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A careful Hustler always in attendance. . i _ DOLMAGE 3 HOTEL, LATE VAN I‘JOSTRAND’S, I fiE Subscriber begs to inform the Pubiicl that he has leased (the above Hotel. Where he willlreepeonstantly on hand a good supply of firstâ€"class Liquors, .dlzc. As this house possesses every accommodation Traâ€" vellers can desire. those who wish tustay wherol they can find every comfort are respectfullyiu- vital to give him a call. GIDEON DOLMAGE. Proprietor. Richmond Hill. Dec. ISGS. 28-tf Loon Ar "rails: * JOHN Bâ€"ARRON. Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinds of Men'sl BOOTB 8.2. SHOES,‘ 38 West Marketb‘quare. 2 doors south of King Street, TORONTO. Otto ofthe oldsst and cheapest housesin the Give John a call when in Town. Toronto. Dec. 1865. 27 I: UMB E RING- ABRAHAM EYER. EGS respectfully to inform his customers and thgpubhc that he is prepared to do PLANEING TO ORDER, In any quantity, and on short notice. Plotted Lumber, Flooring, &0. Kept on hand, SA WING done promptly; also Lumber Ton gued & Grovcd At the lowest possible rates. Saw Mill on lot 25, 2nd Con. Markham, 2; 'bisfaults, is certainly entitled to . ing bade good-bye to some of my g harlot BLOW ON THOU BITTER, BITING BLAST. Blow on, thou “bitter, biting blast,” From the bleak north amain , At midnight hour a. charm thou hast To soothe me in my pain. I hear thee in thy wild career Sweep my lone dwelling by, And drop the Sympathetic tear For those less blest than I. I think of all who, weary, roam ’Neath thy stern sway, thou blastl Who have no shelter, have no home, Until the storm be past. If I repinc, morose or sad, What little to endure, How great the troubles they have hadâ€" Thc houscless, homeless poor! ' But hark l a sound appals mine car, Far booming through the air;: The warning minute-gun I hearâ€" Thc signal of despair 1 Some hapless mariner c’cn now Is struggling with the waveâ€"â€" A moment floats, then sinks below, And finds a watery grave. Blow on, thou wild and angry blast, Since ’tis the Almighty’s will, I feel, I own the power thou hast To soothe man’s spirit still. But 0h ! regard a fervent prayer, Lord of man’s destiny, And guide with thine unfaihng care The wanderers of the sea. AARON SMITH. flitrtdturr. . Thieves EXCITING ADVENTURE. Efitrapped by It is now a number of years since the incident occurred which lam about to relate. At the time lwas employed as a reporter on the New Orleans. My work was as laborious as my life was dreary. True, there were events constantly effect lasting, for hardly hadl time to become interested in one sensa~ tion before another arose to supply its place. Murders, robberies, as- sassinations, duels, fires, scandals in high life and scandals in low life, combats in the political arena, and the rush of corr mercial news all failed to excite more than a passing remark. At the period of which I am writ- ing, nearly fifteen years ago, New Orleans was not the safe city that it is now; thanks to General But- ler, who, whatever may have been the credit of having made life and property secure. Robberies were of frequent occurrence, murders were continually being committed with impunity, and hardly a night passed but same desperate assault took place. My lodgings being a considerable dislanceout of town it was very often my costume. par- ticularly when unusually late. to take a short cut through a few of the back streets, in which it was well known that some of the most desperate of our city rowdies resid- ed. They all knew me by sight, and,evidently thinking that I was not worth attacking, allowed me to pass through their neighborhood without the slightest molestation. On the night in question, alter hav- fricnds who lived in a different direction from myself, l left the main thoroughfanc and plunged in- to the litle narrow dirty streets of the district. The night was dark. and a dismal rain added anything; but a cheerful aspect to the But few ofthe denizen of thoguart- or was about. and those few. who were either standing at their doors smoking short pipes, or lounging at the windows, eyed me with looks of indifference. The know- ledge, however, [half had settled ,up that day. ani of the locality I was in, gave to my step a quick elastic trend, and" to the eye that restless wandering which a man always evinces who is on the look- out for some imaginary fee. I had nearly escaped from the very un- pleasant neighborhood when my milles eastof Richmond th by the Plaan Road : Richmond Hill. June 26, 1865. 