The Huron Expositor, 1870-10-14, Page 66.
THEHURON EXPOSITOR.
How the Empress- Eugenie Escaped
from Paris.
A correspondent of the Telegraph writes
—" So far as I have been able to see, the
accounts of the Empress's escape fromsthe
revolutionized capitaL on Sunday, which
have been published in this country, are
imperfect and inaccurate. I have just re-
turned from Paris, where T had special op-
portunities for cbserving the stirring events
of Sunday, Sept 4, and -I give you what I
know to be the true story of Her Majesty's
escape. The deposition of the Napoleon
dynasty was voted in the Corps Legeslatiff
about 1 o'clock on Sunday. afternoon.—At
2 o'clock M Pietri-s—then Prefect of Police
—rnshed breathlessly into the Empress'
apartments in the Tuileries with the start-
ling announcement and warning:: 'The de-
cheanee has been declared. I thave not a
moment to lose. Save your life, Madame,
as I am now hastening to save any own'
Then he disappeared—and with good rea-
son too, for the Revolutionary Government
woilld. give something to be able to lay
hands upon him now. The Empress found
herself alone with her old and trusty secre-
tary and friend, Mme. le Breton, and with
M. Ferclinand de Lesseps, who both urged
her to fly at once. But her high spirit
made this a naost unpalatable counsel_ It
was a cowardice—une lnehete--to cksert the
Palace. She would rather be ereated as
was Marie Antoinette by the mOb\ than
Beek safety in unwoithy flight. For athm
all persuasion was uselese; but at Jepgt1
Iler Majesty's mood calmed soraewha ,
she saw the utter uselessness of remaining.
'Attended only by the two companions we
have named, the Empress fled through the
long gallery of the Louvre; but suddenly
her course was stopped by a locked door.
The little party could- distinctly hear the
shouts of the crowds who were invading the
private gardens ef the Tuileries. M de Les-
seps, to gain time, proposed that he should
go out on the terrace and get the soldiers on
guard to hold back the pecple ;kir a few
minutes, while in addition, be would delay
the crowds by addressing them. The re -I
sort to tis expedient was not necessary.'
Mule. de -Breton found the key, opened the
door that had obstructed their progress, and
gave egress to Her Majesty, who, accom-
panied mly by her tried friend, issued into
the steeet at the bottom of the Louvre.
there they hurriedly entered a common
fiaere, not without a risk of detection on
the spot; for a diminutive gamin c16 Pa/rift,
not more than twelve years old, shouted
Voila l'Imperatrice Luckily no one
about heard or heeded him, and the cab
got away safely with the twoiladiese They
di ove to M. de Lesseps' house in the Boule-
vard de Malesherbes, where the Empress
at until she was joined by M. de Metter-
nich, who did what he could to facilitate
her departure to &place of safety. Later
in the evening, th a Empress, still acccim-
panied by Mme. le Breton,—thanks to the
thick veil which she wore—and at 7 o'clock
rolled safe and unsuspected away toward
the Belgian frontier."
Captain Kidd.
BY THS FAT 6DITTRIBUTOR.
Among the self-made men of olden times
few were more conspicuous than Captain
William Kidd, who was born in this coun-
try about the middle of the seventeenth
century, though he went to England to
die, the climate here not agreeing with
him.
Of William's early life butlittle is known.
He is believed, to have followed the sea
from his youth, and the pertinacity with
which he followed a raerchant vessel in his
subsequent career, serves to strengthen that
belief. From a simple sailor he rose to be
a ship master, and was known as one of the
boldest and most successful that sailed out
of the harbor of New York. He finally
obtained a commission as captain of a priva-
teer to cruise against the pirate's that were
preying on British commerce. His veseel
was the " Adventure Galley," of thirty
guns, in which he sailed from Plymouth,
England, \in April, 1696. He cruised off
the American coast, frequently entering
New York for the purpose of procuring en-
listments. That he even then contemplated
turning pirate has been urged by some of
his biographers, because he became inti-
mate with New York officials, closely
studying their mode of operations, and was
on familiar terms with Democratic politi-
cians. At the City Hall on Wall street, in
the Cusems House, and wherevel else steal-
ing was going onfthere might Captian Kidd
he found, considering their ways that he
might become wise.
