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Just see the three Macs as all yelping they go, Sent out from the kennel «I Brown Dorionl McDOUGAL, McNAB, McKELLER 00., Hard after Solicitor-General Joe ; All of them loud and all of them wordy, All the same tune like a street hurdy-gurdy, And all for the SILENT tuxAchuE Purdy. But they’ll find to their cost it’s no puppy’s play, The game of the Grits is more glitty than they; They may bark at his heels} but they’ll find him 0h, all will remember the terrible blight That paled the Grit faces last Saturday night When in full assembly was draggvd into light The vote making powers of PURDY and WRIGHT. Oh, it was ha rd then, though reckless and wordy, To keep the tune on their cm ckcd hurdy-gurdy, In honor of wnmr-thxa, vow-MAKIXG Purdy. Owen Sound, Feb. 11, 1861. A xn.-â€" Bruce’s fldrlrcss. Canadians who lm vc l‘earts to feel For your dear rights and country’s weal, To you I make this proud appc 11-â€" Comc vote for J. C. Morrison. Jessie Purdy will not do, Gowan is opposed to you; We must resist Hie rrhel crew, And vote for J. C. Morrison. £53500 PRIZE STORY. g , . - fiftscellmu-aus -Rcad'mg From Forest Fair to Owen Sound, The banners wave, the trumpets sound ; Make ready Britons, stand your ground, And vote for J. U Morrison. Jessie I’urdy is no good, His head is like a. block of wood ; To vote for Gowan no man should, So vote for J. C. Morrison. McDxmgall mu away ashamed,â€" McNab's" thick head shouk! ne'er be named ; J udas Iscariot’r is much blamedâ€"- So come and vote fur Morrison. Let every honest British man I'nitc with us in heart and hand, And use old Moses‘ Ma gic wand, To sweep the foes of Marrison ' A bxieflos 3 laww- r fmm Toronto. fllclieller- a broken down merchant fxom Kent. HOEPS AND FEARS. AN UNEXPHCTED EVENT It was autumn weather, and unusually cold ; but the glow of a cheerful fire diffused its pleasant warmth over a comrnodious bed- chamber, and the gale outside was not fell within. A lruly, young and fair lay there on a sofa, her dark eyes were bent on the fire, as they had been for the last half hour, as if she- were 111 a reverie; and it would seem that it was not a pleasant one, for a contrac- tion of pain flitted, ever. and anon over her brow. It was Anna Danesbury, William’s THE MAC’S AFTER MORRISON. DEVOTED TO NE\VS, POLITICS, EDUCATION, AND AGRICULTURE, In the adjoining room, the door opening be- tween them, sata woman before another fire, nursing an infant. It was three weeks old ; and very precious was the little life to its me- ther, for she had not belore had a child to live. Suddenly a visitor’s knock resounded through the house, and the nurse arose, laid down the little bundle of flannel, and entered her mistress’s chamber. ' “ Of course, ma’am, you will not see visi- orst this afternoon,” she said. in a half re- nronstrating. half authoritive tone. “ You are not strong enough for it.” wifv "â€"Mrs. William Dinesbmy cleared Let brow and looked up. t “ Why did Mary not conie with you?” de- manded the invalid, as her aunt embraced her. “ Because I feared there might be too much chattering,” replied Mrs. Philip. “ I heard you were not so well as you might be. Mary will come and see you to-morrow. Wh has been the matter with ynu, my dear? ' aby three weeks old, and you lying here !” ‘ Anna did not answer at first. ' " “-I have had so much faver',” she slowly said. “ Aunt, _I have wanted you‘at' home.” DURHAM, C. W ., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1861. “ My dear, I did ho pe and intend to be back before your illness, butâ€"” a “ Not for that,” interrupted Anna. “ I did very well without you. A,unt ” she repeated in a; whisper of emotion, her trembling band; seizl ng those of Mrs. Philip Danesbnry, “ my hmtband 18 going all wrong It is that wh'ch makes me ill. ” DAN ESE} {FRY HQUSE. BY MRS; ELLEN WOOD. yggifii. 3 EW SONG. C I] AFTER XX. (Continued) “ Is be worse?” “A great deal. Some one or other is alwasy calling, to induce him to go out in the evening Sometimes it is Laughton, sometimes it is Lionelâ€"when Lionel is in a fit state to call for any oneâ€"sometimes it’s others. Not one night since baby was born, has he been in until the public-houses were closed ; and al- most always in a state that he cannot come to my room, to say ‘ Good-Night.’ Here I lie listening for him, unable to get to sleep. and when I hear him, he is not well enough to come and speak to me.” “I am iruly grieved to hear this,” ex- claimed Mrs. Philip Danesbury. “But do not talk of it now, Annz'.” “ I must talk of it.” she vehemently anâ€" swered, whilst a burning, hectic spot appear- ed on her check. “ Aunt, I have not spoken of it, and the silence is preying upon me : to tell you will be a relief.” 'vvolio ‘ .0 7"“JI thought VVilliam’s resolutions were so good}_” iamentefi Mrs. Philip Danesbury. U “ He does make good resolutions,aud some- times he will keep them for ever so long.â€" And then again he breaks out, and for several days will not be sober. Did you hear about A I... I thé loss at the works, ping her voice. u N’n 9: “'No.” “It was all through William. Something in the making of the machinery. I do not understand it ; for Mrs. Dan‘osbury _who told me, did not enter into detailsâ€"perhaps she did not know them herselfâ€"and I was too much annoyed to inquire. But it seems they had a gr:e it deal of valuable work 1n process, and William went in one day to an incapable state, gave wrong orders, and it was spoiled. The loss was some hundreds of pounds!” “ Poor Mr. Danesbury! poof Mr. Panes- burv !” uttered Mrs. Philip. “ What sons! -â€"When will his cares end ?” “ William came home almost like a mad- man. He was sobered then, and knew the mischief he had caused. I never saw him so cut up, so full of sorrow. I inquired what was amiss, but he would not tell me.” it ?” “No, indeed aunt. ‘He did not touch a drop of anything for days afterwards. He 1.5 full of good hopes and resolves, if he had but the strength to keep them.” “ Do you know how the poor old gentleman is, Anna 2’” “Much the same, lbelieve. He was here on Sunday, and [could scarcely keep my eyes from him, he looks so broken with care ; every time I see him it strikes me more forci- bly. Mrs. Danesbury is ill now. You are aware, perhaps, that the influenza has broken out at Easthnrough ?” out at East borough ?” “ It was the first news one ufthe servants received us with, when we reached home to- day.. She said it was raging badly, and two or three had died. I told her she was a Job’s comforter, to give us that for welcome.” “ Mrs. Danesbury was attacked with it some days ago.” returned Anna, “ and I hear she is very ill.” she is vérs iH. ” She has never got over the shock of Roberts death last spling, ” obsepved Mrs. Philip Daneshury. Anna clasped her hands together, as if her emotions wexe too much for her. ”‘fi‘vAnnt, when I think of Robert’s fate, of Lionel’s certain death-â€"-” _“ Lionel is no better,I fear,” interrupted Mrs. Philip__l)qnes§ury_. . ‘ AA " “ Better!” ejaculated Anna. “ He cannot live long. as he goes on now; or, if he does live,he will become insane. Mr. Pratt says his brain is softening rapidly. When I dwell upon Lionel’s state, upon Robert’s dreadful death, and remember that William may come "to the same, my senses seem as though they would desert me.” ‘° Now, do you know what?” exclaimed Mrs. Philip, in the peremptory tone we use to an offending child; " if you say anmher word upon this topic, I shall be gone. You are doing yourself incalculable harm.” C’J “ I am always dwelling upon it,” was An- na’s answer; “ how can _I 1131th '2” t.“ D allDV‘Cl Q LIV‘V \aull A .IU- .. g I 1' “ You must try and help it. You will never get strong, If you don’t,” replied Mrs. Philip ; “ nothing retards recovery so much as broodâ€" ing over ills, real’or imaginary.” ‘ l JIIP "-\v- -n-u. he was resolutevnoâ€"tâ€" I; perrlnit it, and‘Anna perforce, was silent, and presently dropped into a doze. Mrs. Philip took the opportunity to leave, telling the nurse she would look in again in the evening. I-u'm’ II“. .I ~-â€"â€" vâ€" â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" “ \ud I suppose he drank moxe to (hown WVilliam Danesbury came home at teatime and ran up to his wife’s room. He was quite himself. He edged himself on to the sofa, and Anna drew his hand between here, and heid it there. lain” . n15 W118. “8 vegan EU BUU VT DJ llltlâ€" "fay-v". 