The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-03-20
Northern News.

10 have elected all their Congress mem.
bers, and majority of the Legislature.
Three candidates for Governor were be.
fore The people, neither of whom received
u majority according to tho Constitution,
there is no election.
Gold rose in New York on TIE 10Th 10
| 60, and closed at l.5S. Middling cot
ton had advanced TO Sc aud 81.
The Herald deprecates the excessive
premium on gold and the continued de-
probation of the currency, and says Chase
must prepare a remedy TO pay in gold
and silver. and compel the banks TO do
likewise, till confidence is restored. IL
says we have arrived at the crisis OF life
or death to the rebellion--it must be put
down by force of arms, or il will tear the
country To pieces. The Jacobin teach
ings OF Nalandingham q Co, il is advised.
will not be much longer tolerated 10y the
administration.
VOORHEES,, of Indiana, addressed DEM.
ocratio Union assemblage in New York on
the night OF the 10Th. lie proclaimed
his devotion TO the Union and Constitu-
ton as our fathers made it.
In conclusion ne said when the Govern
ment went outside the limits of the law,
then force should be met by force. Great
applause he asked the Democracy to
stand by tho Northwest in the coming
contest, which would result in the over
throw oi tAg abolition party.
Lincoln has Issued a proclamation
waning all drafted and enlisted men alb
sent without ieave, TO return to their reg
lments by the LIST OF April, when those
ho Tepoi nearest headquarters, will DO
rest ored without punishment, and thosS
VINO do not, will be dealt with as desert
els. lie calls upon all coed citizens to
assist in preventing dlsatiected parties
FROM diseouraging enistments.
Nashville dispatches say that Van Dorn's
forces have retreated South, and reported
10 be across Duck river.
Rosencranz has notified all persons who
cannot give assurance of their loyalty, to
hold themselves in readiness to go South
of his lines in ten days.
Dredging machines are in full operation
in the canal at Vicksburg, and laborers
are going along briskly, notwithstanding
they are continually shelled by rebel bat
teries.
Thirty deaths have resulted from the
recent explosion at cartridge factory on
Browns Island.
RICHMOND, March 27.-The New York
Herald of the l2th, has been received
A accommodating party secured the coun-
try this week, breaking up several nests
OF smuggers and capturlnga large guam
tity of medicines and other contraband
articles.
The President will call for more men
in few days.
In the Southwest new arm has been
introduced into the United States service,
to meet the exigencies in the Western
rivers, call the Mississippi Mariners Bri-
gade." 1t is to operate against the rebel
| giIerillas on our river banks.
The rumor about the loss of the Flori-
da, is without foundation.
The Herald says the people Of the loyal
| States are not in IA frame OF mind to bear
the repetition in 1868, of the blunders
and military disasters of lS6l-G2. Militia
nv success is imperiously demanded, and
| is the one thing needful to save the adj
miDistration and the country from ship
wreck.
| Lincoln considers the raid at Fairfax
serious matter, rs Tar aS horses are con-
cerned, and says he can make Brigadier
General in five minutes, but II - not so
easy to replace one hundred and ten
| horses. 4 e
European dates Of the Goth ult. have
been received.
The American war caused an excite.
ment in the House Of Lords. Earl Rus.
sell alluded to the question of the recog
milton OF the Southern Confederacy.---
He requested Lord Stratheit to postpone,
until the second instant, o motion which
he had given notice Of on the presenta-
ton oil copies of all the dispatches from
Mr.. Mason to Her Majesty's Government.
and the claim of the Southern Coniede-
racy to be acknowledged as an indepeu.
dert power by Great Britain, TO which
question Lord Stratheit acceded lacon.
ically.
The steamship Austriaasian from Liv'
erpool brings dates to the LIST inst. Sew.
ards dispatch rejecting the French pro
posal for mediation provokes criticism in
the London Journals The Times says il
is quite consistent with all Seward has
previously written upon the subject, and
that it is either preternaturally right, or
incomprehensibly wrong.
The Post, Pdlmerston's organ, declares
that, emanating 10 this document does
from the Federal Cabinet, it is truly in
credible that that body should have sunk
so low as to endorse, as its own, in the
face OF the world, so much arrant false
hood and absurd nonsense. The Morn
ing Star considers the document unan
swerable The Paris Pays treats the mat
ter indifferently.
The London correspondent of the Man
chester Guardian says, that the Conied
crate loan has all Teen freely taken OF
the Continent, and that England will
have no more Of it than it can get IRON
foreign markets.
The Polish instruction was exciting
great attention in the cabinets Of the lead.
ing powers.
The Russians were defeated by the
Poles after an engagement which lasted
five hours, at Mallagas, The town wa
reduced to ruins
say- The following interesting scene
took place in tho army of the Potomac
not long since, A CHAPLIN wanted
horse, and without much ceremony took
one belonging to Virginia farmer, bu
his possession Of the property was very
brief, as the following conversation shows
The chaplain rode into the presence o
his superior officer, and was asked wer'
he got that horse? The chaplain says
down on the road there" The office
remarked: "You had better take hin
back again" The chaplain says: "whl
Jesus Christ, when he was on earth tool
an ass from his owner whereon to rid
into Jerusalem" The officer replied
"You are not Jesu, Christ; that is not at
ass; you are not on your way to Jerusa
lem, and the sooner you restore tina, hors
to his owner, the better 1t will be 10