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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-07-01, Page 6- I I' • Perils of an Atlantio Voyage. The truth is that, notwithstanding the extraordinary degree of exemption from dieaster'and calamity which has been attain- ed in the navigation of the northern Atlan- tic, through the vast advances which have been made in modern time in nautical - science end skill, there is probably no other great thoroughfare of conimerce or of human intercommunication on the globe so beset with danger and difficulties as the voyage from New York to Liverpool, The Gulf Stream brings a current of Warm water fif- ty miles wide and a thousand feet deep— and flowing at the ordinary rate of the cur- rent of a river—from the tropical seas, and pours it out in a vast expanding mass over and beyond the Banks of Newfoundland, where it turns off to the eastward, and fi- nally loses itself In the northern seas; while to the westward of it, a counter -current coming down from Baffm's Bay—a current of nearly equal magnitude and force—pour into it a stream of icebergs, ice -floes, and ice-cold water. The effects of this conflu- ence are, beneath the water, the accumula- tion of vast deposits of sand rocky de- bris &ought down by the ice; and in the at- mosphere above an almost perpetual succes- sion of fogs and mists and driving rains ac- companied by gales and squalls, and every other possible meteorological commotion. The region mott disturbed by the conflict between these opposing forces and tempera, tures is 4:m the hither side of the Atlantic, and effects chiefly the first half of the voy- age; and the danger, moreover, is thegreat- est at that stason of the year which would on other accounts be the most convenient and the most agreeabletime for making the trip— namely in the early months of sum- mer. The ice -bergs, break up, and ice -bergs are detached from the groat Greenland gla- ciers crowding out froin the land, in the early summer of one season; and as they require about a year for their twelve or fif- teen hundred miles' voyage, they do not -reach the track of the ocean steamers until the early summer of the next. They drift very slowly at last, and melt very gradual- ly under the feeble radiation of even June and July suns in _the latitude of Labrador. Some portions both of the floes and of the icebergs reach as far south as the Banks of Newfoundland, but few go much farther south than this. Their advance ceases here partly because the force of the current by which they are brought down becomes well- nigh exhausted, and partly because the mas- ses of ice become by this time so diminish- ed and so weakened by the increasing heat, both of the latitude and the season, that they are easily beaten to pieces by the waves and dissolved. Sometimes, however, mountains of ice °erne down of such prodi- gious size that it is long before they entire- ly disappear. Captain Price informed us that on one of his voyages he passed tw immense icebergs, and on his return voyage, after sailing nearly fifteen hundred miles to and fro, and making the nsual stay in port, he passed them again. They had drifted during the interim about forty miles. They had dinairaished somewhat in size, but they were of such magnitude still, and their forms were so peculiar., that their identity could not be mistaken. ---From "the 'Ocean Steamer,'" by JACOB ABBOTT, in Harper's Magazine jor ‘,72,1y. 44 • • THE' HURON EXPOSITOR TTJLYi,18O, 'lard Bargain Of all the sons 0.f canny Scotland, the can- niest and most cautious are the citizens of Aberdeen. Scotchmen, in general, content themselves with offering the half what is asked, but a real Aberdonian seldom offers above a fourth, and never; in any case, more than a third. An Aberdonian who had been to the south kintra' with some cattle had got as far as yerth on his way home. In passing through that city his attention was attracted by some walkingsticks which he saw in a shop door. He went up and examined the whole parcel with great ca -re. At last, finding one to his mind, he drew it out, and presenting it to the shopman, ask- ed, " Weel, fiien', fat'll ye be seeking for -that bit thing, neh ?" " Sixpense," was the reply. "Hoot, awa, man, , ye're sheerly jokin' ; saxpence for a bit thing like that ! it's jist an auld reed. 1,11 gie ye tippense fOr't." At this point in the bargain an En- glishman entered, drew out a stick from the very same parcel, asked the price and paid it, and turned away. " You seenow," said the shopman, "that sixpence is the rear price of it, and that I was not overcharging "1 see nee sic thing ; I only see that a feel an' his money's soon pairted, a thing I kent weel wench afore ; but that's no tae say I'm gam). to pairt wi' mine the same way. I'll jeist gie ye tippence for't, an' gi en it