With his crew increased to 150 men
through the enlistment of New York "re-
peaters," .Captain Kidd set sail for the East
Indies and the east cost of Africa.
He didn't have any Particular luck in
hunting pirates. It was too much like
" set a thief to catch a thief." He began
to think it much rum e profitable to be a
pirate than to catch one. He envied them
their free and easy life, dreamed, of amass-
ing great wealth as they did, and at last
spending the decline of kis life in some
luxurious but seqaestered isle of the sea,
unmolested by the tax -gatherer. ile only
read such books as " Lafitte, the pirate,"
"The Buccaneers of the Gulf," and.'" The
Red Avenger of the Spanish Main,". while
his favorite song was ":The Pirate's Bride."
At length be propesed to his crew that
the skull and cross -bones be run up to the
peak, and he found them nothing averse to
the proposition. In fact their education in
New York city politics had sen.dered them
eager to any enterprise that promised plun-
der. So Kidd and his fellow kidds became
pirates, and the privateer " Adventure.
Galley," became a pirate ship. They had
a little celebration ovbe the event, the Cap-
tain reading his farewell address on resign-
ing his position as Captain of His -Majesty's
Privateer, and then delivered an inaugural
speech on his accession to his new command.
The men wept bitterly over his farewell,
but cheered his inaugural lustily. -
They carried on both a wholesale and re-
tail business of piracy for some time, fre-
quently ,introducing among the captured
passengers and crews that neat thing in
egarilibrium entitled "walking the plank."
Captain Kidd, who had a keen sense of the
ludicrous, used to stand at, the gangway and
hand each pers:im a Boston cracker, as he
was about to walk, with the facetious re-
mark, "now go and drink." The bunsor
ef the thing conSisted in j the disparity be-
tween what they were offerea to eat and
what thew '„ot to drink. '
Captain Kidd buried a large portion' of
his treastrees on Gardiner's Island, where it
can be found now—up to this day very little
of it leaving been discovered. He did this
because he expected finally to retire to New
Jersey, and he wanted his deposites cobtee
nient. I
After ptinuing his piracies some time. he
boldly appeared in Boston, alleging that he
could clear issimself of any ehaiges of piracy,
ander the provisions of the new license law.
But the Gosternor of Massachusetts, who
,appears to have had no sympathy for a
young man struggling to melte his way in
the •world, had him arrested and sent to
England for trial. Unable to convict him
of pirac;y;they convicted him of killing one
of his crew with a bucket—the iron -bound
bucket —rd he was hanged.
Thus we have in Captain Kidd an in-
stance of a young man beginning life as a
common sailor, and by his own genius and
'efforts rising to a high position—his gallows
being about twenty-five feet in height. ,
Captain Kidd was noted for his atten-
tention to dress, and never wearing any-
thing but kid gloves. It has been claimed
that Kidd wasn't always his name on ac-
count of the song:
"My name was ,Captain Kidd, as I sailed, as I
sailed,” .
that being an intimation that his name was
something else when he wasn't sailing. The
ii
lepeaters " of New York rep etted great-
ly that Kidd wasn't hung in that city so
they might give hiin it big funeral.
A Bear in a Sunday School.
There was new scholar at the Metho-
dist Sabbath school last Sunday. Just as
the bell had been struck and the superin-
tendent was about to give out the opening
hymn, a young bear, :weighing perhaps forty
pounds, trotted up the isle, sinelled the
books the librarian had spread'out before
him, grunted his approbation Of them,- and
then quietly seated himself upon his hauches
in the pulpit. It is stating the case mildly
to say that everybody was surprised and
that the children smiled very audibly—very
audibly. The officers of the school were
willing to do all that was reasonable for
the mental and moral edification of the
young cub but he so entirely absorbeg the
attention of the children that it was thought
best to have him leave. He was accord• -
ingly politely invited to retire, but he had
evidently come to stay and stay he would.
