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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07
Wmrw! WnATA TERRIBLE FATE AwAIrs

WmEwl WnATA TERRIBLE FATE AWAITS
Us.--A prominent Chicago merchant
writes: 1.-The West alone will furnish
men enough land feed them too) to blot
the South from the face Of the earth,
with no traitor left to tell her tale she
can smell our powder, but 1.iall not taste
our provisions. Chicago will send 10000
to war; our banks have offered hafa mil
lion, and private subscriptions and free
airt to arm and sustain tho soldiers reach
ed about 100000 the past twenty.four
hours. Tell Boston men to mako mo-
compromise till the hist armed foe expiresi
Yours for the stars and stripes, God and
the whole Union though half continent
OF men be sleinP
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Admission of the Administration
T. Perffdy by a Northern Journals

- Perndy Dy Noftnern oOurndi'
m The New York Journal cfs Commerce Of
the 29d advances the idea, in a somewhat
extended article, that the movementso oi
the Government will probably be confn-
ed, for the present. to bloekading the
ports. and such rigid surveillance over
the line of division between the adhering
seeded States, as can be maintained
without producing actual conflict between
the forces Of the two sections. That pa
per states that it has reason to believe
that this policy is now favored by the
Commander-in.C Chief Of the army and the
leading members Of tho Government, but
it continues: i3h ,.Yf' - i'
IL is however liable to- be prostrated by
events which cannot be foreseen, or which
may be beyond the control of the Govern
ment at Washington. 1t is in danger
also OF being thwarted by disagreement
in the Cobinet; and should such be case,
it would not be the first instance in which
the wise plans of the President, Mr.. Sew
ard and General Scott, or more probably
the plans of the latter, approved by
the high functionaries first named, have
been overturned, in-obedience to the de-
mands of the warlike voices by which the
President is surrounded. The sensible
determination to evacuate Fort Sumpter
was thus overIuled, even after assurances
had been given by Secretary Seward to
the Southern Commissioners through
Judge Campbell, that such policy had been
determined upon by the Government
Thus was deception practced upon the
representatives of the Confederate States,
and Mr.. Seward, much to his own
modification no doubt, was made its un-
willing instrument. But the change Of
policy having been decided upon, he was
precluded from notifying the enemy that
his assurances, involving his own honor
and faith, were not TO be carried into
effect.
There is still fraction of people in this
State who adhere to the belief that there
is to be no invasion of the South. The
best view which the Journal Of Commerce,
a conservative paper, could take of this
matter, on the 24th, was that the policy
then was not an immediate invasion, but
even that was subject to be overruled by
the war party, as was the proposed evacu-
alton Of Fort Sumter. That paper admits
the deception practiced by the Admins
tration in regard to that measure, and
fears repetition Of the fraud. The in
vasion and occupation Of Alexandria have
since confirmed its apprehensions, and
leave no room for doubt as to the fact
that the South is to be overrun if our
enemies have the power. Only those who
are for the North and against the South
can trust to the abolition crew longer.
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JUNE.z, 1861.
Tho South InefncibloIThe war

