SON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XX.— NO. 166
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MARRIED.
■' KAUTiAE—HOLMAE—At Dedham, Mass, on
Wedneeday, the 17th of October, by the Bev. Samuel
Babcock, George O. Harlan, M. D„ of Philadelphia, to
MaryD Holman, of Dedham, daughter of the late hr
Holman. *
1 VEft—STILLE.-On Wednesday, 17th last., at St
Mark’s Church, by the Bev. Walter B. Mitchell
assisted by Bev. Edwin Bor-wood,D.D, ofTrinltv
Church, New Haven. Conn., BobertS. Ives.M D 2f
sm« M D™' C °“ n - *° Mwla - daughter of AJfrll
i
Dl£D.
2 S l S9S^ss&
T l6Ol lnatant - Mr- John
Tbfe relatives and ftienflß of the femily are resoect
i ' v 0 Catharine street, on Friday afternoon at
2 O'clock. To proceed to Eber ezer ME. ChSSh «
HAHHELL IMPOBTKD FOB PALL
St. Bernard Woolen Cloakings,
' o mli^ aWia ' Mosaic Woolen Shawls.
. Magnificent Plaid Poplins.
W EA T H E B STBIPS^AND
' W INDOIW MOULDINGS
ocl2 B,tn t th,iT^»
OK BLACK SILKS. •
& l iS; 80rt, S. of Lions Gros Grains, Taffetas
jPrn£_ < feff* an<^t de Sole. Mourningßtifrij ’
of the b&st makes and at reasonable prices. ’
BESSON & SON, Moo ruing Store,
No. 938 Cheatnnt street.
SPECmi NOTICES.
SCIENriFIC COURSE.
eaeayetie college.
RwenH Course of Instruction in
? e ? I ff? ed »? lays substantial bas£ of
coltgrep gtodente can pursue
-'pose branches which are
totJnJcal.Vii: EHGINKEBIMG, CTOI, P TopomiDtaG
MIOTNQ and MBTaES^}^
toAffiKM g- sSg&“ffiS^JgfS
tordodan opportunity for special study ofTBADE and
OOMMEBtfS ,oI
uLOGY, and of the HISTORY and inbttttttto'nts
•OATTmiT.. nr 1 ?.? 7 ' »PPiy to Presldenl
wT^Srr^> ort *° . .Prof- 8.8. V OUNGMAN,
mjSij A®? 114 * lm - Cleric of the Faculty.
AND PHYSICAL IN3TI.
' TUTE, Broad street, below Walnut, ,
' A^§2|'. r O SS>S?^ e “ lOn ° ftbelnstltutl on
MpLJfSIM ,ee ciICQI “ ■«
to “Light Gymnastic” misses* and
ladles’ classes, see circular of Misa HOPKYNB
or * e £ ere , nce J£ Gymnastics for little boys and mas
"'vt *V 01 i Par t or Skating, sea circnlar of Drf JANSEN
-At4P?M. 3 * Boys, TUESDAY the lethof October,
CBKTBAL BKATDJB PAW,
FIFTEENTH AND WADLAOE STREETS
(Branch of Natatorium and Physical Institute l
The circular of the Skating Park with a new Dro
ga,ss?,m‘ SS&gSS
on SAfiCUEL w. HESS and make their
S^S^. 8ec * Patronize him can rely noon
setting a 6plec did article, (every pound they bnv and
"Sst* b n ny^
*°j?J also, pore Spring Moan-
KSErSJHShli* lo^ est laarketprices. Orderarespect-
solicited and promptly attended to eithar at
»aseaffla^»^aßSag
HAS MOW AEBTVBD
ISS^SfSSsIS?
Southeast corner of NINTH and «t.
At this favorite stand all tho mrtnt
approve varieties of Lehigh andSchuyllmCoa???
s£"“®e th £ Easleyem, Honey broot.BS^MoSnum'
«fec.,may be had by the single ten or cwmTt th«
lowest market rates. Housekeepers, msbK'aoieof
_ se27 th^,tui2trp
SAIHROih
■ 6 residents have superior
H^^« ! £32SS2SaS2ISIS3S? ,, “ e,:
- oc2lmr P BINES * SHEAVE.
linco M memorial tab-
Dora 6^™/ n 2^1011 ’
Admission 25 eta. Beaerved Seats, BO eta. ocl7-3trpi
BETBOUVEY’S
TONIC.
