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HE undersiiggnned have on Unit &r their'Mills,
half a.mile North from =the " illige of Ain -
le ' .500 000•,, t ';of " t ' > ORY. PINE
L n t tb.foiiowirr event' kinds; viz
l- bis at�; end a'04,:andtwo inch, clear. A
e , iOQ, ookt iA0 1and a , garter, and
inch iM 1 oof gg; ibh° dressed and under.
dressed -;.half itmel aidingr.Ommon boards and
plank, 12, 14zand 16 feet long Board and serif
L.ATH, all of which will be sold at rodeo&
prf.ea,
A View from the Pyramids.
EGYPT AS IT APPEARS TO -DAY.
Rev. C. S. Robinson, D. D•, is contri-
buting to the Christian Union a series of
letters on Egypt, which are more thought-
ful and"` interesting than tourists' stories
are. apt to be. From his latest we quote a
few eg tracts :—
The view from the great . pyramid of
Ghizeh is as unique as it is fine. Just at
the base stretches away a vast plain which
was the historic tattle ground of one of Na-
poleon's most splendid victories in his . con-
quest of the East. Indeed, we consider
ourselves as perched at this moment on
the high outlook of those forty . centuries
which he told his soldiers were gazing down
upon them, and we can see the entire aie-
na in which the regions were displayed. --
Beautiful diversified fields beyond it, of all
colors under the various approaching har-
vests, lie between us and old Cairo. Then
the mysterious Nile, the creator of all'` the
empire which fills that narrow strip of land
it has for unreckoned years defen ded from
the encroachments of the " billows` of sand
that the indefatigable winds of the desert
have heaped up to engulph it, winds placid-
ly along its sinuous course. Beyond this
the delicate domes and minarets of New
Cairo succeed in the prospect, shining among
the heavy green plumes of the palm tree.
.And, for just such a touch of life in the
stillness, we can see long trains of ungainly
camels. the dark tents and brown garments
of the straggling travellers that accompany
there --the scenery of the Arabian Nights
once more suddenly realized as if 'ovt of a
youthful dream.
All this, looking one 'way only ; any
other direction rei'eais no more than the
travellers and verdureless wastes of the
great "Libyan Desert ; sand, treeless and
lifeless' ; ah ocean without a wave. a sea un-
bounded even by crusts of foam at the hori-
zon, . a' niotionles expanse that has no actu-
al confines, whose limits to human vision
nsist- only of spaces losing themselves in
mere vanishing distance, leaving' the eves
tingling and blinded under the glistering
glare.
THE LAY OF THE LAND.
No one' can have any adequate concep-
tion of the queer shape of Egypt until he
has seen at least this part of it. A little
green ribbon, lying loosely as if it had drop-
ped oil_ a yellow sand heap, would be a fit-
ting emblem. ` The exceeding emaciation of
that slender filament of soil, redeemed by
the river from the desert, can hardly be de-
scribed. You see the entire width of it,
from edge to edge, for many a mile as you
sit on the summit of the pyramid. And
really it does appear to b • so thin and so
insignificant that you ma vel anew -a.t the
history which stands on record to its credit,
evidence to which it bears in solemn digni-
ty of reserve beneath its accumulations of
soil
Not far from the base of 'these vast strucL
tures, ie the shadow of a small copse of
palms, have been already gathered a large'
number of broken statues and images, un-
earthed at one time and another in this re-
gion_ They serve as most affecting remind-
ers of the genius and skill of the forgotten
generations. These headless, uncouth crea-
tions in stone would make one laugh, if it
were not that he remembers that they are
the mementoes of a race -coevalwith the
patriarchs. They may be awkward in look,
but few are they who would dare say, "go
up, thou bald head," to even the worst of
them.
Away up the Nile, close by the cataract,
so near the tropics that once., it was report-
ed that " gnomous on the dial cast no sha-
dow," lie the . now silent quarries from
which many of the enormous stones we are
sitting upon came tor the building of the
pyramids. One fids his imagination kin-
dled into curiosity; first, as to the methods
employed to transport such mighty masses
of rock so far ;; and then his mind lapses
into pensive sentiment.- thoughtfulness,.
while he remembers how silent to -day are
the myriad hands "which once in these sands
wrought so busily.
