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Gssrrmnsmâ€"Allow me to return my most sincere thanks for this address. It is espec- ially gratifying to me to receive this greeting from the young men of Canada. I am an old man myself, and cannot hope to see the culmination and completion of the great en- terprise on which I have been engaged. You, gentlemen, in common with the rest of the young men of Canada, can have that pleasure, and I may say that profit. I trust that I shall be able to look down on you from another, and I hope a better, sphere, and see the young people of the Cartier Club travelling across the continent at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour from Montreal to the Pacific. (Applause and laugh ter.) I am also pleased to know that the country has been so much pleased and interested in the progress of our labors, and that such of the results as have been published have met with the approval of the public, because I have not been able to follow very closely the public press of the Do- minion. I am also glad to know there are men politically opposed to myself, but who are still patriots, and willing to join issue with us in what is best for the country. The question should be lifted far beyond the ele- ments of party strife. I have great pleasure in telling you, gentlemenâ€"though I cannot go into the matter fully, because I am merely the agent of the Governor in Council. sent to Great Britain along with one or two of my colleagues, and must submit the arrange- ment we have made for the approval or re- jection of the Parliament of the country-â€"-- that we have made a good arrangement with a number of capitalists, not alone in Eng- land, but in Germany, France, the United States and Canada. We have made a com- bination of forces which will not only be quite sufficient to build the road, but will have additional influence to turn the great current of German emigration from the United States to Canada. (Cheers) We have re- ceived security in moneyâ€"satisfactory secu- rity â€"for the proper construction and run- ning of the road lor ten years after its com- pletion, which will be twenty years hence. (Loud cheers.) We have made an arrange- ment, not that the road shall be built through a fertile distict and leit untouched in the wilder parts, but that itshall be constructed whether through a wild or fertile district. (Applause) We have made an arrangement by which the land will be put upon the mar- ket and sold at once, by which means there shall be a continuance of systematic emigra- tion to the Northwest. We have secured the running of it for ten years after it is built, and when I tell you that when the road is fin- ished it will not cost the country a bit more than the arrangement would that I made with Sir Hugh Allan in 1873, you will, I am cer- tain, rejoice with me. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) Mr. Mackenzie said that Sir Hugh could not build the road for thirty million dol- lars, but I believe that when the calculation comes to be made of the cost of the road it will be found to have been built even cheaper nan it could have been built under that ar- rangement. We have made an arrangement by which the road is to be built; we have caused a desire on the part of settlers to emi- grate to Canada; and the road will be built without costing one cent to the people of Canada. (Cheers) One gentleman in Eng- land, irom the simple desire to help Can- ada, wishes to secure 64,000 acres of land under the shadow of the Rocky Moun- tains, saying, “I will have my son settle upon that property." That gentleman is Mr. Brassey, and I have accepted this offer, sub- ject, of course, to the approval of the Gover- nor-in-Council. That is merely one simple example of the fever in England now to settle in our country. I believe we have done our work successfully, and that the wholecountry must rejoice ; but I must tell you as a party man that we met with great opposition in England. I did not go into a house, nor did I address myself to a man who had not in his possession Mr. Blake’s speech in the Parlia- ment last session in printed form. These were sent over to them to defeat our scheme. They were put under my nose wherever I went ; but thanks to the strong good sense of the people of England, and to my persua» siveness â€" (laughter)-â€"we were able to defeat all combinationsâ€"J may say not only com- binations, but conspiracies â€"â€"to tight down all opposition and succeed. (Applause) We have made the arrangement “a. contract firm." The contract will be carried out, the a'lway will go on whether Parliament meets Plovember or February, The railway will 0 on all the same. and we will trust to Par- ment and the country to sustain us in our course. The contractors are men of means, millionaires capable of building a dozen rail- ways. They are quite willing to take the risk of going on at once, and they will do so. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) MONTREAL, Sept. 27.â€"-Thii afternoon quite a. large nnd'excited gathering of Sir John Mac- donald‘s followers assembled at Hochelaga depot to welcome their chief upon his way to Ottawa. Mr. Chapleau accompanied Sir John, and after the formallties had been in- dulged in, Mr. Nautel presented from the Club Cartier a. complimentary and congrat- ulatory address, to which Sir John replied as follows: â€"â€" GIIADI PIGIFIG RAILWAY. The Terms as Described by the Premier. A SAT] SFAO'I‘ORY BARGAIN When British Columbia was admitted into the Dominion of Canada. nine years ago, the leading condition upon which the union was based was an agreement, on the part of the Dominion Government, to construct a railway connecting the Pacific coast with the Eastern provinces. Since that time disputes between the Provincial Government and that of the Dominion, relative to its immediate construe: tion and to the choice of routes, have been the cause of much local irritation and have great- ly delayed the progress of the undertaking. Four years since, the Earl of Dufierin, as Gov- ernor-General of the Dominion, made a tour through British Columbia, and by his wise mediation succeeded in harmonizing conflict- ing interests and in bringing about a much better state of feeling ; but it was reserved for the Dominion Premier, Sir John Macdonald,and the present Government commissioners to put an end to sectional prejudices and to render inestimable service to their countrymen by insuring the immediate construction of the railway. and thus making