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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
NORTH CAROLINA.
More of the Fruits Of Radicalism,

The New York HeraitPs special from
Richmond, says:
A dispatch from Goldsboro, North
Carolina, states that the greatest excite.
mtnt prevails at Kinston, In conse.
quencc of the lynching of five prisoners
there on Saturday night last. Thc names
of the victims were Richard Mobiles,
white, and Robert Grady, John Miller,
RAIDER N. Ewing and David Smith, Soli
ored. A person near by the scend
heard the discharyingUf the pistols as
the. prisoners were shot on the bridge,
and the hesvy splashes Of the bodice az
they were thrown into the river.
Kinston Is in state Of seige by tho
negroes of the surrounding country,
who threaten to liberate the remaining
prisoners in Jail and burn the town.
The whites are all armed with such
weapons as are ut their command,
and arc guarding their homes. Pickcts
are stationed in the suburbs at night.
Another horrible outrage has occur
red in Duplin county. a white man
who fired upon party of negroes at
tempting to violate the persons Of some
Young ladies, was murdered in his
mouse the foll0wlng night, and his body
cut in halves and hung in the room in
which he slept. No arrests have been
made IN either of the cases. ~.
Lawlessness and anarchy exist in this
entire section of the country, TO such an
extent, as to justify the calling out and
afming of the militia by the Govern
nor. The civil authorities are power
less to suppress the fearful carnival of
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Knoxville Daily Whig.

We have received the first number
of the Knoruille Daily Whig-T. II.
Pearne, Editor; VIM. Rule, Loca. Edi-
tor. There is decided improvement
in the mechanical appearance and gen.
erai makeup of the paper, as compared
with the old Wing. The Editor promi-
ses marked improvement in some 9TH
er respects, as may be seen by the fol-
lowing quotation from his Salutatory:
To our editorial brethren of whatever
name or party we extend greetings. We
may not always see alike OH questions
requiring discussion. We shall proba-
bly, often be compelled to differ. But
we propose to treat all with fairness
and due courtesy. We intend to avoid
mere partisanship and personalities
The higher ends of truth and justice
should he controlling. Personalities are
not arguments. Sometimes they are
difficult to be avoided. Seldom are they
serviccable. Scarcely ever are they
pleasant. In the effort to keep the
Wig out of the atmosphere of personal
wrangles we shall hope to have the CO.
operation of our brethren of the quill.
If brother Pcarne 1--WE use the frater-
nal term in a purely religious sense,)
will adhere closely to that card, we ven-
ture that he will find his editorial la
bors in this rough-and-tumble part of
the vineyard much more agreeable than
he could possibly hope for by pursuing
the journalistic policy Of his illustrious
predecessor.
The subscription price of the Daily
Wing is. $40 per annum; or, 81 month.
Address 7. Haws s. Co., Knoxville,
Tennessee.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The Banks-Grant Imbroglio.

The New York Herald has the fol-
lowing important communication, sign.
ed W. Nye: ts. D..
CRY, Jan. %. 1S69.--Sceing the con.
Trajectory statements published in the
papers regarding the fact or otherwise
of all order having been fsstcd from the
War Department to Gen. Banks shortly
before the fall of Vicksburg, direct
iEg him to relieve Gen. Grant, beg to
state the exact facts in the case, and
thus settle this much controvcrted mat
ter. While Gen. Grant was operating
in front of Nicksburg l was employed
as clerk in Secretary Stanton's office at
the War Department in Washington.
Secretary Stanton wrote two orders, di-
recting me to make two copies of them,
one for telegraphing and one for filing.
The first of these orders was addressed
to Gen. Banks. directing him to proceed
at once to Vicksburg and relieve Gen.
Grant. The second order was addressed
to Gen. Grant, directing him to turn
over his command to Gen. Banks, on
the arrival of the latter, who had been
ordered to relieve him.
l do not pretend to give the wording
Of these orders. / have given, however.
their exact substance, and they should
be on file now in the War Department,
unless they have since been removed
l will state further that the copies of
these orders to be transmitted by tele-
graph, l sent by n messenger to the
War Department telegraph Office, by or
der of Secretary Stanton. These cop
les should also be on file in the latter
office.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
SENSIBLE TALK.

