The canadian gleaner, 14 avril 1881, jeudi 14 avril 1881

[" g d re fq Fy REG Who makes the best and best-selling Mower, Reaper, and Horse Rake ?5@ Reap ornzk Coaxxs, \"Su pe MU PUAL FLRELN3SURANCKCORM - PANY OF THE COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS.Insuring only Farm and Lsolatedproperty SESIDENT\u2014Archibalc Henderson, Esq.Uirectors=George Cross, John Ferns, Daniel M\u2018farlane, Donald McNaughton, Andrew Oliver fohn Symons, John White and Jubn Younie.secretary «nd l'icasurer=\u2014-Audrew somerville Hua:ingdon.\\geuts\u2014Willium Edwards.Franklin ; Robert Middlemiss, Rockburn ; - Thomas Clarke, Ste Philomène; Bobert Smaill,Trout River ; P.Clancy, N.P, sud J.A.V, Auiraule, N.P., Hommingford; F.T.Boardman, Vicars ; William Black.tt Allan Corners ; Joan Davidson, Dundee ; 1.1.Orevier, N.P., Bt Aalret; Arthur Herdman.Hurdman\u2019s ! Corners ; J.C.Bruce, Huntingdos; William Camee von ot Dundee, and E.H.Bisson, Esq., Notary Public of Beauharnois ; James Barr, Covey Hill.Pacties wishlug to insurechois property,sre requested to apply to theagents or Secretary, ANTED, Good Milch Cows, fresh calved, also W Beef Cattle, Calves, Fat Bheep und Lambs, for which good prices will be paid.Address P.CAVERS, Ornistown, P.Q.Ormstown, Jan.6.ORGANS! ORGANS! Great Reduction in Price.HE DOMINION ORGAN COMPANY, of Bowman- ville, Out, beg to inform the public that tucy were the only manufacturers in Canada awarded an International Medel and Diploma of Honor at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 18178, sltho 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, R.T.H.Quality is the Test of Cheapness.ue extremely large and daily increasing sale ot O'NEILL'S TEAS is the best proof of their great superiority in strength, or flavor and richness over all others.It is a Solentific Fact that more than half the Ten sold is, in reality, poisonous, no malter bow blended, colored, or agreeably flavored.The undermentioned Tens, selected in the best markets, I can confidently recommend as being DECIDEDLY SUPERIOR to those commonly sold at similur prices, À trial will prove it, A very strong useful Ten.2bc.(Excellent value) Choice Japan Tea.RAP as.400, (Strong and rich.) Splendid Family Tea.esssuccsneBÛC, (With great strength and fine flavor.) Extra Fine Japan Tea.\u2026.\u2026.20.00 00.000 nd 80, (Unexcelled for strength and flavor.) Oolong, P-koe, Moyunu, Congou and Gunpowder \u2018Teas of thu soundest and best quality, equally low, .PURE SUGARS free from that injurivus mixture called \u201cGlucose.\u201d You have to purchase 10 Bs of Glucose Sugar for the sweetness that is contained in 6 bs of pure cane sugar, It is & recognized fact that you will find the best assortment of Teas and General Groceries at the RELIANCE.TEA HOUSE.Price and quality will be found all that could be desired.Butter, E &c,, taken in exchange for goods.Highest price paid.BEF\" Agent for \u201cWitness\u201d publications, \u201ciy GEORGE Q.O'NEILL.Huntingdon, March 30.186 5 DENTISTRY.1880 H W.MERRICK, DENTIST, Cr FORT COVINGTON, N.Y., A\" home the first 25 days of vach month, until further notice, Artificial teeth inserted on any of the first-class bases now in use and the best of material usvd.Teeth extracted without pain or danger by the use of liquid Nitrous Oxide gas, Co.MACLAREN & LBET, ADVOCATES, 168 St James Street, Montreal.Joux J.MacLankN, QC.Sata P.Lzer, B.C.L.Mr Maclarsn will continue to attend the Courts nt Huntingdon and Benuharnots, } Dr.0.H.Wells, Dentist.(Licentiate Dental Awociation Province Quebec.Dental Licentiate Medical Council, Great Britain and Ireland.) « Office at Mrs Cowan's, nuar the upper bridge, Hun.ngdon, MF\" Condensed Nitrous Oxide gas administered for the painless extraction of teeth, When to be replaced by new ones, teeth extracted and gas admin- stered free of cost.AUOCTIONBBRING, Prgms inteuding to have sales will do well to entrust them with the undersigned, who fs the only Licensed Auctioneer in the county.Under the New law, theco ia a penalty for any one sulling by auction without license.p reasonable.Speaks French and Eoglish, Letters addressed to Huntingdon post-office will be promptly attended to.D.SHANKS, NOFABIAL ~The undersigned begs leave to inform the public that be will be fu attendance st his office in the County Building.Runtiupdon, every Thursday, aud remain while detained by business.1, 1.CREVIER, NP More BRANCHAUD, Q.C., Legs to inform his old clients and tbe public generally, that he has tesumed his residence at Beauharnois, whère be may » oneulted at all times and will attend the courtsas rmerly, : BY UNIVERSAL ACCORD, ATEX'S Carmantio PItz8 art the best of ail purgatives for family use They sre the product of 10ag, 1aborie ous, and successful chemic.l investigation, and their extensive use, by Physicians in thelr practice, and by all civilized nations, proves them the best and most effectual purgative pill that medical science can devise.Being purely vegetable no barm can arise from their use.In intrinsic value and curative powers no otber pills c«n be compared with them and every person, knowing their virtues, will employ them, when needed.They keep the system in perfect order, and maintain in henlthy action the whole machinery of life.Mild, sentching- and effectual, they Ate specially adapted to the needs of the digestive Apparatus, derangements of which they prevent and cure, if timely taken.They are