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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Yankee Vandalism.

The following appears in the advertis-
ing columns Of the Baltimore Sun of May
10th:
800 reward will be paid for the arrest
and conviction of the persons wearing
the uniform of an United States officer,
and accompanied by two females, who
desecrated the grave of the late Captain
Robert Z. Noonan, at the Cathedral Gem
etery, by entering the enclosure OF my
private lot, uprooting all the shrubs and
flowers planted thereon, and destroying
the mound with oaths and imprecations.
CATHARINE A. NooNAN.
We happen to know the motives oil
the Vandals who perpGtrated this pieco
of barbarsm upon the last resting place
of the dead Captain Noonan was one OF
the slain OH the Confederate side at the
battle of Kernstown. His body was re-
covered, through the devotion oil doting
mother, and inferred among his Kindred
her own hands decorating and adorhng
the place of his repose. Could hends
from hell shock humanity more than tho
" limited States officer" and his two
lewd consorts, by the outrage upon the
pure love and devotion of motherI-
And, further, when the corpse was
brought .home, a service at the Cathedral
was to consecrate the clay for the house
of the dead. The fact coming to the ears
of General Dix, he sent word to the yes
try that the church should be opened
for no such purpose ,-Eramiaer.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
From Richmond,

RICHMOND, May ga skirmish took
place this afternoon at Hanover Court
House. The 25th New York and 2Sth
North Carolina Regiments were principal
ly engaged. Eighty Federals were kill
ed. Sixty prisoners captured have ar
rived here. The Confederate loss is six
Or eight. Nothing yet heard Of the Skin,
mish at Atlee's Station.
RICHMOND, May 28.-The following tel
egram to Gov. Letcher, from Stanton,
was received to-day:
Banks with his army in broken squads
has fed across the Potomac.
The stores captured by the Confeder-
ates at Martinsburg are innumerable.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is eff
fectually broken up.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
The Northern Despotism and <Ken,
lucky.


The following proceedings took Pace
in the Federal U. s. Senate, on the Nth
inst. Lazarus Powell is the Senator from
Kentucky, that Ephraim of the States.
He ventures to inquire about his fellow
citizens taken from their homes in Ken
lucky and imprisoned in Northern bas-
tiles, and it will be seen what sort Of sat-
isfaction he gets:
The resolution Of Mr.. Powell, (opp.) of
Kentucky, asking the Secretary Of State
for the number and names of prisoners
arrested in the State of Kentucky, how
long imprisoned, where they are, ect,
was taken up.
| The question was on the amendment
of Mr.. Sumner, that the President be re-
quested to inform the Senate, i. compat-
IDLE with the public interest,", concerning
the arrests in Kentucky, vhish was
adopted yeas so T; rays 7.
Mr.. Powell offered an amendment to
| Mr.. Summers amendment, which the
Choir said was Substantially the same as
the original resolution: therefore it was
not in order.
Mr.. Powell appealed from the decision
of the Chair.
The decision was sustained-yeas "a I;
nays IL Mr.. Powell
Mr.. Powell read letter concerning an
interview of citizens of Kentucky with the
Secretary of State, when he refused to
give them any information, and said he
did not care a d--n about the opinion of
Kentucky, but meant to hold her in the
Union, etc.
The resolution "as amended" was
adopted.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
nag~ The West Tennessee


We learn that several stores in Mem
phis have been closed for no other reason
than that the proprietors wish to avoid
receiving Confederate money, and when
opened, recently, through fear of militia
ry authority, have been asking most en-
ormous prices for what they bad to sell.
These men are being watched closely
and will be dealt with before they are
aware of il, for the selfish and unpatriotic
conduct. Public opinion too, will assign
to these Shylocks everlasting disgrace
in all time to come for the part they nave
been acting. Many of them were oilg
inal Secessionists." exceedingly. ciamor-
oms ut the start, and all the time have
been PLAYING the dispicable part of tleec
ers Of the government and the people
But thanks to the military authorities
and the uprising Of public opinion they
have about run their course.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
The National Debt Of tho North
the Cost of the War.

