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Semi-Weekly Signal, 1865-05-19, Page 2— !Zjignal. GODERICH, MAY 19, 1865. N., • • • • • • ... . • • • • •• -• • • WIIAT WILL THEY DO WITH HIM - This question -is gravely put by all who have learned of the capture of Jefferson Davis, the ex -president of the Confederate States, and the answer Wilk deperid upon the temper, the sympathies and the mag- nanimity of those who contemplate the fallen. fortunes and probable fate of one .of the greatest men on the American Con- .tinent. While' Mr.. Davie was' great aed poWerfuf.-7iihile he could back uP 'pewerfd reasetiings by -the coe-ent Jegie of immense_armies of 'brave men led on by, wary and skilful officers,he was respectedby thousands -who will turn iheit backs in the day of his adversity, and listen quietly to theobloquy and injustice heaped upon Lim by political enemies: iss apparently; deeply grounded in hurithe-nature to le,icte the fallen, to thrust demi. the weak, - anal up at considerable expense, mid in a man- • net- that must conduce to the comfort, an 1 convenience of those who have nitwit 4) do through the medium of ller Majesty's. postal system. Besides the usted boxes, there. are in the new office a •number drawers to be rented to business and pro- fessional men who will be furniehed with keys by means of which they can gaia access to their respective Nos. without troubling the ttlieials and at ' hours.- . The interior of the effice is fi-ted up with a view. _to inereased tfficiency in the trans- actron of , the erdmary business of such. a place. The regulation for- registration and recept of registhed matter is ails° very complete and. will be nines 'mor-c?satisfac- tory thap -.the old method. :Altogether • theimplovements effected are such as to give- genera satisfaction. es Sir Sarnael Cunard is dead. , f.e. Twenty one cOuples were alivoreed in .Bostott Iast Friday. n•-- The • Galt Reporter is .dut fah- ,and satiai:e fer aepexation. at.. There were -two thonsand six. hundred andseventy-five marriges in New York last tO join in the hue and cry against. a pro- year. ; s'etibed men, But Mielit does not make • • e It_is; -by no means certain. Ova Matk right, ancr we have a faiati gill/nue-in-a of Aar -thinly.' when he gave the world for luve, lope'left that the American*" GovernMent didiet make a sharp bargain. ' - .will pet be beie enough to re-enact in the person of Mr, Davis seenes to be witnessed heretofore only in countries hem up to the youth of the Country as ruled by despotic -aid tyrannical kibgs. There he however, • Tbe last nunilase of Punch contains a Satoh against --Dnakii.'e .‘a hat 'More mareral .than for pupa to go :in fair Whiskey. The New. 'Yolk- Triliune padtesta against. the trial ot the couspiratorsaby military di -remission -with closed deors. a vindictive blood -thirstiness breathed out : CZP- The Wesley= ;Co:Ann.:ice will Meet against the fallen President that holes i fii at.Lendon, -C.-T., earlasin-Jerte. 11--"frult tied crop. prospe.cts in l'aestern. for the cause of mercy and magnaoimaty. ork are seleudid, ana if the slimmer be d..propiiiousoine,' these will.be a merry hare .vest home next -October. - Ile pre-jedged. He is declared to b guilty of the most awful"- crimes, and then L the unscrupulous spitisaare goaded on to search up, or dlas, to larent the proofs. -1 -- What has Davis done that he should be hung like a t`elon ? Tieaion Why, he was called to the Tiesiden- cy of the Confederacy by the unani- - mous- voice of his people; he left his plea- sant plantation home, as thousands of .Southrons did theirs to . engage in cipen, legitimaie whr-to engage its the struggle which he hail fOreseen and poiuted. out- „ Trom his place in -Cengress twenty-eight years before. Mr. Lincoln arid the North generally, treated his people as belliger- ents, and on.more than one- occasion his authority was solemnly recegnized - at WaShingtons And why is this man, who did no more tlian discharge faithfelly and _ licinotbIy the duties imposed upon him bjr foe amtioverergii States, singled out • for vengeance and punishment ? Did he display more heroism and ability in his position than the ._great _Lee, was he a „„groater% stumbling-bleck in the way of ” federal success than Beauregaid, the hero - of Charleston? And yet who talks Of hanging these, most prominent tnilitry leaders2 Davis` wasp/ucce4 at the head • of secession, bat Ile was not its originator "; 'he wax entrusted with power and he filled bis office as he filled his position as chief •representatiy? ef his adopted State with ability, firmness and zeal.; President tins cola di& not blame him specially for so doiag-neither did the isIorth until re- cently -neither dots the civilized world at this moment ! . The new President's policy with refer- ence to the Secession leaders known to be infinitely more vindictive than that. of his predecessor, who had the brunt of the strneele to behr, in so far as the Execu- tive was concerned, and by one of those mysterious- paradoxes with which the pages of history- are crowded, the pedple ,of the United States are allosing,theme selves to be educated up- to a ,standard of Austrian, cruelty by Andy Johnson,while, at the same time; they laud and,' maznify the mercy, the magnanimity, the orgiving mercy that dwelt in and ennobled 'the soul of " the martyred" -Abraham _Lin- coln ! We 'should not jitdrse too hOti.ly, bat if Presidentslohnion. ie inflexible and a'cliarge of treason is fastened upon gr. -Davis (we again exeept proof of complici- ty in the assissinatioa plot) will the falren man not ;become a martyr in the eitimas hen ek mankind -will -not the federal executive fail to justify the a" -a when it is .too late ! The gallows loses its terrors when a man stands upon the strop feeling within himself those Principles of moral rectitude that can alone buosenp the soul .under the tefrible neeessitieti of popular . passion. We'forget the errors which led . to, and the drop, the dark -aceesiories. of the gibbet and the: rope which finished- ' the doom of Itobert Emmett, bat wlio lean forget the words of loftiest eloquence that buritarom his -dying lips. 