wur for mysel' , I wadna gie abun bawbee, for I cud get as gweed a yaiae ony day well aledge at the roadside; bit ye see I was want'n to mak 'a bit o' present to my maister, an, I tlaockt he'd think mair o't if 1 tell't him I had gotten it out'n a shop." • "Well," said the merchant, "as you are going to make a present of it, I'll let you have it at prime cosO, that's four - pence." "Na, na, nane o yr prime costs for me, I'm owre auld for that, 1 ken braw- ly that prime cost's jist onything ye like to caw't it, I wnana gee a bawbee mair than ths tippence." The merchant then told him if that was the case, he wee afraid they would not agree about it. "Fourpence it's out'n a' bounds. Its jist an auld reed, not worth a bawbee." At last, in order to get rid of him, the shoopkeepdr offered to divide the difference, and to let him have it for Threepence. Our generous Aberdonian then drew out a long, greasy purse, and extract- ed with considerable difficulty the sum of twopence halfpenny, and laying it down on the counter, continued to cheapen. "He eheerly wacIna cast out wi' him aboat a bew- bee." Seeing, however, that the merchant was beginning to get thoroughly wearied, he at last laid down the halfpenny, and theu he put on one of his most winning looks, and said,: "Well, noo that we've got a' thing settled, ye'll sheerly come and gie' s a share o' a bottle o' yill." The shopkeePer excused himself as he had no one to leave behind him in the shop The Aberdonian offered, if he would give him Ole litawbee " to go and bring a bottle to the ish4. This social proposal as, however, positively re- fusedand, seeing he could m,ke no more of the shopkeeper-, he threw his plaid over his shoulder, and, with the purchased cud- gel int, his fist, took leave, observing, " Aweel, frien, gude day tae ye, but gin I had kent that ye sr -wine hae gie me a share o' the bit bottle o' pill, ye shudna hae (rotten bawbee mair-nor the tippence." ee• The Valleys ofthe Vaudois. to England when the Duke of Ormond got Paddle Your Own Canoe. he territory of Vaudois embraces scarce - Roneish church grew in power and pride, their ancestors repelled its assumptions and refused to submit to its authority; that, when in the ninth century, the use of im- ages was enforced by superstitious popes, they, at least, never consented to become idolaters that they never worshiped the Virgin, nor bowed at an idolatrous mase. Wen in the eleventh century Rome assert- ed its supremacy over kings and prince!, the Vaudois were its bitterest foes, The three valleys formed the theological school of Europe. • The Vaudois missionaries tra- velled into Hungary- and Bohemia, France, England, even Scotland, and aroused the people to a sense of tho fearful corruption of the church. They pointed to Rome as, the antichrist, the centre of everyetbamina- tion. They taught, in the place of the Rom- ish innovations, the pure faith of the epos. toile age. Lollard, who led the way to the reforms of Wycliffe, was a preacher from the valleys; the Albigensee of Province, in the twelfth century, were the frulte of the Vaudois missions, Germany and Bohemia were reformed by the teachers of Piede- mont ; Huss and Jerome did little more than proclaim the Vaudoisfaith ; and Luth- er and Calvin were only the necessary off- spring of the apostolic churches of the Alps. -EUGENE LAWRENCE, in Harper' s Magazine for • Treasures of the Deep. The attempt to recover the treasure sunk in Vigo Bay more than a hundred years ago is turning out successful. After nine- teen -days search made with large diving - bells, fifteen galleons are reported to have FOR been found lying at a hole in the side of the Aliniyante some ingots, plate, and valu able arms were found by the divers. How- ever, further researches have been suspend- ed for the moment, until tbe Custom House authorities shall have conceded a safe place to deposit the treasure. The .A.1mirante and her consorts -were sent to the bottom durine b the war of Spanish succession, and have re- mained immersed in the port of a poverty-. stricken nation during the whole time of the Bourbon occupation. Hardly had Queen Isabella been driven from the throne than a Spanish banker, long settled in Paris made overtures to the Government of Madrid. MAY DEPEND ON GETTING BARGAINS On condition of handing over nearly half the treasure in case of seccess, M. Periere AS THE STOCK received permission to look for the sunken ingots. As the galleons have been lying at the bottorn since the year 1702, Some time was necessarily required to free them from a lane accumeilation of sand, but letters from large say that this part of the task has been accomplished. A French account of the Vigo affair says that Count Chateau - 1 :Henault was ordered to escort the Indian fleet returning from Vera Cruz, when it was chased by 150 Dutth