The war is entaiiing on the North a,i
| a,or,,o,s lc,,,oo ~ dsbt ;ncroos;,a u.
I :,
halionai oept-aireaoy tnous"ho mn
lion-at the rate Of four millions per day
. The New York Herald in an editorial ON
a. AN, al. No,,h ,;;va.
'.'0 ooo' "'i" ."N"'io" y,
tho following look into the iuture
Mr.. Chase has recently stated that tho
national debt arising from the present.
war would amount to six hundred mil
lions of dollars by July, 1862. As the ex-
penditure will probably be continued for
at least another year, in asmuch as, after
the rebels are subdued, it will be Heces-
sary to occupy the Southern States with
armies in order to keep them in subjugs-
ton for time, and restore the complete
supremacy of the Federal law, the whole
debt will then amount TO twelve or fifteen
hundred millions of dollars. But, assuui-
ing that by some unforeseen eircooi-
stances, OF some rnismanaeement OF the
war or Navy department Ihe stfuggie
should be prolonged Tor another year inc
debt accumulated in two years from me
present Tune, or in three years from the
beginningoi the war; VIII not De less r tnah
t'0o mouSana n'ilionS " d0a1arS; Inc III
~ -
hVe per cent. 10 : oo' scsorolis 70 'ho
rate rat and CONDITIONS OF the securities
me average VIII De ABOUT SIX per cent,
which IS nearly oouoie the rae M o. inter.
est upon the Enghsn oeo., me n.er ,
upon the Aln ien oan oo 1eo' wo"iu mus
amount 10 SlLo'ooo,oyu s1a.
on me hhga aa war c 1eo S7f % o7s e o,"e
Oh Marcn, I1oo, was 1879; ;ii;,n, ~ All
nuhureo ana twenty one iiiii aS .n ooc co.,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
The Fight at Lewisburg.
The Lynchburg Piyinian gives the fol

lowing account of the battle:
A fight took place on Saturday in the
streets of Lewisburg between some eigh-
teen hundred of our troops, under Gen.
Heth, and a force of the enemy supposed
to be about four thousand. Deceived as
to the numbers of the enemy, our forces
made the attack and drove the Hessians
through the streets, when reserve of the
enemy falling upon the unfortunate For
ty-fifth Virginia, the latter broke and fled,
thus losing to us all the advantage we had
gained. 1t is said that this running regi.
ment was assaulted by double its own
numbers. From the information we have
at this writing it is believed our loss was
about two hundred, though this is mere
speculation. We had captured one hum
dred and seventy of the enemy and sent
them to the rear. An officer who was in
the engagement counted siXty-tive dead
iIessians on the field, though what t! Ell
whole loss was is not known.
Captain G. G. Otey, commander of the
Otey battery of Richmond, was severely
wounded, and reached his friends in this
city, on Sunday evening.
LATER.
BY an officer who arrived here last night
from Fincastle we were informed that an
official dispatch had been received by
General Loring from General Heth, stat.
ing that he was upon the eve of victory
when an unaccountable panic seized a
portion of his men, and he was compelled
to fall back with loss of thirty Killed,
wounded and missing, and two pieces Of
artillery.
The gentleman from whom we received
this information read the dispatch, and
we are induced to believe that it is
perfectly reliable. He says that the artil.
lery captured was one from Captain Otey's
and one from the Greenbrier artillery, the
horses of which were killed.
We captured seventy-fve prisoners, for.
ty Of whom were cavalry and thirty-fve
infantry; including some Of the pckets
who were sleeping on their post.
Among the casualties reported on our
side is Major Finney, killed; Major Edgar
and Captain G. G. Otey, wounded. The
enemy's loss is supposed heavy.
From the above it would not appear
that the defeat was so disastrous as at first
reported, but merely slight reverse.
We understand that General Heth is
severely censured for the movement
which brought on the engagement, but
whether there are just grounds or not for
the censure we are unaware.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
The Policy of the North in this
War.

