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lair N D wed éfi- W3 5: Johnson.Pub1ishers 62; Proprietors.) j “Stjl‘léiinr ,in Chancery, C., c.-â€"1 UFFICE :â€"Next door to the Telegraph 1) dice, Durham. 164 tf. William Barrett .XRRKSEER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ) SnTEcimr in Chancery, c., c.â€"- )“fic9-â€"()ver Dalglish’s store,Upper Tova, urban). Ont. RQ BEIiT Eiflfll‘afiffi, DURHAM, {\FFICIAL ASSIGNEE, 000d workmaus as; charges are Merchants, Hamilton, Ont. Smx or we BIG CHAIR. ‘V‘THERE FURNITURE OF EVERY description can be bad as cheap, and as wond as at any other establishment ( â€" " in meroumy. All work wammd. Wareroom. One Door North ofthe Sign Wareroom, 01 of the big chair. iTHOMAS DIXON, mm: , \T'ruuxrgrng, WHOLE NO. 187.] James Brown. 3!? Bi. ’ HI \HRRIAGE LICENSES, H Durham Waggon G: Carriage ShOp. II . 5T ) '{E Y IS NOW PREPARED 2 . 2 mm «b C ‘eriages, Cutters, Wag- , 5 mi ‘Zm'gha manufactured from the nut m x: eriaL at the cheapest. possible rates. \ é Wur'k w 57% rantpd. Shop, opposite Mr. gm 2515-5: m3. Lower Town. Durham. Durham EG TU ANNOUNCE THAT THEY _ are prepared to do Millimry and Dress-making, and would kindly solicit the atronage of Durham and vicinity. Mrs. gen-kiss is well acquainted with above branclnes,and also Straw-work. Plating large brick J. F. Halsted. M. 0., gysvmx, SURGEON, m, HAN- Kerr, Brown 8: McKenzie, ujti': :5 HI DRY GOODS AND ‘ix-vvrzpa. and General Wholesale wags samwam, (TWO DOORS SO {11'}! OF THE Bissau-n.) NYE-RY description of Tiuware con- stantly on hand and made to order. A” work is manufactured under my own supervision, and none but the very best stock used. JUBBING done promptly and in the very best style, at the lowest living: rates. ej- Particularstteutiou pdd to Eave-Trouqhing. A large stock of StoveoPipes, Elbows '1' Pipes and Ridge Plates always on lurid, CHEAP’FUB 351!) AGENT, VALUER, c., c. Haney to Lend {rpm one t_o_ ten \‘ : eneral Blacksmith, opposite “‘ Wiley’s Boat. and Shoe ' Store, Lower Town, Durham.â€" 1 workmanship, punctuality and moder- barges are the rules at. this Smithy. FOR THE COUNTY OF GREY. SICI Samuel E; Legate. C. McDougall, )1 SE sum A‘ID ORNAMENTAL 1’ (u. n Durh 1,1m Ont. Painting, :1 and lap” Banning, done in the EU mrued side of the art. am, 10th June, 1863. William Buchanan, ' ‘RUM GLASGOW ' Scotland, Book- Binder, Sullivan Post Office. Charges mod- erate. All orders left at the Caaosxcu: 0f- 1'. Porter, '0. D'., CIAN. SI'RGEON, arc. GRAD a of Victoria College, oronto. «’}ri:firx‘s Building, Durham, ‘rrwv. All calls, day or night, atten‘ded t0. ' TINSMITH, AFRJXA STREET, DURHAM. nmptlv attended to. John Moodie, Ann! Conveyance 1', Licensed 1 for the County ofGrey. DENTISTRY. , Valued, Books and Accounis and c-Mected. 0:? $50,000 to pi Yum 3:111 Town Property at Ur‘?‘ic£:-â€"14 Garaftaxa 3L, )ntario. y terms of iota-est. Farms E L L, SCBGEOK-DBNTIST.â€" Udice,â€"-Une door North of , Upper Village, Durham. Ont. IF YOU WAXT FURMTUBE Go 1‘0 SREWELB’S HUGH ROSE, Cubiuetware and Chair Factory, OPPOSITE ORANGE HALL DURHAM, 30 RTH OF THE BRIDGE; AND GREY 7l-ly. l-ly. RCHARDVILLE, JAMES BELL, Pubrilx‘roa. Having Ieaeed the above premises, lately occupied by Mr. J. Hart, I am. prepared to 06% first-class ac- commodation to travellers and the public generally Good Wines, Liquors and Cis gare always on hand. Superior Stabling and an auentive Hustler. Stages caildaily. CORN'ISH’S HOTEL, ' RCHARDVILLE. ' This House has re cently been refitted and furnished in first class. style, with a newto the comfort and accommodation of the travelling ublic. \Vines, Liquors and Cigars of the c oicest hands always on hand. Good Stabling and an attentive hostler. Stages call daily.â€" Charges moderate. Argyle Hotel, HUGH MACKAY. PROPRIETOR, Durham. 