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A Mother's Heart.
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little dreaming, such as mothers know a
A little lingering over daintythings ;
A happy: heart; wlitirein,Hope all aglow '
Itire 114 a bird ittdawn that wakes, and sings-
• - ,; And, that is all.
A little elaspfne toler yearning breast ;
A little musing over future years.; '1 •
A. heart that 'prayis, "Dear Lord, Thou knoweat
best, , • "
Ilut spare my flower life's bitterest rain of
tears"—
And thatis all.
spititspeeding through the night e
"A little harms grown lonely, dark' and chill
Aesal heart;,groping lalindlYetatothe light :
'A little eriaote-clact grave beneatlethebill---
; 'eLitiiti era, ; Andethat is all.; s
,
,
A little gathering of life's broken thread ;
A little patience keeping back the tears ;
A heart that singe, " Thy darling is not dead,
God keeps her safe through His eternal yett,rs','-
And that is all. ,
TEC. W
It ie possible that the. rapid transfer of
command from Graham toe -Willis, and
from Willie to Wolseley, within a period of
sefavahours.during SatUrday'eengagensent,
may haveehad an. injurious effeet en ; the
disposition of , the 'British forces: The
Britielastiek, and wannadedat mint-
ber 240 lin the:`hoefetal .tiehore eand •-g01
aboaidthe hospitalehiPs The 'hulk -of the
Englishifercees hshearrivede and the,: camp
has the appeatante ef a tent city•,thtee
miles long and shelf .a mile -bioltd. :Jibe
armY iikzeadY 6 -ramie and Will probably"
advance on Wedneeclay mortitngi Gen.
Buller, whe aceonsipattiedAte""CavalryaWaii
in consultationstvith CleideLetWetM Saturday
upon:the expedietioysathe Cavalry &dung
forward to Zagazig, when Wolselersotders
arrived far the force. to teturn- to, liaseasin..
The campaign has deinonstrated.the'vast
Superiority of shrapnel -ovet the 'Knipp
percuesion .
The firing heard 'last week behind the
enemy's. position, which, led to the suppos:
sition that dissensions had broken ont
the camp, arose from the aotiye drilling and
- . - firing practiotia-14_-_4.12___,....a...Laaa.44..4.•': a
The Rethsohilde have , presented sthe,
British army iMEgypt with twelve tetra of
tobacco and 5,000 pipes... ' '
The cotton crop, which was entirely lost,
would have been worth nearly e4o,000,000.
There is little hopes of saving any of the'
eirop. If the country is not in a settled
condition within two months it will be too
late for sowing next year's cereals. Several
large failures are antieipated.
Lieut. Comme,nder Goodrich, lef the U.
S. aavY, arrived en ragte to join ,Wolseley.
An English torpede boat to -day collided
witii:and sank a , boat „bound from,
Eantarsaito Ismailia. 'The tOrPtide.:boat
was much damaged: The passengers were,:
rescued..
Gen. Wood has reconnoitred the coast
from Rarieleh to Aboukir in a steain -barge.
Carp officer, who .desetted, Item, Arabiaand„
accompanied Wood, assertii that the megi-!
ment at Mandate is ptepared.to desert at
the earliest opportiiiiityp ,4%
A despatch, frentaripeilAde e als
sso seas ss a- Se
Arab forces have gonethefice .to'Egypter- .
A prominent financier estimates Egypt's
lossewill.barieftrosevpatst:MidiOnipo,nn,,ds by
--the--Wateje-e •
A Iieesafjine'efalilegrane, :q itedlast"
day) midnigift,ksays, : The intietion of Sir
Garnet Mbleeleyetd adVanee' eon& was
evidenced emoriiingee -darnet
Wolseley and his staff made a recoil-
naieflanee in___the_forenoen.___The rAcon,_
.,initifisenee had ,to ocinduoteg 4 verY
cantiouely, the whole party dismounting
and- making free use of the sandhills as,
points of observation and concealment.
Sketches of the trenches were ;made, the
points marked out „for the batteries, and
the positione selected which the various
brigades are to occupy. The want of bal-
loons is much felt, as, owing to the number
of Sand hills, the enenty. may approach to
within a short distance of our ontposts
without being discovered. .
The forws,rd movement began this even-
ing." All the troops have now arrived and,
, except those who were left behind to guard
the camp, all take part in the advance.
The tents and baggage have been sent en
by rail to the nearest pOint to our encamp-
ment. The utmost secrecy and:quietwere
obeerved, and after sunset no bugles
sounded. The Naval Brigade was attached
to the Transport Corps. The forty -
pounders of the Naval Brigade' and nine
.ba.tteries artillery, two of them Horse
Artillery, acoonipany the advancingeforce,
whose march began- at midnight. The
lines of battle extend three miles north and,
south of the Fresh Water Canal. The
men are in the highest possible spirits at
thp prospect of having to , attack
the enemy so soon. The gear& of the
entrenched - position here consists '• of
the RoYal West Kent Regiment (50th Foot),
the 90th Hussars and two companiee of
the Royal Engineers-. Radons for ;three
days have been taken by our men. As yet
the enemy has kept quietly within his
entrenchments, nor does he seem to have
• any idea of our intentions. No signals are
flashing, nor have our veidetteernbilieTlif
contact with any of his.
---entre_r_LANSP_ATTIOE,
so far as it can be 'conjectured, to get
round by the soeth and north and attack
Arabi's flank, a feint being made on the
south so as to destroy the railway in his
rear between Kishlak and El liaraina.
This will cut off his communication with
Zagazig. He will. then be unable to reach
Cairo on the south ; Mansourah (for Dam-
ietta) on the north ; and Tantith ex Rosetta
and Aboukir ou the northwest coast ; or
Damanhour, the pivoting point for these
latter places in that, direction ; or Kafael-
Dwar on the northiest of Dama,nhour-
the safety of -Alexandria and Ramie% being
thue misdeed. Arabi will, therefore, have
either to surrender or fight his way through
our front„ to be intercepted by the en-
-trenched camp istRaesasin.and the troops
posted , at Maxamah,, Tel-el-Mahutals,
Nefischeaand Ismailia, with guns and a
, group of cavalry at each'pla,ce.
On the March.
2.40 a.m.-The forward match has begun.
The troops defiled .before Sir Garnet, who
hid published a short but , pithy general
order. There was no cheering, but the
enthusiaatnecifi the Men was with difficulty
supPreslied,'•eatid showed iteelf,, '..their,
bearing-. and the light, sPringy Step with
which they marched.
Beginning ot the Fight.
3.30 a.me-The field telegraph flashes the
news that the advancing him was met by
the enemy on the north of the railway at a
point between ltishlak and gt Romaine, Sir
Garnet sent the main body that direc-
tion, and now seven batteries,of field artil-'
lery, heaVily eupported by the infantry, Ttre
hard at it. On the south bank of the Fresh
Water Canal General Drury Lowe, with
the full force of cavalry and horse artillery,
is operating towards Zagazig.