the great question of the future of Canada no longer a dehateable one. [From the American Railroad Journal, New York] THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAIL WAY. The preliminarv silfveys have long beenl made and the route decided upon is familiar to most railroad men. Starting from Thun- der Bay on the northwestern shore of Lake Superior, the first objective point is Rat Portage, or Keewatin, at the crossing of the l Lake of the Woods ; thence the line runs to 1 Selkirk, on the Red River, twenty-three miles north of Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba. It then spans Lake Manitoba and extends across the vast prairies of. the Northwest Ter- ritory in a. northwesterly direction to North- (fite, at the northern end of the Duck Moun- tains; thence it takes a. westward course through Bettleford and Edmonton, scales the Rocky Mountains at Yellow Head Pass, fol- lows the Thompson River and terminates at Burrard Inlet, which is situated just north of the mouth oi the Fraser River and possesses three fine harbors in English Bay, Coal Har- bor and Port Moody, the latter being first reached from the interior. Near Port Moody is New Westminster, one of the most impor. tant towns of British Columbia. The dis- tances from the Pacific to the Atlantic by the new route are as follows : By the Union Pacific road from San Francisco to New York, via the Michigan Central, Great Western and New York Control, the distance is 3,363 miles; from New Westminster to Montreal by the Canadian Pacific and the line to Mon- treal by way of Ottawa, it is 2,730 milesâ€"a difference in favor of the Canadian route of 633 miles. From New Westminster to New York by the Canadian Pacific, Michigan Cen- tral and Grand Trunk.it 133,251 miles, show- ing a difference in favor of the Canadian Pacific of 521 miles. From Sun Francisco to Boston by the most available route is now 3,422 miles, but from New Westminster to Boston the distance will be reduced to 3.087 miles, a saving in distance of 335 miles, and, comparing distances between A great deal of work has already been ex- pended upon the line from Thunder Bay to Selkirkâ€"a distance of two hundred and twenty-eight milesâ€"and two branch roads have been completed and in operation for some time. One of them extends from St. Vincent to Winnipeg and connects with the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad, which runs from St. Vincent to St. Paul, and is destined to become one of the important factors in the grain transportation of the great Northwest The preliminary surveys have long been completed and the difficulties encountered and overcome in making them have been enor- mous. The engineers traversed a vast conti- nent which had hitherto been unknown ex- cept by fur traders. roving Indians, and a few devoted missionaries. They knew by report that this great expanse was a country inter- sected by numerous streams and dotted with many lakes; that it was a rocky territory densdy wooded for the most part and without a single white inhabitant Beyond the scanty information obtained from the early mission- arir 5. who had visited it intent upon benevo- lent enterprises, the energines have given us the only accurate information of the country west of the Red river that we possess. Poitland and thé Pacific coast by different roads, we find that the difierence in favor of the Canadian route is 521 miles. The exploration of a portion of the country was a matter of comparative ease, but when the Rocky Mountains were reached, various obstacles presented themselves. One large party of engineers spent nearly two years in trying to find a suitable pass through these formidable barriers and through the hills that lie within the bend of the Columbia river. An immense amount of extra labor was imposed upon the surveying parties on account of dif- ferences of opinion between Government offi- cials as to available routes. Forty-seven thousand miles were actually passed over under circumstances of the great- est difficulty and danger. Some of the engineers were surrounded by forest fires and burned to death; others lost their lives in trying to cross dangerous rivers, and others died from the effects of exposure sustained in spending winters in the bleak mountains in the midst of deep snow, with only the shelter of canvas tents. In all. forty lives were lost, and in addition to the actual travelling of forty-seven thousand miles of distinct routes in search of the best way, there are actual in- strumental surveys, laboriously measured yard by yard, of more than twelve thousand miles; nearly five times the length of the road when completed to the Pacific coast. These preliminary surveys cost about four millions of dollars, and when we consider that they were practically completed in the space of six years we cannot over-esti- mate the zeal, the ability and the heroic fidelity of the persons who accomplished such results. With regard to the future of the railway, we are told that the contract for the construc- tion of theline is taken by a syndicate said to be the most powerful 1n respect to money and influence that has ever taken hold of an American enterprise. Three sets of capitalists seem to have been working for this contract which bartered for work to be done a vast em- pire of undeveloped land :in the Northwest Territory. One was led by Lord Dunmore and Brown dz Puleston, bunkers ; another by George Stephen, President of the Bank of Montreal, 11.. B. Angus, Hon. Donald Smith, Winnipeg. and American capitalists. and the third by Lord Dunraven, Hon. Thomas Bras- sey, M. P., and others. The information re ceived states that Sir John MacDonald has united the competing interests by adding a. cash bonus to the land grant,although he has retained control over the greater portion of the land so as to prevent it being held other than by bonafide settlers. The contracting parties will receive from the Canadian Government a certain number of millions sterling in cash or its equivalent, to be provided for by an issue of Canadian Gov- ernment bonds and a certain number of mil- lions of acres of land. In consideration of these grants. they undertake to form a com- pany, to be called the Canadian Pacific Rail- way Company, which shall construct and work the line in perpetuity. The Government fur- thermore gives to the contracting parties in addition to the surveys already made the whole of the line already built. 