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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30

1t seems that the. "Union-loving por-
ton" of Maryland is waking up to the
fact, at last, that IL has been grossly inn
posed upon, and that what II was csjoled
to believe was war for the supremacy
Of the old flag ard the restoration Of the
Union" is mainly for the abolition Of
African slavery. The following outspoken
and manly utterance, from the Maryland
Beacon, hitherto strong Union paper, in
dicates that "there is life in the old land
yet," and that even the tyranny of the
absolute despotism which has been en-
throned in that State, is.not sufficient to
suppress the honest indignation which the
enormites of one year Of abolition rule
has provoked. Says the Beacon:
We Of Maryland have been enlighten-
ed little too late; but at last we have
been enlightened We have discovered
at last that the war is waged, not mainly
| for the restoration of the Union and the
honor Of the old flag, but chiefly for the
abolition Of slavery. Intoxicated for the
moment by the soul stirrng cry of War
for the Union" we have assisted to rob
the people of the District of Columbia,
and to render yalueless our own slave in
tercsts.
The scales have OF last fallen from our
eyes, and we see now no longer through
a glass, darkly. We have been brought
to realize that our patriotic President
Is something worse than promise break
! er and that the cry for the Union is {
miserable cheat. We may not now avot
the ruin which is upon ourselves; but i
still remains in our power TO WITHDRAW
our sanction from war which, it is nov
manifest, is waged against the Confeder
; ate States from vindictive motives ant
mainly for the extirpation of SLAYER.
wherever it exists. That the voice O
Maryland may be rendered as effective a
, possible against the further prosecution
of such war, and against all emancipa
ton schemes, whether they come from
Lincoln or his allies in this State, we advo
cate the ignoring Of all past issues anC
the formation of party sufficiently com
prehensive and broad bottomed to EN-
brace the whole ant-abolition sentimen
of our State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Kentucky.

We have authentic information of
revolution in public sentiment in this
State, once the pride ard glory of her
Southern sisters, but which for the last
twelve months has been bound hand and
foot and locked in the foul embraces Of
Lincolnism. The people Of Kentucky
have had the scales Knocked from their
eyes by the emancipation act for the Dis
trict o. Columbia, and the avowed policy
of the Lincoln government to crush, out
/ the rebellion and the institution of slave
nv together. The first born of the Ola
Dominion has suffered terribly for the
false and unnatural position assumed at
the beginning of the revolution; but she is
at length rousing from the fatal sleep into
which she was seduced by the deceptive
cry of neutrality" and will soon come
forth purified by the fire, redeemed, re-
generated, and disenthralled. God speed
The hourl
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Late from Nashville.

A friend has laid upon our table the
'"NashviHe Union" of the Goth instant
This paper is now the organ of Andy
johnson in Tennessee. 1t is published
by "B. D. Conner & Bro.," and is edited
by tool of the traitor Governor, who
calls himself as. c. Mercer" Every COL
umn of this dirty sheet is filled with lies.
The leading editorial of the issue before
us denounces what it terms the "Compro-
misers at Washington" by which it means
those who do not sustain the Lincoln
Government in its usurpations of the
Constitution, and venture, as many have
only tm;dly done, to oppose the giant
stride of the "powers that be" to absolute
despotisp,. Referring to the disposition
of this CONSERVATIVE" class of men in Con.
gress to deal with lenity to the "reJels,"
this organ of Andy johnson closes. his dia.
tribe thus:-"Mercy and lenity must be
extended to the deluded and mistaken
masses, IL they repent but for the arch rebels
zoe have nothing save 6anishnent and dsath."-
atlanta Ietcl.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Supreme Judge.

