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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 Mi ,WBWi - -,- f I eJ$m-.lalahil ftkvr—fiJoa I Statc nnu -.. — - - th , g dtr untU I traditional ofllelsl language tier tht* I ope an •-j „ u *”'“ * Abnwi a decrease of VMWWW* i) >Co tei jaiutMU j ftd? Cfh 1 *r»^W**f I bf.OJ* : III 6 *3 I ns?!* i •«“** ISMS Oa -solreal V> mem I *•**> AM hw n t and. M wi*aMWMtWlsi'4||4n(>fi*iF''*' 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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