THE S?YHNX.
At the foot of the pyramids, immediately
belowcrzs as we sat on the ledges, there rises
out of the verdureless sand one of the most
singilar idols that human ingenuity ever
imagined ; one of the awkwardest bodies
and one of the most massive heads that hu-
man hands ever carved. No line of beau-
ty has it anywhere to exhibit; the ears are
enormous, the nose is .ragged, the beard is
broke; the open eyes -!stare blankly and
closely down upon you-; the wig bags flatly
and flaringly out on either side, the chin
has lost half of its stony hair and all its
semblance of dignity. The face was former-
ly painted, and the red is washed off on the
weather side. Altogether the structure
has pretty much gone under the effects of -
age, and bas quite the look of a used -up
piece of property, But there yet remains a
tranquil majesty in its nuen that every one
recognizes and feels the moment he sees
it.
Coarse in its construction, uncouth and
stiff in every lineament, it is yet able to im-
press the soul of every traveller, even the
most careless, who beholds it. It is bet-
ter seen from below; the .first sight of it, if
from the top of the pyramids, belittles and
dwarfs its proportions ; if from the long and
winding approach of the old path, it is
best of all =The'figure' is of colossal form,
sculptured roughly in yellowish steno
nummulite, containing millions of minute
`and perfebt• shells, of a brutes body with a
human hemi: The body recinea at length
in the sand,'$nd the head is finely erect in
r. Mere
the air, used to be an altar between
the fore paws, bated precisely where the
sweet savoi Of' a sacrifice might most easily
be supposed to reach the nostril.
PYRAMIDS IN sORIPTU1
It has been said more than once that
these most remarkable. structures are no -
when) mentioned in the "13ibl®. One: thing.
is- certain ;6 -any ' concordance Will .shew
that the name: does not at all appear; in our
Elistm vera,4n. v And: this seems very
strange; for surely they are the most con-
spicuous objects to be seen in Egypt, and
most likely to furnish "symbols to the pro-
phets in their. _predictions . concerning ..the,
land, From this silence some have even
gone so far as to assert that they -are . far
more modern than their friends suppose,
and were erected subsequent to the Old
Testament canon.
Long ago, however it was pointed out by
Mr. Gliddon, and had been _dwelt upon
much by those who have followed him, that
in the Book of Job, : the oldest in the Bi
ble; occurs a for'n of expression in the ori-
ginal. Hebrew, which points very.plainly to
thein, and intimates that even in Job's day
the mistake was prevalent that all the
pyramids were burial places, The passage
is that in which the weary patriarch wishes
he had died early—" For no w shall. I have
lain still and been quiet; I should have
slept ; then I. had been at rest with 'kings
and counsellors of the earth, which built de-
solate places for themselyes." The ,single
word rendered here . " desolate places" is
pyramids. And in one of the little volumes
of comment, Dr. Horatio Bonar adds to
this, as he remarkn upon averse lathe third
chapter of Jeramiah's Lamentations,"
that a singteallusion seems quite pertinant,
-since the pi ophet composed these sorrow
fel utterances in Egy, pt, lamely, when he
says. " he hath set me in dark places, as -
they that be dead of old." Here the word
rendered " dark; places" is pyramids as be-
fore. All this gratifies curiosity, but not
much can .be made of it. •
A "Fort" in Rupert's Land.
A typical "fort" of the Hudson Ba
was not at best a very lively sort of a
though sometimes,, built on a comman
situation at the bend of some beautiful
and backed by wave after wave of
pine -forest, it was not unpictureeque in
pearance. Fancy a parallelogram of
er or less extent enclosed by a picket t
ty-five or this ty feet in height, compose
upright trunks of trees, placed in a tre
and fastened along the top by a rail,
you have the enclosure. At each -co
was a strong bastion built of squarreed I
and pierced for guns which could sw
every side of the fort. Inside this .pi
was a gallery running right round the
closure, just high enough fqr a :man's h
to be level with the top ot the fence.