0f the im- mense advantage of the railway, when con- structed, to the Dominion of Canada there can be no doubt. Although, on account of ; sectional jealousy and perplexity in deciding upon routes, progress has been long delayed, the preliminary matters of the railway have been planned and executed with consummate skill and ability. » _ . ~ The line throughout its whole extent will compare favorably in all important particulars with our own trans-continental lines. It will run through the mountain passes by low lying passages which do not exist in more southern routes. The engineer in chief, lately in charge, has reported a location on which, for fully a thousand miles west of Lake Superior, the easterly ascending gradients can be kept ‘ down to half the maximum gradients on the Grand Trunk and other roads in operation in the older provinces,thus insuring to a. certain extent cheap transportation. The habitable land of the great undeveloped interior is not confined to a narrow belt along the valley of the Saskatchewan.but recent the explorations have shown it to be immense in area and abounding in resources whieh will now be dis- closed and turned to ascount. The vicinity of the great coal fields of Pennsylvania and Michigan to Lake Erie and Lake Huron will enable Canada to develop her mineral deposits and make them available. and she will now be able to carry her grain and lumber to mar. ket. England will send over farmers and artisans, and will confidently expect that ‘ what has remained until recently almost a desert, traversed annually by migratory herds of antelope and buffalo and only available for wild Indians and hardy trappers. will become ere long the seat of populous provinces and will constitute. if not the most valuable of her colonies, at least one of the great gran- aries of the world. A Trapper Disappears Under slrnuze Ulrcumnlauces. Manitoba Free Press. A melancholy episode has been detailed to me. As its recital may have a. salutary effect; in deterring people from wintering alone in hese wilds, I givq it as_ it gatne to nae: Frederick Fravel embarked on board the vessel that brought hither last fall some cattle for the Treaty Indians, taking with him his supplies and. a cattle boat. Nothing was heard of the trapper till winter was giving way to spring, in the lengthening of the days. At that time, Thomas Mooyease, going out to seek out for moose deer in that part of the district known as the “The Two Rivers,” came upon a boat pulled up on the beach. 0n the shore he saw tracks of men. and con- cluded that Frederick had disembarked there VOL XXIII. THE A no R'rifi'nfi LflYSI‘EEY. last fall, and had gone inland to hunt and trap. Going from thence he saw a little shanty, and supposing it to be Frederick’s winter abode, went to it. The door was open and the interior presented evidences that something was wrong. There was the bed as though just left, the blanket slightly thrown to one side. There were the remains of what had been a breakfast on the table, and articles lying about waiting to be cleaned and put away. It was as though the inmate had hur- riedly risen from his breakfast, seized his gun and run out to shoot something with the intention to return and finish his meal. But all bore the appearance of having been in that state a long time. Thomas became sus- picious that Frederick had perished; for he could find no late traces of him. Leaving. therefore. everything as he found it, he aban- doned his intended hunt, and returned home to report what he had discovered. The people here shared his impression, and two of his friends returned to go with him in search of their acquaintance, who is supposed to be a German. Arriving at the place they made a careful search for the missing man, but alas l in vain. They found his gun leaning against abush at a considerable distance from the house ; also some spring traps, a single mitten. and a comforter torn in two pieces at different distances from the but. A closer inspection of the premises disclosed some fish, flour, apples, rice, etc., showing that Fravel did not perish from want of food. There were also a few pears in his box, and his winter coat hanging to the wall inside the house. On the breakfast table they found a little bottle of strychnine, which appeared to have been handled at the last breakfast time. It was only temporarily stopped with a bit of stick. Could Frederick have been preparing baits, carried them out carelessly and allowed any portion of the virulent poison to have come in contact with his month. We cannot tell. The summer is closing and nothing more has been discovered whereby any clue can be obtained either of the missing man or the cause of the catastrophe. NEW YORK, Sept. 23.â€"~Tmth,the new morn- ing paper, publishes an account of the seizure of goods by the custom house authorities from the baggage of W. K. Muir, a resident of Detroit, Michigan., but recently registered at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, England. Mr. Muir was a passenger on the White Star Steamer Baltic, which arrived in port on Saturday. Included in the baggage seized were various articles of wearing apparel and jewelry, among others a lot of chatclaincs and pen- dants of gilt and silver, the latest Paris- ian novelties in Russian leather cases and a useful nautical toy. Numerous breast- pins, earrings and bracelets of gold and silver were taken from the pockets of clothing packed in the trunks ; also several folds of rich lace; two meerschaum cigar-holders of fine finish. with extra mouth pieces; stoppers for wine bottles, surmounted by silver hoops holding pearl labels bearing the name of the wine, some arranged with screws to retain the effer- vescing of champagne ggilt buttons for dresses and a yachting costume. Several yards of gros grain silks were unearthed from the lin- ing of an overcoat which had been neatly re- stitched. Some of the jewelry was found in soiled linen. Two shawls were contained in the extremities of a pair of drawers, also three solid silver gold-lined tankards, and five different sizes of sealskin portmonnaies and hand-bags. An ornamental and useful article brought to light was a silver fruit knife, nut pick, corkscrew and wire cutter combined. From the pocket of a pair of pants were taken, wrapped in loose paper, the entire appurtenances and deck fittings of a small model yacht, complete in every detail of capstan, davits and small salute guns cast from gilt metal. In addition to the foregoing were lace-embroidered chemises, waists, lisle thread ladies’ hose, gloves. neckware, Scotch caps and suits of