THE COUNTY OF PE:TH HERALD, STRATFORD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL. 27, 1864. 3. The American War. GREAT CONFEDERATE VICTORY--PLY- MOUTH, N. C., CAPTURED. The World's Baltimore correspondent says the Confederates now have 30 iron-clads ready for service, 10 at Richmond, 5 at Mobile, 7 at Charleston, 1 at Savannah, 3 on the Neuse River, 2 on the Tar River, and 2 on the Roanoke River. It is also said that 20 iron-clads will arrive from Europe before the end of June. Information received at New York confirms suspicions of a wide spread conspiracy in the North Western States, to inaugurate an armed resistance against the government. Crawford county, Ohio, the head quarters ofa gang of Butternuts, has been placed under martial law and other counties in the same State will pro- bably soon be put in the same position.--Ohio, Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois, contain the principal portion of these incipient rebels, whose leaders only await a disaster to the national arms to give the signal for revolt. Battimore, April 22.--The following highly important intelligence was received from Fort Monroe this morning :--On Sunday last the Confederates assailed our ranks at Plymouth, North Carolina, and were twice replused. On Monday morning at 1 o'clock the gunboat Bomb- shell ran up the Roanoke river to look out for the iron-clad ram reported 'coming down. Soon after passing our works the Bombshell was fired into by a Confederate battery and sunk. About 5 o'clock the Confederate ram came down, ran past our batteries and then ran into the gunboat Southfielld and sank her. The gunboat Miami, a very strong vessel, lay close to the ram and Capt. Flusser, one of the most gallant men in our navy, cleared her decks for action and fired 9 inch shells at te Confed- erate ram, which rebo inded from her sides, ex- ploded and killed Capt. Flusser. The Miami was then immediately run down the river out of danger. The Confederate ram so far as heard from, has not fired a shot and now has poss- ession of the river below Plymouth. Our gar- rison at Plymouth is cut off from all communica- tion. New York, April 23.--The N. O. Picayune of the 16th says our forces on Sunday last were encamped in and around Grand Ecore. The enemy were quiet and show:d no signs of battle. About 400 wounded came to the city yester- day, among them Brig. Gen. Ransom, Col. Robinson, lst La. cavalry, Col Carr and Col Green, Among the killed were Col Benedict, 162nd New York, Col Webb, of the 77th Il- linois, in the first day's fight, Col Mix, New York, Lieut Col Newbald, Lieut Logan, 14th Iowa, and Capt Jack Logan, Capt Chapman, Judge Advocate, on Gen Franklin's staff, had both feet shot off just above the ancle, and is believed to have been left in the enemy's hands. Our loss in artillery was 16 or 18 pieces. Three are re- ported to have been retaken. Gen Ransom, when wounded, was directing the fire of a Chicago battery, and had scarcely been removed when the rebels were in possession of the spot on which he fell. Among the Confederates taken are three lieutenant colonels and six majors. The following additional casualties are re- ported :--Col Vance, 96th Ohio, wounded and left on the field ; Col Webb, 77th Illinois, and Lieut-Col Cowen, 19th Kentucky, were wounded and made prisoners; Lieut Stone, of the 3rd brigade, is among the missing ; Lieut Miller, 6th Missouri cavalry, missing ;Capt Morse, Ist Louisiana cavalry, severely wounded. A num- ber of others wounded or missing. The 30th Maine regiment suffered severely, loosing about 70 killed, wounded and missing. On the 7th of April a fire took place at Go- naines, Hayti, destroying properity estimated to be worth three millions of Spanish dollars. The fire originated from the spark of a cigar falling into a pile of loose cotton just going to press. The foreign merchants are nearly ruined by the disaster, New York, April 25.--A special despatch to the Herald, dated Army of the Potomac, April 24, states that the Richmond Sentinel of the 22nd says the following despatch has been received by Gen Bragg :-- "PrymoutH, N CO, April 20.--To Gen. Braxion Bragg.