'Jefferson Davis - is only a man: If he is condemned to die on the scaffold for his polit:eal offences; he will lose but a few years of his natural life,and_ when he is gone his rawnory be embalmed in the hearts of- thousands. of his countrymen, who May in uttee des, peration arise once more ti de or die on the field of battle. ‘But it may. be, 'after all, that mercy will temper the decision -of the tribunal befoee which the fallen Presi- dent. is to he tried. For the salreof hn• inanity, and all thatsis noble, we trust lhat Andy ,Johnson or Tennessee will not stain his hands with the blood of a Man morally and intellectually Ills superior.' TIIE SEMI-WEEKLY SIG -NAL. - interpreted. Ile used the %%ell known politi• have commenced to cut a ditch tor sluicing-. cal aphorism of Talley ratel to simply convey which, when finished, wili be a mile and a his me:mina, that S eithei :neer, by senetton- euareer long.. Several new claims are staked ing what %vas not only immor11. wout‘l at the same time it:Trove that %%Lich eirail 00 metal': lita imliet neat 4,.6171'; i!..i'll.l. OA their there wierlil be little iir mole visible. - The weather in Victoria is lovely. The eelnieal cansa. The 11011se ot Coemems voted the leadina Kiwi:awls _of Gladstone's ;rolonist iif the llth April savs :---%\ e [night Budeet, but the reduction of the ii•!i dutv is safely challenge the world to pro_duce mitre postamied till the 1st of June. In the Iluuse beautiful spring weitthereleet his now set in, 1 a Little, in reply to an etiquity relativa tu I and vegetation is raniilly unfolds:1; under the Careen:in dela:tees, E trlele Grey reel Peron getliel influence of the solar raya.. sera the Goverainent hal joet commenced - A. discussion took plat:can the Le.gisrative re gotiations with . the deputatiou from. Cana- A SSetijiely a',1 10 the: aslvisiihility of s-eteline the ned woula repert es soon as .negotiations delegates to. Eng-la:el in 'ureter te britia about were closed.. Lord l'altnersam has almost a moo seetely,isur;‘ts'lltietintlisiintere the 17nion, and alle expenses to be recut- red. Constante lient was tally • coin Crowe Lands i milted for trial on her owe confeSsion that, incurred fata,0001, seem- ed to set as a drag' upset the movemepts of the Assembly.. A she committed the Road murder.: - Napole.en woo.: entlaiiiiisticallyereeecved in deputation was efeeted to wait upon the Gov- Ali:less The Goeernmeut Bill fixitesea. huta ernor.. The- Ch Farad eerattes.that the ' Iion. dral.thousatid men its the ceritirezent of ISG6, 0: .A-. Walkeni, tneathes cif the R.-0._Cban-cii, passed the Corpa Legielatif.. - The, think:54 tram- East Carilmoe. had. lieenapproached Franeegiiined 9,000,•000 franc§ etisa ilut ing -wiqt a preposition to proceed.tei En;elande - . - . the weela ... The Boarsa was ermet 67f 45e. -...0a Seturday the.8th aierilesaysthe-Victoairt it -is anmenred. that the , metsioti, of • Signor. Colonist,- the Hee. Di la•easelles, 'camas:alder Vezezzi to Itoine-on_the Su.hject. icif. reliaione el H. -Misgeinhcirst- ". FOrward- statiotted- in. mattersin theltaliati. Kingdom,: heti felled:a-a- the.ses vetters, .Wea • entertivinea . at a. dinner tan va.rioui directions. Snow ts fast Ws-. appearitte ; it %vas expected that in two weeks- tiiit village cif Markham We notice . 7 by- the Christian Guardian, the • Weslevans have been melebrating their. aiteireisary by holdiog an _Oyater. Supper an their church,- T4is is certainly a -new- featuee church • afiairea. - - • The sun starts redly up Tu shine fur half a year, and dim wintry twilight lasts tin oughout the other half, and hunger is the norinal state of the people. The traveller's' ruute is to be traced o -n- the map, which 15 mere gness-work hitherto, up the western side efDarris's Strait: -and once away from Holstainborg,the journey assumes all its savage features. The terrible ieeberea rear their menacing masses in the track :tithe ship ; the sun pours -its beams upun them, and bathes tlre in. geiden light ; they appear in faetastic shapes of Gothic cathedral, of - battlemented tower, of clear single -pierced spire; of strong.feneed city, of jelielenouptein,arf vast crystal hills ; and so, as the voyager leaves art and bellied, their- most supreme form flash a mireae like reminiscence upon him, intensify- ., ing .the contrast of the prospect, and lurina him to a frantic and futile rearet. A grand and terrible -eoefusion --reigns around ; the voyager ahrinka from the over- whehnina Scene, where tanges of mOuntaies, islands, rocks, castles, huge fei•mleas masses, •atel-gorgeous prismatic _lights surround 'that . -laboring .speek upon the mystic sea, eel whose light ; from the skin -clothed bodies. reeking with grease and filth, and the foul exhalations of the mutilated animal ; from the lumps of flesh torn by savage hands, nad crammed dripping into distended mouths ; from the stearning blood, and the human createres who rapturously quaint in the presence of the white man, who sits ameng them and feeds with. them, whose heart yearns with dumb compassion fur them, who has wr.derful scientific instruments in bis peckets,rand his Bible ia his breast. As the seal teaches. the Innuits the art. of housing themselves, so the white bear teaches them how to kill the wal- rus, their Most plentiful and frequent food,. when the ice is drifting, and the unwieldy creatures lie upon the blocks close inshore--; thee the bear clinabs the overhanging preci- ptee, and taking a heavy bluer' in his- deft forepaws, he hurls it with rare skill and meety of_aim upon the basking monster belOw.. So brutes train men in those dreadful regions, and not men bretes. The life ef the knells is 'full of such contradictions-. And their deaths; From the contemplation of these one turns away appalled, for they die in utter eelitude. littleriese he is So small . au atom ; and a When Captain Hall firat heard of this lair - The healtleof the King Of the .Belgtans was given by- the Most gentletpen of .stranee sense whiCh is not fear, bat awe Able custom, he started, offat (owe to see its morenniatisfactory. • . The -Spanish Govern- this clay and vicinity,previous_te. his departure t -1 truth s and havina removed the bloaks Nvitla cOmel to him' with the knowleage tea no. / meta publielied a decree orderitia thii-evacu• for 'England. • •--Thina of this Sublime eenfuston 'is real, onthe which the doorway had been built up,entered an iglooeand-founcl a- avomart -who bad _ yet . mien. of San ,Doiniego. The Pritseian Chana harifon or beyond, it. .