The canadian gleaner, 18 décembre 1873, jeudi 18 décembre 1873

[" œæ \u2014-©o Er rs, let ch ow He of Or lie in url ue Nie ble Mr \u201ces oir the Ove the pon to the ing y 10 ads ead pit seit ar L\u2014 [Coie i pu ! in sth wih , it ary in lar whit ing wh pry ty ree I ion le act 50 vho \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 NOTICE.ed having bought the Dewittville E ude Éoreby gives notice that he is prepar- od to do all that Lies in his power to satisfy the pub- and thereby be hopes to receive & fair share of blic patronage.All orders executed at the old M charged by Wm.Goundry.prices HONORE MALO, PUBLIC NOTICE.\u2014 ill be received up till January 12th ENDERS Mihe crection of s CHEESE FACTORY, in the village of Huntingdon.Plans and specifica.i an be seen at B.A.Cowan's tin shop.tions \u20ac COWAN & GILMORE.NOTICE TO PAY UP.the undersigned, are re- LL persons indebted to , i before the 2nd of next month A fired to pay ve GEO.ANDERSON.Athelstan, Dec.10.PPLICATION will be made to the Parliament of Canada at îÎts next Session to amend the Act incorporating \u201c The Quebec Frontier Railway Compas JOHN J, MACLAREN, Solicitor, Huntingdon, 18th Nov, 1873.PUBLIC NOTICE LA, th by given, that there will be sold, on the I\u2019 ground, 5 public auction, the building of a Fence between the Elgin Church and the Manse, on Saturday, the 27th inst, ai 2 o'clock p.m, Specifica- i n at the house of the undersigned.tions may be see ROBERT SMAILL, Secy.-Treas.Elgin, 8th Dec, 1873.NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.EALED Tenders will be received for the bnilding S of a Brick School House, in District No.3, dfssen- tient, St Anicet, up till Saturday, January 10th, 1874.Plans and specifications cun be seen by applying to the undersigned Trusteus, The Trustees do not i ves to accept the lowest or any tender.bind theme! ANDREW CLUFF, WALTER McGIBBON, ALEXANDER McEDWARDS, Trustees.st Anicet, Dec.6th, 1873.LOGS WANTED.IGHEST price in cash paid for Logs, Hard or H Soft Wood, and Shingle Stuff.A.HENDERSON, Huntingdon.FARM FOR SALE.HE undersigned offers for sale his Farm, cousist- T ing of part of lots No.4 & 5, in the fifth range of Godmanchester, containing 180 acres more or less, There are about 100 acres in a good state of cultivation, with good outbuildings.It is situated about half a mile of Dewittville, where there are Grist, Carding and Saw-mills, It is well watered both by springs and the Chatcauguay river, and it isa superior grain and stock farm.For particulars apply to the proprie- the premises.\u2018or on the pre JOHN PURSE.Dewittville, Nov.27th, 1873.DOMINION AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS WORKS.HE undersigned having lately built s large and T commodious shop in the village of Howick, is prepared to furnish, with the latest improvements, Thrashing-mills, Brasher Falls pattern, 30-inch Riddles, Fanning-mills, Horse Rakes, Land Rollers, Straw Cutters, Circular Saws for cutting firewood, and Lath Saws.Chains and Teeth for all kind of mills, kept on hand.All kind of repairs done.Intending purchasers are invited to give me a call, as T am prepared to furnish anything in my line on the most reasonable terms, and guarantee to give every satisfaction.Orders promptly attended to.DUGAL LANG.Howick, June 2nd, 1873 TO RENT OR SELL, TORE and dwelling-house at Allan's Corners, County Chateauguay, immediate possession.A good opening for a person of moderate capital.Store has been open for the last 26 years, Buildings all good, Terms of sale, or rent, casy.If not leased or sold, will again be re-opened with a large stock.Apply to E.L.Normandin, Esq., Notary, Durham, Ormstown, or to the undersigned proprietor, at 93 St Alexander Strect, Montreal.W.ALLAN.April 3rd, 1873.AUCTIONEERING.J.C.ROBERTS, licensed auctioneer, of Hem- « miogford, will attend carefully to all sales committed to his charge.Speaks both languages, English and French, aud always keeps on hand bills of sale and notes.ArrangéMments may be made with J.A, P.Amirault Public Notary, at Hemmingford village, Thanks in general to all his former patrons.Hemmingford, June 9, 1873.- 465.6m FARM FOR SALE OR TO LET, AT RIVER BEAUDETTE, containing 60 acres, a number of which are in Bush, with Dwelling- House, Barn, Stables, &c.The Farm is near the Grand Trunk Station and post-office.One-quarter cash, balance on casy terms.Clear Title.Would rent the above cheap.Address immediately JOHN WATSON, River Beaudette Post Office, P.Q.MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS.Inauring only Farm and Isolated property.PRESIDENT \u2014Archibald Henderson, Esq.Directors\u2014George Cross, Esq, Francis W, Shirriff, + M.D, John Symons, Esq., James Fortune, Esq., Rance McNaughton, Esq.and Daniel Macfarlane, Secretary and Treasurer\u2014Andrew Somerville, Hun- tingdon, uiifents William Edwards, Franklin ; Robert prddlomiss, Hinchinbrooke ; Thomas Clarke, Ste porlomène ; Peter McNaughton, Hemmingford ; Sibert Smaill, Elgin; Dr McLaren, Ormstown; À racy Gebbie,- Howick ; Alexander McIntosh, 3 elstane John Davidson, Dundee ; I.I.Crevier, DA St Anicet; J.C, Manning, Franklin ; J.Bog) Bt Philoméne ; Louis Préjent, Beauharnois ; i .Poupard, N.P., St Urbain Premier; Arthur own Herdman's Corners ; Dr Anderson, Orms- BE\" Parties wishing to insure their property, are requested to apply to le agents or Secretary.! CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1847.Assets, including Capital Stock, 24 Million ars.CASH INCOME ABOUT $11,000 PER WEEK.Suds AssURED over $11,000,000.ome $000,000 AVE BEEN PAID to the re- de format hve eereased Policy-holders since be following are-among the advantages offered : | LOW RATES OF PREMIUM.Canad lan Management and Canadian Investments, ; doubted Security, Pos absolutely secured to Widows and Children.Slicies Non-forfeitable, > ous indisputable after 5 years in forco.issued on the Profit System receive three- Polici fourths of the Profits of the Company.th nrcliascd or exchanged or Loans granted Premiums may be paid yearly, half-yearly, or quar.teriy, vou 30 days of grace allowed for Payment all Tables of rates for the various syste ous ms of Assurance wy be obtained at any of the Company's offices of À.G.RAMSA R Aria Y, Manager sad Secretary.RE in Montreal: 196, St.James Street.Oi Sms Aer.| Agent, Huntingdon, Q.J.BREADNEG, Âgunt, Atbolstane, Q 9 The Cannon Glenner NO.429.HUNTINGDON, Q.THURSDA Y, DECEMBER 13, 1813.$1.50 A-YRAR.== Brzazrasr\u2014Errs's Cocos\u2014GRATEPUL AND CouroRT- INa\u2014\u201c By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws Thich govern the operations of digestion and nutri- on, and by a careful application of the fine properties 31; ! y Pur Epps has provided our fancy and plain) Rubbers, Slippers & Moccasins, of well-selected cocoa, IMPORTANT NOTICE!! UST to hand, and ready for inspection à fine lot of Boots and Shoes, Felt over-shoes (waterproof, break fast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage M\u20ac0 Youths, Womens, Misses\u2019 & Children\u2019s wear.which may save us many heavy doctors\u2019 bille .*\u2014Civsl Excellent DOLLAR BOUT8-\u2014good value.J.G., Service Gazette, Mado simply with boiling Water or fe¢18 confident, from his long experience of u Milk, Each packet is labelled\u2014* Jaugs Errs à Co.Homaeopathic Chemists, London.\u201d wi of 30 years, in the Boot and Shoe trade, that be will * be able to give satisfaction to all favoring him with Maxvracrons of Cocor\u2014\" We will now give an ® all, both in price, and lu quality, as he Liss sclect.account of the process adopted by Messrs James Epps ed a stock, from She of the best houses iu Montreal, ; & Co., manufacturers of dictetic articles, at their works *RC Market very caeap.in the Euston road, London ~8ee article in Cassell's Household Guide.DR.J.T.McPHERSON, DENBIST, ILL visit for the practice of his profession : Strong, new Scason's Japan Teas in two and three Huntingdon, ot the first Monday of every pound cattics, Cheap Sugars, Cheap and Good Tobaç- month ; Valleyfield, on the second Monday ; Durham, on the following Thursday ; and Howick on the third Wine Vinegar, Pickled Salmon, Codfish, Yarmouth Monday.He will remain in Huntingdon five days, Bloaters, Canned Oysters, Pickles, Java Coffee, Family and three in cach of the others, Thosegsquiring his Flour, Graham Flour, Corn and Oat meal, &c,, ke.services are requested to call early.Artificial Teeth, from one to an entire set, furnished.The preservation of the natural Teeth a speciality.TAKE NOTICE.ASH and the J/IGHEST PRICE will be paid for an unusally large stock of all BEEF ITIDES, CALF and other skins, de- Yon livered at my place, ANDREW MONTGOMERY.Powerscourt, 14th March, 1873.R.W, Cowas, FURRIER, CORNER OF NOTRE DAME AND ST.PETER STS, MONTREAL.FURNITURE, SASHES, DOORS, &«.The Subscriber keeps constantly on haud, at his Factory, in the Village of Huntingdon, a good supply of Chairs, {çane-bottomod, wooden, and rocking,) steads, Lounges, Sofus, etc.Sashes and Doors on hand and mado to order from the bost of material.* Coffins made to order on the shortest notice.: sar Good saw-logs of any kind, shingle logs, and grain taken in exchange.A, HENDERSON.Huntingdon, Scpt.17.DAVID BRYSON, LICENSED AUCTIONEER FOR ANY PART OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, AS followed the business for over 13 years; sells \"both in the English and French languages.g@™ Residence, Howick, P.Q.SECURE GOOD BARGAINS, : By buying Fresh Raisins, and Currants, at seven | cents per pound.Excellent\u2019 new Season's Japan Teas at 35, 50,and 60 cents, per pound.Fine flavored and co, Bust Golden Syrup, Best Molasses, Cheese, White Farm Produce taken in exchange for Goods at JOHN GILMORLS.X'MAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS A\" fast approaching, and the public are respectfully invited to call and select their Gifts from TOYS & FANCY ARTICLES, Violins, Flutes, Concertinas and Accordcors, Stamped Braiding Suits, Berlin Wool Slipper & Ottoman cover Patterns, Berlin Wool plain colored, shaded and clouded, colored Knitting Yam, Silk Braiding Braid Fillosclle, Canvas, Perforated card-board, Lace an Cotton Trimming, Lace and Linen Collars, Silk Ties, Button Moulds, Brooches, Earrings, Gold Bracelets Lockets, Necklets, Rings, a splendid assortment of Dolls, Rubber, Wax & China, Chinese Lanterns, Tea- sets, Tool-sets, Watch-cases, Albums, Toy and Story Books, Pocket and Memorandum Books, Best Table Cutlery, Hair Braids & Switches, Trunks, Carpet Bags, &e., at DIARIES! DIARIES! small, early application is necessary.TIE EXCHANGE BANK OF CANADA.on deposit at the Bank rate of interest.tion of their Pass Book.ANDREW SOMERVILLE.Huntingdon, 28th August, 1873.NOTICH.FAXPORTERS of Produce to the United States can granted, on application to SOMERVILLE, Huntingdon.OYSTERS! OYSTERS! E.W.COGGIN, JAMES LOGAN, HUNTINGDON, RACTICAL Watchmaker and Jeweller, A fine assortment of Jewellery just received, KG Agent for the sale of the celebrated Waltham watches, either wholesale or retail, in can, keg, or bulk.Will sell cheap for Cash.Athelstan, Nov.24th, 1873, PROPERTY FOR SALE.THE WEBSTER SEWING MACHINE.RON Stand with walnut top and cover, complete, with plated ruffer, braider, wide hemmer, quilting gauge, hemmer, tuck-marker, and very wide hemmer, as wcll as needles, bobbins, oil can, screw driver, braider spring, oil &c, &c.and book of instructions.Is the only Sewing Machine really requiring taining fifty arpents more or less, being the no personal instruction.Ng one, however, unskilled, Dundee Centre.inexperienced nervous or lecble, can fail to work it with pleasure and entire success.It will do every kind of work, light or heavy, coarse or fine, It has a straight needle ; makes the lock or shuttle stitch, which will neither rip nor ravel, and is JANET McGILLIS, Dundee, Dec.16th, 1873.houses.Arkansas, particularly the county of Pulaski, of which Little Rock is tho principal town, has been similarly, though not s0 severely, afflicted, and the poor peaple are pirendy suffering from cold an hunger there.Michigan convicts are horeaflor to be treated with very distinguished considora- tion.Striped garmonts are to be abolished, and no Stato criminal will bo rogarded as too dopraved to be allowed tho privilego of corresponding \u201cwith his friends.Besides, the unoducated ones aro to be educated, and when discharged, each man will rocoive a suit of clothes, $10 in cash, and such mone ns ho may have carned by over-work.If this courso of treatment docs not mako botter men out of tho criminal classes, wo may a3 well givo thom up.Potatoes are so scarco in lllinois that one county alone will have to import at least $100,000 worth this winter.An innovation in Friends\u2019 moetings was made in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday, whore, for the first time, the sexes sat togother.\u2014\u2014 MISCELLANEOUS.A distinguished American sonator, while travelling in Europe, is said to have remarked to tho consul at one of tho cities ho visited, that though the charge he had to pay was reasonable, wherever he wont for tho night he was always charged for a buggy, and he had not oven seen a carringo of that sort since ho left America.Tho con- \u2014 about 12s.6d., whereas the Palliser ankle boots coet only 10s.6d., and as about | 400,000 pairs of boots aro purchasod overy | year for the army and militia the saving to by the use of the Palliser Loot ut £40,000 a year.In olden times ostates were often hold in England by very curious on wa One of the countr would bo a the most ancient in the north the tenure by a horn.Tho superior lord, who might be the King, gave on of the land by the gift of a horn, and the land wax held on condition of ita being blown, so as to give notice whonover thoro was Any danger of an actual inroads of the Plets.In modern timos wo have property held hy a more curious tenure still.Mr Honey Budd, by his will, proved in February, 1872, de- claros \u201c that in caso my son Kdwgrd shall wear moustaches, then the devise horcinbe- fore containod in fuvor of him, his appointees, heirs, and assigns, of my said estato called Popporpark, shall bo void ; and [ devise tho same estato to my son William, his appointeos, hoirs, and assigne.And in cnse my said son William shall wear moustaches, then tho devise hereinbefore contained in favor of him, his appointocs, heirs, and nssigns, of my said ostate called Twickenham.park, shall be void, and 1 devise tho said ostato to my son Edward, his Appointoes, hoirs, and assigns.\u201d Mr Budd is not singular in his objoction to the mous- tacho.Mr Fleming, an appraiser and up- holstorer of Pimlico, by his will, proved in OCKET DIARIES for 1874 now on sale at the OC DUSgy- Gleaner Book Store.As the assortment is HE undersigned, having inde the necessary ar- ON the occasion.rangements with the above Bank, is now ready speech, which we subjoin, was significant.which shall bo payable to hor out of my es- to receive money in sums of one dollar and upwards 3, B ren, i ic re o i + .A : .win Yass Book will bo ze in which every deposit attention, because if | nm correct in saying the widow's cap was to bo worn, probably money in whole or in part at any time on presenta- that the question of tho rolations betweon Mrs Robbins found it easy to comply with en the ft coucession may say that wo have beforo us tho pros- givon to thom in tho fullest confidence that which is under cultivation ; there Is also a tract of pect of struggles\u2014perhaps of wars and an-\\ they wonld respogtivoly use and wear them broken front attached.There is a barn and dwelling- archy, ultimately\u2014caused by tho great ques-|in the rame manner ns \u201c I am in the habit p house on said lot, and all is conveniently and eligibly tion that is now rising in Europe, and it|of wearing my chronometer\u2014namely, in situated.For further particulars apply to the subscriber on the premises.Terms easy.I'.O.address ; ; titre : sul was puzzled, and askod to look at ono of April, 1869, gives to the difforent men in : i | 101.hi; «| JOHN GILMORES.|the hotol bills, when he found the dearnod his omploy each ; but to those who porsist in wearing the moustacho, bl.only.\" ostators sometimes oven vonture to touch fominine attire ; for wo find Mr John Rob- ns : bins, whoso will was proved in Octobur, During his recent visit to Glasgow, Scot- 18G4, declaring « that, in the event of my land, Mr Disracli addressed tho Conserva- [doar wifo not complying with my requost tive Association in tho City Hall, which was |to wear a widow's cap after my decease, estimated to have hold an andienco of 4000 land in the ovent of her marrying again, The peroration of his] that then and in both such cases the annuity senator had mistaken the Fronch word bougio, a taper, for the familiar American r Disraeli said: « There is ono point be- tate shall bo 20.por annum, and not 30.\" fore 1 sit down to which I wish to call your As there was no stipulation as to the time the omployers and employed is the only one {tho lotter of the request in her husband's that causes public attention, though interest will and yet indulgo her own tasto in the in it has not yet been sufficiently called up- matter.In conteadistinetion to this exam- on practically to consider, but to which, 1 {ple of a husband compeiling his widow Lo think, I ought, on an occasion like this, to wear tho emblems of mourning for him draw your notico, to the contest commonc- whother she mourned his loss or not, may have Invoice value attested, and certificates [ing in Europe between the spiritual and |be placed the provisions of the will, proved tomporal powers.(Cheers.) Gentlemon, in May, 1868, of Mr Edward Concanen ; al- I look upon it as vory grave, as pregnant though the bequest ia not mado to dopond with circumstances that will greatly embar- {upon their observance, tho testator says : rass Europe.A religious sontimoent is often | And 1 hereby bind my said wife that sho very gencrally taken advantage of by politi.do not after my decease offend artistic taste, cal enuses which use it as a pretext; and|or biazon the wacred feelings of her swect FEALER in Oysters and Fresh Fish, has constant- there is much going on in Kuropo at the [and gontle nature, by the exhibition of a ly on hand a good supply.Can fill all orders, present momont which, it appears to mo, widow's cap.