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mmm VOL. IL, No. 13] YOL. 7 as AND NORSH ONTARIO ADVERTISER 18 PUBLISHED Every IT et AT THE O¥FIOR LAN PAXTON'S NEW STREET, PORT PERRY, 0. W., tains Notices of t 'and Moral t and Commercial © of the General and Local News of Dan "advance, ZRMS OF ADVERTISING. ;Abowe ten lines, 1st insertion per li Bach subsequent insertion... aum. iv ry three months, on favorable terms. od accordingly. ¢ E3 Advertisements sent without written nstructions will be. inserted until forbidden and charged for full time. = XI" No casual Advertisements inserted Oe expected to pay quarterly. 3" Ogders for discontinuing advertige- feuts must be in writing, otherwise the publisher will not be responsible. JOB DEPARTMENT. 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SINOLAIR, Port Perry, August 8, 1866. 1-tf. --_-- Royal Canadian Hotel, PORT PERRY, O. W. J.J. SHAW - - - PROPRIETOR. Fishing or shooting parties for Lak Scugog will find at this house guns, and tackle. been built in connection with this 22 x 80 feet, called Port Perry Hal certs, or Shows. The Bar has been refitted, and is well sup. plied with choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars Good Stabling and Altentive Ostlers. Port Perry, August, 5,1808, |. 1 THE ROBSON HOUSE! (LATE SBORIPTURE'S HOTEL,) DUNDAS STREET WHITBY, C. W GEORGE ROBSON - - - Proprietor. T HE subscriber begs to announce tha are situated, Town, The Railway Omnibus calls at the Hotel, leave the door every morning. ¥F" Oareful ostlers always in attendance ROBSON. August 10, 1866. 1-tf, DR. JONE 8, ASSOCIATE CORONER PRINCE ALBERT. MoCLINTO Jory sumik agiaser; Office, at Lhe A J. MACDONELL, Clerk of the Peace e and County Soli 1 HOLDEN, Official Assignee. Office McMillan's Block, Brock St. 1 V. 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Directors of this Company and economical manage- ment, to'offer insureres perfect security and low rates of premium. RATE OF INSURANOE FOR THREE YEARS : _ Brick or Stone for $1,000. ..........$10 cod and Out-buildings for $1,000... 15 will find it to their interest to insure in the above Company, as the rates are very Low and security perfect: $ { W.L. BOOKER Hamilton. Agent for North Ontario.' ty! April 18th, 1867, ONTARIO HOTEL Sathntld to ty DAWES, Proprietor, THE RAILROAD HOUSE 8 to state that having ng, attentive Ostlers, and modation are always at ~ KF The Bar is Sept constantly supplied Parties wishing to enjoy a day or two of dated with good boats good boats, A new and commodious Hall has lately House, 11, and is open for Political Meetings, Balls, Cou- he has leased the building formerly known as Scripture's Hotel, for a term of years, and that he. has now renovated and re-furnished the building throughout. The the Post Office, and in the centre of the and the Stages for Uxbridge and Beaverton FOR THE OOUNTY OF ONTARIO, 'wishes to acquaint the with the fact that he has now on hand a large quantity of Bricks and perations The subscriber is also prepared to take PORT To a Friend. bids thee not to swear ; bids thee breathe a prayer, whose throne's above, whose heart flows oer with love. No man will be thine enemy, who bids th to reftin From w.ne, the evil of our race of thebrain ; t a , consum tear to beauty's eye, parents' constant sigh. They sigh to see the ones they love lie in 4 drunkards grava, vain stretched forth to save, to Heaven's beacon light, Woo the pilgrim's sight. says, fill high the bowl ; . sink the erring soul ; e taint thy name, wreaths ot fame. J. Mayers. From Temple Bur. in the pit village. Her cyes were o thought her hair was the finest silk Then 'she had a figure like a fairy, 1 t could almost span. 1 loved Nelly of the village were of the same mind and she might have had the pick o us; the worst of it was, she treater » | more than another, tempered, and there it ended; and courage enough to try her further remained the last thing at night when it either m my dreams, At | f ge, just come to Nelly; so I made myseif smart, and for a wager. then as clever a chap to lok at as you would often see--and | knew ii] For all that, I began walking slow when I caught sight of Mrs. Glover's cottage, and I felt a dread at my heart. But 1 went on,und I just got up to the cottage, when who should come out but Nelly herself. ver looked prettier than at that mo- ment; bat appearing so suddenly, she dashed my spirit, and I hadu't a word to say to her. * Why Charley, what is the matter?' she cried in a frightened sort of way. 'Well, it's just this,' I said, and there 1 stopped. "Is anythong wrong with Jack ? she cried quickly. 'Jack ? 