-Fer allthe time of his her of 'Deputies rejectedethe :Government Military fayagrapleby, an overwhelinipg vote. - Many days to lin rer thus fastened up In her From Cariboo. nected r' 1"." a stay la the oactia. reelons he ts to be-siir it mg tooth. again, hearing that a evonian Mr. Gaoree Menace, forinerlY con by coatradictions, by the.sublimest had been abandoned toediea sit a great die- -Anal the 'Vice -ilia, Ir. E.rpt ess; _is about r°"detl to start a paper at Cerilioe. The locatain .manifestations Of nature, by the lowest con- tanceahe seeferth, and having reached the ditions of humanity,by gorneous and majestic spot with immense difficulty .and danger, be managed to remove the -snow and the block which closed the hole: in the top of the igloo lowered himself into it, and found the woman' dead,and frozen as bard as her bier and her tomb,_ with a sweet'Seeeneissitife upon the marble face: So this is the elose of a lite of -toil, and privation -the withdrawal of every kindred face, the fearful solitude of the ice; wallk the terrible arctic darkness and sileece, -; and the frozen corpse lying unshrouded, naaed, beneath the frozen skins, until the Resuarection Surely the augel of death is - an ahael of Mercy there, and does his errand gen4, bearing away the' lonely,' terrified spirit to the eity of gold, tile gates 'of pearl, the jasper sea, -the land where there is rio darkness, physical oeinental, fol. evermore. The earth, always pitiless to them, whish never feeds them from her bosom, 'does not suffer her -dead lehildren of the Innait people toileep their last eleep. in her lap. Their_ graves ate only blocks of ice piled aroun and above the corpses which remain -unharmed, unless when the blocks melts as they some. - will lie at Williath Creek, in the very heart of United State -6. - - the litnrintrS. ' - - .' . - . .. • . r3- .., . • -.--........„,".:.....",-...-...-,-,...-....,...,;,,,,,......",:....,,,-,...„w"A.,-...,-, ,' 'At Willie -2n Creek the winter -has been very . '' ., severe; Two. -mornings between the - 200 7 Fel). arid the 10:11 Maach, the thermometer froze: .0n the' 17th Marchenining operations were resurnal. Rieh surface diasiags have- Davisewlid Will- soon: arrive "tete.. It ts '_juet been struck at tlieheaJorLewhee Creek. rumoured here that he will have to, stand. aotl_ conialerable ekcitetnent. haS beeti the- res"iti - A. larger number of claiinaliave been his trial as an accoMplice in the Mtirder - NEw Yowls, MAY la. -The II ash- • ingttm correspondent of the Post says that the next great teial will be that of Jeff. stake off:. 'Ile geld obtained. iS line and of Of My. Lincoln: If that: charge .aatiinst purosrpliility. Severitl- Of' the claims :above. Vim should be ahindoned-,,he will hetrieu Eteciilield are clew inz dial._ sluice box6s and for treason, . 11.t is &Metal to see how- he .to escape .Witei hie .ere, 'atm nis ..sy in pa- . „ . thizers here abandon_ all hopes of a pardon, as _the President . has - repeeteuly. n.ounced iutention to cxeeute the-laWs taam. the leaders. 0 f coar-se, if Davis gets a ettedoe 119 one -else. will be executed.. ,7 • The itomease rule of 7-30 aotes-estenistes the Government.. - Se'cretary McCulloch has takee greet paias I:illieaste..iinaux. with .a degree. oa -interest Which. hrd never previons.ly -excited.: The ' to .prevent a tight Money .market, ;aid is stt: I 1" savare int-malt:tuts of the more beautiful and . . prepeiri • • .1- Vetoed el • I m .t 0 ea_ o. pima • - -0 vslitcle.if sometimes Oppressive, -is ordinarily is being- dame in Stout's Gulelee aratetul - witlio ut the rich-raed genial beauties -of- riature----without the resources of sport. - A. Vanish -lag without thatiatto•al fruits' ca the- eattli-eswith- . • out the intellectual 'occupation ofspeculating , .The-residenee-of. Captain 0-, F. Iralt in the - upon developmen1,-. of. ascertaining capabiln- artie 'regions, -and his explorations among ties, -or of investigatingssouttes .of wealth. - Vie so'eam -and Majestic wastes surrounded The eivilized dwelier- in:l'arctic regions has ler the hyoerhureaq seas,a have invested the none of these: He beholds, %with admiration se solemn as to 'be painful, the unapproach- able dignity and hard impliteable stilleess .of Nature ; but he never dreams of treasure to be wrested -from the cells of the ice-ptison s opfical: delusions, and by- the hardest and meets grovelling facts of daily existence; he must sha.r.e, to their fullest extent, the relent-, less physical needs ef the people, and live, if - he would late at all; in ciose contact with With! them, anlyet -his _solitude, must be in- wardly profound and unapproachable ; his purpose anintelligilde to hie associates ; and their language,. elenientary 'in itself,. dimly mid scantily compreneuded by him even in. its most sparing forms. Ail this, without any of the allevietioes-orlife among savages in southern countries withaut. the warmth, The- Oswego Adaertiser says :-Not in years has the weeat crop in this seetion looked so well aa at pecaent,' if the reports bi•oti sat us by farmers are correct. iThe :Mitchell _advocate says that divine :the last, week three merchants have- abscond ed from that place. Their liabilities are considerable. The assassination trial is still going on at Washington. The -evidenee so',far shows Mrs. Surralt to have beep a paray to; - and fully cognizant of, the crime. . First class beef is two cents a pound ea the WO Grande. It iS abdut two pounds a scent in this quarter -by no meani a. beef- ittini price. 11 -read now sells ut Richniond at a York shilling tor two loaves ; the authoritiea. aupplying it at_cost. • It is said the rebels and Federals are fraternizing harmOniously ia tlie old captial. ae,e. Horse thieves are pitying their voca- tion in. Ottawa. Several basses have been stolen, but the thieves have been -prevented front takiPg them off. No arrests ofetLe guifty parties „have, however, yet been made e confideer of his _ability to go on with the -new and last issue ' of tile, 1 30 nateselwithout --seriously distaihing the Market. _ : , .. . . W.tsg-L-s-uro.N, -M ty:. 