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“gun M. 1857‘ Igno, 1857‘ June. 1857 Consuhntions Free, and all Work Wun’nnted. Toronto. June. 1867. l-wy. J. K. FALCONBIRDGE, Richmond Hill, MPORTER and Dealer in Dry Goods. Groceries. \Viues. Liquors, Hardwue. Glass. Earthenware, &c.. &c.. &c. June, 1857‘ Juno. l857 w as, King Sm: East' Toronto. ‘i‘urlicular attention given lo the regulation: 0 Children's Teeth. Richmond Hill, June. 1857‘ RICHMOND HILL HOTEL, September. 23. 1857‘ Opposile the Post Oflice. Yong: Street, N Omnibus leaves tha above llotel every Morning. (Sundays excepled,) at seven o'clock. for Toronto; ramming the same smug- TWO Miles North of Richmond Ilill, dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Winov. Liquors. Hardware. Glass. Earthenware, 6w. 1]? Also. Licensed Auctioneer. NNKEEPER. Licensed Auctioneer for the Counties of York, Ontario and Rimcoo. Corner of Yonga um] Bradford llreeis. Holland Landing. JOHN HARRINGTON, JR., November. 26, 1857‘ Odober 15. 1857. i i i Yam]: STREET. OSEPH GABY begs to inform the pub|ic that he has commenced to run a Stage from theubovo Hotel to the O.S.&II.R k. Station. (Richmond Hill) twice a day; and will cotvey passengers In any purl ef the counlry, night or day. in ten minutes notice. FOR THE TON/RSHH’E 0F Mp}kham & Wllitclmrch. hummus :â€"~Henry Smelser. Lukay. King ; Thus. Bowman. Almira. Markham. SMELSER & BOWMAN, Licensed Auctioneers! June. 1857 MPORTER of British and American Dry Goods. Groceries, Wines. Liquors, Oils, Paints. am" in. Richmond Hill. Juno. 1857. gJ-wy. m UWinas. Liquors. Hardware, 62c: Richmcud Hill, June. 1857. gJ-wy. Opposite the White Swan Inn. Richmond Hi". June )0, )857. gJ-wy BI: GAMES LANGSTAFF. 'uue.1857 June. 1357‘ Cmi'iagc, “'aggon 8; Sleigh AUCTIONEER. lune. 18574 GEORGE DODD, Veterinary Surgeon. HYSICIAN 65 SURGEON. HENRY SANDERSON, 500D “'ORKMEN SENT TO ANY PART 0'? THE COUNTRY. July 23. 1857‘ Grainors, Gildets, Glaziers, and Paper Hangers. 'I‘IIORNHIL L. .412 kinds of .Mixed Paints PAINTERS, Lot 26. 4111 Con.. Vuughau. " HORSE 6: FARRIER " INN Corner of Yonge and Centre Streets. YONGE STREET. RICHMOND HILL. “'ILLIAM HARRISON Richmond Hill. Oct. 15, 1857, ifiuaiaem minnow. (Late M. Tequ,) MPORTER of British and Foreign Dry Goods. Wine and Spirit Merchant. &c. iomor nf Yonge and Centre Streets. Veterinary Surgeon, AND LERK THIRD DIVISION COURT. ’ Office. Richmond Hill, 707335 and Buggies kept for hire. WARD & McCAUSLAND, !hmond Hill. June. 1857. AHJFF‘ Second nnd Thifd I * Court. Ofice, Richmond Hill JOHN COUL’I‘ER, Tailor and Clothiers CHARLES DURRANT, .dle and Harness Maker, Next door u G. A, Burnard's. Oils, GlaEs, and Putitgi; THOMAS SEDMAN, JAMES MCCLURE, Home. Sign and Ornamental Yongo 31., Richmond Hill JOSEPH KELLER, Richmond Hill. RICHMOND HILL JOHN GRIEVE, THE WHITE SWAN J. W. GIBSON, Boot and Shoe A luakcra J. N. REID, Thornln‘ll. 17m, and Livery Stables, MAKER, ‘RY cqoos. GROCERIES, Opposite J. K. Fulconbridge'a, P. CROSBY, BARNARD, RICHARD NICHOLLS‘ SURGERY. VV.C.ADAMS DOCTOR JOSEPH GABY. Proprietor. Den tnl Richmond Hill. g.l -w_v. Proprietor. . g] 8-1!“ 7g- 1 y g.l-wy g Lury, DIVISION g.3-wy gl 0-“ g.l.w_v gJ-wy. gIG-ly gJ- ws', g95-lf gl9-l MPORTERS and dealers in Italian and Amerlcan Marble, also manufac- (urera of Monuments, Cenotaphs. Tomb and Grave Stones,0rnumemal enclosure: for Grave plots, &c. Orders through our Agents will re- ceive prompt attention. Hill MPO RTER of British,French German and Amelican, Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, No. 80. City Buildings. King Shes! East, opposite St. James’ Cathedral. Toronto, C. w_ Nov. 5. 1857. g224f TORONTO “ CITY" MARBLE WORKS, C. LUDFORD, SADDLE AND HARNESS MAKER, THORNHILL. ESPECTFULLY begs leave to in- foranrmMs and okhars that be has con- “:qu onhand. or mauufncturm to order. a” descri tians of Saddles. Heavy and Light Har- ness. ridlos. Surcingles. Whips and other arti- cles bolongingto the (rude: I" of which he is prepared to 8611 low for Cash, or on approved Credit. [IT An inspection of my stock and Pricoa in Ioliciud before purchqu elsewhere. SO] CHAS. POLLOCK, [so EALER in Groceries. Wines Illd Liquors. Thronhill. C. W. Choice brands of Tons. Sugars and Coffee: on hand, genuine as lmparled. An assortment of Bread. Biscuit and Cakes. constantly on hand. 