Under the head of Ku Klux and Mi.
litia, the Columbia Herald of last week,
INDUCES in the following sensible talk
The different counties into which the
irate Governorproposcs sending the mi
litia Except Maury) have beeii sending
delegates to Nashville, for the purpose
of assuring the powers that be that the
kind assistance Of the militia Is not
needed. We are not advised as the pos
tive good these delegations are accom-
plishing, but we think it quite likely
that Gen. Cooper can be prevailed on to
keep his militia at home. if convinced
that they are not needed, but it is W orse
than foolish and useless to approach the
Governor with any such petitions. The
strongest evidence that we do not want
the militia, is proof positive to Brown
low that we need them. We have been
assured all the time of the fact that the
Radicals only wanted to call the militia
out for party effect, but unfortunately
for them, to get up seeming necessity
for the militia, outrages had to be com
mitted in the name OF the Ku Klux.-
These outrages are now being proven OH
the real perpetrators, and the whole COL
or of things is changed. Every outrage
charged against the Ku Klux within tile
last few months. has turned out to have
been committed by Radicals. The mur-
derers of the negro Harlan are the in
tcnsest of Radicals. The reported out
rage at Murfrecsboro several weeks ago
on the person of a horse thief, and
which was SO readily attributed to the
Ku Klux, has turned out to have been
done by the Radicals. He was not MUIR
dered, but was released from prison by
his fellow thieves, and was re-capturcd
the other day in Nashville. These and
similar facts are slowly relieving the ex-
rebel element of our community of The
unjust odum that has too long been at
tached to them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Graut's Cabinet.


Our Washington dates continue to
be oiled with speculations about Grants
Cabinet, though nobody seems to know
who ID to get into It any more than any
BODY else. The President elect Is as
reticent as ever on the subject, and some
Of his more intimate friends pretend to
believe that he has hardly commence
ed thinking about IL, which may be
true, as It Is three weeks till Inaugural
ton day, and great many interesting
developments may be made even in that
short time. One point, however, is set
tlcd--that Stanton will not be taken in
to Grants Cabinet under any circum-
stances, and that Tennessee will not be
called upon TO furnish the Postmaster
General. Assured of SO much through
an unfailing source, we await further
advices with becoming patience and re-
signation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The Presidents Proclamation Sus.
tanned.

We learn through the Knoxville Press
and Herald of Tuesday that His Honor,
Judge Trigg, delivered an oral opinion
on Monday in the Federal Court upon
tho motion to dismiss the prosecution
in the case of the United States UersuS
John II. Crozicr, for Treason. That pa-
per says His Honor held:
lst. That the President has the right
to grant pardons either to individual
offenders, Except in cases of impeach-
menD by special exercise of the power,
or to classes of offenders by general
exercise of 1t, and this right is derived
from, or conferred by, the Constitution.
I'd. That he has the right, likewise, TO
make such pardon or general amnesty
known by solemn proclamation.
Sd. That the Courts Of the United
States should take judicial cognizance
of such proclamations for the pardon of
a specified offense and stay proceedings
for the punishment of such Ofiense,
whether such proclamation be specially
pleaded in bar Of the prosecution or
not, and, therefore,
4th. That the President had the Con-
stitutional right to issue his Proclama-
ton of the 25th of December last and
that the defendant cannot be held fur
Their to answer an indictment for an Of
Tense for which the Court must know,
from the indictment itself, he has been
fully pardoned.
The motion was sustained, the indict-
ment dismissed, and the defendant dis
charged. tNS
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
A Model Merchant,

Here is something for the eye of deal
ers who do business on the "credit sys-
tenn"
A merchant Of unbounded credit in
San Francisco recently applied to a
Chinese merchant, through his agent. to
purchase cargo of rice on time. The
agent duly set forth the opulencc, stand
ing. etc., of his principal, to which Chi
naman replied Yes, him very good
man. Me trustee, him pay one half
cash-ee, other half when me deliber
rice.ee."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Connecticut,

