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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1871-01-06, Page 1EfB.E3D. 1S70. TAROMIONSIMENNIMT45•0111MINEow _ . FrA-1,0 MARKE weekly far the Expositor by rroduce Commission Mer - lido City. BeTFALO, Dec. 29, 1870_ zeat, per bushel, 1:50 r 1:42 122 8- 4 52 9$ 6:00 to 525 6:00 to 6:25 igs, per cwt.,. 8 10 35 re- parelted1 ee ee 1 28- fresseal per ib.. 18 17 to 1 g parr, 88 to 1:00 78 to 1:15 tlozen„ lei bushels' barrel, 8a 87 tar. keep eatIter.- aefull stock of tf, 4WORWOO rERC.6AT • LOST. teen Seaford' and Egmena- 'tw rn Egatonaville village, on the 13th test, A GREY T, with red and. alack fining , will be suitably rewarded upon st the EXPOSITOR, Mee, Sea. the EgmonelvilIe Post Office. - A D eal PROAT. ae, Dec. 22, 1870- 159-4t 'BF 'RAFFLED. ed at Murrey's Hotel, on eveetingaJan. 2nd, 1 7 a A rigraving of the present POD, - 'NUS IX. Tickets 50 Cents r, Dee, 14, 1870, =I58 t SALE OR TO RENT. deraigned offers or sale or to the 3d. Concession of McKil- wo Road, mites from Sea- t one mile from Roxbo• o„ 1 rod a of land, -with a good be.r of 24 trees. _assorted ; fra e i32 feet, in good condition and tertalae ; also, a- well, pump, cut the premises; the lot is ed. For in ther particulars he proprietor en. the pre mises. JOHN YOU:a; G. teENERAf, STOCK 0,F OOdS, Groceriqs, &c., FOR SALE, TENDERS received by the undersigned O OF THE 2d, JANUARY NEXT, urchase of the stock in trade -furaitarre belongine to the , ;ENT ESTATE OF AN- DREW MUIR, Magee of VILLE AND CRANBROOK. he County of Huron. ock at AinIeyville consists of else $1,060 ; Hardware and , Sate; Crockery aria Glass - 2 ; Boo; s and Shoes, $7 t id Medicates, $5M, Wh,eels, Cordwood and sandries, $250. 625. rick at Cranbrook (Town -plot of :nsists oz Dey Goods. $, 00 ; F.; and. Groceries, $300 ; Crock- ssware, and -Medicines, $102 ; Shoes, S}, Total, $1,152. may- tender for Otte or both ating distinctly the amount for mavh in the= dollar of the In- kie.es. Tenders for theAmley- may be with or without tha fiel Medicines, The promised ittuat ba stated in the tender, if quired. The stoek and in- --,.ersit be seen on, a.pptication to '1W. raNTEuoST, at Ainley - of the inventories J. nspeetiou at ley office in Harrea sag -me does not bind himself to e highest or an= tender. taa F. FINDLAY, Assignee. a Dec., 16,;1870. 159std THE rau expoitort )'FFIC1AL PAPER OF :)OUNTY OF HURON, shed,. eery Friday Morning, in It is the largest paper in 4Eir aanute, in advance ; if not: AO will be charged. No sabss aken for a shorter period than, Ales, VERTISING RATES. TRA NS1ENT. e, first insertion, Sets;, sabse. era -ohs, 2 lets, each time. Ad - rite measured by a scade of solid 'No advertisement taken for One Dollar. AINTRACT RATES. me. for One Year, — $60 ' Six Months, ' Three " - - 20 00 • One Year, - - 35 00 "SixMnta, - 200=0 "Three's 12 00 " One Year, - 20 00 "Si' Months - - 12 00 "Three - 8=00 " One Year, - - 12 00 " Menths - - 800 Three - 500 isements,withoutspecific three- : be inserted till forbid, and ccordingly, 6 :LECT SCHOOL - ;NG LADIES' Select School be opened by MRS. E. J.. Oct_ 24th, in Mr. Kield's ter the stare. A liberal patro tie people of Seaforth, its solicit - terms, see Mrs. Miller, at DR. S. h, Oct. 20, 187a. 1504f. MACLEAN BROTHERS, , Freedom in Trade—Liberty in Religion Equality in Civl Rights". EDITORS & PUBLISHERS. VOL. 4, NO. 5. SEAFORTHi, FRIDAY, JA UARY 6, i71. WI -TOLE NO. 161. EILJSINESS CARDS. - MEDICAL. Coop tereer afnodt itthee RE,TalltakuneeYy'ofi. l'iPro'n; sidence—One door East of the Methodist - Episcopal Church,. Seaforth, Dec. .14th, 1868, .53-ly Tla C. M9O1UE, M. D., C. M. (Graduate fle, of McGill University, Montreal,) Physician, Surgeon,&c. Office and resi. dence Zurich, Ont. Zurich; Sept. 7th, 1870. 144 T AMES ,STEWART, M. D., C. M., •ej Graduate of McGill University, Montreal. Physician, 'Surgeon, &c. Of- fice and. residence :—At MR. COOK'S. . Vaxna. -IA La. W. R. SMITH, Physician. Ser- i) geon, etc. Office, -.O=pposite Seott obertson's Rest lame — am -street, North. Sea -forth, Dec. 14, 1863. 5a-ly 14 L. VERCOE, M. D. C. M., Physi- ciao Su=rgeon, etc. ' Office and Re- . -asidence, corner of Market and High Street, immediately in rear of Kidd' Store. Seaforth, Feb. 4th. 1870. 