Gradually, but surely, the people of the
North are being taught by their politi-
clans to accept the "irrepressible con-
fiict" as the true policy of the North in
conducting this war. Concealed at first,
the administration was enabled to make
the war against the South popular with
that class who, had they dreamed that
the object Of her invasion was anything
more than to re-establish Federal author
ity, would have remained aloof, and, per-
haps, thwarted the abolition designs of
the government. This schooling of the
public mind of the North has been care
fully and Systematically pursued under
such teachers as Seward, Hale, and Love
joy.
Nothing has been done to shock that
principle of the North which yet looks
with reluctance upon the violation of one
of the first fundamental guarantees of
the Federal Constitution. Hence the
frequent disavowal by the abolition gov
eminent of the pronunciamento acts of
its generals in regard to the status of
slavery in the Southern States they have
invaded. The North was not yet prepar-
ed to witness her own degradation. A
little more quiet tuition through the
press was necessary. For this reason
Fremont suffered martyrdom in Missouri,
and Hunter reprimand in the Gulf.
We believe that the education of the
people and of the army Of invasion is
now complete in the one idea of emanci-
patton, to the acceptance of that result
as one of the consequences of the revolu-
tion-in fact, that there is at this day a
tacit understanding between the people
of the North and their government that
the war shall henceforth be conducted
with this end in view.
At the outset the native baseness and
treachery of the invaders led them to
count largely on large element of in
surrection among the slaves themselves.
Most palpably disappointed in this, they
are ready to incite it by appeals, and by
arming the blacks, to place them on an
equality with their own foreign horde,
with the same pay and rations. This, we
think, is the secret of the slave stamped
ing from Virginia and other States
They are being herded at the North and
drilled to the work of slaughtering their
former masters. This is the last desper-
ate scheme of the Federal Administra-
ton to overcome the South, when all
others have failed them. 1t remains fol
the patriotism, devotion, and the selfsac
rifcing spirit Of the South to thwart thon
in this last and most unnatural one, as
they have done SO signally in his others
for subiugation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Another Feature of Yankeeism

In the Senate of the United States the
bill providing Tor the education of CO.
lored children in the District Of Columbia
was taken up and amended so as to put
the colored population on the same foot
ing with the whites in all trials and pun
lshments, and ,0aS pdSSed-YEAS 20,
NAYS7.
The extreme abolition measures of the
Yankee Congress had aroused deep
feeling among the conservative classes OF
Washington city. A meeting had been
held in the fourth ward of the "Union
Democrats and Union Wings, and other
conservative voters who adhere to the
principles of the Constitution and the
Union" Resolutions were adopted de.
claring in favor of "all constitutional eff.
forts to maintain the honor and integrity
and the existence of the national Union
and also the following:
"ResolOea, That in affirming our devo-
ton to the Union as against the disorgan-
izing and revolutionary principles of abo-
litionists and their aiders and abetters,
whatever name they may assume to cloak
their unholy and unpatriotic designs, and
to declare our uncompromising opposi
ton to all their efforts to elevate the ne
groe by force of Legislation 10 position
in this District for which he is unprepared
and all of which efforts tend to the iniur,
and oppression of the white race, by ell
couragng the emigration to this city o.
an indolent and worthless population
from the adjacent slaveholding States
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
" Dlsloyal" Episcopalians in Wash
ington.

A Washington correspondent OF a Bos-
ton paper says, proposition is enter
tanned of converting Trinity Church into
hospital for sick soldiers. This move
ment is probably in consequence Of the
openly avowed disloyalty of the pastor,
and the election of Vestry, the majority
of which sustain him in contumacions re
fusal to read the prayers prescribed by
the Bishop in favor OF the success oil inc
Government.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
,.ss. The Military Board of Kentucky

DaS- The Military Board of Kentucky,
who under authority OF the loyal Legs.
lature of that State, practically took all
military power out of the hands of Gov.
Magotfin last summer, and saved Ken
lucky to the Union, have sent deputa'
ton to Washington to ask for moderate.
and conservative action on the part OF
Congress. They say the emancipation
act Of this district, coupled with the gem
eral emancipation and contisoation piIis
still pending, arc creating wlde.spreae
uneasiness and disaffection IN kentucky'
and weakening the hands Of uhiou nen
there. NashpiHs Dispatch.
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
South Carolina.

