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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-07-22, Page 1LT 15, 1870. SALE having expired ley Iis ubseribers are -disposed f stock fits present in essibles if NBD TO- SELL Cost E. THERS XrING BARGAINS - TUCK S d during the sale. eMULKIN. 131. ,ertson s to cre a HAM, OF TION, TG111. Is weight. WM. F. LUXTON t " Freedom in Trade—Liberty in Religion—Equality 92 Civil Rights". EDTIOR & PUBLISHER. VOL a, O. 33, BUSINESS CARDS. MEDICAL. RTRACY,' M. D., Coroner for the Count3r of . Huron. Office and Residence—One door East of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Seaforth, Dec. 14t1I, 1868. T_T L. VERCOE, M. Ds0. M., Physician, Sur- geon, etc. Offices...4nd ltesidence, corner' of daricet anal High Street, immediately in rear of Kidd & McMulkin's Store. t Seaforth, Feb. 4th. 1870. 5:34y. TAR. W. R. SMITH, Physicien, Surgeon, etc. Office,--Oppo§ite Veal's Grocery. Resi- dence—NI au -street, North. Seaforth, Dec. 14, 186.3. 53-ly JCAMPBELL, M. D. C. M., (Graduate of Me - Gill University, Montreal) Physician, Sur- geon, etc., Seaforth. Office and Residence—Old Post Office Building, Up stairs, where he will be :found by night or day when at home. - Seaforth, July .15th, 1869. 84-ly , LEGAL. F. WALKER, Attorney -at -Law and So- licitor-in!Chancery, Conveyancer, Notary Public, &c. Office of the Clerk of the Peace, Court House, Goderich, Ont. N.B.—Money to lend at 8 per cent on Farm Lands. .Goderich, Jan'y. 28. 1870. ;1124y. 1CAUGHEY & HOLMSTEAD, BarristetS, Attorneys at Law, Solicitors in Chaneefy and insolvency, Notaries Public and Conveyanc- ers. Solicitors for the R. C. Bank, Seaforth, Agents for the Canada Life Assurance Co. N. B.—$30,000 to lend. at 8 per cent. Farms, Houses and Lots for sale. Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. 53-tf. I3ENSON & MEYER, Barristers and Attorney at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, and. Insolv- ency, Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc. Of- fices,—Seaforth and. Wroxeter. Agents _for the Must and Loa.n,Ce. of Upper Canada, and the Colonial Securities Co. of London, England. Money at &per cent ; no comralssion, charged. TAS. H. BENSON, zs H. W. C. MEYER. Seaforth, Dec. 10th 1868. ' 53-ly DENTAL. G; W.. HARRIS, L. D. S Artit ficial Dentures inserted with all the latest improvements. The greatest ,care taken fur toe. preservation of decard.. nd tender teeth, Teeth ..-extractecl without pain. Roems over Collier's Store.. - Saeforth. Dec.. 14, 1868;. 1 y. 1-10TELS. rtOM1'iERC1AL HOTEL, Ainleyvill , James ki Laird, proprietor, affords first-class accom- modation for the travelling pubnc The larder -and bar are always supplied With the best the markets afford. Excellent stabling in connection A inleyville, -April 23, 1869. -70-tf. ONX'S HOTEL (LATE SIIAPX The un- dersigned begs to thank the public for the liberal patronage awarded to him in times past in the hotel business; and also to inform them that he has again resumed business in the 'above stand, where he will he happy to have a call from old friends, and many new ones. THOMAS KONX. Seaforth, May 5, 1870. 126-tf. TR. ROSS: Proprietor New Dominion Hotel, • begs to inform the people of Seaforth and the travelling community generally, that he keeps first-class accommodation in everyzthing required by travellers. A good stable and. willing hostler always on hand, Regular Boarders will receive &fay necessary attention. Seaforth, Feb. 8t1i1869, 63-1y. BBRITISH EXCHANGE HOTEL, Gopeurcts, ONT. , J. CALLAWAY, PROPRIETOR ; J. S. Wreerasms, (late a American Hotel, Warsaw, N. Y.) Manager. ,.(This hotel has recently been new ly furnished, and refitted throughout, and is now one of the Most cninfertable and. commodious in the Pro•vince. Good Sample Rooms for Coramer- cial Travellers. Terms liberal. Goderich, April 14, 1870. 123-tf. MISCELLANEOUS. SHARES LIVERY STABLE, - MAIN ST., c., . . '. 0 EAFORTII. First Class Horses and Carriages alwa,ys on hand at reasonable terms. R .L. SHARP; Proprietor. Seaforth, May 5th, 1870. 3-tf— MAILL & CROOKE, Architects, etc: Plans 0 and Specifications drawn eorrectly. Carpen- ter's, Plasterer's: and Mason's work,, measured and valued. Office-19Ver J. a Detlor 4 Co.'s store, Court -House &Pare; Godetich. Goderich, Apri123, i869. 