BETHEL, CoNN., February 2.-Fif-
teen lives were lost in the flood to-day
by drowning and the intense cold. Up
to this hour, eleven bodies have been
found, and four missing. Three men
were standing OH bridge watching the
water as it rushed down, but before
they could.reach the shore the bridge
upon which they were standing was
carried away and they were all drowned.
A lady becoming terrified at the fresh
ct was drowned by imprudently at
tempting to leave her house which was.
surrounded with water and high cakes
of ice. ,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Terrible Crime I'm Massachusetts.

A Boston dispatch says: Albert u.
Pike was arrested in Pittsficld for adult
terry with his daughter-in-law, and an
indictment for the murder Of his wife
was issued shortly after his conduct
towards his daughte-in-law became
known. 1t is sail he told that he would
or could marry her if the mother was
out OF the way. Mrs. Pike died Thurs
day in violent spasm,, declared by ply
sicians to be the effect OF arsenic. Tho
deceased was about fifty years old and
the daughter twenty-six.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
COnfiscated Property.

The Washington Chronicle-Forney's
paper-of the I'd instant, contains a
powerful editorial urging Congress to
restore Col. Blanton Duncan's property.
A bill for that purpose was tabled in
the House under a misrepresentation OF
facts. Upon a call of yeas and nays
there was tie, but three members
changed front and defeated the bill. 1t
is now revised in the Senate and will
probably pass both Houses without diff
iculty. The Importance attached to
this case is indicative of tho temper OF
Congress in matters of restoring confis-
catcd prone rty.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
General Grant on the Suffrage
Amendment.

WAsMNGToN, February 2.-In con-
versation with prominent Senator this
morning, General Grant said he hoped
there would be no delay OH the part of
theSenate in passing the suffrage amend
ment to the Constitution, which was
passed by the House Saturday last. He
expressed fears that ii the Senate made
any modification whatever to the House
amendment that the subject would be
thrown over into the next Congress,
and this he regarded as being almost ia
tai to the proposition. General Grant
urged. therefore, that the amendment as
passed by the House should be passed
by the Senate at as early day as posi-
BILE. I,. .,.1.t.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

Proposed Constitutional Amend
.rN mont.
A Warrington date of the Goth ult.

mont. Us
A washington date Of the 3Oth ult
says: a n
The Congressional event Of tho day,
and it might be said of the session, is
the passage by the House of Boutwell's
sufffage amendment to the Constitution
by fwo-third vote. The vote stood,
ayes $50, nays AZ. Bingham, of Ohio,
Baker, of illinois, aud Hawkins, Of
Tennessee, arc the only Republicans
voting against It. Its passage 10 the
cause of general rejoicing among the
Republicans, majority of whom have
no doubt of its passage by the Senate.
The following is the text of the joint
resolution as reported by Mr.. Boutwell,
from the Judiciary Committee of the
House on the 18th OF January:
Joint Resolution proposing an Amendment to
the Constitution Of the United States.
Be 1t resolved by the Senate and House
of Representative of the United States
in Congress assembled, Owo thirds of
both houses concurring.) That the fol-
lowing article be proposed to the Leg
islatures of the several States as an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, which, when ratified by
threc-fourths of said Legislatures, shall
be held as part of said Constitution:
ARTICLE.
Section l. The right of any citizen OF
the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States
or any State by reason of the race, color
or previous condition of slavery of any
citizen or class of citizens of the United
States.
Section 2. The Congress shall have
power to enforce by appropriate legis-
lation the provisions of this article.
Commenting upon the passage of this
measure, the Nashville Union and
american says:
The Radical members of the Tennes-
see Legislature may begin to prepare for
the work that will be demanded of
them. 1t will be a most distateful pill
to them, since it will enfranchise every
white man i'm the State; but that they
cannot. dare not resist the demands OF
the Radical Congress.
We hope our Nashville contemporary
is right, but are apprehensive that Bout
wells amendment is intended to force
negro suffrage upon reluctant States,
and that only; and that it is does not
mean to cover the case of DISTINGUISHED
parties. Later adviccs from Washing
ton say that it will meet with serious
opposition in the Senate.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Cost of the Militia.