\u201d A vory poeulinr obligation may occasion us soon much anxiety in this was im on two of his logatoes by Sir respect that | myself look upon as the great John South, tho astronomer, whoso will, -\u2014 est danger to civilization, if, in tho strugglo with several codicils, was proved in 156%, that is taking place between faith and free By his will he gave a Jockot ohronometer thought, tho respective interests should only cach to the Earl of Shaflesbury, the Earl of HE subscriber offers for sale her property, con- 1,4 represented by tho Papacy and tho Rod Rosse, and Mr Archibald John Stevens, and Ropublicans.(Cheers and laughter.) I in onc of his codicils he states they were #0 will not easily be in tho power of England my pantaloon pocket, properly 80 called\u201d \u2014 entirely to withdraw itself from such cir- |A sort of promium to try and porpetunte cumstances.Our connection with Ireland the old fashion of carrying a watch in the will thon be brought painfully to our con- fob pocket, in vogue when Sir James South MONEY TO LEND.alike on both sides ; performs perfect sewing un every $1 Le TO LEND on real cetate.Apply to 2,000 \u2019 description of material, with cotton, linen, or silk thread.It hems, fells, cords, braids, tucks, quilts, binds & gathers.The shuttie used in the \u201c Webster\u201d is an adjustible one, and suporior to any other in use.It has a larger bobbin, consequently holds more thread ; and when within its place within the shuttle, rests perfectly easy and free from the grips of the ends, as in all other machines.The * Webster\u201d Patent Shuttle is made out of solid steel, hardened, and will never wear out.The Shuttle Tension is obtained by means of & screw in the toc of the shuttle itself, thus doing away with the numerous holes to be threaded in the side, as in all other shuttles, whilst ROBERT FULTON, Maritana, P.Q.W.A.DUNSMORE, DOMINION BLOCK, HUNTINGDON, the desired tension can be much more easily obtain- .ed and continued without any alteration wntil the bobbin is quite empty.The set of attachments given with the \u201c Wubster\u201d are the most complete and useful, as well as the bret finished, of any machine offered to the public.POINTS OF EXCELLENCE CLAIMED FOR THE WEBSTER SEWING MACHINE.1st.Complete absence of complication, 2nd.Greater simplicity than has yet Leen attained Ly any other machine.3rd.Superiority of finish, 4th.Most direct acting and easily regulated feed, 5th.The most perfect Shuttle in the world.6th.The total absence of gear wheels.7th.For fine work it equals any and excels most family machines, whilst for heavy wok it has not an equal in the world.8th.That every part of the machine is made of the best material which can be produced, and is put together by the most thorough and practical mechanics only.oth, The # Webster\u201d is fitted with a revolving pressure foot, so that the needle can easily be fitted and threaded, at the same time giving more room for any number of thickness of G R cloth, leather, or the material required to be sew n.10th, They are simple to handle.Durable as iron and Teel can make them, Devised on the most positive scientific principles.Dispensing with cogs and cams.Strong and durable in construction.Elaborately finished in de- Is again prepared to offer GREAT BARGAINs in WINTER GOODS! The most desirable articles in market.CASI BUYERS Will Save Maxey by giving him a Call.Nov.27, 1873.Rates, by the subscriber, at Franklin Centre.JOHN HAIRE.LARGE SIZE PHOTOGRAPHS.TIL after the Holidays theSubscriber will take Tintypes of the size 8 by 10 inches, with hand- sign and adapted to every variety of Family some frame, for ONE DOLLAR.Sowing and Manufacturing.They will sew the finest Cambric or heaviest Leather, Buck- === skin, Clothing, Caps, Stays, &c.AN machines warranted, and parties buying will be learned to run them by an experienced operator J.8.GILMORE, Huntingdon.UMITED STATES, Ce The New York Times thinks \u2018 it would not be an exaggerated estimate to say that Always on hand a full assortment of needles, oil 40 or 50 millions of greenbacks lio hoarded and all other Scwing Machine reqhisites.Agents Wanted.i Terus Easy.EN Good in the negro cabina of the South.\u201d The authorities at Sing Sing, New York, The following gentlemen appointed by us are the |g, ji, 0 that the lightning-rods on the prison ouly authorized Agents for the sale of the Webster Sewing Machine in this District :\u2014 conduct more prisoners than lightning to James Buchanan, Esq, Athelstan; John Mec-| tho ground have decided to remdvo them.Whynnie, Esq., Durham, Ormstown ; Messrs Anderson\u201d à Downie, Valleyfield ; Louis Prejent, Enq, : George McClenaghan, Esq, Howick Beaubamois yy 8 X : te ; J.B.you will hit a poet.\u201d « 1 Damon: Hobor, St 8 Panémene George Adams, hen you have hit him, that in something will confer a great boon upon a more than nine cases out of ten he is not | of the service, for there is no doubt that the Hinchinbrooke.\u201cJ.T.McPHERSON, & CO., Huntingdon, Bole agents for the District of Beatharnois.\u2018 Also, bave où hand the best Clothes Wringer in use.Likewise ted Seive (three combined in one) Kansas are sufferin for partizg ail kinds of in and taking all kinds of sobs of the grain.The Fanning-mill, Huntiagéon, Nov.10th, 1373.I, T.McP.& Co.\u2018 try,\u201d says the Detroit Free Pross, \u201cand Sou wil a And you will find, worth the powder and lead.made to ft any i tracts.A number of |in their sanitary condition en farms bave be bare, only of this arise from dry fect need not be enlarged \"wp girls app barns and dwelling-|on.The present infantry ankle boots cost i farms have boen sw: year's crops, but EENBACKS bought at the Highest Market COTES an anciont and famous nation, and to «Fire a gun in any direction in this|in order that the cork in one slab may cov- i ties of dismounted dut ; ne FP a moe\u2019 fran the effects of from cold when mounted.The advantages; Over 2,000 women applied for eleven rairie fircs, which darirg the fall burned to soldiers generally and the improvement sciousness, and 1 shou à not pat all sur-| was a young man.rised if tho vizor o ome Rule were to: | ; El off some day, and you hchold a vory London, Dec 11.\u2014The dense fog which different countonance.Now, gontlemon, 1 Bet !N mn = ay last continues this morn- think we ought to bo prepared for these cir- of i} py a most unproced ented, condition cumstances.The position of England ie (© alinosp ore oven or this city, is hav.one which is indicated, if dangers ariso, of PR A porous © oct on business.Naviga- holding a middle course upon those matters.tion ei the ph olf » ve dangerous i no lt may be open to England again to take a tains À 1ave arrived here for two days, cap- stand\u2019 upon the Reformation\u2014(choers) \u2014 \u2018Bins fearing lo move during the fog lest which 300 years ago was the source of our y should come in collision with others.grentness and our glory\u2014(cheers)\u2014and it he fog hid fT pren of about 50 mitos may be our proud destiny to guard civiliza- aol, of whic ndon is tho centro.tion alike from tho withering blasts of| \"where throughout the country there atheism and from the simoom of sacerdotal ¥™ ard frost last night.usurpation.(Loud cheers.) These things \u201cThe fashions in boots and shocs,\u201d says may bo far off, but we live in a rapid ago, the Paris Correspondent of The Queen, \u201carc and my apprehension is that they aro nearer | undergoing a considerable alteration, inas- than some suppose.If that struggle comes much as the high Louis XV.heels arc sup- we must look to Scotland to aid us.(Loud pressed, and aro now rarely seen, oxcept cheers.) It was once, and I hope is still, a With evening toilettes.Walking boots are (Loud cheers.) I think tho time has come the comfort as well as to the health of the when it really rhall leave off mumbling the wearer, as I am convinced that these high dry bones of political economy and munch- slanting heels which fashion has imposed on ing the remainder biscuit of an offete Ws for tho past few years are far from com- Liberalism.(Great cheering.) We all|fortable, and promote to a great extent an know that a general election is at hand! I|awkward gait.For day wear boots arc don't ask you to consider on such an occa.made of unglazed kid, the only ornament sion the fate of parties or of Ministers.But | being à festoon ofblack silk stitching.Use- I ask you to consider this, that it is very, ful boots for ordinary occasions sre made probable that the future of Europe depends With square toes ; but for dressy toilettes greatly on the character of tho next Parlia- the corners aro rounded off, which makes ment of England.(Cheers.) But I ask |the boot look smaller.\u201d you, when the occasion comes, to act as be- .not after his tongue has becn cut out, has give a your ener ies for the cause of faith been recentl dei ded in tho afirmative.and freedom.The Lancet describes a case to points occur- 1 ing.) ° .jing in the Royal Frce Hospital in London.It used to be observed anent Frederick In order to remove an ulcor, the pationt's the Groat that the smallest details of mili- tongue waa wholly cut out, leaving the floor tary life wero as much the object of his at- of the mouth entire.Within a week he was tention as the great operations of war, and, heard to say distinctly, « I should likesome acting on this principle a distinguished offi- more beef tea.\u201d cer\u2014Sir William P.alliser\u2014ha been direct-| The bridge to bo constructed over the ing his energies to the production of what ç ; far the seems to be the 10 plus ultra of à military i Scotland, will vy to the boot.It has leon tried in various regi- London Builder, it height will be one bun- ments and proved entirely satisfactory.!qred and fifty feet, and the number of spans One feature of it consists in placing twol, 00 ono Hundred.The smaller span will thin slabs of cork, reaching from toe to}, \"0, hed ony fifty foot wide, which is heel, underneath tho inner sole of the boot, beyond the average width of the largost which render tho sole quite impervious to} pans in ordinary bridges but the crown.wet.Tho object of employing two slabs is ing marvel in the wholo structure is the great span in the centre, which is to be fifteen hundred feet, or nearly 8 third of a mile in width\u2014an extent anparalleled jin any existing structure of the kind.The entire cost of the bridge will be at least ten millions of dollars.(Loud and prolonged cheerer any flaw which may exist in the other.1t is expocted that these water-proof soles branches cavalry soldier, having wetted his feet on | often suffers severely laces in the London Post-office.The build- ng and yard and street were filled with fying for examination by the Civil ce Commissioners.which would jand of liberty, patriotism and of roligion, made with broad flat heols that conduce to, The question whether à man can talk or t\u2014\u2014\u2014 Three Ja noblemen have started a bank in on, on the Strand.They speak the English lan fluently, and \"aro said to be thorough business men.* A life-size statue of Wilson, the ornitholo- ist, is about to be erected in his native | town of Paisley.The atatue is from the studio of John Mossman, à Glasgow artiet jof reputo., On Sunday morning woek, a subsidence ,ot ground about the contre of Westville village, which is built over the Acadia coal _mines, Nova Scotia, took place.The surface of the ground opened on the street near the Post-office, and sank down several feet, tilting a number of the houses and dwellings in the vicinity.Operations are now in pro- ross gotling matlers put straight again.\u201cNo ono was injured, , Captain Surmont\u201d publishes a card indig- ! nantly denying the charge that himself and lother officers of the steamship Ville do Havre showod cowardioo at tho time of tho disaster to that vessel.EEE PROCKEDINGS OF TIE HOUSE.Tugsbar, 107H Dec.\"Tho debate on the addross wns rosumed.Mr MoLLEUR, of 1berville, was glad to see the roferenco to the omigration of the Fronch Canadians, who would be glad to return if good grants of land were male to them.Ilo gavo as their reason for leaving the country\u2014low wagos, hard work and moagre food.He complained of the almost impossibility of tho farmers to dispose of their produce, compelling thom to grow only a sufticient quantity for their own use.After roviowing at somo longth the quos- tion of supply and demani, he declared ho was in favor of a prohibitive tarifl, but failing that lot thom have the bonefit of the annual agricultural appropriation of four hundred thousand dollars.lo strongly objected to the railway policy of the (iavernment as rogards land grants, but would throw no obstacle in the way of aiding the North Railway and auch enterprises, While de- procating tho lato sale of timber limits, lio was in favor of prosorving the public lands, Ho was in tavor of abolishing the Loginla- tivo Council, which would bo a saving of fifty thousand dollars a year.Ho was nino in fuvor of a thorough and extonsivo system of education, Mr Larocux protested against tho pro.grosuive thoorios propounded by tho mem - bor for Iborville.Dr Fortis said lumber, tho great industry of tho country, was maintained by tho eapi- tal invented in it, and to maintain it a constant supply of timbor land Wns necossary.Mr Mollour had censurod the anlo of limits, which was oquivalent to stopping the lum.hor trade.Dr LARERGE said that the I\u2019remier had not given a proper oxplanation of the lato chango in the Ministry, and said had ho boon a supporter of the (Government ho would havo refused them his voto till a ful! oxplanation had been given.He then briof- ly roviowed tho difforent sections of tho Ad- ross, during whichhe complained of the conduct of the District Magistrate of Boau- harnois.Mr Mavrutor said tho theories of the hon member for Iberville on colonization and representation had boen formulated yoars since and repented by him for tho last five years in tho Hounwe, till they had become obnoxious from their stalonoss.The romedy ho roposod was as strange as his siatomonts, which, of course, wore incorrect, Io had said tho French Canadians went to the Unit.od States to get higher yon, but what had beon the originated result of the higher wngen ?Ever ninco tho war thore had been a continual inflated issue of paper currency, and, in consoquence, an increase in the price of commodities, and also wages.A panic was the reault ; nnd that waa quickly followed by a return of French Canadians to Canada, where the specie currency assures the value and safety of workingmen\u2019s wages.Ho deprecated charging the Government with tho responsibility of the exodus of the people.The sudden lowering of wages in consequence of tho depression in the United States, would bring them back in larger numbers than over.With regard to railway policy he was in favor of the Government furnishing capital for railways, citing as an oxamplo the Grund Trunk Railway, which, although it had novor paid a dividend, had been of groat valuo in opening u the resources of the country.Ile believed the North Shore was as ossential, and would Le a still greater success, and he thdught tho (iovernment should itself assume the construction of such lines, as it was unwiso to give such great enterprises t 0 private companies, as they had scen by the many examples in the United States.He spoke of the system of the appointment of District Magistrates, which, he said, would be re formed by the Government.The reply to tho Address was then adopt- ad without a division, and a Committee appointed to present it to the Lientenant-Gor- ernor.LOCAL Wepszspar.Mr DaviD asked whether it was the intention of the Government to indemnify the Order of tho Jesuits on their taking possession of the ancient Convent of the Order.Hon Mr Ouimer said Governmont considered tho matter so important that ho had reduced the answer to writing.All the pro- | riy of the late Order of the Jesuits, whet- | her in possession or reversion, including all moneys invested or forming part thereof, | and the principal of all moneys roslized or to bo realized by the sale or commutation of any portions of ssid lands or property, form.| ed under tho law the superior educatior.fund i of Canada.Tho convent of the late Order jof Jenuits formed part of this property, which was by law liable for the support of superior education.Any indemnity or sum of money divertod from the destination provided by law would necessarily go in reduction of the grants for superior education, \"and be prejudicial to that interest.The lands and property have been appropriated to the objects for which they were destined, and Government does not deem itself sc- | countable for an indemnity therefor in anybody's favor.Mr JoLy, in thorabsence of Mr Tremblay, moved for an address asking for à statement of the timber limits now under license, &e.; also, if the Government intend to grants a er No peste PO tego ni Ee saat pp As 1 Mr AAT i + 1x .PE ; .© .rr \u2014\u2014 manele EN , : ! GLEANER is publish-| Fon the first time, in a long series of fand and could not be interfered with\u2014an|IN THE INTEREST OF THE LITTLE the dear, brave head, that has withstood Som ro.mised by the last Gover Tea overs Thursiny at noon.Subscription, yo the revenue of the United Statos has explanation that can satisfy nobody.Mr FOLKS.many à storm, loving home and wife ang mon THURSDAY.$1.50 a-yoar in advance.For a sent a fallen below the estimate, the Secretary of David ought next to ask whother or not,| \u201cSo in a few days old Santa Claus will bo |bairns moro than all outaide allurements The House sat only foran hour or so.theStatas or (iroat an.Single copies of the Treasury putting the deficit at several mil- seeing that through the beneficent offects of around again, with his load of toy sand nice And if I had tho least inkling towards wo.Ia reply bo Dr and ft was the intention the Gloaner, four Pte.