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GEORGIA WEEKLY OPINION
THE WEEKLY OPINION,
BY w. l! bcbooos asd j. b. double,
FRIDAY MORNING: :::NOVEMBER8*
A JIistiki.—On Tuesday lost the Prcsl-
. dent requested General Grant to disband
the colored militia organization 111 this
District Dio recent Intimation of tho
Chronicle that twOlhU colored regiments
Jiad obtained arms from the Government
and might bo ncedod to protect Congress,
led to an official investigation. General
Grant denies that any arms liavo been
furnished them, and states in his report to
ibe President that ho sees no necessity for
Any organized militia in this District.
Fobeion.—Tlm price of grain in Franco
continues to advance. Tho conclusion Is
that the harvest has been less favorable
than was at flnt supposed.
The London Times Is In favor of increas
ing tho salary of tho British Minister to
this country, on the ground that he will
, Jive, for “diplomatic purposes," to entor-
* tain largely, and that “money will go
twice as far In England as in America.”
Fbxeduix’8 Schools.—Tlio animal re
port of General Howard, n published In
the: nowspapers, Is incorrect, Inasmuch as,
the estimated number of colored children
lathe schools, in accordance with tho re
cent Information, of a private character
not officially reported, la set down at 400,-
000. The official report of General How
ard will show that those figures Include
tho total number of pupils, officially and
Unofficially reported, distributed as fol
lows; At tho regular schools in the South
200,000| plantations and family schools,
100,000 ; In other States, 100,000.
tS~ It Is reported from 'Washington, to
the Commercial, that the. President, not
long since, tendered to the' lato Governor
Andrew the position of Secretary of War
vfee Stanton removed, and that Governor
Andrew signified Ills willingness to accept
the office, though the matter was not
formally disposed of.
HT A Chicago dispatch of the 4th say s
“Lieutenant General Sherman, Major
Generals Harney, Terry, Augur, and tho
other Government Commissioners, leave
here to-day <n route for Omaha and Fort
Laramie, to meet tho Sioux and other
tribes In that region, at the latter place.
Du. Men d^-A dispatch from Wsshlng-
■ ton, to tho Cincinnati Commercial, states
that Dr. Mudd, who Is a prisoner In the
Dry Tortugos, faithfully attended the sick
in the yellow fever epidemic there, all the
other surgeons being prostrated. He did
not lose a cose, and In consideration of his
services efforts are being made to obtain a
pardon for him. ‘
Washington Items.
The Hon. John iT Rlsley, of Indiana,
lately appointed Deputy Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, entered upon tho duties
of ills offleo on tlie 4tli Instant.
Ex-Governor Parsons, of Alabama, had
an Interview with the President on the
4th. It is stated that he Is one of those
who report danger of a war between the
races.
We presume lio message will be sent to
Congress by Mr. Johnson. Ills organ, tlie
National Intelligencer, of the 0th, says:
“It has been customary for the President
to communicate his views of tho condition
of tho country upon tho assemblage of
Congress at the regular annual sessions.—
Whether lie will regard tho meeting on
the 21st Instant as tho proper occasion for
tho communication of ills message Is not
' known, If, Indeed, ho has arrived at a con
clusion. Doubtless tho senseless legisla
tive tinkering at tho laws regulating those
matters has produced great confusion, if
nothing worse. It Is very evident that tho
Dcpartmcpts generally arc behind hand In
the preparation of the materials upon
which the President’s messogo must in the
main bo based, ami it Is very questionable
if It be possible for the Exccuttvo to do
justice to the varied and Important matters
which must necessarily engage Ills atten-
. tlon before the usual tlmo of convening a
, new. Congress.”
It Is learned that tho cable telegram
which announces tho solo of tho Danish
West Indies to tho United States for n
naval station, is not strictly correct. Tho
negotiations which were broken off last
spring, have been revived, but liavo not
reached a conclusion. The Government
*■' ’ i docs not proposo to pay, however, fbnrtcen
millions in gold for tho purchase of tho
Island of St. Thomas.
Wan Department Extknses.—The
points ofGcncrnl Grant’s report as Secre
tary of War, have boon laid before tho Pres
ident. They show that the expenses of the
War Department have Increased In ratio,
since July, over tho expenditures for tho
last fiscal year. There were largo salc3 of
public property lost year, which worn cred
ited to the Department, wldlo this year the
expenses have not been diminished by such
. sales. Tho cstlmzto for the next fisca^
year, however, will not present an Increase,
especially lu slow of thofact that the ox-
, ..jPcnscs of an Indian war will not lie taken
«- -»Hlito consideration.
. . \ ,; Car A late Washington dispatch says
that General Howard, of the Freodincn’s
x Bureau, ha* laid hi* Report before tho Soc-
wdas wtsry of War. It Is very long and con-
u 1 J^jtfnS highly Important its well ns Ihterpst-
^-V'TnjrJjjfofniatlo". no recommends that tlie
SSr.^BhreaUbodUcontiiuicdfas * separate Iii-
] • Million lu July next, when tho law ex-
! . IjUro*.
nM'*‘ £35” The next Alabama Conference of
siivl'itlio Methodist Episcopal Church, will at-
o ,-*:tsemhJo lnilnrlon on tho lltli day of De
gas comber, 16G7.
