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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
An Awful Battle at Hand.

In view of the fact on every occasion,
before and since the battle of Manassa,
the Federals have run, when any demon
stration was made on their front, the fol-
lowing, from the Herald, will prove to the
reader, refreshing. at least. The bare idea
of Yankees fighting a terrible battle" is
intensely amusing. But Bennett gives a
significant glance at startling probabilities,
for the benefit of some of his Northern
contemporaries:
A terrible battle is at hand between the
400, 900 troops on the banks of the Poto.
mac-200,000 on either side--a battle
which will be greater than that Of Water.
loo. and will probably be decisive against
the party which loses it. The mighty re.
suits depending on it will involve the des
tiny of the people of this continent, and
perhaps of modern civilization. If there
should be a partial defeat of the Federal
army let the abolition leaders who insti-
gated the rebellion and the war-Phillips,
Garrison, Greeley, Beecher, Cheever, Tap.
pan, Joy, and their associates--look out
for another country, as this will be too hot
to hold them. If there should be total
defeat of the Federal army, together with
the capture of Washington, let the anti
slavery demagogues, who for the last thir-
ty years have been stirring up the embers
OF strife, which resulted in the Southern
revolt, look out as fast as they can for
some asylum beyond the limits of the
American continent. for this is the only
way in which they can consult the safety
of their imperilled necks.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
Later from Columbus.

We have letter from Columbus, says
the Memphis Appeal, of the LIST inst,
under date of the Goth, which says that
information had been received from
Cairo, which was deemed reliable, giving
further particulars of affairs in Missouri.
1t was to the effect that the Federal loss,
in killed and wounded, was 1900. prison.
ers 2,4OO, and four steamers freighted
with supplies and ammunition.
From the same source, intelligence
was also received that Gen. Prentiss,
while on his way with reinforcement of
1900 strong, was captured, together with
his entire command, by force of 5000,
thrown out by Gen. Price, to intercept
them. Everything that reaches us con.
firms our first glorious intelligence, and
gives TO the Lexington of our revolution
. position In history as prominent a. that
occupied by the Lexington of '76.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
The gust.
Athens. Friday, October II, 1891.
From Kentucky,

ts NASHVILLE. Oct: 3.-Judge Monroe, late
OF the U. ). District Court OF KY, appear.
ed before Judge Humphries to-day, and
TOOK oath OF allegiance to the Confederate
states.
90 JAS. b. Clay was taken to Louisville,
and was released on Monday on bond
OF 5000 to do nothing against the U. s.
Government.
The committee Of the Ky. Senate, ap-
a pointed for the purpose, reported on the
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
Engagement on the Potomac.--Two
of the Federal Vessels Disabled.
| From the Richmond Examiner, 9th inst. I

From the Richmond Examiner, 9th inst.
Intelligence was received here yestcr-
day through official channels, of an en-
gagement on Wednesday between one of
our batteries on the Potomac and num-
ber of Federal vessels, which were de-
cending the river for the purpose, it is
supposed, of making reconnaissance.
The action occurred off Evansport-
distance above Acquia Creek--wles&a d
powerful battery Of riaed cannon has been
constructed las the enemy now have rea-
son to know,) under the command of
Gen. Holmes. Our fire was opened from
the masked battery upon the vessels. in
mid-channel, with terrible effect. Two
OF the steamers were crippled. being tow.
ed away as the enemy were hauling Oft.
The loss of life is not stated.
The Point where the enemy encounter
Ell our battery is understood to be one of
the most commanding on the river, being
n high bluff or crest of ground between
two creeks, which are tributary to the
Potomac. 1t commands the channel of
the river point blank, M .t.4
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Mr.. Russell.

= The London Times comes to the rescue
Of its Especial" in these words:
"Mr. Russell has been for some time in
the United States discharging for the Brit.
ish public not to say for the whole world
the same services that he did SO well be-
fore In the Crimea and in India. He has
everywhere had to perform his laborious
duties under difficulties inconoeivable to
most OF his readers, and little shared by
writer's compiling narratives at library
table, or taking down the words of some
customary informant. He has had to write
in haste. In exhaustion, In noise, in dan.
ger, In the very turmoil of war, with dis
putation and even menace in his ears
He has been occasionally contradicted,
generally confessed to be right; and some.
times has frankly and cours geously ayow-
ed himself TO be mistaken or misinformed,
His letters are now before the world in
the form Of volumes. and having passed
through the ordeal of criticism, are part
Of the literature Of his country. Nowhere
has his liberty of speech been SO furiously
arraigned. and his vocation 90 denounced
as in the United States.Y a -
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The Battle Of Lexington.

