say to each other
that third person would be almost an IN
truder." Mr.. Percy looked surprised, but
Bertha answered smi1ingly,
ooh yes, Leonard and hGve plenty OF
subjects for conversation"
Leonard, indeed!'' growlcd Philip, on
his way to the library. "Con'ound the
fellow-what does he mean with his old
songs?''
He remained alone till the visitor de-
parted, and could hardly believe his eyes
when he saw through the half open door
Percy imprint a kiss upon the fair row
of his wife, which she received quite as
matter of course.
pray. do all your friends take their
departure in that loving manner ?' he ask
ca, as she entered the library.
Oh, no! but Leonard is privileged
seaa aracter, and besides, / am endeavorlng
to bring my old fashionable notions OF
proprety to a more modern standard.
hone to become accustomed to these I'M
provements in time and to make them as
easily and gracefully as some of your Ia
uorite ladies do--Mrs. Mortimer, for in
stance I have noticed that you rarely
Inject or part with her without some such
harmless liberties" @
| twas true that in the first days OF his
| fascination for the bold beauty, he had o.
| ten praised her gay manners TO his wife,
| but it was strange how differently these
things looked from a different point Of
view.
g But Miss Mortimer is unmarried, and
besides, it was all a joke, our meeting ane'
parting in that way he answered. !.
"Very we'll, Percyis unmarried, and We
will call our parting joke, if you please, >
was the reply. >
AS YOU will, but don't admire such
Jokes, assure you-'
"What! jealous, Philip? and have been
N Percys company only three times
Let's see-once at the opera, once sleigh
riding, and this evening"
"No. am not Jealous, but L don t see
what has come over you. Don't you know
that you will ruin your reputation II you
90 on in this way? With men it is diI-
ferent; they are not expected to be so en-
elusive in their attachments. Society has
claims upon gentlemen, which they must
fulfill"
"True. doubtless, and these same Claims
of society extend to the ladies', l suppose
: and we ought of course to emulate the
generous, selc-sacrifcng examples OF the
sterner sex"
) philip could only think, that howeveI
willing he might be TO sacrifice hImsel
upon the altar Of society, he did not wlsf
l his wife to devote herself to its claims
but he could not say 50, with those mirth.
| full eyes watching him SO closely, am
therefore he remained silent.
t When he returned to dinner the mex
dav, he found his wife absent, and not
5 informed him that she had gone with Perc
d TO spend the day at her fathers countr
. seat. a few miles from the city, and ais
y that "if he pleased" he miget take TIT
evening cars, spend a few hours at " In
h Homestead" and return with them.
= "Ir / please! We'll, | don't please t
= do any such thing. How changed she II
y since percv's coming. and TO leave me SC
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-09-15
MIXING BOM Ends Mect.--A clas

Mah'ing Both Ends Mect.--A clad,
gymon complains of his being psbr,
and says that he finds it very hard 10
make ''both ends meet whereupon an
editor helps him out by n quotation
from Walter Savage Landor:
Said Stiggins to his wife one day,
We've nothing left to cat;
If things go on in this queer way,
We shun't make bath ends meet"
"Thc dame replied, in words discreet,
'Wo're not SO badly fed
If We can make but one end mcat,
And make the other brc0d.'"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
The Fusion.

The proposition of the Breckenridge
party IN this State to fuse with the Dou.
glasites, procured lobe made through Mr..
Britton of the First District, is the most
humiliating exhibition ever Witnessed
They have for the last two months been
denouncing and abusing the poor Dou-
glasites, charging that they were set of
" sore-headed and disappointed politi-
clans, who could not muster half dozen
to the county," And now, forsooth, they
are down on their knees to them, beg
ging in the most piteous terms, and pray
ing to Douglas for help and salvation.-
Such a humiliating spectacle by white
men who have heads on their shoulders
and hearts in their bosoms, is unparallel-
ed in the history of dirty party politics.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
A Miserable Fraud,