10. - JO: . Davii is beat; bre a a li t- to Was hi n etoa as. feet as --stitain can brin , him. He wide probahly•arsieb by Kke Forty tsao head orabeep -were stolsn from Mr._L. F. Liacoln, in Bethaey Centre. Genesee County, on Sunday, evening. The flock was -followed, 'and two of the three thieves Were arrested whilst dri sing tbe sheep towards Buffalo. asja0a the eye:ling ofthe 3.al hist, a great sensation %yes created hi Liyeepool, England, on the receipt of a ielegram from 'Queenstown announcing that Wilkes Booth hail arrived. - there on the "Edinbarghr mid waseaptured. • Geeat satisfaction was expressele- e'f. It- afteee Ward turned out te; be false. The,-'nnae ar- restedswas a passenger named O'Nei LI, who bears a resetnblattee to Boeth. Ile was of' course liberated. = - GOderIch Post Office. We haTe„ at last, a Post Office- ade- quate to the wants of the public and cre- ditable to the town. Jaa Watson, Eaq., '09? worthy Postmaster, bats removettthe office_ from the okl place, near the present .13ank of Mo4treal, to a buildine- adjaic- , lug his own store, which has Isepen filed Gen. Sherman's bummers werel death on digging fiar hidden treasures. - Different squads.of thee' dug up a newly buried mule -six times in succession, and the poor critter Was not allowed to rest until his head and ears svere left, above ground as a sample of the kind of treasure below. Vir,On Tuesday a young man who was• detected passina counterfeit postal' currency atenagara wes pursued and shot while attempting to escape. The charge entered the body just above -the hip, and occasioned death 'within a short time: European News. fertile regions -of -the :eat th have been oliservad ay treveliels with claseamd careful attention, Svnich leede to hopeful efforts. for their-el-01i- zetion, - As, 'the man or the -world ie. oeened up to one eompreheision. new -schemes and aroseecte for the askance of the hanitin race ., . . .I. , . Saturday._ .it is said lie ivill be tried -'ae . au are opened with iin Stt VanS: artists mission- . I 1 • , . accomplice of Booth -anal the othdrasnissins. • ariesamerehents, gird thernselads to the con- WAsiitNoroN, May -17.-s-A gailer31, test. wah the material- aed Mural conditions. of pe ipteS, • yet) theugh- the esosIds %ley has lasted so! lostgan their infancy, whoseutiknown futtire may eontain- histories as brilliaat- as has been issued frum the War Dsnartmeitt as follOws : .-" All the forces of. the enemy east_ of the Miesissippiriver,.lreving been:duly sus:reed:Ned by thter Pr°Per- C.‘'.xP.'11:13'dmg thos.-e ofthe civilizetiens- cif the. present and officers to -the armies of the United Steles, under arreement el parole and disbandmerat, and there being now' noauthorizad troops 01 the enemy east of the -Mississippi river„ it is ordered that -from andsafter the first day of Jane, 1865, tiny and till persons found iit arms against the United Statea.or . Who may con- . -coct hostilities against it _east of the, alissis the paOt..- ,-,.But there is a race. who have not 'excited .sue hopesewho -have not :given. rise to such eiertions.:--a rite° whose life of unine- Ignitible ha dahip gives thene a. mysterioes reesernblence to tile phentonisof thologicel -belief, aid teltices them -beyond the reach of :the. sympathies of eivilizzition by its physical eunditionS the amelioration of which is itn-- sippi iiver will he regarded es. gneei,allas, and possible. • Beyood the stern bat•rier. Which punished with' deut h. 'Thastilet al.i"raeineut. Nature has eet in the noradernost -pita tif her -and execution of this .or;ler .especially trWful maitre -behitel the terrible rampart of joined upoa the commandtne, officers ot i.ile enow and ite, and storm and sdarkness, theee the United -States furces, withnothe territenal cieattires ot her wrath; rather th in Of her bonoty,_ dwell. , Tn reach, their lend,- the t•aveller must le.ive bellied -him every ,fami- liae chjeet, and abandon .every -habit or need :of ridieary life. -Ea must bid farewell: to green. trees, to fertile fielde, to theescrops which give food. to man. and beast, la the. doMestic ankle's,' to .every mode.of cbuvey.- ance, to evereeimplethent of norninon lien, to tisod and elothingetich as -even the poorest' ,anst thereughest setts- of a less terrible .elime may command ; to_ the thoesanci voices .of Nattnes-even.m iN eeeluded nooas. • --It, is a meekery..te:speak of the -arctic re gions as the linid of the Esaiiiinaux, for- no. a hese -ort the earth -is man less sovereign. - Here Natare. is indaed graild beyond coneep tions but also terrible; -implacable, and - penetrable, • -,Stie 'sets- man. aside ip her awful limits to which it anplies." ' Accorelinet anil order of -the WateDenart entthe Adjutaut faireeral has been directed to commence nrietering honorably ota of -seavice all general lield and staff oflieers•who are _unerneloyetle or whoeis services are no loager needed. -_ . = The testi:roily taken in the, ass-asaination cons; iracy &se last Frithae and aow made pUbliey SilOWS that the conspiracy dzdes back to the sumnier of 18G3, and that 13otab Wits then enenaed in it. The conspiracy content- . e plated thencepture of President Liecen, murder, the - burnin,g of .Northern creating dissatisfaction among the 'Northern people at the wars and the bringing ahout a- revolution in -favor of. the Confederacy. Booth was a leading ageet- - the matter, visiting various pasts of %the county and scorn ; he is a thing of no moment, te .cum holding secret caneultati ihs in Canada .with- berer of the iceefiehlse learning the simp Georee N. Sanders, (who has, since said be tees,ne whereby_ he supports his squali leterice front the. brutes; Which are than he inasmuch as the. iee s cham of eervitude thorn; Nsw Thais, May'16. The steamer Cabe has arrived, from Liver- pool on the ntb, via QSeenstown on the 7th: instant. '1 he Kangaroo and Helvetia arriv. ed out on the 5th. P-crlitical