Crops in Barn,oeN District. We rode sew,
eral miles through some portions of the
district and we were highly pleased at
the prospect of large grain crop. We
saw little or no cotton growing. With a
good season, in the Fall we shall riot in
abundance As to fruit. the prospect has
never been Sner.-Ssntinel,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06

Bay- The Cincinnatians, anticipating
Gen. Beauregard's arrival in that city
have resolved to burn all the whiskey, in
retaliation of our destroying tho cotton
If the whiskey is not watered too much
it will burn. but we have our doubt!
about their burning it
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Confederate Money at Now Orleans

Gen. Butler has issued an order in re-.
lation to Confederate money making it
contraband. The banks are forbidden to
pay tout. Insecurity as basis for ''shin-
plasters" is forbidden The sale of prop
erty for it is declared null aud void,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Afraid There is Something IN 1t.

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, in his letter of the
18th, says;-"Judge Trumbull introduce
ed this morning significant resolution,
calling upon the President to commune
cate to the Senate any information he
may have of any designs on the part Of
any foreign power to interveneiR tho con
test now existing in the United States,
and whether any foreign nation has
made any arrangements with tho insur-
gents or has it in contemplation to rocog-
nize the rebels."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Collector for tho Port of Charleston.

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, in his letter of the
18th, says:-"Mr. Merriman, the George
town, South Carolina. Collector, is now
here. He is in favor of the most strin-
gent confscation and emancipation law.
he will probably be Collector at Charles
ton' 10 was Imprisoned, year and
twenty days."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
fectually broken
From Corinth.

MOBILE, May 27.-Gen. Beauregard has
issued an order prohibiting the use of the
telegraph from Corinth, and requiring all
correspon dents to retire from the army.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Gen. Clemens and Col. Mich. Davis.

A writer in tho Montgomery Advert
ser. who signs himself "North Alabam-
ian" partially contradicts the rumors that
Gen. jerry Clemens and Col Mich. Davis
had gone over TO the Federals. As to
Col. Davis, he says, IL have this to say
that he has not taken the oath of allie
glance to the Northern Government, nor
professod sympathy with its cause, nor
committed himself in any way, manner,
shape or form to the enemy. And |
pronounce all statements, rumors and
reports to that effect as false and danger
| ous"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
From Wilmington, N. G,

WILMINGTON, May 29.-Three of the
blockaders fred on Fort Fisher this morn
ing. They hauled off about noon.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
From Vicksburg.

MOBILE, May pa special dispatch
to the Advertiser from Vicksburg, dated
the 2Sth inst, says that the enemy's gun
boats have taken position within range
of our batteries, and are expected to
open on the city every moment. Our
batteries have not yet fired a shot.
SECOND DISPATCH.
VIcKsBuRa, May 29.-About shutdown
last evening, the Federal gunboats and a
Sloop-of-War opened on our batteries at
long range. Our batteries drove them
back, when the enemy opened on our
lower batteries. About twenty shots were
exchanged when the enemy retired.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Freedom of the Press North.

The Journal of Commerce, OF New
York, ono of the ablest and most con-
servativo of the New York dailies has
been suppressed by the Lincoln govern
| p,apt
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06

tR- The Rome Southerner says un-
less there should como some unforeseen
disaster, the crop of wheat will be al.
most fabulous in that section of country
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
CHE gpst.
Athens, Friday, June O, 1869.
Confederate Currency.


