The canadian gleaner, 25 septembre 1879, jeudi 25 septembre 1879

[" a pre PP A DOLLAR OR TWO ILL Buy a large amount of Goods at y H.L BEERWORTH'S ok store on the Province line, known as the McCoy Place.I have a large and complete general stock which I am solling at exceedingly low rates on the motto of \u201cLarge sales and small Profits.\u201d Positively no goods misrepresented.If goods are not found as represented they muy be roturned, and the money will be refunded.ALL KINDS or FARM Propucs TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR Goops AT Casm Rates.[shall not be undersold by ary dealer either in the States or Dominion.To prove this assortion, please call and be convinced, as I mean business.i READ A FEW PRICES: Boots and Shoes.Men's D.8.and Tap boots, $2.50 ; men\u2019s calf boots, $2.50 ; men\u2019s boots, band made and warranied, $3.00 ; ladies\u2019 glove kid button boots, 81.75 ; ladies\u2019 goat button boots, $1.15, 81.25 ; ladies\u2019 pegged, grain bootees, 81: ladies\u2019 rubbers, 35c a pair ; ladies\u2019 kid button slippers, only one dollar per pair.Ladies\u2019 kid Newport ties only 81; ladios\u2019 lasting boots, $1.35.Children\u2019s ankle ties, only 35 cents.Good Groceries.Four pounds good Tea for 81 ; 3 pounds 50 cont Tea for 81 ; laundry soap; 4, 5, 6 and 8 cents por bar ; nice coffee sugar only 8c a pound ; granulated sugar only 106 per pound.Kerosene oil strictly pure, 7 gal.for 81.Standard prints 6c; brown sbeetings 6 to 100; bleached shoeting 8 to 10c ; all wool dress goods 15¢ ; ladies\u2019 cotton hose be per pair or 50¢ per doz.Eastern limo $1 per barrel.Glass seta, 4 pieces, 75¢ ; tumblers 50c per doz.; goblets GOc per doz.pay Positively no intoxicating liquors sold or kept on the premises.FAUGH-A-BALLAH.THE TRUTH AGAINST THE WORLD.* TOCK and assortment of Teas, Coffees, Sugars, Syrups, Spices, Fruits, Fish, and Gonoral Groceries fully maintained.The choicest Congou, Gunpowder, and Japan Teas at the very lowest prices.Don\u2019t give high prices when you can get them at three- fourths the usual cost.A full pound weight of 16 ounces for less money than others sell the samo quantity and quality.Don\u2019t be de- coived by other concerns who pretend to sell you the same article.If you desire really good, refreshing, nourishing, and cheap Teas, and General Groceries, go to the RELIANCE I HOUSE gay The highest price paid for Eggs, Butter, &c.GEORGE Q.O'NEILL.Huntingdon, June 19, OR SALE the premises in the village of F Huntingdon at present occupied by Mr John Morrison.For particulars, apply to W.W.DALGLIESH.Huntingdon, June.5.DENTISTRY.H., W.MERRICK, DENTIST, FORT COVINGTON, N.Y., T home the first 20 days of each month, until further notice.Artifical teeth inserted, on the new cellnloid base, which is far suporior to rubber in evory respect, at greatly reduced ratos.All operations warranted, Fort Covington, Feb, 12th, 1879.FARMS FOR SALE.HE well-known Farms, situated in Elgin, near tho Presbyterian church, owned by James Gillies and Daniel Boyd, containing 100 acres in each, about one-half of which is under cultivation, with a good Sugar Bush and some valuable Pine.There are situated thereon 2 stone houses, 2 stone stables, 2 barns 80 feot each, 2-horse barns, and well watored.Will be sold separately or in a block.For particulars apply to Boyd, Huntingdon, or James Gillies, \u201cgin.CASKETS AND COFFINS.TH undersigned has now on hand at his warerooms, Huntingdon, a full assortment of Undertakers\u2019 Supplies, including Caskets and Coffins of all sizes, stylos and prices.Also, a supply of Burial Robes, Coffin Plates, and other trimmings necossany.4a Prompt attention paid to ail orders gu I\" A.HENDERSON.MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS.Insuring only Farm and Taolatedproperty pt ESIDENT-Archibald Henderson, Esq.Directors\u2014 George Cross, John Ferns, Danie, M'farlana, Donald McNanghtdh, Andrew Oliver Jolin Bymons, and John White.Secretary and Tieasurer\u2014~Andrew Somerville Huntingden, Agents\u2014William Edwards, \u2018Franklin ; Robert Middlemiss, Rockburn; Thomas Clarke, Ste Philomène; Robert Smaill, Trout River ; P.Clancy, N.P.,and J.A.V.Amirault, N.P., Hemmingford; Malcolm Condie, Howick; William Blackett, Allan's | Corners ; John Davidson, Dundee ; I.I.Crevier, K.P, 8t Anicet; Arthur Herdman, Herdman's Corners ; John Bryson, Ormatown, and J.C.Bruce, Huntingdon, RE\" Parties wishing to insure theirproperty ,sre requested to apply to theagents or Secretary.FURNITURE! FURNITURE! Ti subscriber has on hand a large stock of Furniture, consisting of Bureaus, Bed: steads, Washstands, Cane and Wood Seat Chairs, Tables, and all other articles found in a first-class assortment.Partieq requiring Furniture will find it to their advantage to call and examine our stock as it will be sold cheap.A.HENDERSON.NOTICE.TE undersigned takes this opportunity of thanking his numerous customers for past favors, and of soliciting their patronage, as he is still running bis Marble Shop with à full supply of Marble and Granite, which will be soid to suit the times.Good horses taken in exchange.COFFINS AND GASKETS, In addition to the above, 1 have oponed a Wareroom in the Dominion Block, opposite the Post-office, whero will be found a varied assortment of Coffins, trimmed and ready for use, rders by letter or telegraph promptl filled on short notice by the undersigned, or by D.Shanks, on the premises.DREW.Huntingdon, Nov, 27.The Canatan Gleaner NO.720.EXTENSIVE AUCTION SALE |! O\" all the personal effects belonging to the Estate of the late Joshua Breadner at his late residence in the village of Athelstan, on FRIDAY, 26ru SEPT.1879 : The property in part consists of 1 cow, 1 buggy waggon, 1 cutter, about 15 cords stove-wood, a lot of poultry and of garden tools.Also, all the Household effecty consisting in part of bedstesds and bedding of a superior quality, bureaus, tables, chairs, carpets, mirrors, crockery and glassware, cooking and parlor stoves, cooking utensils, cutlery, table linen, &c.Also, a well selected library, comprising standard literary and law books.The attention of the ladies is called to the above sale, which they are respectfully invited to attend.Tbreo months time will be given on all sums of $5 and over, on furnishing approved joint notes.Bale at 10 d'clock a.m.sharp.GRAIN-BUYING.I HAVE recommenced buying grain at Beauharnois and Valleyfleld for the Fall grain business, and have made arrangements to pay Bank of Montreal bills nt both places for all the grain we can purchase.Messrs Todd & Nicolson are Luying for us at Valley- fleld and K.N.McFee manages the Beauharuois business, COLL McFEE.Oanada Life Assurance Company.OW is the timo to insure in this undoubted Company to participate in the distribtition of profits next year, W.W.CORBETT HENRY HARM AN, } Associate agents Huntingdon.PAY UP NOTICE.A LL Parties indebted to the undersigned are requested to call and settle their accounts on or before the first of October.Huntingdon, Sept.18, BEAUHARNOIS STEAM NAV.CO.CHANGE OF TIME.On and after Monday the 15th inst.the Str.Beauharnois will leave Montreal daily (Sundays excepted) at 12 o'clock noon, and Lachine on the arrival of the- 3:15 train from Montreal.LIVERPOOL, LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY, : JSURES Farm Buildings, Stores, &c., at the lowest rates.One of the best English Companies.HENRY HARMAN, Agent for Huntingdon, Beauharnois and Chateauguay Counties.Office : Huntingdon, P.Q.Nice te undersigned begs leave to inform the public that he has opened an office in the County building, village of Huntingdon, where he will attend every Thursday, and remain while detained by business.I.I.CrEVIER, N.P.Huntingdon, Dec.7, 1877.BENEFIT TO FARMERS AND OON- : SUMERS.J.S.COWAN.BB\u201d & McNEILL are just receiving a largo assortment of Now Goods, such as are kept in a first-class general store, which they will sell cheap, to suit the hard times, for cash or ready pay.gar All Notes and Accounts due must be paid at once, without further notice.Brown & McNEIL.Trout River, Aug.19.JAMES LOGAN, Watchmaker and Jeweller, a fow doors west of the Post-Office, Huntingdon.AM now well stocked with all kinds of Watches, Clocks, Jewellry, Plated Ware, &e., &c., which I will sell at prices in koep- ing with the hard times.Repairs to Watches, Clocks, &c., done personally and on the premises.P.S.\u2014Over 20 years a practical Watchmaker.The Celebrated Huntingdon THRESHING MACHINE ue, i, Ali) , ve Wr UE WAS AWARDED THE FIRST.PRIZE T the Provincial Exhibition held in Montreal 1874, and also FIRST PRIZE over all competitors at the Provincial Exhibition held in Montreal 1876.We have much pleasure in intimating to the public that wo haxe added a number of valuable improvements to our Mills for 1879.The cylinders are ali turned in the lathe, thereby causing them to run smoother and steadier and enabling the concave to be set closer to the cylinder.The teeth being made of the best Norway iron are uniform and very tough, Best Onk Tan Belting used for Belts.The Powers are elevated in the bridge when the horses walk, thereby doing with less blocking.All workmanship and material guaranteed, ou ts.SIGive us a call or ses our agen BOYD & Co.THE MECHANICS\u2019 BANK.ON the 3rd instant Messrs Court & Macintosh, the official assignees of the! Mechanics\u2019 Bank were ordered by the, Court to convene a meeting of the] Mechanics Bank creditors \u201cwith the least possible delay.\u201d For some reason or other: which has not been made clear, a new order was obtained by the Bank on the 11th inst.annulling the order for this meeting, which was fixed for Wednesday | afternoon, in the following words : \u201cDoth grant the petition of the said the Mechanics\u2019 Bank, and doth order Messrs James Court and John Macintosh, joint official assignees for the District of Montreal, to forthwith suspend all further proceedings, upon or in virtue of a certain Judgment rendered on the 3rd day of September instant by the Honorable Mr Justice Papineau, and to forthwith return to this Court their doings thereon thus far and I do further order the said James Court and John Macintosh not to hold the meeting to be held in virtue of the above judgment of the 3rd instant, with costs distrait to Messrs, Gilman and Holton, atlorneys for the Mechanics\u2019 Bank.* \u201c(Signed) H.F.RAINVILLE.\" Notwithstanding this order an informal meeting of creditors was held in the Mechanics\u2019 Hall on Wednesday at three o'clock.There were present Messrs A.A.Stevenson, James Court, A.Joyce, J.Struthers, James Walsh, David Steele, Thos.Baird, Jno.Symons, J.B.McNamee, John Sullivan, R.Irwin, R.B.Buchanan of the Bank of Montreal, E.J.Barbeau, of the City and District Savings Bank, W.Ritchie, QC, J.J.Maclaren, QC, and about forty others.Mr A.A.Stevenson, on motion of Mr Irwin, was voted to the chair.Mr Mac- laren, of Huntingdon, was appointed secretary of the meeting.The Chairman would call upon Mr Court, if agreeable to the meeting, to give it a full account of how matters stood.Mr J.J.Maclaren called attention to the fact that Mr Court, although an assignee, was present as oneof the creditors of the Bank.The speaker also stated that Mr P.S.Stephenson had informed him that they (the creditors) were welcome to the use of the Bank for their meeting ; but upon the instruction of Mr Gilman permission was couptermanded.Mr Maclaren thought that perfect unity of action among the creditors was important if they wished to secure their rights toa thorough investigation of how matters stand with the Bank.It was moved by W.J.Buchanan, representing the Bank of Montreal, seconded by Mr Joseph Rodrigue, that this meeting is of opinion that the Mechanics\u2019 Bank ought to be placed in insolvency.Mr W.J.Ritchie, in speaking to the motion, said that the only chance of the creditors was to adopt some such motion as this.He thought matters could not be worse than they are now.He instanced the forced circulation of the notes; the ross manner in which the immigrants 1ad been duped on the other side, and said the mal-administration of the Bank had made that institution a by-word and a reproach to the City of Montreal.Ina graphic speech Mr Ritchie drew attention to the gross manner in which the management had been administered, and urged the creditors to act in their own defence.Mr Maclaren, the secretary of the mect- ing, also spoke and said he fully endorsed every word Mr Ritchie had said.The speaker said the claimants of the bank in his section (Huntingdon) were of the unanimous opinion that the bank should be put in insolvency.He also illustrated the manner in which the circulation of the Bank had been.forced.Mr James Wattie, of Valleyfield, said he thought if anything was to be made out of the bank it was quite time the creditors should have a chance to get something.The motion was then put and carried, Mr Robert Irwin being the only dissen- tient, on the ground that he did not consider insolvency would be of any use.It was then moved by Mr James Wattie, of Valleyfield, seconded by Mr John Symons, of St Louis de Gonzague, that the following be named a committee to out the foregoing resolution : W.J.Buchanan, Joseph Wylie, and J.J.Mac- laren.Mr F.B.McNamee strongly opposed the resolution, which was put and carried, Mr McNamee being the only person voting ainst it.he meeting then adjourned.After the meeting was over the creditors present signed the following : We, the undersigned creditors of the Mechanics\u2019 Bank for the amounts set oppesite our respective names, are of opinion that the said Bank should be placed in insolvency at once, and would join in a request to the judge or court that a writ of attachment be issued at once against the Bank under the Insolvent Act of 1875 and amendments, Signed by, Dr Cameron, $218 ; David Watson, $183; A.Cumningbam, $100; Daniel Shanks, $243; George Olivor, 8274 ; Andrew Oliver, $221; William Tinsley, 8100; C.Blachford, $107; Wm.Walsh, 8576; Robert Clarke, $113; John Younie, $310; James Walsh, $192; Wm.Fannell, $365; Robert T.Walsh, $1,216; Mrs Alexander, $116; A.Henderson, $254; Wm.B.Cameron, $236; James Will, 8195; Township of Franklin, $800; Charles Will, $243; Jeremiah Murpby, $125; Robert Hyndman, $107; G.W.Drew, $285; Wilson & MoGinnis, $371; D, Boyd, $101 ; Robert Gilbert, $300; John Reid, $138; James n, $884; William Cald.| Wattie, $114; John S.Elder, $200; Wm.| i8mellie, $105: A.Caldwell, $168; Daniel HUNTINGDON, Q., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1879.Miller, 8116 ; Andrew Geddes, $219; John Cuirns, $130; Jumes Raddock, $114; M.MeNaughton, $100; A.H.Cameron, 8250 ; A.Somerville, $1,162; W.J.Sloan, 6603 ; John Hunter, St Louis, $164 ; Hugh Symons, \u2018 8t.Louis, $973; Fred.Fyfe, Valleytield, $803; Mrs John Crichton, do., $200; Chris tina Crichton, do., $336; John Crichton, do., $168; J.J.Maclaren, Montreal, $4,066; Duncan McCormick, 8589 ; John Symdns, St Lonis, $1,806; John Sommerville, do., $278; Joseph Wylio, 812,833; Bank of Montreal, $23,000; City & District Savings\u2019 Bank, $2,088; Thomas Gregg, Vankleek Hill, 81,614; Deter Inglis, $239 ; Wm: McNaugh- too, 828 ; Wm.Eluott, 8600; A.A.Stevenson (in trast), 8919; Thomas Baird, Durham, $400; David Steclo, 8300; N.Papinenu, 81,085.MR M'CORMICK'S BUIT, A suit has boen commenced in the Superior Court by Mr Duncan McCormick, advocate, against tho Managor and Directors of the Mechanics Bank.Mr McCormick is a creditor of the Bafik to tho oxtont of 8589, the amount of his doposit at the time of the suspension.On the 3rd of Septombor, however, he exchanged tho deposit for an equal value of its bills and now claims as a billholder.The plaintiff alleges that the month! statements of tho affairs of the Bank which the defendants were obliged by law to furnish the Department of Finance, were false, and wore intended to deceive persons dealing with the Bank, to induce them to believe that the Bank was solvent, whereas, to the knowledge of the defendants, it had been insolvent for a long time previous to the suspension, That in theso statomonts it was ropresent- \u2018od that tho Bank bold notes and bills, discounted and current, as follows :-\u2014 End of April, 1879.