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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04

The Second Adventists are at it again
At convention held in Rochester they
have definitely settled the time for the
total destruction of the world. 1t is to
take place in 1873.
DR.. Barbour, who has prepared sever
al charts from which he has ectured ex-
tcnsively oflate, from Boston to Roches-
ter, on the coming Of Christ in 1873,
made speech on the signs of the times.
and cited articles in the LOad0a Ou0r-
tcriy, the EHjHbHyh Rcriew, Bioc1,-
'rOOd$, and several American maya
zines, quarerles and newspapers to
show the enormous proportion of the
Commune, its rapid growth the past
year and IFS present threatening aspect.
There were, he said, 500, 600 members in
this country and millions in Europe.
Wendell Philips was member, and
said in his recent lecture in Music Hall.
Boston, that Europe was resting OH u
volcano that threatened the destruction
ofalI her thrones" And if the Church
would not discern the signs ofthe times.
the world did, and mems hearts were
falling them for fear and for looking af-
ter things that arc coming on the earth.
TIE various appropriations made by
the County Court of McMIinn at its re-
cent term, amount to $4,000
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
The Court House,

At the December term of the Circuit
Court for McMinn county the Grand
Jury, acting under oath as custodans of
the public buildings, reported the Court
House in dilapidated and unsafe con-
dition. and recommended that the Conn
ty Court take some action thereon. His
Honor, Judge Ioyl. also called atlen-
ton to it, and urged that something
should be done at once-either to erect
new building, Or to improve and rem.
der the old one more safe and comfort
able. On Monday last the Worshipful
Court took up the subject, and, after an
animated discussion, proposition was
submitted to build new Court House.
and resulted II against to u ror-J jus
tees being absent. So, we presume. the
venerable pile of brick and mortar.
crumbling ard lettering under the
storms and ravages Of half century. is
destined to ornament the town square
until the present large-mindcd and pub
lic-spirited generation shall have gone
hence and are forgotten, or only re-
membered for what they didn't do-un-
less in the meantime one of those nor.
Westers, which occasionally strike the
town butt end on from the direction of
providers. should level it with the
ground. We have been talking to the
people on this subject through our col
umns for "A year or two past, but it seems
without effect; we have called to them,
like wisdom from the street corners and
the housc-tOps, but they needed us not
and we now wash our hands Of the bu-
siness, though VIC shall hold ourscIf in
cheerful readiness to write full biogra-
phichal sketches of such members of
the Worshipful Court as may be caught
and crushed in the terrible catastrophe
which is certain to occur sooner or later.
We understand, from statement read
by the Chairman to the Court, that the
county is out of debt, with u surplus Of
nine hundred dollars.
Information has just been conveyed
{" It's that, on Tuesday, The Wor.lipful /
curt agreed, by majority Of one, to .
repair the Old Court House. Which we .
trust will be promptly and thoroughly |
done.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
Knoxville.

Tho following paragraph occurs in an
editorial in the ATHENS Posi- published
in 1858:
1t may safely be said that the entire
tendency Of things at Knoxville is up.
ward, and all the indications at present
justify the conclusion of large and
permanent prosperity. There seems to
be the right tceling-a geneydi feeling
among the citizens to unite and get to-
gcthcr, for one common purpose: to
build up, improve. enlarge and bcautifv
the town. Old fogN ism is fast dying
out. and Young Amcricanism-(not the
political scamp who wants to run abroad
to rob, plundcr and steal from his
ncighbor)-but the idea of sound, heal
thy, Who'cSomc.political progrcss-pro-
grcss in business, and in moral culture
and social Improvement. the spirit of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, is beginning to pre-
dominate, and to root out the fossil re-
mains ard fogv, contracted notions Of
former times, which we take to be the
best evidences Of success. In n word
we sec nothing nj present TO prevent
Knoxville from attaining to popula-
ton Of some eight or ten thousand in
habiiantS at an early day.
This was written some eighteen years
ago, at which time the place had pop
ulation very little over three thousand.
The war intervening, its growth was
completely retarded during that unhap-
py period, but it is now said to number
ten thousand inhabitants, and recent
lool: round the city induces liz to be-
lievc that by the expiration Of the pres
cnt decade it will have attained TO the
proportions Of twenty thousand-pro-
vided, always, q larger spirit OF manU-
featuring is cultivated. Railroad inter-
csts have done much for Knoxville
will do much mOre--but more liberal
investments in manufacturing enter
priscs are essential to its permanent
growth and prosperity, as they arc TO the
advancement and growth of every into
rior town. city and village. In this one
particular Knoxville is not keeping pace
with some other places less advantage
ously located.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
The Anti-Grant Campaign.

