HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-01-21, Page 6T. HfE . HURON EXPOSITOR,
Jan. 2
1870.
The Solid Men of New York.
The Tribune publishes a complete list of
citizens who,par taxes on incomes, ranging.;
from t_ e.manoo pays $1 up to the princely
er ercha
nt, A. Z. Stewart who pays on '$3,-
019,811 -for ,the :single
3,-Oi'.811=for,the:angle year. There are
.seveetteen 1thougwad nine hundred and nine
teen dames who pay an income tax in that
great city. Sixty eight individuals pay tax
incomes of 100000 or over. The New
York Commercial says : "Most of _these
solid gteutlem.an .ane self-made nen, who
have come us, .frena the lowest iound of
the h dder. • The man who heads the list,' .A
T. Stewart, everybody knows is and Irish
emigrant, who- ..commenced life with a capi-
tal of less than twang -five cents; indeed,
with few exceptions, most of the parties
in the list were .scarcely as well off as Mr.
Stewart. Henry Keep boaststhat - he
graduated from the Poor House of Jefferson
County_ Jay Gould drove a herd of cattle
from Delhi, Delaware) County, when a lad,
for fifty cents a day, in order to get money
enough to reach the Hudson River. David
O-roesffeck, - over thirty years ago, used to
mend old shoes for his brother, who was a
respectable shoemaker is Albany. We all
know the history of James Gordon Bennett
and Robert Bonner, poor boys full of tal-
ent and industry. Rufus Hatch, when a
youngster, had an ambition to hold the,
reins of a peddler's wagon. E. D. Morgan
com=menced life with a quest measure of
molasses. It is scarce a dozen years since
Henry Clews was an errand boy in one of
the banking houses down towta. The bro-
thers Seligman started out in life with a
peddler's pack. David Dews, in his youn-
ger -days, retailed pork by the half pound
and molasses by the gill. H. T. Helmbond
was first cabin -boy on the sloop Mary Jane
that navigated the Delaware river." Young
men who are strugglieg for place and -. posi
tion should remember th t these - solid men
against whose names are ne, two, and
three hundred thousand . f rs of yearly in-
come had to battle for life ust as hard as
they are doing. Let them : ke heart and
never say die. - -
• The Cawnpore Massacre.
.Another survivor of the Cawnpore mas-
sacre hasaccording to the Indian - Daily
' News, just been; discovered. Brigadier Sir
Hugh Wheeler,' who was in command at
Cawnpore at the time of the mutiny, - had
two grown-up daughters. These were both
with him. when he was besieged with the
garrison at Cawnpore. On the arrange-
ments of terms of capitulations with Nana,
the besiegers were conducted by him to
the river, under pretence of assisting their
escaje by embarkation. What actually
took place there is a matter of history. The
men were butchered, and meanwhile the
ladies were kept in confinement. After the
mutineers had finished theirwork of blood
at the ghaut, they fell upon the helpless wo-
men and children, whom they had reserved
for a worse fate. It is needless to - suggest
how the ladies were treated ere they met a
merciful deliverance by death. It is known.
that one of Wheeler's daughters bravely
met her fate. facing -death directirather than
fall into the hands of the wretches about
her. She flung herself into a well. The
other was reported to be missing. Her re-
mains were never found nor heard of, and
the impression was that she must have suff-
ered the horrible mutilation and death
which befell others at that miserable per-
iod. But it now appears that she survived,
Audis alive at the present time. - She - sur-
vived the massaei a of Cawnpore, . and has
lived the twelve years succeeding it ; -and
fox aught that appears tb the contrary spay
see another score of years. We have said
that ,the Government must ,know of the
case, and the reasons for this opinion are
the yfollowing =Mr. C , an official of
high position, while on a tour through his
division, had occasion to encamp near a
village called S . While there informa-
tion reached him that the missing I daughter
'of Sir Hugh Wheeler wase in the keeping of
a petty Rajah in the neighborhood, who
came in under the amnesty, and - thereby
deprived the gallows of a legitimate victim.