Lletalls cense Great Battle. .
Lerna,-Tel.el./Cebir. Was carried. this
morning. Forty gnus and a large num.
ber of„ pritiOnere were captured. 'I`he cav-
alry ifiliipbrieuit." The' •deMoralizatiota
Arabiei,army ie complete. His infamtryie
11,yingA0Waecla the desert. .
The e"Britieh ',armored train with 'the-
301"pouUder.;'.-trnpp gun eaptured at Rae-.
eaten and, -Glatlenge have etnit come into
action. The fire of the eneitty ppelosite the
extreme right') of the 'British 4 'is nearly
silenced. " ,
, Another despatch says the enemy's
alene amount, to two thousand,' The
retreat of the enemy on the north is out
off.. -"4 The cavalry is still pursuing.
An, Ismailia despatch says Tel-el-Kebir
was parrie'd,thiSMorning eytth a rush. ,The
hristeliot wislred &o'clack. Tlie, pesi-
;tier' wise taken 'in 20" minntes, we haying
'Surprised the efiemy by night march.,
The enemy is in full retreat. -
A despatch from Wolseley states" that
3,000 prisouers were taken at Tel-el-ICebir.
Tbe cut,let,ting tbe sea into Lake Mateo,
;tie hae • been. .conspleted, The water is
spreadnigMapidlys, ,
sendesament of airarriors.
Atter the„ Ashanteo. war sir . Garnet
Wolseley XecieiVetisOme additional letters
to hie name and a Parliamentary grant of
11125,000. ;He as now a Knight Grand Cross.
• of the Order of the Bath, so that nothing
retnains to be awarded to him ie the way
of ,addttionalbetier save ,a ,,peerage. Thin,
if given, will have to. be accompanied by
a large giant of money and a pension if the
dignity is to tie sust,aiped in° the manner
;traditionally deerne'd befitting, and all the
,more so in View ef the Queen's Well-known
dislike ate ,creating poOr man ai peer.
Wellington% 'patrimony was, probably at
meat $30,000; but . reeeived grants of
'$3,500,000 from Parliainent. Nelsen began
life poorer still,' and the graaite that
ilea. ands, his 'family received amounted
tOsbiout one-fonythsof those given' to
'4P4aVeraffiftile et er naval and
military peen; of leaser fame than, these,
bue nevertheless of yery high distinction,
received pensions for tlaeinselves and* two
SnOCeSpOrP.; othere-as in the case of Lord
Exthoutb, , the ',here of Algiers-aperpetual
pensiona. It is not likely that such grants
as t,hose.made to Wellington will ever -be
Made again. The last military peer was
Sir: Williaris • Mansfield, Lord Sandhurst.
Casee tOo,-, thero was a lack °fade-
, The "detaehreent 'commanded .-by the
Duke of Connaught had not a morserof
feed served out to them' for twenty -fours
after starting frOm
'• The Indian •etteeilry horses are suffering
froin glanders: .
During the fall 'of the Fresh Water Canal
,the limischee were unable •to pro ceed
mules now shippirigefroro Lew Tork
for the British army in Egypt are nearly
all from Missouri.' They mange fram 5 to
9 years of age, and are , from fourteen to
fifteen hands high. The 33ritish military
agent charged' With their igemection. and
phrehase is renotted as eaying. that they
are " the finest aniinals of that kind he ever
A' sLondon cablegram says : The trans-
-. _
iled from the Thamee yester-
port Nizanstaa „. , ,
"111'300 frOops for Egypt. Tne
'pdokrts7Ciapia sailed_ yesterday for VVoolwich.
She hadea reser-vee siege train from the
r$44senal fOr 4.4vi "'''
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'; A KaSsCsin cablegram; dated last : Monday:
says : ;Our foreep ,have hot latien advanced one
foorsinee Saturditya'ilight,
finee thisridge tWeerniter-notthatifestins-planeie
• The-datPoste littvebeetz doubled ea; well tesSthe;
yedettete•Whieh,drenOW stratigly tie pported into
infantryainerdef te.guardeigaitistleurpriseigThei
riftepets in a'friatit 1,',Pre'tirte .5";positien • have.,:,,,beens'
aidaledito,Sandatheadietrenehnaenti4rolonged..end
. strengthened,' ,We, are mew in. a . camp, Of de-
fonee." Inatead of acting an ihe offensive. -we
earmadoptingtheatiefensiveline, which we do not
ei3m likelyte abandon for soneedayeyetennleese
. forced to edo; so bY the preeipitaiheylii,or. the'
'enemy. Now thatetbe Foot ,Giferdie -haiie been
nieved to, the. -4aant, andaatheseallighland;
Brigade his arrivede;-.itleft Ithittilia, On Satur'day
-Gen. Wolseley is in a petition to hold his, ow,,n
[And to attack when:the ,properiertioinent coineE;
Ile hasheenalreadY Strongly 'Urged toe tariethiti
'hilt kir reasons of hia own and- from a desire to
find out .foe.aeartain what . Arabi's .hand 'is he, is
Meatiwhile the:Itiditen.contioegent
:;Inieth-ditytadVaneed, •Milestowards the trent,'
'along 'tne-latoika of 'the. 'Fresh Water Canal.
, There peimis little denbt that the pbject of Arabi
in. his operations; of' Friday was. to. force this
position,. Our:Joss. veasf,lour, killed and Sixty.
woianded; that ofthe EgyPtisna a hundred killed
andwomededi pf naissiog On our side there are
etill a good Many, who have prohahly beentaken.
priseneras . ' •; a, a „ ;
' " Icorces.
'A deserter from Aralais forces • who reached
mintarah 'yesterday reports that Arabi has nearly
12;066 menet. Salibiyeb, of Whom. something like
s,000 are regniers. .He also .etateaK that - the.
battalion to which -he was•attached had been.
, stationed at Teael-Babir, but was transferred. to
SalihiYoh oia Friday and took pert in 'the attack
on our right flank on:Saturday. He says that
Arabi has about. 40,000 'men at 'Tel -el -Kenji;
mostly well armed This man is Coptic'
Clariatia,n, and more intelligent than any of the
deserters previously questioned. He states that
many of his eo-religibnists are voluntarily in
Arabi's ranks, aethey are strongly imbued with
the Egyptian nationalist feeling. . •
Tlie British Troops Anxious for Battle.
• - The inipatieuce Of the arnay to be led forward
is sta obvious and the skill of Gen. Wolseley has
been. so often _moved ;that it. is' certain some
-sufticient military -fatale -a" enlist; existeto-accounte
fertile delay -in making the advance. The main
colomnef Our troops is .bivouaeeieg six .miles
beyond this plaae, while the Indian contingent
is advanced one milefurther, on the tenth ,bank
of the 'Fresh 1,Vater Canal, keeping up corinection,
with the main body by meant; of pontodn bridges.
