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An old gentleman travelling in a first class railway carriage ' with two young ladies, evident- ly sisters, for his companions, the younger, an invalid, soon fell asleep,-and the old gentle- man exPressed his regret to see so charming a young lady in ill Jerrold was enjoying a drive one day with a jovial spend- thritt. “ Well, Jerrold,” said the driver of a very fine pair of grays, “ what do you think of my grays ’? ” â€" “ To tell you the truth,” said Jerrold, “ I was just thinking of your duns ! ” A lady in 'x'eply to some guests who praised the mutton on her table, said, “Oh, yes; my bus- band always buys the best; he is a. great epicac.” “Faith,” said an Irishman, who could not get into his cab- in at Ballingarry, his wife hav- ing turned the key upon him, “ faith it’s meeself that’s regu- larly locked in.”â€"â€"“ In,” said his companion,“in where ?”â€"“Why in the strata.” It is qulte natural that when woman reigns she should storm -and she always does. It is a singular fact that a wo- man cannot look from a preci- pice of any magnitude without becoming instantly dizzy. But what is still more singular, the dizziness departs the very mo- ment somebody puts his arm round her waist to keep her from falling. Queer, isn’t it? A couple of old tOpers in some way got into a quarrel, and for some time hurled all the approv- ek blackguardism of the pot- house at each other, when one of them, determining to extin- guish the other immediately, exclaimed, “ Go, I have no more. to say ! I scorn you as I do a glass of water.” “ If you are not careful, wife, I shall lose my temper. ” â€"-,“Well I shall not help you to find it If you do.” . “Dawkter,” said an exquisite '1he other day, “I want you to tell me what I can put into my head to my head to make it right."â€"â€"“ It wants nothing but brains,” said the physician. “ Talk of the inferiority of the female mind ! ” exclaimed a woman’s right orator, “ Why, Mr. President, Woman possesses infinitely more of the divine at- fliatus than man; and any one who attempts to get around her in these days will have to start very early in the morning.” It may fairly be contended that inveterate laziness is the most effective labor-saving ma- .chine ever Invented. Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning jco lower, Comes a pause in the day’s occupations That is known as the Children’s Hour. Do you think, 0 blue-eyed bandi'tti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old moustache as I am 13 note match for you all ? I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down in the dungeons In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And monlder in dust. away l I hear in the chamber at on me, The patter of little feet, The sound oi‘a. door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall-stair. Grave Ali-3e, and lauging Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yetl know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning togâ€"ether To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall! By three doors left unguarded They enter my castle wall I They climb up into my tnrrett O’er the arms and back of my chair ; If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me entwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine. Wit and IIumour. The Children’s Hour. [From the .mlanuc Month!“ 90.5313?- health. “Ah, yes, indeed, ”‘ sighed her sister, “ a disease ’lof? the heart. ” â€"-“Dear me," was; the sympathetic response, “at. her age! Ossification, perhaps.” â€"- “ Ossifiâ€"Oh, no! a lieuten-i ant!” ' Hvs'rnmcs.--A pleasant sham women indulge in when they desire to carry a point, or know of nothing else to do. Sow the largest, plumpest seeds. If possible, run seed wheat over a coarse screen that will take out all small kernels, and foul stuff. It is better to al- ways sow wheat with a drilling machine. If sown broadcast, take the greatest care to distri-t bute the kernels evenly. Half a bushel of seed, sown uniform-t ly, will produce more than two bushels sown hap-hazard. Onei seed, with plenty of room to re-; ceive air and sun-light, will pro- duce more and better grain than three or four seeds planted side by side. Manure seldom fails to pay its cost and a hundred per cent. in- terestâ€"that IS on all soils not already fully supplied with or- ganic matters. It will not, of course, pay to buy manures for: new land where there 1s already an accumulation of vegetable1 matter. Lime or ashes general- ly show good effects on this class of soils. 