Tho South Invfncibie4 Tho war
ohh'inHh Without an OBJECT 'o''i
3d The'Bondofi fins Of May 9th, hts the
following very Sensible editorial: laf,vo7
Thus artheNyaf Is one out lof an pSse-
cedent and beyond NIL calculation. AZ
this.momept il is impossible to nsayi what
is its object, and how it IS 10 be conducted.
The Reduction of tlia SeceTlihg States Is
AN almost estlineoneeiSaale ideal 'The terri
torysis immense. the country difichlt. thh
climate unhealthy,i and the ,pppplatisp
twelve millions. Even if we could sup
pose d Repubiicaiii afimy of 56,o09 men
making good;its 1psssagesfrorA Baltimore
to- the tiulfof Mesiceo thei ikee of every
difficulty, seyeral such Armies. might ac-
complish the feat, and yet leave the .ques-
lion as Trey fjuhd It. Tic effect, and
even tire possibility of a blockade, astol'-
page ofsopplies or anesnbarg ,upon .du-
ties, has yet 70 be seep,,I. As for ths. SAYS
population, there is not the smallest symp-
ION Of their disafiection, or OF their wish
to leave their masters en- mGsse. Here
and there it is likely enough that a sullen
slave who has quarrelled with his master,
or who really is in the hands Of tyrant,
or one conscious OF figure and qualities
worthy Of freedom may be ready TO seize
an opportunity OF escape. But the pres
ent is an affair, not of individuals, but OF
millions. SO what chance is there of any
result to be obtained from the war, unless
the possession of the capital be q result
worth considering? That. in fact, is the
contest Mt this moment 1t is contest
for the dead body Of Patroclus; for the
Holy Places; for q name, for a prestige,
not for reality. If we suppose the
Northern States victorious in several
battles, they are left with 10000 men in
possession of q worthless site in an enemy's
country. While these 10000 are locked
up there, and sustained by immense eff
forts and at an intoleraole expense, the
Southern States may be steadialy pLrsuing
their own course of secession, seli-govern.
inert and consolidation. With the single
exception OF the Capital, not fort, not
an arsenal, not yard not O ship, nola
bit of wood or stone win be left the Fed
eral Government in the Seeding States.
IT, too, their commerce should be at the
mercy of the Northern privateers, that is
a game in which the Northerners have
the most to lose and the balance must be
everagainst the richer. The Government
now at Washington, if still there, and, if
it be there, supposing it still free to act,
must have these considerations before it.
We know not how it can escape the con-
clusion that such war is contrary to the
very rules Of war, seeing that it has no
object. A day may throw light on the
struggle and show that the vast efforts Of
the Northern States are not to be lavish
ed in vain and all that noble blood spent
like water. We only reason upon what
we see and know, and we are driven to
the conclusion that thus far these thirty
millions of our own flesh and blood are
fighting TO-. shadow. ..s
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VOL, XIII-l-NO. 663.
The transparent Lie.

The fiInsy cloak under which tho
Northern press and. people. attempt to
veil the iniquitous war which has been
| proclaimed against us, deceiyes nobody,
not even the most credulous in their own
section. 10 say~that ihis war Of exter-
mination and suhjugation Of the South,
is to protect the late National Flag. the
Stars and Stripes. is a miserable hyp5o,
ri'y. which will be thrown aside as too
bold and contemptible TO impose on any
body How do they propose 10 fight for
the Nag? The black.hearted New York
Tribune aiiswers by holding out to the
mcrcenaries of the North the hope for
dividing among them the lands Of tho
South. Is it fighting for a common flag
TO engage deliberately in a war, the enl
and object of which is TO suliugate an
unwilling people 10 the power and dominl
ION Of hated and hostile government
Is il love fog the South, as part of q
common country. which induces them 10
revelin their beastly imaginations, over
pictures of servile insurreetion, rapino
and ravishment of Southern homcf-s
What is it that stimulates them to tho
work of blood and desolation? Is it to
restore the principles for which the
American revolution was fought? especial
ly the great principle of the right of
self-governmenia Have they not utterly
abandoned the doctrine of Republican,
liberty-that every free people have, by
nature, the right to govern themselves?
All this bombast and Buncombe about
''the flag of our country" is the merest
clap trap, to stimulate an ignorant and
deluded people TO take up the unholy
weapons of civil war. The real cause of
the present fury of the North is the i'm.
pending ruin of their commerce and
manufactures. In the loss OF the South
they see the handwriting on the wall,
which pronounces with unerring truth,
the downfall of its greatness and glory.
The picture which the historian Macau@
lay drew Of traveller in after ages sit
ting upon a broken arch of London
Bridge and surveying the deserted ruins
of what was once the mighty and veal
thy city of London, bids fair to be re-
allied on this continent as to the COM
mercial cities Of the North. As the
change in the currents of trade and tray
ell depopuated tho city of Palmyra, tho
proud Queen Of the East, and gave up
its palaces to the wild dogs and hooting
owls; so the mighty revolution of the
South will turn away from the Northern
seaports the rich currents of trade which
have built them up and reduce New
York and Boston 10 the ccndi,ion of dc,
serted fishing towns.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