The following from Washington, II
wcll-groundcd, is important:
The administration managers are
quite excited over reports, which they
generally credit, that the recalcitrant
republican Senators, with asmall num-
Der Of Representatives, and pronounced
revenue agitators and editors, Wells,
White, Grosvcnor and company, who
were here last week, have entered into
an alliance, offensive and defensive,
against the administration. IL is assert
ed by shrewd men that the time has
come to defeat the plans for the Presi-
dents denomination and to virtually Sc
cure control Of the party organization
for the wing they direct and represent.
1t is stated that considerable fund has
boon raised, and that headquarters will
be opened here Immediately after re-
cess. Their plans include extended OPP.
Grafton through the press. 1t is dcclar-
ed that all efforts are to be concentrated
on obtaining control Of the machinery,
committees, journals, &c. Mr.. Trum-
bulls ideas are those that control as in
the case ofhis rcjoinder to Senator Nor
ton during the Retrcnchnent Committee
debate. The managers Of this move.
mcnt, will, in all their public and per-
sOnal uttcrancoS, refuse to allow any
one to question their fidelity to republic
canism. Some speculation goes to de-
clare that to make their anti Grant cam
paign Il success the reformers will will
ingly coalescc on the Vice-P President,
Mr.. ColfaX, Ms their candidate, hopiug
thereby to secure the steady support Of
Mr.. Greeley, in spite Of the revenue
hcrcsioS they entertain. Attacks on the
administration Of the Treasury and
Post Office departments are to be among
the earlier indications Of this warfare.
which it is affirmed will be turned
more against the management Of the
administration than, rs is now the case,
against the personal conduct or capacity
Of the President himself.
AS soon as Congress convcncs q Wig
orous onslaught, conveying charges of
grave character, will be made against
Mr.. Crcsswcll through the press and by
The administrations tinan-
cial, Indian aud civil service feathers are
to be pluckcd in detail and pulled to
pieces. This work is to be systematical-
~ performed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
More Trouble in Arkansas.

