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VOLUME III.
"THE GREATEST POSSIBLE GOOD TO Ting GR.ATUST POSSIBLE NUMBER.„
GODRRICH, COUNTY OF HURON, (C. W.) THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1850.
poetry.
A PORT BOT LAT SLEEPING.
A pest -bey ley sleeping, as aid mea was k.episg
Beer railing, mail sone g, ehereately,
And tkreoak pipes -Wes prying. heeded, were
crime
"Oh' Berczy my dsrbag, bee lens will ye'
•
Tee pest -bmf still slumbered, 'midst letters es -
' timbered,
Aad .stied la his deep, no doubt 'biakteg of
she
Weave Might eyes wen eluting, Bed bps oo
ea treac i e e.
la dreams softly wkl•p'risg, ' come home,
love, to me.'
Nelms the deuce is the eaaos of that bustle and
. oes
Suffices( es( to banish the happy boy'. aleep—
'Ta frees fest stumps/, crowd! up and down
tramping,
Arid wittily cad ting their patieoce to
keep.
There's ks.eklag, sad paohisg, and teabisg, sod
credits'.
Elbows .bated fate their neat neighbour's
fief.
Then'. grlmblime *ed chef. , sod swearing
aid %eagles&
A.d •dies sod jeering, ad teaseled erlmace.
Tee yens( hay awaking, ..d tbe old use .tier
takes(.
Cry "devil a letter we'll give out to -day,”
Be the mail hap sswrted. the crowd hew. de-
parted,
To be hem►sggd to -marrow is lust the parse
way.
AGRICULTURE.
ON THE SAViNG OF MANURE.
As your Society ass offered a premium b tie
farmer who eas displayed tee toast iatelltgeece
wand feet er bre daft—sq, pet ase Iwd of time
to sit leads of mask—the. i tei.k, wbeo pet ss
the grot.d warm, weeW be • veer good maser*.
But 414 is sol the rthed followed by the larva -
en sf lbw leelhty; they commonly swig the lime
with the wet sear mock, tritium( tarsier/ it
over f• the samewr, or seeding tt, or waiting
for the required power of the atmosphere to men -
elegise it; ie the spring the lime is deed, sod. I
shish. eon be very little stericc• to the lend —
Chrcoal weeld he smother excel/eat in/reediest
to make manure, especially to the farmers is the
interior parvo( (be coarsen, who eat so node
wood -lid down aooeslly and born it a the
ground.. 1f the farmers weld mak* chareral of
part of the wood they bars 0p, they would filed it
very much to their benefit. 1 thing that sea-
weed woele be • very geed isgredieet re mix
with peat for compost, but this •rtiele is ening to
be obtained along the yes board of this Province,
ant could sol apply to the 101rrHl or benefit of
the farmers generally, but only to thou, farmers
who reside along the sea coast. Neither este
haw b. bad except to particular plaice is this
Province, nod the■ it must be pa:chasel at a
very dear rate, pleciag it entirely oat of the reach
of small farmers, or of those Tines is the beck
•etilem,ae and interior parts of the Provioos.—
i think the simple method of making manure that
1 found out by experimeu, would trod to the
general good as well .o the melt remote parts of
the Proriace se is (boor localities, u the article
can be gait almost on every farm, with WO other
cost than that of m..ufact.rine it, and it is with-
in the reach of the poor farmer as well as the
rich; Ord slthougb simple.s this mode of making
masers may appear, soy firmer who will add to
his masers heap twice tin quantity he makes sI
his harr-ytrd. •ad follows it up annually, to-
gether with rotaries cropping, may rest s.eerod
his farm would moo have a dtffereet appearance
to that woich tt ban thio day. 1 have sae bus -
mai eeor ata mvi eel maks maser*. sad area u* wrearr wage nurse twee of nog sarin
etwy y est not handwme.