How IMpERTINENT.-T The Cincinnati
Enquirer is impertinent enough to ask
where Lincoln gets the power to call out
troops for three years? Why, man, don't
you know that King can do 40 wrong?
Congress will legaliae all his asurpations--
and if they have any squeamishness about
.it-are there not $4,000 bayonetS around
the Capitol to remove all contentious
scruples?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07
Stnnd bv Yonr Tlag.

Inscribed to Mrs. James W. Jackson, whose hus-
band fell at the Marshall House, Alexandria,
May 9Th, whilst gallantly defending his fag.
Stand by your nag, ye Eotithrons brave,
You hold it as fair freedoms trust
Swear it shall Ger in triumph wave.
Or else you'll with il kiss the dust;
IT'S yours by every sacred tic
0fhonor, valOr, interest, birth;
Tho hopes Of millions meath it lie,
The bravest and the best of earth.
Stand by your flag, like JACKSON stood,
Who let the foul usurpers know
That ere it fell his own liio's blood
In its defence, should freely flow
That if they wished invasion make,
Alone he'd there begin the fray,
And for each inch they dared to take,
Atleast an ElIsloo,th they should pay.
He loved his Nag, and wished It saved,
lie priced the beeuties that ii wore;
Near Vernon's sleeping Chief it waved
His house the name Of "Marshalp bore.
But bark tho sound Of fife and drum,
In gittcring files behold the foe
With shouts and cries they come, they como,
They halt menacing, at his door.
"Down with your flag the spoilers cry,
o. how his brave pulsahons bouud
Did he obey2 His shots reply,
He brought his fooma'i 10 the ground.
But be fell too--for oountry's sake,
llo on her altar bleeding lies.
IIe seeps-in realms of bliss to wake,
For God accepts the sacrifice, M
That blood will bless bis Mother State
lie died obedient to her laws:
And while in tears we mourn his fate,
We Joy he blcd in freedoms cause.
And through from earth thus rudoy torn,
The living shall cushrino his fame,
And little children, yet unborn,
VIII leain to lisp the martyrs name.
NJ. b. WnARroS.
Culpcper, Va, May 2s, 1861,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07
Culpcpcr, Va, May 2s, 1861,
The English Position Deciding the
War.

From the Manchester Guardlan.]
Mr. President Davis stands, in the eye
Of international law, rs we interprit it, in
the same position as Mr.. President Lin.
coin; and, as the capacity of the former
for maintaining the struggle depends, in
q large degree, upon the sanction accord
ed to the system Of privateerng IL be-
comes Of extreme Importance TO consider
in what light this peculiar mode Of carry
ing on hoslillties will be regarded by Eu-
ropean Governments. Tho Americans
have settled the question for themselves.
At the time Of the Treaty Of Paris the
Government of Washington, sensible Of
the disadvantage which il was placed re-
latiyey to the great maritime powers Of
Europe by its want Of q large standing
navy, refused to adhere to the principle
agreed upon by the parties to the treaty
that the issdc Of letters Of marquc should
be disallowed for oil future time. Gen.
Cass, who was the organ, of commitment
Ing aud defending this resolution, never
anticipated that the time was near when
his own country would be placed towards
its only enemy in exactly the position in
which he spprehendcd that Great Britain
might possibly be placed towards the
United States. Such, however, is the GU
riou3 conjuncture which the revolution
has brought about. The Southern Con.
lederntion, being totally destitute Of any
regular naval force wherewith TO cope
with the navy Of the remnant Of the I'M
ion, Is compelled to enlist in It's service
the eombaiiye and predatory instincts OF
volunteers upon the ocean, and the legal
right to avail itself Of this means Of retail
ition and annoyance has been reserved to
II by tho act Of the Government against
which IL is now in arms.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