intervals all along the side of the pic
were loop -holes for muse etry, and over
gateway .was another bastion, from wh
sho; could be poured on any party attem
ing to carry the gate. Altogether, tho
perfectly incapable of withstanding a
pounder for a couple ot hours, it was stro
enough to resist almost .any attack the
dians might bring against it. Inside . t
enclosure were the store -houses, house*
the employees, wells and sometimes' a
garden. , All 'night long a voyageur wou
watch ,by watch, pace round this galle
crying out at intervals, with a quid of
bacco in his cheek, the hours and the st the weather. This was as a:.precauti
.in case of fire, and the hour -calling was
prevent him falling asleep for any.len
of time. Some of the less important a
more distant outposts were only rough 1
tle log cabins among the snow, witho
picket or:other enclosure, where a "po
master resided to superintend the affa
of the company The mode of trading
peculiar. It was an entire system of ba
er, a " made" or " typical" beaver -skin
ing the standard of trade. It was, in fac
the currency of the oountry. Thus an I
dian arriving at one of the company's est
bhshmen witha bundle of furs which h
iutend,s t ell, proceeds, - in the first i
stance, to he trading -room there the tra
es separa the;furs into lots, " and aft
adding up the amount, delivers to the ind
an a numb r of pieces of wood, indicatin
the numbe of "made -beavers" to which h
"hunt" am unts. He is next taken to th
store-rocm, where he finds himself surround
ed by , bales of blankets, slop -coats, guns
scalping -knives, tomahawks (all made i
Birmingham) powder -horns, flints. axes
etc. Each article has recognized value
made beavers," a slop -coat, for example
may be worth five made beavers, for whic
the Indian delivers up twelve of his pied
of wood ; for a gun he gives twenty ; for a
knife he gives two; and so on until fi
stock of wooden cash is expended. Som
times the Indian is introduced, while trad
ing, into a narrow" passage, the `end of whir
faces a window like. the window of a rail-
way or theatre ticket office, at which he
conducts his negotiations with the trader.
After finishing he is presented with some
trifle: in addition to the payment of his furs,
and makes room for some one else.. The
passage�is crooked for the simple reason
that experience teller the trader that the
Indian is.apt, in a heated bargain, to shoot
him from behind. --Cull Magazine.
Catherine Beecher is now 70, . Alice Cary
48, Fanny Fern fi0, and Harriet Beecher
Stowe 56.
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The Sandwich Islands are becoming civil-
ized. Thea Legislature" has passed a diverse
law. = Of cruris domestic felicity will be
promoted thereby. .
The estimated population of New York
city this year is 1,260,000. And with this
increase in population has come a more
than proportionate increase in poverty,
crime and law.leasnes§,
Nitro-glycerinebeen i
, hiss. in use but five
year, yet over 1;700 -persona have been
killed or maimed by it.
They have lately added a first-class planning
machine, -to their other machinery, and intend
keeping dressed lumber of all kinds constantly
an hand:
The public may rely upon being able toprocnre
any of the above articles of Lumber at their
Mills. so long as it is here adve •tiled.
?witch sending lumber to the mill can have
dressed on the shortest notice and lowest possible
terms.
M. & T. SMITH.
Ainleyviile, Feb. 11, 1870. 114-tf
GREAT
CLEARING SALE
TAE term of partnership having expired by li-
mitation of time, tl iiisubscriberearedisposed,
to aell off the whole of 'the stock at present in
their store as quickly as possible.
WE HAVE DETERMINED TO SELL
At and Below Cost
FOR
iE _MONTH
FOR
CASH OR TRADE.
FARMERS AND OTHERS
MAY DEPEND ON GETTING BARGAINS
AS THE STOCK
MUST BE SOLD:
N. B.—No goods entered during the sale.
KIDD. &` McMULKIN.
Seaforth, June 14th, 1870. 131.
BACIIELOJ{S !
GET MARRIED,
AT ONCE, AS
FTJ ' NITti RE
25 per cent. Cheaper
THOMAs. BELL'S
waxEa.001•ICs_
-
HE HAS ADDED
STEAM POWIiI
To his Facilities, and is now selling
Wholesale and Retail.
Be Sure to Call before Pur-
chasing Elsewhere.
WARE ROOMS OPPOSITE KIDD & McMUL-
KINS.
WORK SHOP, CORNER Op MARKET
SQUARE. '
[TUTRNING done on the Shortest
. Notice.