1t was currently reported day or two
previous to the election, that the Hon. R.
j. Mckinney was Union man. There
is no truth in the charge. 1t is within
our knowledge that Judge Mckinney is
sound and loyal to the South, and that he
has contributed as largely as any man in
East Tennessee to the support and adj
vancement of the Southern cause. And
such as voted for him believing that he
sympa'hlsed with the Lincoln policy, in
word or deed, were mistaken to the ex-
tent of the whole fact.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
pay- The Northern Debt up to the first

pds- The Northern Debt up to the first
of April, was $1,000, 1000, OOO-enough to
impoverish the North. should it fail to
subdue the South; and, as tho avowed
policy of the Federal Government is to
make the South pay the debt-enough
'at one fell swoop," if it fails to win her
independence, to beggar our people; to
make us literally, almost, the ''hewers of
wood and drawers of water" for an un.
scrupulous, vindictive, and malignant foe.
Every Southern man should open his eyes
to these facts; to the true nature of the
war now waging, and to its results. Tho
North successful, and we are an enslayed
and doomed people.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Butler,a Last Proclamation.

We give below tho infamous proclama-
ton of tho wretch, Butler, who now lords
it over New Orleans. The Southern hus-
band or father who can read it unmoved
deserves the worst fate that could befal
him:--
NOTICE.
Headers. Dept Of tile Gulf
New Orleans, May Is, 1862.
General Order No. %.
As the officers and soldiers of the Gni-
ted States have been subject to repeated
insults from the women calling themselves
ladies' Of New Orleans, in return for the
most scrupulous noninterference and
courtesy on our part, it is ordered that
hereafter whenever any female shall by
word, gesture, or movement insult or
show contempt for any officer or soldier
of the United States, she shall be regard.
ed and held liable to be treated as wo-
man of the town plying her avoca,ion.
BY command of Maj. Gen. BUTLER.
GLoRoR G. STRONG,
A. A. G. Chief Of S.
That's one of the men whom Lincoln
has sent South to cultivate good feeling
and "restore the Union"
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Wheat Crop in Middle Tennessee.

A gentleman who has spent few days
in the country, away from the dust and
din Of the city, informs us that he has
never seen the wheat crop look better
Some farmers claim that the rust is in
.;urng their wheat, but ne thinks their
fears are mainly. if not wholly groundless,
and that the yield to the acre will be as
large as usual.
The same paper contains this para
graph:
CONTINUAL ARREsTs.--A gentleman in
formed us yesterday that quite number
of the citizens of Williamson county had
been arrested by the Federal authorities.
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The Conscript Law.

An erroneous impression has been pre-
vailing for week or two in regard to the
Conscript Law. The following paragraph,
which we find in the Knoxville Register,
of the 2Sth, is, we presume, conclusive as
to the fact Of the case:
The Conscria Lav Not Saspfnded.--Some
days since. we stated on. information we
deemed correct. That the Conscript Law
would be suspended at an early day. We
learn that it is mistake. The Law has
not, been suspended and is liable to go in.
to- effect at any moment. 1t is general
law, intended to operate in every State of
the Conf.deracy alike. and, we presume
in due time, will be put in operation here,
as everywhere else.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
proc,amation from the satrap.


