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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
The Legislature.

Since our last issue we have been I'M
able to discover but little of interest in
the proceedings Of the Legislature as
published in our Nashville exchanges.
1t would seem that the energies of the
members had been overtaxed, and that
the wisdom Of the body was about ex-
hausted. After attending to two or three
little party matters, which yet remain
unfinished, the subject of adjournment
will probably be taken up. The follow
ing occurred in the Senate Oh the 10th ::
An act to regulate the publication of
legal notices.
Mr. Wisener offered an amendment
providing that the compensation to pub
fishers shall be the same as now provid-
ed by law for similar services, and that
this act take effect sixty days after its
passage, which was adopted, after which
the whole questionMyas recommitted to
the Judiciary Comrsnttec.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
From Florida.

The Florida Reconstruction COnven-
ton has divided-split up-the maj ority
seeding from the minority. The lat
ter held straight on, voted themselves
ten dollars a day, time to commence
twenty days before the Convention met.
At last advices they were still in session,
though they had hewed out constitu-
ton, so-calIed. The following is addi-
tional:
The minority convention is still in
secret session. Having adopted con-
stitution, they are awaiting Instructions
from Gen. Meade before adjourning.-
The majority refuse to recognize any
acts Of the minority or admit British
subjects OF non-residents to seats in the
convention. The majority consists of
twenty-one whites and four negroes, all
eligible. The minority members num-
Der twenty, one Of whom is British
subject and three nOn-residents, the bal
ance are negroes. The President Of the
and the Chairman of the
Committee on Eligibility and Elections
are included. In the minority, the Pres
ident rules that foreigners and non-res-
tents are eligible, and refuses to enter
tain an appeal from his decision with
out two-thirds vote, which enables the
minority to govern the convention.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
Pardons by the Governor.

The following convicts have been re |
leased from the penitcntiary, having
been pardoned by the Governor in &C
cordance with the recommendation of
the Joint Committee ON ConVicts:
David Gibson, Hanc ock county-sen-
fenced to three years imprisonment III
May, 1866, for larceny.
John Nenney, Jefferson county-scn-
fenced to three years imprisonment III
December, 1865, for larceny.
Sampson Moreland, Carter county
sentenced to one years Imprisonment III
July, 1867, for larceny.
James White, militiaman--sentenced
to one years imprisonment October IL
1867, for desertion.
VIM. Gibson, Hancock county-sen'
fenced to three years imprisonment IL
May, 1866, for larceny.
Thos. Husky.
Thos. Senter, (col.) Knox county
sentenced to two years Imprisonment
in October, 1867, for larceny.
Brownlow Wright, Roane county
sentenced to one years Imprisonment
in July 1867, for larceny.
Peter Taylor, Upton county-senten
ced to three years Imprisonment IL
September, 1867, for larceny.
Spencer Turner, (coD Granger coun
ty-sentenced to two years imprlson
ment in August, 1867, for larceny.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
4 Miserable Shift.

Having about exhausted everything
else, the radical speakers and writers
have fallen back on the stale, fiat and
Improbable charge that the success of
the Democratic party means the re-es-
adjustment of the institution of slavery,
and the assumption Of the rebel war
debt. Now, there is not a white man or
a negro in all the land and country stu
pid enough to accept such specious non
sense. Were the reinstatement of the
negro possible, and the question brought
to Il test, thrce-fourths of those who for
merly owned slaves would be found
voting squarely against it. And as for
the rebel war debt, the Southern States
all repudiated it long ago. From the
signs of the times, there is good deal
more danger that the "FederaI war
debt" will be repudiated than there is
of the assumption of the rebel dcbt-es-
pecially if the former is to go on increas-
ing at the rate of nineteen or twenty mil
lions q month.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
The Alabama Constitution.