and English ves- sels. Chateau -Renault wished to run into a French port, but the Spanish. Admiral Don Manuel Velasco, obstinately refused. Hence the Vigo disaster; which surpassed that of the Hague. Eighteen French ves- sels and twenty-eight galleons laden with wealthwere taken or destroyed, and there was hardly time, through the energy of the French Captain, to send a few millions ashore. Lord Mahon, whose version is somewhat different, dwells at some length on the circumstances attending the affaii. lia says that our fleet wes on its way back GREAT CLEARINC SALE ! - CAUTION. THEpublic are hereby cautioned against_pur- chasing or negotiating any note of hand drawn by the undersigned during the year 1870, as no value has been received :for any note giver. by him during said year. , WILLIpl COOPER. Tuckersraith, june 1, 1870. • 120 -Sin. CAUTION. T HEREBY caution all parties against purehas- • 1 ing, or negotiating for a proinisory note, dat- ed Seaforth, May 13th, 1870, payable one year HE term of.partnership having expired by he +Y1 • (Lifer date, for S200, made by me in favor of — mitatron of tune, the subscribers aredisposed Brownell, as I have received no value therefor„ to sell off the whole of the stock at present in their store as quickly as possible, and payment will not be made. FBANCIS G. SPARLIN G.. Seaforth, June 2, 2870. 180.4ins. WE HAVE DETERMINED TO SELL At and Below Cost FOR- E IVIONT CASH OR TRADE. • FARMERS AND OTHERS Judge S. gave his son a thousand dollars telling him to go to college and graduate. The son returned at the end of the Fresh. man year without a dollar and with several ugly habits. About the close of the yam- . time the Judge said to his son : William, are you going to college tgis year ?' - 'Have no money, father.' But I gave you a thousand dollars to gra- duate on.' _ 2It's all gone,' father,' Very -well, my son, it is all I. could give you. You can't Stay here, you must now pay your own wav in the world.' I- A new light broke upon the astonished visions of the young man, He accomodat- e(' himself to the situation,; left home, made his way to college, gradUated,. at the head of his class, studied law,' became gov- ernor of the State of New York, entered the cabinet of the President of the United States, and has' made a record for himself that will not soon the, being none other than William H. Steward. want 110 DiOre DIOD.ey,' said a gentle- man the other day, who had eetired from business, on the application of. a - friend to joirain what promised to be a profitable in- vestment. In answer to a look of surprise --he continued.: I have three sons, I gave them...IX a clas- deal education. One became a naerch.ant, another a lawyer, the third a physician. I rave them all a fair start, and they have all come home to live on me. The doctor had no patients, the lawyer no clients, and the merchant no =customers. They _say to me Father, it's no use for us to work ; you have plenty, and we will have 'more than we can spend.' Why now should I want More inoney ? What I have has made my sons useless tm themselves, useless to so- ciety and to the world. Had they been ,e_impelled, as I vets, to start out in life on nothing, and 'paddle their own canoe,',they might have been a credit to themselves and to me, instead as they are now, a disgrace to iny family name.' et lea. • Editors appear to fare well in Turkey.— The SIlltaD NInIS so much pleased with a leading article on his speech from the throue which appeared in the Teraki, that he has conferred upon the editor, :AIi Bey, the grade of caiumcan (lieut. col.) and given him a baksheesh of ..-0500. ly sixteen square miles. The three valleys - can never have contained a pouulation of more than. twenty thousand. In every age the manners of the people bevel, been the same. They are tall, graceful, vigorous ; a mountain race accustonaed to labor or th hunt the chamois in his native crags. The women are fair and spotless ; their rude, but plaintive hymns are often, heard re- • sounding from the chesnut groves; their native refinement softens the apparent harshness of their frugal lives. Over the , whole population of the Vaudois valle s has ever rested the charm of a spotless purity. Their fair and tranquil countenances speak only frankness and symplicity, ; their lives are passed itt deeds of eharity, in honest la- bors, and in unvarying self-respect. The vices a,nd the folies, the luxury and the crime that have swept over Europe never invaded the happy valleys, unless carried thither by the papal troops. No pride, no avarice, no fierce resentment disturbs the peaceful Vauclats ; no profaeity, no mit% is heard of in this singular community. TO wait upon the sick, to aid the stranger, ate equally contended for as a privilege ; com- passion, even for their enemies, is the crowning excellence of