Wherever radicalism rules and rcigns
in the South trouble is certain and in
cvilablc. a week or two ago the ne
grocs raised an instruction in Chicot
county, Arkansas, and, under the mac
ton Of the authorities, committed MUIR
der and various acts Of incendiarism,
spreading terror and confusion around,
driving women and children from their
homes and threatening the former with
outragcs worse than death. Now n re-
port comes of anticipated trouble aud
b!oodshcd in Conway county, but in this
case it is between factions Of white rad
icaIs, who are quarrelling over some
petty Offices. In South Carolina and
Arkansas radical rule is supreme, and
in portions Of both these States n reign
Of terror prevails uncXamplcd in the
history Of the country. And what is
remarkable and most to be deprecated,
the editors and writers in the pay
and employ Of Grants administration
can find no word of condemnation for
the outragcs committed, but frequently
omit and suppress the facts and details,
and 1rive to combat and stino public
indignation by continually parading cX-
aggcrated stories about the kukluX.-
They have any amount of sympathetic
language for the alleged victims Of the
mythical clan, but not a word or thought
for the members OF their own race
men, women and childrcn-who are
outraged in person and property by ne
gro mobs and rioters, generally inspir-
ed by white men TO promote their own
base and vile purpose, and who are ten
times more TO blame thar the dupcd and
mislcd blacks. Such unmitigatcd hv-
pocrisy and partisan knavcry may Hour
ish for season under the aggressive
rule Of the dominant central power, but
we guess it will meet its due reward az
ter awhile and the froih and scum now
floating on the suface be swept away by
the rising wave Of popular condemna-
tiOn
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-Grcat sonsa-
ton prevails here to-day, caused by the
discovery that no less q person than
President Grant has for more than
twenty years been dcfaulter. 1t seems
that during the Mexican war, Grant,
who was then Lieutenant in the army,
acted as C0mmissary and Q0artermas-
ter. At the close Of the war there was
q deficit ortvc thousand dollars in his
account. His attention was repeatedly
called to it by accounting officers ofthc
Treasury, and repeated demands were
made upon him to pony, bat he never
cOndesccnded TO take the least notice OF
the unansWerable letters which were
addressed to him. He had spent the
money. and ofcoursc was unable to re-
turn it; forin those days his character
and habits were such that no one
would think of lending or giving him
even so much as u five dollar note. IN
1862, through some hOcUS VOcHS. a bill
was engineered through Congress ap-
propriAting 81, 900 to him in compensa-
ton of 4 sum of equal amount, alleged
by him to have been stolen from him in
1913, when 4 qUartcrmaster in Mexico.
But, to Grants greet disgust, the Trca-
snry officials pounced upon this one
thousand and carried it to the credit Of
the old score. 1t was then thought that
there might be some chance of getting
the remainder, and again was Grant no.
tilted that he was in default and urged
to settle his little bill, but it was all of
no avail. and TO this day, with the cxcep-
ton Of the one thousand dollars credit
L. S. Grant is shown Oh the Treasury
lcdgers to have owed the United States
five thousand dollars for more than
twenty wears. Any explanation his
withdrawing friends can offer of this
transaction the people will be very glad
TO hear.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
The United States Senate.

Rcdfcll, OF the Cincinnati Commor-
ci0l, has been discussing the relative
merits Of the Southern members Of the
United States Senate now and away
back yonder, in manner and degree not
at al favorable to The present lights in
that body. We quote the closing por-
ton of his letter:
Missouri is the ablnst represented OF
any of the Southern States, if indeed we
may call her Southern State. Both
Schurz and Blair take n front rank.
There are ADLER men in the Senate than
either Of them. but not two from the
same State. with the possible exception
Of Chic.
From Mississippi We have Amcs and
Alcorn. Amcs represents nothing, and
does not even live in the State. lie
went there as a General in the army,
and the negroes elected him to the Sen
ate. lie owns no property there, |
think, and his representing the State is .
farce. Tic has abilitya a military man,
and did good service during the war,
but is not qualified in an eminent de-
gree for g Senator.
Acorn is an able man. has been long
in public life, is possessed ola rich fund
of experience, and is identified with the
interest Of the State he represents to the
extent Of owning 4 good part of one or
two counties. lie is. perhaps, the rich
cst'man in Mississippi. His worst enc
mics have never doubted his integrity.
This takes us through the Southern
States, and we have failed to stumble
upon really great man in the whole
floor full. The superiority Of the Scna-
tors representing Northern States, leav-
ing Missouri out OF the calculation, is
marked. The South sent forward her
share of ability before the war, but is
not so now. The civil commotion has
overturned things. and q very large
number Of bottom rails arc floating Sc
rcnely about on top. III. Y. Il.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04

The IrJU,le, the ablcst paper Of the
Republican party, says of the reform
movement inaugurated in that city
some months ago:
1t is morally certain that the move
ment thus inaUgurated cannot, in its
progress. be circumscribcd to any local
ity or any party. but that its purifying
influence is destined to be felt in every
part of the Union, rebuking venality,
exposing robbery. wrestling power from
politicians by trade. and confiding it in
those Worthiest and tittest to WELD il
TO this beniIiccnt and vitality needed re-
form the TiTbune will devote its best
energies, regardless of personal inter-
csts OF party predictions, estccming
the choice of honest and faithful men to
Office as of all New Departures the
most essential and auspicious.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
Late News Items.