'Yes he is down in the pit, and they say it is foul, which makes mo- ther and me uneasy. You haven't heard anything ? und she looked in 'my eyes as though she would search me through. ' No, no P I answered, steadying, now that I thought I could comfort ber, He is all right. You musn't mind what the old women of the village say, or you'll be looking for a blow up every day of the year, when there is nothing more than common. I haven't come to- you about Jack, Nelly ; but it is about myself.' She gave me another lock now ; then her cheek flushed up like a flavie and her eyes turned away. ' Do you know what I want to say Nelly ' I wenton. 'I wish you did, for IT can't tell it. It is more than I've got words for. How I love you, how you are always before me, how I am crazed and mad about you! But though I can't say all I want to, here I stand, and wouldn't change with a king, if you'll take me as I s 3% am. ; . * Ab, Charley! you don't know how. you pain me,' she answered. ¢ Don't say that, Nelly. Idoubted about speaking to you, but now that I have done it, [ can- fnot go on deceiving myself, if you have auy. pity in your heart show it to me, and I will cherish you 40 the day of my death.' ¢ It's no use,' she replied, 'I can never mary a pitman. I gave the] promise to mothey-and Jack, when we walked up to the village at the funeral of my poor fatber and brotli- ers, all killed in the mine--our great sorrow, which: I uever think of with- out erying.! And the tears, it was. troe, were running down ler cheeks, though for the moment she seemed to me hard- er than stone. And I séemed turned tostone myself. ' I had no recollec- tion, and no sense, and I coaldn't bave moved a step to save my life. 'Then it all flashed upon me like light- ning. I took a last look at Nelly, dropped my hedd on my breast, and, Port Perry. %t No man can wish thee ill, my friend, who Noman can wish thee ill, my friend, who So that it be with contrite heart, to Him Whose arm is strong, whose mercy's great, That gives discord to all, my friend, the The broken hearts, the pty graves, the The lost on earth, where many a hand in Whose bark might safe have rode the waves Had they but steered for flowery fields, that Oh! then, call him no friend to thee, who And bids thee drink, to drown all care, but But dash it like a man from thee ; let it not Good resolutions well may vie with laurel SELECT READING A MINER'S LOVE STORY. |; Nelly Glover was the prettiest lass the sweetest blue; her cheeks were like & rose; and you might have was 80 trim; and with a waist you but, as for that, all the young chaps us all alike, and wouldu't look at one Slie had a smile for everybody, and was always goud somehow, none of us could screw up I don't know how often I thought it over. It came into my head fist thing in the morning, aud there it e awake or haunted | fello i be the 'dullest. 'Oue morning there was no work in the pit for my gang, because the viewer wanted that part of the seam shored, and it struck me, all at once, that I would have it out with set off; walking as brisk as if it wus You may think it con- ceit in me, but I can say that I was She ne- « Extremes are generally PERRY, THU Our village seldom looked no matter how the sun shone; now I felt as if the sun would shine again for me, so, us my fell on the line of cottages, wil clouds hanging down from and nothing round but a wi thought I might as well be in grave as to continue to live ther Besides, I should be always mee! Nelly, perhaps lurking about | mother's.cottage, and making her miserable as myself, Why should I go away to Yorkshire, or Des shire, or the diggings in Aust for that matter T The notion, iF was good for nothing more, gave alittle spirit. It turned my though ee er straight home. # gan my tramp. I stopped at the moor, and looke see the place again. [now thought it, with its gap walls and vhaking roofs, encumber: ing the blackened ground, I had be happy there. door to me; not one where 1 wounldu? « [meet a friend, born ; it was the spot on earth. thal eyes, £11 was walking on, when sudden! the air rang with a crash that shoo the ground. fied ; such sounds denote but one re t ing down my pack I darted off to the ) every miner on such occasions. ) t It didu't seem a minute before I 1 came to the dust heaps, round th pits mouth, but some were there be. fore me, and the off men und the wi men were rushing up from the ¢il lage in a stream, the pit almost knocked me down asl came up, and I had to get m a little when three or four of us.a on to the mouth and looked do Lhe explosion had destroye cage, not. leaving a stick bu bado't injared the signal o t Tow two banksmen or