'I‘horn'nill. Sept. 25. 1857. gl'l-ly Thomhill, Non”). 1 357 Thornhill. Nov. 16. 1357. Saddle and Harness Maker, THORNHILL. Thorn Hill. Juno 91h. l857‘ I]? Coats of Arms. and every description of Herald Painting. executed with despalch.nnd at reason-bio charges. June, 1857. ngy. YONG}: STREET ‘ XTENSIVE Slubling. and obliging Hosllers always in attendance. Choice Wines and Liquorl. Beer. Porter and various Summer Beverages. Regalia. Principe. Havana, Manillaiand other brands of Cigals and Cheroola. LAG. Banner and Ornamental Plimer, Elizabeth Street. Toronto.â€"Over W. Grif- filh’s Grocery Store. PPOSITE A. LAW’S. Yonge street. Rxch- mond Hill. Ladies’ Ind Gentlemens' Boot.- und Shoes. made after thelnlest styles. August 6. 1857‘ An Omnibus (o and from Toronto. calls at the Hotel. daily. Richmond Hill. June, 1857 J. VERNEY, Boot and 51100 Maker June ‘20. 1857 June. 1857‘ Toronto. June 12th, 1857. June. 1857. MflWINE AND HEAPINI} no. 138 row): nnu'r. mun QUEEN 5111sz D‘ CARLOS YALE. “'l. YALE D. DAVIS. AGENT. Toronto. July 10, [857 G“ J. B. DEEGIER, Agent, Richmond Barristers, &c., No. 7. WELLINGTON BUILDINGS. KING s1‘., TORONTO, ROBERT J. GRIFFITH, Tomnto. Juu018lh, 1857. g.2-wy JOHN MURPHY, House Decorator, Painter, PAPER HANGER, GLAZlER &c., &c. AGENT FOR Darling s; Altchison’s COMBINED .MA CHAVEIS, R1 (711.771 0.7VD HILL. MESSRS. J. & W. BOYD, No. 49, King Street, 4 Doors “lost of Bay Street. DEALER IN PAPER HANGINGS. Bottled Ale Depot, 65. YORK STREET. TORONTO, C. W. M. MORRXSON, Agem. V01. 1. :OOD Staging and Allenlive'Hostlerg D. 0- 8L W. YALE, HOUSE DECORATIONS. &c. CAL‘EB LUDFORD, DAVID ATKINSON, A. GALLANOUGH, “ ritizy CLYDE HOTEL, KING 3mm EASTLmRomo. Thorn Hill Hotel, V 001) ACCOMMODATION ron VICTORY HOTEL, And IVILISImic .Hall, T ravellera. ROBERT WISEMAN. JOHN SHIELS. c“. LUDFO'RD. :24.“ JOHN MILLS, Proprietor. g.l -wy. Proprietor, W’ITH 0R IVITHOUT OFFENCE TO FRIENDS 0R FOES, Proprietor g.] -wy. g.I-w_\' gS-Gm g.3-wy g. I wy g94-lf gl-w)‘ g.lwy 35 (f. “On my arrival in Bombay in 1766, Mr. Crommelin, the governor of that settlement, was under orders to relinquish his situation at the be- ginning of the following year, and then return to England. Mr. Spen- cer. the second in council, was ap- pointed his successor in the Bombay government, instead of Mr. Hodges, chief of Surat, who considered it as his right. Mr. Hodges had become acquainted with this Brahmin dur- ing his minority in the Company’s servrce. “ This extraordinary character was then a young man, little known to the English. but ofgreat celebrity among the Hindoos and every other description of natives in the western part ofthe peniusula. The Brahmin expressed an affectionate regard to- wards him, and as tar as the distinc- tion of religion and caste allowed, the friendship became mutual and disinterested. The Brahmin was always justly considered as a very moral and pious character, and Mr. Hodges was equally well disposed ; his Hindoo friend encouraged him to proceed in that virtuous path which would lead him to wealth and honâ€" our in this world, and finally con- duct him to eternal happiness. To enforce these precepts, he assured him he would gradually rise from the station he then held at Cambay to other residences and inferior chief- ships in the Company’s service ; that he would then succeed to the high. “ I shall relate three anecdotes in confirmation ofthe penetrating spirit, preternatural gift. or whatever term may be allowed for the talent which this man possessed. I know that the predictions were made long be- fore the events happened, and were literally accomplished. “ These persons (soothsayers) abound in all parts of India; but there are among the Brahmins a small number who seem to differ from all the descriptions of people before mentioned; they appear also perfectly distinct Irom the fortune- telling Brahmins and pretended as~ trologers, who, like the gipsey tribe in Europe, are well known in India. Thosel now speak of seem to be gifted with a talent possessed only by a very few of the quiet, retired. literary Brahmins. To one ofthese I shall now confine myself; he was a man well known to many