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YORK MILLS HOTEL, YONGE STREET, -THE Subscriber begs to intimate thitthe has leased the abot’e hotel, aild having fund it upin the ,latest style travellers may 'rely upon having every comfort and: attention at this first class house. , - ~ I . , Good Stabllug and an attentive Hustler al- ways in attendance. ’ ' ' l ‘ l V WILLIAM LENNOX, Proprietor York Miils, June’i'i 1861: ' 139-1y Wellington Hotel, Anrm'a I ' erroslrs inuronosro noose. GEO. L'. GRAHAM. PROPRIETOR. V LARGE and'Com'modious Ilallautl other ' improvements have. at great expense, been made so' as to‘ma-ke this House the largest and bestvnorthrof Toronto. .- Travellers at this Ilouso find everyvco‘nvenience both for them- selves and horses. , ‘ N .B.â€"A careful ostler altvays in attendance- ' 126-1y- Iy of Wines and Iqters . NIPPER'Aiv-‘D .« “ Let Sound Reason weigh more with us than Popular. Opinion.” RICHMOND HILL, FRIDAY,- DECEMBER, 6, 1861. I lotion]. I'M. GROWING OLD. My days pass silently away; My nights are blessed with sweetestsleep; I feel no symptoms of decay; I have no cause to mourn or weep; My fees are impotent and shy ; My friends are neither false nor cold, And yet, of late, I often sighâ€"- I’m growing oldl My growing talk of olden times. My growing thirst for early news, My growing apathy to rhymes, My growing love of easy shoes, My growing hate of crowds and noise, My growing fear of taking cold, All Whisper, in the plainest voice-â€" I’m growing old! I’m growing forder of my staff; I’m growing dimmer in the eyes; I’m growing fainter in my laugh; I’m growing deeper in my sighs ; I’m growing careless of my dress ; I’m growing frugal of my gold ; I’m growing wise: I’m growingâ€"yesâ€" I’m growing oldl I see it in my changing taste; I see it in my changing hair; I see it in my growing waist; I see it in my growing heir; A thousand signs proclaim the truth, As plain as truth was ever told, That, even in my vaunted youth, I’m growing old! Ali me lâ€"my ‘very laurels breathe The tale in my reluctant ears, And eyery been the hours bequeath But makes me debtor to the years! Even Flattery’s honeyed words declare The secret she would faiu withhold. And tells me in “ Ilow young you are l” i I‘m growing oldl Thanks for the years lâ€"whose rapid flight My sombre Muse too gladly sings: Thanks for the gleams of golden light That tint the darkness of their Wingsâ€"- The light that beams from out the sky, Those heavenly mansions to unfold Where all are blest, and none may sighâ€"â€" “ I’m growing oldl” Titanium ' ""ioBY, THE AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD BOYS. WHAT a jolly life it appeared to the lilliputian adventurers, Nipper and Toby! They could hardly believe that they were in the land of gold, living as free as birds, and about to make their fortunes in no time. Both of them had spent their days, for the most part in the country, and were all awake to the various life of nature around them. The flocks of parrots and parroqucts which flew twittering and shrieking past; the magpie which sat and warbled in the quaintest and most gmelodious notes, on the tall gum Itrecs’; [came from thewoods, from what the strange cries which sort of creatures they knew not, kept them in a constant state of ex- citement. ‘VVhat’s that, I say, 1'ippcr'lâ€"‘ What’s that odd-looking thing, Toby :’ were the continual questibns passing from one to the lother of the lads. ‘ At night, they lay out of doors.»- To make their great fire and sit round it, and be very merry over all they had seen on the way. and to roll themselves up in their blan- kets and sleep in the open woodsâ€"â€" what grand fun Nipper and Toby Woke up half-a-dozen times in the night in their excitement, and drag- ged plenty of fresh pieces of timber and piled on the fire, and then they wondered 16 hear the slirieks and muttering of the wild cats, pos- sums, and flying squirrels in full stir and enjoyment 111th trees over their heads. They were astonished to hear what they thought acuckoo singing at midnight, as the more- pork, sentits similar tones from the neighboring forest.' V Thus they marCIie‘d on for three or four days; Sometimes passing through deep valleys where great herds ofcattle grazed among the Woods, and huge flocks of snowy Cockatocs filled the air with their. 