The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-07-18

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The news department this week is RAJ
thcr dull, s-barrcn-of great victories and
stirring incidents by flood and field |
From the Richmond papers we gather
that the remnant Of McClellan's Grand
Army is some twenty-five miles below
that city, recuperating and trying to elk
up" They are studiously silent as to The
condition and disposition Of the Confede-
rate forces, from which We infer that
something's on hand" Mcclellan is
represented to be in a state OF mental
distraction, and alternately cusses and
cries over his shattered fortunes and
battered and broken columns, and ii
not speedily removed the Jim river will
be rnsae classic by his profanity and la
mentations. His losses since he entered
the Peninsula, in sick, wounded, killed
and missing, are set down at 70,O00--a
Pretty expensive bill of casualties for
three months. The Confederate losses
{ for the Same time areestimated at $4,000.
A rumor was current at Richmond that
the Junior N apoleon had been ordered
to report himself at Washington and ex-
plain TO his master and the Cabinet the
beauty and excellence of the late strate-
gic movement, by which he lost five mil
lions worth Of property, all his large guns,
10000 stand OF arms, and about one third
of the Grand Army, including the Bal
loon. -s a,g
In the Federal Capitol, wrangling and
confusion continue to be the order. Those
funny dogs the Conservative Demo-
Gratis" talk of nothing but restoring the
Union on constitutional principles
while the abolition members, among them
that hoary old sinner, Thad. Stevens, in
sst that the slaves shall be armed and
the institution obliterated. Resolutions
have been introduced, demanding an in
vestigation into the late Federal reverses
and censuring both the President and hi
General in unmeasured terms. Abe's OK
chequer is about exhausted, the money
changers, who can nose "crisis" as req
Oily as vulture can a dead carcass, ar
growing nervous, and things begin t
"look blue" generally. May the Lord adj
to their complications and confusion!
The New York papers are furious owe
McClellan's defeat. They tried at first t
cover itup, but it proved too big thin
to hide under bushel, and while with
ingly acknowledging the cakes they de
mand that either Secretary Stanton, Geo
B. Mcclellan, or Abraham Lincoln shall
be sacrificed upon the altar of public dis
appointment. Those same papers edu
Gated their people, by hard lying, to lee
lieve that the rebellion was crushed, ant
that the Confederate Capitol would will
at the command of the invincible Nc.
as the walls of Jericho crumbled before
the rams horn of Gideon; but as the COR
to Richmond" was rather abruptly con-
verified into disastrous defeat and an in
glorious fight, they are now outraged be-
You'd control and demand victim from
among the unfortunate cusses at the head
of the concern. They. ought to have
known that whenever the Confederate
forces commenced in earnest with the
Grand Army they would make it "git up
and dust" The best thing the Northern
public could do now, would be to tumble
old Abe out of the White House, tie a
milestone about Bill Stewards neck and
cast him into the Potomac at high tide,
and. hang up about two-thirds of their ed
itors, "all in a row." with James Gordon
Bennett at the head
The Finances in New York are in a
sensitive condition, and threatened with
collapse. Gold, which three weeks ago
freely offered at par, is now worth 1.l6,
and the 'river still rising" Every vessel
FOR Europe goes out heavily laden with
precious metal--thirty:one millions hay.
ing gone against six millions in the same
time last year, thus plainly indicating the
early approach OF grand bust up.u-
Volunteering, too, is about played out
and Abe's' last appeal for 100000 is re
sultfDg pretty much like Owen GTendow
er's call for Spirits from the yas,y deep
tho "darned critters" wont respond. =
At no period since the commencement Of
the unprovoked and unholy war upon
the South, has the Federal prospect look
ed more dark and lowering, or the Con
federate cause more hopeful and cheer