4-ly JOHN CARTER, LICENSED AUCTIONEER 10R the Counties of York. Peel and On- tario. Residence: Lot 8, 6th ,concossmu Markham. I’ost Officeâ€"Unionville. Sales attended on the shortest notice‘ and on reasonable terms. Orders left at the “ Herald” office for Mr, Carter’s services will be promptly_attendod to. we 27,1867. attention was attracted to an object enveloped in white, which was hastening towards me with rapid steps. Upon its nearingr me, I_,diS< covered it to be the figure of a beautiful creoleâ€"~her dark hair hung in rich clusters over her shoulders, but with an air of dis- ’ut‘tlet‘ in accordance with her clothes. which had the appearancejawfulness of my position. olbeing flung on hastily. Tears RICIIMOND HILL, u ~4â€" distres‘s. ’v‘ n seeing me she be- sought me 0 direct her to the near- est druggist’s store, remarking that her motheriwas dangerously ill and required medicine instintly, and that as sh‘e’éiwas an entire stranger, and In acify in which they had no acquaintance, she had been obliged to have the patient alone, hardly knowing whether she would find her all, e upon her return. In- deed, shie' sfiid, her tears falling fast, auditor-utterance choked with emotion. prior mother is dying HOW. {Lax You are‘fiaced in a very trying situation, I/kmarked. if it is in my power to serve you, it will real- ly afford memuch pleasure to do so. You are very kind, sir, she said. Tell me Olaf“ drug store at once, or she may dialere I reach it. Oh! that lcould inlay with her, or that there was'a'nyone in the house on- lyto remainbhere until I return! Carriedlati'ay by this exhibition ofthe girl’s'disness, in a foolish moment buffered to return with her to her riéistdence and remain there, providgd she would not be absent longfiy Upon accepting my proposal with many expressions of gratitude,“s informed me that they occupi"'- some rooms in a house in a A " 'oining street ; and upon my my oning the fact of certain'cf“ 'ters residing there, who were well known thieves. she stated at onccflhey had taken up their abodés‘xwithout any know- ledge of the“ neighborhood, and solely on, account of the low rcntthey had to pay. All her re- plies to my questions were so in- terrupted by gobs, that out of com- passion for thetdhc girl I purposely abstained from putting to her which otherw‘ige prudence would have dictated. jfl‘he house to which I was conducted by my companion t; occurring which excited interest ,_ o . ‘ .w I ' V‘ ". I l for a time ; but seldom was/Ed“ a»i§â€""3§".mfil€ framed on“: an’dlfour sloieys high. The rooms on each flat appeared to be occu- pied by different families. There was no lamp in the paSSage, and the stairs which my guide desired me to ascend, were in a Very rick- ety condition. A caution from her was necessary in order to prevent my falling through them, as in several places there were Wide gaps, which had an unpleasantly dangerous appearance. The sick woman rented the upper or fourth storey, and upon reaching it, I was requested to wait for a moment on the landing, as a stranger might by entering the room suddenly startle the invalid. The sounds of pain coming from the chamber of the sufferer left no doubt on my mind of the genuineness of the girl’s tale; but at the same time l felt far from comfortable when 1 came to realise the position I was placed in. One year’s salary was in mV pocket, and I was in a house in which I knew rougbs and vaga~ bonds resided. My thoughts were not allowed to gain ascendancy over my fears, for they had hardly time to dart through my mind when the girl returned and said-â€" My mother is a little easier, sir. If you will step into this room, and take a seat for at moment (pointing to the door ofa chamber opposite). [will avail myself of your kind offer to remain whilst I go to the druggists. For a few moments it is hardly suitable that even one so ' kind as you are should enter the sick room. The soft and winning manner in which she addressed me complete- ly disarmed