1231,. harsh, grating cries; at others, inlof the scene of anticipated opulence the bot neon, traversing red. and apparently Scorched regions, all stony and barrernwhere the iguanas ran like crecodile‘s up the loftytrees, 101l‘.6 bovs’ infinite, wonder. But, alas! during the latter part of the route", Toby had begun to flag. His shoe had bliste‘red one of his bebls ; and, encleavoring to" favor that foot dlSflpPefll‘ed-_ as much as p‘O'SSiblc, he went with a there 31008! limp that boded no good to his hold. thought it better for awhile ; but it blazing in the light of their subter- Would not do. The sailors looked raneau lamps, and they had filled at it, and put him on a plaster of sacks ofa size which, hadit been a soap, and he thought it eased it reality, not ten men could have OCATEL AND Anvsarnnnt W/ vW TERMS :., $1 so In Advance. ’Wliolc No. 158-. ' ‘ That’s Lassctter’s 4â€"â€" Upotipot- poo. That's just over the hill yon- der; but it’s' three miles off. You wonderfully; but when they stop- ped for dinner. poor Toqy was so exhausted that he lay on the grass, and could not eat. ‘ That will never do, Toby,’ said 1the c'oup‘assionate sailor; ‘ drink some 1611, and we’ll rest awhile, and then you’d better try to go on With only some linen round the foot.’ Toby tried hard ; drank some tea ; and, after a couple of hours’ rest, set off with them with his foot slioeless and bandaged with linen. At first, he thought he could man- age famously; but by degiees’his whole foot became sore with Walk: ing over the stony ridges of the hills, and he sat down and cried. to himself bitterly. ‘ It’s no Use. Nip- per,’ he said; ‘I can Walk no for. Illet‘. My whole leg is sore; and what will become of me I’ . ‘Never mind,’ said Nipper; don't cry. I'll stay With you. ‘ We can live nicely in these pleasant woods ; and as soon as your" foot is better, we can go on.’ ‘Halloo!’ shouted the sailors; ‘ come on, boys! come on !’7 Nip-~ per ran forward, and told them that Toby was fairly done up. "l‘hat’s a fix !’ said the sailors. ‘ VVhat’s to. be done now’l’ They sat down by the roadside, and'two of them went back to Toby. They examined his foot; it, was greatly inflamed with the heat and the walking. Themes in a black cloud were eagerly endeavoring to add their irritation to that of the wea- ther, and it was clear enough that Toby could not marCh. But how were they to leave him? There was no house anywhere near on the read, and it seemed cruel to leave the lads in their distress. Pre- sently a dray’ came up, and they asked the man to put Toby on the load. The man shook his head}â€" ‘It won’t do, mates,’-he said, ‘1 bays enough to do with getting through these terrible woods", with- out taking a sick child. But,’ added he. I‘ there’s a station just out here :â€"-Upaon-'the-‘pot:pans, Or some such outlandish name ’â€"â€"pointing Will] his whip; ‘you’d better get him there, and the squatter Will let him rest till he is all right agaim’ ‘ HOW far is it'l’ asked sailors. , , ‘Oli, no Way..at all;’ replied the man; ‘just a mile or trim, I reckon, though I never was at it. 'But there, you see the cattle amongst the trees ;' the hence cannot. be far off.’ He drove on, 1111111118 sailors concluded, after along consultation, to leave Nipper and Toby Some meat, flour, tea, lucifer matches, a billy, or tin pan to boil their leain, and everything that might be neces- sary for a couple of days’ living in the woods. Then they asked again of the people coming upabout the direction of the station. After do- i the ing this, and seeming really con- «shall corned ,to leave the lads behind, they bade them keep up theirhearts, and come on to them. as soon as they could, and then they shook hands with them heartily, and marched on. It may seem to us a very heartless thing of the sailors to leave these poor lads all alone in the wild woods; but in those days of eager pursuit of gold, when every hour lost seemed l a fortune lost, such'ithings were“ I constantly done, and 'maiiy were the solitary individuals left behind who have never since been heard» of. They have wandered off in the delirium of fever or in hopes of finding a ’statinn, and have been buslied, that is, lost in the endless woods, and perished. , The heated and hurrying frenzy of parties made everything but the speedy reaching seem of little account. It was every , man for himself; and in the wild l rush for gold, What was the. life ofa lagging comrade? The gold-hearts ed sailors did not proceed Without real cdncern, and on the brow 'o‘f cups; gave a parting ,hui‘l‘ahgaud Nipper and Toby Sat The two poor lads Saw. their out out to the scene of premised companionSgo on Without them with fortune. Nipper and he werecon- a strange feeling of desolation.