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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
From Washington.

Correspondence Of the Courier.Journal
The members OF the House seen TO
be growing more uuruly and boisteIous
every day. Business is transacted amid
the greatest confusion, Yesterday the
representatives Of the people INDUCED
In a scene which would have been ads.
grace to a town.meeting in an exdted
political contest Towards the clos OF
the session several amendments wertof.
fered to the pending bill by Mr.. law
renee. Of Ohio; but number Of men,
bers, for some cause or other, seemed
determined that he should not address
the House, and as soon as he opened
his mouth they drowned his voice by
such calls as "votc," "vote," "vote,"--
"hcar," shear" shear" This scene
was kept up for over half All hour and
Mr.. Maynard, who was in the chair
was utterly powerless TO stop the dis.
graceful scene.
The veto and currency question con.
tinucs to absorb public attention. Among
public men in Washington hardly any,
thing else is spoken of. The relief par.
ty and the anli-reief or Resumption, and
contraction party appear to have more
solidity and conference as organizations
just now than the Old political parties
now have. 1t is pretty certain that the
money question is not disposed of BY a
victory; for the expansion party will
continue to engross Congress unit the
conclusion of the present session. The
spirit Of the fight and the confidence of
strong position would seem b be
with the relief or expansion patty
They are ready for debate, whiletheir
adversaries ask and vancouver forpost-
ponement.
The proposition for compromise
measure does not come from the f.iends
Of the vetoed Senate bill, but from the
special friends of the President on this
question. The scheme suggested is ap-
parently more in the nature of conces.
sion TO the relief and expansion party
than the Senate bill. 1t is free banking,
with a provision that for every hundred
dollars of national bank notes issued
there shall be twenty-five dollars in
greenbacks retired; and that in 1873
there shall be the privilege of convert
ing the notes into ~ per cent. gold
bonds, the greenbacks so used to be
again issued by the Treasury and put
into circulation by redeemable Govern
ment bonds at higher rate of interest.
1t is little hard to see how the Presi.
dent, after his late message, could ap.
prove such bill but he may do so TO get
out of position which is certainly full
of embarrassment.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
Death of Col. Ramsey.

Col. w. B. a. Ramsey died at Edge
field last Monday, AT an advanced age.
Deceased was for many years n resident
of Knoxville, and was at one time the
editor aud joint proprietor of the old
Knoxville Register, then one Of the lead
ing political journals of the State. He
Had also filed the Office of Secretary of
State, and other responsible positions,
and bore throughout his long and USE
full life the reputation Of an honest, up.
right man.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
From Louisiana.

Bayou GouLA, April 10, 1874.
The Mississippi river has been on a
regular spree for the past three or four
weeks, and, according to that famous
and ever-present individual, "the old
est iBhabitant," has never been so high
before. The planters were compelled
TO abandon their fields for week or
two to raise and strengthen the levees.
You will probably think strange when
| tell you that the water level in front
Of our house has been ten feet above
the ground level, aud was running over
the top of the levecs in many places
until we raised them higher. Fortu-
nately for us the levee gave way some
twenty or twenty five miles above, and
the water is now pouring through ten
to twelve feet deep aud some six o: eight
hundred feet wide. That will drown
out all the back country for miles and
cause much destruction and suffering
/ learn that upon tie Hickey Plantation,
where the crevassc occurred, the negro
quarters were swept away, and the
dwelling and sugar house (both brick
partly broken down or undermined BY
the great velocity of the current. Since
this break the river has fallen two feet
exactly at this point. There are many
breaks above and below, but this is the
most important one, unless it be the
Bonnet Carrie crevasse, a short distance
above New Orleans, and believe it is
not so wide.
TO add to our misfortuncs, the wea-
Their has been most stormy, and in all
my life / have never experienced such
heavy rains as have fallen almost con-
tinuously for the past week. The crops
are promising; both plant and stubble
are fine, and we were calculating upon
large yields, but now there is grass and
Whitewater everywhere. The loss to
the State will be beyond calculation,
and If the United States government
does not take the levees in hand and
make a national work of it after this
then Louisiana had better DO tupned
over to the tender care of the negro, and
the work o: colonization from other
States for their own salvation. Don't
judge us rs being too low spirited, for
no people could be more cheerful under
like circumstances, and we ye. hope TO
make big crops on those places that cs-
cape overflow.
| have not written this for publica-
ton, but that | might give you an idea
of the flood in this direction. We learn
that the rivers above are still rising, and
the bottom lands from Memphis to Ba.
ton Rouge are nearly all under water.
The smaller crevasscs above and below
New Orleans have been closed, but still
nearly one.half of the lowlands Of the
State will be overlooked.
YOur friond g., n ~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
The Chattanooga Pest House.