os I u ewvteead (lastBew prepared as o
above for the coing spring. I
epee this Mpsd* is a 6od tb.. 4eecnptloe of manors mon aatrilio00 it requires a very peealiar talent to he
twat artisteaeaus•fd pte5ee, of •tyt to p!s.ts than gay other I bars yet used. Aa- overetoeked with gracdaa y, •ce, and in this
colter& u this revelry, 1 h i. is to lay kin- "'lent Mi.. Kole *stoned; she was sail
ten roe sr esperwses is t►e .. value. Tb ea- other toed tendency f omesmta
tioe bra es masers ►I
basotisg pees., of (sash•. \likens .carried lea is to destroy the fool suede, such is dog-..itl., and happy lay the side of her brilliant sister
to 0... rm.iot...s.t b. improved, assn by lb. sorrel, and ether abed., which remain wife and se any little eostented star that far ares ►ad
prod.etias a(• larger gasstiry d maim (has armed ihi°.gh the winter ".boat the barn -lard. twinkled on, o.woticed and almost selipeed,
herotefero. Ceevi.eod of ahs., moat* of T4 resell geek-•heti . • Vein tees is sewn ►y the .ids of the peerless moos. masted,
Idy, three „ma sine., Mali set a(a het.i.h- very mach the.. Ism( three or fear years all ever the only art or .050"0 is which Kg" seer
y tut leads of bar wank N rhe teed of the lane l tb. wavy ilia seed of whack is da)osi impar- made any great prolcieacy was the art
enIdtable, and ewes the firmer• peat dee' of tree -
d
wMre I iouded a apply tt, mitad it .illi .bt •ed science of being happy, and in them she
b estreads of meek lime, .ad lit it remora til bis i• weecli it oil from 1.".."t "'etc..; tt so excelled, that one could .seise be in her
the folkwi. when I it, breed- might be destroyed by petite. the manure heap
g wise' sprue tbrouth a thoroaah coarse of fermentation in the . pre.enee half se hour without feeling meat -
emit, d -kali of Ind
TWELVE AND MIX PENCE
AT Tire •00 or o— vasa.
NUMTIER VL
receives them from jwdicious 4 •
the meadow may be moire Ter any length
of time without renewal.—lEerkisg Far-
mer.
THE BASHFUL COUSIN.
Mistakes and mi.uoderstandings are sot
stub bad thiegs alter all, at least not al-
ware—so circumstances alter caws.
i remember a ease i0 point. Every body
in the country admired Isabella Edmonds,
end in truth she was tin admirable creature,
just mule for admiration, and
(allure in love with, and accordingly all the
cnuaty of wit is love with bee._..
The columns of every Argos, Herald, Sen.
cis.', Gazette, and Spectator, and all man-
ner of , ".hounded with the effu-
sions .npplicetory of her worshippers. in
*hart Miss Isabella was tie object of all
the spare ' Ideahy' a all the region round
about.
Now I shall sot inform my readers how
she looked: you may just think of • Venus,
a Psyche, a Meioses, a fairy, and as angel,
et cetera, and you will hail" a very definite
idea on the pots(. 1 most run on with my
story. 1 me not about to choose this an•
gel, for my heroine, because she Is too
h,odeome, and too much like ether hero-
ines for my purpose. But Mies isa sell.
had • sister, sod I think i shall take her.
Little Kate,' for she was always spokiee
of in the dimisntave, was some yowl yobag-
sr than her sister, 'and somewhat shorter in
statue. She had no to beauty
--none at all—in short, ser, she looked very
much like Min G., whom you admire so
much, though you always declare site is
Whet', and eves all they had said—vnd re
short the whole neighborhood was full of
V.' Thai strange knowledge that doth nom+
Wo know 001 bow, we know not where."
As for Kate, she always gave all admirers
to key slater, ,x-offiico; so sloe thought of
alt the men she had ever seen, she woyjd
Mae ceuatn Edward boat for a brother, and
she did hope that fabella would like him a.
she did, and (or some reason or other, she
felt se if she could nut irk any question
about D.