It was his first attendance at Sunday school,
and being thoroughly embued with the spirit
of young America, he resolved to see the
thing through. A etrap was finally got
around his neck, and he was led away and
fastened in a small adjoining room used as
a store-roorn. Order was restored, and the
superintendent was once more about to
commence services, when a racket, as if all
bedlam had biOken loose, was heard in the
store -room. Once more the officers came to
the rescue, and, on opening the door, they
found that the cub had broken loose from
his fastenings, and upset a five gallon kero-
sene can, and was Playing mad in a most
magnificent style. As the door was opened,
bruin dashed out, shook the dust off his
feet as a testimony against the treatment
he bad received, and left, evidently disgust-
ed with the manner of conducting Sunday
schools in Traverse city.—eliichigan paper.
DEATH OF A HAWICK GIANT.—The great-
est man (corporeally) in our community,
and one of the tallest subjects of Queen
Victoria, died here on Friday, in the person
of Francis Sheridan, landlord of the Irish
Harp Tavern, Baker Street. "Big Frank
was 7 feet 8 inches in height, meastued 58
inches round the chest, and weighed 22
stone avoirdupois. He was in his thirtieth
year. A %native of the Emerald Isle. Frank
possessed much of the genuine humour of
his countrymen, and was a man of most
peacefill disposition. His legs were much
bent, and seemed unable to support his
Illige frame, but, nevertheless, he was such
a Saul among ;ordinary people, that every
stranger stared at him in open-mouthed
wonder as he stalked along the streets, sup- I
ported on a staff which might have done
duty as a club for the less genial giants of
fairy tales. With such he had nothing in
common, for he was disposed to be on good
terms with all human kind, and many
friends lament his loss.—Hawick, iSreotland,
Advertiser.
I,• .• • as
-Dr. Beddoes states that "the average
height of Scotsmen is about 5 feet 7 inches.
The average heieht of an Englishman- is 5
feet 6inches. which is about the average
height of Irishmen, who have this advan-
tage, that they don't vary so much in. stat-
ute. As regards weight, the following may
be taken :—Scotsmen, 155 lb.; Englishmen,
1451b.; Irishmen, 138."
COW FOR''SALE.
Ar 'GOOD YOUNG COW, Will calf in Febru-
ary, to be sold cheap. Apply at this Office.
• 1484—
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OCTOBER 14, 1870.
411111111110W -
I few Facts for the People !
First, --That the roluntainHeadis the right
•Wax z1oj5rocure any arhcle at its right value.
SECOND, That E. HICKSON & Co., of Seaforth, buy most of
their goods'at the Manufacturer's, in England, in large lots,
and for Cash, consequently- their establishment is the right
place to purchase Good Goods, at Low Prices.
THIRD,—That they have just received a large consignment
of Crockery, China, Glass -ware, Plated -ware, Tea Trays, and
• all House Furnishing Goods.
Fouunf,—That they will sell you an Iron Stone China Tea
Set for $2.50 and less, and Toilet Sets from $1.50 to, $2.50, and
a nice set of China for $5.00, and any ware by the single piece
at proportionately low prices. Nickel Silver and Plated Tea
and Table Spoons, at all prices. Butter bought and takep. in
exchange for any goods.
ALso, our stock of Groceries is complete. A pound of splen-
did Tea for 85 cents
AND in Dry G-oods, we cannot be beat.‘ Will give you. the
choice of 200 pieces of " Ashton " Prints (the best made in
England) for 14 cents a yard, and Wincies at prices that will
astonish you. We keep a good stock of Black and Coloured
Silk Dresses and a choice of 250 pieces of Dress Goods.
Our BOOTS AND SHOES are able to show for themselves.
Clothing Ready -Made and Made to Order, and made well.
Genuine Drugs, Medicines, and Dye Stuffs, as usual..
HICKSONS' EMPORIVM, SEAFORTH.
Chancery SALE!
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Village andParkLots
—A T—
WROXETER.