2a We publish in another column this
morning On account of This Battle, taken
from the Chicago Tribune of the 25th
ult., furnished us by . friend. which, Of
course, must be accepted with many
grains of allowance I'VE have received
some facts more relisNe in regard to II
from . resident Of Hannibal, Mo-, who
reached Memphis on yesterday morning.
1t is stated that the value Of the property
captured by Gen. Price is estimated at
fully S2,5OO,OOO. Between two and three
thousand horses and mules are alleged to
have been taken, including thirty pieces
Of artillery, 0,5OO prisoners. between six
and seven thousand si,ta tas of small arms,
two steamboats, loaded with stores Of all
kinds, clothing, provisions and ammuni-
ton, and $4,000 in specie. .4
We further learn that the whole of
Northern Missouri is abused; that men
are focking in thousands to Gen. Prices
standard, and that there is o command of
six hundred Iowans, who marched into
Missouri, bearing standard inscribed
with the words, 1--WE come to the relief
Of the oppressed" yl-5.e
We congratulate Gen. Price and his
gallant army Of Missourians upon the
glorious results of this victory, achieved,
as it was by their unaided efforts.
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Ex-Governor Morehead.

la The Cincinnati Enquirer says: On Tues.
day afternoon last Ex-Governor More.
head, OF Kentucky, and Durrett, of the
Louisville Courier, arrived at New York,
in custody Of Lieutenant Lester. u. s. A.,
and guard Of eleven regular soldiers
The prisoners were landed from the Am
boy boat, and marched from the wharf,
surrounded by their military escort, to
the Astor House, where the Governor
was put in one room and his companion
in another. They were treated to good
dinners. and then conveyed to more
6omely quarters at Lafayette. .-L h
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The Spike Annihilators

This is the name OF very simple, in
genious and sure instrument for the ta-
king Of spikes out of cannon. 1t is the
invention Of Mr.. L. NJ. Maddux, South
ern man, for eighteen or twenty years a
resident of New Orleans. The Delta of
Friday last says:
BY this instrument, or rather three or
four instruments, for there are three or
four pieces, the most obstinate ard tena-
cious "rat-taiF' can be taken from the
largest cannon in the world in two hours,
without the slightes. injury to the gun
Thus, when the hard-pressed enemy for
sakes his battery, spikes his pieces, and
makes Manassas time from the pursuing
foe, the very guns which he thinks are
useless to the victor, may, in two hours
time, be ready to follow him, and rain
their iron hail upon him. Mr.. Maddux
has filed the necessary papers for pat.
ent for his machinery. description of
which We will not now give, and will pro-
ceed to Richmond or Saturday. He will
use It to draw the spikes from all cannon
he can find in Virginia, and receive
whatever compensation the Government
may see tit 10 give him.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11

nY- A counterfeit ter dollar bill, on
the Bank of South Carolina, has beer put
in circulation. The Ngnette represents
an ocean with two ships, sloop, and a
steamboat upon it. The medallions on
either side of the bill contains two Roman
heads, surmounted by helmets. Above
the medallions is the figure ten, and
below them an X. The bill is lettered
A, numbered 2,O64, and payable to ]. S.
Cole, December lst, 1859. 1t is signed
Geo. B. Reid, Cashier" and "Wm.
Binie, President" 1t is rather badly ex-
ecuted; still, the unwary might be caught
with it.
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From the Army of the Potomac.
GENERAL ORDERS NO. %.