53-1y. TAR. CAMPBELL, Coroner for the aounty. == Ottice and residence, over Corby's, corner store, Main istreet, Sea - forth. Office gay, Saturday. - 159 LEG-A.L. yeWALKER, Attorney -at -Law s and---- Solicitor in-Chancerya Goa; eveyancer, 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. Goderieh, Jaafy. 28- 1879. 112-1y. 'llT'CAUGEIEY& HOLMSTEAD, Barristers, Attorneys at Law, Sol, zicitors in Uhanceryand Insolvency, No tarees Public and Conveyanc srs. Saki - tort for the R. C. Bank, Seaforth, Agents for the Canada Life Assurance Co. faaN. 13.-00,000 to lend at 8 per cent. Farms, Houses and Lots for sale. . Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. - 53-tfe BENSON & MEYER,•Barriaters and A ttorueyat Law, Solicitors in Caen- -cery and_ Insolvency, Conveyancers, No- aries Publie, etc. Of ficesa—Seaforth and Wroxeter. Agents_ for the Truk arid Loan Co. of =Upper Canada, and the Cole •-oesial Securities Co. of London, England. Money at 8 -per cent; no• commsision, charged. TAS. 11 BENSON, IL W. C. MEYER. Seaforth, Dee. 10th 1868. ' 53-ly DENTAL. 0. W. HARRIa, L. D.'S. Arti ficial Dentures ineerted with all the latest improve- ments. The greatest eaee taken fur tne preservation of decayed a=nd tender' teeth. Teeth extracted witheatt pain. kooms oyer alcDougalas Store. . Seaforth. Dec. 14,-1868. = ly. • HOTELS. CtOM RC 1 A fe HOTEL, Ainleyville, k_a James Laird, proprieter, affords first-elais accommodation for the travel- ling public_ The larder and bar are ale ways supplied With the best the marke ts afford. Excelleatstablaci in connec- tion. . • A inleyville, April 23; 1869. 70t. 7- IN-rOX'a HOTEL (LATE 8HARP'S JX. ) The undersigned begs to thank, the public for the liberal patroaage awarded to hail in times past in the hotel businass, and also to in form, them that he has again resumed business in the above ' stand, evhere he will be happy to have a call -ii:cen old friends, and many new ones. THOMAS KNOX: S. eaforth, M126-tf ay 5, 1870. • RITISH EXCHANGE HOTEL, od- erich, ONT.,. J. CALLAWAY, PROPRI- ETOR :== J. S. WILLIAMS, (11t4 of Ameri- lan Hotel, Warsaw, N. Y.) Manager. This hotel- has recently been newly tar- nished, and "refitted throughout, and is nowone of the most comfortable and com- modious in. Province. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial = Travellers. - Terms liberal. , Goderich, April 14, 1870. 123-ta MISCELLANEOUS. BHAZLEHURST, License& uction- „ eer for the Comity of Hurn. = God- erich, Pnt: = Particular atteutiol4 paid to the sale = of Bankrupt Stock. = Ferro. Stock Sales = aetended on Liberal Terms. Goods Appraised, Mortgages Foreclosed, Landlord's Warrants Execnted. Also, Bailiff l'arst Division Court for Huron. Coderich, == June 9th. 1869 = 76. tf Q& W. McPHILLIPS, Provincial Land. Surveyors, Civil Eneineere, etc. All manner '�f Conveyancing done with he&tness and dispatch. = G. McPhil- lips, Commissioner in B. R. Office -- Neat door south of Sharp's Hotel, Sea - forth. Seatorth, Dec. 14, 1868. 53- ly MAILL & ROOKE, Architects, eta 0 Plans and Specifications drawn cor- rectly, Carpenter's, = Plasterer's. and Ma son's work, measured and valued.= Office Over 3. C. Dotlor & Co.'s store, Court - House Square, Goderich: Goderich, April 23, 1869. = 79-ly TIE OLD Oh, for one Give ba lm I'd ether aag hararei n a Off with t Away wj.tiil Teer out li 6's aid das its Ond name e le From bo -ho Crite me 01 e f life al lov y listeping nd cab' ly If I but = owl has y w Bu is the e no To bid t ee lyque the vvif find t Jiithu atoru st s lie ?n 111Kiel e he ang id wr e man netbe AN'S DREAM. i ✓ f Youthful joy! t eUtieth 'taming ! a bright haired boy grey -beard king! I - n led spoils of age! ar crown! - is iota -written page, th orthies down! y ilife-blood• strearn. d's fdant of flame! dy wading dream and fame! an ela heard the pray er_ rut ir.g, said, thy tilvered hair • hath sped. hing in thy track on ly stay, seesens hurry by ish d for day ? ul o=f woman kind , hat were life? ot leave behind ; ---precious—'Wife! 1 to k sepphire pen t i ra, nitew dew, oa d e 4 boy again, u bai d oo !" Antl is t efore t c Re mintie With eh le W y, yes for My fond par I c uld no bea I 11 take Th4 smilt g an ,1 Why,' this The m mak tat be Arl so I 1 he hou And. rotem o pleas n thing yet unsaid an e appears,? their gifts have fled iss dying years !" Tn.Iul)ry WOUld recall ntal joys ; to leave them all ; —eirls—and—boys ! , el =drupped his pen vill never do ; be a boy again, father too?" tigh d my laughter wo -e elm cl vrith its noise-- dreern vireeninorningbro e e tee gray-haired boys. I Oliver Wendell Holm ROUCHItic EI BY M I Tom • o not. 