011 older fields, plaster, Peruvian gnano, and hone saw-dust, are valuable, where stable manure is scarce. We do not believe it pays to buy the mineral manures so in- dustriously pushed upon Wheat growers. 5‘ Prepare the ground well. If man and team labor be not a- bundant, better concentrate your eflorts on twenty acres, than to ‘run over ’ twenty five. The yield from the smaller area well: prepared, will be quite as great as upon the larger one poorly tilled, and you will save the seeding and harvesting of the. extra five acres. A thorough1 pulverizing of the surface with! the plow and barrow, and with; the roller if needed, is of great: advantage to wheat. One goed' plowing, turning the surface, deeply under,is desirable, wheth- er for Summer fallow or corn land. Let the after plowing and harrowing be shallow, to avoid, disturbing sods, stubble, and} weeds turned under. 1 All soils liable to standing water in Winter or Spring,should be thrown into ridge lands twelve to twenty feet wideâ€"- the wetter the land, the nearer should be the ridges and fur- rows. When all is complete, the dead furrows should be deep- ly and thoroughly cleaned out with plow and hoe, so» that all surplus water will flow off.â€" This is amost important point. It is the alternate thawing and freezing of water-soaked soils that produces winter-killing.â€" Water expands and contracts greatly at every change of tem- perature, and thus breaks and tears the roots of Winter crops, sometimes killing the plants en- tirely, and always injuring them more or less. On Well drained land, wheat is never winter-kill- ed, and seldom fails to start off in Spring. Sow wheat early. Nature sows her seed as it falls from the previous crop. Reason, and universal experience are in fav- or of puttmg the seed into the ground as early as possible after the previous cr0p is secured.â€" This enables the plants to be- home well established, and thus be better able to withstand Win- ter. Early wheat also gets a- head of many of the insect tribes. From the American Agricultufiat. Agriculture, Wheat. The Saturday EveningPost sun Greater lnducements. A CHANCE TO OBTAIN Two Handsome Steel Engra- wings HAMILTON’S VIEWS 3 EIAQAEQ EAEgg FICTION, NE WS, HUMOR, JIGRICUL. TURE, THE MARKETS, ¢c., ea, 6c. The Proprietors of the SATURDAY EVE- NING POSTâ€"“ the oldest and best of the Weeklies ”â€"have the pleasure to announce to the reading public, that they have made an now- am engagement with an Author whose power- ful Stories have of late attracted great attention and they will open the year 1860 with a novelet, written expressly for THE POST, called swnuaaal Grimm Bran Shorts, at a low price {0! Cash. THE POST does not confine itself, however, to works of the imagination, as so many Weeklies now do. It generally devotes a fair portion of its ample space to the News of the "Heck Foreign and Domestic, to Letters From 1" 1r". to an .‘gs‘i. cultural Department, to Barn: N'c-fe and Stock Lists, and too Weekly and .dccurate Prices Cur- rent of the Produce Market, c., c. 2 Copies of the Post, $3,00 a year; 4 copies, and one engraving to getter up of Club.) $5,00; 8 copies, (and one copy extra, or both engravings to getter up of Club.) 3310,00; l3 00pies, (and one copy extra, or both Engravings to getter up of Club.) 5515,00 ; 20 copies, (and one copy extra, or both Engraving: to getter up of Club.) 3520,00; 30 copies, (and one copy extra, and both Engra- ving: to getter up of Club,) $30,00. ‘ No. 132;.S'oulh Third St., I’hilad’a. a‘j-Sample Copies of the Post sent gratis when requested. new and elegani Font of AGATE MUSIC TYPE, from which the “ Musical Review ” and “ Friend” are now printed; with Presses, and every article required for Printing, at the very lowest price, for cash or approved paper. THE EARL’S DAUGHTERS. Address Deacon Peterson, T0 PRINTERS. cORTELYolI’S New York Type Foundry AND PRINTERS’ WAREHOUSE, The subScriber would be happy’to furnish purâ€" chasers of PRINTING