COFFINSkept constantly on -hand.
A HEARSE FOR HIRE.
SEAPORT'', JUNE 30, 1870
1..001C OtTT P01-1
NEW GOODS
JUS'T RECEIVED,
EMBRACING THE
LATEST STYLES
In English and
Canadian
TWEEDS,
BY
WM. CAMPBELL,
Merchant Tailor,
New Yrk.liouse,.
SEAFORTH, ONT.
C-ENTLEMEN,.
ATTENTJoy,
Hats that are HATS
A Fine Assortment of
GENTS' HATS
OF THE VERY LATEST
FASHIONS, JUST RE-
CEIVED AT THE
NEWYORK HOUSE
WM. CAMPBELL.
SEAFORTH,, July 28, 1870. -
AnnoancemenT!
THE SUBSCRIBERS DESIRE TO INFORM
TH.F, PUBLIC THAT THEY HAVE COM-
MENCED THE
BOOT AND SHOE.
BUSINESS!
In the Shop One Door South of
John Logan's Store, and near-
ly Opposite Kidd & McMulkin's,
MAIN STREET,
SAFORTE1,
1111•s
From their long experience in the
Line,by using the Best Ma -
tern, and confining them-
- selves almost ex-
clusively to
CUSTOM WORK!
THEY CAN CONFIDENTLY GUARANTEE
EVERY SATISFACTION.
They propose to sell at as LOW PRICES as ar
Consistent with GOOD WORK.
McINTYRE & WILLIS.
Sa.ir0RTH, August 11, 1870.
N. B. REPAIRING NEATLY AND PROMPTLY
EXECUTED.
140--
LTTMSDEN
JL
Has jest received a Fresh Stock of
PURE DR•IUGS.
AND
CHEMICALS
Toilet and Fancy Soaps, Combs, Hair, Tooth
and Nail Brushes, French, English,
and American.
PERFUMERY.
GENUINE DYE STUFFS
Guaranteed to be of.the best quality;
Horse._ and Cattle Medicines
Condition Powder.
Physicians perscriptions carefully and ace
ately dispensed.
R LrM8.DBN,
Money I 11IIoney
THE subscriber has receivedanother- large re
mittance of;mons for
y investment on good.
farm property,-at''8 per cent ; or 10 per cent, and
no charges:
JOHN S, PORTER.
Seaforth, Jan'y, 21st,1870. 95.E
SEPTEMBER 16, 1$70,
GENUJNE START,
DIAMOND
STAR
GLASS I
PAINTS AND OILS,
THE BEST IN THE
MARKET;
AND
CHEAP, AT
Johnson Bro's.,
SIGN OF THE GOLDEN PADLOCK,
Carriage and Sleigh
Factory,
MAIN ST•, SEAFORTH -
THE Subscribers, thankful for past favours.
would intimate to the inhabitants ot Seaforth
and surrounding colittiry, that they have on hand.
Large Assortment of
CARRIAGES, BTT GG TES,
DEMOCRATS, &c., &c.,
Made up of the Best Material, and
in the Latest Styles.
in order to make room for WINTER WOEK,
they will sal! O} -TEAR FOR OAsH.
Or Intending purchasers would do well to give
them a call before purchasingelsewhere.
P.EPAIRINC Promptly attended to.
Remember the Stand : First door -
South of the Foundry, Main St.
MCI-NTOSH & MORRISON.
SEAPORT'', September 1, 1870
1I1—
FALL GOODS!
T. ANDERSON'S
FALL STOCK,
Has Recently Arrived
IT CONSISTS OF
PLAIN AND FANCY TWEEDS 1
MELTONS,
Broad Cloths & Doeskins,
ALSO BEAVER AND PILOT
40VERO0ATING-S_
AND ALL OTHER SEASONABLE GOODS
IN THE LINE.
Everything made up in the Latest
or any Style, to suit Customer.
ALL WORK WARANTED, AND PERFECT
FITS CUARANTEED.
PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
Or SHOP ONE DOOR SOUTH OF ROB-
ERTSON & CO'S HARDWARE STORE.
SEAFORTM, September 1,'1870.
1152
ONTARIO HOUSE!