MOST EFFECTUAL, BEAUTIFUL, AND
migkly PEEFUMED PBEPABATION EX
_ Jy2B-a,tn,th-tf rpj
HOSPITAL, Nos. 1518 and' lB2o
• Department, Medl
totte^SS™ 1 d “edlomes tornlalied gratuitously
iwi -^E EEMPXED Escape fbom Jail—Si it
Va'^ttemnbS^ 6 ' 1 “ jaU > at Petersbnrlh*
va., attenapt«a to escape. Thev ?ha
work by first removing a barWfhe C el!
HTndow, which was acrompltehea to a m™
"terious way, but when we
there were six stalwart, negroestb do thl
n ?t after *U be so remarkable
With this bar they tore or tbo riio«v a *
along tte entire iLgto of toe cel?next ?o
the ootw’ walk They then came to the
; granite floor whioh was made of blocks of
: granite averaging about four feet in length
and twelve wide with a uniform thickness
•of six inches. In order that they mighS
fairly at toe seams of toe .granite r,to«
Siof toe plank flooring were take’nnp.
toen brought toe bar to bear upon tiie
est granite block in the line of their
7 h L cll about four feet long'
mi? Au ted ab 9? t “idway the side of the
■ +i, Aft ?L Co J ls A derable Pinching and pry.
rarrvil? y Wo °k entirely out, and
•-carrying it over to another part of toe cell
1 "l th tiieir blankets, jack
•>ets and old pieces of extra clothing. J
It hafl t^k«l^ n<se<i “ioing operations,
it had token them nearly all night long to
almost Tmpossfble
preliminary. _ With their bar thev com
under the floor to get fair
play _ tb* bnck walL which strati m
■say for a jail foundation, is
thin. .They worked diligently
tte dirt and rubbish unfertto) floorancf
throwing it out of the window until datr
light broke through the km
window of . toe-cell, and warned them to
cease for the time their operatic>nir%h£
t?S er dl S c 2 v s r S dtheir operations about tUs
time,and had them removed to another ceto
Singular Discovery ol a Suleide.
the lewlston (Maine) JonrnaL]
tit- 1)6 that May 23d last
r. ged tw enty-two years, daugh
ter of Jonas Greene, Esq., of Peru, Oxford
raunty, mysteriously left school at Kent's
HiU, came to Auburn, where she stopped a
at 016 Elm House > end left inthe
mid-aftemoon, apparently in tears,
She was next and last Been in a drug store
°>ty where she purchased two-!nda
haU ounces of corrosive snbliipate-a quan
tity sufficient to destroy many lives. It was
believed that the unfortunate girl committed
and diligent search was made for
her body m the woods in this vicinity and in
the canal and adjoining towns. AU efforts
f?. dl ®“ v , e r her remains were, however, fu-
agonized friends of the mining
gave up all hope of ever seeing her alive
remainsf ly hope of ever discovering her
a i!^ ay morniD e. aa Charles Lewis and
n were out hunting at White Oak
Auburn, they accidentally stum-’
bled upon the remains of a human body—
in an advanced stage of decomposition i
ing 6 girh n ° d ° Ubt 11 13 016 body .of the miss-:
fi,l' h £ head was supported on the right arm,
the legs were drawn up slightly, and all
the flesh nad disappeared, leaving a mere
skeleton, in clothes. A black straw hat was
- haying probably,: been blovra
fP^f#yh^i" n ow afleßhlessrsknil,-whose
overUin Wttor “ dOlllll6l
was clothed with a cotton dress
T^? laf 1a f , bI J? e border, a hoop skirt
Md cotton skirt, shoes and stockings. It
was without drawers. Over her shoulders
a checkered shawl tightly and
frnm a t£o nd p? r °“ oat >. as mough shrinking
t ro m the cold and endeavoring to protect
& The water-proo g fM
stretched on the rock near by, which it is
believed, had been blown by the wind’from
her shoulders. The shoes and stockings
were in perfect preservation. Near by was
which were found a memo
randum book, pen-holder and pen an
empty inkstand, hair brush, naiTbmsh!
soiled po<*et handkerchiefs, a pair of
new gloves and a brown veil. *
Dr. Harris was summoned before the re
♦£t?n, W 5 re ton< f ed ’“d Save his opinion
that the deceased probably survived from
hours after taking poison—the
probability that she died by poison being
»ont?.o Sed by a6cidenta l discovery of an
8 < F onl f r ?ear by in which it is
it ti? *£ e *i? 0 3 s 2 n bad 1)6611 wrapped. Dr.
that the position of the body indi
*hS'deceased died without great
suffering, as it was found in the most easy
and natural of reclining postures. y
„ f ’ r °m the memorandum book and all other
articles in her possession, she had apparently
fdi positive testimony Is to her
Several leaves were torn from the
memorandum. Evidently they may have
borne a name she wishedto conceaL Her
cateThwka 63 ! 1^ 7 her J er y n ame was indi
c*ted by the letters she addressed to her
matestofo^her! 0118116 begg6dhercW
119 South TENTH Street.
I ° r a Thousand Dollnr.BUl.