The enemy hit made no -denaonstration, butehe ;
troops are kept.on 'the alert iteexpeetation of an
Liitttek 'by the EgVntiens in the el:wining: .;
.' • The ILiorte
, .
Constilntinop/e cablegram .sitys : It is untrue
that Earl :Dufferin is findbag fault with -the pro-
clannition , against /seals, r-Pirehtteand-with the
Military Conventiori.; After haviug obtained
benefit of former document, Lord Dufferin has
informed the•othor .ambassedors of. the facts of
the case. The following has heen ascertained to
be the correct versioneof , the negotiations : All
articles of the botiv.etitiora had been accepted hy
the Turks, inchulingthat desighating Aboukir as
the landing place for the '..rurkiela ttoops.' Bart
Duffeein had; initialled. the final text: After con-,
siderahle delaY on ; the part of the Turks;;Said.
Pieb at declared that he was unable , to iaitiat the
same and requ ested apoi3tponement. Lord Duff er-
in dont erred., but oVehtually agreed, en condition
that. the docutneint shouid be forwarded; to him ,
Meth:died and unaltered on the Ionoivina Morn-
ing.' Late on the following evening Said 1 asha
visited 'Paul Duiferin ausl informea him' that he
was atialile te aiiix his;initials to the•doeument,
ari the Porte desired the troops eo land at 'Alex-.
andriu,, Aboukir being linsafe. On the next day
Earl Dufferin, inconsideration that the relatione,
between the English and Turkishetroope would
be 'on the sanee footing. as duting the Crimean
war, teas autheilized to infetm the Porte that the
Turkawould be allow'ed, to proceed to Port Said
and thetthe te enter MO canal. The same day '
Lord Dufferin was `reeue'sted tO 'attend at .
Said's house fot the' purpose , of signing. tho
Convention. On his arriVal Lord Dulferin
observed that „ it was necessary ' that the
preclarriation should be officially communieated
to him., Ile was informed it had been pribfished
in th atmortii n Valcit, an d an imperfectFronch
tianalation was produced and•readeto hiin: But
lee, Was surierised, however, to find that it'evas .0
different dotffineeatilrotet•the ,prie he •„had agreed
to, a certaiii; , Said ,Pasha, had:
promised 2 to ''efireinitie being. retained. Lord
Dufferiti thereupon' said lb Wats' necessary that,
the text of the,now doeument should be traial-
/ratted to London. co stated that he was ready
to initial the draft pf the Convention with tlie
clanse allewing Toal.eish troops to proceed to
Thart Said. Ile Was , Inlaid -fled thtetethe 'Sultan
depired the words " disembark at Port Said". to
be substituted for. the words "Opreeeed,to Port
,Said." ,
[ ' The Clittlate of the Nile rilfitt•
The,military operations in Egypt have,recently
invested the climate; of the Nile delta with so
Much intereet that the results Of [. a seven years'
series of observation Made under tlie auspices
lictho Austrian Meteorological Society in that
region lave beeeepublished in England, et
appearafrona these reliable date that thelottest
-.weather of the" year 'Scouts .in the Nile delta at
the endef, Sept-deal:at and ih 'the Ant half of
October, so:that ;Sir Gatnet 'NVolseley's ;troops
bare yet to pass through..tbe most trying clime-
•
•
tie ordeal of the cainpaign. ''• At Alexandria
the highest recorded tempereture is 103
degreee, but at Cairo the maxiteuiri .exceeds
116; aud-' the dans': altornatiens ,ofeeheati
which, perlutpe, -most eeverely teet the
hepeth of au army, are also conaiderably
greatere•-eaThongh the coast ef the Nile delta
receieyes a few winter ehowersa says Keith
Johnston, " there is only 'an average oathitteen
rainy day,s in the year at Cadre, n tne apex of
the delta:- The Austrian neeteorelogical series
shoved that the Average rainfall, while nething at
ad ha the three summer menthe, it ;scarcely
appreeiable in September. even at Aletandria.
It is, eficoUree, useless for Arabi.BOY hope fine
any pierious diseonellture of the; British Array by,
exposureto the eevere antumnelinnete lit eigypt.,
But, -as the Maximum rise of the; Nile 'generally.
occurs in October at Ceira, and the British tretipa
whl inereaeingly, stiffer ntitil then from 'the ter-
rible heat, ;the ;decietvc Operatione of the earl:
paign may.be considerably 'delaYed. The. Bad-
man army in its adVance toward the'
campaignof 1839-40 eXperienced viciseitudes
temperature frpm a heat of over 100'degmeS to a
cold of 4D degrees below zero, andaiiiiya owed its
safety to the clintateof the -neighboring deserts.
Butthe pretent cage is very different; andthe
issue•in the Nile Valley inuet be decided by, other
; than nattiratforces. • . ' . ' -. I
.
A cablegram from London seys : A secret
destatch has been received' at the War Office
from Sir Garnet Wolsi3ley,; whose contentshave
not been naade public, It is said, however, that
Us tenor was' not very encouraging ; that it
acknowledged to a much larger number of sick
than his _published -reports allowed for ; and '
begged for abetter -syetem of getting the, sup -
Plies, especially, those for the hospital, up to
Kassasin. .It fe feared that Arabi% position isso'
streng as to • be „unassailable until i4 has been
bombarded, and yet the siege train 4 has not- yet
reahhed the front. The day edid•to ;' be fixed for
the finatassault is Monday next ; but no. sur-
prise will be expressed if it does not take place;
on that day or for some days later. '
Only one ccirreeponden t for ea.ch newspaper will
be permitted to accompany, the advance of the
array, and 00.211 will be Wanted to one despatch
of five.hundred vtords '
The advance will prebably.begin On Thesday,
after the Highlanders, who are. en rinite from
Ismailia, have been thoroughly rested. .
A shell burst in the camp here to -day. The
explosion wale caused by the Indian soldiers
building a fire over an unexploded shell. The
soldiers were blown to pieces.
It is Stated that Arabi receiyes stores by, way
of Damietta. It is TepOrted that HOMO Turkish
officers have already joined the rebel forces, via
The Water bathe Ismailia, Canal is still -gradu-
ally falling. -Arabi has flooded the country tetrad
; The Catenate of three English cavalry regi-
mente are sick in the hospital here.