CyMqblle has had an IitiiisttW'bi
of Vires within tltd last tw 9 weeks. Ipcen-
vvlihridttiriesflre supposed'to heat U>« boltoni.
The Indian War,
The following extracts from a prlvato I'r-mj'io Toledo hhuh.i
letter of Commissioner Taylor, of tire In- A Msetfng at the Corners to Tale Into Conside-
dlau Bureau, give a graphic and exceeding
ly Interesting account of tho doings of the
commission charged with the oomplex and
delicate duty of negotiating a jiermancnt
treaty -srith tho hostile Indians on our
Western Frontier. They afford a very
clear Insight Into tho difficulties, as well ns
tho prospects of a perfect and speedy re
sults of the. Omo and Pennsylvania else-
concllatlon with the dissatisfied portion of {&"n n2o YcPrk; UffSkln tlmTbll.H’hn't
the red men of our Western wilds
Council Camp, Medicine Lodge Cheek,
Kansas, October 23,1807.
We are still at this camp, waiting very
Impatiently the coming of the Cheyennes,
the mass orwliom have not yet arrivedr-
Wo have, however, had many delegations
from their villages, bearing friendly mes
sages and assurances that they will meet us
here on tho 20th Inst, and make peaco and
a permanent treaty of friendship. They
are now fer several days and nights occu
pied In their great religious festival of re
turning their medicine arrows, which they
regard as a supreme religious duty, and ora
willing to postpone to nothing else.
We have concluded a satisfactory treaty
with the Kiowas and Camanchcs, and are
now preparing tho basis of treaties with
the Arrapahocs and Apaches, which will
probably bo concluded in general council
to-morrow. If tho Cheyennes meet their
engagement and fulfil their promises, our
work will bo done at this point by tho 28th
The cycnln came, the. horn was tooted
well done, and the war will bo henceforth from tlie stops uv tho church, and tho cn-
ended on the Southern line. tiro corners wuz there. Dckln Pegrain
presents and annuities to the tribes already
treated with—the Klowns and Camanchcs.
Language could scarcely convey anything
liko a correct Idea of these scenes—they
wore so novel, strange, and picturesque—
id entirely unlike anything civilization
ever witnessed. Imagine yourself in a
valloy, resembling in natural beauty—In
many features—soma of tho valleys In East
Tennessee, In the centre of a level area of
about two acres; you look west and your
vision measures the beautiful valley of the look of the niggers, and the' eggitreom
‘ Sir his
Mnskatunga to tho distant horizon, and Is
broken only by the white sugar-loaf lodges
of tho Arrapahoe village, half a mllo away,
and the thread of green foliage that fringes
the stream. North the prairie lillls rise in
gradual slopes from the creek and the camp
for a mile or more, and are dotted with
hundreds of ponies and cattle, and the
foreground Is occupied with the wagons,
ambulances, of the train, all arranged
In lines, and tho canvas tents'of the Com
mission, and tlie’ ’ *
the soldiers, and
ranged with tho regularity of
military encampment In a hostile
country. The same rolling prairie or
creek bills, with wonderfully varying out
lines, stretch around to the cast, and are
now black with the charred remains of a
recent vegotation, just consume)} by fires.
South the eye sweep! down the valley, de
lighting Itself with tlie fantastic forms
which nature has given to the distant hills,
and resting with pleasure upon the rich
line of green groves that enliven the banks
of tho stream. Flvo thousand wild Indians
of tho Plains—men, and women, and chil
dren—surround you In every imaginable
Indian garb, from tho gaudy trappings
of the athletic, painted brave, mounted
upon bis sinewy and high mettled little
charger of the Plains, and the raven-haired
hello of tho prairie, adorned with all the
bright colored drapery an untutored fiincy
could suggest, down to tho tatters and raira
of savage poverty, and tho perfect nudity
of Indian infancy. They are mounted and
dismounted In lines and groups, according
to their tribes, their bands, their families,
braves. These proceed, alter a system of
their own, to tear, cut, break, measure, and
parcel out, first into general divisions by
'land*, then into smaller lots' for smaller
families and individuals. Such a sound of
Babel tongues I never heard before; such
eagerness and anxiety to rccelvo and ap
propriate good things is rarely witnessed.