--I have stormed and carried this place, capturing one brigadier, 1600 men, stores and 25 pieces of artillery. (Signed) R. F. HOKE " Brig. Gen." A telegram svas also received by the President trom Col. J. Taylor Wood, dated Rocky Mount, April 21st., giving further particulars of the capture of Plymouth, by the forces under Gen. Hoke, with naval co-operation. He says that about 2,500 prisoners were taken, 300 or 400 of . them negroes, 30 pieces of artillery, 100,000 'pounds meat,;.1,000 barrels flour, and a full garrison outfit. Our loss was about 300 in all. Col. Price was among the killed. Two gun- boats were sunk, another disabled, and another small steamer captured. A Review of the Situation. (From the Richmond Enquirer, 15th.) The efforts made by the enemy during the past three years of the war have been successfully foiled, and the fourth year of the conflict finds both belligerents in very nearly the same positions that they were at the opening of the contest. The loss of the Mississippi and New Orleans were unquestionably material injuries to the Confederate cause, but time and events have shewn them not to be irreparable. Tennessee and Arkansas, wrested from the control of the Confederate authorities, have been of no practi- cal importance to the enemy. The work of con- quest and subjugation lies yet in the future. The "anaconda" strategy weakened the enemy, and gave lessons of practical instruction to the Con- federate authorities. None but a vain-glirious and boastful foe would have detied the lessons of military experience, and essayed a policy which has been avoided by every great commanier. It has been at last abandoned, and the strategy of concentration determined uj on. Bat, fortunately, the follies of three years have very much diminished the forces of the enemy, and his concentration for the next campaign must be made at the sacrifice of some one or more of the points that have already been gained. If Virginia is selected for the theatre of the war this year, either the army in Tenaessee, or before Charleston, or beyond the Mississippi, must be weakened before the numbers necessary can be collected. The 2,000,000 of men which the mus- ter-rolls of the enemy exhibit exist only in idle 'boast. Grant's army of the Potomac numbers at best not more than fifty thousand men of all arms. The twocorps, the Eleventh and Twelfth, recently, brought from Tennessee, numbered to- gether but eight thousand men. _ Burnside's corps, the Ninth, never very large, has been re- cruited with negroes andjnew men, and the more of these he has collected the less formidable will they prove, before the seasoned and war-worn veterans they will meet, whether they advance from the Rhappahannock or up the Peninsula. Siegel, in the lower valley, has a small force neither formidable in numbers nor in leadership. Grant concentrated about nirety thousand men at Ch ttanooga, drawing them from the army of the Potomac, on the east, and the army at Vicks- burg on the west. But from what quarters can he collect 90,000 for the Spring campaign ? He may withdraw the ten or fifteen thousand men that have been 'or nearly a year besieging Charleston--but these are in part negroes, and to that extent a positive injury. If he further weakens Sherman's force in Tennessee he puts in hazard all the work of the last three years These facts plainly show the advance made to- ward final triumph by the Confederate armies. The equalization of forees in point of numbers reduces the final triumph within the reach of one or two important victories. The blockade has been very successful, it has closed every port but one, and greatly injured the trade through that. It has much enhanced the financial diffi- culties of the Confederate authorities, but it has done little else toward accomplishing the ends and objects of the war. When to the cost of the blockade are added the large expenditures of the enemy upon their navy, which has proven so utterly useless, we doubt whether operations on the water have not been as injurious to the enemy as to ourselves. A few Confederate cruisers--the Alubuma, the Florida, and the Rappahannock--have frightened from the waters the flag that once contested the supremacy of the seas with the mistress of the ocean. The battered iron-clads in Charleston harbor are there "for the war," unless some rebel torpedo should send them in fragments to the bottom. The policy of starvation has not affected the ends of the enemy. At one time apprehension was greatly felt for the supply of salt, but now there is believed to be more salt in the Confederacy than ever before at any one time. The loss of the Mississippi was said to have cut off the sup- ply of beef cattle, and that of Tennessee to have deprived us of bacon and pork ; but though the quantity of these important articles of food has been greatly diminished, yet neither the army nor the people are disposed, or likely, to starve. The raids of the enemy have destroyed much property ; but when their wasted and ruined cavalry is brought in contact with Stuart, or Forrest, or Morgan, they may well consider which party has been most injured by the raids. Numbers have not reduced the rebellious Con- federates to loyalty ; the blockade has not curbed their defiant "treason ;" starvation has not humbled their proud spirit ; and the fourth year of the