HEADQUARTERS. Army OF THE PoroMAc. !
.. September Oath, 1861.
The Court of inquiry, of which Colonel
o. P. Hill is President, convened at Camp
Blair, near Fairfax Station, by virtue of
Special Orders No. 3l5 to investigate the
circumstances connected with the shoot
ing and killing of Private Thomas, Sd
Regt. Tennessee Volunteers, has expressed
the following opinion:
"The Court having maturely weighed
the testimony, are of opinion that the
killing of Private Thomas, of the Sd Regi-
ment of Tennessee Volunteers, by Major
G. W. Morgan, was fully justifable, and
that no blame whatever should attach to
Maj. Morgan, he having done what was
most plainly his duty. The Court recon-
mended no further proceedings"
The proceedings and opinions of the
Court are approved, and the Court of In.
quiry, of which Col. @. P. Hill is Presi-
dent, is dissolved. BY Command of Gen.
Johnston. |.H.a.H r
(Signed) THOS. G. RHETT,
A. A. General.
For Brig. General ARNOLD ELzEY, Com
manding 4th Brigade, Army of the Poto.
mac. i..t..f 5t.
Official. TO. CHEsrNEY,
A. A. DC,
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The West va, The East.


The Evansville Ind.) journal lets of
the following upon its "cowardly" Eastern
friends, who have made the war and are
unwilling to fight. There is, no doubt,
truth in the indictment: .t
The movement of troops from the West
to the East, is being severely censured by
the leading papers of the country. The
State OF Pennsylvania to whose high pro.
tective tariff notions as we are in part In
debted for this war, and the States of New
York and Massachusetts, whose leading
politicians have for years past, in both
Houses of Congress, done all in their pow
er to aggravate the difficulty between the
North and South, now stand back and
cowardly require of the West the proteo-
ton of the Federal capital. The citizens
of the sea-board towns pursue their accus-
toned avocations. and, as we are told by
the New York Herald, are doing better
than in times past, while we of the West,
cut off from the ocean by blockade of
the Mississippi, are asked to leave our
homes to defend their fresides. The peo-
pie Of the West demand of those States
the quotas necessary to make up the army
of 500, 600 men. If the Eastern men, who
have shown themselves SO valiant in
words, are too cowardly to volunteer, they
should be drafted, and relieve our regi-
ments of the duty of protecting their
frontier. Within week, six of Fremont's s
regiments left him to reinforce the Indi-
ana column ON the Alleghanies. At the
same time new Texas regiments were
on their way to Missouri. Eastern papers
and correspondents are finding fault with
Fremont because Missouri has not been
reclaimed. The truth is, that when Gen.
Fremont was prepared to abandon his de-
fensive attitude and assume an aggressive
one, he finds his resources impaired by o
draft of troops from the East. i'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
The Fas ashions in Charleston,

The Charleston Courier, of Wednesday,
says that, on the day previous, many
beautiful damsels appeared in the streets
in "war homespun." and trusts that the
example will be followed; and if the la-
dies knew how much pleasure it afforded
to the volunteers and to all good citizens,
It would be generally and universally fol-
lowed.
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SPIDER BIrr.--A negro man In Sauls-
bury, North Carolina, was recently bitten
by spider, and was only preserved from
fatal result by enormous doses of whis-
key, hartshorn and morphine. Under
the circumstances it is impossible to tell
which saved HIM,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
From the Northwest

Information was received at the De-
partfnent yesterday that a battle took
place on Thursday, Sd inst, near Cheat
Mountain, between $500 Georgians under
Gen. Jackson, and 5000 Federals under
Gen. Reynolds. The enemy, it is said,
advanced from the mountains and made
the attack. After hard fight of four
hours duration the Federals were defeat.
ed with heavy loss, while the loss on our
side was comparatively small Richmond
Dispafch. 5A. ~ l,E on
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East Tennessee.
TFrom the Knoxville Register. !


How will you respond to the present
call for more volunteers? We have nev-
er failed to answer promptly to the call
of our countrymen for help in any pre-
vious emergency. Now that our eharac-
ter--our honor-are at stake, and our
country threatened with invasion, and
suljugation, it is no time for us to stand
back and fold our hands. Up! and for
ward march.
Commence at once the formation of
companies in every part Of East Tennes-
see. Arrangements will be made in due
time for proper military organization, sub
sistence, &c. ...r w. r, CAswELL.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
The Enemy at occoouan.

