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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
Letter from the Army.

from tho Albany IN. ~ Argus and Atlas
We give an extract from letter OF an
officer in the army:
The rebels stuck up an immense PA
card upon this side of the river, on which
was printed, "Burnsidc's Army Stuck in
the Mudw The army is demoralized-
cone in-played out! What do you
think of thousands struggling away from
their commands, now struggling back to
their camps in squads of tens, twenties,
thirties, and so on, without an otiiceT--
The men struggled one direction at night,
and the officers in another, seeking some
kind of shelter from the pitiless, cold,
driving storm. The suffering can not be
described, during these three days and
nights exposure without food or fire Men
whole companies determinedly stack
ed their arms and walked off, remarking,
This is played out In other corps, the
men, when ordered TO continue their
march, refused and said i cant see it,
and walked off There are now numbers
in the woods who refuse to be arrested,
and say they are going home. These are
facts.
What is TO become of an army COM
posed of such men? There never was n
more brilliant army in the world-brave,
efficient, confident, well disciplined,
ready to obey any orders-than that
which at Warrenton received the order
that removed Mcclellan. 1t is said that
the Grand Army of the Potomac is to be
distributed, one portion to be sent West,
another South. Officers are having leaves
of absence, | suppose, preparatory to a
reorganization. There was u story cur
rent last night that Mcclellan was re-
stored. There was cheering along tho
whole line. The next morning we heard
it was Hooker. We welcomed him like
soldiers.
"Thc King is dead. Long live the King"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
For the Athens Post.
DeSerters.

Mr.. EpIToR:-How many deserters do
you suppose there are in East Tennessee!
Enough to make a small army. They
are sneaking about through the coun-
try, hiding in caves, feeding with to-
ries. and some are even impudent
enough to loaf around the street corners
of little country towns with as much
noachalaace ds if they did not deserve to
be shot. Every soldier, conscript, or vol
unteer, who remains absent from his com
mand without valid excuse, is desert
err by the law and is liable to be sentenc-
ed to death. The authorities have been
too indulgent with such characters
Hence they have multiplied until the en-
forcement of this law would seem too
wholesale o business. 1t is like letting
the patient get so low that his system VIII
not bear sufficient medicine to break the
disease. But let it be understood. by eX-
ample that a deserter is TO "be treated as
deserter." This will at least prevent
desertons in the future. What if every
deserter now out should be condemned
and shot Neither the army, during the
war, nor the country afterwards, would
be the worse Oft for it. They are bad
stock. A deserter is as mean as toIy.-
Let the law be applied.
If this policy will not suffice to remedy
the evil, there is yet another, which |
would advise. Let the women OF this
country, the noble women, who have
made so many sacrifices and who haye SO
much interest in this war, take the mat
ter in hand. What men fail to accom-
plish, you may sometimes accomplish
Take these miserable "shukS" in charge,
drive them from their homes and from
YOUR presence, scorn them as you would
coward, hiss, and denounce them
| Under your frowns such men would quail.
! Look out for them. When you meet a
man between eighteen and forty, ask him
for his papers. II he has none, 60 to work
on him and make him feel that he is in
the wrong place, and that really the post
of danger" is the safest place for him.
You owe this service to your country and
to your noble fathers, brothers, husbands
who stand to their posts while deserted
by these men in the hour Of the crisis.
SOLDIER.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27

Bay" A few politicians in East Tennessee
seem anxious to keep up their individ-
ualty and claim to distinction as "origi-
nal seccssionists." Though advocating
the assembling Of State Convention as
early as February, 1861, We are not OBJ
liyious Of the fact that at that time there
was not, in this and the adjoining coun-
ties, enough sccessionsts to form a cap
tain's company Yot these same counties,
where the lands are generally cultivated
by white labor have furnished at least
five thousand volunteers conscripts
to fight for the South, many of whom
have fallen in The cause and sleep their
last sleep where the foe and the stranger
will tread DER thcir heads. We advise
the "orginals" TO drap the subject. The
constant ventilation of it is not pleasant
to contemplatyo minds, and in The end
will prove Improbable.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
More Lincolnism.

