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ROSS & LUXTCW, ECITORS & PUBLISHERS.
VOL 3, NO 6
Freedom in Trade—Liberty in Reiigion—Equality in Civil 1?ights."
GEORGE W. ROSS, KOPMETOR.
Swrtzerlaria. ,
THREE TRAVELLERS kaozEN To DEATH ON
THE GatEAT ST BENArtD.
Three travellers, iu is stated. have
lost their lives on the great dfLtint Bei -
rd •mountain. They lied bee,. travel
ling froui •lartigay towards the Indian
,frontier with the intentien of reefing
for the nigh e in the famous ' Hospice
;that stands almost 011 the bouudary
brae between Switzerlenal arid Italy
y seven o clozde 111 the evening t ey
reached a ludo ilia -on -toe way to 4he
' Monaeery ; they had sLiIl to tiedthree tiresome miles,. As the uight_
Was dark and storm y, the
line -keeper besought them to _Wait un-
▪ mereiug; out, beiogpoor, they re-
f used. They belorhged to l'aat class of
poverty strieken pilgrims who are cou-
stantly peesing between. _Switzerlalld
and Italy, who carry ali their wordly
goods iu ui kuaback of untanned deer's
hide. Their aim is to break- their jerir-
/fey ;1.1; the hz.' iseeee, wher.they get food
rend lodeineb for the niktiO ee ot charge
aud 1:11 tne werumg ithe ' provided with
the liceessariee of travel on the same
benevolent tcitxzs Hnu l though
the night was pitchy dark, end the
wind was corning down with hurricanes
like gusts from the at theuntains
that ebut in the valley the 011ie tray
eiders resolved that they wuuldt 'bash on
to fee Hoepiee. Soon after lev:dng the
cent -cell' teev began to aseend at \shad-
ing, roeley, aud steep p al , which -over-'
hangs a howl i egeetureent irid leeds to
the :eIonaetery. So blaek. wax the sky
that the wayfaren had owly to
Along- by means of the preeipiee \dile])
hems in .the e of :the path farthest
from the torrent.: Had the moon been
up they-WC/tilt! Ila.V4 been guided by the
_poles wh:eh the Menke planted in oi-
rect line 'rum the Hospice to the val-
ley to int [lc tee dieeetion When. the
path is buried under...the snow and the
torrent is frezenI3L t in the pitchy
alarkiress, the frieectly beecens were eb-
scured. Heiree the tray >Item se -in to
have been again rrol aga a brought to
stand etilt. teffore reahl ing that ferd
of th‘c brook at which the road dips,
terhil then goes up with •or e swift spring
to the spot where the • g -eat leo-reek-
Ltrict heere the he -
like florspice guide's
nigheed trae eller by its beacon light.
Itne poor pilgrims were el -near to the
blaze, that lied they been aide to exert,
-ro unites long-er,
thewsels es for a few
they would have been fe. 13ut 1the
1,011 aud the cold had so , )dl alized their
fault cies, the t they cou] riot piocar-al
-one stet, ; they -etre OVercorne
.by that craving for sleep, foterest
iS the effect oi 'literate cud ; and with
in sight of the friendly g earn that be-
ekoued to them overhed, all three.
travellers lahl dot, n and died I On,
the great St. Bei.ard the winter season
begins soon and ends iat .Alleady
ing ; and during the lon mouths when
well -
is winter beeide the 1110111tain d
t1 snow &o'tithe grou hie.or the cold
xaakes traveding perilous it is the daily
custom of the good D1011k- .• to journey as
-far as the bottom of the pass. in order
that they tuay Ignd ass'etance- to any
traveller who may ha,ve ( lopped by the
way. Clad in their lone black serge
egowns arid broad „'brireried hate, ate
"eompanied by a ttendan s who carry,
wine and pt ovisions for he reseoration
• -of the wearied or faint]
and guided by be fam 118 St. Beherd
:dogs. which do the wui of pointers,
two or ehree monks da ly wake the
,eeven- miles' journey, th the valley be-
low. When the search ng party ofe
monks had proceeded 'a . holt distanee
:from theHosPiC,,tY fnnt.1 the bod-
ies still end cold. The' were -takeu
to thelittle " morgue,"° vhich is situ-
,sted ,t a short distance f OLD he
pi wci-
pal building of ,the Int -de• sterywil in
that naked mausoleum th remains will
.*nide with other telies of mortality,
=unless claimed by- the ki isfolles of the
Jost It is a grim. resting place. In
that small but perch a ong the win-
itry mountains devellethe skeletons of
ttliequen riari women toed children, who
ita the course of many gen rations, have
-perished in the fatal pass So intense
Tii the cold, that the unerubfaldnemy.un_
.o
iedbodies
'''regfanistedsanet
lorYeagraaedi
thseilanuth clothes which
key 4/ore when found d ad among the
.,Enow, they stow perch against thig
exaJJ, tnd while the visitor looks thro'
traveller,
SEA FORTH, FRIDAY,
JA.NUAMY 14, 1870.