4 friend left at our Office day or two
ago, a pamphlet of 40 pages, entitled
"John Bell: His Past History connected
with the Public Service" We have look
ed into it enough to ascertain that it is
full of unfarness and misrepresentation
and instead of history is made up of ec
parte statements and garbled and mutlat-
ed extracts, intended to deceive and mis-
lead. The men who get up such things
may believe "all is fair in politics." and
that they are engaged in an honest and
commendable work; but we frankly con-
fess our inability to see any difference be-
tween circulating them and bearing false
witness against your neighbor. One is just
about as mean as the other
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
The Southern Commercial Conven-
ton,

The features, if not the character, of
this body, appear about to take a change.
There are somegsuspicious looking cir
cumstances attending its meetings. In
noticing that it is to meet this year in
Atlanta. on the Cd Monday in November.
the Nashville Patriot humorouslv remarks
that the Southern papers are wrong in
calling it the Southern Commercial Con-
vention.' When it met at Richmond.
Va, in 1856, and at Knoxville. Tenn. in
1857, it supported the name of CONNER
cial,' but when it reached Montgomery.
Ala, and was welcomed by Mr.. Yancey,
it dropped the Commercial" After this.
it went to Nicksburg, in 1850, simply
as the Southern Convention" and will
90 to Atlanta, on he % .NonRay IN Moron
DER, to receive the returns of the Presi-
dental election, and declare itself Dis
union Convention" or not, according to
circumstances.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
Campaign Documents.

Two tons of Mr.. Buchanan's midnight
harangue from the steps of the Capitol at
Washington, a wagon load of Maj Breck-
inridge's Great Lexington Failure, and
hand-cart full of Yancey's Memphis
speech, with the Yancey part omitted
have been sent to this place, and are be-
ing circulated all over the county, thrust
into every hovel, hut and log cabin
poked into the hands of people at every
corner; and it is said that even the camp
grounds are visited by these election
eering documents. Not only this, but
emissares and speakers, of all sorts, ages,
and conditions, are travelling by rail, horse
and mule power, all shouting the same
cry and uttering the same piteous appeal
to stand by tie party, if the country goes
to the devil. The history of politics in
this State has witnessed no such efforts as
are now being made by the Breckenridge
faction to mislead and deceive the people
and commit them to the wild and mad
scheme inaugurated at Charleston and in
tended to be accomplished as soon as the
election is over. Andy johnson, A. O. p.
Nicholson, and Isham G. Harris are rid
ing from Shelby to Carter booted and
spurred, teaching the people the way that
leads to disunion; while the babes of the
party, in slips and pants, mount the ros-
trum and squeak in the ears of gray-halr-
ed sires how they shall vote in a contest
involving the existence of the govern
mcnt. In addition, we have the corps
editorial-gentlemen whose price for mis-.
representing and abusing better men
than themselves, is 1.-TWO dollars a year,
invariably in misunderstanding dreadful
ly and threatening to ostracse every one
who refuses to fall down and worship the
golden calf reared by Yanccy, Rhett and
Others of the political prophets who have
arisen to lead the Southern States out of
the Union.
Such running to and fro, such exer-
tons and efforts such clustering and
staggering, has never before been witness
cd in this good Commonwealth: and they
are amply illustrative of the desperate
condition and fearful apprehcnsions of
the men who make them. In the mean
time, the people are becoming fully awake
to the designs and schemes of the politi-
cal pedlers, and in November will give
them rebulle that will last them the bal
ance of their days.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
Look at This.