Lincoln has ratified treaty with the
negro Republic Of Liberia which provides
that Liberians africans negroes) coming
into the United States, shall enjoy all the
rights and privileges which arc or may be
granted to any other foreigners, subjects
or citizens of the most favored nations.
This At once places the negroes of Libe-
ria upon level with the cmigrants from
any other nation--France, England Ger
many or Ireland--and entities them to
the benefit Of the naturalization laws
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
Caught Again---Another Successful
Dash at Yankee Train.

The Rockingham Register Of Yesterday
reports that Capt. John II. Mcneil has
again been making successful dash at a
Yankee train. lie caught one OF their
trains about seven miles South OF Romney
on the Northwestern Turnpike, at the
junction of the road leading to Moorheld,
or Monday last, and took lOi horses,
with splendid harness, and destroyed -
wagons, one loaded with hay. Not con
tent with taking the horses ana harness,
the 81 splendid Yankee wagons with
their forage, he took II Of the Yankees
themselves, with two negroes in their
possession, which they had stolen from
some farmer. Mcneil made the dash at
the train with only twenty-seven men;
whilst it had guard of one hundred and
fifty Yankees, one hundred and thirty
five Of whom were infantry, and the bal
lance cavalry. Mcneil would have taken
the whole party, but the balance took
flight and ran of.
This brilliant affair was bloodless, not a
Confederate getting scratch. Oh course,
our men were in TOO fine a humor to kill
any of the Yankees; so, as Lincoln would
say, there was nobody hurt"
We should have stated that the train
had been sent out from Romney and that
the Yankees there are waiting for its re-
| turn.
A few companies like McNeiPs, led by
such fearless chieftains would soon rid
our exposed border counties, OF every
Abolition hoof that presses the sacred
soil of the Ancient Dominion.-LyhchCTJ
| Repu6Ecdn
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
,,ncu,. FRIDAY, February 81, lsea.

p-1- On the frst page Of our paper will
be found a letter from Maj. WALLACE
President offthe East. Tennessee and
Georgia RaiIrosd, to Postmaster General
REAGAN. The propositions and sugges-
tons of the letter are eminently wise ana
liberal, and il is hoped the high iunc-
tionary to whom they are addressed will
have the good sense and capacity tpadopt
and carry them out. Postal facilities have
already beencurtailed toan extent which
bears heavily upon the people, and in re-
gard to tbat department of the public
service, COMPARISONS between the past
and presentare not at all creditable.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
How the Union Men Of Kentucky
Receive the Negro Army Bill.

hGGGlNN AAAN @fNt1AN
The Washington correspondent OF the
New York Ecaiag Post says'
The debate still goes on in the House
upon the Colored Regiment BIZ. Mr'
Wadsworth of Kentucky, led on to-ddy
in a bitter bLt able speech. onc sen,
tcnce N it is the key TO his speech-H
YOU send a negro regiment INTO Kentucky
we Gill resist lis lsssuge through the
State
The Louisville Joupalindignautly says'
go a loyal State like Kentucky, 10
greater Injustice can be- offered than that
recruiting stations should be opened
within her limits. aud our slave popula-
ton invited 10 leave their masters, uhdrr
the promise that they can thus ohinln
their freedom. We have already been
/ injured sufficiently in the depreciation OF
our slave property, in the insuboidinHllon
winch the Presidents Emancipation
| Proclamation has produced among our
/ servants, but this la.t step OF inviting
military service from the negro. on the
same terms ms have heretofore been ac-
cepted by over fifty thousand OF Ken
| tucky's most gallant sons, Is adding II
burning insult TO most CALLING INJURY
Ii would seem as If the Republican lead,
ers had eaten of the insane root, and
that madness rules the hour when the
political passions of men are predoniina'
linz m the halls of our National Legisla'
ture. Do Mr.. Stevens and his advisers
wish TO stretch our powers OF endurance
TO their utmost tension; do they want t'
see what irnaminy Kentucky can submit
10 as the price of her fealty 70 the Union
or are they anxious to drive her 10 tn
: tcommission of some rasii act, agaihs
which, for two previous years, her LeSisll
ture has striven with devotion, pa
thence. and loyalty worthy OF consld
Grafton, which she has not been so iortu
nate as to obtain from the now dominan
party in the nation? There is llmi
which every true and honest man mus
erect between his own sense OF seli-re
spect and its rude insult at the hands OF
desperate faction. We, Of the South
have never neglected to protect our hon
or, and it has not been reserved for us, II
his hour of our country's peril, 10 subml
to absolute degradation in order TO shoy
to fanatics that we are unflinching in on
LOYALTY. Nor are we to be made the spor
of every chimerical experiment whicl
crazy headed Abolitionists would wish +
try. There is a studied nalignity abou
this bill of Mr.. Stevens; fiendishnes
which spurs him on in his taunting an
opprobrious language and action towar'
the border States, that seems born OF TIA
devil himself, ard thus impressed, we
look down toward his fest but thatsa fable
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
Illinois.