The following proclamation from Abe
Lincoln's Satrap, appears in the Nosh-
Vile Union and american, Of May l0;-
ExrcCrryE OrrrcE, Nashville, Tenn,
May 9th, 1862.
Whereas, certain persons unfriendiy
and hostile to the government OF the
United States have banded themselves
together, and are now going at large
through many Of the counties Of this
State, arresting, maltreating, and plum
dering Union citizens wherever found,
Now, therefore, |, Andrew johnson,
Governor of the State of Tennessee, by
virtue OF the power and authority in me
vested, do hereby proclaim that in every
instance in which Union man is arrest
ed ano maltreated by the marauding
bands aforesaid FIVE or more rebels from
the most prominent in the immediate
neighborhood shall be arrested, imprison-
ed and otherwise dealt with as the nature
of the case may require. And further, in
all cases in which property of citizens
loyal to the government of the United
States is taken or destroyed, full and am-
pie remuneration shall be made to them
out of the property of such rebels in the
vicinity as have sympatbized with. and
given aid, comfort, information or en-
couMgement to the parties committing
SUI Expectations.
Inns order shall be executed in letter
and spirit. All citizens are hereby warn
ed, under heavy penalties, from entertain
| ing, receiving or encouraging such per-
sons so banded together or in any wise
connected Herewith.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
f. II. EAST, Sec'ry of State.
We don't believe this story about "mal
treating and plundering Union men,
Some of the most bitter, unreasonable
and incorporating Urion men and ad
herents Of lincoln in Tennessee, live her
in Athens. They have been loud and no
torious from the first in their hostility to
and denunciations of, the Confederacy
They do every thing they can to discred
the currency--and they are always ready
to justify the policy of Lincoln, even tc
emancipating the niggers and genera
confscation of the property of the ere
bels." They keep up Union organiza
ton in the county, and, taking advan
tage of the absence of the Southern ele
ment In the army, they strike down eve
ry man who has been active for the
South, and claim the result as Union
victory" and a Confederate defeat. And
yet ifone of these men has ever been mo-
Tested in his person or his property, the
fact has never reached our ears. 1t may
be different in some other sections, but
before we believe it we must have better
evidence than the mere dictum of Andy
johnson. No! Andy is only forging an
excuse for the course of tyranny and per-
secution he is practicing toward South
ern men; and his policy above must ne.
cesserily result in provoking spirit OF
retaliation and in the worst consequences
to his deluded Union shrieking followers
Meanwhile let Andy sit fast. as it is posi-
BILE some of the "marauding bands" may
make a dash into Nashville and do them
selves the pleasure of personal inter
view with him.
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Confeuero'o
-. Special attention is invited to the mo-
aloe below. The war upon the currency
has been productive of an immense deal
of harm. and we are pleased to know
stop is to be put to it,
Headquarters Departm't Z. Tenn
Knoxville, May 26. 1862.
II having come to the notice Of the Ma
Tor General Commanding, that persons
within the limits of said Department are
a,iecrediting the Confederate Currency by
refusing to receive il in payment of debts
and for produce:-
He hereby gives notice that this is a
grave political offence, and that all per
sons 50 offending render themselves liza.
BILE TO arrest by the mili0Y authority
vested in him. E. KIRBY SMITH,
, Major General Commanding
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Subtraction of the County Cour


At the special term of the County Court
held on Monday, the contract previously
made by the Agent, for six thousand bush
els Salt, was confirmed, and persons APP
pointed to assess the population, white
and black, in each district, and report i'm
mediately. The general agent is A. P.
Bradford.
The following are the district agents
appointed by the Court:
First District, A. D. Briant; I'd, VIM.
Foster; Sd, J. w. Blevins; 4th, w. H.
Rothwell; 5th, Jas. Foust; 9th, J. Den
ton; 9TH, Jas. Baker; 9Th, f. Brock; 9th,
l. B. Haney; 10Th, j. G. Hale; ilth, j.
Scarborough; 18th, J. G. Massengale; 18th,
J. Jack; l4th, J. F. Benton; 18th, L.
Swafford; 10Th. I. Rogers; 18th, J Culpep-
per.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Salt and S,,par

The Rome (Ga.) Courier, of the 10Th,
reports as follows in regard to two essen
tial commodities:
''Salt is now retailing here at 25 cents
per pound. Sugar is retailing at the same
price. and syrup is going up, and, no
doubt, will soon be numbered with the
things that were. Henceforth candies and
sweet fixins generally, will be among the
recollections Of past times-"lost to sight,
but to memory dear"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
p0y- A gentleman who recentiv =. -,

nE gentleman who recently came
through from Washington City, via Louis
vile and Jimtown, says the inevitable
Brownlow has been placed in command
OF Lincoln's Body Guard, with the rank
OF Brigadier. He saw them on parade
the morning before he left. and repre-.
sents the Doctor as looking d--n splsa.
did in regimentals, cooked hat. aud d,e.,
COON boots.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
HEADQR's DEPARTMENT OF THE GU
Butler, the Knave.

Among the first acts of Gen. Butler to
preserre the police of the city of New Or
leans, was to arrest Mayor Monroe and
all the Aldermen, of whom the oath of
allegiance to Lincoln was required
They declining to take the oath, were
committed to prison, ard are now suffer-
ing for their patriotic frmness. So we
learn from an exchange.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Lieut.. Charles A. clementson Dead.

