The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-01-30
Athens. Friday, January so, 1893.
HThe News"


On Monday a report came to hand per
railroad. which institution is of late gen.
orally in advance of the tel'lie-graph, to
the effect that Congress had repealed the
Exemption Bill entire, exempting none
lint the Vice President of the Confede-
rate States, the Heads of Departments,
and members of the two Houses. Though
bearing the impress of mendacity on its
front, the report gained pretty general
credence, and the immediate result was
a heavy decline in the price OF hair'dye,
and brisk advance in the figures for sub
stitutes. We quote as the current rates
at this writing, from twenty-five hundred
TO three thousand dollars.
The-bill repeating one exemption act OF
last session has not yet been passed, but
according to the metropolitan Journals,
Congress is devoting its precious time to
the subject, and, as the past has amply
demonstrated that such bodies seldom
labor without result, peradventure some
thing will come of its action in due time.
There is room to speculate, however, whe-
Their the measure will be improved in fea-
lures or efficiency bybeing born again"
of the same parentage which first sent 1t
forth into this breathing world. Indeed,
we don't now recollect that there is sim
gle instance on record where legislative
bantling has grown into more perfect pro-
portions under a second course of gesta-
ton. Nor can we agree with our Cum
berland Gap correspondent that the Act
is an abomination, wholly unequal and
unfair in its operation. Unquestionably
there are some grave errors in it, but the
abuses complained of are not so much
the fault Of the law as the Dangling and
hagitious manner in which its provisions
have been executed. Nevertheless, we
trust it viii! be promptly repealed, and all
placed upon an equal footing in regard
to the Conscript
Dates from the Old Dominion indicate
another engagement on the line of the
Rappahannock at an early day. One
report is, that Rockers Division has cross
ed the Rappahannock The other, that
Burnside recently issued an address to
his army assuring them that another for
ward movement was at hand. These re-
ports may be true or not.
No important intelligence from Eastern
Carolina.
The few papers from Lincolndom that
find their way through the lines, show a.
very precarious state of affairs in that dr.
rection. Indiana and Illinois are report
ed ripe for revolt against the Abolition
programme, while in New Jersey and
New York a bold and open stand is being
taken against farther prosecution of the
war, Evidently crisis is rapidly APP
preaching fatal to the Black Republican
government, and, if present indications
mean any thing, before the flowers of
May are in bloom the whole North and
West will be conyulsed with revolu-
ton.
From Kentucky accounts are cheering.
The report that Gov. Robinson lad call
ed for sixty thousand troops to resist the
Emancipation policy Of the Federal Adj
ministration, is probably premature, al
though opposition to it is almost unani-
nous throughout the State. Three thou
sand mercenary bayonets guard the State
Capitol, and may succeed for season in
preventing the authorities from taking de-
cided action; but we have an abiding
faith, that, sooner or later, Kentucky will
rise against the oppressor, and, true to
her earlier history and associations, come
forth once more, redeemed, regenerated,
and more glorious because of the tyran.
MES and sutferings she has endured
The way may lead through fire and food,
but she's coming; and we say to her gal
liant sons and devoted daughters now in
exile, and who have been waiting and
watching for the suspicious dawning with
painful anxiety, be of good cheer-the
fruton Of your hopes is close by.
The statement that Col. Woolford had
disbanded his Cavalry, announcing to
them that unless Lincoln revoked hin.
Emancipation Edict in twenty days, he
would not only not remain any longer in
the Federal service, but would declare
and strike Tor the South, seems to be pref
ty well confirmed. In regard to Wool
ford's Cavalry, a gentleman of Kentucky
informs us that when first organized il
was mostly composed of the very worst
material of the border, but being thrown
into association with the regular Adolf
ton soldiery they became so thoroughly
disguised and shocked with the superior
wickedness and transcendent rascalty of
Lncoln's meroenaries, that something
like reformation took place, and now
there is scarcely a member of the Regi.
ment who does not regard himself COM
paratively as gentlemen, and would con.
slider it an objectionable insult to be
classed in any respect with the regular
"blue-belies' who wear the Federal
uniform.
We have Nashville paper of the Goth.
1t contains, however, little Of interest,
other than the list of Confederate wound
cd in hospital at Murfreesboro', to which
we have referred in another place. A re-