\u201d Advertisementsare lions.The cause has been the falling-off in ' Confederation the Province of Quebec is things for us.Wont he Tommy ?men\u2019s rights, (and I can safely assert] have of the Government to establish this year, in charged seven cents per line for the first imports, so that less custom-.duties havo now placed under Fronch control, the Min-| \u201c Well, I need\u2019nt care, for he never comes the distriot of Beauharnois, a cadastre office, insertion and three cents for each subsequent to have cadastres of that important district assertion.Advertisoments of Farms for Sale, pared t as early a dato a8 ible.if not over 10 lines, dt he Hon PATER then introduced his first month, and fift Election Bill, and the House adjourned.FripaY.Hon Mr OUIMET moved that a standin Committee on Woods and Forests be add to the permanent standing committees already namod by this House for the present session, with the priviloges and powers of said committees, composed of Hon Mosers lrvine and Laframboise, Messrs Joly, Roy, Tremblay, Gerin, Pelletier (Bellochasec), Mailloux, Malhiot, Poser Methot, Gendron, Poupore and Dugas.Hon Mr Ouimet, in posing the motion, said that Mr Chauveau Raving given the louse to understand that there would be a permanent Committee on Woods and Forests, the Government had no objection to grant such committee, but it would be well to be understood that the Government will not lend itself to all the scrutiny that the committee would think proper.The Government is as jealous of its privileges as the House itself, because it is ro- sponsible to the House alone.The Committee will study and suggest the best modo of administration of forests, and have full liberty, but the Government does not bind itself to follow such suggestions.Mr JoLy asked the Premier what would be the functions of the proposed Committea.Would or would it not have power to en- uire into the administration of Crown nds, both in the present or past, or would it bo simply a committee to find out the best way of administering the Woods and Forests, and reporting to the Government ?Mr Joly spoke of the charges brought against the Ministry at last session regarding corrupt practices in disposing of the Crown Lands and Timber Limits, and said nothing short of a full enquiry would satiefy the public.He moved in amendment that the committee have \u2018\u201c power to take cognizance of the administration of the affairs of the Department sinco Confederation.\u201d He sat down amid loud applauge.Mr Brsson, of Beauharnois, said on rising for the first time in Parliament, his intention was not to make a speech upon the litics of tho Government, but to explain is position.He had been olected in opposition to the Government, And was intended to be not only a member of the Opposition, but a Rouge of the first water.hat did not prevent him from calling bimself an Independent, for he was proud to say he did not owe his seat to a party, but to the electors of the county, who had elected him without distinction of polities.The quea- tion at issue was embarrassing, but he considered the Government ought mot to be contented with repelling the grave accusation against them, but should take measures to disprove them.It was the duty of the Government to clear themselves of even the slightest suspicion ; but if the accusations were well founded, he believed they ought to appeal to the country.After considerable debate, the Ministry said as the House would not accept the committee offered without enlarging its powers to an extent to which they could not agree, they would withdraw altogether their motion for a committee.Mr Holton complained that the report regarding the conduct of the emigration agent at Montreal, Mr Belle, had not been made public.The Ministry promised to briug down the papers.Monpar.The House did not sit an hour and transacted only routine business.Mr Joly complained of the waste of time and blamed the Ministry for not having their measures ready.Notice was given that the House would adjourn on Friday until after the holidays.END OF THE TRIAL OF MARSHAL BAZAINE.VERSAILLES, Dec.10.\u2014M.Lachaud, thé counsel for Marshal Bazaine, finished his address this morning.He declared that as the Marshal did not surrender in the open ficld he was guiltless of violating article 210 of the army code.In his peroration said : \u201cI deeply sympathise with the valiant soldier overwhelmed by a terrible accusation.I fear not death for bim.Ile is brave, and fears nothing but the loss of bis honor for the sake of his wife and children.I feel most for France, which will deplore the loss of a valorous eoldier.Your Honors, patriotism forbids that you condemn him.You know what political trials are, on the spot on which posterity has raised a statue to those executed after such trials.\u201d M.Pourcet replied, demanding that a terribio example be made as a lesson to the rising generation.Before the Judges withdrew, Bazaine said: «1 have two words in my breast, honor and country.1have never been wanting toward this proud motto during forty-two ears of service.I swear before Christ that have not betrayed France.\u201d After a long deliberation the J udges de- are inserted for $1 the No advertisement inserted for cents.oe Dominion Block, opposite the onal month.less than fift | Office in : Post-office.ROBERT RELLAR, Proprietor.EE CNET R gaz Es cs Ah wa , \u201c he danndian Gleaney, assumed somewhat of a definite shape.though the conference was fur from being an harmonious one, yet, by dint of bullying and threatening those mombers, who differed from Mr Butt and his wing, were silonced {and the cut-and-dry resolutions, which were | submitted, adopted.Tho demand of the Homo Rulers, a8 thus defined, goes beyond what was supposed.They not only ask for separation from England and Scotland but | HUNTINGDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBR: 18, 1873 Tne Homo Rule agitation in Ireland bas A Conference, extending over throo days, has been held in Dublin, to settle what the Home Rule platform is to consist of, and | been collected than was counted on.It is istry intonds moving that France be in- ' whiskey and on tobacco.| the likelihood is that the expenditure wi | be cut down to meet the doficit.When our | of own Parliament meets, it is almost certai | Mr Cartwright will have a similar tale to tell, for importe during the past summer i fell greatly below previous yoars.West has rejected Bickford and olected Moss as its reprosentative at Ottawa by a majority of 511.\u2018Toronto West is ono of the most extreme Conservative constituencies in Ontario, and when it hus gone ngainst John A.Macdonald, ho may well ask, Who is thero for me ?Lennox rejected his candi- dato with scorn, and now Toronto has served bim in the same way.At next election, will he bo able to get n seat for himself ?This very constituency of Toronto West, at last election returned Crawford by over 50 of a majority.by a majority equally large.dal has shocked all respectable people.at the same time wish to retain their present connection\u2014that is, to have an independent Parliament of their own at Dublin and yet to have tho same voice and to send asnier and others, praying that Valley fiel of \u201c Salaberry.\u201d the same number of members to the Parliament at London as they do now.The modesty of the demand is refreshing.There may be a few in England who would not object to the soverance of Ireland, and so getting clear of a continual annoyance and an element of weakness, but there are none who would consent to waive all hold over it and yet retain all its drawbacks.If Ireland ia to remain a part of the British Empire, it must be on the same terms as those of Wales and Scotland.To give it such monstrous exceptional privileges, asasked by the llome Rulers, would be unjust to the rest, indecd, already Ireland enjoys advantages in which neither of the sister kingdoms have any share, and of tho threo she has least cause to complain.1n England tho tithe system is still in full force while the equivalent tiend presses on the landholder in Scotland.a bad one, but why should it supersede name equally good and much more appr priate ?Vallegtield is the name of a localit ppellation to the town on this side ot th tlantic which possesses paper-mills whicl tors.ferently Valleyfield and Salaberry, while few would speak of Ste Cecile, causing needless confusion and perplexity to stran ers.The right-thinking people of the loca ity ought to ece to it, that their town is i In Ireland there are now no compulsory church dues whatever.In England and Scotland there is no land act to protect the tenant, no general law to proservo tho lcase- holder ; in Ireland thero is a law which enables the poorest tenant to cause the richest landlord to pay him for his betterments and the surrender of his possession.To hear tho clamor of the disloyal element in Ireland, one would naturally suppose that sbe had not her due voice in the management of public affairs, while the roverse is the case, she having more members of parliament in proportion to her population than either England or Scotland, and many moro in proportion to what she contributes to the revenue.In the year 1871 Scotland contributed to the public chest over seven million pounds and Ireland six million ment while Scotland has only 69.schools in Ireland are kept up to a great ex clared Bagaine Juiley of the charges of the capitulation of Metz and of the army in the open fleld without doing all that was prescribed by honor and duty to avoid the surrender, and unanimously condemned him to death and to bo degraded from his rank previous to his execution.After judgment had been rendered all members of the court signed an appeal for mercy, which the Duke D'Aumale immediately conveyed in person to President Macon.Bazaine wae tly agitated when he heard the decision.of the vou .The crowd at the Trianon to-day warmly cheer- od hen the, verdict was rendered.The sentence includes payment of costs and ox- pulsion from the Taglon of Honor.Paris, Dec.11.n after the judgment of the Court was pronounced against Marshal Bazaine last evening, he requested that his son be allowed to visit him in prison.He also Tefused to avail himself of the right Dec.12.\u2014The decisi MoMshon in the case of Besley President \u2019 seclusion.He is to bear the effects from rank, but will bb spared the hamiliating ceremon Paris, Dec.The owners of the soil and to convert Ulster in bound to protect.have been dome to Ireland in centuries pas Repealers, Phenixmen, Fenians, and Hom in different shapes.All have had the sam stition.yet Ireland has 105 members of Parlia- The tent by the Government, while her police and judiciary are simost wholly sustained by it; in the rest of the Empire, education and the preservation of the peace fall mainly on the local taxpayers.In short, overy exception is in favor of Ireland ; she pays less to the Government and draws out more and has advantages in the shape of legislation unknown across the channel.The cry of Butt and his fellows about injustice to Ireland has no foundation, and is merely a cover for deopor passions\u2014a hatr- od of Britain as Saxon and Protestant.They ery for liberty, when itis supremacy for Romanism they mean in their hearts ; they ask for equal rights, ignoring the fact that they enjoy most unequal rights at the cost of England and Scotland, but thoy mean in reality the right to dispossess the Saxon to à second Connaught.Such à domination Britain can never consent to, not alone from regard to her own safety but the rights of those who in times past havo left her shores and settled in Ireland and whom she is Whatever injustice may or however practicable it may have been to have given her an independent government, it is plain the English people of to-day are not accountable for those wrongs, and that circumstances have so changed, the interests of so many of Saxon extraction become interwoven with her fate, that Ireland must remain an integral part of the United Kingdom, and whoever talks otherwise, either on this or the other side of the Atlantic, is a traitor.The present generation has seen Ralers.They are all alike ; the same spirit sim, though they differed in their modes of working.When Home Rule hss run its course it will bs superseded by a kindred ceganisstion, and so it will go on until Ireland is redesmsed from the thrall of super corporated under the old name.They ha the best claim to bo heard in the matter; for it iv they who will have the largest share of the taxes of tho new municipali to pay.1 Mr Ouimet understood the questi Beauharnois but to the whole distinctly enough.propared at once, is correct.» inconsistency, people who denounce lawyers, are yet careless about taking those precautions which prevent business being - made for lawyers.Our county council has justly, of late, had to complain of tho quibbling of the law and the tyranny of being bound down to its letter, yet it has never taken a singlo stop to get this cadastral mode of registration introduced into our county\u2014a system which would settle all titles, either establish or quash all doubtful mortgages and other liens, and render searches cheaper and more reliable, thereby reducing the necessity for appeals to the law-courts.\u2014_\u2014_\u2014\u2014 Tre question by Mr David rogardirtg the Jeauit Barracks, needs a word of oxplana- tion.When Canada was taken possession of by the British forces, these buildings woro held by the French Government.They had been crectod by the Jesuits and, on the suppression of that order about the middle - of last century by the Pope, their property was confiscated, falling in Canada to the Government.Whatever was owned by the French Government in Canada necessarily foll on the Conquest to the British, and, up to a fow years ago, this pile of buildings was held by the Imperial Government and used ss a barracks.On the withdrawal of the troops, this and other ordnance property was handed ovor to the Dominion authorities, which, in turn, on the application of our Local (Government, turned over the Josuit Buildings to our Province to be converted into offices for the transaction of its business.The Lieutenant-Governor in his t Dominion presenting them with these Buildings and asked for a grant to fit them up for the purposes to wbich they are in future to be dovoted.With an impudence at which wo stand aghast, Alderman David, a representative of Montreal, rose to ask that the Jesuits be indemnified.It is significant ae to who are the masters in this Province, that, instead of scouting such a claim with out of the difionlty by such à knot-hole as that the Balldings formed part of a special Tu tho surprise of everybody Torontu proposed to Congress to re-impose the duties demnified for the loss sho sustained in hav.cents for each additi-' on tea and sugar and increase the duty on ing Canada wrested from her by General Congress, how- Wolfe.| ever, docs not seem inclined to do so, and | | | IMPORTANT MEETING AT DURHAM.! On Friday a highly influential meeting the farmors of St Malachie de Ormatown, n : St Jean Chrysostome and St Antoine Abbé, i was held at Durham village, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of titioning the Council of Agriculture toal- ow a second society to be established for tho County of Chateauguay James Cowan, Ksq., was requested to take the chair, and ho explained the object of the meeting.Col.McKachern was requested to act as Secretary.Moved by John McDougall, Esq., seconded by Edward Sadler, Esq., and resolved : That this meeting is of opinion that it would be for the advantage, interest, and promotion of Agriculture, that a second society for the County of Chateauguay, to be known as Society No.2, bo organized.Carried unanimously.Moved by James Sangster, Ksq., seconded It now returns a Reformer A greater ro- vulsion of political sentiment could not be, and is proof of how deeply the Pacific Scan- Lasr week a potition was presonted to he Local House signed by the Rev Father be incorporated into a town under the name Tho proposed name is no [in Scotland whore is situated one of th argest and best paper-mills in the world: 8 there not a fitness, then, in applying the put to him by Dr Laberge on Thursday last, the cadastral plan of rogistration is to be extended not merely tothe County of District.There is just the possibility that Mr Ouimet may have confounded the district with the tcounty, though the Doctor put the question We hope he did understand the question aright and that his answer, that it is the purpose of the Government to have the cadastres of this important District With singular by Dougal Graham, Esq., and resolved : That a memorial, addressed to the Council of Agriculture, be now signed and forwarded to the Council, setting forth the reasons for the organization of a socond Society.Carried unanimously.The memorial was read and signed by hose present.Moved by Thomas Reid, Esq., (Fertile Creok), seconded by John Ritchie, Esq., (Fertile Creek) : That a members\u2019 list and subscription be now opened and signed by those present who are in favor of a second society being organized, with the amounts set opposite to each name.Carried unanimously.The list was signed by those present from two dollars up to four dollars each and a largo sum subscribed.Moved by John McDougall, Esq., second: ed by Matthew Orr, Esq., Fertile Creek, that the Chairman, Secretary, Thomas Reid, and Thomas Gebbie, with power to add to their number, be the delegates from this meeting to wait on J.M.Browning, Esq., with the memorial.Carried unani- 0 d te e by n extent and the quality of their products, jmously.ro a credit to the Dominion ?Apart from this, we are always against wantonly chang.