' rleho !goodie Comps., ,
' An Alexandria torreepondent of the ;London
,DaSty Telegraph givep the Mlle:wing descrintion.
of thebostile eanapsnear Kafr-el-Dwa,r ;Kafr-
el-Dyvar, like Phone, has been suddenly Made
famous hY its possession •of; one &two sharp"
little ridges. • Arabi has seized upon the spot and
made it into a strong fortified CROL)p. Thoee'who
have had a peep into . the interior of the place
give a raithere-comic-deseriptione of -it. Arabi's
principalsource of °tabor, ralsment appeare to be
a superabundant store, of artillery, In; the
days of , Ismail Pasha vast _quantities of
Krupp. . gnus, enongh for an army of' 200,000
men, • Instead. of a tenth ,of . that number;
were purchased, ,with the same disregard. of
econorny that characterized riaost of that ruler's
movernents. To the possession of these wes,pons
Arabi has fallen heir.. Batteries of gurip, stand-
ing about much in the same 'way that the , agri-
cultural implementF3 aire stacked in winter in 0
Suffolk farm yard, aro to be found. at -every turn,
mixed up with heape; of pramiscuous stores,loot,
tents; ammuniGi911,,1101:14'; oorn mid forage. „But
et the front no suchStisortter eiste; the rescrVoS .
may bo in confrision, tho ; fighting ltne, from "19Pe coaqing over .025,°°° loe day, and! Nvlaa
; with, supplies, mules, camels, forage and so on,
what we have seen of it; il3 at any rate in good . . .
notto-say anything of maladministration, John
order If one looks attentively froth our
blest advanced. picket toward -that ,part of the
Sweetwater Canal bank where , Arabi's right
is known to be, a solitary . horseman,
or ,perhaps two 'troopers, may and;
then be seen under the loose grove of palm trees.
But there suddenly'streara from behind a bank,
perhaps a mile away _frem , whore ' you stand, a
couple of thousand men, their bayonets glisten-
ing in the sun, their; Mov,ements plainly visible:
Already,• rear of you, from the entrenched
hill of the Englisla position they' ;have been
descried, and a forty -pounder Arenstrong-or, a,
severainch gun is being prepared to give them a
, shell. A Mitlilt0 or two elitptie,,arid then. with M
hurtling, scresaning sound something passes high
over your head, and then you hear a loud ex-
plosion•and see a ballof white smoke just, over
7tlee-liesaffisdof -dear-Egyptian-soldiers,- There -is
movement among thepa no* of , a different sort
fromthat which you previously ridted-a, -movel,
,ment .Which is accelerated by anther naissile.and
teat We'arrived. near the fort,pullee up, and the
teSo officers, acoompauiedby your Correspondent,
groped their way sontte.balf a mile towarde the
theeneineplep,Vetalte,,,,e, . fay: hundred, Yerclp
in rear. ;The. trovneing Wail ;Inbreed "befiere'us„.
and there wakeeen4dien .Chellenge 1, ",,Whe goes
,there " F,riendep thva:tlitess'eottniteratgm"
"Den't kno* tePlied,Jeapt. ',,.weilerin 'opener:
:The officer of the.guard,."'Btop." We, steed be -
'foie a tinge'pertal eaVered from battlement* by
bentries for earninute or two, amithe same (1110a.
Slued tramp' heard onethe. quay ;before etartiog.
',gain:8 Ili) against the„wind. "Theyeare yoer' OVA
;Olga aPPg.Pfeli4106.".'9iicd Co.ptAid,W,ilscit4 tete the
.,centrieeetnedo Inseveinient, he ,ceuped the
isattrinee Preetetitlyelbe. >clanging of
;riteelWes heti#1," absentee ghee* elee
Way and a braided, ,shontehalieniged; egain. '
;The noW .eoreek. Wes' very herd; to ,orprineei;
,oapt; sattVe -nanaee end shipaa ;and
;told ethe ea:lint-petulant ,die ;had beeti„erdered
;to btiag Irina „reiiiiereathetits.' " (,
'Mater ape ati tinee,"Ibe said: 'Atlitetthe
earetY • WaS 'Otiened'.,13.; li'ttle NraYrarid: we [Slipped,
[by[turne. Oneida. ;lined. the erahway withelaed
'hese:mots, end the colessea figure 'of, warY Major
I-Jonald was .reveale,d, ;standing; With uplifted
;sWord theit,heaitready te hew down. any sus-
'',pioiOnstintrtider; •Itiev.eaeof•botitseatocin Satisfied,
!and we next; scitight ; little' fort garriseried
;the redoebtable.Lord Charles. After some diffia
;oulty With theruety eatable of ;the drawbridge We
,entered. Th7rotacers -"transacted their 'business
'by the light of iientemeat the gateways and pre-
se,ntlY iare Were steatning ,baek to Alekandria 'the
',Work of, reinforcitag halting been a,econaplished.
, without any neceesity for firiag a shot. ;
The -Virgin's Tree ai
! Ma,ny travelier has ineribed his name upon
the famous sycamore knoWn. sathe virgin's Tree,
'at Heiliopolip„ where Arabi is .now throwing, up ,
;hie entrenchnienta fo,thO defend° of ceakba The
'rude buffete cif time 'arid the' embellish -Monts of -
J the tourist have dealt .hardly , with, its trunk,
'but its branches are still flourishing., -Aceerding
:to. the legend the 'virgin and ;Child Once resMd
!under friendly ehaide during the Right to
IllgyPt[7-',A,tiotheb-story.telishowaMs.ry Concealed,
herselfwith the child en'the hollow of thetrunk,
'aud that a kindly spider ; set comPlately covered ;
:the opening -with. its web as to ." Ser00/1. her.
'effectuany'freim'observation," It was presented
by the Khedive tiStheEnapress.;Eitgenie it -the
,inauginationtef theca:aut.' The unfortunate ilart
,of the tale' is that then -lie now, shoWn as tbe. real I
;article Wa's,not Planted until about -1672, the tree ,
of thefablehayingldied a natural death in106D.
'Mino. . • e.
r jottings.-
.Slini womenastand no. show in Turliey.,.•The
Tbrk of quality buYs hip beef and estimatew.hie
wives by. the pound. : ;.
:„ Lieut. De Chair ieProvided, ley iArithi's orders,'
with the hest of food and 'wine and. -$2 it day
aiocket riasine*y. What ri lucky !' middy !" '
,- Referring to 'the advance of. the. Guardia
,himailia, Correspondent says: " Tt is.clear th' •
the hoeses of the. Guards AM too heavy,[and[
unwieldy.foi, this work '(attacbing thomempin.
'fords). But -;the men sat -statues in a eon-
itiagratioi." • •, • •• • • • .
[ -Gay, the correspondent of the London , Tele,
!graPiti W1.16 lias beau fecalled from Egypt., does.,
not setisfy hiniself •With, halfway measures in
;the perferminee of his Work. While• the 'clues- .
,tion of war': hetween -Russia and Turkey-Wa--
,pending he' went to Constentinopleeand notecoe
.tent With sending despatchee and letters flatte
,ing to the Turks, learned the .languageadonne
, the fez and gra,clually worked himself into ,con ;
'dential relations with the Sultan, and hia Minis-
.