pews unimpor. tants= Breadstuffs-Flour quiet and etendy. did not know nouth), Clay, Ilolcomle Thoinpson 'and others. Booth was fiirnished with ineney from Ilichmend, . and was the regent to hire others. Au actor nanied. Chester refueed to have-, anything to do _With the affair, though Bdoth prorpised him $2,500-. lie wits only 46 see that the beck door oE ex- ordlier very is no d heedleis of to be in the store at the time, and noticina the peculiar odor, Faked what it was. 1 be merchant replied that it was coal oil. " Well" replied he, " if that is coal oil, there is lots of it. on my father's fa m. We were digging a well some time since, and after penetrating the rock a few feet, a quantity of black muddy stuff came to the surface, having just such a smell as that. and as we could not use the ssater, we were obliged to close the well." A. few leading men in the- vicinity took the matter up, and sunk several wells to the depth of about fifty feet, and then stopped because oil in Enniskillen had decreasedain value ter 124 cents per barrel, thus rendering it no object to expend more capital. The matter here rested till within a short time past, when it was again taken up by a few enterprising aud ethe probability is that the- - territory will now lie speedily andthoroughl, develoyed. _ - A Western editor ventS bis raffe as follows - - 0 a-nWe would say to the rascal who sidebar - shirt off the pole while we lay inebed waiting for it to dry, that we sincerely hope that the- collar7 fray cut his throat. -4Served right,' said we, No business te have a Alia. A pretty editor thus to be indalging in „Bush, luxuries._ We expect the next thing, -to bean - of this extravaaant fella* aspiring to wear' , stockings and f°urred hatil! 0, the amaricea unreasonableness, and extravagance of some: folks 1' HEARTS OF Osse-A Paisley weaver, aft- flicted with the 41ast infirmity ofnoble forsook his loom to _share in the glories ofa Lord Nelsoh Soon -after he was afloat, ter wile one black, stormy night maimed aloft. The poar insteadref at once throwing - himself into -the shrouds, looked up in blank - dismay to -the officer, and exclaimed, 10de man, it wad be a fair temptin' o' Providence to gang -up there on sic it night.' - NARTCBTS. .1•M•••••••• Goezmes, ,May 1Sth, 1865. - Fall Wheat); ,S1:00 Spring do 0.95 Oats, . 0:374 Barley ' -0:55 Peas 9:00 Pork - . 5:513 Wool. ... 0:18 ea 0;25 Beef, 3:56 -(,4 4;50 leunba, ........e . /DO asa 0.00 furlsies., each — 0:45 9;50 Geese, -do 0:0-0 -0:20 9:00 0:25 0:Q0 0:17 13.371. 0:00 1:10 1:00 -040 cr) 0;60 0;75 - -0:00 times do, and the Wolves, dog,s, or bears gain ' . . ti tickets, /ta pair . he seeks the -dead-relic dead of centuries age access to the frozen remaihs. The Innuits Bleits, d° , - eee" - • °:°° Ildes (green)........ -a- 2:75 are dying (intl. disease is making havoe among -the dead'of a decade sinee, to be found, it :nay be, incorporated with their frozen rest- them ; -consumption, forinerly unknown, is Better ..a .. --.... ea ..... 9:15 thinning their numbers by sits slow, furtive, Petathes - es a - - e --:--e 0:35 ine-place a for t - e fiat- of Nature arrests decay mai-derails anvance ; their children are few, ‘1-00d- .........a a.. .e. . 2;00 s in 'these terrible regions, *here death afid life are itiways'at close gripes with- one another. and fewer still are reared; and the long story' Hies ... ,. e . s 0:03 (4 0;12/ While the mita] is ceaselessly -impressed with of'awful desolation draws • to -a close. Who APPlea--- - - 9:40 (4 0:5C1 •saditesO• end soleinnity, the body asserts its- ea" hay, la ton. ...e s ..... - 13:00 8 14:00 regret it ? Who cando aught but desire claim to superiority ; it will not be forgotteu or neglected, for cols] erienmPasses it with un relaxIDT menace a death,. and hunger preys durtiotmtuts. upon. the vitals, e hose heat wanes rapidly in the pitiless climate, dnd which crave tor the nutriment Se har&to, procure, so repulsive. .when prscured. . Toil is the law of the . lee clad ldnd-toil, nqt to *rest from the bosom of theearth her children's ereatusei, from wham they hture that the giant wastes., of the arctic, regeons sbould be left to the • soulless creatures of God ; that the .great discord between them_ and human life has ceased to trotible the has- mony, of creation a that the mystery of such an existence is quietly laid at rest, among the things which 'We -know not no*, but which we shall know hereafter ' ftraw, per load.. — e.. 4:00 a 5:00 . him, of hiS terrible hunger . rid dsstitution; of his hopeless iiolation, e builds her ice-palin ces:upenithe seas, locks the land in her glitterma ice msa.and sffinga her terrific Grover'e theatre; wheee it wan -- nt first cm-ls banners of,fl trite wide -against the northern teinplated to perpetrate the assassina thine wee sky 3: iind'sends ner voice -abroad, ' Winona- a kept open for Booth fur exit. Boeth tet first tame Qe pity in ith vibrations,sounding llirough coaxed him- and theu threatened- him , with the troubled depths of the waters, end the diath if herthvul.lied1the P14- ' '. rent masses of the many -tinted icebetes.-- 'f he Titnes' special despateh says af iii Nature :ii indeed beautiful in her riot -Them vieit of the militate, commission -to- the strongholds; btu her beauty sheets only its theatre :-- - : - - - . terrible aepects, itsedread grandeur. ' Kiri 14 It. was found; that the.assassin real 'after face ofthe migbty: mother doei riot Softer, falling on the Stage te aret out of the building; into a smile foe, the - feebleness of her young - a dietance of ninety feet. The passage was .est -b -Orn Offsp.ringe but is:fixed in its .awzul six feet wide and the floorsunobstructed and `subl;rnitv. There is-- no poita.of contact be - upon a leael with tha ground in the rear of terecie iiiis lee -kingdom' and European civili- the building, sh that the easses.ein had he step§ zatiOri;and men of our race and tongue shrink tei ascend or descend. There iis -ra. narrow from it with an appalled sadness, for has it halt leading from the stage on the south side not -been the tomb oamatry. of. our brave and of the theatre. It wee at the front doer of beloved ? • Three- eenturies ago, it earned this hall that Boeth, Spangler and another that elementary state of gecarraphical know - man whose narixe iS not yet ia evidenCe, were, • - ledge and -the genera.) prevalence of super- . _ f Wilteat quiet and eaSier and partially ld lower. engaged in the mysterious whispers and Coen dull and Gd lower.. Provisions -Beef mallceavring which attracted the attention aetive and firatei. Pork steady: Baeren and of Sergeant Jos. M. Dyre, es given by him in his testinaony yeSterday. , Everything re- butter bare- season niers. Lard- easier.