war opens upon their armies numerous as those of the foe, aswell drilled, and in better morale, and ready to test the virtue of the policy of concentration. General Washington was made lieutenant-general after his successful command of the army in the revolutionary war ; General Scott won the same honor after the tri- umphant termination of the Mexican war; but General Grant has been honoured in advance of the triumphs. that usually bring such high rewards. | The fickle people, that worship only at the shrine of success, stripped Gen. Scott of the lientenant-generalship as soon.as Beauregard defeated McDowell on the plains of Manassas. Those fatal plains, that witnessed the humiliation of Scott and McDowell, and defeat of Pope, with his " headquarters in his saddle," are immedi- ately in the rear of the new lieutenant-general, with his '" headquarters in the field." It would be indeed a singular concatenation of cir- cumstances if those plains of Manassas, the scene of the opening conflict, a field fatal to the stra- tegy of Scott, the tactics of McDowell, the "headquarters" of Pope, should become a Water- loo to Washington city, and a Zama. to this Yankee Hannibal. Markets in the South. (From the Richmond Dispatzh, April 8.) The markets remain almost entirely un- changed, Many merchants continue to take the old currency at the rate of three for two, with the exception of fives, which are held on the same footing with the new currency. A few merchants offer slight inducements in favor of the new currency. Tho markets have not had sufficient opportunity as yet to recover from the retarding effects of the recent rains, which kept many articles of necessity away. It is confi- dently expected that in a few days things will be more plentful, aud prices more inclined to fall. Already, under the influence of the new cur- rency, prices have taken rapid strides down- ward in several leading Southern States. Corn is selling in Atlanta, for example, for seven dollars in the new currency ; flour, one hundred dollars ; Irish potatoes, fourteen ; sweet, fifteen ; corn meal, seven; rice, new, thirty-five cents ; old, twenty; bacon, two dollars and seventy- five cents ; lard the samé; sugar, three and a half to four dollars. It'is time some like steps were taken by the merchants of Richmond, which, unlike Atlanta, is almost entirely free rom the presence of an army. We observe, also, that in Montgomery,» Ala- bama, bacon and lard have fallen to $3 25a pound, and in Mobile $6 a bushel is the current price for corn, when a few days agoit was $12, and fodder, which was $20 and upwards, sells now at $5 per cwt. On yesterday, we regret to say, the specula- tors of this city exhibited a most cruelly ayari- cious disposition. At an auction sale, sugar was runup to $9 a pound, molasses to $51, and several other necessary articles were ad- vanced in similar proportion. The practize of producing petty panics at the auctions, should be frowned down by all respectable persons, merchants or citizens, and whenever exorbitant bidding is attempted, the party or clique guilty of it should be hissed, ifnot kicked out of the house. rr Forty five murders were committed in New York, from January Ist to April Ist. This does not include more than as many cases of persons found dead, under suspicious circumstances, Sannin anemaneeeeeeeemeeeed Mitirary Movemenrs.--We learn that the open- ing of navigation several changes will take place in the stations of the troops now in. Canada. Field Battery D., 4th Brigade, commanded by Major Penn, will proced to London, ©. W.; and Field Battery F., commanded by Captain Balfour, now in London, C. W., is ordered to Montreal. No. 1 and No. 3 Batteries, 10th Brigade, Garri- son Artillery, commanded by Captain Orr and Major Field, at present quartered in this city, will proceed to Quebec; and No 7 Battery, Captain Heberdin's, now in Quebec, is ordered to Montreal. The 47th Regiment, now in King- ston, we understand will be removed to London C. W.--Montreal Herald. Two and a half miles of railway are covered every second throughout the year. The loco- motives now in ase, upwards of 5,000, would cover .£ a line above 30 miles of ground. D. ownep,--On Saturday morning last, a very distressing accident took place near Benmiller. It seems that two brothers named John and Elias Forrest had constructed a raft upon the Rive. Maitl nd, on which one of the brothers ventured, for the purpose of securing a piece of floating timber. By some means he lost his balance, and was precipitated into the water. Ine other brother, seeing the immment peril of his companion, and prompted by the most generous impulses, jumped upon another raft, and pushed off to the rescue. Unfortunately he, too, when nearing his brother, fell off the raft; and both were carried down by the current, and met a watery grave. They were both young men, and one of them leaves a wife and child to mourn his untimely fate. The sad news was immediately transmitted to their father in Mark- ham.