Now tho great mass of varieties is deliver
ed; but an omnivorous inass of calico,
cloth, and blankots,’ pins, needles, paints,
and thimbles, knives, buckets, coffee-mills,
■lour anil cofi'oo, sugar and trinkets, remain
in hotch-potch. At a given signal paude-
monlilm Is reproduced. A thousand wo
men and children (more or less) Instantly
mingle jii the fiercest and fiinnlcst scram
ble your eyes ever beheld.' Hurly-burly,
topsy-turn:, helter-skelter, pell-mell, a
medley of lndtnn humanity soothes, surges,
tassels,; pitches, rolls, grunts, growls,
squeals, scratches hisses, and howls before
you in an (indistinguishable melee. Tho
ground nml lofty tumbling of tho profes
sional acrobat Is totally eclipsed. At length
the mountains of goods disappear; the po
nies and squaws, heavily laden, string out
In straggling lines over tho pralrlo towards
their villages: tlie shadows of evening
fall; tho curtain drops, and the hours come
for the orgies of the wolf and the cayote,
Hr The ruio adopted by Gen. Schofield,
with regard to tho Legislature of Virginia,
will, wo presume, prevail In all the South
ern States. TVo copy his lottor:
HBADquAitTxns. October 31,1807.
To Hie Excellency T. II. Tlerpont, Ooeern-
or of Virginia:
1 liavo received letter! from several mem
bers or tho lato Virginia Legislature. In
quiring whether there would boa session
of thatlxidy during the coming winter, and
raising tlie question whether, under the
State laws tho members of tho House of
Delegates, hold until their successors arc
dulv elected anil qualified.
Without deciding tlio latter question, up
on which there seems to oxlst a diversity
of opinion, 1 have to request, that yon will
inform tho members of tho Into Legislature
that the regular session of tlio Legislature
for the coining winter, will bo dispensed
with.
Very respectfully, vonrolid't sorv’t,
3. M. Schofield,
Maj.Gcn. U. S. A.
ar The following Is an extract from a
late London letter: “Lord Brougham made
his liut dying speech mid confession » fort
night ago. (you donbtless saw It In the pa
pers,) but he lingers still. A Scotchman
always dies Iiaru. Having relieved his
mlnu respecting “tlio course things would
takoofter him,' he has risen from Ids bed.
and now takes dally drives In Ids carriage.
But It is said that his memory and sight are
gone, and the wonderful old man lias dear
ly exhausted tho first strength of youth.”
CeTV' tunnel i- to he cut unfit*!- the Mer
sey river, between Birkenhead and Liver
pool. It. will ,*ost tH.YituO.isx),
<ds BV Press rviAjto the Democracy *he
Static They Won fide F,u. T Cl iVi
°? T , 0 ?" C . E > Confediut x Rolns,)
(>> blch is In tho fcujlt uv Kentucky*) /
<Ktober :n>,
.1 wuz sittln In tho Post Offis, day before
yesterday a cogltatln over tho glorious re*
perhaps ef my hopes wuz realized, anil such
nConstitooslincll Dlmokrat ex Pendleton
or Seymour should bo elocted, I inlte, In
considcrashun uv my long and 1 bleevo
valuable services, aspire to suthln higher
and better, and more profitable than a Post
Offis, such cz I am at present lioldln. I do
not complain, for the poslshcn lias bln the
moans uv ostabllslilu'a credit, upon which
I hev lived thus far comfortable, but yet J
should prefer a place where thesalnry woof
bo sufficient to give mo enough so that I
could lay up suthln for old ago. The time
Is not far oil’when my ludlvldooel exer
tions will not supply my wants.
I felt good over the victory, and It seem
ed to me cz tho wo ought to speak, cz Ken
tuckians, to our Northern brethren, In-
structln uv em how to hold tho Stalts they
have won for us. When I deside niton a
pint I alluz net, and so It wuz this time.
I give notis, by Xssakcr Gavltt, that tho
Corners would osscmblo at tho tootlnof
the horn, for tho purpose uv sendin forth
Hi,* V'lice of Kentucky to the Htuits North.
ulatlon uv the Comers, and their wives.
It wuz a glorious mectln, and I wuz a
ruldiln my hands ail’d fccltn good at tho
prospeck uv an Improvln occnslmn, when,
to ray utter disgust, I saw tho door open,
and Joe Bigler, who wus horn to he my
pest, comoln with Pollock and twenty or
twenty-five niggers, old and young, male
and female—white, yaller and black—and
all uv cm took seats together In the corner
uv the church. I knowed by the meek
hlssclf, that suthln wuz
r course develop It' "
tglcr and Pollock geneaally develop.
1 opened the mcetln by remarkln that
the times wore an auspisbns look. The
n rer uv the lilggcr In Amerlkln politics
bln demonstrated. Tho nigger hed
bin so manipulated In Ohio and l’cnnsyl-
vanny, cz to glv us tlicso States, which wo
cood hold ef we choose. But the DJinoe-
— v~ rc~. v .. . , , rlsy uv Ohio and Pensylvanny lied a work
and their employes, > and of to do, which they can not neglect with
teamsters, all ar- They lied declared the nigger In
ferior to tho Caucashcn, which ho lindenla-
My is, and they must keep him so. The
nigger must be kept jist eggsackly where
he is to servo cz a Irritant to the Dimocrisy.