-- - mains. ; taithsturbed inside the building, . just .as it waS at the time of the asmssitiation, except that. the chair in which Mr. Lincoln sat when he was shot has been taken away, and a blue flag which .hunz in -front of . tne 119.i. afid in which Booth's spur taught, hae quiet and taichanged, Rice firmer:a Paint been removed.", ' ._ kern steady.. The bullion in the --Bank of . NEW YORK, May 17.-Tlie-Herald a Chese England inereased £75,000. The steamer ter, S. ta corresporidebt says: that the Cen- • _ . Sacramente; from Lisbon, arrived at Dover federate Governor Vance ,tef N. C.. was on the 2nd.: esoluttons _of sympathy- with- arrested iii Buncomb Ceuuty on last Friday it • by' a detachnient of Kilpatrick's cavalry, by Aliterica continue to pour in. Almest every orders from Washinaton whither. it is said . a 0 ; public body and place in England mast have he will be sent to stand his -trial for treason,- giien an expression- Of its syinpathy. Among It was reported that another detachment of ,.. ,. cavalry was in pursuit of Governor Magrath the last demonstrations was a great meeeani. . , reworking men in, London. la addition tO The Confedeeate General- Jee 'Johnston is resolutions of condolence, theyeadopted one at Charlotte, N. C. It is said he. applied for refotcing at the Federal successes and the permission to be allowed to go- to Canada! destruction of ' ,slavery, The Liverpool hut it Was refused. ,, - , , _ Chamber of aommerze voted an address ex- . Captain, Semtries, wit i hseme compamonsa Ashes firmer.. Sugar active and 3d ..to 6d higher, closing quiet. -Rice ditto. London Markets -Wheat .firm *and- 14 higher on the weeks Sager easier: Coffee steady, Tea -" of S. ts., - • ' • s is endeavoring to .reach t e cosst and' make pressing _a hope that the calamity may. not ha retard a speedy peace, The London Times eseape out of the country.by sea. By wayeirliavana we learn that the Con - halt a friendly arid hopofal editorial upon the federate leaders iti Texas and taouisiana were stition, as-sumed a weird and baleful form. It haS but increased in degree, though differing in kind in our days, -and we thiek of the Arctic Regions as the sepulchre of the belov- ed dead, the land towards which .the heart of England -yearned, -arid which kept pitiless sitence through long years of hope deferred. But °fits people we. de not think ; We -are satisfied to have but a vague notion of them ; te wonder, amid the Many Marvels of Prat mightysproblemesthe distribution of the hu- man race -how human beings ever found , their way to these dreadful fastnesses, more cruel ira their exaction of human 'suffering than thedesert or the fereste This indiffer- ence givei way. when we learnSwhat manner ef peZ6Ple these tire whom,we callEsquimaux., a ,wotd which signifies eaters of raw food,' but who call themselves Intluit, or -4the peo- ple,i. and explain their' own origin by.a story which is -a pleasieg testimony to the mommon possession af. selaeonceit by all, nations. - They say. that the Creator made -white -rnen first but was dissatisfied with them- reaarded- them as worthless untioished creaturea and- -straightway set eboutinaking the Innint, pro- .ple, who proved perfectly satisfactosy. Capteia nyetj among.this strange race .for two.years arid a half, and he is about to ieturn and prosecute his researches .n Boothia aad Lanid. This time, his 'object is to trace the remnants of the Fraek- lin expedition, which -as he finds the history of tha few events which bane ever -marked the prOgress of time ia that' distant land handed dowo by oral traditien with extraoy- dinary distinctuese-he has ne doubt of being able to do. - Ills firstjourney was -search of relics of the Frobisher expedition, and was as seccessfut ailt was daring? patient, and. persevering. experiences -were strange iii all respects, and in many-1119st revolting ; - learnedliow' to shelter themselves from the cold, and whose skins COVeK thorn, the tinctin nue- fleeh, whish t -hey deiour ramein enormous quantities. The limey are, on the n -hole, gentle people, driven by -the relentless need and severity `of their -lives into close and peaceful conspanionship. They have [Joking, no government, no law, no defined religion, - no property ; they have, for all these; custom -the a'.dest law e they are animated by the same-shirit that dicta.ted the rept) once made fo One who. Sat by Sacob's well : ; Our fathers worshipped in this mountain,and we •worship.' As] the old Innuits ' did, sodo their succes, sots. '. They have no bread, no medicine, no: household. turniture ; they ere poor human waifs upon thee wide white bosom of the .frozeie seas ; aed. tho _haves- sourde but M. the ieal; th beare the reindeer, arid maux dagi, which Mg creatures le the seal the whieh the speeches of Sir F. Brue and President John- still aa the elate of' the- latest accounts pro- - bl -- t' 7 d dd ' te mee Ines an a. resses 'stoat -which it regards as n fresh eaeaeas ee dallaallg bY Pu amity. -It .says that Johasaa,s iaactaage is their determinatiten to continue the tvar not- withstanding the failure of theiecause east. ot pacitic and statestnauli'le, and will nieet with the Mississippi. . : . a response in England. - The Times hope's_ General Magruder made a speeeh on .the that the idle ivords of. provocation wLich have been empldyed by irresponsible persons, s 24ult., in which he announced that he could may be baried in the grave of Lincoln. The see nothing diseouragings. for the COnfedera- tes in their 'military situation, and hinted Queen'S response to addresses from Parlia- Othaardt:gey hada neighbohr near at hand re- ment says .that she entirely participates. in ,, whom he did enat feel at liberty to the sentiments addressed to her on the -asses sinationrand she has fared directiong to her say anything farther at that time-. . Minister at. Washington to -Make known the feetines entertaine !"