The Memphis Appeal says, in South
Carolina the candidates for the legisla-
turc are all pledging themselves to go out
of the Union in the event of Lincoln's
election. Should they do so, and we have
no doubt they will, the most serious con-
sequences, financially and commercially,
must necessarily be the result. The
banks of that and the adjoining States
would, MS matter of course, either sus-
pend or cease all accommodation; the
price of cotton, negroes and real estate
would go down to nominal value, and
general bankruptcy would beiall the
country. All credits would cease at once :;
European capital would cease to flow hith-
er for Investment in American securities,
and it is difficult to contemplate all the
evils that would afllict us. Many more
than we have enumerated, however, will
readily suggest themselves to the mind
of the intelligent reader, and if we are
not mistaken in the signs of the times,
some of these evils are already beginning
to be felt in anticipation.
By The Nashville papers state that
James NJ Davidson, the Irish orator, was
shot and killed on Saturday night, at
Fayetteville, his place Of residence, by
young man named earthly.
PUBLIC SpEAKING.-The Executive Com
mittce at Nashville have made list of
appointments for Messrs. Russell Hous-
ton and John +. House. We notice the
appointmcntfnr Athens is on the Both
Oct, the day preceding the published APP
poinment of Messrs. Peyton, Polk and
Haynes.
1ss" The Nashville Union and Ameri-
can continues to publish acceptances of
what it calls the "Britton proposition. -
Mr.. Britton himself repudiates it, and is
travelling round making, as his friends
say, most excellent Douglas speeches.
1s5" Breckenridge papers that six
months ago were denouncing Mr. Yancey
as disunionists and traitor, now laud
him in every issue as proper patriot and
the ''noblest Roman of them ALL" Has
Yancey changed-or how!
eSy- Some of the journals in the pay
of the Administration in New Hampshire,
express apprehensions as to whether ex-
President Pierce is really for Breckin-
ridge. lie may be for the man but he's
against his platform dead. 1t is only
few years since Franklin, likened the
institution of slavery unto ravenous
beast, fierce "as the monster that lroams
the Lybian wids." We guess the ex-
President amt for Brock enough to hurt
Abe very bad in the Granite State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
Snain and Mexico

1t is said Spain is fitting out on expedi-
ton of20 900 men against Mexico. Unless
Maj. Buckley, the renowned Generalissi-
mo of the Illustrious Order of the X G
c., hurries up his cakes, the Dons will be
in ahead Of him. And then what is to
become of that splendid proposition to
carve twenty-five Slave States out ofMexi-
90, to be annexed to the Great Southern
Gonfederacy which the belligerent Yam
cey has been peeping at from the Heights
of Augusta!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

bGg" Why are the disunionists in favor
of secession from the Union Immediately
on Lincoln's election, instead of waiting
for an covert act?" An covert act" would
bring up united South to resist the ag-
erosion. Why not then wait for the
covert act?" Because of the apprehen-
son that the covert act" will never come,
and the opportunity to Dissolve will have
passed, and the object of disruption at
Charleston and Baltimore thus prove
abortive. The game is so transparent that
he is q very fool who cannot see it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
The Candidates at Sulphur Springs.