â€" tinually falling behind, and had to Their gorgeous dreams of gold and be called on by the sailors; then fortune seemed to vanish with they hobbled up, and put the best them. Night after night they had face on it; out ever and anon they dreamed of picking and delving in were stopping and taking off the caverns glittering «pith-masses shoe, and then Were Wrapping up gold, and the‘yhad rolledcut ting; the sore foot in rags turn from one gets all crumpled and curled with a of their shirts, and then Toby ruddy beauty, all embossed and per] the ascent they turned, Waved their‘ 1 rate. Botcome-f-no nonsense! I’ll 'Aitlier things inside; he fired the "lifted. Toby had called out alone! in his sleep, ‘IIere, mother, it is! a whole waggon-loadwt it!’ and the laughter cf the sailors woke him up. ‘ What I only a waggon-louu, jest. Nipper liad been more secret in his. visions, but not a whit less extravagant. He had no mother to communicate his joy to; and now to be within aday’s march of this enchanted land, and to be thus stop- ped short, it was miserable. ‘ Shall we ever 'find the sailors again 1’ them Said it; and then, what were these two poor lads to do without money and without tools! The people hurrying up the road stared 'at the two boys, and some were sufficiently interested by their forlorn looks to stop a moment, and ask what Was the matter.- VVhei'i they heard that one of them. Was foot-sore, they shook their heads and went on. That was an everyday occurrence. Nipper asked again of bullock~drivers if they knew where the station Was. ‘Siation! oh, out there somewhere.’ pointing with the thick ends of their whips, and still going on shouting to their teams.â€" Presently, the road seemed clear of everybody; they looked round on the" boundless woods, which seemed to brood With the silence of an aw- ful and endless solitude. ‘ “Oh. dear, ear! what shall we do '1’ suddenly broke out Toby, as" if interpreting the thoughts of both of them. "lt’s all along of me ; and you might have gone On, Nip; per, and got loads and loads of goldfa .. ’_. V ,‘ Well, never mindl’ replied Nip; pcr’, ' resolved to seem Valiant; never mind, Toby, my boy! We‘ll go yet, and come in for our share; but now for the station; it can’t be far off. Ifyou’ll stay here, by the fire, I will run out the way the men pointed. I can soon scour over a good piece ofcouutry, andI warrant me I'll soon find the station.’ ‘Oli, no, no I’ cried Toby; ‘I won’t be left here. You’ll perhaps get lost, and I shall never see you again, and you’ll be starved to death. Oh, no, no! I’ll manage to Toby?" the sailors used to say in both of them thought, but neither of lwill have enough of your load, if you are going in that style.’ ‘ Three miles,’ ‘-tliank you, sir.’ boldly into the bush. were scattered here and there, and a rich turf grew und:r them, which was grazed by a few cattle, seen at intervals. ‘ Now, Toby,’ Said Nipper".- ‘you are 011' the forecastle, keep a sharp look-out. and let us steer direct for the hill.’ Toby promised to try, and away Nipper trudged. The country seemed, hOWeve-r, to’ lead down into a broad valley first, and So on they came to a pleasant bi‘Ook, running clear and bright over its shallow bottom. Nipper was preparing to wade across,wlien Toby‘smd : ‘Oh, how nice it looks ! Isliould so like to” bathe my hot foot in it. and you can rest awhile.’ I Nipper deposited his load gently on the sedgy bank, and taking off Toby’s bandages, allowed him to sit and dangle his feet in the stream. ‘ That is so delicious,’ said Toby, ‘I could sit here all day.’ > ‘ Well, sit there then,’ said Nip- per, “ while I run over the hill and get a sight of the station.’ .But Toby WOuld not consent to let Nip- per go out of his sight, lest he onuld never see him again. So there they, sat some time, and drank .and refreshed themselves. Watching the beautiful magpie-lurks, resemé bling delicate pigeons of the purest black and white. which flow along the margin of the stream crying, ‘Chain! Chain 1’ Then several small, blue herons rose near them and flew lazily to a short distance, skewing their light yellow leos. ‘ See there! see there I’ cried Tofi’v, pointing into the water not fat from his feet,- ‘ there are lobsters as blue as the sliy.’ j Nipper rushed into the stream to seize them, but was surprised to find that they had dis- appeared,- he could not tell where. But the sun was sinking fast, and warned them to‘ move on. Once more Toby was hoisted upo‘h Nip- per’s back, and they passed the stream and hurried forward. 