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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Hunting Black Democrats,

A few nights since Lewis Thomas
(colored,) while EN- roule to his home
on HopsOn Bayou from Friar's Point,
Mississippi, lodged with friend on
Sheriff Ridge. Late in the night The
house was surrounded by gang of
blacks, who, in answer to the owner of
the house, said they were out hunting
Democrats. and had heard that Thomas,
who was well known rs a Conservative,
was inside. Thomas was awakened by
the noise and escaped through a back
window, while his friend held the scoun-
drels at bay with double-bareled shot
gun.
"Hunting Democrats" with black
skin has become an everyday vocation
with black Radicals in the rural dis
tricts. Terrorism is preached in tho
Loyal Leagues as means of keeping
the disconnected in the traces, and as
sassinatiOn follows.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Radical Frauds.

The following will show how the rad
icals work to obtain favorable results:
PHILADELPHIA, October S.-Fourteen
Radicals were held to bail Yesterday for
fraudulent naturalization. The extent
to which this species of fraud is being
carried by the Radicals of this city is
beginning to excite serious apprehcn.
sions as to its effect on the result of the
election. And so well have they played
the role Of "stop thief" that by the
prostitution Of the telegraph to their
assistance, they have made the impress
sion throughout the country that these
frauds have almost been wholly attempt
ed by the Democrats. The ridiculous
ness of this will be seen when it is sta
ted that the authorities of the city, TO
whom application has been made for
naturalization papers, are almost cxclu-
sively Radicals, and play into the hands
of their party.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
"Wantcd to Marry a White Gall

One Of the Radical candidates for the
Legislature in Chocktaw county had a
little boy about fifteen years old who
fell in love and engaged himself to one
of the neighboring girls. His father,
learning the facts, hunted the young
man up, and finding him at his lady
loves house, give him good whipping
and sent him home. The little fellow
started on his way crying and met one
Of the neighbors who inquired what
was the matter. The little fellow re-
piled that his father whipped him be-
cause he wanted to marry.
"Why my son." said the neighbor, 81
would not care for that-plenty of time
in five years for you to marry"
eyes, but l dc" replied the little fell
low, blubbering, 81 have got chance
to marry white gal now and the way
dads going on I'll have to marry a mig
GER Oktibbeha Missy Ne,Ds.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Advice to Young Men.

Those who give advice are more plcn'
tiful than those who accept and practice
it. A writerin the Richmond Enquire,
offers the following:
Let the business of every one alone
and attend to your own. Don't buy
what you don't want. Use every houl
to advantage, and study to make one
useful. Think twice before you spend
a dollar; remember you will have
another to make for it. Look over
your books regularly, and if you find
an error trace it out. Should stroke
of misfortune come upon you in your
business, retrcnch, work harder, but
never fly the track. Confront difficult
ties with unfinching perseverance, and
they will fly at last then you will be
honored but shrink, and you will be
dcspised.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
The 2ost.
Athens, Friday, Oct. 10, 1865.
BOuntiCS.

An opinion of cx-Attorncy General
Stanberry, just made public, is Of some
interest. The board to cqualize boun.
ties had decided that soldiers who had
not served two years, exclusive of the
time they were absent without leave,
were not entitled to additional bounty,
Notwithstanding they had been honora-
bly, discharged, and that soldiers who
deserted the rebel ranks and afterwards
enlisted in the United States also were
not entitled to bounty.
Stanberry's opinion was against the
legality Of the provision, but the Board,
acting under Stanton's advice, refused
to allow bounties to this class. There
are hundred such cases in the hands
of claim agents, and one is now before
Secretary Schofield for consideration,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Eureka Mining Company.