r™ 6 r£ altil " 0 i? % following:
Frequent mention has been made in tne
i proceedings of the City Councils, at thisanl
whtl dUlg se ® slons > of a §l.OOO banknote
which was in possession of Mr. Josiah
Cobb, and which he felt desirous to have
disposed of, so that he might be relieved of
all care in reference to it. Its history is a
httle cunous. In the year 1838, it appears
aSiniUriA by alad to change
a ?ICi note. Upon looking at it he disco
vered it was a genuine $l7OOO bill, and he
was curio us to know something more about
it. So great a mistake in the denomination
?^ 1 . a R ot ®y as . n °t ordinarily made. He re
mquiry, then ascertained
offer t d to a lady who con- j
"poted • ttnllinery business, by a negro
woman, in pay for some articles -That
somobody wa/the loser to
seemed almost certain. Mr. Cobb, und«
the circumstances, felt himself justifiable ?n
retemtog thenote.’so as to fincl
He _aavertised ,it at various tiniea'fnr I
some four years, and never had a call for it. I
Tiredofbeing its eustodian, toFebru^v
sfn 2^f opO f t ? d ? n 1116 CityTreasuiy^v^i
?o0 40 interest, in trust for the* hanofit I
owner, ifhe should ever be found. Effort
n«wio^ e - 6n t? lade ’ at one t;irne or another bv I
parties in the way of administr«Hni „i Dy
descendants of the °i F “
sinco deceased, to get possession*.!?PV 1 ?, 11 ?
withthe citythe have^n??^
. This, by the aotion of the City Coumfil I
■
ssftss
re Pcatccl
seems that the colored woman, who nri.
sented it to pay a bill, neyer even appeared I
to make a claim for it,, »ppearea I
. ® r ‘ Gibbes, a prominent citizen «ns
jowaalwt of South Carolina, is dead? * 4
A Bfew Business Idea.
It is not surprising tbatamong the ohanges
wrought by the war in mercantile affairs the
question of credif shouid have attracted some
attention. A radical reform in this respbct
was, m fact, much needed, and an earlier
T of « Northern merchant
Hi t ”*l*“*’“SlS/ks
Siosß^tn ll^ 0 Uf> or t^G delinquencies of
N ° e «dit end small
evil-hTtr , a good antidote for this
evu , DUt it ocours to US that “mo credit enr)
« g£«S-«WJi a Btm better one Tfata
is the plan lately adopted byoneof our most
best-known Market street
&?“• Messrs. Bancroft, Bache&Co.,whote
eJulsdimd R? ’ Wl s fomid more fully
T^,?i^ii e 5 by thei v Card m another column
nhatl^i Stem ’ aß , the wader will find, is m
eivcr, easA . aae > but the advantages
B 1 ?™. for the cash must be apparent to all
davsofwoe 61101 o^o^B - In these -
fihSL«*in SIB ?nancialhnmbngs it is difficult
snccessftilly to introduce projects of auv
kind offering “advantages to purchasers.”
however fair and honest they may be. But
this difficulty it would seem, Messrs. Ban
croft, Bache & Co. havealreadylargely over
come; Prom the day that their mew terms—
-600(18 for cash, at their 6ona fide
cost prices—was announced, the plan has
been gaining in the favor and conddence of
customers, The high standing of this house
and r ®bable firm has had much
l° d ? w kb this success. We commend their
mode of business to the attention of buyers
as we believe that its advantages will soon
become generally apparent"
PHILADELPHIA, THUKi
[For the Phila. Evening Bulletin.]
Bo you care much about the Celts ? Brit
tany devotes itself to them. In my previous
notes I must have given a false color to this
antique country, by describing so many
crowds, dancing festivals, «£o. The Breton
* a man alone. It is from his
silence, from his attention to the past, that
one derives his real character. How is he
portrayed by the romancers who have found
their Add in Brittany,- by Paul I’Sval, by
Emile Souvestre, by Pitre-Chevalier/ by
Hippolyte Eneas, and a crowd of song
writers ? Always as a man who lives in bis
traditions, and imports into his veiy Chris
tlanity a swarm of Dm id fables. The Par
dons, the games and dancing are but a
gleam, of a faint and watery quality, break
ing upon the momehtof his adolescence. The
moment passes quickly, he loses his health
and his objectivity, and lapses for lift into a
retrospective gloom. . “
n. Thre ? modern young feUows stumbled
9**ee in the wooded part of a
httle Breton farm, upon one of his ancestral
graves, the object of boundless local respect
and fear. Here, thousands of years ago in
“ faDC y of the world, came th?