Other ' Jottiags.
Ail amiable Clergyman recently preachocl`ha
'London. from tne text in ;Jeremiah xlvi; 20th
;verse, Egypt ie VOry„ fair heifer, but .
stieidtion cometh ; it cometli from the north." •
The cost of this expedition must be • cuormoris
on the British. side; tha chartered transports:
, The British, Lines:
•VerV cliffetent indeed is the atmearance Of the
English:cal:Op, into which you now retire, fer this,
--you--see-freen-thei-insine,,,andama_aSaven_saiia
Arabes &bin the outside.' He -ie yeaatind a series
Of yery respectable 'rodents ;running along the
whole line of front, covered by intrenchments of
a , powerful deseription. ' The centre' is 'an ; en-
trenelied 'hill between Ranaleh and the Sweet
Watet, Canal,. with ; ;pumping s station
and a .; tower for , its right • support..
Away.en the extra:no right and; along the :left
„benks of that canal you find., however, seine
carefully concealed yet very, -important works.
Following, the eeathway past the picket ; at
the bridge which crosses the canal uti
teethe point where the CairaRailway line, across
Lake Mareotis, strikes ;the bank you will find, ,
hidden behind- a lot of trees and rushes , a ;bat-
talion of Britislatroops cleverly housed and -well
intreeched. From ,Arabi's position'ehey.,eannet.,
he seen at all ; :even We cannot tell where they
are until we actually stumble upon therm, ':Yet
there. they • aro, with coupl,ebt forty -pounder
'Arrnstrongs covered with earth aud hiddenibe-
hind foliage and 'verdure, arid 'a couple of pine -
pounder field guns Close bY. Down on the canal
neat bridge, just about the, Water -level. but quite
invisible to any• one twenty yards trona:the canals,
and ciVer this the' • regiment • can .send its
sentries andeutiying- pickets. On its flank is
drawn up, always reaalyathe armored traan that
mice or twice has playecl so eonspicifoua a pert'
in engagements at Rarialeh. Going aWay'll'Ora
this point toward' the Itamleh Ridge we came
noon the sailors' battery of seven-inch guns
under the command of Lieutenant Scott, of the.
InConstant; a gallant and plover officer. -Here•we
have the ;blue jacket in; all his .eiory,"doing
sentrsago as only a sailor can, polishing up. his,
grins till they. flash like a heliograph,' and -gen:
erally preparing for Arabi, for whean, he enter-
tains the inost profound contempt, oely Wishing
he would " come en.
; Our troops are beginning to. experience the
--evitelaectseathe.cumates...zersscie:last two or
three days the depletion Of our fOrce-through
'ness has been sonaewhat alarming:, No loss than
three Colenels.of cavalry.have °nen invalided to
Ismailia. Man -Tether offieers are on •the sick;
list, and a large number of the rank and file.
The chief cause of all this. sickness is. the heat; ;
which ia often perfectly insupportable.
' Offieers and men often drop ; down• iu. a ;faint-
ing fit insensible on the sand,• whence
--thertare-rernoVed-to•the-hospital..„;-Dyeenteryais_
.tileo present in a very . virulent form, whiela is
traceable to bad water and the irittuence of the
heat: This ai'orie reason why Gen-Wolteley, le
so' anxious tdanuelr-ones-The enatige.afrona_..the_
present forced inaction to one of exciteneent and
activity will be of seivice to all ranks. The
' Duke of Connaught has been slightly ill, but net
•suiliciently to causebina to leave. his committal..
Work in our linos, is .slaek endugh. There are
daily drills at aavery early heur in the morning,
and the men ate exercised in volley , and file
firing during the day in order to improve their
shooting; which is notgood., At aight the cavalry
are pelt through.a course of' outpost duty, and;
the signal ineu kept busy flashing their signals
fur the sake of practice. ; ,
Theasroach Government does not Ream satis-
fied -with the Turkish attitude towards the
Ere th possessions in .Af ri e a,autt hf14 despatched
the :Viper° gunboat and theeInfernel cruiser to
Tripoli mid 13eyrout. , . • .
lit. Charmis, a distinguished' Oriental author-,
ity, deecribes in the „Debate the character and
plans of Mohanarried Seueussi, and pre'diets
• thathe allay ecion• pracipitate the fanatical Maas-
sultaan tribesof the Soudan; upon Egypt, with a
view of purging Afriaa of Europea,no.
' A illfdaight Beinforeethent.
• • • .
. •
AbOut 8 ;o'clock one Tuesday night recently
Capt. Sandwith, It. M., drove hastily downto the
iron-ciad' train et Ramleh, ;which shad been
lying with, fires* banked all- day, Conveying an
order that Capt. Wilton shotild take out ,rein-
forcemente for Meke immediately. The Work
and clatter of proparatiou instantly began,
cers • hurried. in from mess, and finallyethe
Measured tramp of.a large body of soldiers was
heard approaching nearer . and nearer in the
darknoes. Cap ts. Wilsomand Satiderson a; riel Lieut.
Peorewith a stroll g eoritin gent of,blue jaeltettawere"
soon fully. armed. and equipoed, and with
sorne marines for reinfoicing tlie [garrison and
defending the -trona entered the' trucks.- All
heing declared ready, we Moved ofe 8lowil, to the
main railway line, and after a Inusicalearewen
from etie ;Six Highland ethers, glided. into the
open country. lt,was a cloudless, -starlit. night.,
A. few distant gleams ehowecl tne outline of ehe
harped' anti the .poeition of the fleet ; but except '
the telegetaph posts epparently flitting Test us,
no object could be made ou tin the surrounding'
waste. I was in the leading truck 'with the ,
marines,' in silent, sonebre grouping all, about ,
me, each man grasping;his rine. It appears that ,
a coneiderable force of Bedouins and soldiere'
had lately threatened the fort, and fired oM
detachmentemit oh' du ty, and it was ()xis (rated that
an attack was about to be Made. Thetrain Mtn -
bared 'heavily ferward some three miles, with
accasional belie for examination of the track;
the trucka carrying a 40 -pounder atm -crane and;
field guts, ereeking and complaining loudly. -At
•
,Bulr.will find. this dearer than he expected.; ` -
-A Portal:a:nth eablerram. says,: Tho transport*
' Serards sailed to -day 'for Alexandria with 1,722;
officers and men- of the first battalion [ of the
[litiffs and the firgt battalion of the Doksbtshire-.
An advertisement appearedin N ew York yeater:
:day Morning calling for 10,000 'ablehodieci men,
as -volunteers to [ go cetton-picaing • in Egynt.;
Military veteranspronounced the thing a fraud:,
.Many answered ..the advertisement, but the,
advertiser Could not be 'found, and is.believed to
be a hoaxhy a. practical joker. . ;:
Sir Garnet Wolseley is a good dealgra,yer than
;when he passed through, honialia four yeara ago
on hip Way to Nicosia, and when he arrived there,.
