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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Another One.

The Nashville Union and american
of the Sd instant says:
Thomas McQuithy, who has been EN-.
ployed by Mayor Alden for some time
as his private Secretary, was arrested
yesterday and taken before Justice Ma.
thews on charge of fraudulent breach
of trust in defrauding Elias Wall, col.
ored, discharged Federal soldier, in
the collection of Sl94 70, his bounty
money. McQuithy charged him S44 K
for collecting the money, when he had
no right to charge anything, all fees
having been paid by the proper claim
ant. The case was continued till to-
morrow morning at 8 o'clock.
How those carpet-baggers do love the
negro!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
The gust.
Athens, Friday, Dec. II. 1865.
The Soldiers.

A New York paper states that SOL
diers who have gone into the hand Or
gan business will not claim offices un-
der the incoming administrations they
cannot make so much money by work
ing for Uncle Sam, as by peddling Of
fenbach, &C., in box. One of these
soldier organists is said to have cleared
$50 in one day at the corner of Fulton
street and Broadway.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
The Great Tunnel.

The Italian papers state that the great
tunnel through Mont Gents is making
very satisfactory progress. The total
length is to be 1920 metres, and the
length already completed is $3.50 me-
tres, so that there now remain 2,262 me-
tres to be eXcavated. Under any cir
cumstances it is thought that the entire
undertaking will be finished by the com
mencement of 1871.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
nGs- Jesse Riley, an escaped cony

Bay Jesse Riley, an escaped convict
and desperate character, was last
week captured near Tupelo, Lee coun-
ty, Miss, and, while being conveyed by
the sheriff to the depot, was taken pos
session of by armed and masked men.
Next morning he was found about four
miles from Okolona, "kicking at the
United States from the end of tight
rope, very dead"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Good for Horace.

Horace Greeley announces that he
will give no aid to persons seeking Of
flee from the President elect, and adds
Gen. Grant will in due time choose q
Secretary of State, whose duty it will
be to see that the needed cOnsulates are
properly filled; but, if Gen. Grant al
lows himself to be troubled with appli-
cations for office, he is not nearly SO
wise man as we believe him, and not
likely to live so long as the public good
requires. At all events he will never
read any office seeking letters from u.s.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Entitled to the Floor,

In the Vermont State Senate recently,
an honorable member who had been
speaking, sat down where he supposed
his chair was, and landed on the floor.
Quietly picking himself up, he remark
ed, amid the laughter Of his brother
Senators "Mr. President, think l am
entitled to the floor now"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Information Wanted.

Mrs. Susan r. Braswell, Greenville
Post-office, Ga, wants information OF
her husband, j. L. Braswell, who left
home near twelve months since, on a
business visit to Marietta, Georgia. He
is a large man, black hair, and about
thirty years old. Any information con.
cerning him will be thankfully received
by his distressed and destitute wife and
children.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Couldn't Agree.

Alta debating society in Fincastle, re-
Gently, the subject was :"Which is the
sweetest production, girls or strawber-
ries?" After continuing the argument
for two nights, the meeting finally ad-
journed without conclusion-the old
ones going for the strawberries, and
the young ones for the girls.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
South CarOlina---EncOuraging.

A Charleston date of the Sd instant
says:
Within the last two weeks there has
been marked advance in the market
price of the various State securities of
bills receivable, having risen from 7 to
8; old bonds 81 to 66; new bonds from
so to 81.
Charleston city stock has, also, ad-
yanced about 10 per cent. These facts
are regarded as an indication of increas-
ed public confidence and the beginning
of brighter prospects at the South.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
LIE R M s.:
THE POST Is PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY,
At Two Dollars a Year, Payable
II In AdYanCe.

nI- No attention paid to orders for the paper
unless accompanied by the Cash.
Advertisements will be charged 81 so per
auare of ten lines, or less, for the first inser-
ion, and 10 cents for each continuance.
LIBERAL deduction made to parties who adver-
tise by the year. 49,.
NT Persons sending advertisements should
mark the number of times they desire them in:
serted, or they will be continued until forbid
and charged accordingly.
Transient advertisements must be paid foi
at the time Of Insertion.
Announcing names of candidates for office
$500, Cash, In all cases.
Obituary notices over fve lines, charged a'
regular advertising rates.
All communications intended to promote thu
private ends or interests of Corporations, so
cieties, or Individuals, will be charged al
advertisements.
JOB WORK, such as Pamphlets, Circulars
Cards, Blanks Handbills, etc., will be exc
cuted In good style and at reasonable rates. -.
All letters addressed to the Proprietor vii
be promptly attended to.
Communications. to secure insertion, mus
ibe accompanied bv the name of the authors.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Fort Lafayette.