horde of howling savages to bury their chfof
in his necklaces and rings. Theto respect for
him was perfect, their expression ofitiaine
and embarrassed in the extreme. “Oh, whv
te.7f h not “ v “ ted fetters and aroifitec
tnre. they must have said, after toiling a
longtime m the dirt without producing any-
AUlhe yhnewnowto
<hg a deep trench, some five hun
dred feet around, and heap the debris in the
centrewith their leader in the middte. They
ri d » 0t name > u di d not even strike
hls profile; they could only pfie
dirt and stones, more like pouring ohtivion
f than immortality. Theto they
trooped howlrng away and left him for ns to
dig np if we could.
sanctity of the Celtic remainsis pre
a atron g eraperstitious feeling. The
rrench antiquaries fiave great in
mvest gating the varioussp“ mourn
farmer who owned our
tnmnltts would have raised the country upon
forexSvatio“ PICi ° n aauaa ** S*«S*
fSsMJßgsjsffls&ajffisa
actß in the best tame by letting the mnn^ 1
Md gold. d^ imagining easy treasures of flint
~^ ere was nothing to indicate the age of
the barrow except the stumps or mo&em
Kn? s, u upon the summit. The
hillock and the well-defined ditch around
bore a thicket of young oak*
roota of the first vegetation began to strike
toward the heart of the deatTheto all wl
changed over and over again, under the
passage of countless fires, like that which
rowntly thmned the adjacent forest of Lu-
OUCU4
“I’ve found the entrance to a passage'”
my tall brother Jonathan^mV
side, lifting from his hole a face quite trans
figured with dirt and excitement. Not
being onr own discovery, we joined forces
and scorned it.- It was nothing bnt an ac
£ta£tes aS£? gement 0l /the atonea; five
‘‘i’ ve found one of the warrior’s ribs
cousin, Jack Bull, dancing
about, a mere mass of earth, with the bone
of some rat or other borrower brandished in
his hand. Then I joined the other par tv
(having found nothing myself), and scorned
him. Soon after this we found ourselves
satiated with relic-hunting.
"Wemay as weU let the bummer lie
nW,f n, r -America and England in a
choruß of amity and good will over the fai
the „ We WrdKfresJte
the little excavations, the
of stone and the yellow soil
upon our clothes t and we moved nfr
with the bone, first displacing a very fat
larva which had selected it for a resident
against the sequestra?
tion with all its infinity of feet. Two or
three fathoms of loose rock remained be
tween us and the barbarian, between the
paper collar and the collar of goliTto
tomb so far was inviolate, and the Celtic
Se fn to Mj° rked toa pnrpcpe after all.
In the fields around the pansy was grow
ing wild doing its best to keep thl hetos
memory blooming. The pansy (pensge) il
thls country the flower of the »ave? It
blows all over the village churchvardq
among the black wooden crosses; aniTeven
Won the tombstones of state, among a rlin
ton^ ptured j te i ars ’ mider the quaint Bre
en s« D ?S I ,f S i IOI,I ? ate -’ c°mes again thehearts
ease, rudely cut, with the motto “Think of
hear hv e: w?i e Q 0 i a p V r Of Druid altars
the fields, the road
being flooded with equinoctial rains and
kP.™ p - lent J o r yariety ln observing Breton
field— lnCld6n a ' browns tubble-
I '• What, is that music?” &skdd twn nf no
simultaneously. The air
cate tinkling harmony, like a chorus of little
<imniP Se f faintly struck. WepausecL
j and the enchantment ceased. We looked
around the lonely landscape, and up toto
the gray, low-hanging sky. IsuddoL™
expected to fiad the shade of a
taming our burled chief in thehh We
I moved a little further, and the shadowy
mmstrel re ,commenced, avoiding ou?S
but charming our ears with his swlet
w nCh »; o Pre * ently we found Um out.
taokwhTatforms stong lUtie flinty Hef
quality. The blaick corn or buckwheat is
the Breton’s firmest friend. 9 He
yjith rye and potatoes, but he marries the'
buckwheat, fie leans on itandUvShvit
When it is ripe he comes with all his friends*
Bafher It with their
there is a grand merry-making? • and then,
f TOifh op eiBhtlo i l ? troo P hear it off the' fieul
the msgleoted stems
016 Bround with a more
Tt uPo d^PPJ ody ’ f Pastoral accompaniment.