4 ‘Herc’s a foot road, I declare-,5 bobble on.’ And he rose up and triedto walk, but found it no use, and sunk down again and cried bitterly. , _ _, ‘I’Vliat nonsense, Toby !’ said Nippery‘see here! Go on ,my back; Why, you are as light as a leather. You carry the blankets and the prog, and I’ll Carry youâ€"- that’s fair, anyh‘owâ€"eand We’ll be at this I’ottypan station like a shower of rain; That’s the Way, ina‘nl’ ‘ ‘No‘, Nipper, you never can 'Carry me,’»said Toby ; ‘ you’ll soon be knocked 'up, and then we shall 'neve’r'reacli the station, and We die like the Babes in the Wood.’ ‘ 'That idea tickled Nipper, he laughed outright. ‘Well, we are two Very fine babes, Toby. at any carry you as easy as a cat carries a mouse ;’ and rolling Up the IWO blankets Willi their damper and bundle, or swag. as the dippers call it, snugly on Toby’s Shoulders by means of along strap; a’rid then lift; ing h‘im upon the ample trunk of a fallen tree; took him on his back; and began to‘ march off with him; "Oh, Nipperl Nippcrl I shall break your back 9’ said Toby iii a pitiful, ‘ tone. "Break a weasel’s backl’ Said Nipper, marching in said Nipper; ‘ we’ll follow it, and we must corne‘right to‘ this Poti- pan,,or whatever they call it.’ ' But it does not lead tot’v'ards the ' liill,’ said Toby, ‘ but along the val- ley to" the right.’ ' ' ‘ Av, no doubt it Will go round the hill,’ said Nipper; ‘but don’t you see, Toby,it is a road.’ ,‘ But is it our road 'I’ asked Tobv. ‘Wliy, what other road can "it be 7.’ said Nipper; ‘tliere’s only one Station; it must go tlier'e.’-'~ So they jogged. But the road went on and on, still along the valley. The Woods grew more and more solitary, the day grew more and more dim; H » _ r ‘Nipper, Nipper !’ cried Toby in terror, ‘we are going right away from the hill. Oh dear! I ams‘ure we are wrong. “'1: shall be lost for ever and ever. Hark! hark ! I hear a horn blowing.’ , I Nipper stood still, and far doWn the Valley, ndw gloomy with zip- preaching niglit,sounded the strange; deep,filful sound as of a horn” blown in short, abrupt and hurried notes, as if blown by Some spirit of the wild. y ‘ That’s a queer sort of horn,’ said Nipper, ‘ and if it be at a Sla- tion, it is a long way off. Shall we get there to-night through the pitch-dark forest 1’ ‘No, never,’ said Toby; ‘set ‘me doWn, Nipper, before you drop grand style; ‘ why, I could carry you to Bendigo, and never know it. Well! I‘wonder We never thought (if that! We might just as well have carried you by'turns as not. I’ve ,a good mind to run after the mem’ , . I ‘No; 1101’ said, Toby, ‘you‘ shan’t; Nipper! _You shan’t kill yourself; and you’d never evc'rtake themi,’ A , ' , ‘Well, tlten,’ said Nipper, ‘ we'll away to the station; and by the way, do you'know, Toby, I rather like the idea of it for awhile. I should like to See What a station‘is like.’ ' 1 Just then a man came cantering along the roadâ€"-tlie‘y are always on the cantor, those colonists. "Nip- per called out, ‘Pray, sir, can you tell us 'whereabout the station is i’ ‘ What station I Lassetlér’s 1" ’ ‘Auy that is" neares't,’ said Nip- with fatigue'.’ Poor lads, if they had kn’oWn that the foot-path on which they SuppoSed thev Were Was only a cattleLIra'Ck from the distant hills, some lialfâ€"‘aédoacn miles off. down to the stream which they had just! left, and thanthe imagined horn was only the wild booming of the bit- terns in the distant marshes. 17%;, hearts would have Sunk ‘mdee’d, was clear, hOWCVer, that they could go no further thatnight. ' .‘We must e’en camp here, Toby ’ said Nipper; ‘ but there’s no rcasoh that we should not be jolly. We can’t be far olftbe station, and we’ve plenty of provisions. I’ll make a fire, and we’ll have some tea.’ I , The brave-:spirited scraped 11p some , dry leaves. There is alwavs fuel in the Australian forest. lad said Nipper; And he struck The woods were by no means dense; the trees own-m, , r.ng .3 1' i . u... “infi- v... ting these'_,.,on fire with a lucifer' ' match, ' a brighltf flight, was thrown over all the surrOunding scenes.-â€"-â€"- There were stICks and bungh's in abundance on all sides-and soon they had a blazing bonfire. Nipper” tecklthe tin pan. which the sailors lefttbem, and went in quest off-:Wwa- ter. He soon returned whistling cheerin through the darkness with ‘his supply, and in a 'vcrylittle time the two solitary adventuresv,were comfortable drinking their tea.,by the blaze. gComfortable t'liey,,lool1.