The War Department received dis
patch yesterday, says the Richmond Dis.
patch, Of the 5th, stating that the enemy
had crossed the Potomac at Occoquan in
strong force, for the purpose of capturing
one of our batteries-perhaps the one
located near Transport. As they have
no acquaintance with the country, it i,
believed that they will be cut off and
forced to surrender.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
Po1tmastar Arrested.

Col. Crouch, the Deputy C. s. Marshal.
arrived on the train yesterday, having in
charge B. +. Swingle, Postmaster at
Swingleville. Washington county. We
understand that he was arrested upon a
warrant taken out by the District Attor-
ney, on the charge of carrying on the
PostofHce under the laws of the United
States. and stirring up rebellion among
the people. His case will be investiga-
ted at Q o'clock to-day, at the Court.
house, before Hon. r. b. Reynolds, C. S.
Commissioner for the District of East
Tennessee. .-Rnor. REGISTER.
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pa- The London Illustrated News o

the 7th inst, says in its editorial summary:
Had any one limited twelve months
since at the possibility of the United
States being the next arena for the display
of the antiquated resources OF martial law,
suspension Of Labeas Corpus, and the pass.
port system, he would have been met with
derisive laughter, We have lived, how.
ever to see these things as living tangible
facts. They are excused and apoloeised
for as political necessities. belonging 10
the exigencies Of the occasion.
n IL Is amusing, however-rather sadly
amnsing-to see the new country driven
to the long despised weapons Of the old
world. ia
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The Lincoln Army.

The New York Tribune of the 2lst
ult., estimates the whole number of vol
unteefs at $4,000. of whom $4,000 have
been discharged by expiration of term,
10000 have deserted, and 10000 proved
inefficient from disease, leaving in the
field 100000, with net increase of 1000
a day. F.lll..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11

Bd- Gov. jackson, of Missouri, some-
time ago declared that he had full au-
thority to remove the capital from Jefier-
son City to Lexington. Gov. jackson
has the great seal OF the State in his pos
session. The Legislature, which is known
to be in favor Of the Southern Confeder-
acy, stood adjourned, and will now Of
course promptly meet at Lexington and
perform its duties.
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Seward on the Suppression Of the
London Timea. -n..-.

A committee of Federal citizens, indig-
nant at the article in the London Times,
which alluded to the Federal Government
loan as worthless, have written 70 VIM. II.
Seward, suggesting the suppression OF
the London Times in America, Seward
replies that the best way to effect this
object will be for American journals to
shut down on the republication Of articles
from the columns of that offensive but
influential sheet. ~ eWllNI nnnf
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
The Coast Defence.

RICHMOND, Oct. Capt. Mansfield
Lovett, formerly of the United States
Army, and lately Captain of the New
York City Guards, has been appointed
Brigadier General in the Provisional
Army of the Confederate Safes, and as.
signed to duty on the coast defence at
New Orleans.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11

s6r The Raleigh IN. ca Standard
learns that Gen. r. G. Cotton, who must
be over seventy years Of age, has raised
volunteer company In Chatham county.
Gen. C. commanded Chatham oompa-
ny in 1912, and was stationed at Norfolk.
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Letter from Col. stanton's Regi-
ment-Some Good work Done.
CANp MYERs, Overton Co., Tenn. !
September. IA. 1861. I

