Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 3 janvier 1868, vendredi 3 janvier 1868

[" v 4 messe MONTREAL WEEKLY COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWS °Pa \" St.te ge TNESS, Nzw Serirs, Vor.X., No.1° CORRESPONDENCE.METHODIST AND PAPAL OHUROHES IN THR UNITED HTATES.\u2014AN ERROR CORREOTED.(To the Editor Montreal Witness.) Sun, \u2014la your issue of last Saturday is an extract from a report read by aa American clergyman atthe Evangelical Alliance General Conference, recently beld at Amsterdam, ia which is the following: \u2014\" It will surprise some persons to Know that tbe Roman Catholics are now the ost numerous sect in the United Siates, numbering not less than four million souls, or just twice as many ss the next strongest; pamely, the Methodist, who number two millions.\u201d This is aa error which will surprise some persons to know could have been committed on so grave an oconsion.À slight attention to facts clearly detailed and widely circulated should have been given by any person preparing a report for such 82 occasion as Lhe one alluded to.Ig it mot well known thas the Papal church credits itself with every ono calling 1f by its name, what- over may be bis attendance on i ordinances, while the Methodist Oburch gives those only who are enrplled on its books as communicants ?\u2018The clergyman whose report we correct should have known this; and, further, thet there are many who attend the Methodist ministry ne regularly as do moat of those who Are counted for the Oburch of Rome ; aud yet are not counted in the two million Methodists reported.Refer- enco to Dr.Swevens' luteresting and widely clrculsted centemary volume of American Methodism, supplies the followiay : \u20144 Adding the travelling preacbers to the membership, there are now a the United States, about 1,901,- 184 Methodist communicants.Adding three Don-communicant members of its congregations for each communicant, it hss, under its influence, 7,604,856 souls, \u2014between one-8fth and ons fourth of the whole national population.\u201d Hence, instead of the Methodists being second, and but one-balf in number of the members of the Papal Church, they are actually tbe first and largest section of the Christian Church io the United States; and nesrly double, if not fully so, in number, to the Roman Catholics.J.B.Montreal, December 17th, 1867.GRAND TRUNK BAILWAY.(To the Editor Witness.) Dsan Sim, \u2014Having observed somo remarks on the doiugs and deservings of the Grand Trunk Railway, I hope you will allow me, a private individual, aud with no mercantile asi- may, but with a clerical or (to coin after the fashion of Mr.Carlyle) parsonie mind, to say à fer woeds in praise of this institution as a grand nations] promotse vf the beat interests of the Dominion.(tovernment, in tie abstract notion, is s1p- posed to be a nursing Eather or mother, and so to afford aliment and protection to ber strug- glisse children in this bleak climate.The army bere, with its marching colomns and exhilarating bands, ready to defend the country; and no doubt in lerrorem does ita turn of gocd.The navy is, just now, like the ners, frosen out.Bat I question, without gi into other depart ments of tbe public whether any agency is doing half the good that Mr.G.T R.is doing uw.Without tbe Grand Trnok, what a wilderness \u2018we should bave in some of our best settled snd most flourishing localities! It seems to me that the steam-horse is ls cheval de bataille after all.\u2018Who feeds vs half so well?Who enables us to go and ses our friends?Who holds the coun- ry together, and makes it a country, and promotes the welfare of commercial intecvsts, agri- cultoral and moral and evangeli if it is not the great moral and material power of tbe locomotive?Why, sir, tbe Company\u2014that in the most manner extends its favor to a poor , and sends him forth to offer free salvation to the working thoussnds\u2014is a benefactor ; no mistake about it.I question whether the Government, the church (io any aspect), the army, or the navy, would give me twopence towards the carrying out of our great message to go and preach ihe gospel ; and yet many times, and all over, this G.T.R.is sending men free by her lines to do work which few seem inclived to pay for.! view these men as greater and more efficient than bierarchs, or a bigh 403.mighty poteatome and 1 other hi; mighty potentates ; consider the §.TB.both one of the best benefactors of our race, and tbe most liberal belp- er to men who have a work to do which, Le , very few seems inolined to pay ; and, an 1 bope, in your accustomed liberaii- 1y, you will allow me to see made public these Pro goonrally, and the GT.Bin parle rally, tl .T.a Jac sir, Jours truly, Pasron.fFor tbe Wirmes.HISTORIOAL SOCIETY FOR THE DOMINION.\u2014A SUGGESTION.Would it not be well that something were dese on a large seale to bave put on record, ss pabule for future historiographers, as many as possible of the facts connected with the origin «ad progress of the several Provinces which now constitute the Dominion of Cansds?Official Governmental documents are of vast valus na faz as they go.But they are not enough : they are too limited in their scope, leaving muc! \u2018untold that is very essential to the composition of satisfactory bistory.Itis a fact that not a little that would be of interest and importance te those who shall live in the future, is being lost by the death of our aged fellow colonists.It fs exceedingly desirable that whatever is worthy of remembrance, whetbsr of local or general character, should be transferred to vir from the crumbling tablet of memory, from the custody of treacherous tradition ; and tradition with vs ie other very boars nor senile ae yet, bugavili ere long besome botké MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JANUA Miatorg combines Interest and instroction as no other merely humun composition does ; and yet thers is, perbaps, no department cf knowledge in such mn unsatisfactory state.How many kingdoms and countries have no history of à legible aud trustworthy character, beyond a few centuries last past.There bas been, at best, a sad cummingling of fiction and fact io the early bistory of almost every nation and country; aud all efforts, even by the strongest minds, to sever the true from the false have proved utterly futile.Lack of contemporsue- ous records renders it impossible to get at the actual state of matters in the eatiier periods of not à few influential communities.Now, this tantalising incertitude that cleaves to so many histories may be al her preveated as regards the early bistory of these Provinces.It will ue- questionably be our fault, if the future bistorians of * the Dominion of Osnads\u201d have not ao ample supply of recorded snd attes'sd fasts, so that their story shall be truthful and full, what- over else of attraction it may possess or lack.Would it not be wise to originate an association, say at Montreal (which is somewat central), under some such designation as \"The Historical Society of the Dominion of Canada?\" And let this society issue circulars inviting the form.tion of an auxiliary society in every townstuip, town, and incorporated village in the Dominion.These nugiliaries would collect and put ou record whatever was of interest, whether past or paming, relative to persons, proporty, places, aud events in their respective localities.copy of these records, or a synopsis of them (and mote important papers in full) might be anou- ally forwarded to the society at Montreal.Such an bigtorical net spread over the land na is here Byggested, could not fail to collect (along with much rubbish oo doubt) very many facts of importance and interest, which otherwise would be lost to he future, oth The foregoing bare suggestion rowan out to the lorry and leading gentlemen in the Dominion, and primarily to those residing in and around Montreal, who might take the luitiative and act as a motive power on all beyond.Aupus Eoy.Ontario, Dec., 1867, M.Lu Repaorece,\u2014Pouvez-vous me dire, ¢'il est plus permis à des Canadieus-catholiques d'enrôler des sujets de Sa Majesté pour le service du Pape, qu'il ne l\u2019a ôtô aux Américains du Nord d'en enrôier pour la défense de l\u2019Union ?Ces «nnées dernières, plusieurs raccoleurs améri- caing ont été condamné: à la prison et à de fortes amendes.Et il y a aujourd'hui, au No.38 St.Vincent, un bureau public d'enrôlement pour le Pape, annoncé et préconisé par les journaux catholiques, come la Minerve, le Nouveau Monde, etc.N'est il pas du devoir des autorités d'intervenir ?Lee any.We cannot understand, any more than \u201cLex,\u201d why enlistment for the Papal army should be quite lawfal in Canada, seeing that enlistment for the American army was so great @ crime.We suppose it is the old difference between \u201c my ox and your cow.\u201d\u2014En.Wir.\u2014 BOTANICAL SOOIBTY OF OANADA.The following circular bes been addressed by the Secretary to the Fellows of the Botanical Society, for the purpose of getting it sgain into « working condition.This society was instituted in 1860, with a view to promote the study of botany and els- borate for practionl purposss the botanical col- lactions and researches of ita various members.Botanists throughout Oanads and the neighboring States entered sealously into the scheme; the society had » successful oareer,and for three years published ita scientific papers under the titleof Annals\u201d These publications baving been discontinued and the operations of the society suspended, the widely scattered botan- ista of Canada and the adjoining Provinces have, during the past four years felt the want of à convenient medium of intercommunication or mode of diffusing botanical information.By these \u201cAnnele\u201d a etimulus was given to scientific investigation, snd much valuable information was published which would otherwise have been lost.It is for these reasons that it is proposed to reorganiss the Botanical Society of the Dominion of Osnads.Local Geid- clubs will be formed in connection with tbe parent society.To promote the study of botany and collecting of specimens, a certain number of Fellows will undertake to supply, to correspondents in their districts, the names of such plants as may be sent to them.Ladies, as well as gentlemen, are admissible as members of the society.It ls proposed that periodical meetings of the members shall take place in the principal cities, daring the holding of the great annual agricultural ezhibitions in tbe several Provinces.At these meetings the ordinary business of the society will be transacted, officers elected, and scientific papers read.Haurrax, N.8, 9th Dec., 1867.\u2014At» meeting beld in tbe Council Oham- ber, Kingston, Ont., on 27th September, 1867, the Very Rev.Principal Snodgrass in the obeir, «It was resolved to re-organise the Botanjosl Bociety on an extended basis, with branch so- cities [o each Province of the Dominion.With the view of giving effect to this resolutice, I bave been requested to address a circular to the Fellows of the oid society, for tbe purpose of ascertaining how far those who bad not aa op- portanlty being nt at the mesting are airous of © g in the scheme.Should you wish to continue sewmbership, yoo will please intimate yorr either to me or to .one of the Provincial Secre of tbe society, | not later than the Ist Jun! , 1668, at which time the list will be closed, and all Fellows who have given no response to this application will | be regarded as not desirous of joining in the new organisation.The terms of membership remain the tame ag fermerly,\u2014ibe aunual subscription being two dollars, entitling each member to the Hociety's publications mod otber privileges.There is no entrance fee, but persops not previously connected with tbe Society require to be recommended by two Fellows, ln the ordinary map.ner.A Publication Committee has been nominated to whom all eclentific papers sent In will be immediately referred.The Society's Provincial Secretaries are : = For Ontario\u2014John Macoan, Lecturer ou Bo- tay, the College, Belleville, Ont.or Quebec\u2014Joba Bell, M.D., General Hospital, Montreal, Far Nova Bootin\u2014~Professor Lawson, Dal- housle Qollege, Halifax, N.8.For New Brunswick\u2014Professor Jardine, S:.Dr., Provincial University, Fredericton, N.B.T have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, QGxonas Lawson, LL D, General Secretary and Treasurer Bot.Boc., Ca, formerly of Kingston, o PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT.QUEBEC LEGISLATURE.Qoxusg, Dec.37.\u2014The opening of the first Quebec Parlisment took place al three o'clock to-day.Notwithstanding the bad weather, an immense concourse of people lined tle approaches to the House of Parlisment, Precisely at three o'clock, the heavy guna of the Grand Battery annouaced the arrival of His Excelleucy, attended by a brilliant staff of officers belonging to the Quebec volunteer forces.His Excellency, baving taken his seat on the throus, the Speaker of the Legislative Council rose, and, by command of tbe Lieutenant- Governor, directed Lhe Usher of the Black Rod to summon the Legislative Assembly.The members of the Lower Hous baving arrived, preceded by the Clerk of the Assembly, Mr.Speaker informed them that when they should bave elected a Speaker, Hia Excellency would inform them of the motives for which Le had coavened the Legislature, and that His Excellency would meet them to-morrow for that purpose.The members of the Assembly then retired, and the Lieut.-Governor, accompanied by bis staff, returned to the Government House.In tbe Assembly, on tbe return of the members from the Council Chamber, Mr.CHaovmac, Premier (Quebec Co.), rose in his place, and, addressing the clerk, referring to the necessity of electing to the Speaker's Chair à member fully conversant with both languages, proposed that the member for Levis, J.G.Blanchet, Esq, be elected Speaker of the Assembly.The motion was seconded by Mr.Dowxme (Brome), and after & few complimentary words from Mr.Jour (Lotbiniere), who referred to the mulitary service, as well as the excellent civil qualities, of Col.Blanchet, the motion was declared carried.The Speaker was led to the Chair by Messrs.Chauvesu and Dunkin, and tbe Sergeant-at- Arms having laid the mace upon the table, the Speaker briefly returned thanks for the honor conferred upon him, and thoy himaelf upon the indulgence of the House fort the support necessary to the delicate and dificult task he was assoming.On motion of Mr.Ona , seconded by the Attorney-General, the then adjourned, ONTARIO LEGISLATURE.Tononro, December 27th}-The first Parlis- ment of the Province of Ontario was open- od to-day, in the presence of à large number of spectators.Nearly all the members were present, Between ons and two o'clock thisaf- ternoon, the ceremony of swearing in the members took place.The oath was adm!xistered by Messrs.W.H.Boulton, and O.T.Gilmore, Clerk of the House, who were appointed Commissioners for that purpose.The members were sworn at the Clerk's table, one at a time, after which they signed their names to the oaths of allegiance.At three o'clock precisely, the Governor took bis seat oo the throne, and the Sergeant-at- Arms having placed the mace on the table, Mr.M.O.Cameron, Provincial Secretary and Regis- tear, rose and stated that he bad been commanded to announce that His Excellency did oot see Si to declare bis reasons for summoning & Parliament, until a Speaker had been elected, but that at two o'clock to-morrow bis Exoei- lency would declare bis reasons.Shortly after His Excelleacy had withdrawn, the Oierk took tbe Chair, Mr.J.8.Maopowarp (Cornwall), in s few remarks, moved that Mr.John Stevenson, member for Lennox, be chosen Speaker of tbe House.Mr.Oancme (London) peconded the nomination, Mr.McRazLan \u2018(Botbwell) said the party he belonged to were satisfied with the nomination, and would pot oppose it.Mr.Stevenson was s Reformer, and they would be glad to see him ip the chair.! Sir Hnxay Saurn (Fronttesc) was sorry to hear the party spoken of Alteady ln the House.He, 28 a Cunservative, was willlog to vote for the present candidate, because be was a good man, and not because of bis party.Hestrongly condemned the member for Bothwell for his remarks.Nr.T.R.Fanausos (8 Simcoe) took the same view as the last speaker, Mr.Borp (Prescott) said, be Was & Reformer, bot it was not for that reason that te supported the Government nomiostion, but because be was milling to gr the Government a fair and Im- Bans Hs was olosted on these \u2018on the Opposition fide, be 1d Sot with RY 3, 1868.\u2018The motiun was then put and carried u.ani- mously.The mover and seconder then 18d the Speaker to the Chair, the mace was Inid on Lhe table, and the Speaker, on taking his seat, thanked the House for the honor conferred on bim in electing bim Speaker of the first Parlisment of Un.tarto.He was not unaware of the responsibility that rested on him, and he would endeavor to rule the House irrespective of party feeling, and to forward the interents of individual metm- bers, and trusted, thas the acts passed would tend to the further advancement snd happiness of the people, Sir Huery Burrs spoke with reference to an adjournment, pext Tuesday, till after tbe boli- degs.He would like sn expression of opinion from the premier on the subject, Me.Jous 8.Macoowarp said that, of course, nothing difinite could be ssid till to-morrow, but that, as many of the members doubtless did do- vire an adjouroment till after the municipal elections, no doubt the Government would listen to any such expression of opinion.The House then adjourned, on motion, till tomorrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock.BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS, \u2014 It ia reported that the Paris Rothackild reduced the salaries of his clerks fifty centimes per day each\u2014to make up the expense of entertaining the Austrian Archduke, = The telegraph reports that the cannibals at the Feejee islands have murdered and eaten Rev.J.§.Baker and six Christian natives.\u2014 The Pringe of Wales, to the great indignation of th: bulk of English Protestants, ia now a constant worshiper at Ali &nints Church, Margaret street, one of thé most ext.eme of the ritualistic churches ia London.\u2014 Of twenty-nine young men approved at the recent Andover Conference as candidates for the miuistry, seven are stated 10 be sons of wigisters, five of deacons, twenty-four sons of parents both of whom are Christian professors.Franeoe Invsoations mv Nanmia.\u2014The Over.and Chins Mail gives the following news from anitla :\u2014*The British ship \u201cStuart Wortley\u201d was totally lost of Manilla on September 20.All hacds raved.Fearful inuadations have cc curred at Manilia.Over 10000 Indians have been drowned.The Spanish mail steamer \u201c Maiespina,\u201d from Hong Kong to Manilla, Las been missing far 21 days.It is feared she is totally lost.Two earthquakes took place at Manilla on October 4.No loss of life or damage to buildings.\u201d Tan Mancuionsss or Quersssrant.\u2014The following letter appears in the Standard :\u2014To the Marchioness of Queensberry, ~Madem,~Your \u201cdear friends\" \u20141be murderers\u2014who made my wife a widow snd my children fatberless, hav- iog now expisted, on tbe earth, their crime, it would console my troubled spirit\u2014by them \u201csent unassoilzied,\u201d \u201cunsneled\u201d to its last dread sccount,\u2014were your ladyahip to extend to the innocent victims of the crime that consolation and support which you have promised to extend to the families of my murderers, \u2014a course which cannot fail to be comforting to Jour own conscience, and will appease the t of him who once was 4 Bar Russra Pesranixo von Wan\u2014It is stated that the Russian Government is now in & position to send 200,000 men to either the Turkish or Austrian frontier at a few days\u2019 notice, and ons of the Rassian journals says that, sithough the Government continue to circulate pescaful phrases at London, Paris, and Vienns, it is known as a matter of fact there that war is imminent.It was recently stated that Prince Gortschakoff was about to resign bis seat in the Russian Cabinet ; and Gen.Ignatieff, named as his successor, is strongly is favor of a bostile policy toward Turkey, Tbe Turkish Government?bas recently adopted measures indicating an anticipated mitack from Rusais ; but if Russia takes hold of the matter in earnest, and the Sultan is left, without any foreign assistance, to fight with the Czar, the contest cannot be à very long one, and its result will certainly be disastrous to Turkey.A Durinacisusp Vistror.\u2014The Prioce Min- boutaizon of Japan, brother of the Tycoon, land- od a1 Dover on Monday, and afterwards went on to London.Of course be bad first to receive an address from tbe Dover corporation, to which be returned & \u201c gracious answer.\u201d His highness visited the house of Parliament on Tuesdsy.In the Lords he occupied a seat in the side gallery, and in the Commons a place of bonor in the Diplomatic Gallery.He appears quite a youth, is of low statare and spare frame, has a long oval fuce, the forehead made ns high as possible by the curtailment of his bair nearly up to the crown of his head, and about the temples.He wore what may be presumed to be the national costume, which was rather sombre than gay.He was attended by sight Japanese, ar: in tbe manner of their country, and three European gentlemen, one of whom acted as interpreter iu an interview between his highness and Lord Stanley in the Commons gallery, in the course of wbich elaborate courtesies appeared to be exchanged.Tus Hounicaxs ar Cawovrra,\u2014The arrival of (he India mail brings us advices from Cai- cutis to the 8th of November.These accounts increase the seriousness of tbe disaster.In Cal- catts city 109 destin bave been recorded, 101 brick-bails houses destroyed, and 2,338 uled snd thatched huts leveled with the ground.In tbe suburbs, the loss of life is estimated at 285 : and 63 brick-built bouses, 1,745 tiled bute, and 25,- 148 thatched buts bave been destroyed.Oo the river, 622 lives bave been lost.In addition, there bave alsc been lost two ferry steamers, 67 cargo boats, 15 Madras eloops, 84 dinghees, $3 native bon's, and 336 up-country boats.The greater portion of these boats, together with these lost in the censls, were laden with jute vod greln.The grand total of lives nsertalned PAPER.WHoLE Numseu 1204, - \u2014 shippiog la the river, only some 28 ships bave eocaped uninjured, And three liase sustained serious damage, one of them beisy a complete wreck.Tuurivic Ovazons 1x PxxasL\u2014On the night of the lat inst, & cyclone raged in Bengal, from tbe bay nortbward Lo S-raijçuni, westward to Midoopore, Burd war, eastward to Bucossul and Dacca.The rice crops throughout tbe track visited by the cyclone are greatly ibjured.In many places it is estimated that not one-fourth will be saved.Many buildioge have been destroyed ; also, boats ou the inland rivers laden with jute and grain.Large quantities of growing j:te destroyed.Great damage done at Port Baoning.A storm wave carried away = portion of the river bank.\u2018The jetties and rail- wey were much Injured.The station was destroyed.At Calcutta, the cyclone lasted eight bours, Much more damsge was done to the city than by the great cyclone of 1864.Inthe city end suburbs, 1,000 lives were lost.30,000 native huts were destroyed, and vessels wrecked at Sanger.Several vessels were misting.The ships are returning disabled.600 native boats were.distroyed.At Burdwar there was much distresa among the native ropulation.The telegraph line along the Ganges is down.From Bengal, great distress ia reported.The Bengal Govercment are actively copnged in taking meaeures for the relicf of tLe sufferers.Austuis's Integnan Pouicy.\u2014li is gratifiog to niserve tbit ealig'tened idérs ere steadily making progress in Austrie.Tie liberal mea sucres proposed by Baron Beuat, iLe Prime Mi- sister, ae cordially sustaiaud by 1be Emperor, aud bid fair tu place Austria among the most progressive nations of Europe.In crder 10 carry tbe bills pending in tbe Lower Chember of the Reichsratb, ordaining civil marrisges and establishing secular education, the Emperor has elevated twenty-one tvrsons favorable to that pelicy tu tbe Upper Chamber, where there was à decided msjority against these measures, and they will now undoubiedly be passed, in epite of the opposition of the pricstluud and the resc- tionists, This was à bold step, and has given great encouragement to the libéral party, wbile the conservatisesare greatly exasperated.Attempts bave boen made, ever by members of the imperial family, 10 oust the minister who is in- nugurating such great reforms.but without success.The new rpirit which animates Austrian policy has also been ehown by recalling Baron Hubger, tie ecvoy to Rone, und substituting Count Criveili.The Lacon iss perzoral friend of the Pore, and Learuly devoted to the interests of the church.The Count, alibough a Catholic, is in full aËcord with the 1eforms of the Prime Minister.The cew minister is in- etructed to obtain the Pope's consent for the wbrogation of the Concordat, and bis recognition of civil marringes and the secularization of education.These reforms will be carried out, however, whether the Pope consents or not, sad he will be 20 informed.AMERICAN NEWS.= In Henry county, Ky., à man named Floyd became so ao; because his brother-in-law would not endorse his note, that be followed him home and shot both barrels of bis sbot-gan at him as be sat at dinner.He did not hit bim, Jet he fell dead; and on examination it was found that tbe dead man\u2019s beart was diseased, and that the great excitement bad killed him.\u2014 When Richard Pierce, printer, of Boston, worked off upon his band-press, on tbe 35th of September, 1690, the first newspaper ever published in America, the General Court took the sheet intofewstody, beld solemn debate over the daring disturber of the public quiet, and voted that 1t \u201c contained reflections of a very high nature,\u201d and its pablicstion was contrary to law.It was not allowed to appear again.\u2014As «& train was approaching Peoria, I1li- nois, the other night, the prairie was discovered to be on fire for miles around.The flames leaped up to the beight of 30ft., and spread for seven or eight wiles spparently.The train ran directly through the velt of the flame, which extended across the track.The beat wes intense,but tbe current of air caused by tie motion of the train prevented the cars from being in the least blistered.The passengers on tbe train say it was & splendid sight.Tew Cup Bcanme Casz.\u2014Mr.and Mrs.Brown, who have baen arresied on suspicion of baviog murdered a child at Cavaan, N.Y., for the purpose of obtaining the insurance upon ber life, have been lodged iv jsi! at Hartford for trial.The Times says Brown was not inclined to §ay much; he stood upon bis dignity, and said if there was anything against bim * prove it\u201d He was in one cell aud Mrs.Brown in another, and when the officer approached her cell be cried out to her to keep ber tongue to herself.He is a hard-looking fellow ; looks like an English thief.He is apparently about thirty four years of age.Mrs.Brown claims to be ber busband's second wife, the child being bis by bis first wife.She is twenty-five years of age and s fair looking-woman, À Cup Ceauxs ay A Swarz.