Mr. C managed to send a verbal mes-
sage to Miss Wheeler to the effec that if
she wished he would remove herfrom her
present position, and restore her to her re-
latives and home.—Miss Wheeler sent a
written reply, in which she told Mr. C
that she had been for nearly twelve years
living with a Illative in the degrading posi-
tion
osition' of an inmate of his harem, had child-
ren by him, and could not muster the moral
courage to face one of her own kind, letting
alone hefiielatives.' • She washed. 4o be en-
tirely forgotten, and to be permitted to re- _
main unnoticed, or if thought of a all, " to
be remembered as ,one in the gray ."`
Mohammed. -
Emanuel. Deutch in his last article in the
British Quarterly Review. pictures Dloham-
mer as follows :
He was of middle. ei$ ,�ther thin, but
broad of, shoulders, wide ,-b� Chet Strong
of bone and muscle. His head as mass-
ive; Strongly ,developed. , Dark h ir, slighc-
ly.eurled, flowed in a dense Lease own_ al-
aosfr to his.shoulders. His face as oval-
shaped, slightly tawny of color. ine, Jong
arched eyebrows were divided b a veils,
which throbbed visibly in moment of spas-
. Great black, restless eyes s one out
fr9m,; under `long, heavy eyelashes. His
nose was le;rge, slightly aquiline. His teeth
upon -which. he bestowed great care, were
well set, dazzling white. - A fiell beard
framed his manly -face. His skin was clear
a xi0ft, ,his complexion ' red an white,'
His hands were as ' silk and satin, even' as.
those of a woman: - His -step w�as quick
and elastic, yet firm, and 'as that of one
who steps from a high to a low . lase ' '
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-imposing. His countenance was mild and;
peus ve. His laugh was rarely ire than a
smile. Irl his habits he was„,extremely,
.steeple, though he bestowed `great dare on
his Win. His eating'and ' drinking;
furniiture,: retained even when. he had
reached the fullness of power, their- irtt
prig iifiiive nature. He made a point of g>tv-
ins .away all hie 1`superfidities.'-Tho oaly
luxunyibe indulged in was, besides arms, i
wkehh ilee - highlyprized,- certain yellow
boots, .a ipresent from the Negus of Abyssin-
ia., Bermes, however, he loved .passion-
ately, beiag'most sensitive of smell- Strong
drinks he abhorred. His constitution was
extreme* delicate. He was nervously '
afraid et bodily pain ; he would sob and
roar under it. Eminently unpractical in
all common things, of life, he was gifted with
mighty powers of imagination, elevation
of mind, delicacy and. refinement of feel-
ing. 'He is more modest than a virgin be-
hind ` her curtain,' it was said of
him. -
Education of the Farmer.
No man is so high as b be independent
of the great interest of, agriculture, no man
is so low as pot to be affected by its success
progress,' or decline, Agriculture supplies
us with food, and to a great degree clothes
us ; without it we could not have n,nufact
urers, . and we should not have commerce.
These all stand together like pillars in a
temple, the largest in the centre, and that
largest is agriculture.
Agriculture is not only indispensible in
national prosperity but it is eminently
conducive to the welfare of these who are
engaged in it, it gives health to the body,
energy to the mind, is favorable to virtuous
and temperate habits, and to knowledge
and purity of moral character ; which are
the pillars of good goveinraent, and the
true support of national independence.
How necessary, then, does it become far-
mers as a class to strive earnestly for high-
er attainments in regard to farm education.
Not a fraction of the attention is given to
the training of farmers for the ' farm that
the age demands. -
If ever agriculture becomes . a true
science, it must be by the thorough educa-
tion of farmers, by the practical experi-
ments and views of the farmers themselves
Almost every question on practice agricul-
ture, such as draining, drilling manuring,
and so through every labor of the farm,
is still in doubt and uncertainty. These -
things should not be.
And it becomes the business of farmers
to observe and think, and read, more of
their calling, and thus be able to clear up.
doubt and error, and render more eertain
every process of farming.
The man who is no wiser in relation to
his profession, in the waning hours of the
year than he was at the commencement.
is either very stupid or unpardonably neg-
ligent.
With the multitude of agricultural pub-
lications, teeming with practical and use-
ful information, no farmer can justify him-
self in remaining , in wiful ignorance of
"the art and mystery of his profession.'—Ex
American Racoons.
