The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-08-08


and Tom Hindman.
The Confederates are annoying the Fee
derals severely along the line of the
Memphis and Charleston road, killing
and capturing more or less of them eve
rs day.
= At Memphis there is no relaxation from
the iron rule of despotism noticed last
week. Hundreds daily leave to escape
the expressions of the tyrants. Death
and desertions are said to be fast thin
ming the Federal ranks in West Tennes-
see.
en- the coast of Carolina the Federals
Have suspended warlike operations, and
are all engaged in teaching the contra
bands they have stolen how to read,
write and cipher. oh, most noble and
notr,otic soaers. who can endure such
,odorous employment with the thermo-
meter at 100 in the shade, rather than
face the rebels in the field! Let Ethiopia
rejoice and stretch forth her hands, for
wool has rls:-
The lions roar onGambias sands,
6ndmQnkcys dance round Timbuetoo,
While lunar mountains rise in song
To sing thy praise o, Doodlc.doo
,0nr adyices from Richmond and pri-
vate letter from Lynchburg, induce us TO
believe that big fight is imminent in
the ncighborhood of Gordonsville, when
the country win probably hear OF another
splendid strategic movement" on fine
part of the Federals. One Mr.. Pope, a
native of Kentucky, who has made HIM
self famous by his lying and brutality, is
the Federal commander.
Mcclellan is still resting on his "base"
along the Jim river, occasionally sending
up a'balloon and n3ulging in other ga,sy
operations.
The Richmond papers are almost liter
ally filled with accounts of depredations
and outrages committed by the vandals
in. the Valley, such as burning houses and
barns, killing stock, stealing horses and
niggers, and sometimes violating women
1t is TO be hoped they will not be permit
ted to extend their ravages much further
as the people of that region have already
smieredmore than their share. Virginia.
without her the revolution would have
been a failure, and she seems doomed to
reap its heaviest penalties.
The British and French journals, per
last steamer, are not only jolly, but mel
lfluous over mcClellan's Grand Strategic
Move. They appear to understand it
well enough, and by perfectly simple
process reduce it to a most disastepous de-
feat The Federals have established such
a character for lying throughout the
world, should they ever achieve victory
no one will,bclieve them.
Con, Morgan's official account of his
late expedition into Kentucky, appears
in the Atlanta Coatc&cracy of Tuesday
morning, 1T varies but little in its main
features from the accounts we have al
readypublished. We suljoin the sumto.
tai, or result, as follows:
"l left Knoxville on the 4th day of this
month EJuly with about nine hundred
men, and retained to livingston on the
2Sth instant with nearly twelve hundred,
having been absent just twenty,four days,
during which time travelled over thou.
sand miles, captured seventeen towns, de-
stroyed all the government supplies and
armies in them, dispersed about fifteen
hundred Home Guards, and paroled near
ly twelve hundred regular troops. | lost
in killed, wounded and missing, o! the
number that | carried into Kentucky,
about ninety"
A right smart affair. All honor TO the
gallant Morgan, and his brave command.
The Knoxville Register of Tuesday con
tains tho following
Passengers by the cars last evening re-
pOrt that there was heavy skirmishing
day before yesterday between our forces
and the Federals near Zones Spring,
NIUlOOtne county. cavalry, lHlHnt1N anu
Artillery were engaged on both sides. 1t
had been renewed again yesterday, and
it is supposed that a general engagement
would ensue. One Georgian, killed in
these skirmishes. was brought to Morris
town yesterday. So The rumor in town
yesterday was well grounded.
1t is possible we shall have stirring
times in East Tennessee before long.
Later adviees from Richmond will be
found in another place. There is no cor
frmation of the report that Seward had
resigned. The Examiner continues to bore
its readers daily with ill.naturcd stric-
lures upon President Davis and the policy
of the Government Tho editor should
take something to assist his digestion.
The telegraph Thursday morning states
that Gen. Breckenridge had recaptured
Baton Rouge,
A full summary of news and current
rumors will be found in our columns.
From tho valley.
A letter received at the office of the