$420,909 02 « March.438,429 24 \u201c Fobruary.c.ceens 493,754 09 \u201cJanuary.526,600 18 and in each of the monthly reports during the previous twelve moaths, thoy represented that they had notes and bills, discounted and current, for amounts varying from 8300, 000 to $500,000.That each and all of these statements were made to induce the public and the creditors to believe that the Bank had in its possession these large amounts of notes and bills, dis counted and current, in the usual course of banking transactions, and accepted with that prudence which tho defendants were bound to exercise in the conduct of tho affairs of the Bank, and that in consequence the bills wero worth within a small percentage of the several amounts stated.That cach and all of tho statements wore wholly and entirely false and made with fraudulent intent.That the Bank did not at either of the before mentioned dates hold in its possession as its property the whole or any part of the amount named in notes and bills, discounted and current, but the whole of the genuine notes and bills discounted in the regular course of business in tho Mechanics Bank, excepting a very insignificant portion, were at the dates of the roports and long before pledged to the Mol- sons Bank for the security of the payment ot a sum exceoding $100,000, and conse- quontly wore not applicable to the payment of tho liubilities of the Bank in genoral until full payment of the claim of the Molsons Bank, whereby the plaintiff and the creditors were deceived and defrauded.Further that a largo portion of the said notes and bills were, to the knowledge of the defendants, worthless and not current bills, and kept afloat by renewals, and by obtaining notes payablo on demand and not making any demand, and other fraudulent devices, each of of the defendants knowing at the time that tho partics to the bills were worthless, and that to their knowledge at least fifty per cont.of the bills wore worthless or nearly so.Also that in these reports, sent in during tho four months preceding the suspension, the defendants fulsely and fraudulently represented that of the notes and bills which had been discounted and were overdue, the soveral amounts following were secured to the Bank: January, $45,692.82; February, a like sum; March, $54,482.95; April, $55,224.60, whereas in fact the whole of the su-callod security was worthless and the pro- tended assets of secured bills and notes were purely fictitious, and intended to deceive.Also tbat they grossly exaggerated the value of the real estate hold by tho Bank other than tho Bank promises, and also of the general assets of the Bank ;.that by the statements the Bank appeared solvent, whereas in fact it was hopelossly insolvent for a whole year previous to its suspension.That the defendants were each and all guilty of gross negligonco and fraud in the conduct of the affairs of the Bank, and knowing it to be insolvent, gave fraudulent preferonco to certain creditors, and especially to the Mol- sons Bank, for $100,000, That well knowing the Bank to be insolvent for more than a yoar previous to its suspension they fraudulently persisted in carrying on the affairs, and in making false representations as to the position of tho Bank, thereby inducing the plaintiff to be.como a depositor.Further that by extraordinary and illegal means they persisted in inereasing the indebtedness of the Bank to the publie and employed agents to circulate the bank's bills throughout tho provinco and paid them a commission.That during the four months immediately preceding tho suspension, tho notes in circulation much exceeded the limit fixed by section 8 of 34 Vic., Cap.5 the amount being as follows: January, $166,411 ; February, $169,277; March, $190,265, and April $198, 132; although the defendants well knew that theso amounts largely exceeded the amount of the paid up capital of the Bank and also well knew that the whole paid up capital had been long previously lost.bat by reason of the premises the de- fondants were each of them guilty of gross negligence, fraud, false representation and illegalities and are personally, jointly and well, $200; Thomas Cairns, $177; John severally responsible.ee te R.pores | - UNITED STATES.Two barns on the farm of Matthew E.Lynch, about a mile west of this village, were burned Saturday ight with their contents.They were well filled with hay and grain on which the loss im considerable Collins, who had a lease of the farm.He had no insurance.Mr Lynch bad an insurance of $350 on buildings.The origin of the firo is unknown.Two hop-houses have already been burned down.Starch factories in this county will begin running the first Monday in October, and will pay twenty cents per bushel for potatoes.while tho plant this year is large, it is claimed that the vieid will be very light, owing to the drouth.\u2014-Malone Paliadivm, Fall River, Mass, Sept.17.\u2014Seven families of French-Canadians brought here by manufacturers arrived to-day.They comprise 73 men, wonten and children, A party consisting of two men and the agent who brought the party, four women and several boys and girls, while on the street this evening wore attacked by a crowd of 150, mostly men.Rocks wero hurled at them in perfect showers, and nearly all the party were moro or less in- $1.50 A- ÿ |jured.One woman with a babe in her arms was knocked down and kicked; a little boy about seven struck on his face, and all the little children stoned.The party separated and ran in different dirce- tions, which broke the crowd.Much indignation is expressed, but no arrests have yet been made.Sitka, Alaska, September 6, via San Francisco, September 15.\u2014The importance of Alaska as a gold bearing territory is no longer a question, for many months it has been known that gold existed in paying quantities, and various explorations for it have been conducted.During the Russian occupation of Alaska the Indians from the interior frequently brought to pure native gold, and explorations of the country since made have resulted in substantiating the opinion that the country was rich in placer mines and probably in uartz veins, Our first gold bullion pro- uct from Alaska left Sitka this day on the steamer California for the San Francisco mint.It is believed to be of excellent quality.MISCELLANEOUS.OATMEAL WATER AS A BEVERAGE \u2014On board steamships the firemen employed about the furnaces are sometimes greatly exhausted by heat.Their profuse perspiration renders a large quantity of water necessary to supply the waste.The ingestion of clear water under these circumstances appears to answer very imperfectly the wants of the system.It secms to pass through the circulation tothe skin, percolate as through n sieve, and flow over the surface of the body in streams.A large drink of cold or even cool water, under these circumstances, on an empty stomach, is very dangerous, and liable to produce death with almost the suddenness of an electric shock.Great practical advantage has been obtained by mixing farinaceous substances, particularly oatmeal, with the water to be used by the men employed at this kind of labor.The vatmeal is mixed in the proportion of 3 or 4 ounces to the gallon of water, and used according to inclination by the fircmen and coal-heavers.It might be difficult to determine why oatmeal, for this purpose, should be better than cornmeal, or buckwheat, or rye, wheat, millet, &c., but the firemen themselves scem to think that it has the effect of making them as strong as horses.We may safely allow something for this sort of prejudice, which we know to be very potent among the influences on health and disease.The peculiar aroma of the oats is probably associated with a pleasant degree of stimulation of the alimentary mucous surfaces in such & way as to promote its complete digestion.It seems to fill the blood vessels without increasing the amount of cutaneous exhals- tions.The men occasionally try acid, saccharine, and alcoholic drinks as substitutes for the oats, but .always with unsatisfactory results, except that they find molasses and water better than clear water, and they who are disposed to insist on the excellence of rum and whiskey, under all circumstances, petition for these, and experience after each ingestion a momentary relief, followed by additional profuseness of perspiration and additional exhaustion, Mr J.C.Uhthoff, second house surgeon at Guy's Hospital, London, relates the following incident in the Lancet :\u2014\u201cA well dressed and ladylike female with a strong French accent asked to see me, and requested that the interview might be a private one, as the subject upon which she wished to speal words, \u2018a delicate\u2019 one, A young woman, a relative or friend of hers, was entitled to inherit some property if married ; but being single there was a prospect of her losing it.As no suitable husband seemed likely to appear she was desirous of finding some dying man, of what position it mattered not, to whom she might be formally married, and so obtain the property, while at the same time the link might be a slender one and soon broken.This they had not been able to manage in France, where she lived, and they had accordi ngly sent over to a London hospital, where they hoped for success.I was requested to find such a dying man suitable for the object.If he were a widower h children they would make some provision for the children.the passer wou curious to know if such atten | has been made at other London hospitals\u201d removed burial under somew stances.The day of her interment was the day which had been originally tixed for her marriage, and her friends complied = with her dying wish that she shoul drawn to t The contents were owned hy Albon | the frontier trading posts specimens of k was, to use her own 8T® an ounce of pulverized salt I need not dwell upon given to such a request.It The body of a young lad was lately Brighton, land, for romantic circum- d be grave by the horses which had been en to convey her to church.To the catafalque there were accordingly attached four greys, whoso heads wero decked with floral rosettes of white and red geraniums, and the coffin was covered with a white and amber silk pall.The carriages which followed were private vehicles, instead of the usual mourning coaches, and were also drawn by pairs of grey horses caparisoned similar Shieh drow Chabon: y to thone A respectable farmer numed Browne, of Eftin,county of Limerick, Ireland, recently urchased 30 acres of meadow land near rurce.A day or two afterwards he proceeded to superintend the mowing opern- tions which were done by a machine, against which thore ir à docided prejudico in tho county.On his way three men with blackened faces, and armed with firo- arms and with a pitchfork, rushed out of an unoccupied house and stopped Mr Browne They plunged the prongs of the pitchfork into the horse's side, an ¢ threat- oned the rider that if he continued the use of the machine he would share the fate of his horse, , Gentian root is said to bo & tobacco antidote.Buy two ounces or more of gentian root, coarsely ground.Take as much of it after cach meal, or oftener, as amounts to a common quid of \u201cfine-cut.\u201d Chew it slowly and swallow tho juice.Continue this a few wecks, and you will conquer the insatiable appetite for tobacco from which thousands struggle to be free, but givo up in despair.London, Sopt.11.\u2014A correspondent writes to the Times that King Mtesu, ruling Victoria Nyanza, Africa, has abolished slavery throughout his dominions.At least half a million slaves wero to bo liberated om Saturday.An interesting experiment was tried in the International Dairy in Kilburn Show- yard, just beforo tho exhibition finally closed.Milk immediately after being taken from the cows was poured inn small stream from a tap into a machine driven by steam power, which instantly separated the cream, delivering the cream through one pipe and tho skim milk through another In about an hour from the time when the Kerry cows gave the milk the cream had been extracted and made into butter by a common churn.The rate of performance is about 30 gallons separated per hour.No setting in pans, no great space occupied, no ico wanted for preserving the proper low temperature for cream- raising, and a saving of 24 or more hours in dealing with an article so quickly deteriorated in quality as milk, is aro the advantages.Against these has to bo set the power roquisite for driving the machine.There is no complexity about the apparatus, It iy just a metal bowl, like a deep wash-hand basin, fixed on tho top of an upright spindle, and driven with a speed of 5000 to 6,000 revolutions per minute.The separation of the cream or fatty particles of the milk is effected by centrifugal action ; the milk, continuously fed in by a central pipe, enters at the top, and passing down to the bottom, flies to the sides of the howl, leaving its lighter cream particles in the middle, and the continuous supply of milk to the bottom raises and expels the collected cream by an exit pipe at the top.In a speech delivered at Oban, Scotland, the Duke of Argyll talked about American agriculturs, and made some comparisons between the depression in America and the depression in England, He had been present 4t a meeting of American dairy farmers, held to consider the prevailing distress\u2014he docs not say where.Some of the farmers told him that the prices they got for produce would not pay interest on the capital they had invested, reckoning nothing for labor and other outlay.This seems to have surprised the Duke, as well it might, and he afterward asked an old farmer why it was they made no outcry about hard times,as the English farmers do.The man answered that in America the farmers owned their farms, and being ready to sell at any time were not foolish enough to depreciate their own property.In England, on the other hand, the farmers hired their land, and it was for their interest to cry down the value.The Duke thought this view à shrewd one, and intimated that thero was much truth in it.Brevet-Major Hackett, 90th Regiment, who has just arrived in England from Natal, where ho lost the sight of both cyes in action, is to reccive theo retirement ofa substantive major, and the rank of lieutenant-colonel, in addition to the permanent pension for wounds.A Vienna correspondent reports that in consequence of the bad harvest and numerous floods, the distress in parte of Hun threatens to become appalling during the winter, The\u201d Temet Banat district is threatened with famine.Some of the inhabitants are preparing to cmi- te to Servia.A despatch from Dublin says that a nsiderable portion of the Irish harvest is irreparably lost, but if fine weather continue two or three weeks there will be very large amount saved.\u2018 The now British iron-clad turret ram Agamemnon, carrying four thirty-eight ton guns, and of 8,492 tons burthen, with engines 6,000 horse-power, was successfully launched last week at Chatham, England.8 application of cold, wet, common whitening placed on immediately is an invaluable remedy for a burn.For inflammatory rheumatism take half peter, put in had half an ounce of sweet oil, bathe the parts affected, and a cure will be effected. i + i P= EE I \u2014 THR CANADIAN GLEANER is ed every Thursday at noon.Subscription |.Peace for tho county.\u201d $1.50 a-year in advance, postage free.Single ies, four cents each.One dollar pays|Of the Act requires the corporation to, publish- \u201c of the locality, or by a Justice Another section | for eight months'subscription,twodollarsfor| bury any human body found within its| a year and four months.Advertisementsare |.! charged seven cents per line for the first insertion and three cents for eachsubsequent LovELL'S INTERMEDIATE GEOGRAPHY.J.inssrtion.Advertisements of Farms for Sale not over 10 lines aro inserted three times | or 81.ROBERT SELLAR,Proprietor.Al Nz y) he Canadian Gleaner HUNTINGDON, THURSDAY, SEPT.25, 1879.STORMY meetings of the shareholders of the Consolidated bank were held in Montreal last week.Sir Francis .Hincks, against the strongly expressed wish of those present, persisted in presiding and refused to resign his position as President of the bank.His affectation of superior wisdom, which is characteristic of him, was never more offensively displayed, and he treated the wronged shareholders as if they were children whose ignorance he pitied when it did not amuse him.The facts brought out relative to the management of the bank were worse than conjectured.Not only were immense sums advanced to men of straw, but the cash on hand reported monthly to Government did not exist, being represented by worthless bons.The accounts of certain favorite customers were deliberately falsified on the books, they being represented as owing much less than they really were, while, against the plain enactment of the banking act, money was lent on mortgage and advances made on imaginary goods in store.Sir Francis Hincks threw the whole blame on the manager, Mr Renny, and professed total ignorance of the irregularities that were going on.The shareholders may well ask what they paid him .a large salary for as President, if it were not to look after the business of the bank ?It is incredible that he was ignorant of what was going on, and his conniving at Renny's escape to the States strengthens the belief that he knew all.If he did not, his ignorance was criminal, and the law should hold him responsible for the acts of subordinates to look after whom was his duty.WiTH the money got by the sale of the River du Loup branch, the Grand Trunk has bought an independent line of railroad through Michigan to Chieago, and may possibly yet secure a connection with St Paul and Manitoba.This extension of the Grand Trunk may be a good thing for the shareholders, but it is certainly against the interests of Canada.For years back the complaint has been that the Company paid more attention to through than local business, and it will be worse hereafter, for it is now substantially an American line.A union between it and the Great Western is highly probable, when the carrying trade of the Dominion will be controlled by a monopoly.Lorp BEACONSFIELD's speech at Ayles- bury is such an absurd travesty of the truth, that it is reasonable to suppose the report is erroneous.Instead of \u201cnearly all the chief landholders in the extreme Western States of America\u201d having sold out to take up land in Manitoba, it is a melancholy fact that no inconsiderable proportion of those who left Canada with the design of settling in Manitoba, have chosen Dakota.Supposing all Beacons- field\u2019s brilliant imagination pictures were true, what consolation would it be to the farmers of England to be told that an \u201cillimitable and fertile wilderness\u201d was about to be brought into cultivation and its products placed in competition with theirs 1 The Globe states that Sir John A.Macdonald is Beaconsfield\u2019s \u201c high authority.