\u2014A woman oamed Somers residing in Worcester, Pa., went into the orchard to gather some fralt, and left ber little babe, less than à year old, sitting upon the ground.8he 200n moved out of sight the child, but hearing bis voice cooing and Laughing, she gare herself no uneasiness.Suddenly the sounds ceased, aud she stepped around to him, supposing him msieep.But to ber horror, sbe saw Lim perfectly motionless, his lips parted, aud his eyes fixed upon an enormous rattlesnake that was approaching him by almost imperceptible motions.Bhe looked in vain for some slick or stoge to kill the monstrous tile, then quick as thought Span toward it, overturned (be pan which she f her band, so as to effectually cover its body, got upou it, sud screamed for belp.The covering of the snake beoke tbe spell upon the ebild, its little body swayed to and fro, and it quickly orept toward the heroic mother.In à fow minutes to be considered sa oppoment of the Govern.meat.to have been loet therefore, 1,016; of brick.built Sond datrored, 163; sad of tied aod thatched buts, 20, 231.Of the larger friends came to hee relief, and the cause of ber terror was despatched. mr _Contemporary \u2014 LETTER FROM THE REV.NEWMAN HALL (From tha London Christian Times.) Naw Youx, Nov.6, 1867.This is the day of election (ue city sud state ofoers.There ia a great struggle between the Democratic or Souther party, sad the Repub- liean r anti-slavery and Inpal party.1 went to a great Damocratio meeting the other evening held in the Cooger Insiitute, and heard the only abuse of Euginod 1 have listened to since {bave been in America.Those English people who have aywpathised with tbe South should bave beard iow their frivads deaounced Bugiend a treacherous and implacable, ouly watching her opportunity to destroy America! Aloog with this abuse of Buglaud was a denunciation of the negro race.They were represented as hopelessly iguoran\u2019,\u2014as revengeful,\u2014as uufit to exercise civil mod political functions, \u2014as in- terfuring with tbe labor market and bdrivging down wages, and as likely to make war où the whites.To treat them ns citizens having equal rights, was represented as allowing the neyo to tyranmas over the white man.1 was hors Sod at the yells of hatred which such ailosions oalled forth.The majority of tho vast assembly seemed cowjosed of Irish.Texpected to see some uproar at the polling today.How differeat was the fot! All the publio- bouses are closely shut up during the whole day of an elcciion! The polling-places are very pumerous and are in all parts of the city.Every man must vote in his own district, so there are no crowds.Persons may not congregate round ibe polling-places.Every voter must go ia alone, s0 as to be uniafiuencéd by others.The poliing-papers are obtained only at places a considerable distance from the urhs in which they are to be placed.I was allowed to enter one of the polling-bootbs and watch the process.Persons representing the different parties stood behind the utns.For many minutes no one appsared, and I chatted with the clerks.There were only four men near the door.Presently a laborer entered alone.The register was consuited \u2014his name wad there\u2014 then he placed tbe papers containing the names of the caudidates be voted for on the Counter, folded up so that they could not be read.Then the clerks put them into the respective urns, and the voter quivtly weat away.| was taken to about balf « dosen polling-places in the most crowded and the worst districts of the city, and everywhere there was perfect quiet.Tudeed the city was fer more tranqu ! than on ordinary days.No processions or bands of music are allowed on the polling-day.Whatever canvassing or speechifping there is, must be done before the day for taking the vote.I went, this morning, to one of the public schools About twelve hundred girls were present.I opened the department for elder girls, the \u201c grammar school,\u201d with reading the Bible, à short address, and prayer.A bymn was suvg most beautifully.Then they filed off to the class rooms, which I visited seriatim.In oue, alge- braical equations were being solved, In the next, a problem in the third bogk of Euclid.In the next, à question was being asked, as 1 entered, on the moon's libration in longitude.In another clase, tbe girls were being examined in Englisn literature, \u2014Boyle and Chaucer were the aul about whom questions were being asked.In this school, there are derghters of judges, lawyers, clergymen, merchants, cabmen, and mechavice, side by side.No feo is paid.It is the best education given in the \u2018town.These schools are not considered as charities.\u201d The money of the public ia spent to support them, and they are regarded as belonging to the public .at large.All contribute, and all are entitled to tbe benefit.Yesterday morning I saw a strange scene.I was taken to Wall street and the Stock Exchange.I never heard such an uproar as was caused by the vociferation of the merchants and beokers buying and selling stock.Suddenly the president struck his hammer for silence, aad introduced me, alluding to the part [ had taken, with otbers, during the war.[mmedistely the crowd of busy trafickers uncovered, and gatbered round to listen to the few words which I was thos unexpectediy called upon to address to them.I assured them that the great mass of our nation cherished the most friendly feeling to America, and expressed my bope that the two nations might ever be united by the closest alliance.At the ead of my wddress, they choered heartily, and sang \u201c God save the Queen!\u201d Then the clamor recommenced, and the intense excitement in bidding for * stock\u201d which bad preceded this episode.As this, | am told, is veldom ne- corded exc.pt to their own distinguisbed gene- ralu, I rezarded it as an additional proof,\u2014not, of course, of any mere personal compliment, \u2014 but of the desire for friendship between the na- tious, and of the deep appreciation of British sympathy ju their late struggle.REV.W.M.PUNSHUN.{From N.Y.Christian Aivocate.) We find in the last number of the Christian Times, London, an interesting sketch of William Morley Punshon, M.A, fraternal del gate elect from ths British Wesieyan Church to the next General Conference of the M.E.Church in the United States, and President clect of the Canadian Wesleyan Conference.Mr.Punshon ie « pative of Yorkshire, where he was bora in 1824.His father was à draper, engaged in n large and prosperous business, and at the same time a prominent and active supporter of the Wesleyan cause.He received bis second name after hia uncle, Sir Issac Morley, © gentleman well known for maoy years in the West Riding made bis ar bing, and o bis early attempts at preaching, an: ta May, 1845, be presented Rimeert for examina- tioa in London as à candidate for the Wesleyan ministry.The writer of tbis sketoh was present at that examination, to whicb ose or two other Joung men alsocame up, who have since attained to eminence, snd well remembers tbe impression then produced by the appearance and answers of the future orator.At the conference of 1843, be received bis first appointment, which was to \u2018Whitehaven, where be spent two years, followed u two years in Carlisle, and three years in ewcastle, The residence of seven years won for bim sn extraordioary populerity in tbe far worth, bis faitbful devotion to every department of bis work being vot less remarkable thea bis eloquence.Prev to bis entrance Isto the ministry, be bad published & small volume of poems; sad whes af Oartisle be made bis fest literary affert of à religious kind, entitled, \u201cTabor, of the Olnss-mesting.\u201d This little pub.llcation was au indication of that ardent atisch- ment to the peculiar views aud discipline of Mothodism which has all slung been characteris.tie of Mr, Punabon, though in combination with such a breadth of view aud oatholicity of epirit that he has been claimed again and again by other Oburcbes as almost their own.Boon alter coming to reside in Noweastle, Me.Punshon married tbe daughter of Mr.Vickers, of Gateshead.This lady died in 188, ioavicg several children, After leaving Newoastle, the next six yoars of the subject ui our sketch were speut in Yorksbite,\u2014tbree years iu Bheflleld, and three in Leds.Whil» ul Leeds, ue popu- lacity was approaching ite height.lt was in fren 1854, that Mr.Puasbon made bis fret uppesrance in Exeter Hall as # lecturer in connection with the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciativn, The subject was \u201c The Prophet of J Hore,\u201d and the lecture, altbough inferior to several wbich be afterward prepared, Was yet highly obaracteristio, aud produced a marked impression.He did not appear again iu this eap-ci:y till Lue beginniog 0?1857, when be de- \\ viva what wag probably, for rhetatical eect, s19 tuasterpiece,\u2014his leoture on Jobn Bunyan.Chis vation was delivered with electrical af- foot in various places.In 1858, Mr, Puushon received an sppointment to Bayswater, where the task was assigned bim of endeavoring to raise a new Wesleyun church and congregation.This, by tle blessing of God which rested upon his labors, be accomplished beyond expectation; and in 1861 be wes removed to Iglington.During this period, several oiler lectures wore delivered by bim, which excited remarkable interest; large sums of money being frequently offered and refused for tickets, after as many as could possibly be issucd bad been sold.Cue of these, * The Huguenots,\u201d was publjshed ats shilling, and from the proceeds of its delivery Mr.Punstion gave a donation of a thousand pounds toward the Wesleyan chapel in Spital- fields.Large sums were also raised for various local charities by means of bis lectures.Ia the meantime be was growing in the esteem and love of the brethren of his own church, was honored with many tokens of their regard, and, bad it not been for tbe failure sof his health, would probably have reached, by this time, the highest dignity at their dispossl,\u2014that of Presi- deat of the Wesleyan Conference.It is impossible 10 speak too warmly of Mr.Puashon's unseifisbuess sud generosity.In 1853, seeing the poor accommodation provided by Wesleyan in several popular watering places, be undertook to raise within five years, by lecturing and personal solicitation, the sum of tea thousand pounds, 1a aid of a fund for the erection of chapels in those places.Everything seemed against the project.The cotton-famine and the boan@ ciul pauic occurred ; bis own Leaith failed ; and, besidea this, nearly £300,000 were raised in the period for ihe missionary jubiles.Yet the promise was fulfilled ; and last August, the term of fire years being completed, Mr.Punsbon bad the gratification to announce that the pledge had been accomplished | Suctsmanifold labors, bow- ever, nearly broke down his health, and, for the last three years, he bas, to à considerable extent, retired from public lifs beyond the sphere of his own circuit labors, Mr.Punsbon will not leave Eogland on his official visit to this country until about the first of April.THE CAMPAIGN IN ABYSSINIA.Abyssinis is a land of mountains.It stands up like a fortress out of the surrounding flat country.We bear much of the \u201ctable land,\u201d but the table land is riven by ravines, roughened by lofty peaks, worn into profound gulfs by large torrents.Nevertheless, there are always abundant roads snd paths in every mountain land, and even points of passage over the widest tivers.The map, if correctly laid down, and the roads, if correctly marked, indicate the nature of the theatrs of operations and the probable course of the expedition.Having selected Annesley Bey as à landiog-place, the next point to be gained must be Hulai and Adegerat, \u2014the firet because it the bead of the passes ; the next because it is at the bead of the valleys, sud, consequently, the roads lesding to the basin of the Tacezzeriver.Once nt Halai and Adegerat, Sir Robert Napier must choose whether be will move on Gondar, or whether he will work by bis left round the sources of the rivers towards Magdals and Debra Tabor.In \u2018vitber cae, the occupation of Adowa appears jmperatire, because, if be move on Gondur, bis route lies through it; und, if he move along the crest of the great ridges, possession of Adowa secures his right and base from all possible interruption.The prevailing opinion is, that be will prefer the crest roads, which followed, will enable bim to interpose effectually between Magdala and Debra Tabor.The triangle of Halai, Aldegerat, and Adowa, nearly equi-distant, aod commaodiog all the roads, secure his base completely.If adopted, he can move on Antalo, make good his ground, sud push forward to Sakato.Here he would be master of the head of the valley of the Tacazze and the country on the right baok of the Abai, and a further movement on Gerzarg, Zebit, or Gabuire, would place him between Magdala and Debra Tabor.In the meantime, if be found it practicatle and expedient.& flying columo fol- owing tte crest road threugh Jyeta to Dove, would strike the road from Tajourah to Mag- dals and Debra Tabor, and take the prison of the captives In the rear.That the army, in following such a line, would bave to encounter great obstacles no one will dispate, but not more than they would And in working tbrougb Adowa by the Silke upon Gondar.By the Gret route, they would tend.incessantly towards Wagdals ; by the second, they would march away from that fort, and also from their possible friends, the Chiefs of Tigra, Codjam, and Shos.Un the whole, though serious and srduous, we sos no difficulties in the enterprise that a force of 13,000 mea may pot readily overcome.One thing, bowerer, we trust will be carefully guard- edagainst.The army must not be accompanied by Bgyptians in any capacity, if it is desired to secure the felendebip of the people.The Abys- sinians bate the Egyptisns, and if they ap- pesr only as camel or mule drivers, or followers, will suspect au intention of handiog them over 10 the Viceroy.Upon that bead there must be uo mistake, sud we believe Sic Robert Napier is too good a politician to make such a bluader.\u2014 Army and Nevy Gaselte.From a letter from Zulls, under date of the 3tet of October, we bear of (be return, two days previously, of Oolenci Mocewethee and his party from reconnoitering the country to the southward, after a severe march of 130 miles To the country they traversed\u2014now for the first time visited by European:\u2014they fousd but Ilt- tle water, and that in wellr.In parts the thermometer eed at 110, The passes wore through of torrents, with huge masses of rock ou every side.The tsadioy pier at Zulls, 350 yards long, was finished, and à great portion of tramway bad already been laid down.We may expect, therefore, to hear of it baviog been completed to the foot of the mountains very shortly, Troops were arriving daily, and Annesley Bay was rapidly assuming ss busy an aspect as Bombay barbor.Of Theodore, there is no intelligence, but the rebels lis between Zolla and the King, and he is virtually sovereign over but a small portion of the country.\u2014 d'ail.Mali Gazette.) Tutelligence received from Massowab an- noundes that more than one hundred villages have tendered their acevices to the British expeditionary force.LAKE SUPERIOR.(From the Ulobe.) Last evening Professor Daniel Wilson delivered a very interesting lecture on \u201c Lake Supe- tior, its Soenery and Antiquities.\u201d Tbe lecture was delivered in aid of the Boye\u2019 Home of this city, and drew alarge sod fashionable sudioncn.At tbe outset, the Protessor stated that ho bad been advised by his friends to deal with sn amazing number of subjects in the course of bis address, and he would endeavor to make a selection from the various suggestions received.Having stluded to the immense area of Lake Superior\u2014some 32,000 square miles\u2014s space larger than that of Scotland, snd about equal to Ireland, be went on to show that in respect to its scenery it was altogether different from the other great lakes \u2014the shores of which were for the most part fiat and uninteresting io point of scenery, Along the north coast of Superior extended ranges ci.ffs, from 1,000 to 1,400 feet in height, whose grandeur could only be conceived by those having an opportunity of visiting them, The lake itself constituted @ basio, hemmed in by elevated brims, witb all its precipices lying towards the south.It was, accordingly, on the north shore, and within the area of Canada, that the most magnificent scenery was presented.The lecturer sketched Thunder Cape, with its elevation of 1,500 feet ; the Bgure of the sleeping gisut, lying on the ground between Black Bay and Neepigon Bay; and some of tbe otber picturesque points embalmed in the only great national song of the continent, Longfellow\u2019s beautiful ** Hiawatha.\u201d The uame Superior bad been given the lake by the old French navigstors, as the first and largest of the great chain of lakes; but altogether beyond it\u2019 Iny a magnificent system of water communication, lakes and rivers, destined apparently to forms part of the future great bigh- way of the contisezt.Having noticed the Mi- chipicton river, wiich passed through rich country in the possession of many bundreds of Indians, the lecturer proceeded to speak of the totally different scenery on the south shore of Superior.From one end of the const to the other the scenery was almost all of à eni- form character.There was already a city in embryo.He had visited the place in 1355, at the very time which might be said to be the birth of the future city of Superior.Saperior city, undoubtedly, was founded on the spot which seemed destined to contain the great city of the future,\u2014a city whioh should perform for Lake Buperior the same functions which Chicago performed for Michigan; and which, at no distant time, would probably play the same part for that region that St Petersburgh did for the Neva and the Baltic.The lecturer next alluded to the projected railway to con- ect the waters of the Mississippi with the great lakes, and said that, in seeking to open this route, modern speculators only aimed at adopting » route which bad been in use long before the discovery of Lhe sew world by Colom.bas, In proof of this statement, the lecturer alluded to the large shells belonging to tropical waters, which bad repeatedly been fonnd buried in the grave-mounds of lndian Chiefs along Lakes Superior and Huron.Thess were interesting memorials of a traffic carried on there by the aborigi- oes.This led the lecturer to treat of the antiquities of Buperior.It hed, be said, long suggestéd itself to the minds of inquirers that the transition from the Stone Period to the Bronze Period had beena very abiupt oue\u2014thsat there must bave been an intervening sge\u2014and at length 18 had been affirmed, as a piece of inductive reasoning, that thece ought to intervene a Copper Age between (he Stone aud Bronze Periods.Abundant memorials of this Copper Age had been found in Lake Superior.Within comparatively recent eo discovery after another disclosed the ns.of extensive ancient mining operations along ths Southern and North-Eastern shores of the continent.Ancient mining trenches, altogether dilferent from any modern works of Indiana had been found.In some places they were at a depth of thirty feet, and they extended over sn ares of one bundred miles.Within these were found the stone walisaud beautiful-wrought copper im: lementa for working the mines.In one particular case, in the Minnesota mine, à mass of copper weighing five tous had been found ia one of these mines, buried benesth the accumulated vegetable matter of countless eentaries.This buge mass of eopper was éepa- rated from its matrix, and alongside it lay the Onpper tools employed in its excavation, over which bad accumulated thiety feet of soil.It was not for him to conjecture the age of thet mine; but an enormous interval of time must have been necessary for the trees to grow,\u2014to shed their sopusl leaves, \u2014for the vegetable matter to fill & trench of such vast depth, \u2014and for the foreet to covee all as completely as though nn excavation bad never beea made there.Now, who were bese ancient mivers?plans such as now inhabit the shores of the lake.There are unmistakable traces thet these Driners must bave been & race totally different from the red lodiau.The mounds in the Mississippi valley fuclosed the remains of an ancient race, baviog & form of bead totaliy different from aoy tbe Indian races found on the continent.Their sculptured pipe-beads were of n different character from eoy ja use among tbe ladiscs, This valley, then, bad been occu; by a race differing altogether from tbe Indian, aud whoes civilisation was altogetber superior.In the intermediste Wissousio, there were, t00, many curious tions suggestive of the (des that bees, to Not la- guis! THE MONTREAL WITNESE.the worth of the country inhabited these Mound Builders, was a of land specially dedionted to the remalas of that t nation, and where they met the rude children of the forest as on common soil.But whatever the character of that ancient population, thers was every reason to bellave it had terminated abruptly ; that these ancient mines, after bein worked for centuries, had suddenly stopped, and the miners bad never resumed their work.Whether the work had been abruptly terminated through pestilence, or through the encroachment of hostile tribes from the north,\u2014 or to whatever owing,\u2014ite mines had been suddenly abandoned; it was obrlous that the tools were left there by tbe miners when the sbadows of evening told him bis day of toll was dove, and that be left them never to return.Professor Wilsen, in conclusion, briefly alluded to the mineral riches of the Lake Superior region.The great west, be said, lay tevond them rich in attractive promises for the future.Not only was the great lake rich ia natural beauty, but its shores also abounded with the sources of national wealth, It was impossible to overlook the evidence of its great mineral wealth, Not only were the intabitants of the New Dominion invited to go up and possess that laud, but the richer territory snd posseseions beyoud it.North and west of it were the rich valieys of the Red River and Saskatchewan\u2014aod westward to the Rocky Mountains and beyond, stretched a mag- nificant country as fitted to be the home of en intelligent, industrious, enterprising, asd happy people na the most fertile and genial section of the New Dominion.THE ANGOLA SLAUGHTER.FULL PARTICULARS OF THB ACCIDENT\u2014SCENES AND ICIDEMTE\u2014TRE LNQUEST.The Buffalo papers give the following details of the recent frightful railroad slaughter at An.gols, 31 miles west of Buffalo, on the Lake- Shore Railrosd.The train 10 which the accident occurred was the New York express train, consisting of two firat-clase and one second- class coaches, coming eaut.The catastrophe occurred at 1he crossing of what is known æ Big Sister Creek, about » quarter of s mile east of Angola station.The track of the railroad is carried over most of tbe flat vpon an embankment of earth, from the termination of which a truss bridge about 100 feet in length spans the creek.The height of the bridge above the or- dicary fevel of the creek is some 30 feet.As nearly as can be ascertained, the next to the last car of the train was (brown from the track on atriking à frog at the switch just this side ot Angola station, and was dragged overthe ties nearly to the bridge before tbe car behind it became unseated from the rails.The time during which this plunging slong the ties contioued was sufScient to enable some, but not many, of the passengers sitting st the forward end of this car to make thelr escape from it into the car Just as the train reached the\u2019bridge, the rear car was jerked from the track, and ran nearly across the bridge.An instant more and it would bave reached the bank; but just at the edge it toppled over on the left side, and went, with n fearful crash, end foremost, down the ice-cover- od slope, forty fest at least, to the flat below, It is easy to imagine the frightful wreck to which the car was reduced by the terrible descent.All, or nearly all, of its passengers, of course, were precipitated into a mingled strug- gliog mass at the lower end of the car, buried under a beap of ruins; and even the slightly injured, if any there were, uoable to extricate themselves.The Lorror of the situation was sufficient without that which instantly became added by the igniting of the splintered wreck from the overturned stoves.A moment, as one of the three sole survivors describes it, and the whole was wrapped iu flames.Tbe dry wood of the car burned like a heap of kindling, and it waa little more.How many the flames devoured in this oar cannot be told with certainty.It was well filled with passeagers, probably,\u2014says one of the survivors, not less than fifty, and only three are known to have escaped.The train, which had run some distance before being stopped, was backed to the scene as peedily ns possible, and those on board set to work witb promptitude and energy.But tbe steep and ice-covered slope to the car, most horribly nitunted, was not easily descended, and when helpiug hands reached it, they were without wespons for fghtiog the flames, or for breaking into the wreck.As soon, of course, as they could bs summoned, the people of Ang: and nearer inbabi- tants, rau to the spot, and it was not long before many buckets were employed in pouring water upon the burning wreck; but a ragio, Bre is not to be overcome with buckets, an those desperately laboring at the work bad to suffer the unspeskable anguish of seeing their efforts made utterly in vain.The hideous, re- morseissa fumes, cracked on ; the shrieks died into moans, and moans into a silence more terrible, as the pall of death drew over the scene.Ezocpt one little fragment of the side of the cat, nothing but « beap of emoking cinders was left for those gathered round to search into with sickened bears.As we have already stated, the car next the rear one was that with which the disaster origi- uated, but its fats was lees terrible than the fate of the car following.Tbe headlong plunge of the latter threw It over, bat not uatil the brid bad been pasesd, snd it made its descent on ti oppasite or right side of the embankment, where the beight was not more than twenty-five feet, The crash was only less awful than that already described, It was not followed, however, by the more frightful calamity of the fire.Twice the oar was kindled by the coals from the broken stoves, but ibe passengers were ia a less belpless situation, and the flumes were extin- bed.Ose of the three persons who escaped the rear car was Mr.I.Mayer, tbe travelling agent of Ristori, who la now at the Buffalo General Hospital under treatment for severe, bat probably.not serioas, injuries in the hack, and snhies.Mr.Mayer's statement to our reporter was ne follows :\u2014e \u2018à bad juat stepped cut at the closet when I felt the jerking the car ae it was thrown from the track.I sprang wp instantly snd esught hold of something in the roof of Lhe ear, supporting myself.This saved we, when the ear went over the bank, from being pitebed forward with the rest of the passengers into tbe besp Where every one was beiplemiy buried ia tbe unknown cause it was!j from put, having about 820,000 in Jaxvanr 3, 1808, orash of the ruine.Exestly how I crawisé ont 1 do not know.I was one of only three who 1 saw aa old gentleman and his wife the wreck.I am sure thet not aa- other person escaped.Tho oar was full\u2014not less than fifty pesous, I should think, within It, Those who were not killed outright were burned to death, The wreck was all in flames in à moment.I do not know bow I and the two 1 bave mentionsd could bave escaped.\u201d + At 5 o'clock, when tbe traln from Buffalo contalaing (be physicians, &c, arrived at the sons of the disagter it bout dark, a: à ob- «cis at & short distance were anything but distinet, The burned car was à mass of but the odor of burning human fesh permea the atmosphere and gave comvinciug evidence that the catastrophe was a heart-rending and awful one.The second car which met with disaster was lying a perfect wreak, bui ail itp inmates bad been removed, and everything that medical skill and kindness could suggest was being done for them.Justice Southwick\u2019s house presented the pearance of an army hospital.Every room In the bou © was filed with objects of pity, in the sbape of injured passengers.In ore corner could be seen mn wumen, insensible, bee face bruised, and discolored with blood ; and in another a man who hed, a few boure previous, started from home lu the full enjoyment of health, but now was hovering between life asd death.Everywhere could be seen thoss angels of mercy\u2014kiod and true-bearted women-\u2014ad- ministering to those thrown upon their bands, and we are sure from what we saw that tbe injured ones were kindly and tenderly eared for.The news of the disaster was immediately telegraphed to this city, snd at four o'clock 8 wrecking train of three concbes loft for Angola, At ten minutes past fire Angols was reached, and ail that tbe pbysician's art could do was done to alleviate the borrible sufferings of the wounded.Tbe midnight train last ght bore additional aid, and a number of physicians have volunteered to leave the city this morning and aid in caring for the sick.The loss will probably exceed sixty souls.Freeman was found dead with a bandker- chief by ber side, bearing the name by which she is des:gnated, One of the passengers related that while the rear car was buroing, several passengers who were eudeavoring to break it to pieces were startled by the report of pistols, which were dischar, within tbe car.One bullet came through & window, passing through the pants of a passenger.Somme unfortunate man bad the weapon in his pocket, and of course it was exploded by the heat, J.W.Kennedy, one vf the occupants of the secoud car, ss soon as the thumping commenced rushed for the door and jumped from the platform just as the carriage rolled down the bask, A young man from St.Catherines was taken from the rear car in a dreadful state.His legs were flayed and his breast and stomach were fairly roused.He Ta alive at the last accounts, but there was little hope of his recovery.