Our friend of the McMinnville New
Era has been figuring at the cost of the
militia as provided for under the recent
act.of tho Legislature and the procla-
nation of Governor Brownlow. His
estimates may not not be entirely COR
rect--rather under than over the mark.
They are for two regiments only ofone
thousand men each. The editor says:
Our calculation is made simply for
preparing them for the service they are
called to perform, and for only one day
Of such service, and is in this wise, and
very moderate:
1000 men and horses at 81 per day for
Equipments for same, say $50 each 100000
% per day for each man and horse 5000
Total cost Of organizing and one
days service .................. SlOS,OOO
The actual cost for each additional
days service will be, for food, forage,
and militia, say $4,000; and should it
continue for only one month-but we
expect 1t to continue until after the Au-
gust election-thc cost for thirty days
will reach the round sum of S240, 200 ;
which added to the cost of cquipping
gives us for thirty days services $40,
900 of the peoples money gone glim-
mering. 1t is certainly very uninvit-
ing array of figures to present to peo-
pie already heavily tax-ridden, but the
amount is to be wrung from them.
AS it is now generally admitted that
the whole action was hasty and incon-
siderate-really unnecessary and UNI
called for--the extravaganza and wrong
fulness of the thing don't end with the
mere pccuniary view of the subject.
1t has other contingencies and conse-
quences still more to be deprecated, the
mention of which we omit at present,
hoping that they may be avoided.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Bank Future,

The failure of the Merchants Nation
al Bank of Little Rock, is n pretty bad
one, with indications that its manage
ment was characterized by extreme
looseness, If nothing worse. 1t is said
that depositors will lose heavily, and
that considerable amount of Govern
ment funds are swallowed up in the
smash, but is likely that 1t has some Sc
curity that will protect it from entire
loss. tlLa
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

pJr A New York paper says of Bout
wells bill referred to elsewhere: 1t in
terieres with States and State legisla-
ton, with law and precedent, with all
that is sacred in the past aud generous
in the present--and Just for these rea-
sons the bill is likely to pass the Senate,
as 1t has already passed the House. '.."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Didn't Protest.

Reports are current that Gen. Dix
protested against the unusual honors
with which JEFF. Davis was recently re-
ceived at st. Cyr, while on visit to the
military schools there. 1t is officially
denied by the French Government that
the Minister of the United States has
made any such protest.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
nsls. Judge Pnrker. off WinchesteJ

Bay Judge Parker, of Winchester.
Virginia, is reported to be looking for
Senator Sumner. The latter, the other
day, on the strength OF carpet-baggcr's
memorial, denounced the Judge as
"most atrocious." 1t is said that tho
Senator will have chance to justify or
retract his charge against very worthy
gentleman, or to name friend.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
school Fund Investigation.

The paragraph following in regard to
the School Fund Investigation which
has been on hand at Nashville for sew
cral days, appears in the Banner of
Tuesday:
We have received an intimation from
q responsible source that the committee,
appointed to investigate the disposition
made of the missing school fund, make
their report to the House at half-past
ten o'clock this morning. That there
will be terrible "rattling among the
dry bones" there can be no doubt what
ever. 1t is understood that to avoid q
criminal prosecution Rutter made q
clean breast of the affair and that the
facts thus developed are backed up by
statements remorsclessly drawn from
other witnesses by the counsel who as
eisted the committee. We are sanguine
enough to believe that the truth about
the school fund is at last come out
thrt the committee will spare none of
the guilty parties by reason OF political
sympathy. This is what the swindled
tax payers want-the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth. Per-
haps no revelations OF such nature
were ever made which were calculated
TO excite more public interest.
LArER.-The Nashville papers of the
Sd are largely occupied with the Re-
port of the Investigating Committee,
which was read in the House OH the I'd.
1t is an ugly document, searching and
ample in its examinations and full of
astounding developments in regard to
the "missing school fund" Many par
ties are implicated, several Of whom we
didn't expect to have been found in such
business. But we have no time nor
space for extracts or comment this week.
The House ordered the printing of FIVE
thousand copies of the Report, with in
structions that the Committee continue
the investigation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

