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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
PENNSYLVANIA,

Our friends are holding immense
meetings in the Keystone State. A cor.
respondent says those at Allentown and
Harrisburg last week were particular
ly encouraging. Beside old-time Demo
Gratis there were on the ground, and
taking hcart-whole participation in the
proceedings, many distinguished con.
verts from the Radical ranks-men who
confessedly were driven from these
ranks by the recklessness and ruin OF
Radical rule: Ex-Gov. Bigler, Of Penn.
sylvania, was of these; SO was ex-Gov
johnson; so was Senator Edgar Cowan
and Gen. Coulter, who did good service
during the war. These. surely, are both
hopeful and significant signs Of the
times.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
The Indians.

Fort WALLACE, KANSAS, Sept. 3d.
Two scouts from Col. Forsyth's COM
mand, who have been securing the
country towards the head waters of
Republican river, arrived here last
night. They left Forsyth's command
on Dry Fork of Republican River, five
miles from its mouth and ninety miles
north of this place, four nights ago.
They report that OH the morning of the
18th. the Indians tried to run Off por.
ton of their stock, and half an hour
later three or four hundred appeared
on the bluffs, two miles distant and
made dash for the camp.
Col. Forsyth, having only fifty men
crossed to u small island, when the In
dams communicating on them, anC
kept it up fast and steadily, until clever
o'clock. After that time only scatter
ing shots were fired, until three o'clock
when they again opened a steady fire
with an increased force, their number
being then estimated at seven hundred
The fire was kept up in this manner un.
til shutdown, when the Indians made q
charge to take the camp, but We're 'un.
successful. However, they kept up the
light until eleven o'clock, at which time
the scouts left for Fort Wallace to OBJ
tain assistance. They were obliged tc
crawl two miles on their hands ant
knees through Indians to get out. A
daylight they heard fighting back at thu
camp, seven miles away, and occasiona
shots all day.
Col. Forsyth had his left leg broker
by ball, and was also shot through tn,
right thigh. Lieut.. Beecher was sho
in several places, and is supposed to b.
dying, rs his back was broken. HI
begged his men to kill him. DR.. Moor
was shot in the head while dressin!
Col. Forsyth's wounds. Two men wer,
killed and twenty wounded. All tn
stock of the command was killed, ant
the men were living on horse flesh
The scouts had only one and hal
pounds to last them in Fort Wallace
The party had siXty-tive rounds of am
munition left, and were terrifying. Tn
scouts could only travel at night, Oh &C
count of danger from Indians, VIII
were seen every day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
A Bully One.

We find the following in an eastern
exchange. tits as near the truth as rad.
ical editors in that section generally ap-
proach:
A Radical in neighboring town as
tonished the people about the polls last
Monday by declaring that Seymour was
in the rebel army, and that he invaded
New York during the war, had little
orphan children drawn and quartered,
and had colored baby roasted like a
young pig and set OH the table before
him. His friends tried TO hush him up,
but he said he knew it was so, for he
had read it in the Portland Press.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Tennesseeans Will be Free A gain,

The Nashville Union and american
reasons that no party can live long in a
free republic in support of the mon
strous doctrine that the majority of
property holders can be taxed while de-
prived of voice in their government.
The party or the republic will soon
come to an end, and that will be the re.
suit of the experiment now in progress
The disabilities imposed by the Radical
oligarchy will be removed and it will
be destroyed by the indignant verdict
of the country it has wronged, or it will
be forced to perpetuate its rule, by de.
claring itself absolute. The right of
representation will be regained in this
struggle, or it will be lost, perhaps, for
ever. We have no idea that the latter
will be the issue. The violation of this
cardinal principle Of civil liberty will
be the death of the Radical party. The
descendants of sires who fought seven
years against preamble merely assert
ing the right to tax without representa-
ton, are not going tamely to yield their
blood-bought freedom at the behcst of
a political faction. Nor will they long
permit it to ride in wild triumph and
brandish the truncheon of oppression.
That the people Of Tennessee will be
free again that the owners of this soil
will control the State. is as certain as
the existence Of the world. The party
now holding the large mass ofth white
citizens in the thrall of disfranchise-
ment is doomed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Emigrant SWindleS.

A dispatch from New York to west
ern house says:
A detective agency of this city have
unearthed 4 siupendous swindle, origi.
mating here, under the title of the Brook.
lyn Steamship and Emigrant Company.
The one thousand dollar bonds which
constituted the fraud are in circulation
in all parts of the country, many hav-
ing gone to California and the Southern
and Middle States. Many persons in
Virginia have been extensively swim
died by land spectators through using
these bonds. besides numbers in the
Eastern and Western States.
We will add word of caution to the
above: that the country is full of self
instituted agents engaged in the immi-
grant business, and the only safe way is
to give them all Il wide berth.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
DISCHARGE of Surratt.