Ohio gives tho niggers uv that State cer
tain facilities for lcaniin to reed and write,
accomplishments wlch no laborln class
wlch Is to be guided, controlled or worked
cxclooslvoly by a sooperior class, needs or
her any blznls with. So soon cz a man be
gins to reed lie begins to licv an inqulrln
mind, and begins to feel a dissatisfaction
with hts spccr. I Ait Ohio rcpecl these laws
to-wunst, that the niggers may not—
“Reverse tho arrangement," sed Joe Big
ler. rlsln, “and git to bo tlio sooperior uv
the white. Is that It, Pcrfosscr? ”
“Not eggsackly that,” returned I, not
knowin what lie was drlvln at, “but cz
llcvln ordalneij.tho niggers 'to be inferior
tons, and servo us, it looks rather dan
gerous to—”
“Givelilmacliancetorlse? That’swhnt
your gcttln qt, 1 sec. I am, and always
wuz a Dhnocrat, cz you know, but I don’t
and their rank and ago. Some are oh
horseback, many afoot, many again seated
or lying on tlioground-the clrole tl com- fcJfSSSl,““,'&£*? *2?Lg**►
dote, and all faco to tha center. Boxes,
jaloi, and bundles of annuity goods or V!
presents are carried into Uni area, and bro- inv r imw P m fi!!il
kenopciiand delivered to the chlofsand ’SMMK
; rour idea. It Is that tho proud Cnucashun
1 s tho only favored race, wlch flxt Its posi-
slittn Itself, but that all tlio other races lied
daces isslnpa them, wicli God Almighty
icvin fixed, they can’t pass. That belli
tho case, Wat’s tlio yoose, Perftsscr, tiv our
foolln away our tlmo a tryln to strengthen
his laws by any act of oiirsf Ef tlio Al
mighty fixed It so. kin wo do It nny better
than lief"
But sposln tho nigger, ef we don't keep
lilm down by law, sltood rise above list”
“I shood unanimously conclood that they
lied hill a mlstako in the tlggers. and that
wo wuz, niter all, tho sons uv Ilainl anil
they tho sons uv Jnphct. How wood yoo
liko that t But that ain’t wat ails US.
There, Pcrlbsser, ain't where ourdaliger Is.
Dimocrisy, liko a man with a tapeworm,
carries the elotnents uv Its own destruction.
Misscgonnshuit Is wnfs sanpln tlio founda
tion uv tlio party. Agrecln with you that
lie nigger’s place 1s fixed, nml that the
. llmom.-y coodcnt git along a mtult with
out tho nigger, 1 hero titter my solemn
warnln ngln tho contlnpooal lcsscAlu uv
the race, bccoz that race Is our look, and
onto that we stand. Wat sense is there In
wostln our capital, or ruther illlutin It7”
“Wat do yoo mean7” askt I, not gettln
at the drift uv wat ho wu* drlvln at.
••Menu! Sly mennin Is plain. The
blacker the nigger Is tho further ho ts ho-
low ns—tho whiter ho Is tlio nearer our
cknlhets. In tills cnlctiluhtin wo don't
tako Intelligence or virehoo or any thing
uv the kind Into account, but perccod upon
tlio hypothesis that a devilish menu white
man Is considerable better than n smart
and honest nigger. Therefore, any drop
uv white blood in u nigger’s vein* makes
himJiistoncdroplessohjcctlonahlo. Look
at tlio specimens wlch lliov * brought with
mo to lllustrato my pint. Tlie light colored
niggers will rise.”
And every cussed one uv cm got up ez ef
by ina|lc, and 1 saw to wimst wat lie wnz
goln for.
“ Yoo sec, Porfrssor. I hevo here twenty-
two spllod niggers. Every ono uv them
ought to hov bln tho son or daughter uv
two pure niggers, but they alnt. This
one’s mother, tor Instance,” anil ho Intel Ills
hand upon tho shoulder nvallrelv quad
roon uv eighteen years, “wuz' wimst tho
property uv Deektn l’ograin, wlch circum
stance accounts for her liovln the l’ogram
nose, nml general cast Uv countenance to
nn alarlnlu dogrce,and—
Tiler wuz a ptcrcln shreek hour-1, and
Mrs. l’ogram wuz carried out falntlu. unit
the Deektn turned cz red cz a lobster,
while Bigler, cz solemn cz n judge, went
m— , v
“This girl wuz wunst tlio property of
Icckln McGrath, who Is, I notis. here to-
litc. Mollssy stand up.” sed In*, mid a
llkoly mulatto woman arlz. "You will
notis,” sod he, “that Mollssy Is rather
dark, wlillodtor. girl wlch yoo sec afore
yoo. is quite, a half llgliti
bleached out considerable. I licv 1
recollection! ton or llltivn more, uv vn
uv rage, swung out UV tlio church, while
the Peek In to wunst assumed the color uv
'You all
see tho plqt. I kin show yoo In this col-
1.vlshun which I hev picked lip, tliu pu-
coblycr feacliers uv tho Dfngese*. tlio'Mc-
l’cltcrs, the Baseouii, and every family
trpttnu these parts—tluit Is, the feiehers uv
tho male members uv cm! But senee the
cmanclpashun I hev notlit that this thing
hez come to a sudden omlln. 1 hev notlst
that senco the niggers hev owned tiiolr-
tclves, there ulnt no more uv this mlxter.