1t would seem that the Constitution
in Alabama is defeated, and thatall the
work of the Reconstructionists there
goes for mac. The following is among
our latest intelligence from that di-
rection:
Out of seventeen South Alabama
counties, embracing the large negro
counties of the State, the Constitution
is behind 800 votes and the Hill coun-
try and Florida line of counties. will
place it at least 10000 behind. The
election last fall on the Convention
question, was held only at the court
houses, and continued three days. and
carried by about 10000, which was over
one-half of the registered voters
Three times more voting places were
opened at the election ON the Constitu-
ton than on the Convention, and this
election continued five days 1t is a
clear defeat. The managers of the
elections were generally Radicals.
The GERMANS IN TEXAs.-From al
portions of Texas we hear that the Ger
man voters are consolidating vigorous
ly against negro suffrage. They viii
vote for no delegate unless plegeC
against it. Stick pin there.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
Impeachment Again.

Since the publication of the CORES
pondence between the President and
Gen. Grant on the Stanton embroglio,
the Destructives in Congress have revi-
we'd the subject of impeachment, and
threaten the Introduction of measures
that will speedily bring things to- an is
sue. We trust they will go ahead-we
know where they are going to, and
hope they will not stop again until they
get there. All the alarm and apprehen-
sion we have is that the iIppeachers, af-
ter gassing and blowing awhile, will
A
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
The Southern Railroads.

Congress evidently wants to go for
the Southern Railroads. A Washington
dispatch says:
The Southern Railroads Committee
have reported. The amount expended
on the roads, while held by the Gov
eminent, was forty-five millions exclu-
sive of the labor. The value of the prop
erty sold to the various roads, was sew
en- millions. The amount of this debt
unpaid, January LIST, was five and half
millions. The total value of the prop
erty restored was seventy-eight millions.
The report takes the ground that the
government obtained clear title to the
roads, and their restoration by the Pres
ident was illegal and invalid.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
The Tennessee Railroads.

In the House of Representative on
Tuesday, Mr.. Prosser offered resOlu-
ton providing that the joint special
Committee on Accounts shall investi-
gate the accounts of the late Receiver
of the Louisville, Clarksville and Mem
phis Railroad, and report. The resolu-
that the Committee also investigate and
report whether there is any ground for
charges against other Receivers of rail-
roads in this State. The resolution, as
amended, was adopted.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
The- lMedeT Republic.

There is an other revolution on hand
in some of THE Mexican States, which
threatens tot become general. The in
evitable old imischief-luaker, Santa An
ma, is said to be manipulating the move
ment. Wien Gen. Grant shall be made
Dictator over the South, as the radicals
i'll Congress propose, with Ben. Wade
iii the Executive chair, that good man
Thad Stevens for Prime Minister, and
Stanton where he is now-then we shall
be able to appreciate at a proper esti-
mate the sort of government they have
in poor, unhappy Mexico.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
The Bill i'm the Senate.

Inview of the movements in the other
house, it may be remembered that there
is a bill pending in the Senate prOvid-
ing that in case of the presentation of
articles of impeachment the officers
charged shall, upon a two-thirds vote OF
the Senate, cease to act in an official ca
pacity, and in case the President is the
party, the officer next in authority shall
have power to call on the land aud ma
yaIeforces to enforce the law.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
New Movement.

The following appears among Wash
ington dispatches:
A movement is being made for the
calling of a national convention at Gin
cinnati of the present producing indus
tries of the United States. The con-
vention will probably be somewhat po-
litical at the same time. It is the inten-
ton to- place the government and it's
policy under the control of the produc-
ing interest The convention is to be
called under the auspices of national
cheap freight railway league, and a
candidate for President and Vice Prcsi-
dent to represent the interests of the
producers, will be put in nomination.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
Awful Sensation.

A correspondent at Dayton, Ohio,
under a recent date, writes to journal
of the sensational order:
"The friends of Mr.. Vallandigham
saw that he is now for war to the knife
against the party managers in Ohio
They saw there will be a third party,
with Vallandigham at the head, and
that it will triumph over both of the
old parties. If this programme does
not succeed, then there will be civil war,
and there will be no Senate of the
United States in less than two years.
The details of this programme are too
serious for contemplation. "Things IS
workin'."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
Horned Cattle.