WHOLE NO. 11t0.
the iron greting of the tomb, they
pfier grimly, forth; KS if ‘' sol jai ng recOg-
nition and an, undesecrated place of rest.
Au oid man leans against the wall, hie
berta Jerre, his staffin"his h;:taid, and his
attitude stiff, ned ler ever by the death
that smote him' years azo A. women
1 Clutches in her areirs the babe that per-
ished with her in the snow: From the
other grim ngures the clothes h:rye
lotted away by 'fregments, leaving
bleached protruding bones. •
• 0-0.-
Magniffcent Scenery.
One of the gramiest sights on this
side t of the Continent is tee valley of
the Yosemite, in the Sierra range, about
250 miles east of San -Francisco. 'ilie
fiese tiure a white man ever entered it
Was in 1848, and e en now the journey
is "senrevdiat -harsh" The valley is ten
Miles long and three wide. lts sides
are gr nite :walls, from 2990 to 4,500 ft.
high. Great domes pyramids rise a-
bove the deep hollow,. at the bottom Of
Which iS -a, little..alee or stream. A
small river, 0 feet wide, tumbles Over
on one eide of el:oilmen:se heieht, corn,
-here down in ti ie falls the first of them
1,300 feet,. itt the valley a nooks
aed bits of scebery of rare heauty,
elueost- strangely 'with the eol-
. .
e DIU gVA1ldeilll of the serrounding
and pee k 8. there are
trees ranging in height from 150. to
'327.feet, and from 10 to -40 feet iu
•diameter. .r.firtlir 'age is euppoeed to he
from 1,200 to 2,500 yeer:4. - There is
another ge ore only six. miles from Merl-
in:Pee 011 the Yereemtte mute., • centaier-
Mg 427 trees, the laegest 3.5 ft. in di
ameter. The Geysers are another Won-
t. der of C.:1 derma. There are about
y 111i1E'S 110K,11 O i1II Francieco, hun-
dreds of springseof all, Lends, colors, and
temperatures ale to 66 (''en, with imme-
Ose deposits of sulphur, nLI.uin, 'rewires-
,
ia, opiate salt and Other minerals. The
roaring of the steaw which
issues from every crevice in the rocks,
and lushes with great violence from'
'Steamhoat Springs,"the dashine. end
surging ,of hlack boiling water in. the
urrfathemable oepths of the "wire:ilea'
CanIdeon." and the sulphurous -filmes
which fill thehtir, prudrice aa indescri-
bable. effect- on the 'beholder
.-
the, bust, gives thr.e foliowaig accennt, of
a conversation, which occuered, between
the _two in a company or Which hs was.
one : - "Leigh Hunt had .s;iid sortie-
thirig about tire islands of the -Blest,
or El bored°, or the Millerminm and
..wes fleiviag on his beight end . hopeful
waye when atritYle dropped some heave,
teee trunk across Hunt's . pleasant
str( am, and banked it hp with philoso
phical doubte and objections at every
interval of the. Weaker's joyous. pio-
dress. 1-.3ut tne unmiti:-,eated li.cfnt
re •,
never - eeased h is oVe7s1'. hehrhoing ' ;L. ti
. .
eipations, nor the saturiue Carlyle :his
intinate demurs to these finate fionrish
legs, The. listener s laugried and ap
plauded dry turns, rind bad DOW -fairly
pitted them against eareh. ether- as the
philosopher of hopefuluese , and of the
unb ,peful. The contest emit.ioned with
all that reeedy wit and philosophy, that
mixture ef pleasentryand- proftmdity,
thatextensive keowledge. _of books and
charecten with their reedy applicatuen
in 'erg uenem t or, illustration, and. that
:perfect ease and good nature Which die -
tinge sh both of these men. The op-
(
pouer,,ts. were so well . [batched the t it
*as quite .clear the conteh would never
come to en feel.. But the night- was
feradyttnced iInd the paity broke up.