two, if there' % viewer. pit P ¢ Half an hour ago there was fifty,' replied the timekeeper ; " but I am thankful to say that all came up but ten. * Apd they are all lost, said: the viewer, 'for there will be another explosion directly." "II go down, anyhow! T said dogizedly ; and if nobody will lower me I will jump down? A good many were on the heaps now--men and women --some of the women erying and some praying; but when I spoke outin that way there was a deud silence. Then two or three called, * Good-bye, Charley. #God bless you, my brave lad, True banksmen lowered me down, and 1 sank through the pits mouth, A Davy lamp was tied ronnd my waist, and I held a.rope m my hand, so that I mizht signal to be hoisted up, if the air became too foul. But I had no intention of goinz back till I had searched the pit, and seen if there were any alive. Oue thing, I didn't care about life; and another, 1 would have b en ashamed to face the folks ubove without dving something, so I felt impatient thut they lowered me at such w suvail's pace, and I kept ' How many "are in tlie darkness below, and saw no bottom; I giauced up, und the gleams of light grew smaller aad fainter. 1 scanned the walls of the shaft, and marked only their black bound. But my progress was notified by the increas- to effect my breathing;and asl went on, I had to shift my fuce from "side to side to make a litle current. At last my feet touched the ground. 2 I looked around and jumped off the saddle und saw the furnace was out, which put a stop to the veuntil- lation of the miue, as far as it de- pended on the brattices, and no air entered but by the shaft ; aud what hope could there be for human be- ings in a distant part of the pit 7-- You may be sure did not stand 10 make these reflections ; they floated' across me, and I was working for- ward before they got through my wind. I knew the old wine blind-} folded ; Lut what with the foul swel!, and what witli the glovm and my shortness of breath, I vas some! minutes scrambling to the top of the incline, keeping my arms stretehed as I went along, to feel for anything iu the way. And luckily I did, or I I was in, that would have done for on a few steps, though my vy the flawe being all bine--I knew that Lhe atmosphere was so much guu- powder, But I stumbled ald g if 1 wasn't to save any one, il n't 'miatter what became of myself, an I pleased myself in the thoi Nelly 'would hear that I h: died 'in 'without sword, walked out of the gate. : the attempt. and 1 stepped out brisker, going I hadw't much to settla there, only to bid good-bye to the folks T lived with, and then be<§ back, remembering I might never, Aud, dismal as Not one of these tam bling 'cottages but would open its And there I had beon| even in' that hour of bitterness, I oved best, and I didn't turn away without dushing my hand over my] I knew what it signi= sult in the black conntry, and throw: pit, with the fc clings that animate. The smell from y breath fs ¢ You can't gh down yet I" cried the looking up and down to measnie the I ing density of the air, which began |. should have dashed my head against |, some empty trucks, and, iu the state] we, I pushed open the trap and went | - lamp wus what pit wen call 'afivd,-- |' If, and}® ht that| 'And then, all at once | aid about her brother a Jack being e pit, * great drops. I rushed forward 4 corpse, and the mp fell on the face. over, pus dead or alive. b my arms, and with the strength gleam oft 3: 3 fade a dash for (ho shaft, Hen you were once in the mam fore you instead of behind ; au ough you wouldn't think it, th de a wonderful difference in ti Dark as pitch it still wa, gh not to a pitman's eyes, and d out that Jack still lived whe ached the shaft, ved me afresh, and kept all m BEpses at work withodt my seemin jkuow it. I only know and fe Bt there would soon rbe anothe plosion: dl and, takin the cord fron amp, tied him_hand ah [) t akle and Lifted the straddle from th ind, 1 hung on my arms and tha begin to mount the shaft. came most terrible. My hand fmed ready to snap; the ache i aris spread through every mus $3 my lead spun round, and m kicked about in agony. ithe mouth of the pit till my eye uy agony decpencd, I thought 6 they began to hoist faster, ered all my strength, I tightenc: 8 were growing numb. I stead ito breathe. tle swung, strong arms caugh and poured brand mouth, Then the viewer, 4 called ou a8 a long time telling it, ba sat up as if he was listening t y Or 4 sermon at the chapel. him a description of Nelly tha have done for the Hue and Cry, wen I watched for her, thought of her a muscle, and not till I stopped for breath did he put in a word, dabivusly, * Why in giving up so, when Nelly said she couldn't have you, you had put your arm around ber waist and said she must This view had never struck me, and Father took me aback. 