The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-01-03
Trimming Grant,

Training Grant.
George Francis Train made II speech
in Boston one night last week, in which
he disscctcd the "great reticent" after
the following style:
"Thc moment man goes into Train
ing laughter for the White House, as
& rant has been since ,Shiloh, he courts
criticism. The otce-holdcrs are how
after him like the pilot fish after shark.
Grant at the head of the army was
safe, but Grant for President is the
most gigantic sell ever put off on an in
tclligent people. Laughter. % ! and
dissent Whenever meet him, have
the inclination to say, General, | have
only five minutes time, tell us all you
know. Laughter. The dress circle
may be fooled with this headshaking
business. under the proverb that young
people should be seen and not heard
but the pit remembers the other pro-
verb, that gravity is q mysterious car
rage of the body to cover up the de-
fleets of the mind Laughter and APP
plauSc. The man who was a genera
ton planning sidewalk from his pig
con-houSc at Galena TO the railway de-
pot, will never be President of the
United States. Loud laughtcr.l Ben
net only praises him to kill him, a he
did Mcclellan. and when he became
Secretary of War to help Johnson slide
Stanton over his back into the ditch
( Tlaughtcr.l The cork was out of the bot
| lie. and out came the politicians aiming
ut the White House. Judge Sancho
/ Panza. at Barcelona, sagcly remarked
that the higher the witness climbs, the
more he shows his--StatesmanShip.-
! Loud laughter. Grants name is IA
nous Oh account OF his wonderful ia
cilitv for macadalniaing the road from
! Washington to Richmond with skulls
of American citizens sensational and
for his daily dispatches to stanton,
Send down 10000 more men to start
another graveyard" Scnsation.l So
cially. like the General, but | cannot
vote for Washburne"
Indignation Meeting.
The Louisville COurier of the 9th
contains the following dispatch:
=, NASHVILLE. DEC, G.-Capt. Height,
, Superintendent of the Capitol, will re-
sign his position tomorrow. on the al
, legged groand that Governor Brownlow
had saudcrcd the Germans of Nash
, willie. by saying that part of them had
. been in the pcnitrntialy in the old coun-
. try. The German citizens will hold an
, indignation meeting on saturday, and
, appoint committee to wait on the
: Governor and demand if he had made
the slandcrpus assertion attributed to
him.
: NICE PRrsrNr.-Jim. +. Bell, of the
Nashville Ga=ettc, has been presented
r. with set of silver plate, consisting Of
C six pieces, by the typos employed ON
: that Journal.
= Arlul.s.--A Kansas editor, who
: evidently wants to get himself into the
:, lunatc asylum, proposes Horace Gree
y ley for President and Horace Maynard
!. for Vice President
:. HEAVY SHIPMENT OF CoTToS.-Thc
e Nashville Union anil Di$potch says'
Ii There were forty car loads of cotton
g shipped from this place on the 18th in
slant by the Nashville and Chattanooga
road ria Norfolk. Cotton by this route
reaches New York in nine days, the
y time being guaranteed. and reaches Nor
:, folk without change OF hindrancc.
l. RIOT AND DEATII.---A white man ma
a med Davenport succeeded, on the day
after Christmas, in getting the negro
members otthc Loyal League at W hitcs-
i VILE. Harris county, Ga. into row
lc with the white citizens OF that place
10 The result was, one Of the latter. named
Lyle. was shot in the arm, who, i'll turn,
fired upon Davenport, killing him in
: stantly-whrn the negroes Immediately
4 fled in every direction and the disturb
- ancc at once ceased. Mr. Lyle's wound
~ is not serious.
nc PEUsSIAN RAlInoADs.-Thc system OF
tn laying railroads without the use OF
'd slecpcrs, by placing the rails directly on
IL the ballast, which has been in operation
he for some time past in Prussia, is said to
nj be quite Successful. In that country il
is rule on the railways that every iiltl
wheel of Il train must have brake.
- In the Louisiana Convention on tn,
" 9th ultimo, Judge Conley, amid fire.
Is qurnt Interruptions, told the ncgroc
cs that to hope for social equality by means
rs, of legislation was prcposterouS, ant
NJ warned them that their present cxces
sivc demands would only result in
d. disastrous revolution.
of .-'----
i. BURNED At TIE STAKE.--A negro wh'
, raped IL white girl OH the public road
y near Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga
on Saturday last, was arrested on Mon
day, tied TO IL stake, and burned by
Is mixed crowd of whites and blacks.
:" Observation-Disclosures adyicrS stat
that the reports about the trouble wit
he the negroes in portions of Virginia, ar
nj grossly exaggerated.
m .------
MS A London dispatch of the 2Sth state
81 that on the previous day men vii
we blackcncd faces stormed Mortcllo Ca
Ih- tie near Cork, and took II lot of arm
and ammunition and escaped.
~ The Superior Court of Cincinna
Ill holds that bank sending a draft dc
posted with them for collection, t
another bank, is liable to the dcposito
les i'm case the amount is lost bv failure {