§ ing the names of post-offices, for it gives, riso to confusion and the mis-sending of let Wore the new name adopted, fo many years to come people would use indif- / Tho mecting also decided that, if the Council refused to grant tho prayer of the memorial, that another meeting be called for the purpose of organizing an independent Society.After votes of thanks to tho Chairman and Secretary, had been carried, with much cheering, the meeting broke up.HUNTINGDON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY NO.1.Tie annual moeting of this Society took placo on Tuesday.The attondance was | small and the proceedings harmonious.The Financial Statement was brought up and read, when it was moved by Mr Daniel Brims, Senr., seconded by Mr Hugh Graham : That the Financial Statement be accepted, and that the thanks of the meeting be given to the President and Directors for their past services.Carriod.The President then called on them to elect office-bearers for the next year, when it was moved by Mr John Muir, seconded by Mr Angus McNaughton : That the un- dernoted retiring members be re-elected for next year:\u2014Andrew Oliver, President; Joseph Holbrook, Vice-President; and Messrs (ico.Long, Edward Dupuis, John Ferns, Thos.Cairns, Andrew Montgomery, Malcolm McNaughton, and Daniel Boyd Directors, and Daniel Macfarlane, jr., Sec.- Treas.The financial statement, which exhibited a prosperous state of affairs, will appear in our advertising columns next week.ES aces speech congratulated Parliament on the just indignation, Premier Ouimet creeped ; CHATEAUGUAY COUNTY COUNCIL.Tuis Council met on Wednesday last.After waiting long past the time appointed for meeting, it was found that there was no quorum, co that one or two Mayors had to be sent for.Tho business of importance before tho Council was the consideration of the appeal taken from the amendment made by the Ormstown Council to the Special Superintendent's proces-vorbal for a By- Road through the b and 6 concessions of Jamestown.Several petitions were presented against the homologation, and one, vory numerously signed, praying the Council to homologate the proces-verbal as amended by the Local Council.After a long useless argument, it was finally decided to adjourn the meeting until Thursday the 18th ember.Mr Sanders, last week went to Montreal to see Dr Howard, with the intention of going on to Quebec if tho Doctor approved of his doing so.After examination, however, the Doctor would not allow him to go further.On Wednesday evening of last week the Indies of the Wesleyan Methodist congregation, Zion Church, held a tea.meeting in the hall of Orange Lodge No.90, Franklin.Unfortunately the roads were bare, and the absence of good sleighing made the attendance much smaller than it otherwise would have been.In every other respect, the entertainment was a success.A similar gathering took place on the succeeding evening at the Hendersonville Methodist Church, which was largely attended and proved to be a very enjoyable affair.Hugh Gavin and John H.Brown are the retiring Councillors for Elgin.There will be no servioe in St Andrew's charch on Sunday forenoon, but in the evening the Rov Mr Lochead will preach at half past six.The last Echo de Beauharnois cantains the following curious paragraph.Perhaps it will favor us by giving the names of the prosecutors to whom it refers, for they are unknown hege :\u2014The licensed hotel-keepers of Huntingdon and vicinity are prosecuted almost every month, and are closely watched, by a number of Methodists of that place who, realizing nice little sums from the fines inflicted, have sworn not to let a hotel.keeper live among them.Tuesday of this woek, no fewer than six offenders were summoned before Messrs White and Bread- nee, JJ.P., and fined.Thursday last Mr Chalifoux of St Stanislas de Kostka was oondemned to pay the pooaity imposed on retailers of intoxiéat- ng liquor without license.\u2014L\u2019 Echo, to our house, so it don't make any difference to me whether the time is near at hand or not.\u201d # Why, don't you never get anything in your stocking on Christmas morning ?\u201d « No, indeed.I hung it up once, but | didn't get anything, so 1 didn\u2019t try any more.\u201d « I thought every little boy and girl got something in their stocking on Christmas morning, for 1 can\u2019t see why Santa Claus should give to one and not to another I\u201d «I guess Santa Claus hasn't all the power in his own hands, and unless one\u2019s parent's welcomes and treats him well, he will not make his appearance, and & fow shillings from the purse is needed too, from what I have been led to understand.\u201d Now, miy little friends that is so.Santa Claus is the patron saint of the little folks, the same as Saint Andrew is of Scotchmen, Saint George of Englishmen, St Patrick of Irishmen, amd so on.It's only through the influence, and in Santa Claus\u2019 name, that all these nico toys and things are made, and through his influence the kind parent and friends are induced to furnish these things for the pleasure and gratification of you littloones, There are plenty who do not trouble themselves about such things, as getting little articles to put in the children's stockings.The Penurious will say, « What is the use of spending money in such foolishness as toys?\u201d The Wise, « What nonsense!\" or ** What good is there in it?\u201d The Careless, \u201c I forgot about it, some other timo will answer just as well.\u201d To the first I would say that it need not be all toys, but also articles of usefulness and utility, which would bo doubly thought and taken care of when coming through Santa Claus\u2019 goodness.To the wise ones, who say what noneense, or what good is there in it, I would just whisper, your dear little ones on Christmas Eve, after hanging up their stockings on the door knobs and other available places, retire with the pleasant expectation of finding something thero- in when they arise in the morning.How joyful and pleasant they say good night to all ! After having said their prayers, and.«(od bless mamma and papa,\u201d and, nodoubt Santa Claus is in for his share.No need in the morning of calling two or threo times \u201cGet up children.\u201d I'll warrant they will bo the first ones up, and a race is made for their stockings, when an examination of the contents is commenced and each article is brought to light with exclamations of delight, such as, ** See what a nice thing I've got.\u201d \u201c Oh! just look here.\u201d «O dear, isn't this nice ?\u201d With joy, pleasure and delight the day is spent in examining and exhibiting the gifts, which Santa Claus has given them, to their neighbors and visitors.And yet you would say \u201c What nonsense!\u201d \u201c Why spend money so foolishly ?\u201d « Some other time will do.\u201d Doos it not well repay you to miake your children happy and give them pleasure?Do you think it has no influence now and hereafter ?When they grow up, and have to faco the stern realities of life, they can look back and think on those times, and such recollections may be the occasion of driving many a bad thought from their minds.They too may have a family and they will know how to make their children happy, and have a merry Christmas, for they onco were young and used in a right spirit.I have seen and felt that a great many ignore the thought that they were ever young themselves, from the way thoy treat their children.Thore is method in all things, and I find that childhood (I was there once myself) is childhood, and J suppose I could tell you what you ought to do at other times as well as at Christroas better than I can porform, as it is very true that it is easier to preach than to practice.Don't forget, little ones, to hang up your stockings on Christmas eve, and don't forget, parents and friends, with the aid of Santa Claus, to fill them.When I was down sog- ering in your town I saw lots of nice things in a corner brick-store ; tho letters of the namo on it spelt Gilmore's, (he'll have to put\u2019 something in my eock).Just the things for Santa Claus there.Now, my \u201c itte dears,\u201d I wish you a Merry Christmas, and big stockingfuls.&ec.- Cou.PEUNNY.ours, Dundee, Dec.15th, 1873.\u2014 MY OPINION OF IT.I Have just been out on the gallery to look: at the thermomieter, and find it indicates 16 degrees below zero.A nice morning for a man to travel ten miles, while that low, quiot heavy air protends another fall of ¢ the beautiful snow.\u201d No sleighson the road, nd outward signs of life except the curling smoke that rises thick and dark from every house, and the stamp of the horses in their stalls, which sounds loud and as if they too are impatient of the frost and cold, .Why am I so particular about the atmosphere, when all is snug indoors ?Well, reader, the guidman is on the jary,\u201d one of the ¢ twelve honest mon and true,\u201d on whose verdict hangs the fate of the evil-dosrs of this district, and, not being locked up to consider last night, ho braved the cold and wintry blast, coming in at eleven o'clock, white with snow, overcoat and whiskere ; not) this jury business would do much towards effecting & cure.Only to think fellow mortals of the softer sex, of our being shut up to agree on any one point, or being obliged to sit for hours without saying a word ! I fear the peace-keepers would have to be doubled, and then could not keep \u201c Silence in the court.\u201d If we were not allowed to use our tongues, and give an opinion of the matter in band, and if the criminal was, by chance, handsome, or otherwise, and the lawyor eloquent in pleading the cause of crime, could our susceptible hearts withstand tho fascinations or turn a deaf car to the voico of the charmer ?But the facts of the case look absurd to the uninitiated.Just think of over fifty men being summoned to try three petty cases, men from above Huntingdon, who are obliged to leave home while tho term lasts, and remain about the Court the whole length of the time at this inclement season of the year.I was really sorry for some of them, even more than for the guidman, who could manage to get home although not without some difficulty and suffering a little from the intense cold.How I have pitied those poor wives whose husbands have been a week away, and loft them, perhaps, sick, or ill-supplied with help, while the pay of a dollar per day would not pay their board and oxpenses of keeping a horse in the town, to say nothing of tho loss of time and inconvenience.At best it is but a farco, prolonged to find work for those who gain by the pickings, and trial by jury is often simply a matter of accident.But since the law must bo vindicated, and the performance gone through, it would be.better for all hands if there was a little more discrimination shown in the selection of jurymen.With my present opinion, in view of the guidman being out in this biting cold, and knowing that it is bad for his rheumatism and worse for his cold, 1 would suggest that the officials, who have the power to select, visit all the stores and corner-gro- ceries, choosing the habitual loungers who resort there to spend tho ovenings, and allowing the men who are of the stay-at-home sort, to go their quiet way.But, then, I am no law-maker, and, being a woman, have no voice in the matter.So I have to sit at home insilence except talking with my pen, and feel the sharp air every time the door opens, and fancy the guidman with ears or nose frozen, and bless that judge who will prolong things so, and hope the jury will agree, so that the guidman will not be locked up, and then, as I have done, reader, give you my opinion of it.ANNE L.J.Hillside, Chateauguay Basin, December, 1873.DEWITTVILLE BRIDGES.To the Editor of the Gleaner.StR,\u2014As 1 consider the remarks in the minutos the of meeting of the County Counci on the 10th instant, regarding the bridges across the Chateauguay at Dewittville, do not state the mattor fairly, as to what Hin- chinbrooke will do in the premisos, therefore I wish ta state what is intended to be done by the people of Hinchinbrooke, so that a fair understanding may be come to between them and their neighbors in God- manchester.À now bridge in place of the old one is required, and, at a joint meeting of fivo councillors from each Township, it was agreed that, if the land could be procur- od, it would bo a great saving to have the side of the bridge removed further up the river, and it is estimated that a bridge on the new site will be less expensivo (by 400 or 500 dollars) than on the old site.To purchase the land and make tho road which is on the Hinchinbrooko side, tho Hinchinbrooke Council is willing to do, the cost of which will be about 225 or 250 dollars, it would therefore be no saving to said Township, as the amount would be equal to what would have to be paid by it if the bridge should be erected on tho old site, but, it would be a saving to Godmanchester o 200 or 250 dollars, as Godmanchester wou have so much less to pay for its erection on new site.Godmanchester wants that Hin chinbrooke should help to repair and main tain a small bridge which is north of w 7 is now an island, but which was formerly part of the mainland, until a canal was ous through it, so that water might be ot to mill which was built on the east side p The of land, the owner of the mill keeping ° necessary bridge over it.A lato owner ' tho mill got the Township of Godmanches ter to build a bridge over it about the ume the large one was first built, promis 0 said Township to keep it in repair, W el ° believe he dh not do.When the 7 ge bridge needed to bo rebuilt, the smal Ln also required tho like to be done to it.âme erection of both was let at tho san 5 to or nearly so, and Godmanchester sot the get Hinchinbrooke to pay the half o po cost of said small bridge.This matter o oupied the time of the County Co fo over a year.1n 1860 Messrs _ uglass ito \u2018White, Mayors of both townships, agre Ying sottle the matter finally, and, at 8 mee oe of the County Council, it was Does.motion of Councillor Gardiner 0 hair), (Mr White being Warden and in the chair), seconded by Councillor Douglass of the chester, that, Godmanchester pay do ohne cost of erection, and 4 of law costs, po law brooke to pay à of the cost, and ester costs, and that, in future, mb ridge.should koep and maintain sairl ama h This was agreed to by the Councils ane townships paying * eir respective ater Hinchinbrooke thus considered the ty finally settled.This decision of the 7 Council, and the agreement m oe p faith with its Mayor, some of tho pe?Godmanchester wish to have = ti want Hinchinbrooke compe small brid oeping and maintaining said 5 Pall of the r over on their paying one bosser NEWS BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.aiaem in this matter special dispatch to im the Pall Mall Gazette says that as Baron Ire of land far the now piece of road in Hischinbroc ce that if the yers of 1am of op the ; ! Some highly-spiced eloquence was chester fully understood matter ' Reuter has not begun the works of internal tion of her down.trodden citizens, finds\u2019 contributed b Wather velle, who declar- Pons, per 70 pounde, 80 cents.Care not desirous of acting so unfair] ! improvement in Persia within the time fix- sympathy in the hearts of every Irishman ed that the Irish were a race of slaves, and ! Barley, per 80 pounds, 90 cents.tone Hinchinbrooke.The fault of their | ed upon, the Shah has declared the conves- or American.The funds collected by these described the House of Commons as \u2018that! Cats por 40 pounis, 41 cents 30 paving to keep up this bridge, which is in i tion void.> L means are placed in the hands of MePhor- rotten house beyond the sea.\u201d Oatmeal, 00ibe, $2.20 to 88.30.| their township, 18 with the men who re: Berne, Dec.12.\u2014The Swiss Government son, Williams & Co., of this city, who are, The malady from which Prince Arthur,\u2018 Boans, 81-23.presented ten port Eins a he ne red 2000 ry of the Pope gh oie placo custod jane of the moneys contribated | the youngest son of the Queen, is sufforing Comer coma por ox pd, rel 8 cents ov illowner n ope\u2019s last ency- the New Y i ei i 0080 \u2019 who let the mill ow They shoul Loing re Pee Romi on.y- by ork merchants, as well as the is hemorrhage, arising from the extreme had, did with another mill owner, who idee four times ns large to maintain, bas by written agreement, and not ow to put the burden on their neighbours.1 know that it is said that Mr Douglass did où act in the matter with the consent of the ratepayers.| would ask, Why did they out the conditions of the agreement py paying their share, and, since that time, het and re-elect Mr Douglass as Councillor and Mayor.This is not the time to find fault with such an old servant.Hinchinbrooke does not want Godman- chester to assist to for the land or making the road to the bridge.All that is re uired is, that Godmanchester do as was ! ced upon in 1860.And as Hinchin- rE oke is willing to do what she cannot be compelled to do, viz.purchase the land and make the road to the new site, (as the Jand is part of an orchard and cannot be ex- ropristed) thereby making the saving to manchester of at least 200 if not 250 dollars, the people of Godmanchester should be content.I am aware that it will be said that Hinchinbrooke will save by the transaction of buying the land.Undoubtedly there will be a saving in the future, as iho repairs, &c., on the new bridge will be less than on a larger one, but there will be no saving at the present time, except to Godmanchester, which township beside will gave in the future as well as Hinchinbrooke.[ will probably be able, at the meeting which the special superintendent will hold, regarding tho site 0 large bridge, if spared to be present, to show how that if the poo- lo of Godmanchestor judiciously lay out tho $200 to be saved in the erection of the now bridge, that they can keep the small bridge in repair for over, without any further cost to the township.Jostua BREADNER.Atholstan, 11th Dec, 1873.