'IN TilE BUSH u.kt, cANAD M S. OODIE. n's • her, '1r.r. Wilson, sh is qtazzi g yet q °di • ; " I wish yo a a ro aafe N oyage s the Atlantic ; 1 wi h I could add, a ha py meeting with yonr friends. But wh re shall we find frie cts in a strange land ' '‚ " All in good ti e," said Tom. "I hope to have t.he sure of meeting y u in tha, bank woods o Canada before t ee months are qver. What adventures ve shall have t tell one another ! It ill be capital.ed-bye." We of Jul left ta y. and rc• st rit shj shores on the anchor, as 1 have ready -show', under the Castle of Lewil, at Q el ecl on the 2ed of Septe bee, 1832. 'Alin Whim sailed the of May, and had a Was, . 6.,s we heard fro for tality settled i a farna and in=a tions tu the and as he w locati our e the an. s se it, we eo,ng centricl frit; .ilderness shouli • soon see I On the pa of boat , small lbut rising t On -Waite T lend. peedy passage, a his friends, co e bush, had bou t to comineece ope All this was good ne tled near my brothe atalatea ourselves t id ad. found a home t est, :and that im again. 'et tember, the -stea landed us at the th arn of ,on t ht wee dark and rainy ; -the bs er loat we w ed with emigrant e st 1- .5 ; end rhen rived at the am, ve lee= that tie -re va not room for 1.1F.— not e ed to lee had ; nor was it like- y, owine to = the nnmber of strangeas ti at had errivecl for = everal weeks, that ve x. could:. obtaii) on� b searching -feral - Mood:0 req °Steil t e use of a sofa oi me di ring t elni lit ; but even that p °- duce. a demur from the . landlo d. Whit t I aw sited th result in a passe re, crow(' ed wi h s rad ge faces, a pair of eyes lanced upon inc through the thro g. Was t possible ? c uld it be Tom a son ? Did any o i r human being sess s' claeyr,- or usC theman such ai cent'. c manner ?. Ii anothersecon I h had p ished. his A ay •to my side, whisp l- ing in my ear,"We met, 'twas i i a crow "- • . " o you doub i ? 1 flatter my el) " lom Wiilsan. is that you ?" that thcre is no 1 ke ess of such a hai d - some fcllow to b found in the world. It is I, 1 swear 4--a though very little of e is left to swear b The best part of i•e I left to fatten t e niosquitocs and bl ak flies ' that mfe iallbush. But wher is Mood e ?" '• 2 here he is trying to inauce r S , for loy oremoney, to let ne have c bed for t night." " ou ashen h ve mine," said To "I can sleep up,n the floor of the p re lor in &blanket, Indian fashion. It' a bargain -1'11j go nd settle it .with he Yankee directly he's the beet fellow in the world! I In , he meanwhile here i little parlorwh ch - is a joint-stock af fair between so'. e of as young hopaf Is for t e time 'bein . Step in here, an willgo for Mood e ; I long to tell what .1 think of ti is confounded count But ou will, find it out all in good tim and, tuhbing his , ands together wit Most Ilively And Al isphievous expressi thoulaered his way 101/Lough trunks boxes, and anxious faces, to comm cate to my husband the arrangement had so kindly made for us. _ 1 "Accept this gen ernaeas offer, sir, tomo ," said par S—, "1 can t e make more comfortable arrangements fo — C- I IS SI your family ; bulf we :sr crowde'cl—s crowded to excess My wt. e and daugh• •ters are obliged to sleep in little cham- ber over the stable, to give our- guests more room. Hard that, I gaess, for decent people to locate over the horses." These matters settled Moodie return- ed with. Toin Wilson to the little parlour, in which I had already made myself at home. j • " Well, now its it not -funny that = I should, be the fleet to, welcome you to Canada ?" said Tom. =, "But what ar you doing here, my dear 'fellow ?" "Shaking = ever day with the ague. But I could langh in spite Of my teeth to hear them make s eh e„ confounded rat - tang; you would thirik they were all quarre11ingawhie4 should first get out of my mouth. This I shaking mania forms one of the chief lattraations of thit neo • cetintry." "1 fear," said I, reniarking how thin and pale he had became, "that this cli- mate cannot aaree with you." "Nor I with the climate. Well, we shall soon be quite, fca to let you into a secret, I am now oh my wayto taigland." " And the farm; what have you done with it ?" " Sold " " To whom ?" - "To one who will take better ere of both than 1 did. Ah != such a ceuntry ! —such people !