the best and safest Physic to employ for children and weakened constitu tions, where a mild, but effectust cathartic is required 4 Fon Bars sy ats.Daatms.PROPERTY FOR SALE.Wu be sold, n new brick store on fbe cerner of Chateauguay and Wellington in the at end of the village of Huntingdon, with counters, Shelving, &c., all ready.The upper part of the build: lug is fitted up for private residence, The opening is & good one for any desitoua of embarking tn Fosiaem.The Innd o about two cree In Superficies Property muet be sold, good title tion caù he given at once.Apply to Enwann Pour, rr TI NO.799.MONTREAL CHEAP CASH STORE.What Everybody says must be True.TT, is true that you can get better 40c, 45c, and 50c Teas at my store than in any other place in town, It is true that you can get the bestund the cheapest Sugars, Tobaccos, Bunps, Spices, and a general assort- meut of Groceries.Coarse Salt ouly 90c per Lng of 200 Bs.It ia true that you can get the Best Cottons for 8c, 9c, and 100 per yardemthos bert value jo the market.Purchasers will do well to-take the advantage while it ants, It is true that you can get good useful lustres, in all shades, for 16¢ per yard; very good Persian Cord Dress Goods for 20¢ per yard ; Fine Coshmeres, in all shades, for 300 per yard double width (a great bar.¥Ain) ; & very nice assortment of Englirh 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 Bid Spreads, with fringes, for $2.25, (very cheap, considering the quality and size), Boots and Shoes, This 1s a line of goods to which I give my strictest attention when buyiug, 80 a8 to secure the best goods a the cheapest prices, whereby customers derive the enefit, $1.75, and those who bought them early in the Fall testify that they proved equal to those for which they hav= paid from $2 to $4.It is true that I cannot be undersold in Ladies\u2019, Missew', nnd Children\u2019s Boots and Shows, which is the best value for the money, TWEEDS! TWEEDS I! 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 Cush Store, ~ I buy my &oods for Cush and sell them for Cash, and can therefore afford to eel] them as chenp axthey can be bought in the city of Montreal.p@™ Call and compare quality and prices before leaving your favors elsuwhere.Remember the place, THE OLD CUNNINGHAM STAND.K.FREEMAN.Huntingdon, Feby.1.JOHN WATERSON & BROTHER, CARPENTERS, BUILDERS and CONTRACTORS, Estimates furnixhed and jobhing promptly attended to.Residence: Elgin.P.O.address : Kileo, P.Q.HUNTER BROS.HAE now ready for inapection the largest assortment of Guods they Bave ever had the pleasure of offering to the public.The entire stock will be found marked true to their motto: Swart PROFITS AND Quick RETURNS, DRY GOODS .H.Bros is the place to buy Grey and White Cottons, Cotton Duck, Cotton Tweeds, Shirtings, Knitting Cut- tons, &c.H Bros.have 150 patterns of CHOICE PRINTS to choose from.These Prints are worthy of inspection, as they comprise all of the new designs for Spring and Summer of 1881.H.Bros.are showing some choice goods in Printed Mualins, White Musling, and Lawns; also, fancy Strip«d Muslins, Piqu-a, Brilliantines, &c.H.Bros.bave the best of value in Linens of all grades: T'owellings, Towels, Napkins, Table Damasks (in white and colored), Table Oil-Cloth, Staie Oil- Cloth, Stair Linen, Hemp Carpet, Window Linens, &e.H.Bros.have PILES OF DRESS GOODS, consisting of Black Cnshmerer from 30c to 80c per yard, Brown, Grey, Cardinal, Navy Blue, Myrtle Green, and Dutk Wine.colored Cashmeres, Plain and Figured Black Lustres, All-wool D-Leiges, and a variety of Culored Lustres and fancy Dress materials.Our Dress Goods are cheaper than the cheapest.GENTLEMEN'S GOODS Don't forget that H.Bros.keep the largest stock of White, Re-gutta, Cambric and Oxford Shirts, are, Cuffs, Ties, Silk Havdkérchiefs, Saspenders, Cotton Hore and Cotton Underclothing.There is also to be found a large and varied sssortment of the latest styles in Fur, Wool, Felt and Straw Hata H.Brow, READYMADE CLOTHING table in again loaded with good Goods at low prices.We don't keep rags transformed into & resemblance of Cloth.Our stock of Tweeds will also be found very large and at reasonable prices.H.Bros.have a complete assortment of BOOTS and SHOES, Crockery, Wall.Paper and GROCERIES, Fence Rod sod Clover Sceds\u2014very low.Give us a Call.BEF Give ua Co HUNTER BROS.OKA MATTERS AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES, To the Editor of the Canadian Gleaner.SIR,\u2014A communication on Oka matters in your issue of the 31st uit.is of such a nature as to require a somewat bistorical statement of the whole case.This, perhaps had better come from me, as, I appreben 1 am bent flited to supply it.: When some twelve years ago the Indians of Oku\u2014the great majority of them at least \u2014bruke away trom the Roman Catholic church, and that thru tho persistently cruel treatment of the Seminary of St Sulpice, the Methodist people of Montreal sent them a missionary 10 gather them into a Protestant church, as such was declared to be their whh at the time.The moral and spiritual condition of these Indians was the first object the Methodist church had in view ; nor did they feel, as a church, pledged to anything beyond this.It wus soon found, however, that other things must bo attended to if the claims of humanity were to be properly met.Food and raiment became in- dispensuble for gnitea pumber, and to supply these efforts were at