Small pox seems to be plentiful al
Chattanooga. One of tho papers init
mates that patients in the last stages of
tho disease are recklessly carted about
the streets, The Times Of Wednesday
says:
We are informed that the city authori-
ties have located pest house for the re-.
cep;on Of smallpox patients within
twenty yards Of the Harrison road and
about an equal distance from the y. T.,
Va. q Ga. II. r., now much used as a
pathway, on account of the high water.
The people who pass there are very
much excited about the matter, and we
think II would be well to place the pest
house 10 less frequcnted locality.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
Knoxville.

The magnificent marble ediice lately
erected at Knoxville by the United
States government, will be ready for
occupation by the LIST of July ensuing
at least 1t is so announced in the local
papers. There is some talk of taking
down two or three blocks of buildings
In order that the new structure may be
disccrniblo from the business portions
Of the city.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
The Presidential Veto.

The message Of the President vetoing
tho currency bill appears on the first
pagc of this paper. The veto seems TO
have astonishcd many of the political
friends Of Gen. Grant, who were conf
dent he would yield to the pressure and
sign the bill. The leading New York
aud New England journals commend
the veto, while those Of the West and
Northwest generally condemn it. AS
far as we have been ablo to notice, the
Tennessee papers have no opinions on
The subject, at least mono worth men
tioning, and content themselves as usual
with liberal quotations from distant CO.
temporaries. The issue is one which
cannot be made to assume o partisan
character, ms both parties are good
deal divided in regard to 1t, and any at
tempt by the opposition to make party
capital out off will recoil with fatal eff
feet. We know very little about mat
tCTb VI HuhuCt, CitHtI thCotcliooi'y VI
practically, but venture the opinion that
for once since his entrance into civil
lifc. the President has Numbered In the
right direction, and the sober second
thought Of the country will no doubt
sustain him, though the weight Of popn-
lar clamor In some sections may BIO ad-
verse for the moment.
II Is thought some other and kindred
measure will DO pushed through Con-
yress, butit 10 extremely doubtful whe-
ther bill can DO framed free from the
objections which seem'to have nauenc.
cd tho Presidents recent action We
have noticed In ono or two instance
intimations that money hid been liber-
ally used at the Presidential mansion,
bnt such charges are too contemplate
TO olici. serious contradiction. There Is
plenty of corruption in the different de.
partments Of government, at Washing
ton aud elsewhere, but nobody believes
that tho President Is nero piece Of ve-
nality to bo'bought aud sold at pleasure.
--------------------a.--
A grapevine from Ashevlc, North
Carolina, says there is marked In.
crease In tho temperature OF tho Warm
Springs within the last ten days.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
From the Knoxville Chronicle.

The Perry comfy, Indiana, Changers
have been made the victims of first
class swindle. A chap caavassed The
comfy oollins goods from the "Crongc
store" by sample, for marvelously low
iigures-in some instances more than
one hundred per cent. less than was
asked by the middle men," lie took
half the pay in advance, and promised
to deliver goods within a week. His
proposition was exceedingly "thin," but
he succeeded in making great many
sales. Tho happy purchasers have been
anxiously waiting for the coming of the
Grange" steamer, which was to deliv-
or them their sugar, tea, coffee, salt &C.,
at fabulously low prices, but II has not
come and the agent" has gone 10 parts
unknown.
Our advice to our friends of the
Oranges is, II man comes to you and
proposes to sell articles for less than
they cost at the sea-board markets sci
him down as an arrant humbug and q
miserable swindler. Let him know
that if he must swindle some one to
make living, that he had better 60 to
Perry county, Indiana, or somewhere
else, where the farmers do not take the
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
The Post.