'Now,' thought litint, 'Oerlyle'sdone
for ; he can ilft,VO 110- answer to ha+ :)
1 ciliere l' shouted Ifer»t; 'look up there;
loule at that glorious herwony- that
sings with infinite voicee an eternal
son b - 0 ' h e, ill 0 ae er ot' man ' 'al -
r•
yle looked up. They all remained- ei.
• rent to hear eenitt ire woulct Say. The,
.
began to think. 1;e was eilenced at last
,--lie was a melte' mrer. But out • of
that ' silence came a Ite'W low-tOn&
• woJds, in a broad Scotch ascent. Arid
whe or_ earth could have anticipated
*hat, the voice F.nid ? 'Ell ! it's a Sad
sigh t !' Ilmr e sat' d ow u on a dodd-
st' p. They all laughed—then her -keel
very thoeglitful."-1.1. Ccs,‘ AY, in .11cm-
per s .ittagazine fur January.
The Emodus from Virginia. ,
• THE Low PRICE Or WIIEAT.—For
-stunt years back, an idea has peevailed
amongst the farming community that,
had we reciprocity with the United
States. , the pric e, of w heat. would range
much bigner than it has. The opiniou
is fallaeious, for the price of wheat in
the States at present is as• low in pro -
poi tion to the necessaries of lift., as it is
ire Canada. So much so is this • the
case in some of. the Western States,
that the farmers' are becoming dis-
hearteried. at .the low price of wheat,
and the press is discussing whether this
staple ie no-. cultivated in that country
inexcess of the demand. A. late. issrie
of the Rochester (Minneseta) Post dis-
cuses this question. -• It says this seas-
on there .is an excessive wheat, crop,
end the •teice ie too low to. trey a pro -
90. its pi ()auction. Last seaeen there.
was a short_ crop, and the price was
early suffiedent to pay a small profit,.
Is there not a. strung probability that
the extraordinary develoyment of new
wheat fields in the north-west which
'has heen going on at an increasing ratio
for the past twenty years, has reached
a poiut at which thy 1 rocluctinn of
wheat is in, excees of the demand 7 This
is a question worthy of the careful COD-
sidet atien of the farmers. If this is
a question a orthy of the -careful ,con
sideration of the farmers acressl the
lineais it. not equally so of the wheat
growers of Ontario, shall we not , say
Canada 1 In many :-Counties in On-
tario, wheat is err ltivated to the almost
exclusion of- other crops, and when
thereis A, failure, or the price is low,
the trade of the country is depressed.
Is it not Worth considering whether
our .farmers could not grow other crops
less liable to -he affected by the weath-
er'and insects. which of late years have
been -so destruetite to the wheat, and
prove equally, if not more remunera-
tive. .
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Leigh Hunt and Carlyle.
Mr. R. H. Horne. author of "Orion"
etc., who was the most venerable friend
of Hunt's, perhaps, at the unveiling of
The prees of -Virginia is every day
attracting attention to the inimenee ex-
odusel negrries from the -Srale. :The
imoortanee of el Os movement -its yeti-
.
0118 bearings cannot ever be estimated.
W.e have long conshlered it _eel tam to
tii place, and as fuvoishingthe 'true
selution of the labor questiones far as
the State is cmicerned. That the Ira.
C1111111 ill 'he labor supply of Virginna
thus produeod will eciver be aupplied
by hireling labor we consider as absol-
utely certain, and it is equally certain
that this vacuum will be filled by emaii.
far'ener's of the North, who are already
ponying into the State. nip mobt ob-
vious effect thie change ie the labor
_ .
of the Ste te will be. the rapid, su id ivis-
ion of large ill-celtivated plantations
intu small and highy cvltivated farms.
The differenee between the State dense-
ly peopled with intelligent and enter-
prising whites, and -vitilized by the
influx of Norhterer and foreign capital,
and the state withoet capital and de-
pendent fir label- on the -negro hireling
is heyoed calceletion. Another less
obvious but equally certain result of
the southward movement of negrees,
will he a similar moeetnent by a vet y
latge'portion of the white Virgiiiia pop-
ulation. Already the begmings of this
are discovered, in our business and cor-
respondenee witniand buyars and sel-
lers. Many of om large land holders
are se 'wedded to the negro. that they
will employ no other kind of labor, and
as the negrues leave the State, these
"old masters" will follow in. their
wake, and both. will .profit _ry the
change. Vu-ginia has been) formed by
nature for a great. manufacturiog, min-
ing and tigricultilral State, and these
-movements of population point to a
speedy eealieation of the great deatiny
in store for us.— Lynch. Ad.