-Prom Vancourer Island. . d by Padiament in cone . - , 1:11011witti herself and the whole people. In We have received filea of Victorierir,T] pa. the House of Lords, Lord RavenSworth cities- pears to date April 22. - Frdm thear we niake tionecl _Void Derby as to the meaning of, his epression that Soathertiere, if.-Zonnetted the folioiving-extracts :-- . . - -- with. the assassinations coaignittea wotse than, A number of companies weirs at work oil a crime -blunder., _ Lord Derf;y said .he did the .9th Feb. at Leech River, between the not.see how'bia exPression ciiuld be- wronaly mouthand Bacon Bar, With varied saccesS, t le la out good pay Three cOmpanies ___ .. e some a it 0 , • . help or re- al I-J.1011e white le wonderful Esqut e by far the noblest liv- those sterile wastes. From lave learned to make the igloo, e houee of the Innuit. They eat esh of thia aniMal, -aiid drink: its fresh arm blood; they...kill its; youness and eagerly swallow the milk or the mother, found in the stomach of the baby seal. -- When the sudden summer denies, and the snow melts,and leaves the sarface Of tfie ine bare, they are honse- less y the igleo melts away ; their home TS but of -frozen water, 'and suddenly it disap- pears. Then, 4114 have - recourse to the tupic; Which is a hags sheet of skins. bung aceoss a heTizorital pole, supperted- at either end-. TheSr bed, is a snow platferm; strewn with the moss which is the reindeer's food, and covered with Skins.. Their Choicest dain ties are thefat of the ttiktoo, or reindeer, the marrow preenred by mashing the bones of the_legs, 'arid- the thick, white, unctuous lin- ing ot the whele-hide. - The. intertor of itn. igloo presests- a pieture more re-pulsive than, that of any African hut or Indian.wiawana niore distressing to human feelings, addegradina to human pride. The - igloo isa dome Shapedr'buifcling, made of ice- bloCks, with an "aperture in the roof, and a rude dooeway at 'one side, closed with . ice - blocks, when .the ininates are assenabled.eL l'he snow platfoins which: forms the bed is occupied -by the women and the stranger; -Men and -women are - clad in skihs, put to - °ether with neatness aud. ingeneity. The 0 . dress et the sexes differs only in two particu- lars : that of the warrien is furniehed with a -long tail-, depending from the jaeketeand has a sort of hood, in which lends and. children are carried.' The life of tbe infant is preserved Isy its naked body being kept id contact with that of the mother. One household imple- ment they possess -it is a stone lamp ; seem - thing like a trough, with a deepgroove in it, i i whie.h the,dried moss,used its wick, floats in the seal oil, expressed by -the•-teeth of the women from lutaPs of blubber; which they pat iently 4mill 'stmtil -the preeious . unguent is all procured. -aut•this lanip tOo often fails them, and darkn s end hunger take frequent Tra abede with the In ' it. Daya and nights are Passed by the me , sitting isfirgly, in ;death- like stillriess and silence, br the hole which they havefoUnd, tar tinder the snonaat which - the seal *ill -4blow.' ,It is stvaage and terilia ble to think of ihose_watcheS; in the midst of the desolation, under that arctic eV, with the cold deple fog now ssvoopiee, • nen, lifting! in the enforced stillness, with °famine gne.wing the watcher, and famtne at home in tie igloo, and - the chance pf-Seod depending- on -the sureness of oneilistantaneous stroke, • down - through the snow-,, throUgh the narrow ()Race in the ice,inte. the throat of the anima wit the sleek skin, and the moarnful human -eyes, which 'Vainly finpleee mere), from raging hunger.. . • • - - When the Innuit brings: the seal to the igloo, a crowd -.invades the .narrOW :saw, for the Simpiest-hosPitasaty prevails, and the long watc1K the skilful stroke, de not conetitute sole , ownership et_ the- plize. Tb.e.iikin is stripped off the bilge -unsightly' carcass, hnd a horrible scene eranes.: The flesh is tort or- ,ctit with thentone kniies helarge lung* and harini been firs lieked ' by the wdmen, to remove dny hairs -or .othee adhesive. matters is-distritiuted to the party,and devoured -raw ; the blood isdruhk. the" bones are mashed. the .entrails ere greedily eaten., the dogs sharing in all ; riled the blubber is made to yield its oil by the disguattne process. already describ- ed. One turns- seecced from the picture; iron) the sights, and soundsland scents ; from the vieion of dark fates, eager with glutton- oueleriginsh gathered round the red, flaring Disraeli's' Speech on Alte.Death of Abraham Lincoln,. • in the Hianse Of Commons :on the , first of May, Mr. Disraeli seonded the resolution of aorrow and indignation at the assassination. of the President of the United States 'in tbe following remarks : • . . there -are rare instances 'Olen -the sympa thy of a nation approaches those tenderer *lines that, generally epeaking, are sup- posed° to be peculiar to the individual, and to foranthe happy.privilege of private life, and I think this is one of them. _ [acme hear.] Under all circumstances shbuld have bewailed the catastrophe al Washing- ton -under all. circumstances- we should have shuddered at the means by which it was accomplished. But in the character of thd victim, and -the accessories of his alnitist latest moments, there is soMething so homely and so.innocent that it takes the subject as it were, out of the pomp Of history, aod out •of the ceremonial of diplomaek. It touches the heart of nations, aud -appeals to the slomestie sentiments of mankind. [Hear, hear I . Sir, whatever may be the various and varying opinions of this stouse and cOuntry geuerely, of the policy of the late President of the United States_ of this I think all must be agreed, that hie. trial ithich, perhaps more than anypther, tested the Morat quality of the mane he performed his duty with simplc -city arid strength. alear, hear.] Nor is