79-1y. Gft( & W. McPHILLIPS, Provincial Land Sur- ", veyors, Civil Enbineers, etct All manner of Conveyancing done with neatness and dispatch. G. McPhillips, Commissioner in B. R. Office- - Next door south of Sharp's Hotel, Seaforth. . Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1868. - 53-ly T S. PORTER, Seaforth, Ont„ Jaler in hides, S.) . shea.p skint, ftirs and wool, ",hberal advance- Ments made on consignments. Ifoney to lend. Insurance agent Debts collected; Highest mice paid for green backs:—Offi:ce era)it side of Main Street, one door north Johnson Bros'. Hardware Store. 122-tf. HAZLEI1URST, Licensed Auctioneer for JJ. the County Of Huron. Goderielt, -Ont Particular attention paid. to the sale of Bankrupt Stock. Farm Stock Sales attended on Liberal -Terms. Goods Appraised, Mortgage's Foreclosed, Landlord's Warrants Executed. Also, Bailiff First Division Court for Huron. Godetieha Jane 9th, 1869. 76. tf, • SEAFORTH, FRIDAY JTJLY 22 1870. THE GOLDEN SIDE. . There is many a rose in the road of life, If we would but stop to take it , And many atone from the better land, If the querulous heart would make it; To the sunny sons that is full of hope; And whose beautiful trust ne'er taileth, The grass is green and the flowers are bright. Though the winter storm prevaileth. Better t� hope, though clouds hang low, And keep the eye still lifted, For the 'sweet blue sky will still peep through, When the ominous clouds are rifted. There was never a night without a day, Or an evening without a morning ;.. And the darkest hour, so the proverb goes, Is the hour before' the dawning. There is many a gem in the path of life, Which we 'Sass in our idle pleasure, That is richer far than the jewelled crown, Or the miser's hoarded treasure ; It may, be the love of a little child, Or a mother's prayer to heaven, Or only a beggar's grateful thanks, For a cup of water given. Better to weave in the web of life A bright and. golden 'filling, And do God's work with a ready heart, Ancl bands that are prompt and willing, Than to snap the delicate minute threads • Of our curious lives asunder, And then blame heaven for thetangled ends; And sit and grieve and wonder. LOVE UP A CUM -TREE. AN AUSTRALIkN STORY. New South Wales is a ,colony peouliarly liable to floods. Its rivers usually take their rise amongst the mountain ranges of the interior, and in the early part .of their course are joined by numberless tributary streams. When the rainy season has set in, which generally commences about the middle of May, the down -pour some- times continues for six weeks at a time, and then these rivers overflow their banks and flood the surrounding country far and near, forming in many places miniature seas. Upon these occa- sions hundreds of farmers are ruined, thousands of sheep and cattle generally destroyed, and not unfrequently many valuable lives lost. The Weekly Dispatch, in a recent article on emigra- tion to New South Wales, vihich, by -the -bye, is more full of errors than it is of truisms, ignores all this, When, in touching on farming, it speaks in terms of Unqualified praise of the. rich lands ly- ing in proximity to the rivers, as ifinthese locali- ties the "new arrivals" should unhesitatingly settle down. With all due deferelice to the Dis- patch, I would remark that if any one desires to run a great risk of being ruined every three years . at the same time, veryprobably, of being drown- ed into the bargain, he could not do better than follow the advice tendered; but if he wishes to thrive and grow rich with any degree of certainty he could not adopt a more foolish plan. Perpaps the clistrict liable to disastrous floods in the whole colony is the broad vale of the Hun- ter, where every few years thousands of acres are submerged with a suddenness that is truly appall- ing. Houses are frequently buried even above the chimney -tops beneath the waters, which ra- pidly form an inland sea of at least fifteen miles long by nine or ten in breadth. In the year 1851, I, being one of the Austra- lian mounted police,* was quartered at Windsor, a neat little township about eighteen miles dis- tant from Sydney, the metropolis of the colony, and fdr sorne months I had been chiefly engaged in the arduous and by no means romantic duty of hunting for illicit stills, of which it was supposed there were several in the neighborhood: I cer- -tainly did my best to discover their whereabouts but was completely unsuccessful, and after tra- versing the country day after day, in every kind of disguise, until