.A. SRVERE JOKE ON AN ALP0TBECART,
—Mocready-18 hand -writing was curious-
ly illegible, and estreciolly when writ-
ing orders of achnission to the thestre
One dav, at New Orle,ana, Mr. Brough-
am obtained one of these front him for
a friend. On handing it to the gentle-
man, the latter observed that, if he had
not known what it p irported to be, he
never would have suspected what it
was.. "It looks more like a preseripti-
on than anything else," he added. "So
it does," gi4i4 Prougharn "let's go and
have it made up." Turning into the
nearest drug store, they hltrided it to
the clef lc, who gave it a careless glarce,
and proceeded to get a vial ready, and
pull out divers boxes. With another
look at -the order, dots n came a tied-Airt.
bottle, and the Vial was hell filled.
Then there was a pauee. The gentle
-
n enly attendant a'evidentlypuzzled.
At last he h1 -oke down completely; and
r,arte for the principal, an elderly and
severe -looking individual, who presen-
tly emerged from an inner sanctum. I
The two whispered together an instant, ,!
when the old dispenser looked at the ;
document, and with an air of pity for
the ignorance of his subordinete, bold-
ly filled up the bottle with some apo-
cryphal fluid, and duly COIked and la -
ladled it Then han (Mg it to the gen- I
tlemen who wee e waiting, lie said with
a bland smile, "A cough mixture!
and a very good one' Fifty cents if yoa
please."
Moral leTaii-sery -Rhymes
length is 285 feet, her extreme breadth
621 feet, main draft 26 feet, and tellS
burden, 4,406, old meaemment k he
is toe?, werked by two engines ef ft0
horse powcr, and her estiniated sieed
isset down at 12;4 -knots per hour. She
will carry 1,000 tons of coal, suffieient
for a three weeks' cruise. She is to be
construcited on the genuine turret prin-
ciple, wiehout any attempt to unite b -y -
the addition of meets ind ails, the
characterestics of two dietillet varieties
of tigheing ships. Being then reitner
adapted for a crnise (a a. gnard s.hip,
she is simply a floating battery of en-
ormous power. She aeill carry two
tnrrets and on each will be mounted
two thirty-two gems, capable, of throw:-
ing shot of 600 weight, Her sides are
to he composed of neerly three feet in
thicknees, constitntibg an amour. plat-
ing, which is intended to make the
impeneti able ship of wiry navy, while
her arm:Anlent is claimed as the heaviest
yet invented. Owieg to the ebsenee
of eny work aloft a crew of.250 wig, it
is said, be suffieient to work her. She
A practical pareni. objects to the is to cost $1,450,000 in geld.
ness of -our nursery • rhymers, for the
reeeon that the doggeral is rendered -
pernicious by the absence ot a practical
moral purpose, and -ae introdu-
ehig infants to the tealities of life
through an utterly erroneons medium.
fhey are taualit to believe in a world
peopled ny Litt tt Bo Peeps, and Gooeey
Goosey Ganders, instead of a wor ld of
New York Ontra1, Erie, Northwestern
Preferred, ete, etc. It is stippoeed, there-
fore, to aecomodate the teaching of the
aureery to the requirements of theeage,
to in est Children's Rhymes with a
moral ournose. Instead, for example.
of th 6 hluiid Vufldei21me1it as to the na-
ture ot aetronontiVel bodies inculcated,
in that feeble poem commencing, '
-Twinkle, twinkle, lithle star," let the
child be indoctrinated into the recent
ieveStigatiOnS science. Thus:
Wrinkles, Wrinkles, solar star,
I obtain of what you are,
When unto the noonday sky
1 the specterseope reply;
For the spectrum readers clear,
Clops wit bin your ph ot osph et. e,
Also sodium in the bar
• Whicli your rays yield, solar star.
Then, again, there is the gostrono-
uric career of -Little Jack Horner,
-which incnIcateii gluttony. 1t -ii prac-
ticable that this fictions here should
famalrlize the child with the tninciples
df the Deleaus.
Studious- Jim Herne',
Of Latin no scorner,
In the second declension did spy
}low nouns there are some
• Which., ending in ion,
fio not make their plural in 1.