0:;- The subscriber is Licensed Auctioneer tor the County of Grey. Certain Preservation ot the Sight. A M ES ELLIO TT, Proprietor. The subscriber thankful for past favors wishes to inform his old friends and the public generally, that be has again com- menced business in the above Hotel and hopes by strict attention to the comfort of his guests to merit a fair share of public patronage. fl Durh am Meat Market.” The LENSES of which are GROUND by us, from material manufactured especi~ ally for OPTIC purposes. It 18 PURE HARD 85 BRILLIANT and as near ACHROMATIC as can be FRESH MEAT produced. The peculiar form and acicntific accuracy atmined by the aid of complicated and costly machinery, warrants us in asserting them to be DURHAM HOTEL, Durham, THEY ASSIST THE SIGHT MOST BRILLIANTLY, ' WATCHMAKER AND J EWELLER, without requiring to be changed. So they are the CHEAPEST. as well as the BEST. MONEY TO LOAN. ‘8! ms. The undersigned is prepared to'effect Loan in sums of $200 and upwards an ap proved Farm and Village security, for from two to twenty years, on the most favorable Land Agent, Conveyancer, Commissioner, and Insurance Agent. PEBFEGTED SPEETACLES 0:)- A' good Livery in connection. Canada Landed Bandit Cnmpany. msg is magmas: Presidentâ€"LEWIS Morn", Esq. Vice-Presidentâ€" J 03x MACDONALD, Esq. Secretaryâ€"Joan Srnoxs, Esq. DIRECTORS : Hon. G. W. Allan, M. P. ; Wm. Aiexander, Esq. ; Hon. George Brown ; Hon. Asn’A. Burnham, M. P. ;. C. S. Gzowski, Esq. ; His ‘ Honor Judge Gavan; Hon. W. P. How» land, C. B. ; Hon. Wm. 'AcMaster, M. P. : J. B. Osborne, Esq.; S. Spreull, Esq. ‘ Lax-rut W. Smith, Esq.. D. C. L. BANKERSâ€"Bank of Commerce, Toronto Advantages to Borrowers. There is no possibility of the borrower ‘from this Company ever being called on isnddenly or unexpectedly 'to pay of his ,debt. _ _ ‘ . M LAST A GREAT MANY YEARS UR: L, I. The borrower has, if he desires, ‘23 years to.p§y off the-loan lent ;. he has always the lllunuawgsv u; 5-.-“? - The borrower 13 allowed 6 per cent", compound interest, for any even sum above $100 he pays before it becomesdne. No fines to pay. No shares required to be taken. No commission charged. No expenses of renewals. I. _-A:--n In- '1 Juan. LAZARUS, MORRIS 00-. F. 11. Edwards. ASL basin“ connect promptly transacted. Good Mortgages Bought. 3). Jackson, Jr., Durham, July 18m. 1870. Great. Reduction of Interest. 3:} A few good farms for sale. HALF-WAY HOUSE, ALWAYS ON HAND, IMPROVEMENT OF THE EYES, HOTEL fiABBB. SOLE AGENT FOR THE SALE OF umyu, umw'" ‘ A. McLELLAN, Agent and Valuer. DérhflD, AW 11th, 1870' . 184'“: cause a continuous and abiding Qt Z otre Dame Street, '(UP sums ) A CHOICE LOT OF Most Perfect Spectacles OUR CELEBRATED ON THE WEARER, EVER MANUFACTURED EMPLOY NO PEDLERS. 4:1) - GLASSES, ACKSON, .13., AT THE CO-NFER CH A RLES LIMIN. MONTREAL. $:,ooo,ooo. It seemed as if Providence had de- serted Randolph Perry- in his old age, and utterly cast him ofl' ;' for his was,in- deed, a hard lot. We do not often find a case of such great hardship in human alairs; for, although he had begun life with the brightest prospects, with abun- dant Wealth, a pleasant home, a loving wife and children, his seventiethrsnm- that found him. stripped ‘of all save the roof above his head,‘ and seriously threat- ened with the loss'of even that. Twenty long, weary years back, his reverses had began in the sudden and distressing death of his dear wife; and this irreparable blow was soon followed by the elopement of his daughter Annie, the pet and darling of his heart; with an artful scoundrel with a sham. title, who had probably left his -native land across the sea upon compulsion. The poor father heard of her but once after- wards, and that was when the news of her suicide in Manchester reached him. This visitation humbled him, almost to the dust, and brought with it a sickness that laid. him prostrate for a twelve‘ month, and nearly cost him his life. He rose from his