I must have travelled on foot and on horseback many hundreds of miles, I at last gave the matter up as a bad job. If I had not discovered a still, I had, however, in the course of my wanderings found what gave me fat greater delight, for I had fallen across one of the prettiest and most lovable little girls that an Australian or any other sun ever done the ho- nor of shining upon, and, what was better, I had so ingratiated myself into her good graces as to win her promise that she would never marry ahy orie but me. • 1 Our acquaintance had commenced in a roman- tic manner enough ; I had rescued her from a wild cow, who would certainly have gored her had I not inteposed and shot the brute. She was too frightened to walk home alone, and so I accom- panied her, was introduced to her parents as a matter of course, and as they were profusein their _thanks, and begged me henceforth to look upon their house as my home, I simply took them at their word, and thenceforth every other evening, and sometimes eftener, my charger would be com- fortably stalled for hours at a time in Farmer Martin's stable and meanwhile the pretty Ger- trude and myself would either be wandering by the river side, studying poetry, together in the old summer -house, or, as the told weather drew on, playing chegs in the snug little back parlor. Thus matters continued until the rainy season set in, but instead of being deterred by.the stea- dy 'down -pours, my visits became, if possible, more numerous than ever, and thmugh the slus- hy lowlands, where the water Was often up to my horses' knees, I nightly jogged, like amarine Cen- taur to visit my inamorata. - Ey-and-by the farmer's suspicions were arous- ed. " Could it be possible that a naountedtroop- er -wearing Her il‘lajesty's uniform would ride nightly nine Milfs through mud and slush, and thunder and ligildning, and rain and wind, to drink a glass of grog and smoke a pipe with an old man of sixty ?" So soliloquized the farmer, and his whole stock of common sense, of which he had an abundant supply, emphatically answer- ed the mental query with "Not a bit of it !" "It's the girl he's after, and it's time to put a stop to the nonsense," was the conclusion he ar- rived at, and so the very next evening that I rode over,. before Gertrude and I could half finish our third game at chess, Mr. Makin put his head in- to the room, and said, in a dry, dignified kind ,of way— t. *The Australian mounted police number as many gentleman of good birth and education in their ranks as any crack English cavalry regiment does araongst its officers. • The life of a trooper has always been thelast _resource of the poor gen- tleman, wholhaving .no profession at his ' finger's ends, cannot digs and to beg is ashamed. k •WHOLE NO. 137. "Hem! Could I speak with you a few min- utes in the front parlor, Mr. Rush !" I think I knew then what was coming, and so cid Gertrude, for she grew very pale and upset the board in her agitation, so that kings, queens, bishops, knights, and all tke smaller fry went roll- ing over the floor. I followed the old gentleman into the apartment indicated, that horrid room wherein everything was buried 'either in chintzess, or wrapped round with yellow muslin, and.where- , in afire was never lighted more than once oetwice A a year. Here he opened the trenches, not angri- ly, but calmly, determinedly, cold-bloodedly in- formed me that his daughter never could be mine for that he was a tolerably rich man, and he had resolved never to wed his child to one who was not possessed of itportion equal to her own. In vain I told him how much I loved his daugh- ter, that she loved me in • return, ae,d that we could never exist apart from each other. The old man smiled sarcastically at my raphsodies, and pointing to my unifoim, said— " The man whose very coat is not his Own, and whose pay is never likely to exceed seven -and - six -pence a day, cannot wed rny heireaa. He laid a strong stress on the last word, and I don't know what possessed me to retort— "And what may be the extent of your present wealth, Mr. Martin ?" , The question was certainly a rude one, but the old gentlemau did not take it as such, and an- swered simply— " Well, three months ago I had four thousand pounds in the Bank of Australasia, but I have ta- ken itall out and expended it in the purchase of ad- ditional stock and improvements on my farm, Mr. Rush; 1 dare say I am worth