We are glad to note moro general
disposition among the people OF Nc.
Mum, irrespective of party. to support
the PosT. We are not inclined 10 beg
or chatter for patronage, or work at
half price as an inducement to increase
our circulation, but we think It is the
duty of every one to support their local
papcr IL 1t is conducted with any APP
proach TO decency and ability.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
L.. Il. University.

A Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune says;
The House Committee on War Claims
agreed to report the Senate bill for the
relief of the East Tennessee University.
This bill appropriates $4,000 for aid
given by this university to the Union
army during the late war, and is under
stood to have been drafted at the White
House so as to avoid the objections rails
cd by the President a year ago 10 bill
for the relief of the same institution,
which he vetoed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
News Iipins,

The Alabama river was higher on
Tuesday than since '67, and still rising.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
is dccreed TO be sold on the Both June.
Accounts from Augusta, Ga, repre-
sent tho crop prospect as discouragipg.
The Freedman's Bank at Charleston,
8. c., endured heavy run Tuesday.
A Baton Rouge date says 300 families
in that parish have been rendered home
less by The food.
Boston contributions to the Louisiana
sufferers amounted, on the 2Sth, TO
S.33O01.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
Arkansas.

LITTLE Rock, April 2S.-Thero is no
material change. Tho Bakeries have
a sixty.four pound seige gun planted at
the corner Of Markham and Scott streets.
Both parties are expecting reinforce.
ments. Both have telegraphed the
President regarding the situation.
Fifteen citizens followed party Of
horse thieves, aud fight onsued, One
citizen and three Of the thieves were
Killed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
Your friend, &c.
Raid Mountain.

Uoomacoosa, the head of the band OF
Cherokees who have been temporarily
sojourning in this vicinity, says Bald
Mountain has actually settled or sunk
some ten or twelve feet since the first
shock last winter, lie is Of opinion that
tho mountain will continue TO settle
gradually until the forces below gather
strength enough for grand upheaval,
when il will again rise to its proper
place and be followed by an immense
eruption, which will overwhelm and
desolate with food Of lava all the val.
leys around. lie further states that but
few of his people arc scattered In the
direction Of the mountain, and these are
all coming away 10 escape the fiery dc.
hugo. 1t will be remembered that the
elder Pliney refers to similar pho
nomenon which preceded the first erup.
tons of Vesuvius and Eina. II is not
believed that Unaka and Chilhowee will
be seriously affected by the operations
Of Bald Mountain, though they will no
doubt sympathise more or less with the
eruption when IL occurs as the entire
range is connected. Indeed, there is
strong sympathy existing between all
mountains Of volcanic origin, no matter
how remote they may be from each
other.
The telegraph ad"iscs that tho last
shock, which occurred during the hea-
Wy storm Of Monday night, was the Sc
verest vet felt. The mountain shook
aud trembled violently, and the belief
is strong that the final catastrophe can
not be much longer postponed.
Though more than eighty miles dis.
tant as the crow flies, tho summit Of
Bald Mountain Is plainly discernible
with the naked eye from the hotel at
White Cliff Springs, from which point
should there DO an eruption, the view
will be fearfully grand and attractive.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
The Wheat.

Wheat in tho low grounds Is injured
by the wet weather-to what extent can.
not BIO determined just yet. That on
the uplands still looks green and pro-
missing. Most Of tho creek bottoms
have been under water for tho last two
weeks, and farming operations general
ly have been suspended.
The route agent reports inches snow
nj Jonosboro Wednesday morning.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

In the event Mr.. Maynard should be
rendered and accept the seat in the Court
Of Claims recently made vacant by the
death Of Judge Milligan, 1t Is thought
n compromise will be effected between
Thornbugh aud IIouk, and that tho lat.
ter will be pressed for the nomination
for Governor.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
q q VI Va a. NJ CIAL.
Athena Market.