clothes of fashionable out and material ; also a large Russia leather satchel. In a collar box was found 3197 in cash and several railroad passes. There is a comic as well as a pathetic side to Mormon polygamy. Among the Mormon woman at Utah was one who accepted in full faith the polygamic revelation. She had found in polygamy an ample compensation in the supposed right of the first wife to choose her husband’s succeeding wives. This was her argument : “ If the first wife se- lects the other wives, it has the effect of show: ing them that the husband thinks much of her judgment. and is willing to abide by it, and they will have to do the same. This is, of course, as it should be. But if she lets her husband choose his own wife, he is almost certain to take a fancy to some one whom the first wife does not like at all, and consequently her authority is undermined. The first wife ought to keep all the power in her own hands.” The sequel of this lady’s story is extremely ludicrous. After she had chosen two other wives for her husband, he was so perverse as to choose a fourth for himself, the fourth being not at all to her liking, as she herself admitted. This is her own account of the matter: “ ‘ I tell you. said I, ‘I’m quite disgusted with you ; a man with three wivesâ€"and me one of themâ€"to go talking twaddle to a chattering hussy like that, with her cat’s eyes and red hair i ’ ‘ Golden hair, my dear,’ he said gâ€"‘Charlotte‘s hair is golden.’ ‘I say red lmit’s straight, staring redâ€"as red as red can be,’ Itold him, and then we had a regular fight over it. I don’t = mean that we came to blows, but we had some hot words. and he went out and left us two alone. Then that young hussy was im- pudent, and I don’t know how it was, but somehow when we left our conversation, I felt some of Charlotte’s red hair between my fingers, and there,’ she said, innocently,hold- ing out quite a good-sized tuft of auburn hair, ‘there, I put it to you‘ Sister Stenhonse, is that red, or is it not ‘2 ’ " ATTEMPTED [MURDER IN PEL HA1". A House Entered by a Band at Rnfllnus Who Shot at the Occupants. The Welland Tribune says : John Bryant laid information against David Drennan, Augustine Holcomb, F. Holcomb, George Green, Edwin Metler, Porter Metler and others, charging them with breaking into his house in North Pelham and shooting at him- self and family. The parties had a hearing on Monday, and the evidence went. to snow that D. Drennan and A. Holcomb were among the raiders, when adjournment was made to obtain additional evidence respecting the others. It was proven beyond a doubt that a lot of men and boys did raid Bryant’s house, broke in the doors and windows, and 3 shot off firearms in the house. Some of the shot picked up in the house was produced in court. It was also sworn to that they threat- ened to kill the family-«“like the Donnelly’s” had been cleaned out in Biddulph, were the words made use of. The parties are out on bail to appear to-day for further hearing, which will probably implicate other parties. As respectable citizens are not usually maltreated, especially in the model town of Pelham, it will somewhat explain matters to state that public report credits Bryant’s with having been a disorderly house â€"though of course that is no justification of the mob law resorted to. â€"-Frenoh ladies keefi a little frog in a globe in place of gold fish. "NlIlAKING A M] I‘l‘lflNA IRE.” MOBMON ISM IN U'l‘Afl RICHMOND HILE, THURSDAY, OCT. 7, 1880. A new political noVel is announced from the pen of a well-known Washington gentle- man, but his name is not given. The title of the book is “ Sub Rosa.” and it is said to be “ very Dickens 1ike”â€"whatever that may mean. Mr. MacKenzie, editor of the Celtic Maga- zine, published in Edinburgh, Scotland, and who visited this country, is about to publish his correspondence from Canada in a col- lected form. The letter: were deeply inter- esting as they appeared in an Edinburgh jour- n31. It was Sir Robert Peel who once remarked that Ireland was England’s difficulty, and three hundred years ago, Edmund Spenser, the poet, said: “ There have been divers good plots devised and wise counsels cast al- ready about the reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good, will prosper, or take good effect, which. whether it proceed from the very ge- nius of the soil, or influence of the stars, or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time for her reformation, or that He re- serveth her in this unquiet state still for some secret scourge, which shall by her come unto England, it is hard to be known, but yet much to be feared.” “ Though Richard had scant experience in such matters, he was not wrong in accepting Margaret as the type of a class of New Eng- land girls which, fortunately for New Eng- land, is not a small class. These young wo- men, for the most part, lead quiet and re- stricted lives so fat as the actualities are con- cerned, but very deep and full lives in the world of books and imagination, to which they make early escapes. They have the high instincts that come of good blood, the physique that naturally fits fine manners, and when chance takes one of these maidens from her inland country home, or from some sleepy town on the sea-board, and sets her amid the complications of city existence, she is an unabashed and unassuming lady. In Paris she differs from the Parisiennes only in the greater delicacy of her lithe beauty, her innocence which is not ignorance, and her French pronunciation ; if in London, she difl‘ers from the English girls only in the matter of rosy cheeks and the rising inflec- tion. Should none of these fortunate trans- plantings befall her, she always merits them by adorning with grace, and industry, and intelligence the narrower sphere to which in- dustry has assigned her." The ‘ypical New England girl is thus de- scribedin Mr. Aldrich’s “ Stillwater Tragedyg” “ Did ye ever hear of the leddie who was called in to his porridge by his mother ‘2 A grumbling bit laddie â€"â€" a philosopher, too ? His mother thought he would come in the quicker if he knew there was a fly in the milk. ‘Johnny,’ she cried out, ‘Johnny, come into your par- ritch ; there’s a. flee in the milk !’ ‘It’ll no droon,’ says he. ‘What,’ she says, ‘grumhl- ing again ? Do ye thin}: there’s no enough milk?’ ‘Plenty for the parritoh,’ says herâ€"- keel keel keel sharp, eh, wasn’t he? ‘Plenty for the parritch,’ says heâ€"ha [ha ho ! ho ! ho l’ ” and the laird slapped his thigh and chuckled to himself. “0h, ay, Miss Mary.” he added. aprfiimgly, “I see you are beginning Lo”u‘u erstand the 'Suuiuh humor fine." Few. Scottish writers of the present day have met with such a measure of success as Mr. William Black. His last work is “ White Wings,” a yachting romance. Here is a bit of humor told by a laird : In All The Year Round for last month we have this beautiful pen picture of a. mem- orable spot : “ It is pleasant as the sun is getting low to stroll upon the quays of Rouen, while in the splendid haze the islands, the ships, the river running molten gold, are shown all glorified and transmuted ; and then, turning eastward, to rest the dazzled eyes in the cool evening shades of above bridge. There the barges lie, many colored with gay fluttering pen- nants ; and the barks of the washerwomen, festconed with white garments. And here, with the dark shadows of crazy buildings over the river, and shady creeks where boat- builders have set up their tents, we seem to have taken leave of sea-going Rouen, and to have come upon a softer, more tran- quil existence. Over all this towers a grand buttress of rock, still bathed in sunshine, the Mount St. Catherine, barring the course of the river with its steep scraped sidesâ€"a noble leonine rock, with a turf of verdure over its massive brows. And quiet and peaceful now, with the glory upon it of the setting sun. we may remember how freely the blood of brave men has moistened that grassy slope. For the crumbling stones that scarcely break the smooth sky-line of the mount were once a strong fort, the key of Rouen, to take which was to have the town below at mercy. Our Harry V. tried hard for it, and got it at last, with much bloodshed; while, later on, brave Talbot held on to it with mastiff grip, but saw it stormed at last and Rouen lost for England. Took it, too, in the teeth of stench Protestant Captains fight- ing for faith and life, did the splendid cruel Guise, the Medici looking on ; while in the butchery that followed the young King might have learned his lesson for the Bartholomew. This nut, too, Henry of Navarre tried to crack but found it too hard for him, aided though he was by sturdy English allies under Essex. Much English blood, then, and French, helps to make the grass so green, with odd strains from German reiters and Italian mercenaries. , Then what a rendezvous of ghosts might meet on that hill-crest in the gathering shades of night i A new play has been put on the American stage under the title of “ Our First Families,” written by one of the new American poets, Mr. Edgar Fawcett. It was played for the first time at Daly’s theatre, New York, on the night of the 21st inst. It was preceded by the reading of a prologue, a practice which was supposed to have gone out of vogue. A New York critic thus describes the play :â€" “ The story of ‘ Our First Families ’ is this 2 Mrs. Van Ransellaer Manhattan, who prides herself on her blue blood and her aristecratic social connections generally, has arranged a match between her granddaughter. Eva Man- hattan, and Geoffrey Knickerbocker, a young fellow who is more fond of his clubs, hunting and yachting than of female society, and who decidedly objects to becoming a garlanded calf to be sacrificed on the hymenial altar, but is threatened with disinheritance by his father, Van Horn Knickerbocker, if he refuses the match. Eva has a decided contempt for her blue blooded ancestry, and falls in love with her eccentric and decidedly unprepos- sessing music teacher, and determines at all odds to marry him. She has a friend whose aid she seeks and secures. The latter arranges meetings between the pair, and after numerous difficulties and mishaps-in which rest the farzical humor of the playâ€" they succeed in sloping. Hebe has, while endeavoring to distract Geofirey’s attention from Eva, so interested him in her- self that he falls in love with her, and she becoming equally, interested in him. a dual marriage is brought about in the finale, much to the discomfiture of the old people. This is the main thread of the play, on which is strung a series of comical incidents that carries the play into the class of which “ Lemons” and the “ Big Bonanza" are fair examples. It is closely identical in form and style with the numerous pieces We have SPECIAL COLUMN. come to recognize as localized German com- edies of a farcical type, although this class of German comedies is in fact merely a. Ger- man treatment of an excedingly old French school. But this comedy or farce-it is flavored with eachâ€"of Mr. Fawcett’s is not borrowed from German or French sources, except in its peculiar flavor. but may be claimed as an original work, though based on old dramatic forms. The Stratford Beacon says: The managers of the Grand Trunk are determined to get the lion’s share of the carrying trade of the north. Following the acquisition of the Stratford & Huron Railway comes the news of the purâ€" chase of the Georgian Bay& Wellington Rail- way. The rails on the Stratford and Huron lines will probably be laid to Palmerston this week, and the line to Durham will be ready for opening within a couple of months after- wards. Arrangements are being made to celebrate these events by the usual demon- strations, first at Palmerston and afterwards at Durham. The Toronto, Grey 6:: Bruce Railway having lapsed into a very bad condi- tion, both financially and otherwise, is also likely to be leased by theGrand Trunk, which will then have the carrying trade of the coun- try lying to the north of Stratford in its con- trol. ' The Napanee Beaver says : The Mill Pointers are in real earnest about railway connection, and experiencehas shown that when they move in any matter of public en- terprise they generally carry it forward to a speedy and successful issue. At a meeting of the village council on Monday it was unani- mously resolved to submit a bydaw to the rate-payers for approval, granting a bonus of $5,000 for the construction of a railway, con- necting the village with the Grand Trunk at some point to be mutually agreed upon. Railway connection has become a necessity to the business and future progress of the place. To enable Messrs. Rathbun & Son to successfully operate the grist mill lately completed, and compete with other millers, it is strictly necessary that they have the best shipping facilities, both winter and sum- mer. The expense of carting wheat to the mill, and hauling the flour seven miles to be resizipped, is more than the margin on the business will allow ; the other growing in- dustries of the place all demand railway facilities, and the people are determined to have it. and we would be not at all surprised to see the branch under construction this winter, and the line completed early next season. The distance is only three or four miles to connect with the Grand Trunk at a convenient point. The Toronto & Ottawa. Railway Company ask the municipalities along the route for $1,000,0000 in bonuses to assist the enter- prise. MONTREAL, Sept. 23.