A friend at Sulphur Springs, Rhea
county, sends us an interesting account
of the speaking at that place. We have
only room for the closing portion of it
this week. After glancingat the speeches
of Messrs. Key and Bridges, the writer
continues:
Mr.. Caldwell, our gallant standard bear
err, in substance said, there are now four
asprants in the field for the highest Of
lice within the gift of the people; Of
these Col Bell Is the only one who never
stood upon sectional platform-who
ncrT pandered to sectional prejudices-
who never stood on double-meaning
platform to get one office and then got
off to get another office! lie is the only
man with thirty-five years service, who
has nothing to retract, and whose record
alone is so noble, national and patriotic
as TO be enough for n platform, enough
Tor patriot. enough for the peace of his
country, and enough for President
lie SAID these everlasting dogmis-non-
intervention and protection, and the va
flous other htlfeHHy cats that were over ere
atine sectional strife--were amply provi-
ded for III one rlank of our PLATFORM
the Constitution. We can take our grew
ancies up to the Supreme Court by whose
decisions we must abide. The Tdnccy Hit
Nat d. Co.'S. most hellsh schemes were
grarhicly pictured, and when he told the
crowd how they were pledged to crush
and trample down all good Union-lov'ng
men, even with the knife to the hilt" to
accomplish their reasonable schemes. |
could see patriotic Indignation beamng
from the countcnances or the yeomanry,
saying, plain MS could be, that this thing
should die in its nfancy-that the game
of the corrupt democracy had "paycd
out'-that to prove this the ballot-box
should tell.
1t is a well known fact that the leading
Democrats of the Cotton States especially,
have openly declared that the election of
Black Republican is just cause for a
dissolution. and even breckenridge him
self has failed to show his hand on this
point. Here, then. we have party
which has openly declared before hand
that it will subvcrt the ballot-hoX with
the sword and declare an election void
which is not in accordance with its wishes,
and which at the same time is tending to
produce that very event. How can any
rejecting man, then, avoid the conclu-
sion that this seeding movement is
really, to all intents and purposes. dis
union movement. No matter whether
Intentionally or otherwise. this party is
really and essentially a disunion party,
and no well thinking man can shut his
eyes to the fact Abandoning three
tourths OF the members of the democrat
ic party. it has set itself up as the only
National Democratic party, and peals forth
"a, Il u
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

The election for Governor took place
on Monday last. Gen. Edward Hopkins
was the candidate for Governor of the
Bell party, and Gen. John Milton was
the candidate of the Breckenridge wing
Of the Democracy. The Douglas party
had no candidate for Governor.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
Public Speaking,
Books and Stationery
East Tenn. e. Ga. Railroad.

The Board of Directors East Tenn. and
Georgia Railroad met at Knoxville on
Wednesday, and organized by rejoicing
the following officers:
C. WALLACE, President.
HUI. l.. McCLuNc, Secretary and Trea-
surer.
r. C. JACKSON, Superintendent.
II. c. MORRIS, Resident Engineer.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

The EVERLASTING NEGRO John Jay,
Esq, has introduced, we see, into the
Episcopal Convention, his old and ancient
negro-but the conventionists laid him
straight out-upon the table-as hereto
fore. The negro has got into about every
thing, now-State, politics, church, &c.
but the Episcopal Church, as yet, keeps
him out of conventions, while it makes
first rate church member of him, and does
him all the good it can, as communicate
and a christian,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

OwENsBoRo, KY, Sept. l9.-The friends
of Bell and Everett are numerous and in
excellent spirits-are certain of glorious
victory in November next. Our majority
will not be less than 10000, and we in
tend to roll it so high as to forever crush
out sectionalism in the clark and bloody
ground" Give us a cordial cooperation
in the North, and all will be we'll for "the
Union, the Constitution and the Enforce
ment Of the Laws"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

BSs" There is a great deal of unneces-
sary begging and whining by the Breck-
inridge leaders to rally and save tie party
in tie State. We say unnecessary because
when the present election is over the party
will belong to the past. There will be but
two parties in the country hereafter-the
Union party, and the DisumiOn party.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

STILL They CoME.-We have another
list of subscribers, numbering lG, from
the mountains and coves of the gallant
sold North" That makes just one hun
dred and ten in the last four weeks. If
anybody hereafter asserts that that Dor
ton of the venerable Rip Van Wrinkle
contiguous to Tennessee, is not "wide
awake and duly SOBER" we shall make it
personal matter, and proceed at once to
administer punishment. 1t belongs to our
diocese -now.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

nea, The Fusion in New York against
the Black Republicans, is said to be COM
plete-every one giving in their adhesion
to it, with the exception of James T.
Brady, and a few others of the Breckin-
ridge spoils hunters
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

D@- The New York Express says the
Douglasites had q tremendous dsmonstra-
ton at Indianapolis yesterday, the great
est since 1886. The estimates of the
number Of people on the ground range
from Thirty Thousand to One Hundred
Thousandi,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