EDWARD CASH,
WILL COMMENCE ON
SEPTEMBER THE FIRST,
To CLEAR OFF HIS
DRY GOODS STOOK,
AT AND UNDER -00S7.
GOOD VALUE FOR READY
PAY.
Cash for Butter and Other
Produce.
FreshTeas&Groeer 's
ALWAYS ON HAND.
SEAFORTH, Sept. 1, 1870.
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WATER. ;LIME !`
—A ND—
Calcine Plaster
T—
X O I N S O N BRO'S_
Sign of the Golden Padlock,
FARM FOR SALE.
TOR sale --;--an excellent fling Of 25 acres, 2I
J' cleared,- welt -fenced; --with-a sood log house,
frame stable,, -young, orchard;at
class well and pump, bei east corner of lot
-No. 6, 1st ,Con, Township of Huliett,Co,' 11,
One half e from the Huron Road,. 0r mea
Clinton ands:4rfirom Seaford > ,Thea,. farm: is e11
situated for a gardener. _ Wi l bs sold eitherthwL
e present crop or without. For further psr�'
lar .apply to the proprietor on, the primsises.
Seaforth, June 17, 1870. ENOS O 13T13 .
41.
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iSpl Teleg
London, Sept.
take miction to a- "
bers of soldiers f
are reaching Pa
on and want of c
were the causes o
New York, Se
tails of Fav, 's ci
of France. It is
He reminds Forel:
man has more s,
of peace than :him
of peace, he says,
which is the only
arty of the Na
Fiance arises free.
who marches upo
warred upon the
Fiance, means to c
it becomes impious:
manty. Upon his
ity of this.. If this
aeeepts it. We w
French territory n
tri of France..
day would be a w
morrow. We will
time for making
inake war to gain
have a resolute arm
have well provision':
tablisled circle of f
Capital, __ Above al
300,000 combatata
equipped and deter,
parts to the last. I
en we have our wall
taken we lnve the
Paas armed in the
months and eonqu.
Fraticein arms wit
cessary: that Europe
ourdetermination.
power" witn no othe
keep power a nlomerl
Paris &na all France
indojalitable resolittio
sire peau, but if the
ed upon us ewe w:il.
end. '
Washington, Sept.
istee of War received
Pavia announcing the
Republic in France
Berthemy to present
Government. Instru
to our minister_ in. Pa
new Government, w
definitely ascertained
ists. It is now quite
week, the Republic o
tablished by the, alio-
- of the: French peopl
that the present Fr
shortly be replaced, b:
rnent has been made.
London, Sept. 8......_
that peace proposition
fore the King of Pr
France.
New York, Sept.
give distressing accou
at Strasburg- Avenu
es are in ruins and s
the Sir asburgers hold
Washington, Sept
of the Government o
Minister Washburne,
the new Government o
ered congratulations o
lishrnent of Republic.
Berlin, Sept. 8.-
now in the hands of l;'
sate, represents territo
ed by Prussia from
nity. Emperor is at
Cassels,
Paris, 8. ----iTo ureal d-
withstanding that it w
forts for mediaation had
the project may succeed
tie is said to have been
killing 8,000 or 10,000
taring many guns. Th
ted to cross on'the pion
Inifs and Port Austen:t
ly annihilated by the Ai:
Port Deprebeurs.
New York, Sept. 9
London state that a Pea
seinble at Vienna -on Sat
Paris, Sept. 9. --Jules
services of the Orleans
them to quit the city f
tions.
Berlin, Sept. 9. At
members of the North
tion it has been decided
Lorraine shall be annex
not to Prussia individna
Paris, Sept 9, noo
agree, that the Prussian
rapidly, on this city, by
the advance cavalry hav
within ten miles of the F`
and have cut the norther
main army of the Prussia
miles from Paris. -Gen.
fered, his services to th.
lie.
New York, Sept, la—
London say it is the imp
Fiance will accept any to
memberment of her ter
which she is sup
believed that the _Rep
wills consent to pay a larg
mantle frontier fortresses
ing-arnmy, but no more.
insist on cession of Alsate
even Metz and Strasburg
Burne a new and terrible
London, Sept. 9..--llrea
in Constantinople,, where
have been ascer talo tha
tria are negotiating
off eastern Europe..