\u201d \u2018 AFTER holding a series of enthusiastic meetings in the Townships, Mr Joly has returned to Quebec, where, at a meeting after vespers on Sunday, Mr Mercier stated that, if the Council refused, on its meeting next month, to pass the Supplies, à dissolution would be asked.\u2014\u2014\u2014 IN our issue of the 14th ult.there appeared à critique on a Bill then before the House of assembly in relation to Coroners Inquests.Since that time the Bill has become law but in a considerably modified form.As it then stood the coroner required a sworn complaint before holding an inquest ; when the bill came up for its third reading it was altered thus: \u201cNo * coroner shall hold an inquest on the * death of any person unless he is furnished \u201c with a certificate establishing that there \u201cis reason to suspect that such death has \u201cbeen caused by the commission of a * erime, or when such inquest is demanded \u201c by & requisition in writing signed by the Lovell, publisher.Price 63 cents, | This is a new geography, containing: many of the cuts of Easy Lessons in Geography, which it is evidently designed to: supplant.The execution of the maps! leave nothing to be desired, and are so in-' finitely superior to those in Easy Lessons | that the book is well worth the additional ' 20 cents.We wish the letter-press were equal to the maps, which it is not, for many of the answers are inaccurate, while both questions and answers are formal and pedantic to an irritating degree.In preparing the map of this Province the principle should have been gone upon of giv-| ing the chief lieu of each county.This, has not been done, and the scholar in this county will not find Huntingdon.He will, however, be able to pick out St Louis, which ought to be Port Lewis, and St Cecile (the name of the parish) instead of Valleyfield.In binding, paper and ress-work the book is superior to anything that has yet proceeded from a Canadian publisher of school books.&& Judge Bélanger opens the Circuit Court in this village on Monday to take evidence on the Black brook case.The Court of Queen's Bench begins on Wednesday, when the St Louis Protestants will; be arraigned.The three Catholics last\u2019 convicted and who did not pay their fines, | have appealed.& The property at Ste Martine, Le- longing to the late Hon.L.Renaud, including residence, mills, &c., was knocked down to Julien Hébért, well known as a horse dealer in Chateauguay, for, includ- : ing costs, about £19,000.There was a.keen competition among bidders for the! property.: K&F On Friday evening aSunday-school concert was held in the Methodist church.Mr Ayres has had the scholars in training: for some time, and the little ones sang with admirable precision a number of pieces and choruses.The quartette,; where Miss Davis of Chateaugay, Mr and Mrs J.S.Cowan, and Mr Ayres, took part, was beautiful, as were several of the other concerted pieces and solos in which | Mr Ayres\u2019 older pupils assisted.The! pastor of the church, the Rev.James' Henderson, gave a pleasant address on the influence of music, and altogether a: very agreeable evening was spent.; && Huntingdon has not been success- | ful, as last year, in taking the first prize for apples at the Horticultural Society's | Exhibition, held last week in Montreal.The first was awarded to the Abbotsford collection, the second, 825, to Hunting- don.The Rev James Fulton was awarded second prize (50 cents each) for Fameuse and St Lawrences, and first (31 each) for Astrachans and Pomme Gris.Geo.B.| would have been taken of it, but as it was so plump, full, ripe and dry, the judges thought it could not be this pour growth, but must have been that of last year.Your obedient servant, Francis W.SuinriFF, M.D.THE REAPER.To the Editor of the Canadian Gleaner.Sir, \u2014None of those who took $20 and upwards in prizes, at the late Show, having made an offer for the Reaper, we wish to state that the competition is now open to any member of the Socicty who 13 & farmer, and that it will be awarded at noon.on the 1st October to the one who subscribes the most towards paying off the Society's debt.Boyn & Co WEATHER RECORD, 18th Sept.\u2014Cloudy with drizzling rain.19th\u2014A fine day.: 20th\u2014Dull in the morning afterwards clearing.21st\u2014A bright, pleasant day.22d\u2014Sharp frost during the night.Fine day with hot sun.23d\u2014Shower before daylight.Cloudy until noon, when it cleared.; 24th\u2014A dull wet day.Clearing up in the evening.WEATHER REPORT sy Da SirRiurs.Temperature Rain .Highest Lowest in inches 17 Sept .64 45 .140 18 « \u2026 55 45 .070 15 « \u2026.60 41 veep .000 20 6 61 43 Lune .W00 21 + \u2026.GZ 37 .L000 23 « .\u2026 6 33.000 23 42e TO 47 Les 140 THE MECHANICS BANK.Ox the 25th of August Mr Louis G.St Jean, by his attorneys, Messrs Geotfrion & Co, made a petition for a writ of attacli- ment against the bank.The bank, represented by Mr Gilman, opposed and asked {a suspension of all proceedings for three months longer.The Hon Mr Justice Papiucan, without granting either petition, ordered either Messrs Court and McIntosh to call a meeting of the creditors as soon as possible.The bank appealed from this order.Mr St Jean declined to move in the matter.Mr Joseph Wylie, a creditor for over $12,000, by his attorneys, Messrs Trenholm, Maclaren and Taylor, made a petition in the Court of Appeals to Le allowed to intervene and have the writ of appeal taken by the bank quashed, claiming that it was taken improvidently and without right.Judgment was given this morning maintaining Mr Wylie's position, and quashing the writ with costs against the bank.On Saturday last Andrew Somerville, Esq., of Huntingdon, Que., another creditor of the bank for $1100, by his attorneys, Messrs Trenholme, Maclaren & Taylor, applied for a writ of attachment against the bank, on which by its attorneys, Messrs Gilman & Holton, asked till to-day to fyle an answer.While the case Arthur Roberts, D.McFee, and Capt.D.| ;same can be made ; Messrs P.McFarlane, brightens the pace improves.of the ' had been an inferior sample no notice |men and farmers to become members of hearted 1 ladies indulging in such exclama- e this Association, in order to take steps to tions as \u201cpoor little dear,\u201d \u201csweet little catublish an equitable basis to earry on, pet,\u201d \u201chush a bye,\u201d &c.An elderly matron, the dairy business within this district.more thoughtful than the young ladies, Messrs W.B.Johnson, Robert Ferns, produces a peppermint, and after master ean Baptiste has taken a rmall quantity McNaughton, were appointed a Committee of this soothing confection, he contentedly to investigate and report at the next falls off again to sleep.meeting of this Association as to what; Charlie starts off for some unknown would be a just amount to charge per 1b | point for a piece more candle, the rest of for the manufacture of butter and cheese, jus taking advantage of the dead halt, as and Messrs Turcotte, Oliver, and P.Mc- the rain was pouring in torrents, to shut Farlane were appointed to report as to'down the curtains and compose ourselves what amount, as wages, should be paid: for a nap, only to be wakened up in about per month for its manufacture ; Thomas half an hour to find that Charlie had re- Helin, jr., A.Wilson, P.MeGinnis, D.C.| turned without the candle.But the earl Boyce, and D.White, to report as to the 'dawn beginning to chase away the dar best kind of tubs or firkins to be used in shadows; on we go, and under the good | shipping butter, and how or where the guidance of the O'Neill, as the morning ears o Edwards of Covey Hill received 2d for) was in progress to-day before Mr Justice Astrachans 50c, Pomme Gris 50¢, Seedling ! Jetté, word was brought from the Court not before exhibited #1, and collection of | of Appeals that the appeal taken by the crab apples $3, and in addition the special bank had been quashed.rize of 815 for the best and largest col-! The bank being thus cornered, a peti- ection of apples from a single grower.tion was prepared in the name of Mr #& Messrs Boyd & Co.sent one of Archibald i O.Weaver, who it is under- their threshing-mills to the Toronto exhi- 'stood is a brother-in-law of Mr Gilman bition, where it was awarded a diploma.|aud a creditor to the amount of 5228, and The medal went to a ten-horse power mill.4 M.M.Smith has at last received his appointment as Collector of Customs for the Port of Dundee.It is about 4} years since he was ordered to that port from Trout River.&& Through a mistake in the return of the judges, the prizes for the undermentioned flowers were wrongly reported and should have read as follows: Dr Shirriff, Begonia Rex 3d prize 23¢c, Pink Begonia ad 25e, Red Begonia 3d 23c, Hoya Carnosa 2d 50c, Blotched-leaf Geranium 2d 50c, Double White Petunia 1st 75¢, Zea Japonica 2d 50c.&& A Latrosse match played last Saturday afternoon at Franklin between the club of that locality and the Athelstan club, resulted in a victory for the Franklin lads.f 6\" Diphtheria has again made its| dreaded appearance in Franklin and in: Covey Hill in Havelock.- && At the preliminary examination of the Provincial Medical Association, George | R.Shirriff of this village was admitted to the study of medicine.& The mail contract from St Anicet to Huntingdon has been awarded to Jeremiah Sullivan, and from St Anicet to Port Levis, three times a weak, to Charles Le- | GC THÉ CORN AT THE SHOW.HUNTINGDON, Sept.22, 1879.To the Editor of the Gleaner.Srn,\u2014In your issue of the 18th, when commenting upon the vegetable department, you state that the judges had a dispute as to some of the corn being» of last year's growth, and all such was set aside.I accidentally heard that my sample was one of the ruled-out specimens, and on enquiry of the Secretary learned that my information was correct.Although it is scarcely necessary for me to deny such a contemptible act, yet I beg to state that the judges made a serious mistake, and are not such good detectors as they imagined.The corn was raised by me this season, and was pulled a week before the show as it was fully ripe.1 do not blame the judges for an error of judgment, but what blame them for is that they ought to have investigated the matter at the time, and which could have easily been done in ten minutes.It must be patent to every one, and somewhat consoling to myself, that my corn must have been one of the best specimens there, or it would not have been ruled out, it being notorious that this year's corn is \u201c Mayor or the Cure, pastor or missionary generally inferior to last year's.If mine + + presented before Judge Johnson, who granted leave for a writ to issue.The writ was immediately issued and addressed \u2018to Mr P.S.Stevenson, the cashier of the bank.There are a few peculiarities in the bank's proceedings, which might merit the attention of the creditors, some of which are that Mr Stevenson swore in Court this morning that he was, by authority of the directors, still receiving notes, cheques and deposits in payment of debts due the bank, thus giving a preference to debtors who by this means were enabled to buy up bills on the bank at from 20c.to 40c.on the dollar, and pay them at 100c.on the dollar in clearance of their indebtedness ; that Mr Weaver's petition, though taken through the office of Messrs Keller & McCorkill, is in Mr Gil- man\u2019s handwriting ; that the bank, as will be seen by the above, has been for a month fighting most persistently for delay, now on Mr Weaver's petition consents to it, accepts notice, and gets the writ issued to its cashier.The first meeting of creditors is called for the 9th of October, when there will probably be a contest as to whether the affairs of the bank shall be left in My Stevenson's hands and the present management's, or whether an entirely disinterested assignee will be appointed.\u2014Mon- treal Witness.[As will be seen by the foregoing proceedings, the Directors are continuing their old tactics.They used every means in their power to keep the bank out of insolvency, and when they could no longer do so their attorney was the means of having a writ issue addressed to the manager, and thus they will have control until the 9th of next month, after which date it will rest with the bill holders and depositors as to who will have control.The bank will use every means in their power to have their manager, or some other of their creatures, appointed assignee, and if they succed a pretty good idea may be formed as to how the matter will turn out.It is very important that every claim in this District of $100 or over should be proved and a power of attorney given to some person to represent the claimant at the meeting of creditors.Mr W.8.Maclaren of this village is prepared to attend to claims and have claimants represented at the meeting of creditors.It is necessary for claimants to file their bankbooks or notes with their claims as vouchers.) \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION.AT a meeting of the Dairymen\u2019s Association of this District, held in the Town Hall, Herdman, on Saturday, September 20th, it was resolved to invite all factory- ' Wm.Saunders, and James Barr, to report on the best place and way of selling the dairy products.It was moved by Wm.Saunders, seconded by D.C.Boyce : That the holding of the annual meeting of the Association be left to the President and Secretary to name the place and day of meeting, and give due notice of the same.STAGES AND STAGE DRIVERS.ONE often hears of strange incidents ;and comical situations in the stage traffic of this country.The following true story | of a ride from Port Lewis, experienced by some of Huntingdon\u2019s residents, will no doubt prove amusing, and help to demonstrate the absolute necessity of better communication with the St Lawrence at this point.The scene opens on -the arrival of the popular steamer St Francis at the Port Lewis wharf, time a few minutes past midnight,\" when ten or twelve half awake and tired passengers debark, to be immediately pounced upon by the rival stage proprietors in waiting to convey them to Huntingdon.Nine of the unfortunates, the writer amongst the number, make up their minds to take the old established line, and include representatives of the English, Irish, Scotch, and French Canadian nationalities, the youngest of the latter being about 11 months old.After getting nicely ensconsed, as well as the four seats would permit, we commence our journey.Arrived at the magnificent Port Lewis Hotel ! our driver changes place and \u201cOld Charlie\u201d assumes the position of Jehu.The night being dark as pitch, on a slight consultation taking place we decide to take the St Anicet road, on the principle that that \u201cround the road\u201d is the shortest way home, and off we go.Being by this time well woke up, we commence a lively conversation, when, just in the middle of a description of a pair of very fine twins, distant relations of the before-mentioned Old Charlie, bump, down goes the wheel into the diteh ; Charlie, in his lively description of the twins, having forgotten the horses.Exclamations of Oh mon Dieu ! Oh my, and slight screams from the ladies, and by a desperato effort we land on the road again, We proceed now at a walk with great caution for a short distance, as the night is so dark, when we suddenly come to a dead halt, stuck fast.On jumping out, we find this time that the pole has taken a fit, and instead of being between the horses it has plowed itself a bed in the ground, suddenly intending, if permitted, to take a nap.With a little persuasion, a few exclamations a la Josh Billings, we manage to right it, and on we proceed still more cautiously, our worthy Jehu by this time keeping remarkably quiet and trying his best to keep the road.After proceeding two or three miles we begin to cheer up and commence joking, when, all of a sudden, with a jerk that sends us all flying from our seats and awakes our now musical friend, the baby, who sets up a roar of indignation, we come to a dead halt,\u2014once more off the track into the ditch.Being near a couple of houses, in one of which a light is brightly burning, Charlie starts off in search of a lantern.The people of the house are enjoying a game of Euchre, (time 2 o'clock a,m.), and tell Charlie they don\u2019t own a lantern.Nothing daunted, Charlie proceeds to house No.2, and after sundry knocks calculated to wake the dead, he raises the whole house, dogs and all.After a long parley, in which the John Bull of the party covers the attack of Charlie on the Rouse with a roll of oilcloth, a lantern is procured with a piece of candle about two inches long.A good distance is now made with the help of the piece\u2019 of penny dip, which, however, evinces its dislike to the night air by sudden spits and sputters, which threaten its eclipse.Charlie, who is guiding us down hill with his eye on the side of the lamp, suddenly drives us into a pile of rocks, on one of which the off wheel sticks, and no backing of the horses will start it.The poor brutes now begin to resent this sort of treatment and try hard to pull us over the stones, the sure result of which to us would be over the fence and into the field without taking down the bars.Fear seizes the ladies, the poor baby roars, our red bearded Irish friend utters anathemas, and even our sedato elderly passenger with the white necktie (not a clergyman by the way), is tempted almost more than he is able to resist to say bad words.