The racoon is the most tipsy creature
living, if he can get any liquor that is sweet
and strong. When wild, racoons are very
subtle _ in catching their prey. These that
live in the salt water feed much on oysters,
which they love. They watch the oyster
when i1 opens, and nimbly put in their paw
and - pluck out the fish. Sometimes the
oyster shuts and holds fast his paw; till the
tide comes in, - so that they are drowned,
though they awim very well. - The way
that the animal catches crabs, which he
greatly admires, and which are plentiful in
Carolina, is worthy of remark, when he in-
tends to make a prey of this fish, he goes to a
marsh, where, standing on the land, he lets
bis tail hang into the water. . This the crab
takes fora bait, and fastens his claws there-
in, which, as soon as the . racoon, perceives,
he, on a sudden, springs .forward . a Consi-
derable way on land, and brings the crab
along with him. As soon as the fish finds
himself out of his element, he presently lets
go his hold and then the racoon encounters
him by' getting him crosswise in his mouth
and devours him, There is a sort of small
land crab, which Americans calls a fiddler,
that runs into a hole when anything pursues
him. This crab the. racoon takes by put-
ting his forefoot in his hole and pulling him
ont.
es•se
What We Owe the Arabs:
The, _iuqustrious. ,sales/Toted those use-
ful - which -they bai►barittes of Europe
seemed anxious to forget. They wove the
choicest fabrics of cotton,- wool, and silky ;
they manufactured cloth of gold, and carp-
ets ,of na equalled ,!31)10 06.14. t1 sir divans
were covered with satin cushions and velv-
et hangings, and niuslins and lace of fair --
like texture adorned with Moslem pride.
In metals the Arabs were also excellent
wprkp n, _. They, forgedr Tinge
bars'of iron ;-tie steel -of Damascus wad "ret'
nowned in the cities -of Europe. Their
jewelry was the fairest and costliest of the
age ; they lavished gold and silver in deco-
rating their mosques and their palaces, and
their mints produced a coinage tilt - was
the model of the European world. As ar-
chitects they invented a strangely beautiful
style of building, in which the fancy of the
'artist seemed to revel in ,Lew creations, and
of which the . ovely. rtitits i;e of tlAlhambra
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form a, living examjpla ; in their private
houses they gathered the richest marbles,
the costliest mosaics, fountains of dancing
waters and gardens of perpetual beauty.
The ..Arab was usually temper-
ate almost to austerity. Mohammed had
enforced the doctrine- of total abstinence
with a rigor unsurpassed, by any modern re-
formers. He denounced temporal and eter-
nal woes against the Mussulman who should
touch the accursed wine. He had himself
set the example of perfec$, abstinence, and.
in ,their pure age his followers obeyed the
precept of their prophet. It was only in
the decline of the nation that the Moham-
medans learned to, imitate the drunkenness
and license of tlie. Europeans. Temperate
in their diet, frugal in their mode of life,
the Arabs possessed sound intellects in
sound bodies ; they soon began to display
an intellectual vigor that raised them to the
front of civilization. They eagerly sought
for knowledge•;mid the ruins of Grecian
literature, and thepoets and philosophers of
Athos and of Rom were translated for
the benefit of the students of Bagdad and
Cordova. The colleges and schools and the
Arab cities were thronged with ' attentive
scholars when the great nobles of England
and France could neither read nor write ;
they produced eminent poets and graceful
writers, while Europe had neither a litera-
ture nor language ; their libraries number-
ed thousands of volumes, when Oxford pos-
sessed only a few Imperfect _ manuscripts
chained to the walls ; and the poorest mer-
chant -in Bagdad lived with more comfort
and was far better informed than the proud
knight who came at the head of his barbar-
ous squadrons who die on the burning
plains of * Syria in an ineffectual crusade.
Common Schools and colleges, indeed, seem
to have originated with the Arabs. The
caliphs were as ardent friends of popular
education as a Brougham or a Barnard.
Haroun' Al Rashid decreed that a free
school should be attached to every mosque ;
the spanish caliphs founded colleges at Cor-
dova and Seville, that became the models of
those of France and England; the Saracen-
ic workmen - were accomplished artists, and
the general edu.:ation of the people aided
the progress of manufacturies and the arts.
--lim per's Magazine.
The Norway Oat.
The introduction of the so-called Norway
Oat, is creating a tremendous excitement
among agriculturists in the. United States,
and it seems the fever is feet spreading in
other countries. Its history is singular
and interesting, as'releted by a correspon-
dent of the Rochester Farmer, as fol-
lows :
A. few years ago a New England farmer
received from the Commissioner of Agricul-
ture at Washington, a package of Norway
pease, among which was a solitary grain of
oats, of unusual size and shape. .,Impressed
with its appearance, he planted it in his
pease, and thought nothing of the circum-
stance until his attention was invited by
his family to a wonderfully luxurious clump
of oatstocks, which had escaped the usual
weeding out process, and afterwards attained
the enormous growth of six feet, upwards,
with a corresdonding lateral development.