At last event". appeared to draw toward
a ernes. Edward became more and more
brows studious *very day—and he and
Isabella bad divers solitary walks and con.
Tabulations, from which they returned with
a .oletunity of countenance. Moreover,
the quick sighted fail. Kate noticed that
when Edward was with herself he seemed
to talk Dor; when with Isabella he was ell
animation and interest, that he was con-
stantly falling into trances and reveries,
and broke of the thread of conversation ab
niptty, and in short, hod every appearance
of a person who would be glad to say some-
thing if be only knew how.
•So'wid Kate to herself, ' they neither
of than epeak to me on the subject—I shod
think they might. Bell I should think
would, and Edward knows i am a friend of
his. l know he is thinking of it all the
time; he might ss well tell me, and he stall.'
The seat morning little Kate was sitting
to ilia little bath parlor. Isabella had gone
set shopping, and Edward was—she knew
not where. Ob so, here be is, cowling back
tote the self same room. ' Now for it,' astd
-'the little g -r1 mentally: ' 1'11 wises a charge
at tine.' She looked sp. Master Edward
was wittier diegneally es tele eels, twirling
the teems of hie ?took 'res a very a:sseh.iu-
Ir:. masser; is.ked sett of the wieriew,
thea walked ,p to the misheard sad thea
poured out three tumblers et water—Oben
he drew a chair up to the work table and
took up tint sae bell of eottoa, and looked
it all ever. and lid it down again, thea he
took op the .cursors aad minced up two or
three little bits of paper, and then began to
pull the needles out of the needle -book and
put them back again.
'Do you with for some sewing, sir T
said the young lady, after baying very cow -
nut, os at tw.Be a scree
which had bo.. plo.ghed about the time 1 has'Piths, led spr, before .pitying it is the ground. This couotably happy himself.
out the beg earth. I sewed it with rata, limo•
thy. tied red clever. .ed harrowed it properly. -
1 hada good crop of cots that year, and an ta-
meless crop of bay tee wet year. I did out,
however, like the leek .f the heap: when I turn-
ed it over, the line seemed dead, and the beg
WIN and clasp. Thera was about thirteen Cr
iserteea bads of the beg earth left, web which
I had Bet setfieiest nate to aria a.d it laid over
winter. I aft/natant to try hew barn taasatr
emeld de to mix with it. I am erdtsgly put ea
wart loads .( lb* ban planer* te the bog and let
It stead for fearer five dare, when I resod it in
a complete situ of fermeetatioe. I applied it to
a piece of greed aieegaidr the ether, midi Bond
the crepe to be "'metier to the latter. The pelt
reit I keeled etre h.sdred and seveotr load. of
past to the field where I intended is apply it. a.d
tie every 11,esth lead I added ase of earth. I
tetrad ilia heap ever twice is tM rammer, which
I (•sad improved it very much. As soon as the
freet left in the *prise, i ked the ban stove
edmized, sae load 10 two .f the peat, with the
latter est pulverised, sad thrown loosely in a
compost heap, tea feet ia,widrh and fire feet is
height. I thea left the heap to do for itself. I
thea harrowed the ground, peeked off she rteoea,
and stack out drilla two feet sport, and left the
/resod prepared for the reeeplios 0 the meagre.
In leer days 1 (goad t►e compete" in a peeper
nate of fenneoutior. (ft is necessary to have
a few leads of earth eo..esieet, lest the heap
would overheat, to throw ea the top, timer three
description of grain the fanners heretofore best- She bad a word of sprightliness, a deal
tared ie emote', is . of the great di(- of simplicity and affection, with a dull of
6edty they hod is clearing it o.t of the land; good natural , and after all kept
ibis difficulty este easily be removed by tkm fol- you more to awe than you would suppose
lowing method: As sees se the grain is removed
off the land where it btu twee grown, pot os the
barrowand barrow in all the biles greet smooth.
li . la a few day.. roue breard will nomn ep,
which noold sot be teterfered with. Now have
it set.a down with cattle in order that twin seed
may In well eshaoated before the frost sen
which will kill the grew. breard. cad the farmer
may rest amend it will give him no more troe-
bl.._tioee &orbs peps►.