We find the following floating in the
papers:
The Eureka Mining Company of Polk
County in this State, is curious illus
tration of the vicissitudcs of copper
mining. 1t owned large tracts of land
in what was supposed to be the richest
portion of the copper region of Tenncs-
see. 1t was sold in England for mil
lion of dollars, and this English Com
pany employed the best scientific talent
and most perfect machinery that could
be procured, but all wouldn't do; and
after floundering for some years the
London Company sold out for three
hundred thousand dollars. New men
tried their best to make it success but
failed, and recently the Eureka Mining
Company was entirely sold out to Mr..
Raht for one thousand dollars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Who is Responsible.

The New Orleans Crescent, referring
to the negro mobs and riots in the South
asks:
If man loads gun, sets its trigger
to the hair point, draws back its ham
mcr to full cock, and then puts it into
the hands of an idiot or maniac, who
is responsible for its subsequent dis
charge and any fatality that may result
If combination of men place under a
much frequentcd thoroughfare torpe-
do SO arranged that the c0ncussion Of a
random footstep may cause it to ex-
plode, who is responsible for the disas-
ter to life and property that may ensue ?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
South Carolina.

A Washington date has the following
in regard to the condition in South Car.
DINA:
A South Carolina editor just arrived
says the negroes of that State are arm
cd, and also express determination, il
trouble arises, to use the torch. The
editor says that in consequence of these
threats the whites have also armed, and
if all outbreak occurs it must end in the
determination of the blacks. Untiring
efforts, however, arc being made by the
whites to prevent II catastrophe so terri.
bic 10 contemplate.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
East Tennessee.

Weciip the following paragraph from
the Nashville Republican,:
We have reliable information from
East Tennessee that thousands of mer
who voted for Etheridgc on account o.
the bugaboo of "negro equality" viii
now 60 for Grant and ColfaX. They
have got their eyes open to the fact thai
the cry about negro equality is al
"bosh."
Your informant is slightly mistaken
Mynhcer. "Thousands of men in Eas
Tennessee who voted for Etheridgc'
will not vote for Grant and COlfax.-
Mighty dry of it. But thousands who
voted for Brownlow last year will no.
vote in November at all. Mark that.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Put That in Your Book.

The Memphis Avalaache says: When
Captain Marryatt was in the South tax
ing notes for his book, he insulted big,
burly Kentuckian at Louisville, who
knocked him down, and exclaimed,
Put that in your id book" We sec
from the Northern papers that the ma
lignant correspondents who flood the
South for the purpose of misrepresent,
ing facts, and slandering our people,
arc still at their dirty work. When oul
citizens who are maligned and traduced
meet ono of these slandcrous villains
they ought to diff them in the face, and
exclaim, "Put that in your next lying
letter."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Wouldn't Let Him Go,

On board the steamer Waldenstcin,
wrecked recently near the Cape of Good
Hope, were several clergymen from
Natal, going to synod Of the Reform
ed Dutch Church, at Cape town, and al
so an English clergyman. When the
boats were cotton out, one of the cler-
gymen rushed for the first boat, but
Capt. joss, the master Of the ship, lift
ed him out of the boat saying, "You
are a minister, and prepared to die; the
sinners must DO saved first" and sure
enough the clergy were compelled to
stick to the ship until the sinners had
been landed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Clever Gal.

A young lady in San Francisco,
whose parents had gone to the country,
leaving her "all alone by herself" con-
cluded to test the sincerity of her adj
mirers Cor the admirers of the old mans
cash-that's precisely the point she was
in doubt about by uailing smallpox
flag to the gate. They came, saw (the
yellow document,) and busted, and now
she gets chance to go to bed when she
feels sleepy-says she hadn't enjoyed
herself so much since she was sixteen,
and getting fat on il,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
White Man as Negro,

A Richmond dispatch of the Sth inst
RICHMOND, Va, OctobcrS.-John Per-
kins, an eX- Federal soldier from Mass
achusetts who came to Virginia in the
Second New Hampshire Regiment, will
be hanged tomorrow at Portsmouth
forrapc on Miss Ford. But benjamin.
ancgro, his accomplicc, who held tho
mother of the girl while Perkins viola
ted her daughter, and was also to be
hanged tomorrow, has had his sentence
committed by the Governor, to impris'
onmcnt for life.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
T E R M S.:
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Ovation to Gen. Mcclellan.