In this'intruder upon the space allotted to
garden vegetables, the farmer recognized
the off -spring of the stange germ which he
had deposited in the soil a few months pre-
vious. °
‘• It was manifest at a glance that the
wonderful production wasp- new species of
oats, of which. there existed no -previous
authentiO,Aet4iit, The, ,pradtical .New
Eng? i r `did not stop ,to ` :°inquire
iwhstber se ed` had deriv`eci."iter. vitality
from association?with the pease in the pack-
age in which it was found, or to speculate
on its character and origin, but called it,
by way of distinction, the .Norway Oat,'
preserved the seed, and planted therm the
next spring with like results.
" The year after, he'distributed the pro-
duct among many of his neighboring, far-
mers, who substantially repeated his own
experiments -in its cultivation, and - subject-
ed it to various teats by which its value as
a substitute for the ordinary oat was to be
ascertained -
” These various' experiments have been
of a character so . highly satisfactory, that
the Norway Oats have become a fixed fact.
They have been endorsed by agricultuaal
fairs in many.of the States of the_ Union,
and by intelligent practical farmers every-
where. A bureau for the distribution of
the .seeds, and for the information necessary
to its culture, has been established in the
city of New York, the centre of the great
enterprise of the age.
" Last season the introducers of this
seed presented the results of the experiments
made, which represented' the average yield
atfrom 100 to 125 bushels per acre. The
story seemed so improbabable, that people
generally were inclined to regard it as a
yankee humbug but it seems many'were anx-
ious to try it, for the price went up to the
enormous figure of $32 per'"' bushel before
seed time, and orders had to bereturnedun-
filled at that. The result proved that
"truth is sometimes stranger than fiction."
The reports from growers the past year
places the yield frequently as high as 150
bushels to the acre, with a corresponding
advantage in quality •of grain and straw.
Those who , - bought have realized" `in' some
instances a small fortune. One farmer in
Wiscousin has sold 1000 bushels, raised by
himself the past season, for -"$10,005. The
demand for seed is increasing daily,' and it
is probable the price will be increased be-
foreseedtime, if indeed it can be had at
a ;yfigure.. =Orders have also been received
from many parts of Europe. The farmer
who succeeds in securing seed this year,
will undoubtedly reap a golden harvest,
butthey must look out for counterfeits, as
the grain itself is in appearance somewhat
like our ordinary black oats."
LUMSDEN
Has just received. a Fresh Stock of
PURE DRUGS
AND
CHEMICALS,
Toilet and Fancy Soaps, Combs, Hair, Tooth
and Nail Brushes, French, English,
and American.
FP.ERPUM-ERY.
GENUINE DYE STUFFS.
Guaranteed to be of the best quality:
Horse and Cattle Medicines I
Condition Powder.
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Physicians perscriptions carefully land accur-
ately dispensed.
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The subscriber ' desires to intimate to the pub-
lic that he is sole agent in S'eaforth . for the sale
of
MAXWELL & WHITELAW'S
Celebrated
STJL4 W CUTTER!
NORSE AND HAND POWER. -
Also for Massey's improved
GRAIN CRUSHER.
A Stock kept constantly- on hand.
OLIVER 0, WILSON,
Market Square.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 192-tf
Money! Money 1
THE subscriber has received another large re -
uaittance of money !for investment on good.
farm property, at 8 per cent ; or 10 per cent, and
no charges.
- JOHN S. PORTER. -
Seeforth, Jan'y. 21st,1870. 95-tf.
NEW
slisseise
WI\TER GOADS
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J. Eonthron & ►Son's.
CONSISTING OF
Ready -Made Clothing
BOOTS & SHOE'S,
CANADIAN & 'ENGLISH TWD
Flannels, -
Winceys,
• Fancy Dress Goods,
Breakfast !Shawls,,
Clouds and Hoods,
Prints, - -
Grey Cottons, (cheap),
Also a choice lot of
GROCERIES[
Always kept on, hand
J. Bonthron & Sons..
Opposite Hickson's Old Stand.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 52•tf.
$1 Canada Tweed
for 80 cents.
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WI\TER STOCK
NOW COMPLETE.
At the New York House,
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A Large Stock of
WOOLENS
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READY-MADE CLOTHING!
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