of my contemporaries in India, and I have occasionally met with him at Bomâ€" bay, Surat. and Cambay, where I believe he chiefly resided- The following anecdote relative to the extraordinary prophetic pow- er possessed by a Brahmin of Bom- bay, are given in the last number of the Zoist, as instances of clairvoy- ance independent of mesmerism. They are extracted from FonBEs’s Oriental Mcmoirs :â€" A mother! when, like evening’s star, Her course hath ceas’d before us, From brighter worlds regards us still, And watches fondly e’er us. There’s anguish in a mother’s tear, When farewell fondly taking, That 50 the heart of pity moves, It scarcely keeps from breaking. And when a mother kneels to Heaven, And for her child is praying, I 0, who shall half the fervor tell That burns in all she’s saying! A mother! how her tender arts Do soothe the breast of sadness, And through the gleam ol life once more Bid shine the sun of gladness. There’s music in a mother’s voice, More sweet than breezes sighing; There‘s kindness in a mother’s glance, . . Foo pure for ever dying. There’s love within a mother‘s breast, So deep, ’[is still o’erflowing, And care for those she ealls her own, 7 That’yever, everâ€"growing. THERE’S MUSIC IN A MOTH- ER‘S VOICE. érleri 125mm. Indian Soothsayers- AND YORK RIDINGS’ GAZETTE. RICHIVIOND HILL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1858. The second anecdote relates to the same Brahmin, and was as well known to the inhabitants ofBombay as the former. Mr. Forbes had been on terms ofthe closest friend- ship with the parties to whom it re- lates from the first day of his landâ€" ing in India. After stating some cir- cumstances connected with his voy- age and the friend to whom he was then introduced, and with whom he remained for forty years on the terms of the closest intimacy, he says :â€" “ The lady sitting at the head of my friend’s table when I made my bashful entry, was a widow at the time he married her. Her first hus- band died when she was very young, leaving two children, a son and a daughter. The latter remained with her mother, the former was sent to England for education, and at the age of sixteen embarked for Bombay, with the appointment of a writer, some years prior to my arrival there. The ships of that season all reached the island in safety, except the one in which this young gentlemen sail- ed, which at length was a missing vessel, and her safety despaired of. A mother could not so easily give up hope ; her usual evening walk was on a sandy beach, forming a bay on the western side of the Island, in full “ This singular prophecy was publicly known at Surat and Bom- bay ; and the truth or lalsehood of the Brahmin, was the subject ofdis- cussion in every company, when an express arrived overland from Eng- land to annul Mr. Spencer’s appoint- ment. and to invest Mr. Hodges with the government of Bombay. All which accordingly took place. Mr. Spencer embarked for England in the same ship in which I arrived in India in December ; and Mr. Crom- melin sailed in January, leaving Mr. Hodges in complete possession of the gOVernment. It is almost need- less to remarkthc ascendancy of this Brahmin orerthe mind oer. Hodges during the remainder of his life ; nor is it to be wondered at, that the new governor undertook no important step without consulting his Brah- min.” to the disappointment of all his hopes and future expectations ; and slightly reproached him for a pre- tended prescicnce, and for having deceived him with false promises. The Brahmin, with an unaltered countenance,as is usual with his tribe on all such occasions, coolly replied, ‘ You see this veranda,and the apart- ment to which it leads ; Mr. Spencer has reached the portico, but he will not enter the palace ; he has set his foot upon the threshold, but he shall not enter'into the house. Notwith- standing: all appearances to the con- trary, you will attain the honours l foretold, and till the high station to which he has been appointed. A dark cloud is before him.’ 