MATERIALS with PLAIN and ORNAMENTAL TYPES, RULES, BORDERS, {row made from UNRIV_ALED HA_RD F ROBERT RALPH, Chair-maker, who left his home in the township of Sullivan, county of Grey, Canada West, six years ago, and has not. since been heard from. Should this meetJiis eye, it is hoped he will at once communicate with his son-owing parent. Any communication respect- ing him, addressed to WILLIAM RALPH, Sullivan P. 0., Canada. West, will be gratefully acknow- 194399: I ‘â€" A. -A-‘ A. By the AUTHOR of “THE RED COURT FARM, "“ THE ROCK," the “HESTER HALLIWELL ”Stories, " TIâ€"IE SIX GRAY POWDERS,” “THE DIAMOND BRACE- LET ” are, fire. In this story, written expressly for THE POST, this powerful writer’s genius has had full scope afforded it; and we are able to state~hnving read it in manuscript, for it is already in handâ€"- that it will make a. sensation, unless we are great- ly mistaken, as one of the most powerful and in- teresting stories ever published. METAL. "Also; gnnxmf, GREEK, HEBREW, and 3 ~ - _â€" -__-'-‘~ _--â€"â€" To enable those unacquainted with THE POST to judge of the richness and variety of its general contents, we may state that during the past year we have published novelets, stories, poems, essays, c., from the pens of the following gifted writers :â€" G. P. R JAMES. MARY HOWITT. CHARLES DICKENS. AUTHOR OF “TH ALFRED TENNYSON. RED COURT FARM.” CHARLES READE. AUTHOR OF “FARM H. W. LONGFELLOW OF FOUR AGRES.’ CHARLES MACKAY. MISS. PARDOE. WILKIE COLLINS. FLORENCE PERCY. DR. 0. W. HOLMES. AMELIA B.EDWARDS T. S. ARTHUR. GRACE GREENWOOD AUTHOR OF “ THE EM’A ALICE BROWN. SCOUT,” c. ALEXANDER DUMAS JOHN G. WHITTIER. OWEN MEREDITH. P. J. BAILEY,( Author ALEXANDER DUMAS l EBONY CASKET.” JOHN G. WHITTIER. MRS. M. A. DENISON. OWEN MEREDITH. RANNYIIRAYMOND. P. J. BAILEY,( Author NORA PERRY. of“ Festns.”) ISA CRAIG. LIEUTJIABERSHAM. MISS MARTINEAU. The writings of the above and other distin- guished authors make up, in s greet degree, the yearly contents of THE POSTâ€"many of the o.- bove list writing expressly for our columns, and the choicest contributions of the others being ob- tained as soon as possible from the English and other Periodicals in which they appear. In this wav we are enabled to make up a. sheet unsur- passed, as we think, for the rum"! and BRILLI- ANCY of its contents. TERMSâ€"EN GRAVIN GS. {1491}; TON’S TWQ VIE WS of_NI.1 0.43.4 I'MLLSâ€"a couple of handsome ahd large-sized Steel Engraving-Abe retail price of which is FIVE DOLLARSâ€"we are enabled to Club with THE POST on tho following remarkably liberal terms. gravings of Niagara Falls, On. Copy of The Postand on of Ar- thut’s Home Magazine, Ono Copy of The Post and one of Go- dey’l Lady’l Book, P. S.â€"-The Postage will be pre-paid on tlie Engravings. Second-hand Presses and Materigls, and a. Complete Stereotype Eoundry, with "two Shaving Machines, for sale cheap. E“ Printers of newspapers, publishing this ad- vertisement [including this note] three times be- fore the first of July, 1860, and sending me one of the papers, will be paid for it in Printing Type,s when they purchaee four times the amount of their bill. P. C. CORTELYOU. Old Type taken in exchange for new, at 10 cents per pound. We also Club with tboso well-known MontHv Magazines, Arthur’s Home Magazine, and; Godcy' s body's Book. Read the following and fake your choice of One Copy of The Post, 3 One Copy of Tl;e__1"ost am: 391.: El- INFORMATION WANTED. Rocky Saugeen Mills, ' Jane 8, 1860 S’univan, Nov. 24, 1859. A few tons of mas, POSTERS, c., DURHAM STANDARD, DURHAM, SEPTEMBER 7, 1860. No. 29 SPRUCE STREET. (Established in 1823) FOR SALE, TERMS. CLUBS. J. R. DICKSON OF FOUR AGRES.’ MISS. PARDOE. FLORENCE PERCY. AMELIA B.EDWARDS GRACE GREENWOOD EM’A ALICE BROWN. AU THOR OF “ THE $2,” a year. 3,00 3,00 3‘50 Below will be found our Premium List for 1860. Our Specific Premiums are the same as last year, except that we do not offer specific premiums for [larger lists than twenty-four, for the reason that .any larger list than this will probably take a Cash premium. The January Cash Premiums are larger and more numerous than ever before. Few persons compete for them, and very small lists will secure them. A few hours Spent in can- vassing is all that is necessary. A QUANTITY 0F FLOUR, SMOKED RAMS and BACON ; Also a lot of BEDSTEADS AND BIATCHES. CHEAP FOR CASH. GEORGE A. PRIVAT; We offer the “ Genesee Farmer” for one year, and I our beautiful twenty-five cent book, the “ Rural, Annnual and Horticultural Directory” for 1860,‘ in clubs of geight or upwards, at fifty Cents the ftwo. In other words, for Four Dollars we will send eight copies of the “Farmer” for one year and eight c0pies of the “ Rural Annual,” together with a “ Rural Annual ” for the person who gets i up the Club. For Eight Dollara we will sendl sixteen copies of the “Farmer ” and sixteen copies , of the “Rural Annual,” and one extra copy of each for the person yho gentinp the club. J If there is no agent for the Farmer in your town, will not you, kind reader, act as agent for us in your neighborhood? The Genesee Farmer is so cheap that. everyone interested in the cul- tivntion of the soil will subscribe, if asked; and few do so unless they are asked. Show them a eopy‘of the paper, and, tell them its price, and they can not help but take :13. Will not all our friendsâ€"Will not you, sirâ€"make an effort to in- crease our list of subscribers for 1860 1 We will gladly send you show-bills, specimen copies, C., if you will act as agent. 213" Subscription Money may be sent by mail at my risk, and you need nct “ register” the letters. We send the club to one address, or write the name of each subscriber on his paper, as re- quested. Pounceâ€"The Postage on the “ Farmer” sent toany place in the State of New York, paid quarterly in advance, is three cents a year; to any other place in rhe United States, six cents a year. We pay the America 11 postageon all pa- pers sent to the Canadas, or any other of the British Provinces. In all cases we pay the p03. tage on the “Rural Annual.” Our Agents and Competitors for the above Premiums, will remember our terms are always IN ADVANCE. Any persen sending is Three Dollars for a. club of eight of the “ Genesee Farmer,” shall re- ceive one copy of the “ Rural Annual ” for his trouble. 3. To every person sending us TWENTY-FOUR subscribers, as above, we will send two extra. copies of the. Iv'armer, or two copies of :he Rural Annual and one extra copy of the Farmer. Thousands of our readers delay sending in their subscriptions till several numbers of the vo- lume are out. In order to correct this practice as much as possible, we oifer a liberal and very nu- merous list of Cash Premiums for the greatest number of aubcribers sent in by the fifteenth day of January. The names of successful competitors, together ‘with the number of subscribers, will be announced in the February, and the premiums immediately paid. 2. Twenty Dollars to the person who shall send us the second highest number, as above. 3. Nineteen Dollars to the person who shall send us the third highest number. as above. 4. Eighteen Dollars to the person who shall send us the fourth highest list, as above. 5. Seventeen Dollars to the person who shall send us the fifth highest list, as above. 6. Sixteen Dollars to the person who shall send us the sixth highest list, as above. 7' Fifteen Dollars to the person who shall send us the seventh highest list, as above. 8. Fourteen Dollars to the person who shall send u: the eight highest list, as above. 9. Thirteen Dollars to the person who shall send us the ninth highest list, as above. 12. Ten Dollar; to the person who shall send us the _t}ve1ft_h highest list, as above: 19. Time Dollarsvto the person who shall send us the nineteenth highest list, as abo_ve. 21. One Dollar t5 the peréon who shall send us the twenty-first. highest list, as above. The terms of the Gamma mem are: Single Subscribers, Eifty Cents a year, in advance ; Five Copies for Two Dollars; Eight Copies for Three Dollars; and any larger number at the same rate. All subscriptions to commence with the yegr. 2. To every person who sends us SIXTEEN Subv seribers, (at our lowest club terms of thirty-seven and a half cents each,) we will send one extra copy of the Genesee Harmer and one copy of the Rural Annual, pre-paid, by mail. 10. Twelve Dollafs to thé person whos hall send us“ the tenth_11ig11est_list, as above. 11. Eleven Dollar} to the person who shall send us the e1_evegtl;_highcst list, as abovg. 