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Tax Virginius was to be surrendered on Tuesday to the Americans.On the night of Thursday last she was moved quietly out of the harbor at Havana and towed to an out of the wayport on the north of Cuba.There she was to receive the survivors of her crew and passengers on board, and on Tuesday was to bo given up to the U.S.men-of-war who have gone for her.On, Friday, when the citizens of Havana found that the Virginius had slipped from their grasp and was to be surrendered, they were greatly excited, and in the evening a howling mob surrounded the houso of the Cap- tain-General.The indignant feeling has now subsided to a great oxtent and the surrender is accepted as a preferable alterna tive to war.Gorp has taken a sudden jump upwards, reaching as high yesterday as 112}.The New York Times says there is no just cause for the rise, and that itis the result of a combination of speculators interested in sending it up as high as possible.The rather unfavorable state of the national finances gives them a favorable opportunity for working, it being inconvenient, if not impossible for the Treasury at present to sell gold, while it is evident that Congress intends to take no immediate steps towards resumption of specie payments, but rather to increase the volume of currency.The negotiations by the Cotton Factory Company for the acquisition of the Gillies and Poterkin farms at Valleyfield have boen re-opened and likely completed by this timo.The intention is to build in the spring.On Tuesday evening a large audience assembled in the Wesleyan Methodist Church to hear the agent of the Temperance League.The Rev Mr Crothers occupied the chair and introduced the Rev Mr Gales, who delivered an admirable address, describing what the League has done towards securing Prohibition and its present prospects, Tho lecture was most attentively listened to and has loft an excellent effect.The Lieutenant-Governor has been pleas- od to associate James Barr, of Covey Hill, county of Huntingdon, to the commission of the peace for the district of Beauharnois.À farmer of St Timothy has just informed us that tho post office in that parish is badly conducted.He went to the office and the post-master repligd to him that he had no letters directed to him.Two days afterwards he received, by private convey- anco, a letter forwarded to him by the post.8 master, and which had left Beauharnois eight or ten days before.\u2018This letter was nothing more or less than a notico from the nk, calling on him to come and honor a note falling due there.Twenty-four hours more and ho would have had to pay the couts of & protest.We are informed that OT some renson or other the post-master im Question is not always in a condition to ve clear or comprehensible answers to persons whose affairs require their atten- on at the office.We do not make these : marks from animosity or with the inten- ming or 30n0ying anyone, but only to re- min this public servant that ho must fulfil duties of his office, and if he finds the od en too heavy, to pass it to some ono pedi will fulfil them.\u2014L'Echo de Boau- vibe principal citizens of Valloyfield have Bt a: petition to the Hon D.À.MacDon- Loh utmaater General, praying him to on daily mail between Valleyfield ois.We approve of the appli- tion and 3 the request Fhe Government will grant \u2014 WEATHER REPORT.perature Wind, mileain Snow in Highest Lowest » Decmb'r.40 35 tu or.000 Te 21 .1224.0.00 HE \u2026\u2026.\u2026.23.0.00 3 38 20 re Me 0.00, MN \"on 8 .130 .0.00 20 12 .14} .0.00 Pranon W.Sxmagye, M.D, Hantingdon.London, Dec.10.\u2014A St Petersburg, Dec.12.\u2014The Czar has will set out on his tour next Spring.Calcut great relief to the crops.famine are now considerably moderated.The Hague, Dec.12.\u2014The Government has received intelligence that 9,000 troo belonging to the expodition which lately left Batavia for Acheen, have effected a landing on the coast of that country, without opposition.Berlin, Dec.10.\u2014The Landtag rejected to-day, by 193 majority, a motion censuring the legislation introduced by the Govern.Catholics.London, Dec.13.\u2014A Berlin despatch says the commander of one of the German vessels seized by a Spanish man-of,war in the Sooloo Archipelago, and carried to Minita, writes home that himsolfand crew were sent to prison, and kept there two months, during which time they received very harsh treatment at the hands of Spanish officials.Public feeling in Germany 5 much excited over the seizure of the vessels, and tho tul- lest satiefaction for the insult to the German flag is demanded.Advices from the Cape of Good Hope to 17th November re- rt that disturbances have occurred near atal.A band of natives led by one of cesses.The Government havo sent the volunteers against them.A son of.the Colonial Secretary of Natal was killed in a late skirmish.It is now said that the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh with the daughter of the Czar, has been postponed until February.London, Dec.24,\u2014The steamer « Biafra,\u201d from the Gold Coast, reports the condition of the British fleet to be very unhealthy.On two vessels 57 mon were down with fever.The ¢ Biafra\u201d had 7 deaths.ast to Nov.16th, state that Sir Garnet Wolseley was on board the ship \u201cSimoom,\u201d suffering from fever.He had been ill for six days.The medical staff declared the attack was slight ; still boing the first, Sir British authorities an ive chiefs it was determined that all the Fantees should bo forcibly enlisted as carriers, laborers and lice.The Ashantees have retreated to ovassid, a day's march beyond Mandu.All skirmishes so far have been insignificant, serving merely as exercise to the native allies.Ontil the white troops arrive nothing decisive will occur.London, Dec.16.\u2014The ex-Empress Eugenie is visiting Queen Victoria at Windsor Castlo to-day.Advices from Capo Const Castle to the 24th ult.report that sick.The authorities at fever.sentence in the case of Bazaine.toria.Cartagena was opencd again to-day with increased vigor.lt ie said the great Powers will recognize the Republic whon the Carta- genian insurrection is suppressed.London, Dec.16.\u2014A despatch from Sheffield says that city was visited to-day by a terrible storm.hurricane, and a large number of buildings and chimneys were blown down, and many persons killed.One immense chimney crushed in a house, when the boiler oxplod- ed, killing and wounding several persons.In consequence of the great excitement in the city, and the dense crowd which filled the streets, but few details could be learned at the timo the despatch was forwarded.Lartr.\u2014The storm has abated.Telegraph wires were prostrated in all direc.fions, but the lines that are now working bring news that the storm has extended all over the north of England and far into Scotland.Sheffield looks as if it had been bombarded ; the loss of property is immense; estimate places the casualties to persons in that city at seven killed and thirty wound- ow, llalifax, Dewsbury and Nottingham, in all of which towns lives were lost, and great damage done ; at Leeds it is estimated that property to the amount of $100,000 was destroyed.done at West Hartlepool and Durham ; shipping suffered soverely at Newcastle and Shields.A steameris ashore off Ardrossan, gate, in Yorkshire.C\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE « WRONGS OF IRELAND.\u201d From the Cleveland (Ohio) Herald, Two or three days a will strike tho most of our readers as bein a very decidedly thin attempt at swindling : 8 Office of the \u201c Order of Erin,\u201d 149 Fulton-strect, New York, New York, Nov.30, 1873.Sir,\u2014I send you by to-day's mail twenty- five tickets, each of which entitles the hold- You are requested the Wrongs of Ireland.\u201d to dispose of them at the price indicated, at | p your earliest convenience.By forwarding | Order $7 upon receipt of the lickets, you are entitled to retain the remainder of the amounts which the tickets will bring.\u201cWrongs of Iroland\u201d will be sent to you 88 scon.as you order them.express.It is hardiy necessary to stimulate enthu- ordered the Grand Duke Alexis on another Brooklyn.journey around the world.The Grand Duke when the soverity oftho Canadian winter ment directed against tho\u2019 Ultramontane \u2018 their own chiefs are committing many ex- | Liver- pee despatches to London from the Gold | 0 Garnet suffered severly.At a council of | Seaweed.nat General Sir Garnet Wolscley had completely returned the recovercd his health and resumed active duty.During his illness the expedition was at a stand-still, and movements have since .been difficult, owing to the large number of | quor.She was accordingly arrested and adeira were Bent to Brockville gnol, to stand her trial at placing all the obstacles they could in tho way of the establishmont there of a sani- - tarium for British soldiers stricken with! London, Dec.15.\u2014The ex-Empress Euge- ago refused 826 a month, now offer to work nie was deeply affected at the verdict and ler agita- tiorf was so great that she has been compelled to postpone her visit to Queen Vic.Madrid, Dec.15.\u2014The bombardment of havo assured Prosident Castelar that they from 10 to 15 per cent.The wind blow a churches wore unroofed, and many factories affairs, lcaving to the Imperial Parliament, were compelled to suspend work; the lowest ed, many fatally.A dospatch shows that the effects of the hurricane were felt at Glas-| countries, and other matters of universal Extensive damage, was and tho railway station and several houses were blown down in Weedon, near Harro- , 8 gentleman in ) ii this city received the following letter.It | ence, under present circumstances, wou er to a copy of Father Burke's \u201c History of aside.The rising storm was, however, sub- to the President of the Conference on The required number of copies of the was not contemplated by .co ler being demurred at by somo delogates ns in- aise dd cre anil Ddiober, 1881, wben be went to ngford, where be resided until his death.At Huntingdon, on the th inst.Mise Elisabeth a pm : s of soveral lectures delivercd, and of fairs now in pro in New York and At the approach of spring, shall have somewhat mitigated, the troops | cutta, Doc.12.\u2014A heavy rainstorm will begin to move from various cities ; the prevailed over Bengal yesterday, giving points of concentration having been fully ! The fears of reconnoitred and resolved upon.The oper- \u2018ations will be conducted by the best avail \u2018able talent in the country, and the conniv- ,ance or indifference of tho United States authorities has already boen assured.| Itis at this period of the year when the granaries and smoke houses of the thick] .settled districts aro likely to bo well filled with subsistanco for the invading ; forces.It is important that this information, as | woll as tho objocts for which the tickets are sold, shall: in the highest degree bo kept | secret.i Your commission as Knight of the Order ; Will bo sent upon application.If you desire fuller information upon the subject it will be gladly furnished by addres.| sing tho Prosident.Wu.H.DaiLEYy, President.Wat.Haxvoxn, Secrotary.| \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 | CANADA.| Ottawa, Dec, 13,\u2014A man named Alfred Toms, arrived in tho city yosterday from: Prescott, having made the trip on skates in two days and a half.lis route was by the St Lawrence to Brockville, thence by a small stream loading to Irish Creek and by i that stream to Kemptville, themce by the | Rideau to Ottawa.Lord Dufferin sponds a good portion of his time with his children skating on the Ottawa.i llalifax, N.S., Dec.11.\u2014The steamer i Lady Head arrived from Sable Island today.There have been no wrecks at the Island since last report.Tho health of the rinhabitants had been good.The weather there for the last threo months has been | ver stormy.Sinco the last visit of tho Lady Head to the island the schooner | Zophyr, of St Pierre Miquelon, had drifted { ashore.l'our bodies inn state of decompo- | sition wero found on board.The schooner was loaded with fish.Ter masts and rigg- | ing wero gone, and her hull covered with From the date of her papers, found on board, the vessel is supposed to have been dismasted last July, and been | fleating in the ocean ever since.| Ottawa, Dec.15.\u2014In the City Council, to-night, à grant of seven hundred dollars was voted in aid of tho Christian Brothers\u2019 school, It provoked a hot discussion, and probably the collection of tho school tax will bo resisted by some Protestants, who regard the grant us unwarranted.Kemptville, Doc.18.\u2014The jury who sat yesterday in the case of Wm.McGee, who \u2018was found dead in his bed on Thursday last, following verdict :\u2014That William McGeo camo to his death by vio lence at the hands of his wife, in self-de- fence; both being under the influence of li- the noxt Assizes.MISCELLANEOUS.Minnesota lumbermon, who two weoks for 816.Philadelphia, Dec.10.\u2014Several largo uptown manufacturing establishments that have been closed up for the past six or eight weeks have resumed work and are running from three days in the weok to full time, most of them with the full complement of hands, but at a reduction in wages The mills in Mana- yunk are starting, 20 of them having done so within the past week, and it is stated that the remainder will be running by the first of the ycar.The Lome Iule Conference was openod in the Rotundo, Dublin, on Tuesday, Nov.18, under the presidency of Mr Shaw, M.P.Mr Butt submitted a string of resolutions setting forth tho basis of the pro scheme for rosuscitating the Irish Parliament, which wero, after some discussion adopted by the meeting.In these it was declared to be essentially necessary for the peaco, prosperity, and good government of the country, that \u2018 tho right of domestic legislation in all Lrish affairs\u2019 should be restored to it ; that the time had come for asserting that ight, and that tho new legisla- \u2018turo sLould be composed of the Crown, and Lords and Commons of Ireland, which should have the management of all national in which also, Mr Butt cxplained, Irish constituencies should have representatives, the disposal of quostions of Imperial taxation, our relations with tho colonies and foreign importance.The meeting was evidently in a highly oxplosive state, as was made ap.arent from the manner in which remarks y Mr Murphy, M.P., and others, which were unwelcome to the majority, were re: ceived, but except in the case of one unfor- near tho close, I opinion were manifested.À resolution ap proving of the Federal scheme was carried, only one delegate dissenting.Before this, however, The O'Conor Don, pressed by Mr Sullivan, assoverated his opinion that the carrying out of this proposal of the Confer- not tend to the country\u2019s RE and prosperity.This brought up Ferguson, the Glasgow orator, and ) r Butt ; the former declaring that they wanted no onc who wished to wait till success was assured, and the latter remarking that those who could not go wholly with them in tho movement had \u2018better leave their ranks and stand dued, and those in favour of total repeal ex- ressed their willingness at this stage to be ruled by the opinion of the majority.The hursday passed the remainder of the resolutions prepared by Mr Butt, only the last on the liat, declaring that the igniting.A motion was then carried, in- i hould be sent to the | structing electors to vote only for candi | President of the Order ; and all letters con- dates who are willing to pledge themselves: taining money should be registered or sent wholly for Home Rule, to be guided by the directions of a national conference which is to be called if circumstances require it, aad sion.thinness of the veins and skin, through| __ _ which the blood forces its way.hoped that when tho Prince grew up to (Corrected weekly by Messrs Shaw & McFee, Com manhood this woakness would disappear ; but next April he will be twenty-one, and er still continues, and in an ' gravated form, it is natural that there should \u2018Indian Corn, be a good deal of anxiety on his account.as the diso Mr Leamington on Wednesday, 19th Nov., 0 their return from Canada.They fully be- | lieve in Canada boing a most oligible fiold Country Flour, per 100 îte 3.78 for tho emigration of agricultural la Mr Arch is going to try and send out 8 in tho spring, whon be will again vieit Ca- | Lard, in tubs, por pound.9 nada, and } families.ample scope for English agricultural labourers, but owing to tho present stagnation of Cheese, Factory, « trade in America, ho considors it would be injudicious for artisans to omigrate \u2014 Eng- by appeals to charitable | to ive an account of their proceedin to] ulses.The cause of the liberation of their constituents at the close of ediogs tol and the amelioration of the condi-' Arch and Mr Clayden lish paper.Letters from Archangel state that Giveon- end is suffering under a torrible famine.he scal fishing having completely failed sresessesatas this year, the inhabitants arc deprived of Dressed logs, per 1001be.6.00 \"their usual winter food.The boy O'Connor, who attempted to frighten the Queen by presenting an unloaded pistol at Hor Majesty at Palace, has boen despatched to Australia, after a brief incarceration.Chicago, Dec.14.