this generous race.. When• their persecutor, Victor • Amadeus IL, was driven frora Turin by the French he took refuge in the valleys he had deso- lated, in the cottage of a Vaudois peasant. Here he lived in perfect security. The, peasant -might have filled his house with gold by betraying his guest ; he letfused ; the Duke escaped, and rewarded Iiis pi °ser- ver with characteristic parsimony. In the French wars of the last century, when Su- warrow was victorious among th e Alps, three hundred -wounded 'Frenchmen took shelter itt the village of Bibbio. The Van- doie cared for their former persecutors as long as their scanty means allowed, and - en, taking the wounded soldiers on their shoulders, carried them over the steeppin e Al- . e country.ssesbrought them safely to their nativ We may aecept, for we cannot refute, the narrative of their native history given by the Vandois theuaselres. Soon after the daWn of Christianity, they assert, their an- cestors embraced the faith of St. Paul, and practiced the simple rites and usages des- 1 1 further intelligence that the treasure ship had gone into Vigo to avoid him. The cargo was said to conSist of 3,000,0001., be- sides much valuable merchandise. The En- glish and Dutch Admirals resolved on an action. The Spaniards might have saved their treasure by landing it, but there was a fundamental law against galleons unlea.d- ing anywhere but at Cadiz, and the Cham- ber of Commerce rAieed. on application be- . ing made to it, to bate one jot of its privi- lege. The matterhad to be referred to the Council of India, and that body deliberated just a day too long. Chateau -Renault and Don AI anuel threw up a few feeble defences at the mouth of the harbor, but the English ships broke the boom thrown across the entrance, and Ormond and his soldiers Stormed the foi ts. The French burned their ships and escaped -ashore. The con- querors shared one of dollars, and some more millions were sunk. According to Lafuente, the doubloon .got on shore through Gallic- energy were soon captured, and, " inunense riches in gold, silver, and precious Merchandise,disappeared under the waves." We shall soon know what amount of wealth has been lyiett in So. unaccount- able a manner since 1702. .4 4 O. Bees. • One of the most profitable as well as in- teresting kinds of business for 11, woman is the care, of bees. In a recent ageinultural report, is stated that oneJady bought four hives for ten dollars, and in five yews she was offered one thousand five hundred dol- , lars for her stock, and refused 16 as not enough. In addition to this increase of her • capital, in one of these five years, she sold twenty-two .hives and feur hundred and twenty pounds of honey. It is also stated that in five years, one man, from six colo- nies of bees to start with, cleared eight thousand pounds of honey and one hundred and fifty four colonies of bees. - When properly instructed, almost any woman in the city, as easily as in. the coun- try, can manage bees, and make more pro- fit than in any other method demanding so little time and labor. But in the modes ordinarily practised few can make any great profit in this employment. It is hoped a time is at hand when every woman will be trained to some employmeat .y which she can secure to herself an inde- )endent home and means to support a fami- y, in case she does not marry, or is left a widow, with herself and a family to sup- port.—C. E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. cribed by -Juetireend Tertullian. The scrip - teres became their only guide; the same be- lief, ..ehe same sacraments they maintain to - they held. .in the age of Constantine and Sylvester. * They relete that,as the • • MUST BE SOLDa N. B, --.No goods entered during the sale. KIDD & McMULKIN, Seaforth, June 14th, 1870. AIM,* HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE. THE subscriber offers for sale a large Frame - Cottage, 30 x 40, new, and Village Lot on the. corner opposite the Baptist Church, Seaford- Farin property would be taken M exchange. Ape ply on the prenrises. ALEX, MeAURTHER. Seaforth, Jan. 28, 4870. • 112-6m. LIVERY STABLE. JAMES ROSS desiries to infdrm .the public that he has opened a New Livery Stable irt connection with his hotel, where parties can be, accommodated with first -elms horses and. vehicles, at reasonable prices, Seatorth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 97-tf. - '&440 000.. m0 lend on the security of Real Property in the County of Huron at from 611. to 10 per cent, by • DOYLE ti SQUIER, 117-6m, - Barristers, Goderich. MONEY TO LEND. (AN Farm or desirable village property at 6t per cent. Payments 4nade to suit the bor- rower. Apply to A. G. MeDOUGALL, tnsurauce Agent and COMITliSSloner or th JOHN SEATTER, Seaforth,, Exchange Broker, • March 25th, 1870. Seaforth. MILLINERY - AND— ") IR, MSSMA.iITGi HE e s tdileinSceSinEEScaToNOADILAE.Rpre, prepared ft to execute orders for all kinds of "IIILLINERY. DRESS A.ND MANTLE MAKING. .41-- A share ofpatronageis respectfully solicited. EGMON'DVILLE, May 19,1870. 