Connolly has given the requisite bond
and is released.
A Corpus Christi, Texas, dispatch says
there is great excitement in Mexico.
Loutcray has raised 100000 and 5000
men for the revolution. Gen. Navajo
is to lead 5000 men on San Louis. Sue
cess is regarded certain.
Both houses of the Ohio Legislature
have organized with Republican Off
GERS. The Senate passed a resolution
asking Congress to adopt Summers one
term amendment.
Sixty houses. including the wealth.
est portions were burned at Fortress
Monroe on the Cd. Among the build
ings destroyed were the Union Church,
Mansion House and Central House.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1.-The Republican
publishes n statement that the recently
reported KukluX outrages in Saline
county in this State. had no other foun-
dation than fight at Marshall, in
which one white man was wounded.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
Gold.

For month past the tendency of gold
has been downward. Our own impress
sion is that the decline will continue. or
that the present rate, the lowest touch
ed since the war, will rule, though the
leading financial man of our town cX-
presses the opinion that a reaction will
soon occur Some of the prominent
journals at the commercial centers are
discussing an early resumption Of spc-
Gle payments, while others insist that
such a contamination at this time would
lead directly to serious financial disas-
tors,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
From the National Capital.

One of our Washington dates states
that the Democratic Senators and men,
bcrs will probably meet during the last
Of next week in caucus to receive the
report Of the Presidential Campaign
Committee and to discuss the business
matters Of thc party. 1t is not believed
that any reference whatever will be
made TO any step to be taken outside the
Democratic party on the Presidential
question. MOI singlcDcmocratic men,
Der is known who has any proposition
of that nature to offer.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04

Valmascda, Captain-Gcncral of Cuba
has issued a proclamation Of pardon, in
which he says the offer of pardon &c
the insurgents cannot last forever. lie
now proclaims that every insurgen'
captured after the 18th of January will
be shot, and those surrendered after that
date will be sentenced TO perpetual i'm
prisonment. Negroes are TO be treated
the same as whites. All negro women
captured will be delivered to their own
ers, and will be compelled TO wear a
chain for four years. All white women
captured in the woods after the 18th of
January will be banisbcd from the
country. The chiefs of insurgent bands
will be allowed to surrender until the
18th of January under the conditions
granted.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
National Union Reform Party.


With the above caption the New
York Hcr0lN has an editorial leader on
the subject OF the important movement
Of the national union reform party in
Missouri. towards the opening Of the
Presidential campaign Of next year.
The Ucyald says:
Despite the persistent efforts Of the
Administration journals to represent
the Republican OPPOSITION, which carried
the State last year by an overwhelming
majority. rs no longer in existence, the
Brown-Shurtz party has not only proved
that it still lives, but that it numbers in
its ranks the most active and inilucn-
tial politicians in the State. The adj
dress of this imposing and successful
organization j. n powerful document,
and while temperate in its language. it
arraigns the Administration as unlaith-
full to its professions in favor Of reform
in the varions departments of the ma
tionai government, and rs the uniortu-
nate dupe Of corrupt and dangerous
men. Its platform Of principles de-
clarcs its main plank thorough, prac-
teal reformation in the civil service ::
and on this popular issue it appeals to
the opponents Of the present Admins
tration in other States to aid in forming
anew national union reform party in
time for the approaching Presidential
campaign. The sudden and overwhcl-
ming force that reform movement
may acquire when once il receives the
endorsement Of the masses ofthc people
who are Independent of political ties. is
seen from the experience Of New York,
where in u day, as it were, political
combination more powerful than any in
existence was sWcptaWay and became a
thing Of the past. The determination
to drive public robbers from Office is
strong in the minds Of the people, and
the signal victory won in this city has
acted as an incentive to further effort.
The dishonesty Of the revenue service
is notorious, and the existence Of Wash
ington rings is as well known as was
the existence Of the Tnmmanv Ring in
New York. Should the feeling once
become general that civi. scryic reform
is not to be hoped for at the hands of the
present administration we might have
Il revolution throughout all the States Of
the Union next fall as overwhelming as
that We have recently experienced III our
own State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
MWtilatel Currency.