1 y
Col. -: = have SO guns,
5000 cartridges, some powder, q lot Of
hags, swords, epaulets, pluines, drums.
&c., which we took from the Lincolnites
yesterday in Albany, Kentucky. We
stripped the town of oil it's t,ry flags, &c.,
and run its captains and other officers.
and soldiers in every direction. The eel.
ebrated Hale took to his heels, and we
got various guns and ammunitions from
his quarters, and got his "el,auiets" took
flag from his door, and took down the
town flag and brought them all off. If
l had permission to go upon Kentucky
soil at will, ] could get as many arms as
we need. They are Minnie muskets of
fine quality. The reason we took the
liberty of going there was, that they had
taken two Of Capt. Bledsoe's cavalry as
prisoners, and were making Albany the
rendezvous of some GOO or 700 troops,
mastering for an attack upon US; and we
learned that they were receiving guns
from Lincoln with that view. We did
not intend to let them prepare for our
destruction within seven miles of the
line, and so our Colonel turned his Adiu.
tant, r. c. Saunders, loose upon them
with two companies of Cavalry, and rout-
ed them. They shot down one of our
cavalry horses, but he rose and came again.
Some of the Southern ladies in town
had been praying that day for our arri-
val, as few as they were in numbes, and
their prayers were granted. Ne had the
whole town as prisoners, but released
them, and brought home THE guns, &c.
The truth is. we had more prisoners
than we could have taken care of, and
not having succeeded in getting the
leaders, we let the others off, requiring
them to give up their guns.
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~ The latest act Of the Federal au.
thorities in. Baltimore has been to put q
stop TO Ross Winans' soup house, pri-
yate charity, declaring il to be contra
band" on the ground that it is taken ad-
vantage of BY the poor who ought 10 be
earning their soup in the army.
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pS-The Newark (ohio) Advocate, says

Our fear is, that the interference of the
Administration with the freedom of the
press in the loyal States of the North will
be regarded in England and France as am
indication that hostility to the Govern
ment itself has formidable existence in
the North as well as in the South,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11

isA~ The Philsdelphis Inquirer says
not less than one million two hundred
thousand dollars are now daily paid out
by the Secretary Of the Treasury at
Washington.
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NJ The male to tho large 32-pounder
captured on the 2lst July, at Manassas,
has been found BY dragging in Bull Run
creek, where the enemy attempted 10
conceal it, ..i. ..a.f .di.',t.
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Printers in Demand.

The Charleston Mercury advertises for
ten compositors and the Courier for six
The price of composition in Charleston
ia thirty-fye cents per thousand ems,
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B6r The New York Day Book bade
farewell to the public on the Gath ult. II
says it "bows to the inexorable decree of
force" II claimed to have $4,000 sub
seribers.
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SHowIsG HER CoLoRs.-A gentleman
from Cheat Mountain tells the following:
A squad of Indiana volunteers. out
scouting, came across an cd woman in Q
log cabin, in the mountains. A1Ier the
usual salutation. one Of them asked her
"Well, old lady, are you seceshf "No," !"
was hor answer Are you Unioni"
mo" "What are you them" "a Bapt-
ist and al'oays have bssn." Tho Hoosiers
let down. r. ~. s.a ,5s
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pa1- One hundred thousand blankets
are understood to benz at the disposal OF
the Government, from purchases abroad,
ioI distribution among the army.
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Fourth tennessee Reeimmf

Fourth Tennessee Regiment.
The 4th East Tennessee Regiment Of
Infantry organized at Camp Cummings BY
the election Of ta. 80
Sam. Powell, Colonel.
Reuben Arnold, Lieut.. Colonel.
Horace Rice, Major.
Rev. w. II. Crawford, Chaplain.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
RayThe New Orleans Bee, spei

Bay- The New Orleans Bee, speaking of
the recognition of the Southern Confeder.
acy by the North, says;
Whether they will formally recognize
our independence matters little-bnt the
time must arrive when the war will cease,
because our enemies will have vainly ex-
pended all resources. Nor are we of opin-
ION that the interval from now till then
will be extremely remote. The desperate
exertions now making by the Federals
need only TO be defeated, to create such
CONSERVATION and discouragement among
them as will seriously hamper their ope-
rations, and curtail their military strength.
One or two more Southern victories will
complete their decentralization.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11

pi4- The Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Patriot says Mrs.
Scott is expected to arrive from France
in the course Of ten days or fortnight;
and the General, with the devotion OF
true cavalier, intends to go to New York
to meet her. This does not look as If he
expected Beauregard to intsrfer with his
domestic ARRANGEMENTS"
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North Carolina.

The Legislature Of this State adjourn-
ed sine die last Monday, after session of
forty days. 1t passed Militia bill,
Stay law, Revenue bill and bills for pay.
ing the soldiers and carrying on the war.
1t also passed bill authorizing the issue
of million dollars in Treasury Notes,
in sums ranging from cents TO Sl00.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11

The article below is from the Nashville
Union and American. 1t breatbes true
and patriotic spirit; and we transfer Il 10
our columns with pleasure.