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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Stirring News.

The following-if true, and it comes
ria Neutrality-suspicious. very pleas
ant condition of affairs in Louisiana:
A member of Governor Warmouth's
staff has just arrived from Louisiana.
lie says if the President does not re-
spond TO the call FOR troops, which the
Governor will make, in compliance
with the resolution just passed by the
Legislature, the State will be practical
ly in rebellion.
He says the western part of the State
is wholly under the control of the Ku-
klux Khan, who ride about openly by
daylight. several of the former rebel
cavalry regiments have been re-organ-
lied and called "Seymour Knights"
and the infantry companies, Blair
Guards"
The following item is also from Wash
ington:
The action of the South Carolina and
Georgia Legislatures in the elections of
Senators, which indicate an abandon
mcnt of extreme views, casts coIstcrna-
ton in radical circles here.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Wall Street GOSsin-

The New York Herald Financial mr.
ticlc) thinks money is going to be easy
for the rest of the year. 1t says;
"Therc is nothing in the financial
prospect to warrant apprehensions of
an active money market so long as cur
rency contraction remains suspended
and trade is as at present devoid of any
strongly marked speculative features !;
and even if trade were otherwise, the
mercantile demand alone would not
lead to anything approaching stringen-
cy i'll Wall street. Moreover, the twenty
five millions of new three per cent, lc-
gal tender certificates recently author
lied by Congress will be issued i'm ex-
change for the compound interest notes
outstanding as fast as the latter mature,
and in this way all danger of distur-
bance arising from their maturity will
be guarded against.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Washington Gossip.

Our indciatigablc Washington cor
respondent sends us the following:
The proposition of the carpet-bag-
gers TO carry the Southern States for
Grant by the Legislatures choosing the
Electors is freely discussed, and meets
with little or no favor even from Re-
publicans. Democrats say that. if the
programme is carried out. they will beat
the radicals in every Northern State cX-
ccpt Massachusetts,. Vermont and Rhode
Island. The carpct-baggers are already
backing water. One of these from
North Carolina says he opposed it in the
meeting, and declares that his State will
have fair and honest vote, and, in the
language of the prize-tightcrs, let the
best man win. This proposition meets
with such disfavor that it will be shelly
ed.
Leading radicals were together last
night and discussed the situation, which
was conceded to be unsatisfactory but
the final conclusion was that Grant
should be elected at all hazards.
The news from Tennessee is threaten
ing. In conversation to-day the Presi-
dent expressed the opinion that Brown
low will bring OH strife at all hazards,
and that he is prompted by the radical
managers in this city.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
The Future of Our Country.

Sickening of the general ruin that
is staring us in the face, the Shelby, Ky,
Sentinel says:
1t is time that all Democrats, all low
ers of the peace and of the country
should recognize the momentous fact
that upon the issue of this Presidential
race is suspended every hope of the
country. Four more yeas of Radical
rule will as certainly as the sun shines
destroy every remaining vestige of con.
stitutional OF governmental protection
Men do not leap into perdition at one
bound The progress of tyrany and cor.
ruption are as assiduous as gradual
Radicalism has at last reached poin
that would have shocked and dis
gusted the most depraved tyrant in thu
ranks a few years ago. Even leading
men of their own party are beginning
to shrink with loathing from coming il
contact with such disgusting corruption
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Ben Butler.

That the Bondholdcrs own the Radi-
cal party, is plain from the fact that
Stevens and Butler have fallen into dis
grace since their advocacy Of green
back payment.
A correspondent of the New York
Times, who signs himself as a Massa.
chusctts man, says of General Butler :
"AIany of his services during the war
were invaluable to the country, and
should not be forgotten, but his suicidal
stab to the credit of the nation would
seem almost sufficient to offset them all.
1t keeps the word of promise to the
ear but breaks it to the sense That
his course will be approved by his dis
trict is too much to expect. lie is more
likely to be reelected as Democrat
than as a Republican, but neither are at
all probable"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
COlfaX on Grant.