suspicron, and upon consenting to her preposition she drew a key from her pocket, and opening the door invited me in. 1 bad hardly past the threshold ere it was closed and locked behind me. The sudden fastening of the door caused me to pause and turn my head round It was fortunate 1 did so, for had lgone one foot farther I should never have been ablento write this tale. A strug- gling ray ,ofmoonlight showed me thatthe centre .of the room had been .cut away, so that nothing but a narrow ledge of about six feet in width, which formed a kind of shelf around the room, remained to stand upon. Itrled to look down into the dark abyss that seemed FkIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1867. resisted all his efforts to drag me yawning for me. but all was black- ness there; what appeared to be the feeble groans of some wounded man at the bottom adding to the It must be some poor wretch thev have de-~ were flowing fast from her oyes,,coyed here for tie purposes of Mary entered. fate evidently intended be to mine also. Then came that terrible longing for life and liberty which only those have experienced who have thought that they were about to be deprived of both. I became wild with anger at the dastardly trick that had been played upon me. In my' rage [cursed the girl and my own folly in listening to- her story. My first impulse was to knock at the door or call for assrst- ance, but soon reason told me the folly of such a step. To have made any noise would only be to haVe roused the household, all of \vhom‘were aware of the trap set for me, and would come rushing into my room, and, overpower me by numbers, would force me down the fatal pit. S0 l crouched up in the far side, against the wall listening to the dismal meanings ofthe poor fellow below, and con- sidering how soon my turn would come. It: was Very sad to think that] had to perish in such a man- ner, and to be killed by the brute who kept the villanous establish- mentâ€"to die so young-to leave my mother and sisters without any one to protect them just at a time when l was getting on inlife, and able to provide for them comfortab- ly; and then there was another and a dearer one than all these, the re- colfection of whom. made me weep tears of bitter agony." Could it be possible that at a time when my loudest hopes of earthly happiness wereabont being realized I must be torn from her] loved so well, and that, too, by the hands of'a base and cowardly assassin? No, it was too horrible to believe. Come what mayâ€"â€"if all the wretches from the purlieus of those densly crowded courts came to hurt me to death, I , would fight for freedomâ€"tear them limb from limb; brave everything for dear, dear life. , How mad were these thtfiightsl v: was .un armed, and but a Weak mail com- pared to the ruffiaus' that _ I knew would do the fearful work. "How long I remained in this agitated" state I hardlv know. I must have been some hours; for dawn was just breaking, the first faint streak of early morning light being visible ever the honsetops, when I heard a heavy step on the stairs, approach- ing nearer and nearer. and finally halting- ontside my prison door. Mary. said a tough voice, which I instantly recognized as a negro's. Mary, why don’t you bring the key. Here it is, the girl answered; but mind what you do, for he ain't, fallen. I heard him move just’ now. He won’t move much after this is in him, was the reply, and I' heard something ring against the key, which sounded like steel, and proved to be a bowie-knife. ‘ The girl laughed at this rejoind- er. a gay cheerful laugh that seem- ed to say, ‘ No one ever did move much after that was in him.’ Then the key was softly turned in the lock, and the door slowly Opened by a tall powerful negro, who can- tiously entered and shut it after him (it being again fastened on the outside), and movetl stealthly to- wards where I sat, evidently think~ ing from the position in which I was crouched that l was asleep. Tth I saw the. knife raise to strike the fearful blow, and, darting from my recumbent: pesition, I sprang upon my opponent with the fury and swiftn-ess- of 4 tiger. In his asâ€" tonishment, caused by my sudden attack, he let the knife fall at my first blow, but quickly recovering himself closed with me, trusting no doubt to his great strength to drag me to the opening. Heaven must have lcant me power, for I to the hole, and getting my back to the wall, fought as only man can fight who is combating for life. In a lucky moment for me he quitt- ed his hold, and while he was pre- paring to take a fresh and firmer one. i flungy my whole weight into one blow, and hittingr him in the forehead he staggered backwards, and in taking a step to recover himself lost his balance and fell through the floor, the heavy thud which canto upwards telling me plainly enough ofthe great depth to which the body had fallen. 1 had hardly time to think what a narrow escape I had had, and to pick up the fallen knife, before the' door was opened, and the girl She was terrified and she appeared to be in great plunder, I thought, who has met a at seeing me standing there alone, Whore N0. 489. and stood speechless with amaze ment. My first thoughts were to send her flying after her infamous paramour, and, maddened with rage, l rushed towards her with that intention; but checking my" self, and putting my hand on the terrified creature's shoulder, with firmness l quietly demanded to be let out of the house. Where is Ben? she replied. Dead. said 1 ; lying in the place you intended for me. And now wretch, ifyou don‘t want to fol- low him, take me in safety off these premises. If you make the least noise, or attempt to call for assistance, 1 will plunge this knife into you. _ Without making any reply, she moved slowly towards the landing, and then down the rickety stair case. The front door was bolted and barred, but noiselessly she no- lastened it, and in another moment l stood a free man. How glorious it was to breathe the chill morning air, even in that pestilential neighâ€" bourhoodl The rapidity with which I hastened away to the broad open streets may be better imagined than discribed. I at once went to the nearest police station, and with the super- intendent and six men returned to the house in search of the guilty women. This time the door soon gave way, it being unbolted. Our search for the offenders soon proved fruitless, for not a living crea- ture didljwe find lnthe houseâ€"they. had allvtakeu flight. Upon examin- ing the place in which I had been confined,l\v‘e found that the floor- ing of the back room on each flight hadvbcen cut through, down as far as the , basement, in which placeweJotz-nd two bodies. An Irish sailor, said the super- intendent bfpolice, coolly turning over one of them, and looking for may or pa‘ff’ér‘s‘l‘n‘his pockets. of _which there was neither ‘iipon the body. And, he continued, looking at the other, Black Jacques himself. "What a pity! I wish he had lived to be hung. Then addressing me he said, ' This nigger Was the greatest scoundel that ever lived. For months past we have continu- ally missed peoplc, who have dis- appeared mysteriously. Merchants layers, planters â€"â€" persons who would be likely to have money about themâ€"each one has been traced to this neighborhood when lest. Ah, my dear sir, I am glad you have had this little adventure, for it has been the means of ridd- ing the world of a monster, and of enabling us to discover the secret which we have been endeavouring in vain for months to solve. Tun WONDERFUL CLOCK AT STRASBOURG CATHEDRALâ€"Besides showingr the apparent time, the mean time, the exact hours of the rising and the setting of the sun for each day in the year, the Zodiacial sign for the particular season, the day of the week, it calculates the eclipses of the sun and of the moon, and performs a variety of other as- tronomical equations. In addition, it indiâ€" cates diurnally the ecclesiastical period.â€" Thcsc, for the learned, are its great achieve- ments, but for the ‘general public’ it pos- scssas properties more ensrly appreciable and more entertaining. Some one of the gods comes out of a sanctum sanctorum cach twenty-four hours, as emblematicul of the day of the week, and remains as the centre-piece on a raised platform till that day is succeeded by another. Thus (says a correspondent) when I saw the clock, Mor- cury, in a. chariot and pair, was doing duty. On a stage below the divinity of the day are two angels, one seated beside a bell, the other holding an hourâ€"glass. Over the god is another platform, having (in it at hell, he- side which stands Death holding a. bone.