- All get out, hands and coats are smeared with mud in frantic endeavors to back the stage up hill, which is at last accomplished.Once more we take our seats with fear and trembling, and the descendant of the worthy O'Neills of Celtic Lore is prevailed upon to take the lines and guide us through our difficulties, We og slowly but surely on, the early morning ours growing still darker, till we reach a lonesome, awesome place between two woods whore, to our utter disgust, our candle burns out.We are now so completely in the dark that even the tails of the horses are not visible, A halt is called.Baby, astonished at the stoppage of the rocking motiof* wakes up, takes a sudden spasm of fear or som else, and lustily bawls his objections; tender bears and wolves leave with the night shadows, and, despite a heavy thunderstorm, we eventually arrive at Hunting- don, (8 miles from Port Lewis as the crow flies, 15 miles round the road), at a quarter past six, thus occupying 5} hours to make a journey which, if the Plank road were good, should be done in 1} hours, fatigued, shook to pieces, and utterly unfit for any active duties for the day.Can no remedy be speedily found ?H.CANADA.i Ottawa, Sept.18.\u2014The Free Press tonight says that Col.Gzowski on being questioned this morning regarding the Coteau Bridge matter, stated that he had been instructed by the Government to make a report, but having no information, as he rather evasively put it, he could not make one.He further added that he was at present engaged with the Dominion of Canada Rifle Matches but supposed that the Coteau would come in time.Last week 11,800 tubs of butter were shipped from Montreal for Great Britain.A sudden death took place on Friday morning at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, under peculiar circumstances.A young girl named Sophia McLachlan, about fourteen years of age, was accused last Tuesday of robbing a lady who employed her as sewing girl of a sum of money amounting to about $100.It is evident that the accusation preyed upon her mind and health, and she died suddenly about nine o'clock this morning.She protested to the last that she was innocent.At the inquest which was held this afternoon on the body before a coroner, medical evidence indicated as the cause of death paralysis of the heart, probably induced by strong excitement.Montreal, September 20.\u2014During the past few days there has been a good demand for cattle suitable for export, at 34c to 4ic per 1b live weight, but common stock is not wanted unless at very low figures.Alderman McShane, M.P.P., purchased 187 cattle at from $36 to $50 each; also 63 head from Compton breeders at $45 each, or at 4c to 43c per lb live weight.\u2018 Atthemeeting of the Consolidated shareholders, Col.Turnbull of Quebec spoke pretty plainly to Sir Francis Hincks, He said: On his arrival in.Montreal he must confess he was very much surprised to find that the Directors in this institution were prepared to attend the meeting with an overwhelming vote of shares held pre- viously\u2014shares bought from unfortunate people at a great reduction, and that it was their intention that day to vote down anything the unfortunate shareholders might ropose or bring forward.He would ask Sir Francis Hincks, this ex-Governor of the Windward Isles, this ex-Finance Minister, this man whom the Queen had honored by giving him a title, if he has any decency left to show it by resigning his position\u2014(loud applause)\u2014as President of the Bank.Two years ago, when the Bank was in a flourishing condition, the stockholders agreed to pay him an immense salary, $5,000, to look after their interests, and he now tells the shareholders that Mr Renny is the culprit, and had, if fact, asked the shareholders to believe that he was the only culprit.He thought the Directors were just as bad to allow this criminal to escape to the United States, and yet the President had come there that day, and.intends to hang on to this institution as long as there is a single dollar in its coffers.(Hisses and applguse) He did not know if there was any sense of decency left in those men.(Hisses, applause and cries of quite right from several adies.) If there was he would ask the President to retire.It would be far better for him on the morrow to break stones on the street than to come there and live on the balance of the money still left in the vaults of the bank.(Applause and hisses.Poor widows with hardly anything left from the wreck of their fortunes are induced to sell their Stock at one and two dollars a share, (Applause.) And who purchases their Stock ?Why, the Directors.What next?They will make a call and people will sell out right and left, and who will own the Bank ?Why Sir Francis Hincks and a few of the Directors, and within a short time these men will havea still larger fortune than they have now, and those who have none will have one.He would repeat, if these men had any sense of decencÿ left they would say to the stockholders: You manage the Bank in the füture, we abstain to-day from any further management of its affairs, He did hope for the credit of this magnificent city of \u2018Montreal, that the meeting would not return a man like Sir Francis Hincks for president.(Hisses, cheers, and applause.) A correspondent of the Witness writes : During a late visit to Oka I find many matters of interest regarding the mission work being done there.Their Sabbath services are truly interesting.The new missionary, the Rev Mr Dorion, formerly of Water 00, preaches to them in French a plain Gospel sermon, \"explaining the principles of our Saviour's teachings, all of which is interpreted by one of the chiefs.A more attentive audience than his qne could not wish for.The evening services take more of the nature of a prayer-meet- ing, the missionary reading \u201ca portion of Scripture and explaining as he reads.Ty, meeting is then open for prayer, &e, jy which several of the Indians engage.Frop, their earnest manner both in prayer and singing, one is impressed with the feelins that their devotion is true.The Sabbat}, school is also well attended and very interesting.Truly this mission is a bright light in a dark place.So much for the bright side of Oka.Now, turn over the leat; look at and study its dark page, We have been told that the Indians wer, this year better treated than formerly Let he following facts, which have taken place within the last six weeks, speak for themselves: A poor old Indian found, tree suitable for a canoe ; he made one and, leaving it to dry, it was seen a few day, after in the seminary yard.The old I.dian, with the Government agent, went t, see if Father Lacan would not return it The reply was, \u201cHe is a bad man; his sons were concerned in the burning of our church, so he cannot bave it.\u201d Truly, the good old father reverses the Gospel principles, and visits the supposed sins of the sons upon the poor old man.Again, two Indians\u2019 horses had bunches of thistle tied ta their tails, and had the Indians not discovered them in time they certainly would have run themsèlves to death.Another horse had a stick of wood tied in hj; mouth so as to prevent his eating.This poor beast, more wise than his tormenter; ran home, where he was relieved.Another horse had both tail and mane shaved off I will give you one more specimen of their trials, and close: An old-Indiañ woman, now in her seventy-sixth year, lost ler husband some sixteen years ago, and being alone in the world she gave her farm and house to the seminary on the condition that she was to receive $3 per month and a loaf of bread weekly, during life.Some two years ago she left the Church of Rome and joined the Protestant body.The seminary thought best, a short time agg, to stop her small annuity, but finding out their mistake they now continue to dole it out to her in the following manner, viz.: 31.25 in cash and $1.75 in store pay monthly, and the loaf weekly.The above are but a few of the many persecutions these poor Indians are subject to.The steamer Peruvian, which arrived at Quebec on Sunday, had on board Sir John A.Macdonald, Sir A.T.Galt, Hon.J.i Robinson and five English delegates invited by the Canadian Government tu visit and report on our unsettled lands.The Marquette Review publishes an interesting account of a duel between Sitting Bull and a Crow warrior, which occurred after the fight in the 20th June, between 200 lodges of Sioux, who were south of the border after buffalo and two companies of United States soldiers and one hundred and fifty Cheyennes and Crows.Sitting Bull accepted the challenge and recrossed the line, the result being that he shot the Crow, scalping him and taking possession of his horse.In the retreat across Milk river into Canada, Sitting Bull y the light warriors, covering the movement.and was himself the last to cross.An extraordinary and at the same time fatal occurrence took place at Saddle Lake, twenty-five miles east of Victoria, on the 16th ult.It appears that on the after noon of that day a whirlwind swept over the country in that vicinity and caught up a young Indian child, still too small tu walk, and carried it a considerable distance -over the lake and it fell into the water before the eyes of its agonized parents and before any attempt could be made to rescue it, it was drowned.= All efforts te recover the body were unavailing, and the mother insisted upon the party leaving the place as she averred that the lake was bewitched by an evil spirit that had carried away her babe.The Cornwall Freeholder says :\u2014Under the National Policy wages have been cut down in all the woollen and cotton mills and at Sherbrooke have made largo reductions in the number of their hands, thereby throwing out of employment hundreds of men, women, and children Where is that constant employment, and where are those higher wages, which wer promised by the peddlers of the National olicy ?No bigger fraud was ever per- are keen to avenge it.Some white men are too bad for civilization.Six of them up on Manitoulin went into an Indian's corn field, stole the corn, lit a fire, and began cooking and eatin: the plunder.The Indian remonstrating they pelted him with the cobs.THE BEAUHARNOIS AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.Tae show of this society was held at St Louis de Gonzague on Thursday.Tl morning was dull and threatening, and about 8 o'clock a drizzling rain began, which continued at intervals until on o'clock when a pelting shower came on.which drove the people under cover.After that.the weather improved, and the after noon was dry, tho\u2019 chilly.The weather kept a great many at home, and, consider: ing all things, it was surprising to sce many turnout, there being about 1500 0 the grounds.The disagreeable nature of the day did nat prevent exhibitors coming forward, and -there was a fair display.especially of stock.The Horses were highly creditable, an in 2-year old horse colts, and possibly also\" brood mares, superior to the heavy classes at Huntingdon fair.The aged stallion were not particularly good, there being to! many inferior animals among them.The firat prize went to a Clyde off the Brodie horse, of a very handsome color, squar\u2019 make and pony build.The second was © Glasgow, the third off Veto, and the fourth was à very nice horse of light weight off True Blue.The first prize horse-colt was a particularly fine animal, and if he keeps his growth will be one of the hear joat horses in the District.His preset\u2019 weight is 14351bs.Both he and the secon! Gs Seal EE se PTE ne aN ET personally commanded the rear guard of 3 Under the National Policy the large wool- 3 len mills at Almonte have been completely ;\u2018 shut down, and the mills here, at Coboury.\u2018à petrated upen the people, and now they | PY TAR LIER prize colt sre off Glasgow.The fillies made a tolerable show, first and third prizes went to Conquerors colts ; the second and fourth to Glasgow\u2019s.The brood mares were of great merit and very numerous, no less than 22 coming into the ring, of whom 18 had Lord 'Haddo foals.The judges had much difficulty in making 8 selection, finally giving the first prize to a mare with a Sir Colin colt, which, tho\u2019 in anything but good order, was the largest on the ground.The other three prizes went to mares with Lord Haddo colts.The teams were nothing remarkable, and were not to be compared with the spans that used to fill the ring of this societ 8 or 10 years ago.Owing to blemishes, more than one likely teamn was ruled out, the first prize being finally awarded to a span of 3-year old colts.There was one mare with a mule foal and a span of mules entered, to which prizes were awarded.The jack, owned by Laframboise, has been sold to parties near Fort Covington.We are not sure that a mistake has not been made in abandoning the rearing of animals so superior to the horse in hardiness, immunity from disease, and longevity.A mule will do as much work asa horse of equal weight, and can be kept at one-half the expense.oo A year ago last spring the society commissioned Mr McCormick to dispose of Glasgow and get another draft horse in his stead.After some difficulty, an exchange was made with Thomas Greenwood of Mitchell, Ont, who gave Lord Haddo for Glasgow and $900.Lord Haddo is an imported horse, and a Clyde of massive frame and great action.He is 9 yearsold, of black color with white points, and weighs fully 1800lbs.He is not the style of Clyde hitherto in favor of this District, standing high with long limbs.He has a number of good points, his eye, front and barrel being particularly commendable, and some defects that are obvious to any one.He is evidently an animal of great power and vitality, and we are not surprised to hear that in Ontario his colts are sought after.Of the 18 that were exhibited it was remarkable to observe how much they resembled him, which is always a good sign in a sire.The reaper given by Messrs Greene Bros.