music, better than any inatru
■ ment the Breton hears, a music that would
have gone to the. heart of our Thoreau the
Swicdtciteofearthtothereaper: - ’
a^e 6 “dean and
riWa*k»wiP e ? mspisy the most shocking in
aiperenoe to the dignity, of man Tha
fon? boasts, from which yon de-
sdpks; it gives°oneai
h<£ Pastoral creature to find,
thf ^ ne 4
Oil it WHOUE COUNTRY,
BASH STEPS,
®AY, OCTOBER 18,1866
heraelf at yon from this pre-emi
nence when you cross her path with the
fw 8 i° f a landslide. The hogs stood upon
* eg ? e , s^ts > and came charg
hlaoM t d m ?^ OUBlyth ? )Ueh °nr knees It
, ine sound or an acorn dropping near na •
1 hefrMeh lik ! oyei
eyes, and made a point of
8 Ta m fc leir -& atll whfi rever they^wished
forest er “»*“». tfie great
d/erViL t’ ,suen at onr Side still knows the
the bear and the wolf.
irSl gK..ssaa®«
■iflfife^saEsstaße..
ineatriMUy before the multitude. The nro.
manned hv diminished the respeciPde
3sSP*sss&&
J^ y ? etter wa y‘° insult the
It would have taken
e . nse^9 urta ble additionally as a seat
habit, and fed^urS
The little t *K 1 ii Vea, 3' r^ another.
.SShS&
Uanwtf\ but J e^eTa V Sffi
Mming 011 ™ tad mai our P° cket «
a Drnid ajton An oblong formed
l f n flat stones set up in the
ground, edge to edge, and covered with b
T big for iJ ‘ The lauer aTwayt
bIL .? 1 ”?” to Bhed the sacrificial
Dioca, and is always a single stone This
specimen, the larged I haye seen?wts morl
nearly level than nsoal, and hkd“
» aforesaid The greatestdiameto
of the cover was about twenty-three feet.
SPii” ? h BdeT U ’ l found ifftad
th P B eiwh h o d he n S< i nare although
fho Up oDtsid e nearly to the
? ave f* Ail the stones seemed eaten to the
heart wnh moss The two altars were
within ten feet of each other in a broad and
lonely heather that stretches office ,
nr^r e J?« Ved ?£ a , litUe to take an outline
°LS® r ® dl f c *. a > two larks vaulted upon the
ebt™i^ ’ n !^ d • to drive their bills
sharply, and m an experienced manner
the , c, " mlls we had left After
cock-birds, each withered the
contempt and affected to think
*il Tlflibl v l until a. common panic
shudder in unison. The paper
**d contained our luncheon beganto
swell and hover ominously in the wind, and
the slim knees of our plumed cavaliers
with a PP r ehension. This
tn« D * arrw !?®d by time and na
ture for a trio of tourists in search of the
picturesquely horrible; a gray mossv ob
ject or two, the shape of huge mushrooms
relieved against the distance, and trying to
h>ok villainous, and succeeding. Adepres
?s n "{^ noneofthem - originally meant ibr
«n i rt^i d .£ ,l s >oSe, n<w employed by a feded
“ a mirror iter the rain
two tiny larks, lifting their small
crested heads from the cruel rock and
quaking with horror at the antics of some
w hitey-brown paper puffing in the wind
o ftSS£»“ e fairies’-houses by
1183 moved away for some dis
tance, the trees—were we dreaming?—began
to gather into lines and avenues. Thesoff?
eUII Profound, or only broken by
some dingy and silent little huts: but the
ancestral honor of noble beeches.
S,* 0 count by grouped
themseivMon eitber side of us, over
us with umbreUas > and conducted
sp f .^s/^ da i -Ccmmooy to some etately
? Lad “reserve. Gradually they
lrom “*w° tong rows, straight
as the avenue of sphynxes at Thebes, im
posing as a guard of giants. The ™
bn E we trace d it with de
lightful wonder, and presently descried the
fr" 4 ® tte wStISShSf
theslhtude. 1 * 186 Bnd ma S nifloe nt church in
L 0 8? ne 7“ - exhaust the impression of
, wilderness. Many
aa ballads, and a lovely poem of
s m particular, depend upon the
hnding of cathedrals in the heart of th!
the current of civili
zation, withdrawing to the centre, leaves
these monuments of past piety alone among
the trees, for hinds to pray in and foreigners
to admire. One should never go twice the
ft of the ballad aiwayl dlpS™
appeaS ! TOy amShinSafterone
T '-^ e , chu “b of Mustoir, founded upon a
° h ? pel V denves its name from the
adjacent mte of a monastery of the red
f illl6 doorway has a fine Gothic
Th?wn fi J e or ? i ?- decorated mouldings.
b np^hSi h i angs wlthln the s P ire . and is ap-
KS- by 811 opea g aUer y and a stairway
separate tower. To effect this
however, the key. of the church
door was necessary.
