Show THE rEEi O' DAT— A LITERAR7 rrsrxz :x:r' Weekly digest of news " u ' American In the early part of the week rumo’rs prevailed of propositions foi peace in which the Northern Government were The said to bo taking the initiative French Minister wan declared to have offered tho services of his Government as a negotiator Thursday’s news deThen nied the truth of the statement wo were told that a Commission composed equally of Democrats and Repub-- 1 Keans’ were to meet a similar one appointed by Jeff DaVis mwhich Alex was to figure’ The next Stephens statement was- that Gen McClellan was to head a paidy Of Democrats on a visit to Richmbnd ctnd negotiate for peace on tho basis of the Union Gen Sherpitin (tho prominent Union General) is said to have been effecting aporapiete panic in Richmond by his ad: vances towards that Capital Atlanta’ the great military stronghold f North is gmould-- ’ lately acquired mills in factories and all the ering ruins Chatta- and foundries ' between there arid i nooga are' destroyed p A proposition for negociations for down in the Senpoace was lately-voteIn the same Senate House of Georgia ate propositions" were made to impress half of all the male slaves-anemploy them on the defences of the Capital ' General Grant’s opiuion is it appears that Ihe Southern Confederacy ‘Us a rner'd ’shell” There are no’ indications of his going into winter quarter yet Rumor however says that tho rebel Ganeral Early’s army will do so soon General Breckenridgo of tho Woiii is said to have lately defeated Gen Gillem — loss 600 10 stand of color’d’ and 46 pieces of artillery The asserted ill treatment of Union priiouers in Southern prisons farm's much of the topic of this week’s nows 'Blockade running goes ou still at Charleston ?The city is partly uninhab- BY QUIZ A most fearful storm of wind has occurred at Sessions 'Part ‘of tbe the Tabernacle there lias been blown away without ’a trace of the fragments being left Sessi oris seems to be exempted from that great rule which tempers the rfoof of ' -' wind to shorn lamb— perhaps isn’t : The Meat Market — A j grand addition has been made to our city market lately" Strange to say it now presents “ a sight enough’ to sicken a hog” Don tbe frightened— wc have' this information from a fat porker who visited there lately As Charles Dickens would say the' porker came to the conclusion that all flesh was pork” Utah and came awav disgusted must be moving somewhere into the Meat at of Greenwich vicinity"- that market is adorned with ribbons polite butchers do up your family chop in delicate paper and request the privilege of sending it “ Sending it home 1” Can home wc ever forget how in the early days of that market we have been seen by' an admiring public with a lump of suet in one hand and some-- 4 thing on a skewer held out at arms length' in the other making clown the back- street at blood heat in confusion respectfully requested by every third man to stop and leave “ that ere here” It nearly kills us merely ’to' think of it and we arc noL sensitive How the Daily’s endure it nervous as they are we ! itable Foreign A Boy conspiracy to take the lifoof tho Emperor of Austria has been discovered The Turkish Government has bought an iron clJid 'The Babes have passed the treaty for peace in their lower House At the Lord Mayor's banquet in Loudon Lord Balm erston expressed his hope that the contending sections of this country will soon come to terms Maximilian the new Emperor of Mexi- co is having trouble with a’ strong Re- publican party there — 8 or 9 thousand ’of them- have entrenched themselves against him at Capaco lie intends to beccigo them there himself accompanying his army In Italy they are discussing most vigorously the removal of their Capital to Rome' In Hindustan the seem to bo concentrating their dislike of English rule Awards another £Teat 8epoy iusurroction the a lamb? We understand that it takes tjman with a double patent steel breathing apparatus toand then lie' live in Sessions must never go out without a pair of small grappling irons in each pocket readyv to hook on with Everything but the Kanyons gets blown away there occasionally" 'One man! secured himself by holding on to a Deep O’ Day ! but he was a man of Strong faith In fact we imagined from the way things have said to have disappeared that anjT man sharp enough at this moment can’ see farmers wagons pork tubs and mules legs and the Tabernacle shingles chasing eacli- other high in air around that settlement it cannot tell- re G at Smash — A great intended to adorn glass looking the lower end of Godbe’s new store was broken on the passage here and found to be one entire wreck Wc were told mournfullv hvd a’ faend of ours' that not so mucli as throo feet by three remained- The ( ’ What lady can he satisfied with that much now?! Before we were ” “regenerated we used to think a triangular piece of looking glass one inch and a quarter by three quarters of an" inch a perfect treasure AYe know a friend’ whose family" looking glass for two years was that size' dial htiTf the fjiVkk-silvwas off' lie Used to5 keep It on the top of his lower window sash till one day it slipped thrdtfgh and was swallowed by ii big 16!g He nearly dislocated his own neck and twisted the spines of six beautiful children in the efforts they themselves in thatt that it tooi exactly two hundred different pfr- sitions to seethe whole of his clffru In fact lie had to go over it on tlW' principle of a trigonometrical survey — marking his distances as he went lest he should go over the same’ place twice' Now we turn up our nose at a piece of glass three feet by thrfce — we must he getting no ' better very fast” oN Founded £act— The dear old man leaned over the fence and “ So’1 you’ve got softly whispered a chance to sell all yer oniom? at six dollars Save' you?” “yes” said wc TheinU said he don't do it Its agin this people’s interests and ybu’ff' iliukc more bf letting it alone- Take my advice don’t sell ’em for less than eight!” We felt the truth of the old man’s advice W e swore we’d never sell for six”— no never We parted and the old man went his wav and' while we thank'd great providence' for such a fiihely visit outdid1 made glass to see He calculated ' ‘ ! friend visited our would-b- e purchasers told them they could notr get our onions’ now or less than eight dollars — he positively knew — and offered them the whole of his for six — and thunder and lightOh golly ning — sold them too god'ieivu is “sich” life— yea verily" The Weather— As nobody knows how the weather has been until they see it ihx the paper and as all respectable papers describe the weather and as we are a respectable' paper wc shall' from time to time have to describe the weather This week it lias ben a little colu and a little warm ynd then a littlq more cold and after that' a httlo more warm ami then some morn cold In fact it kept cold as long as it' could jftid fe it did warm There was onC'day- - it nearly rained that is not quite ‘nearly hut nearly’ so :We think this a very important item Should it cver'dccur again the public may" rely- - upon having the earliest inkmatin throvrh c? 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