twelve thou- sand pounds at the least, and Gertrude will be the sole possessor thereof when I and her mother are dead." "Than you don't object to me in myself, Mr. Martin, but only because I am poor," I said, bit- terly. _ "Just so, my boy—I object on principle; but to show you that I bear you no personal come into the kitchen, and we will honor your last evening amongst us by a glass of my best grog, and tobacco, such as you have not tasted for many a long day." " Stay yet a moment," I cried. "Were I as rich a man as yourself, Mr. Martin, would you give me your child?" Ay, that would I, lad, right willingly." And directly I am as rich as you, if Gertrude is then single, will you consent to our marriage?" Verily I will, on my word of honor, Mr. Rush But why talk of impossibilities?" he added. "Where are you going to raise a sudden for- tuneV' "Ali, where was I ?" • My heart sank as I ask- ed myself that question, and -1 followed the old farmer into the kitchen in almost heartbroken si- lence. A bright fire .was blazing on the hearth, for grates are still very ram in Australia—in fact; they would be ill adapted to hold the great logs of red -gum and shea-oak that form the invaria- ble fuel. Presently glasses and pipes were laid on the table, and I did my best to rekindle hope within my breast by the aid of Holland§ and `Bar- ret's twist,' though with very ill success. On the other side of the fire sat Mrs. Martin, a comely dame of fifty years, fully as broad. as she was long, and with a mind wholly given -to the concerns of the dairy and the manufacture of orange marmalade. Gertrude, knowing that something was wrong, but scarcely geessing what, nestled up to my side, and to my great joy her father did notcheck her. And thus we sat for a long while, neither of us speaking a word, but listening to the pat- tering ram and howling wind without, and to the groaning of the great forest trees.as their branch- es were swayed and tossed by the blast. Anon there came another sound, a loud but yet soothing murmur, like the sighing :a a summer breeze amid a cork wood.. No one seemed to no- tice it but myself, and I only did so 'as wonder- ing how so gentle and musical a sound couldmake itself audible above the uproar of wind and tem- pest. Suddenly, however, there broke upon our ears the dashing open of a gate, and a man's voice shouting, " Martin! Martin! if you value your life look sharp !—the river has overflowed its banks—the waters are out !" And we heard the splash, splash, of his horses feet as the warning visitant rode away. "Water out! impos' sible !" muttered the old farmer. "Why, bless my heart! the river was not on a level with its banks by a good six inches this morning, and we've had no ram to speak of since." You don't know what weather it has been amongst the mountains, though Mr. Martin," I said; "and hark! put your ears to the floor ; by heavens the warning Wag a timely one, we have net a minute to lose!" We all bent our heads and listened, and now we could plainly hear a hollow gurgling sound _under our feet, and little jests of spray leaped up be- tween the crevices of the floor. The house, ac- cording to a commoncustom in the colonies, was built on piles, and thus the down stair rooms were aboutthree feet above the ground, between which and the flooring the angry waters were now fret- ting and fuming, and dashing against the stout wood -work with momentarily increa,sIng power. The women began to cry—the farmer was too stupefied to move. "This will never do," 1 said ; "there is not a moment to be lost. I can take one of you up be- hindme on my horse, and I know that Carlo and I will pull through it somehow; the rest ha,dbet- ter get up -stairs, or, if possible, on the top roof, an.d with the first peep of dawn I'll send a boat to bring you off. Now, then, who is to go with me !" I was very mu& afraid that Martin would bid. me take the old lady, but both the -parents cried out to me to save Gertrude. I lost lie time in acting. I flew to the front_ door, ran down the four steps that led to the garden, and with thewater over the tops of myNapoleon boots, made my way to the stable. Mine was the only steed there, for Australian settlers seldom stall, their horses, and the poor fellow was very miserable , and frightened. I did not stop to reassure him, how- ever, but had him round to the house door in a minute, and then, Gertrude, after bidding a weep- ing