â€" Ncar Death is a second boil, on which the quarters are tolled. At: the first quarter of each hour, an infant comes out Of an en- closurc and strikes the boil: at the second, a youth; at the third, at man in the prime of life; and at the fourth a hoary-headed veteran. The angel below also strikes the quarters. The hour is struck by Death him» self, with his bone hammer, the unch turn- ing the hourglass at the same moment.â€" llnt at noon each day the V popular perfor- matncc of this clock is to be witnessed. Im- mediately Death has sounded the last stroke of the twelve, a. procession of the twelve Apostles in presence of our Saviour takes place. The thirteen automate. are marvel- ous. As each little wooden Apostle passes the figure of Christ, the latter raises its arm and blesses that one of the thlve. The third who passes is Peter, and, as he is do- ing so, a life size automaton cock flaps its wings twice, and then raises a crow, which is all but a. perfect imitation of that sent forth by the living bird. Before the last of the Apostles has passed the cock flaps his wings and crows twice more. A crowd as- sembles within the church ea0h day to see and hear this performance, which, indeed, 110 one visiting Strasbourg should miss. At a school at Welland, near Newcastle, the master asked a class of boys the mean- ing ofthe Word ‘appetitc.’ when, after a short pause, one little boy saidâ€"‘1 know, sir. When I’m eatin’ I’m ’ArrY, and when I’m done I‘m TIGHT.’ ‘ MISCELLANEOUS: ’ ‘ A shocking affair.’-vâ€"An electric battery. What is birtterthan a promising young man ?â€"A payingr one. , ‘Home, sweet ltome'l” as the bee said when he entered the hive. Why is a king who can’t talk like his dominions ?-â€"Because he’s a kingdu‘fitb. The editor who said that his menth never uttered a he, probably spoke through his nose. A question for the Facultyéâ€"If a doctor orders bark, has not the patient a perfect right to growl? ‘ I wonder what causes my eyes to be so weak?’ said a fop to‘ a" gentlemen. ‘ They are in a weak place,’ replied the latter. A Curious Fochâ€"A ball struck a little boy in the eye last week. Strange to say the bowl immediately came out of his mouth. A crusty old bachelor says that Adam’s wife was called eve because, when she ap- peared, man’s day of happiness was drawing to a. close. ‘ I say Jones, do you take florins ?’ ‘No.’ ‘What’s the reason; ain’t they good i”â€" ‘ ch.’ ‘ Why don’t; you take them, then ?’ ‘Cnn’t get them.’ ‘My name,’ said ;a gentlemen, ‘is com- posed of seven'letters; but take the first two away and there will remain eight.’â€"â€"His name was Spcight. ‘I \vcuder,’ said a Scotch maiden, ‘ what my brother John sees in the lessee that he likes them sac wecl, for my part, I wad nae gic the company 0’ one lad for twenty lasses.’ A httle girl walking one day with her mother in a churchyard, reading one after another the praises of those who slept be- neath, said, ‘I wonder where they bury the- sinners?’ ‘I wonder where those clouds. are going,’ sighed Flora, pensively, as she pointed, with delicate finger, to the heavy masses that floated in the sky. ' I think they are going to thunder,’ said her brother. George Colman, getting out; of a. hackuey‘ coach one night, gave the driver a shilling. ‘ This is a bad shillmg,’ said Jarvie.â€"- ‘Thcu it’s all right,’ said George, with his inimitable chuckle, ‘yours is a bad coach l” A Yankee orator, warming with his sub-' ject, exclaimed "I guess there aint a.rna.n, woman, or child in the house who has at! rived at the age of fifty years,- but. what has ‘ felt; this truth thundering “through his, her, or its mind fOr centuries.” One man wagered another that he had seen a horse galloping at a. great speed and a. dog sitting on his tails It seemed an im- probable feat for a dog to accomplish, but “ the man was right, and won the money. The dog was sitting on his own tail. An old Freedman, in Texas, was asked if he was not going to register. IIe wished to know how he would have to proceed. On be in;r told that he had to swear to support. the constitution, he rolled up his eyes, and ‘~ drawing a. long breath, declared that he' wouldn’t support any constitution; it was ‘ as much as he could do to support himself. ‘ Prof. Peirce, of the, United States, says ' that the chances that atfit‘tWO signatures will be written precisely alike without des sign by different individu; trite ,as 'l-to,’ 2,666,000,000,000,000,000, ‘ .jHe made' the calculation on the occdsion'of being: called in as an 'expcrt’ in a veryitnporfr ' out will ease recently tried in New Eggs. _ . -.