-- Goderich Colonist. Sr. Parrick's Bopy Founp.--While the work- men engaged in the renovation of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, (the oldest church in Ire- land,) were digging up a portion of the flooring in one of the aisies, they discovered a large stone coffin of curious workmanship, buried a few feet below the surface. The coffin, when opened, was found to contain the skeleton of an ecclesiastic, supposed to have been interred there some six hundred years ! The skull was perfect, but the bones crumpled into dust when exposed to the air. On the lid of the coffin there was a full length figure of a bishop in his robes. It was inspected by some antiquarians, including Dr. Todd, who expressed it as his belief. that it was the original founder of the church, St. Patrick. It ig in a good state of preservation, and is in every respect a most interesting relic. When the church is finished it will be placed in a prominent position, because.there is no more remarkable antiquity in the building.--ZJrish Poper. Horriste Deara From Wearing' Hoors.-- Among a party of friends who had gone last Monday on a visit of inspection to the. biscuit factory of Messrs. Joseph Robinson & Co., in this city, was Miss Mary Nelson, and she was accompanied by Mr. Burrows to whom she was to have been married within a few weeks. The party had not been more than two minutes in the mill, and were still examining the basement story, when a piercing shriek from Miss Nelson, who had tarried slightly in their rear, made them pause in terror. Her attention had been attracted by an Archimedean screw, which was fenced by a brass rod™breast high--but, when she stooped to look at it, her expanded skirts were caught by the machinery, and when her friends turned to look at her it was rapidly drawing her into its grasp. Mr. Burrows clasped his betrothed round the waist and strove to draw her back--but the steel of her hoops had been clutched by the wheels, and all his efforts were powerless. The engine dragged her out of her lover's arms, and whirled her round and round before his eyes; all her limbs were shivered into fragments, and her body was lacerated and mangled almost out of human semblance.--London Star. Sarery or Dz. Livineston.s.--The last foreign mail settles the ques ion of the safety of Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, who was re- ported to have been killed by the natives on the Zambesi. The British war 'sloop Rapid has broughta letter from Bishop Tozer, dated at Murchison Falls (at. the Luabo mouth of the Zambesi river), on the 21st of December, which states that Dr. Livingstone had come back from his expedition up the countay and arrived at the foot of the Murchison Falls in November, and they intended to come down the river as soon as the water rose sufficiently to get the Pioneer down. D1. Livingstone and the Bishop and the party were wel! in health. The mission party also intended to leave the countr y; as it appeared an unsuitable field, and would return to England by the' Cape. The Bishop and one of his clergymen, however, were to visit the Governor of Mozambique. These were all the contents of the Bishop's letter. The Peruvian brought the news of the death of Alexander Calame of Geneva, Switzerland, one of the greatest landscape artists on the con- tinent. Calame, though chiefly known in' this country by the lithographs and sketchings of his remarkable ' Studies in the Alps," was one of the most succesful paysagists, as the French say, where mountains are concerned,in modern times. His chef d' euvres are mostly to be found in the collections of the emperors of Russia and of the French, of the Queen of England and the King of Prnssia. The canton of Gereva deems itself happy in the possesiou of a grand painting re- presenting a storm in the Alps. Alexauder Dumas, in some recent letters from Naples, describes the Neapolitans as the vilest liars, slanderers and thieves upon the surface of theearth. Telling tales out of school, Alexander declares that the great Neapolitan seigneurs hesitate not to come and beg for a dinner, always ready to eat toads by way of a dessert when offer ed by the host. Many of them have no cooking whatever at home, but drive out in the morning with the most splendid liveries, in the most bril- liantly emblazoned carriages, to fish for a meal without being more sure of success than the poorest lazzare who sets forth barefooted at the same hour for the same purpose. Banking AND Bunkum.