\u2018Tbe manner of tbe necident, as nearly as be ascertaived, is as follows The next to last car of the train was thrown from the on striking an iron frog at the switch, jost side of Angola Station, and was dragged over the ties nearly to the bridge before tbe eaz be- bind it became unseated from the rails.gk 3] FROM SOUTH AMERICA., Rio Janeiro dates to Nov.35th, are received, The war on the Parana continues.On the attacked by 4,000 Brazilians, and, though fought desperately, were routed with a ip 600 dead and 150 prisoners.The victors lost 125 killed and wounded.On the 38th, Lopes\u2019 cattle depot at Rivion de Los was stormed by the Brazilians with a joss of 370 mes.The defenders lost 250 men and 1,500 eattle.On the 1st November, the Paraguayan works at Tejulen were assaulted, and the garrison, 800 strong, routed with a loss of 500 killed and 60 prisoners, Of the thres Paragoayan steamers that took part in the defence, one was suck snd one burned by the allied fire.On the 3rd, the Paraguayans, in return, made s dash on the allied ling at Tuyuti, with 6,000 men, and captured three redoubts.They followed this up by au attack on the Polygon, à stroug fortification.Baron Aleyre gathered 20,000 men togetber and disputed tbe Paraguayan advance, which was gallanily made, end finally repulsed the enemy.The arrival of some cavairy, which charged the Paraguayans, caused them to abandon the eaplured redoubts, and two guns taken therein and retreat to their own lines.Loss of the allies, 6 guns, 1,100 killed and wounded ; loss of the Paraguayans 3,400 killed and wounded.BRITISH COLUMBIA.\u2014 The Nor'- Wester has an account of tbe bu ing 10 death ot eight persons by a prairie fire 0 Oct.last.Four of them consisted of à family named Thifault.From Blea of the British Columbian, up to Nov.6th, we extract the following :\u2014 ?\u2014 We understand that the Burveyor-General , will at once set about the work of reduei locating, and surveying the Iudian reserves this district, ia pursuance of & resolution there- spent, passed at the last session of the Legisla- .Let us hope that this necessary but, too- long delayed work will be done thorougbly and well, = In Saturday's Gessits, wes a statement of the Imports into the of British Uolumbia, for the quarter ending 38th September Inet, total value is $391,996.36, There are several features of the which we may take occasion to allude ia ext.A party of miners arrived from i treasure.y do not bring much news, The five Indians who mi two white men, and wound.od 8 third, at the Tobaoco Plain diggiogs, had all been executed by the American authorities,.Herrlog, the wounded man, was recovering, The Toaseo Plain diggings had proved a ure.ried.pe On Monday last, » native fisherman, while out fishing on own hook, booked aa emore ora.Fs was fet lng, and weighed WE.was an 338 pounds.hand weg \u2018was still carried on.No new strikes re- weather continued quite open, nad \u2019 NP freee.epg \u2014_# Janvarr 3, 1868.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.| s i \u2014 _ == A number of spiritaslists are bering for oil found où fre, and à couple of officers started to therefrom.As yet no tence of the robber or quense, BRITISE AND FORBION KEWS, lo Pleasant: ter the direcuon of à give analarm.[a passing the bank they beard robbers bave been found and Mr.James Douglas 4 lodge of Tom has bees of = The world bas produced $3,341,800,000 of « medium,\u201d mod sbares of one-siztesnth bave an explosion inside, and apprebending a robbery, | bas offered a reward of $100 for such informa- ited A 1004 « plare - Bold tbe past eighteen years.been sold for $6,000 each.wade sn exsminstion.One of officers tion as will lead to the detection of the thief, §8013C at Trenhalmville.= Macbine-belting is now belng successfully __ A hunter in Crawford county, Wis., recent.Stationed himself at the front door, and officer | ~= The Hamilton Fpectator of the 23rd says: == ot Quebec Nos sare that Judge\u2019 Aylwin manafsstured (rom paper.Iy shiot a cougar, or American panther, measur- Burcbam weat round td the rear, ad as be \u2014Tue funeral of tbe late Zachariah Hubbard, Prod t week in Court of Appeals in = Faber\u2019s establishment sends out $230,000,- 000 lead pencils yeariy.== The new British koapsack weighs only four pounds and three ounces.\u2014 Porty elephants help the English in the Abyssinian expedition.== The Dowager Marchioness of Queens berry bas sent £300 for Larkio's family, one of the executed Fenians.= À noble lord, who sits in the British Pac- liament, bas been sued in an Ruglisk county court for n butcher's bill amounting to £40.= Ove day last week a single Sem In London sold no less than 10,732 Newfoundland seal skins.Doubtless, as many more were sold by other merchants.\u2014 The portion of the soi-disent Emperor Mazimilian's skull, which was removed In the process of embalminz, was stolen sad replaced witha wooden plug.«== At a sale by suction ia Douglass, Isle of peal.Mas, à gold-mounted tooth-brusb, said to have belonged to the great Napoleon, realised the sum of £8 10s.= The young Chinese Emperor, twelve old, refoloes in the title of * His High Pros- rk Bis laperial father was * Perfect \" .\u2014 Steam power is successfully used in London ia pulltog down old houses, where the eontractor cares litte about preserving the ms- terials.= A butcher-boy in Newgate Market says he has often heard of the /ore-quarters of the globe, but has never heard any person say soything about the Aind-quarters.\u2014 À lady has recently died in Bristol, England, atthe advanced age of 84.Never in the course of ber lite did abe eat a morsel of butchers\u2019 meat, though ebe enjoyed all that time very good health.= In Russia, 8 woman professing to be the Virgin Mary ordered the people not to pay their taxes.They obeyed ber uatil the goveroment officers sent the virgin to Siberis, shut up ber temple, and compelled her followers to come down with the dust.= M.Ferdinand de Lesseps, in @ lecture on the Boes Canal, recently given at Nice, stated that the contractors were bound to terminate the work by the ist of September, 1869, under n penslty of 500,000f.à month for any delay.\u2014 An agitation in favor of the Baturday half-holiday bas begua in Dublin.The Lord Mayor presided at a mesting to promote the movement, which was addressed by various clergymen, \u2014Protestant and Romanist, \u2014 Within sixteen years, the two celonies of Victoria and New South Wales have produced a gly of gold amounting in value to one bua- and fifty million pounds sterling, two- thirds of which bave been the produce of Victo- tin salons.~\u2014 Count Bismarck's yearly income, since he received the gift from the Prussian Parliament, is between forty sud Afty thousand dollars.He lives very economically, and, according to a cor- t, said, some weeks ago to Roths- igroryh had nodoubt that he would, by and by, become a millionaire.Until 1865 be was beavily in debt.= The hotel and restaurant keepers in Paris are now baving & turn of penance.Their charges were enormous during the Exhibition ; are without customers.We learn so that the two great bo! the fame of which bus gone through Europe America, the Louvre and the Grand Hotel, are in the market.The price is £600,000 for the two establishments, and it is esid thet an English company is in treaty for them.Comous Exciss Esrar.\u2014Aloxander Gunn, aa Bxoise officer in Scotland, being dismissed from bis employment for misconduct, an entry was made in a book kept for the purpose as fol- we i=\" A.Guan for making «& false report.\u201d Tas Soes Oanau no Myrm.\u2014An English pa- much as possible, even to tbe removal of the wheels, & number of empty casks was placed under ber, and in this manner she reach- od Sues.Tus DaapLy Cuasssror.\u2014A captain of the Garibaldians says : =\" At a distanca of over 1,000 metres (1,100 yards) a platoon fire of By mea killed or wounded thirty Garibaldians.During the quick fire at all distances the bul- lots fell like hail.1 was engaged at Custozss and Solferino, and even then I never beard such & quantity of balls whistle about my ears.The result was, that, after a very short resistance, disorder commenced, and every one ran awsy without looking behind him.\" AMERICAN NEWS, = À wan entered & house in Sevannab one night, and stole the dead body of a shild.Be.iag pursued, be dropped it in the street, = The Newburyport Herald says the best of ship carpenters 10 thet city are working for $1.35 à day.w= The meeting-bouse in Salem, Mass, where Reger Williams\u201d preached two \u2018hundred and thirty-six years ago, is etili stecding.= At Ohieago, on the 10th, Wm.Andrews attacked Wm.Hamilton, bit & grest chunk out of bis lip sud swallowed it, moustache aad all, = The Osage Cirenéels, printed in Kanses, hoiste tbe name of Horace Gresley for Prosi- dent, on the basis of \u201c universal amnosty sud universal suffrage.Oh, sage paper! \u2014 Bye law of tbe late legislatare of Maine, io Seporiary are employed by the iste to take evidence.Business is very much facilitated by the improvement.w= Deer-hunting os Long Island was i od for five years sad the term on the 4th instant.The animals are to bo very 2umerews 8 the cast of the lslend.ing thres feel 5is inches in beight, aud Bre feet la length ; the largest over seen in that region.He got $12 bounty, and deserved It.\u2014 Hon.Enos Stutsuan, formerly of Montreal, has lately been elected Speaker of the Dacotuh Legislature.The Hon.Jobo L.Jolley, son of Me.Jolley, saddler, of Hamilton, was the other candidate fur the office, and came near beiog elected.= On Tusaday, the wife of Aaron Rowe, living three miles south of Mount Vernon, presented her husband witli five children at one bir! \u2014thres boys and two girls.The mother a children are doing as well ns if notbing extraordinary had occurred.+ \u2014\u2014Bome time ago a cow ran in front of s train Io Indians, threw it from the track, and caused the iojury of several persons.Tbe railroad company sued the owner of the cow and recovered $4,000 damages.Tbe Supreme Court of that Brate has affirmed the verdict on au ap- \u2014 Miss Maria Hall died in Lawrence on the 13th inst., after nearly eight years\u2019 sufferiog from the effects of the fall of the Pemberton Mill \u2014Januery, 1860.B8be was rescued from beneath a fallen beam only à few minutes before the ruins took fire, and was wholly confined to ber bed for two years after the disaster.\u2014 It appears from the report of Becretary Welles that the U.8.naval force now consista of 338 vessels, mountin; 1,869 gung,\u2014a reduction of 40 vessels and 483 guns since last year.Only 103 vessels are in use, including 58 on squedron service, and of the retnainder there are 49 iron-clads inid up, and 29 of all kinds not completed.The number of men employed during the vear in the naval and coast survey services is 11,900.~ General Grant's report shows that on the 30th September, 1867, the aggregate strength of the army (officers aud men) was 36,815 ; the number of recruits, 34,191 ; and desertions 13,- 808.The reports of the five military com.msnders are also embodied in Gen.Grant's report.He highly commends tbe judicious aad soldierly manner ju which their duties bave been performed, and says : \u2018 The commanders of the five military districts bave executed their difficult trust faithfully, and without bias from any judgment of their own as to the merit or demerit of the law they were executing.\u201d = The postmaster- general's report shows that the total receipts of the department during the lent fiscal year, ending June 30th, 1867, were $19,978,693.54 ; the expenditures, $18,- 335,483 46 ; excess of receipta over expen- ditare, $743,310.08.The receips from post- sges have increased 6 per cent.Postage stamps to the value of $11,678,607 were issued, and stamped envelopes to the value of $1,290, 888.The increase in postage stamps was 8} pec cent, and in stamped envelopes 61 per cent.\u2018The postal routes have an extent of 203,345, and an aggregate annual transportation of 78,963,- 769 miles, = The annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows that the debt of the United States on the lat of November, 1867, was $2,625,502,843.Of this there was bearing coin interest, $3,304,879,631; bearing no interest, $402,385,348 ; besides over eigbteen millions of Texas boida, and otber iteme of old indebted- pegs.\u2018There was in the Treasury, however, $111,540,317 in coin, and $23,458,080 in currency ; leaving the debt, less money on hand, $2,491,504,450.The receipts from all sources for the fiscal year endicg June 30, 1867, were $190,634,010.The expenditures for the civil æevice, including pensions, Indians, war department, navy department, and interest on tbe public debt, were $316,729,129.Of this, the interest on the debt was $143,781,581.The loans paid, as they are called, were $746,350,- 825; and the receipts from loans were $640,- 436,910.Naw Ozisams, Dec.23.\u2014Tbe Central Committee of the Republican y of this Bate, nomigated Chief Justice Chase for the Presi dency this evening, + Aveosra, Ga, Dec.23.\u2014General T.W.Sweeny, who was tried by court-mmarlial, and suspended from rank and psy for six months, hag had his sentence remitted by order of the President, and bas been ordered to report to Gen.Pope for duty.Cincumars, Dec.23.\u2014A cold-blooded murder was commited last nigbt, on Fifth street.An inoffensive map, named Elmore Smith, was shot by a ruffisn for merely jostling ost him.The wounded man expired in one hour afterward, The assassin made bis escape.Four Fosr-Prisrs.\u2014Eacarations are in pro- gross at Tarner's Falls, Mass, (or & flour and grist mill, and on the rocks twenty feet below the surface have been found the prints of a foot resembling those of n wolf, though larger than those made by » \u2018horse.Prints of email Sabes are also found, with the eyes, fins, scales, eto., all perfectly visible, A Caorion vo Mrxmains\u2014A man in Ken- tacky killed a sick cow a few days since in whose stomach was found a large brase pin, à paicpio, ud 8 quaatity of books ad eyes.A jury the neighbors formally summoned for the ocoasion, returned an oral verdict that the unfortunate deceased (cow) had probably swallowed a milkmaid or a waterfell at soms period of its adult life.\u2014 American Peper.Corosrmosia ar Wasnuorou.\u2014The clerk of one of the Washington theatres sold two drese sircle tickets 10 8 oolored man, one evening this weak, supposing that they were for white per- #088 to use.[no the evening two colored mea 100k thelr seats in the dress cirels.The audi- aco became indignast, and deputations of the officers of the house waited on the occupants of the seats and told them they were in the wrong pact of the bouse.They thought not, as they paid for the seats they occupied, but the excitement among the whites of the sudiesee continued until the pogroes were paid back their money and left the bouse.Bosrox, Dec.23.\u2014There is t ezoitement in the neighboring town Haveeblii thie morning, over aa attempt to rob the Merrimae was passing ons of the sides windows of the bauk, a mau jumped out, nod, 88 be stiempted tu grapple with bim, the burglar drew a pistol! and #bot the officer through the head, killing bim ig.stently.No robbery, boyever, was «fected, x» the proceedings of the thief were interrapted as above described, but the thief made good bis escape.Moray Errescr or an Eantuguaun.\u2014Tphe Og- densburg Journal says:-=The more we hear of the impressions produced upon the minds of the people by the visitation of Wednesday morning, tbe more wo appreciate ita awful grandeur.Very many fervently pious people supposed that the \u201cJudgment Day\u201d had actually arrived, and remsines in à state of almost suspended animation for several seconds, expecting to Lear the \u201clast trumpet sound.\u201d Io the Third ward, à danciog party suddenly broke u and departed for home ad }-qee to pray.their cards, looked each otber ja the face and skedaddled for a refuge.Very few, in looking over the record of their deeds and misdeeds, which always pas so rapidly in moments of such fearful suspense, were satis5od with the balance sheet.\u2018Tas Moaosn or Hon.Consstivs HauiLron, M.O.\u2014The death of this gentleman at the hands of bis insane son,at Maryaville, Obio, on the 23nd inst, is thus described :\u2014* While feeding the stock yesterdsy (Sunday) morning on his farm, near Marysville, the boy stepped up behind him, and with s piece of heavy board struck him on the back of the head, killing bim instantly.He then covered up the dead body with fodder, and started to kil! his mother.Seising an axe he made toward her, when a younger brother, seeing the age in the maniac\u2019s hand, shouted to his mother to run or Thomas would kill her.She did so and escaped.The maniac then started for the brother who gave the alarm, and struck him a dangerous blow on the ahoulder.A neighbor, ularmed by tbe outery, ran to the rescue of the boy, caught the axe, and succeeded, with the assistance of others who had by that time reached the scene, in preventing farther mischief.The insane son is now in prison, seemingly unconcerned.\u201d Wasnwarow, Dec.23,\u2014The Committee on Appropriations bave had under investigation a private claim against the Russian Government for $500,000, on account of ordnauce stores furnished during the Crimean war.While that war was in progress, the Russian Government sent officers to this country to purchase arms and munitions of war.\u2014 Among the proposals sent in was one from Mr.Perxins of Massachusetts.Baron Stoecki, the Rumisn Minister at Washington, agreed to take 150 tuns of casnon powder from Mr.Perkins, and » subsequent contract was made with the same gentleman, through an ordnance officer, for 35,000 rifles.The powder was put on shipboard, and the rifles were manufactured, when the war closed, and tbe Russian suthorities refused to take the powder or the gons.Mr.Seward refused to interfere in the matter, except to ask Mr.Olay to represent the case to the authorities at Bt.Petersburg, and insist on the justice of the claim.But the Rus- siaus, inasmuch as the contract was uot in writing, objected toa settlement.In view of the proposed appropriation for the purchase of Alisska, the Boston fi-m see some chance to get their money, and are busy pressing their suit.The Committes on Appropriations is of the opinion that the claim is a legitimate one, and that it should be allowed, but they do not exactly see how to settle it.The whole matter is now in the bands of the Committee on Foreign Affaire, OANADIAN NEWS.ONTARIO, \u2014 The North Wellington Times is to be pub- lisbed for the future in Elora.= Bir J.A.Macdonald bas donated £10 to the Botanical Society of Canada, of which Professor Lawson is Honorary Secretary.\u2014 Mr.Otto Klots, of Preston, is tbe author of & new German Grammar, which is said to be superior to the old system.\u2014 Judge Kiogsmill, of Brace, received a pair of white de from Bberiff Saba oa the.oth inst, there being Do crimionl business on the calendar.\u2014 Huron Signal, 26th.\u2014 la London, last Saturday night, s stranger, usmed Gordon, was attacked in the street by two roffiags, who knocked him senseless with a slung-shot, and then robbed him of $92,\u2014$71 of which was of American currency.\u2014 The Almonte Gazette learns that Mr, John Belton, of Olayton, bas lost bis dwelling-bouse and contents, by a fire which occurred on last Saturday, Luh oat, prigiontiog or ra stupid practice running à store-pipe ug! the roof of his house, == The St Oroix Courier thinks \u201c the town of 8¢.Andrews ought to erect a statue of Adam Smith, Esq., editor of the Standard, in view of his being the father of the Charlotte Oeunty Press, and for his long continued and efficient advooncy of the interests of the shire town.\u201d \u2014 The Fergus News says that, during the night of Thursday of last week, some dastardly wretaby having gained an entranoe to Ste nart's photograph rooms, scratched bis two lenses with @ diamond, and mixed certain of his chemicals.Miller's rooms on the same night, The lenses thas almost irretrievably injured are valued at from $50 to $75 ia each case.\u2014The Hamilton 7¥mes says, Colonel John Thorner, whose death was aanouneod on Priday, et the advanced sge of SI years, was one of the oldest residents of the city, and bas been iotl- mately connected with its bistory.He took an active part in the war of 1813, aad formed distiagulehed servic) at the battle of Queenston beights and other engagements on tbe Niagara jroatisr.= On Sunday, the 17th ult, the house of Mr.James las, residing about one mile south of New ia the Towaship of Burford, was antored the oscapants were ai ebared, ° knot of gam, blers in the lower part of the village dropped The same mean trick was done at R- \u2018 one of the uufortunate victime of the Lerrible \u2018 raslway disaster at Angole, N.Y., took place in ibis city on Buoday.The unfortunate mau's [oot aud lege were burned Dierally to 6 crisp, ; 80d bie appeared to Lave struggled fearfully for (life; but, bung beld by the feet, bis tortures must have been horrible.Excepting this, and bis hands, hs was not otherwise burned or injured, He leaves a sorrowiog widow aud three children, \u2014 The Milton Champion says, on Tharsday evening last a poor woman was found dead near Me, William Perkins\u2019.She bad called at Mr.Perkins\u2019 à few miputes bofo e, aod waa very civil in ber behavior, although êbe bad purchased some wbiskey at Munn's Cornere a abort time before.She had apparently fallen over the fence into the road and perished from the intense cold.A letter on be: was addressed to Mary Anu Bpeck, and*s pin-cushion marked A.8.\u2014 The Perth Courier learns that a young man named Cullen, son of Mr.Henry Cullen, of North Bimsley, met with his death on Tuesday, 17th inst, [tappears be bad been assisting in bolst- ing up s newly killed cow by means of & wind- Jass acroes the beams of the barn, when, by some means, his companion missed bis hold of ons of the arma employed iu turing the machine, which instantly commenced revolving with frighiful rapidity, and, sad to relate, Mr.Cullen was struck on the head with such fearful violence as to occasion his death in about an bour, one of the levers breaking bis jukull, He was only 26 years of age.Arreurrep Soicins.\u2014We learn that on Wednesday last a Frenchman, who went to the neighborhood of Glencoe village ou Tuesday evening, attempted to kill bimseif by cutting bis throat with a rasor.He was staying at the house of Mr.McNeil, In Mosa, and on risiug early in tbe morning asked for a rezur to shave with, which being given him, be went out of doors and tried to end his life.Tie gash made by bim 1n his throat was a frightful one, the wind-pipe being totally severed.When noticed, be was conscious, but could not speak\u2019 intelligently.Medical aid was soon got, but itis thought :mpossible that he can recover.His vame is pot known.\u2014 London Free Press.A Fant wirg WoLvas.\u2014As Mr.Adam Lawr, teamater in the employ of some timber dealers, now shantying in the township of Esss, was passing through a cedar swamp, about five o'clock in the morning one day last week, be was attacked by a number of wolves.Heat once jumped from the bob-sleigh upon the tongue, between the horses, from which place be endeavored to strike the wolves wits his whip-stalk.After hitting one of them a pretty severe blow, they fell back and left him for a hort time.Pretty soon they again tenewed their attack, however, with their numbers increased to Dine, and seemed determined to make him their prey.Stopping bis borses, Mr.Lawr got off bis sleigh with the view to scare them ; but the wolves, made savage by the recent cold and hunger, at once showed fight.The only weapon of defence Mr.L.had was an axe, and, with this in bis hands, the battle commenced.In the tussle that ensued, the borses became frightened and started off at full speed, leaving Lawr to make the best of bis circumstances.As he bad started some twenty minutes or baif an hour ahead of the other team- stars, the only prospect of bis life was in keeping off the monsters till the other teamsters drove up.The jumping, snapping, bowling, and teasing of the wolves taxed bis whole energies ; but, being & strong, muscular man, he was able to stand it till his comrades drove up.So intent were the animals upon making Mr.Lawr their prey, that the other teamsters came up within four or five rods before being noticed ; the wolves then made off with bowls.For some distance, Lawr's comrades saw the fight, and they say ho was using his feet and axe, as if bo was at a day's work.He was very dearly exbaasted, bowever, when the other teamsters came up.He says he bas fought in crowds previously, but be never tried bis band with wolves before, Lawr tiinks the wolves were too lazy to run after anything that was smart, and hence thought they would try a lump of & Datchman for a bellyful ; but they were slipped up on it that time.\u2014 Newmarket Bre, 26A Yoona Man's Oanmtian Association or To- rosto.\u2014The fourth annual meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association of Toronto was held at the Bond-street Baptist church, on Priday evening.The chair was occupied Dr.Daniel Wilson, President of the Association.The Chairman addressed the meeting, referring to the value of auch Associations, particularly in large cities, by assistiog and eucourag- ing the rural youth who flock to them in search of employment, as well as reclaiming those who, in the midst of strangers, and away from home influences, too often seek to relieve the tedium of their spare evenings in miscellaneous if not actually depraved company.The Secretary the annual report of the Association, of which the following is ah ab.etrect :\u2014An increase of 188 bas taken place in the membership since the last annual > the total number now being 338, \u2014divided into 206 active, 40 bonorary, and 3 life members.Three public meetings were beld during the year, \u2014one in Bond-street church, one to receive the reports of the delegates to the Montreal Convention and the Union prayer-meetiog beld in Zion church, when the Reve, Newman Hall and le were present.Thirty-six mestinge wore beld, st which essays were read.Prayee- meetings bave been held regulaziy, every Saturday evening, from eight to nine o'clock, and the Bible-class has met regularly every Sabbath aflernoon.The different committees have worked assiduously.The Bible aod Tract Distribution Com.mites report that they have distributed, chief] among sallors and lumbermen, 2,623 English, and 333 French, tracts 3 Testaments, and 53 portions of Scripture ; 443 vessels and 26 shanties were visited, and the Scriptures read oa board vessels 46 times, at which 239 § were present.The Betbel service on Coard \u2018the OF of Toronto \u201d bas been held from A te November, and had been attended by over 1,300 adulte, aad of this number about 300 dave oes.and the sum of $170, mostly ia silver, stolen been sail: that city with big brother judges, and took part in rendering judgments.