â€"A deputation from the corporation of Ottawa, composed of the Mayor of the city and 'Ald. Lauzon, inter- viewed the Hon. Messr Chapleau and Robertson to- day upon the question of leasing the Occidental Railwav to a. Toronto capitalist. In answer to their inquiries the Premier gave a. precisely similar answer to that received by your correspondent here from a member of the Cabinet and telegraphed to the Maul some time ago, namely, that no proposition had been entertained by the Ministry from Mr. Gooderham, or anybody else, for a lease or sale of the line, and that nothing would be done in that direction without first consulting the Lrgislature. Some conversation ensued about the probability ef the railway being ab- sorbed by the Grand Trunk, but both Mr. Chepleau and the Treasurer expressed them- selves unmistakably hostile to any such change. Mr. Robertson considered an exten- sion of the Occidental from Ottawa to Toronto a matter of supreme importance to this Pro- vince. and hoped it would be carried out at no distant date. An interchange of views upon the central station question ih Ottawa also occurred, the Ministers favoring the project. The trafiic on the Great Western Railway of Canada for the week ending 17th September, 1880, was as follows : Passengers ................... Freight and live stock. Mails and sundries. ....$ 47,285 19 63,592 57 3,391 85 Total ................................. Corresponding week of last year Increase .................... . ................... $ 19,440 26 The Grand Trunk Railway authorities are about. to convert their present offices at Port St. Charles into a foundry for casting heavy metals. When the new offices, now in pro~ gress at their works are completed, the com- pany will have one of the largest establish- ments in connection with a. railway in this continent. ~Nowspapers are printed in ten different foreign languages, including the Chinese, in San Francisco. â€"The United States have contributed about five millions of dollars during the past year to relieve the distress of Ireland. â€"The cost of living in Paris has increased so much that the American colony is smaller than at any previous time for twenty years. -â€"It is said that a thin coat of varnish ap- plied to straw matting will make it much more durable, and keep it looking flesh and new White varnish should be used on white matting. â€"A Hungarian officer named Szerkremesky swam across the Flatten Sea, a distance of twenty miles, in seventeen hours. The fact that his name followed after him in a steam tug robs the feat of half its eclat, as it were. â€"-There is to be a grand national meet ing of all the bicycle clubs 1n the country held this fall in Brooklyn. Itis expected thata thousand bicyclists will be present, and they are to form a. procession and visit Coney Island. â€"The Jep anese make a. very curious and handsome kind of copper by casting it under water, the metal being highly heated, and the water also being hot. The result 15 a beauti- ful rose- -colored tint, which is not affected by exposure to the atmosphere. â€"A Galveston school teacher had a great deal of trouble making a. boy understand his lesson. Finally, however. he succeeded, and drawing a. long breath remarked : “ If it wasn’t for me you would be the biggest donkey on Galveston Island.” â€"The “ sand slag ” of iron blast furnaces has hitherto been supposed useless, An Eng- lish manufacturer has discovered a way of making a. cement of this slag by mixing it lime, which it is said well supplies the place of the Portland cement, and is much cheaper. â€"-A base ball boy tripped and fell and tore his clothes While chasing a. stray chicken in a. neighbor’s lot. He told his mother he had been sent to grass by a foul. She reached for home base, and the youth went out on strikes, howling for the old man to act as referee. â€"We have revenged ourselves on the man who let his hens into our garden last year. We have presented his wife withalot of plants which he will have the felicity of lugging down cellar every night, while frost lasts,and they will be sure to die about spring timeâ€"Boston Post. â€"A prize was offered for the worst pun made thls season. The following takes it: “He was to row n time for big stakes, but an AROUND THE WORLD. RAILROAD NOTES- $114,269 61 94,829 35 â€"â€"Mr. Millais has just painted a brilliant sketch portrait of Mrs. Perugini (Charles Dickens’s younger daughter). A considerable portion of this artist’s work last year was painted to be given away ; a fact for certain critics who pointed to Mr. Millais as a sad example of a great man spoilt by too much agemess for prices. â€"â€"A correspondent wishes to know our opinion of ” Touch the Harp Gently.” It is first-class. Any song calculated to make people touch a harp gently ought to be en- couraged. Of course. one that would induce them to leave it alone entirely would be preferable, but, as Benjamin Franklin said, a. move in the right direction beats standing still. attack of delerium tremens prevented him, and his opponent had a walkover. He after- wards remarked that it was the most tremenâ€" dous miss-stake he ever made.” â€"A duel recently took place between a Ute Indian and a Navajo, in which the former was killed and the latter seriously injured. This is very sad. When the untutored child of the forest becomes civilized and adopts the ennobling pursuits of the Christian pale face, he can fight duels all day without anybody getting hurt. â€"-There is said to be about 3,100 electric lights in use in this country, of which over 3,000 are the Brush lights, made by the young Cleveland inventor, who is now thirty- one years old. His Cleveland company are working twenty-two hours out. of the twenty- four, turning out at the rate of $75,000 worth per month. â€"The building for the new National Mu- seum, now being erected in Washington, will be an immense structure, covering two and a half acres of ground. There are to be over a hundred rooms for experiments and preparing articles for exhibition. When