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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
The Poles.

LANGIEwICz has written startling
letter to several Poles in Florence, tell
ing them that any Pole would be justi-
fed in shooting Alexander like a dog.
The letter closes as follows. Rcmcm-
Der the fourteen Polish mothers whom
the cowardly villain caused to be hung
at wilma! Remember the hundred and
fifty Polish matrons and girls whom his
Cossacks had to drive to Siberia! Bless
cd be the bullet that pierccs the heart
of this crowned assassin!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Another Suicide,

We regret to see such paragraphs as
the following going the rounds of the
papers. Amt it horrible, the future of
such men:-
Charles Miller, defeated Radical
candidate for county surveyor, in St.
Joseph, Mo-, committed suicide last
week, because, he said, che was sick of
the Radical party on earth, and wanted
to see how they got along in the sui
phurOus mines below" lie asked for
paper and wrote that "Jim Lane was
reckoning him on. That u. Fletcher and
d. d. Drake were expected soon; that
corners in the lower regions were va
Gated for brute Brownlow, beast Butler,
soup tomeen Grant, Thad Stevens and
several Others"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
The LlInberlncn,

The Dubuque Times of late date,
gives an account of murderous riot at
the little town of Alma. on the Upper
Mississippi. 1t appears that party of
lumbermen, on their way down the
river stopped at Alama, and, being re-
fused whisky at the stores, set them
selves about cleaning out" the town,
plundering houses, etc. The sheriff and
his deputy attempted to arrest the des-
peradoes, and both were shot dead
The citizens, mostly Germans, thereup-
on armed themselves, and after vigor-
GUS fight, drove the murderers from the
place. Full particulars of the affair
have not been received, but it is sup
posed that several of the lumbcrmen
were killed
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
WASHINGTON Items.

A dispatch says: Sixty clerks, male
and female, were discharged from the
Treasury Department today. No more
work. No more greenbacks. The exo-
dus creates great CONSERVATION among
the bread-and butter people.
The radical caucus to-day was not
cheerful. The radicals say that Grant
is R. poor stick and it is impossible to
devise measures to make him go. The
business of the caucus was chiefly tech
niCal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Nineteen Negroes Drowned.

The Savannah Ncws contains an ac-
count Of the drowning Of nineteen ne
groes:
On Sunday last party of twenty-five
negroes, many of them under the infu-
encc of liquor, started from Burgess
Mill, on the Saltilla River in a small
sail-bOat to attend meeting at Jefler-
sonton. On the way, the boat, through
the mismanagcmcnt of those who were
sailing it, capsizcd, and nineteen of the
party were drowned. The others saved
themselves by clinging to the boat I'M
til help arrived. or those drowned
eleven were men, the rest women and
children. Every thing was done to re-
cover the bodies, and up to two o'clock
Wednesday afternoon eleven bodies had
been found.
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T E R M S.:
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Gle 2ost.
Athens. Friday, July 10. ls8S.
Taxing Interest on United States
Bonds.

We announced last week that in the
House of Representatives, resolution
presented by Mr.. Cobb, instructing the
Committee on Ways and Means to re-
port bill levying a tax Of ten per cent.
on the interest of all classes of Govern
ment Bonds, was, after sharp struggle,
carried by vote of 80 yeas to "a nays.
The Democrats voted in body for the
resolution; the Republicans contribut-
ing sixty votes for it. Among the Ten
ncssee delegation, Butler, Hawkins,
Mullins and Stokes voted to tax the
Bonds; Maynard and Arnell voted a.
gainst taxing them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Rats DESERVING a Sinking Ship.