A New York date says: Nothing re.
mains now of Fort Lafayette but q ruin.
ed mass of brick and mortar. There is
no fire on the premises The soldiers
are still on guard. Several unexploded
shells remain among the ruins, and may
60 off at any moment. The loss to the
Government will be about $25OOOO.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
COunterfeiter Arrested.

A dispatch from Jackson, Mississip-
pi, says:
A man named Wynn, hailing from
Tennessee, has been arrested here, hav-
ing in his possession three thousand
dollars counterfeit currency, in fifty
dollar interest bearing notes and twen-
ty-dollar notes, of the National Bank of
indianapolis.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Woman Suffrage.

Chief Justice Chase said to the mana
gers of the present Boston Woman
Suffrage Convention: ~ have for
twenty years, in public and private,
urged woman's right to suffrage. You
may say for me everywhere that think
there is no end to the good that will
come by woman suffrage"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Singular Accident,

A singular accident occurred near
Bronson, Michigan, a few days ago. A
man was standing between the train
and the wood-pile, and was sucked I'M
der by the wind Of the train, tumbled
along. breaking all the ribs on one side,
breaking one leg in three places, one
arm, and fracturing his skull. Not
withstanding all his injuries he is re-
covering. ......
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

B9~ The Radical Judge of the Po-
tanla Circuit was thrashed by citizen
of Quitman county, last week. The
Judge fined his thrasher two hundred
dollars and twenty days Imprisonment.
No arrest by the Sheriff at last ac-
counts.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Indian Fight in Arizona.

On November 10 the troops in Arizo-
ma attacked an Indian camp, killed II,
wounded 40 savages, and captured sew
.eral mules and quantity of arms.
A large party of Indians attacked a
pack-train, near Prescott, killed three
men, captured lot of pistols, rifles and
ammunition, and drove off the animals.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
Loyal RufhaniSn.

1t is said squads of distinguished men
who are known to be loyal, are commit
ting depredations in the ncighborhood
of Trenton, Tennessee. The victims
are generally negroes, who are robbed
of everything of value they possess
A squad of soldiers have been station
ed at Trenton to look after the gentry
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

Bsis~ The Boston Post says: "a SUM-
day paper says it is in favor of women
voting, If they want to. We should
like to see the man who could make
them vote, if they didn't want to-"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

B&s- George Towery shot and killed
John George near Fayetteville, day or
two ago-merely because the murdered
man beat the murderer's dog with a
fence-rail.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
From the Plains.

The following is the official account
given by Gen. Sheridan of Custar's re-
cent battle with the Indians:
On November %, 1 ordered him to
proceed with eleven companies Of his
regiment the Seventh Cavalry, in
southerly direction toward the Ante
lope Hills, in search of hostile Indians.
On the 26th he struck the trail of a war
party of Black Kettles Band returning
from the North, near where the eastern
line of the panhandle of Texas crossed
the main Canadian. He at once collected
his wagons and followed in pursuit
over the head waters of the Ouchitta,
thence down that stream, aud on the
morning Of the 9th surprised the camp
of the Black Kettle, and after desper-
ate fight, in which Black Kettle was as
sisted by the Arapahoes, under Little
Raven, and the Kiowas under Santaula,
captured the entire camp, killing the
Chief of the Black Kettles and one
hundred and one warriors, whose bo-
dies were left on the field. All their
stock of ammunition, arms, lodges,
robes and fifty-three women and their
children were captured. Our loss was
Major Elliott, Captain Hamilton, and
nineteen enlisted men killed; Lienten-
ant Colonel Barnitz, badly, Brevet Lieu
tenant Colonel j. w. Custar, Second
Lieutenant S. z. Marsh and eleven en-
listed men wounded. Little Ravens
band of Arapahoes and Santaula's band
of KiawOs were encamped six miles
below where the Black Kettles camped.
About eight or nine hundred of the ami
mails captured were shot. The balance
were kept for military purposes. The
highest credit is due General Custar
and his command. They started in fu-
rious snow-storm and travelled all the
while in snow about twelve inches deep.
Black Kettles and Little Ravens fami-
lies are among the prisoners. 1t was
Black Kettles band which committed
the first depreciation on the Saline and
Solomon Rivers, in Kansas. The Kan
sas regiment has just come in. They
missed the trail and had to struggle in
Il snow storm, the horses suffering much
in flesh, and the men living OIL buffalo
meat and other wild game for eight
days. We will soon have them in good
condition. If we can get one or two
more good blows, there will be no more
Indian troubles in my department. We
will be pinched in the ability to supply
all present and expect many difficulties
in our winter operations, but we have
stout hearts, and will do our best. Two
white children were recaptured. One
white woman and one boy, ten years
old, were brutally murdered by Indian
women when the attack commenced.
(Signed) P. Fl. SHERIDAN,
Maior-General Commanding.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