& Co.was awarded to Mr Young as owner of the best colt off Lord Haddo, and Mr McCormick gave three special prizes to the three next best.In Ayrshires there is always a fipe display at this show, and this year was no exception, altho\u2019 it was not quite as large asusual.The two aged bulls and the two prize cows were fine specimens of their breed.In the grades, the first prize cow was as finely a shaped model of a milker as there is in the District.The first prize bull and heifer calves were of extraordinary size, and did credit to their breeder, Of both Sheep and Swine there was an admirable exhibit.In Implements and Vehicles there was nothing particularly noteworthy.There was one good plow and two apparently well-built double waggons.The buggies were not meritorious, Messrs Bryson & McCormick had their usual assortment of farm machinery, for which they are agents, on exhibition, The building was rather meagrely filled.Of butter there was a large display.The first prize tub was fresh and newly made; the other prize tubs were very good, indeed.John Rigg had one of his factory cheese; the dairy cheese was very ordinary.In vegetables there was a fair competition, the onions and beets being especially good.Among the apples there were a number of average specimens of St Lawrences and Fameuse, and one of Pomme Gris.There were several entries of different kinds of plums and a plate of grapes, to none of which, very stupidly, the society gave a prize.The domestic manufactures were excellent; the yarn, the flannel, and the blankets especially.The first prize blankets were the best we ever saw ; so good, in fact, as to raise a suspicion as to their being entirely homemade.The quilts were very good, and it.was a shame there were so few prizes to divide among them.There 81 was not much fancy york, but what there was was creditable \"to the taste of the ladies of St Louis.There were two among the mottoes superior in design and colors to any at the Huntingdon fair, and there was some beautifully executed worsted work.A small picture frame in leather, looking at a distance like carved wood, was admirably got up, but we are afraid got no recognition from the judges.HORSES.Judges: Onezime Lapensée, James Steele, and Julien Hébért._ Stallions, 11 entries : 1st.Francois Beaun- lieu $7, 2nd Widow Anteine Sauvé $5, 3rd ax ichel Leduc $4, 4th Enstache Bergovin, sr., Brood Mares, 26 entries : 1st Donald Cumming $7, 2nd Jos.Trudeau 85, 3rd William Young 84, 4th Archd McEwen 83.Colts sired by Horse Lord Haddo, 18 entries: lst William Young, the Reaper, 2nd Xavier Laberge 83, 3d Joseph Gagnier jr 82, 4th Benjamin Leger §1.Horse Colts 2-years old, 9 entries: 1st Francis Turner 86, 2nd Jos.Amiot 84, 3rd David Vian $7, 4th E.H.Dansereau $2.Two-year old Fillies, 11 entries: 1st Archd McEwen $6, 2nd Edward Thompson, $4, 3rd James Howdon $3; 4th Nazaire Legault 82.Pairs of Draft Horses, 11 entries : 1st John Dickson §6, 2d John Howdon $4, 3d Julien Sauvé $3, 4th Andrew Hunter 82.Brood Mare with Mule foal, 1 entry: Jos.Laframboise $5.Pair of Mules : Jos.Laframboisé $3.CATTLE.Judgos: James Cottingham, Jos.Degros- siliens and John Muir.AYRSHIRES.Aged Bulls, 4 ontries: 1st John Symons $6, 20d Thomas Hamilton $5.Young Bulls, 1entry: 1st Archd Me.Cormick 85.Bull Calves, 3 entries: 1st Thos.Drysdall $3, 20d William Gardner $2.Milch Cows, 6 entries : 1st David Benning #6, 20d Thomas Watson $0.Two-year old Heifers, 2 entries: 1st David Benning $5, 20d Thomas Watson $4, > - One-year old Heifers, 1 entry : 1st David Benning $4.Heifer Calf, 1 entry : 1st David Benning $3.GRADES.Aged Bulls, 7 entries: 1st John Sawyers #5, Zod Jobn Gardver $4, 3rd Isidore Pilon | $3, 4th James Lynch 82.Two-year old Balls, 3 entrics: lst Wm.Young $4, 20d Donald Camming $3, 3rd Fre.Beaulion $2.One-year old Bulls, 9 entries: 1st John Dickson $4, 2nd A.J.McEwen $3, 3rd J.L.Leclere $2, 4th Neil McMullen $1.Bull Calves, 3 ootries: lst Wm, Sangster 83, 20d Frs.Dickson $2, 3rd William Goodall $1.Mileh Cows, 6 entries: 1st Wm.Gardner 86, 2nd Thos.Watson 85, 3rd John Dickson 84, 4th Fre.Laframboise $3.Two-year old Heifers, 10 entries : 1st Wm.Young $4, 2ud Andrew Hunter (St Louis) 83, 3rd John Dickson $2, 4th Wm.Goodal 81.One-year old Heifers, 9 entries: 1st Archd McCormick $4, 8nd George Young $3, 3rd Andrew Hanter 82, 4th Fra.Dickson §1.Heifer Calves, 8 entrios: 1st Wm.Sangster $3, 20d John Dickson $2, 3rd John Gardner 81.SHEEP axp SWINE, Judges: James Cowan, Allan's Corners; -Archd Bell, and J.B.Laviolette.Aged Rams, G entries : 1st Thos.Drysdall 84, 2nd Alex.McCaig 83, 3rd Joseph Brault $2, 4th John Sawyers 81.Rams of 1 shear, 8 entries: 1st David Benning 84, 2nd Olien Marchand 83, 4th Neil McMillen 81.Ram Lambs, 10 entries: 1st David Bon- ning 84, 2nd Thos.Drysdall $3, 3rd Jos.Brauit $2, 4th John Dickson $1.Aged Ewes, 7 entries : 1st David Benning $4, 20d Jor.Braalt 83, 3rd Wm.Goodall 82, 4th John Dickson 81.Pair Ewes of 1 shear, 9 entries :.1st John Dickeon 84, 2nd David Benning &3, 3d Wm Goodall $2, 4th André Agneaux $1.Pair Ewe Lambs, 7 entries: 1st Archd McCormiek $4, 2nd John Maybon 83, 3rd Wm.Goodall 82, 4th John Dickson $1.Aged Boars, leutry : 1st John Symons 85.Young Boars, 4 entries: 1st A.McCormick $4, 2nd David Benning 82, 3rd Jos.Cardinal $2, 4th Eustache Bergevin $1.* Aged Sows, 9'entries: 1st Charles Tait $5, 2nd A, McCormick $4, 3rd Fis, Laframboise $3, 4th Wm.Gardner $2.Young Sows, 11 entries: 1st Archd Me- Ewen $4, 2nd Chas, Tait $2, 4th William Gardner $1.: DAIRY PRODUCE, &c.Judges: Robert Ness, Charles Mcl'oo and Antoine Hébért.Tub Butter, 17 entrios : 1st Wm.Sangster $4, 2nd William Hall sr $3, 3rd Donald Cumming $2, 4th Androw Elliot $1.Chtese, 5 entrics : 1st Wm.Carruthers $4, 2nd Wm.Goodall $3, 3rd Andrew Hunter $2, 4th Donald Cooke $1.Factory Cheese, 1 entry: 1st John Rigg $4 Onions, 9 entries : 1st Etienne Geraurd $2, 2nd Pierre Faubert $1, 3rd Pierre Legault 50c.Apples, 8 entries: 1st Francis Turner $2, 2nd James Tait $1, 3rd Wm.Gardner 50c.Tobacco, 3-entries : 1st Nap.Dion $2, 2d Antoine Poirier $1, 3rd Ben Viau, sr., 50c.Maple Sugar, 4 ontries : 1st Julien Sauvé $1, 2nd Joseph Sauvé 7c.Honey, 6 entries: 1st I.Iaframboise $1, 2nd Isidore Pilon 75¢, 3rd Donald Cooke 50e.Homomadé Soap, T entries: 1st E.L.Normandin $1, 2nd Antoine Poirier 75c, 3d Dame Jos.Heneau 50c.Pumpkins, 5 entries : 1st Leandre Vacher $1, 2nd Nap.Dion 75c, 3rd Julien Poirier 50e.Table Beets, 14 entrios: let Nap.Dion $1, 2nd John Sommerville 75¢, 3rd Jos.Picard 50e.* Extra: E.L.Normandin, tomatoes, 13c.FARM IMPLEMENTS, &c.Judges © John Blackett, Joseph Coté, and Evarish Chatrand.- Iron Plow, 5 ontries : 1st Alex.Brown $4, 2nd Moise Emard $3, 3rd Hor.Lecavilier $2.Cultivators, 3 entries: 1st Antoino Coté 84, 2nd Alex.Brown 83.Harrows, 1 ontry : 1st Emile Bertrand $2.Waggons, 2 entries: 1st Moise Emard $5, 2nd Cyrille Lapointé $4.bogey, 2 entries: lst Jos.Dandurand 85, 2nd Moise Emard $4.: Extra.U.J.Robillard, fanners, $4.\u2018Wm.Sangster, express 81.25, clothes\u2019 drier Coarse Boots, 2 entries: 1st Benjamin Viau $2, 2nd Roger Hébért 81.Fine Boots, 2 entries: 1st Benjamin Viau 82, 2nd Roger Hébért $1.DOMESTIC ARTICLES.Judges: James McGerrigle, Moise Bergevin and Gilbert Hébért.Etoffe, 10 entries: 1st Sylvestre Leriger $4, 20d Joseph Gagnier 83, 3rd Narcisse Lapage $2, 4th F.Roy fils de Charles $1.llannel, 16 ontries : 1st Auguste Bergevin 83, 2nd Jos.Sauvé $2, 8rd Eustache Ber- gevin 81, 4th Sylvestre Leriger 50c.Yam, 6 entries: 1st Alex.McCaig 81, 2nd Fra.Poirier $50e, 3rd J.B.Poirier 25c.Flax, 4 entries : 1st Chas.Faubert $2, 2d J.L.Celere $1, 3rd Pascal Menard 50c.Linen, 2 entries : 1st Jos.Fortier $3, 2nd Michel St Deais 82.Shawls, 11 entries : 1st Ben.Viau $1, 2d Bon.Vinet 60¢, 3rd Pascal Menard 25c, Blankets, 8 entries: 1st Antoine Poirier 82, 2nd Agnace Boyer $1, 3rd Frs.Poirier c, .Quilts, 16 entries: 1st Chas.Farrell $2, 2nd Paul Tessier 81, 3rd J.B.Mercier 50c.Stockings, 9 entries : 1st Antoine Poirier 78c, 2nd Napoleon Dion 50c, 3rd Julien Sauvé 2bc.Embroidery: Mrs Jos.Cardinal $1.11.Montpetit, jacket 75c.Basile Par, tapestry 750.Fre.Turner, tidy 50c.Pierre Dorais, tapestry 2hc Chas.Leduc, petticoat 7Bc.Charles Farrell, petticoat 25c.Francis Turner, bearth-rug 25c.A.McCormick, rug 25c.: Henri Montpetit, pillows 250.Mrs Wm.Hall, wroath of flowers 75c.Mrs E.1.Normandin, muslin robe 2bc.A.McCormick, toilet set 250.H.Montpetit, basket, 25¢c.James Symons, sofa pillow 25¢.Donald Cook, piano-stool cover 20c.James Symons, shell basket 20c.James Tait, fancy picture 50c.H.Montpetit, fancy picture 50c.Gelasse Brault, picture frame 500.James Tait, motto 25c.Charles Leduc, motto 25c.Donald Cook, motto 25c.James Symons, motto 25c.William Hall, motto 28¢.James Tait, woolen tidy 28e.A.MoCormick, card basket, &c.30c.Maurice Lain, rag carpet 50c.Leduc & Fortin, invalid chair 82.| EER NEWS BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.Earl Beaconsfield delivered a speech at | the Agricaltrral banquet in Aylesbury, : England, on Thursday, and, referring to American competition with Great Britain, he said the greatest apprehension was felt in the United States that they could not compete with Canada owing to the high taxation and high wages.Since the surrender « of ol terdtories of the Hudson's ra anada been ssed of an Minitabie and fertile wilderness.Nearly all the chief landholders in the extreme Western States of America had sold out and gone to that wilderness and begun cultivation there.He had heard on high authority that Canada expected to outstrip the United States in competition for the European markets.He, therefore, advised the farmers of England not to be percipitate.Another high authority had informed him that, under all tho circumstances, the markets of the United States would be disturbed, and that, with the impulsive character of humanity in the United States, the Canadian wilderness would soon be occupied by millions.CAPTURE OF KING CETEWAYO, Cetewayo was taken by a pursuing party under the command of Col.Barrow.ome days before the King's capture he disbanded his followers and secreted himself in the bush.The British, under Col.Barrow, pursued him from kraal to kraal, burning kraals as Cetewayo and his constantly diminishing followers fled before them.His capture was finally made by surrounding him in the bush with a detachment of troops, and threatening to shoot him if he refused to surrender at once.He was alone and made no resistance.The few followers who accompanied the King in his flight left some weeks ago.His Prime Minister, two of his sons, and three brothers surrendered soon after the pursuit, and almost every day arms and cattle were surrendered to the English.Toward the end of his flight Cetewayo had no more than two or three followers, and these finally deserted him.The threat of Sir Garnet Wolseley that any chief harboring Cetewayo would be punished severly, and that his kraal would be burnt, had its effect in bringing about the capture of the King.The capture of the Zulu King ends the war in South Africa, though it is thought new \u2018troubles will arise in the settlement of the affairs of the conquered territory.When Cetewayo was captured he was utterly prostrated, and his followers were too weak to resist.The King and his followers were taken to Ulundi.During the march eleven of his followers tried to escape.Six were successful and the other five were shot.Further particulars of the capture of Cetewayo have been received, from which it appears that it was somewhat by accident that the capture was effected.A patrol of King\u2019s Dragoon Guards scoutin in the Nyome forest, fell upon his trail, followed it up, and ran him to earth.Finding himself surrounded, and resistance being altogether impracticable, the African monarch advanced to the captain of the patrol and tendered him his surrender.He was in a greatly exhausted condition, and_ bore on his person evidences of much privation, suffering, and mental disquietude, but he maintained remarkable self-composure, and in offering his surrender said that he had no doubt his captors would extend to him the rights of a royal prisoner of war.Details of the capture of Cetewayo show that while the King was being watched on one side by Lord Gifford and scouts, Major Marler with a detachment of dragoons approached him from the other.Lord Gifford, whose presence was unknown to the King, intended to defer the attack until nightfall to prevent his escape into the dense bush.Cetewayo \u2018had caught a glimpse of the dragoons, but thought in consequence of the bad condition of the ground they could not approach quietly.Major Marler directed the removal of all noisy accoutrements and sent a native contingent ahead.Thesesurround- ed the kraal where the king had taken refuge, and Major Marler then rode up and called Cetewayo to come out.The king, after some parley, complied.He reserved a dignified demeanor, and asked to be shot.He was taken down to the coast, and put on board a man-of-war, which sailed Town.London, September 22\u2014A despatoh from Sir Garnet Wolseley to the War Office announces that he has signed terms of peace with all the Zulu Chiefs, and effected a thorough understanding with them, which, in his opinion, will preserve the future peace of South Africa.One of the provisions of this treaty put an end to the Zulu military system, whereby the young warriors of the tribes were not permitted to marry until they had served in battle and distinguished themselves hy bravery.The Chiefs who signed the treaty undertake to prohibit the importation of arms into their territories, and | promise to make no declaration of wars upon other tribes without the consent of the British authorities at Cape Town.AFGHANISTAN.The Viceroy of India telegraphs: \u201cI have notified the Ameer that a strong British force will march speedily on Cabul to his relief, and he must use all resources to co-operate.The Ameer responds: \u2018I have written to say that for the past eight days 1 have preserved myself and family by the good offices of \u2018those friendly to me, and also By bribes to the rebels, Certain persons of high ition, in these provinces have become rebellious, I am watching every quarter carefully.I trust God for the o portunity of showing my sincere friendship for the British Government and securing my good name before the world.\u2019 \u201d at once with him for Cape] London, September 22.\u2014A despatch from the Fie of India says a number.of Afghans attacked the Britiah camp at Shutergarden, but were repulsed.A correspondent at Ali Khybel reports | that an important cmbassy has arrived.from the Ameer of Afghanistan bringing.i assurances of his fidelity.A nol war is being preached in the Khost Valley and among the Mongolians.(reat prepara.\u2019 tions are being made by the rebels, and a igorous resistance may be expected at Cabul pee A correspondent at Allahabad re ria, that the camp of the 72nd gi- | ment at Shutargarden was attacked on, the night of the 19th inst.A few casualties are reported.; À despatch from Allahabad says that tho Mongrels waylaid a returning British | convoy fur miles east of Shutergarden, | and ran it off 47 miles, after killing the guard and 16 muleteers.ITEMS.| A despatch from Pesth says the floor of a synagogue at Szalnac, near Muncacs, gave way on Saturday, owing to overcrowding.Eighteen women were killed and eight seriously injured.\u2018 St Petersburg, Sept.19.\u2014Daniloff, the eminent Russian engineer, has commenced work to unite the Black and Caspian Seas | by connecting various rivers, Large par-| ties of workmen havo Leen despatched from Astrachan.| The Marquis of Hartington, speaking at Newcastle on Friday, said that the equalization of the franchise and the redistribution of seats in Parliament, and local government and land law reforms, must soon be undertaken.Dublin, Sept.20.\u2014A great land mect- ing was held at Limerick Junction on Sunday.It was an orderly affair notwithstanding the enormous crowds in attendance.A similar meeting was held on the same day at Tipperary.Eighteen thousand people were present.Rosolu- tions were passed calling for the abatement of rents and the establishment of a peasant proprietary system.The opinion of resident Irish landlords, agents, and others who have no interest in promoting the anti-rent agitation are rather encouraging, and they by no means endorse the statements relative to distress made by the agitators at public meetings and in the local press.A Strasburg despatch says, \u201cUpon the entry of the Kinperor William many shops were closed.Only the official buildings were profusely decorated.The French newspapers have become much more outspoken concerning Alsace-Lorraine, the inhabitants of which have become also much more estranged from the Germans than two years ago when the Emperor William visited Strasburg and met a comparatively cordial reception.\u201d London, September 23\u2014Thoe Marquis of Salisbury\u2019s visit to Paris and his interview with Mr Waddington have completely dispelled the differences between England and France.UNITED STATES.Gen.Grant landed at San Francisco on Baturday from his 2 years tour round the world.lle was enthusiastically received.St Louis, Sept.19.\u2014Advices from Laney County state that on Tuesday two brothers named Burr and James Manus, near Kirbyville, quarrelled about a cow, when James shot and killed Burr.A younger Lréther then went home and procured a rifle and shot his brother James through the heart.Indianapolis, Sept.19.