once mude.These thinge, from the condition to which the Seminary hud reduced th:se Indiuns, bad to be supplied.largely and froquently, The Methodist people of Montreal, maioly, for a number of years cheerfully and generously supplied these articles to the Indians; the ladien of several of the churches making it a practice, each Fall, to get up quite a stock of clothing for the children of the school, and for certain old and infirm people who were particalarly in neod of such comforts.To this were added, very soon after the commencement of tbe mission, law, and other expenses springing thoretrom, which the hurrossing arrests by the Seminary, for alleged trespaswes by the Indians, were ever occasioning.Thru the generous rendering of service by Mr J.J.Mucluren, these expenses were not so great as they otherwise would have Leen ; yet, it must be apparent, that, notwithstanding, very considerable expenditures were necessarily incurred by these acts.During this time a house for a school, and ns well tor worship, &c., was purchared and Sited ap.Then the church was built, collections for which, as for the school-house, HUNTINGDON, It is true that T am selling Men's No.1 Boots for It ia true that you can get a good assortment of | were mainly taken from the Methodist people.Thus things continued until the vandal 2 the promise, o¢ to D.Snanxs, Huntiogdon.trated by the Suminary.This aroused the Protestant community in all parts of the country, and as a consequence, several large and enthusiastic meetings were held in Montreal.Taking advantage of this stute of things, I called a public meeting to see if a society could not be organized which would take uch mensures as would not only punish the Seminary for its cruol act, but hasten a settlement of the question as betwcen the Beminary and the Indiuns of title to the lands of the Luke of Two Mountains.Out of this sprang the Protestant Defence Alliance, which uflerwaids became known as the Civit Rights Alliunce.Almost immediately ufter the orgunisation of the Defence Alliance, I was authorized by its committee to propose to the committee of Indian affairs of the Methodist church for the Province of Quebec, in Montreal, that they should band over to them the legal defonse of the Indians, which, on the condition of their assuming the financiul obligation then existing, und incurred in the Indians\u2019 cause, was assented to.This was to me a great relief, as, heretofore, on mo hud résted the obligation of raising the funds necessary for all the lo:ral, and other objects, which wero constantly ari-ing, Thin assumed obligation of the Defence Alliance was very much increased at à great meeting held at the time in the Mechanics\u2019 Hall.Thon, in the most forcible manner, by addresses and resolutions, did a large portion of the Protostants of all churches alike, pledge themselves to see justice done to the Indians, and thus secure them forever from the merciless hands of the Seminary of St Sulpice.That the Civil Rights Alliance have not redeemed their pledge is beyond a question ; for the Indians huvo not, to the present, hud justice dono them, nor have they been delivered out of the hands of the Seminary.But that this failure should be laid at the door of the Methodist church, simply and entirely, is a reflection on that church which no honorable mind could offer but in ignorance, or strange forgetfulness, of the facts I am now supplying.But we are told, \u201cThe Civil Rights Alliance has had no existence for some years,\u201d Thin I admit, yet contend this does not relieve those who were its members, and who pledged themselves to the public on the matters already referred to.Wo know how organizations of this kind can put thom.selves out of existence : one drops off here, and another there, for reasons which they think justify them in such a course; but this only shows how gentlemen of acknowledged excellence of character can sometimes shut their eyes to obligations into which, in the most formal and impressive manner, they had entered, That some few of these gentlemen remain at their post, notably Mr John S.McLach- lan, its worthy Treasurer, in a fact | have much pleasure in stating.This gentleman has, from the beginning, been a liberal contributor to the fund of the Alliance, and a.well successful in obtaining subscriptions of considerable amount from others.The pleasure 1 have in making this statement 1s much enhanced by the fact, that, as the result of an extended canvass 1 made last summer, all the legitimate obligations of the] treasury have been met ; and that, so fur as the settlement of the Oka question is concerned, there is no hanging buck by the friends of the Indians because of a present lack of fands.A plea in behalf of the Civil Rights Alliance, is put forward In question 4, in the communication I am now replying to, in the following words : \u201cIf the Civil Righte Alliance was xapposed to be tho au- thurized medium of communication between the Indiavs and the government\u2014ns it un- doubtediy was at the time\u2014wby - us its worl interfered with ?\u201d It is wished the writer of the above hud been more explicit and specific in his stutoment here.