INCttaaax or FEAT/LIT, 7a011 e0.Du,o
Tea 8e11..—Fier, oheerring person, says
the Americas Agsicalteri.f, must have
noticed the unequal productiveneee of roil
which has been closely pret.ctsd foe •
time. The earth under a building, the i
northerly seise/ a wall or large log, is itrelf
• valuable manure. Now is thin remit or
change is the character of the soil produc-
ed 1 Will some of our scientific readers
exelOIn i
We know that meth earth contains targe
quantities of nitrate of potash (saltpetre.)
and "tarsus of ammonia, and it is frequently
teed for eztracting saltpetre in the mirth.
(setae of gunpowder, Doe, it net mention
other salts, -absorbed from the atmosphere,
and devoiored in the soil, in eonsegneece
of ire peculiar position, ,ll of which art
rattily favorable to the growth of vegeta
tion I And hnw can this e'en!' be made of
practical benefit to greenlet reI We have
heard ranch of the beneficial effect of Gar-
aeyhm (entering irtead••ws and pa.tnree
with straw, or refuse rcgetable.) lies this
been tried, and with what result to ibis
country 1
To ww.T R:ToNT DO ,'ng ROOT. Of
PL*ci'* o.Tea ren SoiI1—Perhaps ne fact
is en little understood as the depths to
which the roots of plants will travel in a
well disintegrated moil; the length 01 root..
also, in their horizontal travel, is mach
greater than et generally supposed. 1V*
have tried • number of experiments to es-
eert.in these facer, and the results are as
follows:—The roots of Indian corn, al-
though ineligible to the naked eye, have an
average length of fin and a half feet, while
those of the onion are generally eighteen
ache. in leagth. -If a trench be dog
through a garden which has been thorough-
ly sub -soiled, and the ride of this trench be
wombed carefully with water, the roots _
will be found todown to a depth of
thirty-10er imams s a etaxtmnm; such
plant. (like the onto ) e. hams a keen length
of root gang to 1 r depths. During a
severe dresgbt, however, 0,555 the shorter
rooted plants will throw down mioute fibres,
which bring up moisture for the sustensece
of the plat.
Thee we led that me.dows, if well .ab-
seiled to fell depth, before being pot down
t0 •inns. verse ►me set: yet theme wlueh-
h.,, lige plated to slight d.ptb., ensie
bogie to fail. We has. Issamieed seer
sueh mgadew., cad ham always foetid that
when the Mendel of the rents sf gramme
meet with a told and compact wb-apil,
they Lely and prevent a b.shhy efraduioa
of the Out above; these m.sdews winch
ha,e hemi pemies.ly folly w► soiled may
he mews for mime witb•.t say Musial d.
Iterisestitis ie ty; and, indeed, if the
*4 mettles s hal supply of et
you could be kept by such a merry, good
po.edly anperiotesded thou operations.
'How Ma'm what V said be starting and
npeettiag the box, steed and all upon the
A
' Now, cousin, I'll thank you to pick up
natured little body. Not ogre of Isabella'* , , cataract. Onevea had thrown aside the
How changed ! The dee** waters once
darkened Its waters, and the wild swan
•potted in their quiet seclusion—ibe rude
denizen of the wilderness reclined upon the
rock above its frightful chasm, sad watched
the surges of the angry waters below.