An Intelligent colored delegate intro
duced the following in the North Caro-
lima Convention a few days since, and
asked that it be referred to the Commit
tee on Towns and Cities:
Resolved, That all real estate shall
be taxed in accordance to its value
throughout the State, and that horses,
mules, oxen, and other horned cattle, be
taxed for half their value, except stall
lions and jackasses, which shall be tax
ed at full value"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

SECEssIoN.-The Louisiana Recon
struction Convention has thought it nee
essary to annul the ordinance of seces-
sion passed i'll that State in 1861. By
acknowledging such necessity they
have reco gnized the validity and legal
ty of the act originally, and therefore
completely stultify. themselves when
they call other people in other States
"Rebels for doing the same thing, and
heaping upon them pains and penalties
for it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
ndrew johnson for President.

kndrew johnson for President.
The -AHaata Intelligeacer and other
==ominent journals in the Military Dis
8 cts, f:sl9e recently hoisted the name
{. ANDREW JOHNSON for the Presi-
oney. Whether or no there is any
hing substantial in such move, it will
do no harm. Had it not been
tor his persistent efforts the condition
II the South would have been infinitely
uorse than it is. Indeed, the only hope
If the people of that section rests in
-he President being able to hold the
Iadical leaders in Congress in check un-
Ill the masses of the North and West
can have an opportunity to speak to
them in a way that they will be bound
Ito obey.
A brave and earnest man contending
against adverse circumstances and sur
roundings, is said to be among the most
sublime of moral spectacles. We have
never been a political admircr Of Mr..
johnson, and we certainly have no
cause to regard him with any special
measure of Partially. But the unequal
md unprecedented struggle he has had
to maintain-and which he is still main
,,a 18th an. Aenerav.as. 53esa ilasesss
ire capable of eXercising-entitles him
not only to the sympathy and good
wishes, but to the best efforts of all who
believe that the overthrow and defeat
IF the present dominant party is the
irst essential step to the restoration of
;ivil liberty. While he is engaged in a
struggle with the radi-
;als, it does seem to us that the proper
business of the opponents of that party
II all sections of the country, is to hold
Up the hands of the President and give
lin all the moral aid and support pos
ible. A warfare upon Andrew john
on now is not an imperative prerequi-
lite to the success of the Democratic
next November, no matter
lpon whom the choice may fall.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
WASHINGTON Items.

In the Supreme Court to-day, AsSo-
ciate Judge Nelson announced an elab-
crate opinion in the case of the State of
Georgia VS.. Secretary Stanton, General
Grant and Major General Pope, pray
ing, for reasons set forth in the petition,
they, may be restrained from doing GER
tain acts contemplated by the reconstruc-
ton laws. The Court dismissed the bill, |
for reasons that it presents a political
question, and therefore, does not prop
erly fall under its Jurisdiction. This |
opinion, the Judge decided, was also |
applicable to a similar petition of Mis-
: sissippi.
The Chief Justice announced that the
present term would be adjourned on
the first Monday in April.
There is intense anxiety to see the
Presidents letter to Grant. 1t is stated
f that the Cabinet is strongly adverse to
Grants version of events.
,, Edward Maynard, Z. S. Consul to
= Turks Island, is dead.
! A dispatch to the New York Times
! says:
Speaking a few days ago, in private
I conversation. of the bill to establish a
L a military dictatorship over one-third
= Of the Union, a Republican member,
g who had voted for it in the House OF
= Representatives, said, that If the vote
had been taken by ballot, 1t would Saye
T. been beatan two to one" This CO
v ion is valuable as an 'evideEce
- rigor of karty despotism, .nsy;
apparent than now, and never nISse1ste
IL furious to the best interest Of the cou1-
n try. The author Of it, like many othes
a. who gave their reluctant assent to tie
IN passage of the bill, deprecated the &
- tremes to which the Republican patty
~ in Congress has been tending. e.
H. said he, "what can or others like NJ
e. do? We can't go over to the COPPER
5: heads, so we must stay with the It'd
- Gals as choice of evils"
~ " 1t was said by a prominent Radca
,os that, with the Edmunds bill law, Eel
" Wade will yet be President OF tn
~ United States in spite of his repud1a
VI ton by the Senate of Ohio.
eu On the 18th, Judge Black filed a bl
lse in the case of The State of Georgia u
po Gems. Grant, Meade, Ruger, ct al
es- Judge Black endeavers to avoid I'll
do grounds which lead to the dismissal
NJ NJ the former case-eX parte McCa1dle-
JIG i still held by the Court. n majority
W W the Bar incline to the opinion that
l .I't will also be dismissed.
IN The Presidents response to GeneF
us Grant, with accompanying document
'o a+ read and referred to the Committee
~ Correspondence.
po- Some strange stories are told OF N
ION ION Seward by the Washington leter-Wl
10, ioh tiers. One is that he suggested to [
~ President that he would like to ira
,ess places with Mr.. Adams, to which t
VI President assented, but Seward, haV!
80 ~ got Adams resignation, refused to g
l, it Ris own until he was confirmed for FL
o cl land. Another is that he enc Favored
e en- get the President into an ugly situati
L1cG' about our Alta Veta troubles with
d. H. Domingo. Whatever Congress may
aS as to the conduct of the Secretary
was State, had the President betrayed
artE rights and interest Of the United Sta
lli u5 as the Secretary endeavored to III
'ui1' him, the whole country would Ii
, tult rung with his treachery.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