The episode. cf Jack wed Jill
ueless as an edinational medium. But
nu might be made to illustrate the aig
• uernents of a certain school of politi-
cal eeonomists ;
Jack and Jill
Have studied MILL,
And all that sage has taught too
Now both promote •
Jill's claim to vote,
As every gond girl ought to.
Even the pleasures of life have their
duties, and the child heeds to be in-
structed in the polite relaxation of so-
ciety. The unmeaning jingle of "Hey,
diddle diddle" might, Ire invested with
some utility of a sociad kind ;
I did. not idyl on Joachim's fiddle
At a classical soiree of June,
While jolly •dogs laughed at themes
from Spohr,
And
a for e
bongd popular tune. ;
And the importance of seenring a
good peeti, of rejecting illeaible candi-
dates, and of 'modiying flirtations by a
strict regard to the future, might he
impressed upon the female mind at an
early agc in the following moral
Little Miss Ai uflit
,Sat ot a buffet
Eating o bonbon sword;
A Younger son "spied. her,
And edzed up beside her,
But she properly frowned him away.
• EDITOR'S DRAWER, in "temper's _Wag-
arei,e, for Janary.0
A Powerful War Vessel.
The keel of one the typical • Brst
class British war ships of the, future
has just been laid at Portsmouth.
She bears the suggestive title of the
Devaatation, and along with her consort
the Thunderer, to be shortly commenc-
ed, will take precedece of all the ex-
isting grades in the 13..ritiell navy. Uee *Au f,
•
Curio.eity.
A person of an observing turn of
mind, if he has ridden through .a coun-
try tesvue has noticed how curious
the youngsters along the route fill tho
windows with their RD NiOUS faces in
order te get a glimpse • of all passers-by,
A Yankee pedlar drove- rep in front of
a house one day, and seeing all hands
and the eook staring from the windows
got off from the cart,• rand the following
dialogue took place with the man of the
house:
tfolothan—"Ilas there been a funer-
all heie to day I"
Man of the house—"No ; why 1'
Junathan—"I sumthere was on
pane ofglass that didn't have a head
in it."
Man of the house—''You *leave
quick or there will be a funeral."
WIT AND HIMIoUR.—A New York
Bober -Irian, speakiug of the price k ,f meat,
said that "i.eef was never so Moll since
the cow jumped over t he moon." Now
this is pure. heireor, arid the author of it
laughs with every hod y, and he laughs
at no body. I shell not attempt the
dithreult taskof defining wit and humor.
Hazlitt says; "Dr. Fuller'remark-,
that the negro is the image of God cut
in ehony, is humor; and that Ilerace
Smith's ioversion of it, that the task-
master is the image of the devil cut in
ivory, is \tit." Wit and humor are as
clotely related as the Siamese twins,
and like that couple they go together,
and it requires a -sharp blade to sepata
ate them. Fun is a fine art, and he
who it master of it seill know how
to stop short of that line whieh separae
rates it from the al,surd and ridiculons.
Wit is crank, seme:ful, analytical. It
makes invidious centrests, tesses analo-
gies in your teeth, spoils no good stories
fee relation's sake. It. shoots a feather-
ed shaft before you can lift a shield,
and is sure to bit a tender spot. Ifea,
men were :o in as Achilles,
whose soft epot was in his heel, it -*wird
be sure to vet und hito unless he wore
thick boots, -which -unlike his lips,
should be water -prof. Americans do
not laugh emough. We scarcely re7 og-
nize the comic side of life. Altemus
"the deliciona," as thea i ch or of " ceraeth
Gitant" calls him, shook our sides with
laughter, and a few others did so—all
Of them, however, can be counted on
the forgers of two hands These jokers
have made as laugh a lttle when out
of the range of the roars of bulls and
bears in Walltreet ; but we, as a pece
ple, have failed to snstain tiest-cless
comic journals. The humor of Lowell
and Boll:lief and the wit of Saxe- ate
appreciated by a few—the choice
becauee the aroma of their poetry gives
a pleasant odor to their merriment,
Mu th follows .us in the street,and
verta.tes us at our occupations; it
tickles the rib of steep, even. Why,
then, do we not respond to her *ehibie
tions of cheerfulleess.— Fr rn "Th.
comic Side of Life," by GEO. W, BUN. -
GAY, in, !raver' Mogazinefo) J.nuary,
lotnber---The opea. bath& cif
sy>