We clip the following from the Nc
Minnville NeW Era. What is reported
as occurring in that direction is true in
regard to this and other portions of the
State. Everywhere the more honest
members of the radical party, both
white and black, are deserving the Or
ganization. The League room has lost
its potency, and the ranting of political
parsons--fellows who steal the livery
of heaven to serve the devil in--has
come to be estimated at its proper value
ID. B. Boswell and VIM. Mcintosh,
publish cards in the Covington, Glenn. J
Record, in which they disclaim all flu
ture connection or sympathy with radi-
calism. We have seen, in the last few
days, a number of such publications
from both black and white, and it pre-
scnts both a healthy and cheering as
pect. The negro boilers from the party
say they have been dealt treacherously
with-that they have waited full twelve
months for their "fOrty acres and the
mule" and they are unwilling longer
to be made the receptacle of "soft
SOAP" and in future they are going to
associate themselves with the interests
of the white man.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
More Indian Outragcs.

Dispatches from Victoria state that
as the sloop Thornton was on her last
trip northward, she was attacked forty
miles above Fort Rupert by three canoes
full Of Indians. Captain Warren and
crew fired ON them with heavy rifles,
killing twenty out of twenty three In
dams. Captain Warren and one of his
men were severely wounded. The In
dams fought obstinately with fire arms.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Highly Important to Banlxrupts

Section 80 of the bankrupt act of
March 2, 1867, requires that all appli-
cations for discharge shall be made
qvithSsa one gear from the adjudication.
If such application is not made with
the Clerk, or a special order Of the
court obtained acithin the gear, the
bankrupt may be barred from obtaining
his discharge. AS adjudications were
made as early as July last, the time
with many bankrupts has nearly ex-
nirod
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Set Him Again.

The Louisville journal is responsible
for reproducing the following at this
time:
Some years ago Yankee fell into a
river and was drowned. Some weeks
afterwards his neighbors found his bo-
dy and it was full of cells. They took
it home to his widow, cells and all, and
told her how the case was. Well,
said she, "give me the cells, and set
him again"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Cotton Prospects.

An able Southern commercial editor,
under date of the Goth ult., gives the
following as the result of much labor
and research, during the last mouth, in
cleaning facts upon which to base the
prospects of the next cotton crop. lie
says:
The cotton crop is estimated at about
three millions of bales which is dccid-
edly encouraging. Various accounts of
the growing crop have been published,
and from them we CLEAN as follows:
In North Carolina-Stand good ;plant
healthy and ten per cent. less land in
cotton than in 1867.
South Carolina-Crops somewhat
| backward but healthy; stand good :
twenty per cent. less land in cotton, but
more in grain.
Gcorgia-Stand very good ; probably
twenty per cent. less planted.
| Florida-Very encouraging; stand
good and quantity of land in cotton
about the same as last year.
Alabama-Stand unusually good
! fifteen per cent. less land in cotton than
last year; weather seasonablc.
Louisiana-Vcry favorable; more
land planted, and crop more forward
than last year.
Tenncssee--Two weeks ahead of last
year. Crop fine and more planted.
Tcxas--About the same as last year.
Coast counties and upper counties
have also fair prospects, and all alarm
as to the army worm has ceased.
We must expect the usual amount of
croaking and predicting until wheat is
secured, corn harvested cotton picked,
and all other crops cared for The re-
suit will doubtless be all right, and
enough and to spare will be found as
the result of the year.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
"Our FiDanceS.'

The Nashville Press and Times of
last Friday contains a communication
on the subject of the financial compli-
cations of Tennessee, from which we
take the following extract:
What is our situation, and what can
VIC do to relieve ourselves of our diff
cultics? We have out nearly q million
of dollars in overdue bonds, called our
May bonds, because they fell due last
May. They were issued in May, 1888,
and were made payable thirty years af-
ter date. In addition to these we have
q large amount of other outstanding
bonds not yet due, bearing interest,
payable in New York on the first of
January and July of every year. Tho
State has recently placed in New York
several hundred thousand dollars, rails
ed from taxation, railroads, and other
sources, to pay the interest on the un-
due bonds which were payable on the
| first of July. But it seems that the
holders of the overdue bonds thought
their principal ought to be paid, and
hence have attached the funds of the
State in New York. Whether this has
been produced by mismanagement,c cor
ruption, stock-iobbing spectators, OF
an honest desire to get from the State
what she honestly owes. is immaterial.
The effect is the same, to-wit: the tenn
porary ruin of the credit of the State.
Until we can pay off our overdue
bonds. which it is now hopeless to en-
pcct for long time, we will certainly
have repetition of attachments in New
York about the first of every succeed
ing January and July, when the funds
are sent forward to pay the interest
which is payable there.
The remedy the writer proposes Is an
erfrn SeSSinn of The LeuiSLnkurc
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Not EaSN.