'But there washer promise to you and her mother never to marry a pit- mudd urged. 80 there was: But did you never heat that promises were made to be = -- 'can't say but [ have," I mutter- lapping on ty hat. Vier are yon going ? said Jack. jou wait bere a few minutes,' I ed. y eplied. ; distance yet to be traversal. The ith that I took two strides down shuft never seemed so deep to me be- thefStairs into the road, and harried fore. I strained my eyes into the ff § Mrs. Glover's cottage. I stood de a minute when I opened the and the first thing I saw wus sitting by her mother, and bg like a ghost --only chosts n look pretty. She gave me one lool then started up, and sprang intdny arms. My heart was so fuil I colldu't speak at first, but { thought st do something, so I slipped vin round her waist, as Jack hmended. Now I felt sure of nd of all the happiness the could give; and as my breast proudly, I began to bear a alice. lb Nelly! if you had only loved said. I cd in ued. 'Ben we can be yet, Charley,' she @urmured. \ ~ 'Bw, Nelly? We can never you know? little fingers unlocked, and I lly falling away, but I remem- Juck's conusel, und beld her by t. 8re's your promise to your mo- Jack,' I continued ; * how get over that ? prgot that, faltered Nelly, as 88 a sheet. | what do you sdy to it mosh- ried to the old lady. lover got up, and took Nel-: id and pat it in mine. is what T say to it,' she said ; and 1 know Jack is of the this is what I say to it' IT ing Nelly a kiss.' Truth usually lies between." lV, NOVEMBER 17, 1867. This gave my heart sacha arn that I quite staggered, and the biration poured from my forhead A were mad ; my foot struck some- ing ; I bent down over what sgem- It was Jack I didw't know whether he But I canghit him ginat und the speed. of a deer-- lly conscious, havdly breathing -- | dt was easier work going back, rse road ; for now the shaft ws The discovery 86 I placed Jack on the pt ; then pulled' the signal rope, fl as the people above hauled the it wasn't until we got up twenty that I felt the scrain of standing bothing, but from that moment I watch- 8m, and, as I reckoned the space Weon, while my strength waned drop before reached the top. rip on the straddle, though my my feet, aud hardly trusted my I could see the wall @ shaft ; I could feel the pave air. gard voices, and presently the round, and I was lunded on the NOPFL [8 0 oe Y | ave not only cracked and n Lil tell you all about her and I into all the feelings she had rained in my breast, told him how aud dreamt of her, finally, recounted hee fast colloquy. He never moved "Don't you thik you Lave been a little fast, Chatley 7" he then said * How do you mean ? I answered. Suppose Ee in| And now I am viewe and ag for Nelly, she that though she has'ma and has her roughs and smooths li will tell y as man in the kingdom, be, Halloween. CusToMs PECULIAR T0 THE Day--S of| CENT AMUsEMENTS--DucCkING Fi SWEETHEARTS, There is perhaps no night in t year which the popular imaginati has stamped with a more peculi character than the evening of t or \8 rd is ie N, 1 'n low's Eve, or Halloween, It clearly a relic of pagan times, nol withstanding its name, for there nothing in the church observances the ensuing day of "All-Saints, have originated such extraordiua y | notions as are connected with th g It | able practices as those by which is distinguished. The leading ide respecting Halloween is that it is th time, of all others, when supernatu ral influences prevail. It is tl 1 d walkivg abroad of spirits, both e 8 tributed to this mystic evening, the faculty conferred on the immat itself from its corporeal tenemen and wander abroad through tl realms of space. believed to attain its highest powe 8 un Y | of calling spirits *" from the vast 8 occasion. There is a remarkable uniformit I 1| all over the United Kingdom, an 1 y measure by English, Irish and Scotch . | the 'same customs prevail, though hered to, so generally practiced a they are in the old country. a8 there, nuts and apples are every v in inynense numbers. ween is kuown in the north © ening eaten, made the means of vaticination i love affairs, " Halloween" guys :-- '* The auld gnidwife's well-hoordit nits Are roand and round divided, And niony lads' and lassies'futes Are there that night decided ; Some kindle, couthie, side by side, And burn thegither trimly ; Some start awa wi' saucy pride, And jump out owre. the chimly Fu' high that night. Jean siips in twa wi' tender