ARKANSAS TRoors. The Arkansas State
Convention has passed a. military bill, ou-
thorzng the Governor TO call out 10000
men il necessary 1t halves the State into
9 grand divisions, Eastern and Western,
and appoints. one Brisadier General for
each. General Bradley was unanimously
elected 10 the command Of the Eastern,
and General Pierce late Of the United
States army, to the Western division.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07
Letter from Bishop Polk,

TO The Northern Press.
An effort has been made by the North
ern papers to make it appear that tho
homes Of Bishop Elliott and myself we're
burned by discontented negroes. In this
there is no foundation whatever. On the
contrary, | have satisfactory evidence
that it was the work OF white men under
the promptings Of the spirit Of Abolition
ism, TO show the absurdiiy of thisinven-
tion there are scarcely any negroes within
many miles Of the locality.
LEoSIp6s Polk.
Nashville, May 28th, 'Gl.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

CURE ron NEuRALGIA.--Some time since,
we-published, at the request Of q friend,
a recipe for neuralgia. Half n drachm
Of sal ammonia in an ounce Of camphor
water, to be taken a teaspoonlul OF
dose, repeated several times at intervals
Of five minutes, IL the pain be not 70.
moved st once.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

e1S" A passenger from Cairo to Men,
phis, says there are now 6000 men at that
plaee-nine hundred of whom are confin-
ed with sickness 10 the hospital. About
the middle Of July the "sick" list will
absorb the whole number. ...,-.-.. a
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07
Nashville, May 2Sth, 'Cl.

ray' The New Orleans Dcita has re-
ceived despatch from Montgomery.
stating that letter has been received
from VIM. +. Yancey, which saws he does
not doubt the success Of his mission TO-
Enropn
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

RrrLEp CANNoS.--We learn that tie
ship Tor brig) Eliza Bonsaii, from an Eu.
ropean port, with fiaed cannon, bound
for Charleston, has arrived safely at Sa.
yannah, notwithstanding "od Abe has
"bockaded" our ports! This news Is au.
thaplic
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

RALLY! RALLY!!-"he following call
appears in the Lynchburg papers Of last
Saturday:
All persons, not members of volunteer
companies, who have arms of any kind,
and are willing to leave for the seat of war,
at moments warning, to fight on their
own hook, are requested to meet at
Martins Warehouse, this Saturday at
ternoon at o'clock.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

Ex.PnEsIpEST plERcE.--This gentleman
Is out in favor Of peaceable secession and
against coercion. Gen. Pierce, in letter
to the Boston Post emphatically denies
having made use Of tho coercion expres-
sions attributed to him in that and other
papers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

teg" The abolition autocrat signs all
dispatches ." Lincou'--not Abraham
Lincoln, but Lincoln "--after the fash
son Of the old Kings and Enperors Of
Lurone-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

PRlvATEERINo.-ln New Orleans the
merchants are fitting out scores OF priya.
teers on joint stock speculation. In these
dull times they find it pleasant and pa.
triotic and (already) profitable amuse.
mont.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

TIE GERMANS DEsEnTING THE lincoln
lrs.--The ~. Louis Herald Of the lith,
says: "Col Frank p Blair, late Comman-
dant at the Arsenal, appears to have had
n lively time with his $1,000 Tcutonic
three months volunteers. 1t is said he
has been compelled to shoot three or four
daily for dcscrtion, and that the example
has Been ioss.u his Germanic follow
- -.N---
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

REAcrioS.--The steamer lIammonia,
with 235, and the City OF Baltimore, with
365 passengers, tho greater portion Of
them in the stceragc, sailed recently
from New York for England. It Is sci.
dom ship from these shores takes away
so many steerage passengers tho cause
is evident, aud the tide of emigration is
turning.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

ray- There Is vast amount ofmilitnry
genius and talents wasted in Now York
journalism.
Editors who know so well how 10 man.
age a campaign, should give their seryiccp
70 their country 10 time Of need.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