The nearest cottage revealed a beautiful
peasant girl; I do think the most blautifffi
girl m Brittany. She was call, full of native
grace, and had both the strength and eye of
a P °?‘j stood in front ofher door and
blushed, and wondered what we meant, jab
-*
o ‘‘ ob > i ’ 6 g“ a b •” She pointed to the ohurch
“ d £ l4 _E n fcmetbing like the name.
At length, by dint or demonstratively un
locking our left bands with our rights, all
m concert and over and over again, she un
gfl?o**- She radiated with pleasure; ran
to a cottage, and produced an old and
'ky. which she handed over with
a sweet figure of native
ii that distinguished the action
and made it instantly fine? Was it a nod
cjacouriesy, or another blush; or did she
2 > K^ blne i5 10 5 l “prions, like a wealthy beauty
nnt tioTW ra ld ua 8 g* Bo6 apiece f I can
not teU, but there was a something, a touoh
tqo exquisite for Sterne to have caught for
a ?y -h ^B grisettes, that made us wish to
stand there forever, receiving a loek-smith
eiy °f keys from Celtic angels of her speoies.
comrades this unexpected
yipion of hidden grace hacT'another slgnifi
cancft They made her stand for them all
I never in my life saw any
]h“g ?P■distracting as her method of exam
ingg the piotures when finished—her body
P i? ) g ’ ! ber i ead attracted, her Brightened
fh^WMn IiD E,Hl rongh her ba nd, her throat
imnbbmg with nervous laughter, and her
cheeks in a flame. To be an artist, with
a “nnoiaseur, is now the limit of my
bad explored the
®b“fb, and stoleu a bit of ancient glass. As
S^S eial i. thll,g »' and: theoretically/ X detest
|°.^ 1 > on O ttutda^g, ' arobiteo
tuts, and Rsk their friends at home to ad'
brtckbata Tnt “ U3ea m of potsherds and
church that T l?^ 6 ’ 111 th , e window of a
bishop’s shonidT a TZ** torget ' was ‘he
The moment 1 had got it I felt
i made amotion to replace it
: ;looJfc€d hastily round - wliAn tl!a <?«**
I there /entered a long
haired boy dressed like your ancestor wlfn
came over with Wiffiain PeM. Hehad
Angelus, the sunset chinie!
p?rH he T« 08?e ?i;^ ilnBelf 803 approached the
cord. In another minute I nad taken the
£olw£ n n his -s? ndB ’ Bl)4 was shaking the
theChn b rch' i; Sromi ‘ B : d sepmouth itfiUed
“° r ? h > the arcade of beeches, and all
tf r i S Us reverberation. It
R j B * l^ lll the colored light, and the
f"“er popped his flail, the wiinowing
Chev he w^ e ’, t n e - Borman his net, whilf
mey bowed _their- uncovered heads and
whispered, “It is the Angelus.”
THE QUEBEC FIBE.
Bodlea “ecovered from the
Ruins- Subscriptions for the Snfierers,d.-c-
Oct. 17.—The conflagration of
at Quebec seems to be the onlv
talkect , of throughout the province
neatn the rums, and several persons am
S? missing, who, it is feared, have been
hilled by the falling of raftera wh1l« »f
tempting to remove Ujfir pro^rf y 7 M t_
int in at 1116 cit 7 Hall last even
tng, in Quebec, a very stormy discussion
ensued m regard to the political and re
fhLlC;Ufl of 1116 sufferers; bnt through
U6nc ? of ? 6veral influential gentfe
mcn present quietness was restored, and
ihe^ lp^°n ts were harTdeTamund bv
SM» “ be ™ of the Belief Committee, when
§lB,OOO was immediately collected.
loss of life and suffering
of those poor houseless creatures throws a
dark gloom over the whole country" Th£
hfL VlSlte! l by thousands, while here
can be seen men, women and
r ® groping their way through ™e
rubbish of their former homes, and in other
Erections can be seen workiirparttefS
themelancholy duty of huntoirfortha
bodies of their missing friends. Several
women, it is rumored, hive died
“d, unless immediate relief is fur
ia/eared hundreds of Cornea
children will follow. The committee are do
ingeyery thmg in their power to pro videfood.