e'e i Wha 'twas, she wadna. tell ; But this is Jock and this is me, She says in to hersel' , He bleezed owre ber, and she owré him, As they wad never mair part ; Till, fuff ! he started up the Tum, And Jean had e'en a sair heart To see't that night, t ) t y burning nuts. tom in Ireland, when the young wo- man would know if their lovers are the lover will prove unfaithful : if it begins to blaze or burn he has a re-- gard for the person who makes the trial If the nuts wamed after the gitl and her lover burn together they will be married." As to apples there is the old cus- tom of hanging a stick up horizon- tally by a string from the ceiling, and putting a candle on one end and an apple on the other. In snapping al the apple with the teeth while the stick twirls around, the candle is of- ten seized, and this constitutes the giand fun of the sport, Ducking for apples in a tub of water is another great source of amusement among the young folks, and popular as this-cus- tom has long been, it is somewhat singular that Burns, in his famous P em, makes uo mention of it. Ano- ther custom prevalent in Scotland is that of pulling kail-stalks. The young people go oul hand-in-hand, blind-folde.l into the garden, and cach pulls the first stalk he comes to. They thén return to the fireside to inspect their prizes. According as the stalk is big or little, straight or crooked so shall the future husband or wife be of the party by whom it is pulled. The amount of dirt sticking to the roou denotes the amount of fortune or dowry ; and the taste of the pith indicates the temper. Fi- nally, the stalks are placed one after another, over the door, and the chris- tian names of the persons who chance thereafter to enter the house) are held in the same succession to indi- cate those of the individuals whom the parties who pulled the stalks are to marry. This custom has in this country degenerated into the bad practice principally indulged in by boys, of robbing cabbage gardens, and rapping at people's doors with stalks, Another ceremony much practiced is thut of the three dishes, or © log- gies." Two of the dishes are respec: tively filled with clean and foul water and one is empty. They are ranged on the heurth,and the patties advance blindfolded and dip their fingers in one. If they dip in clean water they are to marry a maiden, if in the foul | water, a widow, if in the empty dish] it came into my head what she had won't be surprised to hear that } were married the pext week. the party is destined to be either a r of the colliery ; rried a pitman, other women, there is no happier wo- PERSTITIOUS PRacricEs, AND INNo- Arries--Roastie Nurs--Finp NG 31st of October, known as All Hal. celebrated festival, or such remark- night set apart for the universal the visible and invisible world ; for one of the special characteristics at-- rial principle in humanity to detach Divination is then and the gift asserted by Glendowe deep," becomes available to all who choose to avail themselves of the in the fireside-customs of this night in this country, peopled in so great : perhaps they are not so closely ad- Here, where in requisition, and consumed Indeed,. the name of " Nuterack night," by which ba ¥ Burns, in his poem of Brand, in his Popular Antiquities, still further explains this eustom of He says, "It is a cus- faitliful, to put three nuts upon the illnminated, .and illustrated with grate, naming the nuts after the paintings; or those pillars which, lovers. If a nut cracks and jumps § T ou ke | not muo apple before a looking glass, with view of discovering the enquire o- OR | thromgh imagination,or some thougt less peaeticul joke, produced serio nl! og Anot! ; he on ar he to dry, and lie fo bed till midnigl in and turn the sleeve. " Burns th is t= is of to ry is poems : "The last Halloween I was waukin," My droukitssark-sleeve, as ye ken ; His likeness cam' up the house staukin There are many other customs a rites for the invocation of spirits th it 2a he 1 he ing of hemp seed and winnowing posing wheat to the wind. of is ! 8 o.| Possession. of certain taculties, such as that of perceivin and holding converse with supernatt bl ral beings. Sir Walter Scott, it wi i r, ' y Monastery. yeteven in this country they are i a measure kept up, especially amon Yl eally a night of domestic pleasure d \ n, Ny The Living Epistle. 