The procession at Philadelphia on the
Stl In honor Of Gen. Mcclellan was a
spiepdid ovation, Tho weather was
cool and clustering, with occasional
showers, notwithstanding which the
streets along the public route were fill
ed with spectators, some ofWh0m watt
ed patiently from two O'Clock till nearly
dark. The procession was too hours in
passing given point. On reaching tho
Continental Hotel Gen, Mcclellan re-
viewed the line from the balcony, and
the assemblage rapidly dispersed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Who Will Bring on the War?


The Ashcville News very pointedly
remarks:
IT is truly funny to hear how gliblv
Radical Orators and Editors talk about
another War. if Seymour aud Blair is
elected. That they intend TO bring it
on there is no doubt in our mind, but
that they intend to have anything to do
with the fighting part we have not the
least idea, so long as there is live Mig
ger or poor white man to be put in the
front ranks.
Well. let's see who is to bring on the
war: If Seymour and Blair is elected,
there will be no necessity for them to
bring OH another war. A war would
make their offices very uncomfortable,
consequently it would be no tritling
cause that would induce them to cncour-
age it.
Being elected by n majority of the
American people, they will take their
seats pcaccably and quietly. In years
gone by, before the Constitution was
laid aside, when one party elected its
candidates over those of an opposing
party then in office, the latter quietly
bowed to the will of the people and alb
Dictated. So it will be next March. Mr..
johnson will peaceably come out of the
White House and, by order of the peo-
pie, Horatio Seymour will walk in and
quietly occupy it. There's no war in
that, is there? Not smell.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
INFAMOUS.
(From the Atlanta Intelligencer.)

\CIOHl tnc AlluIltd lnUClIgcnccr.)
A correspondent at Madison, in this
State, transmits to us the following,
accompanied by communication,
which we regret from the pressure up
on our columns, we cannot do. The
infamous article which appeared in the
Raleigh Standard has been denounced,
as it deserves to be, by the Southern
press generally. 1t reads as fellows:
''But wherever else you work, don't
forget to work among the women. The
Confederacy wouldn't have lasted q
year if it hadn't been for them. One
good rebel woman is worth dozer
rebel men. Go after the women then
They will make their husbands shout
for Grant and Colfax until they arr
hoarse, If you will manage to replace
some Of the diamond rings and lace.
Frank Blair stole from them when hi
was here. And don't hesitate to throw
your arms around their necks now and
then, when their husbands are not
around, and give them q good -,
They all like it, and the Yankecr you
arc the better it takes. Our experience
with female rebs is, that with all theil
sins, they have vast amount of human
nature, and only want to have it appre.
ciated to be the most loving creatures
imaginable. Scalawags and carpet.
baggers! don't fail, therefore, as you
canvass the State to look after the wo.
men. You are all good looking, and
they know it; but with native modesty
like New England girls, they like to be
approached first. Don't be afraid Of
their eyes-they glare like young leo.
pards' by daylight, but, under the moor
no blue death-stricken fawn's is half sc
tender or half so deep. Don't read
Judge Pcarson's letter to them, but give
them Byron and Shelly in volumes, and
you will have them in your arms, i
not in your party, in less than week.
Following the appearance of thi.
atrocious article, meeting of the citi
zens of Raleigh was held, the proceed
ings of which are thus reported by thu
Sentinel of that city:
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Holding Oh to a Corpse.