\u2014 Louis Gueting way executed at noon to-day.He murdered Mary McGlen a .ycar ago to-day, because she refused to renew a marriage engagement on account of his dissipation.He was under 20 years of age.Washington, Sept.19.\u2014A despatch from Santa Fe states that 40 Indians killed Capt Hooker's herd-guards at Ojaca- lienti, Sept.4th, and drove off the herd.The troops at Fort Bavard pursued the Indians.The following from Mclvers is received :\u2014\u201c We had a five hours\u2019 fight with all of a hundred Indians.We have ten killed and scveral wounded.All our stock is gone.1 have sent every available soldier out.\u201d Little Rock, Ark, Sept.19.\u2014A Fort Smith despatch says that Monday evening Jacob Irwin and Jas.Hazel were waylaid and killed by nnknown parties near Boggy Depot, Choctaw Nation.The murdered men are accused of extensive larcenies, and it is supposed they were lynched by a Vigilance Committee.Chateaugay, N.Y., has done a creditable thing in erecting a first-class school building at a cost of 87000.The Record describes it as being of red brick, three stories high, surmounted by a Mansard roof slated in two shades.The first and second*floors are similar in outlay and furniture, while the third floor is finished in one room, to be used as a hall for rhetorical exercises and entertainments by the school.The two class rooms on the first floor are 32x32 feet each, and are occupied by the primary &nd intermediate departments ; while the two rooms on the second floor (corresponding in size and finish to those below) are occupied by the grammar school and academic departments.Inthe basement are located the furnaces, and storerooms for fuel, ete.The exterior of the building presents a graceful and imposing appearance, which bespeaks the comfortable and perfect arrangement of the interior.Each room is peculiarl adapted to the purpose intended, eac being fitted with all modern improvements, well lighted, well ventilated, and altogether pleasant.The acoustic properties of the building are perfect, thus materially aiding both the teacher and the pupil, who do not have to speak louder than the ordinary tone of voice to be distinctly heard in all parts of the room.In fact, the building is all that could be desired.- Hop picking in this County will be g well nigh if not entirely completed this week, The quality was never better, but MISCELLANEOUS.A singular accident foued recent! in a Roman Catholic chu at Sencombe, gland, wher¢ Cardinal Manning was officiating.\u2018The surplice of one of the acolytes who was officiating at the altar came into contact with a lighted candle and was ignited.The blane was at once observed by the Rev E.Slaughter, who in a moment sprang across the altar steps, and extinguished the flame.A Kansas genius, representing himself: as a practical farmer has lately been visiting all tho fairs with a prise pumpkin, and took the premium every time.It measured seven feet in circumference and weighed 230 pounds.Several days ago at Council Giove, a rival farmer attempted to tap the pumpkin in the absence of its owner, to get some of the seeds, and discovered that it was made of wood.On Tuesday afternoon, 9th Sept., a riot occurred in Glasgow.About 300 men, mostly of the unemployed class, foroed their way into a number of shops in the northern part of the city, and helped themselves to the contents, and also rifled a bread van on the street.Several of the ringleaders have been apprehended.One day some years ago, when Her Majesty was standing on the public road Bal- moral, sketching the castle from a particular point, a flock of sheep approached.Her Majesty, being intent on her work, took little notice of the flock, and merel moved a little nearer the side of the road.A boy in charge of the sheep shouted at the top of a stentorian voice, \u201cStan\u2019 oot 0\u2019 the road, \u2018oman, and lat the shop gae by !\u201d Her Majesty not moving out of the way quite so fast as the shepherd wished, he again shouted, \u201cFat aro ye stan'in there for ?Gang oot o' that, and lat the sheep pass !\u201d One of Her Majesty's attendants, who had been at a distance, on hearing his royal mistress thus rudely assailed, went to the shepherd, and thus addressed hiw, \u201cDo you know who it is you have been speaking so rudely to, boy ¢\" \u201cNa\u2014I neither fen nor care ; but, be she fa\u2019 she likes, she sudna be i\u2019 the sheep's road.\u201d \u201cThat's the Queen,\u201d said the official.The boy looked astonished, and, after recovering his senses, said, with great simplicity, \u201cThe Queen ! Od, fut way disna she pit on claes that folk can ken her ?\" The tenant righters of Limerick, as they speaker suggested that the change demanded would make the people loyal ; but the people themselves said, \u201cWe don't want to be loyal ; we will never be 80 ;\" \u201cWe will tight for the rents by the rifle ;\u201d and then cheers were called and given threo times in succession \u201cfor the Fenians.\u201d When Mr Parnell spoke he said, \u201cIt is the \u201cduty of the Irish farmers to combine \u201c among themselves, and ask for a reduc- \u201c tion of rent, and if thay get no reduction \u201c where n reduction is necessary, then I \u201csay it is the duty of the tenant to pay \u201cno rent until he gets it\u201d Now, it is easy enough to imagine what mnst be the effect of such terrible advice on the minds of an excited peasantry, who are told that the land is their own ; that the Government and the landlords are confiseators ; and that, if the tenantry \u201ccombined in \u201cthat way\u2014if they stood together, and if, \u201c being refused a reasonable and just re- \u201c duction, they kept a firm grip of their \u201chomesteads, I can tell them that no \u201c power on earth could prevail against the \u201chundreds of thousands of the tenant- \u201c farmers of this country.\u201d The response of the meeting, so far as the landlords are concerned, is understood by tho expression \u201cGive them an ounce of \u201d Things do not appear to have been quite so violent at the Sunday demonstration at Bal- lyl:aunis, in the County Mayo, where Mr O'Connor Power aired his eloquence.Mr Power is not so popular as he was, and the enthusiasm was not so great asin ignoranee of Irish affairs, and to a certain extent he was right, for the Government have been making unwise concessions to the Home Rulers and the Ultramontane Hierarchy, and they are getting their reward in Limerick and Mayo.At the latter the Chief Secretary was named, but he was groaned.Then the Government were described as \u201ca bigoted, insolent, and alien \u201c faction,\u201d and the meeting added \u201cwith a \u201c crucifier at the head of it.\u201d This is the reward of the conciliatory measures of last Session.The people have not been conciliated ; they \u201cdon\u2019t want to be loyal ;\u201d and nothing that Lord Beaconsfield and his colleagues could do would remove the enmity to the Saxon.We are likely to have a stirring autumn and winter in Ireland.The excitement is already at the boiling point, although the crusade against the Government and the landlords has only begun.\u2014 Belfast News, Sept.6.A MARRIED On the 10th, at the residepce of the bride's father, by the Revd Dr Muir, Robes Brodie, Jr, of Coteau St Pierre, Montreal, to Jane, daughter of Archibald Ogilvie, Enq, of South Georgetown, On the 17th, at the residence of the bride\u2019s father, by the Revd Dr Muir, James Meldrum, Jr., of Montreal, to Elisabeth, daughter of Alexander Logan, Esq, South Georgetown.At Fort Covington, on the 17th inst, by the Revd C.N.Thomas, Simon G, Gleason, Esq., Fort Coving- ton, N.Y, to Jane, second daugbter of Thomas Cooper, Esq, La Guerre, P.Q.IED.After a lingering illness, at the residence of her son- in-law, Thomas Reed, Hart's Falls, N.Y, on Saturday, Sept.20th, Elspit G.Stevens, aged 51 yoars\u2014wife Peter Stevens of Clinton Mills.N.Y.VALLEY FIELD MARKET Ss.(By telegraph to .Peas, P 70 îts., 750 @ 00c.Barley P 501bs., 40c to 50c.Oats 40 Ps., 330 @ 00c.Bank of Montreal bills paid for grain.° Tonp & Nro0.s0N.the crop is light \u2014 Malone Gazette.BEAUHARNOIS MARKET.to the Gleaner.) .Poss, P70 bu, 750.@ 00 conta.Barley per 50îd-., 456 to 50c.Oats, P 401b, 30c 330._K.N.McPen, Grain Bayer.Mon ET GABRIEL CATTLE MARKET.ONTREAL Sept.22.\u2014Nineteen carloeds vf cattle and 4 carlonds of hoge were offered fur malo at Te market to-day, against 11 cars of cattle and 3 cars of hogs on Monday last.Shipplug cattle were is brisk demand, and fetched from 3jc to 44c per Ib live weight for fair to good, and Bc fur extra choive.À lot of very superior steers and heifers changed bands to-day at the top figure.There was alio u fair call = butchers cattle, which sold at from 3c to 3jc per La and à few good beasts at 4c.The quality of tole rings was Uctter than for some time past, Tara pecounted for the improve demand and the oy uces that was done.There was a moderate bus Row ranaacted in hogs at irom $4.40 to $4.75 put .Nocheep were offered, prices for which were | pomioally quoted at 4c per lb live weight Pepe \u2014 T AND UNDKR COST, the undernoted Goods A will now be sold for Cash ouly, at the following prices, during the great clearing sale now going on nt WILLIAX THIRD & Coa: Bright Refined Hootch Sugar only TACO: or 14 hs r $l.No 1 Portland Syrup 35¢ gallon ; former price Bust Fancy Soap sw ak 5 [PT u \" «Pres n Best Brown Family Soap Bo ¢ bar.: be Eddy'a No.| Matches loc @ box.2e Fine Saltin bags 10c @# bag.» Zoe Good Japan Tva 25c # Bb.\" No.} Whole Rice 44c # hh.No 1 Salmon 7c ¢ pound, ,.\" No 1 Lobsters 15: Wenn.* 25e No 1 Sardines 124c # box.LL.a 200 No.1 Layer Raisins 8c @ tb \" No.1 Currants 6c @n.° Loe Eddy's No.| paiuted Pails 15c.,,.\" 25¢ \u201c WVashboards 15c.\u201c 25e No.1 Brooms 18c \u201c he Ladies' White Carabric Handkerchivfs 20 each ; former price 134c.\u2014 Vadios White Cotton Hose at fic i pair: former peice 24e.Ladies\u2019 Fancy Dress Goods of every description mark ed down below cost.Ladies\u2019 Shawls aud Mautles at and under cost, Ladies\u2019 Prunella Gaiters 850c pair, former price $1 Ladies\u2019 Leather Balmoral high cut Boots 85¢ @ pair former price $1.50 Choice Printa, warranted fast colors, only 7 #7 yard.Good Heavy Urey Cotton be § yard, former price oe NolCotton Yarn $1.1048bundle of Shs \u201c 1 50 White Canton Flannel 15c # var.\u201c 1 All-wool Scarlot Flannel 20¢ @ yal \u20ac It Table-Covers 86c.\u2018 $1.50 Beautiful gilt Motto Frames 25¢ each « 45 Scotch, Canadinn & English Tweedn at and under cont.aud Fancy 8i:k Handkerchicfs, Gontlemen's Cotton Socks at be § paie ; former price Ihe, Gentlemen's Fancy Dress Shhtaat 25e cnehi ; former price §1.00, Men's Heavy Uuder Pants, 3740 pair, former price $1 Men's Brown Overafls B0c.ot 1.00 Men's No, 1 Long Boots $1 75 & pair + Boo Men's fancy Tweed Panta $1.25 pair \u201c 300 call themselves, had a time of it on Sun- Mens Teed Pants $2.50.\u201c 450 ; , ; « en's Tweed Vests $1.50.,.\u201c 2.94 day - According to report, some 20,000 of Men's Silk-mixed Tweed Conta $4 50 \u201c 0 06 them met in the Corn Market of the city.Mens Fancy Brace 17.¢omic., .40 and heard speeches from Mr Parnell and Men's Paper Collars 124c W box.« \u201can others.The speeches were bad enough ; ro Tord uate as hn orme price 8.50 .R saine © frunks $1.75, former price $2.75 but the feelings of the crowd were better Orockery, Glassware and Hardware illustrated by the \u201cVoices\u201d which occa- {at still further reductions, aud an immense quantity of sionally interrupted them.One speaker other goods too numorge to mention, at the same .« _ rate of digtount.g@™ Intending purchaners are ine said their object was to firotect their PFO- vited to call withont delay and wears splendid fine.party, and a \u201cVoice\u201d replied that it was to gains at and under Cost, an the whole and entire e done \u201cby physical force.\u201d The same Stock must positively be disponed of without nny further delay.TERMS CASH, WILLIAM THIRD & Cu.P-8\u2014Junt received and opened out 25 cases and packages of new gooda, comprising ladies\u2019 Fancy Dress Goods, Gloves, Fancy Ties, Tata, Paranole, Walking Shoes, &c.; also now atyles in Gentiemen's Felt Hats, Coats, Pants and Vests, White Dress Shirts, Buttoned Balmoral Hoots and Shoes and Pru- nella Gaiters, which will be aold at the nme rate of discount, W.T & CO.Huntingdon, May 15.1 AM LAMBS for Sale off the first prize Aged Ram nt the District Show.Apply at once to JAMES COWAN, Allan's Corners (CorrecmioNs made nnd prompt returns, HENRY HARMAN, Agent, Huntingdon.COOOL! VERY COOL! 1\" world seem very cool on our part aa the cold weather in gathering around ua not to intimate to the public, to whom we feel very grateful for many past favors, that we are doing our part to protect ail who may favor na with their patronage from the cold chilly winds of the coming months.Yous, we will be most happy to protect you, not from Tonses caused partly by the Insolvent Act aud bankers without either principle or interest, No, that in far beyond our reach\u2014but in the way of GOODS, consisting of Black and Colored Sitka, Dress Goods in blacks and the new shades, Shawls (choicest an gual), Ladies\u2019 Jackets and Ulaters, Fringes, Kids In black, colored (to match our Dress Goude) and white, Tick- ings, Carpets and Dry Goods generally.Gents\u2019 Clothing and Furnishings in great varicty\u2014surpassing anything cver offered in this section herctofore.Huitings and Tweeds, admitted to be second to none in this part.Boots and Shoes, Rubbers, Gents\u2019 Rubber Conte, Tadies\u2019 Rubber Circulars.Flanncls, the best assortment we have yet offered from 20c per yard up.Building and other Limerick.He accused the Government of Hardware, Looking-Glasses, Trunks, Satatogas che), Satchels, freah Groceries, Tat and Dry Felt Paper, Seal Oil and Boiled Oil.In these and in many other lines we aro prepared to show good value.Waÿ\u201d Don't be Leckward, but come and seo McNAUGHTON BROW BTOCK.Sept.17, 1879.MF Copies of last week's Gleaner may be had at the office, price 4 cents each ; sent by mail, 5 centa.Mutual Fire Insurance Company of tho County of Beauharnois.OTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of the Mutual Fire Losurance Company of the County of Beauharnois, for the purpose of + lecting Directors, will be held on MONDAY, 611 OCTOBER next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, in the Becretery's office, in the village of Huntingdon, ANDREW SOMERVILLE, Secretary.Huntingdon, 24th September, 1871.QTTAVA LATH FOR BALE.Boyn & Co.- HUNTINGDON ACADEMY.ESSONS in Musie and French will be resumed on Monday, 29th September, 1879, at 98.m.The Teacher: Miss E.R.Gras.THE MALONE FAIR.N addition to the usual attractiona of this Fair, there will be a HOSE RACE on the Secund day, Wednesday, 1st October.There will be at least 20 Fire & Hose Companies in line in the parade, all in fail uniform, and tsrelve of them will run for the prizes.À larger crowd is expected than we ever bave had.EMEMBER the Auction Sale of Furniture, Bed- R ding, &c., belonging to the late Joshua Breadner, Atheletan, takes place to-morrow (Friday) at his late residence at 10 o'clock à.m.NOTIOB TO CONTRACTORS, HE repairs on the Elgin Manse, and stable ; also, the repairing of the sidewalk between the manse and church will sold on the ground to the lowest bidder or bidders on Thursday, 2nd day of October at 2 pn._ Specifications can be seen with the under.\u201c - By order, Kelso, Sept, 24, 1879.PETER McFARLANE.UGreat Bargains in Ladies\u2019 and Gentlemen's Silk Pix , asi \u2014 THE UNINVITED.CHAPTER L Ir was nearly midnight.was neither darkness nor silence in the house of Mynheer Grootschedel, the Burgomaster of Nimeguen.Servants in diverse liveries hurried hither and thither, in hall, staircase, and corridors, all of which were bright with lights and gay | with flowers and foliage.The sound of music pervaded the entire mansion, whose massive timbers vibrated to the measured tread of scores and scores of dancers.The scene displayed to the curious interlopers of inferior rank, who were pecring inward from the outer doorway of t first-floor suite, was one combining every charm of the fairest spectacles of naturo,\u2014 all imaginable variety of tenderer tint or richer coloring, of comely form and of he splendid | huddling mass of panic-stricken revellers of \u2018Martin Schenk !\" in every accent of amazement, consternktion, and despair.\u2018Yea,\u2019 said one of the troopers to a gazing townsman, whom he clapped at the same time cheerfully upon the shoulder, \u2018old Donnerblitz is in there, by the high dais, with some choice additions to the com He is not going to interrupt the Lorie but share 15 We, too, expect our portion of what good cheer is going.