Yoo purpose, I suppose, agin reiloosln mv
ciikto their normal comilshiin. nml luakln
uv cin men servant, and maid servants, Ef
this Is done, let me entree! you. brethren,*
to stop the hlcachlii process. Ef yoo hev
any regard for tho Dlimiiirusy, don’t toler
ate It no more. The momenta half-white
nigger Is born, yoo can't enslave only half
uv him, for only half comes under the cusa.
and only half under the law ngln niggers.
Tint one-half keeps down to the Ham lev
el, but tothcr half sores to the Juphet place
In nacher. Yoo can’t whalo a mulatto
with only half the Intensity yoo kin a
clear-blooded nigger, and when they keep
bleachln out. nml out, and out. until tlioy
are almost white, what then ? When a nig
ger Is nlnu-tcnths Pogrom, and only one-
tenth nigger, what then 7 Kin the Deckln
bo so deaf to tlie voice uv nacher, so linro
liv Impulse, ez to oppress so much Pogrom
show at all, then wat is to prevent cin from
wnlkln off nlone and scttln up In business
for themselves ez white nicnV What will
become uv the Dimocrisy P”
All this tlmo the nigger was tlttcrin. and
the white women wuz gaspin for breath,
and the men wuz turniii red and white by
turns. I arose to rebuke lilm. when Ulgler
rcinarkt that lie guest ennff hed bln red,
and that probably the meeting lied belter
bo adjourned. And the aiitluciotis eu»s
give us two liiimiLos and a.half to get out
liv the bulldln.
I wood give my next quarter's salary ef
tho yellow fever wood come to the Corners,
pcrvld I cood he asliooreU that Bigler mid
l’olloek wood be victims.
Pktuoleum V. Nasby. P. .M.,
' * (Wlch Is Postmaster.)
Tbe War In Italy.
TIIE FINAL IIA1TI.K AND ITS llESPLTS.
Special to the N. Y. IlereidO
Flokence, Nov. 3—Evening.—During
the past few days General Garibaldi con
centrated his forces around his former
position at Stonto Rotondo; yesterdny
afternoon Signori Cortc Crlspl and Sevan!-
cut, supporters of his cause, and formerly
a deputation from the Revolutionary
Society, begged him to withdraw, as the
Italian troops had crossed the frontier.
Garibaldi rolused, saying he did not value
his life in such a cause, and that a soldier
ought not to count the number of his
enemies. Signor Corte replied, a Gouural
should. The deputation then left the camp.
This morning Garibaldi, with about three
thousand or his command, having two
guns, moved for Tivoli, to join Nicotera,
ono of his officers, and In tho meantime
the Papal Zouaves, who were advancing,
had taken Tivoli, without noise, at the
point of tho bayonet. Garibaldi's force
did not know tills, and were marching
toward the same poiut. When they ar
rived at Mctona they were surprised by
seven battalions of tho Papal army, sup
ported by twelve guns, who attacked them
In front anil on both Hanks. Tho battle
ground was among hills, with a country
road running on both sides. The lighting
continued fiercely for over an hour. In
the hottest moment of the engagement,
Garibaldi had to be dragged away from
the battle. Ills troops sultcrcd much loss,
and retreated toward Monte Rotondo,
S in-sued by tho soldiers of the Pope. Here
io light was renewed, and continued over
two hours, when the Garihaldlan retreat
became on utter rout.
It Is bcUovcd here that Gen. Garabnldi
hail 000 men killed, 1,000 prisoners, and a
great many wounded. Mcnottl Garibaldi
was wounded slightly In the leg. The loss
of the Papal foreo was not so heavy. Ar
riving at theltalian frontier, the retreating
Garibaldlans gave up their arms, except
weapon* which were their own property,
to the Italian regular troops.
Garibaldi left this morning liy a special
railroad train for Florence. He made no
parting address, and looked old, haggard
and disappointed. The revolutionary and
Insurrectionary movement Is broken down
nil over the territory. There were no
French engaged in the fight with tho ex
ception ofa few who went lu as volunteers,
although some of the Garibaldlans. deceiv
ed by the resemblance of tho uniform of
the Papal soldiers to that worn In some of
the French regiments of the Hue, say they
were beaten by French soldiers. Theltalian
troops stationed on the 1 frontier behaved,
with great judgment In* dm emergency .—
Many of the wounded (laralialdinns are
hero, and some Tew at Jloiito ltotondo,
Tknxl November 4—r. M.—Hundreds of
wounded men are arriving here from the
scene of tho Into engagements betwobu the
UarlUililians and the Papal troops. They
are convoyod by special railroad trains.—.