Baa When you see lady nowadays
with "lovely curls," the best you can do
is to say nething about them. AT least
don't ask for one, or she might tell you
where you can buy the whole thing.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

Bsga Mrs. Thomas Williams, the wife
of st. Louis huxter, gave birth to four
living children, last Tuesday-three
girls and one boy. Two of the children
have died. The mother and father are
English.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

nag Hunnicutt, the Virginia Radical,
calls the Freedmen's Bureau "a political
curse-the most powerful engine of po-
litcal trickery that has been known in
the world since God made ADAM" .,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

Day Begone! avaunt, sir" said an
exasperated poet to his tormentor, /" or
I'll seize you by the capillary adornment
of your pericranium, and hurl you into
immensity of space so that omniscience
will be unable to find you, and omnipo-
tence be unable to collect the dismem-
bered fragments of your corporeal Or
ganism." .......
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

Bey~ Dokes says that during an en-
gagement the moment he heard his CO.
lionel tell the men to "strike for their
homes" he did so as fast as his legs
could carry him.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
A Lively Country.

A Memphis paper says Arkansas is
full of game, opossums grin from every
persimmon tree, coons walk the biggest
logs, panthers shrek in the thickest
thickets, the biggest owls hoot in the
darkest roads, bears prowl around pig
pens, partridges fly in brigades, the
squirrels are gathering all the hickory
nuts and the detonations of the wood
pecker reverberate from every hollow
tree. Good place to go hunting.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

geg~ The amount of currency in Uni
ted States notes and coupons that has
been destroyed during the fiscal year is
S149,OO00OO. An average of $4,000
pounds of legal tender and fractional
currency are destroyed by masceration
once in. every ten DAYS.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11
He left the premises.

NAIL say ma," exclaimed little
mink of thirteen, "do you know what
the pyrotechnical remedy is for cry
ing infant?"
"Gracious goodness me, no never
heard of such a thing"
swell, ma, it's rocket"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-11

B0" Judge Sam. Galloway, of Ohio,
is said to be prominent for scat in
Grants cabinet.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-13
The Maine State Press,

Published this morning, contains the recent
Correspondence between the President and
General Grant; crcumstantial account Of the
Arrest of Geolge Francis Train; partial re-
port of the dongs of the National Commercial
Convention at Boston; the Congressional and
Legislative record of the week; an abstract o
the report of the Fish Commissioners; Mr.
Blaine's remarks on the Army Appropriation
bill; letters from correspondents in Virgins
and in Lewiston and Richmond in this State
two columns of Agricultural reading; extract;
from Queen Victoria's new book; Selected
Story; together with the usual variety OF for
eign and domestic news. shipping news, mar
ket reports, &C., SC.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-13
Political Notes.