—such rogues! It beats Ars retie heltow--; you. knew' your cus- tomers there—but here youl have to find them out. Such a take iri !--God . for- give them! I = never could take care of money ; and, one, way of = other, they .have cheated me out of all mine.. I have scarcely enough left to home. = But, to paov worst. I have, bought pay ray passage ide agaaest the_ a young .,bear, splendid fellow., to make. my peace with _my uncle. You reuse see him ; he is close by the stable." = = =' "To -morrow w e will pay a visit to Brain ; but to-aight do:tell us something about yourself. and your residence in the bush.' "You will know enough about the bush by and by.. I am a bad histora an,"lhe continued, stretehing out his legs and yawning horribly, a worse biographer. I- never can find Words to relate facts. ' But I. will try what I can do ;= mind, don't laugh at my blenders." We promised to = be serious—no easy=. matter while looking at and listening to Tom Wilson, and he gave us, at detach- ed intervals, the follawing accbunt of himself "My troubles Igen at sea. We had a fair voyage, and all that ; but nsv poor dog,, my beautiful uchess !—that beauty in the beast—died. f wanted- to read the funeral service over her, but the cap- tain interfered—the brute !—and threat- ened to throw l i*e into the sea ea:mg with the dead j g, as:, the unmaunerly ruffian persisted hi calling = my canine friend. I never spoke. to hini again dur- ing the rest of the voyeare. N Othing hap, pened worth relatrng until I got- to this place, where 1 chanced to = meet a, friend who knew your brother, ard I went up with him to the woOdse Most of the wise men of -Gotham we mat on the road were bound to the woods ;1 6o =1 felt hap- py that I was,at leapt, an the fashion. as Very kind, and Spoke in rapturesofthe weods, which forthed the theme of coeversa,tion during the jour- ney '• their beatity, their vastness, the cOmfort and inclepeedence enjoaed by those who had settled in them ' -land he so inspired me with the subjectthat I did nothing all day but shig as we rode r I ong— " A life in. the uptil we cathe to soon learned to s Irishman says, on mouth." • Here succeeded which friend Tom led with his !remit back- in his chair, gave iway to- lo laughter. oods fer Inc ;" he woods, and then I ng- that sane„ as = the the other side of my a lopg epause, during seemed mightily tick• ism. aes, for he leaned and from time to time d, allow burst e of o " Tm1 o, Tm. o ! are you going mad ?3, said my husband, shaking him. • " I never was ane, that I h pow ''Iofat returned he. on I low that it runs in the .fa.mily. B t do- let me have my laugh out. Th woods t ! ha ! When I used tae roaming through those woods, sh- oting--tbough not a thing could I eve find. to shoot, for bird, and beasts are not such fools as oua Eng- lish emigrants—and I chanced to think of .you coming to spend the rest of your lives in the woods ---I used to stop, and hold my sides, and laugh until the woods rang again- . It was the only consolation I had. "Good Heavens I" said I, "let is nev- er go to the wood;." 'You will rape t if you do," continued Tom. ' But let me proceed on my jour- ney. My bones were well-nigh dislocat- ed before we got to The road for the last . twelve miles -frere nothing but a succession of med-holes, covered with the most ingenious invention ever thought of for racking the limbs, called corduroy bridgesl; not breeches, mind you,—for I thought, whilst jolting up and down over them, that I should ar- rive at my destination ininas that indis- pensable covering: I Was tiredand hun- gry, my face aistigured and blistered by the unremitting attentions of the black flies that rose in swarms from,the river. I thought to get a private room to wash and dress in, but there is no such a thing as privacy in this country. In the bush all things are in common ; you cannot even get a bed without having to share it with a companion. A bed on the doer in .a public sleeping -room ! Think of that; a purblic sleeping -room !