Spring bad bineeomeJ Into the fullnrs@ of
summer, and the rosy hues of morn gilded
the !astern sky. The giddy songster*
welcomed it with their shrill carol, and the
forest rewooded till its echoes swept along
msegling its joyful sounds with the thun-
ders of the cataract—all eaters •eemed to
pour forth anthems of joyous thanksgiving
to the Great Ruler of the Universe. A
light eesoe darted oat into the stream, and
thus calmly reposed beneath the tranquil
sky ; and its fair burthen, the lovely Nab.
asks, laid aside the paddle, and her wild
poetic soul drank of the soc6aetments kith
whteh nature thus eurroueded her. The
frail bark, with its unconscious adventurer,
drifted aloiig faster with the increasing
low of the current on which it was borne,
yet sell N•baska moved not—eche thought
not of the danger to which she was fast
approaching ; but her thoughts were far
away in the spirit lad of her fathors. She
knew not that the kens eye of Onawa had
The governmeut (Canada) has been cow -
ducted of fats years to conformity with
what glen Majesty's !Meteor •believe to be
the opinion of the people of Canada.—
When Lord Elgin naw that the Mistier! he
had found In office bad nsrruw majorities is
the Assembly he proposed either that they
.hnuld cnntieu• in office until there was
enme adverse vote, or th• t, they •huold
di.,olve the Assembly w5ieh was ret'irr-ed,
gave a great m.jnrte to their adversaries
in mice. 1 do not think, therefore, that It
would he pno.ble to carry Govt 0)000 fettle
or more reify the principle of allowing the
province to manage tie own affairs. 1 have
however, seen bitter complaints on this
suhject : and 1 hare teen that some per-
sons hese vivo gone the length of propn-
sieg that, instead of remaining subject to
Her Majesty, the province of ('nestle should
hl" •nne:ed to the the [lolled State*.
To that proposal, of roars., the Crown
could give nothing but a decided RegMfs,
(loud cheers), and i trust, although such a
sugeestiion had been made, that, from the
characters of several of the gentlemen who
are members or the arsoeiation, it is not
their iotention to push their project of join-
ing a neighboring state, to the ultimate
ob.erted her, resistlessly borne towards the 'ie•utt of endeavouring by force of grins to
angry waters, nor perceived his strong
canoe as a "peck on the water, re the dis-
tance.
The gay warbler hushed their note*, nod
the cataract.* roar seemed for a moment
to grew limier, se rf to were Na►afka of its
fearful pie.eece. She started from her
trance, sod her eyes looked es if they would
start from their sockets ; bet with • pre -
mace of mind that seldom forsook her, she
ee:aed the paddle is her pair with •
tightniag grasp, struck boldly for the
shore ;1
The strong arm of Gnaws had swept
with its huge stroke, ►ie tro*ty hark to the
rouse of Nabask•, rig fair bride. Not a
Mord was npokea, bet am he darted to the
side of hair canoe, eh* dropped the paddle
sad seised hold of the side R kis—for * mo-
ment they toned upon rbs leaping waters -
the next tbey struck the shore. Gnaws
grasped by a rocked that projected but a
few feet above, but Nahaska had just left
the boat whe■ his hold slipped, and his
effect a separation loom Great Britain : but
that, koowiag the determined will of the
Sovereigo of this country and of her adri-
gen not to permit that project to be carried
Into effect, they will acquiesce in i6a deci-
sion of the Crowe. (" Hear, hear," and
cheers.)
I wonder, at the same time, that any
person* who profess loyalty to the Sover-
eige, should bare entertained a project,
which, if ly any inter -onions'
differeues oecured between this country
sed the Uoited States of America, might
have placed them in the position of nisisg
their arms against British authority, and
of fighting guise the British flag, (Hear.
hear.) Such, then, ie the condition of
Canada. If the present Ministry in Canada
aro sustained by popular opinion --and I
believe theist* election* that have takes
place is the recess is Canada rather show
that they will he—if they are sustained by
pobile opinion sad by the Assembly, they
will remain in office ; if, on the contrary,
canoe whirled with him into the foaming the opinion of the province "heti be adverse
waters of the rapids. to them, the Governor General will take
Nakaska reaching the firm footing of other advisers, and he will set strictly tic -
the bank, ran swiftly to the verge of the cording to the yule that has been adopted
here. (Hear, hear).
