Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-15

The END OF GREAT MEN.-Happening to cast
my eye upon printed page of miniture portraits
the personages who occupied the four most con-
spicuous places, were Alexander, Hannibal, Ca-
sar, and Bonapart, had seen the same unum-
bered times before, but never did the same senss-
tions arise in my bosom as my mind hastily glane-
ed over their several histories.
Alexander, after having climbed the dizzy
heights of ambition, and with his temples bound
with chaplets dipped in the blood of countless
nations, looked down upon conquered world,
and wept that there was not another one for him
to conquer, set city on fire and died in a scene
of debauch.
Hannibal, after having to the astonishment
and consternation of Rome, passed the Alps
after having put to flight the armies of this mis-
tress of the world, and stripped three bushels Of
gold rings from the fingers of her slaughtered
knights, and made her very foundations quake
fed from his country, being hated by those who
once exultingly united his name to that of their
God, and called him Hannibal-died at last by
poison, administered by his own hand, unlamen'
ted and unwept, in foreign land.
Caesar, after having conquered eight hundred
cities, and dyed his garments in the blood of one
million of his foes-after having pursued tc
death the only rival he had on earth, was miser.
ably assassinated by those he considered his near
est friends, land in that very place, the attainment
of which had been his greatest ambition.
Bonapart, whose mandate kings and popes
obeyed, after having filed the earth with the ter.
ror of his name-after having deluged it with
tears and blood, and clothed the world with sack.
cloth, closed his days in lonely banishment
almost literally exiled from the world, yet where
he could sometimes see his COuntry's banner
waving over the deep, but which could not Of
would not bring him aid.
Thus four men, who, from peculiar situation
of their portraits, seemed to sound as the repre-.
sentatives of all those whom the world call great
those four, who each in turn, made the earth
tremble to its very centre by their simple tread
severally died-one by intoxication, or, as some
suppose, by poison mingled in wine-one o sui
cide--one murdered by his friends-and one il
lonely exile. How are the mighty fallen
NEGRO INsURREcrIoN IN ARKANsAs.-We learn
from the Memphis papers that there is great ex-
element in Union County, Arkansas, on account
of the discovery of plot among the negroes to
rise in rebellion on the 18th of this month. For
tunately the plot was discovered in time to pre-
vent one Of the most bloody massacres in the
whole annals of insurrection, The plot was very
extensive, and negroes who we're taken up and
made to confess implicated others twenty miles
off. Some of the negroes say the rising was to
take place the day of the Presidential election.
The men all being from home on that day, the
plot was to murder the women and children first
and then attack the unarmed men at the polls.-
The letter states that the Colorado the excite.
ment is intense, and that several negroes have
been hung. The plot seems to have been very
extensive, reaching as far as Texas.