\u2014~= The Quebec News records the death of Kd- ward Quinn, Esq ,of thal city, which took place on the 341h isstsut.Nr.Quinn occupied « pro- miuent position among the lumt.er-producers of tbe country.In 1853, be pecetrated into the thea almost unknown lumber-liwits of the St.Maurice territory ; and, by his energy and entor- prise, led the way to the present statu of things, 80 lucrative to the town acd district of Three Rivers, = The Quebec News learns that the Mont morenci river, between Heauport and the Bt.Michel and other concessions, bas not yet frosen over,\u2014an upprecedented occurrence at this date (34th instant.) The water in this river is now lower than at any time within the memory of the * oldest inhabitant\u201d ; and as the stream, whea frozen, usually forms the winter road ta the firewood preserves of Besuport, the incom.venience felt by the Aabitans of that parish is very great.= Some interesting fucts bave been communicated tous respectivg the late Mary McDonsid, wife of tbe late Ewan MeDonsid, of Lancaster, U.Canads.This lady attained the advanced «ge of 190 years, 1 month, and 30 days, baving been bora iu the parish of Crongaré, Inverness shire, Scotland, on the 5th of January, 1761, and baving died oo the 27th of February, 1861.She was married at the early sage of 16.Shortly after, with ber husband, she emigrated to Nova Scotia, but subsequently ren:oved to Glengarry, Upper Canads.This venerable lady, truly & mother iu Israel, bad 11 cliliren, 53 gravd- children, and 448 great-giandckildren, 17 of the next generation, and 8 of the next, \u2014all of whom might bave attended at ber funeral.Of ber 2003, three served their king and country in the war of 1812, and thirteen of ber grandsons did tte eame io the rebellion of 1837-38 \u2014 True Witness, County or Jacqrmy Cantixt Asmicorrurar Bocixrv.\u2014~The annual genera} meeting for the election of officers of this Society for the year 1868, waa held at Poiote Cluire,on the 23:d inst.The fioancisl portion of the report was most satisfactory.The to'al amecunt of the receipts was $889 85; $968.CY9 of which had been expended for tke purposes of the Society, leaving a balance in the funds of $21.76.The report was unanimously edopted.The following gentlemen were elected cflice.bearers : President, Alex.Bommerville, Eeq, Lachine ; Vice-President, Autoine Lerre, Reg, Bt.Lau- t at; Becretary, MM.LeCavalier, St.Laurent, (re-elected).Directors\u2014M.M.James Hodge, Bt.Laurent; Jean Ble.0.Martin, Lachine; James Smith, Urgele Valois, Pointe Claire; Jean Bua.DeCelles, Ste.Anne ; Joseph Meloche and Laidore Daniel, Ste.Genevieve.Members for the Board of Agriculture\u2014tbe Honbles.J.Beau- bien, M.Archambesuit, Dr.J.C.Taché, and Jobn Yale, Begrs.LOWER PROVINCES.\u2014 Mr.W I Lorrain bas been appointed Collector of Inland Revenue for Pictou County.\u2014Bevèral grain-laden vessels have been frozem up in the barbor of Charlottetown.\u2014 The Anti-Confederate papers are very indignant at the new tarif, and ery out for repeal more strongly than ever.\u2014 An old colored lady, named Minnie Boyd, died a day or two since at Preston, aged 115 years.\u2014 Av aged woman, named M\u2018Laughlin, died at St.John, in consequence cf injuries received by falling on the ice.=\u2014 The products of Prioce Edward Island and Newfoundland are admitted into Nova Sootia ports on the same terms as beretofore,\u2014 \u2014 Launched, from the shipyard of Mr.N.Gardner, Tusket, N.8, on the 13th uit, the fine ship \u201c Clara Killam,\u201d 968 tons carpenters\u2019 measurement, and about 800 tons register, = Halifax papers state that P.W.Fishwick Esq, of Colonial Express notoriety, has purchased tbe gunboat \u201c Delight\u201d from the British Government, and proposes placiog ber on the west- orm shore next season.= On the 13th, & woman acd a young fell through the \u2018coin Pictou harbor, while et sempting tr -.vas to Fisher's Gract.Th were rescued by Mr.Alex.Fraster, mate of the Steam.by [er \u201c Bust \"Hig, who gallantly per:lied bis own life to save theirs, \u2014 The Berwick Star says, a child of the late Me, Kerr Fisher, of Somerset, Cornwallis, aged about two years, was so seriously burned om Tuesday, by its clothes taking fire during the absence of its mother, us to cause death in a few bours.A Esanv-axnpise Occuaneucz\u2014A echooner called the * Lalls Rooks\u201d commanded by © Davison, formerly of New London, and loud with sblp plask by Mr.Guay, of \u2018Lot 49, left Egmont Bay on Baturdsy evening last.There were on board besides t.Dawson and Mr, Gay, à son of the captain's, a fine lad of about 17 or 18 years of age, and a sailor wbose name we have not beard.After rounding Cape Bg mont, & squall struck the schooner and threw ber on ber beam ends.The crew cut away the masts and sbe righted.The stove was washed overhoard and the cabin was full of water, 60 the four poor fellows were exposed, without shelter, during the whole of that bitterly cold night, to the pitiless fury of the gale.The it seems, made a complete breuch over the drifting wreck, and the water froze on the men\u2019s elothes, making exertion next thing to imposei- ble.The captain\u2014and to this, no doubt, under Providence,be owes his own preser vation=-made every exertion to keep ihe others from ly Bat his efforts were in vain.Oce by ome bis companions, benumbed by tbe cold and exhausted by their esertions, down to die, and the poor man with voutteenble anguieb, no doubt, saw bis con perish bis side.The vessol wae discovered on Bunday morning near Bteang\u2019s brickyard, by some Frenchmen.1 Three of her crew, Gay, you Darison, snd > dead \u2018sad Taossed 1a.les; the sailor, were quite dead but Ospt.Davison was alive, though insensible noû robe, = Arme Soman a 4 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.+ i January 8, 1868.\u201cBaws, Mannisans, am Casens.\u2014 Ke 20 tices inserted unless paid in advance.Births and deaths, 250.; marrisges, $00.TRE FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1668.WEEKLY BYNUPSIS OF MONTREAL NEWS.Owing to anonymous information received by the authorities that certain persons residing in ibe city, along with others from the States, wore to set on fire warehouses and churches in the city, the fire-stations, and also tbe wheel-house, were guarded by the police on Christmas night.A number of military were also beld in readi- neas.We have little or no doubt that the rumor was without any solid foundation.\u2014\u2014On Thursday eveniog, a soldier of the 100th Regiment, stationed in the Victoria barracks, with.outany apparent cause, shot a comrade through the body, killing bim instantly.EDITORIAL ITEMS.= We wish all the readers of the Witness s happy new year.\u2014 The rebus in the January number of the Dominion Monthly waa fist suswered by 0.8.Hamilton, to whom a copy for the year bas been given.There is, therefore, no need of any further answers.\u2014 The anniversary meetings will be beld in the Wesleyan church, Great St.James street, beginning on the evening of January, the 31st; and the Grand Trunk Railway Company will issue ball-fare tickets to parties wishing to attend, on production of a certificate from the Rev.A.Macdonald, Secretary of the Committee of Arrangements.= The opening of the Local Legislatures of Ontario and Quebec, made Friday an bistori- cal day for Canada.Confederation is a grand experiment which is now being wrought out, and we trust the result will be eminectly satisfactory.This, however, will depend on the integrity and ability of the men who undertake the direction of public affairs.\u2014 Application will be made to the Parliament, at its next session, for an Act to incorporate an Agricultural Bank, to be established in the city of Hamilton, \u2014 A serious fire occurred at Halifax, in a densely crowded part of tho city,on Friday morp- ing, by which three lives were lost and several persons injured.«= Rumors were prevalent in the city on Friday that the steamship \u201c Nova Scotian\u201d was overdue.There was also a vague and stupid report of sume accident having occurred to it.As this ship did not sail for Portland @ntil the 18th inst., she cannot reasonably be expected on this side before some time next week.~The Gazette notices that there are fourteen dual members in the Quebec Legislature, and sixteen of the sixty-five members have served in the last united Parliament.There are no fewer than eleven doctors and a large infusion of lawyers.~ It is stated that only ten of the eighiy-two members of the Ontario Legislature have ever sat in Parlinmeent.All the members of the Ontario Executive are ia Toronto, awaiting the meeting of their Legislature next week.= The local legislative-councillors acd ministers are, seemingly, not entitled to be called honorable.The London Gaseits publishes the appointment of the Nova-Secotia Council, and the gentlemen are there called simply esquires, and not homorables.\u2014 The Franco-Canadien, of St.Jobns, states that the railroad bridge at Rouse\u2019s Point is a serious impediment in the way of commerce.afte bave to be divided into cribs before they can be passed through the opening for the swing- bridge.Owiug to this defect, it says, insurance on flour is increased one cent a barrel.The editor bopes the Government will try and have the matter remedied.It is of as much interest 10 the governments of the States of Vermont and New York as to us, and therefore, doubtless, 3 proper representation nn the subject would receive their consideration.== The congregation of Rev.James Farrelly, P.P,, Lindsay, Ont., bave published an address to hiss, very numeronsly and respectabl signed, in which they characterize the letter ore former bioner (Mr.John McHugh, now of Du- uque, Îll.), which was publisbed in one of the Lindsay newspaperr, as \u201c a base and unjustifiable attack\u201d upon the said Father Farrelly.They do not, however, deny the statement of tbat letter, which was the only thing we copied, aamaly, that the writer bad been slandered from tbe palpit by bie priest.I Patber Farrelly did 208 abuse Mr.McHugh from the pulpit, we shall bo bappy to publish an emphatic denial of the fact.= Don Hippolito de Uriarte has been ap- polnted Spanish Conrul- General of British North America, to reside at Quebec, == Mr.Smith, of Se, Jobs, N.B, bas besa {related % the office of Secresary of the and Finboriee Department.\u2014 The Fenisa warriors have pero wed sso- ther valiant exploit.Ou Friday, a ov mber of them stormed martello towsr near Oa À artied off the arms and smmuvition they Sound therols.On Saturday Jast, an attempc WM made to burn the Dablin post-office hy mescy Of This its .Thia me, 1 peter, cmt the mie] and tbe gallows.alleged Clerkenwell eouspiratoss, bave under- gous a preliminary examination, at the close of which they were remanded to jail.\u2014 Russia bas protested against tbe shifting policy of France oo the Eastern question.«= The Pope bas forbidden the Paris Roths- childs to pay the coupons on the ltalian bonds.= The Sultan, it is said, bas offered to the Oretans an autouomous government, with Prince Christian at its bead.\u2014 The Prussian troops are beiog withdrawn from all parts of Saxony, with the exception of the fortress of Konigstein.= France and [taly bave commenced nego tiations for the abrogation of the September Qoavention ; the result to be submitted to the other great powers for approval.\u2014 The Italian ministry bas again resigued, in consequence of an adverse vote of the House of Deputies.\u2014 The Jews have been emancipated in Aus- tis.~\u2014 The eruption of Vesuvius is increasing in magnitude avd grandeur, apd the present is said to be the most important disturbance that bas occurred for centuries.\u2014 France, it is said, fears the formation of à bostile ministry in Italy, and considerable ut- easiness prevails.\u2014 No fewer than 30,000 special constables have been sworn in and are now serving in London, = The newly appointed Minister to Washington, Mr.Edwa.d Thornton, will sail in a few days fur New York.\u2014 The Fenians ot Dublin are charged with perpetrating a most brutal outrage.À oumber uf packages have been recently sent through the post-ufice to prominent citizens and officials.Each one of these packages contained n quantity of explosive material, intended to maim or Kill the person to whom it might be addressed.= The Italian Parliament, by & recent vote refused to pay the interest on the debt of those States of tbe Church which bave been annexed to the kingdom of Italy, France protests against this action.\u2014 The news from the Abyssinian expedition ia still favorable.The army is still advancing into the interior, und, as yet, has met with no opposition, The natives bave proved to be very friendly.\u2014 In the Corps Législatif of France, the other day, in the debate on the reorganisation of tbe army, M.Olivier said that the introduction of the bill at this time proved that the Government anticipated an early war.\u2014 The Observer states that the British Government is fully aware of the secret plans of the Fenians, and much of the alarm is consequently subsiding.The papers are also discuse- ing the desirability of some amelioration of the condition of the Irish as the surest safeguard against Penianism.= According to s table recently published by the Bologna Independents, since the year 734, when the first instance occurred, the Popes bave required and obtained foreign intervention for tbe maintenance of their power upwards of forty times, them sixteen times, Austrians seventeen, Spaniards three times, English twice, and the Greeks, Normans, Hungarians, an¢ Turks once sespec- tively.\u2014 The vague rumors circulating in Paris, respecting the Roman question, for some days past, have assumed a defisite form.Twenty thousand wen have beec ordered to OCivita Vecchia by the Frensh Governmeat.M.Rou- bet\u2019s declaration, that Italy shall never be allowed to take possession of Rome, has so reanimated the Garibaldian party tbat another expedition is being organized against and with the full knowledge, too, that it must encounter 8 French army, The whole kingdom of Italy has been roused to indignation against France, and it is oven said that tbe lalisn Government will abut its eyes to the fact of its soldiers, in large numbers, joining the expedition, wtich will be led by Garibal: HomricouronaL.\u2014It is the intention of the Montreal Agricultural and Horticul Asso- cistion, wheu the publie park on the mountain shall bave been decided on, to endeavor to have a portion set apart for a botanic garden.Vicious CracoLass.\u2014The remarkable dili- gomoe of the emissaries of Satan ought to stir up to activity our Young Men's Associations and others, whose aim is to counteract such machinations.Every few days, we bave brought to our notice, advertisements addressed chiefly to young people, sud very frequently to those whose names are not in the directory, of counterfeit money to be put into circulation, aad of \u201cabominations of the most infamous kicd, Who koows how many thoussuds are being fatally poisoned by those secret weapons?Darnk ap Monnan\u2014Thess two bave loag been associated, snd the shooting of à soldier, by bis comrade, last week, in the Victoris bar- racke, is only another instance of how close ir the union.A few angry or scornful words, whieh, but for ibe drink, would, perhaps, never bave been spoken, causes tbe brain which is on Bre with liquor to resolve to expiate them in the blood of their utterer, acd, in a few minutes, à deed is dove that burries one luto eternity, and leaves the other exposed 0 a speedy death on It history ls philosophy teachlog by example, then thedistory of drink ls fraaght with fearful lessone, and fow more fearful than Is this last chapter.Wuceacace Sassaru-penarme.\u2014We bave bad « \u2018consien te compare faverabiy the Grand Trunk Ma liway with most of other rallwage, for the \u2014 Timoiky Dumond aad Jey Alles, te] The French have helped | regard for the Babbath manifested by its mans gers.There were certainly infringements of the general rule of Syaday rest, which were very painful $0 the good portion of the community; but those were understood to be ouly on occasions) or special oases, which were deemed works of neceesily,= such as n train being thrown late, or & cabinet minister travelling.Tt was well understood that no train aither staried on tbe Lord's-duy or ran atat-diy upon it.It ls, therefore, with profound grief tbat those who have a regard for the Divine commandment, to kesp holy the Sab- bath-day by resting from ordinary occupations, bave seen an advertisement of à train Lo start fer Toronto every Saturday night, arriving (here at | 30 on the Lord's-day, if in time, and doubtless often much later.Thus, at one stroke, thirteen and a balf hours, out of the tweaty-four of tbe Sabbath, are devoted to secular labor by the managers of this national institution, to the ling of the moral character of their own ployés and the deterioration of public morals along the whole line, Is there not sufficient influence for good connected with the road to alter this disastrous arrangement ?Mu.MoGen\u2014ia reply to an invitation to be present at & soirée of the Victoria Division, Sons of Temperance, at Lachute, on the 26tb inst, Me.McGee has addressed to the Secretary the following letter : \u2014 Orrawa, Dec.12, 1867.Daaz Sia,\u2014I have been wholly unable the past three weeks to attend to my correspondence, or you should have had s prompt answer to your kind invitation of the 28th ultimo.However, that answer could not bave been an acceptance, for several reasons.The chief and insuperable one is, that I do not see my way, at present, 10 address a meeting of temperance men, having resolved, with the aid which all men need, to give total abstinence, as wo say of the ministry bere, a \" full and fair trial.\u201d I feel the propriety (and I am sure you willagree with me in this on reflection) of giving myself sufficient lime\u2014a year or two at lesst\u2014belure consenting to speak publicly onthe subject.In the meantime, | can assure your friends, generally, that | shall not fail to study this great question in all its social and sanitary aspects (at least); and when [ can see my way to active co-opers- tion with any temperance organisation of a public character, 1 shall not withhold any aid in my power to give.Believe me, dear Sir, Yours very truly, (Signed,) T.D'Aror MoGus.Aunx.Morton, Eeq., Lacbute, P.Q.Tan \u201c New Doumton MowraLy\u201d ros JaNvany \u2014The illustrations of this number are :\u20141lst, \u201c New-Years-Morning in England\u201d ; the subject being a chubby child, looking through = rustic \u2018window, with birds flocking to it in the expectation of being fed with crumbs.3nd, a portrait of Father Mathew in his prime, taken when be was in the act of administering the pledge.The contents are as follows: \u2014 Patber Mathew anc His Work.By Hon.Thos.D'Arcy McGee, M.P.(Concluded.) Original, The Faitbfal Lamp.By Jobn Oxenford.The Study of Langugges.By John Stuart Mill, Under the Boughs.Second Paper.By Wm.Wye Smith.Original.Connor, The Difference.From the * Round Table.\u201d The Capture of Louisburg.By James Woodrow, St.John, N.B.Original.Garibaldi.By J.M.W.Original.Chri mae Ere in Brazii.By Mrs.À.Campbell.nal.Jezebel.By the Author of \u201cSeul\u201d Original.Rome, How | Dreamed the Old Year Out and the New Year In.By BE.O.L.0.Original.The Holidays Forty Years Ago.Original, Youxe Fouxs.Alice's New-Year's Present.By B.0.L.0.0 Oid Cerb.By Mrs.A.Campbell.Original.Little Ravageot.(Ooncluded.) peal Toa Wreath of Mallow.From the \u201cPeople\u2019s agasine.\u201d A New Dog Story.From *' Le Petit Jour- al\u201d - Mosc.Hurrah for Canada.By G.W.Johnson.New-Years Song.By J.R Thomss, ia \u201c Qur Young Folks.\u201d New-Teare-Dar Morning.ByB.0.L.0.Doxsaric T Home Comforts.Seloctod Receipes.EbrtonIaL.Magnificent Boenes.It will be seen that nearly the whole of the above articles are original, and & perusal of them wil! = >w that they are well deserving of the space they oocupy.The Hon.Mr.McGee's Father Mathew, and Mr.Heavysege's Jesobel, will attract special attention, The original song, * Hurrah for Canada,\u201d will be found very epirited; and Mre.Rmily Huntington Miller's Now-Year's song will probaviy become & favorite, \u2014that lady being, we think, the best song-writer of the present day om this Continent, \u2018The demand for this magasine has quite ez- hausted the October and November numbers, end nearly exhausted the December number, nitbougb 6,000 copies of each were printed; and, ns almost every new eubecriber wishes to have the volume from the beginning, these pum.bers will bave to be reprinted at great sxpeass, neither of 108 two last baviug bees stereoty pod, We are printing 9,000 coples of the January sumber, so as to make sure of bavingenoughof it, Advertisers will ssnsequentl; ve à wider cirvolation for their advortieements Chan we or thoy antieigais IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.A sult which has recently bean decided against the Pabrique of the parish of Montreal deserves special notice, buth on account of ite own im poriance aud because it is one of the very rare Instances in wbich our courte of law bave de- olded against an ecclosinatioal corporation of the Oharch of Rome.The case was as follows :\u2014The Fabrique leased à store to Mr.Samuel Edward Qurry, to be used for storing goods and as & bonded warehouse, apd Ourry received goods on storage from Me.Esstty, which were seised for arrears of rent.The Fabrique couteaded that, though the law exempte subtenants\u2019 goods from seizure, it doss not exempt goods or \u2018furniture belonging to third parties in the possession 0e charge of the tenant ; but, on the contrary, as in seversl cases cited, renders them lable for the rent of the premises in which they are found.Ove of these cases was that of Jones vs.Lemesurier, in which the Court of Appeals held that goods belonging to a third party on a wharf could be seized for the rent of the wharf.it was admitted that (be Code Napoléon exempted goods of a third party when it was notorious that they did uot belong to the tenant ; but that article of the Code Napoléon bad nos been adopted in Cana~ da.The judgment of the Circuit Courte=Ber- thelot J.\u2014was in favor of the Pabrique\u2019s claim, and tbe case was brought before the Court of Appeals, which reversed that judgment upon the following grounds : \u2014Tte \u2018provision of the Cou- tum de Paris, under which the Pabrique claimed, was founded on the presumption that the farni- ture, &¢., found on the premises, belonged to the tenant ; but it could not affeot goods receir- ed in storage, which notoriousiy did not belong to the tenant ; and to let à store for a public or bonded warehouse, as in this was fatal to any claim to se'ze the goods placed in it for storage, because the landlord bad thus admitted that be did not expect the tenant to garnish the premises exclusively with his own goods.The judgment to the above effect was pronounced by Judge Drummond, but Judge Badgley went even further.He said : =* It was known to the proprietors that their tenant would put loto their store goods which did not belong to him.They therefore accepted his simple responsibility, since they knew tbe nature of the business be intended to carry on.How, them, could they now claim privilege over merchandise placed in good faith, by a third party, in this store, when they themselves bave consented to its being used as a public warehouse ™ The Nowssaw Monds thinks this judgment will make quite a sensation among proprietors who let stoces to warehousemen, commis- sion-merchants, brokers and auctioneers, \u2014all the goods of third parties in whose possession are thus freed from seizure for rent.The judgment in this case appears to us, notwithstanding the unfavorable criticisms of the Nouveau Monde, to be in strict accordance with justice and the public interest, for the following reasons :\u2014 1st.Tt is necessary and advantageous that the above named busineases should be carried on with ag little impediment aud uncertainty as possible, and tbe liability of esisure, for reat, of goods sent on storage or consignment to & warehouse man or commission mecchant, would be a very great impediment to his business.The bard- ship to à person who sent his goods into à public warehouse or auction-atore in good faith, and found them seized for rent due, probably before they went into store, would be very great.2nd.There fs no corresponding bardship to tbe landlord in depriving him of the privilege in such oases of seizing goods of third parties, be- eause in letting bis store for any of these businesses, be can require security if be does not see fit to accept the responsidility of the tenant.THE PAPAL ARMY IN CANADA.The Bishop of Montreal, fu his recent pastoral letter, sounds the war-trampet as vigorously as soy recruiting officer.He gives à history of the Pope's wrongs, describes in pathetic terms bis danger, and calls upoa the faithful to come forth for bie defence, as the waglike Maccabees of old defended their boly things.The Bishop says tbe want of money appears to be the great difficulty, and suggests that, to overcome that difficulty, each of the 400,000 Catholics in bis diocess should give a quarter dollar, thus making up $100,000; and, for as many as are 100 poor to give this amount, thers will be plenty of rich people to give more.In this way each parish could, be says, furnish a soldier for the Pope, and the cities esuld do more, There might then be an organisation by eounties, &e.This expedition would have aa excellent effect, be says, even on our colonial army ; for the soldiers who coms back to thelr countey loaded with laurels would be s great sid in organising s Canadian army.He therefore praises and blesses, with all bis heart, this movement among tbe Oanadiaa laity to espoase the eanse of * the immortal Plus 1X.* With respect to this ferveat appeal 0 Onse- dians to devote their money sad young wes to the waza Italy, we would just remiod them that (be Bishops were equally urgent with them to suboeribe to the Kankales lottery ; and that the present advice will, in seme respests, prove worse thaa the former, for thet caly required me er them te Jase their money, whilst this requires them to part with thair sons and brothers also.We wonder what our Dominion Government, and especially our Minister of Militia, have to say to this open organisation of bodies of mes for tbe service of a foreiga power ; and we are almost tempted to msk: Is there any arrière pensée In rising up a crusading French-Oana- dian army, and baving at tbe came time a devoted son of tbe Obureb In the position of Minister of Miliia ?We can scarcely suppose that there is any intention of renewing the times and doings of the Gulses ; but this national wovement is of such an extraordinary character that we cannot tell what to make of it, MILITIA CENSURE.\u2018The army, and even ita adjuset, the militia, form s sort of imperium in imperis, into which we feel « diffidence at intruding, except whea attracted by something more thas usually load within.For these reasons we bare hitherto refrained from comment on the censure recently passed ov Lt-Qol.Hill by Bis Excellency the Commander-ia-Ohief.The grounds of this censure are briefly as follows ;\u2014 At a concert lauly given in the City Hall by the Band of the 1st Prince of Wales\u2019 Regiment of Volunteers, of which Lt.-Col.Hill is the commanding-oficer, be, whilst in tbe chair, called upon Mr.H.J.Clarke, Q.C., to deliver an address.Most of our city readers will be aware that Mr.Clarke was some time back dismissed from the regiment for having used bis pen too freely in animadverting on the management of the Militia Department.Oa the late occasion in the City Hall, bis tone and observations in reference to this same department were such that Lt.-Col.David, whe was on the platform, rose to interrupt him.Bub- sequently, the matter came before the heads of the department, who complain that Mr, Clarke's remarks were such as to lower the authority of tbe Oommaunder-in-Obief aad his staff in the eyes of the officers and men of the regiment, there present in uniform ; aad also that, instead of Lisut.-Ool.Hill at once rising and putting a stop to Mr.Olarkes snimadversions, he allowed Lieut.-Colonel David to forestall bim.It seems, however, Lt.