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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
The Murderer of Eighteen Men
Lynched.

The Memphis Post gives the follow
ing particulars of the lynching of ne
gro desperate by colored mob in Ar
kansas:
The arrest of colored desperate.
who had murdered several men, with
great difficulty, at Helena, Ark, early in
1868, will be recalled by our readers.
Sometime last week the villain succeed
ed in etfecting his escape from Jail. The
Deputy Sheriff, with large posse of
men both white and black, started in
pursuit of him, and came upon him ear
ly Yesterday morning, on the road, about
four miles below Helena.
After finding escape impossible. and
being brought to bay, he turned coolly
upon the officer and his posse and dis
charged every barrel of his revolver in
to the crowd. killing the Deputy Sheriff,
wounding another white man in the an
klc, and two colored men, one in the
shoulder and the other in the arm. His
sudden turn took the posse by surprise,
but they promptly returned his fire,
though in the excitement without effect.
AS soon as he had exhausted his revolt
yer the survivors rushed upon him in a
twinkling and hung him up to the limb
of tree. On their return to the town
with their dead and wounded the most
intense excitement prevailed. General
satisfaction is expressed that the des-
perado had met with such short and
sudden shrift. 1t is understood that
the murderer had declared that no man
should take him alive. 1t is also said
that he had during his lifetime killed,
MANNED or wounded eighteen different
men.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
The Truth Well Told.

The New York Erpre.s, comment
ing upon Gov. Warmouth's veto of the
negro equality bill in Louisiana, says:
After all, the negro is in the hands
of a set of people who hate him, and the
sooner he withdraws from their pro-
tecting influence the better. They have
tricked him out Of his promised mules,
his forty acres Of land, his seat in Con-
gress, his anticipated privilege of wet
ting his picturesque lips at the bar check
by jowl with white carpet-baggers and
scallawags, his ardently hoped for de-
light OF sitting closely by the side of
white ladies at dinner, at the theatre,
and on his journeys, and if he be not
careful they will repeal his right to vote.
II is not the Democratic party Cuffee
need TO be afraid of. 1t is the Radical
party that will restore him to his an
cient position if anybody. Once the
trooly loil Adventures and plundcrers
find him of no use to them, and they
will be ready and willing to assume
their old posts Of slave overscers.
Precisely what we have been telling
the blacks all the time. That unless they
come to halt and cut loose from the
men who are leading them astray, they
will lose the rights already secured
them, and be placed in a worse condi-
ton than ever before. When they find
they can no longer use the negro for
their own selfish and wicked purposes,
the carpet-bagger, and still meaner seal
lawag, will turn against him and be the
foremost in stripping him Of the fran
chises he now enjoys. The negro ought
to know that the white man who is re-
creant and false to his own race and
color is not to be trusted, and will be-
tray and sell his dupes as soon as it be-
comes his interest to do so.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
Live Cattle Weighed by Measure.

The only instrument necessary is
measure with feet and inch marks upon
it. The girth is the circumference Of
the animal just behind the shoulder
blades. The length is the distance from
the shoulder blades. The superficial
feet are obtained by multiplying the
girth and length. The following table
contains the rule to ascertain the weight
of the animal:
If less than one foot in girth, multi
ply superficial feet by eight.
If less than three and more than one,
multiply the superficial feet by eleven.
If less than five feet and more than
three, multiply superficial feet by six
teen.
If less than seven and more than Ave,
multiply superficial feet by twenty-five.
If less than nine and more than seven,
multiply superficial feet by thirty-three.
If less than eleven and more than
nine, multiply superficial feet by forty
two.
Example: Suppose the girth of bull
lock to be six feet three inches length
five feet six inches; the superficial area
will then be thirty-four. and in accord
ance with preceding table, the weight
will be seven hundred and eighty-two
pounds.
Example suppose pig to measure in
girth two feet, and in length one foot
nine inches. There would then be three
and half feet, which multiplied by
eleven, gives thirty-eight and half
pounds as the weight of the animal
when dressed. In this way the weight
of the four quarters can be substantially
ascertained during life.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
The Advantages of "Cheel,."