128-tf-- Toronto Millinery, Als."'D LATEST IND IITOST FASHIONABEE P DRESS MAKING ESTABLISHMENT - IN SE NFORTH. Scott RobertS011'S MiseatzzaLn-N-b:gsiito,thanitt_ ther Ladies (If d ici ay, for . heir iberal pa- tronage, tind to intimate that she is just revolving a large and well selected stock of Is the Place to get a CHOICE HAM, SIDE OF BACON 011 PORK, OF ANY DESCRIPTION; Or quality from. • MILLINERY GOODS in endless variety, suitable to the season, and at such prices as to defy competition and please the - • most fastidious. All orders will receive her usu.,.- al prompt attention—and as regards taste, latestt. styles, neatness of paterns—she has coadence in - saying she cannot be surpassed. in the country. New book of Boston and Toronto Foshions re- ceived regularly. Embroidery and braiding stamped. Straw and hair work done with neat- ness. A -good supply of 'LADIES' DRESS OAPS • KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HND. A call is respectfully solicited before pm -chas- ing elsewhere. Seaforth, -April 22nd, 1870. 124-tf. EASE, AND COMFORT THE BLESSING- OF PERFECT SIGHT. 8 oz. to 8 tong Will t There is nothing so valuable as perfeetsight, ana ; perfect sight Call only be obtained by usnig, Perfect Specteles, the difficulty of proeuring: which is.wellknown. Messrs. Lazarus & Morris, Oculists te °path- eans, Hartford, Conn., Manufacturers of the Celebrated Perfected Speetaeles, have after ,year,-, of Experience, and the erection of costly ma- chinery, been enabled to produce that Grand-, Desideratum, Perfect §pectacles, which have been sold With unlimited satisfaction to the CHOlaE FAMILY wearers in the United States, Prince, Edward's, Flour a- ( at .1 past ypeartnleionrse of :11)3rladtli during / 0 -Ile " " Speotacles never tire the eye, and last many - years without change. • Sole Agent. for Seafortb, M. R. Counter, from. whom only they can. be Procured. LA ZA R US, MORRIS &fia " WE EMPLOY .NO PEDLER1°1itre31. . Seaforth, Jan 21st, 1870. .76-1y. CHEESE BY THE TON WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. FA [MY GROCERIES FRESH 84. CHEAP. 6 BUT ER AND EGGS TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR GOODS. Sea.forth, June 17. 1870. , 131. L.D.S., Surgeon Dents * Extracts teeth without pain by the use o the Icatrous-Oxide Gas. Office,—Over the 'Bea - eon' store, Stratford. Attendance in Seaforth, at Sharp's Rotel, the first Tuesday and Wearies - day of each month; in Clinton, at the Commerc- ial Hotel, on the following Thursdays and. Fridays. Parties re.quiring new teeth are requested to eail, if at Seaforth and Clinton, on the first days of attendance. Over 54,000 patients have had. teeth extractel - by the use of the Gas, at Dr. Coulton's offices. New York. • Stratford, Fed, 11, 1870. 114AL- t-44 XCLY 1, limImmammialm Tliereeral Batt The banks Stream Ve of of -warm. -As rows of Bem,:m after it has roe north it still r her Britannic / ilifey, 1861, se ifa.x to Bermte ander Milne, t Gulf Stream, t bis vessel at a bows the them • at 70 ° . The h ter's day by elm warm up the iv resting upon I from the freezie would be easy treasures borne Atlantic with] other, -"stack ma/at blast a sending forth large in volt= iest river" take up the ve treasures are s fend, the aino precipitation o puted to equal tion. ofall the annually. If than is due to respect ef latit perature of Sla that of Londe observations of Society, hower ature of these p SIP—Shetland and London 20 Norwegian -colt authority, "the ing is very ta places, along t even within ti rent may be re and dispenser in the summer izing forces with a sea of several of the .2ointer temper,. the Gulf Sere north -waled of deflection of hemisphere is makes its vra uary, just as normal positio This peculiar mate- of the known, is b physic The patient er sent to th the tient end o constitution re Shetland, or as in any par Isle of Wight Peninada. tions of the so At Penzance, „eater of the ingly develop of the Engtt peas and ear ground in. Feb May, and ev growth at t plants, ind remain in ate injury. Ora allies, maga -quire no pr Huraboldt of the North. But time e' cumulate the and the balni. the existene Gulf Stream " emerald," land with ve ers the fog , sun, it does that latitude, soil, temper, -vigor into t .ies, and give cheeks. T proximity. the North G in the fact t and his silo nein y of the Current o EAITRAY,111 Mark TW —"SaerS,TO you cnn gat). ra end pant pe put on your axijoelmitcengi e:gee feet above fifteen. feet moutntoanin • tenhsan 3SnIfi:Yda: •Tbihrear: :au tinhethalevtevil e a:11hielaelgdnmisistinidiPth'saef the Sac: e d and dreamy, eV the m