---men, wo- men, and children, only divided by a pal- try curtain. Oh, ye gods' think ofr the snoring, squalling, grumbling, puffing: Clinic of the kicking, elbowing, and crowding; the suffocating :eat—the mos- quitoes, with their inferua1 buzzing and you will form iiime idea of the mis- ery I mimed the first nihj of my arri- val in the bush. " B t these are pot half fhe evils with which you have to ' conten . You are pester d with nocturnal lvisitants far more isa,greeable than = eve the ino:•quis toes, .nil must put up with anrioyances more disgusting than the cipwded close room. And then, to appease the crav- ings of hunger, fat pork is served to you three times a day. No wonder that the Jews =eschewed the vile animal ; = they were jeop1e of taste. Pok, morning, noon, old night, sv,immini in its own grease ! = The bishop who c = mplained of partri ges every day, ghoul 1= have been condet ned to three montl-s = feeding up- on no k in the bush: and 1.1 would aave becom an anchorite, to esc Pe the hor- rid sig t ef swine's flesh fo ever spread before him. No wonder I = am thin ; I have =een starved—starve ppm prit- ters ai d pork, and that dis 'usting speci- men o = unleavened bread, y -dept cakes in the pal. "1 ad such a horror of t e pork diet, that a henever I saw the di ner in pro- gress fled to the canoe, i the hope of drown -ng upon the water all reinini- scences of the hateful ban' t et ;but even here the very fowls of = the air, and the reptiles of the deep, lifted p their voices and shouted, "Pork. pork,' pork !" M— remonstrated with = his friend for deserting the country for such minor evils =s these, which, after all, he said, could )asily be borne. "E sily borne !" ext lain ed the indig- nant a ilson. "Go and tr. them, and then ell me that. I di try to = bear 'them th a good grace, lett it would not do. I offendea everybo ly with my grum mg. I was = constan ly reminded by th ladies of the bouse; that geutle- men $ iould not = come to this country withal, t they were able to = it up with a little inconvenience ; that I should make as good a settler as a butte tier in a bee- hive ; that it was impossib e . to be nice about food and dress in t e bush; that people must learn to eat wh t they could get, and be content to be s abby and dir- ty, like their neighbors, in he bush, until that horrid word, bash, be 4 ame = synony- mous *Pith all that was ha eful and re- voltina in my mind. " ltiwas impossible to k ep anything to myself. . The children pt led my books to pie es to look at the pict res; and an • imput ent ba :e -legged Iris i servant -girl took y towels to wipe the = dashes with, and m clothes -brush to bl ck the shoes ,—an iperation which she p aformed with a mix ure of soot and greas . I thought I sho Id be -better off in a place of my own, o I bought a wild far that was re - comm !idea to me, and paia for it double what t was wortb,= Whei I eame to ex- amine my estate, I foend here was no house upon it, and I shoul have to waitt until he fall to put one u and a few acres leered for cultivatio = =l• I was glad to ret rn to my old quarter... , "F riding nothing to shoo in the woods I dete mined to amuse mys lf with = fish- ing ; ut Mrcould no always lend his ca ioe, and there -was n other to be had. To pass away the ti' e, I set about makin one I bought an xe, and event to the forest to select a tr e. About a , mile f om the lake, I fount the largest pine T ever saw. I did not much like to try Ire -maiden hand upon i for it = was the fir t and last tree I evr= cut down. But tcl it I went ; and. I bl ssed God that it ' r&iched the groundvithout kill- ing1 e in its way thi her. When .1.` Wit about it, I = thou ht I might as wel make the canoe big enough ; but the bu k of the tree deceived inc in the length of my vessel, and I foreot to mea- l sure tie one that belonged to Mr. ---. It too me six weeks hollcwing it out, and w len it was finished, i = was as leasg as a el op -of -wars, and = too unwieldy for all th oxen in thetownshii to draw it to the w ter = After all my 1 -bor, my com- bat w' th those wot d -demo s. the black- flies, -and-flies, and mosqu toes, my boat remaii s a useless monumei t of my indus- tay. ml worse than this the fatigue I had nclu red while works ig at it late and er ler. brought on the a 'tie; which so dis_gus ed me with the coun i•y that I sold - Thy fa m and all my tra,psf r an old song, purch, sed Bruin to;bear m company on my vo age home; and the'lmoment