~ ed,- if you regarded them onlyhc- cording to the picture made on their forest slope, with their gloWivnvgyfire before them; but if we lake'in‘ the ideatbat they Wore two more, boys, strange p.10 the country ,altog‘ether, already lost, and only, one, house within scores of miles, the Couyfort soon vanishes. . " Toby was iucflined to be despo‘nda ing. His fool, relieved bythe cool water of the brook, had been better for a‘While. Now, again, it was extremely painful. It was greatly swelled and inflamme’d, and Nipper could think of nothing but to dip a corner of his blanket in the water, and foment it with it. This sues ' ceeded, and Toby, relieved, sOon fell asleep. 1' , Nipper" tlie'u'saf, as it were,‘ all alone, with his thoughts, and'they were running on the ‘ best means of discoveringthe station in the morn- ing. He: was sure, if Toby would let 'him'go himself, he could soonxget up the hill and find it. Ashe Was thus poh’dering,he heard the hollow sound of a horse’s hoofs, that'seems ed coming ever the valley toWards them. A new fear‘struck'through Nippcr’s heart. What if this were a busliranger‘! The horse was‘cer- tainly canterin‘g on towards their fire. Nipper sprang up and endea- vored to‘peer through the gloom, and c‘atcha sight of'the coming horseman.- - Nearer he drew. Nip- per could hear how the bard breath- ing of the horse, and the cra‘s‘h‘mf its hoofs on the dead branches.â€" A dog, gave a deep and fierce bay, and Toby, starting from his sleep, looked wildly round, and seized Nipper by the knees in histcvrror. ‘Ob me, Nipper! what is it’!’ he cried, pale as death with fright. Nipper made :no reply, for lie Was silent on watching what ‘solrt of a man would start to View. ‘ ~ (To be continued.) IVALUE OF A .MUS’EUM.-â€"â€"-Wllen1ll‘0 village scholarhas learned to read, to write, and to count, and even when he has acquired some know: ledge of ancient andmodern tongues, he has obtained only the tools of in- struction. He may have learned Id read his. Bibleâ€"the greatest of all lessons, provided he reads it; he may have committed to memory every sentence in the Decalogue; approâ€" priated all the wisdom of Solomon, and apprehended the divine precepts of a greater than Solomon, while he is utterly ignorant. of everything above him,- around him, and within himâ€"Ignorant ofth‘e form,’the mag- nitude, and the, motions" of his terâ€" restrial liOmeeâ€"ignoraut of the, gi; gantic structures which constitute the materialuniverseâ€"ignorantcfthe wonderful mechanisms by whicn he thinks and breathesâ€"«ignorant. oftlie fabrics which industry prepares for his use, and of the luxuries which commerce brings from the ends of the earth and places at his doorâ€"â€" ignorant even O‘flhe wonderful Opera ations of that beneficient‘commissa- riat which, while he sleeps and dreams, is elaborating the materials by WhiCh he is clothed and fed. To enlighten minds so dark, the ex1sting system of education is utterly 1n- efficientr The teacher, hoWevcr wisely chosen, has not at his cum“ mand the means of imparting know- ledge; He may pour it into the hearts of his pupils, or extract it frOm the printed page, or exhibit it in caricature in the miserable cm- bellishments of the scl'iool-book; but unless he teaches through the eye-â€"' the‘great instrument of knowledge" ~Lby means of truthful pIClUFeS;‘Ill‘ struments and models, and by the direct exhibition of the precincts of nature andof art; no satisfactory iu~ stru'ction can be conveyed-.3 ‘Every school, therefore, should have’a mu- seum, howsoever smallm value and, limited in extent. The liberality of the neighbourhood Would add to- its Stores; and we have no doubt that When the value of such information Was recognized by the Dublin-the overflowing collections of our Uni~ versity, and ether public museums, would gradually sorrcnder their s": Q perfiuities to our provincial ' ‘ if chial institutionsâ€"v“ " 0’ paw‘ . (7‘ David Brews star at the 0pc” “J ‘ w, . r _ , , «am 0 l I. ' ' Unweraly L g f t/ o I dznbuig/z Two LADIES Cor‘v’vrorao or Tiru’ur --At the Middlesex Sessions, "on a It Wednesday, two young ladies, of respectable parentage, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing books from a Shep in the Strand. When examined before the Police ,_ Magistrate, the eVidence against the, pristmers was complete; but it' was urged in de- fence tliat,,tliey were the irrespons sible victims of. ‘kleptomania ’â€";t'lie new name given to the very old dis- Jsoon oil'der snap ;irr‘esisttible passionny gumftree other people’s property. plenty of each sentenced ,._ I Ihcy were to nine months’ im. Sct- prisOnment, With hard labour,