ArrolSrsrSr.-Gen. Walter Gwynn,
late of the Virginia Army, has been ap-
pointed by Gov. Ellis Brigadier.General
of tho Army Of North Carolina. Gen. @.
left Raleigh on Sunday morning last TO
make reconnaissance of the defence on
The const Of that State.
Gen. Gwynn is accompanied by Col.
r. Il. Collier, Of this city, who was his
aid at Norfolk. ID
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

A CoNrRasr.-Tho Republicans with
the "U. S. Constitution" in one hand,
are bawling for the Union and enforce-
ment of the laws" while in the other
hand is suspended glittering sword,
with this motto thereon inscribed-"Do
or dien'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

115" 1t is said that the Union feeling Is
50 strong in Maryland that it takes 10000
steel bayonets to hold it
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

REDUCED. The wages Of the operators
in tho cotton factories at Harrisburg
Pennsylvania, have been reduced Is per.
cent.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

Nrw YonK, May 27.-A Zouayo colonel
with $4,000, raised for his regiment, has
been missing for ten days.
A merchant was arrested today By
Superintendent Kennedy, for using scdi
tious language
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

PRIvArEERiSG IN THE GuLF.-The "mi-
litia of the seas is beginning 10 be active
somewhere else as wellas off the mouth
OF the Mississippi. They will swarm be-
fore long. We take tho following from
tho Pensacola Observer of the 18th:
WoRK ron THE ADMIRALTY CorRr.-We
nre informed that his Honor Judge Fin.
ley, received dispath this morning from
Apalachcola, informing him that prize
had been brought into that port, which
required his immediate presence for ad-
judicotion. Tho judge leavs this after
noon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

LOUISVILLE, May 2S.--Ex-Gov. Moore
head has defined his position. The fol-
lowing is the first paragraph in the Louis
vile Journals leader. The public will
find in the Journal Of to-day letter from
our old friend Gov. Moorehead, defining
or striving to define his political status.
We cannot say consciertiously that the
effort is q successful one. Assuredly tits
TO us most unsatisfactory effort. Moore
head concludes:
II consider the subiugation OF the South
the utter annihilation of every material
interest in Kentucky. If the insane at
tempt should be persisted in, fear that
the pillars of the temple of liberty will be
torn down, and all that is now sacred to
us will be crushed under their broken
fragments" In another paragraph al
ludjng to contingency too elaborate to
be explained by telegraph, he says; 81
trust with every patriot in the land, that
Kentucky will promptly unsheath her
sword in behalf of what will have become
the common cause" The Importance Of
the letter will appear when it is remem-
bered that Gov. Moorehead was candi-
date for the State at large on the Union
acket for the Border State Convention.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-07

nay- The statement that John c. Brock
inridgc, has declared for lincoln, and
against The South, is untrue.
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Eaalinp In Kentunku.

If the press of Kentucky is any index
of the sentiment of the people of that
State, says the Memphis Appeal, we. feel
confident that public opinion is with u.s.
and that it is only restrained by an abo-
litionized Legislature. Our exchanges,
with but two exceptions, deprecate the
position the State has been made to oc-
cupy, and many of them are ably and
fearlessly battling for the right. The
question of the ultimate political destiny
of Kentucky is only one of time; the So
luton is only postponed for "a season.
The stars in the Southern constellation
are not yet numbered. Kentucky is
sure to be one of them.
fH|.' ----4------ J. -l---------------
MORE OF THE ArrREHENDED ATTACK Up
on MEMrms.-The Memphis Bulletin of
Friday says;
A letter received in this city on yester-
day, dated the 2lst inst, by ,one of our
business men, from his brother, doing
business on the Illinois Central Railroad,
says: "It is currently reported in Cen
trail Illinois that some $1,000 or 10000
troops are to be marched from Cairo to
Memphis, to protect tho Union men of
that city" The latter adds that a major
ity of the citizens of Southern Central Hi
nois are in favor Of the South, but dare
not let it be known.