The Illinois Legislature adjourned on
Saturday,. Peace resolutions passed the
House, but were prevented passing. the
Senate 10y the withdrawal of enough to
deprive The Senate of quorum.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27

Bay With the exception OF the capture
Of the Federal Ram, Queen OF the West,
an account of which will be found in our
columns, we have little Of interest in the
"war department this week. The as
sault upon Charleston, which was TO have
commenced on the 22d without fail, was
postponed for some cause-perhaps, on
account of the weather, which, for the
last two weeks, has been execrable.---
Army operqtioRs seem at stand still in
all directions:
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27

BSD~ Seven hundred tons Of East India
coffee came in vessel that ran the block
ado the other day. It's all for the sol.
diers. So say the knowing ones in Rich.
mond.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
Kentucky.

The Kentucky House Of Representa-
tiyes rescinded, on the llth, the resolu
tons passed the day previous, inviting
commissioners from other State Legisla-
lures to meet commissioners of that body
Mt Louisville.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27

RAJ Macon, Ga, was visited by de.
structive fire on Friday morning last, sup.
posed to have been the work Of mn incenr
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
More Of Linooln's Negro Policy.

Bills have been introduced in tho Fed.
eral Congiess appropriating Sl0,OOO,OOO
for the Adjustment Of slavery in Mary.
land, 81 100000 for Delaware.
A select committee agreed on a bill to
establish board Of emigration and col
onization in connection with the War
Department
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
RosencranZ'g Army.

A letter from Murtreesboro' to New
York says the reason Rosencranz's army
does not advance. is because il Is mud
bound army,jn excellent. condition, but
diminished hy descrion.,....'.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
Young Husbands,

A young husbands affections are but
in the acorn state. just as the little
acorn expands in time into the stately
oak, and the birds Of the air come and
sit upon its limbs and sing amidst it'
branches, no tire undeveloped love Of the
young husband will grow in due season
to fuller and larger proportions, and IL
lie cherubs will come to nestle in ms
arms and pratile about his knees.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27

Ray Gentlemen through from Shelby
Vile Thursday morning, report all quiet
in Middle Tennessee, with no prospects OF
a fight for some time. The rumors about
Rosencranz advancing, heavy reinforce
ments, &C., pure sensations, nothing more.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
atheus5 Cost.
TERMS 4:


Announcing names ofeandidates Tor once SiO'
Ctsh.
Obituary Notices over twelve INES eha'geu ~
the regular adyerlisingrates,
Allcom sintended 10 promote the pr
vate ends or interests Of Corporations, soe'et'os'
School. or individuals, will be charged as ad'ef-
ti.rnrnls.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27

On Duty, Middle 1cnesSe, FEB. l6.
FRIEND IvrNs:-For the information OF
friends and relatives of my Company, !
herewith send you a list oil killed and
wounded in the Company at the late Fort
Donelson fight;
KiHed-G. w. Wynn and VIM. Long.
Womdea-E. r. Rentiro, in leg and
thigh; II. II. Hayes, in side, rib broken;
r. J. Moore, in foot; Thomas Ellis, hand;
J. X. Glasscock, hand; Solomon Stone,
arm; G. c. Hampton, side; Daniel Grow,
shoulder.
E. T. Rentfro and S. StoRe were too
badly wounded to be removed, and 1t is
supposed are prisoners. The Company
without exception, fought with much bra
very. Yours Respectfully,
p. IL. RICE, Capt, II. b.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-02-27
Muss in the Illinois Legislature.