5..--.1...lv- - __ _- ,fnh‘ _ _ . o _ , toms o *we'ariness; looked at his watcn, pawl Another ha}; hqur, and than W 111mm Danes- .ied aside the curtain to gaze“ out-at the night,‘ bdry- entered; They heart! him come‘ in and “Have tea in my room, William,” she whispered. “Nurse wxll make it and send. 1t for us.” “ If you like,” he cheerfully answered.â€" “ When do you mean to get out of this room, Anna ?” “ Soon. But I am net quite so strong as I might be. AsI should be 1fâ€"Iâ€"” “ If what ?” 'he satd, leaning over her. She drew his face down, so that it rested on hers, and whispered : ' “ If I were not so anxious about you.” He could not pretend to misunderstand her, but he strove to turn it-off with. some disjointe- ed, careless worrls--that he was all right and meant to keep so. .. -cv01'0 IQ! I A _‘ “luau-s -â€"â€" ' u-Oh'Ihat y‘m} would William!” she mur- mured. “ If not for my sake,for”â€"â€"she pulled aside her shawl and disclosed a little red face nestled to herâ€"this child_’s_'.” I‘VUUI\155 ‘v .-v “ Do not fear, Anna. I know the responsi- bility thatis upon me. - Nay, you must not cry., My dear .‘wife, .I will be all you ivish me, ‘ . .. . . I ‘ Thus, when himself, he was ever‘reacly to say. Akind. loving husband, anatttactive man was William .Dauesbury ; so long as {he kept his bra‘iu and mi f”, clear. ' , ' I Tea was Mar: 1 w “L: me had the baby in l the other room, andfixm 'Danesbury was alone " 1 his wife. Hebegau to-sl'lowxrsymp-'i tom 0 'i'ire'ariness ; looked at his wa't_cn, pull» \ aunt?” sHe added, drop- walked about the room, and stirred the fire. His Wife understood it all. She called him to her. “ William yOu said, before tea, that you would be all you ought to be. Begin now: do not go out to-night.” He did not answer. “Oh, William, for my sake for your own sake! If you do not make the first efloxt. you will never carry out your resolve. Begin at once. Do not go’out to-night.” “Anna, 1 amwsure it is dnot right for you to excigg yqurgelf likcf: this.” - - A h “ No', it is not; it is very bad for me. But how can I help it? If you would but stay with me this one evening?” “ Well, I will, Anna,” “ You will! you mean it ?” she eagerly asked. “I will. Ipromise you. ” “Oh, William! how happy you might make me. '” she said, the anxious expression fading from her eyes. “ See, my trouble is gone and I am at rest.” tone. William smiled. “ I suppose 3ou think that is not much in my line. It is more in Arthur’s, Ido believe he reads the Bible night and morning.” She opened the book at the third chapter of Revelation. William Danesbury read it re- verentl. To him it was especially applica ble , he felt it to be so, and knew why his wife had chosen it. “ He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raimem; andI will not blo‘. out his name out of the book of life, butI will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. “ Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out : and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and . I will write upon him my new name. “ To him that overcometh will I grant to sit down thh me In mv lhr‘one,even as I also overcame, and am sat down wuh my Father in his throne.” Those three verses were especially appli- cable. W'ould he overcome '?_ “ \Villiam,” she murmured, “we all have something to overcome, ere we can inherit; all, all. Christ himselfsays, ‘Even as I also overcame.’ ‘ Because thou has kept the word ofmy patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the word, to try them that dwell upon the earth.” William those promises were not made for nothing.’_’ g..v~‘-v -vâ€" \Villiam Dazlgsbury was closing the book again, when the same servant appeared and called him out. He Went down stairs. Anna wondered, for she had not heard any one come to the house ; but her attention had been occupied with other things, Immediately she caught the sound, as of more than one going out, and the front door closed. and her husband did not return. She rang'her bell, and her maid came up. ' ‘° Is Mr. Danesbury gone out 2” “ Yes ma’am.” “ Gone out l” she could not help repeating. “ With Mr. Lionel,” aileed the servant.