;recently looked sad and preoccupied, which,
„made his'handsome effeminate, face;look hand-•
tomer still. ;
A 'TRAGIC DEATII.
Sad End of an Ottawa otinnry Bride.
An Ottawa despaech „says : News, has
just been received of another tragedy
which occurred recently. in tErvicirnter-Tif,-
this city. On Thiirscle,y evening the wife
of Henry E. Wood, a young farmer, who
resides -near th'e village of Wakefield,
Ottawa coentY, about twenty-two 'miles
from the Capital, took a counterpane, and,
proceeded with it to a small lake near at
hand, saying that she intended to wa,sle it.
Next morning the body of the unfortanate
woman was 'found, and on Saturday an
inquest was held on her body by Coroner
Graham; of Hull. - The jury returned a
verdict of accidental drowning, but it re
I now believed her death was not accidental.
'It Boerne that she was formerly employed
in an Ottawa hotel, and, about ' a year ago
married Wood, who is reported to, bey a
dissolute character, and to have been, on
an almost continuoue spree ever sincia'he
married her. The couple lived with:the
husband'e family, who are said' to haVe
been greatly opposed to the matcliaa' The
daY before her death Mrs. Wood took her
wedding ring off her finger and handed' it
to herbusband, remarking that she would
no longer need it. The unfortunate woman
was within a few days of her confinement
at the time of her death. ,
T1111.BILLING EXPERIENCE,.
A Family Iliennited--in, by Mush Fires -
.2. Fight 'for Life. • I. -
A Halifax, N. S., despately-ii-T-7'ArenTon-g-
the most thrilling eiPeriences of , the. Wood
fires -that have . been' raging over the Pro-
vinee recently weathat of a family named
.McLean, living at Hubbard's Ceiveain this
city. They Were afi, en .Hubbarde Coye
barrene. berry -Ticking, and *noticed eaten-
liiVe-fiffall-,firera • brit itbSoilied•lir theittoecta+-
pation did not observe till too late that the
tire was surro,unding tbeni. They.- took
reftige on, a gtauitemecketint-thedireelosizig
in on every Ode they .found -it would soon
roast them alive.' The heat becarae 'un-;
beatable, and theY started tobeat their way
throngh the flanade, fias.11y getting. beyond
the fiery. 'ring alive, but all, especially the'
children, were badly burned.
'Found ',Drowned.
to-day'e Niagara despatch eteys,: The
body of a man; about 5' feet 8 niches in
height and very stout, was found yesterday
floating in the lake and was • brought and
laid on the beach. The body was much de-
nornposed, having been in the water' for a
length Of time. The man had a, tuft of
dark hair on the back of the heade-a'There
is no mark or olothing,by which he cau be
identified. An inauest is not coneidered
.
necessary. •
If this kind' of thing eau go asa ssaeseass
be far better for Ministers to touse,down to
Parliament With an out-and-out proposal
to disband the force ; better that we say
than the militia should go- to pieeee by.
}meth prank's as Gen. Luard seems to be au
adept in. Oi one thieg we can assure bine,
there will be a sigh of sweet relief when
his regime of pipeclay, fuss, feathers' artd
officiel arrogance shall have conie • to an
end, and it would 1:10:6 displease either the
men air tile country if hie exit' from office
were exicedited by a polite hint from the
Government. ---Montreal Herald.
When John Saunders went from Ken-
tucky to the Weset some forty years ago 'he
$iwore that his betrothed, wham he left
behind, should not seelaim until he became
mPlionaire., A few days since he bal-
anced up his affairs in Montana, and find-
ing himself possessed of the desired
minima returned to Kentueky, looked ' up
his oldl sweetheart, mad. the .twain, were
made one. Efeiri 68, she is 64.
'WOMAN IIIIBNED BEATS,.
Straige Casualty LDS*. Catharines.
telegram,. iromeSt ee.•,Cathaeinee
(Tuesday) night says : A women, nanied
Careen, was burned to death last evening.
She liVed e, freme heuse on Page. street,
'near'ethe,e-Welland !Raii'vvay, track'? , Her
husband' fidlowing ;ster# • Eis
name is J. T. Carsdn. ie a? harness -
maker and ewe to this city on Thuraday
teeth te _work Joy Me. ;.T. Orr: His . leet
tesiding pliieer", was saChiptfeara, •,Wirete,i
about a month ,,S",-igo, Om • Married,
the s deceaded, „who years-,
- age, and balled Susannah Cole.
man. Last evening, .efter earning home
'at 7.30, he se,Ys he left , the dieUse .f
purpose of geing to the`grOcerY le pay for 'a
leaf of bread his wife had got. during the
• day. When. CroSsing'the railway track:he
heard her sorearn,' and on turning round
saw her runs out ef 'the house , with her
clothes '''SSitisestieighbore ran to ber
aSsistance, and. the flaiiies' Were
The woman was carried into the house and
a debtor sent for, Who did the besthe could.
She experienced greet agony, and died'
about 4 e'olock this morning. How the
unfertiinete woMan gotais fire his neyetery.
The Inisband sayetathe *as arniSting•
hreleft.the,house, and that there were no
signs, of the. havinge explodede
iequeet 'will be 'held: iLe ,;; e'e
iirie* Of iha.lrish Queitional
Hon:, 5.'Huiitingtele le in huglatul,
and his 'letterto the Lendon Tinies aeply;
to an 'artiele in that ,Paper'' Which' snubbed'
Cenada ford,ernig tO peso., ',the aeplebrated
IrisIrReeolutions ike-one, of the best bontrie,
bixtione to. the literatuie. of that subject.
We clUele,iijeWl;p4agrgih§ :
", As :to enureowri it'Cifieot
• be ehoW*'diaiti'the.14:-Ooreitintration• of '4focel
Works atith4'.011:periaii'•iientre. has.. lieejd: of
advantage :eke .fitterersts::.e?A7.
large eXtetit Yeiti Mitie-,Barlianierit:;,;.,it kind
of ,0,':Ildbtabildlitilir'BOitirt'ef Worlfs'e,f - 'to
"deal With questions might , better "be
left to' local jUrisdiotion, . The " address "
does not seek, or dietate Or .edvice.:".
ft speaks for' itself, and. unless you ., 'charge
it With some. sindliiereet 'utterances in •its
supPorteeer;e-ieithe the •,pableeextraVagepOee•
Whicili•l'heralded itkdOeSi,, 'not justify yolir
severity.', It 'suggests kefewpoipts touching
the Irish qiiestiOn, which deeply' cciiiderns
thee Can adi ana Peop„lesaand.thciugliweedids
not 'fight et ViTaterletiea"Most, leviegEnglish.