18. Fow Dollars to- the peréon who shall send us the (Eighteenth highest list as above. _ 20. Two Dollars {o the pe'rson who shall send us the twentieph highest list, as a_bov§3. _A A TWENTY-FIVE CENT PREMIUM TO EACH SUBSCRIBER! In addition to this reduction of one-fourth, we ofl’er the following List of Specific Premiums as an extra inducement for our friends to form Clubs. 1. To every person who sends us EIGHT Subâ€" scribers, (at our lowest term: of thirty-seven and a half cents each,) we will send, postage paid, a copy of our beautiful twenty-five cent book, the Rural Junual for 1860. JANUARY CASH PREMIUMS For the Greatest Number of Subscribers. 1. Twenty-Five Dollars, in Cash, to the person who shall send the largest number of subscribers (at the lowest club price of 37} cents each,) before the 15th day of January, 1860. (The m0- ncy must be received, not miled, on or befon the 15th of January: 13. Nine D0110}: to thé person who shall send us the _thirteenth highest list, as abpvea 14. Eight Dollars "to the person who shall send us the fourteenty highest. list, as aboye. _ 16. Six Dollars' to the 'person who shall send us the gixteeptll highest_ list, as aboye. _ 15. Seven Dollarsvto the pérson who shall send us the fifteenth_ highest list, as above: 17. Five Dollarsâ€"to the pérson who shall send us the vaenteeyth highAcst list, as a_bove_. ,4 GENE-SE I" RM R. Rural Janual and Gencsee Farmer in C'lubs. FOR SALE. ADVEI‘HBI I! 1!] STANDARD! 1 STILL GREATER INDUCE- MENT T0 FOBDI CLUBS. Address JOSEPH HARRIS, Publisher and Proprietor, Rooh‘estmyNi Y. SPECIFIC PREMIUMS. LIST OF PBEMIUES. FOR 1860. CHIEF OFFICESâ€"3 PALL MALL AND 32 LUDGATE HALL, Established in 1856, under Charter «3] Imperial Parliament. A copy of the Stock Book an be daily seen on the counter at the Honorable J on: Ross. JOHN Cuwrono, Esq. Wu. McMAs'rmz, Esq. Bankersâ€"BANK or Morn-Run. Solicitorsâ€"Ross, Cuwrono, up Cnoxmn. This Branch was only opened last January and now has an income of $ '1 5,0 0 o ! Which is ‘reteined in this country. The increase of business in. England is unprece- dented, as shown by the parliamentary returns, and the following taken from the last September Report: 7 “It will thus be seen that the total amount of business done during the last nine month of the Company’s operations has been TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND ONE NEW POLICIES, producing an additional an- nual income of - rinters of Newspapers, who will do us the fav- or to publish, before July 1, 1860, the above ad- vertisement three times, includiug this notice, and send on to us the paper containing the advertise- ment, will be paid for it, should they purchase type from us equal to five times the cost of said advertisement. _ "'Aii'Béders will be promptly attended to when addressed to An Experience of More than Twenty Years In the Various Departments of Type Founding HAS GIVEN THE SUBSCRIBIZRS SUCH FACILITIES OF SUPPLYING THE WANTS OF THE TRADE, THAT THEY PEEL JUSTI- FIE!) IN CALLING THE SPEC- IAL ATTENTION CF PRACTICAL PRBNTERS TO THEIR FOUNDRY. The Type which they manufacture is of very superior quality, as they use none but the best of HARD. METALS in its manufacture. Their arrangements, moreover, are such, that they are able to SELL CHEAPFR rou CASH THAN ANY 01mm ESTABLISHMENT IN rm: Um'rI-zn Sums; while for durability and use, for finish and artistic quali- ties, their Type is unsurpassed. THEIR ASSORTMENT OII‘ PRINTING TYPE IN- GIJIDES ALL THE STANDARD KINDS OF E VEE Y .41: TICLE NE 01233.41: Y T0 .4 Printing Office constantly ON HAND. AGENTS FOR E’Conmxs M’Lsns'rnn have just completed their SPECIMEN BOOK, which they think will compare with any issued by the trade. As their style of Type, both Plain and Fancy, are much the same as can be found in most of the Specimen Books, they are prepared to furnish anything that may be selected. Their M'oulds for the manufacture of Lewis, Metal Furniture, etc., are new, aurl are carefutly and accurately adjusted to every size which is re- quired. They would call the attention of Prin ers to the fact that they have taken the following PREM- IUMS 0‘ er all competition: -â€" Metropolitan Mechanics’ Institute, Washing ton, ................. 