TN PURSUANCE OF A DECREE AND PI -
nal Order for Sale made in a cause of Hall vs,
Patton, bearing date respectively the 14th day
October, 1869, and the 2nd day of Juno, 1870,
and with the approbation of 'William Leago
•
Master of this, Court at Hamilton, there will be
sold by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
IN SIXTY TWO PARCELS,
BY TH9MAS PLAYFORD, AUCTIONEER,
On Wednesday, the 26th
day of October, 1870,
AT TWELVE O'CLOCK, NOON,
On the Premises, adjoining the
Village of Wroxeter,
Parts of Lc ts Nos. 26 and. 27, in Concession A.,
in the Township of Howick, in the County
of Huron.
The property is laid out in Lots, which will be
put up for sale singly according to the number on
a plan (made by Cyrus Carroll,D. P. L. 8., and
which plan will be produced at time of sale). The
Lots vary in size from about one quarter of an
acre to about five acres, and the exact quantities
are given on t4e plan. A number of the above
Lots front on the Gravel Road.
.Ten.per cent. of the purchase money to be paid.
at the time of sale, to the Vendors or their Soli-
citors, and sufficient (with the said (leposit) to
make up One third of the whole purehase money
to be paid into Court within One month from the
day of sale, without interest. The other two
thirds of the purchase money, with interest at 7
per cent from the day of sale. to he secured by
Mortgage, in four equal annual instalments from
the day of sale, interest en the unpaid principle
to be payable with each instalment of the said
principal money. -Upon the payment of the one
third of purchase money and givina the mortgage
as aforesaid, the purchaser will be entitled to the
conveyance and be ilet into possession. In other
respects the conditions will be the standing con-
ditions of the Court of Chancery.
Plans of the property may be seen, and further
conditions and particulars of sale may be had of
the Auctioneer, and at the office of Cyrus Carroll,
Esq., Wroxeter, Messrs. Osier & Begue, Dundas,
and J. W. G. Whitney, Esq., and Messrs- Mac-
lennan; Downey & Henderson, Toronto.
OSLER & BEGUE, Vendors' Solicitors.,
LEGGO, Master.
Dated -27th September, 1570.
•. 145-3—
CERTAIN PRESERVATION OF THE SICHT
M. R. GOUNTER'-
-NTATCHMAKE AND JEWELER, SE
JEWELER,A-
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our Celebrated PERFECTED SPECTACLES, tie
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LAZARUS. MORRIS & Co..
295 Notre Diane Street, (up stairs), Montreal.
gar We employ no Pedlers.
Government _Drains!
100 LABOURERS!
ANTED FOR THE ABOVE WORKS, IN
VY the Township of Grey, County of Huron,
after the 191th ot October. Wages,—$1.25 to$1.75
per day. !r
Parties willing to undertake a few acres of
CHOPPING AND CLEARING, can see the
Specifications of the work required, at SAGE'S
HOTEL, WALTON. until the 6th of October.
WANTED!
A GOOD YOKE OF 0 X E N.
The Highest Price, IN CASH, will.be paid for
Beef, Pork, Flower, -Potatoes,
Butter and Eggs,
Delivered at the Works. tzl_ Enquire at Sage's
Hotel, Walton, or of the Foreman of the
• Works.
G. BLAIN, Contractor.
Walton, Sept. 29th, 1870.
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JAMES STREET,
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Manufacturers of the Gardner
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THE SEWING MACHINE
Is now ready, a.nd will be followed in a
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Which can be attached without difficulty to any
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THE Manufacturers claim that the Sewing
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work; it can be used by the Dress -maker, Tailor
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ly or combmed. In the latter case, by an ad-
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or both together, as may be required. The pro-
prietors are convinced that this is one - of the
most useful labor- saving pieces of household. fur-
niture ever offered to the public. Call on or ad-
dress
:
PETER GRASSIE,
Agent for the Co. of Huron, Seaforth P. 0.
Seaforth, Sept. 27, 1570.
147—
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EXCHANGE BROKER,
And dealer in Pure
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The Drug Department is under the specia
care of an' experienced Clemist.
-JSEATTER,
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CRAIN SCOOPS!