•Minedid nateeite .rt,',part
erealineaa..youelinpeeial ielaridere. 'e.Theee
Borne Confusion af:iitatUsaneatIntiliti
You eXpect to in:it-move thifitt(bYtineering at'
Out inferiority? , '
"The Odlenista are descended ,frona then
wills have never been,prond 'of 'the hadgespf
dependence in their ,meither, lands. ,
theie 'infaney they, Mays abeept
what is unpleasant and oVerbenrings but a
day may. come when, if they do not. ask
that their relationeeteeyou shall make them,
yoirenee,le rre eiteepPortenitiesefethrift and
citiZenehip, they will at Jeartt expeet Yon!' to
'speak generotielyeifeYote' superior "genies
and power!' English history and' Ehglieh
glery are ,aohieyernexits: ••• eur ethers,
froMwhortieveenherieasi ae yone-and
perhaps., in sung ,.s ught, to, nquer
" greater Britain"-te ektend'ilie •Enipire;
and to multiply the - British territories
Whereon.the sun ttever eetee-we
as much iii our hunable'wayeforetheehuman.
race as our , • more PoliSlasseadrbult4ect
metropalittuasbreethkenasiter1„„attatIaget. need '
not,' as I think you -do in"•thisi'dieseireifitedia-
tiously assertetlie viole. of ;pur Masters..
'Neither' the peoPle of:Canada neand
depire to weaken .the infinenoes • which
„heppilY•nittiatain tbte• connection betWeee
theni: They enieleffitae trii, cornititutional
epeoeitione-und-they-are-satisfiede-b,. ut -yea
:'neey , create uneoinfortable frietiOn:: by
straining...theselaatioity.assithine,Which Swe
live, and meiVe, and -shave o).ir beipg44'!'
s ' *
410 Was it impertinent to say "respectfully,"
aye, and. loyally, too, to the Imperial
authorities: " Look at.what your Conte&
eration Act has done for Canada7-reduoing
to a minimum our local and sectional
estrangements --English, French,. Irish _and
Scotch -prosperous and happy citizens of
a country 'lately Shaliert .by, religious and
national ,fends. Might 'you not win the
unhappy Irish as yen heve alreed3f won the
discontented among Us? And laving
planted among them, so far as' may be,
contentment. and peace, can you not send
their emigrants to aid us in developing. our
young coentry ?" Now, granthig for argu-
ment's sole that 9.2 this is absurd, what is
there imPertment erre iudaciene " about it?
Then you speak of us as if we Canadians had
never seen an Irishman, and talk of our
" action being taken at a safe distance, 3,000
miles away trona the -centre of dieturbance."'
But you should remember that Irieh diffi-
culties have not all been confined to Ireland.
Fenianism, far from being 3,000 miles
away from the' Dominion, hosiers all along,
the borders,. and sometimes displays itSelf
in attacks" at least mere serious than any
probable attacke of Ireland upon Bnelish
alsoils" -Perhapseacensidering-the-temper.:of_
the Irish in America, what we have suffered
may prove a email, affair cemented with
what is to come,' and while Imperial wis-
dom and justice.have„ sometimes- tionceded
compensation to foreign clainas,nte they did
not exact frem the American- Government
"payne-ent-forsthesexpenee-to-Canada-of-put-
ting, down Fenian raids, presumably be-
cause Irish hostility, even in America, wae
aciknowledged-to-beed _InaperiaLgreVeth•
" 'You are no deubt technically right
when you tell us to mind our own business,
but thie Irish trouble disturbs our busineris
just as much as if we- heal the power to
-offer constitutional remedies. Canada, as
you -rather tauntingly say, has no foreign
relations,., She wilt watch her interests in
oOmmercial treaty, through' the Foreign
Office, or perhaps in, the ante -room of an
Eiribassy ; but yon would aait snub ' her
for making euggestiOns as to, a treaty's in
"'which ber own interests are concerned;
We all agree that she has no constitutional
relation to Irieh affairs. Nevertheless, she
tendered that sympathy all the World felt,
and she respectfully. Offered suggestions
born of her own practical experience. She
may fairly say that these Ought not to have
ensbatrassed the G-overnment, for they
were altogethee hne with obvione Par-
liamentary hints of the Prime Minister,
a,nd should have been rather a support than
a hindrance, Such, in eubetance-neither
more leer lees -is the address , you' beim
condemned, even if We admit an error
'the -form which is debatable," '
-An eastern 'editor, w,ho evidently
believes in the law of compensation, sitys•':
'"Nobody ever sends us any hotiq uete or fruit,
but we found nine cockroaches ie our ink-
stand this morning."
--The ecru and yelleve shad,es are going
out and the shadee now Most eeem een
ported hats' are erevette, sandal, cactus
•oolors, Alicante bieiwn and the faded
tapestry red and green Miff:a
According to, telegrams trona Malmo,
Sweden, a terrible epidemic is 'Prevailing
there „of the nature Of red, ' thrush. During
one week, out of 617 cases, there Were 45
deaths, rue inerearie Of §o pey cent'. uport the.
precedihg, week., " '
TUE LONDON EXPBESSICO.EIBIEWirs
Olt,ioo# Carried Oil--AlOost Adroit Theft.
,_,,, Theeeeeetigation , o the'r 'o..labery of tbo
101,000 expreiis pafeer On ''llenitlay latteiieeeee,
still in progress at the Tecumseh House,
D'andon, under directieetiof Mr. S. Chad- a ,
eiviek, 'the ,' donapanefe fi. anspector. ,Ik iiii.:.
, ..
Aoubtful; that eny Very definite cene4•haelete e
beau seaured. The theorY iithat diiringthev ,
interval that theeagent's back was turned
the ,patikage tees " sneaked.", that is, taken.
by a 'sneak': thief ',-wtib ' had etipen lying
t(i.'iliwait.• 'eAtey one ey,l.lo bee., iniPented the '
nierier. :Of thee exptees • office-"wifild„ alb'',
that thie might- easily be effected. '
" Sneaking 7, is usually , conducted by two
pattiee,,,',Onet, Who ehgagee "the 'attention of 1
those -in "oharge cif" the -office at the front
With torneappareirtly legitimate bueieess, .
the 'details of .4whicli are intricate. , The
:" sneak " ie a lithe, little follow generally ,
-wearipg ehoes With tubber Soles, and iis as
iiimeeIeeikas a eata. In.the preiseritinstanoe:, ...