Richmond, Feb. 20.-A resolution was
recently introduced in the Illinois Legs-
lature for a recess until June next, the
object being to give the Peace Convention
time to take action and report to the
Legislature.
After the resolution was offered in the
Senate the Republican members held
caucus, and'agreed that there should be
no more Legislation unless the Demo
Gratis would withdraw the resolution cal
ling the Convention at Louisville, KY,
and pledge themselves not to present
them again.
The Republican Senators have left
Springfield and will not return until the
pledge is given, so that the Legislature is
virtually dissolved.
The Port Royal, S. c., correspondent
of the New York World, under date of
February 9th, says that Fosters expedl.
ton is worse than at stand still, for the
troops are embarking from the transports
and taking quarters on st. Helena Island.
Many days must elapse before anything
can be achieved by 1T.
Reports are rife as to disagreements be-
tween Gems. Hunter and Foster. The
latter has gone to Washington Tor addl-
tional instructions, and nothing will be
heard from the expedition for three
weeks to come.
nlAr In announcing the extraordinary
rise Of gold in the" N forth, the Chicago
Times says
This is owing only in part to the com
ing debasement ofthe currency by anoth-
err issue Of Government paper. 1t is ow-
ing largely to the failing public confidence
in the stability of the Government. 1t is
owing to the apprehension that the coun.
try cannot survive two years more Of
Abraham Lincoln and his political party
1t is owing to the public belief that Abra
ham Lincoln 0nd the leaders Of his po
litcal party are intent upon revolution
and the erection Of another Government
1t is owing to the public appreciation o
.he universal decentralization and disinte
grafton which flow naturally and ineyita
bly, from the power Of Abolitionism in tn,
Government. 1t is owing to the now iul
ly awakened public conviction that Abo
litionism is fatal to everything it touches
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-21
The Press Compliment to Speaker
COlfnx.

WAsuiNGroN, Dec. 20.--Thrty gentlemen
were present at the complimentary dinner to
Speaker Coltax last night. They ere all
connected with the prominent journals Of the
country, and were Of various political opln-
ions. 1t was a pleasant and harmonious
gathering. Samuel Wilkinson, Esq, of the
New York Times, presided, and at the con
clusion of his remarks proposed a sentiment
which elected from Speaker ColtaX briet
appropriate and patriotic speech, in which he
said the house Of representatives had chosen
newspaper men for speaker, clerk and post.
master-a good share for the profession, and
that in the senate it was very nearly the same
way. The vice president, the secretary (FOr-
ney), the sergeant-at-arms BROWN, coming
in for the highest election honors. He con-
cIuded by offering the sentiment, "the Amer
lean press" if inspired by patriotism, moral-
ty and humanity it cannot tail to develop con-
sta ntly increasing power, and vigor and con-
sequent independence.
Representatives Brooks of New York, and
Baldwin of Massachusetts, senator Anthony,
OF Rhode Island, the superintendent of public
printing, (Defrees) and the clerk of the house
(McPherson) afforded much pleasure to the
company by their responses to the calls upon
them.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-21

WHITE DEsERTERs ARRESTED BY COLoRED
SoLDIEKs.-So Some days ago, two men were
seen moving suspiciously along toe banks of
creek near st. Helena Village An aged
colored man hastened to report "rrbels" in
sight, Two yong men (coored) armed with
muskets, stated in pursuit The strangers
beat hasty retreat into the bushes, but were
soon discovered and ordered to surrender,
which they Immediately did. BY direction
OF James Lynch, missionary at the village,
they were marched to the signal station and
delivered 10 the lieutenant in command. The
prisoners proved to he conscrlpt who had de
serted from regiments stationed at this post.
Ihey were subsequently brought to Beaufort
ana handed over to the provost marshal
Inc coiored men have earned the $50 reward
Tor deserters, and should receive it, Port
Royal Free Press.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-21