The Providence journal announces that
Governor Burnside has consented to allow
the use of his name for reelection next year.
The Governor has done good thing.
In the Assembly Chamber of New York the
following words of President Lincoln are in
scribed: 81 have the most solemn oath regis
tered in heaven to preserve, protect and de-
fend the government" Twenty of the Demo
cratic members have voted to remove the in
seriptioD.
Hon. w. P. Bishop, President of the New
Haven Road, has been rejected as Commits
sioner of Patents by a decided majority of the
Senate.
1t is thought that General Stevenson will tie
elected to succeed Senator Guthrie of Ken
lucky who has resigned.
Gen. Mcclellan has as yet telegraphed DC
reply regarding his acceptance of the mission
TO England. There is reason to believe that
he will decline.
The Worlds Washington special saws Secre-
tary Seward, by direction of the President.
has written to Charles O'Connor and James
I. Brady, OF New York, asking them 70 90 10
Europe and appear as counsel for the Ameri
can citizens ON trial for complicitv in the
Fenian difficulties
The Republicans Of Lewiston hold their cau-
ouses for the nomination of city officers this
evening.
The New York Tribune says there are three
political parties in the United States-the
Republican, the Democratic, and The Near
York Times 1t appears to be Mr.. Raymond's
Idea that of the first two may be made pair
of siamese Twins, Of which his paper will be
the connecting ligament.
August Belmont, Chairman OF the Demo
cratic National Committee, agrees with PEN
dleton on the greenback question.
The bill to establish Superior Court in til e
sounty of Cumberland passed the House by a
vote Of 81 to 80. Mr.. Stetson of Exeter who
opposed the bill on principle, because it was
favored by all the lawyers in the House. made
an amusing speech decrying the profession
but did not apparently influence many votes.
The World undertakes to prove in an elabo-
rate disquisition, that the military prestige Of
Presidential candidate lends no strength to
the party that runs him. Then why were the
Democratic managers SO anxious few months
sse to nominate General Grant, s...
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-13
PENoRscor COUNTY


4 We learn from the Bangor Wing, that dur
ing the January term of the Supreme Court.
in PenObscot County, some twenty divorces
have been deereed, and. fifty -fVe persons of
foreign extraction naturalized.
n sAGADAHoc COUNTY. H. ~
The Bath fines says business in that city is
beginning to assume a more hopeful look.
The Indications are that the ship yards will
soon exhibit an activity nearly or quite equal
the best of previous seasons. The merchants
and business men having managed with care
and prudence, are well prepared to take im-
mediate advantage of the improved tone as
sumed by the general business of the county,
and of the favorable legislation which il now
seems safe to calculate upon.
SOMERSET COUNTY
Thomas c. Jones OF Norridgewock. has haen
appointed Register of Probate by the Cover
nor, and was confirmed by the Council Thurs
day. th.=i.
WALDO COUNTY. ls .l-t .anI
The Bangor Wing says the steamer "trib-
belts" reached Winterport on Monday night.
She arrived in the Western Bay, Saturday
morning, as far as the ice would permit, where
she remained until the storm on Sunday
broke the ice sufficiently to enable her to get
within about one hundred yards of the lower
or "Katahdin' wharf in Belfast, when o volun-
teer corps of from $50 TO 200 turned out 10 cut
her in.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
The Machias Republican says that there is a
downward tendency in hay in that market of
some two or three dollars. Good hay is of
fered at S1S, on delivery.
YORK CoUsTY.f rNV
Our correspondent writes that Mrs. Olive
Dunn, widow of the late Nath'l Dunn, ESQ.
of Hollis, fell on Monday last, and fractured
her thigh bone. She is IS years of age, and
mother-in-law of our well known fellow eiti-
zen, Joshua Dunn, Esq.
The Saco Courier says a cow belonging to
Mr.. A. c. Campbell, of Lower Biddeford, gave
birth to calf which weighed when one day
old ninety pounds! The breed is cross of
Ayrshire and Jersey
We learn from the Courier that last Satur-
day evening fire in a closet was discovered in
one of the tenements in WATERFORD block, in
I Biddeford.t 1t was extinguished with very lit
tie damage save that which resulted from wa
ter to the two stores beneath, occupied by Mr..
Locke and Mr.. Kicker, the loss to the latter
being estimated at 5000. Noinsurance
The Saco Courier states that Mr.. Daniel Fer
maid, of North Berwick, died almost instanta-
neously on Tuesday week, while engaged in
getting out timber with his son and hired
man. The three We're about TO load log, and
had taken hold for the lift, when the son OBJ
serving his father to be falling, sprang and
! caught him. He gasped but few times when
lain down upon the snow, and died immediate
", of disease Of the heart - q n
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-13
Gen. Graup. Reply 10 The prs.ident.