1857, First Premium. E.anklin Insi1tute, Philadelphia. .,1858 “ “ State Agricultural Society, Pennsylvania, Ham’s, Amms’, TAYLon’s, mecz'rox, Gon- DON’S,‘ Dmr’s~ MEDAL Jonsnn, um Dav- Is’ OSCILLATING Pnnssms. THITY MILLION DOLLARS! No. 705, Jayne SL, Back of New Masonic Temple, PLAIN AND 1013 LETTER, AND '1 HE MOST APPRM’ED AND BizAU- TIFUL VARIETIES OF Type Warranted to be EQUAL To ANY MADE IN THE ”WORLD. OLD TYPE TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW AT 10 CENTS PER POUND, IF DELIVERED TO US FREE OF CHARGE. ...... ' 1858, “' St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Associa- tion,0 O’COCOOOOICOOOCOOOOOOOC1859, “ The Report further says, that " the Directors congratulate the Shareholders on this satisfactory increase in the business of the Company, and they have every reason to believe that from the con- nection now formed it will continue to increase in the same ratio. ‘ All losses in Canada are submitted to the gentle men composing the Board who examine the partic. ulars, and if found satisfactory, at once order the payment of the claim. This system has cailed forlh numerous cards of thanks. If differences should arise between claimants and the Company, the Manager is fully empow- ered to accept of any process in law. ALEXANDER STEWART, The Capital of the Company is devoted entitely to FIRE LIABILITIES, having no reserve for a Life Branch. CGLLINS NI’EESTER ’5 NORTH AMERICAN Type, Stereotype, and Electrotype CAPITAL, $2,5ooo,ooo wuh upward: qf 1000 shareholders. The Right Hononnnn Loan KIANI, Chairman. Puma MORRISON, Esq., Managing Director. WILLIAM CAXTWILL, Esq, Sccretary. --n~mâ€"- PRINTERS’ FURNISHING WAREHOUSE, $ :1 :5. o 9 o o o ! Representing Property Insured to the extent of Manager for B. N. Jmerica D. MCDONALD, Agent, Durham. Durham, Dec. 9, 1859. 53-6. Trustee: and Board of Director: in Canada. STATE FIRE INSURANCE, HEAD OFFICE; CANADA BRANCH, TORONTO. $313; £3539213. NOTICE. FOUNDRY, LONDON. COLLINS £5 M’LEESTER. W.P. ROWLAND, M.P.P. WILLIAM Ross, Esq. Wu. annsasox, Esq. “ I- AMILTON SPECTATOR-” POLITICAL, Commercial, and General Newspaper, is published at Hamilton, C. W., by the proprietors, WILLIAM Grunge? and Aux- Axmna Roanarsox. It is issued daily, semi-weekly, and weekly, and has the largest circulation of any Canadian paper west of Toronto. From the particular attention paid to Comm er cial intelligence, the Spectator has acquireda rep utation for reliability, which has secured for it the Patronage of the Mercantile Community of Wes- tern Canada. The geographical position of the City of Hamilton, with its superior Railway con nection, atfords great facility for the speedy trans mission of the Daily Spectator to the numerous thriving towns and villages between the Niagara and Detroit Rivers,â€"au advantage of which the proprietors have not failed to ¢ivail themselves The Semiâ€" H’eckly and Weeklv editions (made up from the reading matter in the flaily) containing a great amount of news, at an extremely low price, enjoy a large and extended circulation among the agricultural classes, and those not immediately engrossed with the cares of politics or commerce, to whom the stimulus of a daily paper is not a necessity. The Spectator (Daily,Semi-chkly and Weekly) is therefore an excellent medium for advertising. The rates charged are the same as the publislwd rate, generally adopted by the Canadian pr- except for the weekly edition, for which dw the usual rate is charged, on account of its 1 circulation being confined almost exclusive-5. the farming community, thereby admitting only the profitable publication, in its columns, of ad- vertisements suited to this particular class. 113’ The rates of subscription, payable in .14- vance, are :â€" Daily, per annum . . . . . . . . . . $5.00 per copy. Semi-Weekly, “ . . . . ...... 3.00 “ Weekly, “ .......... 