â€" “ Master said I was to tell you, it you inquir- ed, that he should not be long.” ‘ Y'VI . O C Vu '- w- Her heart sickened within her. What I in the very face of his promise to the contrary : in the'very echo of that warning chapter!â€" Could he not “overcome ” for that one night ’2 She buried her aching head on the so‘a-pil- low, and moaned aloud in her tulness of des- air. p When Mrs. Philip Danesbnry entered, which she did soon afterwards, she found her flushed, harrassed, andexcited. “ Not to stop in for this one night l” she reiterated. “After promising me I It is ofno use hoping, aunt; he is a lost‘man.” ' ‘" ‘ " ' Two hours passed away, and William did nnt’come in. Mrs. Philip was, unwilling to leave her, She was so restless. Too illto sit up, she yet would not, go tobed. The nurse came in and exerted her eloquence, and went away again in a temper, when she found it of no effect. Suddenly, they heard- the church bellltollout. . ' . ('(‘W‘lnés‘o'cL’a tho nncnInG-l‘rQll'lv” Rinlaimefl 'ruy-vvâ€" “‘ Theifek the "passing-bell 9" eXclaimed Anna; “ I‘wonder who is gone. Somebody is released from a wet-1d of care and suflering.’ Agd she sighegreo 'pamfullyfthat It almost seemecg to: homage} regret ‘jthatl'flshe was not released.‘_ . . , _ _ " ‘ “It’s Somebody of Consequence, whoever it is,” cried the nurse, having returned to make her comments, or “ they would not trouble themselves to {jog out__s_o_!§te a: this.” PRICE, $1 50, IN ADVANCE. [WHOLE NUMBER, 115 .he go into the parlor. \ “There!” exclaimed Anna to her_ aunt, “ You hear! He does not" come up Stairs: that will tell you how he is.” . . “ I will go down and see,” said Mrsd’hIhp William was leaning over the fire‘when she entered, his elhew resting on the mantle- piece. His fake looked pale and sad ; not, gins. Philip thought, as does that of a man in rink. i . “ Anna has been worrying herself much at your staying out,” she said whim. “ She is in so excited a state, thinking you have now come in from theâ€"the public-houses.” fl “Aunt, how (16' you do? I heard you were back. I am glad you came in: Anna is lone- ly alone." - N either was his tone, nefiier was the ‘exprcs sion of nis eyes like that of a man in drink.â€" Mts. Philip looked keenly, and felt convinc- ed that he was sober. “No,” he sighed, “.I have come from a very different scene. Of course you have not heard the tidings ’2” " “That tidings? We have. heard nothing.” “ Mrs. Danesbury is dead.” ‘ Mrs. Philip was shocked~,and startled. “Mrs. Danesbury dead ;” she uttered, after a dread “ Lionel came here, and 8316. he mother was dying, and begged me to go to her with- out a moment’s delay, for she had asked for me,” resumed William. “ I thought Ishould soon be home again, and I did not like to tell Anna the cause of my going out, lest it should alarm her.” ”m“ Then, the passing-bell was for Mrs. Danesburyl What can have caused her sud- den death?” . . . “ She has died from this influenza that is going about,” was \Viliiam’s answer. “ She has been evidently sinking, ever since iRo- bert’s death, and, when this disease attacked her she had no stamina wherewith to struggle against it. A physician was telegraphed for from town this morning at five o’clock, and was here by ten, but he could do her no good. Poor thing! she was sensible. and took leave of us all. Aunt,” he added, lowering his voice, “ she asked me to pardon her. for hav- ingr forced me to drink wine and beer in my childhood.” “ William! Did she? She is anoxher, gone to her grave, wishing that her life could be lived over again; that she mlght reject the evil, aid choose the good.” “She 'held my hand mud Arthur’g, and beg- ged us to forgive past unkindnesses. But the partigg with Lionelâ€"it was grievous to see.” h “ Rabxrt and Lionel have“ sent her to her grave, between them,” impressively resumed lesumed Mrs. Philip Danesbury. “ Lionel is saying so. I took him home and left him there. in a state of excitement that you can scarcely imagmé. Crying one minute, talking the next; and, should he fly to drink in He midst of it, he will inevitably bring: on