The following reply to the Presidents letter
OF the 10th Instant was transmitted TO the
House Of Representatives alta late hour on
the afternoon OF the 11th:
HEAp-oUARTERsAnMY OF THE UNITED ST ATEs,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. IL, 1865.
His E1cellency Andrea Johnson, President Of
the United States:
SIR,-I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication of the 10th H.
slant accom- panied by the statements OF five
Cabinet Ministers of their recollection OF what
occurred in Cabinet meeting on the l4th OF
January. Without admitting anything con
tanned in these statements where they DINER
from anything heretofore stated by me, pro-
pose to notice only that portion OF your com
municaton wherein ] am charged with lnsu6-
ordination ] think it will be plsin TO the
reader of my letter Of the Both of January that
] did not propose to diSobey any legal order OF
the President distinctly given, but only gave
an Interpretation of what would be regarded as
satisfactory evidence OF the Presidents SAM
ton TO orders communicated by the Secretaity
of War. | will say here that your etteT ot tilo
10th inst, contains the first intImat!oh haSe
had that You did not accept thar lhcsfPIeta-
tion Now for the reasons for giving that in
terpretation: II was clear to me, betore my
letter of January 30th was wrlit Ten, that L, the
person having more public business TO trans
| act with the Secretary OF W ar IMAM any other
of tho Presidents subordinates, was the only
| one who had been instructed to disregard the
| authority of Mr.. Stanton where his authority
| was derived as agent OF the President. On
| the 9th of January l received letter from
the Secretary of War, a copy of which is here
with submitted, directing me to furnish an es-
cOrt to the public treasure from the Rio
Grande to New Orleans, etc, at the request OF
the Secretary of the Treasury to him. 1 also
send two other enclosures, showing the recog-
milton of Mr.. Stanton as Secretary of War by
both the Secretary of the Treasury and the
Postmaster General on all Of which eases the
Secretary of War had to call upon me tc take
| the orders requested or give the information
desired, and where his authority to do so is de-
rived in my view as agent of the President
| With an order so clearly ambiguous as that Of
| the Presidents here referred to- it was my du
| ty TO inform the President of my Interpretation
| OF it and TO abide by that Interpretation unit
| L received other orders. Discialming any in
tentiop now or heretofore of disobeying any
| legal order of the President directly commune
! Gated, l remain,
Very respectfully,
| Your obedient servant
Z. S. GRANT, General.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-13
State News.


=. - = -
ins IeSt f1 journal says the PROBABILITY
20 Icy Oh last iail tnat
tnere were 70 % D9t i lew oss got OUT TINS VIM
yer, Is noe reauzed. Inc lact Is tnat large
auantltles on logs are oei9g got ogs IN the lum'
oerin? regions OF TINS state. Inc force at
@ork Is n h SO large as last season, but the
MJaen T ma, mas pee,n SO IaYoraoie ohatlt mas re-
qGireu less . leans anu lesS lumoermen tins
Mlnt 1s 10 40 .ne same am amount OF work that
We Mas uoI bd wear 40 me consequence must
pe an abundance OF logs IN the market to sup
ply the place OF tnoss now IN the yards.
We learn from the Lewiston Journal that
petitions are in circulation for the pardon of
Larrabee, convicted last year of being one of
the Durham horse butchers, and it is under
stood that the petitions have been nnmerously
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-13

TIE Argus agrees with us that Andrew
johnson costs too much and that Congress
should diminish his supplies of gas, but it
strangely enough declares that this is all the
retrenchment yet proposed. 1t does not re-
member the late action of the committee on
appropriations, cutting down the ordinary ex-
penses of the government to a sum less than
that expended in the last year of Buchanan's
administration. 1t doesn't remember how
much Mr.. Secretary Welles' estimates were re-
dueed. Neither does it mention among the
evidences of the more economical tendencies
Of Democracy the effort made the other day in
the State Legislature by two Democrats to
have their pay calculated on gold basis in
direct contravention of the provisions of the
Constitution.