\u2014The consecration of Morchants' ex div.Dr Chency.associate Bishop of the Roform- ed Episcopal Church, was celebrated to-day in the presence of an immonse congrega- Bishop Cummins was assisted in the ceremony by several clergymen, snd preach- powerful sormon on the status and tonets of the new Church.excitement in voligious circles over the|(ity tion.ed a event.A remarkablo incident, giving striking evidence of tho vast chango since the close of the war, took place in Congross on Thurs- Gold in New Alex.H.Stophons, who during the whole period of the Rebollion, was Vice- President of the Confederacy, has beon elected to Congross by a district in Georgina, and on Thursday ho spoke for the first time.The occasion was on a debate regarding the increase of members\u2019 salary and the back- pay, both of which ho defended.ington correspondent says: As his name|== was called an almost oppressive silence foll upon tho louse, and the mombers gathered in a semicircle around him, many of them sitting upon the floor at his feet.in that group suggostol many historical Near Mr Stophens woro sov- oral Ex-Confederate (icnerals, and leadors of They sat sido by side with the most extreme Northern Radicals, and heard Alexander IH.Stephens speak, with marked enthusiasm, of our common country, and of the dignity and rospect in which Congress and tho flag of the nation The House which, two days ago, upon motion of Horaco Maynard who framed it, repealed the test oath, today, literally sat nt the feet of the sccond Mr Htephons, who is very feeble, was nssisted to his foot by a member and a page, and during the forty minutes of his speech stood supported by a His voice Lad much of its old-time clearness, and thero was a vigor and forco in it which surprised those who looked upon his withered, fecble frame.throughout his speech, tho black skull-cap which he always wears while in his seat.Book His speech wan scholarly and dignified, but day last.recollections, tho socossion cause.should be held.man of tho rebellion, crutch.It was, Mr Arch's impression is, that, Tres both Canada and the Unitod States afford Choice Salt Butter, ib.21 There is much A Wash.The faces le wore, BEAUHARNOIS MARKETS.| (By Telograph to the Gloansr.) Cour cFse, Grain Buyer.MONTREAL PRODUCE MARKET.mission Merchants, 96 Foundling st, Montreal.) Spring Wheat.per 60 Iba.$1.28 @#1.30 - Cloth aml Fur Caps, Prussian Lambekin Caps, H .Poas, per 66 1ba.2 @ 75 r 56 id.65 @ 7 | Barley, per Ibs.1.00 @ 1.03 arrived at Oats, per 32 1bs,.0e .86 @ 38 n Strong Bakers\u2019 Flour, por barrol.c.e.wocsccs 6.00 @ 6.20 @ 3.00 bourers.Corn Meal, per 100ibs.1.30 @ 1.50 10,000 Oatmoal, por bbl.of 200 tbe.5.06 e 5.10 hopes to take out with him 500 Tallow, in barrels, porpound 7 @ 8 pos m Freeh Buttor, per Hound oe .22 8 4 Cheoszo, Dairy, por pound.00 @ 00 ed popnd.10 @ 12 White Beans, por bushel\u2026.1.40 @ 1.50 Eggs pet dozen.sossases 22 @ 24 Dried Apples, per pound.06 @ 0 Geeso, por pound.6 @ 7 Turkeys, « .eevee 8 @ 9 Fowls, \u201c .6 7 & 0.50 Potatoes, per bay.15 @ Applos, por barrel.250 @ 3.00 : MONTREAL MONKY MARKET.uckingham Stocks Bid Asked Montreal.coou es 176 1764 Commerce, ex div\u2026 116 Tu Royal Canadian Toronto.«esse Union ex div.Jacques Cartier.1033 104 Exchange .Ciena 102 103 Montreal 'Telograph Co.211 212 Fork.or \"12 tircenbncks bought at 89 conts.Groeonbacks sold ut 894 conta.Large Silver bought at 8 por cont.discount Small at 10 per cont.LYSTER & PEASE, Box 9234 92 St.Francois Xavler-at.Huntingdon \u2014Greenbncks bought at 88 to 90} cents.We beg to acknowlodge the receipt of the following donations for the relief of John Harper and wife : Julius Scriver, Esq., M.P., $2; l'ter Macfarlane, Elgin, $1 and produce ; A Frieni, Georgetown, $1 ; J.M., 8t Louis de Gonzague, $1 ; Jas.Caldwell 780 ; Alex.Lunan, nearly 40 tba.beef; James Tully 80c¢ and goods ; besides a number of other gifts, LOOK OUT FOR SANTA CLAUS ! E is to be found at the store of the subscriber, 1 with another now, and very large assortment, of Toys and Holiday Gifts of every description, suitable for all ages.CONFECTIONERY.A splendid fresh lot of over 35 varietion ; including fancy figures, ¢ horns of plenty\u2019 &c.Also, a fresh lot of Biscuits & Orackers.Lemons, Oranges, Mixed Pecl, Fruit and Nuts, for X'mas cheer.Fresh Oysters & Flnnan Haddies, now on hand and throughout the season, at en __ JOHN GILMORES.HON.E.B.WOOD'S SPEECH ON TIIE PACIFIC SCANDAL.ERSONS wanting to preserve a complete account of this notable event in our History, can do so Ly securing a copy of this Speech.A full report in pamphlet form.& cents.To be had at the Gleaner Btore.his recommendations, like most of his utter- I.O.A.ances, were those of an idealist.Subscriptions are being raired for tho relief of the suffering farmers in north-west.ern lowa and ample supplies of food, fuel, and clothing sent to them.Tho sottlers who aro suffering are nearly all liomestend- They camo in with small means, and expected that this year's produce would place them entirely above want; but the grasshoppers came, and wherever they travelled corn, wheat, and vegetables disappeared like dew hefore the sun.The ors, MEETING of Loyal Orange be held on Friday evening, 26th the clection of Office-Boarers.A full attendance le requested, By order of W.M.AUCTION SALE.No, 44 will Wright, fiest concession of Elgin : horses, cattla, pige, implements, mower, vehicles, &c.22 months\u2019 credit.Snanka.Auctioneur.INSOLVENT ACT OF 1869.homosteaders are a most excellent class of In the matter of Anderson, Wattie & Co, of Valley.men.State.proffered aid.would prefer to borrow and repay ; Iowa people will not allow that.coal was sont most of the people were burn.No Letter men ever came into the Many received with reluctance the , but ut the Before They want to be hel ing hay for fuel.A carcfully compiled statement shows that the damage done to shi ping on the \u2014 lakes during 1873 was $3,976,00 a million more dollars than the year previous, and the number of ships damaged was 1,318, Wilmington, Del., Dec.10.\u2014Tho four men convicted of an attempt to rob tho Bank of Delaware, in this city, and who gave their names as Carter, 1ope, Lawler, and Ilurlbut, wore publicly whipped and | exposed in the pillory, in the County Jail yard, at Newcastle, to-day.whipping and pilloring remain a part of the nal system of Delaware is pretty widely nown, and the additional fact that these | four men are unquestionably (Skillful scound- who was forcibly ojected : rels of great distinction in their tunate delegato To serious eo de of | makes fhe infliction of this punishment a noticeable performance.These men aro all well known in the criminal records of Philadelphia and New York, as burglars, thieves, and election -ropeaters.to have killed a man, another to have broken out of Sing Sing prison, and aH are associated with various bold burglaries of banks They are welldrossed, good-looking men, apparently fairly edncat- ed, and abundantly supplied with money.For their defense two 0 lawyers were employed, at a retaining fee, it is said, of $1,000 each, and numerous vague stories have circulated, some of them probably truo, of attem ors, an four men now begin a term of ten years\u2019 imprisonment, and other places.At Hemmingford, on the 6th inst, Adella Corbin, to influence other officials.DIED.wife of John Clayland, Esq., aged 59 years.\u2018 At his residence in Hemmingford, on the 24th establishment of any religious ascendency | November, Lionel Robson.Me Robson was bom im nt, | Northumberland, Eugland, on the 20th th movomen ad emigrated to Montreal in 181%, re- Perish of St Joseph of Huntingdon, farebr give no- Hemmi Cockburn, aged 69 years.At Huntingdon, on the 19th Dessmber, James Chalmers, aged 25 yoars, third son of William Ohal- | or nearly The fact that rofession One is said our most prominent ts to bribe the jur- he \u2014 of Octob» field, Insolvents.MEETING of croditors herefn will be held at No.3 Place DeArmes Hill, Montreal, on Tues day, the 30th day of December, instant, at 11 «clock in the forenoon, to dispose of the entire Estate: of the Insolvents and to order the affairs of the estate generally.D.A.SrAMOTIL, Assignee.Montreal, 18th Dec., 1813.ACADEMY EXAMINATIONS.Academy, will take place D.V.on Monday and the Education of the young are hereby respectfully requested to attend.JAMES McGREGOR.fluntingdon, 17th Dec., 1873.A SABBATH SCHOOL FESTIVAL AND CHRISTMAS TRER, ILL be held in St Andrew's church on Friday evening the 26th Inst.The entertainment will consist of addresses by the Revd.Messrs McKay of LaGiuerre, Lochead of Elgin, Rogers, Crothers and Watson of Huntingdon, In with vocal and instrumental music by the children and s few selections the Huntingdon Choir, The Rev.D.Ross of Dundee will preside.A collection will be taken up for Sabbath School purposes to commence at 7 o'clock, NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS! NICE lot of first class Bowing Mashines on hand, Terms Easy.Call and see at MES.ALLEN'S, Hustiogdon.Der.17, 1873, GEO.Q.O'NEILL, DRALUR IN TEAS, GENERAL GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, &c.GREAT REDUCTION.TEAS AND COFFERS AT WHOLESALE PRICES Public jon, Opin GKG.Q ONBILL.PUBLIC NOTICE.T= trustees appointed for tbe purpose of having à new Roman Catholic church, &c., erected in the 5 that all arrears due for the above 1 place, at 10 of the clock oa Monday the 5th day gs JAMES DARRAGE, Chairmen, LY ember, for | On Tuesday, 30th \u2018Dec, at the residence of Mnf! = \u2014 a.THE GRÉAT CLEARING SALE N% golug ou, at and under cost >, a8 William Third & Co.'s comprises the undernoted Elegant Stock of New Goods: Buffalo Robes, fancy Sleigh Robes Gents' under and over Coats, Shawls and Manties Ladice\u2019 and Misses\u2019 Trimmed and Untrimmed Hate Hat Shapes, Flowers, Feathers, Clouds, Ladies\u2019 Ger man Mink Fur Sets, Breakfast Shawls, Lambskin Cloth, Beotch, Canadian and English Tweeds, Water- and Mantle Cloths, Overcoatings, Blankets, Son.tags, Gente\u2019 and Ladies\u2019 Woollen Rearfs, White and Colored Flannels, Flannel Shirts, Men's Scotch Cape, 8kirta, Carpet Bags, Woollen Hashes, White Colon od Cotton Yarn, Bed Quilts, Ladies\u2019 and Gents\u2019 Gloves and Mits of every deactiption, Fancy Ribbons, Fancy Dress tioods, Abordeen Winceys, Colored Coburgs, Black Lusters and Coburg, French Delaines, Japa- neue Silk Dresses, Ladies\u2019 Busties, Black and Colored Silks, Fancy Damask, Plain Colored Cotton for Quilting, & choice assortment of Thomas Hoyle & Sons celebrated English Prints, Bleached and l\u2019ubleached Table Linens, Furniture Prints, Bonnet Fronts, Men's and Boys' Feit lats, Albums, Toys, Pocket Bovhs, Jewellery, Gents\u2019 Fancy Bilk Neck-ties, Hosiery, Ladies\u2019 Hoods, Gents\u2019 Paper Collars, Braces, Playing Cards, Hair Oil and Perfumery, Beautiful Table Lamps with Fancy Globus, Spectacles, Back Comba Redding Combs, Black Armlets, Hair and Clothes Brushes, & general assortment of Black and Colored Silk Fringos, Hiack aud Colored Velvet Ribbons, Coat Trimmings, Fancy Work Boxes, Children's Woollen Hoods and Cape, Urapes, Table Oil Cloths, Carpets Buffalo Robe Linings, Ladies\u2019 and tients\u2019 White Kid (Hoven, Black and Colored Falls, Cotton Grain Bags, White and Colored Corsets, Ladies\u2019 and Children\u2019s Woollen Boas and Scarfs, lilack and Colored Patent Velvet, Black Velveteen, White and Colored Silk and Cotton Lacca, tients\u2019 Black Silk Handkerchiefs Colored Fancy Velveta for Trimimings, Gente' Shie Fronts, Striped Hessian, Striped Shlstinge, Heavy Scotch Linen, Brown Hollands, Blue Denitne, Fancy Drugget, Fanuor's Satin, White and trey Cottons, Wall Paper and Wall Bonderings, Ladies\u2019 and Gents\u2019 White Linen Handkerchiefs, Hair Nets, tents\u2019 White Shirts, Water Falls, Braids for the Hair Coroncte, Earrings, Jot Nets, Scarf Pins, Shaving boxes Brushes, Fancy I'lated and Hale Watch Chaine, Car- put Binding, Infants\u2019 and Boys\u2019 Caps, Wedding Ringe, \u2018earl Boadw, I'ancy Soap, Umbrellas, Ladies\u2019 Satchels, Vascn, Buska for Stays, Sleeve Studs, Round Combe, Whips, Walking Canes, &c., kc.HARDWARK\u2014 Comprising Knives and Forkn, Axes, Npades, Shovels, Grapes, Sleigh Belly, &c, ke.CROCKERY\u2014Cowm- prising Full uncer and Tea Seta Churus, &c., &c.$ À largo assortment of Boots and Shous, comprising Infants, Cirle, Misses! Women's, Boys\u2019 and Men's also Boya' and Men's Buckskin Moccasinn, also Beet Moccasine with long legs, \u2018Trunks, Ladin\u2019 and Gents\u2019 Rubbers, Over Shoes, Carpet and Felt Slipper, &c.Also a choice stock of GROCERIES, comprising Fine Flavoured Japan Teas, Hugars, Syrups, No.1 Labrador Herrings, Bardines, Lobsters, Tobaven, Cigars, Fancy Pipes, Æhoice Family Flour, Apples, &e., &o.Undernoted are a list of the great reductions made, which will convince intending purchasers of the genuineness of the above facts :\u2014 Best Coal Oil 35 cents per gallon, former price 50 cents.Bent Malt Vinegar 25 cents per gallon, former price 50 cents, Beat Japan Tea 60 cents per B, former price 70 conta.Best Refined Sugar 9 cents per M, former price 12 cents, Good Japan Tea 35 cents per tb, to BS conte.Beat Brown Family Soap, 7 certa per à, former prico 10 conta, Bent White Loaf Hugar, 124 cents, former price 17 cents per Bb, Thos.Hoyle & Son's colubrated tant colour prints 124 cents, tormer price 16 and 17 cents, Grey Cottons at 9 ceuts per yard, former price 13 cents, Aberdeen Wincey 124 cents, former price 30 cents per yard, Groat Reductions in Boots and Shoes and Roadymado Clothing.Gentlemen's Fancy Flannel Shirts 70 cents, former prico $1.50, Also, an linmense quantity of other Gods too numerous to mention, at the rame rate of discount, So now is the timeto secure (rent Dargaina ; namely, New teneral Merchandise at coat and under.WILLIAM THIRD & COP.8.Terms of the Bale will be for cash or Produce in Exchange st Cash Prices, Huntingdon, December 17, 1873, NOTICE.HE Sale Notes of Allan Hopper, of Jamestown, Land o' Cakes, fall due on the 27th December.Jiutnediate payment is to be made to Wm.Coulter, Boyd Settlement, LO.A SPECIAL Meeting of Loyal Orange Lodge No.R71 will be held on Monday, 29th December, at 7 o'clock p.m., for the purposes of transacting business of Importance.ail members are reqhiested to be in attendance.By order of the W.M.JAMES HENDERSON.NOTICE TO BREEDERS.HE undersigned will keep during the season a superior Young Boar.Farmers snd others interested will do well to come and see him.JOHN BAIRD next Farm to the David Pringle place, Elgin.PUBLIC NOTICE () the Muni-ipal Flectors of tha Township of Elgin.A Public Meeting of the inhabitants of the local Municipality of the Township of Elgin, qualified to vote for Municipal Councillors, will be held in the Town Ball, of said Municipality, on Monday, 12th day of January next, (and following day if necessary), at the hour of ten of the clock in the fores noon, for the purpose of then and there clecting two councillors for tho said Municipality ursuant to the provisions of the Municipal of the Province of Quebec and its amendments, in room and place of | Secratary-Treasurer of said Municipality, i HE Fall Term Examinations, in the Huntingdon | Tuesday next, commencing each day at 9 o'clock a.| m.Directors, Commissioners and all interested in | | .Doors open at 6 o\u2019clock, Entertainment \u201c6 B® HOUSE in Huntingdon for Tes.\u2014 purpose be paid at 8 meeting to be held by them at the January 1874, All persons who will Dot settle r accounts on that day will be peosecutod im.Hugh Gavin end John IT.Brown.PETER MACFARLANR, Eigin, Der.30, 1873, URTINGDON FASHIONABLE TAILORING H KSTABLISHMENT \u2014Gentiemen, i( you want Clothes, good fits, and good work, go to Neville's loring Emablishiment, in Wm.Walsh's new batid- the Academy.1 mew own Cloth made and trimmed at the most sonable prices.hres I le pi trimming to suit all qualities of cloth, my charges will be moderate.SEWING MACHINES FOR EVERYBODY.Âs I! bave taken an agency for the Webster Machines, J now offer for mls to my friende and the blic good machines that I have tried and tried thes Bor.As | have been using Sewing Machines those laut 14 years, T know something about them, so Hed my friends who want one shall have one that Teas recommend to do their work.As 1 try every one où m own work, and ssverd teiais too.1 am rue if it will do my work it will be able to do yours.* Ladies de Invited to come and ose them, and per chase.1 will learn them free, not only how to raû there, but to take care of them, and clean thetn, keep them in running order.J.Nevins.P.8\u2014Whet can oae\u2018leam iu afew bours 7 Pusciage ors can come snd I will learn them thoroughly, takes me one Month.neg tsa \u2014 ena 78 3 es ort.J cents à gallon, fren \u2014\u2014\u2014 s shi from here to packing establish-|of two gallons dail ie \u2019 i i * pleaded ; she now meekly submitted to trial, ed the advan of her kind and judicious shipped gallons the year COUSIN ANNETTE.\u2018 Bat ou Ee afoot enol.wrhothor bodily or mental, deemed it but instructions, it I trust, strive to emulate ments along the lines of the different roads unusual uantity Le a ad, not ag .(cONCLUBION.) jon for mone 1e from him ?the just recompense for her offences.An- her virtues.And now, my dear Fanny, running Fast.The Land Owner, of the mould b tog in, at twent ng en NO conduct pA y, Ellen,\u2019 she returned, \u2018 youf love for netto's soothing tendernces had reasoncd sho added, turning to ber youngest Saugh- present month, gives a very graphic de- Th $ par Tour ot hearin, } sen, \u201cha ani i 088 er, \u2018I ho ; © Hoosac i the p of my brother, my parents fondly Lewis induces you to be unjast towards me.hor gy and \u201cabo now acknowledged that it been, as Led you to expect, a sad one\u2014one scription of the manner in which the pack- inno! 1s completed so hoped that ho had grown wiser, and more | d now for the first time ventured oo their wishes to Annetto that the long anticipated union might take place.She was, thoy pleaded, jast vorging on one- and-twenty, he a twelvemonth older ; and they thought that the most effectual way to confirm his good resolutions would be to place him in the constant association of such a mind as hors.His ardent affection for her they said, would deter him from falling into those vices to which he was at present exposed, from tho very fact of being lonely; | and h er society would make that of the vie- ious no longer desirable.Annette listened to their pleadings with many tears.\u2018Alas!