1.50 “ Postmasters and others acting as Agents will be allowed a handsome commission from the above mentioned rates, and parties sending the namoft four new subscribers. with the cash, will be enti- tied to one copy free. CLUBS. The success of the clubbing system as a means of supplying the public with CHEAP NEWS has already been tested by the Spectator. The plan, which was at first only applied to the Weekly has now been extended to the Semi-"feekly edition, and the rates payable in advance are, Semi- H’eekly,5 or more copies,$2 a year per copy IVeckly, 10 or more copies, $1 a year per copy {13’ When Clubs are sent to ONE ADDRESS one copy for every five Semiâ€" l-Veekly or ten Weekly will be given FREE to the getter up of the club, but where each paper is addressed from the office of publication no free papers will be given. THE CASH SYSTEM In announcing to the public the adoption of the Cash System as applied to subscriptimis, the pro- prietors of the Spectator may remark, that it has already been approved by all, and adopted by a many Canadian newspapers, with mutual profit to l the publishers and the public. The Credit System, Fhowever advantageous in other departments of i business, has nothingto recommend its application Besides a large kitchen attached. The above is situated in ‘one of the most desira- ble localities in Durham. Immediate possession will be given. anda clear title. Bool: and Job Printing, including the publica- tion of the National Series of School Books, as wel as the execution of every variety of plain and fancy letter press printing ; Book Binding, (this depart ment carried off the first prize at the Provincial Fair in 1857,) including Blank Book Manufactur- Capital N. [lsâ€"Letters containing remittances, properly addressed and registered, will be at our risk. GILLESPY It. ROBERTSON, Publishers and Proprietors. We also beg to direct public attention to the other branches of business carried on by us at the Which is one of the largest and most complete of the kind in Canada ; comprising the following Denargmenistvizi _ ing, and ruling and paging by the most improved machinery; Lithographing, and Coppcrplate Em, gravingand Printing, embracing Invoices, Ca dg Maps, Plans, Autographs, c., kc, with every variety of Mercantile and Blank Forms; Stationery, embracing a select and varied stock of British, American and Canadian made papers, c. SPECTATOR owner, Hamilton, C. W.; July, 1858. I3” The Business of this Company confined ex- clusively to the Fire Department. Assurances effected against loss or damage by Fire, on all descriptions of Buildings and their con- tents, on favorable terms, and at rates of premium as low as that of any other responsible Company. HE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR SALE lot No. 8 Bruce-st, Durham, containing a halfucre of land, well fenced, with a commodious and comfortable dwelling hoizse thereon, 21 x 26 feet, containing Four Elegantly Finished Rooms, to Newspapers, for while the individual Subscrip- tions are so trifling that neither hardship or difli- culty can result from payment in advance, the aggregate amount. is a matter of serious conse- quence to the publisher, and the expense of collec- tion and losses form a heavy item which he is compelled to levy on the honest subscriber who takes the benefit of the credit; hence the public can understand Why newspapers cost 20 or 25 per cent. more at the end than at the beginning of the year. The abolition of such a system will no doubt meet with the approval of the public, and while we will give every subscriber now in our books reasonable time to pay up anearages, we shall not in future receive any subscribers but those who pay in advance. Complete arrange- ments will be made for notifying subscribers before the expiration of their terms of subscription. ‘- -‘ President : Vice-Fred: Isaac C.Gilmor,Esq. Geo. Mickie; DIRECTORS: was-rams: Assurance Company OF TORONTO, C. W. Rice Lewis, Esq. | Thomas Haworth, Esq. James Beatty, Esq. Wm. Henderson, Esq. T. P. Robarts, Esq. I Walter Macfarlane,Esq. M. Rossin, Esq. Secretary (9 Treas, . .BERNARD H ALDEN, Esq. Solicitor, .......... ANGUS Mmmxsox, Esq. Bankers, ........... BANK UPPER CANADA. E’s” Terms of Apfilication, arid all necessaiy in. formation to be had on applying to Benjamin Switzer, Esq., Impeachâ€"a Head (mice-"Church Street, Toronto, With Agencies all over the Province. HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE. Mam 15mm», moo. TERMS LIBERAL . Apply, if by letter, (pm-paid) to the proprietor D. ROSE, Bentinck P. O. Jan. 27 1859. “Spectator” Establislmwnt, SAMUEL E. LEGATE Agent at Durham. INCORPORATED, 185]. GILLESPY ROBERTSON. Vice-President.-