The following are six of the sixteen
reasons said to have been issued, OF
caused to be issued, by Mr.. Colfax, il
the fall of 1867, why Gen. Grant should
not be made President. We append be-
low the six last, believing they are a.
good now as when Colfax first issued
them. They are undeniablc, and as
coming from Colfax we commend them
to our Radical friends.
l. lie has all he deserves at the hands
of the American people.
2. He could not deliver an inaugural
address.
B. Because at this peculiar period in
the history Of our great country we need
an ABLE AND EXPERIENCED
STATESMAN at the "White House,"
4. Because he has proved q failure Ia,
every capacity outside Of the military.
4. lie claims to have no knowledge OF
political or national affairs.
6. We have one hundred better men
for President.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07

The following occurred in the House
of Representatives on the 9th:
A bill to provide for the election of
Presidential electors by the General
Assembly, instead of by the people,
The object of the bill is stated to be to
avoid the danger of civil war and
bloodshed should general election be
held. Passed first reading and refer
red to the Committee on the Judiciary,
but subsequently ruled out of order as
not touched upon in the Governors
message, and Withdrawn.
The following was introduced in the
Senate:
Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Tennessee, That the
entire bonded Indebtedness of the State,
principal and interest,now due or which
may become due within three years
from the passage of this act, be under
the direction of the Governor of the
State. funded at par in thirty year bonds
of the State of Tennessee, bearing six
per cent interest payable in the city of
Nashville. This act to take effect from
its passage. ......
In the Senate on the 30th, the follow
ing memorial was presented and refer
red to the military committee:
We, the undersigned citizens of the
county of Rutherford, believing that no
necessity exists or is justly apprehend-
ed for the organization of a militia
force to conduct the coming election, or
for any other object, earnestly and SOL
EMMY protest against the participation
of our Representatives in promoting
such organization.
We earnestly desire and therefore
commend the immediate repeal Of the
franchise law and the removal of all ex-
traordinary restrictions on the right of
suffrage.
In the House, Mr.. Thornberg, of JEFF
fcrson, offered the following resolution,
which was adopted unanimously:
Resolved, by the General Assembly
of the State of Tennessee, That the
maintenance of the State credit is the
duty of every honest and patriotic citi-
zen, and her present financial Obliga-
tons under all circumstances, are to be
upheld, and the strictest integrity and
good faith. and all insinuatiOns of bad
faith or reputation, direct or indirect,
are unworthy of sensitive and high
minded people, that have ever been
ready to maintain her honor with their
blood and treasure.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
South Carolina.

Things seem to be working in South
Carolina as elsewhere. From present
indications the radical party will be
split wide open long before the Novem-
Der election. The following is from Co.
lumbia, South Carolina:
Franklin j. Moses, father of the Spea-
ker of the House, was elected Chief
Justice today over ID. Il. Corbin, L. S.
District Attorney General for Charles
ton. Mr.. Moses has never before atlil
lated with The party, and the Republi-
cans say the party has been sold out
One disguised radical voted for Wade
Hampton. Two or three others voted
for the Democrats. Much excitement
and no good feeling prevails, and tho
schism is widening. ..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
A Conservative Reinforcement.

Under the foregoing heading, the
Washington City National Lntelligencer
thus refers to the two Democratic rep
resentatives from Georgia that have ia
ken their seats in Congress:
"Among the new members sworn in
yesterday were Mr.. Tiff and General p
M. B. Young, Of Georgia. These gen.
tlemcn must be carefully Disseminated
from the class of rapacious carpet-bag-
gers who have foisted themselves sur
reptiously into the public councils
They are native Georgians, and men of
character and intelligence. Both are in
full sympathy with the Conservative
party of the country, and will faithful
ly represent the true interests of their
people"
''rhe admission of General Young
was favored by several leading Radicals
to whom we are bound to accord credit
| for the candor which has led them. in
this instance, to separate themselves
from the more bigoted portion of that
party. We congratulate Gen. Young
upon his success, Notwithstanding the
preiudiccs which resisted his admission,
and predict for him Il useful career"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Terrific Oil Explosion.

PITTsBURG, July 20.-A terrific oil en-
plosion occurred last night at the Alborn
oil works of Laflarty II Warning. three
miles from the city, resulting in the
death of man named james Goniglc,
and the probable fatal injury of Robert
Laflarty, one of the proprietors. There
is still man missing who is supposed
to be killed. The accident was caused
by plug at the bottom of one of the
tanks becoming loose, and the oil run
ming out caught fire from the furnaces,
and communicating to eight other tanks,
caused a terrific explosion. The works
were entirely destroyed. -.....-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Horrible.