-Col.David falt afterwards that be had been = little hasty ; as, at the close of Mr.Clarke's speech, be came forward and apologized for bis interruption ; statiog that, if be had waited to bave heard him to the conclusion, there would have been no room for complaint or interference.Lt-Col.Hill ex- preasod, at the moment, to gentlemen ou the platform, his regret and mortifeation at Mr.Olarke's remarks, and rose Lo stop bi ; dat was, 8a already stated, forestalled by the indignant seal of Lt.-Col.David.This being the sum of the affair, it might have been thought that no more would be said about it Ba, in compliance with the Brignde-Major's request, Lt.-Col.David, in a letter, laid the whole before the Commandant, Col.Dyde.This Ted to ite being brought before the Adj.-Gea.of Militia; and tbe result was a genersl order, wherein the Adj.-Gen.stated that Lt.-Col.Hill's conduct on the ocossion herein referred to, merited the disapproval of His Excelleucy the Commander-in-Ohief, and showed an absence of perception on his part of the duties and oblige- tions attaching to the position of a Lt.-Col.eots- manding & regimeat, in respest to the mais- tenance of proper subordination and discipline.From these facts the publie will draw their own inferences.It mightsbow neither tact noe taste to call for an address on such an occasion from one who bad besa dismissed from the force, though since elevated to & Q.Chip ; but if Lt.-Col.David found that he bad risen at the meeting uoder a misapprehension, and without necessity, why, it may be asked, all this putting of the militia mountain into parturient throes, caly te being forth this mouse of disapproval of Lt.-Ool.Hill's want of judgment and promptitude.The mititis authorities look upon the mesting es baving been n military one; and, under thet aspect, both the speaker and bis remarks might be out of place, and Lt-Ool.Bill may bave laid himself open to just rebuke.Others may look upon the gathering as bavisg been simply à charitable one, and the right of free speech ie vo dear, it is to be feared that, sooner than cons sent to any serious curtailment of it, many would prefer to resign their places the ranks of the volunteers.F mone UNITED STATES STOOKB AND THE PREMIUM ON GOLD.American bonds are rising, se a necessary consequence of the fall in gold, and this rise lo occasioned by foreign rather thea home demand for them.Tbe reason is obvious.Let ve suppose American 6 per cent bonds to be worth 100 in grossnbacks ia New York, and they will, as n matter of course, be only worth the equivalent of that amount in gold ia Loadon or Prankiset.With gold at 80 per cent premium, that equivalent would be 065 ; and, with gold at 33§ pre- miem, that equivalent would be 75.If gold were to fall 10 35, the equivalent sould be 80, end at par it would ba 100.Thus, whilst the prise remains unaltered nomisally in New York, it would Slsetuate in all foreign conatrles with the fluctuations is gold.It was by this fee\" teation thai Me, Peshody made à Jesge portise Janvanr 3, 1868.EE of his immense fortune In the last years of the war.The premium ome gold was from 150 to 180, or, in popular phrase, gold was at 250 to 280; à.6, à dollar In gold was squal to $2.50 to $2.00 ia greenbacks.This made the stock that was worth $100 in the States only worth from $36 to $50 in Europe.Mr.Peabody, from ble position ns an eaperienced London and American banker, saw that the Germans, owing lo their papers publishing American correspondence which stated facts correctly, were profiting by this extraordinary oppætuaity, whilst the Eaglish papers and especially the Times, by publishing letters \u2018which took a strongly Southern view of matters in the States, wore leading the people of Britain to paglaot the golden opportunity, He wasrather Boutbern in his own views, but not sufficiently 0 to blind him to the strong probability that the North would prevail and the Union be preserved ; and be invested heavily in American securities, wiflsb rose ic a short time, say from 36 t0 73.This was an easy and speedy way of doubling hisalready great fortunes.Now, asimi- lar prooses is likely to take pl 1ce in what remains between tbe present value of American stocks in Europe and New York, whenever specie payments are resumed ; but, as that process may be the result of n gradual fall of gold, the vise in those securities sbroad is likely to be gradual also.Of course we would not be understood as baring given the precise figures of the market at any of the times to which we have referred, but only a sufficient approximation to show olearly the principle that is at work, which may be briefly recapitulated thus :\u2014If bonds be relatively higher or lower ia Europe than in America, they will at once rush to the highest market till the rates are equalixed.The rate in Now York, less the premium on gold, will, therefore, be about the rate io Europe ; and the rate ia Europe, with tbe premium in gold added, will be about the rate in tbe United States.If cspitalists in Europe believe that the United States will shortly resume specie payments, thoy will invest freely.If they fear a prolongation®or expansion of a depreciated paper currency, they will be cautious.* COURSE OF THE COTTON TRADE, The price of the kind of cotton-wool chiefly used, namely, Uplands, was 29d.at the highest, 134.» year ago, and, by last advices, 73d.in Liverpool, or within about à farthing of the average prios for aix years before the American war.In otber words, cotton is worth about a fourth of what it was at the highest; not mach more than balf of what it was a year ago ; aud, relatively, as compared with tbe prices of other things and the value of gold, actually less than it was before the Amenican war.This is & revulsion in the value of one of the greatest staples of commerce, which can, we presume, find no parallel in history, save the equally sudden aad enormous rise which took place in the same article during the American war, That rise caused great gain to all who traded either in colton or cotton manufactures, and tbe fall bas in like manner caused them great loss; but as the gain came firat it bas enabled most of them to bear the Jess.Whilst, however, the fall in raw ootton has been nearly a half within tbe year, the fall in manufactured goods has not bes'.so great, as the cost of mannfactore has remained nearly the same.Still a fall of 35 to 334 per cent.on mannfactured goods is & very serions matter to holders of stocks.It is to be remarked, howover, that the great fall id price bas tended to a corresponding increase of consumption, so that goods manufactured at the lowest rates of cotton-wool are in very great demand, and yiold 8 handsome profit all round, it is also 0 be remembered that transactions may now be entered into freely, as prices must bave touched bottom.Indeed, considering the greater ost of producing cotton by free than slave labor, it is probable that the tendency will be rather upward than downward for some time cotton, at present prices, not being % remunerative erop.LUMBER TRADE OF THE ST.MAURIOR, SEASON OF 1866-67.LOGS MANDPACTUASD.Pine.Spruce, 350 pos.183134 4,736 4 18,666 std, 8,856 « 19,000 * 20,401 ¢ 8,080 * 3988 © 289,339 pes.62,363 pos SAWED LUMISE SEIPPED PROM TES PORT OF vunzs niveas, 1867.Goo Reptit.oo (no return) J.K.Ward, 116 cargos.11,800,000 fost.\u201clocal deliveries.760,000 \" 12,380,000 foot.S700 OF SAWED LUNBER ON EABD.«eves (ontimated 9,500,000 fost.) Geo.JK Ward, .2,100,000 * Ges.Baptist aad J.K.Ward are the parties vd sv leuèce 6 Thon Rive, mak of tbe logs made by the otber above-mentionad persons, are sawed at Quebec.Of the 116 oar goss shipped by J.K.Ward, eleven ware b soa-goiug vessels, bound, principally, for Bout America, and the remalader went to the United States, sud wo Quebec.As was anticipated, there bas been au overproduction of common lumber ; snd the stocks wintering at the mille throughout Canada geverslly, are larger than lust year.Stocks at tbe lumber-yarde In the United Etates are, however, light, while prices vuls firm; and, should the manufseturers in tbat country, and in Canada, curtail their ope- ratioos this winter to the extent of 20 or 35 per cent, à besltby trade may be looked for next summer, In connection with tbe lumber-irade of tbe St.Maurice, may be mentioned the sale of Mr.Gouine's \u201climits\u201d toan American company from wi rt, and the sale of tbe St.Maurice steam-mills and limits to another company from Philadelpbis.The Williamsport company do not operate this winter; but the parties who bave purchased the St Maurice sisam-mills iatend getting out stock to manufacture twenty million feet, 30 that the quantity of lugs to be made this winter on the St, Maurice will fully equal the quantity made last winter.= The lumber-trade of the St.Maurice is caps- ble of vast increase; bat the policy of the Crown Lands Department tends rather to cripple than to develop it.There bas not been a sale of limits for the last threo years, and the Guvern- ment is opposed to granting limits to applicants, exospt such applicavta are mill-owners.This policy is producing monopolies, so much »o that one judividusl now holds two thousand two hundred square miles of timber limite under license.The area of limber-lands under li- cente the present year is six thousand two hune dred square miles, and there are still vacant one hundred limits, or over four thousand equer- miles of territory.æ Tue revenue of the Crown Timber Office, at Three Rivors, amounte this year to over forty thousand dolists.Winter bas set in early, and everything promises fair for successful logging operations.Three Rivers, Dec.13, 1867.g|sse ss {ligase | ses 83 4 Soresss 5222274 ges i ses ë ja -» 883 sa Sigal\u2019 1 Moutreal.| Quebec.| Kingston.Toronto.| Hamilton.| Ottawa.\u201c 132,100.$5, THE FOLLOWING TABLE 18 EXTRACTED FROM THE STATISTICS OF CANADA FOR 1866 : GENERAL AND CITY HOSPITALS IN CANADA.PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE LEGISLATURE.It should be remembered that the Montreal General Hospital depends to & large extent on public subscriptions for its support.The facts presented by the aboys table are well worthy the attention of the publie.It would appear that, while the Montreal Hospital actually relieves s much larger number of sick than any similar institution in Canads, the Government Grant in rid of tbat charity is, proportionally, much smaller, The fact that the average cost of maintaining cach patient is, with a single exception, very much lees than in other Hospitals, is a satisfactory proof of economy and good management fn {ts affairs, Average number of days ench patient in Hospital.Average Cost of each Patient.I: Number of Indoor Patient Number of Outdoor Paties: The Government Grant.ONTARIO LEGISLATURE.Governor Stisted\u2019s Speech, (Speeial to Wisness.) Tonouro, Dec.38.\u2014=His Excellency tbe Lisut.- Governor, at two o'clock p.m.this day, proosed- od in state to the chamber of the Assembly ; and, baviog taken his seat upon the throne, and the members of the Legislative A - sembly being present, the Hon.John Stevenson then informed His Excellency that the choice of the Legislative Assembly bad fallen upon bim to be their Speaker, and be prayed for the members thereof the customary parlismentary privi- \u2018eges ; after which, His Excellency was pleased to deliver the following speech :\u2014 Gentlemen of the Legéslative Assembly : In aocordance with the provisions of a statute of the Imperial Parliament for the Federal Union of tbe Britieb American Provinces, and for the erection of separate Looal Governments in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, ! have been deputed in the name of Hor Majesty the Queen, to open the first session of the Legislature of Ontario.I rejoice at the opportunity which han been (bus Morded © me, Wo releoming the represeatatives people in t ; 60 long krown as the capital of Upper Cans- da.This day is the commencement of a new and important ee in our political anoals.We are met togetber under tbe authority of the British Orown, to enter upon & more extended application than we kave hitherto enjoyed of the principle of Local self-Goveroment.Por years past it bas been the aim ard effort of Upper Ca- nads to secure a more direct and unlimited con trol over ber own local affaire than was attainable whilst in legislative alliance with any pro- vines.Seusible of the meay advan! which have necrmeü to both sections from Union sines ite accomp'ishment in the yenr 1841, the of Westeru Camade have naveribeles à wider and more elastic governmental system, which, while it should strengthen and consolidate British domiaion on this continent, should also sffurd larger opportunities for their own particular growth and exænsion.This object we hare now obtained, through the bene- ficeat Interposition of the mother country.The provision for the future gove, sment of this Province is, ia one respect, peculiar aud exceptional.It confers u you, gentlemen, the exclusive privilege of framing fawe ja reln- tion to matiers with! 1 your Juriediotion, vonided and unobecked by tbe supervisory control of anotber chamber.It remains for yon to justify, by your wisdom, moderation, and forethought, the confidence so freely reposed in you by the Imperial Government.You begis your legislative labors with resource) at your disposal Large enough to justify the hops that they will prove adequate, not only for the ac.ual requirements of Jovernmest, but also to estiety de wants of this rapidly improving country, It will devolve upss you to consider the best and most appropriate means of busband- ing ibese resources, aud of augmenting, as far «8 possible, tbe public wealth.would earnest- 1y presé upon your attention the expediency of encosraging immigration sod the occupation of our public lacds by sfording to the working classes of Burope, snd to the young men of our own Proviore, additional inducements to settle and remain amongst us.The epactment of à liveral Homestead Law, with a free grant of land to bons.fide settlers would, I apprehend, prove of ipesmable advantage io adding to tbe number and quality of our resident population.1 am authorixed to inform you that arrangements are in progress for the speedy sppoint- ment of arbitrators for tbe division, and adjustment of the debts, credits, liabilities, properties and assets of the late Provinces of Uppe- and Lower Canads \u2018inder the 142nd section of the Heitish North American Act\u2014when these gentlemen shall have completed their labors, a copy of their report shall be laid before you, The expenses hitberto attending the establishment of à local government in this Province, bave been necessarily incarre upos tbe sole responsibility of tbe vereral beads of publie depariments, appointed therein; but I have directed detailed account of all such expenditure to be submitted to you for your n proval and sanction.1 have also caused estimates of the anticipated revenue and expenditure for the ensuing year to be prepared, which I commend to yoar careful attention, relying upon your readiness to make suitable provision fer the exigencies of the public service within that period.In careying out the special objects for which you have been constituted as a legisiative body, you will also Le required to bestow your most serious consideration upon such appli- estions as may be made to you for tle incorporation of companies and for provinc'al purposes, or for the promotion of local works and undertakings ; and it mns: be your er- deavor, whilst affording due encouragement to individual enterprive, to protect th.teresws of the public at large from the consequences of rash or ill-advised spaculations.In the fulfilment of these onerous and responsible duties, I have the utmost confidence in your seal ard fidelity to the trust committed to you by the Constitution, and in your loysity ead attachment to the person and Government of our Gracious Bovereign ; but [ would beseech you always to remember tt, whilst your immediate functions are limited to matters of local concern, you form the prominent and populous portion of a rew- born Dominion which, I veoture to ! ape, will ere long extend (rom the Atlantic to tbe Pacific, and ve the home of a vast multitude of thriving and contented subjects of the Brive: Crown.Your own position io this new Confederacy,\u2014weighty and influential as it now is\u2014will hereafter become relatively of increasing magnitude, acco ding to the degiee of prudence, ragacity, and for:- thought you 1aay evince in the management of the important interests entrusted to your care.May the blessing of Almighty God sccom- pany your deliberations, and make them conduce to tbe public welfare, and to the lasting happinses of the people of Ontario.QUEBEC LEGISLATURE.Lieut-Governor\u2019s Speech.Quanso, Dec.28.\u2014To-day, at three o'clock His Excellency Sir N.F.Belleau, prooseded to tbe Parliament House.The regulars and volunteers lined the streets, and they formed a guard of honor.The weather being fine, à great number of spectators were present, the foilowing is the Speech from the Throne, Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council ; Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly :\u2014 It is with much pleasure that [bid you welcome to the ancient city of Quebec, on the oc- cassion of tbis first meeting of our Provincial Legisiature.The lately adjourned session of the Federal Parliament bas been of happy omen for the new constitution of Canada, and I cannot, | am sure, be wrong in expressiog trust that the sentiments of fidelity to our gracious Sovereign, of attachment to the institutions of the British Empire, sod of devotion to the Interests of our new confederation, which there displayed themselves, will equally characterise this fret session of our legisisture.The constitution bas intrusted to you importans interests and grave duties iu respect to the administre tion of justice, of public education, of the machinery of our civil and municipal system of our ublic charities ; of tbe encouragement of science, letters, and the arts ; of the improvement of tbe publie domain, comprising as this does, our vaat forests, aad our mineral wealth ; of the development generally of our resouress ; of immigration, colonisation, and police, \u2014in a word of all that ap, to the eivii law, and to the right of proverty.Ithas at tbe seme time provided that thess interests sbould be placed under the of tbe prineiples of tbe British Ovnesitution, end therefore, on my acceptanos of the task of presisliog over the Government of the Province of Quebec, I lost no time in calling to myaid advisers responsible to the people, and in assigning to them their several departments of administration.The organisation of these departments baa been earnestly proceed- od with, snd that the interest confided to their charge migbt not suffer from any too long interruption of the work of tbe aad ot the same time with sscnsmy, Ia regard to the number of the femstionaries em- MONTREAL WITNESS, ployed, as 10 the amount of emoluments pro- vislonally acoorded to them.Gentismen of the Legislative Assembly : Altbough certain sisted sources of revenue are assigned to the Province by tbe Conatitu- tional Act, the yearly amount which you will have at your disposal without recourse to farther tazativn, will be satisfactorily established only after the arbitration relative to the finances of tbe late l\u2019rovince of Upper and Lower Canada, which is provided for by tbe 143nd section of that Act.Under these circumestances, It would not be prudent to submit to the Legislature any mea sure of importance which should involve a ton- siderable expenditure.But as, on the other band, the peopie of tbe Proviness eould not willingly suffer any, sven temporary, sacrifice of tbe interests of public education, colouization, or the public charities, votes will be asked from you for thess ends, as well as for the civil service generally, and for covering the outlay already incurred in the establishment, organization, and carrying on of the Government.Tionorable Gentlemen of the Legisiative Council ; Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly : Meagares will by submilted to you for the organization of the departments of the administration, the interpretation of thestatutes, and the audit of tbe public accounts.Your at tention will also be called to the best means of developing colonization, and stimulating the zeal of municipalities and voluntary associa tions in behalf of this great public object, so important at once with a view to the interests of tus Province within the Confederation, and to those of Canads berself upon this continent.You will doubtless feel that one mesos of increasing our population must be that of drawing hither, and retaining amoogst us, the emigration of the British Islands, and of the continent of Europe, at the same time that we are further facilitating the settlement of our own people upon the public lands.The furtber improvement of our agriculture, and the more systematic sad prudent management of the forests and mines are also objects demanding the earnest attention of the Government and of the Legislature.The advancement of public education, and the encouragement of science, letters, and the acts, are not only in our day & mesns of developing the prosperity of a people, but even, nest to the religious element, constitute the bighest test of the truly civiliz-d community.Tbe old Province of Lower Canada heretofore made in this direction efforts which were attended with marked success and with a reasonable anxiety to leave no room for our people to envy anything, the Government of the Province of Canada lately caused examination to be made in Europe of the various systems of education _there maintained, and of the literary and scientific institutions of the Old World, with a view to the engralting upon our own system of whatever might be seen to be wanting to it.This most important subject will receive, without delay, the utmost attention of the Go- veroment.(Occupying an important geographical position in the Oonfederation, comprising within ber limits the two most populous and oldest cities of British America, peopled by the descendants of the two foremost nations of Ea rope; baving in the noble sacrifices long since made upon her soil, for the establishment of Christianity and civilisation, and even in the very struggle of our French and English ancestors, a past of which she may well be proud,\u2014this Province cannot fail to enjoy « future of well-being, if tbe people continue to develop in peace and harmony the germs of prosperity which are at their disposal.I do not doubt but that your wisdom and your love far avr common country will suggest to you the means of so doing.A Canadian by birth, having borne & part in the deliberations and labors of former legislatures and governments, I cannot need to say to you bow entirely the high trust committed to you commsuds my respect and sympathy.I pray that Divine Providence may ign to bless your labors, and to pour upon you yours all ita favors for the New Year, which is about to open, and during which we are to lay the foundations of the greatness and prosperity of this our Provinos of Quebec, so dear to sil of us.TBE MURDER AT THE VICTORIA BAR- BACKS.CORONER'S INQUEST.On Friday last, nt the Military Hospital, an inquest was beld oa the body of James Campbell, Innce-corporal of the 100th Regt., who was private G.Wilsoo, of the same regiment.Patrick Nolan, private ia the 100th Regt, sworn\u2014Knew the deceased James Campbell about eight years, and also knew the prisoner, George Wilson, about a year.The deceased, the witness went on to say, prisoner, and myself slept in the same recom in the Victoria Barracks, About balf-past seven o'clock last night, the deceased was talking to private Sweet, and said be could lick Lim, Prisoner said, * You had better not; I can\u2019t stand thet.\u201d Prisoner came towards tbe deceased in a pugilistic manner.Deceased pushed the prisoner awsy, so that he fell.I picked the prisoner up, aoû induced them to go to their beds.About ten minutes afterwards, I saw the prisoner show the rifle to O\u2019Brien, sai to him, \u201c You see this dent in the wood.\u201d was lying upon my bed, nearly opposite Campbell's bed.The first thing [ saw afterwards waa the flash of & gun, and heard the report, and | immediately ran towards Campbell.Private Grabam was thers before me, and took the rifle from Wilson's bands.There was & vacant bed between the prisoner's and the deceased's.I board the deceased say in 8 very [aint tove, \u201cOh, my God, I am shot!\u201d 1 saw the rifle, at tbe present, in tbe prisoner's .Patrick Grabam, private in the 100th Regt, testifled\u2014] belong to the same company, aod board ia the Sas room es rsoser and hd ceased, in Victoris barracks.ne ing, buton awaking I bad occasion to go down stairs.Op leaving the room, 1 beard » dispute between deceased and the prisoner, the latter saying, \u201c1 don't care» for you or any other man ia tbe company.\u201d Prisoner said to Abe deceased, \u201c What did you push me down fort\u201d I thon left tbe room.About twenty = well lay portc(s gus, saw shot oa the 27th, in the Victoria Barracks, by Roses 5 held the prisoner, who wes situcg ob tbe side of bis and the rifle was pointed towards deceased.I took ft from prisoner's bands.! observed that he was drunk, and that Campbell was tbe worse for liquor.The decensed, wber be was shot, was lying on the bed with hie greatcoat and fur cay on.The rifles are mever allowed to be loaded in the barracks.Apparently, they had previously been upon good terms.John Meyer, of the same regiment, and boarding ta the same barrack-room, confirmed the previous evidence as to both prisoner aud deceased being under the influence of liquor, ard, likewise, aa to the particulars of the quarrel between them.Bergeant Brown, sworn\u2014 After the deceased bad been 1 hot, be (witness) inspected prisoner\u2019s pouch, and found ten rounds of ammunidon gone.He found seven of tess concealed in the prisoner's bed, leaving threes unaccounted for.Bergeant Clarke found two of thess missing cartridges under s bed, leaving only coe mise- ing.À ball cartridge was produced, which was found in one end of the room.It bad burst, and there waa a fragment of cloth attached to it, and it also bore stains of blood.Drs.Thompson and Rottot examined the body, and reported that the ball bad entered tbe back and come out pearly in the middle of the breast.Through this opening protruded a portion of the left lung.The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder agsinst the prisoner, Wilson, and be was committed for trial at the next term of the Court of Queen's Bench.DEATH OF HON.FERGUSSON BLAIR.Monday's telegrams from Ottawa brougit the startling iotelligence that the Hoo.A.J.Fergusson Blair, President Dominion Privy Council, snd Scustor for Ontario, bad died suddenly on the previous night.It appears that, after dining at the Olub, be retired to bis room, and was reading in bed when be was taken eud- denly ill; aud, before medical assistance could be procured, be was à corpse.The deceased was à son cf the late Hon.Adam Fergusson, Member Legislative Council, who died in 1863, by Miss Jemima Johason, representative of the family of Blair, of Bulthayock, Perthshire, Scot- lend ; wea lineally descended from Alexander de Blair, who lived in the reign of William the Lion and bis son Alexander TI.(See Hurke's Landed Gentry.) Born at Balthayock House, Perth- shire, 4th November, 1815; educated at Edinburgh ; was a Barrister at Law of Upper Caon- ds, and & Bencher of the Law Society, baving been called to the Bar in Esster Term, 1839 ; and Lieut-Col.4th Batt.Wellington Militia ; had been a District Judge of Upper Canada; was Receiver-General from March to July, 1863, when be was appointed Provincial Secretary ; first returned to Parliament in Legislative Assembly for Waterloo, in February, 1849, and sat for that constituency until June, 1954, wben be was returned witbout opposition for Wellington, South Riding, which he represented until general élection, 1857 ; returned by acclamation for Brock in 1860, and again on bis sppointment in 1863 ; assumed the name of Blair after that of Fergusson on succeeding to the estate of Bal- thayock, Scotland, os the death of his brother, Neill James Fergusson, Esq, 1863.