I am able t get rid of this tormdritingfeverrI am off ' : Argumeat ancl remonstra ice'were alike in val , he could not be di suaded from his pa •rp.ose. Tom was as obstinate as hii ' The next morning be col ducted us to the et ble to see Bruin. T = e youag den- izen o the forest was tied t the manger, quiet' = masticating a cob o Indian corn, which he held in his paw- and looked half h iman as he sat upon his haunches, regarding us with a solemn, melancholy airhere was an extracfrdinary like- ness, uite ludicrous, betve en Tom and the be r. We said noth ng, but ex- chang d glances. = Tom read ourthoughts. " Y s, ' said he, " there i a strong re- sembl nee ; I saw it when bought hins. Perha is we are brothers '." and taking in hissehs,a d the chain that hel the bear he besto ed upon him sundry fraternal ear- eshica the ungrateful Bruin retuen- ed wit low and savage growls. can't flatter. He's all truth and sincerty. A child of nature, and worthy to be ie y friend; the onl Canadian I ever re ean to acnowledges such." A i . t an hour after this. poor Tom was sliaking with ague, which in a few days reducedEim se low that I began to think he would never , see his native shor.sl again. He bore the affliction very philosbphically, and all his well days he -spent 't4 us. One day my husband was bsent, having accompanied Mr. S to inspect a farm, which be after- wardsj parchased, and' had to get thro' the lo g day at the inn in the best man- ner I bonlil. The local papers were soon exhautsted. At that period they posses - ed lit le or no interest for me. = I was as- tonished and disgusted at the abusive manner in which they were written, the "11 freedom of the press being enjoyed to ai extent in this province unknown in more civilized communities. Men, in Canada, -may call one anoi h rogues and miscreants, in the most ap- paved Billingsgaee, th-ough the medium of the newspapers, which are a sort of safety -valve- to let °flan the bad feelin=gs and malignant passions floating through the country, without any dread of the horsewhip. Hence it is the commonest thing in the world.' to hear one editor abusing, like a pickpocket. an opposition brother; caning him areptile- -a craudi0 thing—a ealunvniator—a hired = 'vendor of lies, and his paper a smut-machine—a vile engine of corruption., as base and de. grading as the proprietor, &c. Of this description was the paper I now held in my hand, which had the = impudence to style it .elf the Reformer—not of the morals = = or mannere, certainly, if one might judge by the yulear abuse that de. filed every page of the precious document I SOOTI flung it fromme, thinking it wort - thy of the fate of many a better produe tion in the = = olden times, that of being burned by the common hangman ; but, happily, the office of hangman leas be. come obsolete in Canada, and the editore of these refined journals may go on abusl- ing their betters with impunity. • Books I had none. and 1 = wished that Tom would make his , appearance, and amuse me- nrithhis oddities ; hut he had suffered so much from the ape .the day before, that when he did enter the room to lead me to dialect, he iookd= like a walking corpse—the dead. among the lite- ing 1 so -dark, so livid, so melancholy, it was really painful to lookupon him. . "I hope the ladies who = frequent the ordinary won't fall in love with the," he said, grinning at himself -in the misera- ble looking -glass that fonned the case of the Yankee clock, and was 'ostentatious', ly displayed on a- side -table ; "I look quite killing to -day. = What a comfort it is, Mrs. to be above all rivalry." In the middle of dinner, the company was disturbed by the entrance of a per: - son who had the appearance of a gentle man, = but who was evidently much flea- tered with drinking, = Be thrusthis chair in between two gentlemen who sat at the head of the table, and in aloud voice de- manded fish. "Fish, sir?" saitl.the obsequious wait ter, a great favorite, with all persons who frequented the hotel; " there is no fish, sir. There was a fine salmon, sir, =had you come sooner; but 'tits all eaten, Bina` "Then fetch me Some." "I'll see what I can, do, sir a" said the obliging Tim, huireang out. Tom Wilson was lat the head of the table, wining a roast pig, andtavas inthe act of helping a lady, when the rude felt low thrust his fork into the pig, calling out as he did so, " Hold sir' ! gi re me some of that pig! You have eaten among you all the fish', and now you are going to appropriatethe best mete ef the pig.' Tom aaised his eyebrows, and stared at the stranger in his _peculiar manner, and then very coolly placed the whole cf the pig en his plate.