it- poesible fel- the people of England to forget at this moment that he sprang from the same" fatherland, and spoke ihe- e_ame mother tongue. [Hear, hear,a When erime_s of this character are prepetrated trio public mindis apt to fall iritogloo n and perplexity, and that ,has arisen becNttse it iS us ignorant -0e cauees as it is of the consequences of each an aet. But it is OEM. part; I think, to reassure theni tinder any unreasoning panic or despondency. THear, Assasssina- floe has never_ chanaed the histdry of the world. will not ref°er to instances of remote antiquity, although ah accident has :made the' most memorable ex unpin of those times familiar at t'his moment to the mind and memory -of most gentlernen ,present., 13% even the costly sacrifice of a Cmsar -did not propitiate the inevitable destiny of his country. But in more modem tithes, with ,,whose feel- ings we 4.re more familiar, who are animated and influenced by the saiue interests as our- _ selves. The violent deaths of two -heroin men, Henry IV, of France a,fid the Prince of Orange, are conspicuous illustrations of this great truth. Therefore at this moment, while 'second the addrese. to the drown, and express upen my:own part, and -I hope ensthe part of every member of the house, feellags of unaffected and rofound sympathy- with the citizens of the nited States at the uq- timely end of their elected clii4 woul.d not sanction any nentenents 'Of depreeeione I would 'either lake this Oieportupity of ex- pressing...my . fervent hope .that-- frem them awful years -of trial the various poPulations of North Anaerioas,niaricome. 'oat :elevited; chasteeed, rich in accumulative wiecloria and strong in that disciplined energy- which. a young natiou can only acquire in A -protrac- ted. and teritous-Iftrugnlet Their vitt. be. °pee to: tam again not merely the .same course of powereandffinosperity which they have -heretofore mined, butihey will pursue .that course of power aid piosperity for the den-ral happiness of mankind. [Hear: hear41 It_ is with these feelings sire that I now second the address -tOthe Ciown. [Loud -arid general eheeriug.) " • The niotion was then t)iitly the. speaker, -and carried una,nimously _ but we owe mach tothis cheerfill,courageous,_ simple -hearted American gentleman, who bas revealed- 'the .Esquiusaux to us, as Captaiu Grant has Severiled the African tribes, and oriental touriste the dwellers in the deserts. There i3 poetical harmony in the conditions of life among' the Innuits ; there is the im press of sadness and sterility upon them. all.: Time -.itself chancres its meanidr in -a land . . where • ; Oil at Selkirk: GREAT EXCITEMENT1 - [From e Hamilton Times.] • Selkirk is a village in. the connty of ilaldi- wand, '.on the tovenline between the town- ships -of 'Walpole _and,Bainhatt,,about eleven miles from the county town, end situated one mile from Lake Erie. The inhabitants have heen est -cited lor some time past by the ationg indreations of petroleum whieh ave. been discovered in the vicinity.. The history of the 'excitement, as near m Oa learn, is as follows e -About four years -ago; one of the merchants in ahe village reeivefl bar- rel of coal oil for the purpose of retailing to: his customers, and as it was nol, :as well :deodorized thee as nowe it emitted a very disagreeable small. A yeaing man chancing I: _CASSADYI lg. D., c. (Groxfuate or McGill 3Tontreat..) DELYSICIAN, SURGEON AND AC. Ofiie.e-At the Division Court Office, pungannon, O. W. vr17 GREAT WESTERN jiA1 Freight feiakPot.sitm. last Bhoro THE FAST SIDE WHEEL . , " Bonnie -Maggie " CAPT. D. ROWAN, Commander will run between - SARNIA. AgD SOUTII.AMPTON. (Weather permitting) twice each week until further notice. Leavine Sarnia every Monday and _Thursday morning tailing at I3ayfield, Goderich, Kincardine InIrlinron, Port Elgin, Southampton. lietturning leave Southampton every Wednesday. and Saturday morntng calling at above ports. Frelieht by this route can be delivered quicker,than by any after, and at rates to • suit Merchants and Shippers. For freight and passage apply to W. Seymour & Cca Agents, Goderich ; Robt. Campbell, Agent, Kawinpciaoind.ine; James Burwash, Agent, South- SWINYABDI - W. ORR . Freight Supt., Eastern division, Ifatnilton. IsalL.)CFS - _ votno on the Beach of Lae Huron, -- a1;t*hroisPav;ediate -1; about 3 miles frotn Goderieh, on 20th of April last, a quantity of Pine Logi, marked Wprolenrdtyl,l'ipayTtexpoewnns:sr,i4andregtalcuesetelldiet If not churned within one sneak from they -will he eold by Auction. STEPHEN SHELLY,. Goderich May 18 1865 - w17.3t f - Money to --,Lend, Gooding, Solicitor. .ippllfilte Over Re. UPON Mortgage!. Bocloothd'esrieetho,reistii man_.1865: swttif - PUBLIC NOTICE. A LL persons are hereby notified that after EL this date I will not hold myself respon- sible for any debts -contracted by my wife" Mary Bays, she having de.sertedsmy bed and- boaed withoutjust cause -or rovocation.- . SAM, EL BAY - T'p of Stephee, 00r Enron - May 1▪ .8th, 18615. vt1r3t-p.00 INSOLVENT -ACT OF Mt. the matter of: COLIN SINCLAIR, 42b Insolvent 2 HE Creditors of the Iniolvent are notified fo meet at the law office of Messieurs'. Toms &Moore, in the.Town of Godeich, en - Monday, the twelfth day of June, 1865, at ten of the --clock ill the forenoon, for irid phblie examination of -the Insolveittenial for the, ordering of thse affairs of his estate ee-CRABB„, ,••• - *signet - TOMS lc MOORE, Solieitorr tor Ineolyents • GodeiMh, W;Slitly 18t13,-1865. w17 2t* Insolvent Act of 1864. 1111E creditors ef the undersigned are soti--- fed to meet at the office ef Frederick . Whitt, attorney at -law; in the Tillage of Clinton. tke cd-inty *Ilium, C41 Moodap the aftlidarof Jane next, at gee oVedit the afternoon, for the purpoge of receiving s statement of his affeine and of naming.= assignee to- whom he may make an assign- ment wider the stbove AM. Dated at the_village of 'Clinton, in the County of -Huron, this eighteeuth dey amyl A. II, 1866. , egAnrus DILitIENT. FiEDSAICE MUM ' Attorney for Charles -Din:lent. w17 -2t 4.41 burr inst tisei ta.at man Eel? fried ford tier+ (Eget tad Snei groil . 1 ,1 t we Thel was and 'WU I Ise