\u2014Daily News.He seldom addressed the House, but voted steadily with the Liberal\u2014which was pearly identical with the Opposition: , until the accession to office of Mr.Jobn Sandñeld Macdonald.He went into the Cabinet with that gentleman, and, of course, went out again when the Mecdonald-Dorion Ministry was beaten, At the formation of the new coalition, Mr.Blair did not take office ; but, wben Mr.Brown went out, he filled tbe vacancy thus made in the Cabinet.Mr, Blair was a man of large property, consisting partly of an inberited estate in Seotland, with which be assumed the name of Blair in addition to bis patronymic.He was, we believe, never married, and was A man somewhat eccentric, and bad, as it appeared to strangers, a moroseniess of wanner, though, we believe, this apparent moroseness was, in reality, nothing bat shyness.\u2014 Herald, A Mur c» Unrord Wurtz \u2014We are in formed on what appears to be reliable authority, that the silver-mine discovered in Prince Wam., is capable of producing silver ore to the value of $10,000 per day, and that the antimony extracted from the ore is sufficiently valuable to pay all the expenses of mining.We have been furtber told that Mr.Lawrence, the owner of the mine, bas refused $200,000 for a single sere of this silvery soil.He owas, jt is said, a thousand acres, thinks the mine inexhaustible, and sup- himself to be the richest man on this continent.\u2014 Fistor, 8¢.John.SPECIAL NOTICES.= Jacobs\u2019 Rheumatic Liquid cures spraing.\u2014 Everybody recommends Hunt's Empire Hair Gloss.\u2014Use Dr.Colby's pills for torpid Liver.Foirsr AnviorEs\u2014Among the many come pounds now offering to our lady triends, there are few that we can 60 readily recommend as those emanating from the celebrated house of Joseph Burnett & Co.,\u2014the coconins for the hair, for instance.Home Journal, N.F.Nasorsorsp Covams ano Couve.\u2014Fow are aware of the importance of checking s cough or * common cold\u201d in its firet stage ; that which, in the beginning, would yield to a mild remedy, if veglected, soon preys upon the lunge.\u201cBrown's Bronchiel Treches\u201d ot Ooven Lo- xawass, aflord instant relief, == Twenty years\u2019 experience in using Beyan's Pulmonie Wafers have proved them to be the most effectual remedy for ovughs, and irritation of the throat, caused by cold, or unugual exertion of the vocal organs ; pablic speakers and singers will ind them moet beneficial.The entire freedom from ail deleterious ingredients remdecs Bryan's Pulmonio Wafers, or Cough and Veles the most delieste g e THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Janvany 3 1866.© that, if he leased, anybody el Id be ailing, that uuder feir appearance bidden [that fitted well with joy and deepened it.kind Joh 1 be.3 : was an; else woul aili uuder à fair ap| nce 8 6 tly well wi al .F amily Reading * hurt, ?» PJ DES fire as in her heart, that would surely take Tears smiled, and smiles rept ne very tha of A 40d tha litle boy be [Por the Wirumes.MEXORIRS.Oh! is it an angel's voice Bresthing in my ear; \u2018Whispering of the years agove,\u2014 - Ever hovering near; Bringing olden memories Round my beart this night,\u2014 Bringing hot and bitter tears Blinding o'er wy sight ; Bringing back my childhood Ad the \u2018 Long Ago,\u201d A Bee of glowing beauty, \u2014 Ah! 1 loved 14 so ; Bringing back tbe glory Of a summer day, Ne'er by me forgotten, Though long past away ; Bringing back the fragments Of an olden song, Floating on the breeaes, Borne by winds along : Bung by lips now silent, Hushed their music now,\u2014 Aud the curls lie withered On the noble brow ; Bringing back the perfume Of » rosebud fair, Sceniless now \u2018tis lying, Aud the givers\u2014where?Oh! {sit an angel's voice Breathing in my ear ?\u2018Whispering of the years agone,\u2014 Ever hovering near.Jerusalem, NORWOOD; OR, VILLAGE LIFE IN NEW ENGLANIK BY HENRY WARD BEECHER THE ELM-TREE.\u2014(COMTINUED.) It was evening twilight, They sat alone in the porch.few late Llossoms of the Chinese honeysuckle shed down à trace of perfume through the air.There were uo locusts singing, no katydids, nor gurgling crickets, aud yet some soft sounds I certainly heard?Not birds, surely 1 I think it must have been the plash of one honeysuckle blown aguinst another.Yet there is no wind to them! Ihear it again ! Listen! It ie like the falling of a drop of dew in the silver from some birchen leaf! No, that is rude.It is as if two dreams floating in the night had clashed ; or like the joining of two prayers of love on their way up ; or\u2014 nay, it was à kiss !\u2014pure, sacred, holy! It is the soul's symbol, when words fail it, It ie the heart's sigh, or interjection, when it has à feeling for which there is no expression! , A soft cloud bad hid the moon.It be- gon to move\u201caway.The light shone out again \u201cBarton, I do believe you mean not to tell mo after all.What is that shame-faced secret I\" \u2018You will smile, I know.But I feel it.I want every one that has been with me in danger and trouble to be present in my gros joy to-morrow.Colonel Stanton, who befriend: ed me when I was a prisoner after Bull Run, has come.By the way, the war bas well- Digh ruined his property, and I have been of help to him in saving a part.The Hether- ingtons are all in your house.Rose, my horse, that carries a man's heart in him, that never flinched under fire, that was wounded aswell as I, that carried me along the hardest journeys uoflagging, end saved me several times from captivity,\u2014I want him near me when 1 am married Tknow that it would to many sound foolish.But no one buta soldier can know a soldier's feeling for a a faithful horse I\" «No one but à soldier and a soldier's wife,\u201d replied Rose.\u2018You ought to be ashamed of being ashamed of such a feeling.He shall atand in golden shoes, and eat the plumpest oats out of a china vase, if it wiil please you, Barton!\u201d \u201cIt is only a feeling, but it is as strong as superstition.Of course it is not for bis sake, but my own.1 shall feel better if be stand in front of the yard where I can see him.\u201d It was time toseparate.\u2018 Come early, Barton.I shall take my favorite walk in the morning for the last time, and I would not be alone.\u201d The day broke over the hills, bent evidently on being presentat the wedding.It came in golden tresses, and in vapors, and ivficite jewellery of dew, and it lit up all the world with Joy as it came ; but Rose and Barton forgot, aa they atood in the arbor, that there was anybody happy bot themselves.Couldit be possible they here was any joy left?Dr.Wentworth was aa calm, outwardly, as if only the usua! business was going on.His face shone.His voice was lower and richer thao usual.His eye carried init a perpetual benediction, t mansion was vocal in every room.Guests were present from the east and west andsouth.The town swarmed with friends come to the wedding.'Bish Cath- cart renewed his youth, and Rachel's face shone with unexpressed thanksgiving.Hiram Beers was glorious, Why not?As he had gone to Dr, Wentworth's to live, in a neat cottage built expressly for bim, and to have full charge of the doctor's stables, barn, and place, why should be mot consider this occasion as & family matter ?Pete Sawmill was triumphant.Great was the honor and glo that came back with him to Norwood! Thestory of his simple affection and fidelity was known to all and all with Deacon Trombridge, \u201ctbat Pete at much in the intellects, but he's got a heart as big as an ox.\u201d And nobody was surpris ed to learn that Pete was to live with Barton Cathcart for life ; nor that be appesred on this morning with a bran new suit of broadcloth, and that be had a red cord sewed the whole length of the side seams of M.Parresson.bis pantaloons, and that be wore military bat-|aod sas ou io backeeed tous on Lis coat and vest.Pete Rose bad labored long snd often with Pete about his besetting sin with alight amendment of it.His army life had not developed bis temperance priuciples.He was always penitent vn such occasions; always promised to do 80 uo wore ; sud he never did, \u2014 until the temptation came.But one duy Pete fairly got it into bis boad, or heart rather, that his conduct was à grief to Rose\u2014a real sorrow.Instead of expostulating and reasoning with him, as heretofore, Rose un the inst occasion had burst into tears.+ Oh, Pete, you behave as if you cared for nous of your frieuds.1 am ashsied snd grieved to the heart.You have been so lon, with us, and served the country so nobly, an saved Barton's life, and kept a great grief from ux all, and now you have come back to disgrace us.1 can't bear it, Pete; | can't bear it ;\" and Rose's tears fell fuat.Poor Pete was never before conscious of being an object of such apecial that any human being would cry for him.He was very awkwardly dist: for Limeclf.He shuffled his feet and fumbled with bis bande, aud felt deeply in his pockets for something that was not there,\u2014a good resolutios, probably,\u2014and blubbered snd sputtered in the most distressing manuer, till the whole cou- trast was too inexpressibly ludicrous for Ross, who covered her face with her handkerchief, and bit her lips to keep from audible leughter.But to Pete this covering of Rose's face was the iest adliction.He thought that he had dore some great damage to her, and be exploded in & most extraordipary mixture Of crying, voufession, and howling, and pro- mses which astounded Rose.The poor fel lo# shook all over, and wrangled his hands and ais about in the air in the most aimless and awkward manner possible, and finally bolted for the door and disappeared.He brought up at Parson Buell\u2019s, aud stumbled headlong nto his study, just as the doctor was writing out his f/thly in the coming sermon, \u201cI dew wish you'd giv\u2019 me somethin\u2019.Dew! if you please! 1 want to take some- thin\u2019.The doctor thought that he must have taken something too much already.But, after some questioning, Pete broke \u2018ont in a medley of grief again, \u2014quite like that in lase\u2019s presence, but not so excessive.\u201cI aint goin\u2019 to have no more rum; it's making her ery; and I ain't goin\u2019 to drink any more rum; and I want you to give me somethin\u2019.It was evident that Pete was inquiring after the temperance pledge, and the doctor at length became satiafi of the foot.Accord: ingly, he drew up a pledge, on the largest sheet of paper that he bad in his study; and, thinking that it might be more siviog to Pete's simple eyes, be ruled a band of red ink about the whole, upon which Pete looked, much as the Israelites did upon the Red Ses, when they first reached it.Dut it answered no purpose.Pete made his mark, and was faithful to bis new promise.A few tears did more for him than much exhortation, Throughout the great wedding day, Pete carried himself most becomingly, dividing his attention during the ceremony between Barton and Barton's warhorse.He was much dissppointed when Barton, after the ceremony, did not mount and repeat some of the brilliant feats of horsemanship which he bad seen him perform.But supposing that, for some reason, changed bis mind, he led the scarred horse back to the oats.At noon, when all the company were as- seubled, aad everybody was merry, chattin, aud chattering, all at once the church-bel broke out into the most musical of invita tions.To be sure, its duty was to ring at twelve, every day.But any one could tell that there was more than that in it to-day.Its paternal soul had n wedding thought in it.It was no measured, doctrinal ring, fit for Sunday.It was no fearful, funeral ring, thick and heavy.It was a real, out-springing, merry ring, as of a bell that would like to kick up its reels, and dance on the green with the best of them.Before the bell bad done ringing, a movement was seen about Dr.Wentworth's mansion.From the front door issued first Dr, Buell and a brother-clergyman, then came Dr.and Mrs, Wentworth, and then came Rose and Barton; (while the boys that were peeping into the gate nodded to each other, and said, \u2018Ah, boy, jest look at that! aint they brnkum ?\u201d) and then came Agate Bis sell, and all the other members of the family ; und after them flocks and crowds of friends.They moved down to the great elm-tree, which hung down its paternsi arms about them, and filled all its top with blessings! There, at length, stood Rose and her husband under the very flickering shadows and checkering golden light that bad amused ber when à babe.While Parson Buell prayed, all the birds in the tree-top made responses sud saidamen! Then there was a moment's pause.There stood the noble pair.By Barton's side stood Will Belden, on one leg and a crutch.On Rose'sside stood Rose Hether- ington, \u201ctoo pretty for anything,\u201d said seve.young gentlemen near by.Then, in the simple forms of the good old times, the ceremony proceeded; and Parson Buell, at its close, laid his hands upon their heads, bowed to his touch, and blessed them! And they were blessed ! No salutation of mere ceremony followed.Darton turned to Rose with an embrace that seemed like to have merged her into himself.Rose put her arms with full love about her husband.For a second they stood fulded, some words they whispered, and there were few dry eyes that looked on them.Even Judge Bacon wiped his eyes, and declared that \u2018it was remarkably , positively affecting, and so unexpected, too.\u201d There was but one event that befel the party which filled them with astonishment, thal was the sudden and unexpected de cesse of Bissell.None out of Dr.after these vanities, sud it was not believed Wentworib'e family even knew that she was away her name from among those who hud #0 long known aud loved it.She bad manifested, while Ruee's wedding service proceeded, » tremulousuoss, as of one cousciously weak, Lut who bad determined uut to give way till Rose wes married.But Agate could hold out no longer.Bcarcely bad Kose received (he salutations of her own kindred before her father culled hor aside and ber busbaud also, and quite à stir arose and excitement amouy the crowd, as Dr.Buell, with some dignity and firmness, as if repressing @ nervous iremble, approached te Bissell, and, taking her by Tie hand, walked ; to the very place where Rose and Barton had | been stauding, and atood befure the excited crowd, who wondered that, even at n wedding, Parson Buell abould venture on such a bold jest! Then came forth Purson Edwards Dwight Bigalow, with whom Buell had many a night held glorious wassail of theology, discussing till after midnight, whether sin was born in the nature of a child or began only when developed by action ; what was the nature of generous and right actions anterior to a saving change; whether conversion stood ia the act of choice on the sinner's part, or was an irresistible and efficacious influence exerted upon him ab extra.Over these and kindred savory thoughts they had dissipated many & night.There stood Parson Buell and Agate Bis- sell, and made answer to the solemn interrogatories, aud she guve away hor name ; and, with a blush as tender aud beautiful as if she were just seventeen, sbe accepted her bridal kins from Dr.Buell, Deacon Marble was all atremble.The tears tan down his cheeks.+1 wonder what Polly would have given tu have seen this day.1 gueas she thinks that she died too soon.Howsomever, she couldn't help it.Well, well, well\u2014Agate, you've took us in this time.This is the best one yet! I dew eay, when I saw Parson Bueli a kissin\u2019 you, I sort of shivered ali over, But youstood it beautiful.But no merit, you know, no merit, cos 1 #\u2019pose you've to it, eh Agate, who really locked queenly, replied : + Why.Deacon Marble, my husband never kissed me before in his life.\u201d \u201cYou don't, now! I can't hardly b'lieve that.Dr.Bueil is a nice aud strict man, But courtin\u2019, you know, snd engaged, why kissin\u2019 is accordin\u2019 to natur, and grace too.I kissed Polly a hundred times afore I married her, and you say that Dr.Buell never kissed Agate Bissell before ?* \u201cYes: 1 believe he kissed Agate Hissell; but he never kissed Agate Buell before I\u201d This quite overthrew the good deacon, \u2014he Isughed immoderately, and repeated the story to every one on the ground as an instance of remarkable wit.¢* Fact is, I meant to have Agate myself ; \u2014 wasn't spry enough, \u2014lived too tar out of town, Ministers feat the fast pick among the als, anyhow, olly have liked it amazin\u2019.\u201cWhich ?' said Hiram, giving bim a nudge with his elbow, \u201c Which what?\u201d ¢ Which of you two would Polly been glad for Agate to mary?\" «Guod\u2014good,\u201d eaid the deacon, all in a twinkle; \u201cif\"t had been me was marryin\u2019 Agate, and Polly had been here, wouldn't she have had enough to say?Why she would have said \u2018my husband ;'\u2014why, stop\u2014if Polly\u2019d been here, she'd a been my wife, and I couldn't a married Agate; couldI?Well, that's a good one !\u201d said the deacon, quite exhilarated with his mistake, which he endes- vored to explain to several, but somehow failed to make it as fresh as when it had happened of itself.Col.Esel seemed to have ae of Rose Hetherington, and not to be displeased with the fair Quakeress.Gallant Will Belden, who had borne Arthur out of Bull Run, bobbled about as if he were one of the family.There were stories about that he meant to be a member of it some of these days.In à moments ause, Mrs.Wentworth turned to her usband.* Ab, Reuben, if Arthur could only have been spared to eee this! I should have been too happy.\u201d Tears ran down her cheeks.Dr.Went.worth stood silent for a moment, and then, with a deep sigh, replied: \u2018Arthur ia Fiche een all, knows all, and is happier thanall.Natures in wa yearns for his bodily presence, his noble sunny face, his ineffable smile, the bold, tender eye; but grace teaches us to think of him,\u201d said Went- worth, wiping his eyes, \u2018* without sorrow or tears, my dear; that is,'\u2019\u2014beginning to be conscious of the tears running down bis cheeks,-\u2014\u201c without any except the tears of sffection-\u2014and fond memory\u2014\u2014\"\" The rest of his exposition he made to his pocket.handkerchief.Mother Taft was grown very feeble, But she was like a winter apple that grows sweeter the longer ii is kept.She seemed like an overjoyed child.\u201c 1f Taft had a-lived to see this! Rose married to Barton, and then Agate Bisgell married à minister, too\u2014 that's a\u2019most like goin\u2019 to heaven! To think that I carried \u2018round iv my arms the minute she was born, and a sweet child she was! 1 didn\u2019t dream I should be here, and see ber standin\u2019 up with Barton! Maybe I shall \u2018send her babies, jest se 1 did her.But don't beliefe I shall ever live to see them married off.I am getting old; but somebody will see it.1 hope they will be kind to them, Kindness goes a goo\u201d ways, you know.You can ocax à dog with meat, you know, when you can't drive him with tbe bone.\u201d And so the kind old soul went on talking without caring whether anybody beard or not ober own voice seemed to be a comfort to r.E one was joyful; yet it was a joy y mix were some absent who might have been and some dead who would never retara ! it was « grief As the evening came on snd Mrs.Went.worth walked toward the mansion with Re- chel Cnibeart, she said: \u201cOnly Alice's presence was wanting to make (be duy perfectly happy.\u2018 Alice, aaid lier mother, \u201cis very heart wore, Lile goes wearily with her.But she has determined to give her life to (he instrue- tion of the poor black children.She has goue to Lynchburgh, where bis parents lived, you know, and I hope she is happier now.\u201d _ But the people sie dispersing.The sun is just setting.Some liner, and seem reluctant to leave.\"If you, tuo, reader, linger and feel reluctan\u2019 to leave Norwood, I shall be rejoiced aul repaid for the long way over which 1 have led you.(Concluded.) \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 SELECTIONS.~ The noblest spirits are those which turn to heaven, not in the hour of sorrow, but in that of joy; like the lurk, they wait for the clouds to disperse, to soar up into their na tive element.To mornow.\u2014The dsy when misers give, when idiers work, and when sibners reform.A Porvran FauLaoy.\u2014lt is commonly thought that there is much nourishment in beer, but the eniment chemist Liebig informs us that 1,460 quarts of best Bavaria beer contain exactly the uourishment of a two and-a- half-pound luaf of bread! This beer is very similar to the famous English Allsopp'e, and our more popular American beer.The fact is, the nutritious portion of the grain is rotted before bee: can made ; and if the fermentation of the beer has been complete, Prof.Lyon Playfair declares that uo nourishment whatever remains in the fermented liquor; and, asthe English Alliance News says, \u201c No chemist now disputes these assertions ; for, except in flavor and amount of alcohol, the chemical composition of all kinds of beer is slike, and brewers must laugh to hear doctors advising porter as more nourishiog than beer, when porter is nothing but beer colored by burnt malt; and often when beer goes wrong in the making, and is unsalable as leer, it is converted into Gae porter, the mere coloring covering many defects !\u201d\u2014 The Nation.Laxovace or Bess.\u2014Itis surprising how soon à single bee will impart information to a whole family.For instance, place a piece of honeycomb, containing honey, where a single bee will find it ; that bes will fill its sack, sud fly away to its hive, and soon return with several other bees.These will return to their hive laden with honey, aud soon come back with & score, or more, of bees; and in about balf an hour thousands of bees will be employed in seouring the boney.By what particular method, ive information where honey is to be found, bas never been discovered.It is not by sight, nor by smell, thas they discover it, because when honey is laced directly in front of a hive, and within a ke inches of where hundreds of bees are fly.i , about, not the pant Jotice is taken of it till some bave aligl y chance upon if when the information is soon imparted the family that is there, and in a few minutes there is a rush of bees to secure tho treasure.\u2014 Miner's Rural American.CHILDREN'S CORNER JUHNNY AND HIS AYAH.ADK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEX YOU.\u201d Can any of my little readers tell me where these words are to be found, and who spoke m Yes: they are in the Bible, and were spoken by the Saviour; and he meant to tench us that God is a hearer and answerer of Ten iy hear 1 God oh wn-u] ople ?Does he not also hear ltt children te P Yes, he does; and the story I am going to tell you is one of many instances that God hears and answers the prayers of even little children.There lived a lady in Madras.Can my little friends tell me where Madras is?Yes: it is in India, where many English people live amongst a multitude of heathen and Mohammedans.This lady had several children, and she brought them up to know and love God, One day, a poor native wo man cams to her begging.She looked very r, was very dirty, and in The lady Said to her, * This tsa very idle way of get ling your living.If I give you something to-day, you will again be bungry and in want tomorrow.Why don't you work for your bread ?\u201d The poor woman said, \u201c I don't know what to do.\u201d The lady asked her who she was, and whether sbe had any children.She said, * 1 am the widow of 8 Sepoy (or black soldier), and | have no children.\u2019 6 Well, then,\u201d said the lady, \u201csnppose you come into my house, and help my ayah (or black nurse) to take care of my children.\" The woman said she would be glad to do so.So Hoosainee\u2014for this was the woman's name\u2014came the following day; and baving cleaned herself, and put on decent clothes, she entered upon her duties.She was 8 Mohammedan, and believed that Mohammed wes the prophet sent by God.8be did not know the true God and Baviour; but, after che entered the lady's service, she beard the Bille read by the Scripture-reader, who used to visit the house regularly to the Bille to the servants in their own laa.Hoossaines was very grateful to the lady, and proved diligent and Gaithful.After she had been some time in the lady's service, the lady rewarded her for her good condect by prise Der de satire cbarge of\u2018 oue bar ittle boys.Thenosforth ake was little Johksny's aysh, or puree.Hoossaince was One day, when he was reading to his mamma, and she was speaking to him about the love of Christ to sinners, and what a precious Saviour be is to those tbat trust sa him, Johuny said, \u201c O mammal | wish Hoossainee was à Christian.Du Ju think, mamma, if I asked Gud, be would make Hoomaines s Christian 1\" His mamma replied, + Godisa bearer and snawerer of prager, my dear; aad I doubt not if you piuy to bim, he will hear sud answer you.\" Immediately Juhnny went on his knees, and raid, \u201c0 God! make my dear Hoossainee a Uhristian for Jesus\u2019 sake.\u201d Then he added, Mumma, J inteud to pray this overy day.\u2019 Johnny cootinued to pray for his nurse, After some time, Huoosaines came to her mistress one day, and said, 6 PI ma'am, way I speak with yout\u2019 \"The lady listened | and she continued: \u201cI wish very much, ma'am, to be a Christian.\u201d | The lady replied, * 1 am deliifited to hear it, Hoossuinee; but it will be necessary that you should be perfectly instructed, that some missionary, who knows your language, should see that you unders what te to be a Christian, and what is required of à Christian, bafure you can be baptized, I will send you to 8 good missionary, The lady then sent for ber little boy, and said, \u2018I have something to tell you, Johnny, that will make yon very glad.\u201d \u201cOmammal whatis it?Do tell me! do tellme 1\u201d « What have you been asking God for, my dear 1 « That Hoosesines may be a Christian.\u201d 4 Weil, my dear, | hope God his heard and answered your prayer,\u201d My little reuders may imagine what joy Johuny feit when he beard the good news.His muther said to him, \u201c If you had asked papa fur any thing, and be gave it to you, what would you do?\u2019 \u201c1 would say, ¢ Thank you,\" O mamma! lunderstand what you mean.Since God has iven me what ] asked for, I should thank im,\u201d -80 Johuny kneit, and returned thanks to bis heavenly Father for having heard aud answered his prayer for his dear nurse.The missionary was eatistied that Hoos saince was sincere and in earneat; he therefore bajitized her, and gave her the name of ary.Not, my little friends, you must remember that this lady bad several heatlien servants; yet it pleased Gud that Hoossainee should be the one to whom he gave \u201c a new beart aud a new 5 iri\u201d in answer to the prayers of a little child.Should not this encourage you to for Jour own souls and for the sou of others, and to continue in prayer?for, if we werein earnest, we do not only ask once or twice, but we continue to ask till we get what we waat.God loves this persevering faith, and will always reward it.À London Children's Friend.RIDULES.No.246.SCRIPTURE RMICMA.I am compossd of 53 letters\u2014 My 9, 34, 21,5, 8 was translated.Myé, 16, 19,33, 3, 29 was King of Edom.My 4, 30,16 was the son of Peleg.My 37, 40, 42 is a person spoken of in the My 1, 38, 36, 39, 3, 50, 45, 47 is ome of the seven churches which were in Asia, My 11, 21, 12, 24, 2, 49, 33, 16, 1 was à cen- My 10, 43, 18, 14, 26, 42, 46 was the flest Christian mart, yr My 15, 37, 17,39, 38, was Abram\u2019s father.My 35, 21, 33, 47, 38 was the son of Sshar, .My 13, 1,47, 23, 3, 26 was à prophet.My 20, 21, 21, 25, 10, 7, 21, 21, 48 was modo of gold and belon to Solomon's temple.My 51, 48, 29 was an insect that infested the houses of the Egyptians.My 46, 41, 38, 44, 28, 1, 47, 26 ls à book of the Bible.My 63 is a letter of the alphabet.My whole is a command of Chriat.No.245.Beer in my first is dea an and sold, A vowel then place nest ; A part of man's support then find, And add unto the text : A vegetable then you'll view, Which must indeed be knowa to you.No.246.