A restaurant keeper in Richmond
Virginia, refused to deliver up Tho
corpse Of man who had fallen dead il
his house, because the deceased was in
debted to him. Whether he intended
to cut up the body for provendcr, to be
served to his guests, or designed to sci
it to the surgeons, is not apparent. W.
believe. the friends of the deceased
found that legally they had to pay thu
debt before they could remove TIT
corpse without Bonifacc's consent.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
"JOHNsON FOR GOVERNOR"

JOHNSON FOR GOVERNOR"
There was time, before the war,
when these words had talismanic pow
ers, and as a rallying cry proved the
most potent that was ever adopted by q
party. "Johnson for Governor" was
the war cry Of the Democracy of Ten
ncssce when Know-No thingism threat
ened to isolste the State from the pro-
gress and the freedom for which our
party has ever contcnded. "Johnson
for Governor" excited the enthusiasm of
the Democratic party of Tennessee in
days gone by, as perhaps no similar
words can ever again. "Johnson for
Governor" might even today be strong
words Ii there was gubcrnatOrial race
now pending. But there is not, and UNI
til we dispose Of the matters on hand,
(and they are serious enough to engage
our whole time and attention,) we sub
nit to our well-intentioncd cOtcmpo-
rary-the AUalanchc-the advisability
of dropping its fresh-ncdgcd idea of
"Johnson for Governor especially as
it is likely to occasion q division in
our ranks, and ALLEVIATE from us the mo-
raj support ofgreat minds whose names
are yet magical with the people Of Ten
neesee.
When the time comes to nominate a
Governor, if it ever shall come again,
it is among the possibilities that "John-
soil for Governor" would, as the Aca-
lonche says, prove the shibbolcth by
which to rally all the Conservatives and
Democrats of Tennessee to the rescue
from infdcl Radical clutches. of the
proud old State. But there is much to
be done before next August. One of
the brightest or one of the darkest
pages ID the history Of this country will
have been indelibly impressed with our
reinstatement or our release from
bondage. Those men now in public
life will have been still farther, and per-
haps more than ever severely tried
Changes may occur-changes of a char
actcr affecting the organic structure of
the Government. Indeed, judging by
what Congress has effected under the
style of reconstruction measures"
there is no knowing what may trans
pire before August of 1869. Sufficient
for the day is the evil thereof" Let us
husband our resources, preserve har-
mony in our ranks, and allay even the
seeming of strife, by thinking of the
present and the results dependent upon
the efforts we are making and have to
make for Seymour and Blair. We have
no time to indulge in theories or spccu-
lations between us and the consumma-
ton Of which there are so many days
perhaps of farther trial, endurance and
modification, perhaps (and we hope
and labor for iD triumph and unexam-
pied prosperity for our people. We
want the help of every man in this con-
test. We cannot afford to lose one. We
are well assured that Andrew johnson
himself would not permit his name to
be coupled with any Office at this time
if he thought such coupling would ell
danger one vote or rob us Of the moral
support and active efforts OF even dis
franchiscd rebel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
The War of Roses.

The war between Hunnicutt and the
colored Republicans on the one side,
and the Yankee carpet-baggers, repre-
scented by the Central Committee on the
other is assuming fearful proportions
in Richmond, Virginia.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16

A theoretically benevolent man. on
being asked by a friend to loan him n
dollar, answered briskly, with pleas
ure," but suddenly added, "dear me,
how unfortunate! I've only one lending
dollar, and that is out"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16

Acting Governor Holden, of North
Carolina, continues his martial prepare
tons for war. lie has ordered his Col
onels to provide for the enrolment of
all "ablc-bodicd male citizens of the
State, who are citizens of the United
States, between twenty-one and forty
years OF age
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16

The Petersburg (Virginia) Express
learns from reliable authority that a
large oak tree in New Kent County died
from a Radical bill being posted on it.
1t was green and fourishing when tho
bill was posted, but in few days it
commenced to wither and finally
decoyed
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16

Smoking by the ladies in Boston is
on the increase. An extensive cigar
dealer in that city says he sells an ave-
rage of three hundred per day for la
dies use, and thinks thousand per day
At least arc pulled BY the fair ones.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16

Doolittlc is doing great deal to-
ward carrying the State of Wisconsin
for Seymour.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
The Standards Brutal Attack on
the Ladies--IndignatiO Meeting.