| am not aware the Allinnce was ever interfered with in any sonre that would justify such n chargo and which amounts lo the following : Twat it did not succeed with the government becaose of unauthorized interference on the part of certain persons who essayed the performanco of duties which belonged only to the Alliance.That I corre-ponded with the government on the affuirs of Oka, during the Lime of the Alliance's life and activity, I freely admit, But that T am justly chargeable with interfering with the action of the Alliance with the Guvernment in behalf of the Indians, I emphatically deny.To prove such a charge it must be shown that [ advocated objects or measares adverse to those of the Alliance.But the fuct is, that in all my correspondence I acted openly with the Executive of the Alliance and in perfect accord with them in all I did.Bat it may be asked, why did you correspond with the government at all?And I answer, before the Alliance had an existence, 1 bad beqa drawn into a very consider able correspondence with the government ; as by an order of council from it I was authorized to press in every way possible a full and final settlement of the question of title, as between the Indians and the Seminary, eyen tho such should require an ap.per! to the highest court in the country.abnegate at the instance of the committee of the Alliance, all correspondenco with the government in view of the responrible position L occapied, would be a dereleotion of daty | was not prepared for.Further it is a most singular thing that the communication I am now replying to is the first instance in which this interference, or any interference with the action of the Alliance, has boen put before me.Nor should [ omit to mention here, that altho an effurt was made to shove me off the committee of tho Alliance, and that within a year of its exist.Q.THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1881.tbe matter of getting the Indians their rights may bo assumed and stated as wunits Lhe views or feclings of the critic for the mo- mont ; but in no instance can such be regarded us done in the «pirit of fair play unless ns associnting this church with other charches, or in comparing their doings with such.In all that has boen done I beg, as an individual feeling deeply tho whole case, to uffer moat grateful thanks to the man wurthy and generous individuals of the various Protestant churches of the eountry, who have, from time to time, contributed to Lhe funds for relieving the Oka Indians ; yet, in doing so, 1 must contend that, while the Mothodist charch has borne the burden alone, of the mission in its moral, and wpiri- tual, und educational interosts, it has gone side by side with the most generous of other churches in promoting the legul detence of thexe Indians as well for the lund, as against tho many persecuting arrests to which they have been subjected by the Christless Semi: nary ot Si Sulpics.- We aro asked \u201cwhy Chief Jo«eph waa re moved tro.n his work in Oka 10 Canghna- wag,\u201d and that, \u201cat a time when concentration ul Okan was most needed ?\u201d \u2018Then we are told \u201cThere was no call from Caurhna- wuga.\u201d There is an amount of assumption in this question und statemont that is very remarkable.lowover, I will simply say, Joseph, at his own pressing roquest, was received as a oandidate for the Methodist ministry among his brethren.For the leud- ing objects of our mission among the [ndiann Joxeph was not needel at Oka, and he was noeded at Caughnuwags.The Methodist chareh, who had received Joseph into ita ministry, and from who tning waters down on our lee quarter, and aboat the civility of the mate.For throe days nothing whatever happened to break the monotony of our lives.dawn to sunset we had our emign flying balf- mast aad jack dows, and thra the night we kept the green lantern hoisted at the mast ; for I wanted help, tho, as 1 have just anid, the idea of wanting it did not terrify me ; and the next vessel wo sighted might be able to lend me the assistance we aired.be weather remained bright and fine, the moon as clear and clean se silver, and the san hot, but tempered by the strong sweet wind and the passage of the fying clonds, and tho sea 8 sparkling bles, ried with the long lines of glittering which broke and with the run of the joyons waters.1n these three days we sighted bat ment in the chase, for 1 supposed her to bea email, heavily-luden Vearel from Australia or the Sosth Sea Islands, bound, no doubt, to Valpuraiso, and, as is usual with syob vessels, with no more hands aboard of her than she needed.We held on in this way for an hear, at the expiration of which time nhe was about five miles ahead of as.I was steering the brig, when Matthews, who had becn examining the mail thra the glass, tarned and said, \u2018I'm thinking yonder craft's a government boat, Mr Lee.She looks to me like a steamer, tho there's no catching night of her tapnel.No merchantman of her size is-evor so heavily sparred, Besides, she ain't loity enough for a sailing vessel ; and I reckon she ean\u2019't huve much canvas on hor to let us overhaul her in this fashion.And sée how she rolls, Mr Lee.