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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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normal positio
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mate- of the
known, is b
physic
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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,
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ground in. Feb
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plants, ind
remain in ate
injury. Ora
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of the North.
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and the balni.
the existene
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" emerald,"
land with ve
ers the fog
, sun, it does
that latitude,
soil, temper,
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