p1 Syracuse, New York, has a now
scandal case. A travelling agent return
ed home sooner than expected, and ar
irving at night found a substitute in his
place. He didn't have ali attack Of mo-
mentary insanity, bnt simply packed
wife and lover out of the house.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

aas- "A Revenue agent in Cincinnati,
visiting q suspected distillery, came up
on room marked "privatc," and se-
curely locked. After some, little delay
he managed to effect an entrance. only
TO discover young man on bed in the
worst state Of small pox. Tho agent
did not stop to confscate anything.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The Foreign Trade of New York.

The Evening Express of Monday says
:" the importations for the week are
triflc over five millions and a quarter
about one-half of which are dry goods.
The value of tea entered was S37S,34O;
sugar, S5O,s24; coffee, S26O,2S9; molas-
scs, S45,O66."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

pa- Judge Newt. Patterson has quit
being candidate for Governor, and
when last heard from was engaged in
writing series of powerful articles on
the all-absorbing subject Of Immigra-
ton. fit.% tatNi so yf"J ts
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

pJr Our indefatigable friend, w. J.
ABLE, Decatur, Mcigs county, sends us
$1,000 on account of new subscriptions.
If the PosT had one or two such friends
in every county round, SO far as we are
concerned the Legislature might very
respectfully, 60 to thunder with its old
paupcr press law.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

Day 1t is stated that the militia now
being gathered together under Cover
nor Brownlow's proclamation, will be
cncamped near Nashville, and not sent
to any county unless more definite and
determined cause therefor shall exist.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

Hsy- There are ten millions. moro or
less, of women in the United States,
and about five hundred of them want to
vote. A true woman-one fit, In every
respect to be wife or mother--would
rs soon touch a tarantula as a ballot.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Female Sufferings.

Among our latest items from WASH
ington is,- that the Judiciary Committee
- discharged from the further consid-
erstion Of petitions in regard to female
suhrsge.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Fire in Bradley County.

The Cleveland Banner Of Wedncs-
day says:
The dwelling house, and its entire
contents, belonging to Mr.. Perry How
ard, of the the twelfth civil district of
this county, was, on Monday last, con-
sumed by fire.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

Dsy- The Rev. II. Bokum, the jealous
Commissioner of Immigration, has our
thanks for pamphlet copy of his First
Annual Report to the Legislature. -
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
No Admittance Except on Business

Visitors to General Grant will here
after only be admitted by card, or 9TH
erwise, from 10 to IL o'clock each day.
This rule is rendered necessary in order
to afford time to transact business. This
rule prohibits Senators and Represen-
tatives, as we'll as office-seekers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

Dg- Gerald Eaton, who murdered
Timothy Heenan, a brother Of John c.
Heenan, tho pugilist, in Philadelphia,
last summer, is to be hanged on tho 25th
of February. 7t.F. ,rt,.a
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The Whisky Tax.

sohenck, Chairman Of the Committee
Of Ways aud Means, has given notice
shAe1 there will be no change In the
whisky tex.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The Federal Judiciary,

A bill has been introduced in tho
Senate remodelling the Federal Judi
ciary. Its provisions are not published.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

p6- New Jersey is ambitious of hav-
ing Jerscyman in Gen. Grants Cabi-
ne,. -
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

aeg- Jamaica is gaining since the abo-
lition of negro suffrage. This years
sugar crop IL the heaviest known, and
coffee shows an incpease of 10 per cent.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

S9- The College Buildings at Adrian,
Michigan, were destroyed by fire few
nights ago. a93 So s.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

D6r The steamer Mary Byrd strucka
rock noar Moon Island, Tennessee River,
last week, aud snpk. Cargo saved. ~