\u2019 \u2018Hund us over the glass, Matthews, and catch hold here,\u2019 said I.1 had another good look at her, and began to think Matthews was right.She was low in the water, but with a great breadth of beam ; her spars were short and heavy, and -he rolled like a collier.I watchod her anxiously, for the difference between a government steamor and a merchantmun meant a great deal to me.At last I oaaght sight of the whip ati the main-mast head, and then I became as excited as I had before been apathetic.She, at all ovents, as a government boat would have hands enough aboard, and could not, with any show of reason, excuse herself from lending me the amsistance 1 required.In order that she might see our signal, I slackened away the flag halyards until the ensign blow clear of the cover of the top gallunt rigeing, and scarcely had I dune this when, lo ! the vemel ahead hoisted the glorious red crow of St George.It was clear to me at the same time that they also shortened gail, tho her stern being on & line with us, it Was impossible to see what was doing aboard of her ; bat we orept up hand over flat until, in less than twenty minates, I could nee the sparkle of the metal buttons on the uniforma aft.\u2018An English gaa.boat I' [ oried ; and we shouted \u2018Hurrah I' See I' 1 shouted, \u2018they are luffing to shake ber.We'll go to lee.\u2018ward of them and heave to.Quiok, Nelly; take the wheel and let the brig xo as she is.Jemp forward and let go the main-tack.Bear & hand | we shall be ahead of her I\" And we again the manœuvre we had exeonted when we hove to abreast of the Hagle.They had stopped their vessol's way, and when we wore within two ships\u2019 length of ber wo backed our top sail and lay to within easy talking distance.She was an English gun-boat of about one bandred and eighty tons, à heavy, lamping eraft of her aise, brigantine rigged, and oar.ryiwg four guns.She rolled in such « manner ns to slope ber deck right over to us, so that one could almost have seen down ber companion, and then back again until half her dallish copper was out of water.Thore were several men in uniform aft, with the rings denoting their grades round the sleeve cuffs, und forward sho was full of blue- juckets, who watched us with their arms folded, and with that indescribable air of jaunty cuolness that is only to be acquired by pocketing government wages, She bad all tho remarkable trim, solidity, and cleanliness of the Boglish man-of- war : ber bruse work shone like fire, bor decks were sand- white, hor heavy guns gave a formidable charactor to her massively built hull, her rigging might have served for a six-hundred ton ship, and it was a treat to look at the way in which her square canvas was furled.The commander, standing a little apart from the other officers, hailed mo thru a speaking.trampot.\u2018Brig ahoy ! \u2018Hillo I\u2019 \u2018Why is your ensign half-masted ?' \u2018We're in distress.We've only four hands to work the brig.\u2019 \u2018Where are you bound, and where are you from ?\u2019 \u2018We're from an island, not charted, in 98 © W.and 33° S., and we're bound to Valparaiso.\u2019 \u2018The answer to the question where I was trom puzzled my man, who took the trumpet from his mouth and looked for some moments at the brig, as tho he supposed I was quizzing him, *Wnere du you say you're from ?' he pro- sently bawled aguin.1 repoated tho answer I bad given him.\u2018I'll send a bout aboard of yon,\u2019 he shout ed ; and in a moment I heard the chirrup of a boatswuin\u2019s pipe.A dozen hands ran aft.With great smartness six men and a sublieutenant were seated in one of the port quarter-boats, and pulling toward the brig.L had just time to un~hip the gangway when the boat was ulong-vide, and à man of about forty years of sge, with a red, smooth fuce, stepped over the side.There i+ no seafaring man in oxistonce who could have u warmer admiration for tho British navy than I.I know its best history by heart.1 heartily admire its discipline, seamanship, and pluck, and I never come across an English man-of- war without a swelling of the heart and a glad pride to feel that I am the countryman of the hearts of ouk in her.Owning, therefore, to these honorable sentiments, may I be allowed to ask why the British naval officer makes à rule of treating the British merchant officer wilh the utmost possible contempt, super ciliousness, and arrogance?Is he aware that the merchant skipper and the merchant mate are, with rare exceptions, fine practical senmen, of great and varied experience, and qualified in a heap of ways to show the road to the naval officer ?that to them are committed trusts of human life and property beyond anything most naval officers can dream of ?that, in a word, the only diffor- ence between the naval and the merchant officer is, one receives government pay, und bas a lirge, well-disciplined crew and a powerful, well-found vessel at his dixposal, while the other receives wages from private owners, and has to depend exclusively apon his own judgment, skill, and experienee to bring his ill-found sbip and the ragamuffins who fill his forecnstle safely into port ?When my British gun-boat sublieutenant did me tbe honor to step abourd the little brix, he convulsively jerked his thumb down at his waistcoat as an apology for touching his hat, and in a very sharp, contemptuous manner asked me what I meant by suying that I hailed from an island.Upon which I related my story to him.\u2018I rhould like to see the brig's papers,\u2019 said he, 1 requested him to step into the cabin, and placed the Papers before him.Ho looked over them, and then dosired thut T would raine one of the main hatch gratings, \u2018That you can do yourself, sir, said 1.Thereupon he called to some of his men to come aboard, who opened the hatch for him.He looked down, and saw that the hold wax full of timber.\u201cThat'll do,\u2019 said he.\u2018Lee.