ETnERlDGE REBUKED BY a KENTUCKY 10y
ALIsr.-Emerson Eiheridge was introduced
recently to Brutus j. Clay of Kentucky, and
Immediately began to denounce the govern.
ment. Mr.. Clay, after hearing his tempest
lew moments, replied :-"Well Mr.. Eth
erldSe, this is pretty rough. Before the war
when | was democrat i used to hear
OF you down in Tennessee as an abolition
lst You must have lately changed your
views. This was somewhat whiting to the
retlring clerk, who supposed he had got
man after his own heart. He nlucked nm
courage, however, and went into another
TRADE Mr. Clay thereupon, with calmness
mingled with manifest Indignation, rising to
his full height, interrupted him: ..Weil, sir,
tls Is our first meeting. Your language,
ST. seems TO me alrocious, and all | have
to say to you is, that when men talk inns
down in Kentucky, we regard them as Sc
GesSlonists, and treat them accordingly
washington cor. ". II. Statesman.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-21

Fort MONROE, Dec. lS.-A train of cars,
under flag Of truce, left Norfolk for Suffolk
yesterday, with fourteen women and eleven
children, to remain at the south during the
war.
Gen. Butler has issued an order for the en-
rolment of all able bodied citizens colored
and white, between eighteen and torty-fve
years Of age, in this department, to be com
pleted January LIST.
The magazine explosion in yorktown de-
On Wednesday last our pickets were driven
in at Gloucester Point by the rebels. Two
companies went Immediately out and dispersed
the enemy.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-21

WORCESTER COUNTY BIBLE SocIETY.-The all
nual meeting of this society was held Sunday even
ing at the Union church. Introductory exercises
were conducted by Rev. Mr.. Cutler after which
Hon. Henry Chaplin. Deacon WRshburn being abb
sent presided over the meeting. Rev. L. Moss. the
secretary Of the society Icing absent in the service
OF the christian commission, the annual reports
were postponed to another occasion Judge Cha
pin gave some account of The history ofthe society,
which was organized in 1915 its primary object be-
ing the distribution the Bible to those in WOrces-
ter country who had it not enlsrging their work as
they might have the means. After speaking warm
y of the great good which this society has been ill
strumenta in accomplishing, he introduced Rev.
Nj Tutte the assistant secretary OF the Bible soci
ETY. in New York.
Rev. Mr.. futile spoke the representative of the
American Bible Society. He gave interesting
description of the efforts made previous to the pres
ent century to have the Bible printed in this coun-
try. Speaking especially Of the royal quarto edi-
ton published by Isaiah Thomas near the close Of
that century. lie said HAT probably not more than
one hundred aud fifty thousand copies OF the Bible
in circulation during the period Of tile reYolu-
| ton, when cur population was three millions. The
American Bible Society formed May 8th, 1916,
| and now number two thousand auxiliary societies;
They have circulated eighteen million copies of the
| Scriptures. One and one quarter million arc pub
| lished every ycai. Two million copies have been
circulated in tie army and navy. hundred thou
sand pies rebel prisoners OF war, and five thou
| sand sent to our men at Richmond. Large mum
| bers had been sent 10 the army, fifty thousand
having gone to Bragss army. and in answer to 4
call from North Carolina 5000 testaments and 25,-
900 Bibles had very recently been sent to the rebels
in that state
Hon. A. Ii. Bullack spoke Of the value of the
our government. The great doctrine of the equality
| Of all men before God, of the great truths
oil the Bible, and is being fulfilled in the
ton. lie related anecdote Of Rufus Choate. a
friend ON visiting lis library, remarked that while
there not copy OF the constitution to be found
there different editions OF tie Greek tes-
lament, aud called lis attention to the fact All,
my friend, said Mr.. Choate, you forget that the
constitution OF my country is in every of them
Nr. Bullock closed with hsppy illusions TO the eX-
| isting state ofatlairs in our country.
Rev. Mr.. Barnard made some earnest remarks
upon the great and increasing value of the study
| the Bible, after which hymn was sung and the
meeting adjourned.