Tho Italian regulars acted In a very kindly
limnnar toward all, assisting to car/y them
from tho station * to* whore they are laid ;
weeping like children over tho sad spec
tacle. Father Gavqzzi has charge of tho
hospital.
Tiouolk, November 4.—When General
Garibaldi reached here this morning, on
his way to Florence, the Italian officers o u
duty told him he must go to Spczzla. Gari
baldi drew a revolver, saying that he would
not resist tho officers, hut that lie would
not go willingly. Tlio Italian soldiers then
stopped forward and lifted him Into the
car. His eons would not go with him.
Flokence, November 5.—The English
Minister and embassy hero have requested
King Victor Emanuel to treat GnrlliaUll
leniently. It is said that there will lie no
colislon between the French anil Italian
forces.
Italy is quiet. There are rumors afloat
here to tho effect that Garibaldi’s mind Is
alloc ted.
Paius, November 4.—Tho La Prcsse, of
this morning.says: “Tho Charge d’Affalrcs
at Florence was ordered to present, nu
Sunday, to tho King's government, an ulti
matum—that tho Italian troops which had
linen marched Into Papal Territory, should
evacuate It before Thursday evening, No
vember 7. j •
Gen. Pofk's Explanation.—In a letter
to Bull. Grant, written October 28, by Gen,
Hope, the latter, 111 explaining Ills appor
tionment lu tlie State of Georgia states:
“Tlierc will not be one colored man for
ten white inen In tbe Convention. Almost
universally white men and men of stand
ing have Iwen nominated for the Conven
tion by the colored people. The faction to
which Governor Jenkins belongs Is In dts-
..... - pair at these results, and seeks to arrest tho
Tho race election In some way. Tho objection they
make to the apportionment of the State fs
pretext merely. The real object Is to ob-
Are tbe Children at Home.
Each day, when the glow of sunset
Fades in the Western sky, .
And tlm wee ones, tired of playing,
, Go tripping lightly by,
- r steal away from my husband,
Asleep In hit casy-ehalr,
And watch from tbe open iloor way
Their faces fresh and fair.
Alone li| tho dear old homestead
shades who hev the McGrath face, but—” < struct, and if possible to arrest reconstrue-
Mre. Deckln McGrath, uttcrln a slircek tlon.” 1 *
dioFng boyish* strife.
We two are waiting together;
And oft, as the shadows come,
W till tremulous voice he calls me.
-It 14 night! arethgcliildren home?”
“Yes love!" I answer him gontly,
••They're all luuno long ago:”
And I slug. In my quivering treble,
A song so soft unu low.
Till tlie old man drops to slumber,
With Ids head upon his hand,
And I tell myself the uuniber
Home Is'the better land.
Horae, where never a aorrow
Shall dim their evea with tcara!
Where the amlle or God is on them
Through all tbe aummer years 1
I know 1 yet my arms are empty,
That fondly folded seven,
And the mother heart within me
Is almost starved for heaven.
Sometimes In the dusk of evening,
1 only shut my eyes.
And the children nre all about me,
A vision from the kies;
The babes whose dimpled fingers
Lost the way to my brea*t,
And the bemitlfril ones, the angels,
Passed to tho world of the blessed.
With never a cloud upon them,
I see their radiant brows;
My hoys that I gave to freedom.
Tho red sworil sealed their vows I
In a tangled Southern forest.
Twin brothers, bold and brave.
Tbev fell; anil the ting they died for,
ThankGoil! floats over their grove.
A breath, nnd the vision Is lifted
Away on wings of light. *
And again wo two are together.
All alone In the night.
They tell mo hi* mind his falling,
But 1 smllo at Idle fears;
He I* only buck with the children.
Ill the dear and peaceful years.
And still ns the summer sunset
Fades away in the West,
And the wee ones tireil of playing,
Go trooping home to rest.
My husband calls from hts corner.
-.-ay, love 1 have the children come 7’’
And 1 answer, with eyes uplifted
"Yes, dear 1 they are all at Imtne 1”
Atlantic Monthly.
A HonaiuLB Thauedv—A Woman Cute
the Throat of her trn children, and then at
tempt‘e to kill hereelf. while laboring under a
Mental Aberration.—A week ngo to-day
tlierc was committed In this county, live
miles cast of Scdulln, one of tho most hor
rible and revolting tragedies wc remember
of recording. Between nine nml ten
o'clock Thursday morning, Mrs. Elizabeth
Norton, wife of Mr. Newton Norton, a rc-
siiectnble farmer, who lives near Farmer
city, procured a razor, and, while laboring
under a state of mental nlierratlon. took
her two little girls, ngeil respectively one
and three years, to the privy not far from
the house nml cut I Kith their throats, al
most severing their heads from their
lKxllcs. nnd causing Instant death. Having
done this, and, ns she now say*, not wish
ing to survive the awful deed, she attempt
ed to take her own llle by iiilllctlng sever
al gushes on her left arm, and one very se
rious wound on her throat. The horrible
sight was first discovered by Mrs. Sarah
U. Norton, sister of the unfortunate wo
man. who .called her brother, at work near
the house. Mr. Lamb forced the door open
ami found the two children liotli dead, and
at first supposed his sister was dead nlso,
but she afterwards gave signs of life.