ATHENS. April 30, 1874.
Wheat. dull and lower, l,8Jn 30 for choice.
Corn C0a6n, Flour 40 for family, New Bacon.
~ cts dun hog round. Lard, In TN cans y cts;
Butter. 20. scarce; Eggs, 10. Meal %. Hay,
81, 90 per 100: lbs, oats, ~, Feathers, live
geese, 10; lieeswaX, -; Rags. cents; Irish,
Potatoes, 1ial.j0 Sweet Potatoes, 7jisj.
Corn scarce and wanted.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

Reports from Pennsylvania arc that n
majority of the people favor expansion.
Maryland is said to DO divided. In Vir-
GINA and North Carolina tho people
largely favor an increase of circulation.
All tho Richmond papers OF both par.
ties oppose the veto.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
National Agricultural Congress.

A notice from the Office of the Presi.
dent advises that the third session of the
Agricultural Congress will be held at
Atlanta, Georgia, May 18th, 1874. The
objects Of this Congress are too well
known and oomprehendedto need any
elaboration at our hands--we, there.
fore, merely call attention to the time
and place Of its meeting, hoping it will
be largely attended and that its DELHI
crations will prove harmonious and re.
suit in much good to the interest it pro.
f5sscdly represents.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
Corn.

Sales on the wharf ut Chattanooga, Mt
S0@Sl In depot 81 cents, aud dull.
On the 26th corn was quoted In Allan
ia ut 95@97Is, with moderate demand
and stocks light.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

The editor Of the Golden Globe, Colo
RADIO, informs his subscribers that nci-
iher he nor his paper has been suspend
ed, and they ars cordially invited to.
call and pay their subscriptions.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
The COIOred TrOOps.

The colored citizens of Ioudon coun-
ty held a convent ton at Unitia, on the
llth, and appointed delegates to the
Nashville State Convention which as
sembled Tuesday, Among other reso-
lutons adopted were the following:
Resolved, That while we are not pre-.
pared to express preference for men
10 I'll each Of the several positions 10
be filed at the August and November
elections, il Is, nevertheless, the sense
Of this meeting that the Hon. Horace
Maynard would be altogether dccepta-
Bile to our people as candidate for
Governor, and that the Hon. l.. G.
Houk would receive the hearty support
Of our people, in this, tho Second Dis
trict, for Congress.
Resolved, That Hon. Stephen Mat.
thews is the decided choice Of this con-
vention for State Senator, TO represent
this, tho Sixth Senatorial District, in the
next General Assembly (; and that VIC
pledge him our support.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
Congressional.

Tho House appropriated 100000 to
purchase rations for the distressed poo.
pie who are suffering from the overflow
Of the Lower Mississippi.
Tho Judiciary Committee have been
authorized to take testimony looking to
the impeachment of Judge Story Of
Arkansas.
The Judiciary Committee have adopt
cd The majority report Of the sub-com-
mi,teo against the prayers Of tho South
Carolina momorialists.
In the Senate, there was n long con-
troversy over the veto. The vote whe-
thcr the bill should pass notwitbsiand-
ing the veto, stood 30 TO "a. Not having
two.thirds tho bill was lost.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

Gold mines arc reported 10 havo
been discovered In The mountains Of
Arkansas, near tho Choctaw lire.
Miners and adventures arc floeking
thiihpr
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

A Knoxville correspondent Of tic
Norristown Gazette urges the Changers
TO nominate CCL Charlton for Governor,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
HYhrnnllnhia.
The New York Sun tells The follow

The New York Sun tells the follow
ing singular story:
Five years ago John Lewis an en-
ploye of the Asylum ior the Insane
near Trenton, was attacked by "A colorcd
inmate. who bit pjcce from the calf Of
Lewis'lcg. The wound was not thought
serious, although 1t was very painful
1t gradually healed. Last Friday, whilo
Lewis was working in field, he was
taken III. Brother worSmcn assisted
him 10 his home, where no was seized
with hydrophobia raying, foaming ut
the mouth, and mani(esting all the symp-
toms Of that terrible disease. Tho best
medical skill was In attendance, and
continue TO extend all the relief in their
power. The result is only matter OF
conjecture.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
Southern Baptist Convention.