8 in Gath and be streets of Ashkelo n, does well. f [$1.50 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE, hese are old, simple ceremonies, but there are others more weir-like, which, in this eulightened age, are practiced. One of these is the celebrated spell of eating an future husband, who, it is believed, will be geen looking over her shoulder, Burns gives a graphic deséription of this peeuliar custom, which often, T custom is, to wet a shirt-sleeve, hang it up before the fire when the apparition of the individu al's future partner for life will come speaks of this custom in'one of his And the very grey breeks o' Tam Glen." might be referred to, such us the sow- three wechts of nothing, that is, re- peating three times the action of ex- These and many others are referred to in the poen by Burns from which we have already quoted. Is may be here remarked that popular belief ascribes to children born on Halloween, the mysterions be remembered, makes use of this circumstance in his romance of The The Halloween practices of former times have fallen greatly into disuse, the Scotch, with whom this is gene- Dr Guthrie says, in the Sunday Magazine:--* He who orders his life and conversation sobs to bring no dis honor oi reproach on religion, who gives no occasion to its enemies to blaspheme, nor by his falls and incon- sistencies furnishes scandal to be told published in the He lg ayy 0 [WHOLE No. 65. How Pennsylvania Farmers Manage their Crops. The rotation ia- & five or six years' course, beginning with corn upon a clover or timo sod. The liming of the land, winch is almost univer-- sal, takes oe in connection with this crop. The lime is applied at the rate of from 30 to a 100 bushels to the acre, and is expected to last through the course. There is a dif= ference of practice both in regard to the time of applying the lime and turning over the sod. Some apply the lime upotf the grass immediately alter mowing, and turn the sod the following spring, They say the lime strengthens the growth of the grass aud sinks into the soil, so that the spring plowing brings it to the suc- face, where it ought to be. Others plow in the fall, and lime either in the fall or spring upon the plowed field. We found the best farmers most strongly in favor of the spring plowing, and they would only jnstify fall plowing when there was dauger of not kaving held enough to finish the needed plowing seasonably in the spring. The lime and the sod are the main reliance for the corn crop, which yields from 40 to 60 bushels to the acre. The second course is either oats or a summer fallow. The best usage is in favor of oats, tor they say it is in it- self a paying crop, und does'not very much diminish the subsequent crop of wheat. The third course is winter wheat, for which preparatiou is made by spreading all the manure of the farm upon the oat stubble, or the fal. low, and 'plowing it.in. The Medi- terranean wheat is the variety most commonly 'used, and the yield in goods years is from 20 to 30 bushels to the acre. The white varieties of wheat formerly used were more pro- ductive, but were more delicate, and more liable to he destroyed by in- sects. At. the time of sowing the wheat, timothy is sown, and clover the following spring, about the last of the frosts, when the ground is cracked with settling, This gives clover as the fourth course, of which there are frequently two crops taken ip. the same season, one for 'hay and the second for seed, of which the yield i a v's ht- us it, us ) nd at of g 1 1 n g may thank God that amid life's slip. im : ship aot'. 118 es better lances, the gra ver 00 t whose life religion presents | 2° i manure i plenty' for 3op dress: | 118€lf less in a negaiive, and more in | M%: it stays iu grass until it is want. exemplifies by his daily life and con versation the pure, and virtuous, and is better, the last best of all, of others--so to live as to constrain them to say: What a good and blessed thing is true religion!--ns in some measure to win the encomium of her who, looking to Jesus, exclaimed, ' Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps that gave thee suck !'-- so to live, in fuct, as to resenible those books which, in addition to their pro- per contents, are bound in gold, are while their plainer neighb.rs support. ing the superstructure, are also .in ornaments, rising gracefully from the floor in fluted columns, and crowned wreaths of flowers --this is the best of all! A Few Useful Hints to Farm- ers About Dressed Hogs. Messrs, W. Davis & Co., of Toron to, writes to the Globe : This is not the first time we have sent you a let. ter on the above subject, but, so far as we can see, without any beneficial results. Farmers are now commenc- ing to bring their hogs to market dressed, and as is natural, are dis- gusted at having to take 4o to 4ic per 1b for them, while peas are sell-- ing at 60¢ per bushel. --To make the matter worse, some are