What caused Mrs. Norton to commit this
..Mrible deed Is all, ns yet, wrapped In
mystery. No one of the family or neigh
bors can even assign a probable reason -for
it That sho was partially Insane at times,
there are good reasons for believing. She
sccmctl to bo Impressed with tho Idea that
hor children were not “ right" as slic ex
pressed It—that they were not like other
children. She had often been found at the
cradle Of her younger child, weeping ns
though It was dangerously 111, and when
questioned as to the causo of her distress,
sho would reply, “Jly children are not
right—they are not like other children.”
Sometimes she would fitnoy tlint the head
of the older child wus hirge, nml express
a fear that it would bo all Idiot. But the
children were as briglit anil beautiful as
any a* wc ever saw. All the neighbors con
cur that they were even inure than onlln-
nrlly,sensible children.
U|w>n this subject nlone It Is generally
believed hy her most Intimate friends that
Mrs. Norton tvns insane, nml that her great
desire was to get the children out of trou
ble. She seems to realize now that It tvns
an awful deed, nml when asked why sho
did It says: “I could not help it; I wanted
to get my children out of trouble, and I
wanted to gb with them. Something
forced me to uo It.”
It may lie well to state that Mrs. Norton
hail made two previous attempts to take
her life nnd the lives of her children—one
In July last, when sho attempted to drown
herself lu it |minh nml one two nights pre
vious to this tragedy by placing herself
anil cliidren on the railroad track. When
found hy her husband she was sleeping on
tlio track, with her children on either side
of her. Sho refused to go with him until
sho mailo 1dm promise not to tell any one
nbout finding her there. She Is now lu a
very crltlcul condition, hut her friends
think sho will recover. Yesterday morn
ing sho gave ovldonco of Insanity.—.Vsda-
lia (Mo.) Hines, Oct. 21.
Fatal Affray at- Goiidon.—From gen
tlemen who arrived by the Central train
last evening, wu learn that a fatal rencontre
occurred at Gordon yesterday, between n
gentleman named Lnmpe nnd John Toler,
In which the lormcr whs killed by a pistol-
shot at the bauds of the latter. Lain pc
was shot In the neck, but notwithstanding
tlio wini in I was mortal, It Is said he shot
Toler In the thigh after lie fell. Wo could
not learn tlio inirtlculars of tlm alterant Ion
that led to tlm fatal result, further then
I.ampe slapped Toler's face. wliothereii|am
drew Ills re|K*nter and fired, with tlm result
above narrated.
Wo liuve since learned that Toler was ar
rested and brought to -Macon, The services
of Dr. Mettauer was called Into requisition
for tho purpose of extracting tlm lmllet.
The wound Is a dangerous one and may
probably result In tho death of Toler.—
Macon Telegraph.
RT’Tlic reason of the Emperor of Aus
tria visiting l’arls unaccompanied hy the
Empress Is attributed to the fact that hcrl
Majesty Is "In an Interesting condition.”
The happy event Is expected to take place
about next March. I
XIlKcellmtcou*.
Noyes’ agricultural Implement shop, at
Mattoon, Illinois, was burned on Monday
night. Loss (281100, lusuranco light.
The Phoenix Gift Enterprise, at Lexing
ton, Kentucky, will not bo drawn. Tho
managers are refunding tho money paid
for tickets.
The freight depot and engine house of
the Chicago nml Northwestern Railroad,
at Koliodia,Wisconsin, were destroyed by
lire on Monday. Loss under (4tkOOO.
The burglar who robbed a hank In Taze
well county, Illinois, of (IIXI.000. tlm other
dsy. has lieen arrested, and proves to ho
Henry O'Connor alias - Wild Bill,” tho
scout, immortalized In Harper's Magazine
some time ago.
Some rumor* obtained circulation In tlio
England and Continental press that some
two or three hundred men hud deserted
from the Franklin (Admiral Fnrrngut’s
vessel) in Bwodcn and lu England.
TwentV-slx men only deserted from the
frigate, and these In consequence of some
misunderstanding about the leaves of
absence.
Ohio regtstratlon reports show ono di
vorce to every seventy-six marriages In
that State during the year.
A hurricane at Chicago, Sunday, drove
ten or twelve vessels ashore, doing much
damage, and capsizing a small bout with
two men In It, who were probably drown
ed.
The nni'i! cr of deaths In St. Lou I* for
the past w eek was 129, being u decrease of
thirty-three compared with the previous
week. Not a solitary case of cholera la re
ported.
Rear Admiral Porter reports that lie has
received. In the aggregate, $8,000 toward a
til nd for erecting a monument at tho Naval
Academy to tlm officers, seamen and ma
rines who fell In the Union cause. More
money Is needed.
An application has been made to tlm St.