\u2019 \u2018What help do you require ?\u2019 \u2018I should be glud of some men to assist me in working the brig to Valparaiso.\u2019 ~ \u2018Four men should serve your turn?said he, looking aloft, \u2018Four men will do ver Without another word.side into the boat.The annoyance that this man's bohavior gave me was so far wholesome, that it re- premsed the extravagance of the happiness I should have folt at my piece of good fortune in tumbling acroxs à gun-boat, and getting from her the help which probably no other veseel than a man of-war could have furnished to me.\u2018The boat was not four minutes in getting along-side her own ship; and when the sub ieutenant got on deck, some confabulation went on between him and the commander and the lieutonant.Present|y the lieutenant divod and brought ap a chart, over which they grouped their heads.The vossel made & pretly sight as she lay rolling in the water, that flashed up ail green along- sido of hor, tho\u2019 beyond and away to the horizon it was as blue as the sky.Now and again «he would pitch, so as to jump two.thirds of her rcrew out of the water.: Prosontly I heard the boatewain's pipe again ; some other bands got into the boat, and some of her formor crow left her; and instead of my uncouth friend, the lieutonant squatted himself in the stern-sheets, and tbe bout, containing ten men and the lieutenant \u2014enough to curry a French frigate |\u2014awept under the stern of the brig and hooked on.1 etoud at the gangway lo receive the tre-b arrival, who proved a gentlemanly- looking man, strongly sunburnt, with = pleasant, open face, and dark, handsome oyen, \u2018You have charge of this brig, L presume ¥' said he to me, fmt touching bis cap ina ship-ahapo manner, and raising it as be look- od foward Nelly, \u2018I have,\u2019 replied, feeling loss aggressive disposed by the accost and mancer of the man, whore condescension, tho' marked enough, wantod the impudence of the aub- lientonant\u2019s, \u20181 have brought you four men,\u2019 said be, \u2018who will help you to work this brig to Val.peri to which port yonder vesss!, which v her à ajost 's gun-boat =, is alo bound.o will endeavor to oom ; but my instructions are, that you py vol bound to keep by us if you find you can beat us when we are under sieam, which will be the case shortly.\u2019 He went to the gangway and called, and immediately oight able-bodied, powerful se: .- They formed them- \u2018And now Mr\u2014\u2014' well,\u2019 I replied.he went over the\u2019 prang on deck, out their names, four of them \u2018Those are your men, sir,\u2019 sald he.1 looked at them, and thought it would be a good job if the merchant sercice numbered a few such men in its forecustles.Their hammocks and bags.wore passed up out of the boat and taken forward.Everything was done quickly and quietly.\u2018Now,\u2019 suid the lieutenant, looking aloft, \u2018while my boat's crew are aboard, can they be made useful to you?I see you have but a stump of a top-mast forward, aad your jib- boom doesn\u2019t look ovor lively.If you have a whole top mast knocking about,\u2019 said he, casting bis eyes on the spure,booms,\u2019 \u2018we'll have it up for you in a few minutes.\u2019 However; there was no spar that would answer for à top-mast, nor could we have contrived a botter jib-boom ; but 1 told him I should be glad if his men would cross the top-gallant and royal yards and get the gear rove.He spoke to one of his crew, and then, going to the gangway, told one of the two men who wore tossing in the boat alongside to hand him ap the chart.\u2018Havo you any objection,\u2019 he asked, \u2018to point out to m6 wbore your island is ?Iled him into the cabin, where I found Nelly standing at the table, She was going away, but he politely begged thut she would not leave on his account, and entered, with à well-bred air, into a short conversation with her.He expressed his sympathy with her for the rough trials she had undergone, and congratulated her upon her escape and the prospect of a speedy relase from the brig.He was much impressed, as indeed he would hardly fuil to be, by Nelly\u2019s beauty and her self-possessed, lady-like manner.Her prosenco and the answers she made to his questions gave him a botter notion of what we hud gone thru than any story 1 could havo related, and his manner altered amazingly.He seemed to forget his uniform, or, rather, shall I say, he seemed to remem- bor what was due it.Ho addressed me politely, without any assumption of superiority : asked many questions, and expressed himselfastonished and touched by the variety and severity of our adventures.He then, opening the chart, asked me to pencil-mark the spot whero I reckoned the island to be, saying that in all probability they would be sent to survey it.I gave him the latitude and longitude of it according to my veckon- ings, explaining that I had had no other data to go upon than tho observations taken aboard the Waldershare.He thanked me, rolled up the chart, shook hands with Nelly, and went on deck, where L found that his men had crossed the yards, and waiting for farther instructions.There was nothing to be done, ro he ordered them into tho boat, and away be went with his six men, leaving me four.Whether they had banked their fires aboard the gan-boat I could not tell, but i was certain that she was under sail only when we overhauled her; bat they were «moking up now, and the moment her bout was at the davits some men sprung aloft and loo«ed the rquarc-sails, und in a trice she was covered with canvss.I waited until sho had gathered way, and, placing one of the new crew at the wheel, 1 ordered the main-yurd to be swung.In an instant the brig bit the water, and the spray began to fly.