another ofthose dangerous innate.” “ William,” spoke up Mrs. Philip, in a so- lemn tone, “all this ought to tell upon you, as a warning. Will you not accept it ’!” - °‘ Yes, I will.” . “ How does your fnther lear his loss ?" “ Calmly. He has exper'onced too much sorrow for anything to affect him greatlymow. My poor father will not be long after her,” he added, w ith a sigh. “ Drink ! drink! the evi‘s of indul ing in strong drink!” aspirated Mrs. Philipfianu- bury. William passed by the remark without ob- servation. - ' “May We tell Anna?” he asked. “ Or will it excite her injuriously ?” “ Tell herâ€"oh, yes. Her fears and excite- ment all tend to one point, \Villiam ?" ‘ He knew what that was. Reader! how the close approach of death changes as ! Mrs. Philip Danesbury did not Inspect how literally near the truth she was, when she said that Mrs. Danesbury had gone to her grave wishing that her life could be lived over again, that she might reject the evil and choose the good. It was a strangely impressive scene that \Villiam had come from one which might suffice forawhole life’s les- son gâ€"Mrs. Daneshury lay (11 her bed, a dy- gtng woman; Lionel close to her, the others "'H ~- -__-_ dispersed round her, her husband, Arthur and William, and Mr. Pratt; the physician had returned to town again from his fruitless mis- sion. Mrs. Danesbnry had repented ; her days had been one scene of bittter repentance ever smce the death of Robert; but remorse she never could put away from her ; she could not recall the evil done. If she had made her peace with God, so far as she herself went she could not make it for the lost Robert ;,she . could not make it for Lionel. She took Wil- ' liam’s hands in hers,â€"-â€"“Forgive me as I have asked God to forgive me, for having forced you to drink wine and beer in your childhood,” she gasped. “William, be you warned while there is yet time ; and put them from ydu.-â€"~ Do not let me have another lost soul upon my hands ! It seems, I wculd give my own 30131 if God would but grant me my existence over again, that I might bring up my. children to strive for life everlasting. I brought them up for this world, not tor the next; and I rtfited them for both. Oh, Lionel! if I could but take your sins upon me, and hear them now before my Maker.” ’ A. C I C I ‘ ' vowov -u- .. - J _._-._-,, . ’ She spoke truth. She had rumed her sons, and they, in their turn, had sent her to-her grave. There was a deplorable scene enacted when she was being placed in it. Lionel was in a wret‘chedly nervous condition, and was obliged to take brandy ere he could venture to the tuneral. As the mourners stood around the grave, Mr. Danesbury at their head, and the coffin was being lowered into it, Lionel seized one of the cords, and broke intoaburet of sobbing and wailing. The coffin fell, into the vault, and,‘ but for Arthur’s firm grasp; who stood next him,T he would have flung himselt upon it. Lionel had to be surround-v ed and taken away, ere the service could be concluded; and that night. for the first time in his life, he was secured in a straight waist- Daneshnry, and he strove to master his’baneg ful passion. For some time, he kept eater: He stayed in doors in the evening, refused to join any loOsé- friends, meaning: those who were lovers of excess. and took only'aleivith his meals. He seemed quite resolved t9: put temptation from him. But, one Sundayâ€"1 Anna had been down stairs some time'thenâ€" the wine was on the table 'after dinner, and he finishedlnearly- a-bottle of port. He rose from his seat, and: was about to decent. anothec; when his wife glided up. to him, andde hex; hand upon his'ShouIder. ' ‘ ' "7 ' ‘ _' ~ “William, do not." ‘ ‘ ‘ Helooke'd at" her; looked at the wine ;and. then, with an irmsoluue, .mwillinggutgm he put the bottle hack. grain tiger! .thp- ‘s dq- board. There 'itremhine 7 3 but evorfpnd'a On“ hio‘eye’s turned restlessly to it, as “-11th i weretfiatcineted. ~ - ' ' r ~ - . . n A . 0 I coat. " UIV 3‘"-.- Late: in the evening; when Anna ”tired, for the night, the struggie came to an and»; He drew 'the‘cork, drank the Whole of the wine,’and than drew the cork of 3130211910!!-