finished it will be one of the most interesting places to visit in Washington. â€"â€"-The Indian Government has offered a. prize of $500 for the best hygienic manual for soldiers in India. The manual must be ”without theories," that is to say, thorough- ly practical, showing the ordinary causes affecting health, the special dangers to health to which British soldiers are exposed in India, and the best means for averting them. -â€"A London paper speaks of the large im- portations from the Continent of a vegetable parchment now manufactured, which has 8:1 the qualities of that prepared from skins, and the advantage of being much cheaper. As the dressing of skins for parchment has given employment to a large number of people. this new mode may revolutionize a great in- dustry. â€"-Mr. George Skene Dufi, a celebrated deer stalker of Scotland, brought down on a. single day, in the forest of Mahr, the proper- ty of his nephew, the Earl of Fife, and with a. rifle which he began to employ half a century since, no less than eight antlered monarchs, three of them with royal heads, a fourth with eleven tines, and four of scarcely inferior rank. â€"‘\Ir. Carlyle has so far recovered from his recent indisposition as to be able to super- intend the preparation of the materials re- quisite for an adequate life, which may be described a biography interspersed with characteristics chapters of autobiography. This interesting book will, when complete, be in effect the joint work of Mr. Froude and Mr. Carlyle’s married niece, Mrs. Alexander Carlyle. â€"A Wine, Malt and Spirit Merchants’Union is to be inco1porated 1n twenty- four cities in New York State, with a View of securing a. new Excise law at Albany next winter. According to the Retailer, the organ of the trade, a fund of 330,000 was once raised to further favorable legislation, and all of it was misappropriated. The promise is made that no money shall be asked for in aid of the preâ€" sent movement. â€"The ex-King and Queen of Naples have arrived at Kreuth, in Germany, and Prince Charles Theodore, brother of the Empress of Austria, is expected at Tegernsee. Prince Charles Theodore is the famous Dr. Herzog, who has devoted his life to the serious study of ophthalmia under the greatest oculists of the day, and has established an ophthalmic hospital near Tegernsee, Where he holds out every help to rich or poor efllicted with any disease of the eye. â€"â€"Earl Spencer, under whose department the matter comes, is not by any means an alarmist about the Texan disease in cattle, nor on that account, excluding American im- portation. He stated in a recent debate that the disease was only contracted from the ex- creta of the afiected animals, and that, there- fore, there was practically little or no danger to the English herds, as the American cattle were always slaughtered on landing. â€"A dangerous type of malaria has pre- vailed to an alarming extent at Hart’s Falls, New York. This has been caused by a large tract of marshy land, brought into such a condition by the diversion of the channel of the Hoosick River. This locality being out- side of the village corporation, its Board of Health had no power to remedy the difficulty, and application for relief has been made to the Governor of the State. During the year 1879 it is estimated that fully five hundred persons, one-third of the population, suffered more or less from malaria. Physicians have been unable to check the progress of the dis- ease, and for a long time could not determine its origin. :â€"A curious telephonic experiment is re- ported as made in Switzerland on the occa- sion of the federal fete of singers‘ A tele- phone had been placed in the Zurich Fest- halle, and two conductors connected with the Basle telegraph office, where a large audience had congregated. The distance from Basie to Zurich is about fifty miles. The Basle an. dience enjoyed the singing about’as well as if they had been placed in the upper circle of an ordinary opera-house. At the end of the per- formance they proved their satisfaction by clapping hands, which the telegraphic wires transmitted with perfect fidelity to the Zurich performers. â€"A discussion has arisen in France as to the costume worn by Charlotte Corday when she stabbed Marat, and some modern ladies have proclaimed her conduct shockingâ€"not in committing a. murder, but in killing a man in his bath. Modern modesty need not be shocked. In the latter days of the old French monarchy ladies frequently received visitors while enjoying a bath. But there was no im- propriety. They wore bathing gowns of the finest lawn, trimmed with Valenciennes ; and the water in the bath was made obaque by the addition of a bottle of essence, or of a jug of milk. But for the name of the thing, the Were more decently clad in the bath than in the ballroom. â€"It will be remembered that last spring it was found necessary to close the college in Princeton, New Jersey, on account of the pre- valence of a malignant disease among the students, causing several deaths. Bad water, owing to defective sewerage, was the cause of the sickness. The trustees of the college immediately appointed a sanitary commission of efficient men, and the practical results are that the college buildings have been thorough- ly renovated, and an entirely new system of sewerage introduced, one whlch has been adopted in many European cities, and is thought to be perfectly safe. That the public feel a security in these remedial improvements is indicated by the assertion that the number of students that have applied [or admission this fall is larger than ever before. WHOLE NO. 1,162.â€"â€"N0, 19. M Teefy “One of you am a Dimercrat 1111’ de odder a ’Publican,” said the Prusident as he looked down upon them. “De odder night you met to talk biznesa, but soon drifted into polyticks. Purty soon you called each odder liars an’had a fight, in which both war’ bunged up 311’ one of your wives hurt. What hev you got to say 7” Neither of the men had a reply handy, and the President continued: There ' was a sort of uneasy feeling all through the hall before the meeting was called to cider. No one seemed to have any bad news, nor to have any reason for being de- pressed. yet a cloud had éettled down and made its influence felt. Brother Gardner and Sir Isaac Walpole held awhispered conference and when the triangle sounded the old man looked up and down and gently inquired : Brother Towner suddenly fell asleep, but Pickles Smith gave him a prick with a darnâ€" iug-peedlq and starteg _h;:n forwargl.