\u2018Lay aloft and loose the top- gallant sail I' I sang out.Up sprung one of the man-of-war's men band over hand.Used to the slow sprawling of the merchant sailor, I was delighted to witness this specimen of active smartness.Before he had heen aloft a minute the rails were flapping and he was bawling out, \u2018Sheet home!\u2019 \u2018Overhaul your clew-lines I' I shouted, and up went the yard.It was a new thing for me to see a top-gallant sail set over my top-sail ; bat it was as much eail ns the brig wanted, and away sped tbe little vessel, with the foum standing as high as her hawse pipes.I had let the gun-boat have the start of ua, but we hegan to pass her as tho she Were a buoy.The smoke poured in a dense volame out of her fannel, und when she cocked up stern, [ could see the ecrew languidly revolving ; so it was plain there was steam in her boilers, but not much.\u2018I'm afraid,\u2019 I said to the man who was steering, \u2018that she will havo to give us the end of bier tow-rope if sho wants us to keep her company.\u2019 \u2018She stands no chance with this brig, sir.\u2019 he answered smiling.\u2018She wants a gale of wind to go.\u2019 It would have made any sailor laugh to see how she wobbled and bobbled and «plashed, jerking the water away from her fat coppered bows like a bucket dropped overboard, not peeling it out to leeward asa sharp-stemmed vessel does; and yet she wan 0 broad that I never noticed that she sbip- ped a diop of spray, altho she rolled sv heavily that, had her yards been squared.you might bave touched the water from the end of her top-mast stun\u2019sail boom end.Aw we surged abreast of her [ sprang on to the weather bulwarks, and hailed her to know if 1 should shorten sail so as to keep by her.But the answer came back, \u2018No let her goar she will.We shall have our pressure up presently, and then we'll see,\u2019 In anther minuto we were ahead of her, clear of her smoke, and in baif an hour's time she was two miles dead astern, rolling like a mast-buoy, altho by that time she would have had her screw revolving as fast as it would go.was out of eight, and the little brig was tearing across the son with (he main royal on her, fogged with spray as far aft ns the xangway, with the trade-olouds, sailing bravely overheud, and the red light, of the sun flushing crimson in the streaming forecastle, and in the water that was roaring in litgle cataracts thru the scuppers.From this point my log:book gives mae no turther adventares.It in merely.8 record of fine woather, strong, steady breezos, and rapid progress.Induced, with a emart brig onder me, aud ablo fellows to man ber it would bave been à sorry business indeed ir { had not brought the Morning Star to Valparaiso without misadventure, \u2019 We reached that port in nino days and ly {ve hours from the time of quitting the inland, baving carried our top-gelinnt esil the whole way, and meeting wilh but one oalm, when we were a day's sail from the land, that lasted three hours, and was follow- vd by a strong south-westerly breese.On bringing up in the spaciune bay, flanked by its magniticent but treviess mountains, with tho Almendal in the east, aad the ir ular scattering of houses along the beach, | immediately went ashore, taking the brig\u2019s papers with me, and oalied upon the consul, to whom I related the particulars of my voyage.He was well acquainted with the vessel's consigness, one of whom, he said, was à relative of the o'waers, and, he be lieved, the next of kin 3 vo that if, as it was men 6 selves into a line, and the lieutenant calling stopped out.probable, the captain und mate of the Murn- ng Siar were drowned, this gentleman {1 introduced him to Nelly, An hour before sunset she P would claim the brig.He promised to with me upon the consignees next da and meanwhile, having listened to what T bad to tell him about Nelly with great interest he askod my permission to accom , on board the brig.We went together, ang : : sod afler complimenting ber in tbe most handsome man, ner on the courage and fortitude she bad displayed throughout her trials, he insisted that vhe should take up her residence, white we remained at Valparaiso, at his hoy, and promised her a hearly welcome from his wifo.He also insisted upon my sharin his hogpitality, and daring the those wees we.ned at Valparaiso we made his house ogg home.But be did mio a greater service than this : for ho stood out for a larger «um from the consignees than they were willing to give and obtained as salvage on the cargo and vessel seven hundred pounds for me, and two bundred pounds fur each of my \u2019 men besides substantial presents in money for the four men-of-war\u2019s men, who it appears might take gifts, tho they were prohibited from claiming salvage, With this money 1 secured a berth fo, myself and Nelly on board a fine ship, of one thousund one hundred tons, bound direct, to Liverpool ; but it would be three weeks before ehe sailed, 80 we had plenty of leisure not only to make tho purchases we stood in need of, Lo examine the country, to receive and make visits, to ventare an excursion to Suntiago, which is