Special attention is invited to the no
tice below. The war upon the currency
has been productive of an immense deal
of harm, and we are pleased to know a
stop is to be put to it,
Headquarters, Departm't L. Tenn,
Knoxville, May &c, 1862.
1t having come to the notice of the Ma
jor General Commanding, that persons
within the limits of said Department are
discrediting the Confederate Currency by
refusing to receive it in payment of debts
and for produce
He hereby gives notice that this is q
grave political offence, and that all per-
sons so offending render themselves La
BILE to arrest by the military authority
vested in him. L. KIRBY SMITH,
Major General Commanding.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Vicksburg.
We clip few items from Vicksburg
,>ooor Of fha

We clip few items from Nlcksburg
paper of the 2lst:
Our steamboat landing is not yet en-
tirely deserted, although there is a block
ade of Yankee gunboats just below the
city. The river above is still open, and
we have one our more arrivals every day.
The Hope and Mears have made us sew
eral visits since Sunday.
Cotton.-We notice that the burning of
cotton is still going on by such as have
heretofore neglected it. BY the time the
Federals get to this city, if ever, there
will not be much cotton left.
DepredationS.-We learn that the van
dals have come oft their boats and batter
ed down and utterly destroyed the resi-
dence of Jeff Davis and also that of Joe
Davis. Their acts of destruction and
vandalism in that neighborhood were
complete, leaving nothing but bleak
and desolated track behind them.
Il Candid Admission. Lee,
of the U. S. Squadron, now off Viclks-
burg, in his note under flag of truce to
the Mayor of this city yesterday, says
she had hoped the same spirit which in
| duced the military authorities to retire
from the city of New Orleans rather than
wantonly sacrifice the lives and property
of the inhabitants, would have been fol-
lowed here" No doubt the valiant Com
modore would have much preferred il
the authorities Of this city had consented
to give up their homes and firesides to
the ruthless invaders, without q struggle
1t is very clear that Mr.. Commodore will
never be allowed to desecrate the soil oil
Vicksburg without fight; and all hi;
hopes that we will surrender the city
will be in vain.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Alien Residents--The ConscriptA Act.

Alien ResidentS--TheC onscrlpt Act.
The following dispatch announces
decision upon point Of considerable in
terest:
RICHMOND, May Is.
The Attorney General of the Confede-
rate States has decided that aliens perma-
nently residing in the Confederacy, are
subject to CONSUMPTION.
G. w. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-06
Important from Western Virgins

Important from western virginia.
A Washington paper says Hon. Jacob
B. Blair, member of Congress, has re-
ceived the following from one of his con-
sttuents:
Parkersbuy, Va, May 10.-We are all
in great state of excitement here. The
town OF Burning Springs, in West county,
was burnt yesterday afternoon by the
Morcassier Rangers, also Palestine. Ey.
erything at the former place was destroy
ed. This town is full of fugitives. 1t is
not known who have been killed, though
many are missing. Charley Shattook
was shot at twice across the river. The
last seen of the Morcassiers by fugltives
here they were taking the goods out OF
the boats in the river. 1t is not known
what has become of the small military
force in that region. The number Of
Morcassiers is not known, though some
fix it at six hundred. The town of Eliz.
abeth is deserted, and by this time prob.
ably barned. Some consider this place
in imminent danger. The citizens would
turn out to a considerable extent if they
only had arms.
The Avoyelles pelican. [volume] (Marksville [La.]) 1859-186?, 1862-01-18
NlSlVlLLE.

7 jAnvier.-Une p~ersonnc qui Went
d'arriver d~irsctsnsnt dc Louisville dit
que rarmee federals entire Louisville ct
Bowling Green est de cent mile hommes,
don't ringt cling mile sont hors d. SER
vrce, ID plupart i cause de maladies.
Les F9deraux activsnt les travaux sur
le pont de ID RiyisreV erte, qni sera ache
ve daus qnelqnss jonrs, ct alors probable
ment lis essaisront d'arriver jusqu'a Bow.
ling Green.
Une personne qui Went d'arriver de
ID ss Tgasrs l II. i n ID conc b.
trer mi force de 100000 homnss i Get
endroit, ct lon dit aussi, &c soir, que les
Fsderaux marchent sur ID Rivisre vsrte.
en- grand nombre.
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