- " I have heard," he said, of dog eating dog, but I never before saw pig eating pig." " Sir ! do you mean to insult me fv cried the stranger, las 'fire crimsoning with‘oannlgeryto. tell you sir, y'ou are no gen- tleman. Here, Tim," = turning to the waiter, "g� to the stable and bring in my bear; we will place bile at the table to teach this man how to behave himself in the presence:of ladies." A general. uproar Ensued; the women left the table, while the entrance of the bear threw the gentlemen into coavul- , sions of laughter. It was too much for the human biped; = he was forced to leave the room. and subcumb to the bear. My husband cencluded his purchase of the farm, and invited. Wilson to go with us into the country and try if change of air would not be beneficial to him ; for in his then weak state it was impossible for him to ieturn to England. His funds Were getting very low, and Tem thank- fully accepted the offer. Leaving Bruie in the charge of Tim, (who delighted in the oddities = of the atrange= English gentleman), Toni made one of our party to—. (TO RE COICTINUE.O. -Cd-RRESPONDEN()E. a We wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not hold ourselves in any way ponsible for the opinions expressed by OUT COrresponpents ) Leached Ashes as a Fertilizer. To the Editor of the Baron Expositor. ' SIR: Mr. Quimby, a capable and SUC• cessful farmer, near Rochester, N. Y., made the following stateme rit at, a recent meeting of the Farmer's Cl b, = in refer- ence to the superiority of I ached asbes as a manure, viz :—" Leached ashes are good for all crops—for corn in the hill, and especially valuable as top dressing for wheat and = clover fields, and meadows generally. During the past three yeare he had drawn 10,000 bushels on his farm; which he spread on land at the rate of 200 to 300 blishels per acre. - He covered forty acres in this way, and meant to ash the entire farm. = They had doubled his wheat crop and wonderfully increased biz crop of grasses, especially clover, Land which had been rundown toomucle to seed with clover, produced heavy "aropts whenananured with leached ashes. ‘ He got a good. cath of clover where he ap- plied leached ashes last year on his Wheat and rye, while the balance was a failure. He could see a great difference in the growing Wheat where the land was ma- nureetwith ashes and where it was not." In my own experience I have found leached ashes to be an excellent fertilizer and to well repay the trouble and expense of procuring. The fanners, I anetold, on the opposite side of eher river from King - ston come over to that city and. purchase all they can procnre, paying 17 cents per bushel, for it, and tate it over = in barges feeJing that their lame, expense and trou- t) se are wen repaid by the enhanced = pro- ductiveness of their farms and gardens atter its application. Thousands of buthels of this splendid manure are constantly going to waste at my ashery here, which, were the farmers alive to their interest, they would haul away to be spread on their low lands and sour patches, and which would render good returns for their labor. It seems to me that it is for want of = a knowledge of the facts that these things are thus. Yours &c., Jona TRIMBLE. The Market Feet Question. To the Editor of the Huron Expositor, SIR: In last week's EXPOSITOR, appear- ed an article, over the signature of Ed - warn Cash, general merchant, Seaforth,e attended as a reply to my = report of the Sea -orth meeting, relative to the proprie- ty of discentaming to collect market fees from their best customers, the farmers. The article referred = tte as might have been expected, is - twin brother to his speech at the meeting. He labors hard to raise himself and lower Mr. 