With respect, Iikewien, to Nora Seelig,
and New Brusewick, so very long time
ago the Executive Council was the same
body u the Legislative Couneil, but—I
think it was wheal Lord Glenelg held the
seal. of office, I am sot quite sure of (bat,
bet sot many years ago. -a ebaege was
made, end the Councillors bare been cho-
sen, if not from a particular party, in such
a m au to conciliate, the opinion of
the province, and to oommasd the support
of a majority of the Legislature for Nova
Scotia and for New Brunswick.—We have
not heard of late year* o(those ottbappy
distention" which used to prevail when the
executive councillors of the Government
para sir
There is sever s never away use in being a food, s. I her hand to her brow, she approached once found themselves in a small minority in the
more the brink of the chum, and started Assemble.
Kate, bet Igen vexed that I cannot say'—
" long pause back with a convulsive•s's udder. With respect to Canada, Nova Scotia
Well sir, you have displayed a reasons- "The Gr,rrt Spirit,' sbo gasped, "has and New Brunswick, the principle which
lila fluency .o fit; dont yeti feel as though taken from Nahaska the young chief of her there 'milkmen wish to have carried into
you could fisnb l doet't be alarmed: i bosom, and the angry waters bowl his funs- execution has been carried into effect, and
eboeld like of all things to be your confi- ret song. Onswa your Nahaska will come 1 should say that the consequence bit been
dent. to you in the spirit land of your fathers," and must be, that then have been far few -
But Edw.rd did not finish; his tongue rhe now cried aloud, as she rushed forward, er questions brought before the Secretary
but the strong arm of a chief as he grasped of the State than -there used to be. (Hear,
adorers ever looked at her with such detect
admiration as did the laughing loving Kate.
No one was eo ready to rue, wait and tend
—to be up Main and down stain, amid every
where un tee mn.tee, when Isabella was
dressing for a co.goest. is short, she wee,
se the deidteatios of books set forth, her
ladyship's most obedient, and denoted ser-
vant.
But I am going to tell my story, i must
sot keep you all eight looking at pictures;
w now to my tale, which I shalt commence
e manner sed fovm the following:
it emu to pees that a census college
vahtudts•riae anal a far of csusis of the
two sweeter, came down to pass a few
Wehrle to pr the ..cape of the ammonia or
gee) Ie • kw lays the compost packed down
eight et ten itches into • .olid mass of fertilising
]atter. 1 let It mod for days, thee healed it est
es tire lead, thirty-four siege horse -load to the
see, gad covered it ■p with the pinogit in the
drills. I pat i• carrot seed: the day following I
(treed the manure bad warmed the ground, end.
aetwitbtasding the dry weather, the seed ger-
missed. .ad is four days they appeared above
the ground. I pleated it the same sere of
greyed, potatoes, (termite tarsip, been, cabbage
cud tors, all of whielt pew ebesdatly. So,
sit, like the Irish bog, then is .mething very
ie the peat if properly maeebeter-
ed, sad 1 would straggly recommend that is all
meets the peat Mould go through • thorough
seem *i farvragetetier, sad, if paw iblr, be .p•
plied to the grsgad when warm. it may bo
asked weir sot add more earth to the heap 1 1
sower. 1t emeld prevent fermentation. The
sonar* that f mired with the moat wit that of
els eswe ewe tee beet's, which wit trinity
netted *mein rhe Usu., l• the bars -yard. --
Het. sir, set hearts real rhfsh eery had to gait
tidy old method, wki.► wen to heel eat their
00.10 sad apply it le the gonad **ki wet,
sad easalone whieb, if It newer was to hs pet
w1A a irommeet, it weer/ lmpeere it ray nub
t• t*es it mew, std let I t mead Tac a kat dgy* ta
warm a isle Were bolsi pet le cls mud. 1.