After much delay and painful uncertainty we
learn at last hat this brave young officer is dead
He was a citizen Of Sewer county, Tenn. and
member of the Knoxville Guards" Having
evinced all the qualities of the true soldier and
Southern gentleman, during the campaign down
to the Fishing Creek disaster, l9.h January, 1852
he then fell MORALLY wounded. fellow soldier
tried to remove him from the field, but he believed
himself fatally injured, and generously urged his
friend to leave him and save Others He survived
only few days in the Federal camps, where he
had attention from DR.. Delaney, Surgeon of the
10th Tenn. Reg't. A widowed mother erisyes
over the loss of a noble and aifectonato son; and
the South will record his name high on the scroll
of imperishable renown. Peace to his ashes
honor to his memory!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Judicial Elections,

Below is the result of the Judicial cleo.
ton in McMinn county,
Supreme Judge-McKinney, 1868; Heis.
kell, SO; Nelson 90; Snead, Q.
Cancellor-Welcker, ga; Van Dyke,
3l7; Blizzard, A.
Circuit J,sdSe-Gaut, 6ss, Jarnagin, 34s
Hopkins, lG.
The poll for Circuit Judge shows an ag
gregate Of 997-less than half the strength
of the county. The balance of the vote
is in the army. fighting for the institu
tions and independence of the South.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Independent Rangers.

Hon. E. L, GARDENuIRE, of Sparta. gave
US call last week He is engaged in
raising Regiment of Independent Ran
gers, under authority of the Secretary of
War. His headquarters are at Post Oak
Springs, Roane county. where Companies
wishing 10 join the Regiment are re-
auested to report.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Caution to Planters,

The Macon Telegraph says, 1--WE have
been requested to caution planters not to
turn their stock into wheat or oat fields
affected with the rust or mildew. 1t has
already proved fatal to stock in several
instances.
Cattle owners should heed this warn
ing. me South, for at least this year,
can lily afford to lose beefcattle.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Crops IN Alabama.

A letter received from Western Ala
bama gives cheering accounts of the grain
crops in that section; it says.-"Corn,
wheat, and oats look we'll. Capt. o. has
ploughed up all his cotton and put it in
corn, lone hundred acres,) and should
the season hold good, expects to gather
fifty thousand bushels of corn. The
wheat is the prettiest in the neighbor-
hood. But sad it is that all the hogs in
this section are dying from cholera.'
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BENTON. Nav 26 .1S6.

bbNioN, uldy ~, 'lcUA.
Mr.. Editor: Below hand you statement
of the vote polled in my county on The
22d for Judicial officers. The vote is very
small, and, of course, you can correctly
see what the people of Polk are doing
nowadays. Wheat crop almost entirely
worthless in this section. Nothing new
stirring in this part of the Confederacy.
The following is the vote:
Mckinney, 2l2; Heiskell, %; Sneed, %.
Van Dyke, l65; Welcker, 1913.
=, Jarnaein, ITO; Gaut, 100; Hopkins, 10l.
Total. for Circuit Judge, 500.
Polk usually polls about LOO. There,
as in this county, a large portion of the
voting population is in the Southern army.
We have nothing official from other coun-
ties. but presume Mckinney is elected
Supreme Judge; Welcker, Chancellor;
and Gaut, Circuit Judge.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Another Regiment.

Another regiment was organized, at
Morristown, last week. Our fellow towns
man, ]. B. CooEE, was elected Colonel;
W. L. EAxIN, of Monroe, Lieut.. Colonel;
and CHAs NJ. ALEXANDER, of Knoxville,
Major.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Homicide in Meigs County,
A business letter from Decatur

A business letter from Decatur con-
tains the following postscript:
Smith Hutton,a private ofCol. Vaughn's
Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers, was
shot dead by Robert Allen, on the 2lst in
slant, near said Aliens mill. Allen is at
large. No particulars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Georgia,

The Rome paper of the 10th, says:
The wheat prospects in this section is
frightening. We learn that there are
many fields that two weeks ago, appeared
almost dry enough to burn, that are now
looking green and healthy, and heading
GU out finely. with fair promise of crop.
The past week of sunshine has wrought
wonderful change.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
p0S- The Yankees have learned I'D

p~ The Yankees have learned Of the
burning OF cotton on the Mississippi riv-
er and it's tributaries, and instead Of hear
ing that the Unionists protested against
the burning, the New York HeIald's cor.
respondent says there was but one plan.
u. anoag tie whole npc5ss o: cotton
owners .wko oajeats to rae ,bu.ning Of
his oott6r.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Union Central Committe.