-« we «am-h ‘India, my boy,” said‘an‘ Iririliiuah'i', to a. ‘ friend onvhis arrival tit-Calcutta “duffel; the " finest climate under the sun; buta lot. of, young follows come out; here, and they _ dhriuk and they eat, and they dhrink andj they (lie ; and then they write home to their friends a pack ’0 lies, and says it’s the cli- mate as has killedthem.’ Toby Continued.â€"‘ Have any ‘of‘Toby. Continued’s stories been published into " bound volumes?’ inquired a. country cus- tomer of a salesman at; one of our large book-stalls the other day. "l‘oby Con- tinued-l Who’s he ‘2’ ‘ Why, the man that“ ‘ writes so many-stories for the publications. ' I see his name to more stories than any other man, and I want to get ’em in bound volumes ‘1’ The salesman answered in the ' negative, and the verdant-customer went elsewhere with his enquiry, which we dare ' say isâ€"â€"‘ To be continued.’ One of the most conscientious Dutchmen : ever known was porter in a commission- house in Cincinnati, and sometimes sold" some of the merchandise when the proprie- ' tors were absent. He was a good salesman, and a pretty good judge of money, but in ‘ one of his sales he took in a. very suspicious ' looking fivedollar bill, and when the book-A, kccpcr tOok it to the bank, the bank refused“ it, and pronounced it spurious, but said it was an excellent imitation. The book-keeper I returned it to the porter, and told‘yhim to ' return it to the party of whom he received ‘ it. About a week afterwards, the book-" keeper, thinking he had time to see the“: pa:ty and get another note, asked the porter , if he had returned the spurious bill. ‘ Well,’ he said, ‘ dat man vet gave me dat bill, he didn’t come round already, and some dayst tink do bill vas goot, and some days I link ’ do bill vas bad, so one of dcm days vot IL tink it; was goot, I passed him out.’ A War PonwnMAN.â€"â€"Au amusing story " is told of Godard’s balloon, which went. up ’ from Paris the other day, and alighted» in." the vicinity of Cologne. Because the bal- ‘ 10 on flow the French flag the acronauts ' were badly received by ilLdisposcd patriots ’ who mistook their inctrologmal instruments " for smoothing dangerous, and were on the : point of seizing titem2for spies. The tempt- cst had just been alloyed when the police ‘ intervened, and of course n. zealous offician proceed to search the balloon for maps and ‘ plans, and threw out. a quantity of ballast. This lightened the ballon of a sudden, and it went up, much to the terror of the Prus- sians and the surprise of all. By the latest accounts we learn that the unhappy p0lice« man accomplished his descent into the Zuydor Zoe, and was saved from drowning by some fishermen. A SINGULAR SPECULATION.â€"Tlle Livcr- pool Post. thus chronicles the arrival of a. heard of Angora. goats :â€"â€"Most people pro- bably, are aware of the importance attached to the Angora {oat by the fancy wool grow- ers of thc whole world. The Angora. goat. - 'has alimitcd range on one of the high up- land plains west; of Kizilfrmztk, in Asia 1 Minor, where the winters are very cold, and the summers excessively hot ; and this cli- * matic contrast is supposed to contribute to the fineness of the hair for which the breed is celebrated. The Americans have proved ' that, by crossing the Angora goat with the American goat, they can produce hair ofa ‘ quality to equal that grown from pure An- gora blood. Hitherto the experiment has » been on a small scale, but an endeavour is ~ to be made to extend it. With that: object in view, Mr. Dcihl, an American gentleman has been to Asra Minor, collecting a herd of Angora goats, for the purpose oflmportâ€" ‘ ing them into the United States. On the ’ 4th inst he arrived in Liverpool with a herd of 154 goats and five shepherds’ dogs, - all in splendid form.