A Washington dispatch Of the Oath
says: In the Criminal Court this morn
ing. Judge Wylie discharged Surratt,
under the statute of limitation, the in
dictment not having been served two
years after the oflense was alleged to
have been committed.
After the announcement of the deci-
sion by Judge Wylie, many friends con-
graduated him, and he retired from the
courtroom. The District Attorney filed
an appeal from the decision, and the
Court adjourned.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
T E R M S.:
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Communications. to secure insertion, must
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
The gost.
Athens, Friday, Oct. z, ls0s.
SHINING the Eels.

For the year ending June 30, 1868.
every man, woman and child paid $50
and some cents apiece to support the
Government. They may not see it, but
they did. Directly or indirectly, it came
from their property, their backs or
their stomachs. Multiply the 100000
of our population by SIS SO, and you
will have the amount of the whole tax,
viz: S47S,OOO,OOO. SIS SO is so near SIG,
that it is fair to put the per capita tax at
the latter figure. So we may say we
paid SIG apiece for the luxury of the
last session Of Congress. Do we growl?
Pooh, pooh! We like it. After an eel
is skinned, what does he care for hot
water?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
The Georgia Case.

The talk about special legislation for
GeOrgia's case has all ended in smoke.
Common-sense has prevailed over the
wild demands of earpet-bag fanaticism,
and the fact is acknowledged even by
carpet-baggers themselves that Con-
gress has no jurisdiction over the sub
jeet. inasmuch as Georgia has been ad-
mitted back into the fold of the Union.
TO adopt any other theory would be re-
versive of all the proclaimed doc
trincs of Radicals.--NeW York Herald.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
The Constitution.

Forney's Chronicle says: "The Con-
stitution of the United States has many
defects, and we are of opinion that the
time is rapidly approaching for its re-
vision" We think so too, for, in the
last eight years, the Radicals have
punched it so full of defects" that it is
no longer any protection to liberty. II
the Democrats again get into power
they will restore it to its pristine beau
ty and vigor.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Horrible.

Twenty -four hundred and forty Ku-
kluxers entered the residence of car
pet-bagger in Georgia the other day, ate
everything on the plantation, drank the
we'll dry, cut his wite's head off and told
her if she spoke they would kill her,
shot a "a pound ball through his body
and warned him never to mention it, and
then left without leaving track or sign
by which they could be identified.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
The Military Districts.

From estimates based upon official
data and close calculation Of all the ex-
penses, it is found that the cost of the
five military districts, or for reconstruct
ing the Southern States under military
domination. will not fall short of the
statement made by Hon. James Brooks,
FORTY millions per annum.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
How Peck of Corn Meal is Taxed.

How a Peck of Corn Meal is Taxed.
The Galliopolis (Ohio) Dispatch, in
answer to the charge that, because a
man is poor he can not be taxed, thus
shows how even a peck Of meal, pur-
chased by poor man to aid in feeding
his family Of little children, is taxed to
aid paying the interest on the untaxed
bonds. Says the Dispatch:
The corn from which that peck of
meal was made was raised on taxed
land, plowed by taxed plow. drawn
by taxed horses, hitched with taxed
gear. Ii was hoed with Il taxed hoe,
cultivated with taxed implements, gath
cred with a taxed wagon, drawn with
taxed horses, thrown into taxed crib,
shelled OH taxed machine, measured
in taxed measure, taken in taxed sack
and ground in taxed mill, seived on a
taxed seive, mixed in taxed pan, STIR
red with Il taxed spoon, sailed will, tax
ed salt, put into taxed bake-pan, bak-
ed in II taxed stove, laid out on taxed
plate. Gu, with Il taxed knife, and, last
ly, eaten by pretty heavily taxed man.
If it were not for the taxes you could
buy bushel of meal for what that peck
cost you. Besides, it is not on that alone
that you are taxed, but on every thing
You have to buy. A pound of sugar
costs only three or four cents, but you
have to pay from sixteen to twenty. A
pound Of coffee only costs ten cents, hut
you have to pay thirty, and if it costs You
three hundred dollars year to support
your family you may safely say one
half of this is tax. Now, is it any Won
der that times are hard and that you
find IL difficult to live?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
ChIlrcI, Shit.