--The following choice morsel is the closing paragraph of a minority report from the committee of the New York State Legislature on banks :--"The United States are rapidly multiplying their inhabitants, productive industry is ever on the alert for new channels, and our resources are far from being developed. Forty more years of peace, with our wealth and population increasing in geometrical progression mustannihilate our pecuniary burdens. The Old world will eventually repndiate her debts, incurred to sustain her effete civilization ; but the dawning of the morning of the twentieth century of our era will witness our Republic as- cending to the zenith ofher glory, freed from her loads as miraculously as was Bunyan's Pil- grim at the foot of the cross, and ushering hu- manity to a renovated existence." The Albany Evening Journal estimates th debt of New York, including its share of the Federal debt at $1,000, 000, 000, or about $250 for each man, woman, and child of its population, The national debt of Great Britain is less than $150 per head, and only carries half the rate of interest--making its pressure $4.50 per an- num as against about $15 per annum in New York! Is not repudiation simply inevitable ? _ The portrait of the woman that kept a secret is in the British Museum. It is said not to re- semble any woman now living. Hocal Hnigiligence. TRAVELLERS?' GUIDE. TRAINS LEAVE STRATFORD Grand Tounk Ramway. Going East. Day Expraess:, Gag) 8: v5 202 700 bP. we. Night Express... .isekr ccs « =, §00.A. M, Mail TRAGit oy, .: gece seers. og . 8.02 a.m Accommodation, ... 000... <.«. 4,30 Pp, M. Going West. * Day Rxpregiig core oo he ae 4.30 'pM. Night Exprega ct. 50 dics » Sisk sts 4.30 A.M. Ma Tite ea ded ce at a 8.05 P. M. Accommotagon.. ec. nse. 3.05 Pp. M. Burrato & Lake Huaon Ramway. Going East. Night RXpreses os ost sc5.c so oe oe 12,35 a. M, Buna eee ncn. cee ag 4.25 P.M. Accommodation', 2785 9275 oe 10,45 A.M. Going West. Day Express ..3/008. 45240 GRU 4.30 Pp. M STRATFORD MAILS CLOSE. Buffalo and Lake Huron East... 10.05 a. mw Grand. Trond, Bast vies: «sain vais 12.10 Pp. M Grand Trunk sect 3.30 P. ut & St. Mary's (Sarnia Branch] . : Buffalo and Lake Huron West. 3.00 * Grand Trunk West--London 7.30 « andiSt, Maryis ost... oi) .: : Grand Trunk East--Toronto ; 9.00 & and intermediate Stations. " The Northern Mail, by Stage, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, only, closes at2 p, m. The Brooksdale, Embro, and Fairview mail, on Tuesdays and Saturdays only, closes at the same hour. The English mails close on Mondays [per Cun- ard line] at 10.05 a. m., and on Thursdays, [per Canadian line], at 12.10 p.m. : 3° Mr John Vanstone is now manufacturi..g all kinds of Waggons, Carriages, Buggies, and Democrats, and everything else in his lire re- quired by the farmer or mechanic. He has a large supply of excellent Waggons on hand. See Advertisement. 33° Some persons are under the impression that newspapers re-mailed will be forwarded to their destination'and the postage collected from the person to whom they are addressed. Thisisa mistake. No re-mailed paper will be forwarded unless prepaid by a one cent stamp. 3x3 A Toronto subscriber writes us that he does not receive the Herald oftener than once in three weeks. The Herald is mailed here regu- larly, and we have no doubt, leaves this Office in due time. We trust the Post Office Inspector will endeavor to find out who is at fault, and remedy this state of things. Street Movitp Boarp PLoveus.--Mr. Birch has now on hand a large lot of these new and excel- lent Ploughs manufactured expressly for him at his brother-in-law's large Foundry and manu- facturing establishment, Brantford. 'they will be found in every way superior to any other thing of the kind known in Canada. We would advise our friends Plough for themselves. We are sure they will not long remain without one,once they see them. w= Messrs. J. & F. Dutton, Druggists, have dissolved partnership by mutual consent. Mr. John Dutton will continue the business here and Mr. F. Dutton, we learn, purposes going to Mit- chell. Both these gentlemen are thoroughly master of their business and the success they have met with here is sufficient proof that the public understand this. x= In our last issue we promised to give' the names of the members of the Good Templars' Lodge, of this town, that were elected to fill the different offices for the ensuing Quarter, and to fulfill that promise we now give the names below :--Geo. Davis, W C T; WN Hossie,W V T; G Taylor, WC; John Vivian, WS; W D Buckle, W T James Shar- man. W FS; H E Ubelacker, W M; Misa Annie Fraser, WI G; James Kelley, WO G. We are sorry to say that there is not enough interest taken in' the subject of Temperance, by