adieu to,her parents, ,sprang up behind me, and away we dashed into storm and tempest. It was indeed a wild and fearful night. The moon shone brightly, and every minute or two her light was obscured by black pall -like clouds,. that were tearing with mad velocity across the sky, and then it was so dark that I could not see my horse's head before Me. In the brietintervals of ghastly white light I could peroeive that we were - surrounded by a sea of waters; scarcely a speck of dry land was to be seen. True, the flood was as yet very shallow, scarcely above Carlo's knees, but I knew how rapidly it would deepen, and I urged the goou steed in the direction of the town as quickly as possible. Gertrude's arms encircled my waist, and they clung to me -with fear. Often I turned my head to speak to he -a few words of encourage- ment and hope, but I was too anxious to secure her safety and my own to say much. She was warmly wrapped up ire shawls, and as she was an excellent horse -woman-, I had little fear of her falling off, though the wind was blowing strong enough to.whirl her from the seat. Before we had gone more than a mile from the farm, the rain recommenced with redoubled fury, and in a few minutes we were both of us wet through. The wind, too, grew from a gale into a hurricane, and amid the continuous roar of the thunder, and flash of the pale lightning, we could see boughs of trees hurling through the air, and now and then heard a mighty crash of some aged monarch of the plain fell prone to the earth. Suddenly a flash of forked lightning darted right across Carlo's eyes,and with a snort of ter- , in the water, a cry, and the darkness hidler from baTckh.e excitem presently she. was again seated on Carlo's broad way to despair, another. flash of lightning reveal- edhe reared nearly upright. my sight. Just, however, as I was about to give ed her to me standing amid the flood, at not a dozen yard's distanee. I spurred towards her, and from slipping off. ' throw my right arm around her to prevent her I was too late—she had fallen. I heard a splash "Hold on, Gertrude," I cried, endeavoming to ent of this event, and the turning of my horse round and round in guest of -her, had made meforget the proper direction to town, so that we now rode not knowirig whither we were heading. Meanwhile the waters had grown deeper each moment, and presently I discovered that Carlo was swimming, I had not felt fear until now, but I must confess that a great dread crept over me when I discovered that whichever way I guid- ed my charger he could not touch the ground. I knew that, weighted as he was; he could not keep afloat for long, and each moment he seemed to sink lower and lower into the water. At this critical juncture of affairs the moon shone out again, and lit up the scene as though it had been broad daylight. Far as the eye could. reach not a speek of dry land was visible, but to rny great joy I perceived that near us stood a huge blue gum -tree, whose boughs were so di.. posed as easily to be scaled. . "Do you think you can climb that tree, Ger- trude? It is our only hope," I said. ' She answered feebly in the affirmative, and with some little difficulty I swam Carlo along= side. - Under the tree he regained his footing, and I was glad of this, for he was thus enabled to stand steady for my poor little companion to claniber into the lowest branches from his back. When she had effected this, I took off his bridle so that he wouldnot catch his feet in i` if he had again to swim for his life, and then Gertrude and I got some twenty feet higher in the "blue -gum," and paused to rest. . Shawls and wraps had. long ago fallen off her and been lost, and now poor Gertrude was exposed to all the inclemency of the weather in the low- necked, short -sleeved dress that she hadworn du- ring the evening. - How her beautiful -moulded and snow-white arms were scratched by the rough tree -bark in climbing, and as the rain poured down through the vertical foliage, the drops glittered on her polished shoulders and trickled down her hair. "Why, Gertrude, you look a veritable Undine," I said,- and having no cape or overcoat to protect her, I doffed my uniform jacket and made her put it on. We then sat side by side, and. putting my arm around her neck, I told her all about my interview with her father that evening. "And did papa really say that as soon as you were as rich as himself he would let you