In the Circuit Court, Nashville, on the
Odd ultimo, in the case of Mortimer
Hamilton, on behalf Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South VS.. Rev. VIM.
Brooks, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church North-a suit for the recovery
of the Methodist Church on North Col
lege street, the jury rendered a verdict
in favor of the plaintiff.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02

A highwayman,n named Roberts, made
four unarmed men "stand and deliver"
on Monday night, in the vicinity of st.
Louis; but, while "going through" the
fourth man, was grabbed and captured
by the other three, and taken to the CT
ty, where he now Eliminates IN iail.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
A cautious laboring man, ungrateft

A captious laboring man, ungrateful
for Jay Cookies Irrational blessing"
complains that he has to get up at FIVE
twenty in the morning and work till
seven-thirty at night, in order the bond
holder may breakfast at ten-forty, dine
at seven-thirty, and enjoy himself gen.
orally till ten forty at night.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Indian Fight in Texas.

Gen. Reynolds reports from Austin
Texas, that a detachment of the 9th
Cavalry, from Fort Davis, overlook 2O(
Indians and killed 80, wounded 36, res.
cued 2 captives, captured 200 animals
and destroyed the Indian camp and win.
ter supplies. '.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Grant Not Radical,

The New York Heralds "interview'
man has had conversation" with a
gentleman who knows Grant better
than his own father, who declares that
Grant is opposed to Negro Suffrage and
to "the extravaganza of the Radical
party"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
An Early Winter.

There is no doubt of our having all
early and severe winter, one of the
old-fashioned" seasons which, after
all, are the healthiest and the best. Hea-
Wy frosts have already appeared in va
rious parts Of the country. Even in the
South they are having what they call
cold weather, and are anticipating a
speedy freeze.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
West Virginia.

The campaign in West Virginia is be-
ing conducted vigorously by the Demo-
Gratis, who are confident of carrying the
State in November. The organization
of the party has never been more tho
rough than it is at present.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Mail Rider Shot.

A. B. Stalnaker, the mail-rider be-
tween Tuscaloosa and Newtonville, AL
ALBANIA, was shot from his horse OH the
Goth ult. by negroes. The mail bag was
found cut open and the letters destroy
ed. The unfortunate man, it is said,
leaves wife and two children.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
The United States Soldiers.

The U. 5. soldiers at Columbia were
paid off last week. One store sold to
them seventy-fve Seymour badges and
three Grant badges, and the Seymour
ties cvinced disposition to whip the
three GRANTEES for going that way. This
shows how the wind blows
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
"TrOO Lofty"

The picture following was drawn by
the graphic pen Of the editor of the At
lanta Mtelligencer. If there is a de-
cent Radical who can read it without
blush of shame mounting to his cheek,
he ought to be congratulated upon his
insensibility:
According to the tenets of the Radi-
cal Church, "troo loilty" covers null
titude Of sins. Prior to conversion no
sinner can be so stepped in iniquity as
he who is not trooly-loil," but once
let him say that the Democratic party
are the KuKluX Khan, that Governor
Seymour is liar, that Mr.. Pendleton is
q notorious thief" that General Blair
Is a drunken rowdy," that President
johnson is "a disgrace to humanity"
that General Lee is "a monster of cru
city," and that every man who does not
vote for the Radical party is a copper
head or a rebel and then let him know
how to say 'rah for Grant and Colfax
as if he was accustomed to it, and the
path of honor, fame, riches, and praise
is at once thrown open to him. 1t
matters not what his past life may
have been or even how prominent he
may have been as "leader of the rebel
lion," once he kisses the Chicago plat
form. and declares "them's my senti.
ments, let us have peace" his sins are
forgiven and he becomes-black as a
niger. CTo be "white as woop is very
far from being q recommendation in
Radical circles.) He may have made
stealing his business. like Butler; he may
have plundered and tortured defense
less women and children, like Milroy
he may have burned and despoilcd
churches, and desolated private dwell
lings, like Hunter: and he may have de-
livered the inmates of female colleges
to the lust ola brutal soldiery, like Tur-
chin; but let him once bear the brand,
"trooly loil," and his thetts, his coward
ly cruelty, his sacrlege and arson, and
his tiendish atrocity, become straight.
way 1.-THE faithful discharge of patri-
otto duty in defense of the Constitution
and the Union"
LII the same way man may have been
very -ed-handcd rebel. He may have
id the Yankees" for four years he
may have been excluded from all hope
Of pardon by every one of President
Johnson's exceptionally may have
commanded an army corps under Lee,
and done many other naughty things,
but let him once say, "Pm for Grant
and the Chicago Platform, negro suf-
ftage and the distranchsement Of my
own race" and he is ut once clothed
with the "blue, black and mulatter"
robes of the "trooly loil." That if like
Franklin, Slocum, Granger or Rose
cganz, all of whom fought under the flag
of'the Union from the opening TO the
closing scenes Of the war, he dares to
go for Seymour and Blair and indicates
Il preference for the Democratic plat
form, neither his distinguished service
nor his wounds avail him in the least.
He is iold to depart as "worker of
iniquity," and Foster Blodgett is exalt.
ed to the place from which the hero Of
countless battlefields has been elected.
And such is the "loyalty" in fashion
among the Radical party. Honor, vir-
the, acknowledged eminence, marked
talent, and notable public service are
nothing if not accompanied by "'rah
for Grant and the Chicago platform"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Ohio.