The editor fthe Cerro Gordo Oowa)
Republican has "taken in" one of the
Office boys rs partner, and assigns as
a reason that "Stephen has been to
work for us all the year, and wants his
pay, and we thought, after he had been
proprietor short time, he would I'M
derstand that paying help was not so
easy"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
A bereaved wife, from "down East,

A bereaved wife, from "down East"
whose consumptive husband died in
Florida, where they had gone for health,
displayed an economical spirit by pack
ing lot of oranges and sweet potatoes
in the box with the corpse, that she
might please the folks at home and at
the same time save expense of trans
portation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
A Free Press in Tennessee,

The Supreme Court has rendered one
of the most important decisions that per-
haps ever emanated from that tribunal
On the Both ult., that court decided what
is known as the Memphis Acnlaachc
contempt cases. A Brownsville dis
patch to the 1rolonche says: "Thc
court decides that Hunters judgments
in these cases are null and void. 1t is
further held that the defendants are en-
titled to be discharged on habeas corpus.
The court holds to the restricted statu-
tory to punish contempt. 1t is COM
plete vindication Of the 1polonche, and
a glorious triumph of free speech and
free press over despotism." The Ar-
atanche says editorially: "Every one
who appreciates the blessings of free
speech and free press will rejoice at
the decision mentioned in our Browns
vile special as having been rendered
in the Avalanche contempt cases. A
more complete vindication of the right
of the press to criticisc the actions of
public officials, even to charging, and
substantiating charges ofcowuption,w was
never placed on record. The infamous
blows struck at the liberties of the peo-
pie in the person of the Apolonche have
recoiled upon their authors and sent
them recling TO the Ground"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
New Orleans.

The deaths in New Orleans last week
number lightweight. The Bulletin
says there is neither yellow fever MOI
cholera in New Orleans, and the pros.
poets are that there will be no sickness
this summer.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10

Two hundred men have been thrown
out of employment by the destruction
of the Pottstown Pennsylvania) nail
works. which occurred by fire last Sat-
urday.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10

A DUTlFUI. son gave his parent, aged
seventy, most unlilial beating in Phil
adelphia few nights ago, and broke
two of his ribs for him,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10

A THIEF cut Off the tresscs of Sleep
ing beauty in Memphis, few evenings
since.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-05
Radical Estimate of the Negro.