‘ “Will “Brudder Haversack (394110.011 please hitch along this way 3?" Brotherbnhoon Hesitated half a. minute and then shuffled forward and hung his head and stood on one leg. “An’ now will] Bruddnr Catawba Townet produce hisself befo’ de desk ?” inquired the President. “ Ober an’ ober an’ ober agin I has warned dis club to let polytloks alone. I has tole you dat polyticks am (19 white man’s cess-pool, an’ dat no decent cull’d man should go widin ten feet ob it. You has been tole. an’ you has all seen fur yerselves. dat do black man am only a figger-head fur do white folks to play wid. An honest, straightfor’d cull’d man stands no mo’ chance in polyticks dun a hyena would in Sunday school. You two men hev sot yere an’ heerd all dis ober again. You hev bin nayburs fur five y’ars, an’ boat of you jined dis club at de same time. You hev wurked side an’ side. an’ yer church pews am clus togedder. An’ yit you talk polybicks, fight, an’ want to kill eachodderl What shall be dun wid you?" The old 1138.!) looked up and down the hall. Not a foot moved to break the stillness. “ You p’o miserable, thick headed sons of Africa "‘ whisp ered the President as he leaned over the desk.p “ You doan’ know anyfin’ , you doan’. ' you hevent gotdasense of a hose. ‘ What am it to you who am ’lected. ‘7 What difference will it make to you which party rules! I’m ashamed of sich as you 1 Now you jine right hands. Now shake. Now go 1111’ sot down, an’ if I cotch either of you squint- ing up at de top of a ward pole, your names will fly off like a bar’l of lightnin’ rollin’ down Owing to the absence of the respective Chairmen no petitions were read and no elec- tion was held. On motion of Laidout White the rules were suspended and Col. Benjamin Turner, of Alexandria, Len, was elected an honorary member. The 001. was recommended by T. L. Macon and J. G. White, both pro- minent citizens. and his abilities as an orator and poet were acknowledged at considerable length by the local press. hill !”‘ The Secretary announced a communication from Halifax signed by Affidavit Masher, old Doc Holland and five others, who claimed to have constituted a minsttel troupe in by-gone days named “ The Lime-Kiln Club,” and to have a copyright of the title. Threats were made of suing the club for damages in case they did not drop the title at once and render an ample apology. The Secretary was iuA strueted to tell the crowd to go to, or rather to stay in, Halifax by the quickest route, and that any legal proceedings would be met with great cheerfulness. “ Data’s anoder cunard nailed,” saidBrother Gardner as he rose up. “One night my 019 woman put off supper fur five hours while tryin’ to unwind dat bizeness, an’ I believe dut’s de nighest it eber cum ‘to ~‘gitfi'o" his-N‘s (19 club. When do clock struck midnight I riz up and made a few moshuns, an’ I has nebber seed do blocks since.” 110 ST BE INVESTIGATED. Blue Jim Stoggings, of Cartersville, Ga” an honorary member of the club, forwarded charges against J osephus-on-tbe Blossom, an- other honorary member, as follows : “ N0 SIB 1” Brother Sidewise Strong, of Mansfield, 0., an honorary member in good standing, for- warded a communication asking if the club devoted one evening per week, as charged by :1 Columbus paper, in trying to solve the “13, 15, 14” puzzle. 1. Opening 3 peanut Stand against the ad- vice of business men of uadoubted financial acumen. 2. Refusing to give thirty days’ credit to brother members. 3. Going tolaw after being cheated in a mule trade. 4. Holding and advocating the theory that the colored race will not advance until the women wear bangs and the men part their hair in the middle. The charges were duly made and certified. and the Committee on Harmony was instructed to make a. thorough investiga- tion, and report at the earliest possible date. Toe LATE IN THE SEASON. Martin Merldith Lipskum, of Warren Coun- ty, N. 0., wrote to ascertain what action the club would take in the case of a. member who was located next door to a foubacre patch of watermelons. Would the member lose presâ€" tige. or would the owner lose watermelons? The neighborhood was divided on the question. and the club was asked to decide it. “I has bin to prayer meetin’ twice dis week,” said Brother Gardner as his spinal column assumed a perpendicular, “but I feel free to say dat if I libed clus by a. water-mel- yon patch, an’ I had no stillness of dam knees, and de owner of de patch was near- sighted, I should make a. great effort to git some of (1:11: fruit inside my gineml constitoo- shun. As to dis ease in pint, de sezun am so far gone dat a. decision would be of no am count.” . At this juncture the Glee Club roused and indulged in the following : ”I dreamed lus’ night of de olden days, When I worked in de cotton row ; When I woke at de call of de oberseer, An’ hurried away wid da hoe. Chorusâ€" I hunted (lofpossumw up John Huifington Williams, the great Cans. dien orator and philosopher, arrived here a day or two ago for the purpose of making a speech before the club on “ Why do we stay in when we feel put out." When the regular order of business had been disposed of the Reception Committee proceeded to the ante- room to bring in the distinguished visitor. but a great surprise awaited them. John Huff- ington was lying at full length’ on a bench, and when they sought to arouse him he rolled to the floor with an awful thud and continued his deep slumber. He was drunk ! When th zoommittee returned and reported. a. resoluti( n was adopted repudiating the great Canadian orator and all his relatives. and the meeting softly adjourned. -â€"-A beggar held out his hand. “ I haven’t a cent,” sand the gentleman. “ I did not specifyjhe coinflreyponded the mendicant. â€"â€"A German life insurance company, called Der Lebensversicherungsgesellehaft, com. plains of the irregularity of the mails. Yet one would suppose it. got all of its letters. BRO. GA BDNER’S LIME-KILN CLUB. I hunted do coonâ€" We danced on de green By de light of de moon. I dreamed of Dinah. dat good ole Soul-â€" An’ I dreamed of ole Uncle Ben I saw Aunt- Chloe Wid her smilin’ face, An' (19 oberseer cullin’ de men. Chorus. I dreamed of faces I used to love, An’ de chill'en who played by do dash I dreamed of some (lat now rejoice Afar on de ebergreen shore, Chorus. Scattered un’ dead am de ole field hands An’ dead um de 01d oberseer ; Mass’r an’ missus am long since gone To rest wid de good ober dmr. Chorus. THE GLEE CLU B . SU SPEN DED. REPUDIATED THREATS.