marry me, Willie ?" "Yes, Gertrude, he gave me his word and hon- or to that effect." "Then he will not break it," she replied. "Poor papa, this night lia.s made him a ruined - man ; and all his wealth was ineested in im- provements on his land and increasing his stock. It is all lost now, so that youlivrey.,, claim me sooner than you thought for, This view of the case had never stauck me be- fore, and 1 nearlyjumped off the gum-tree'in, f fear. a most selfish ecstasy of delight. I had to 'control my feellio„es, however, and exert all my powers in comfortiug Gertrude, who, now that the excitement attending our own escape was ov- er, began to entertain a thousand fears respecting the fate of her parents. At last I succeeded in convincing her that A was a matter of impossibil- ity for the flood to cover- the hcnise before rescue came in the morning, and thereupon she grew more composed, and our thoughts reverted to our hopes and fears, and amid the pelting rain and howling wind. and the close sultry atmosphere, and the still rapidly rising waters below, she nestled in my alms, and we talked. of the future until the cold grey dawn aroused us from our seventh heaven of bliss. Well, to make a long story short, after another three hours' perch we perceived some boats com- ing from the direction of Windsor, and by the aid of a brilliant scarlet handkerchief th at I fortunate- ly possessed, we signalled them, attracted their attention, and were in due- time taken 011 board. At my instigation we then rowed to Mr. Martin's farm, and saved the old gentleman an lady from a chimney -top whereon they were both sitting with their legs crooked up out of the flood. - We were only just in time ; that chimney -pot, an' hour later, was under water. - Two months later Gertrude • Martin became Mrs. William Rush. The old man kept his word and our position was not so bad after all, for three weeks previous to my marriage a distant relstive in England died, leaving me an annuity of £100, so that with the addition of my pay, 7s. 6c1, a day, we began housekeeping very comforta- bly. Mr. Martin has retrieved hit losses and now possesses a capital farm at Parramatta. He has abjured for ever the rich alluvial lands bordering on flood -devastating rivers. '-easeile; A man in Michigan swakeed his horse for a wife. A bachelor acquaititanee said that he'd bet there was semetliing wrcusgswith the horse or its owner would never havefooled it away ,in that manner. - -see • ete- A Safety.Match.—Ten thousantIk year on both sides. Cutting a troublesome acquaintance.--Patinga corn. I VARIETIES. Pleasant fits to have.—Those of your tailor. He who chnnotforgive others, breaks the bridge over Which he himself will one day want to pass. Saxe says that "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. A Cockney conducted two ladies to the obser- vatory, to see an eclipse of the moon. They Were too late; the eclipse over, and the ladies were disappointed. "Oh !" exclaimed our hero, "don't fret. I know the astronomer very well; he is a polite man, and I am sure will begin again, " WEATHER SONG. When the weather is wet, - We nuist.not fret; . When the weather is cold, We must not scold;. -When the weather is warm. We must not storm; But - Be thankful together, Whatever the weather. San Diego, has a new paper. At first thonght it might appear that there is not muc-h especial- ly worthy of note in that fact, but the way in which it speaks of itself shows that such a suspicion would be very cruel and unjust, both to the editor and the San Diegans, present and prospective. It puts the matter this: "The advent of the Bulletin in San Diego is an era in her history, which will be looked back upon by future generations as one of the most important; and as such should receive the support of each and every resident" You can never, by any accident, get a lady,— be she young or old,—to confess, That she laces tight. That -her shoes are too small for her. That she is ever tired at a ball. That she is as old as she looks. That she has been more than five minutes dressing. That she has _kept yon wait- ing. That she blushes when a certain person's name was mentioned. That she ever says a thing she dosen't mean. That she is fond of scandal That she,—she of all persons in the World,—is love. That she dasen't want a new bonnet. That she hasn't the disposition of an anger or the temper of a saint—or else how could she go thrO' one half of what she does. That she is never in the wrong. Beauty has its foundation in physieal well-be- ing. Health has its laws, which must be -ender- stood and obeyed; and these laws are clearly in- dicated in our physical and. mental constitutions. They dero.a,nd tt-1. Proper food and drink in such quantities that the system is capable of readily assimilating. 