\u2019 she returned, \u2018my own heart pleads with ou ; for I will not deny that notwithstanding all that has occurred, he is still dear to me ; but my conscience is altogether at variance with it.I cannot see that I should act rightly to rush into a connection of so serious & nature with one from whom I cannot expect happiness; one whom I feel to be altogether unfitted for my companion for life ; and yet it grieves me beyond expression to say thie to you\u2014you who have been to me as parents, and to whom I owo a dobt of gratitude I can nover repay.\u2019 \u201c You have, by your affection, more than repaid any kindness that has been shown you, my dear girl, returned my mother, tenderly embracing her ; \u2018and could 1 for a moment suppose that you would risk your happiness by a union with Lewis, I would not urgo it for kingdoms ; bot 1 am confident it will not be so.Your influence would be so great with my erring son, that you would mould him to your wishes ; your example would animate, your precopts would aide ; nay, I am sure you would soon find fim all you could desire.\u2019 Annette would not wound the feelings of my poor mother by a reply ; but I saw that she was unconvinced.could not at the time enter into her motives and feelings.I even thought her unkind and wanting in affection.My own romantic ideas\u2014fed as they had been by the tales of fiction I had read\u2014imagined it to be a delightful event to marry a man whom it would be my task to lead into tho paths of virtue ; I pictured with her needle, whilst 1 read aloud evotion \u2018one of our favourito authors.the powerful influence my entire to him would have over his conduct; in short, I thought like a love-sick heroine of romance, who deems it her destiny to wed and reform a rake ; but far different ideas dwelt in my cousin's well-balanced mind.She had early been taught to form her judgment by her reason rather than by her wishes, and in the present instance thatrea- son told her that the probabilities were against her.Hor further knowledge of my brother's character revealed its weakness, and sho saw it was too late to correct an error which the wholotenorof his education had fostered.When Lewis next paid us a visit no mention was made of our having met since we parted from him after his indisposition.He came by the express desire of my mother, to pléad his cause in person; for she felt certain that Annette could not long resist his entreaties, though she was proof against her arguments, but she little knew the heart of her high-principled niece.Accustomed to be wholly guided by feeling herself, she imagined not that any but the heartless and stoical could act otherwise ; thus she still dwelt upon the thought, and soothed herself into a temporary happiness.Annette, my brother, and I, were seated one evening, shortly after his arrival, in the apartment before mentioned, when Lewis reverted to the events which occurred when last we met there.\u2018Dear Annette,\u2019 he said, addreasing his cousin, \u2018I have not forgotten the evening when I parted from you in this room, nor the sacrifice you made to relieve me from my difficulties.I hoped to have returned you the gems ere this, but I really have not been able to raise sufficient to redeem them.\u2019 \u2018The gems are of comparatively little value, Lewis,\u201d she made answer; \u2018I have scarcely given then a thought since I placed them in your hands ; but must own I hav® often and anxiously desired to know whether the promise you gave me on the receipt of them has been faithfully kept.\u2019 As Annette spoke, 1 turned an eager glance towards my brother, that I might read on his countenance, which I knew to be a bad dissembler, the answer to the implied question, and to my bitter disappointment, [ saw the colour heighten on his cheek.He hesitated, and that hesitation revealed the harrowing truth.\u2018If I have been weak enough to yield to strong temptations, the fault\u2019 lies at your door, Annette,\u2019 he said, with an attempt at guiety 1 could sec he did not feel ; ¢ for you now you would not permit me to bind myself to the fuifilment by an oath.\u2019 Annett rose from her seat in great agitation.¢ Lewis,\u2019 sho said, as sho passed him to quit the room, \u2018 if you could break a pro- mive given under such circumstances, you would not regard any bond, however sacred; nor can I place confidence in you more.\u2019 I stood for some moments in a state of bewildered amazement, and it was not till the door had closed upon my ear, that I recovered myself sufficientiy to speak.\u2018 Oh! my brother,\u2019 I cried, and threw myself in a passion of grief upon his shoulder, \u2018 I fear jou have, by this confession, severed the et link which bound Annette to you.\u2019 \u201c Would you have had me tell her a lie ?' he almost fiercely demanded.¢ Oh no, no,\u2019 I returned, weeping bitterly; * bat have you nothing to pl in extenna- tion ?' I inquired.¢ Surely it was tho act of an unguarded momont; you are not\u2014you cannot be\u2014a confirmed gamester.\u2019 \u2018 You are more willing to extenuate my faults than your cousin is, Ellen, \u2018he evasive iy answered.\u2019 ¢* I know you better than she does,\u2019 I in- Serposed.* [ know that you are not really vicious.I know that you have been led into evil by others.But you will break off these habite, my brother, I passionately pursued ; Jos will yet become worthy of Annette, and we shail ail be happy.\u2019 Elated with the t my imagination had conjured up, I sought my cousin's chamber.I found her kneelin ido her bed ; bat she arose as I entered, and I perceived that although there were the traces of tears spon her cheek, she was now calm and composed.Dearest Annette, I exelaimed, Sdvancing and folding her in a sisterly em.dearest Annette, you have been of.feel: up petitions for my dear but erring * I have ; mre Res Own - , Wis hee re You think me unkind when I am acting as duty prompts.It is an easy task to forgive | him ; I would it wero as ensy to withdraw my affections from him ; but { cannot\u2014no, 1 dare not\u2014unite myself to à gamester.\u2019 | Annette spoko in so decided, though 80 gentle and calm, a tone, 1 folt it wou d be useless, nay, wrong to say more.Irom that hour J saw that her resolution was ! taken to resist all farther importunity, and I forebore to shake it.Levis, seeing that every Lope of gaining \u201chis cousin's consent to a union was over, quitted tho Woodlands on the morrow, leaving my mother ovorwhelmed with grief at the failaro of her plans.I am pained ¢o acknowledge that she reproached Annette, \u2018and even wont so far as to say that sho would bo responsible for any oxcesses tho young man might be afterwards led into, auso she had opposed the only means of reform.Annette bore this injustice with her usual swoetness ; it did not cause her to swerve from tho path of duty ; but it had a werful effect upon her naturally delicate rame.She became seriously ill; and when my father, in alarm, called in medical aid, change of air and scene was prescribed as the only means of saving her trom an early grave.My mother\u2019s grief and anxiety was now as intense for hor niece as it had been for her son.My father conveyed hor immediately to a little retired watering-place in the country, leaving me to be her com.nion and nurse; for my mother was too il! to quit her home, and in a state of mind which required his presence to calm.In \u2018this peaceful retreat I strove to divert my i cousin's thoughts from dwelling upon the \"past by every means affection could sug- \u2018gost ; aud I was happy to observe favourable symptoms of returning health, when a fresh incident occurred Thich had a powerful effect upon the minds of both, ! The housoin which we lodged having formerly been the parsonage, was contigu.\u2018ous to the village churchyard, and this spot : bocame Annette\u2019s favourite place of resort.It was the beautiful month of June, and the \u2018season being particularly fine, we would sit \"hero for hours\u2014Annette usually occupied rom We had, howevor, from some causo, forsaken our usual haunt for several days, when, an our return, I discovered that a now grave had been dug near to the bank on which we usually sat.Fearing tbat the sight might tend to throw a shade of sadness over my cousin's spirits, 1 proposed that we should change our position for one on the other side of tho church.Annetto consented ; but, ere she quitted the spot, stood for a few minutes in meditation over the new- raised mound.It was an infant's last rest- irg-place, and fancy pictured the grief of the bereaved mother, which we each thought we could conceive.1 led heraway, and after finding a convenient seat, took up my book, and strove to divert her attention by reading.Thus we remained for some considerable time, when indications of an approaching storm warned us to make our retreat to the house.As we were closing the gate, I instinctively cast my eyes in the direction of the new-made grave, and was not a little surprised and alarmed to perceive a female figure lying upen it as if in a stato of insensibility.She was evidently very youthful, but her deep mourning habiliments bespoke her to be the mother of the child, and that the intensity of her feelings had deprived her of consciousness, was the conclusion I naturally drew, No person being within sight whose assistance we could solicit, we applied the only remedy we had at hand, which was our smollin alt ; but this failing in effect, I entreate my cousin to remain, whilst I ran to our lodgings for aid.The fainting lady was immediately conveyed to the house, where she was instantly recognised by our landlady as the daughter of the curate, upon which the venerable pastor was promptly sent for.He camo accompanied by a medical attendant ; but it was some hours before animation could be restored to the invalid, who had, it appeared, left her sick-bed unknown to her friends, to visit the grave of herdéparted child.Evon when consciousness was restored, it was deemed unsafe to remove hor at present, and as Mre Jones, our landlady, had a spare apartment, it was proposed chat sho should occupy it till she bo- came sufficiently convalescent to be taken to her father's home.The singular beauty, extreme youth, and melancholy situation of the invalid, awakened a powerful interest in both mine and Annette\u2019s breast, and we found Mrs Jones nothing loath to reveal all she knew concerning her.* Miss Lucy had been,\u2019 she said, \u2018tho prottiest and the most light- hegrted girl in the village, till she visited a relation in London, where she unhappily met with a worthless young man of family, whom she married without her father\u2019s consent.His friends, he said, were too proud to acknowlodgo her, and he was too poor to support hor as he could wish, so he kept her in a little mean lodging, and, it was beliov- od, noglected hor very shamefully, though she would never own it.Sho at last become so Îll that she wrote to her father, and asked permission to spend a few weoks with him in her pative viliage, in the hope of regaining her health, The poor old gentleman,\u2019 Mrs Jones continued, ¢ was almost heart-broken to see the change which two years\u2019 absence had made in his child, yot ho reccived her with great kindness, and promised to overlook her disobedience; but, r thing,\u2019 she added, \u2018 I foar she has come Bere to die ; she had beon getting worse and worse ever since sho has n amongst us, and the death o her infant, which was always elekly, wi y haston it.\u2019 \u2018 trust not, \u2018Annette and 1simultancous.ly exclaimed ; © we will ty what kindness and sympathy can offect, for woman alone can fully eater into the sorrows which her own sex endure.\u2019 .My cousin, weak and ill as she herself was, insistod upon sharing the task of nursing the unfortunate young creature who was thus thrown so singularly upon our oare.Sho said that, to assist in alleviating the distresses.of others, tended to wean her thoughts from hei own sorrows, and consequently had & beneficial effect.The good old man expressed his gratitude in the war.ment terms; but nothing could equal the thankfulness of the gentle sufferer; she seemed to regard us as angels sent from heaven to minister to her comfort.The fault she had committed, in Levin taken oo important & step in ae ce à ÿ oa the sanction of her judi.partosr withou clowns parent, bad humbled her spirit, and was taken in wisdom and in love; but though each day endeared us more and more to our interesting charge, we were convinced that sho was not long for this! world.It was still deemed improper to remove her, and had it not beon that [ feared the offect of the excitement upon the sensitive feelinga of Annette, I should have been desirous that she should remain with us.Conscious that her end was ap roaching, | sho grew very communicative.It seemed\u2019 to afford her pleasure to talk of her husband, whom she still loved with anabated ardour, though it was ovidont that he had (as Mrs Jones intimated) grown neglsctful, She now requested her fathor to write to him, and toll him that it was her wish to sep him if possible ore she died.| Tho pastor promised to comply, and in the course of a fow' days a letter arrived, which informed her | that ho would bo with her on the morrow.She read aloud a few passages from it, which sho said proved his affection tor her was unchanged, and thon sho proceeded to extenuate his conduct by remarking, that to have acknowledged his marriage would have ruined his fortune for life, but that she was sure he intended to do so as soon as he could seo that it would bo prudent.My cousin and 1 had our fears to the contrary, but we said nothing which could lead tho unfortunate girl to surmise thom, feeling assured that it would only add to her distress.The morrow came, and so powerful was the effect of the anticipated meeting upon the zonsitive frame of the invalid, that we feared it would hasten her dissolution.In the evening, the pastor, Annette, and I, wore seated round her bed, whilst the former road a portion from the sacred volume.Lucy listened with deep interest io the words of life which feil from her venerable arent ; but we could not but perceive that er ear was over and anon stiained to catch some distant sound.At length the noise of carringe-whoels in the front of the house arrested tho attention of all.The oyes of the dying girl lighted up with an almost unearthly brightness, and her pale check grew flushed.«It is he,\u2019 she faintly murmured ; \u2018 I shall see him once again;\u2019 and as she spoke, Mrs Jones gently opened the chamber door, and whispered that Mr Lawson had arrived, and begged to bo admitted im- modiately.My cousin and T arose to leave the room ; but ere wo could effect our purpose, the stranger entered.* Oh, Lucy, do [ find you thus! he exclaimed as he rushed towards the bed.A wild shriek met my ear as ho spoke; but it was not from the invalid; she had sunk fainting upon her pillow, from which sho had by a great offort arisen to embrace him; but it was from An nette, who, in the stranger and husband of Lucy, recognised my brother Lewis.1 was too much agitated to notice his features ; nor had his voice, choked as it was by emotion, struclc me as familiar ; but, surprised my cousin, who was so distinguished for presence of mind, should betray such wenk- ness, I led her from the room to the chamber we jointly occupied, and when there, the whole truth was soon revealed to me.Annette\u2019s first action was to throw herself on her knees and utter a thanksgiving that she had escaped the horror which would have awaited her had she consented to the proposed union with Lewis; then throwing her arms around me, she wept convulsively.I said not a word to comfort her.I was stupified ; nor could I really believe that my brother had deceived the unsuspicious Lucy by a marriage under a false name, and that he could be so depraved as to seek an alliance with his cousin at the same time, not- withetanding that Annette assurod mo her heart had too fondly cherished his image for her eyes to bo mistaken.Our first impulse was to return home immediately ; but we could not forsake the dying girl, who had now a still closer hold upon our affections.The task of administering to her comfort was, however, over; she lived but to embrace her erring husband, and when next we beheld her, it was in the long sleep from Which no voico of kindness could awaken er.I must bo brief with this part of my rola- tion, for the recollections are too much for me, even at this distanco of time.Annette avoided a meeting with Lewis ; but I had an interview with him of a most painful nature ere wo quitted the village, which we were obliged to do in great haste, in consequence of theevent having an alarming effect on the health of my poor mother.She died broken.hearted\u2014the victim of her son's misconduct and her own mistaken views of kindness ; and she saw her fault when too lato to ro- medy it.It was an awful lesson ; one I can never forgot ; but I trust that I have profit- y it.The death of my mother was a great shock to tho feelings of your grandfather, and ho became an altered man.Ho no longer took delight in his farm or his grounds, and at length resolved to dispose of the Woodlands, and take up his residence once more in suburbs of London.Annette and I left the beloved haunts of our childhood with comfort.Soon after our arrival in town, I became engaged to Mr Stanley ; and as my cousin frequently declared to me that she would never marry, 1 left my father to her care.Her health still remained delicate, yot devoted all her energies to his comfort and happiness, striving to subdue her own gricfs, that she might lighten the load which oppressed him, and becoming to him as & daughter.I should here inform you that my erring brother left the country soon after the news of my mother's death reached him.He had never liked his profession; and the offer of a situation, which would take him abroad, being made at the time, he gladly accepted of it.He doubtless thonght that he had become an alien to his fami T ; but there was not one member who would not have