\u2019 rtin Schenk was one of the most formidable coadjutors of the Princo of Parma,\u2014the relentless governor, consummate general, and accomplished liar,\u2014\u2014who \u2018was drawing his toils around that portion (of the revolted Netherlands which had baffled the craft and had withstood the fully undulating movement, under military power of Parma's uncle, the pale fhe too well diffused to admit of sombre bigot of the Escurial, and so achieved its shadows,\u2014the whole instinct with life in deliverance from the Spanish rule.that culmination of beauty which owesits short-lived reign to joy quickened by flattering hope, and the soft lightning: darted between pleasure-sparkling eyes, of towns, and levying of black-mail, un-| and setting cheeks aglow.But amid every landscape there are spots of blight and desolation, none the less real for their not appearing in the neral prospect.All was not mirth and ope within that festive scene.frere was one among the guests who stood moodily apart,\u2014a young man of some five and twenty years, more aristocratic in his bearing and the taste of his attire than most of those then present.This was Hendrick van Oorsveldt, a gallant and stanch adherer of the House of Orange ; whereas his host of this evening was a believer even now (the year was 1590) in the vain and incompetent Earl of Leicester and his half-hearted counsellors and captains.Hendrick had seriously impaired his patrimony in his devotion to the cause which he deemed to be that of his country and his God.This helped with the circumstance of their differing politics to keep him low in the favor of the prudent burgomaster.But the plebeian magnate\u2019s favor, strange as it may sound, was no matter of indifference to this young noble.For the plebeian hada daughter fair and graceful, \u2014wise also, but so gay and uniformly pleasant, both of speech and eye, that even brainless boobies approached her without fear ; while many who piqued themselves on the abundance of their brains, failed to discern, through the scintillation of her playful wit, the depth of unobtrusive excellence which it at once adorned and veiled.Hendrick and she loved each other truly and the burgomaster knew it.But, cautious every way, he had hitherto refrained from speech and action in the matter.This evening, however, Oorsveldt was aware of a change of tactics.Whitherso- ever Bertha Grootschedel might turn, a bevy of female cousins, aided by their attendant danglers, hemmed her assiduously round.As often as he approached, these ladies took turns in occupying his attention, with a skill and pertinacity which his politeness could not easily resist ; while, of the gentlemen, one or other was on the watch to engage that of Bertha, in the brief intervals when she was relieved from the assiduities, not apparently over- welcome to her, of a slender but shapely young t, who evinced by his de- meauor his own sense of the honor he conferred upon the guests at large by mixing in their citizen festivities.This was the young Count Ulrich von Aldenhuysen, formerly a pet and junior aide-de-camp of Leicester's.By one familiar with the Court of France, he would have been set down, from the effeminate extravagance of his dress, his scented curls, his affected accent, as one of the number of the notorious mignons of that miserable king in whom, on his assassination about a year before, the splendid line of Valois had so ingloriously ended.The burgomaster had made this count\u2019s acquaintance only two days before ; and, for reasons of his own, had introduced him to his daughter, bidding him at the same time to the present entertainment.Count Ulrich, though a r to Nimeguen, had all his reasons for accepting the invitation ; and now, much as he might look down on the assemblage of money-making citizens among whom he found himself, he had evidently -made up his mind that the attractive daughter of one whose money was already made was not unworthy of his serious attention.JHendrick,\u2014whose mind had been crossed more than once by a suspicion that Bertha herself was a party, wil ling or unwilling, to the game so success- y carried on before her eyes,\u2014had desisted from his attempts to reach and to address her, and stood, as has been said, apart, in no comfortable or benevolent frame of mind and feeling.8till, to the surreptitious lookers-on, all seemed alike joyous, bright, and enviably say.Bat à change came over the smiling as- of the scene.From the farthest chamber of the suite was heard suddenly a female shriek, followed instantaneously by many others in every variety of voice and intonation.The movements of the dance were arrested, there was a rush of guests towards the in- Martin, a captain of free companions, had long kept the Bishoprics of Cologne and Cleves in check by perpetual surprise chatzung, or price of exemption from being burnt out of house and home.He had recently extended his operations farther to the west; but no one in Nimeguen, except, perhaps, the thoughtful and already experienced Van Oorsveldt, had ever dreamt of his paying their good town a predatory visit.He had entered the mansion by a back- way, and, mounting by a private staircase, had passed from thence into the inner re- ception-room, to which it adjoined ; and all this so quietly, though accompanied by half a dozen of his officers, that already he himself stood near the middle of the chamber, and the officers within its private doorway, ere this addition to the company had been remarked by any one save the disengaged and observant Oors- veldt.When, however, a lady (turning, oppressed by heat, from the group that surrounded Bertha) caught sight of the six grisly troopers, and discovered their stern and weather-beaten captain at her elbow, all being drenched and dripping from the waistbelt that bore their pistols and confined their buff-coats downwards, she gave utterance to her surprise and terror in the cry which had startled all within hearing from their festivity.garding Grootschedel\u2019s loud demand to be informed who they were who thus intruded unbidden, on a scene of private festivity, and on what pretext they did so,\u2014 \u2018this house, with the entire block in which it stands, two houses on the right, three on the left, and six behind, is enclosed by a double line of gentlemen like those you see, long as while you, Herr Burgomaster, countersign these modest requisitions,\u2019 pulling herewith some papers from his pouch.\u2018The first set are for meat and drink to be furnished to my companiuns, \u2014-nay, sir, you need not stir,\u2019 added he, as a gentleman moved from near him towards the principal entrance of the room ; \u2018look that way, and you will see that there is no passage from this suite\u2019 ;\u2014and then it was that all within sight of the doorway leading to the corridor looked in that direction, as above described \u2018The second set, my worthy host, are for one hundred lips to speak.\u2018If it is, that matters little.y boys are very reasonable, and never kick against impossibilities.for gold, or even gems and jewels of sufficient price.Where requisitions fail, they can content themselves with a sack instead,\u2014but always with fire to follow, added he, in words which left no doubt in the minds of those who heard as to who it was with whom they had to do ; and then the outer room resounded, as already said, with the dreaded captain\u2019s name, \u2018Nay, said he, with a grim smile, when the first shock of surprise and terror had subsided, \u201cif it really appears to you that a properly-apportioned requisition might perhaps be attended with success, you have only, Mynheer Burgomaster, to fill in, with the assistance and advice of these worthy townsmen whom I have the pleasure of now mecting under your hospitable roof, this schedule, viz.in this column, with ten to twenty good and substantial names, and in this with the proportions of the proposed contribution for which each may, in your estimation, be equitably made answerable.Then, attach your signature.My lieutenant, here, trusty Jan Voorst, will, under the guidance of some gentleman familiar with the town, present the document to such of the as are not here present; and some of my officers now in waiting below will accompany to their homes, or other repositories of their cash, such of your kind contributors who are.These preliminary matters once arranged, we will resume the festivities of the evening; and when supper shall be served, I hope, with my friends, to do it as ample justice as its excellence will unquestionably merit.\u2019 While the free captain ke thus, ner room, and the music died away in a few agitated chords.Then, after & moment's silence, the voice of the burgomaster was heard, \u2014but barely heard, \u2014 for its tones were overborne, absorbed, and silenced by those of another voice, deep as the first utterance of the thundercloud.Mute attention was evidently given to the new speaker's words, and ere these could have been very many, the whole listening crowd of revellers were seen to direct suddenly behind them a look of comfortiess dismay towards that outer doorway, from whence the servants and their favored friends were watchin, Hendrick, who, amid the confusion occasioned by his first appearance, had easily made his way af last to Bertha\u2019s side, exchanged a few words with her, which must have had a quieting effect upon her nerves.She breathed after this conference more freely.CHAPTER 11.Not long thereafter a cavalier issued from among the group of guests nearest to the outer doorway, and stepping, with a business-like air, up to one of the troo there on , said to him, \u2014 ollow me, to find pen and ink.\u2018Martin Schenk never is without them, their i These hereupon looked answered the man, without moving a also involu round, and discovered muscle that was not concerned in the themeslves to be bemmed in by a file of| utterance of this brief reply.stesl-capped troopers, who, fully| Well and accurately stated, said the with sword and arquebue, had gentleman ; \u2018it is only ink we want ; the silently talon ot behind in the water has spoiled his, so this way, if you corridor, same moment the first |please\u2019 And the trooper, suffering him to der the pleasant appellation of Brands- But there within, by whom was repeated the name- I will interrupt your mirth only sof hey soon returned, the gentleman ing a silver standish.Ho ro-entered the rooms, and \u2018disappeared among the still silent and closely crowded company.After a brief interval the same gentleman again approached the trooper.\u2018The firat instalment is wanted, said ho ; \u2018you and I must fetch it\u2019; and he showed a bunch of keys.The troo per floor.There, entering an appartment which had the appearances of a luxuriously furnished dressing-room, having evidently a lady for its rightful occupant, he opened a cabinet, and counting the drawers inside till he came to one of which he was in search, unlocked this and took from it an elegant but strongly-constructed casket.\u2018This,\u2019 said he, \u2018I must convey to the presence of your captain, but not through the crowd outside ; you must accompany me down the other stairs, and pass me inward by the private door\u2019 With these words he put a gold piece in the trooper\u2019s hand.\u2018Lead on, said the fellow, with a surly smile of satisfaction.They gained the private door; the gentleman was admitted, and his formidable attendant, ere he turned away, saw him deposit the casket on a table by which stood the fair mistress of the house, \u2014an act which the grim Martin honored with an approving nod.The trooper had hot long resumed his appointed post, when the servants and strangers, getting weary of their confinement in the narrow space around the doorway, began to struggle for greater liberty of locomotion, nor were the efforts of all the guards on that station more than was required to control them withont the use of deadly weapons.Ere these iusubordinates had been fully reduced to submission, the cavalier already mentioned appeared a third time, with his bunch of keys, as before.\u2018You seem to have your hands full) said he to his former attendant ; \u2018but you can trust me now.And, after all,\u201d he added, \u2018I presume that it would be difficult in any case to run away.\u2018Pass,\u2019 said the man, with a rigid smile, The gentleman disappeared, ascending as before, but this time alone, the upward flight of stairs.Nearly three hours elapsed before he again descended.But his non- | appearance in the interval did not disturb \u2018This house,\u2019 said Martin, coolly disre-; the trooper.Every known outlet of the house was guarded, and the soldier took for granted that the gentleman would, as before, re-enter the dancing-rooms by the back entrance.This, however, was by no means the purpose of the latter.No sooner had he reached the room whence he had fetched the casket, than, seizing a light which burnt there, and taking up an iron fire- hook from the stove, he made his way swiftly to the second range of the attics, which rose tier on tier within the high- pitched roof of the mansion.There, in a spacious laundry or drying-room, he possessed himself of a coil of rope, strong enough, when doubled, to sustain his weight, and also of a handful of dry linen.Opening a window in the gable-wall, and carefully guarding his light from the rush of air which was thus admitted, hoigaited the linen, and, thrusting it through the opening, obtained, as the night-wind | fanned it to a flaring flame, 2 momentary thousand gilders, to be paid down, here; view of the relative arrangements, in where I stand, within three hours\u2019 time.these airy regions, of this and the con- Ah! \u2018impossible, you were about to say, |tiguous house.He could perceive that as he saw the burgomaster opening his: the latter,in common with nearly all others in the town, but unlike the burgomaster\u2019s i new and more pretentious dwelling, turn- Where coin | ed \u2018its gables to the street; and that, con- is scarce, they will compound cheerfully 'sequently, the slope of its tiled roof formed, with the perpendicular wall, from one of whose \u201capertures he viewed it, a valley (as the builders term it), and that the bottom of this hollow was occupied by a leaden gutter.This seemed to lie about twelve feet below his present position, Attaching therefore his doubled cord to a -collar-beam overhead, he cast : the other end through the window, clambered out, and slid safely down upon the gutter.Great as was his haste, he thought a few moments might be well employed in reconnoitring the enemy.So, proceeding towards the front, he peered cautiously over into the dark gulf of the street below.It was a moonless October night.A link gleamed here and there, flickering and twinkling, as the wind swept by, amid a narrow circle of uncertain light.But, observing such figures as came within these spots of scanty illumination, he could see that all traffic up and down the street was prevented, by the simple process of arresting and detaining every person who approached the cordon of armed men described by Schenk in his lucid explanatory speech.So profound was the silenec enforced, that the inmates of the mansions overlooking this investing force seemed as yet quite unconscious of its resence.He satisfied himself that the ine of guards did actually continue its course down a narrow cross lane two houses off, and doubted no longer that all communication with the town forces and authorities, through ordinary channels, was effectually cut off This confirmed him in his present purpose.By the aid of the iron hook he had secured, he raised some tiles, tore up the spars on which they rested, and effected an opening in the lath and plaster beneath, sufficient to admit him into the interior of whatever chamber it protected.He dropped boldly, at all hazards, in, lighted on what felt he- neath his feet like a heap of clothes or other drapery, and, stumbling on the yielding and uneven surface, fell forward across a bed, and upon its occupant.A rough voice, as of one startled out of sleep, demanded, with an oath, who was there, \u2018Heer van OQorsveldt, answered the gentleman.\u2018Up, knave, and bring me to our master.\u2019 \u2018He's ill, and can\u2019t be seen,\u2019 answered the other in a sulky tone.ive me the trouble of dragging you out of bed.Up, and do my bidding f \u2018Ho must ! said Oorveldt.\u2018Do not e man obeyed, though grumbling, as r accompanied him to an up-.\" larticulate sound reached them from the|pass, followed without further parley.he shivered down the stairs, bitter imprecations on young cavaliers, who pursued man, their revels till they did not know on which end sober people's houses stood, and mistook, in their cups, attic-windows for street-doors.They found the master of the house still up, too ill to join the party next door, but unable to hope for sleep, owing to the sounds of music, which had till within the last quarter of an hour reached him through the brick nogged walls, and of which he every moment anticipated the recommencement.