"Mr. Cheekwell, pray tell me how it
is you've got along so well when your
neighbor SOlidrock scarcely boasts his
salt? A nice man he, but he's as poor
as medicant." "That's true said
Cheekwell, "a very nice man is Solid
rock. But You see he never pushes,
never drives, never treads on anybody.
Now, for my part, | think that's all
fudge. Cad. generally calculate to
know everything and little more,
wherever | am. Nothing like assump-
ton. my dear sir. Put on face and
keep it there. just face the music if
You want any music. All a mistake to
wait for the world to come along and
give you helping hand. 1t don't deal
in that style of life. If you don't blow
your own trumpet, renounce me if any,
body will. There's no number but No. l,
and to get it you've got to scramble and
crowd and push and jump without man
ners or mercy. Cheek sir, cheek is u
great thing. The world believes in it,
whatever it says. Impudence is only
confidence in another shape. Gold is
a big thing, but there's shine or so to
brass, and nine people in ten think just
as well of it. calculate one man is as
good as another, and great deal better
if he'll only dash ahead with might and
main. Never finch. Never take back
step. Never play second fiddle. Know
no number but the first. What you call
modcsty don't pay at all sir. Gets trod
upon and ruined, like lady's long dress
in the street. never have anything to
do with it. Great weakness, sir-great
weakness"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
Heavy Joke Oh Stokes,

We clip the following from the Alba
ny Argus: Another great Democratic
riot occurred at the Radical meeting on
Thursday night, An individual made
an cutlery, and two or three policeman
set upon him violently, nearly tearing
the poor fellow to pieces. He was un.
tremendously thrust into the street
where, after an opportunity occurred
for explanation, it was ascertained that
he was Radical in full communion
who had fallen fast asleep, and, having
been suddenly Jared, awoke with al
exclamation of surprise. Stokes, "the
eloquent orator from Tennessee" had
put the unfortunate Radical asleep
Let us have peace.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
VOL. XVI---NO. As.
Startling Illustration of Radical
Love for the Negro.
From the Mobile Register, September %.

From the Mobile Register, September %.
Let ia committee of them Che negroes)
wait on Griffith and ask him about Ger.
tain schooner that sailed out of this port
about eighteen months since, with one
hundred and fifty colored men on board,
ostensibly bound to Texas. where the
carpet-baggers who had charge of them
told the deceived creatures that they
would find work and high wages for
them. Make him tell the committee
what he knows about the schooner
where she cleared for and did not GO
where she did go--what became OF the
negroes--whether any of them have
short, he does not know that they were
sold into slavery by some OF the party
carpet-baggers who have now got hooks
in the noses Of the Radical negroes OF
Mobile, and are making them howl for
Grant and CollaX every time they give
the string jerk-whether knowing all
this from his own investigations, Griffin
did not hush the thing up, in considera-
ton of certain bargain with these car
pet-baggers, to push on and advance his
financial and political interests. These
are bully questions to put to carpet
baggers. seeing that they are daily
alrning the negroes with the insinuatiol
that their old masters intend to put
them back into slavery whenever they
get the power. Griffin knows all about
this thing. Let the committee make
him disgorge his knowledge. He is en-
titled to the first chance to tell about it.
If he does not, somebody else will dis
gorge it for him. The crime is kidnap-
ping, under the laws of the State, and
piracy, punished with death, under the
laws of the United States. Pump it
out of him. colored menl You had bet
ter, or perhaps it will be your lot to
take the next trip to Cuba.
The man, Griffin, alluded to above is
a Chicago printer who published lit
tie negro organ at Mobile and is consid-
cred one of the leading carpet-baggers
of the State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
The Result.