This body holds It's next annual ses-
sion in Jefferson, Texas, on Thursday,
May 7. Delegates from oil the South :
ern and many Of tho Northern States
will be in attendance. The rail-
roads of Texas propose TO do right
clever thing, IN that they offer to all the
delegates free excursion over all their
lines, some thirteen hundred miles. We
learn that through sleeping car will
leave Chattanooga for Tcxarkana on
Monday next at o p. NJ, for the conve-
nience Of delegates from North Geor-
gia and East Tennessee.
Tho Misrepresentation about "high
and ruinous taxation" in Tennessee and
the alleged inability Of the State to
meet its Indebtedness, have done more
to retard and discourage immigration
thar all other causes. And yet the very
papers mos. conspicuous in these mis-
representations pretend to advocate and
favor an influx OF population. II is re-
spectfully submitted that such teachers
lave mistaken their vocation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

The Knoxville Chronicle says: J. l..
Castor, Of Athens. has been recon-.
mended by Hon. Horace Maynard To
the College Of Physicians and Surgeons
at Baltimore for the beneficiary scho-
larsbip alluded to Ia these columns
a few days ago.
Mr.. CASTOR is graduate of East
Tennessee Wesleyan University aud
very worthy young man.
An Indiana lawyer used the word
"disparagcment" IN his plea, and tho
Judge told him II he couldn't quit using
Latin words he could sit down. Tho
lawyer undertook to define his position
aud was fined twenty dollars for con-
tempt OF court.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

The Philadelphia cremation story,
wherein a noted physician caused the
remains Of beloved son to be enclosed
In a fiery furnace and burned to ashes,
turns out TO be hoax-much TO the dis
gust Of the enterprising newsmen who
rushed II into print. Most likely we
shall now have less to read about sub.
ject that was assuming somewhat 10.
dious proportions.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

There IL an ugly rumor afoat that n
bargain has been struck between
Brooks aud tho Radical ring In Arkan-
cas-. Brooks Ia to secure the issue OF
several millions of fraudulent. bonds,
and tho Attorney General is relied
upon TO hold Baxter Off until the job
10 accomplished.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

The National Grange at Washington
has sent $1,000 TO the Louisiana sufferers
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

A panic occurred in New York on
Monday, under which gold went up
and stocks down,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

Snow to tho depth Of two inches fell
in Pennsylvania last Tuesday
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01
Standardization.

Gold In New York Tuesday ll33S.-
Tennessee Bonds, 90 for the old, aud
20 for new. Cotton, uplands, 173l.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-01

A grapevine from Ashevillc, North
Carolina, says there is marked in.
crease In tho temperature OF tho Warm
Springs within the last ten days.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-16
LECTURES AND MEETINGS.

The Commission appointed to build the new
City Prison. consisting OF the Mayor Controller. and
President of the Board Of Aldermen (Mr. Vance, met
Yesterday the NJ, ,yors Office. The bill OF L. NJ Hat
field for $3.50 for making report TO whether the
Iombs could hc made 20 accommodate the prisoners
WAS allowed. Four hundred dollars allowed 10
cover expenses incurred m selecting site Tor tie pro-
posed new prison Calvin NdlXs bill of $1,000 Tor plans
OF the new prison furnished the Commission was laid
over
At the meeting of the Board of Education,
Yesterday, "A communication was received from Gov.
DIX stating that he could make application TO the
Navy Department TOR u school ship until a nautical
school established, and the pupils ready to
use the vessel. Commissioner Baker offered reso.
luton which was adopted. providing that the Commit
tee Salaries aud Economy he required 10 report at
the next meeting the resolution offered by him ou
April l. aud referred % them relative To modification
of the Of studies. The Committee on Teachers
made report III the OF John b. Moore. Principal OF
Grammar School No. 6i, who charged with uSlng Z
improper language 10 his suborduates In the school.
The report decides that Mr.. Moore au excellent
teacher and that u reprmand will he sufficient punish-
meut for his fault IL adopted aud II resolution
reprlmandlng Mr.. Moore was passed. The BoIid tbeu
adjourned until the first Wednesday IN SEPTEMBER.