A man in Wabash, Indiana, on the
10th ult., whose wife had left him on
account of ill-treatment, and procured
a situation as family servant, under
an assumed name, went in drunken
state to the house where she was living,
and tried to persuade her to go with
him-crying, begging and imploring
her-but she refused, whereupon he
seized her around the waist with his
left arm, and with, one stroke of a large
knife he had provided, he almost sever
ed her head from her body. He then
laid down on the floor, with her still in
his arms, and cut his own throat from
ear to ear. -
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Getting Rid of a Husband,

John Bcgo, of Monroe. Michigan,
died recently of arsenic. His wife and
one Mr.. Cronk were suspected and ar
rested. Cronk boarded at Bcgo's, and
was in the habit Of kissing Mrs. Bego
frequently, and Mr.. Bcgo had some
trouble with her growing out of this
She often wished TO get rid of him, and
at one time offered fifty dollars to one
Jerry to drown him, and also offered
Cronk thirty dollars TO poison him. it
was shown that Cronk had bought two
ounces of arsenic,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Reorganization of the Southern
Military Districts.

Mlltufy DlSUrICtSs
The Southern Military Districts have
been re-organized as follows:
The Second and Third Military Dis
tricts have ceased to exist. The States
of North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida will con-
stitute the Department of the South,
Major General George C.Meade to COM
mand headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.
2. The Fourth Military District will
now consist only of the State of Mis-
sissippi, and will continue to be COM
manded by Brevet Major General A. G..
Gillcm.
3. The Fifth Military District will
now consist of the State of Texas, and
will be commanded by Brevet Major
General J. u. Reynolds, headquarters at
Austin, Texas.
4. The States of Louisiana and Ar.
kansas will constitute the District OF
Louisiana. Brcvct Major General j.. ii
Rousseau is assigned to the command
with headquarters at New Orleans
Louisiana. Until the arrival of General
Rousseau at New Orleans, Brevet Mai
General Buchanan will command the
! department. ...
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
AttemDted Murder.

Another attempt at murder was made
in Washing Saturday. Captain j. G..
Queen, a government clerk, was attack
ed by one white man and two colored
men; one of the colored men held him
while the other with razor and the
white man with knife disabled him,
gashing his throat. They then dragged
him to the hollow, in the pine grove,
where he was found, and rifed his
pockets, robbing him Of his money,
about two hundred dollars, some pa
pcrs and cold watch.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Another Rascally Scheme.

The following special from Washing
ton is published in the papers:
The Southern members have agreed
on programme which will starte the
country. In conference with leading
radicals they decided to have electors in
the reconstructed States chosen by the
Legislatures, as was formerly done by
South Carolina. This will insure that
entire vote for Grant and ColfaX, if the
Legislatures of those States carry it out,
of which there can be no doubt. 1t is
held that the Legislatures have power
to prescribe the mode Of choosing cleo
tors.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
The Round Table.

The New York Round Table, a lite
rary journal with Republican tenden-
'cies, makes the following admission
"If we closely compare and weigh
the two present candidates, Grant and
Seymour, and are able to consider their
merits apart from political bias, it is i'm
possible to deny that the latter, by natu-
raj intellectual powers, by education,
by social culture, by experience of pub
lie affairs, is Infinitely the filter man of
the two to be President of the United
States"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07

can now be bought in the South at five
dollars an acre, which were, before the
war, worth fifty dollars per acre.
We have in this country the most in
exorable system of taxation in the
world. 1t follows man into every
nook and corner of his business. Ifhis
wife has made pound of butter, it is
put down on his income list. If some
old grandmother has plucked the fcath-
ers from an aged and forlorn goose, the
feathers and the poor old goose must
be taxed to support the government
These inquisitorial tax-gatherers have
raked this country from center to cir.
conference to find every particle Of
property that can be taxed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Woman i'm Black.

A fair lady, dressed in deep black,
my seriously appears to benighted pc
destrians i'll Monmouth, Ill. She makes
uttcrance of only single word, "Dom-
ino;' and who she is, and how she is,
is question unsettled. Some gentle
men who have undertaken to capture
the sombre beauty, have concluded to
give up the business on finding them
selves running against the nose of re-
vOlver. Possibly it's She KukluXcr.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
The ROthSchild.

In connection with the rumor that
Rothschild intends to purchase Jerusa-
lem and have himself proclaimed King
Of Palestine, German .teutletoniste
asks: "What is the difference between
Rothschild and Solomon? Solomon
was King of the Jews, and ROthschild
is the Jew of the Kings"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
BuncOmh Orators.