clothing and shelter lor the Sv ffi
ladies of Quebec are organizing sanitarv so
prepare clothing ana attend to the
hospital, while others contribute
from their private stores provisions for the
sufferers.- One charitable gentleman is sun
porting fifteen families alls own^SL
and another sent this morning efglftSrt
provisions. TheXy^
of Hiecity have placed their horsesand
Ff h “ t th 6 disposal of the relief committee*
for the purpose of hauling provisions PriS
moving furniture saved Som tTa
safety. Sheds are “prS Q p
a the nuns as fast as lumber cJi hi
~ A man named Defoid, aged 70 years, died
8 fr ° m “ j “ I6S * »
A soup house was opened last night at the
Jacques Cartier Market, and over ten thnn.
sand people have been furnished witiisoup"
•An appeal is to be made to the people of
and Prance for aid to build up the
foMp^r ttee 1188 been ap p° inted
of disease among the poor that ovm*
give a concertin Quebec,the bn the pfoS’erte
to be devoted to the sufferers. P eda
«^rT e follo . wi s g “ 1110 amount of subscrip
tions received: The Governor-General
>200; the Mayor, $200; the Archbishopof
Seminary of Quebec.
S°x? ; o o f Quebec, $100; the Cure of
bt. Koch, $100; Ross <fe Co., $1,000; Thomp
son & Co?» 5500; Thomas McGreevy §5OO
- & Garneau, $1,000; Hamel* helms'
puyUlOO; J I, e Sismenr;
SI00; the Recorder, §4O: J. W. Henrv soon!
Rev. A. Racine, §4bfc. C’
W. Cosgrain, §4O; Patrick VaUee Sion"
Daniel Cary, §2O; R. Dobsellct
Bennett, §500; James Gibb, §400; Behan <fc
Bros., $o0; M. D. Robitaille, §5O; D. W
.. followinginsurancecompanies intend
to remove from Quebec if immediate steps
are not taken to put the fire and water de-
TheT l^? ° D %?* ore footing:
The London and Lancashire, Queen, Roval
Liverpool and London, Nortii Lan
cashire, Imperial and West of England.
cont mues fine during the
day, but is very cold at night. ■
AID FOB THE SUFFERERS BY THE CONFLA
_ ORATION IN QUEBEC.
oeTa ,- of 8t - J «m Baptiste
Canadians) Benevolent Society, of
York, have issued a call to the mem
measures for the immediate
relief of the sufiers by the late conflagration
m Quebec.—AT. T. Herald.
Personal.
Daboll,inventor of the fog trum
at ?S W I^)l l d ° n (Conn.) on die 13th
sta ?xT S^ ed f orty-eight years. He was the
son of Nathan Daboll, the maker of “Da
boll’s Arithmetic.” 01 IJa
_ Mr. Charles Cook died at the residence of
General Cheddell, in Auburn, New York
on the 16th instant, of apoplexy, in the
sixty-sixth year of his age. ■ y we
ETASD WOEK.-W. H. P. Denny, Eso
has sold ttedrcievUle (Ohio)
P. O. Hayes, formerly of 1 the; 103 d O, V r
a gentleman nr education. and culture. an 3
a graduate of Oberlln College. MrTDennv
retires from the editorial chair for
says: fim
years,™ d^ttorat
s°™- -Sii l and °°nflict of party discus
sion, irill be very agreeable. Togivethe
reader an idea of thelmmense labor Phave
perfMmed .within this period (MdlmJy
remuneration), I find,
not less wl h u^Z^htoh
a boob, would make twenty
thousand octavo pages. 'Who would.
t ftf° HlS* work for his “yictuala and
clothes ?” Stot fa aU IbYW got,
' E. 1. FETHERSTON. Poblishsr.
WUB
Tim 0 ’ °°tol>er 17th.—Mr. J. S. Me
’l counsellor the Fenians confined at
hhfoiwi mte nds to demand the release of
■sSS^TMsasn£
miPa n < rt r ffti J J lry reassembled this mom
w§l ““mining the evidence tha
Would for trial thin
! Sg^TO^SSSSSfe
• Monday, statin er • that- fh*»
United States government intend seizins’
Canada for the debt owed by
account of the.depredations of the Alabama
the StTn” 16108, Sach a movement on
the part of onr government would be verv
unpopular with the masses of the
‘H a 2 8 > while they condemn the policy
of Engiand towards the United States ara
the U^fds^te b a mit to any Nation from
me u nited States government
.twenty ammunition wagons and five
jL -Armstrong guns arrived this morn
mg at Champ de Mars, Montreal.
The cabinet delegation to England has
secured passages by the Canard steame?
They leave Boston on the 7th November"
Si'a"a»®Ssj£t I >Ma Ql<,6 “
supposed with the intention of Sing a
fSr °V? me I*** l on tbecSaS
ironuer. The government has been in
formed of their movements. The frontier i*
guarded by the gunboat Rescue and tw»
r^mentsivolnK? 1 h'Smwt
mp - t a - movement on Canada, Sheriff
' BUghted to weloorne toem to
■ Enfant Pebdu,
' I Dealh of Tb«idore Dirlebt.