The following comes directly from
Columbus, the capital of Ohio:
We have advices from all parts of the
State which makes assurances doubly
sure that Ohio will give q Democratic
majority in October, and then 60 fol
Seymour and Blair in November.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02

A country schoolmaster began one
morning the duties of the day with
prayer, as usual but after prayer he
went up and asked little boy why he
hadn't shut his eyes during the prayer,
when the boy sharply responded, "We
are instructed in the Bible to watch as
well as pray"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02

A Republican and Democratic Club
peaceably occupy the same room in San
Francisco. The transparency is also in
common, one side bearing the names of
Seymour and Blair, and the other those
of the Radical nominees.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
A man in Connecticut. whose name

A man in Connecticut, whose name
appeared by mistake as one Of the Vice
Presidents at Democratic meeting,
and who published an indignant card
stating that he chad not descended so
low in the scale of fallen humanity"
was arrested the other night as drunk
and disorderly, and slept in the lock-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
The Tide Turned.

The New York Sun (RadicaD states
that month ago betting Oh the Presi-
dental election was two to one in favor
of Grant. Since then Seymour stock
has advanced to par, and within the
past week it is at large premium.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Grant and COlfax.

Colfax, Il little over "a year ago, said
that "Grant had proved a failure in CIV.
cry capacity outside the military" We
should now like to have Grants opin-
ion of Colfax. .....
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02

D0- General Badly Smith is said to DO
the author of the scathing articles re-
viewing Grants military capacity, re-
Gently published in the New York
Woy'4.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02

A widow in her weeds may make her.
self very attractive, but not so with the
farmer, his weeds, like the beggar's rags,
may beget pity, but never can win adj
miration. Good readers, it, you have not
cleaned out the weeds from your fields,
roadsides and fence corners, we beg you
to lose no time in doing so. If you can
not plough them up and turn them UNI
der, as green manure, NOW them down,
and rake them off, to fill up wash, or
burn them,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Extracts from the Dixie Farmer.

Extracts from the Dixie Farmer.
With so sheep OH 240 acres of land, a
sensible farmer can raise more corn,
wheat, oats and grass, in ten years than
he could do without them. Besides, he
will get annually the profits of the wool,
and the increase in lambs, which is, at
least rs per cent. These are not fancies,
but facts.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02

A very clever gentleman tells us that
he will subscribe to the Dirie Farmer,
if we will advise farmers, who are get
ting scarce of fence timber, to plant, on
the gladly places in their fields, Locust
thickets. The suggestion is good one.
and we very chcerfully publish it.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02

Nothing pays better than judicious
ornament, it matters not to what it is
applied. just as it is so much easier to
look honest and feel decent in clean
shirt, than in dirty one, so it is easier
for farmer to live like a Christian, and
raise civilized children in home sur
rounded with handsome yard, carpet
ed with blue grass, and ornamented
with roses, vines and evergreens. La
dies, what do you say? Are we not
right?
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-16
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
LOUIS V. CAZIARC,
Aide-de- Camp, A. A. A. G..

Underwood's mongrel grand jury, has, after an
incubation of more than six months at last hatched
new indictment against ex-President Davis. 1t
covers more than fifty pages Of foolscap.
The indictment states that in 1861 he armed and
equipped troops for the purpose of levying war a.
gainst the United States; that he took forcible
possession of the city of Richmond, and excluded
therefrom the forces of the United States that he
armed and equipped military forces for purpose
of levying war against the United States in the
States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carroll
ma, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
lana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri, and
that he gave to the said forces information, coun-
sci and advice malciously and traitorously to as
sist them in levying the war aforesaid. And at
Manassas on the 2lst of July, 1861, with num-
Der of persons amounting to $4,000 or more armed,
equipped and organized as military forces with the
usual weapons of war, and malicously and traitor
ously fought against, killed, wounded and captured
officers and soldiers of the United States army, and
destroy and captured munitions and materials OF
war; the property of the United States; and that
he with Robert E. Lee, Judah P. Benjamin, John
C. Breckenridge, William Malone, Henry A.
Wise, John Letcher, William Smith, Jubal A.
Early, James Longstreet David H. Hill, Ambrose
P. Hill Gustave T. Beauregard, William d: y.
Whiting, Edward Sparrow, Samuel Cooper, Jos;
E. Johnston, John B. Gordon, G. F. Jackson, and
T. O. Moore, did, maliciously and traitorousy'
conspire and levy war against the United States
The remainder of the Indictment consists OF