the in- habitants of Stratford. is" We were yesterday shown a letter ad- dressed to Stewart Campbell, Esq., Secretary and Treasurer of the County Agricultural So- ciety, from the Canada Company, informing him that they had received from England some Russian and Scotch Spring Wheat, and that they had forwarded to him one bag of each kind (about 4 bushels of each). Mr. Campbell ex- pects to receive it to-day. A meeting will be held here on Saturday, for the purpose of dis- tributing "the wheat to those who may desire some of it. This is a matter worthy the consid- eration of our farmers. The change of seed is of vast importance, and it would be well if they would pay a little more attention to it. ~ New AppomntMent.--We have much pleasure in informing our readers that E. F. Ryerson, Esq.,of this Town, has received the appointment of Deputy Judge. We are sorry that the .con- tinued illness of our respected Judge, Read Burritt, Esq., should have necessitated such an appointment, and it is to be hoped he will soon recover and be fully able to attend to his duties. So long as it was necessary to appoint a Deputy, however, no better selection could have been made. formed the duties of the office to which he has been appointed in a manner entirely satisfactory to the public, and consequently his appointment is received with universal approbation. nag ee Downie and Gore. Court or Reyiston--Sr. Pauu's, Down, April 23rd, 1864.--The Municipal Council met to-day according to adjournment, to hold the Court of Revision. All members present. W. Clyne, Esq., Chairman. Moved by Mr, Elliot, seconded by Mr. Clyne, that Mr. D. Nutting be assessed for the North West half of lot 2%in 10th Concession, Downie, 15 acres of cleared land, 35 of wild ; also ballance of land, 493 acres, 15 cleared and 34} wild, be assessed against William Fitzgerald, and the nameof R. Smith be struck out.--Carried. Moved by Mr. Mon- teith, seconded by Mr. Elliot, that Mr. W. Cashin's name be inserted as owner of lot 6, in Ist Concession of Downie.--Carried. Moved by Mr. Monteith, seconded by Mr. Elliot, that the name of Mr. H. R. Bull be assessed on the Resident Roll as owner of half of lot 5, on 3 Con- cession, Downie--Carried. Moved by Mr. Rus- sel, seconded by Mr. Hlliot, that an alteration be made in the assessment of lot 21 in 13th Con- cession, by assessing James McVittie as tennant, and James McVittie Senr., as owner.--Carried. Moved by Mr. Elliot, seconded by Mr. Russel, that Mr. Cozens be assessed for the South, half of Lot 18 in 14th Concession, for 50 acres of cleared land.--Carried. It was ordered that a reduction of Mr, Benock's assessment he made to call and examine thé Mr, Ryerson has, for some time, per- | of lot 14, 8 Concessionfrom $510 to $349.-- Carried, Moved by Mr, Monteith, seconded by Mr. Kastner, that the notice as served by Mr, Ballantyne, appealing against several parties ag assessed be not entertained, the same not being served in the proper time Moved in amen l- ment by Mr. Elliot, seconded by Mr. Russel, © that the notice be entertained. The motion wag. carried by the vote of the Chairman ; Signed W. Cuyne Chairman. The Reeve then took the Chair. Moved by Mr. Clyne, seconded by. Mr. - Kastner, that the Assessment Roll as now raised" be passed --Carried. In reference to account of J Porter as left over from last meeting of Coun- > cil, it was moved by Mr. Clyne and seconded by Mr. Elliot that J. Porter be allowed ihe sum of five dollars for his expences and loss of' time ag Pathmaster in the trial agaiast J. H. Dunbir, It was ordered that the Statute Labor of lot 15, on 9th Concession, Downie be performed on the South side of the side line--Carried. Applica- tion of Mrs. Hilts to be removed from S. 8. No. 6 and added to S. S. No. 3.--Ordered to be filed, Moved by Mr. Elliot, seconded by Mr. Clyne thas four dollars be refunded to Hugh Ferguson, for Statute Labor perfurmed out of Ward No. 'eh ila --Carried. Moved by Mr. Clyne, seconded by Mr. Elliot, that ©. Wilson be paid the sum of $70, his salary, for assessing the Tuwnship of Downie for the year 1864.--Carried. The Clerk was instructed to purchase six copies of the latest Municipal Manual. The Treasurer applied for hi, bond for the year 1863. which: was granted, and lodged a new bond with the. Council for the year 1864. Moved by Mr. Clynéy» seconded by Mr. Elliot, that all parties having. the' 'Pavern Inspector's receipt and not having . taken up the same by Monday 2nd day.of May, shall be dealt with according to law, and thes Clerk notify them to. that. effect--Carried." Moved by Mr. Elliot, seconded by Mr. Ciyne, that an order be issued to Mrs. Mathewson for here taxes 'for the year 1863, and be charged to War No, 5.