The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-09-27
NEWS.


been arrested and sent to Bastile I.ofay..
cite. The Frankfort Legislature adopted
resolutions calling the Kentuckians and
Tcnncsseeans invaders, and SAYING that
they must be expelled that the Federal
lists only came to Kentucky to preserve
tranquility, appointing Anderson TO COM
mand Cumberland Department., and a. -
lowing no contiscations of property, and /,
requesting The Governor to place Thof.
l.. Cnttenden to command the State
troops. -
Underwood. unable to suppress his
emotions, spoke against such resolutions.
This is taken from yesterdays Journal.
The Courier has been suppressed.
| Rousseau yesterday, was crossing Rob
| ling Fork in flats. Not liking the mus
tering OF the Hardin county boys, he sud-
denly roerossed the GOO that had got
over,
Muldrougls Hill is not occupied. ~
Rousseau is repairing Rolling Fork
bridge: He sent word to Elizbethtown
yesterday evening, that he would. be
there to-day with 10000 men. Thus ma
king up in gas what he lacks in courage.
Richmond Sept. 23.-There is rumor
of mutiny in the Federal army, and
that Mcclellan had shot four hundred Of
the mutineers. ..'a
Earl Nandorn arrived here in bad
health. and has been promoted to Major
General in the Provisional Army. +i
President Davis was in his office to-day 4
for the first time since his illness.
Secretary Mallory does not believe the
Pryatecr Sumter has been lost.
Messrs. Turner and Goinor, Richmond
Merchants, lately arrived from New York.
examined by War Observation-Disclosures
option to take oath OF allegiance or be-
considered alien enemies-Patrolled 10
give time to consider.
Joseph G. Is. tidly appointed Chief
Collector of War Tax for Alabama; lsaec
B. Williams for Tennessee.
El envy making Coal Depot Of Hat
! tcras. q 70 Bog
Two expeditions, of twenty-five thou-
sand men, are Citing out at New York
under Butler and Sherman.
Louisville, Sept l9.-Hon c. S. More
head, Col. Reuben DurIett and Will. Ber-
ny were arrested on charge of cospes-
ponding with the enemy, and carried
across the river. They are at Browning's
Hotel, Jacksonville, Indiana.
Frankfort, Sept. ia bill passed this
morning giving the Military Board power
to loan the State arms to Major Ander-
son: also bill increasing the power Of
the Board.
L''NhtVhu, 1Spt. -i.--lu Is Ho tTuth
in the report Of the capture of Reynolds
by Gen. Lee. The Whereabouts of Gen.
Lee is unknown.
All is quiet on the Potomac.
R;ekMond, Sept. 2O.-The sequestration
of Yankee effects has been going on here
at the rate of half million OF dollars
/, per day, for the last few days.
RichmSnd, Sept. 20.-Nany Yankees are
bundling up their notions and endeavor-
ing to escape before the expiration OF tho
40 days, and many pseudo friends of tho
South are arriving from the North, TO
protect their property from sequestra-
ton. ....
!, A shipment of fFessian prisoners for
New Orleans, will be made to-day to be
: followed by further consignment to-
morrow.
Norfolk, Sept I9.-The passengers by
the steamer Fanny Cadwalasier which ar
Sived here with a Tag Of truce, were
searched in New York, Phladelpbia, and
Old Point. These passengers report rhss
it was believed in New York that Lin
coin and Seward were in that city.
letter by the steamer from prison.
er at the Rip Raps to his family, had SEQ
distracted by the Federals, and had en-
dorsed on it $50 taken out and returned
to the owner"
New Oric0,s, Sept. 20.-A sailor was
captured by the federal steamer Massa-
chuseits, but was subsequently, sent
adrift in leaKy boat, on account of re-
tnsing to take the oath of allegiance 10
Lincoln's government. He was picked
up and has arrived here. lie reports
that the enemy have nine batteries ON
Chandelier Island, and are expecting
lumber to build houses and a hospital,
| nd L.
several Islands in that neighborhood.
1t is also intended to fortify Ship Is
land and prevent communication be-
tween Mobile and Now Orleans.
Richmond, Sept. 24.-Gen. Lees official
report Of his plan of operations on the
Cheat Mountain frontier is received
The entire plan was disconnected from
failure OF one of his columns to attack
the enemy's position.
The enemy was defended by an impen-
etrable stockade. The mutiny at Fort
Washington, published in yesterdays dis
patch, is doubted here.
Richmond, Sept. ga well informed
: gentlemen. recently from New York,
gives 1t as his opinion from facts commu-
ncated and well understood in interest
} ed circles there, that the Yankee pro-
, prietors Of large and extensive interests
; in brunswick, Ga, have induced Lincoln
to fit out a large and expensive expedi-
ton with about 10000 men, to take
Brunswick, establish navy yard, open
the port for the shipment of cotton, ma
val stores. and live oak. Sagaoious men
here think there is much reason to be-
lieve this, as the Federal government is
almost wholly controlled by schemers and
specula!os.
a lady arrived to-day from Baltimore
says the Exchange" South" and "Re-
publican" in that city, are suppressed,
and that the "Sun" soon Will be.
Tho Peabody Institute is haino fitted
up as prison for secession ladies.
The Central train to-day brought down
40 Yankee prisoners. Nothing new from
camps.
The Examiner" of this morning inf
mates that the Cabinet had a long session
yesterday on the policy of pushing the
war beyond the lines of the Confederate
States, 1t says the Cabinet was divided
some preierring the ordering OF the
Army into Head Quarters for the winter
Others favored an onward movement.
Mobile, Sept. 24-The Tribune" pub-
fishes letter from Tennessee Congress
man, dated Murfreesboro' the Goth inst.
which says: "Whatever the Kentucky
Legislature OF prominent politicians may
say and do, we have reliable information
that large majority of the bone and
sinue-the fighting material of the State
are heartily with the South.
Prominent Kentuckians for the