Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-24
NEWS OF HE WEEK.

i've HunuItI lev ELIuEkAItH ul various bOIIb ana
sizes are going up in tne city. Many Of the
buildings are necessarily unsubstantial, from
the use in them Of brick that have been heated
and e~rumblei, and, for lack OF materials, many
walls are laid IN mortar made of clay alone.
Scores Of storehouses are rebuilt a story high,
aud rooted over TO await more prosperous times
for completion. Rents are enormously high.
Two stole-r0oms, above and below Of ordinary
width, rent AZ 1878 per month for a frame
house Of four rooms $40 month Is paid. As
nearly as can be estimated, the populatio IN of
Atlanta is about 2, 600.
l. Union NotoIdle processes to have grounds
for believing that the Fenians contemplate a raid
on Canada. II Gets out by quoting a statement to
this Eject, ifom the Dublin correspondent OF the
London HTald, and then goes on in corrobora-
ton OF this story. " We earn +, SAYS IL Union
NatioHde, " from a good source that our gov
eminent has been, Or ls On the point Of being,
put IL possession OF certain lacts Of the highest
importance. Or information docs not give us
the precise facts but there Is not the slightest
doubt that The Canadian authorities have been
or are Oh the poIat Of being officially informed
by the Cablnetat " ashingt0n that il is the iDten-
ton, more or less rcsolute, Of the Fenians to in
wade Canada h Union Rationale, after dis.
claiming the idea Of becoming an alarmist, pro-
ceeda % prescribe now this invasion ought to be
met. J. Is to demand thai England shall
break the colonial tie that exposes US TO 80 many
dangers, without giving us any influence or any
force Sufficient 10 Keep those dangers at a dis.
lance or to overcome them =
The London Iimss has jl.t pc riormed very
neatly, and with no apparent damage to itself, the
trick OF swallowing itself which he bechede mer,
or sea cucumber, vas hitherto supposed TO be alone
able 10 accomplish. In the Times for Sept 9th,
the leading article opens with this sen ence :
" When the people Of the northern States elected
Mr.. Lincoln Tor the second time they p,re moved
by a happy impulse to choose as the 4 cond mag
istrate OF the country andrew johnson Of Ten.
nessee." The Times used to abuse Mr.. johnson
as yilely as the New York Worid.
Captain J. NJ. Moore, who was sent to the An
dersonvuIe Cemetery, for the purpose Of marking
the graves OF Union soldiers, has made very in.
teresting report ofhis EXPEDITION. He has marked
over tw'lve thousand graves with the names Of
the victims Of rebel cruelty, and about four hun.
bred with the words "Unknown United States
Soldiers.'
General Fisk, the Superintendent of the Freed
mems Bureau in the Southwest, announces that
after the passage Of bills by The different Stste'
giving protection in the courts to negroes, he viii
abolish III his department all matter connected
with the civil status oil the negro.
The Albany Journal says the rumor that Sec
Seward informed the English government of tht
proceedings OF the Fenians is false in it's length
and breadth that Mr.. Seward had not furnished
the BRUSH government such information as rep,
%resenttdj tltt no correspondence has passed in
which a Claim has been made for such intelligence,
and that The whole story is as false as it 10 foolish.
Ex-Gov S~harkey, OF Mississippi, has been
elected United States Senator to nil the unex-
pired terra Of jefferson Davis. The vote was
100 to 20. IL is said that a majority OF the
Legislature are in favor OF the admission Of
negro testimony.
The notorious guerilla Champ Ferguson was
hung at Nashville, Friday. The execution was
strictly private.
The guerilla Henry y. M0gruder, in pursuance
oil his sentence, was hung n the yard Of the mill
tary PRISON at Louisville, Friday afternoon.
The Mexican Legation in Washington has re-
eelyed int ligtnce that Gen. Diaz, who was taken
prisoner wh,n Oaxocl fell and kept in Puebla as
a prisoner OF war, has escaped and rejoined the
Republican forces. Gen. Diaz is regarded as one
OF the ablesi Generals of the Liberal army, and
Is said to be now in The State Of Oaxael at the
head Of a considerable force.
MISSISSIPPI LoYALTY.-Gen. Humphreys has
beaten Judge Fisher for Governor Of reconstructed
Mississippi, becaue Humphreys served in the
Rebel army, while Fisher did not. There was
no tangible reason for preierring the former, save
that he had been q more pronounced and unmi,-
taxable Rebel. Fisher had been pardoned, while
Humphreys had not but he has since been made
ali right.
DR., Blackburn, Of yellow fever notoriety, has
been admitted to bail At Toronto on his own
recognizance to appear when called Tor, and his
sureties have been discharged.
' The Charleston Courier says the Sea Islands
Oh the South Carolina coast, famous for thor
good Gotten, are TO DO returned to the original
proprietors.
One OF the most novel inventions We have vel
heard Of, is a machine to extract the seeds from
ralsln'. This it does "a fast as one can pick VI
the r%aisin', and at the same time picks a number
oil tine holes in them giving the rich flavor
chance TO escape, and making buildings, pies, o.
anything they are used in, much nicer than wher
the raislns are put in whole. A machine Of thi
kiud is on exhibition al the Mechanics Fair, il
Boston.
II is stated that the counsel Of Jefferson Dayi
has expressed a desire that his clint be accorde,
immediate trial. The desire comes original,
IRON Davis, who, it is SAID, has declared that b.
has no Tears Tor the issue, - aud that, there
tore, tbe government will do him q great iayo
by a~lnigning him ~ tho earliest possible mo
ment. IL is also reported that the recent favor
able change 40 his everyday lie was mainly til,
work OF the President, and at this hour he ha
almost everything that ho could ask save libert,
ltseii, and tao presence Of his family about him
gOREIoN NEWS.
Inc steamship Scotia, from Liverpool on tn,
fth and Queenstown on The Sih, arrived at thi.
port yesterday mOrnlng. ohe brings two days
later intelligence, English papers ooatain al
ditlonal denlals Of completely in the coniederat,
loan IRON gentlemen whose NAMES were recentl,
published us subscribers. The editor OF th,
London Tunes not only denies the imputatlel
az lar as he ls Concerned, in u leading article il
the columns OF that purnal, but PERSONAL,
writes 10 the London AiGT, over his own sig,
nature Joan !. Delane '-emphatlcally dc
nllng that lac ever held any Of the loan. The
TINES publishes emphatic denials IRON Losc
WharnciiBe, Geo. Warren peacocke. and III.
ware AkIoyd, ana as a heading prints the term
"Iae Lying List Fcnilaism was still I'll,
engrosslng topic in the Irish provinces. Ru.
mos oil suspicious cruisers lowering about th,
coast were freely circulated. Precautions wer,
adopted 10 prevent the clandesune landing .
arms or sympAtulEars, aud the ~strictest eurynl
.auee was kept over all American vessels whiol
touch OF Queenstown. A rOyal commission ha
been appointed by the Qaecn to investigate III,