~-Carried. Moved by Mr. Clyne, seconded. by Mr. Kiliot, that this Council adjourn to the® 2lst day of May.--W. A. Hicas Lownships Clerk. " 4 rn ee Fuiiariow 2 Accipent.--While Mr. Thomas Mutton, of Fullarton, was proceeding along the Mitchel toad, on horse-back, on Friday night last, we animal became frightened, and threw its rider off, and Mr. Mutton being unable to extric-te one of his feet from the surrup, was dragged a@ considerable distance. He received a number of bruises, but One of them were of a serious nature.--.ddvocale. : W 7 Miicheli. Tue Annuat Spring Saow.--The Spring Show of the Fullarton, Logan aad Hibbert Agriculs tural Society, which took place on Wednesday, the 20th inst., was the best ever held in Mite chell. The number of Sialiions shown. was more than double what it was any former yeas, and the improvement in kind was as great as ia number. The benefit. to the couniry of being supplied with the means of improving the stock of horses cannot be too highly estimated. The two principal classes of horses, viz: the draught horse, and the roadster were well re~ presented, so that farmers need not now confine themselves to raising clumsy farm horses; but can raise the more profitable road horse--a class of horses which now command a very high price. The merits of the various horses were keenly discussed by others as well as those ap= pointed as judges, and there were not mani 'horses, that good judges would not have accor ed prizes to, if there had been enough: for' ally The. two road horses are fine specimens. Mr, McDonald's which took the first prize, is iemarke | able for his speed as a trotier, and Mr. Pyle'g horse seemed no less' remarkable for his metal, There were two classes of bulls showa--the' thoro' bred and the grade; and competent | judges pronounced the representations of both. Classes to be excellent. We publish the prize list below wvich gives the opinion of the judgeg as io the respective merits of the animals shown ; but cannot of course be expecied to give ae opinions of all--for all were so good that it wag a difficult task to select the one that merited the prize. : Best Horse for Farming purposes, Hugh Armstrong ; 2nd do., do., George Carruthers 5 Best Roadster, D. B. McDonald; 2nd, do., do, Benjamin Pyle. Best thoro' bred Bull over 3° years old, George Graham; 2nd, do., doy! George Hamilton. Best grade Bull over 3 yearg. old, James Gorrill; best do. under three years old, James Jackson, es Jupaus or Horsus.--Messrs_ James Hackney, James Jackson and George Hamilton, Fog Jup@es or Butus.--Messrs. Thomas McMurray, | John Pepper and James Shillinglaw.--.d¢dvocate, Narrow Hscars.--Mr. George Sills, of thig place, had a narrow escape on Saturday evening -- last. It appears that he was under the large . Circular Saw, (the Mill not being running at the | time) re-adjusting one of the belis, when the \ fireman, who was unaware of Mr. Sills' positron, © put the saw in motion ; the teeth of which passed. ; through his cap, and lacerated his scalp and a.) portion ofhis skull. Had Mr. Sifls been ones -- half inch closer to the saw, his death must haye: been inevitable.--Advocate. ae ------------ ---- E4 St. Marys. AgricuL TURAL Meztinc.--At a meeting of the Blanshard Branch Agricultural Society held, . immediately after the show last week, it wag resolved--injudicionsly we can't help thinking - --that persons now residing in the County of Perth be excluded from showing at annual ex. hibitions of the Society. This resolution ex- cludes some of the most enterprising and suc. cessful exhibitors the Society has erer number. J ed within its membership. If it has the effect | ofraising up other exhibitors within the County | equally pains-taking and ambitions to exoeh the exclusion of the issourines will not be af ter all so damaging to the Society as it appearg. liberal toward the parties excluded. ' A discussicn arose upon the propriety of obs is taining a plot of ground and fencing it for the purposes of the Society. The further considera. _ tion of the matter was deferred to the next meet- _ in dpe Culialitece were appointed to canvass Blan- shard, Downie, and St. Mary's for subscriptions -- to the Society as follows :--- os . St. Mary's. J. W. Poole, DA. Robertson 4 -- Blanshard: Messrs, Hanley and Forsyth Fy Downie: Messrs. Lancaster and Lang. Voteg of thanks were then given to the Judges and 3 the Directors, when the meeting adjourned t meet siete the 4:h day of June next, a the National hotel, St. Mary's, at one o'elock p, ' m. It isright to state that being personally tog much occupied to attend the above meeting wa . ave indebted to the courtsey of the Secretary, © W.N. Ford, Esq., who afforded us facilities for , obtaining the above synopsis of the proceedingy, + --J4regus. ea 'ye