The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-20
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dlers live dollars per month for deficien-
cies in rations
Also passed. theImpressment Bill, which
empowers any officer commanding mil
itary district or department to authorize
the impressment of property when it can
not be otherwise procured. The impress
ment of slaves to be made in accordance
with the State laws, but in the absence of
such laws i'll accordance with the rules
prescribed by the Secretary of War. No
| slaves are to be impressed when they can
be hired at TIE usual market rates
No individual to be deprived Of prop
erty required for the support of family
nor-except under extreme. necessity
OF grain, forage, slaves, or other proper!fS
necessary for plantation use. Conipensa-
ton to bemade for property seized; and
the owner and impiesSing officer cannot
agree, it shall be determined ~ three
disinterested persons. Property lost; de
stroyed or injured; to be paid for by the
| Government.
Penalties are attached for any officer
impressing property in violation of the
! act.
Adjourned to Monday
Northern Items.
THE WHITE MAN IN THE NORTHERN CONGRESS-
The New York Herald gets off the fol-
\ lowing spicy paragraphs ON the recent ac-
ton of Congress:
1t seems to be now resolved by Con-
gress that we are to lIave a negro army 10
put the finishing touches on the rebel
lion, and 1t Is to be hoped that no time
will be lost in commencing a draft for
that purpose. The one hundred and fit.
ty thousand suggested by Mephistophe-
les Stevens should at least be enrolled in
the twinkling of an eye. This terrible
army should be clothed not in red
: brooches alone. rs already proposed, but
in red coats also, so that they may look
extremely ferociOus. and as nearly like
the British negro Zouaves as possible
We can fancy such a negro army march,
ing to the rescue of the country. and the
excitement they would produce. Let US
have the black army. then, with red coats
as well as red breecheS.
As another evidence of the insane leg
iSlatiOn of Congress, we are sorry to re-
cord the fact that on Tuesday last, in the,
House of Representatives, the Bankrupt,
!, BILL by vote of 60 to 53, was laid on the
table and that a motion TO reconsider
, was also tabled-which finally disposes
of the measure We had entertained
the hope that some such much needed
act for the relief Of our embarrassed and
i. suffering business classes would be passed
at this session of Congress; but it seems
that we are to have nothing but enoT-
nous appropriations, unlimited issues of
paper money. and never ending but stilh
beginning, acts OF Congress for the eman-
cIpation and military organization of the.
almighty Niger. White folks" must
wait little longer, and so let lis wait in
patience. and in tie hope of better things
to come.
F'The Union"
The following despairing cry comes
from the Louisville Democrat
I There is but one hope of our Union
| left, and that is in the conservative North
To them we again appeal. They have
done well. They vii soon have the pow
er Of the Union in their hands, In this
hour of darkness we invoke their aid
Lincoln and MS party have manifested
their Incompetence TO manage this great
Governments; they don't understand the
/ machine; the further they 90 the more
they embarrass and complicste the sub
Ject. The conviction can't be resisted
that they are doing evil on purpose
They are not such fools as not TO know
that there is not power enough in the
world to put down the rebellion or their
programme; that they can't make negro
colonies OF these States, and construct
Union half white and black. They have
relinquished the hope. and in this last ex-
/, piring act of repudiated dynasty, they
have only made full exhibition of the
folly and wickedness that they would
: preeipitate if they could
Northern News.
Fredericksburg Fed. 15.-The New York
Herald of the 18th says holders of cotton
advanced the price on the 18th, asking
f 923 cents for Middling.
John Van Buren, in a speech before
] the Democratic Union Association at New
j, York, expressed the view that it was the
determination of the seeded States not
10 return to the Union, and said our
friends, the Democrats, in Illinois, who
F propose to hold a convention, will find it
q to be a barren task, because the South is
determined not to return as long as their
. armies have the power to resist and put
us down. This war must go on. and those
: who would attempt to stop it will be car
ried away by the torrent.
i 1t is stated that MERCER has prepared
;, a paper. to be laid before the Govern
= ment, embodyiug the views of Napoleon.
I The U. S. frigate Sabinehas arrived at
ne New Y orl& after an unsuccessful cruise in
- search of the Alabama.
II A Havannah letter, dated the 18th, says
= the Florida left Nassau on the Slst ult.,
81 full equipped for a long cruise.
% Confederate money is willingly receiv-
= ed at par in Nassau.
The New York Post says that certain
l. parties have been identified in New York
a. who have organized themselves into a
p body to demoralize the army and nation
i by diffusing therein Journals and itera