Louis County Court for provision for the
feeding of Jurors while confined during
trial ot capital or other cases.
The whole numlier of deaths from yel
low fever, III New Orleans, this season, up
to Tuesday muruiug. was 3,012. The Board
of Health dcclures that there Is no longer
any epidemic fever III the city, and that
citizens and strangers may safely return.
Plain Gihls.—Every thing bus been
done that could bo done to persuade man
kind that plain girls arc, in reality, by far
tlm blast attractive of tlm lot. Tho clever
authoress of “Jano Eyre” nearly succeeded
111 the forlorn attempt for a few years, and
plain girls, w ith volumes ol Intellect speak
ing through their deep eyesand from their
massive foreheads, seemed for a while, on
paper at least, to lie carrying every thing
before them. The only difficulty was to
get the male sex to follow out in practice
what they so completely admired In Miss
Brontc’sthree volume-novels. Unhappily,
the mnle sex. being very liniierlect anil
I'rall, could not lie brought to do It. They
recognized the beauty of the conception
ubout plain girls, they were very glud to
see them married off In scores to heroic
village doctors, nml they quite readily ad
mitted that occasional young noblemen
might he represented In fiction as liecom-
ing violently attached to young creatures
with Inky lingers nml remarkable nilmls.
But no real change wus brought about In
ordinary ltfe. Man. sinful man, read with
pleasure about the triumphs of the sandy
haired girls, but still kept on dancing with
and proixislng to the pretty ones. And at
last authoresses were driven haekon tho
old standard of beauty. At present, in tlie
productions Imtli of masculine and femin
ine workmanship, the firmer view or plain
S lrls lias been resumed. Tliu.v are ullnwcil,
thoroughly excellent In other wavs, to
pair off with rountry curates nml w ith de
voted missionaries; but the prizes uf fiction
ns well us tlm prizes of reality, fall to the
lot of their fairer and more fortunate sis
ters.—London Saturday Jletlcic.
The Seven Ancient WoNDF-na of the.
Would.—1. Tlm brass columns of Rhodes,
ono hundred nml twunty feet high, built
by Cnres, a. d.. 288. occupying twenty ynnrs-
1II making. It stood across the harbor ol
Rhodes for sixty-six years, and was then
thrown clown hy an earthquake. It was
iKiuglit hy a Jew from the Saracens, ivlm
loaned nine hundred camels with the
brass.
2. The pyramids of Egypt. The largest-
one engaged three liiiinlrcil and sixty
thousand workmen thirty years In Ijiiilif-
Ing. and hns stood at least three thousand
years.
8. The Aqueducts or Rome, Inrciitial hy
Applus Claudius, the Censor.
4. The Labyrinth ?f 1‘Mnmietlcus.oii the
bank* of tho Nile, containing within one
continued wall one thousand houses nml
twelve roynl pnlnccs, all covered with mar
ble. anil haring only one elitmnco. The
building was said to contain tlircu thou
sand ulmmhers, and aliall built ot marble
adorned with statues of tlm gmls.
fi. Tho Pharos of Alexandria, s tower
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In the year 282 ll.O. It was erected
light house, Uliil contained magnificent
galleries or marble—n large lantern at
tho top. tlm light of which was seen
nearly a liiinilreif miles; mirror* of enor
mous size were fixed around the galleries,
reflecting everything on thu sea. A com
mon tower is now creeled In Its place. -
6. Tlm walls of Babylon, built hy onlcr
of Scmlmmls or Nebuchadnezzar, nml
finished In one year by two hundred
thousand men. They were of linnicuso
thickness.
7 Tlie Temple of Diana, at Eplmsns,
completed in tho reign of Sorvltts, sixth
king of Rome. It was four hundred uml
fifty feet long, two hundred broad, anil
supported hy ono hundred nnd twenty-six
marble pillars seventy (bet high. Tlm
beams nml doors were of cedar, tlm rest
of tho timber, Cyprus. It was destroyed
by fire 365 B. C. 1
The Cemeteries at Marietta.—A cor
respondent of thu Journal says:
“Tho Federal and Confederate ceme
teries nro fast npproanhlng completion,
thu former being handsomely enclosed
nnd decorated In nn elaborate manner
and Is really at present a bcaiitllbl place.
Tlm Confederate Cemetery bus been ar
ranged 111 qtilto a neat form, tlm designs
In laying out. and arrangements of tho
different localities of mates (to- nre well
arranged, and If some efibrts were niado
In each State represented to collect nml
disburse fluids, for tho decoration of tho
scctlou* allotted to their gallant heroes,
It would compare favorably with nny
Cometory In tlio country, tinder the su
pervision of Its present efficient and ener
getic officers." i
t4 Official returns to tlm nnnual session
of tho Methodbt churches of the United
States, now In session In Now York, show
the Increase of members in tho various
Conferences during the past year, to Jiavo
l«*cn 110,000; total or Sunday School
scholar* over 1.900.000; Increase ill tho
value of church property about 87,000,000.
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