MORE OF THE FATE OF WALKER.-The
New York Express of Saturday evening
says:
I'VE have, by another arrival at New
Orleans, some particulars of the shooting
of Gen. Walker. Ten shots were fred
at him, and his body afterwards was
buried by foreigners-the natives refusing
it that honor. Col. Rudler has been sem
fenced to four years imprisonment.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

e@ 10 is stated that Hon. Reese B.
Brabson' met John II. Crozier, in debate,
at Madisonvilie, ON Monday last, and
gave him something else to do besides
charging John Bell with abolitionism
and repeating Yanceys disunion doc
Eines. Col. Brabson is said to have dis
eussed John III. CrOsisr, past and present.
very effectively.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

MORE HELP.-The Observer, Franklin,
Macon CO., n. c., has dotted its neutrality
and comes out gloriously for Bell and
Everett. It will prove an able auxiliary,
and we congratulate our brethren in the
Old North State upon such valuable ac-
QUESTION to the cause they are nobly bat.
fling for
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

l6~ Two "Breck" men-Parson and
Hatch-of Rochester, New York, have
"seceded" and gone over to Old Abe.
They will give him now direct support;
had they not changed, they would have
given him an indirect support.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

BeJ" The Boston Traveller calculates
that New England will put ahoat at least
forty-five thousand tons of shipping in the
course of three or four months, and thinks
that it is within bonds to assume that
100000 tons will have been built in the
whole country during the year closing
December next.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
State Elections.

Elections occur in Pennsylvania, Ohio
Indiana, Iowa. and Minnesota, on the
9th; South Carolina, on the Sth.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

.LoAcHAPoKA, ALA.-A correspondent
sends the Montgomery Post the following
result Of the vote of the village of Loacha-
polka, Ala. BELL AZ; Breckenridge 3;
Douglas s..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

p@-The statement last week, made on
the authority of a reliable citizen of Cher
okee, N. c., that Bell would get an in
creased majority in that county of 400,
should have read "an increased yote over
Pool of 400" The mistake was ours; and
we call attention to it, because we never
play Drag and never aim to mislead or
misrepresent.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

~ To listen to the Breckenridge lead
ess round here, one would think they had
a holy horror of Squatter Sovereignty
Yet every one of them has patch on his
brooches ~ large as cradle quilt, where
he has been squatting for the last four
years. II is surprising that men will so
stuitify Themselves and think the people
cannot see their Inconsistency and hy-
pocrisy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
nayAThe editor of the ALBANY "Patri

p1~The editor of the Albany patriot"
recently proposed to bet ten thousand
dollars that "Breck" would be the next
President; but, when certain parties,
went to take up the bet, he said that he
only put that bet for devilment and fun"
1t was decidedly good "goak."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

Iay Read the letter of Amos Kendall
in reply to Hon. James l.. Orr, of South
Carolina.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05
Secretary of State.

1t is rumored in political circles at the
Federal Capitol, that in the event of Mr..
Breckinridge's election-a most forlorn
possibility, by the way-Mr. Yancey, the
lllustrious Precipitator, is to be his Sccre-
tary of State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

ns~ The Cleveland Banner says the ed-
tor OF the Post is getting sharp at both
ends. In that we have a decided advan-
tage over the Banner man. He is not
much sharp at either end, but just about
as sharp at one end as the other.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-We have received
dispatches from Oregon that state that
the House organized, and had selected
Douglas and Republican officers, which
indicate coalition to elect Baker and
Nermith as Senators. The Breckenridge
Senators Withdrew so as to prevent an
election.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

FRoM BREcRINRIDGE TO BELL.-Joshua
Beadle, Esq, distinguished merchant of
Huntsville, and long life Democrat of
the ultra stripe, on the occasion of his
recent visit to the North, got into the Bell
ranks, and has gone to work earnestly for
Bell and Everett.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-05

pen. Seventeen thousand stand of
arms have been ordered to Fort Moultrie,
South Carolina. What does that maanf