On the lst instant the existing rules
governing the redemption of all kinds
of paper money now or hereafter re-
dcemablc at the Treasury of the United
States, were changed so as to read as
follows:
l. Fragments Of n note, constituting
less than onc-half. will not be redeem
cd at all, unless Oh clear and satisfactory
proof of the total destruction of the
missing part.
9. An entirety of less than five-cighths
of note. and being clearly half note,
will be redeemed at half the face value
of q whole note.
3. An entire piece, constituting five
cighths of note, will be redeemed at
its full face value.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
Louisiana,

The people Of Louisiana understand
how to induce immigration. The au-
thoritics Of the parish Of East Felciana.
in Louisiana, offer 10 each male person
(lhc head of family forty acres of her
exceedingly fertile land, in fee simple.
provided such person settle on the land,
occupy it, and cultivate half of it for
five years, on paying the parish at the
expiration of these five years one hun
drcd dollars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
Railroad Liability.

In the Superior Court of Boston, re-
cently,a case Of interest to the travelling
public was decided. In 1868 Mr.. John
A. Coleman, of Boston, attempted to
ride ION New York to New Haven. on
coupon ticket, which was rejected by
the conductor on the ground thai al
though it was good from Now Haven to
New York, it did not pass the holder in
the opposite direction. Mr. Coleman
insisted that the company was compel
led TO receive the ticket, as it represent
cd money paid for q passage between
those points, and was put Off the train
by force, receiving such injury as to af-
feet his health. lie sued the New York,
New Haven Railroad Company, and re-
covered. The railroad obtained new
trial, and was beaten again. On exccp-
ton to the ruling Of the Judge, the de-
iendcnt obtained third trial, which
Terminated in verdict for Mr. Cole
man for $1,000 damages.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04

A Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Ledger writes:
"Cortain Georgia Radicals have been
persistent in their efforts to induce Gen.
Grant to interfere in Georgia affairs to
the end that Gov. Smith might be pre-
vented from taking the gubernatorial
chair. They succeeded in cnlisting
Cameron and Delano in the scheme,
but Grant and the Cabinet concluded it
would be unwisc and dangerous to
Grants chances Of reelection to humor
their Georgia friends in their little
caprices, and declined to Interfere in the
matter. at which said friends are very
much disgustcd."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
The FlOriIa A fair

The conduct of the Spanish war YES
sci in firing upon the Florida after she
left st. Thomas is to be ut once investi-
gated. Present unofficial adviccs indi-
cate that solid shot was fired outside
the Marine League, and upon the
high seas. If this proves true, a crisis
may be suddenly reached in the rcla-
tions between this country and Spain.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
cone by One the Roses FAIL"

And one by one these huge frauds are
uncArthGd. The New York cOrrespon-
dent of the Cincinnati EnQuij'er gives
the country some rather astounding rev.
Citations. The following under date of
December %:
Senators Edmunds, Conkling and
Morton, in Directing to an investigating
committee, are striving 10 suppress
some racy facts that have since leaked
out from the New York CuStomhousc.
One Of The partners in our New York
Customhouse general order business
had been living for three years with Il
lady who was supposed to be his wife;
but recently. thinking that his position
might be strengthened by a real matri-
monial alliance. he determined to be
married TO another woman. TO this the
quasi wife objected, contcnding thai
she WAS by the laws Of New York his
spouse. Yet he married the other wO-
man, and thereupon the deserted lady,
following the example set by Miss
Josephine Mansfield in her war with
Col. James Fisk, IT,, put into the hands
OF some Of the antagonists of this enor-
mously-protilab!e storage and carriage
business mass of testimony establish
Ing all sorts of awkward facts which
cannot now possibly be supprCsscd.-'
One Of these facts is that the profits OF
the general order and carriage business
in New York have been distributed i'll
four shares, Of which two have been
regularly paid over 10 Gen. Horace
Porter, one of the illegal Military Sec
rctarics Of the President.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
CONGRESS-,

Washington dates state that the pro-
position made in the Senate before re-
cess to close The present session Of Con-
gress by the lst Of Juneis TO be sustain
ed. 1t is understood by all the Repub-
lican Senators and members that the
idea seems TO be TO end Congress before
the Presidential campaign is opened.