eighty-five miles distant from Vulparairo, but to celebrate the most momentous act of our lives.In a word Nelly and I were married.! Tho gun-boat that had assisted ug wit) her men arrived at Valparaiso four days aftor we had dropped anchor in the bay, She wus in the bay on the day of our my).riage, and among the guests invited by the consul to the entertainment ho generously provided on that occasion wero the commander of the gun-boat, tho lieutenant, and the sublieutenant, This day gives me the brightest memory of my life ; and yet I made a foul of myself too, for when I got up to return thanks for myself and Nelly, and spoke of what wo had gone thru, and how she had accompanied me in the Morning Siar, and the apprehended loss of my old shipmates, and the great and unexampled kindness we had mot with from the consul and his wife, #L fairly broke down.Something marvelously resembling a tear hopped over my cheek like a parched pea on to the table, and I had to belay my eloquence for a spell, tho all hands took care to cheer mel at the top of their voices, and the lustiest cheer of them ull was tho sublientenant\u2019s.Sinnet returned with us to England, where he setlled down as a Thames pilut.My other two lads, whom 1 saw frequently during my stay in Valparaiso, shipped on\u2018other vessels, when I lost sight of them.We had been in London over six months, when tidings came that Capt.Thomas and the others in the long-boat had been picked up by a passing ship the duy after the wreck of the Waldorshare.That Nelly and I are very happy, that our wedded life has proved to be all we anticipated, I hardly say, for 0 bravo and good a sweetheart.could not fail to be u true wife.2 STock-RAIsING IN THE WEsr.\u2014The frec- dom to pasture cattle on excollent grazing land together with an accessible market, are the main reasons why at present stock- farming is particalarly profitatle.The first of these conditions is precarious, and it is evident that in ten years there will not be much good pasture land west of the Mis souri River.When immigration to that extent shall havo shat him off from free pasturage, the stock man can either sell bis farm at probably four times its present value, and move \u2018to Dakota or Montana, or elwe turn his attention to fattening stock on grain for other parties, as I bave already nuggested.For instance, as a practical ease, there is a cattle man of Council Bluffs who is eaid to own 100,000 head of cattle in Idaho.He has a range of sixty square miles of land not worth one cent to the acre for agriculture, yet affording excellent pasture for cattle.He has ten men employed at wages varying from twenty-four dollars to forty dollars per month to look after the atock.These men require 200 ponies 10 handle the cattle.An overseer is hired at $1200 a year.During the winter, however, four men can do all the work required, which is mainly breaking tho ice in the streams that they may have water.Streams nerve as the great checks upon the cattle straying away, tor they never will go far from water.In the spring of the year the cattle men of the plains have a grand \u201cround up (as it is called), the stock Is picked out by means of the brand, and those cattle that are meant for the Eastern market are started for Omaha.They travel about ten miles a day, and generally take the whole season in the ourney from the winter ground to the Wimoori bottom.At Omaha the cattle are ut on the train and shipped nominally to hicago, but really to different points along the road, to be handed over to farmers for fattening.Mr Stewart delivered over 1900 head to farmers last fall, and of these only eight were lost daring the winter.Theo arties who receive Lhe cattle agree to fatten them at the rate of five cents for every extra und of weight they add to the animal.\"hig seems small at first sight, but where cattle put on 250 pounds extra during 8 winter, and where two hogs are fed from the refuse of each ox, the farmer finds that thefesult to bim is equivalent to selling his corh at 100 per cent.profit.The large cattle-raisers, of course, have their inspectors who travel from farm to farm \u2018to look after their property, and gather it to gether in the spring for shipment to Chicago, where they are eitlier slaughtered or ship- pred to Europe.'l'he cattie men have a great advantage over mero furmors, in that they are 10a great extent independent of railways.if they ure badly treated by one corporation, they bave a simple remedy in driving their stock a few miles w the nextvoad.\u2014 Harper's Mugasine for April., One of the renalts of the recent conflicts between our troops and the Boers is Shat Martini-Henry rifies will be gonerally issu as an experiment (0 the cavalry regiments of the line, and that Lo inducements than those how provided by the regulations will be offered with a view to improvemen in mark-manship.of the week In nly notable event © London bas been tho illumination of the business quarter of tho city with the loc light.On Thursday night Brush & Co.thirty-two lights replacing 162 gas In wi Siemens bas aix t ligbts hointed on poles, and 28 small lights The etree coomed like day.One could easily newspapess in any part of them.0, Ù wis Joh se Hun Mid Phil Corn N.P Corn rong of B requ whid Cent placed Que is the or fla) that ous, flava mark to thd prove A Ool free f You sweet It is : sorte Pric desire goods Hu 18( A\u2019 of the terial ih "]