.« 14 Melee wsatliwr, mare Muhl be takes
amt N pact lisp lbw is lbs sews esemest witb
beta re. m they suer agree: t6m we is
awe meet tip t%#.,. it may be .shed else,
utiliser paid% %Ms de to mea with pet; sod I
twee ft !Mould. y pep•lrlog the pont de same
w aAWAI.erthed, .e1 in dm mesa, break owe
Mata lee 01111 piswk and ea it sbeesilh lbw
peat Si it /IOW See tem N rue eta! let (t
months of hie free agemey at his father's:
and a. aforesaid, he had carried off the first
cone/title honor, besides the hearts of all
the ladies In i6a front ga'lery at the com-
mencement.
So interesting, w polite ! such floe eyes
sod ell that, was the reputation be left
among the gentler sex. But, alas! poor
Edward, what did all this adeaesage to him,
.n long s* he was •Meted with this unut-
terable, isdiecri►abte milady, ecumoaly
rendered b•ehfulae.., a worse s.41:11er then
ever heard of is Careless, shouts you see
him is company you would .nppn.e.him
militated of hie remarkably h.ndeome per-
son and edltivated mind. When he began
to speak, you felt tempted to throw open
the window and offer him asmeli ng bottle,
he made such a distressing affair of tt, and
as to speaking to a lady, the things' was not
said Kate
collegian stood staring at the cotton balls
rolhsg is divers directions. it takes some
time to pick up the strings in a lady's work
hos, bet at last peace was restored, and
with a long psoas.
' Well areas,' said Kate is about ten
minutes, 'If yoga can't speak, I ens; you
hare something to tell me, you know you
have.'
Well, i know I have,' said the scholar
in a tone e( hearty vexation.
'There's no use of being so fierce about
it, 'list the seischie,io.s maiden, 'nor of
tangling my 'ilk and pieking out all my
needles and epsomite my work box as pre -
paddle ant' seemed to be preparing himself
for some great deed• The canoe rushed
wildly betwece the huge rocks that lift
their beads from among the foamiag waters.
Nahaska gaud ; it was but a moment and
she fell upon the fiat rock se use dead—the
canoe with Gnaws had plunged over into
the fearful abyss of waters below --she be-
held Ottawa spring forward and her senses
had reeled with the fearful reality.
Bound thus to the earth by the strong
bands of nature, she moved sot (or a while,
but her eyes were set with a glassy Mare.
Soon the quickening pulite and the slow
and labored breathing throbbed and heaved,
and she arose slowly to her feet. Preasiog
cwn to tree root of m1 0100(5 sow appeared
to be •reins into convulsions. with the other a stunted shrub, caught her. hear.) That in regard to many questions
e l), i must finish for you, I suppers,' The shock threw him from his foothold on of official conduct, with rega•d to many
*std theyoung1 'The short of the a narrow ledge of rock, and they both local affair" in which it ceold be nothing
swung for an instant over the frightful pre- but • difficulty and embarraeameat for the
matter le, Master P'!ward, you are to lore,
and have exhibited tib phenomena thereof melee. in this extremity his nerved arm Colonial Secretary to be called upon to
for this fortnight. Now you know I rem a wavered not—a moment more and they decide (hear, hear,) he hears not a word :
would hare dashed on the rock. beneath, the Governor informing him about them if
(nerwq utuG tioey, w do se traetab+e an but the chief threw forward his foot, and he thinks they are of importance. The
esti the rivet. Have you said anything placing it firmly on a jutting crag, with all Government is carried on therefore, with
to her obotri it 1'
his .trength he pressed his body forward, lees resort to this country that used to N
ght of. ' To her --to whom r sari Edward start- and they were eared. the case. (!fear, bear.)