Andy johnson has a Union Central
Committee" at Nashville. composed of
the following persons ALLEN A. Hall,
A. V. ). Lindsey, John Lellyett, Russell.
Houston, Horace H. Harrison, NJ. NJ.
Brien.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30
Prayer Contraband.

1t appears that Picayune Butler in.
tends TO regulate the religion of the peo-
pie Of New Orleans. Apprehendng that
they might DO some obnoxious PRAYING
on last Friday he issued the following Or
der. Butler, by his brutal orders, is do
ing good service in the Southern cause:
NOTICE.
HEADERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, May IA, 1862.
General Orders No. 81.
Ii having come to the knowledge of
the Commanding General that Friday
next is proposed to be observed as q day
of Fasting ard PRAYER, in obedience to
some supposed Proclamation of one JEFF
ferson Davis, in the several Churches of
the city, it is ordered that no observance
be had.
Churches and Religious Houses are
to be kept open, as in times of profound
peace" but no religious exercises are to
be had upon the supposed authority
above mentioned.
By command of Maj Gen. BUTLER.
Geo. g. Strong, A. a. Gen.
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ses- 1t is stated upon the autboritv ,

sss- 1t is stated upon the authority Of
gentleman who has recently been with.
in the Federal lines, that Mitchell's ma.
rauding bands in Middle Tennessee have
made the country desolate wherever they
passed, robbing. plundering, and destroy.
ing indiscriminately. Whatever Union
element existed in the localities they Wis.
tied, has been completely rooted out by
their infamous conduct. Lincoln set out
professedly to restore the Union, but
wherever his hordes penetrate the last
hope of restoration disappears.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30

gsT- 1t affords us pleasure to announce
the arrival home of Capt. WILLIE Lowry
and Lieut.. D. A. WILKINS, Company Fl,
10Th Tennessee Regiment. They were
both in the battle of Shiloh, and did cal.
liant service on that hard fought field
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jacksonville, Nav 2

- :, :, '1.ff.roVN ' fbfE, IIuy III
Mr.. Editor: | send you, so far as heard
from, the vote of Monroe in the Judicial
election. There was voting at eight pre-
clncts. and presume none other. There
being no race for Circuit Judge in this
county there was but little feeling and
Mckinney, FOG; Heiskell, 81.
Van Dyke, 1853; Welcker, II.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30

B6- The people of Troy. New York.
are quite crased with delight because Mrs.
Abe Lincoln bought her spring bonnet
in that city. So saysa Northern paper
before US.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30

bas- Why was the surrender o. Nor
folk sheepish affair? Because il was
surrendered by Mayor Lamb, to Gen. Wool.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-05-30

tRr Seward has advanced the time for
the suppression Of the rebellion" ninety
days further.
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sy- Attention is invited to the Receiv.
er's notice in another column. Several
important military notices also appear.
See next page.
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vAtheus gnst.
TERMS

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Announcing names of candidates for once se,oV'
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s1- Our subscription list now numbers
p oo names, and "still they come"
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Can federate Currency.

a,..n.. Friday, May 80, tses.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-20
Washington, y. c., 1862.

Apply to our associates in
New GOrk-RICHAR.. G. ELLIOTT Atorpnv and
Counsellor, No. 50 Nassau street. ~
BROOKLYN, JOSEPH NJ. PRAY Attorney and Conn
sellor, No. 349 Fulton street. ~
sellor. ~ '' al" Nouii-
c New Faven-SILAS A: BRADLEY, Attorney and
counsel T, No. Streets BUILDING
Hartford-CHARLES &. SHULTAS Attorney and
counsellor, No EIungerforl's Block
B0ston.HENJAMlN DEAN Attorney and Counsel
LoweIi-CHARLES NJ; WILLIAMS, Attorney and
Counsellor, No. 81 Central street
Waltham-ED'WD l. HALL, Attorney and Counsel
Tor, Miller'S Block.
WorcestCr-STEPIIEN p. TWISS Attorney and Conn
sellor, Flagg's Block, Main street