\u2018Why is a blacksmith the most disentisfed of mechanics ?PROBLEM.The head of a fish is four feet long ; the tail »s long as the head, and one-half the length of the body; the body as loug as the head and tail, What is the length of + fah ?ANSWERS TO RIDULES.No.240.\u2014Farthingale.No.re \u201cArno, 0 L 0, 24.ma, I Ocmo, Blanc, Romania ; cil from, ney No.243.\u2014Because they write about face.BIBLE QUESTIONS, No, 422.of oct bride] procsssion came into the land No.433, a at company of merchants visited Pales- No.434.: Who bought the first burying-place?No.435.What valiant Syrian captain visited the land of Israel?No.426.Who first preached the gospel at Anticeh t ANSWERS TO BIBLE QUESTIONS, No, 417.1 Bam, 8:3-4.No.418.~=1m.48:1, No.419.\u20141 11:8.Wo.430.\u2014Matt, 13:48.Fo.411.~3 Kings 34. .eyes, \u2018 wait, and Janvany 3, 1868 The Miscellany.THS BRIDAL WINK CUP.\u2014A THRILL ING SCENE.o Pledge with wine-pledge with wine,\" cried the young sad thoughtless Harvey Wood: \u201cpledge with wine,\" ran through the bridal Tha beautiful bride grew pale\u2014tbe decisive hour had come.She pressed ber white hands together, and the leaves of the bridal wreath trembled on her brow; her breath came quicker, and her heart beat wilder.\u201cYes, Marion, lay aside your scruples for this once,\u201d said the Judge, in a low tone, going towards his daughter, ¢ the company ex- foot it.Do not so seriously infringe upon rules of etiquette; in your home do as you Please ; but in mine, for this once, please me.Brorg ore was turned towanls the bridal pir.urion's principles were well known.enry had been a convivialist; but of late his friends noticed the change in his manners, the difference in bis habits,\u2014and to-night aT watched him to see, us they sneeringly nid, if be was tied down to & woman's opinion 80 s00D.Pouring a brimming $f they held temptin; smiles Jord ion.Ske Tu very pale, though more com, ; r hand shook png as smiling back, she gracefully accepted the crystal tempter, and raised it to ber lips.But scarcely had she done 20, when every band was arrested by ber piercing exclamation of ¢ oli! how terrible !* ¢ What is itl\" cried one and ail, throng ing together, for she had slowly carried the glass at arm\u2019s length, and was fixed'y ing it as though it were some hideous object.\u201cWait\u201d sho answered, while a light, which seemed inspired, shone from her dark will tell you.I eee,\" she added, slowly, pointing one jewelled finger at the sparkling ruby liquid\u2014* a sight that beggars all description; and yet listen\u2014I will paint it for you if I can.It is » lovely spot; tall mountains crowned with verdure rise in awful sublimity around ; a river runs through, and bright flowers grow to the water's edge.There is a thick warm mist, that the sun seeks vainly to pierce, Trees, lofty and beautiful, wave to the airy motion of the birds; but there\u2014a group of Indians gather; they Bit to and fro, with something like sorrow upon their dark brows.And in their midet lies a manly form,\u2014but his cheek how deathly, his eye wild with the fitful fire of fever.One friend stands beside him\u2014nay, I should say kneels, for see, he is pillowing that poor head upon his breast.¢ Genius in ruins\u2014oh ! the high, boly looking brow! why should death mark it, and be 20 young?k how he throws back the damp curls! see him clasp his hands ! hear his thrilling shrieks for life ! mark how he clutches a the form of his companion, implori to be saved.Oh! hear him call piteously bis father's name\u2014see himggwine his fingers together as he shrieks for his aister\u2014his only sister\u2014the twin of his soul\u2014weeping for bim in his distant native land.\u201c See!\" abe excleimed, while the bridal par shrank back, the untasted, wine trem- ing in their faltering , the J fell, overpowered, upon Ei oat \u2014tiase ir arme are lifted to heaven\u2014he prays, how wildly, for mercy! hot fever rushes through his veins.The friend beside him is weeping ; awe-stricken, the dark men move silently avez, sod leave the living and the dying to- r\u201d © here was s hush in that princely parlor, broken only by what seemed a smothered so from some manly bosom.The bride sf yot upright, with *quivering lip, snd tears stealing to the outward edge of her lashes.Her beautiful arm had lost its tension, and the glass, with its little troubled red waves, came slowly towards the range of ber vision.She spoke again; every lip wasmute, Her voice was low, faint, yet awfully distinct ; she still fixed her sorrowfal glance upon the wine it with cu En is evening now ; the great white moon is coming ve and her beams lie gently on his forehead.He moves not; his eyes are set in their sockets ; dim are their piercing glances; in vain his friend whispers the name of futher aud sister\u2014desth is there.Death\u2014and no soft hand, no gentle voice to blessand soothe him.His head sinks back! one convulsive shudder! he is dead!\u201d A groan ran through the assembly, so vivid waa her description, so unearthly her look, so inspired her manner, that what she described seemed actually to have taken place then and there.They noticed also that the bridegroom hid his face io his hands, and was weeping.\u201cDead!\u201d she repeated again, ber lips quivering faster and faster, and her voice more more broken ; and there they scon, him & grave; and there, without a shrous they ay im down in that damp, reeking earth.The ouly son of & proud father, the only idolized brother of a fond sister.And he sleeps today in that distant country, with ao stone to mark the spot.There be lies\u2014my Sather sson\u2014my own twinbrother I \u2014a victim this deadly ed, turnia) denly, while the tears rained down ber beautiful cheeks, \u2018 father, shall I drink it now?\u201d The form of the old Judge was convulsed with agony.He raised not his head, but in « smothered voice he faltered\u2014* No, no, my child\u2014no !\u201d Bhe lifted: the glittering goblet, nnd letting it suddenly fall to the floor, it was dashed in a thousand pieces.Many o tearful eye watched ber movement, and {nstantaneously, every wine glass was transferred to the marble table on which it had been prepared.Then \u2018as she looked at the fragments of crystal, she turned to the company, saying, * Let no friend hereafter, who loves me, tempt me to peril my soul for wine.Not firmer are the everlastiog hills, than my resoive, God help ing me, never to touch or tasts the oup.And be to whom [ have given my bssd\u2014who walched over my 's dying form, in that ison.Father,\u201d she exclaim- p THRE MONTREAL WITNESS.last solemn hour, and buried the dear wan derer there by the river, in that land of gold, will, I trust, sustain in me that resolve.il you not, my husband?\u2019 His glistening oe his sad, sweet smile, was her answer.The Judge leit the room, and when, an hour afler, be returned, and with & more subdued manner took part in the entertainment of the bridal guseis, no one could fail to read, that be, too, had determined to bauish the enemy at once and for ever, from bis princel hone, Those who were present at that wedding can never forget the impressions so solemnly Many, from that hour, reaounced for ever the social glass.DESCRIPTION OF HOLLAND.\u2014FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS, Ausreapay, Holland, Nov, 20, 1867.I am sore that every boy and girl would lake great pleasure in \u2018visiting Holland, it is such a queer, strange, funny place, and the people 80 odd and curious.\u201cTheres are such scenes as cannot be found any where else in the world.Most of the boys in New England carry knives in their pockets; snd I daresay that there is not a among all of them who may read this letter who has not whittled out a windmill, or at least a whirligig; but therp are more windmills here than they ever dreamed of, \u2014windmille in the towns and cities, out in the country, and all slong the shore of the ses,\u2014all in motion wherever there is wind enough to turn them.Yestor day I could see neatly a hundred at a time.It was a gusty, breezy day, and the storm clouds were flying ia trom the German Ucean, and there was a tremendous commotion amoung the windmills.Each one seemed tu be trying to whirl faster than the other.Undoubtedly you have read of the exploits of that crazy knight, Don Quixote, who saw a windmill, and thought it was a giant, and went at it full tilt, t tumbled into the dirt the great fans, which went round and round just ws if nothing had happend; but if he were alive in these days and were to visit Holland hie might think with good reason that the land was full of giants.WHAT THEY ARE FOR, You wonder, perhaps, what the people of this country can want of s0 many windmills; but let me teil you that if it had not been for these mills in the past there would be very few people in Holland now.The windmiils, in one sense, have made the country what it is.Looking upon your map of Holland you will see that the river Rhine, which bas its source away south in the centre of Europe among the mountains of Switzerland, here reaches the sea.When it gets within about one huodred miles of the sea, it aplite itself into à dozen or more channels, \u2014all of which, sfler winding and running through a great warsh, pour their waters into he ocean.Holland, therefore, was once a great marsh or bog.There are very few stones in the country; there re no mountains or hills, but ove dead level of marsh land, Hundreds of Journ ago the people who lived near the mouth of the Rhine saw that the warsh land was very fertile, for the silt in the river brought down every year from the mountains made the land very rich; they saw also that if they could only ges rid of the water on the marshes they might lay out cabbage gardens and little They commence by building dams here and there,\u2014one on the branch of the Bhine called the Rotier, and the place in time was known as Rotterdam; another on the Amstel, which was the origin of the name of this city\u2014Amsterdam.So all the dams in Holland came, not because the ple were in the habit of using wicked words, ut because they built dams on the sireams.But the water soaked through the embankments, and every rain made their gardens wet; they dug ditches, into which the water settled, and then conceived the idea of building windmills for pumping the water into the river, They set one of the forces of nature\u2014the wind\u2014to wurk aguinst another force\u2014the rain; and as à gust of wind will turn several thousand of mills just as easily as it does one, they bave conquered the rain,\u2014have forced the great river Rhine to quit the marshes, and huve begun to pump the ocean dry! That is the meaning of sll those gisots swinging their arms trom one end of the year to the other\u2014duy and night\u2014whenever there is à breath of air.THE COUNTRY.To see the country as it is, imagine à great embankment along the shore of the ees, against which the waves are always dashing.Walking slong the embankment you notice that the land isten, fifteen, twenty, even thirty feet lower than the sea.You cam hardly realize that these lens, green with cab- bayes, turnips, caulifowers, and other vegetables, were once the bed of the ocean; that the waves rolled miles and miles inlaud ; that vessels once sailed where farm bouses now stand ; that fishermen let down their hooks and nets above those meadows.But so it has been, snd the story of the riseand growth and umpizg out of Holland is ove the most interesting in all history.It shows us what enterprise, intelligence, perseverance, an: Tard work will sceompliah, It would give you a strange sensation to wail up the river from tbe ocean in a steamboat, or in » ship, sad find yourself so high above the houses that you can almost look down the chimneys; also to see the cattle and sheep feeding down below, and men catching fish above | Were it not for the windmills, the river, the ocean, and the rein would soon flood the fields and meadows aml set all the houses ailoat ; but, because the milis are almost a!- ways going, the boys and girls of Dutchland slesp securely et night go to school, est three mens à day, hay in the streets, go to shareh on Sunday, without ever dreaming of an! .nc There was a terrible disaster à dam gave way aad the water came pouring in, cov: ering meadows, drowning cattle and sheep, swooping away farm-houses, vill and towns, Baoring many lives and, mekiog sad havoc.But the people filled up the breach, set thewind-mille n-going, pumped the whole country dry again, and ever since bave taken good care to kop all the embaukmeata stron, anodin repair.There is a saying that ¢ etern vigilance is the price of liberty,\u201d bat here in Holland it is the price of life.Men are on the watch all the time to see that there are no weak places in the embankments, They are Jaid by government, aad bare control of all the mills.They wage constant warfare with the ocean, at a cost 6f nearly three million dollars every year; but, with the wind for an ally, they are enubled to keep the marshes druined, and bave tranaformed tbe bogs into beautiful ows, pastures, ados and gardens, and built villages sud towns below the level of the sea.BCEKKS OX THE CANALS, The country is cut \u201cp by canale, \u2014 some dee): enough to float the largest of ships, oibers small and narrow.You see hundreds of boats.Stand with me on the bank of the great canal which leads from the city of Amsterdam to the ocean ail see the crafts.A boy riding a horee tros past us,\u2014the Liorse towing a Trekachuilen, a packet boat, a canal pmnibus or stage which plies between Amsterdam and the adjoining villages.A man stands at the helm, and his good wife is in the cabin dealing out bread, cheese, aud beer to the passengers, who are ealing, chatting, laughing, and smoking.The boat skims lightly over the water, is far downio the bend of the canal, almost before you have had time to see what the people are up to on board.Here comes a lazy lombering craft, almost as broad as it is long, with a man and boy tuggiog at the towline.[tis loaded with mud scooped up from the bottom of the ca- nel.They are taking it out into the country to spread it on the land.Here is » family crait,\u2014a boat which is at the same time a jouse, the owner, with bis wife and children, living on board.The father in tugging at the tow-line.The ir is still today, and be isobliged to pull the boat along the stream; if it were breesy you would see him hoist the sail and go scudding away.His wife has » long pole in her hands, and ja pusbing with ail her might to help ber husband ; and their two childien, a boy and girl, are steering the ciaft.hey live on boanl, \u2014est and sleep there in n little close cabin.Here they are to-day, tomorrow they will be at Haarlen, and the da after at Leyden perhaps, und next week will be bere at Amsterdam again with a cargo of potatoes, or of something el Now « schooner, then a barge, aud then ship, \u2014ber masts tall as church steeples, \u2014the sailors in the shrouds getting ready to shake out the sails.Ou the bay beyond the green mes dows are hundreds of boats and barges with sailsset to catch the little breath of wind which puffs in our faces.Herecomes a boat filled with cabbages, \u2014another loaded to the water's edge with tarnipg,\u2014another filled with sheep.Here is s marketman with chickens and geese, which are cackling and gobbling.The canals, to a great extert, are the streets of Hollsad.In the summer they are thronged with boats of every description; and a month hence, men, women, an: children will be skimming up sod down these streets on scates, having many merry times tarough the winter.\u2014¢ (arleon\u2019 in Hosion Je DRINKING IN THE OLDEN TIME IN NEW ENGLAND.Another scene, illustrating the ignorance of those times on the subject of temperance, I well remember.A very godly minister, who lived in an adjoining town, bad occasion to pas by my father's door several times a year, one day whea the good man callcd, our family physician happened in, Very soon, before the door of the house, where I was sitting, I heard him consult the physician on the folluwing very difficult case.[tshould here be premised that both the physician and the minister were above reproach, neither the vue nor the other having ever give ocea- sion to be suspected of a too free use of the glass, The minister said he had to be around among the people every day, visiting the sick and dying, directing inquiring minds to Christ, and comforting mourners; praying with the aged and infirm, and explaining to the simpleminded those things that were difficult to be understood, etc., ete.; that wherever he went, liquor, undersome form or name, was offered him to drink, which, in order nat to give offence, or be considered guilty of a breach of good manners, be felt bound to take.Moreover, that afier calling at a number of places, his head invariably became ailcled, and he felt himself in dan- er of saying or doing some foolish thing.ould the good doctor, therefore, prescribe something for bim to take, or give him suitable advice as to what he should do in this emergency ?1 remember just where the minister stood, and how he looked.remember also just where the good doctor stood, and how he looked.He bad in his hand a cane, with the end of which he kept digging in the ground; snd the more earnestly he was Juestioned, the more eamestly and the eoper be dug.At length he straightened himself up, and, standing before the questioner, with his arms crossed, he uttered the following advice; vis., that after he bad called at several places, sud had begun to feol the effects of the liquor taken, be should go straight bome, while he was yet able to walk, and, entering at once) into tbe study rhould sit there, in silence sad solitude, ull the dizziness should pass away, and then, taking some food vith & cup of tes, be could go out without fearing to finish his pastoral visits.The iden of total abstinence from all intoxicating beverages seems not to have entered the mind of either the one or the other.That be must drink was taken for ted, if lu would not be guilty of sa aopardonable offence.The only thing was to drink without feeling the effects of it; and on this point the good physician wes sadly perplexed In thao days everybody ¢ old sad young, rich aod poor, mal on ene and our whole country seemed rapidly descending on the steep and slippery aide of the hill towards ruin, But New England at length arose ia the greatness of ber strength, and, in the firmness of ber principles, signed the temperance pledge, \u201cand the land bad rest for orty years.\" AGRICULTURAL.CRANBERRY CULTURE.The Trenton Gaxelds gives an interesting account of the culture of cranberries in Now Jemey :\u2014 New Jersey, lying in Ucean, Burlington, Atlantic, Camden, aud Cape May counties, arethe bestkuown for the culture of the cranberry.The lande used fur its culture are the aoft, sponsy lauda, known &6 ewamps and savanna lands, Before the iutroduction of valueless, now they range in price from $25 108100 per acre Those lands having a running stream of water are the most valuable, as it is of importance to be able to flood the grounds during late fall and winter\u2014in order to kill ras and vermin, and to protect the vines rom frost.In dry eummers, it is necessary, in order to preserve Lhe moisture without flooding the land, to fill the lateral ditches with water.This will moisten the ground suffi ciently.To flood the bog in eummer will involve the scalding of the vines.To prepare for the vines, the tree aud bush are removed, the land turted, aud the roots grubbed out.Lateral aches re dug from the tain stream, dividing the ground into square and the plat sufficiently raised at the ventre « cuuse the rains to flow off.The yield of berries is astonishing.A bog of a few acres, which had not received a particle of care since the vines were planted, yielded this year 100 bushels to the acre.Another of six acres belonging to Mr.William Allen, which yields this year ita first full crop, produces about 200 bushels to the acre.These figures seem astonishing, but one las only to see the bog, and notice the perfect | mass of fruit, to have all doubts removed.| \u2018The cranberry crop of a single township in Ocean county, will reich this year 10,000 bushels, and that of the county is estimated at 25,000 bushels.The value of these lands when in vines is something remarkable.The Messrs.Gowdy have refused $1,250 per acre, cash, for a bog the vines of which are two aud three years old.As soon as the bogs are :u vines, they are valued at $700 to $1,000 per acre; $1,000 per acre has been repeatedly refused for bogs which have been in vines two or three years, The reason for this in obvious.The lowest estimate for a fuil- bearing bog is 100 bushels per acre.The average is from 50 to 100 bushels above this.Take 100 bushels for an average yieid.The cost of picking is 50 cents per bushel.The cost of cultivating, after the second year, will not average $5 per acre.The present wholesale price of cranberries ia $5 per bushel, ora net yield of $430 per acre, at the lowest possible estimate per year; or an interest of 45 cent.per year on An estimated value of 1,000 per acre, ut average is above this.The yield whenthe vines are three old, and for a long series of years, will almost certainly reach one hundred and fifty busiiels per acre.The cranberry is not like strawberries, hes, &e., perishable fruit, but can easily kept for a .In the epring the price often reaches $10 per bushel.Take these figures, and you have à return of say $1,400 net per toe T year,\u2014an interest of 40 per cent.on 000.Itis not possible that the market can ever be glutted with this fruit, The small ares which can be employed in its culture, and the fact that the European market has been opened to its sale, and that the berries are now used for dyeing purposes, forbids the thought that they can fail to command a good price continually.But ihere is à wide margin for falling off in price, and large returns are yet secured.AGAINST SHOEING HORSES.1 drive and work a span of 1000 Ib.horses, which have not liad shoes on their feet for five years, and never on their hind feet, aad I always regretted the mistake of putting slices on their fore feet, even in one winter.I avoidall heavy baulivg while ice prevails, but drive them even up and down hills, and as fast as the best shod horses.They were made lame by shoeing, but never since, and their hoofs are almost as hand as iron itself.So, I eay, keep shoes off colts ss long as posible.If their feet become tender, let nature hare a little time to increase her power of resistance, then go on again.It is amazing to sll inveterate horse-shoers to sue what substantial work nature will do for the feet of our horses, if we only give permission.Against the practice early, constant, and indiscriminate shoeing, I urge the following considerations ; vis.,\u2014tbe time, trouble and cost; the break: ing of a hoof\u2014by shoeing and becoming ten- der\u2014if a shoe comes off unawares or ata distance from & blacksmith ; the liability to distressing limpings and constant lameness from interfering corks; the habitual corking of themselves, causing lameness, and often split: hoof for life; the serious consequences that attend the kicking of sbarpshod horses; the putting of iron weights upon those extremities that God intended to be as light as possible.My young span, Lightfoot Fleeting, that emily go three and a baif niles to the post-of- fice and return in from forty to sixty minutes, are not likely very soon to exchange the elastic step of the light-ahod Yankee for the dead tramp of the English peaseat whose double soled, iron-apiked, or planted clogs are well nigh {obuman.1 bave known very beavy sushod wben young, at tain aa elestie, li thot lasted ail thoie ht ste; lives, even tboug! ho go » later period, The aavanna andbottom, or boggy lands of | cranberry culture, they were comparatively > 7 | ut do your horses never fall upos the je 1 answer yes, about an often as the ahod ones, and witli this difference: they have thereby damaged themselves with their ever.dangerous corks, while mine sre unharmed, and soon learn Totter than to fall if ever so icy, I speuk not vf heavy draft borses on macadamized atreets and levees, or of rosd- sters in à ruck-bound country, but of prairie farm horses, and thousands of others, too, - which are x0 very needlessly shod.I say be- in right with the next colt, snd keep tha rae-shoeing shop off the farm.\u2014Letler in Farmer.MISCELLANEOUS.\u2014 At Burning Springs, West Virginia, (hey uss gas for cooking, beating dwelliog nad business houses, lighting the streets, running ene gives, &e.For several years, this gas was allowed 10 escape from the wells, no one think- iug it worth while to attempt turning it to any Tue Wictow WaistLe\u2014Who does not love to make a willow whistle, or to wee one made ?Can you not recall your first lesson in the art,\u2014the cutting of the tlexible bough, the choosing » smooth part, passing the knife round it, above and below, pounding it judiciously, wringing it earnest] , and feeling the hollow cylinder of bark at last slipping on the sappy, ivory-white, frageaot wood?That litdle plaything grew, with the growth of art sud civilization, to be the great organ which thunders at Haarlem or in Boston.Respect the willow whistle, A Cmixksx Gop-sPREn.\u2014 À strange scene occurred at San Francisco a few days ago, when the steamer \u201cGreat Republic\u201d sailed from that port, on her first trip to China and Japan.At the moment of d the Chinese, who crowded the wharf in their holiday attire, flung after the steamer into the Bay of San Francisco, thousands on thousands of long slips of bright enamelled yellow and red papers, inscribed with prayers to unknown gods for the vessel, that ¢ the great depths of the sea should spare her and all on board, end gentle waves and propiticus winds waft ber swiftly to ber haven io the Central Flowery Land.\u201d A Goop Stcuxstios.\u2014 Weston, the noted pedestrian, recently walked from Portland, Me., to Chicago, lll, over 1,200 miles, in twentysix days.Alluding to this feat, the N.Y, Tribune proposes thst the next jub of thekind abali be & trial between two or more men to decide which can saw the most wood tor poor families, \u2014the timber to be contributed by those enthusiastic admirers of muscle who Tare been venturing their spare stamps upon the endurance of the renowned pedestrian.A suggestion, surely.Physical energy ought tobe turned to a better account than in walking and prize fighting.Ivior Cuiupnem.\u2014Dr.Hall, Superinent- dent of the Uhio State Insane Asylum, said recentiy: * À citizen of this State married sa intelligent lady, who bore him ten children.After the birth of the first three, the father became intemperate, and during bis career as an inebriate four children were borc unto him.He then reformed entirely, snd had three others.The first three were smart and intelligent, and became useful men and women, and so of the last three; of the four born to him during his inebriety, two have died in the lunatic asylum, another is there, and the fourth is an idiot.\u201d This is no isolated case.The records of every lunatic asylum, if exsmined, would fully corroborate t statistics published a few years since in regard to the idiots of Massachusetts, and prove most conclusively that the use of liquors is impair ing the health and reason and shortening the lives, not only of those who drink, but of their offspring.Arait Foors.\u2014Rev.Robert Collyer, in regard to early i addressing & Boston friend, thus quaintiy refers to bis experience: * Ever s0 many years ago last » pril, two young April fools, of whom I was one, finding thut they had a little over one hundred dollars in gold between them, and, besides that, & reat golden bridge of hope\u2014big- ger than thit in your public garden\u2014went and got msrried on à Tuesday ; on the next day started fur America, & country in which thay did not know à living soul.They have por their share of trouble, among which they have never reckoned their seven children, have never recetted the venture, and never expect to, bul if they were young sud single would very likely do it again, for not a year has passed since that time which has not found them in better circumstances in every way than they could have been had they not so united their lives and made that & chain to hold fast to fortu .e, that had else been nothing but loose lying kinks.