The New York Herald of the 2Sth
says: The Cashier of the National Park
Bank Of this city, in reply to an appli-
cation from Atlanta for negotiating a
loan of money, says: SIN happier and
calmer times we should have been glad
to entertain the negotiation; but in the
present state Of things, political and
commercial, our board is adverse to ia
king risks out of the pale of ordinary
mercantile transactions" This is the
result of Radical reconstruction and
misrulc in attempting to overthrow the
laws Of nature and common sense by
putting the ignorant negroes as gov
erning power over the intelligent
whites
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
THE Man Stanton.

A Washington letter says, cit is
well known in that city that Gen. Grant
has been completely subjugated by Stan
ton-thGt in the event Of Grants cleo
ton to the Presidency, Stanton will be
Secretary of State and the virtual chief
of the administration-tha the other
members Of the Cabinet will be mere
puppets, completely under Stantons
control, and acting only by his direction.
This is as well established as any future
event can be-"
Fortunately for the country, however,
there is not much probability of Grants
election.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
Particulars of the Assassination
of Gen. Hindman.


The Memphis appeal gives the fol-
lowing particulars of this terrible at
fair:
Shortly after tea, while the General
was sitting with the family in the sup
per room, shot was fired through the
window from without, and he fell rid
died with slugs and balls, two of which
passed through his breast. He was i'm
mediately attended upon, but survived
only eight hours after receiving the
wound. The shot and outcries Of the
Generals family brought neighbors to
the spot Immediately, but though every
'exertion was made up to the date of the
dispatch the murderer had not been
caught. A half inch rope and short
shrift will certainly be his portion if he
is captured within the next few days.
From information that we have re-
ceived otherwise, there is not a shadow
Of doubt but that the deed was the
work Of the hellish Loyal League. Gen.
fHindmap has been since the close of the
war ap ardent supporter of the Demo-
cratic cause, and bitter foe and de-
,nouncer of radicals and radicalism.-
They haye now, no doubt, wreaked the
vengeance they have so often sworn, and
in true radical mapner-by the hand
of an assassin. More blood smokes up
on the altar Of our dcsolated South,
and cries aloud for vengeance,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
The Department of the Cumber-
land.

lanu.
A Washington dispatch of the LIST
instant says: .,...
General Gordon Granger left to-day
to take command of the Department of
the Cumberland. He will have COM
mdnd of the United States troops in
Tennessee during the absence of Gene
raj Thomas, who is expected here to-
morrow as one of the members of the
Court of Inquiry in Dyer's case, which
is set for Monday next. This sadly de-
ranges the Radical plan. Brewnlow
in charge of the militia and Thomas
commanding the United States troops.
the Radicals deem Tennessee 'saie,"
but they now say that the satisfaction
felt by the "loyal people of the country"
at the considerable number of soldiers
sent to the Department of the Cumber-
land is wholly neutralized by the fact
that General Granger goes there to
command.
A special to the Louisville Courier
adds:
The Radicals are quite indignant that
Gen. Geo. ii. Thomas has been called
from Tennessee to form one of the court
of inquiry here in General Dyer's case.
They allege that the President had a CO.
vert design in assigning him to that du-
ty, and this they claim is confirmed by
ordering General Granger, Democrat,
to the Department, which he will com
mand during the absence of General
Thomas. Their charges are of course
groundless, as the Secretary OF War
appointed the officers for the court OF
in0uiry.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
The Campaign.

The following from the Philadelphia
Age shows to what desperate straits the
poor radicals are driven to prop their
falling fortunes:
The New York Tribune has asserted
that " the Hon. Fred. Laucr, Of Read
ing, Pennsylvania, and one hundred and
twenty. four of his friends and en-
ployes, all stout Democrats, have come
out for Grant and ColfaX.' This is a
lie, as will be seen by the following tele-
gram from Mr.. Lauer:
editors Of the Age-Brand the arti-
ticle in the New York Tribune as an in
famous talsehood. l am, as ever, de-
fender of the Constitution and a strong
supporter of Seymour and Blair.
FRED. LAUER."
The report as to Mr.. Lauers friends
and employees is equally destitute OF
truth.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
A Striking Illustration.

