The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-03-06

proposition Of his neighbor. Meanwhile
the Government currency Is daily depre-
ciating, when the passage ola simple BILL
ike that offered by Judge Swar, would
20 a great way toward remedying the
evil. AT the close Of the first war of IN
dependence, to the best of our recollec-
ton it took sixty dollars Of the old Cont
mental to buy gill ofwhiskey. At the rate
we are gong on. Confederate currency
will soon reach the same high standard.
Men having Corn for sale, want four dol
lars per bushel in Confederate, but will
take two dollars in State money" Whyl
Because they can't pay their debts with
the former. Government pays its soldiers
in Confederate notes, hut the family Of
the soldier can buy neither bread or meat
with it, except at ruinous rates, just be-
causeCongress, in its wisdom, hesitates TO
say those notes are good Parties pre-
tend that there is no power under the
Constitution TO make the notes a legal
tender. The question is debateable at
least, while the Constitution and the Bill
of State Sovereignty are overrode and
overslaughed almost every day. In home
ly phrase two wrongs can never make a
right; but there is tradition, nearly as
old as the Book OF Genesis, that evil is
sometimes permitted that goo, may fol-
lowl
President Davis has appointed the 9th
of the present month as day for fasting,
humiliation and prayer. In some sec
tons of the country the fasting part will
be productive of very little inconve-
nience.
Army intelligence from Virginia is with
out special interest. The Federal forces
have disappeared from the Rappahan-
mock opposite Fredericksburg; but where
they are gone, or where likely to turn up
rext, no one seems TO know. Ii is thought
however that Fighting Joe, as he was
nicknamed before this war commenced,
is meditating a new ION to Richmond"
If So the termination of his career will
soon be announced.
From Abe's Capital there is not any
thing very late or important. The Black
Republican Congress closed its Infamous
existence on the 4th, and if Lincoln had
particle of sense or gratitude in his COM
position he would at once, by virtue ofhis
Office, name day for general Thanksgiv-
ing throughout his domlnions to COM
memorate and sanctiiy the suspicious
event. There are "A democrats already
elected TO the next Federal Congress, and
II abolitionists, with seven States to elect:
Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New Hampshire, California, Kentucky,
ana Maryland, which will probably give
the control of the next Congress to the
anti.administration party-a result, &C:
cording to the Richmond Enquirer, very
much to be deprecated. However, we
h'Po io' oe'Vei tHiiSo' we endll prOod-
bly, learn in few days what particular
acts Of atrocity signalized the closing
hours of the expiring Congress.
In regard to Kentucky, we have in
formation from two gentlemen who have
recently been on a visit to that State, one
Of them as far as Louisville. They both
represent the change in public sentiment
as overwhelming, and that Kentucky only
awaits the proper time te rise against the
oppressor. They also report but compa-
ratively few Federal troops in the State.
Some of the East Tennesseeans who re-
Gently fled this section to avoid the Con-
scription, in other words, like the Botany
Bay patriots, left their country for their
country's good" are in the Federal SER
vice. All descriptions of dry goods are
reported to be rapidly on the advance in
price.
According to the Rebel, things are I'M
usually quiet down the Road, and judg,
ing from the Register, Knoxville is as dull
and uninteresting as an afternoon prayer
meeting.
Matters Of great local interest have oc-
cured here in Athens within the last
few days, but having been absent por-
ton Of the week, we are constrained TO
forego notice Of them until our next is
sue.