bringing their pigs to market in such a cone dition, that they have to accept 3c per Ib, for the reason that the pork is sour and tainted by the time it reaches Toronto:--To avoid this we strongly urge on their attention the following rules : 1st. Don't kill any hogs until No- vember, and not then unless the weather is cool and clear," 20d. When killing, whatever the size, have them opened from' tail to to snout, and don't spare cold water to cleanse them. thoroughly. Then prop them open with a pointed. stick 6 to 12 inches long, according to size of hog. 3rd. .Let them hang in a cool, airy place for 12 to 24 hours before cut-- ting them down. The greater the distance you have to travel, the long- er should they hang. 4th.Don't crowd them in the wagon at this time of the year, aud if your journe£ be long, travel in the night, Five or six hours travelling in the sun will ruin them. If farmers follow the above instruc- tions, and have got hogs of good quality, they will not have to sell them at 4c to 4jc. The difficulty of getting hogs when dressed in a good State, is our reason for desiring to have them alive, . i me Hope, deceitful as she is, serves at bachelor ox an old maid. least to conduct us through life by an agreeable path, ; a positive form; for while itis well to depart from evil, it is better to do good; nor does he live in vain who holy, and beneficient, and sublime and saving doctrine of God and his Saviour. The first is good, the next So to live as to be beautiful as well as liv ing epistles of Jesus Christ, seen and read of all men--so to live as to re- commend the truth to the admiration replied that it would-be far better than to be d liquor at lhe time. ed to begin another rotation. Much larger areas of land are kept under the plow than is common in the dairy régions. Grain fields of from 20 to 50 acres are of frequent occurrence, Upon one 800 acre 'farm that we visited, in the famous Buffalo Valley, we found 80 acres in wheat, 50 in corn, and 30 in oats; or more than oue half the whole area of the farm, We think the farms in these valleys would average one fourth of their whole arca in these three: Crops. -- Rye, which is common in the dairy regions, is very little raised in the valley of the Susquehanna, In eastern Pennsylvania it is much more com- mon, The rotation is: very well ad. apted to the wants of the grain grow- ing districts, and perhaps cannot at once be changed for the better.-- Lime is everywhere abundant, and with the manure made upon the farm, . furnishes the ready means of keeping up the fertility of the soil. Potatoes ire not much raised, except to supply the want of the famity and the near- est village market. The grain grow- ing farmers of Pennsylvania, and of other districts also in the United States have no faith in the cultiva- Yion of roots. They certainly could be raised profitably for stock feeding in winter, but wonid require addition al laborers. Grain and hay are tue principal products sold from these farms. There is some fattening of cattle in the winter, and some raising of pork and making of butter, but they are mainly for the home markets, -- American Agriculturist, A NeGro's Inga or LiBgrarrry,-- Bishop Thompson, (Methodist) in re- ceatly giving a sketch of his. experi- ence among some of the Southern conferences, referred to a sermon which he had heard from a colored preacher upon the text, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive. In the course of his remarks the preacher said, 'Ise known many a church to die cause it didn't give enough, but [ neber knowed a church to die ¢ cause it give too much, = Dey don't die dat way. Brederen, has any of you knowed a church that died cause it gave to much? If ye do, jest let me now, and I'll make a pilgrimage to that church, and I'l} climb by the soft light of the moon to jts moss- covered roof, and Dil stand thar and Lift nry hands to hebben, and say, ' Blessed are de dead dat die in de Lord? i v As Goob As tr 1m WERE IN sop. -- The Nantucket Islander says tlie fol lowing story was lately told by a re- formed incbriate, as an apol for much of the folly of drunkards s--* A mouse ranging about a brewery, hap- pened to full into' a vat of beer, was in eminent danger of drowning, and appealed to a. cat pi hel yo out, The cat replied, 'It is a foolish' re- quest, for us soon ag I get 'youout I shall eat you. The mouse piteo 'ta, rowned in beer. The cat lifted him out, but the fame of the beer caused piss to and the mouse took refuge in a tole, The cat called, upon the mouse: to come out. Did yen not promise that I should eat you? ¢ Aj P replied the mouse, "I did ; but I was in