SO strict are the Speakers of both
Houses of the Tennessee Legislature in
ruling out all business except that call
ed for in the Governors message, that
the buncomb orators and lobbyists have
no chance whatever. On this account
the proceedings will be rather uninter-
esting.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Brutal Outrage.

Bill Rudd, an cx-Conlcdcratc soldier,
was shot dead in Wavcrly, Missouri,
last Friday, by party of armed men,
and his body hung upon tree in the
woods by the perpetrators. His mouth
was stuffed full of tow. and the rope by
which he was suspended was passed
through his mouth and then around his
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Tle Indiana

A dispatch from Omaha says that re-
ports have reached there from Wood
River, Nebraska, that large band of
Sioux and Cheyennes attacked small
party of Pawnee scouts under Lieuten-
ant Hawley, killing one Pawnee and
wounding Lieutenant Hawley, and cap
tured arms and ammunition.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
A Tender Conscience.

A New Jersey legislator took the mo
ncy illegally voted him as extra com
pensation, and purchased Bibles for dis
tribution in his vicinity. The people
knowing how he obtained the money
refuse TO receive the Bibles. The con-
science of New Jersey is as tender as a
mothers love. ... ..r
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
RadicaliSm i'm Missouri.

The St. Louis Times publishes am ac-
count of a Democratic meeting at Elk
Lick, Saline county, recently, being dis.
turbod and finally broken up by the
radicals. Two otthrce fights occurred
during the early part of the meeting, in
which several heads were broken and
other injury inflicted but subsequently
while Col. Philips was speaking, he was
interrupted by a man named Howard
who shot another, named Chatham
Pistols were then freely used and gen.
eral battle ensued. Three men (radi.
cals) were killed outright, and seven
others badly wounded. Five or six
Democrats were also seriously hurt.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
A Seducer Shot.

In Hamilton, Ontario, Oh Wednesda!
night, John Slater, a sailor, met Patrick
Shaughnessy in the street and deliber
ately shot him, severing an artery and
causing his death. The provocatior
was the seduction of Slater's sister by
Shaughnessy. Slater made his escape
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07

There would be some consolation for
the heavily taxed laboring men of the
country, if the money which is wrung
from them was applied to the liquida-
ton of the national debt. But il is not.
it goes TO swell the Golfers of stock job
bcrs, contractors, and other pets Con-
,yrpSs ......
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07

The Kansas Democratic Convention
nominated Il. Nv. Glyck as Governor.
and Maxwell McCusler as Lieutenant
Governor. 5h.n'sl ar1 r.sti ar'7fi1
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07

Paris papers say that the famine in
Morocco was worse than in Algeria,
and great numbers have died of starva-
ton H.. .I.' .N..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
The gust.
Athens, Friday, August =, lS0s.
The Negro Must Go to Congress.

Wendell Phillips is in favor of COL
ored Congressman. He says: "Vienna
sinks helpless into the gulf of bank
ruptcy, victim to her faith in the aris-
tocracy of blood. England furnishes
the glory of thousand years by ac-
ccpting the aristocracy of wealth. We
inaugurate the aristocracy of brains
Having done full justice, in times past,
to the countrymen of Emmett and
O'Conncll, of Goethe and Korner, even
of Isaiah and the Macabees, the next
step is to give the negro @ chance to
show that Tousant LOuverture was no
glorious monster, but a generous rep
rc.entative of the capacity of his race.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07

After long period Of wet weather
when they have prayed vainly for relief
the Chinese put their gods in the rail-
to see now they like il.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07

Insult not another for his want Of the
talents which you possess he may have
talents which YOU want.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Prospect of War in the South.

We are glad to note that not all the
Republican papers of the North are in
clined to believe the current stories
about the prevalence of rebcllious
spirit in the South. The New York
Sun remarks:
If people were to believe one-halt
they read in the red-hot partisan jour
nails OH both sides, they would think the
South were just about to plunge into
another war. During Presidential
election it is safe, as general rule, to
di>crcdil the larger share Of the scnsa-
ton stories set atloat by this portion of
the press. OF one thing, at all events,
we may rest assured, and that is, that
the South will not get up another rebel
lion during the present generation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07

The Supreme Court at the Sandwich
Islands has decided that man cannot
be hung for the crime of suicide.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07

The Hon. Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio,
addressed the recent West Virginia
Democratic Mass Convention, follow.
ing Hon. Geo. II. Pendleton. Judge
Thurman was the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio at the last cleo.
tion and is the United States Senator
elect who will take Ben. Wade's place
next March. He said upon the finan
cial question: