The canadian gleaner, 31 mars 1881, jeudi 31 mars 1881

[" 0 und lew Boo C en few Ored 5 in.eedy per Colt ps, est fou Dis uai- I by Ars for \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 AUOTIONRBERING.TIES to bave sales will do P entrust them with the undersigned, who is the y Licensed Auctionesr in the county.Under the pew law, there is o penalty for any ome selling by suction without license.Terms reasonable.8 both French and Fostat Fromm aidressod to ingdon post-office promptly « to.Buot D.SHAVKS.MUTUALFIREINSURANCECOM.- PANY OF THE COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIBS.[nauringonly Form end Foclatedproperty 4ESIDENT-\u2014ArchibaldHenderson, Esq.uirectors\u2014George Cross, John Ferns, Daniel y'farlane, Donald McNaughton, Andrew Olive: Joba Symons, John White and John Younie.sucretary «0d [reasurer\u2014\u2014Andrew Somerville Hupringdon.«gents\u2014 William Edwards, Franklin ; Robert Jiddlemiss, Rockburn ; Thomas Clarke, Ste Philomène; Robert Smaill, Trout River ; P.Clunoy, y, P.,snd J.A.V.Awmirault, N.P., Hemmingford; F.T.Boardman, Vicars ; William Blackett Allan Corners ; John Daviduon, Dundee ; 1.1.Urevier, y.P.,St Anicet; Arthur Herdmau Herdman\u2019s curners ; J.C.Bruce, Huntingdon; William Cameron of Dundee, and E.H.Bisson, Esg., Notary Public of Beaubarnois ; Jumes Barr, Covey Hill, P2artivs wishing to insure cheis property sre requested to spply to theagents or Secretary.ANTED, Good Miich Cows, fresh calved, also \\ Beef Cattle, Calves, Fat Sheep and Lambs, for which good prices will be paid.Address P.CAVERS, Ormstown, P.Q.Ormstown, Jan.8.ORGANS! ORGANS! Great Reduction in Price.HE DOMINION ORGAN COMPANY, of Bowman- ville, Ont, beg to inform the public that they were the only manufacturers in Canada awarded an International Medal and Diploma of Honor at the Centennial Exhibition, Pbiladelphia, 1878, altho they had to compete with forty other Organs represented by different manufacturers.They have been awarded numerous other medals and diplomas at different places, Paris, Sydney, Australia, Toronto, &c.All Organs warranted for 5 years.JOHN YOUNIE, Agent for the District of Beauharnois, South Georgetown, Dec.8, 1880.FOR SALE.CHOICE FARM\u2014WOOD LOT\u2014VILLAGE LOTS.In St.Jean Chrysostome and Neighborhood.° (Hones FARM, known as Welker Farm, No, 57 and 58, Double Range, Edwardstown, parish of St Jean Chrysostome, bounded front and rear by public road, 10 arpents width by 20 arpents depth, with house.Stables, hop-press, &c., admirably adapted for a stock farm.Also, within 2} miler distance, a WOOD LOT, heing No.2, 8th Range, Edwardstown, which 1s 5 arpents in width by 20 in depth, with a house thereon, also CHOICE LOT on Main street in heart of village ad\u201c joining the Post Office in St Juan Chrysostome, nbout | arpent superficies, frontage 266 feet, with heure aud barn thereon.Also AN EMPLACEMENT in same village of about } arpent superficies with house thereon.These will prove good investments, as the projected rilway will doubtless greatly enhance their value, R@\" Can be had on favorable terms.Apply to ARTHUR D.PLIMSOLL, Agent, 17 8t John street, Montreal, Montreal, Jan 3, 1881, 1865 DENTISTRY.1880 H.W.MERRICK, DENTIST, FORT COVINGTON, N.Y., Al home the first 25 days of cach month, until further notice.Artificial teeth inserted on any of the first-class bases now in use and the best of material used.Teeth extracted without pain or dauger Ly the use of liquid Nitrous Oxide gas.MACLAREN & LEET, *_ ADVOCATES, 168 St, James Street, Montreal.Jouy J.MACLAREN, QC.Sern P.Lez, B.C.L, Mr Maclaren will continue to attend the Courts at Huntingdon and Beauharnots.Dr.O.H.Wells, Dentist.(Licentiate Dental Association Province Quebec.Dental Licentiate Medical Council, Great Britain and Ireland.) Offico at Mrs Cowan's, near the upper bridge, Hun- tingdon.sa\u201d Condensed Nitrous Oxide gar administered for the painless extraction of tecth, When to be re placed by new ones, teeth extracted and gas admin- stered free of cost.JOHN WATERSON & BROTHER, CARPENTERS, BUILDERS and CONTRACTORS, Estimates furnished and jobbing promptly attended to.Residence: Elgin.P.O.address : Kelso, P.Q.OTARIAL.\u2014The undersigned Legs leave to inform the public that be will be in attendance at his office in the County Building, Huntingdon, every Thureday, and remain while detained by business, I.I.CREVIER, NP J BRANCHAUD, QC., begs to inform bis old clients and the public generally, that he has resumed his residence at Beaubarnois, where he may be consulted at all times and will attend the courtens formerly.NOTHING Smonr or UNMISTAKABLE BENEFITS Couferred upon tens of thousands of sufferers could originate and maintain the reputation which Ayza's SARBAPARILLA enjoys.Itis a compound of the bent vegetable alteratives, with the Iodides of Potassium and Iron, and is the most cffectual of all remedies for trofulous, mercurial, or blood disorders.Uniformly successful and certain in its remedial effects, it pro- tices rapid and complete cures of Scrofuls, Sores, Boils, Humors, Pimples, Eruptions, Skin Diseases and Mil disorders arising from impurity of the blood.By Hts invigorating effects it always relieves and often cures Liver Complaints, Female Weaknesses and Complaints, and is a potent renewer of vitality, For purifying the blood it has no equal.It tones up the system, restores and preserves the health, and imparts Vigor and energy, For forty years it haa been in extensive use, and is to-day the most available medicine for the suffering sick, anywhere.2 OR SALE #?ALL DEALERS.PROPERTY FOR SALB.ILL be sold, a new brick store on the corner of Chateauguay and Wellington strects, in the eaet end of the village of Huntingdon, with counters, Shelving, &c., al] ready.The upper part of the build- Ing is fitted up for private residence.The opening is & good one for any person desirous of cmbarking In Usines.The land is about two acres in superficies.The property must be sold.A good title and posses- tion can be given at once.Apply to Ebwasp Pozax, on the premises, or to D.Saanks, Huntiogdon.YOU'LL GBT TEEM.EK'ERveonr wants to know where they can buy © Pure and Good Teas, and find the best assortiment of General Groceries.Customers are supplied with the Choicest Tons (Spring Pickings) shat can be procured at RELIANCE TEA HOUSE Pure Sugars, Old Java Coffee, Kaoks, Currants, Raisivs Figs, Checolate, Cocoanut, Essences, Canned Peel Syrup, Molasses, Matches, Nuts, Canned Fruit, Canned Fish, Oysters, \u2018Biscuit, Cheese, Vinegar, Mustard Spies, Pickles, Boncloes Fish, Bak, Soap, Candies Fionn Blue, Sods, Rice, Burley, Bie Fleur Pastry y Corn Starch, Sago, Ta ugar-cui Hama, Pails, Tabs, Washboarde, Brushes, Brooms, Mops, Rope, Hair Brushes, Combs, Resore, Scissors, Painter pL Eaves, den Chinese anterss onery, Waz Candies, nese terns, Coal Oil and an assortment of Fancy Goods.Produce taken in exchange for Goods.\u201cKg ily Witness for male, and subscriptions received itnoss publications, GRORGE Q.O'REILL, Eeatingden, Nov.33.Che NO.791._ mr HUNTINGDON, Q, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 188l.Cation Gleaner MONTREAL CHEAP CASH STORE.What Bverybody says must be True.I\", is true that you can get better 40c, 45¢, and 50c Teas at my store than in any other place in town.It is true that you can get the bust und the cheapest Sugars, Tobaccos, Suaps, Spices, and s general assort- nt of Groceries.Coarse Salt ouly 90c per bag of B.It is true that you can get the Best Cottons for 8c, 9c, and 10c per yard\u2014the best value in the market.Purchasers will do well to take the advantage while it asts.It is true that you can get good useful lustres, in all shades, for 15¢ per yard ; very good Persian Cord Dress Goods for 20c per yard ; Fine Cashmeres, in all shades, for 30c per yard double width (a great bargain) ; a very nice assortment of English Prints in Lilac and Pormodory shades, sold down very low.It is true that you can get 6 yards of splendid Lace Curtains, very wide, for $1.50 ; Honey Comb Bed Spreads, with fringes, for $2.25, (very cheap, considering the quality and size).Boots and Shoes.This is à line of goods to which I give my strictest attention when buylug, so as to secure the dest goods at the cheapest prices, whereby customers derive the benefit, It is true that I am selling Men's No.1 Boots for $1.75, ard those who bought them early in the Fall testify that they proved equal to those for which they have paid from $3 to $4.Itis true that I cannot be undersold in Ladies\u2019, Misses\u2019, and Children\u2019s Boots and Shoes, which is the best value for the money.TWEEDS ! TWEEDS !! It is true that you can get a good assortment of English and Canadian Tweeds, very much cheaper and better than you can get elsewhere.READY-MADE CLOTHING.What everybody says must be true : That you can get the best und the cheapest Ready-made Clothing in town, at the Montreal Cheap Cash Store.I buy my goods for Cush and sell them for Cash, snd can therefore afford to cell them as cheap as they can be bought in the city of Montreal.g@¥ Call and compare quality and prices before leaving your favors elsewhere.Remember the place, THE OLD CUNNINGHAM STAND.K.FREEMAN.Huntinedon, Feby.1.WE beg to call the attention of everyone inter- ssted to the following, viz: That we keep a general assortment of Goods for sale, for Cash or Produce, \u2014such as Peas, Beans, Quts, Hop-Poles, Potatues, Honey, Wax, Hides, Tallow, Eggs, Butter, Wool, Feathers, ete.ete.Everyone must acknowledge that, since our opening out here, the prices in every Store have been reduced, to the benefit of the coneumer, and, apart from selfish motives, it is but right tliat we should be patronized to the fullest extent.| Our prices are as low as in Montreal, while in many instances they are lower, and have never varied except on the lesser side.The youngest child can buy cqually as well as the keenest housekeeper and certainly receives more attention, The following Goods will always be found in stock, and the assortment will always increase, we trust In Groceries there are Sugars, Syrup, Molasses, Tobacco, Rice, Barley, Sago, Tapioca, Sult, Nuts, Ruisins, Essences, Currants, Baking Soda and Powder, Mustard, Starch, Blue, Pickles, Nutmegs, Spices, Cream-Tartar, Salts, Senna, Coffee (ground und bean), Pepper, Hemp, Canary and Linserd, Saltpetre, Alum, Orange, Lemon and Citron Peel, Salad and Castor Oils, Washing Soda and Crystal Lye, Corn Starch, Candies of all sorts, Lobsters, Salmon, Bass and Sardines in tins, Cigare wholesale or retail, Soup, Blackiug, Dyes, Brushes of nll kinds, Black-Lead, Clothes-Ping, Candles, Pips, Bath Brick, Matches, Clothus-Lines, Brooms, Mucaroni, Vermicelli, Apples, Ginger, Huir-0il, Perfumes, Comlis of all sorts, Pills, 8cidlitz Powder, Conditizu Powd 1s, Pain-Killer, Porous Plasters.Soothing Syrup, Biscuits, algo the finest and best assortment of Tens in Japan, Black, Gunpowder, Young Bysun, Imperial, etc, to be found between here and Montreal, while special inducements are offered to purchasers from u quarter pound upward, In Dry Goods there are Grey and Bleached Cottons, Flannels (scarlet, grey, white and blue), Winceys, Shirting (Regatta, Oxford, and calico), Towels and Towelling, Ready- made Clothing, Dress Goods (new Spring patterns), Table-Cloths (in bleached and unbleached linen, slso in Damark), Lustres, Merino, Handkerchiefs, Ticking, Cotton, Flannel, Batting, Wadding, Shirting, Boys\u2019 Undershirts and Pants, Corsets, Edgings, Ribbons, Spouls, Braid, Braces, Hats and Caps, etc.In Boots we have Stoga, Balmoral and Button in Pebble, Split and Kip for men, women and boys.Io Crockery you will find Plates, Cups and Saucers, Jugs, Bowls and Basins, Chamber Sets, Bide Dishes, Tin Pots, Baking Dishes, Bowls, Platters, Soup Racks, Glass Nappies, Tumblers, Goblets, Wine Glasses, Syrup Jugs, Butter Coolers, Egg Cups, Pickle Dishes, Salt Cellars, Lamp Chimneys, Globes, Fonts, Prescrve Dishes, Crocks, Churns, Looking-Glasscs, etc.In Hardware there are to be found Bolts of all sizes, Screws, Hinges (Strap & Butt), Locks, Gate and Picture Hooks, Spectacles, Tacks, Nuils of all norts, Curry-Combs, Rasors and Strops, Handles, Hollow Augcra (latest patent), Scissors, Wool Cards and Reeds, Door- Knockers, Level Glasses, Sash Fasteners, Door Bells, Door Buttons, Window Bolts, 8tup Cocks, Blind Hinges, Keye, Snaps, Harness Buckles, Shoe Thread (in white, grey and yellow), Bed Fasteners, Shoe-Naile, Drawer Knobs, Escutcheons, Braces, Meat-Choppers, Draw-Knives, Stones, Violin Strings, Snuff-Boxes, Augers, Chiscls, Wrenches, Splitting Guages, Shoe and Butchers Knives, Forke, Spoons, Files, Lamps, Adzes, Powder, Caps, Wads, Fis Saws, Faucets, Washboards, Pots and Pans, Wallpsper, Blinds and Bordering, Stationery, Exercise Books, etc In Oils you can get Castorine, Black, Cod, Tavners and Coal Oils; also Furniture Varoleh Vinegar, Ropes of all sizes, Pails, Tubs, Mop Handles, Trace Chains, Cow Ties, Resin, Lampblack, etc.Agents for the Toronto Oil Co.and British American Dyring Co., Montreal.S@F\" Cull and see Goods and compare prices at GRAY & GOWAN'S, Near Court Houss, Huntingdon, ANN'S IMPROVED BROAD-CAST Grain, Grags-seed and Fertiliser Sowing Attachment, to harse hay rake.Canada patent, February 14th, 1880.With one box, and without change of gear, the following can be sown any desired quantity per acre, vis.:==Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Peas, Buckwheat, Corn, Timothy, Clover, Millet, Hungarian and Flax Beeds ; aleo plaster, ashes, and other fertilisers, The machine is so simple in its construction that any boy who can drive a borso can sow as well ap an experienced sower, it being provided with a Jever and an index convenient to the driver, so that it may be accurately adjusted to sow the quantity desired.The attachment can be removed from the make in ten minutes, and as quickly put on.The wind has not the least effect on the grain, as the sowing takes place eo Near the ground.Farmers having no use for their rakes in the Spring and Fell can now attach our seeder add have à cheap machine.We make a sreder 9 feet 2 inches long, with wheels having a rim 2 inches wide and worked with one or two horses.This is the longent seeder made and so light that an ordi- vary horse will sow an acre in 11 minutes.Also, hand root drill, and horse root drill and fertiliser combined.Boyd & Co.Agents for Huntingdon.Agents wanted.H.SFMONS, Agent, St Louis de Gonzague, Q.EMLOCK LUMBER\u2014I have on hand nnd offer for nale at ronsonuble rates, 20 thousand fest of Seasoned Hemiouk Boards.Ann, OLIVER, Rockbarn.h Hq oke, Staples, Match Boxes, Planes, 1 POST OFFICE STORE.MARSHALL & HENRY.SPRING OF 1881.I\u201d presenting our Bpring Stock for public inspection we have to thank our friends who have Leon kind enough to give us their support in past yoars, and we think we muy justly claim to have earned the reputation of keeping the right class of Goods, not only well selected, but sold at moderate profits, and our aim this svason bias been to strengthen this conviction by the superior quality of our Goods.Although we do not pretend to sell at cost and under, still we claim to give as good value for the money as can be found in the county.Wo have just reccived and opened out our now stock of Dry Goods, Grocuriea, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and our stock of fresh Ficld and Garden as well as flower seeds, will be complete in a few days.Having secured special lines of Black and Colored Casbmeres and Silk Warp Paramettas we would iu- vite an inspection before purchasing clsewhere, A fine assortm-nt of Scotch and Canadian Tweeds and English Coatings.PF\" Suits made to order in best style.MARSHALL & HENRY.Farm for Sale.HE subscriber offers for sale his farm lot No.48, in the 3d concession of Ormstown, comprising 97 arpeuts, 1here is a dwelling-house, 2 barns, etable aud sheds, a large orchard, and & good supply of water.For terms apply to the proprictor en the premises, ADAM CAMERON.Ormetown, March 8.Horse for Sale.RR sale, a fino young Clyde Stallion, 3 years old, turned the scales last Fall at 1600 [ba., with perfect symmetry.He is bred from imported stock, and has taken 4 first prizes, 3 in his own county and first prize last I'ull at Moutreal, FRANCIS TURNER, 1st Con.Nuith Georgetown, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS FOR SALE HE undersigned has on hand, for sale, an assortment of IMPLEMENTS, \u2014 SUCH AS \u2014 PLOWS of various kinds, CULTIVATORS plain and with hiller, Road Scrapers, Corn-Shellers, Field Rollers, &c.RG Parties in need of such would do well to examine these Goods, as they are of extra finish and CHEAP.JAMES BLAIK, Huntingdon, Agent for Empire Works, Montreal.THE BEST BARGAINS YET! ARE TOBE HAD AT W.W.DALGLIESH'S HILE thanking my friends for the very libem) patronage with which they have favored me for the last 20 years, I would call their attention to the large stock of Goods now on hand, which has been bought on very favorable terms, and will be sold at a small advance on Cost fur Beapy Pay.1 am now selling A nice bright SUGAR for 9c 4 ib, Bust Granulated 11¢, Splendid SALMON for 10c, WHITE FISH fur Ge, HERRING and CODFISH equally low.MUSCAT'EL RAISINS for 10c, Bust CURRANTS for 8c, Good heavy SHEETING for Vic § yd, Wide PRINTS (best colors) from 9c, Beautiful TAPESTRY CARPET 65c.BE\" Fence Wire, Rods and Bundles; Western, Ruwdon, and Alsyke Clover; Fresh Field and Garden Seeds; Pork, Flour, Checse, &c., at very lowest rates, W.W.DALGLIESH.Huntingdon, March 23,81.DENTAL NOTICE.WING to the bad condition of the roads I deem it advisable to change the time of my visit to Trout River, N.Y, from the last 3 days of March to the last 3 in April.Will my patrons note, H.W.MERRICK, Dentist.AVID BRYSON, Licensed Auctioneer for the District of Beaubarnois, which consists of the Counties of Huntingdon, Chateauguay and Beauhare nois, Sells in the English and French languages.No higher charges made for extra distances to travel as all his time ie at his dispogsl for that business.All communications addressed to David Bryson, Howick, P.Q, orto David D Bryscn, Agent, Ormetown, P.Q., will receive immediate attention, DAVID ROSS, Plow Maker \u2014ÀA NL ro GENERAL BLACKSMITH, VW euLo take this opportunity of tendering his sincere thanks to his numcrous customers and friends in Huntingdon and vicinity for the liberal support they have conferred ug on him since he commenced business.He would beg to state that he has secured the pattern of the cham pion\u2019s (D.Macpherson, Esq, Lancaster) plow-bosrd, and having tested its merits he has every confidence that those having them fitted upon their plows will be satisfied.D.R.would further intimate that those in want of first-clasn harrows would also do well to call and examine his stock of Jointed and Reversible Harrowr, now completed, of the same pattern which took the fisat prize against all other competitors at the Dominion Exhibition, held in Montreal fast Fall.My plows have spoken for themselves at all the local and district «xbibitions, and from the numerous testimonials received during the past year, I have fall confidence that those favoring me with their support may depend upon first-class workmanship, and, cun- sidering the great advance upc materinl, charges will be moderate, NGF\" Orders sent by mail wil | receive prompt attention.DAVID ROSS, Vulcan Iron Works, Hunting: lon, } March 15th, 1881.__________\u2014 _&__ ___.\u2014 Now York will have its world\u2019s fair in 1883.The million doliars required as a preliminary guarantee has at last all been subscribed, and it is rossonable to suppose the scheme will now go forward.For a time the subscriptions #0 seviously bung fro that the affair seemed dooraed to die in its incip- iency, bat the Now \u2018York capitalists rallied to the rescue out of mere pride.Where Philadelphia succeerled, Now York could not afford to fail.It may reasonably be expected that cheap trips frem Europe will be run, and that shoals of foreigners will avail them- A CEMETERY GARDENING.To the Editor of the Canadian Gleaner.IT is pleasing to reflect that the subject of rendering our burial places attractive has awakened an operative influence in the public mind during the present age, fur it reems more generally than ever, un especial objet to make the grave less repulsive and more cheorful ; to mako the burial place the agreeable and profitably impressive resorts of respectful affection or bereaved love; so that, while the dead are mourned over, the living may be reminded, by appropriate mementoes and ombellishments arvund the resting places of tho departed, that we shall not all sleep, but be changed.We noticed, on a visit to England some time ago, a great improvement in the manugemont of cemeteries and graveyards by the addition of beautiful @owering shrubs and the motloy display of annuals, and other bedding flowers, relieving the eye and, perchance, the mind, from the gloomy, yot attractive, yew tree, which was formerly the sole occupant in the ornamental class of trees.Why should the cemetery be gloomy at all ?or, why should it ever seem to be a place indicating that the dead aro not remembered, but forgutten ?The nations and people of the past, and especially the orient Greeks and Romans, ornamented their burial places with tombs, trees, and flowers, and frequently visited them, Tho trees most usually planted in Furo- pean cemeterios have been the yow, cypress, and arbor vitæ ; but us the former will not thrive in this country, there are diferent kinds of native pines which would form an appropriate substitute.A cemetery should be made a shaded rotreat\u2014a rich grove of tress, where cultivation and art blend harmoniously with nature.We hail the coming time when overy burial placo in this land may become a garden of flowers, each grave or lot planted in accordance with individual tasto, and watched and nurtured by the hand of surviving friendship and love.It is also a noteworthy fact that the moro truly picturesquo or lovely any spot is mado, tho holier the associations become, and as attractions of this kind give interest to any place, how much more so in regard to the hallowed ropositories of tho dead.Who can estimate the beneficial influence to all thoughtful minds who annually visit the beautitul Mount Auburn, or, perhaps to the reader, the better known Mount Royal Cemetery ?I think that as Christianity spreuds its bouming and life giving rays abrond, cheerlees thoughts of tho grave should bo dispelled.We ought not to cherish the ides of corruption, but of an incorruption, that this \u201cmortal must put on immortality\u201d and death bo \u201cswallowed up in victory.\" \u2018I'he rose is a very appropriute flower for adorning the grave, as is also the double-white pyrothum or foverfew ; but there is an endless variety to selcct from that are cqually suitable.A costly tablet, erected as a tribute of affection, is a com- mondable object, but too often is only meant to display the prido and wealth of the living, and not chiefly as a mark of remembrance of the dead.Flowers, however, need care and diligent attention, and donate a sincere and affectionate respect.\u2018I'ho-e also upon whom the responsibility of laying out and managing of cemeteries devolves would a»- suredly find it more praiseworthy to provide and keep in trim tho drives, walks, grass, etc., and wo venture to predict that the trifling outlay would neither be lost nor regretted ; and instead of the bleak, desolate aspect many of our cemetories assume, a garden springing up with flowers would encourage us to look torwurd to a brighter and never-fuding Paradiso above.EnpwiN NEWMAN.EE HOW TO PREPARE KALSOMINE.SoAK one pound of white glue over night, then dissolve it in boiling water, and add twenty pounds of Paris white, diluting with water until the mixture is of the consistency ot rich milk.To this any tint can be given that is desired.Lilac.\u2014Add to the kalsomine two parts of Prussian blue and one of vermilion, stirring thoroughly, and taking care to avoid too high color.Brown.\u2014Burnt umber.Gray.\u2014Raw umber, with a trifling amount of lampblack.Ruse.\u2014Three parts of vermilion and one of red lead, added in small quantitios until a delicate shade ix produced.slightly with vermilion.Spanish brown.low and one part burnt sienna.Blue.\u2014A small quantity of Prussian blue will give a soft agure tint.Dark blue is ever desirable.Delicate tints in the foregoing varieties of color are always agreeable and tastefu!, and great care must be taken that they are not too vivid, The tints will always appear brighter than in the kalsomine pot, and the workman, or workwoman, must keep this fact in mind when adding the coloring powders.It is a good idea to give the ceiling a kal.somine two or three shades lighter than that of the walls, so it may appear merely a delicate reflection of their deeper tones.The ceiling can be kalsomined with the lighter tint, and then more coloring added for the walls, For other walls than bard finish an excellent whitewash is made by elaking lime with boiling ekim-milk and adding (for balf a bushel of lime) three quarts of salt, half a pound of whiting, and a nd of white lue, previously dissolved in water.This s a bard and durable whitewash, does not selves of the opportunity (0 see the countr¥ and the people.One of the results of the recent conflicts between our troops and the Boers is that Martini- Henry rifles will bo gencrally issued as an experiment to tho cavalry regiments of «he line, and that greater inducements than those now provided by the regulations will be offered with a view to improvement {in marksmanship.easily rub off, and when tinted with any of the foregoing shades has about as good an effoct as kalsomine.A beginner in the art of kalsomining is apt 10 bestow half the material on the floor, which is 8 needless waste.By taking a small quantity on the brush at 8 time all \u2018splashing is avoided, and after a little practice barely a drop will fall on the floor.| \"A bright day should be selected for the Buff.\u2014Two parts of spruce or Indian yel- see.work.Tho wash should bo of the proper straight and parallel with each other.After the first coat is dry, and never before, apply the second one acrosa tho rat.An expert workman leaves no touch of the brush round paint-brush should ho used for cover ing all corners and small rpusos with the wash, REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT AGENT AT OKA.Oka, Sept.27, 1880 \u2014Sir, \u2014I have the honor, in compliance with inatructions reed the 30th June, 1830.Tho crops in general last year turned out as satisfuctorily as was unticipated, while those of the present season promise on average yield.This is gratifying to the agricultural portion of tho band, who are thus not but also manage from year to year to secure, thru this source, a fair livelihood for themselves and their families.It is much to be regretted, however, that ao many of them, strong and able-bodied men too, are without lands here, for settlement, espociully since it is their oft-expressed desire tu abandon their roving lifo, and sottle down permanently tn the cultivation of the soil.eantime there latter subsist chiofly by hunting, shantying, and the manufacture of those wares which aro pocaliar to their ruco, such as all kinds of baskets, boud work, and tho like, all of which are precarious modes of maintenance at tho best.Some of the more export of them also engage, during certain periods of the year, in making lacrosses, hoops, axe- handles and snow-shoes, for which they find rendy sale, and obtain fair prices, in Montreal, Toronto, snd other cities in the Dominion, llusbands are ably assisted by their wives in supporting their familios.Their dwellings are now fit tor habitation, most of the old onos having this last aum- mer undergone ropairs; and here it is pleasing to record on bohalf of tho Indians thoir sincere thanks to the Department for its kind liberality in furnishing the materl required for that purpose.A nuabor ot now buildings have alsu been put up during tho year, while others are in course of ercotion, notwithalanding the porsistent attempts of the Seminary to prevent it.\"Tho Freuch poople located here, of whom there aro a great many, Are a source ot constant annoyance and trouble to tho Indians, They aro continually trespassing on their farms, cutting down and complotoly destroying their sugar bushes, which tho posros~ors thereof\u2019 have for years carefully guarded, and from which thoy derive, annually, romeo asgistunco thru the sale of maple sugar and syrup made therefrom ; the lndinns inform me that a namber of habitants, hailing from Montreal and other places in this l\u2019ruvince, aro, at this ptesont timo, Lusily employed in chopping cordwood and preparing saw-logs for shipmont to foreign markets; while it is currently reported that their numbor is koon to bo augmented by large importations from France, in Europe, for the purpose of cutting down and disposing of all the most valuable timber on this reservation; this tho lodians aver they will resist, at any risk, as they will never allow tho interests which they claim in theso lands to be trampled upon in any such manner.The local whites go further, and abuse in the most cruel way the horses, cows, and other animals belonging to tho bund, and executo their vengeunce upon them in a variety of forms.The rewurd of $25 offered by the Department fast fall for tho appre fiension and conviction of the pers or persons guilty of thisgrave offonce, altho failing to bring them to justice, hus had, at least, the good effect of preventing, thus far, a repeuition of such malicious condact.\u2018These and similar difficulties and persecutions are, however, likely to continue to exist so long as the land dispute, between the Indians and the Neminary, remains an- settled.\u2018The Indians aro now becoming thuroly roused to a renwe of Lhe great injustice thut is being done them, and are resolved to defend themrolves and their rights more rigidly in the future.It in well that they are so peuceably inclined and not retaliation, and what the issue will be it is difficult to fore- One of the accused, however, was tried and promptly acquitted before Justice Boor- counsel, fosling that such a itive result should be taken ss a Snal settlement of the whole case, made application for the discharge of all the prisoners.This the prosecution strenuously opposed, and the consequence is that tho untried enes aro agnin beld to appear at the same place in Junuary next.It is to be boped that this unprecedented cave will soon be brought to & termination, and save tho Indians further trouble and expense.Referring to educational matters some twenty-tive families, residing aboot four miles from this villuge, finding it impossible to send their children to the village school, bave decided upon erecting & echuoi-bouse in their own neighborhood, where the wants of over forty children, of school age, will bo met in the way of learning.Oporations have already been commenced, and it is ox- pected that the building will be completod and ready for occupation in à few weeks.Le is a commodious one, and will be useful for other pur an well.Regarding the moral and intellectual status of the band there is nothing special to note, except that there ia room for improvement, consistency\u2014rich milk\u2014or it cannot be! applied evenly.The strokes should be; visible.When applying the first coat a, ceived in your circular, dated the 20h Jul in his ondeavors to keep ] lant, Lo submit the following roport on Lodin bin pecuniary obligations, and they will not Affairs within this Agency for tho year end.° low in his footutep, = disposed, and the tn bole well bebaved.moneys ols transmitted the Department during the year, for the vy lief of the aged and infirm members of the band, were disbursed gs judiciously as sible, as was alew the seed supplied last oping, all of whish were much appreciated by those who received them.There is a deal of difioulty attending distzibations of this kind, from the fact that tbe entire band consider themeelves justly entitied to a share therein.The $912 granted by the Department, last winter, towards the purchaso of lumber and nails to repair ihefr houses, was oxpended to the beet possible advan in procuring tho sumo ; aluo the $100 grunt for reed.The decrease of 25 in the population of the band, since laut year, is owing to the recout removal of rome three or four families to other parts for the wintor season.Joux MoGine, 1ndian Agent.nr «IN MEMORY OF CASH DOWN,» Hu is at rot.Cash Down is dead and buried, and the mourners are bomo from the funcral.Me w » à weil-known man, bat of late years ho was not hulf apprecisted.There wus a time when he stood head and shoulders above Trust and Dead Bout, but timos aome- how changed.Cash Down loft quite a large family, who will take warning by hin sad fate.Ho cut his life abort by many yoars his word and meet There wus a timo when (\u2018ash Down was mot with a smile and a hearty sbake of the band.lt be wanted his buguy repaired, tho blackemith would figure fine and depend upon his pay the hour the work was finish- » Me could then take the money, and be- only umply recomponsed for thoir labors, °°° Cueh Down himuelf, makiag à difference of ton per cont in his favor.[ff Cash Down wanted a new suit of clothes the tailor made a difference of $3 botwoon him and Slow Pay, and the money could bo sent East to pay for bis cloth.The last time Cush Down wun out in the street ho saw Slow Pay, Bad Dobt and Dead.Beat walking arm in arm, and the blnckumith, the tailor, the grocer and the merchant shook hands with each ono of them and replied : \u201cCortainly\u2014~certainly.You oan have what you want on time, and I'll well you just as cheuply, and wait on you us promptly an | will on Cash Down, One of them might pay in six months; tho second might be forced to pay in a your or two, and the third didn\u2019t intend to pay at any timo.They got the same treatment as Cash Down, and a great rush was mado to send home their goods.The old man entored a grocery whero ho had paid out hundreds of dollars in ready money, and asked the price of sugar.Slow Pay suuntered in after him and naked tho same question, and both wero givon the same figure.Yot at that time Cash Down had puid over that counter moro than a thousand dollars in ready canb, und Slow l\u2019ay was in debt fifty dollars, and adding to the figure.Cash Down went into a dry-goods store to purchaso a dross for hin wife.Bud Debt wan ahoad of him.Cash Down pulled out a 820 bill and paid for his goods on the «pot, Bad Debt picked up his bundle and told thom to chargo it.In one case the merchant hud his money in tho cash box to help to pay for a now stock.In the othor the collector would be month, if not years, in got- ting it, or in the end it would be charged to profit and loss.You Cash Down had to pay the sume price that Bad Debt did.Cash Down wanted a tiew pur of boots.Ho went to his old shoomaleer nnd was nur.prised to hear thut they would be charged tifty cents mure thun for the Inst pair.\u201cIlias there beon a great advance on the price of lenther ?\u201d he naked.\u201cOh, no.\u201d \u201cDo you pay your workmen moro ?* \u201cNot a cent, You neo, Slow l\u2019ay, Bad Debt and Dead Beat are into me pretiy heavily, and 1 must make it up by charging cash customers a littlo more! That's a way we all have of doing.\u201d Cash Down must then pay the rame price as Dead Bent, and holp to make good Dead Bent's indebtedness in addition | He went home, sick in body and mind.The doctor who attended him was bound by solemn agreement to charge ns much an it called to see Dead Beat, and his prescriptions cost more, because ho had to pry Dead Boat's old bill at the drug store.hen ho died the undertaker made no reduction on the carket, and the tombstone cutters put un extra five dollars on the price of tho shaft to pay the balanco duo from Bud Debt for the one furnished his child's grave ! rer\" MISCELLANEOUS, The age of horned cattle may genorally be known by tho rings on the horns till their tenth year ; after that timo they give no indication of age further thon that the animal hos passed its tenth your.The first ring appears on the horn after the animal has panwed two years old\u2014soon after, as goneral role, though sometimes before thas essed of a vindictive spirit, as otherwise ' During the third year tho ring gradu.robably bloodxbed would 2; and at threo years of ago it Lavender.\u2014Make a light blue and tint it be the result in almost overy instance.ally incroasos, J 8 The arson case, as you aro without doubt appears during the fourth year, and at the Straw.\u2014Chrome yellow, with a touch of aware, is still before the law courts, and = is completely formed.The second ring firth year it is complete.After that period an additional ring is formed each year, This rale is sofficiently plain, and even s young farmer needs but little practice to enable geois st Aylmer in July last; and their|fim to rend a cow's age on hor horns.A cow with three rings is aix ycars old ; with four she is seven years old.No new rings are formed after Lhe tenth year; tho deeper rings, however, and the worn appearance of the horns are pretty sure indications of old age.Professor Fontaine gives somo hints for abating the mo=quito pest which is sure to come with the advent of suony days.First, he says mosquitoes require water for the deposit of their eggs and the rearing of their larvæ or wiggletails.Therefore, ali cisterns should be made close and covered with close woven brass wire netting to prevent their laying in them.No old tubs, barrels, or tacles of wator ought to be permitted, and no stagnant pools left undrained within a mile of any dwelling.\u2018Thon they can be killed by the cheapest and most abundant of all aikalies, common lime.Therefore this ought to be poured into every ces«pool and spring.A pound of strong lime to every 100 gallons of stagnant water is sufficient.But even a pound Lo 1,000 gallons of a cis tern of drinking water will kill them, altbo it will probably give the water an un.leasant flavor and make it too \u201chard\u201d for as reported last year, and with the exception of a visit from the, mcasles last Winter, which proved fatal in s.few canes, Lhers were no epidemics amon g them during the year.Their sanitary condition is about the same P j domestic ns08.i The Princess Louise has been greatly en.\u2018joying her visit in Paris.She likes its live- (linees and its art treasures.She bas been The wee of in\u2018,0xicants is of rare occurrence regretting, it is ssid, that the fine arts arc so among them, and the Indians are ray | poorly developed in Canada, A AE\u201d = A ANIA Fhe M Gaston Pe BLE PT = EEE notre rar Ë r eee ES or ET REE RR Ea Sa) 5 \" Pc CP Poe ds ro BE RETIRE Pr CE OT EE A 3 tt br Li esp nag id na ee et az : soirée \u2014\u2014\u2014 red _ \u2014 THECANADIAN GhRBANERis pab- lished ov Thursday \u2018at moon.Subscription $1.50 a-year in advance, - pos free.Single copies, fourcents each.Onedollarpaysfor eight months\u2019 subscription, two dollars for a year and four months.ROBT.SELLAR, Proprietor, Huaté .Que.@he Canadian Gleaney, HUNTINGDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1681.THE first bye-election in Ontario, since the passing of the Pacific railway contract, took place in East Northumberland on Friday, when the Liberal candidate was returned by 196 majority.The constituency was formerly represented by a Conservative.Both Mr White and Mr Plumb stumped the county, and the issue appears to have been fought out mainly on the National Poliey and the Pacific contract, AN English correspondent writes : All over the country people are beginning to question the soundness of free trade \u2014 or rather of that one-sided and one-handed free trade under which you admit free the goods of nations which refuse to let you trade with them on equal terms.When the advocates of modified protection get the whip hand of the majority in Parliament \u2014 and get it they assuredly will, unless there is a miraculous change in the condition of the country\u2014farmers in the Western States will be taught a lesson in political economy which they will not be apt to forget.Great Britain.has great cause for complaint as to the injustice of foreign countries.She admits all their products, with the exception of tobacco, alcoholic liquors, and a few luxuries, free of duty, while they impose prohibitory duties on whatever she exports.Last year she bought from the United States 395 million dollars worth of produce, on which no duty was levied, while the United States only took 150 million dollars worth of her goods on which an average duty of 23 per cent.was collected.This cannot last, and if the United States expects Great Britain to continue her best customer, they must deal more fairly by her, for the tendency of trade is always for a country to buy where she sells most.If an English Government ever does make part of their policy reciprocity in tariffs, they will begin with Canada first, which has the meanness to take advantage of the open market presented for her timber, grain, dairy produce, and cattle, yet taxes everything in the shape of manufactured goods from the old land.A British duty on Canadian farm- produce would very soon bring our loyal (*) National Policy men to their senses.ONE of those whiskey-sellers who labor under the notion that councils are bound to give them license, got a settling in Montreal last week.The ratepayers of Drummond, in the Eastern Townships, had adopted the Dunkin act, when a corrupter of the public morals, called Noel, insisted that refusing him license viclated his rights, and he entered an action accordingly against the council.The lower courts having decided against him, he carried his case to the Court of Appeal, when the entire bench agreed he had \u201cno case, and gave judgment against him with costs.There is thus at least one municipal council in the Province which has the spirit to spurn the threats and dictation of grog- dealers when refused license.ANOTHER dividend (payable on the 11th April) of 10 per cent.has been declared by the assignee of the Mechanics\u2019 bank, which will make 45 cents on the dollar.A fourth, and final dividend will be declared next Fall, and hopes are entertained, from the admirable way in which MrCourt manages the estate, that it will give the creditors about 60 per cent.altogether on their claims.It does not appear to be generally known, that holders of bills of the bank can yet lodge them with the assignee and receive their dividends.A GooD deal is being said just now with regard to imitation butter and cheese, So long as butterine was made from fresh beef suet and other wholesome materia) there was no cause for complaint.It was not butter, but it was as healthy as good dairy butter and more so than bad, so that no restriction on its sale, beyond branding it properly, was thought of.Unhappily some wretched Western man found out thet lard would do as well as suet, and last season the market was flooded with the compound, not a few creameries mixing, according to the process, lard with their butter, and so making an extra pro- ft.The same has been done with cheese, and so thuroly can the lard be got to mix both in the vat and chorn that the product not only® defies detection but is superior in quality to the ordinary grades of honestly-made Lutter and cheese.If sight aml teats do not detest the prevents of lard, the system , and those who oat either lard butter or choese suffer in health.Raw lard, when used in quantity, is repelled by the system, and various complaints of the stomach and bowels are induced by it, so that, if this new form of adulteration be persisted in, the consequence will be that the consumer across the Atlantic will shun American or Canadian butter and cheese, and the honest makers will suffer for the practices of the dishonest.It is essential that the reputation of our dairy products for purity be maintained, and to that end compulsory Government inspection ought to be instituted if these frauds are persisted in another scason.Whether owing to the flooding of the market with artificial butter or that the make of last season was excessive, there is just now an unprecedented glut in the British markets, and butter bought in New York and Montreal at 22 to 24 cents last Fall is now offered at 15 cents without buyers.A great deal has been sold at less than shipping charges, and many dealers are bankrupt.Such a collapse has not been known for years.ThE Montreal Gazette began on Monday \u201ca series of carefully prepared articles, to illustrate to its readers in a way that will carry conviction to every one that our industries are flourishing to an cxtent that would have been impossible three or four yearsago .and that they have become indigenous, so to speak, under the genial influence of the National Policy.\u201d In pursuance of this design the first description given is that of a manufactory where Bristol's Pills, Allan's Lung Balsam, Dr Herrick\u2019s Pills, several kinds of Sarsaparilla, Davis's Pain-Killer, and a number of other quack remedies are concocted by the hundred-weight and hogshead.We always thought the swallowing of the National Policy would necessitate the Dominion\u2019s taking a great deal of medicine, THE Legislative Assemblies of New Brunswick aud Prince Edward Island passed by large majorities bills abolishing their respective Legislative Councils, and both those bodies, with equal unanimity, threw out the bills.The Legislative Council for this Province having acted similarly, there are now three of those superfluous chambers which have refused to abolish themselves and insist in forcing their services upon an unwilling people.THE report of the Government inspector for the year ending June 30, 1880, shows that the Agricultural Insurance Company of Watertown, did a losing business in Canada.Its total receipts were 347,426, out of which it*paid agents and others 219,281, and $33,526 for losses, leaving a deficiency of $3,381, with unsettled losses of $4,020, Ox Tuesday afternoon a large mecting was beld in the Mechanics\u2019 hall, Montreal, to constitute a Reform Association for the District of Montreal.After speeches by Mercier, Huntington, and Blake, a conetitu- tion was submitted and adopted unanimously.It declares in favor of a system of thuro primary education, of rigid economy in the finances, and contains a few other vague platitudes used indifferently by both politiq cal parties.The only real issue in this Province, the securing of equal rights irrespective of creed, is dismissed in this manner\u2014 The Liberal party not only respects our religious and civil institutions and protects their acquired rights, but still defends thom against whatever may tend (o destroy or obstruct their beneficial action on society.That is, the Montreal Reform Association will \u201crespect,\u201d \u201cprotect,\u201d and \u2018\u2018defend\u201d tithes, fabriquo assessments, sectarian insti- tations, and all the other *\u2018acquired rights\u201d of the Church of Rome in this Province, whereby it occupies à position of sapremacy ovor all other roligious bodies, and isstifling the life and prosperity of the Province.As ifthis declaration were not obsequious onougb to propitiate the curés, it is supplemented by anothor\u2014 The Federal Constitution guarantees the complete autonomy of each Province, and every tendency of the Federal Government to lessen this self-government, the only safeguard of our religious and national interests, should be condemned and resisted with firmness and energy.In what way the abolition of the Local House would interfere with \u201cour religious and national interests\u201d we would like to be informed.With such an Association we bave no sympathy ; it may serve the purpose of political wirepullers to get them into office, but it will never help Lo settle those irrepressible questions which, unless met manfally now, will end in serious trouble.In the ovening a dinner was given in the Windsor hotel to Mr Blake, which was most successful.Mr Maclaren occupied the chair, And in response to the toast \u201cOur guest,\u201d Mr Blake made à long and porerfai speech.83 The mortality in and around Hun- tingdon has been during the past month unexceptionally large.It has not been confined to the old residents, but quite a number of the young have been removed pr donc.A short time ago the Rev Mr vir of 8t Andrew's church had five fanurals in one week.&&\" The Canadian Government has made a demand upon the Washington authorities for the delivery to them of A.P.Brand, the swindler who was kidnapped at Hemmingford last December.#&\" Last week an agent of the contractor, Mr Linsley, for the Coteau railway visited this village to sce if any ties could be got here.Owing to the sleighing being over, he found none could be got out.It is questionable had he come sooner if he would have got any, as all he offered was 24c for tamarack ties delivered at Lancaster station.He said when the road was first started, thousands upon thousands of ties were bought and piled along the route, and are now so rotted by exposure as to be useless.The latest word from the South Shore company is to the effect that Mr Shanly is to send in à report in a few days, upon which it is expected the Government will issue the long-looked for proclamation.The company represents that they are ready to begin operations the moment it is issued.K@T Teams continue to cross the St Lawrenco and, except at the sides, the ice looks sound.The Beaudet river is now open, and the track leads to the point above it.So far, the sugar season has not been a good one, tho there have been a few excellent runs.The cold winds and cloudy days have been against the sap rising.This (Thursday) morning it is snowing heavily, which probably portends a favorable change in the temperature.&& On Thursday evening, about half- past 10, Dr Cameron, M.PP., was entering the village on his way home from an extended tour among his patients.In passing the house of Mr John Brown a dog darted out barking, when the horse swerved to one side, then leaped back and bolted for its stable.In doing so, the Doctor was jerked from his seat and thrown with violence in front of Mr James Will's house.Mr Will, hearing a moaning, came to the door, but perceiving nobody returned, and Mrs Brown also looked out.Seeing no one was likely to come to his aid, he managed to drag himself to the office of Messrs Boyd & Co., where he saw a light, Mr Corbett being still at work.He was taken home and everything possible done for his relief.He fell on his right side, and his shoulder, breast, and thigh were severely bruised.Altho it is believed none of the internal organs have been injured, we regret to say he continues to suffer great pain and is still confined to the house.The horse trotted into the Doctor's yard without injury to itself or the buggy.& Mr John Symons having sold his farm at St Louis de Gonzague, he dis; posed of his stock by auction by D.Bryson last week.The following prices were obtained for the cattle, which were well-bred Ayrshires : Price Purchaser.Muley Cow $38.00 Robert McIntosh Brindle \u201c 40.00 6 6 Ked \u201c 52.00 \u201c \u201c Heifer, 3-year-old 25.00 William Gardner Ball, 1° 8 4 16.00 William Hunter au \u20ac 19.00 Robert McIntosh Heifer, 4 + & 16.50 James Symons \u201c \u201cu « 28.00 lJ \u201c Lu «4 23.25 Robert Dickson \u201c a wow 27.50 Robert Melntosh \u201c 31.50 James Brodie woos wa 14.00 Thos, Drysdale wou ou 48 00 \u20186 \u201c && J.J.Gardner of St Louis de Gon- zague and Andrew Stewart of Howick passed their examinations in all the primary medical classes, the first-named with honors.George Shirriff, Huntingdon, passed in the chemistry class.&\" In the paragraph relating to the criminal court the word \u201cmonths\u201d was inadvertently inserted for \u201cweeks\u201d in the sentence of Mrs Jobnston, Hinchinbrook, In sentencing her, Judge Belanger said : \u201cYou have been accused and found guilty of a grave assault upon the person of Lizzie Masterson on the 9th October last.After striking lier several times, you dragged her by the hair, causing a serious bleeding and probably a miscarriage.Taking into consideration that you have already been in jail two months and that the leading residents of your township and others have petitioned that the clemency of the court be extended to you, the court condemns you to G weeks\u2019 imprisonment.\u201d The prisoner, who was weeping, replied.\u201cThank you, your Honor.\" #47 A somewhat serious accident occurred on Friday weck at McCartney's mill.A French-Canadian, named Laberge, was hauling logs, when one rolled from the skidway, and before he could escape, he was caught, and his leg broken above the ankle.No doctor being in the vicinity at the time, the unfortunate man was taken to his home near Beauharnois, where Dr Primeault was called in and set the fractured limb.The man is doing well.This, so far as we know, is only the second casualty of this most extensive winter's operations in the woods.This is most remarkable when one considers the ver large amount of lumbering and woodcutting done in the woods south of Dur- am, && At the late term of the Superior court, John N.Kelly of Huntingdon was appointed a bailiff.The Circuit court adjourned until the 12th April to hear the case of the contested election of Mr San- toire as councillor for St Jean Chrysostome and the Superior until the 25th April\u2014 © .7 It is so refreshing to hear of awakened consciences, that the following is worth printing, having been_ received.by the clerk of the Huntingdon court the other day : \u201cMr John Morrison, You will find enclosed 25 cents in stamps.It is conscience money from & man who once wronged you of 12 cents and wants to make restitution, Prepare to meet your S@F At the usual Thursday prayor- mecting in the basement of the Methodist church, an accident happened that might have had serious results.The last hymn was being sung, when one of the chandeliers dropped to the floor, smashing tho lamps, and covering the floor with burning oil.A pail of water was dashed on the flames, which made matters worse by extending the area of the oil, but with admirable presence of mind, the carpet on the platform was torn up and thrown over them, when they were instantly smothered There was a good deal of excitement among the congregation at first, which soon subsided.The cause of the accident was the swivel of the lamp being stiff.In turning it to light the lamps, the screw of the hook that suspended it was turned out, until, losing all hold, it dropped.No damage has been sustained beyond the breaking of the lamps and a slight discoloration of the ceiling.\u20ac&\" We have received for the Chief Joseph fund during the past week: A Friend $1; Francis Anthony, Franklin, $1; Dr Wells, Huntingdon, $2; Peter McFar- lane, Elgin, 84; collected by Miss Florence Gilmore, 32.50; and the handsome donation described beneath.To date we have received altogether 372.\u2014 At a meeting of the Georgetown and English River Woman's Missionary Society, held on March 15th, one of the members produced a subscription list, for the benefit of the family of the late Chief Joseph, offering to forward to the editor of the Gleaner, the contributions of any who wished to subscribe to that fund, an offer of which those present cheerfully availed themselves.Since the meeting a number of contributions have been received from friends who, in various ways, became acquainted with the scheme.Doubtless many more would, with equal heartiness, have given, had they been afforded a like opportunity, but it was impossible to do more than make the project known as opportunities presented, The result is the enclosed 830, received from: Mrs A.Ogilvie $1, Mrs J.Brodie &1, Mrs McKerracher $1, Mrs G.McClenaghan $1, Mrs R.Craig $1, Mrs R.Ness 31, Mrs Crutchfield 81, Mrs D.Glen 50c, Mrs W.Orr 50c, Mrs R.Elliot 50c, Mrs M.Orr 81, Mrs McKay $1, Miss Muir $1.65, Mrs WW.Carruthers $1, Misses J.and M.Galbraith 82, Mrs J.Cunningham $1, Mrs D.McArthur 50¢, Mrs C: Brown 50c, Mrs J.Anderson GOc, Mrs D.Galbraith $1, Mrs C.McDonald $2, Mrs A.Cameron $1, Miss Jessie Rutherford 31, Mrs W, Greig, senr., 31, Mrs W.S.Cunningham $1, Mrs T.Gebbie, junr., $1, Mrs T.Hamilton 81, Mrs A.Brodie 82, Mrs A.Greig $1, and \u2014\u2014 25c.\u2019 FRANKLIN SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.Tits board met on Tuesday: present, Commissioners 1lall and Rowe, with Colonel Rogors presiding, Moved by Com Hall, seconded by Com Rowe : That the following accounts be paid: Thomas Atkinson, repairs to No.2, 828 00.Charles Will st «3, 850 00.6 \u201c Wood for « 3, 816 80.John Crow, repairs done to « 7, $44 10.Boyd & Co,, Huntingdon, for Desks 893 25.John McMillan, Wood for Mo.4, $12 45.Moved by Com Rowe, seconded by Com Hall : \u2018hat the resignation of Miss Arthur be accepted, and that the Secy.-Treas.be authorized to advertise for a teacher to fill the vacancy.Carried.Moved by Com llall, seconded by Com Rowe : That the resignation of Chas.Will, as school manager, be accepted, and that John Craik and Finlay Wilson be appointed in his place.Carried.ST.ANICET COUNCIL.AT à special session held on the 26th inst, were present L.N.Masson, Esq., mayor; Couns D.Caza, P.M.Leahy, and James Brown.A bond to the amount of 8900 subscribed by Messrs John Dinncen and Wm.S.Mac- laren, for tho corporation of the village of Huntingdon in bebalf of this corporation, towards helping to repair thru St Anicet that read known as the Plank Road, was read and found satisfactory.Lt was consequently moved by Coun Brown, seconded by Coun Leahy, and unanimously resolved: That L I.Crovier be appointed special superintendent to report, within the least possible delay, upon the petition of Etienne L'Ecuyer and others praying that a certain proces-verbal establishing a by-road between Lots Nos 24 and 25 on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ranges be repealed, and that the road known as the Plank Road, thra the 1st, 2nd and 3rd ranges of St Anicet, upon the contre of Lot No 20, be regulated as a municipal road.On motion of Coun Leaby, seconded by Coun Caza: The secretary was authorized to to advertize the salo of the Plank Road to tako place on Tuesday, the 12th of April next, by commoncing at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, opposite to Robert Holmes' barn, according to specification to be dictated at tho next regular session of this council.On motion of Coun Brown, seconded by Coun Leaby, it was unanimously resolved : That $6,000, instead of $5,000, be lent out of the Corporation funds.On motion of Coun Caza, seconded by Coun Brown : The mayor was authorized to prosceute Augustin Dupuis for obstructions laid across à winter road leading into the village.HOWICK SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS, THE board met on Saturday : all present, Mr T.Gobbie, jor., presiding.Moved by Com Noes, seconded by Com Houstono : That the following teachers be ro-engaged for the ensuing scholastic year : Miss Stowart for No.1 at prosent salary.Miss Grant \u201c 2 \u201c \u201c Miss Campbell « 3 \u201c \u201c The resignation of Miss Campbell was ac- copted.and a teacher in her place ordered to be advortised for.lt was resolved that the petition of 23 ratepayers be accepted against the removal of School No.4, and that no further action be taken, as only 3 ratepayers requested a chango.HAVELOCK COUNCIL, A MEETING Of this council was held on the 10th instant.Moved by Coun Perry, seconded by Coun Stevenson : That the bill of Wm.Edwards, land surveyor, amounting to $15, for survey and making oat deods of gravel pits, be paid.Carried.Moved by Coun Stevenson, scoonded b: Coun Bustard : That Coun John Perry be and is horoby authorized to with Janvier Ledoux, before a notary, an get adoedof a gravel pit sold by tho latter to this council, and that Coun Perry be empowered to sign the doed in behalf of this municipality.Carried.Moved by Coun Stevenson, seconded b appointed valuators for this municipality.arried.Moved by Coun Shannon, seconded by Coun Perry : That Messrs McDonald, Mo- Naoghbton, and Thomas Barr, be appointed auditors for the current year.Carried, ERNE \"TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE, ON Thursday Mr and Mrs Hiram Gentle of Franklin celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage.Golden weddings, as the fiftieth anniversaries are called, are not uncommon, but, with a single exception, this is the tirst instance, to our knowledge, in this county, of a couple passing 60 years in wedlock.Tho exception is the late James McNair of Godmanchester, who died a centenarian.There is this difference, however, in Mr Gentle's caso, that his entire wodded lifo has boen spent in the county of Hun- tingdon.À moro striking cireumstance than his long season of marital happiness, however, is the fact that be is the last survivor of the emigration which took place from the New England States at the beginning of the century, With the hundreds of hardy pioneors who found their way into this District from Vermont, New Hampshire, and adjoining States, and who penetrated into every scction of it, Mr Geatle is tho last link, and in him the gulf between tho timo when the District was an unbroken forest and the prosent there remains a fragile bond of union.Before, therefore, giving an account of the celebration of Thursday, it will be well to first touch upon the history of his father.Andrew Gontlo was a native of Stirling- shire, Scotland, and was born in 1846, the year when tho bopes of the Stuarts were blasted on Culloden Moor.Ho was brought up to tho business of maltman and brewer, which, in those days, when milk was scarce and tea almost unknown, was a good one, every town and village in Scotland having its brewer of table beer, which was the only beverage used at meals by the middle classes.A certificate, as to his good character and standing, from the parish minister of Dun- blane, shows he had been a resident of that place for 12 years in 1784, the year when he emigrated to America.Un reaching the United States he got employment at his calling in New Jersey, where he lived several years and where he married again (for he wag a widowor when he left the Old Country), his choice being Anne Yale of Connecticut, a member of the well-known New Haven family.They moved to Vermont, where in Charlotte, a small village on LakeChamplain, ho found employment at his business, which he afterwards left upon purchasing a farm of 50 acres some distance from it.Cherishing a deop love for the mothor land, the abuse of Great Britain and her institutions epidemic among our neighbors during the French Revolution, and which they carried to a great length, was distasteful to him and he wanted to get back under the old flag, to which ho was the more urged by the heavy taxes that then pressed upon the Republic.Packing up his effects, he moved, with his family northwards in 1801, and settled in Hemmingford on a lot nearly opposite that now occupied by Richard Sweet.Ho was not alone, for besides the Sweets, there wero T other families, who all settled about the samo time on the Covey Ilill road.Of the dwellers in those nine log shanties, from which the smoke curled above a forest bounded, at that time, alone by the St Lawrence, the descendants of several still live in the county.It is likely that when they pitebed npon their lots they thought they were still held by the Crown, but in this they were soon undeceived, for tho owner, James Woolryche of Montreal, let them knew that if they remained they must comply with his terms, which Mr Gentle, for one, deemed 80 excessive that he determined on abandoning bis iot, and in the summer of 1808 he made a journey west to pick out another.By this time, quite a number of families (all Americans) had moved into Franklin, and in the vicinity of the river that divides it there was tho beginning of a fair settlemont.He selected the lot upon which his descendants still live, being guided in his choice by its baving a fine spring of water, and close to which, and where the road now runs, be put up a log-house.In the following March, be moved, his effects being packed in two sleds, each drawn by an ox, the sleds being made narrow to pass between the trees on the rude track that led to bis new home, That scason there was a large emigration into Franklin, and when tho war broke out in 1812 it contained all the elements of a prosperous community.That untoward event, Bowever, dissipated all its prospects, tho settlors fleeing back to the United States, with a very few excep- lions, among whom was Mr Gontle and John Manning, who both rendered loyal and efficient service to tho Government, tor which they never received any recognition, In 1835 Mr Gentlo passed to his rest at the patriarchal age of 89, leaving behind him the reputation of an honest man and a kind neighbor.His widow lived to be 85 years old, dying in 1847.Their only son, Hiram, was born while they lived in Vermont, and was two years old when they emigrated into Hommingford, 80 that he has lived continuously in this county for four score years; from the poriod when it was a wilderness to what we now find it.From his earliest boyhood ho had to give a helping hand, for his father never took kindly to the use of the axe and the ways of a bush-farmer, and, when, during the war, he was stricken by a serious illness, after which he never regained his former strongth, the care of the household devolved on the growing lad, a duty he considered no burden, and which, with filial piety, he gladly discharged.When 22 years old he proposed to add to tbat happy home circle a wife, and, all being agreeable, did so.His choice was Mary, the eldest daughter of Mr Bateman, who lived in Champlain, N.Y., and the marriage day was fixed for tho 22nd March, 1821.On the preceding day so heavy a snow-storm sot in that even so youthful a bridegroom feared to face it, so that when, on the 22nd, the bridal company assemble at Me Bateman's house, the swain was wanting.The guests waited on until after dark, and jests with the bride as to the fickloness of her lover, wore not wanting.On the storm's abating, Mr Gentle set forth, being driven by Mr Priest in bis double sleigh, the only one in the settlomont.The prosent y [road had not yet been oponed, and tho old ono bent upward from David Stockwell\u2019s (whose name is perpetuated in the post office) to James MoDiarmid's farm.OF the settlers who had come in with his father on that rond, all had moved before the war except two and no new ones had yet taken their place, eo that from O'Neil's to Sweet's there was not a soul, and tho trees had so overgrown the road \u2018that it could only be Coun Perry: That Messrs Thomas Waddoil, George Edwards, and Thomas Stevenson, be detected by ite being a wider pathway of nary spaces betwee: trese.They reached Champlain oes be the bride forgave his dilatoriness, ang (2° ceremony took place on the 24th, At th : period there was no minister in the town at the knot was tied by Squire Perry, of Per, hy ville.They set out for Franklin neg mor ; ing, but from a thaw having set in, coveris.the lower parts of the with water hs journey was a slow ove, and it was late ere thoy reached home.Here all the neighbor.had gathered to await their coming and me celebrato the wedding, and a Pleasant oy lo ing was spent.Neither hero nor at 11 Champlain party was there any danciy , not because of any scruples ns to that amuse\" ment, bat simply for lack of a fiddler of those who were presont at the coremon ; Champlain only two are now alive and à those who filled the father's house, tg oC! come the young couple, there are also onl ; two\u2014Mrs Spencor aud the venerable M Moe, who, altho 92 years old, is ail} fn * enjoyment of all her faculties and n pictu ° of happy old age.Of all who lived re Franklin when Mr Gentle came int i; the mother of Nelson Manning, who died 15 yoars ago, was the last survivor.Such , the changes which 60 years have wrqq ht Tho approach of the 60th anniversue of the above recorded marriage $ggoste] \\ Mr and Mrs William Gentlo the happy iden of celebrating it by a gathering of relations and old neighbors, which was succosstyl| carried out on Thursday, when a com ans of over T0 filled their hospitable house, Among the old neighbors wers My ang Mrs Manning, Mr and Mrs Cantwell, Mr ang Jy, Ames, Mr and Mrs Edward Spencer, My and Mrs John Blair, Mr and Mrs Coburn Mr and Mrs John Wilson, Mr and Mrs Daniel Parham, Mrs Stacy, Mrs Smith, and man others.Mr Gentle is 82 years old and Mon Gentle 80.They are both vigorous for their age and in the enjoyment of all their faculties, They bave had a family of 6 boys and 7 girls, of whom 11 roached maturity, and count 36 grand children and 10 great grand ehildren.After au abundant and well.served dinner, a meeting was organized, b Dr Fergusson taking the chair, and who made an appropriate address, A very pleasant program was then gone thru, consisting of most excellent music led by Mrs Coonley on the organ, of readings, and of short addresses by Mr Ames, Mr Benjamin Jobn- ston, Mr John Craik, Mr Cautwell, and the Rev Messrs Hughes and Wright.All boro witness to the irreproachable lives of the worthy couple in whom they had met in honor and of the good example they had set to the community which so deeply estoems them.The proceedings wero closed with player and the benediction.Mr Ames, in addition to his remarks, sang a song, appropriate to the occasion, of his own composition, and did so with a spirit which ho may safely challenge any octogenarian to excel, At a late hour in the afternoon this unique and very pleasant gathering broke up with mutual good wishes.\u2014\u2014 OKA MATTERS.To the Editor of the Canadian Gleaner.Sir,\u2014I do not pretend to know who is to blame for the way in which Oka matters have bung fire for so many years, but a good many friends would like to have answers to the following questions :\u2014 1 What is the reason that a large proportion of the leading clergymen and laymen of the Methodist church are cither indifferent or positively opposed to tho whole matter ?I have seen letters, written Ly pillars of the church, strongly censuring the action of friends, like Mr Borland, who have stuck up for their rights.2 Allowing that the Methodist church has Lad immense demands upon ite generosity, what great burden would it be to ask say $5 from cach church in Canada, to pay legal expenses, &c ?One cent from each Methodist in Canada would amourit to à sum more than large enough for every purpose.Again, why, in this respect, does the church, as a whole, hang fire?3 The Civil Rights Alliance has had no existence for some years.It was not organized solely to defend the Oka case ; but nearly every dollar of its expendi ture was made in that direction, 4 If the Civil Rights Alliance was supposed to be the authorized medium of communication between the Indians and the Government\u2014as it undoubtedly was at the time\u2014why was its work interfered with ?If it was not, why was it expected to be responsible ?5 Why was Chicf Joseph removed from his work in Oka to Caughnawags, at a time when concentration at Oka was most needed?There was no call from Caughnawags.There was urgent need of him in Oka, He was the life of the place, and as goon as he left, dissensions arose between the people and the present minister.So intense has this become that several families have applied to the Government to Le removed elsewhere, No one seems to know where the fault lies, but it is important to preserve peace and harmony, and great tact is necessary in dealing with a prople who have been so persecuted by their old protectors, and who are not over well protected yet.It is useless to expect any lay body to get this Oka matter sottled.The Methodist church has accepted the responsibility, and if it will not move earnestly, how can it expect other, denominations to do so ?I am convinced that the Civil Rights Alliance would have been the best body to secure a speedy settlement, and would have done so, had it been substantially backed up.Whenever the Methodist church wag appealed to for funds, and some systematic effort asked for, certain people got their backs up ; à few of tho lay Popes in the body frowned disapproval ;\u2014 there aro always lay Popes in every churchb\u2014and Mr Borlapd was left alone to do his best, with more blame thar gratitude.There is no use beating about the bush.If the Methodist church is sincere in the defence of tho Okas, 1t has an easy road to travel.If not, the sooner we know it the better, because I would rather sce the Okas happy, well-fed and pro- tocted Roman Catholics, than despised and starved Protestants, Yours, &c., Srnaiant FonwarD.WEATHER REPORT sv Dr Smrairr.Temperature Rain Snow Highest Lowest in inches 23 Mar.\u2026 36 2% \u2026\u2026 ,000 24 « ,, 35 25.000 25 « ,.30 18.000 26 « \u2026 26 18.000 4 inches 27 « ,.30 16 .000 28 « .34 20.000 29 oo 34 17.000 WEATHER RECORD.24th~\u2014Frosty with strong west wind.35th==Dull with flurries of snow, and very sharp wind.26th\u2014Cloudy with snow in evening.37th\u20148nowing In morning ; high wind and drift.28th-Bright with cold West wind ; thawing in the sun.29thCE79Z D © mo =H >-30Q0Q Sed » \u2014 Pn Al eh Sy IB BP Rul mt od TD Dum mt pV of gf emg (PN NEY ON he us A 00 EE ee a rr Ch Em AE ED Ln TD te Ah ee BE BE er Eh a AN Aes l'a PON AT A A RS fer \"Us fo = Er Pe - Ww .Te ® \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014 section being nearly a thousand million feet.The two largest Taber yards east of Chi are Albany, N.Y., and Barlington, VL, which receive about four milllen feet of Ot- | taws lumber annually.For lack of railroad facilities much of this lumber do- scends the rapids of the St Lawrence, past Montreal, and half-way to Quebec, and then oes up the Richelieu by a circuit of several Eon miles and a change of elevation of 120 feet.The lumber yards at Burlington cover 75 square acres, and have a storage capsoity for 100,000,000 feet of lumber.There are five mills for dressing lumber, and eight for manufacturing articles of wood.The amount of business done by Burlington dealers aggregates 200,000,000 feet of lam- ber annually.I learn that a large amount of pine lumber is being forwarded to Boston for export to Europe, and that a recent order covering some half a million feet was sent by rail to Montreal and thence by the Central Vermont to Boston on a foreign order received by the Shepard and Morse Lumber Company, of Burlington.In conversation with large wholesale lumber dealers relative to the projected Canada and Atlantic Railway as 8 factor in the lumber transportation business, heretofore the difficulty of communication by rail between Ottawa and New England points has been a serious obstacle to a full development of this traffic, but with the construction of this air line railway it is predicted by leading lumber dealers that this route will be utilized to a great extent for lumber shipments.By the Canada and Atlantic Railway Burlington will be placed within 170 miles of the Ottawa lumber region, and its importance as a distributing point for New England must largely appreciate.I have prepared the following distance- table to show the comparative distances between the centre of the North-western grain- fields, by the old route south of the Lakes, and the proposed new route via Ottawa: Place to Place, Miles, Glyndon, Dakota to Northern Pacific Junction.dencauveus \u2026\u2026.241 built.N.P.Junction to the Sault Ste Mario 356 projected.Sault Ste Marie to Nipissing.270 projected.Nipissing to Mackies.80 projected.Mackies to Ottawa.155 built.Ottawa to Alburgh.122 building.Alburgh to White River Junction.140, C.V.W.R.Junction to Boston.144, N.B.C.L.Total Glyndon to Boston (via new route).0.1,508 Glyndon to Chicago, via St Paul.674 Chicago to Detroit.285 Detroit to Buffalo.0.256 Buffalo to Albany.368 Albany to Boston.cee.200.Total from Glyndon to Boston (via old route).1,783 The above shows a difference in favor of the route by the Northern and Ottawa line of 275 miles.The new route is also 225 miles shorter to Boston than the presont route is.to Now York from Glyndon.It is well assured that the new thru line from Boston to Ottawa will be in operation by the end of 1882, and it is almost equally certain that within five*years the road from Ottawa to the Northern Pacific connection, via the Sault Ste Marie, will be completed.This short and direct route will bring to Boston the grain and produce of the great North-West, and as the nearest seaboard city by several hundred miles, via this northern route, she will be brought into commercial relations with a new world of producers and consumers, which will materially accrue to her business prosperity.Parties interested in this new thru line between Boston and Ottawa propese to utilize the lake and river route from the West for grain shipments to the seaboard from Chicago and other lake ports.It is contemplated to erect large grain elevators at Valleyfield, where the river St Lawrence spreads out into Lake St Francis, and forms a deep still-water harbor of unsarpassed accommodation for propellers.Valleyfield is 321 miles from Boston, and is the noarest point to that city that vessels cun touch at on the great lakes or Rivor St Lawrence.It is 85 miles less railway distance than Ogdensburg, and 20 miles nearer than Montreal is to Boston.By the enlargement of the Welland Canal, which will be completed this year, vessels with a carrying capacity of 60,000 bushels can come from Chicago to Valleyfield and transfer their cargo thru elevators to cars which can be hauled-to Boston without delay, all in the space of 8 days from Chicago to Boston, It now takes 16 days for grain to reach Boston from Chicago Uy the lakes to Baffalo and the.Erie Canal and Albany Railroad.With the practical consolidation into one line for traflic purposes of the roads from Boston to White River Junction, with the Central Vermont to the Canadian border, and tho prospective early connection to Ottawa by the Canada Atlantic Railroad, a great future will be open for the Northern route to Ottawa and the North-West.The nearest Canadian wintor seaport is 8t John, which is 817 miles distant from Ottawa, while Boston will bo only 306 miles distant.Thore are four sources from which this now line will draw a large traffic, and these are: First, the grain trade ot the North-West; second, the lumber production of the Ottawa Valley ; third, the lake grain trade at Val- leyfield ; and fourth, the hay and produce Yield of the country along the line of the road from Alburgh to Ottawa.This prospective accession of traffic, taken in connection with the present excellent thru line to the West by tho Grand Trunk Railway, places Boston in the strongest position of any Atlantic port for the export trade from the West, NEWS BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.A dreadful calamity occurred at Nice, ltaly, on the 24th, by the destruction of the chief opera house of that city by fire, which broke out soon after the curtain had risen for the performance of \u201cLucia di Lammer- moor.\u201d The subscribers for orchestra stails and boxes in the grand tier had mostly not arrived, ao that the majority of the victims belong to the working classes.Shortly after the fire began the gas exploded, and the bouse was plunged in complete darkness.A econe of terror and dismay ensued.A do- tachment of soldiers and of sailors from the aquadron in the harbor with pumps display- great gallantry in rescuing people and combatting the fire, which was subdued towards 10 o'clock.Many persons were trampled to doath while escaping from the burning theatre.Most of the artistes were in the dressing-rooms and aware of their danger, but it was too late to escape.The choristers rushed along the narrow passage in the darkness, and many were presumably too much disabled in the crush to oscape.bodies have been dug out of the ruins.A branch of tho Irish Land League, intended to operate in England and Scotland, vas formed in London last week under the auspices of Mr Parnell, and with Mr Jostin MoCarthy as President.During his address on the occasion Mr Parnell stated that sub- soriptions in aid of the Lesgue were flowin in from America at the rate of four thousan good pounds ($20,000) weekly.The new branch will be a failure, as the English land refor mers will not identify themselves with Par nell.On Thoreday evening, Mr Stanhope moved in the Howse of Commons that the evacus- tion of Candahar will not be conducive to the permanent interest of India.A long debate ensued, in which the Ministry held that the retention of Candahar would exposes us to perpetual quarrels and collisions with Russia, and if she interfered by military operations or diplomatically it would mean a rupture of ber diplomatic relations with England and we should be free to take such measures as we thought necessary to protect our frontier and assist the Afghans to hold their independance.Sir Charles Dilke stated that the bulk of the native opinion in India favored the evacuation.Sir Donald Stewart and General Wolseley, he said, thought there would be no strategotical advantage in the retention of Candahar, while the cost of its permanent occupation would bo £1,500,- 000 a year, which, in the present state of India\u2019s finances, it would be most unwise to |\" add to the burdens of the people.Tho addition of this sum to the expenditure would produce enormous discontent in India, and that meant the creation of a field for foreign intrigues.Me Stanbope's motion was rejected by 330 to 246.The announcement of the resuit was greeted with loud cheers from the Liberals.Sir Charles Dilke stated that the first act of the new Czar was to recall Gen.Skobeleff, and stop tbe advance upon Merv.D'Urban advices stato that the Boers recently occupied the prison at Potchefstroom, 500 yards from a fort held by the 21st Regiment.The British commander determined to dislodge them because they annoyed the garrison.Eleven soldiers charged the prison, entered it, and killed three Boers.Tho remainder tried to escape, but the men in the fort shot thirteen.The British lost three killed.A messenger to Newcastle from Pochef.stroom reports that that place surrondered the day peace was signed, after hard tight- ing, in which eighteen British soldiers were killed and ninety wounded.The Boers captured 3000 rounds of ammunition and 2 guns, In the House of Lords the Colonial Secretary read a telegram from General Wood stating that the massacre of a portion of the 94th Regiment at Bunker's Spruit on tho 24th of Decembor would not come within the terms of the amnesty granted to the Boers, and that British prestige in the Transvaal had not suffered from the terms of peace.The preliminaries for peace have boen concluded with the Boers, and the Royal Commission to settle upon a permanent basis of peace is now at work.Madrid, March 24.\u2014Every evening for 6 consecutive days Madrid has been kept in a state of alarm by explosions of potards.Some were fired in the busiest streets, others in the doors of churches and theatres, causing the breakage of glaes and some burns, No offenders have as yot been caught, tho the police and detectives aro trebled after dusk.It is supposed that the keepers of gambling houses have created this scare as a mark of their displeasure against the civil governor, who continues his active repression of gambling, seizing a house or two overy day.Ladies hardly dare go out on foot in the evening.Last night five petards were fired.It is said that the Princess Louise will leave England for Canada on the 26th of May.The trial of tho Czar's assassins commenced yesterday.All the accused will be arraigned together, with the excoption of the woman Inst arrested, who will be allowed a separate trial.Colonel Dorjibsky, who wus wounded at the time of the assassination of the Czar, has been granted a pension of G000 roubles.The peasants are flocking from all parts of the country on pious pilgrimage to the spot where the Emperor fell.St Petersburg, March 26.\u2014An immense throng witnessed the late Emperor's funeral.The bells tolled, and the city was draped in mourning.When the coffin was lowered the booming of cannon informed the popu- laco that Alexander II.had been laid at rest.The Nihilists now threaten to take the life of the Czar if the woman arrested in connection with the recent assassination be executed.The Times of Monday calls serious attention to the consumption of intoxicating drink in England.Sheep rot has assumed threatening proportions in Leicestershire.Sixty por cont of one farmer's flocks have perished.A land meeting was held in Tipperary on Monday.The parish priest boasted that the Coercion Act had left boycotting untouched.Mr Dillon in his speech affirmed bis attack on the judges, and advised tenants not to pay unjust rent, except at the bayonet\u2019s int.London, March 28.\u2014Information in the hands of the police strongly tends to confirm the complicity of three American Irishmen, Mooney, O'Donnell and Coleman in the recent attempt to blow up the Mansion House.London, March 30.\u2014It is reported that tho Cabinet was suddenly called together yesterday on account of alarming intelli gence from Ireland.An Insurrectionary outbreak is expected at any moment.One Daly bas been dangerously shot on the borders of! King's County.Daly took land from which a tenant was evicted.\"At last accounts Lord Beaconsfield was dangerously ill, and hardly expected to recover.- The fishery dispute between Great Britain and the United States is, it is said, in a fair way of settlement, England proposing either the reference of the matter to arbitration or the payment of a lump sum as indemnity to the American fishermen mobbed in Now- foundland.\u2014ÎÎ CANADA.At Caughnawaga the Indians to the number of fifty have been employed since December last by Chief Thomas Jocks to work in his quarry at the rate of 81 per day, and as the Todian Department at Ottawa has seen fit to expel all tho whites living in Caogh- nawaga the said Indian quarrymen- took it into their heads that they might as well take advantage of the labor market tostrike for an advance of 25¢ per day till lst July next and another 25c per day after that date.The employer has shut down his works, \u2018| consequently these men have been thrown out of employment.Tho latest news from Edmonton réports ME _ ARR \u2014 ISA that the Hedeon Bay Coupany are besling | coal from the Imperial drift on the Saskatchewan to their sheds at Fort Edmonton, which is taken out of the mine at the rate! of a ton per day for each man employed, | vesque, discussed the question that the tree! Pith was to be found only in the Roman oroh.The first train of the Grand Trank's pty, from Ottawa and Montreal arrived at Win-! _\u2014 _ A the 34h the wile of Some) Bare, Samat fat, i MARRIED, i At the residence of the bride's brother, Willism Anthony, Shirley, McLoan County, IH, by the Rev N.| ENTLEMEN'S Fancy Dress Shirts reduced te 2e ; ancy Be ; price $1.Oentlemen\u2019s No | Undershirts and Underpants reduced to 40c ; former price $1 and costs $4.50 per ton laid down in the! nipeg at two o'clock Satarday morning, be- Kerrick, Douglas C.Froeman, of Bloomington, Lil, te | Gentlemen's boury Orerlle reduced te 50c per pair ; fort.The Imperial coal drift is now in| about 80 feet, and is being worked night and day.| The wife of a poor Indian at Bowmanville, | whose foet got frozen during the winter, | went to the chairman of the Poor Relief\u2019 ing nearly twelve days on theo journey.passengers, a great number whom were women and children, are terribly fatigued, and attribute the sickness prevailing to' baving been lot three days inhaling the stench of the stockyards in Chicago.The Lillisa 8., youngest daughter of Francis Anthony : Esq, of Franklin, Que.DIED.At Elgin, on the 25th inet, of coagestion of the Gentlemen's Deccasod Tunge, James Shearer, in his 64th year.! was & native of Cumbernauld, Scotland, i At Elgin, on the 27th inet, Thomas Helm, or, for | Committeo on Wodnoaday stating that her '8000nd train arrived two bours after the MARY yuars an elder In the iglo Presbyterian church, | husband was dead, and asking money sufficient to bury him.The proper authority having been granted, the undertaker was first, and the other two are expected to-day.Over half of the ngers went to Dakota, ' it is thought by mistake, and the 15 years\u2014a native of Boxboroughshire, ¥cot.At Godmanchester, on the 25th of March, Annie 8, gers! daughter of the late Jonas H.Spencer, aged 16 yoars, requested to attend to the case, bat when he '8ltogether complain of the want of light, 4 months and 2 days.presented himself he found the lndian alive ' Water, and wood on the train.and smoking a pipe.| Ottawa, March 24.\u2014Mre Linsley, contrac- | tor for the Canada and Atlantic railway, has deposited with the general manager of the | Bank of British North America the sum of 830,000 as security for tho duc completion of his contract.The Quebec Legialature is summoned to moot for the despatch of businesson the 28th April.The Montreal fund for the widow of Chief \u2018 Joseph and his three children has reached 8191.The worth of the dead hero deserves more fitling recognition.Had ho been an Indian warrior instead of a scholar doubtless the amount would havo reached thousands.\u2014Toronto Globe.Mrs Lapointe, residing in the parish of Ste.Angelique, Petite Nation, castern section of Ottawa county, gave birth afew days ago to triplets, threo girls.The mother and little ones wore all dotng finely at last accounts.Victoria, B.C.March 24.\u2014The Government resolutions appointing Mr O'Connor delegato to London to petition Iler Majesty the Queen relative to the island railwa passed yesterday by 20 to 4.An amend.mont was offered rocommending that the negotiations bo re-opened with tho Canadian Government, but it was voted down.\"The Attorney-General moved tho resolutions, and the Finance Minister secondéd them.Mr Williams, member for Victoria and a supporter of the Government, said that if a tribe of Indians were treatod as tho British Columbians had been treated by Canada there would be a war.llo called on the Government to put a musket in every man's band to fight Cunada with.Four French-Canadian married womon, residing in the east end of Montreal have addressed a letter to the chief of police expressing their gratitude for the withdrawal of a liquor license from a saloon in their neighborhood, where they state their husbands bave been in the habit of meeting on Sundays and spending their wages in drinking and playing cards, leaving their families fo starve during the week.A bit of romance is given by tho Leam- ington Post to this effect :\u2014\u201cSome thirty years ago a gontloman came to Canada from England, having lost his wife beforo he left.Previous to his marriage he had entertained a very warm feeling for another lady, but as the course of true love never does run smooth, circumstances prevented their union, and each sought another mate.Tho old attache ment, however, had never died out, and the gentleman, who had not married again, learning some timo ngo that his first love had been left a widow, nobiy sent the offer ot his hand across the Atlantic, desiring tho widow to come to him, that they might spend tho remainder of their days together.The offer, we understand, has been accepted, and Tilbury will soon witness tho reunion of two divided hearts, which the frosts of twenty-five years have proved pewerless to chill into forgetfulness of each other.\u201d Montreal, March 26.\u2014D.R.Porreault, who is charged with firing bullets at the St.Patrick's duy processionists, bas mado a voluntary confession before the Polico Ma- trato.IIe states that he threw tho bullets from his hand, and had no other object in view than to make people talk about the affair.Io concludes his statement as ful- lows :\u2014«No one engaged me or solicited mo to throw the bullets.I did it of my own accord, and without any thought of the consequences.When I saw a man put his band to his head I was afraid and stopped throwing, for I then saw it was a dangerous sport.| never had any feeling against Irish Catholics, and I had certainly no motive to injure them.On the contrary, my principal friends are Irish Catholics, and my brother-in-law is an Irish Catholic.On the other hand, I have not a singlo Irish Protestant friend.I never belonged: to any secret society whatever.No ono over on- couraged me to do it.My companions seo- ing it looked upon it as an inoffensive joke.\u201d He was remanded to gaol again.Halifax, March 26.\u2014Captain Railton, of tho Salvation Army, who arrived in Now York from Manchester, Eng.in Fcbraary, 1880, with thirty or forty other members of tho army, and has since travelled over a large portion of the United States, arrived bore yesterday, and held opon-air religious services in the cily market.le placed before his audicnce the work the army had laid out for itself, and what it had done.They were, ho said, weak in numbers but strong of purpose and trust in God.Ie thon exhorted his hearers to repentance.He wears a blue uniform, with yellow facings, and a peaked cap with a broad red band.He is quite a fluent speaker and had a largo audience.Ho addressed a prayer meeting in the Young Men's Christian Association hall this afternoon, when the place was crowded.Now that the Manitoba movement for the year has begun, information for omigrants farnished by those acquainted with the country must prove, both interesting and profitable.Tho Winnipog Times gives the following estimate of the first year's nceds of 8 family of settlers : > Yoko of oxen.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.vases vavv000 $125 CART \u2026.\u2026o\u2026vcooresenrorenconsanee avsso00e .15 Harness.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.sassenessonces 10 PIOW.osusassosossonsssssasscasencsecse 20 HAPrOW.\u2026000000 saccesrrac0 0000 convnnone Stoves, beds, and other farniture.100 Chains, axos, shovels, etc.s 30 Building sundries.ocooneneees 30 Seeds, @tC.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026sessossosrs css v\u2026\u2026.10 Homesteading fee.10 Provisions.\u2026.\u2026.0.\u2026\u20260seus 100 8510 This amount it deems sufficiont to tide a family over antil they have raised something both for home consamption and sale, the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Dom- Robert Bogart, of Pittston, Ont., folled a! In Hinchinbrook, March 29th, Charles McHardy, aged 09 years, Dvosnsed was à native of À berdeen- shire, Boutlaud, and one of the first settlers of Hio- troe the other day which was about eight | chinbrook, having como there abcut the year 1834.inches in diamoter.Hanging to a limb! a very old-fashioned gun, stocked full length, and which, it is supposed, grew up with the! tree.On Tuesday night the station and freight shods of the Occidental at Hochelaga were urned.UNITED STATES.Mrs Luther Hackott, of Ellenbargh, inadvertently poisoned her daughter, aged seven\u2019 Years, about two wecks ago, by giving her carbolic acid, supposing it to bo epsom salts.| The littlo one lived twelve hours, and suffor- cd soverely.Mosos Trudo, whom Sheriff! Folsom apprehended here a few wecks ngo | with a stolen horeo from Iemmingford in his possession, triod to mako the court believe that he did not intend to stoal the rig, but | meant to return it aftor a visit hore, was found guilty, and sentonced to three years at Dannemora.\u2014\u2014An indictment was found against Miss Emma Davis, charging hor with having attempted to poison Miss Ger- trode Manning.Miss Manning's condition is such that she could not be brought into court, and because of that fact Mr Badger did not feel justified in moving trial.Miss Davis pleaded not guilty on arraignment, and gave bail in the sum of $2000 for appearance at the next oyor and terminor, in Soptember.\u2014 Malone Palladium.orth Conway, N.1I., March 23.\u2014Lady Blanche Murphy, who died yesterday, was the first daughter of tho English Earl of, Gainosborough and in 1870 oloped with her father\u2019s organist, Thomas F.Murphy.She was disowned and supported hersolf by literary work for New York magazines.A membor of the Colorado legislature, in addressing that august body, began : \u2014«My follow-statesmen.\u201d Tlis bill passod unanimously.Pittsburg, March 25.\u2014John Sullivan and his brother while straightening a rail on loy station yesterday saw a train coming around a curve near by.They hastened to relay tho rail and prevent a casualty.Thoy Inid tho rail just in timo for the train to pass ovor safely, but beforo thoy could jamp aside were both struck and killed.| New York, March 26.\u2014T'ho \"Tribune says ; \u2014À general meeting of city dolegates of the Irish National Land League was held last ovoning for the purposo of adopting a now constitution, Michael Breslin presided.A document submitted by the committeo on the constitution developed a bitter feeling, and resulted in tho greatost confusion.The chairman of the committeo tore the proposed instrument into bits, denounced the meeting, and resigned.Tho scone onded by adjournment.A mocting of 2,000 porsons, a large proportion of whom were Germans, was held in Now York on Friday to take measures to prevent the raising of rents.À committoo was selectod to devise plans for resisting the landlords.The committee will probably scck to co-operate with tho Irish Land Loaguers.The edict of the IFronch Government against hog products and the fright in England over the hog cholera has caused a Inrgo fulling off in the exports of bacon from Now York.Last week the exports were only 7,400,000 Iby., against 14,000,000 lbs, daring tho previous week; the average shipments for many weeks being 12,000,000 lbs.Rawlings, Wyoming, March 23.\u2014George Parrott, alins Big Nose George, one of the Fik Mountain marderers, and an infamous road agent under sentence of death, lag evening got his shackles off and attacked the jailer when he entered to lock the prisoners in the cells.The jailer's wifo Jocked the outside door and gave tho alarm.Citi zons released the jailer and secured the prisoner.George has always manifested al contrito spirit, did not desire a trial, pleading | guilty to the indictment, and asked to be hanged soon.When sentenced, ho wept and broke down completely.Ata late hour last night George was taken out of jail by mask- cd men, taken to a telegraph polo, and a ropo thrown over a cross-arm, and George mado to climb the ladder by the rope placed around his neck.The ladder was pulled out, lotting him swing.ITis last words were, \u201c1 will jamp off, boys, and break my neck.\u201d The intelligence of old troop horses is the subject of many anecdotes which, wonderful as they often are, will rarely be doubted by anyone who is familiar with horses.A good At his residence, Huntingdon, Que, on Tuesday | about thirty feot from the ground he found \u2018 3304 March John Sinclair, aged 80 yoars, a native of Cowal, Argylesbire, Scotland.At the residence of his son-in-law, Mr James Mc Kenna, Fort Covington, NY, on the 20th March, Rufas Blodget, aged 83 years.At bis residence, Fort Covington, N.Y., on the 26th March, Joseph Butelph, aged about 50 years.At llinchinbrook, an the 25th March, Ellen, dangh- ter of James Ruddock, farmer, aged 15 months, At Frankfort, Herkimer County, N.Y., on the 24th March, Jennie Smith, wife of Wm.Watson, Mechauic, and youngest daughter of Wm.Smith, farmer, God- manchester, aged 21 years and 6 months.At Franklin, on tho 24th inst., Mes Letitia Hayward aged 93 years, VALLEY FIELD MARKETS.(By A to the (leaner.Peas, B 70 Thani @ 00c.) Oats P 40 Ibs., 42o @ Ube.| Boans, 70 Ibs., $1.20, Batter, pound, luc to 12¢, Pork, 3 100 lbs, 89.50.Timothy Sood, 3 50 Ibs., 82.50.Toop & NicoLson.Montreal, March 28.\u2014On to-day's markot the quality of cattlo wns generally good, bat the supply being light butchers purchased activoly at je@io por th advance upon Inst Monday's prices.Very fow beoves wero eold to-day under 5¢ per Ib live weight, and pricos ranged from 440 to bic per Ib.Throo dry cows were sold for 8110, which was considered high.Soveral of our butchers start Wost next week to mocure their Easter supply, which they anticipate will bo unusually fino.Good veal was scarce, gltho quito a number of calves wore offered.At the close several lotsa wore sold at from $1.50 @83 per hoad.A lot of 7 brought $18, and threo protly fair ones went for 814.50.A few of tho best sold carly in the day at from 85(787.50 each.Not moro than 20 sheep wore on the market, which sold at $4@86.50 each.Spring lambs wero in fair request, but the supply was small and anything but desirable in quality, Prices ranged from 82@84.50.For live hogs there wns a good demand, and several lows wero dinposed of readily at 87 per 100 tbs.[Frosh killed hogs were firm at §).UNION MEETING ON SABBATH EVENING, 1 [' has been resolved by the thece Protestant Minia- ters of the village of Huntingdon to hold a Union Meeting of thelr congregations in the Second Preshy- terian church on Salibath evening first at half-past 6 o'clock.The Rev Jas.Watson, A M., the pastor, will preach and preside.All are invited, Liberal collections expected, which will be devoted to the relief of Chief Juseph's family.AUCTION SALES.Ou Monday, 4th April, at residence of Mr Jamen Tassie, 2d coucussion of North Georgetown : horses, cattle, shecp, pigs, all the farming implements, hay, straw, oats, peas, barley, potatoes, &c.8 months\u2019 credit, David Iinyaon, Auctioneer, At residence of Charles Flynn, New !reland, on Tuesday, 5th April: horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, implement, furniture, &c.9 months\u2019 credit.D.Buanks, Auctioneer, On Tuesday, Gth April, at residence of Mr William Hall, 4th concession of North Georgetown : horses, cattle, somo pedigreed Ayrabires, implements, rails .aud pickets, and a quantity of timber for a large barn.9 monthe' credit, Davin Buvsox, Anclioneer, ' - \u2014\u2014 ARM FOR BALE, being lots No.26 and 27, comprising 200 acres, in the 3d range of Ormstown, 2 miles from Durham village.It is well watered and in a goed state of cultivation.For particulars apply to Arthur Moore, on tho premises, or to David Bryson, Auctioneer, Howick, Sweet Spring doth bring Many a thing, With birds to sing 1881 And wasps to sting.1881 A\u201d the New P.O.People's Outfitting General Store will be found in great variety the following and other lines : DRES$ GOODS, now materials in Black, Grey, Brown, Royal Blue, Slates, and mixed colors.PRINTS the largest assortment yet offered in this section, being carefully selected from five of the Less Dry Goods houses In the trade.Our stock of STAPLES this acason is unusually large nnd substantial, consisting in part of Grey and Bleached Cottons, Shirtingn, Pantiogs, Tickings, &c.LADIES\u2014You will find our stock of Walking Bhoes and other fect wear attractive and good to wear, Oue stock of Umbrellas and Parachutes quite the thing, with Buttons, Ribbons and Gloves to match, just what you have been looking for.Our stock of Silk and Lace \u2018Tia, Ruchinge, Lace Mitts, and various fixings, quite in keeping with the times.GENTLEMEN\u2014We are prepared and will be glad to story illuatrative of their sagacity is told and vouched for as autbentic by the Diamond News.The scene of the occurrence was Potchefstroom, where our men and the Boers were known to be vegy near neigbbors ; so near, indeed, that when the horses were turned out to water they had their headstalls and halters takon off, so that if tho onemy suddenly appeared and tried to catch the animals they would have nothing to lay bold | of them by, and the horses would bave a chance of escaping into their own lines, One evening, us usual, the horses were let out of the fort to water, and rushed straight to the vale, whore they usually drank.But.the Boers were nearer than had been suspected, and, jumping out of some trenches, succeeded in capturing the animals, in spite of the fact that the halters were missing.The Boers, being admirable riders, as is well known, mounted, and would, probably, have been ablo to guide their new steeds into the town, when suddenly tho bugle at straightway the whole of them turned and made for home, carrying their onwilling freight.The Dutchmen threw themselves | off right and left, but four of them wero car-| ried right into camp and taken prisoners.\u2014 London Standard.| Montreal, March 29.\u2014City bag flour 83.05 | to $310.Eggs 17c to 18c.Batter impor siblo of sale, excopt fresh made which grocers Montreal, March 27.\u2014An immenso multitude attended Notre Dame Catholic church ; conference this evening, at which two elo- | quent clergymen, Fathers Gibaud and Le- buy at 20c to 23c as lo color and quality.Cheese 13c to 14e.Maple sugar 8hc tv) 106 per Ib according to quality, and syr@p 800 to 90c per gallon.' tho fort sounded \u201chorses in at a trot,\u201d aod Se rig you out in Buits or Buitings ie Black Cloth or Fino Tweeds from Canada's noted factories, Hats, Boots and Outfitting generally, in styles to suit.FARMEL3\u2014You will find our stock of Red Western, Rawdon, and Alsike Clover Seeds frash and most reliable, While we pay the greatest attention to the wants of the Ladies and Gentlemen who have so kindly patronised us, for which favor wo feel very grateful, we by no means missthe wants of tha Misses, Boys, Youths, and Weaas, for we're a\u2019 John l'amson's Bairns.We will conclude, Mr Editor, Ly wishing saoress to Railroad projects and to the Plank road.The latter, , we are not surfirised to hear, is aching to have its name changed to that of Macadam.MoNAUGHTON BROS.Huntingdon), March 28.TEACHER WANTED IN FRANKLIN SCHOOL DISTRICT.ARTED a Teacher for the remainder of the pres at term, to take charge of the School in School District No 3\u2014commonly known as the Stone hoolhouse.Applications to bu addressed to Jorn Caaix, School Manager, Rockburn, P.Q, stating terms md qualification.IFSOLVENT ACT OF 1875 AXD ANRFDIRG ACTS.\u2014 In the maiter rot the MECHANICS BANK, :) body ol itic, duly incorporated a ving head office à the City of Montreal, insolvent.DIVIDEND sheet has been prepared, open to! objection until the 11th day of April next, after which dividend will be paid.JAMES COURT, Assignee.Montreal, 24th March, 1881, Our stock of black and colored Silks and Satins, T former price Gentlemen's No | Long Boots reduced to $1.78 per r; former price $3.Dress Vests reduced to $1.50 ; former price $3.Gentlemen's fancy Dress Pants reduced to $2.80 pee Jolt; former price $4.00.Gentlemen's fancy Dress Costs reduced to $3.78; former price $7.80.Gentlemen's fancy Braces reduced to 170 per pair ; former price 30¢, Gentlemen's Socks reduced to Sc per pair; former price 15c, Ladies\u2019 high cut leather Balagoral Boots reduced to 95\u20ac ; former price $1.50.Ladies\u2019 Sto ings reduced to 5c per paie ; former price Ladice\u2019 Prunella Gaiters reduced to 50c per pair ; former price $1.Ladies\u2019 ancy Parasols reduced to 250 ; former price 75c.Ladies\u2019 White Cambric Handkerchiefs reduved to 20 ; former price 124c.Good heavy Winceys reduced to 5c.per yard ; former price 134c.Tremendous reductions made on Men's fancy Flannel Shirts.Immenss reductions mado on English, Scotch, and Canadian Twcede.Great reductions made on Men's Felt Hate and fancy Caps.No.1 Whole Rico reduced to je prer MS ; former price 1 c.3 largo cakes No 1 Toilet Soap fur Sc.No 1 Currants reduced to jc per pound.No 1 Scotch Refined Sugar reduced to 8§c per pound.Eddy's No t Matches reduced to 10c per box ; former mice 20c, Rddy's No.| Painted Pails reduced to 17¢; former prive 25c, Eddy's No, | Washboards reduced to 15¢ each; former prico 25e No 1 Japan Tea reduced to 30e per Ib ; former price oe.WILLIAM THIRD & (0.Huntingdon, March 21st, 188).I'S.\u2014Extra reductions sve been made on Lemons, Omuges, Applos, Cinckery, Glasaware, Hardware, Boots and Shoes and Readymade Clothing.Teacher Wanted.FEMALR TRBACHER for School No 4, Schal- astic Municipality of Howick, for the ensuing scholastio year.Halary $160 per annum.Applicas tions will be received up to 4 o'clock p.m.of the 16th April, 1881 ; applicants to state qualifications and address, DAVID R ItAY, Secy.-Trens., Howick._ Howick, March 20, HUNTER BROS.Ï AVE now ready for inspection the largent assortment of Ctooda they havo ever had the pleasure of offering to the public.The entire stock will be found marked truo to their motto : Huavi, Proves any Quick Rercune DRY GOODS IF, Bros.ia the place to buy Grey and White Cottons, Cotton Duck, Cotton Twuesis, Bhirtinga, Knitting Cot- tona, &c.H.Biron, have 150 patterns of CHOICE PRINTS to choose from.These Prints are worthy of inspection, as they comprise all of tho new designs for Spring and Summer of 1881.H.Bros.aro showing some choice goods in Printed Muslina, White Muslins, ant Lawns; also, fancy Striped Musling, Piguens, Brilliantines, ke.H.Brow.have the best of value in Lincns of nil grades : \u2018l'owellinga, Towela, Napkins, Table Damanke (in white and colored), Tablo Oil-Cloth, Stair Oil- Cloth, Stair Linen, Hemp Carpet, Window Linens, ke.= II.Bron.have PILES OF DRESS ((00DS, consisting of Black (\u2018ashmeres from 30c to 80c¢ per yard, Brown, (irey, Cardinal, Navy Blue, Myrtle Green, and Dark Wine-colored Cashmeres, Pinta and Figured Black Lustres, All-wool Debeiges, and a variety of Coloured Lustees and fancy Drene materials, Our Jirene (Goods are cheaper than the cheapent, GENTLEMEN'S GOODS Don't forget that H.Bros, keep the largest stock ef White, Regatta, Cambric and Oxford Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Tien, Silk Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, Cotton Homo and Cotton Undervlothing, Thero is also to be found a large aud varled assortment of the latest styles in Fur, Wool, Felt and Straw nts, H.Brow.READYMADE CLOTHING table inagnin loaded with good (inuds at low prices, We dou't keep rags transformed into a resemblance of Cloth, Our stock of T'weeds will also be found very large and at reasonable prices, 11.Bros.have a complete assortment of BOOTS and SHOES, Crockery, Wall-Paper and GROCERIES, Fence Rod aud Clover Seeds\u2014very low, MF (hive un n Call, HUNTER BROS, NOTICE 8 hereby given by the undersigned, that on Tuceday, the 12th day of April next, on the premises, will bo sold to the Jowest bidder tho repairs to the, Plank rosd, thru St Anicet only, commencing st 10 o'clock am.opposite to Motert Holmess barn.For the rpecifications apply to I.I.CREVIER, , Secy-\u2018T'reas.St Anicet, March 29.PASTURAGE.AVING extended my Pasture bordering on the river, to 50 acres, any wanting good pasture for milch cown are requested to call early.Beef cattle taken on the upper pasture as usnal, HUGH GRAHAM, MAN-SERVANT WANTED.ANTED, to engage, n Man\u2014muast bo à plowman.Apply to HUGH GRAHAM, Netherby, Huntingdon.Huatingdon, March 20.- RTH - Quality is the Test of OCheapness.HF extremely large and daily increasing male of O'NBILL'S TBAS is the best proof of their great superiority in strength, ot flavor and richaess over all others.It is & Scientifio Faot that more than balf thn Ten sold Is, In reality, polson- ous, no matter how blended, colored, os sgreeably flavored.The undermentioned Teas, selected in the best markets, I can confidently recommend as being DECIDEDLY SUPERIOR to those commonly sold at aimliar prices.A trial will ! prove it.A very strong useful Ten.2.0.25e.(Excellefit value.) Choice Japan Ton .20000000000 ieee 40c.(Strong and rich.) Splendid Family Tes.asvacc0 ».B0C (With great strength and fine flavor.) Extra Fine Japan Tea.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.0.000000000- 60.(Unexculled for strength and flavor.) Oolong, Pekoe, Moyune, Congou and Gunpowder Teas of the soundest and best quality, .equally low, PURE SUGARS .free from that injurious mixture called \u201cGlucose.\u201d You have to purchase 10 Ds of Glucose Sugar for tho sweetness that is contained in 6 As of pure cane suger.It is 8 recognized fact that you will find the bent as- sot.went of Teas and General Groceries at the RELIANCIS TEA HOUSE Price snd quality will bo fouad all that could be desired, Butter, Eggs, &c, taken in exchange for goods.1.Vighest prico paid, a A scot for \u201cWitness\u201d publications.\u201c@g GEORGE Q.O'NEILL.Huntingdon, March 30.Casl\u2019sts and Coffins.asror.\u2018ent is ROW on band aod will be LARGs moder Mo prices.Those F a i it to the.'r advantage to ca ore .Ching slacwbere.Bi wiai Robes and Plates always on hand.IP First cla 8s Hearee.BRANKS, Dominion Block, Hantingdon.[a RD RSA FREE FRE T= TERRE re fax Pp A ik ¢ Ÿ 7H & 4 Fi i | | sn A MY LAST VOYAGB AND WHAT CAME OF IT.CHAPTER IV, Wx bad kept the gulley fire in, and during the morning 1 had stopped afl, and got a piece of salt pork out of a cask in the storeroom and popped it into the copper.This was now cooked, and wo carried it into the dook-house and mado out a very respectable dinner-table.I bade the men fall to, and knocked on Nelly\u2019s door.I found her standing in the cabin ready to come out, but waiting till I called her.\u2018Will,\u2019 said sbe, \u2018I have taken all the rest I necd to-day ; do not ask me\u2019 to remain in this cabin.It will do me more good to be on deck ; and, should you not be able to employ me, | promise not to bo in the way.laughed at her eurnestness, and, drawing her to tho window, looked her in the face.\u2018Why, Nelly, you aro not so pale as you were, and the tired look has lelt your eyes.Come, the extra rest hns done you good\u2014' admit it! Bat I will not force you to romain below.The breeze won't hurt you, and after dinner I will mako you comfortable on deck.\u2019 So saying, I opened the door and brought her to the table.The men stood up when they saw her.Had sho been a queen they could not have paid her more homage than | was expressed in their grateful, affectionate,\u2019 and deferontial manner.i We talked a good deal of our plans and of the brig, wondering whore the leak was, | and deploring that we could not get at it ; for 1 snid could we only manage to bring, her to Valparaiso, our misfortune would have a profitable ending, for that 1 estimat-| ed the value of the brig and cargo, in addi- ; tion to the property I had found aboard, at tive thousand pounds, and our salvage money would be something to tassel the ends of our pocket-handkerchiefs with.After dinner, we began to make enil, which proved slow work, owing to the rigging baving been so tangled and torn by the successive storms which had swept over the brig.On trying her, we found that, in laying up to the wind, she made more leeway tian progress forward, but on putting her square before the breeze she moved slowly ahead, at the rate of perhaps threo knots an hour.\u2018We must leave her at this, Sinnet,\u2019 said 1 ; \u2018we can do no better.\u2019 \u2018Ay, sir; and upon my word, she\u2019s sailing as I nover reckoned she would,\u2019 said he, looking at the bread oily wake left by the inert and sodden hull.\u2018I'm dashed if 1 don't think now she'd go to windward of some of them English coasting colliers.\u2019 Having arranged the watches, we knocked off work for tho day, and I stood beeide Nelly.After wo had remained for somo time silent, she said, \u2018Will, 1 wish you would show me how to steer.I used to watch tho men on the Waldorshare, and beliove I could manage ; one lesson from you would make me perfect.A time may come when all of you will be wanted to attend to the sails, and it would be very useful if I could steer.\u2019 \u2018My darling, there is nothing casier.Come and stand here.Lay hold ot these spokes now.First of all, always remember 10 stand on the weather sido of the wheel\u2014 the side on whieh the wind is blowing.\u2019 \u2018Yea, I know that.\u2019 \u201cThe wheel reverses the action of the tiller.If you wore steering with a tiller, and I should call out \u2018Hard u starboard,* you would put the tiller over to the right hand sido, | and that would make the vossel's head fall off on the port or left-hand side.But to obey that order with the wheel you would have to turn it from left to right\u2014so ; because, if you will look at the rudder-bead, you will see tho tiller is fitted the reverse way to the tiller that is used in steering without a wheel, and the action of the wheel revolves the chains, which drag the tiller the way you want it to go.\u2019 \u2018I see.Then, if you were to cry out \u2018Hard a port, I should bave to put the wheel ovor to starboard ?\" \u2018Right, my sweet little blue jacket! Now look ut that black mark in the compass there ; that is called the lubber\u2019s point.It is in a direct line with the brig's head, so that in whatever direction the vessel is going, that mark turns with her.Suppose I tell you that the brig's course is northwest, thon, to keep her to that course, you must get those letters on the card to swing true to the mark.If the vessel rolls or pitches, the card will swing from side to side ; and it is tho business of the belms- man to see that those letters don't swing fartber on one side of that mark than on the other.That is, you must make that mark strike the mean\u2014the centre, so to say\u2014of the swing of those letters.Do you understand ?\u2019 \u2018Perfectly.\u2019 \u2018Therefore, in steering, all that you have to do is to take care that the course, be it north-east or south-east, or whatever else it may be, swings true to tho mark.If the wind won°t let it swing t.ue, then the yards must be trimmed.If by trimming the yards you cannot get the course to come true to that mark, then there is no help for it\u2014the wind is foul ; the ship must full off, though kept as close as she will lie, However, that is the business of the officer of theo watch, and bas nothing to do with you as helms man.Whichever way the course swings, you have only to tora the wheel the roverse way to the swing of the card to bring the course back.\u2019 shouted.Altho I bad just beem endeavoring to cheer my sweetheart with words of ho yet as the flush of the sunset left the sky, and the horison melted into gloom, and the rigging of the brig became as delicate as cobwebs, and vanished before the eye bad reached to half the height of the masts, and the surface of tho ocean was expressed in tho breaking waves which ran in coils of ink laced with blue fires, and the pallid gleam of froth againet the almost buried stern of the brig, and the deep set of her sides, tho nearness of the dark and swallowing water opprossed me ; there recurred something of the dismay that had visited me two nights before, when I was afraid of the dark, and had clung to the light in the cabin, However, my professional contempt of nervous sontimentality came to my rescue, and I soon despatched tho nonsense that a few minutes\u2019 silent contemplation of the dark seca had put into my mind, I told Matthews to get the green light trimmed, and to ron it up to the mast-bhoud, aftor which I told Nelly to go to her berth, as 1 was determined that she should have a | long night's rost.Before turning in myself I hove the log with the boatswain, and wrote down the spoed and the brig's course.I foll asleep instantly and slopt like à top.having had only four hours\u2019 rest in tho previous night, At cight bells, or midnight, according to tho chronometer, 1 wus aroused by the boatswain.1 at once got up and went on deck, and found that tho breeze bad freshened during the first watch into a strong wind ; there wis wore light in the sky, or perhaps the nir was mudo clear by the breaking of the waves, for now there was a vegul:r tumble of sea.On either hand of us the surges ran their frothing beads as high as the rail of the bulwarks ; already the decks wero streaming, and the boatswain told mo that not five minutes be- foro a wholo heup of green wuter hud toppl- od over the weather-quarter, and had floated the quarter-deck as bigh as the knees of Matthews, who was steering.This could not bo helped, and if the breeze did not freshen 1 would not complain, for it was not to bo hoped that we were goin to keep the decks of a water-logged brig dry in any kind of sea-way.wheel and secured Johnson to the little grating abaft it by taking a turn with a rope\u2019s ond round his waist.still dead eust\u2014a warm wind\u2014and had the brig been afloat properly, we should have thought it a wplendid sailing breeze.I watched to see how she steered, and found the yards keeping her steady, and tho big mizzon helping the lee helm wonderfully.The last heave of the log showed her pusb- ing thru it at four knots, with still three points leeway, and had she been going ten she could not have made more sputter: hor wake was like a stoamer's; it was not sailing, but what tho boatswain had called squelching.I had been on the top of the deck-house half an hour, sometimes imagining that the wind was freshening, sometimes that it was falling, when my cye was attracted by a shadow like a smirch upon the sky in the south.wost, \u201cA sail I\" T shouted to Johnson; and the glass being on the deck-house, I seized and levelled it.The telescope, as i have said, was a very powerful one, and thru it I could distinctly make out the outline of a large bark, heading at an angle with our own course, steering about N.N.E.She was carrying a great press of sail ; indeed, so far as [ could mako out, she had both her royals set, and as she was going free she swept like a cloud along the waters, The green lantern was at our mast-head, burning brightly ; but if she saw it, would she know that it was designed as a signal of distress ?At tho rate at which she sailed she would be athwart our hawxe to windward, and out of might in twenty minutes.L sprang into the cabin and awakened the boatswain, exclaiming that there was a vessel in sight, and that we must at once devise some means of letting her know that we were in distress, He was a true sailor, and wide-awake and on deck in a few moments.Ile saw the vessel before I could point hor out ; she was on our leo quarter, and leaning heavily over under the tower of canvas she carried, and was heading so 0s to cross our bows, though, had the brig possessed any speed in her heels, she should have mudo the bark pass under our stern, Tho boatswain knew as well as | the extreme gravity of our peril in the event of more sea rising, and wo both felt that the sighting of this bark was a chance that might not occur again for days and days ; and sighting her now, when we neither of us knew but that in another hour the brig might be washing about, a helpless dismast.od wreck, and offering us no better rofuge than the deck- house, drove us both desperate.\u2018What shall we do to attract her?1 \u2018Surely they can see that masthead light.\u2019 \u2018Make a flare forrard, sir\u2014make a flare forrard I cried the boatawain, \u2018Why, see how she's passing away! God help us\u2014we might as well be anchored !' atthews, hearing our cries, camo running out of the cabin.I told him to jum I gave her an illustration by revolving the wheel a trifle, and then told her to ox- periment for horeelf.She might, indeed, aweot girl, have had a lighter vessel to learn her steering lesson in ; yet this sunken hall gave her the ideas she needed.1 saw ber knitting her fair brows as she thought out the not very -intricate problem, moving the wheel cautiously the while.Presently she surrendered the spokes to me, with a smile fall of childlike pleasure and vanity.I know ail about it now, Will,\u2019 said she ; \u2018and, by being ablo to steer, I shall be as good as a fifth man to you.\u2019 .The coming on of the night at sea bas always a solemnity in it.Ashore the darkness leaves things familiar: the well-known bouse, the old mill, the vill ige lights, are at hand to defeat: the illasions of the gloom ; but at sea when the night falls it is like looking into space ; thers is nothing to eee; the flash of phosphorus in the near wave, thé glimmer of foum along-side the ship, do not to make real the huge dark sha dow leans away to the stars\u2014that swelling surface of ebony whose might and presence you feel, but only see darkly.Batitis only the man who has in poril on the doep who can understand the awe, the dread, the sense of helplessness and littioness that come into the mind along forward and belp the bontewanin to collect materials for a flare on tho forecastle ; and he was off like a madman, understanding without need of further words that a sail was in sight.While they wero at work 1 laid hold of the halyards to which the lantern was attached, and lowered and raised the light soveral times, all the while kee ing my oyes intently fixed on the shadow ot the bark that had now forged abeém of um, and whose outline was visible upon the sea jost above the port-bulwarks.She wasdraw.ing momentanly nearer to us, as she came heading on a line converging with the direction in which the brig was going; and I felt as sure that thoy saw us as that wo saw ber, and that they could attach no other meaning to the motion 1 gave to the lantern than the one I intended.Hearing the blows of a chopper, I shouted to the boatswain to know how he was getting on.He answered that he could not find any small stuff, and was obliged to split up a plank 50 0s to get a start with bis flare ; \u2018bat everything's so bloody wet,\u2019 he bawled sthat I'm afeared we'll never got it to barn, I thought it a matter of life and death, and, belaying the hulyards, rushed into the car penter\u2019s berth and brought out an armful of canvas, along with a quantity of cakom that lay mixed up with the canvas in the - With the deop shadow of night upon the ses.\u201c locker ander the bunk, and ran to join the I told the boatswain to turn in and get rest while he could, and then went to the The wind was that she guve very little trouble, the trim of boatswain, ing the water as high as my mouth oto forward.Be the decks were afloat fore and aft; there was no dry place for a flare unless it was the top of the galley ; so I jumped on to it, and put the canvas and oskum down, and, keeping my foot upon to -prevent it flowing overboard, I sung out to the boatswain to band me up such small stuff as he had collected, and then set fire to the oakum.The tar blazed, the dry canvas caught, and in a few moments we should have bad 8 great fire, when a sea struck the brig just abaft the forechains.A whole ocean of wuter ran up half as high as the foremust and plumped right down, extinguishing the fire, beating the breath out of my body and half drowning me, washing the boatswain round the galley, and driving Matthews sputtering and choking ns far as the deck- house that brought him up.There was no possibility of making a flare unless wo kindled one in the tops, where wo stood to set firo to the rigging; and utterly disheartened, halt drowned, our teeth chattering in our heads, with the wator streaming from us, we could do no more than hold on to the rail and watch her drawing ahead.1 bad passed some hours of great montal sufforing since I had boarded the brig, but nothing to equal the bitternoss, the despair, the rage that filled my heart in turns us I bobold the vessel speeding onward from us.I know, with every instinct of a sailor, that sho had soen us; that, even supposing (an unlikely supposition) thero was no officer of tho watch, and no man on deck on the lookout ut tho time, the man at tho wheo! would have noticed the movements of the green light, and long ago have made out that wo wore u small vessel in distress, and given the alarm.She wus passing us not above halt a milo ahead, and one look thru the glass would have cnabled them to sco that we were water-logged, and in the utmost peril.Yet she held on.Sho crossed our bows, and loomed up close to windward; then her shadow lost its defined proportions ; she became a mere smudge against the sky, and in a quarter of an hour she was out of sight, swallowed up in tho gloom, \u2018It can\u2019t be helped, sir,\u2019 said tho boatswain, squeczing tho water out of his eyes und wringing his hair.1 was 100 bitterly mortified and diappointed to speak.I thought of my darling in tbe cabin, and then that they had seen us and could havo stood by and saved us had they liked ; and, in my blind passion, I shook my fist at tho vessel as sho faded.\u201cWhy, Mr Lee, be yourself, sir!\u2019 cried the Loutswain.\u201d \u2018Pluck up your heart, and never mind them cowards.The lady below looks to you for her life sir; and a man must be cool if he means Lo sco his way out 0\u2019 a mess of this kind.\u2019 I stood rebuked by a man who would have called himself my inferior.He was right and I was wrong.\u2018You have made mo ashamed of my woakness,\u2019 said I, \u2018and I'll take care that your advico is not thrown away.What shall wo do?Shall wo koep the brig under canvas and risk her spars if the wheel bo washed away, or shall we put her under bare poles, secure ourselves bo- low, and let the breeze blow itself out ?* le reflected awhile, looking to windward, then said, \u2018I'm for letting of her be, sir.She can\u2019t sink, even if her masts do go.\u2019 \u2018No, but they may carry away the bulwarks with them ; and thon think of the horrible muddle alongside \u2014the spars grinding against her fit to break her up!\u2019 Stl I'm for letting of her be, Mr Lee, he answered.\u2018It may be my fancy, but the wind doesn't seem so fresh as it was, What do you way, Bill Wiping his streaming fuce down with the backs of his hands, Matthews turned his eyes toward tho stern, and said, \u2018There ain't so much wind as there was.\u2019 Indeed, this was evident to myself.I told Johnson to keep watch on the deck: house, while the boatswain and I overhauled the lockers below for some dry clothing.We took tho lamp into the carpenter's \u2018berth, where we overhauled the chest of clothes, and found a sufficient supply to give Matthews and Johnson a shift, and to contribute toward a wardrobe for the boatswain.In the mate's chest we found more wearing apparel.The boatswain and I then turned to and changed our streaming clothes, and the feel of the warm woollen shirts and the dry trousers was as comforting as twelve hours\u2019 sleep would have been.There was about as much wind now as there had been yesterday afternoon, and no more, 8 pleasant warm breeze and the sea sottling down, so that only now and then a few bucketfuls of water flopped over the bulwarks forward.Yet, tho danger for that time had passed, I could not recur to it without deep uneasiness.In spite of the floods of water which the brig had shipped, the deck-house was as dry as an old bone, which increased my admiration of the manner in which the vesse] was built.I turned in at five o'clock, my mind tall of the horrible anxiety I had endured, and was awakened at seven by the sunshine streaming on my face thru the little cabin window.Ii is impossible to express tho feeling of gladness it brought.bunk, caring to lio no longer, and my heart put ap a prayer to God that before another night shadewed tho deep we might be safe.stood at the cabin door looking along the deck, The galiey fire was lighted, as I a Pp could tell by the smoke tjowing away from the chimnoy ; the decks were quite dry, and barred by the shadows of Lhe rigging ; and thore, close inst the galley, was Nelly, helping Matthews to hang up our wet clothes.She had tied a handkerchief over her head and had tucked up ber dress, and never did her lovely figure show to such p- perfection as now, while she stood with her a cl to me with her arms rained, attaching the clothes to a line by mesns of rope-yarns, while Matthews hoisted away as fast as she slung the things.The sailor saw me and spoke to her ; she instantly looked round and said she had been on deck eince six o'clock ; that she had helped Matthews to light the galley fire, and that she was going to get breakfast for us.At eight o'clock we got breakfast, Johnson turning out to relieve the boatswain at the wheel.Matthews brought the tes aft, and some little cakes made by Nelly, which we ato with salt butter, and very heartily enjoyed.I mow gave my sweetheart the key of the store-room, and explainod the nature of the important job 1 wished her to undertake.It was this: that she should make out a list of the stores and also calcalate the quantity of fresh water in the scattle butte, and reckon how long they would last the five of us at so much each per diem, and to serve oat that quantity every morning while we remained on the wreek.sprang out of my jib.This was indeed an important matter, and tho moment wo had dono breakfast she went to work.I thought 1 would go aloft and have & look around.It was a clear, brilliant morning and [ knew I would get a good view of aving gained the royal yard\u2014that vin ned the royal-yard\u2014that was the highost point of Slevation 1 could attain \u2014I set my back sgainst the mast, and levelled tho glass at the sea that was over the jib-boom of the brig, and very carefully swept the horizon away on tho left-hand side until 1 had observed every inch of it as far as the point lying directly over the stern, and then cro to the other sido of the yond, and beginning again with the glass, 1 ad workod as far as three pointe on the rt bow, when I observed # most delicate lue film shadow\u2014no bigger, indeed, than a pea\u2014down in that quarter, suspended over the water, with a white, quivering space between it and the horizon.I looked at it intently, believing it to be a cloud, and kept on watching it to obsorve whether it rose or sunk; and then, finding it remain stationary, my heart bogan to bent fust and my cheeks burn, tho still I could not tell if it was a ship or no; and yet, if it wero a ship, I couid not imagine why it was that color, as the sun, that was directly behind me, was shining full upon it, and would certainly throw up the white canvas.I put down my glass for some minutos to sce if the tiny shadow would be there when I looked again; but, on looking, thore it was, sure enough, and if it wero not land, then I know not what it could be, for it was liko the point of a hill or mountain pecring abovo the seu line and dislocated by the refraction, 80 as to appear detached and hanging clear of the water, with a white space of swimming, quivering lustre betweon it and the sca.I called the boatswain up to me.\u2018There is a shadow upon the horizon about three points on the port bow, and it looks like land,\u2019 I said.Pavetiing the glass, he looked intontly at the object.At last he took his eye from the glass, and, swinging up his arm, shouted in a burst of uncontrollable excitoment, \u2018Land hal\u2019 \u2018Lund ho!\" yelled Johneon, letting go the wheol and springing a yurd high in the air.\u2018Are you sure it\u2019s land ?\u2019 I bawled.\u2018Ay,\u2019 answered the boatswain; as sure as yonder sky's blue.\u2019 \u2018Murrah!\u201d I cried, giving way to the Lran-port of delight that seized me.\u2018Land ho! Nelly, land ho!\u2019 | shouted.\u2018Come on deck, my darling; there's land in sight I\u2019 She camo running ap on deck immediately, and 1 indicated the direction in which the land lay, and told her it was visible from the mast-head, She very well knew I was not deceived, und grew very pale as she stood looking across the sea, breathing quickly and ber eyos gleaming.Matithows now came tumbling out of the cabin, having been aroused by my shouts down the skylight.\u2018What, is there land in sight 7 he called to Johnson.\u2018Ay, Billy, your last voyage isn't taken yet, my man! replied Johnson; whereat [ Matthews shouted a loud harrah, and epring- ing into the main-rigging, went bounding aloft to view the land for himself.\u2018Hand him the glass, bo'sun,\u2019 I sang out, and let us sce what he makes of it.\u2019 The fellow had no sooner levelled the glass than he bawls out, \u2018It\u2019s right enough! that's land I' So here were three of us all agreed, and | had now no doubt whatever.Un this | told Matthews to loose the main- royal, as he was up there; and while Nellie stood at the wheel, Johnson and I get the suil.The two men then rigged out the main- top-mast studding sail booms.The sails were up and down the lower rigging, and in a fow minutes we sent them up.This ean.vas tolerably well covered the little brig, and on heaving the log 1 found she was making a trifle over four knots.I then went below and overhauled all the charts on the shelves, but could ouly find one referring to these seas, and it showed no land to be near us for leagues and leagues.\u2018Thore can be no question as to its being land,\u2019 said I to Nelly, on regaining the deck.\u2018Pray God this wind hold for a few hours longer I\u2019 \u2018Oh, Will!\" she exclaimed, clasping her hands, \u2018it soems scarcely possible ; and yet you could not be deceived.In order to lessen by distraction the wearing suspense of the time to Nelly, I suggested that she should go forward and look to our dinner; and, bailing Matthews, I ordereri him to lay down, and T also called the boatswain afl.\u20181 want.to tell you all,\u2019 said I, \u2018that I have not the least idea what that land is; but as it is land, we should see all clear for bringing up; for it's fifty to one if we shall find any haman creature on it, more especially soeing that it\u2019s not laid down in this chart; and so we must expect no help, and stand by to be our own pilots.We must get the afchors over the bows, and the sooner we turn to the better.\u2019 It was the deuce's own job to get the anchor over.lt took us an hour to get the starboard anchor ready for use, and by that time the land was just peeping over the horizon under the foot of the 10.: I called Nelly and pointed out the land to her, enying there it was, and «ho could judge for herselt whether it was land or not.She was too overcome to speak.She stood looking at it with a rapt expression in her eyes and her lips apart, and her bosom heaving and falling quickly.1 knelt down, the better to steady the glass, and could clearly perceive some of the lineaments of the island ; on the loft hand the summit of a rock, sa ravine or opening of a bay in the centro, and again, on the right, a short, low coast, like the eide of a crater, with a forefoot that tended to the westward, lt was clearly an island, and a very small one, too, the front of it, as we looked, not more than one-third of & mile in extent.\u2018We were too anxious to eat our dinner below; there was not one of us but had a superstitions rolactance to lose sight of that island for lon than a few minutes at a time.Its springing up under our bows in the middle of this great ocean, where I had thought there was no land within four or five hundred miles of us, was so like à dream that we darst not let it go, as it were, with our eyes lest whon we looked again it should be gone indeed.So Johnwon \u2014 Matthews being at the holm \u2014=brought the dinner on to the deck-house.A chair was fetched for Nelly, and she ate from her plate in her ap.The sun poured down flercely upon us, but we were so absorbed in our thoughts and in talk about the island that, had the sun been as hot again, we should not have noticed it.Our tedious, slow pace fired me with stich to contain ns At four o'clock he 1and was about five miles distant; but oy this time the air bad utterly died out.ur canvas hung in motionless folds, the sea stretched away like a surface of pale-blue satin, and so calm was the water that the island lay mirrored in it, every line unbroken, and the colors without a blarr.*Tbere is no hoip for it, bo'vun,\u2019 | exclaimed; \u2018wo must tow her, We can\u2019t let hor drift; and should the wind como ahead, that island would fade away from us as if it were smoke.\u2019 I then told Nelly that we were going to take the brig in tow, and try if we couldn't fetch tho island in that way, and that she must keep the vessol's bowsprit aiming straight at the land.The boat was now along-side ; we all four tumbled into her, and in a minute we were ahoad of tho brig with our tow-rope taut, and our oars cheeping bravely ps they ground against tho thole-pins.ft was hot and bard work rowing the boat under such a sun as that which looked down upon us, and against such a dead weight as the water-logged brig.But wo made bor follow us; woe wrinkled the water around her bows; the warp sung out as we taut- encod tho bight of it, and then it would jork the bout back, and full slack, to be hauled taut again by another steady sweep of the oars Every man of us knew that it was as good as a matter of life or death to fetch the island before any shift of wind camo, and this consideration nerved us into downright steady work, raising tho muscles into lumps as big as eggs on our arms, while we rowed with our toeth set, and the perspiration pouring from our bodies like wuter.' We held on in this way for about an hour, with not more than three short spells of rest between ; and by this time\u2014tive o\u2019clock\u2014 the island was not above three and a balf miles distant, tho so brilliant was the atmosphere and so sharply detined evory line and scar of the rocks, that it did not appear a stono's-throw away.\u2018I'm done ! I'm spent!\u2019 I exclaimed, panting heavily, and running the bandle of the oar under my knee, while with my fingers I combed the sweat off my fuce und sent a whole shower of it flying overboard.\u2018I must rest a spell, or 1 shall drop like an overdriven horse.\u2019 \u2018Is that dark lino astern o' the brig wind, do you think, Mr Lee ?' asked the boatswain, standing up in the boat, I got on to the thwart with my band on the boatswain\u2019s shoulder, and after looking # fow moments, sung oul gladly, \u2018Ay, iUs a breezo coming right down astern\u2014a whole captul, by Heaven! Hurrah, boys! there's enough there to run: the island down with.Wo cast tho warp adrift, and in a fow minutes we wore on the deck of the brig, with the boat banging at the davis.The breeze coming up, in a fow minutes our ails wero full, the studding-sails swelling out as a boy rounds his checks to whistle, and the half-sunk hull was swirling thru the water again four times ns fast as wo could havo towed her.By this time it could bo seen that tho land was a small coral island, no more than a rock, the highest point of which was not abovo thirty feet from the water.It was, so far as L could discern, almost circular, with a beetling edge on the starboard side, that came along in a hilly sweep down into the sex, going into the water like a beach, and forming a tolerably wide croek, that was bounded on tho western side by a great rugged lump of whitish rock between fitoon and twenty feo.high.I had never been ~hipmates with an island of this kind before, which was just fit to make a pretty ornament for a gentleman's lake, looking more like the top of a mountain or some volcunic creation hove up above the surface of the water, without an atom of vegetation anywhere, and of the color of a meerschaum pipe that has been smoked a few times; but had heard that along-side most of these coral deposits you could get no soundings.However, T kept a bright lookout for rocks and shoals, being desperately anxious to anchor the brig without injary to her bottom.I told Johnson and Matthews to stand by to bring up, and called to the boatswain to shift his helm smartly when I sung out.As we went by the tongue of beach, I noticed that the creek or estuary ran, for about a quarter of a mile, straight into the heart of the isiand, and then branched with a slight deviation to the left.We were now under the lee of the right.band stretch of shore; all aloft the wind was fresh enough, and whistling thru the rigging, but on deck it was perfectly calm, Neither tho boatswain nor thought it advisable to bring up hore, as the brig would be exposed to any sea that might roll up from the southwest ; 50 there was nothing for it but to let #0 and clew up, get the bout overboard, and tow the brig as high up the creek as we might think it proper to carry hor.I have described this creek\u2014and it is convenient that I should continue to call ita croek\u2014as oxtending about a quarter of a mile before it deviated to the left; its breadth at the entrance was about sixty fathoms, but it grew narrower as it advanced, until, at the bend, the two shores were not more than eighty feet apart.It was extremely strange to look from side to side and see nothing but coral rock, with not a blade of grass, no tint of green, scarcely a shadow, indeed.We lowered the boat, and leaving Nelly at the wheel, the four of us took the brig in tow again, I had the bow oar, so that I might pause now and again to look over and see what bottom we wore making.There could be no doubt there was a tide here, by the appearance of the beach and side of the rocks, which had a worn and bleached look, like a line of marble inlaid upon the coral, for about five inches above the oxisting level of the water ; and, indeed, I could not help thinking there was a litule tide running np with us now, for wo appenr- ed to be moving somewhat faster thun I believed wo could tow the brig.In about a quarter of an hour we had reached the bend of the creek, and saw that it extended another forty or fifty fathoms, meeting an inclined shelf of rock, the culor of which at the buss deceived me into believing it was sand.This incline, which was a gradual slopo, and very rugged after it bad ascended half a dozen yards, tormi- nated in the highest point of the coral de.it.The breadth of \u2018the creek here was tween thirty and forty feet, and the form of it at the extremity was a perfect oval.Having reached this bend, I called to Nelly to put the wheel over to starboard, motioning with my hand to intimate the direction in: which she should turn the spokes, and by rowing very hard at the same time we sufficiently canted the brig's bead to enable the jib-boom to clear the star rocke.impatience that sometimes I scarcely had board tre \u2018Why, look over the side, bes'un, claimed,\u2019 \u2018what think of that bottes La rst, oe and, or what ' ! s ou\u2019 get no sand re.sir .thews, who had rained! among he BL corel formation, batever the boitomm was, there clear as silver, and looking.indeed,\u201d 1} : silver, in the exquisitely transparent greeq ses-water.But whether it was one op lon fathoms deep no one could say.pou PS HOW, it jocks level,\u201d remarked the tawain, on\u2019t seo no si rooks : do Jou Bill Ens of ' tthews replied that it appeared to be as flat a deck ; and, indeed, our eyes could not deceive as to the formation of this bottom, for any awperities would have been visible.hard i \u2018If it's as as it looks, Me Lee,\u2019 vai the boatswain, \u2018there'll be no use in lotte go the anchor.A harpoon 'ud snap against it.The best plan will to moor the vessel : and if you'll just look yonder, sir, you'll seo a ledge of rock that would hold a warp ag well as an eye-bolt.\u2019 We rowed smartly for ten minutes.L had my eye on tho brig, noticing that she had grown monstrous heavy on our hands, when Robert Johnson sung out, \u2018I'm dashed it we're moving, mates I\u2019 \u2018Why, we're aground I' bawled Matthews, I flung up my oar, and looked over.The boat was not aground, but thero could be no question that the brig was; for the creek bad shoaled so suddenly and greatly that the boatswain, harpooning the water with his oar, struck bottom when at least a third of the oar was out of water in his hand.\u2018No matter,\u2019 said I.\u201cThere's no fear of ber bilging, and the bottom looks as flat as a pancake.So let us turn to now and get her moored.Wo should have had to beach hor somehow to come at tho leak ; if there's any tide hore, and it looks to me as if there were, her grounding may save usa rare job, Leaving the two men in the boat, the boatswain and I boarded the brig, and presently the men had made a couplo of warps fast to the rocks on the port and starboard bow.We took these lines to the windlass, and hove them taut, 80 as to give the brig another start forward should any more tide como to float her.When the men came aboard we all turned to and furled the sails, and by the time we had completed this job the sun had sunk behind the rocks on the port quarter, and the hull of the brig, and tho water around us, and the bleak granite- like shore on either hand were all in gloom, while the crimson splendor was still gilding the sammit of the rocks above us, and sparkling in tho upper spars and yards, and reddening the rigging of our little vessel.In a few minutes the-e illuminated lines faded, and turned black against the sky, in which the warn red glare was lingoring, and at last over the wholo hemisphere the evening drew its veil, and the stars blazed out over our heads and spangled the lipping wator around the brig, and, saving our own voices, no other sound was to be heard but tho roughing of the wind sweeping thru the upper rigging from over the rocks on our left hand, and the creaming of the litle breakers all around the windward side of the island.[To BE CONTINUED.J 1880 WINTER FERRY 1881.ONSIGNEES by Steamer C.Anderson are requested to take prompt delivery of freight and pay charges, to avoid costs of storage.Freight received and delivered at Steamer from 11,30 am to3pm, and from ¥ p.m.to 6 am, daily.Single aud Return Tickets issued on the Steamer and at Bonaventure Depot to and from Valleyfield and Montreal.Daily Stage with mail V'ALLEYFIELD ST.DOMINIQUE LEAVES 6am.& 2.30pm.1040am.& 6.10pm.ARRIVES 12am.& 7.30pm.7.50am.& 4.16pm, FIRE! 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