Hon. r. A. Hendricks, of Indiana, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, in
a speech Of great soundness and force,
in showing the importance of harmony
and good feeling between the North and
South, and the advantages of reciprocal
trade between the South and North
western States, gave the following hap
py illustration:
The sweetest lesson of our religion is
to be found in the parable Of the Prodi-
gal Son. That son, you recollect, be-
came tired of the best home in the
world, and wandered off to seek his
fortune among strangers. Seeding
from the paternal roof, soon poverty
and hunger came upon him. and he con-
cluded to return. If that father, who
saw him afar off," had been Radical,
what would he have said? "Therc
comes my rebellious son! He thinks |
will let him come back upon the same
terms as the rest of the boys and girls.
No, mol" That father, as described to
us in the parable, was not a Radical. He
opened his arms and welcomed him as
he saw the erring boy return, and as he
stepped into that house, peace, love and
happiness returned. There was Radi-
cal in that family, though. The other
boy, as soon as he saw his brother COM
ing, commenced growing, and did not
want the returning prodigal admitted.
ask you, as Christian men and citizens,
do you think we can build our institu-
tons upon the bad passions of hatred,
revenge and neutrality-suspicious. that
come up from the dark caverns of hell.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
T E R M s.:
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At Two Dollars n Year, Payable
I'm Advanced.

OF No attention paid to orders for the paper
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Transient advertisements must be paid for
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
Valuable pills

Josh Billings has been experimenting
with pills, and certifies as follows:
81 never hav used emmy ov Doctor
Emanuel's Liver Consoling and kidney
Encouraging Pills, and therefore kant
tell yu how intiucnshal they am, but if
you are looking after pill as mild as a
pet lamb and as searching as a fine
toothed comb, buy Doctor Ringbone's
Silent Pcrambula,ors, u in box. sold
by all the respectful druggers. These
pills don't phool round, but attend
strickly few dizziness, and are as good in
the ded of mite as an alarm clock
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
The Revolution in Spain,

The revolution in Spain is complete,
to be followed perhaps by fierce and
protracted civil war. The following is
from Madrid, the Spanish capital:
The Provisional Junta is organized
with Madanas as President. No mea-
sures are yet taken looking to the fu-
ture of the country, beyond demanding
plan for representation, nor will there
be until General Prim and Serrano ar
rive. The battle between Pavia and
Scrrano occurred at Alecolta, near
Cordova, and was very short, and there
were but few losses.
The success of the revolutionary
movement in Spain, ending as it has, in
the expulsion Of Queen Isabella, gives
rise to much speculation as to her pro-
bable successor of the Spanish throne.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
The gust.
Athens, Friday, Oct. o, AS6s.
A Change Certain.

A condition of things exists now that
cannot exist long. Whatever may be
the result of the Presidential election,
things must change. Mad and fanatical
as the people may be, they will see to
lit that things do change. Ifthey don't,
goodbye to all the republics Of all the
earth. We shall have set the most wick
ed example set in all history. And the
coming ages will curse us.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
The Late EARTHQUAKES.

Further intelligence from the scene of
the late earthquake is received. In Qui-
to the stencil arising from the unburied
bodies is horrible. Pillaging was going
on at africa and Arequippa, PERU
Shocks were felt as late as August 90,
Some people were still being dug out of
the ruins alive, one poor fellow among
them having been entombed for six days
alongside Of his wife's corpse.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
Government Expenses.

The expenses of the Government on
account'of service in the War Depart
ment from January L, 1867, to August
l, 1868, were $2l4,653031.
On account of the Navy Department
same period, S45, 042,924.
Total in 90 months, S294,690,926-or
about half million day.
The Post Office Department shows
a deficit this year of SS,OOO,OOO, against
S3,99S.455 i'm 1867,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
Who Paws Taxes :?