2. An and sunlight in ab- undance. 3. Sufficient exercise, rest, and sleep. 4. An agreeable temperature. 55. Perfect clean- liness. The whole secret of a full form and rosy cheeks liei in Fere blood .manu!actured from. wholesome food, by healthy and active vitarsar gans, oxygenated and vitalized in well-eipanded _lungs, and kissed by the life giving sunlight on - the surface of , tb e warm cheek. She who will have the color she covets on any other terms must buy it of the apothecary, and renew it every time she makes her toilet. These "bulls" are net all of Irish origin. It was the mayor of a Portuguese city who once en- umerated among the marks by which the body of a drowned man might be indentified, "a marked impediment in his speech." General Taylor wait made ridiculous for a time by the sentence which occurred near the be„ainningpf his message sent to the Thirty-first Conerets, December, 1840, as follows :— are at peace with all the world, and seek to maintain our cherished relations `of atuity.with the rest of mankind." Mr. Buchan- an almost matched it in a speech svhich he made at the South, in wnich he said :—"I do believe, gentlemen, that mankind, as well as the people of the United States, are interested in the Ire - servation of the Union ;" and John C. Calhoun, commenting on the clause in the declaration of Independienee, to the effect that all men are cre- ated equal, remarked that "Only tsvo men were created, and one of these was a woman !" o A PArisian widower, who ,greatly regretted his wife, had her buried in the cemetry of Mount Parna.sse. He put up no monument of marble or stone—only a small garden and a very small in- scription marked the spot where his lost partner lay. First, some nasturtiums were planted over her grave—the deceaied was fond of nastskiums. These were gathered on Sunday and eaten as a, salad. This attempt having been successful, bolder measures were adopted, and little pink radishes grew there, as if by chance. The -official in charge of the -cemetry said nothing untillast autumn, when he became aware of the presence of two enormais melons in the little enclosure. This time police regulations were put in force, and this new form of market gardening was brought to a close by the bereaved husband tw- ine. requested to withdraw from the0 cemetry; whuch he did, complaining bitterly of 00 cruelty, and saying that he had so particularly veined the vegetables grown upon the grave, and eating them with peculiar satisfaction, beouse he felt they were offered. him by his Zoe. ; In New Orleans "the first verdict under the Social Equality law" has been thesource of much amusement The jury, in the first place, was naixed to a remarkable degree and contained Af- ricans, Croles, Germans, and hishmen of course Spaniard -8, Frenchmen and native Americans. this was a jury de medietate lingue With a verse gence. The strongest argument made against the -principle of the law under which the case was tried, was delivered by full-blooded black, -who intelligently enough remarked, "Now, gentle- men the law, if it is a law, is all nonsence. 15. am ior letting every Man choose his own company, and keeping out of his house and company any person who he don't care to 'sociate with: S'pose now, I give a ball, and invite my colored lady friends, .1 don't want any whitemen to come -there and take my colored ladies away, and I don't 'bristle in the, gatherings nf white people. Ifs not genteel, according to my notione, to go anywhar .whar you ain't waited and invited." The Rad- icals on the jury found it in vain to preacb hu- man rights against this logic. Agreement, how- ever, was impossible. To increase the fun, the Celtic juror declared that he had Made 'up his magrinedeolandA*Gonerldmtealill iitousinirLt; stuotimitherjeplztateenb,,,:. fieulty. "Gentlemen," said,he, 11etf,4,411. One eve we must go on the law, an4her 9wthe evidence, arid. another on the Jitstiee; We nughb tfindhevveierrd clii Tbut,wee an-andfifinder st,h ,slertre cc nzts taagrnnee, tz,, Ancl this was.their verdiet:"