\u2018All T want, said Hendrick, after he bad briefly explained to him the critical position of affairs, \u2018is a rope and a lantern.Be liberal of your drink, when called on, and do not yet despair.\u2019 .He got what he required, and in due time, working his way rapidly from attic 1 to attic, descended into the third house, \u2018being that whose side-walls flanked the {narrow lano already mentioned.In the i upper tenement dwelt, as he knew, a wor- | thy tradesman, the tailor whom he usually \"employed, Heer Zumpt by name.Finding i him abed, he soon roused him, out of all tendency to slumber by the intelligence he communicated ; and received from him, jon the instant, promises of unlimited assistance.A ladder was the first requisite, aud hands enough to manage it, with .noiseless ease, the second.\u2018There are repairs,\u2019 said Zumpt, \u2018going on upon the house behind ; there must be t ladders in the yard,\u2014and this is a populous tenement.I'll find you hands) | Soon a ladder of moderate length was hoisted in by a back window of the attics, and an opening made through the roof on \u2018the side towards the lane, the tiles being carefully drawn inward.Hendrick was rraised with his lantern half-way through (it, to investigate the conditions of his projected enterprise.He saw that, owing to i the narrowness of the lane, with which he | was familiar (and whose houses, moreover, i projecting story over story, decreased in mutual distance as they ascended), the \u2018roof of the house over the way was not more than nine feet distant from him where he stood.There was a sort of storm window in it, nearly on a level with his present position, and directly opposite.Ho redescended ; the ladder was cautiously thrust through, and with much care, and the use of some hastily-improvised tackling, adjusted as a bridge terminating on the other roof, close heneath the window, which seemed to be unglazed and closed only by a shutter.Bidding those within hold firm, Oorsveldt crept out jupon the ladder.He was already over the lane, a mark only too clearly defined ; against the now starry sky for the bullet jof any trooper who should happen at that juncture to look up, when he heard a loose tile, disengaged by some movement of his friends behind, slide downwards.There, thought he, goes a message to seal my fate, and that of Nimeguen.It was impossible to turn.He waited a second or two to hear the crash below, \u2014the alarm, \u2014 and to receive the deadly volley.But all was still.It had pleased Providence, in its all fore-seeing wisdom, to endow good Heer Zumpt with an indomitable taste for gardening, a penchant which, in his lofty premises, he could not otherwise indulge than by the use of window-boxes filled with mould.In one of these the tile, that might have been so fatal, lay quietly arrested.Who knows with what weighty issues his most trivial acts are pregnant ?Little thought the honest tailor, when he hung that unusually capacious box of his over the heads of his fellow-citizens, in what a mighty drama he was acting an essential part \u2014the great drama of Dutch independence, and, in it, that of English liberty, in which has further stoed involv- cd that of every country now free, or destined yet to be, throughout the habitable world.After that pause of awful expectation, Oosrsveldt, with a beating heart and some faintness of the limbs, moved slowly on, and gained the storm window that rose from the steep slope of the opposite roof.The eaves concealed him from all eyes below ; but, alas! he found the shutter to be fastened so securely on the inner side, as to resist every effort he could make to open it.Chagrined, but not disheartened, he slowly worked his painful way backward along the ladder.\u2018Who, said he, \u2018can find a carpenter with his centre-bit and keyhole saw ?\u2019 None responded, save the good Heer Zumpt.\u2018If my Jan wero only here! said he.\u2018Ho is a schoolmaster and sexton now, but he can handle all sorts of tools; for Wilhelm Horst and he\u2014' \u2018But Jan isn't here, so where's the use 7 interrupted a more practical, but, for the time, equally resourceless counsellor.\u2018Father, at last said a little girl, from the crowd which now filled the attic, \u2018I saw Wilhelm Horst come up before I went to bed; I am sure it was he, though it was not quite like him neither.\u2018Nonsense, child \u201d said Madame Zumpt, \u2018Vrow Horst had no thought at five o'clock this afternoon of her son's coming home.\u2019 \u2018But,\u2019 said Hendrick, catching at a chance, \u2018if he is a carpenter, we can but see for ourselves whether your little girl is deceived or not.Lead the way, Heer Zumpt; let us pay Vrow Horst a visit.\u2019 Zumpt instantly complying, they descended to the second floor below, where the tailor knocked at a dingy-looking door.It was opened instantly By & woman of some five-and-forty years, in her ordinary daylight dress.She did not appear to have retired to rest, : \u2018Neighbor Horst, said Zumpt, \u2018my kat- tkin tells me that Wilhelm is now with you.Isitso?\u2019 \u2018Yes, my good friend, replied she, with & sad voice and tearful eye; \u2018but\u2014' \u2018Let us sco him instantly,\u2019 interrupted the tailor : \u2018hg is wanted for a job that ad- mita of no delay.\u2019 \u2018Alas I said the poor widow, \u2018his last job, I fear, is done, He cannot help you.But see him, and then judge.Hel pleased to t you! | © made way for them to enter, Re- \u2014_ vien found the artisan, \u2014s tall and .of that intelligent look and kindly aspect in which one may ize \u2018the true widow's son.But bis flushed and hollow cheek, and over brilliant eye told at a glance that he had come home to die.That stage of his fatal malady was not, however, apparently yet reached when stren and energy are utterly extinguished.Hendrick laid on a table by his bed three gold-pieces., \u2018There,\u2019 said he, \u2018is your fee, it you will come instantly and help us.\u2019 \u2018What is the job * asked the carpenter; \u2018and why can\u2019t it wait till I have had some sleep?I have come far, and am somewhat weary.\u2019 Zumpt explained the case, penter sat up.\u2018It would be his death,\u201d cried his mother, in an indignant voice.\u2018Away, sir, with your gold! Not that you are very kind, but do you think Ê can let him sell what chance of life he yet may have for any sum of gold that you could name ?friend; said Hendrick, \u2018gold may improve his chance.\u2019 \u2018Thanks to my boy himself, sir,\u2019 said the woman, \u2018I have wherewith to procure him all he can require while his complaint continues.Should the Lord see fit to take my son, I can trust Him to provide for my necessity.Take away that money, she resumed in terror, as she saw her Wilhelm extend his hand towards it.But the latter only pushed it towards Oorsveldt, rising, however, as he did so.\u2018Mother,\u2019 he said, \u2018you would that my life should be prolonged.There is but One who can prolong it.If I refuse his work while I can do it, dare you pray to Him that He would spare me?Do you know \u2018what threatens us?Have you lived through these years, and not learnt what is meant by the pillage of a town ?And even if Schenk can be bought off this time, he will come again for more, and hold us with a garrison at last, like Arn- heim,\u2014hold us for these demons of Spain; and the true Gospel, for which my father died, will be quenched in fire and blood and torture, as before.It will give worth indeed to my poor life to risk it in a cause like this.I thank God for the call : for I thought my days of usefulness were ended.Give me no gold,\u2019 he continued, addressin Hendrick.\u2018My mother will not want.have provided for her better than she is aware.\u2019 He reached an old tool-box, a relic of his boyish days.The mother threw herself in silence into her elbow-chair, covered her face with her apron, and struggled with convulsive grief.\u2018Come,\u2019 said the mechanic, \u2018let no more time be lost.\u2019 The heart of Qorsveldt smote him as he The car- limbs of the artisan who ascended the steep attic stair before him.\u2018Cruel necessity ! thought he, \u2018that bids me tax,and perhaps drain the last remnant of his wasted strength.But necessity it is; and besides, who could turn him now ?Heaven only grant he may be equal to the task ?But he was not.Once out upon the ladder,\u2014a position which he did not attain without a visibly prodigious effort,\u2014 his head swam, and he sunk flat upon that perilous and narrow bridge.It was well that so many were there to help; for it required the exertion of no small power to draw the ladder now so far backwards as to admit of its being disencumbered of its load.While Horst, .prostrate on the attic floor, was slowly recovering consciousness, Hendrick had nearly made up his mind, though utterly unskilled in carpentry, to take the needful tools, and as a desperate resource, attempt himself to pierce the shutter.But time was now ever thing, and such work must in his han 8 be desperately slow, if performed at all, In that moment a voice from the stairs, as of a young man, struck his ear, and immediately Heer Zumpt rushed out exclaiming, \u2014 \u2018My Jan! sent by Providence in the nick of time ! \u2018O yes, cried Jan, in answer to his father's quick appeal, \u2018give me the tools.\u2018You'll trust me with them, Wilhelm, added he, with a cheerful smile, as he stooped to select the implements required from the box which stood by the slowly reviving carpenter.The eyes of the latter beamed with delight and happy confidence.\u2018But, mother,\u2019 said Jan, \u2018you must be active too, and all you women, for that matter.Those rascals seized me at the corner.I was on my way home from Fred.Schmitt's wedding feast.But when they learned that I had relations here, they let me come in to get tham a supply of eatables and drinkables.So collect at once all the meat, and, above all, the strongest drink you can find between roof and cellar floor, and let them have it instantly ; the busier they are with that the better for us » With\"these words he scrambled nimbly upon the ladder, and returned in less than ten minutes, having successfully pierced and opened the obstructing window-shut- r, \u2018Heer Baron, said he, \u2018the time has not been lost which Providence has made you wait to find a workman, The shutter board was large ; so the saw, fine as it is, made some noise, which must have been partl heard below there.But the sky has cloud ed over in the last twenty minutes.The night is as black as pitch; the ladder is now as invisible to them as nothing, But up, Freyheer, and I will follow you ; for you may find bolted doors as well as windows on your way.\u2018And you, my good friends,\u2019 said Hen- drick, turning to the other men of serviceable age, then present, \u2018do you, too, follow; T shall want you all.\u2019 None hesitated, under the new security of total darkness, Once in the street, a few doors beyond Schenk\u2019s outermost pickets, Hendrick and his party hastened with all speed to the house of the commandant of the.town- guard (fortunately an old and ex ced clining on his bed, but not undressed, they soldier).To explain all to this officer, to marked the languid gait and the emaciated | \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u201400 | his own followers, each farnishy with twenty addresses of the member \u2018 that force, and bid to summon them qui ly to an immediste muster under to array the first twenty who arriveq à certain dresses, procured from var \u2018 houses of his friends, \u2014to arrange with the \u2018commandant the combinations he had hip, (self devised, \u2014these were tasks which j, j the course of much less than the Dine minutes of respite from general mil; rapine that now remained, he execute with the unembarrassed promptityg, which belongs only to minds of that ord, out of which events mould leading wy, riors, statesmen, and\u2014when they are way, ed\u2014kings.\u2018I ascertained,\u2019 said he to the captaj \u2018by hazarding to a trooper a remark, whic) he did not contradict, that they came i across the river.You know, therefore where the line of their communication must be broken.Press them hard around Grootschedel\u2019s by three o'clock.Noy good-night ; and the Lord be our helpe; [To nm CONTINUED.) me HARLES MARSHALL, C.M.,M.D., Legs to infor, his friends and the public, that he has returneg from the city, and will De ready to answer all call, for his services as Physician, Surgeon, or Accoucheur at his residence next Post Office, Huntingdon, IMPORTANT NEWS.Burke Lines, N.Y, YHE subscribers would inform their ny merous friends on the Canadinn sido, that they have opened a Goneral Store at Burke Lincs, which they have stocked wity goods fresh from market, including a larg, and varied assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Boots and Shoes, Glassware, Stationery, &ec., which they will soll at prices that dety competition, for cash or ready pays@r- No liquor will be sold at this store, but only fair and square dealing in goods necessary for every household.Give us a trial.Joun HELn & Co.ge Cash paid for Deacon Skins.\u2014v UNDERTAKERS SUPPLIES.HE undersigned has now on hand a fuli assortment of Caskets and Coffins of the latest styles, with patent moveable glass \"| frame attached, from largest to the smallest size.Also, all kinds of Trimmings.Burial Robes & Linings aspeciality.g@™All orders promptly attended to.: Jony HELM.Burke Lines, N.Y.1000 CHAIRS FOR SALE.IN WOOD IN CANE Windsor Grccians Double back Turned front post Florence Astor Bow Back Kitchen by ndle Back ell DINERS Franklin Round Seat DINERS Shaped Seat Turned Arm Bent Back Bent Atm York Braco Arm ROCKERS ROCKERS Nurse, full and half cane Nurse [back Large, with arms Franklin, sowing with Miss Boston [arms Large, with arms OFFICE St James Cottage Round Back CHILDREN Double bent arm iron Round Back, Table (rods Round Back, Rocker Double bent arm re- Round Back, Low [volving Fancy Men and Ladies\u2019 Camp Chairs.FURNITURE.CHAMBER SUITES BEDSTEADS Jenny Lind, double ash French round, ash « « singleash Dominion, ash Cottage, ash Alexandria, ash Serpentine Top, with Cottage, ash, with walnut [walnut trimming [trimming Victoria, do CRIBS Prince Arthur Common, ash Fancy French, ash BUREAUS TABLES Plain Centre Fancy Extension Diners Walnut trimmings Common As Particular attention paid to House Furnishings, Blinds, Doors, Double Windows, Sashes, Turning, and sll kinds of Wood Work, WF ALL CHEAP FOR CASH.BOYD & CO.Huntingdon, Nov.38.RCHIBALD & M\u2019CORMICK, Advocates No.112 St.Francois Xavier Strect, Montreal.J.8, Archibald, M.A, BCL.D.MCormick, BCL Mr M'Cormick will attend the Courts in Beauharnois, Huntingdon, and Sto.Martine.Accounts for collection may be addressed to the firm, Montreal, or M.8.M'Coy, Hun- tingdon.P Al NTS.A\u201d invitation is respectfully extended to the public to call at the Drug Hall opposite the in addition to the usual claes of brug Store, the following may be procured, viz.: Lyman\u2019s, Robertson's, Ramsay's, and other White Leads, Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil, Tan- uer\u2019s, Neatafoot, Lard, Olive, Sperm, Salad, Machinery, and Castor Oils, White Zinc, Drop and Lamp Black, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet Paints, Post Office, where, Goods found in a (dry or ground in oil) Putty, Shingle Paint, Paint rushes, Black and Brown Japan, Furniture, Carriege and White Varnishes, Glass cut to any size, Kalso- mine for Tinting Walls, Perfected Butter Color, Log- wood, Madder, Fustic, Cochineal and Compound, and the celebratod HandyPackage Dyes.J.C.SHANKS.Huntingdon, Aug.4.O LET, the store now occupied by W.A.Dunsmore, in Dominion Block, opposite the Post Office.Also dwelling-house above and rooms well adapted for Law Offices.SHANKSs, Proprietor.NOTICE.Province of Quebec, A ecssion of the Court District of Beauharnois.Por Queen's Bench in criminal juriediction for Lower Canada sbal! be held in the Court House in the Town of Beauharnois, in tho said Dietrict, on Wednesday,the first day of October next, at nine o'clock in the morning.In consequence I notify all those who shall have to sue an rson now detained in the Common Gaol of this District, with all Justices of the Peace, Coroncr, Constables, and other officers of the said Court, aud other persons concerned, to be then and there with all their necessary .ments to do ail what may be ordered to them in their i thes.repRctive capacities L.HAINAULT, Sherif._Besubarnols, 15th August, 1879, "]