'Meal icha but that is no argument for or against the contiema.tion of farmers' market fees. But Sir, nevertheless, I will treat him, and his "splenetic article as tenderly as circumstances Will permit Mr_ Caeb. in his letter says, if he doeanot afterwards deny it : "1 never bought a bushel of grain at the station; it was I who bought at the corner, where Mr McMichael says he always got gentler -needy ereatment. ' What audacity' You Mr. Editor, who were at the meeting, takieg notes, masa have heard Mr. Cash and others stating publicly that it was to proteat the = far- mers from these street -corner buyers that the market was established and fees col- lected. Or, in other words, suppose for instance, an old woman going to Seaforth to sell a sheepskin, she takes it to Mr, John Porter; John exainines it, tells her he will give her ten cents for = it, but be- fore he can do so, and -in order to prevent him from cheating her she must first car- ry it to the market Place, and leave two cents to help to pa.y his taxes, and then bring it back, and he will give her ten cents. Mr. Luxton on the evening of the meeting contended, and. proved by the statutes, which he then held in his hand; that a market = could be located without the collection of fees, he has since received a letter from the Attorney - General stating that his views and read- ing of the =statue referred to wereperfect- ly correct. But, in the event of Clinton. adopting the same -suicidal policy as God - *rich and Seaforth, must the farthere of Huron tamely submit to pay aver $4000 a year of the taxes of =each of these municipal corporations in order to get an outlet for their produce ? = The statutes allow them to do so. But I Maintain that the farmers have a remedy, and an effectual one,guaranteed by the statues also, and that is simply by pledging our Reeves when they are equalizing the rolls of the various municipalities, at the June meeting of the County Council, to take into consideration the various sums, col- lected tier these three municipalities, and assess them -for county purposes accord- ingly. = As for instance, Seaforth, for the present year, 1-870, collects from its best customers, the farmers, $1,320 market -fees, while their County rate is only $510. 22, and the tOWU of,Goderieh collects and pays as comity rate, $2,158.55, and as Seaforth Market sells for $1,320, surd I may safely assume that Goderich b mg the County -town will sell their maxketfor the same amount, = and when 1 deduct $1,320 from their county rate, $2,158,55, will leave a balance only of $838. 5a.- of county rate, while the lowestrated town - slap municipality of the county, namely, Turnberry, pays a county,rate of $2,074„ and the highest rated, Hallett, pays 169.23. These figures :will account in a great measurefor the different views taken by the ratepayers of these = munici- palities relative to the vote recently tak- en with regard to -saddling the county with an achlitional = debt of $40,000 or $60,000. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, as a fanner and a ratepayer of the County, I claim the privileges of expressing my own views on public questions through the columns of the County press, disregard- ing petty slurs of "meanness and. _self- ishness thrown out by my opponents, - but I consider that I have no right to oc- cupy your columns and diegustyourread- ers by introducing, or replying to person- alities. Yours, = &c. Hallett, DecT.112°431A8, 187110.6MR:114EL. To the Editor of the Huron Exposik&. DEAR Sin: Dr. Campbell accuses me, ire a letter which appeared in your is- sue of the 30th ult., of being the insti- gator or atithor of the letter signed by Dr. Smith, in your former issue. This erriphatically deny a4 I knew nothing of the matter �r manner of that letter till after it was 'written. This is the third occasion, within the last month, in which Dr. Campbell has either stated in the publicprints what is untrue regarding me, or has so garbled the truth that it could not be distinguished from false- hood, and, on two of these occasions, did so anonymously. There can be no objection to the Dectoras being corre- spondent nearly all the local pap re of the County, but no honorable man ere) approve of his using his position of cor- respondent as a means of falsely -vilifying others. As to the remainder of Dr. Campbell's letter I th it more charitable to its authortopinkass it by in silence. Yours, gec., • Seaforth, jan.H2; L18.7VI.Fteeit' 111" A 13ridgepott, Corm., father had his son arrested for stealing. and fined $17. The boy being a minor. the father haa to pay the fine.