We have frequently endeavored to i'm
press upon the colored people of the
South that the Radicals desired to
use them only rs an agent to work out
their own advantage, and that, if not their
confessions, at least their acts, gave sure
evidence of this purpose. No intelligent
black man can say that the condition of
his race is better to-day than it was be-
fore the right of suffrage was conferred
upon them, and none can view the future
without fear, if the causes which are grad
ually and surely alternating them from the
continued but increased. The carpet-b
adventures, however, have been beneti-
ted by this revolutionin political affairs. -
Through the ignorance and preiudices OF
negroes, the merest Adventures, unknown
at home and contemplate here, have re-
ceived honors and emoluments, as much
beyond their sober expectations as they are
above their capacity and merits. Men
have been elected to Office and aspire to
yet still higher honors i'll tho South, whose
oC l1iCil IOhlNS III Cu0 NOEIu
was never beyond some mental employ
ment, without sufficient success to give
them a comfortable livelihood
These men, by an association with South
ern negroes and by falsehoods as to their
regard for the political advancement of the
race, have succeeded in weaving them from
their former friends, and in return have
had themselves voted into paying Offices,
and honored the negroes by allowing them
to carry the torches and transparencies in
honor of the victory, and reading them Sc
we're lectures against their aspirations fol-
preferment.
Do these men really care for the negro
Are they the real friends of these people
Will the blacks enhance their material OF
social welfare by continuing warfare upon
the Southern whites and their property fol
the benefit of the miserable carpet ,baggers
whose lead they arc SO blindly following ?
Their conduct already is causing
almost every Southern community,
Influenced by the demands of in
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teregt and protection, to look for and pro
mote an immigration of white settlers ano
laborers into their section, and, though
but little progress has as yet been made,
the necessity begins to be acknowledged
as so important-nay, SO vital, that II r'H
succeed, and that at an early day. In thls
movement the Southern whites have the
aid of the whites of the North, Democrats
and Radicals. Even at Chicago, IN ofder
to make favor with the Northern working
men, Forney, par excellence, the spokesman
of the extreme Radical feeling, thus alluded
to the negroes
Does be (the northern "orklnSm an) not know
+bo+ tho colOred men of the South are opening
hat country to the white emigration of the earth?
Dccs he not know that that is their ONE and that
in no condition of circumstances can the colored
man ever become his rival in any Of the avenues
of tradc?'' GGreat applause1
How true this is, and how rapidly will
the Southern negro be made to realize 1t
through the very influences which Eerney
and his colaborers have inaugurated. They
do regard the Southern negro as onIy open
ing the South to the white immigration of
all the earth. Nay, more, they know full
well that they have SO poisoned their minds
t. at a resort to such means to rid them
selves of them is becoming a reluctant,
but vital, necessity with the Southern peo-
pie With perfect certainty, then, can the
Northern Radicals promise the mechanics
and laborers of the over-crowded districts
of their own section and of Europe that
they will soon find prosperous home in
the South, land that in no condition of
circumstances can the colored man ever
become his rival in any of the avenues of
trade"
With no friends at the North, if they
lose the friendship of the Southern
people, it requires but little foresight to
read the history of the negroes in this
cOuntry
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-05
Minority Rule.

It seems almost impossible for the Radi-
calls in Congress to speak of reconstruction
without misrepresentation, either express
or implied. Thus, on Saturday last, Mr.
Wilson must declare IN the Senate Cham
Der that "seven States have adopted the
new loyal constitution with an aggregate
majority of 100000, leaving it to be in
ferred that by that majority the registered
voters of those States had expressed their
appreciation of the bogus instruments sub
mitted to their votes. Leaving one of these
States, Florida, out of view as not having
furnished returns sufficiently authentic,
the true state of the case may be seen from
the annexed figures
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-05

msintained in idleness on Government rations
that there is no prospect of q restoration of the
South to self government under Republican rule
that the carpet Dagger are living in clover al
the public expense that there is no hope of a
return to the reign of law peace and prosperity
until the Democrats are restored to power, &c
&c. Restore the States, abolish militar' rule
withdraw the Freedmen's Bureau and all the guns
of the seymours, Rrookses and Clay Deans will
be spiked or their cartridges rendered harmless
we expect to heat them anyhow; but there is nc
USE in exposing ourselves to hard fight when
We Inight have an easy one II We chose
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-05
THE CaUP PROPHETS FOR 1858.