'the " Office ' mai' haere '•Lbeen :evatched for' it •')
, week by- profeesionals, in order ,te- learn '
„the geteral run of .the business,' -move- '
maents of the' clerks, etc:, and gain some ,•
• knowledge about the Variouie bank Inessen-
rgerei and the partieulars hourii of the day ,
sWilienpackagetaqffsMOney are .111•SuallY de, ',.',,,,
'livered. .,,Thia . meeseriger might '''hitvie '
;been; saawat4ed. i ', rt.„,,,,,,*91.0...„,ibo, ,,, po .
aiinouti' , mattei"," for,' 'i !. t,lie,1-'. 1- thieses
to entet 'the: building ' simultaneously, one
-„froni the reat; wliere--the waggons . are ,
I loaded and Unloaded,' and , the other .froin
the frotte, In en instant the,former might '
haVe - the. package and then dieappeare
While -his '" pal" reinained talking '. at.the
' front wicket. , The„ chief detelitive o,f the ,
AniericartEXPress Company, fropa'13Uffid6;
4/aaa.„ arrived. Ms, Lonclen, sated. another ,,,,
irofil TereitO infeeennectien7Witliethe: CELE*' ' -
if t 411./ipiifn .00pitiiiY,thali`, a percel .eentainiei
ItABS, `iitat. another, con't a !Mpg 14000; ,.freilii ,
fiviootherseliankV'el the 'city, are miesinge '
'The-totaeanaciunetaken is tiaid to he $11;000'
iztbe',`§1.0,(100 haViagsbeea'haft ia 940 Expoo ,
i•offiee atathe .Sainifil"Ittinie.uartiVin: the saixie • :: "."
manner ati the $1,000. - •
LATEST Nowr.azwEsr NEWS.
. .
The Water lathe Aesiaibeine is miite•low.
'i'frhe grading of ,ItheceitrY• f•B
• beine pushed ferward`Wiqtefi'sraopidirtayll.` '9Ia
At the regular meeting of the Tewn
!-Council -ofe-ElBersone`it.-WftEL.decided_sto......._
elocate the new„bridge acress the Red River
ai,t or nearthe•Chtlecation."
A heavy thunderetorin passed over the ,
'Section ef oaiuntry ardund; Crystal City "on.
the 21st ult. TownShip 1-12 and the south7.
ern portien of 2-12 were '-visited ly hail,
which. ia ieevetaleases CIOTtlpiett4 destroy.ed
'tile Linnet:e'er:ors. • ' ' • '
. 21r. Phillips, a Grank,,er from northeast
of Emerson,. hit's shoion the International
man e etoel 'of oatS that rooked like the
,phirne of Henry of Navarre painted green.
The heads are 28 inches lone Thee° oats
hatre been 'raised. on first breaking, and be
rfeatimatee tas'Yield.'ef 'between,a80, arid 90-r '
bilthels to he, acre.af .4 a: ',.,-, -1 .
" A telegram from Winnipeg, datedlast
(Fricleiy) night, says : Two men entered the
'31,1erchanhe Bank ',,this,morning at 11 o'elock,
and, • Watching', their opportunity-, ,one of
them, during the terepotary absence of, the
tellereabetracted from the counter a parcel ;
containing $10,000 in bills of other banks
thanathe Merchants'. '
a Olen „Mathere* eneeinercial travel-
` Or o doikhas from the
IfeeiniffiMite•Ni*.T. He says he
was not at all inapressed ,with Regina. It
Las no.natural 'Advantages, toswarrant the
belief that 'it will eVer be a big city. It
Maysf,orsa time greve,rapidlyabut helatisath •
'doubt' that 'a greater City' will flOurish '
-further-west '
On Thureddy morning 'apt some work-
,mes,,sm the English Clintch at Brandon
aseentled to the' dame" Of ethe, totser tp coma" ' ,
,,menee .4serations. TheI. had sooner
willearcie.iatithaecthkesder't sena. thafr4M1.6yahelfe' wthaiiaPna tthbeayt'
had taken poseession of the fort during the
few days' absence of "the builders.' It is - -
alriseet needlessato eate that the winged
.army heldthe fcift and'forced a retreat on .
the part of the invaders, AsSistanee was •
pircime:mfnote.rdini aietde yresoub. ittai ni nge di n atniide r,cao..mCOpletedeo. veet.art.
throw Of the forces inaide' ttle 6mbattie=
FORT K'LEOD.
'raancahPtatDCaanlagyar'rIyafdoiran$1110g,OeOnOt: has sold' his
The oldeat settlere here remember no
Mich dry season as thie in the country.,
It is, reported that 2,000 Men and teams
are en routeerom Helena to the railroad.
The ,l3lackfeet have been ditncing and
leaving, a good time generally in toevn.
There is an Indian in the Blood camp
who carries a rattlesnake.' about in his
&Mona. He picks up an occasional two
bits by exhibiting it, chewing its head, etc.
Some idea of the business done here may
be gathered from the following : D. W.
Davis loaded sixty carts and a ten-horee
-team-for--Calgarry_and Merleyville. The
total weielat would bes-about 71 000 lbs
This is only ta.king in one day, the Oth.
Other days are quite as good. "
- Curious and Scientific.
Citi,!-Daketa,..lias a water supply
from. a ,rerciarkable .artesian Well'. When
the earth wasapenetrated 560 feet, salt'
Water Wee obtained. • Twerity feet further
down te gravellyetratum was struck, yield-
, . ,
ing 'also salt '•'.weiter.: After bOring down. '
604: feet 'freeh water,' mixed 'with quick-
sand; came .up., Now, ;from a e 'depth
of 675 feet, there is .a 'flow., of, pure, petable,
,wa,ter of steadily inereasing quantity.
Signalling by sunshine ie again being
resorted. to with much success in Egypt by
our ariny of occupatien. ; The Pliotographic
Neisslioints out that a. Simny landthe
system hes many -"advantagee osier the,
electric telegraph, ' for yeu can signal by ,
ifiiiitor over an. enemy's head, end he is
powerlese to Mit communication. But -
Home system 'of recerding the .signals -it
should .be feasible by .pitotographyaatigaitill-
Wanted. ' -
' At LOokeileya Nea'a South Wales, it strip
of forest SOO yards wide, and, extendingae
tarsus the -eye ceMt see, has- been 'found to
be completely, al ead -sail- the treesatre deade --
and the opossums lYing dead at their roots.
. a •
'Wm. II. Vanderbilt has just had. builtfOr
his own Use gotgeously finished arid far-
nished railway coach.' Int -mint of elegance
and; comfort it excels the private car, in
which Baron-. do Rothschild, of Vienna,
made his recent trip to Bayreuth. The
neW (Mach is fifty feet long, and is connected
with the elegant car formerly used by Mr.
Vanderbilt hy bellows.covere, so that one
-ffillY:Pass from ear to ear witheut being, at.,
all exposed to the onterair. 'Besides /Jenne
appointed with all -modern inaProvements,' .
even to the merest detail; this handsome
piece of railway Work. is furnished, hot
with sleePing berths, but the regular bed-
stead of handsome design and complete
furniehinge, end. ;betides these eliere is an
office which is used else fOr lotinging and, •
'smoking.
-The lashion of tracing the veins' with
blue paste ie gaining favor in Louden.
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