When Kate head that this rare aria Ing' " Ouswa," e,ied Nsnaska, half frantic' - -
was coming to her father's she was .nuc- Why, isaMlla, to be ,tiro—it's she with the mingling of j• y and fear as he HUM ON REFORM.
tt?'
couatably interested to see Mm, of sennun t a hastily rprunr upon the rock, "tAs Great The following letter from that eminent
—because he was her eoe•in, and t+ecan*e ' No Mise Catharine, it's you!' said the Spirit heard the secret with of Nobuka,
scholar, who like most bashful Dorsett.. public servant, Joseph (fame, &q. pour-
-a dozen other things to numerous to sod Ottawa free the wild lower hang Doane trays the character of the English Wht
gs
mention. would he •maziwgly explicit when he spoke his beart," ho uttered, es the maiden re- J g
at .Il. d., de-
Hecame, and was for days an object of ciined her head npon hie bosom.
ion as well se admiration to the•
Poor little Kate ! it wit her turn to look , s • scribes that of the present Canadian admit.-
who!til family circle. After a while, bow -at the cotton halls and to erhi►it symptoms ;rotation. in a letter to on. of the Marie-
Onawa had sprung forward as the canoe
ever, a quite domestre; mitered the I of •°114°I f" --but that'• no 000°100 o( shot over the cataract, end jest escaped the trate* of Fwbnburgh he Bevy:
grew q
room straightforward instead of stealing in m;./'
t g rock below. His sell-poe.eesinn neer t.(1 November 11 1M9.
side ways; talked off et hole **titmice' with-
out stopping, looked Muse Isabella full to
the face without Meshing, even tried his
skit) at elietehing patterns and window silk
--reed poetry and played the lots with the
Idi ad frolicked with the chril
-Abu, uN is short se Jolts °braved, was as
merry Gla a psalm look from remise till
tight.
Dir,n report• began to epreed abroad m
Me s.tghborhood, ad great confusion ex
lilted is the camp .f Isab.11a' s admirers.—
It was stated with prseieros New wavy
times they lid riidss, walked seal ulbed to,.
" Great 1-armonrh, Bron.ley Hall,
ONAWA—OR THE PER1LOUB LEAP. him, but struggling bravely with the (nam- ,, Dear sir,—V"nr letter of the a'h Inst ,
— ins eddies of the courser, torched the shore has bees forwarded to me here, and i bae-
* •0011115 Or 'TRW MAGMA. where climbing the precipitous sides of the ten to Inform you that i am much plesawl
Nearly a amatory hos passed sway Gisela reeks of the cliff he just reached the top- to leen that there are appearances of vital .
the light cameo of Onswa glided over the most ledge at a moment so epportuwe 10 ty in F.bnhorgh, se regards P.r(ismests►e
elver waters of the N/agao lora, ser the safety of Nshasks. and Fa tima l Reform. 1t is quite earliest
Naha.b,. the iodise maiden, skimmed with
- _ that the present 1.niote0 will do soiling
bee light bark over its ealm bosom. Sines IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.—althongh they were owe* the advocate*
OOP the heed sf dvtlisstien 6u despoiled A most imperteet debate was going on, for Reform, end rode tato ranee nn the pee,
these emus of their wilder grandeur.— on the et* inst., is the Home of Commas pte who placed cooldese.In them, and be -
TI. Ne usbeet wow &ppreeebes t6. Poem- upon the *object of the Calomel Polley of lie,. that they wontd, whtalet re rice, carry
tag rapids .f its giant cataract, and the Great Britain. From a very pnsctsaal tai net all requisite reforms, sold the pewee of
busy hem el ar.balitng I bsiesse--Iib speech of Lord John Rouen, the people shnold he established is the
rim le the detest of ite tbuwd.nwg rear.—' we (wake the following ettrart : Commove Hones of Parti•mest to roguish