Fine Appearance OF the Grain. Cotton,
Corn, Fruit, Tobacco and Other Crops
All Over the Country
New YoRk.-Accounts from all parts of
the State are encouraging. Fruit is past
danger, and although too wet weather has
retarded farming operations generally the
growing crops have not suffered to any ex-
tent.
New JERsEY.-The following is crop
report from New Jersey to May 25 Never
at this season was there finer prospect of
a plenteous harvest than that which glad
dens the eye to-day. The gardens are
backward, but even i'll wet, strong soils the
seeds are not drowned out, and though
slow in making their appearance, are now
showing themselves handsomely. AS to
fruit there has been magnificent blossom
of cherries, apples and pears, fair flower
ing upon the peaches, with the almost sure
prospect that no frost will destroy them at
this late season. Currants are half grown
in exposed situations. Cherries are set,
and look as If they would furnish heavy
yield. Strawberries blossom very well. -
AS to the field crops, the heavy rains have
delayed the farm work, and i'll most locali-
ties the oats have only been week above
ground, but look hardy and vigorous
Fall sown cereals are in splendid condition,
as the heavy SHOWS and steady frosts of the
winter protected them, and the cold, wet
spring has given them great strength of
root and fibre. The same is true of the
grass, which is rank in growth, and pas
turage is everywhere abundant. There is
every reason to expect heavy crop of hay.
Corn, as yet, is nowhere.
PENNsYLvANA.-TheP ittsburg CONNER
cial, May %, says No farmer in this re-
gion cares to run the risk of planting corn
later than the goth of May, but this season
they have generally been compelled to dis
regard the rule. The few warm, clear DAYS
with which we have lately been favored,
have been actively devoted to this work,
and We have good reason to hope that q
fair crop will be realized. We speak more
particularly with reference to the crop in
! Western Pennsylvania ard Eastern Ohio.
The latest reports from nearly every Sec
ton of the State give encouraging &C
counts of the fruit and grain prospects,
They are both beyond danger and the
promises are they will be more than usually
abundant.
OH1o.-A Steubenville letter of Nav II
says The crops in this county have not
been injured in any degree by the frosts or
by the chilling winds that prevailed during
the past two weeks. This is also true of the
fruit. The apple trees are all more COM
pletely inundated with blossoms than they
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-05
The Latest National Disgrace.

The Latest National Disgrace.
The Radical House OF Congress, i'll the
election from the Capitol at Washington
Of Miss WINNIE REAM, the sculptor, have
perpetrated an act for petty meanness and
pusillanimous spite unparalleled even in
the history of that body. The Richmond
Dispatch gives tho following explanation
of this affair:
This Miss REAM is very young, of even
girl like appearance. Her talent in sculp-
ture having been brought to the attention
of Congress, she was employed by that
body to model and complete statue in
marble of the L" late lamented LINCOLN, >
and committee of Congress assigned her
a room in the basement wherein to con-
duct her work and this was done without
her solicitation. There she has since pros
ecuted her undertaking; her studio being
much visited by public men and artists.
She is represented as young lady of great
gentleness aud modesty, and as highly re-
spected.
Miss REAM's father resided in Kansas,
and was there the neighbor of Senator
Ross, who for this reason took rooms at
Mr.. REAM's house when he reached Wash,
ington. During the late Impeachment
| trial the Senator's vote was subject oil
speculation and many rumors. Among the
things said was that "VINNIE REANI had
| Influenced him to vote for acqUitting Mr..
JOHNSON" Whether true Or not, it was
| found that Miss REAM inclined to the Presi
dent, and Mr.. Ross voted for him, and that
was enough. Mr.. BINGHAM undertook the
infamous act of revenge upon this poor
| girl. He introduced a resolution ordering
the room occupied by Miss REAM to be
fitted up as prison for WooLLEY, and the
room opposite to be fitted up for guard
room. These rooms had been lettered A
and 5 in the morning by order of the
Managers, and the resolution of B1NG
HAM specified them as A and 8, when there
were no other rooms in tho basement thus
| lettered
Tho resolution was passed, and Miss
REAM had to move out her casts and mate
rials at great inconvenience and with great
danger to the model she was preparing.
After the resolution was adopted, mo,
ton was made on Friday to reconsider il,
pending which most disgraceful debate
occurred. One General MORGAN, of Ohio,
took position as the champion of Miss
REAM, and recited the alleged purport OF q
conversation between her and JULIAN, Of