SPADES & SHOVELS,
LIGHTNING APPLE PARERS,
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.1
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Plows, only $13.
ABELL'S • PATENT GEAR &
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MACHINE OILS CHEAP AND COOD.
Paints and Oils qf all kinds.
WEAVERS MATERIALS,
• WATERLIME, AND
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Shelf Hardware of any description.
-Remember the spot. Sign of
the Circular Saw.
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P.S.—Improved Champion Cross -cut Saw.
withpatent handles, warranted to cut
twice as much in the same time as the -
common saw. Be sure to see them.
Jack Screws to hire.
ROBERTSON &
Seaforth Sept. 13, 1870. 112—. -
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SpAvoRTE, March 31, 1570. 52—
The De
All dey long we
maceti whalers in
Lyra. of Brietol. On
ed in fastening te a.
drew,. The eaptaili
roundly, but that did
The whale passed un
• alongside, thiew ere
the oarsmen, from his
flukes high ia the ;sir,
the depths of the sea.
To atone, in some 1
the t
Isom t -, AV -0 tali
high revelry in our ea
liquor case was oper
_ than usnal, and sang e
mg seamen are wont t
The night was very
member, and while m
on the windlasse awe e
the day, we were rouse
talking on the qaarter
struck, it was, therm
the morning_ We or
the Lyra, who spoke ra
served, 44 He must hay'
the gaff: What does it
Mr. Swain knew how
ehip."
, These words were s
when we heard the_e
yards, end the occasio
like a ship hiboring rn S
sound denoted that a, vl
• must be near us, and t
merit danger of a smash
We ran to the belw
the side, our eves seekii
trate the gloom. The
mates, aft, were in a St4
44Hard up the Iselin
tains at once, Hoy I
aft here, and haul np tl
Keep her off, you at tb
"Luckily, we're clea
the captain of the teen
• breath ; " but I can't
Swain has been aboat
your light is shining th
ing star or the aurora Is
" Asleep, no doubt,"
-of the Lyra.
" A pretty time te
-captain, 44 when he's left
and the captain and -firsl
her!"
"I don't tinders° tand
-shaking his head. I
"Did you leave the I;
hind?" inquired our cap
- "Mr. Swain IS not a{
replied the captain of th
astonishes me is, that me
of her yards in the Mini:
hear me now; and didn'
▪ What's that?" cried
-directly ahead of the shi
" Good heavens, she's
fore -toot now exclaim
Every one looked ah
distinctly saw a cloud
sails of a ship, looming
darkness, and passing
pew, and so near to
have thrown a biscuit o
indeed, what we saw
c vessel.
Is he c zy sere.
• the Lyra.
" Trumpet—trunapet
The steward brought
captain seized it, and,
sprang upon the knight
• Lyra, ahoy!" cried
arunspet.
Every one became as
listened for it response.
No word came back
and heaving waters;-
ceived that the etrangels
All the peculiar sound
were distinctly heard a
the letting go of the in,
vy drop of coils upon th
"Won't my second
demanded the incense
" me the trumpet,
refuse to answer
Having gone about,
sweeping across our ha
ble, nearer than before
the sails, but the hall
ee
The two eiptains lee
the face.
" That is not sny shi
the Lyra, after a long p
"it's ci death ship!"
" Who spoke those
our captain, turning,to
all huddled together bel
the'exception of a mood.
Lockwood, who leaned
works wills folded arme
sorbed_ by his own refiec
No one answered. I
- b
that the words came fre
wood.
The two captains s 0
.terious bark till she bit
sus, and was swallowed
for'ec,I" nobesveerrvsaedwsuch
oneoft
the forecastle, and walk
sails whyscatfirst didn'tl"elew
man:de(
,fro;1
:i, hwoorneuldtg,i_mveai
mrohzd
-a. lau, ky tone,
IIi' (lid hear from ho
day. At twelve o'clock
en Farmers just from h
wiab
tainth of our
cshsipr,eceiviee'l
the heartrending ti.d-
wife and new-born infi
'flight from home togee .
,onceanere alone in the