LEXINGTON, n. C., Sept. %, 1868.
At Il meeting of citizens, Irrespective
Of party) at Lexington, in the Court
House, A. L. Watson. Esq. was called
to the Chair, and Mr.. L. +. Johnson and
DR.. G. NJ. Payne, were chosen Secreta-
ries.
The Chairman stated that the object of
the meeting was to express our indig-
nation at an article entitled ("Work, y
which appeared in the North Carolina
Standard, of September 10Th.
Upon motion, the Chairman read the
article.
1t was moved and carried, that Com
mittee of six be appointed to draft ap-
propriatc resolutions.
Suitable remarks were made by dis
tinguished persons of both parties, after
which the Committee read the follow
ing resolutions, which were unanimous
ly adopted:
Resolved, That we have read, with
feelings of horror and indignation, the
leading editorial in the North Carolina
Standard. of the 18th inst, headed
"Work," and that it is 4 most infamous
libel and gross SANDER, as well as an
insidious brutal assault on the purity
Of the female sex Of North Carolina
and the other Southern States.
Resolved, That silence OH our part
would be virtually endorsing the said
article ; therefore, we deem il culpable
in any man to remain passive or fail to
publicly express his indignation.
Resolved, That we can view the base
writer in no other light than that of a
vulgar brute and dcspicable wretch,
richly meriting the contempt and de-
testation of every respectable and vir-
tuous minded person in the State. and
that his miserable quasi apology should
only serve to sink him still lower in the
minds Of all thinking people.
Resolved, That, in the opinion of
this meeting, the patronage of that
newspaper should at once be with
drawn, until it is purgcd of the author
of the article above referred to, and
that he be fcrited out, to the end
thai the public scorn of an outraged
people may eXpel from our midst the
mean and loathsomc thing that has
sought 10 disgrace and tarnish the fair
name and fame of the pure and lovely
daughters of North Carolina.
NJ. Ill. IINNIX,
j. 2. STIMsoN,
THos. Unions,
j. II. BROwN,
j. a. Sewers, Sheriff,
S. Z. Ford,
Committee.
1t was moved and carried, that n copy
of the above resolutions be sent to the
Salem Press, Old North State, and Ra-
leigh Sentinel for publication, and that
q copy also be sent to the editor OF the
North Carolina Standard.
A. l.. WATSON, Chairman.
l.. =. JOHNSON, G. S. CT socrotor;os
G. M. PAYNE, ''0'''''i'''
Says the MteUigencer, tar and feathers
applied in profusion to the body of the
wretch who penned the article in the
Standard, and to the body of the pub.
Usher of that dirty sheet, would be the
mildest punishment they dcscrvcd.-
The good people of Raleigh have Ger.
family exhibited extraordinary forbear.
ance at the insult offered the women OF
the South by paper published in theil
midst.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
johnson for Governor"

We find the article below in the Mem
phis appeal of the Sth, and copy it for
the sensible advice contained in the
closing portion.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16

A. lady in East Bridgewater, Mass,
was recently burned in the face by the
explosion of sealed can of potatoes
lett on the stove,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16

tits now supposed that 10000 persons
lost their lives by the late earthquake
in South America,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
Running Away from Radicals

Running Away from Radicalism.
The Nashville Banner contains the
following:
A rousing meeting of the white and
colored Democratic Clubs, of Franklin,
was held at that place Tuesday, at which
five or six hundred persous were pres
ent, two-thirds of whom were colored.
They were very ably addressed by Elias
Polk, of Nashville, and Parson Lewis
Hughes, colored, of Franklin. The lat
ter was, until he gave his unqualified
adhesion to the Democracy, Tuesday
night, the acknowledged leader Of the
colorcd Radicals of Williamson and
President of the Loyal League of thai
county. Another colorcd man, whose
name we have unfortunately forgotten
but whose influence was hardly second
in extent to that of the Parson. also re.
nOunced Radicalism and declared fol
the Democratic party.
The prospect is most fattering fol
heavy accessions to the numerous col.
owed clubs which have been organized
throughout Williamson.