' Theodore Dwight, a well-known citizen
, !? no £ Ho . n A Theodore Dwight, former! v
I on B r ess from Connecticut, died
at his residence m Brooklyn, on Monday
aged seventy years. . On that day his
bS£ ht ®, r sta *kd for the South to reiota h£
I and Mr. Dwight accompaHied her
‘°Jef s ?y City. While he was tXtagTeale
I ?f,her m the car the door was fastened, amt
before ncouid be opened thetratawS
I J? otlon ‘ - Be » however, leaped off, and was
I down and severely braised. Hi*
1 W j° ' BStw him fall, naturally
I asked the conductor to stop the train bat it
I 'Jfmnf ® ntr eaties were without effect
S?^L Blie had been carried to a considerable
d ‘ s j“<*. when some gentlemen interposed
!™nn h tt oo^ n £ tor - { s? Dsented i°set herout
JW *he track, with her two children one
f k<ibf> mid Without attendant, to find her
I hsoh on foot as- she might She wan
I fiV 6 ” 211110 rea °hher father, and found
I °? nscioDS “d peaceful. He lived
eito i t0 S" e ! t V and comfort hta
5Sg. 5111(1 then departed before the break
. hir. Dwight was graduated at Yale Col-
I m 1814, and though his life was ear
nestly devoted to literary and philanthropic
pursuits, he devoted much time and study
to the acquisition of foreign language! and
his proficiency was snchSiat he wasablem
wmverse readily in French,Spanish,ltalian
I Cerinan, Greek and to some extent in He
brew and Arabic; he could also read and
S !? te -.? om « u - These acquisitions
ent love of liberty, ren
mT£ hlm 1110 dy Md efficient friend !f
S SSSS eiil ! s wio > a t onetime.
Or SROthST, h&TB BOneht rfiftlM nn nm>
and Mosquera, Garibaldi Rivera/
Orestes, and many other living natHnb!*
will feel that they have loITf
earnest friend. hw bwTn-
f a S e din ffie translation of Spanish works
into English,. and English, into Spanish to
promote the introduction of our usages and
books into the schools of the Ssantahs
tateresm “d to increase the'mutual
interests and intercourse between our own
country and those States.-!* RZW.
k? I ®® Gbass Tree.—The grass tree
«to be found in nearly all
of - A - USCralla - Up to a few months
ago it was supposed only to be a useless
growth, encumbering the land. A few
knew from the blacks that it contained
a very tenacious gum—the blacks used '
it as a glue for joining parts of their wea- /
pons; but it is only within the last few
months that the following valuable ar
ticles have been obtained by a Mr Dodd
The root is the portion used in these ex
periment, and usually weighs from ten
pounds to fifty pounds. Thu root fa
composed of the stems growing ih a close
? a T S F% r Z n i the
nal. From the outer portion of the root
®^ eUa ° in large quantities iaobtain
?ul ’J he refus ! contai ns a large quan
-2**s“. and can he made available
for lighting the works. From the inner
portion is extracted, by pressing or diS- ;
!iV;r n §t a J ! I PJ nt e< l n al to the best alcoholr
after distilling, a quantity of saccharine '
matter remains, from which sugar
be extracted. The present supply of
grass tree in the neighborhood, of St
Konan's is computed to be equal to a
supply of six hundred tons per week for ,
the next ten years.— Melbourne Berald
A Snake Imbedded in Rock,—A Texas ;
correspondent of the Rockingham fVa.\ -i
Register relates that a snake had been fonnd ;
mLamar county, Texas, imbedded in U
Mlld rock. It was eight inches fang..“ wwT
first found,” says : the :
seemed to have no life, but after
posed someeight or fan
signs of life.. l| was then careful ivr
bedded from the ro^V^^V l^6^'
cistern, and exposed to theron^itbSSaSi
very restless, and in about ten s??®®
minutes it diaw ronrT
uxd about the size df a J 01 ? 11 -*
pehca. We diacoTOSd ttat
si^T 1 Jt lr& ttle forked
It Wken first taken out
flflrfor!” 0 00101 of but sooagrcw
iE SHEET, THREE CE&TS
CANADA,
T sf.E en,a J Prisoners—True Hill* Found
Colonel lynch and Bev. Messrs.
So^ C ». h jS?i 3 8,,a lnn tsden—Frolm!)l(7lte.
moval of Governor etneral
i 1“ delation to the Seizure of
Canada by the United States, Ac.