'er appointments of chief at Telli- cherry and Surat, and would close his Indian career by being Governor ofBombay. Mr. Hodges, not being enjoined secrecy, spoke ofthe Brahâ€" minical predictions among his asso- ciates and friends from their very first communication, and their author was generally called Mr. Hodge’s Brahmin. These predictions for lsome years made but little im- pression on his mind. Afterwards, as he successively ascended the gra- dations in the Company’s service, he placed more confidence in his Brah- min, especially when he approached ‘ncar the pinnacle of his ambition, and found himselfchiefof Suratdhe next situation in wealth and honour to the government of Bombay. “When, therefore. Mr. Spencer was appointed governor of that set- llement, and Mr. Hodges dismissed rrom the chiefship of Surat and sus- pended the service, he sent for his Brahmin, who was then at Pulpara. a sacred village on :he banks of the Tappee of which I have already spoken, on a religious visit. Mr. Hodges received him at the chief’s garden-house, where he was sitting in the front veranda. He immedi- ately communicated 10 him the events which had lately taken place, “ Not long after this event, an in~ timate friend ofthc family having remitted aconsiderable sum ofmoney from India by bills on Portugal, went to Lisbon to recover them. Walk- ing near a prison in that city, he was supplicated for charity by a voice from a subterraneous grate, and being addressed in English made it the moreimpressive. Not content with affording transient relief, he entered into conversation with the prisoner, and found he was the long- Iost Son of his disconsolate mother. The intelligence was immediately conveyed to England, and tenderly communicated to his sorrowing par- ent, with the addition that her hus- band had already remitted money to Lisbon, and exerted such means for his deliverance that there could be no doubt for his speedy restoration to her maternal arms. This news shed a momentary gleam of joy on her countenance, but it was soon succeed by renewed pangs ofsorrow, and a continued exclamation of‘ The Brahmin ! the Brahmin !’ “The friend at Lisbon, when all was happily accomplished, lost no time in informing her son that his mother lived, was married to a gen-i tleman of fortune and respectabilily,‘ who was wailing to welcome him to1 their p‘alernal roof; and their inter-‘ est and liberality had procured his liberty, which he was the happy in- strument of effecting, and was then come to conduct him from a scene; ofmisery to life, and light, and joy ll Although the communication was made in the most considerate manner” he scarcely believed the reality of his emancipation from those dreary walls, where he had for years been excluded from the light ofllie sun “The untortunate mother cam: to England some years afterwards with her husband and only daughter, who was married, and died soon after her arrival. This was a stroke her fond mother was little able to sus- tainâ€"41 bereavement which seemed to admit of no consolation. The downy wings‘ time, the balmy comforts of religion, aided by every eflbrt of an affectionate husband, were of no avail in extricating her from a slate of apathy and despair. I view of the ocean. Maternalsoliciâ€" tude frequently cast a longing eye to that quarter where the ships from Europe generally appeared. The shore of that bay was also the place where most of the Hindoos erected the funeral pile and burnttheirdcad. This ceremony is attended by Brah- mins, and Mr. Hodges's Brahmin, then at Bombay, was occasionally among them. Observing the moth- er’s anxiety. he asked her the cause; the lady being a native of India, and well knowing his character, inquired, in his own language. Why a man so extraordinary gifted should be ignor- ant of the cause of her tender solici- tudcr. TheaBrahminiwas affected, and said, ‘I do know the reason of your sorrow; your son lives: the ship will soon arrive in safety, but you will never more behold him.’ She immediately mentioned this con- versation to her friends. A signal was made not long after for a ship from Europe ; on the pilot reaching her, his private signal indicated jthe tniSsing ship; boats were sent 011' to bring the passengers on shore. The expected son was not forgotten ; his mother's friends went on board, and‘ were informed that he had remained i at the Brazils, where the ship hav- ing been long detained for repair, the Jesuits converted this promising youth to the Church of Rome. In- stead, therefore, of conducting him to his expecting parent, they only delivered her letters replete with af- fact.onate expostulations and en- treaties that she would follow his example, and enter the true church. A mother’s disappointment is easier to conceive than describe. Her son continued at Rio de Janeiro, and oc- casionally wrote to her. until the suppression of the Jesuits in the pontificalc of Clement XIV., on which occass'ion, with many other members of that society, he was sent from South America to the prisons of Portugal, and no more heard of. I SKETCH YOUR IVORLD EXACTLY A" 1T GOES.â€",Byron. @rihune, A stranger came recommended to a merchant‘s house at Lubeek. He was hospitably received; but, the house being full, he was lodged at night in an ‘apartment handsomely furnished, but not often used. There was nothing that struck him parti- cularly in the room when left alone, till he happened to cast his eyes on a picture which immediately arrest- ed his attention. It was a single head ; but there was something so uncommon, so frightful and unearth- ly. in its expression, though by no means ugly, that he found himself irresistibly attracted to look at it. In fact, he could not tear himself from the fascination) of this portrait, till his imagination was filled by it. and his rest broken. He retired to bed, dreamed, and awoke from time to time with the head glaring on him. In the morning his host saw by his looks that he had slept ill, and in- quired the cause, which was tohl. The master of the house was much vexed, and said that the picture ought to have been removed, that it was an oversight, and that it always was removed when the chamber was used. The picture, he suixl. was. indeed, terrible to every one ; but it was so fine, and had come into the family in so curious a Way, that he could not make up his mind to part with it. or to destroy it. The story of it was this ;â€"“ My father,” said he, “ was at Hamburgh on busi- ness, and, whilst dinning at a collee- house, he observed a young man ofa remarkable appearance enter, seat himself alone in a corner, and commence a solitary meal. His “ The last anecdote I shall relate respecting this man is very short. Some months previous to my first leaving India, a gentleman and his wife arrived from England at Bomr bay. He, having been appointed to a lucrative situation at Surat, pro- ceeded thither at an early opportun- ity, leaving his wife in a friend’s family until he should have procur- ed a house, and made suitable pro- vision tor her reception at Surat. ,They were both young, and had an only child. In a few weeks she fol- lowed him to Surat. The evening before she embarked , sitting in a mix~ ed company ofgentlemen and ladies, anticipating her approaching happi- ness, the same Brahmin came into the verandah, with the gentleman of the house, who was high in station at Bombay. He introduced him to the company, and in a sort of jest asked him to tell the destiny of the happy fair one lately arrived from Europe. To the surprise of the whole company, and particularly so to the object of the inquiry, he gave her a penetrating and compassionate look ; and after a pause, said to the gentleman in the Hindoo language, ‘ Her cup of felicity is full,but evanes- cent! A bitter potion awaits her, for which she must prepare!’ Her husband had written that he should come in a barge to Surat bar, to ac- company heron shore. He did not appear, but a friend of mine went on board to announce toher his danger- ous illness : he was then in the last paroxysm ofa fever, and expired in her arms! Icame home a passen- ger in the same ship with the widow and another lady, who endeavoured to alleviate her sorrow by every ten- der assiduity. The name ofa Brah- min was never mentioned at table, nor anything relating to Hindoo as- trology. The anniversary of her husband’s death happened during the voyage, and was indeed a day of woe.” and fresh air; for ‘hope deferred maketh the heart sick.’ The sud- den transnion from hopeless despair in the dungeon’s gloom to the sight ol‘the sun, the fanning ofthe breeze, and the sympathy of friendships, was too much for his emaciated frame ; he faintly uttered the effu- sions of a grateful heart, and expir- edl “ Thus was [he Brahmin’s predicâ€" tions to his molher,uttered fullthirty years before. completely fulfilled! The Effects of Conscience. During the Harrison campaign, in 181-0. an eloquent orator in lhe western part of the State of Virginia was holding forth to an immense assemblage in favour of the hero of Tippecnnnoe. Especially the speaker was expaliating upon Gen. Harrison's comage, (act and success as a military t'onunander. “'hiign the midst of has discourse,a tall,gaunt mam, probab- ly a school-mafia in those parts, arose f. om a crowd, and said in a voice which penetrated the whole assembly :â€" “ )lnsterâ€"â€"I\‘Insler, I want to ax you a qugslion. “'1: are told,” he continued, “ fellow citizens, that Gen. Ilarrisnn is a mighty great gum-ml; but I say he is one ol‘ the meanest son of g(n:rals. “'e are tlld here toâ€"night that he del'cnded himsell bravely at Fort Mcigs; but I tell )ou on Ihal occasion he was guilty of the Small Tail l\lovenmâ€"nt.and I challenge the orator here to deny it.” The orator declared his utter ignorance of what the man meanl hy the "small [all movement,” and u5ked him to explnin llllnsrlf. ‘- l lull ynu," said the man,“ l’vc got it here. in hlaek and white. Here’s ‘ Grim- shnw': lllsln'y ul Ihe United Slates”â€" In I ling up the hookâ€"‘- and I’ll real what it says. This is it tâ€""Al lhis critical Ino- men Gen. llarrisnn executed a novel move- nient.’ L‘urs the gentleman deny that l" I countenance bespoke the extreme of mental distress. and every now and then he turned his head quick- ly round as if he heard something, then shudder, grew pale. and go on with his meal after an effort as be- fore. My father saw the same man at the same place for two or three successive days, and at length be- came so much interested about him that he spoke to him. The address was not repulsed, and the stranger seemed to find Some comfort from the tone of sympathy and kindness which my father used. He was an Italian, Well-informed, poor, but not destitute, and living economically *upon the profits of his arth a paint- er. Their intimacy increased ; and at length the Italian, seeing my fath- er’s involuntary emotion at his con- vulsive turnings and shudderings, which continued as formerly, inter- rupting their conversation from time to time, told him his story. He was a native of Rome, and had lived in some familiarity with, and been much patronised by, a young noble- man ; but upon some slight occasion they had fallen out, and his patron. besides using many reproachful ex- pressions, had struck him. The painter broodcd over the disgrace of the blow. He could not challenge the nobleman, on account of his rank ; he therefore watched for an opportunity, and assassinated him. Of course he fled from his country, and finally had reached Hamburgh. “He had not, however, passed‘ many weeks from the night of the murder, before, one day, in the crowded street, he heard his name called by a voice familiar to him ; he turned short round, and saw the face ofhis victim looking at him with a fixed eye. From that moment he had no peace: at all hours, in all places, and amidst all companies, however engaged he might be, he heard the voice, and could never help looking round ; and, whenever he so looked round, he always en- countered the same face staring close upon him. At last in a mood ofdes- peration, he had fixed himself face to face, and eye to eye, and deliber- ately drawn the phantom visage as it glared upon him ; and this was the picture so drawn. The Italian said he had struggled long, but life was a burden which he could no longer bear ; and he was resolved, when he had made money enough to re; turn to Home, to surrender himself to justice, and expiatc his crime on the scaffold. He gave the finished picture to my father, in return for the kindness which he had shown him."â€"â€"COLERmGe. ing it upâ€"~- and here it say, ‘ Novel, 8 small tule.’ And (his was the kind of movement General Harrison was guilty of. Now, I‘m no soger, and don’t know much .lbout military lick tacks. but this I du say, ‘- No, no; go on." h “'r“, be execute-I a NOVEL movement. Now, here‘s Johnson's Dictionary”â€"ta- king the book out of his pocket and hold- A Political Anecdote- A man got drunk on the quay at Marseilles in France, and, 1m- perceived, went to sleep in a flu! bottomed boat, in which a quantig of lumber had been piled. While there, it seems some more lumbel was put in without any one seeing him, and when three days out at sea the sailors heard a voice from the hold, the poor wretch having been unable, up to that time, 10 make himself heard. He 'was lib- erated and is likelv to recover. It is said that at least five hundred individuals witnessed the catching of a greased pig on Christ- mas day, in Dorchcstcr, Massachu- setts. Twenty-eight persons com- peted for the prize, each one paying the sum of 25 cents, making 3157 in :11]. Warren Haley was successful. There was a foot race immediately after the pig race, in which Johna- than Baker, one of the six young men who engaged, outstripcd his competitors. W e have the published statoâ€" mem of the Chicago Presx, says the lefi'alo Courier, that, during 11 e season of navigation, the actual loss 01' property on the hkes is estimat- ei at $1,820,316. and the loss of life to 291. Last year the loss of propen y amonted to $3,038,874, and the 1055 of life to 407. During the last ten years the loss of property has been $13,821,253, and the loss of life during the past four yems has been 765. Amongr the novelties observ- ed in New York on New Year’s day, was a carriage propelled by steam and operated by two fast young men, in their business of making calls. They doubtless con- sidered the old foggy turn-out of four-in-hand us altogether too slow for the times, and the accomplish. ment of 500 calls. A miniature carriage, drawn by a pair of dim- inutive ponies, and driven by two lads, also attracted considerable at- tention. The Bufi'alo Commercial Ad- vertiser publishes the official state- ment of the canal commerce of Buf- falo for the season just closed. The total numncr of tons of property ex- ported was 571,520 ; the total value $16,956,740, and the lolls collected $598,470. Last year the correspon- ding figures were 2 Tons, 662,238; value, $21,970,119, and tolls, $783,- 905. The decrease in the number of tons is 90,718 ; in value, $5,013,- 379, and in tolls, $183,435. The total number of 10115 imporlml was Slavin, who was hanged re- cently at St. Johns, N. B., for the murderofthe Mackenzie family,00n- fessed that, after the elder members of the family had been butchered, a little girl about three years old, innocently held up her doll, and ofléred it to him if he would not kill her. The little innocent’s offer was refused, and the inhuman mon ster murdered her ! the man who in the face of an enemy is guilty of a Small Tail Movement is no: lit to be President of lb: United States, and he shan‘l have my vote.” The orator of the evening could make no headway against such an argument, :Inl giveitup in despair. ' TKe mefiorologfist of ithe Boston Traveller reports the aver- age temperature of the first twenty- four days of December as 38.19 de- grees, which is 6 degrees above tho average of the same period during 33 years. The average of the same period last December was 26.8 or 10 degrees colder than this year. t The office of the Brampton ‘ Tums was destroyed by fire one day last week. The fire took placa while the men were at dinner. Damage was done to the extent of £250, which was partly insured. Senator Garlington of South Carolina, estimates the loss sustain- ed by the South from the depression of the market for cotton, in conse- quence of the late commercial crisis, at more than $70,000,000. The news of the arrest of General Walker has caused the greatest excitement in NewOrleans, and an indignation meeting has been called. Immediate steps will probably be taken for the reinforce- ment of Colonel Anderson at F011 Castillo. 318,849, and the \‘zllm The New Yérk Haifald states that half a dozen \Vall-street ad- ventmers have each made $100,000 in speculations since the “panic.” It is estimated that as many as twenty-seven thousand Mormons have emigrated from Europe to the United States within the past sixâ€" teen years. Lat year, 875,204 tons, \‘nh $72,098,745. Decrease in tm 255‘ and in value $5,471.216 Miscellaneous ltmns.