Observation-Disclosures LacIcde, Missouri,
two families named Sibert and Phillips,
have been livin" on one farm and occu-
wing the same house. y quarrel oc-
cnrred between them a few days ago
about some cattle, and Phillips shot ST.
bert with Il heavy load of buckshot,
killing him instantly. The wife of ST.
bert was standing by his side with an
infant in her arms, and 4 single shot
from the charge penetrated the child's
head. causing its death. The murderer
fled. and had not been captured at last
accounts.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

A WASHINGTON dispatch TO the Gin
cinnati Times announces that ''Prcsi-
dent johnson will veto Mr.. Julian's bill
forfeiting the lands granted TO the
Southern railroads, and it will not be
passed over the veto it is thought.
This will be hopeful news for all those
interested in Southern roads, whose
granted lands were proposed to be for
| feited.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
The Public Debt.

The increase of the public debt for
January over the preceding month has
been stated in round numbers at twen-
ty millions. According to the official
figures of the Secretary of the Treasury,
it is nineteen millions one hundred and
eighty-nine thousand dollars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

COPS CoUNTRY-The total number
Of murder cases set for trial in the New
Albany Qmdiana) circuit during the
Spring term of the Circuit Court is
twenty-one- Near eight hundred and
fifty indictments for various other Grim
iral offenses are also pending IN the diff
ferent counties of the circuit.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
Route Changed.

We find the following among other
news items in the papers:
In consequence of the frequent fail
ures on the mail route cia Lynchburg
and Knoxville, the Postoffice Depart
ment has issued orders to forward the
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington mails forward from New
Orleans UGG Louisville.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

The WH1KEY TAX.-Late Washing
ton advices state that Congress will
probably reduce the tax on whiskey to
fifty cents per gallon. Old soaks will
please take notice.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
MiSSiSSiDni.

All the candidates ON the State ticket
nominated by the Republican Conven-
ton held at Jackson last week, are
whites. The proposition to put col
ored man on the ticket was promptly
voted down.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

OUTRAGE IN SUMNER.-In Sumner
county on the night OF the 9TH inst, Mr.
Charles Raglan, we'll known citizen,
stepped out of his door on the porch to
oct a drink of water, when he was as
Saultcd by two negroes, one using an
axe. and knocking him scnseless to the
floor. The noise attracted the attention
of his father and wife, who immediate
" came to his assistance, and by striking
one of them over the head with chair,
and offering resistance to their attempts
to enter the house, the negroes fed and
were not identified.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
LOUISIANA CoNsT1TUTIoN.-A New