\u201d Lagon.Britain sa great beebire of human labor.Taking space and population into account i wonder if there be soy other country in the world possessing so large a proportion of Taborers, where harder ork is gone through all the year round, and where the reward of labor is more liberal than in the United Kingdom.There are no means of calculating the value of production in this or any otber country.But the amount of exports gives the value of the proiuce and manufactures of the conutry in excess of what is required for the wants of the nation, and I find ti \u201c in 1864, whilst the United Kingdom exported at the rate of £5 6s per head of the population, France exported at the rate of £4 3s; the United States, at the rate of £1 1 16 ; Italy, £1 50: and Kussia, 8s.In proportion to the United Kingdom ex a the rate of £1,332 par square mile; noe, at tho rate of £754; Îtaly, 2286; tbe United Blates, £17; and Russia in Europe, £13.To us the ses appears a scene of waste.The fisherman finds it more prolific than the richest land.Once in & year en acre of good land, care- tully tilled, produces & ton of wheat, or two or three cwis, of meat or cheese.But the same area at the bottom of the ses, on the best fishi ground, yields a greater weight of food a pois every roe tthe \u2014Lowi's Wages Berninge Working.Clason, 8 \u2014 \u2014 = TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.(BY ATLANTIC CABLE) Loupou, Dec.34 noon.\u2014Despatches from Naples mention tbst the eruption of Mouut Vosu- vius is contipualiy increasing iu power and splendor.Imense shoots of white, yellow, and orimson flawe arise hundreds of tect above the crater, and at night the Bay of Naples is lighted up for miles.Lava is pouring duwn the mountain side in immense quantities, aud large stones are occasionally thrown out from the mouth of tbe volcano.A deep rumbling, like reverberating thuuder, is beard from tim?tu time a.in the bowels of Lhe earth, and tauny uf tbe people tm the vicinity have left thelr hutues for fear of an eartbquake or otber calawily.No such eruption baa probably occurred iu Vesuvius for centuries, and the spectacle is reparded ns one of the most magnificent and sublime ever wit- messed in nature.Loxpox, Dec.24.\u2014At & banque: given at the Royal Polytechnic, on Saturday night lest, in reply to the following sentiment fiom the Duke of Wellington, a felicitous telegram from the President of the United States was read amidst great enthusiasm.Not a littte of the interest attaching to these des{miches grows out of their rapid transmission i= Livearoor, 36th.\u2014The steamer \u201cFrance,\u201d from New York, bas arrived.Loxpoy, 25:b.\u2014To-day is observed as 6 holiday, aud there are no regular financial or commercial transactions.On the street, 5-20's are 734.Pans, Dec.26.\u2014This morniog the Patrie newspaper states that tbe French Government bas issued orders for the departure of twenty thousand more troops for Civita Vecchis.Lowpox, Dec.26.\u2014Mr.Edward Thornton, the newly appointed Minister of Great Britain to Washington, will sail in a few days for Ame- rion, to eater upou the duties of Lis mission.Mr.E.Gould Baffum, an old Amvriean journalist, and correspondent of tie New York Herald, committed suicide Lere, the day before yesterday, by taking opiem.Loxbon, Dec.27.\u2014Another of those fiendish outrages which bave characteriz 1 the operations of the Femisn Brotherhood, has just been perpetrated at Dublin, Telegrams from there, received to-day, give the fulluwins particulars : An unusually large number of letters have been recently received at the post-office at Dubliaf directed to prominent officials.Each one of these letters was loaded with explosire materials, designed to kill the person addressed to.Beveral of them exploded before their real nature wag ascertained, but up to this time oo person has been killed.One of tte policemen of the city, who bad received one of these letters, was borribly mangled by the explosion, which occurred when he opened it.It is not known how many of these dangerous missives bave been despatched.Considerable excite.meat prevails both in Dublin and elsewhere throughout the country, on the dircovery o this the latest Fenian outrage.The Loudon Times this morcing bas au editorial article on the Fenian question.It says bat no less than 30,000 epecial constables bave been sworn in, and are now serving in London.The writer calls attention to the grave public danger, and calls on the provincial cities and towns to emulate the precautionary measures of the metropolis.Louvon, Dec.37.\u2014The Timea to-day praises the Americans for their magnsnimity in giving Mr.Dickeus such a bearty reception.Paum, Dec.27.\u2014The Moniteur of to-day contains an official notice to the effect that the coupons of the Italian bonds will be paid.Pants, Dec.27, evening.\u2014The Pope hss enjoined the Rothacdiids against paying the cou- sn Pous on the Italian bonds in this city.Loxnon, Dec.27.\u2014It is reported that the Sublime Ports has offered to the Cretans an autonomous Government, and has named Prince Christian as its head.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 COMMERCIAL.Montenau Wrrumes Ormeon, Thursday, Jan.2, 1868.The weather for the las: few days has been English very variable.Nevertbelems, upon the whole, it has been fine and seasonable, and somewhat disposed to n healthy severity.Frost has chiefly prevailed, and an amount of snow bas fallen, though perhaps not more than has dis- appesred from ope or two rather sharp thaws.= Greenbacks bought at 254 to 25} dis., and sold at 25 to 35] dis.Bilver bought at4j to 4} dis., and sold at 00 discount.8-20's sold at 106 to 109, and 7-30's sold at 1054.= In Toronto, Greenbacks are buying at 74] and selling at 75, For Bills of the Rank of Upper Canada brokers are paying Gic., and for Commercial Bank Bills, 95¢.Parrorsun.\u2014The demand, for local cousump- tion, is brisk, and a good deal of oil is belog dis of to local dealers.Several lots were by suction last week at 140 to 156, one lot golog at 13) cents.We quote No.1 refined 15e to 17c; No.2 do l4o to 15e: Bensine, 34c to35c.Refiners complain that at present prices bey are working at s loss of Ic per gallon.Oouxsncial Basx.\u2014~The bills of this bank sre nearly at par in Kingston, The money brokers will give 97 cents ou the dollar, or silver for bills, Bo quick a resumption of credit was tcarosly ever known.Certainly uot in Canada rays the Whig.MONTREAL WHOLESALE GRUOCERY MARKET.Mournaar, Frday, Dec.37.Business duil, but DS EE more \u201c than usual at this cul ; thetarn the your, it is vols paie expected, will (if all be well) show improvement, Tuas cannot be noted ns changed berefor any good grades ; business bas been light.Fine spans at low prices are wanted, but such cas- not be imported tosell to meet views of buyers.An Increased demand may be locked for for Teas with the pew year.The import for the pour has been considerable, but profits of importers eaonot bave besa heavy.There ls a good stock aod protiy general aasortmesnt re- mainiag over.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Svean.\u2014Moderaie business to report, snd no change in prices ; 80.to Bio.for Muscovadoes, and Refined as per list before given.The year's business in Hhd.Sugars bas been light, aud not remunerative.Regular inports for sale of Raw Bugare have been very light.The present vexatious and unevenly interpreted tariff Las bad a good deal to do with the falling of in Sugar imports by our merchants, though, Bo doubt, much of the change is owing to the increased demand fur Refined Yellow Sugars.Prospects of the crop iu tbe lalnuds generally are very ood $ Mouasgne.\u2014Little to report in sales, and prices ns before.Btock is moderate.Tho importing of Molasses bas tot shown much of w wargin tu the importer.Correns.\u2014Java, 32jc.to 25j0 ; fair moderate demand.Btock moderate.In Rio, Cape, La- guayra, and Maracaibo kinds,\u2014litile to notice.Stocks generally good.Rion, $4.10 to $4.20.Tmport has been about as in former years.Stock held now is not beavy.Price has gradually crept up, owing mainly to advance abroad.Sricne \u2014Pepper and Piments have ruled low, and little trade of a heavy usture to notice.Ginger and Nutmegs also dull.Cassia, as noticed beiure, has advanced, and is in email stock with fair demand, at 320.10 34¢.Onrraway Beeds are high, \u2014l3jc.to 14jc.Faurrs.\u2014Pricee of Currants have ruled low for the year.Old and inferior seem at last to be getting out of favor; really good new are not plenty; Sic.to Gle.Are current values for new; old, 3jc.to 4jc.Malaga Raisins have varied little duriog the year; new crop opened at quite moderate prices and not showing a profit to importer ; they continue with no change of moment as to price, and a fair stock.Valen- tias are in moderate demand, also at unchanged figures ; quantity held over ia not to say large.Almonds keep well up, but demand bas fallen off to 8 considerable extent.In Walnuts and Filberts, trade has been about as usual.Ousaicaus\u2014ln these articles, except Sods, there has been but little change during the year.Allum is not ia large supply at the moment.Bi-Carb.Soda bus fallen cousiderably during hie year, until it hag reacbed a point lower than for a length of time past.Preseut juices are $4.25 to $4.50, with fair stock ; Sal-Sods $i.- 75 to $2,\u2014awmall supply.Piau.\u2014Tho trade bas not been à satisfactory one, on the whole.The want of inspection bas told seriously against it ; besides, the general dullness has effected this brauch of business.A good many Herricge remain over, but most will likely be absorbed by trade during the winter.Dry Codiish alse dull; fair supply.Salmoz has fallen a good deal from last year's rates, aud bas not been selliog at « profit to packers or buyers a: Fisheries.In Mackerel, not much bas been done.Green Codfish closed about §4 at close of navigation.Uns.\u2014Cod, during the year, has fallen considerably, and 1s now, for beavy lois, not easy 10 move, even at or under 50c.; 50c.to 550.ure quotation?for small parcels.Seal bas also fallen during the season ; it is now held at 55c.to 65c.Petroleum bas sold at extremely low Bgures.In other oils, po special change to note.Saur is now in smail supply for ccarse, and held at $1.50.Fine, $1.50 to $2.25.Imports less than last year, and very light stock beld over.It bas not paid importers much until now.PRICES CURRENT OF LEATHER.Mosrzaas, Dec.26, 1867.Cents HemV'k Spanish BoleNo.1 (b,b,] Bo do No2.iF eu ë SÉSSSEESSESSOSSESSSSBBESE cphshuhehtssz8SsH QURTEESETNIESEENSRESENSEE BEMARKE.Business is very dull for this season.Quots- tions are nominal in the absence of wholesale transactions.Jous Doccair & Co., Commission Merchants.WHOLESALE BOOT AND SHOR MARKET.Season pretty much passed, and what few sales are being made are chiefly for the cold weather, being made of cloth and warm material.In view of anticipated decline in piles of some kinds of stock, holders are disposed to sell heary goods at a reduction in former rates.Men's Thick Boots.$3.36 to $2.50 Boys\u2019 do.« 1.78% 1.90 Youths\u2019 do.coe « 140t0 1.50 Women's Heavy Boots.1.08% 1.26 Miseos' do.075 t0 0.90 Child's do.vesieeers 0.8010 060 Beef Boots or 8boe Packs, per dos.11.00 to 13.00 Men's Felt Overshoes .1.30t0 0.00 Women's do.Liste 0.00 Corn Exchange Daily Reports.1 wrnished smeluviely to the * Daily Witness.\u201d, WHOLESALB PRODUOB PRICES.Mowranac Con» Excuanon, Dec.27.Flour, per bel.of 196 Ibe.\u2014Buperior Extra, $8 to $8.25, nominhl ; Extra, $7.60 to $7 80 ; Fancy $7.35 to $7.45 ; Buperfioe, from Canada Wheat, $7.20 to $7.30; Btrong Super.from Canada Whest, $7.30 to $7 40 ; Superfine from Western Wheat, nominal; Oity-besnds of Superfine nominal; Buperfne No.3, 86.75 to 87.00; Fine, 86.25 10 86.40; Middlings, $5.50 to $6; Pollards, $4.80 to $4.75 ; Bag-Flour, $3 80 to 93.55 per 100 Ibs.Market firmer.Bales to some extent at 3§¢.to Bc.better thas yesterday.Oavusat, per brl.of 200 Ibe.\u2014The range is $5.90 to $6; very little in the market.Wimar, bush.of 60 lbe,=U.O.Bpring a at at 830.to 83 Bass, per 60 a e Oars busbol ef 33 ibe\u2014Firm, and may LU at 40e.te 426.la store, oan, par bu.of 66 ibe-\u2014-Homisal, at $1 ia bond.ere Banus per 66 Iha.\u2014Very Srm aay be quot- od st 800.tor ordinary L.Ü.samples.Maur, per bush, 36 lbe.\u2014Latest sale at $L20.Bera, pee Ib.\u2014Some sales of medium to choice dairy at 180.to 200.Asuns, 100 Jbs.\u2014Murket quivt ; Firat Pots $5.45 to $5.50; Beoonds, $4.95 to $8; Thirds, $105 184 63.Pearly steady; Firsts $6.Drmsan Hooa, per 100 Jbs.\u2014Receipts liberal ; rates are $5.73 to $6.124, acoording to que- Pox, per bel.of 200 lbs \u2014 Meus, $18.50 w $18.15 ; Thin Mess, $17.50; Prime Mess and Prime, nominal, # $13.50 aud $11.50 respectively.Fimanciar.\u2014Sterling Exchange firm; Bankers* 60-day drafte on Loudoræg 10} to 104 premium : counter or discount-rate, 11 to 11} pren.; Best Private nominal at 91 premium.Documentary and Produce bills, 8§ to 9 pre mium.(The rate for 60-day Sterling Exchange in New York city to-day, as reported by telegraph, was 10§ prem.) Demand-drafis on New York, about 25 discouut,\u2014tbe quotation for gold in that city at noon to-day being 1334.= Larsst Westaax Apviows.\u2014The following are the latest Wesiern Advices received by tele- preph at the Cora Exchange :\u2014 iLwavrun, Dec.27.\u2014Wheat, No.1, $1.91 ; No.2,$1.81 in store; receipts, 17,000 bush.Flour, $8.35.Mess Pork, $20 50.Omoado, Dee.37.\u2014No.2 Wheat, $1.87 in store; receipts, 6,000 bu.; shipments, 1,000 bu.Qorn, 83jo.in store; receipt, 46,000 pui sbipments, 38,000 bush.Mess Pork, 20.50, Bratus, Maker , AND Dsarus, \u2014 No ho- ces inserted unless paid in advance.Births snd deaths, 25¢.; marriages, 50c.RIRTHN.Nrvix \u2014Dee.I3tb, al Cote St.Antoine, the wife of William Navi, of à son.LINYON.\u2014A135 King street, on the 23th inst., Mrs.Wm.Linton, of a daughter.JACK, ~On the 26th jusl.,, Mrs, James Jack, of a daughter.TWeLos.\u2014Un the 220d last, at Montreal, the wife of E, A.Duclos, Chemist, of a daughter.Nimmo-In this city, an the 20th inst, Mrs.Chas.Le Nimmo, of a son.MMARDON.\u2014In this city, on the 24h instant, Mrs.Joh Smardon, of a daughter.| Kexs\u2014On the Znd lost, at No.2 Burnside Terrace, University street, tbe wifo of D.J.Itees, .» of a son, MARRIED.RANDOLPH, HOLMAN.\u2014On Tuesday evening, the 2th Inst, at Bt.Geurge\u2019s Church, by the lev, canon Bond, Henry William Randolph, 1+ Sarah Hannah, the second eldest daughter of the lute Capt, tien, Holman, of Burtonvilie.No cards, DRAKE, TAY10R.\u2014Ou the 2'st inst, nt Christ Church Cathedral, by Rev, Ucorge Slack, M.A.Rural Dean, assisted by ihe Rev.Canon Lousemore, M.A., J.Morley ke, Esy., M.D., tw Hug A Taylor, widow of the late Alex.uld, Esq.DIBD.MCCURDY.\u2014At the St.Andrew's Home, tu this city, on the 2rd inst.Mrs.Ann MeCurdy, of Arran, aged 83 years.' MULDOON.\u2014In this city, onthe 2ind Instant, after a protracted lliness, Elizabeth Muldoon, aged 73 yearn.- DovaLAs.\u2014 At Cincinnati, Ohio, où Monday morning, Dec.16th, of Hearlatioa, Willie John, eldest son of Thos.8, and Catherine A.Douglas, iate of this city.ADAMS.\u2014In this city, on the 98tb Inst, Lilly Jane, daughter of Samuel Adams, year aod months, PM ASS Ne McFarlin, dow of James wan, North Georgetown, ative Perthshire, Scotlaud, aged 60 years.Advertisements.January 3, 1868.LEM, cases, LE SALT, in glass jure and cases.J.A.& H, MATIHEWBON, por SALE, KPa (whole), RUSSE TER Ace paictne), Colored LININ KINK WUOIL LIVINGSTONE, à CU.sus Bu.Paul street, ON HAND AND FOR SALY, bi Na.tl ted Sal 8 tes White Fu avd Salmon Trout, 17 Uris, Hosio, 100 kogs Buller, dmnothy Seed, Flour, &e.RK WOUD, LIVINUSTUN & CO, KIRRWOUD, sa Poucet, ECTURING TOUR, UNDER THR AUSPICES OF THE MONTREAL TEMPERANCE S00IRBTY.Ma, Tos, HUTCHINGS wil visit the follow.Vary Ing pinces with a view to holding meetings to me the Temperance cause revive old sacle es, Twa aud form new ones on the over it In deaired he will huld a meeting for the young Ib the afternoon, with à view to the formation of a Band of Hope: and for these pur- [ones hie will have supply of blank books, with \u2018unstitution, read Hocleties or Bands of Hope on the spot :\u2014 Farmersville, Monday, Jun.8th, 1808 Qreen Bushs, Tuesday Jan 7th Kitley (Tutedu), Wednesday, Jan.Sth Wolford (Easton's Coraers), Thursday, Jan.8th Merrickviile, Friday, Jun, 16th Smiths Fully, 8at tiay and Sunday, Jan.11th and Lah.Perth, Monday, Jan.13th Lanark, Tuesday, Jun, 16th Middleville, Wednesday, Jun.15th Clayton, Thursday, Jan lh Carleton Place, Friday, Jan 17th Almanie, Saturday nud uvday, Jan, 15th à 19h Pakenham, Momday, Jun.20615 Arnprlor, unis un.Ztat Wulte Lake, Weduesduy, Jan 220d Itentrew (Herton), Thurmdlay.Zkd Pembroke, Friday, Jun 2ith Westmeath, Hatu:day and Hondur.23th and 26: t'octage du Fort, l'A, Mouday, Jan 27th rite \u2018Tuesdny, Jun 2th Fitzroy linrbur, Wednesday, San 3th Aylmer, Thursday, Jun 80:h Otlawa City, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, lst Jun, sud I:L un i dnd Fob Kemprille, Tuesday, Feb.4th The friends of the Temperance cause iu each locality are respecliully requested to muke the vecemary arrangements for effective meeti ; and it is especially hoped that Ministers of Gospel Will take an interest in these mectiogs and address them.be taken up at each meeting nperance Society In this the fricnds of the cause open basin, Wher.etfurt; and it Is ho; will respond liberally In this way, as well as in diminisbing, by their hospitality, the travelling expeuses of the Agent.W.TAYLUR, D.D., President.JUHN DOUGALL, Vice-President.J.C.BECKET Treasurer.& & GUNDY, Secretary.HUN T'S EMPIRE HAIR ALORS, Thiv pleasant, agreeable, and scientific tion is an indispensible article fur the tollet.L ciranses the scalp, renders (he bair of a dark- or appearance, iy cantly applied, and will not stain the finest linen.Those using the Empire Hair Gloss will find that 18 renders the harshest and coarsest bair, oft, glossy, Bae, and beauti- ral, disposing it to stay 10 any ition lu which it is placed.It prevents the hair from falling out, invigorates and sirengthens it, and often lucea & new growth of hair where is has al ready disappeared, by Invigorating and restor- ingt pes e skin, Derves Imitscios, bi \u2018vessels, and roots of the hair.ce 25 cents.+.J, Foss w Co., prietors and sole manufacturers, Sher- Province of Quebec.He: Impson & Co.Montreal ; Lymauns, Elliot, & \u2018Toronto, Wholesale Agents.ww RITISH AMERICAN COMMERCIAL CULLEGE.-\u2014PRI PEN.ANGHIP \u2014SUPÉRIOR ADVANTAGES OFFERED.\u2014The attentiou of young men lnok- log forward to mercantile life te cargestiy requested to the Internal ns of this College, which afford every ible advantage borough practical and y for scoutring .knowlege of business life and business habits.The t characteristic of thie fustitution is its ACTUAL BUSINESS system.Jt 1s not only the rat College In Brillsh America in which the aystem was established, but likewise the on); one lu which that system is ratiousily, pi eally, and efficiently\u2019 led out.The result is, thai so.Youth who passes carefull through the course, {s ready, on geLt| is wa, to take Bs plac Lehlid the secouatants Desk.Both therefore by right of priority and ubexam pled sucoess this institution has secured, in fect what by ita name It professes to be, THE BRITISH AMERICAN COMMERCIAL CULLEGE.One of the direct meaus of nttaining and heidi this high ition has been the constant a wary selection of thorouglily competent, cou- sclentious, and energetic teau her tn each depart-\" ment, Inthe writ 28 Department the FIRST PRIZE for BUSIN ENMANSHIP were awarded to us at tbe Provincial Exhibitions of 1863, 1588, and 1867, the only nocasions on which As this honour vedoubtedly at the \u201cTop of the wheel aatrive to malntain that superlor- ity in this, as 10 ail other branches of study which sre characteristic of tbe Institution, Pinin, legible business writing ie the style to which we lave over given the most promivent place, our motto being.\u201cA Lusiness fo a us iness man,\u201d The time required to complete the full course varies Considerably, according tothe ultendance, attention and ability of each student.Young meu, however, Are earnestly cautioned use the injurious practice of hurryiug through the course from fhe m en Ides that they win thus Ue gainers by tbe saving of money in the item of .Infinitely more advantageous would 1t be to the student, since his full course of tuition is already paid for, paratively small a tional expense of à few weeks\u2019 board tn order to make himself coi pletely master of the course, and thus by s small frere ratios junlify himself for nome lucra- ive situation, 0 crideness that such haste entails Is highly detrimental not only to the sludent himself, but also to the college Where he gradunies, and vesiden iL brings p robriuo on Commercial Colleges generally, e common practice, Lherefore, of bokltug'out this crowdi system as an iuducement Lo siudents ls mos jecepiive and biguly reprehensible.Rh mapalr.circulars, &¢., address MUNGROV £ RIGHT, Too.w SHEET MUSIC.NOW READY: \u201c Kventag,\u201d Se, per 100.\u201cshall we meet repond the River,\u201d Me.per 100.\u201cGentle Words,\u201d Me, pe; HO, \u201cShall we gather al the hiver\u201d 806, 100.\" \u201cYour Mission,\u201d 50 cents per hui \u201cNomething in Heaven Children to do,\u201d 3% soute Bp fog, min» 10 cesta, per 10.Tips 10 nour the com- | be JACOB'S RHEUMATIC LIQUID.For the immedlate rellef and permanent cure of Rheumatism, Bruises, Burns, Frost.Bites, Lame Back, Li or Stomach, Bide, be, or Cramp, Numbness of Limbs, Swe! of Join Soadeu Cuide.Diphiheris, Bars dore ot JACOR'S RHEUMATIC LIQUID Has been before the public for uowards of twenty ears, and such gre its merits that it Is now justly considered as an indispensable article in every family where it is known, It has never been forced on public attention by faming advertisements of remarkable eures that never had any existence, but by 1ts own peculiar vaiue an an unfailing rel y, it worked its way into public favor.Having a wonderful ~flect When taken internally, in quickening the circulation of the blood, it is jnvaluabie to persons predis, to - sls, rarest Lo attacks of Heart Disease.T cases Li a, where food stresses, nf fords romp reer.and couliuued for a short time, sets everything right.The name of the medicine is blown in each bottle of the genuine, and the rposes for which It is intended, às weil as (be mode of using, attached.Henry, Simpson 4 Co., Montreal, Wholesale nts.£, J.Poss, & Co., 8herbrooku.Proprictors.I~\" DR CoLBYS ANTI-COSTIVE AND TONIC PILLS.Are a safe and reliable remedy in all diseases of the Btomach, Liver, and Bowels, They are no Quack Medicine, puffed up by high sounding testimonials from Imaginary people, bul arc the result of forty years experience of a first-class Physician, aud the!r extraoniinary sucoem Is ue to the fact that they aonwer exactly thelr name.The formula from which they are prepared, is on sound, wrieniific principles, and, hus recieved Lhe unqualified approbation of the medical profession, ey do Bol profess Lo a cure for all, but for all diseases arising from any derangements of the Btomach.Liver, and Bowels, they furnish an effectual remedy e have In our possession over one hundred testi- mobiais from physic-ans Who .iave used them In thelr practice aud Bay Approve of them, «among which are the foliowlng : The undersigued physicians cheerfuily certify to the high professinnal s\u2018anding of Colby, Clann at tn tbe exellent quires.5 \u2018ola ei les + ANTI.CORTIVE ANTONIO PILES » which we bave used in our practice.and highly sp- J.H.Gibeov, M.D,, Punham C, B, C.E.Cotton, M.Cowanaville.Charles Brown, M.D., Cowansville, 8 & router.M.b., Brome, - D Butler, M.2 Waterloo, Joho Erskine, M.1), Waterloo.Norman Cleveland, M N.Jenks, .Fi » W°.Cowles, M.L., Blaps ohn Melys.M.1}, Sia! Joseph Breadon, D., Surgeon, R.M.Jatin Dama, by Coy, LA à Co, Bherbraoke, Plea RE Whe y to coinmence Tem perunoce Ex; of BUY, JOUR TEA DIRECT ROM THE IMPURTERS.PRAI TKA/! PEAII! Pr MONTREAL TEA CoMPAN Y, 6 Hos , ATREET, Montreal, have im & large quantity of URKEN aid BLACK TEAR end to cull the attentiun of the Trade, Hote! ators, and Inigs extabliviments generally, to hele list of prices.Buyers of Chests snd Hazes of l'en will save money by getiing It direct through the Tus porters.' rt lers for boxes and upws cartinge free to any luliaay station Ti (te \"Bayer living beyond Hallway Nations will pleass vend Puost-oice ander, or chelose notes.The currlage wliil be pald Lo tho neares?aution whore (here are express vilicez, Tea will be forwarded immediately on receipt of the order by mull cone taluiog money, or the money ean culleeted on delivery by express-mini, Cash collected in Montreal free of cluerge, aid Tea lorwardet for the same.Jothing less than snisll Loxes sold, Original packages Mack Ten welub,\u2014t Che ubout 50 (be, ; Cliesta do, 90 to 100 tbe.Gireen Ton from 80 to 3 ibs.Teas ot mentioned In advers tisement can be had equally cheap The Come pans are determined to take à stand in the luntreal market, every article may therefore be depended on as to quality and weight.BLACK XA, Common Congou, Broken Leaf, Strong Tes, BO IDM.oe.anireneas » Hoason SREASER ITUSGASE Superfine and very Choice.«1 Fine Guopowder.0 Su di 1 u and upwards, Sr Make a note of the address: MONTREAL TEA CO, 6 IlOSPITAL STREET, MONTREAL, Bak SOCIETY MEETINGS, rai 1887.\u2014The Anulversary Moetings af the vel Bible Societies fo connection with the Montreal Auxilinry, will (D.V.) be held as fol- * lows :\u2014The Minlstersaf the Gospel fu the various tucalitles, and the Rev.J.Grkex, Travelling Agent of the M.A, B.RB, will give addresses on ho Bible Mission in various parts of the world, The public are respecifully (uviied wattend.Papineauviiie, Suturduy, Jaw 7 p.m N° Nation Mila, Suns) Jan.6 Ham Thurvo, Suuday, Jan.& 1 pm JAMES GREENE, Travelling Agent M.A.B.8, (CABIN ET PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FIRST CLASS ARE TAKEN AT PARKS\u2019 PHOTOGRAPH RUOMS.| BLEURY STREET, MONTREAL, AT THREE DULLARS PER DOZEN, CARD PHUTOGRAPUS AS HERETOFORE, $180 PER VOSEN.2 FE COMPANY, under SE & will the Government of Canada for Lhe conveyance of Csnadian and United States Maile, Winter Arrangements, 1367-8.Passengers booked to Londonderry and Live This Company's Mall Line is composed the undernoted first-class, full-powered, Clyde-bullt, double-engine, Iron wel mships:\u2014 {Sailing from LIVERPOOL every TH pry DAT colis im PORTLAND everyHA'\u2019 at Loc hs Foyle to receive on board and sou AD) Pd Derr Gr A300 Tans or shipa,~~ Link of Steam- 1488 tons.Lt, Bs 1423 © Cho Bo BNR 1 \u201c .Capt.yes * .Capt.Wa Sailing between the CI; Portia Con a regular Antes er ro son of Summer Navigation, 10 Steamers the Mart LINE are intended to be des, from Fortilaud as Undernoted, viz.:\u2014 MORAVIA=.Nasront BELGIAN.AUSTRIAN Rates of thi th Londonderry or Liverpool :\u2014 3th © from Montreal to CABIX (according Lo acco: n SATE Laspoonting toac memoda tion) os $90 An experienced eon carried on vel.\" Bethe aot.sechred dati pa nes Por y to H.& A, freight or other particu! a) LEAN, corner dPFouvilin \u2018and.Common sit, A Montreal; or G.T, Hailway Station, Portland, DOUGALL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NozTREAL, BUCCESSORS TO JOHN DOUGALL, (Business Established in 186) Consignments soilell kinds - DUCE Sod LEAT hed of of FHC oJ OBR McARTHUR & SON, OIL MERCHANTS, Twmpoeters and Dealers in WINDOW GLARS, PAINTS, COLORS, VARNISRES, &c., 240, 242 and 244 MCGILL STARRY, Alter lux of May 1._:k, at 18 LEMOINE STREET (opposite Sr, HELEX STRENT).H.MAY & CO., importers of Si D STA Paule.Oit Varnielu.Brases, Bplrise ai ai Turpeutine, Botsate, Gold Lea, &c.$74 Br.PAUL STREET, Montreal, BB MS ALLY r any! or vered in Le eneh, pe om, 84 \u201c MonTREAL WITXKESS\u201d (Semi-weekly), $3 por aopam, 34 euch.\u201cWEEKLY WITNESS\u201d ready on Thursday, §) per anoum,\u20144d.cach.\u2018 Advertisement lnxerted In oy Of these odie tons at the rate of conta por Ho, seriion, and 8) eeuls each Subsequent Insertion, EE The \u201cMONTREAL WITN sown BOUGALE 8 Jou Favre Mode?fed Jar os Uireet\u2014 {uae Baad msm - + "]