received him, and forgiven the past, though Annette would not, am sure, have become his wife.But he loft us without an adieu, and the next intelligence we had of him was an account of his death.This was a frosh shock to chr feelings ; but it was softened in great degree by the assurances wo received of his penitence, in a for lines penned to Annette on his dying My father did not long survive his wife and son, and then Annetto took up her reei.dence under my roof; and happy was I to have so able an adviser, and so steady a friend.She has since refused many eligible offers of marriage ; the memory of her first and only, but unfortanate ats.hment, be- which has drawn tears from those eyes whioh seldom weep ; but if it teach you the superiority a well-regulated mind has over weakness and indecision, and lead you to aim at the possession of that superiority, 1 shall not have related it in vain.PA NOTES FROM CHICAGO.To the Editor of the Gleaner, Ix my correspondenco to tho Gleaner for the past year I havo been trying to prophecy a crash in business, and, at the samo time, I have complained bitterly of the hard times hore during that period.Tho crash has at last come, which it would just tho same whether I had tried to foretell it or not.But it is hore, and 1 can now safely predict and say, just the same as overybody says, that I knew it was coming.That may bo true, but just when it was to come I do not think any person exactly know.Even at tho time the nows sproad of the failing of the great house of JayCooke & Co.wodid not know that it was so close at hand, and tho greatest confidence prevailed between bankers and the people, and only when the Banking-house of Honry Clews & Co.went down did the commercial world shake to its centro.Then did tho people begin to run on tho banks.Then did every spinster and mechanic, that had a dollar in a bank, want it for some special purpose, and so it wont.Morchants refused to bank, and everybody did pretty much the samething, for some little time, but tho scare seems about over, and it would probably never have been ono quarter as bad if people had not lost confidence in the banks.The worst has come and probably passed, and Chicago has stood up grandly through it.Wo have had only one or two failures of any importance, and, in reality, they wero only rotten affairs who took tho advantage of the hard times, like all scalawags, and raised their voices in the ery of scarcity of currency.Our sister cities have all to succumb to the pressure of the times, some to a great oxtent, so that the citizens of Chicago huve good cause to be proud of her this time.1lowever, there is a good reason why she stood up so well through the hard times, and that is we are supported by one of tho best farming communities in the world.Our crops have all been good, with some minor exceptions.Flour at present is very cheap and everything is cheap that a poor man requires in his household.Tho manufacturing interest of Chicago is small when compared with other cities in the Union, and, for that reason, 1 do not think wo will suffer as much this winter as they will in many other cities.Our laborers are principally employed by commercial men instead of manufacturers.Our great and principal trade lies in moving the products of the West and North- West, and in supplying them with manufactured goods from tho Eastern part of the Union and foreign countries.Our crop being largo this year it will take the majority of the laborers in town to handle it.In manufacturing cities, such as the majority of the Eastern cities are, when a fac- fory shuts down it throws thousands out of employment, that depend upon it entirely for daily subsistence, and mill-operatives are a class that cannot very well help themselves, for they aro a peculiar set who are attracted by these factories from all parts of the compass.When works stops they know not which way to turn, and,in a measure, are thrown upon the charity of the world.I do not mean it to bo inferred that times are good here or that they will be good, but 1 thing we have had our share of the world's charity and ought to be able to maintain ourselves this hard winter, and also do something towards helping our sister cities.1 need not go on to reason about tho present hard times and tho causes of the scarcity of currency, as ovory citison that has followod the monetary and commercial portions of our newspapers for the past year could easily foretell how matters would end.Pork- packing has been unusually good this fall.We will receive about 4,000,000 hogs, against 3,500,000 last year, or as much as St Louis and Cincinnati together, and about 1,000,000 over in our favor.This soems strange when all other kinds of business has beon so very dull.The only rea son that can bo assigned for it is that during the panic Chicago Banks did not go into the loan certificate business as did St Louis and Cincinnati, and that Chicago alone was the only city West able to farnish theo necessary funds at the time to handle the stock, as her banks were always in condition to accomodate their legitimate patrons, and the Chicago dealors had full confidence in their ability to handle the trade and sold when things looked the bluest.Hutchins & Co, one of our largest packers, employ about 1600 men, and have bought, during the soason, as high as 18,000 hogs per day.Their capacity in ordinary times is 5,000 per day.The amount of capital they employ I do not exactly know, bat in packing 18,000 hogs per day, say at $10 por head, would make the enormous sum of $150,000 per day, or during the packing season, which lasts about four months, they probe.bly use $12,000,000.We have several other houses of about equal size.I think there are about eighteen of considerable importance, and about 1000 small msrkets and ing the cause.Bet my children, have bevettnd by ber choloe; and, having enjoy- packers.- There are also à great many bogs ing and curing of pork is done here, and also gives an interior view of the packing house of Armour & Co., which is very good.Our new Mayor took his seat and oath of office on the first.His inaugural address was vory good, better than was expected from him.The great issue in the recent elections was whethor saloons should be kept open on Sunday or not, and tho party that is in favor of keoping open Sunday and Saturday, and selling rum when they pleased, elected the presont Mayor and the entire ticket, from top to bottom.It was hoped, however, that Mayor Colvin would pass it over, as he was only handled as a tool by the party, and thus ingratiate himself into the good graces of both parties, but he did not.In bis inaugural address he reminds the aldermen that it is their duty to repeal or modify the existing law, that was passed during the reign of Mayor Medill, and his*to sanction.He next comes to the city treasury, which ho says ho finds in very bad condition.The immediate ro- sources ho finds to bo Tax certificates of forfeited property.poncusensics sosssnen sirens .$600,000 Tax sales of\u201d 1872.\u2026.\u2026.54,707 Balance of canal redomption funds 100,000 Total.$754,707 IMMEDIATE LIABILITIES.Floating dobt.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.ese $1,333,954 Bonds due Jan.1, 18%4.60,000 Interest_due Feb.1, 1874.467,750 Total.$1,861,704 Noarly the whole amount of floating debt expires before the first of April next, a large portion of it in January and February, so that to meot nearly $2,000,000 of liabilities the city has $100,000 in the treasury and what it can realiee from tho $600,000 of Tax Sale cortificates, and the small amount that can be collected to April the 1st 1874.In addition funds must be pro- provided with which to meet the general government exponses.In 1869 our city debt was.$8,189,371 50 In 1873 do do is.$15,393,332 40 In 1869 our population was.265,000 In1873 do do iB.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 450,000 Tho cause of tho grcat increaso in our city debt is due mainly to the great fire, which impoverished many citizens as well as tho city treasury.R.Haxu.toxN.Chicago, Dec.9, 1873.MISCELLANEOUS.A suggestive contrast is presented in two incidents of recent occurrence.It is not forgotten how the Spanish steamer Murillo ran down and sank tho British ship North- fleet, and then cruelly loft her to her fate, so that nearly all of several hundrod passon- gers wore drowned.For that dastardly act, not one of the officers of the Murillo has ever received the slightest punishment.The vessel itself, indeed, was lately libeled in an English port by the officers of the Northfleet, and condemned for £24,000 damages, tho presiding Judge taking occasion to express his own and all civilized opinion of the act \u2018¢ as represonting all the cruelty without the courage of a pirate.\u201d Qu the other hand the Spanish schooner Union was lately wrecked at Santandar.In rt were the British steamers Mino, of iverpool, and Woolsington, of Newcastle.The masters of these two vessels, with three of their crews and two divors, at once manned the Mino's life-boat, and in the teeth of a furious gale and a heavy sea, pull- od to the rescue of the imperiled schooner.They had.just reached her with infinite difficulty and danger\u2014the drowning wrot- ches were congratulating themselves on their escape\u2014whon a huge wave dashed them against the wreck, and rescuers and rescued disappeared forever.If English seamen desired to revengo the sinking of the Northfleet, they could scarcely have taken a nobler method of retaliation.Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec.3.\u2014Tho second annual convention of the Short-horn Breeders\u2019 Association, comprising in its representatives delegates from the United States and Canada, convened at Hopkins Hall at 10:30 A.M.There were present about 100 dole- ¥ gates.Dr L.B.Sprague, of Springfield, Obio, read an intoresting papor on the \u201c Conformation, Contour, and Quality of Short Horns.\u201d Tho thing to be desired in a short horn was a short head, well-round- ed back, and a straight belly, from udder to forologs ; a smooth surface, which would not make prominent any part of the body ; and in quality a fine-flavored, rich, tender, marbled flesh, which kept its color in cooking.He laid great stress on tho matter, too much neglected, of breeding for quality of flesh.Most breeders breed for color or form, when they should breed for flesh: Each breeder, from the flesh of the old cow when killed and by any othor indication, such as handliyg, color of hair, should make a shrowd estimate of the probable character of the meat of all his cattle, and breed with reference to improving it.Tho paper elicited an animated discussion as to the quality of tho flesh of whites, reds, and roans.Dark reds wore universally roprobated, as were hog.haired whites, but soft-haired yellow s and soft- haired whites and roans seom- ed to bo the favoritios in the discussion.Dr A.C.Stevenson rend a paper on the meat and milk making qualities of shorthorns.He estimated that a three and one- bait year old short-horn steer would have consumed eleven and one-half acres of pre turage.In that time, suppose tho land to be worth $50 an acre, that would amount to $575; tho interest at ten per cent.would be 957 50 ; the steer would also have consumed eighty-seven bushols of corn, and if in condition would weigh 2,000 pounds, and would bring the t year $7 50 per 100 Jounds, and the Jour before, ss, at the former re the animal would bring $150 ; deduct $67 50, the interest upon the price of the land at ten per cent., and there remains $82 50, which is the price obtained for the corn.À milker, giving an average the excavating goes but has to ru and arched, which will take sorepay 20th It has cost the State of Mnssachusette fa ten million dollsre, or two million a uy for itis within fraction of five milog lon\u2019! en ns fro A When = ady, 4 m the Wost can go The British Government is muc ed by greedy manufacturers who one y endeavoring to send arms and other m in tions of war to the Carlists, thoreb ct, à riek of a quarrel with Spain.deal of indignation has also been ox d on the Birmingham people, who sre i 3 of supplying muskets to the Ashantoge i it turns out that the guns are only ning 4.x sixponny ones, and very bad fur the money.an | that rotten gun Wider Las bon gong 3.match ; so it ie rather the As should complain, hantees who An extraordinary case of starvati occurred in Edinburgh.man fon di James Thin was found in one of the 8treet in a state of exhaustion from want of food, Ho was taken to tho infirmary and died th next day, when £50 were found con.about him.concealed A memorial fountain has been erocted in Edinburgh, near the entrance to Og Grey.frisrs\u2019 Church-yard, to commemorate tho fidelity of à terrior named Greyfrinrg Bobb ; The fountain is of Peterhead granite, stands seven feet high, and is surmounted | a figure of Bobby in bronze.The pedestal bears the following inscription: « 4 4ri1, uto to tho affectionate fidelity of Greyfriars Bobby.In 1858 this faithful dog followed the remains of his master to Groyfriary Church-yard, and lingered near the & ot until his death in 1872.\u201d The fountain has been erected at the expense of Lady Bur.dett-Coutts, and with the permission of the city authorities.The British cruisers engaged in the Paci.tic watching for the alleged exportation of laborers from the islands are making some important discoveries, At New-Hanover Capt.Simpson, of her Mujosty's ship Blanche, found men and women very much in a state of nature.IIe thinks they had never before been visited by white men, Thoy were ignorant of the use of tobacco and any old pieces of paper wero taken by them in preference to the usual trade articles.Both men and women came alongside in great numbers, and showed no fear.They had little or nothing for barter except spears.They appeared good humored, but are arrant thieves.A party of officers landed, and except that ther pockets wero picked, were in no way molested.Some workmen, in lately making excavations in the Rue de Rennes, Paris, near the Pantheon, discovered an ancient tomb, and, in the mouth of the skeleton, was a Roman obolus, buried with the body, according to custom, for the purpose of paying Charon for forrying the deceased across the River Styx.Some sensation was caused the other day at the trial of Marshal Bazaine by the ovi- donce of a hotel keeper at Ars named Bozin, who said that during the siege of Metz ho had Prussian officers staying at his house.On the 18th of October, one of them, a Colonel, announced to his comrades that ho was leaving.The witness asked him whero he was going.* To Paris,\u201d the other re plied.I said, You then give up all hopes of taking Metz ?\u201d * The officer answered; «\u201c We shall have Metz whenever we like; to-morrow if it suits Prince Frederick Charles.\u201d ¢ And the forts?\u201d I objected.\u201c I know that Metz has forts ; but we have Bazaine.\u201d In a lecture rocently delivered in Boston Mr John L.Hayes related as an anecdote of the revolutionary period the story of the whipping which King William IV.received from a Portsmouth sailor boy.Nathan Lord, afterward an eminent ship-master of Portsmouth, was a lad on one of the pri- vatcers captured by a British frigate.One day a young Midshipman came near the prisoners, who were baving an airing on deck, and spoke sneeringly of \u201ctho rebels.Young Lord, being a lad of spirit, retorted ; « If it were not for your rank, Sir, I would make you take back that insult.\u201d \u201cNo matter for my rank,\u201d said the gallant, though arrogant, young officer; \u201c if you can whip me, you are welcome todo it.Tho challenge was eagerly accepted, and the two had a regular sailors\u2019 set-to.The Yankeo was victorious, and the Englishman acknowledged himself beaten, and, shaking hands with his opponent, said : \u201c You os bravo fellow ; give me your name and will not forget you.\u201d \"At the end of the voyage all the prisoners with the exception of Lord were sent to prison, Tho Admira sent for him and informed him that tho young Duko ot Clarence, & son ot bis Ma Jesty Georgo III, the young Midshipman with whom he had fought, had requestel that ho be set at large ; that he was % liberty to go into\u2018any part of the Kingdom, and that the Duke had placed a £5 note 4 his service.FOUNDRY FOR SALE.ble HE Franklin Foundry will be sold on reasons T terms, with & Isrge stock of metal, coal aod sand : there are also patterns for ploughs, sores, 8 castings, &c., &c., &c., sufficient to supply the 6 business which hes been carried on in the pre D for the last twenty-five years , also, blacksmiy en and tools, carpenter and paint shop with loots, © oy supply of seasoned timber necessary for the i Apply bo WILLIAM EDWARDS, y Causing A good Maritann, P.Q.Maritana, Dec, 1st, 1873, ee A PITIFUL CASES has been done in genre, we bring 88Ÿ1 A before the nontion.of a Christian pb the necessities of tho aged couple, who live sel od village of Huntingdon, namely John Harpe ty je wife.Their claims for morc abundant © ving crease with the lapse of time, for they Are 5 the feailer and more helpless daily, Doth pe 20 great age of cighty years ; Mrs Harper me yt less than eighty-four winters, and, though prie an possessing her faculties and bearing prive ® Been uncomplsining cheerfulness.Of late they pet very ill-off, bare even of tho commonest ne: nurable sustain life, which has ben the more une à poc- from the severity of the weather.They pe assuré ly on the gifts of kindly people, and we % hey will the many such who read the Gleancr that iE the vo doubly by giving at once, and so rc whethet fad lot of this decent couple.Donation ly ac visions, or wood, will be than J the may be left other at their house, OF GEORGE ROGER: i Minister Wesleyan Methodist urch JAMES WATSON, church.Minister Canada Presbytarsl Chane Donati also be sent : ay All aoe À bofore Christmas will be ackaor! edged ia these columns, of moncy, ce Par Office.arm pr PDO, Le PU rr Lp "]