LOUISIANA CONSTITUTIONAL New
Orleans correspondent writes that Gen.
Hanceck's course i'll authorizing revis-
ion Of the registry will, without doubt,
result in the defeat of the Louisiana
constitution. "The scales" he asserts,
'will be turned, and the constitution
which the convention is celebrating will
become waste paper.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

A LETTER in the Paris papers states
or the authority of Colonel of the
French army, that instead of there be-
ing an exaggeration in the account of
the famine in Algeria, things are even
worse than stated. More than two hun
dred thousand persons, it is reported,
have already persisted. A vast amount
of restitution is also reported in the
east of Prussia.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

MEMPHIS s. CHARLESTON RAILROAD
This road, we learn, is in most SOL
vent condition. The Company has paid
its Indebtedness to the Government,
and in march next will pay its stock
holders the same rate of dividend it
was paying before the war.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

RELIEF IN GEoRGIA.-The ConTen-
ton passed the relief clause-yeas 81
nays 10. 1t denies jurisdiction to the
Courts over all debts contracted prior
to the surrender, but leaves it discrc-
tionary with majority of the Leglsla-
ture to confer jurisdiction III all cases.
except as to the purchase Of slaves.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
MenDhiS News.
A Memphis date of the 9TH says:

A Memphis date of the 9TH says;
The excitement in Memphis, in con-
sequence of the failure of the GaE0So
Over Sj0O,OOOO are due depositorS,
W Which falls heavily on mechanics, labor
e @ SAL and poor people, who are wild with
excitement. A party of MECHANICS, De
nositors. visited the Gathers residence
On the night of the 9Th inst, with rope,
Ui in the Intention of hanging him, but
he h could not be found; Mr.. Taft; cot cot
10 WI office invited him out in the hall
and attempted to assassinate him. Taft
shot at him with large navy revolver;
but missed. The report of the pistol
brouoht aid, which saved his life. The
annealines of the poor people in regard
to- pf their loss, is beyond description. The
failure is heavy calamity to Memphis,
and casts gloom over the city. Heavy
rms were made on other banks, which
weathered the crisis. General distrust
prevails in financial circles.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

OHIo.-The Ohio Legislature have
adopted resolutions requesting the re-
peal of the reconstruction acts, and de-
mandatory of the pending Supplement-
ary and Supreme Court bills.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

SHsRP.-ThurIow Weed, not know
inc what was coming from Washington,
uttered the following pr0verb: If you
wish to ruin popular hero, soldier OF
civilian. put a pen in his hand"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

''THE gospel of hatred" is the title of
a leading editorial article i'll the New
York Tribune of the 9th. That paper
is competent expounder of such gos-
mel
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

Mrs Mary Holland, of Vinton, AllIo,
has had her son Thomas arrested on q
charge of perjury, in swearing that he
was fwentv-one wears old, in order to
obtain a marriage license. The fond
mother is bitterly opposed to the match,
and says she would rather see Thomas
90 to the penitentiary than to marry the
woman he intended to-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

Parker Pilsbury, the ancient Adolf
zionist and co-wOrker with Carlson and
Phillips, will, it is said, stump New
Hampshire for the Democratic candi-
dates this sprinG.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

IL CAMDEN, Arkansas, Henry. Wiley
has been convicted of administering
chloroform to Nancy Barker, With N
tent to produce stupOr Of mind, or weak
ness of body so as to prevent eitectual
resistance, with intent to commit rape.
and sentenced to be hung on the 14th Oh
February inst. 1t has been a law OF inc
State ever since 1888, that every person.
White or black. convicted of this crime
sbouId he punished with death
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

The Newton OIass-) Journal says
there is so much restitution in the
"shoe towns" that SOUP
hnmSes have been nnened
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

VIRGfNIA.-About midnigl1 ON
dav last, the residence of Mr.. RShsoNe
Brock, on Linckhorn bay, in Princes
Anne county, was attacked by gang OF
desperadoes. himself and family driver
thcrefrom, and the premises ransackcd,
and robbed of everything like money
and Yaluables that could be found.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

Ten thousand men are at work on
the Central Pacific Railroad.