Who pays taxes? The plow-holdcr
and aXc-holder.
Who pays none? The bondholder.
Who proposes to tax bondholdcrs p
The Democrats.
Who proposes to exempt the bond
holders? The radicals.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
MelO-Dramatic.

ScENE-Market-street, Chattanooga.
Little boy (crying)-" Please, sir, give
me some money; we haven't got any
thin to eat at home"
Radical Bystander-" Have you IA
Their and mother?"
Boy" Yes; but fa-father beats mo-
Their, and he beats me, and he don't
work any. He gets-gets drunk every
day, and 'rahs for Grantfax and Coal
tar"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
Good Seed.

We find in the IOca Homestead a
statement, by Suel Foster, Esq, Of the
production of two parts Of the same
field of wheat this season, both Of which
were prepared alike, and treated in the
same manner, with the exception of the
seed. On one portion very clean, plump,
nice wheat, costing 50 25 per bushcl,
was used on the other ordinary wheat
worth 81 Is to 81 so per bushel was
sown. The good seed averaged 231S
per acre; the poorer, 1874 bushels per
acre.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
John w. FOrney.

The Richmond Wing thinks that If
an inquiry be instituted, it will be found
that the art Of lying, as developed in
John w. Forney, combines within it,
self all the physical and moral forces of
the universe.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

Bsa Calvin Shaw, town constable at
Jonesboro', in this State, was shot and
killed by man named McInturff, on
the night of the LIST instant. Shaw had
insulted the latter's wife. --.---
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

A justice, better versed in law than
gospel, not long since married cou-
pie in this way: "Hold up your right
hands. You solemnly swear that you
will perform the duties of your office,
jointly and severally, according to your
best skill and judgment, SO help you
God Fec. 81"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

The last Radical wire-pulling and
electioneering dodge is this: to send
from Baltimore to Pennsylvania several
thousand voters for use in the coming
election. The information comes from
the baltimore custom-housc, and is re-
liable,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

The Radical Rump Congress have cost
the country, in the way of the Congress
sional expenses merely, nearly ten times
as much every year as full Congresses,
wherein all the States were represented,
used to cost.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

DGy" The loss Of life by the late earth
quakes in South America, amounts to
forty thousand. On the heels of the
earthquake famine is now claiming its
victims.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

gsg~ The gold in the Treasury vaults
amounts to eighty millions. Thirty mil
lions will be required on the LIST of No
vember to pay the interest on five-twen-
tioc
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

1t has been asccrtained through the
Revenue Department that only four dis
tilleries are in operation in New York
and suburbs. Last year there were se-
ven hundred. This is the result of tho
law tax on whisky, .rrae.. sci ITO a..,.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

One of the most appropriate mar
riages that we have lately seen men,
toned is that of Miss Kirk Of Corinth,
Mississippi, to Mr.. j. Buskirk.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

In Milan, Italy, there is a man sixty
eight years old who married his fourth
wife about year ago, and during the
last few days had his thirty-frst child
baptized. .....a ....5 H..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

A newly married man of seventy
eight, in Buffalo, was grievcd, but not
surprised, to find his bride OF eighteen
had run away with his elder brother the
other day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

Harlan and other Senators are urging
Secretary Seward to have officers APP
pointed for Wyoming Territory. They
represent the citizens as requiring pro-
lection which can be properly furnished
through that medium.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

Daniel Suter is under one thousand
dollars bond, in Philadelphia, for call
ing Judge Kelly id Niger" while
he was addressing an outdoor meeting
in that city the other evening.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09

BA" "A New York paper says, cit is
the nature Of radicalism to waste mo-
ney. 1t can't help it." 1t is the nature
of radicalisn to lie, too. 1t can't help
that either.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-09
North Carolina Cotton Crop.

Accounts from North Carolina say
that the yield OF cotton to the acre has
been decidedly better than that Of last
year.