sick bed, and ap. peared to the little world of his acquaint- ance only the wreck of his former man hood. His first 1nquiries were for Sim- eon, his boy. No one wnuld answer him at first ,they looked pitifully at him and kept silent; but when he angrily de manded to know the truth, they were compelled to tell him that Simeon, his only remaining hepe,l1ad heartlessly deo serted him during his sickness, and, as was supposed, hadgone (if to sea. Ran: dolph Perry did not die ‘with this accu- mulation of griefs; he lived on in a hope less, morbid kind of way; but no one had seen him smile since he was told of Simeon’s desertion. That was nearly twenty years back. He had dwelt in the house where he had' been bereaved ever since, with no society save that of the woman who attended to his small domestic afl’airs. Randolph Perry_was not a _misan- thrope. His heart had been deadened, not chilled by his more nflietious; yet there was but one thing that made life tolerable to him after those afflictions. This was, that his beautiful home at Woodhampton 'where he had passed the many happy years of his wedded life,‘ and had enjoyed theinfancy and child- hood of his cherished son and daughter,‘ before they had made him unhappy by 1 their ingratitnde, that Woodhampton was still his. All the happiness that he had known in life (and it was much) he‘ had known here; and there remained to him at least the melancholy satisfaction of knowing that Woodhampton was to be his until his death, and that his last breath would be drawn hereamid the- memories of his domestic happiness. But who can foresee the _,'future or who can predict to what depths of misery the human heart may be plunged?â€" This beautiful mansion, standing high up on a knoll that overlooked the sea, surrounded with spacious and cultivated grounds, had been purchased ;by Perry of it previous owner, who was his friend and upon whose assurance that the place was unencumbered and free from all legal claim, he implicitly relied. That friend had. died penniless, two years after; and now, as if to removefrom his existence the last ray of . sunshine, he found himself . threatened, with total deprivation lOf his estate. As ‘ unex- pectedly as though the heavens had dropped upon his bewildered head; he was notified by a lawyer in Londentbati he held for one ofhisclients amortgage 1 upon the place, executed by the render ,a few months before the sale, upon 3 which the principal and intérest amount- ' ed to quite the value of the place, and that immediate satisfaction was demand- ed and expected. -T he claim. was full of indications of fraud in the owner’s eye's; and‘obeying the first impulse of his indignation,the old man‘ sciaed a pen, and dashed off a defiant letter, denounc ing the mortgage as a forgery. The an- swer was the service of a writ beginning a foreclosure. Then followed a tedious and vexati'ons litigation, which resulted 1n establishing the mortgage, and declaring the pecnni ary ruin of Randolph Perry. It was the last drop in the wretched sufl'erer’ s1 cup of gall. The little means that he could command from hishrok'en fortunes had been swallowed up in his unsuccess- Tful defense of that suit. He had been warned by the rspacions creditor that but s single week would be allowed. him in which to leave; All was gone, and he appeared to he tottering down to his death, homeless as well as friimdless but with a few years, perhaps of heart-break ing retrospection left him. Who, than, can wonder that upon. the nigh whenour sketch introducqs; him, he sat down in tbegloom oi thenplight- ed sittingd’oom at Woodhampton, and, winking of all that thingq‘hbwed Lil ‘ ithored fate upon his land. adj.” {rm-“V607 ~‘ ’ -_ .‘L The Mortgage : The honr was about twilight; the no touched meal had been cleared away, and the old housekeeper .had retired to Her 'ohamber. Perry sat in the front room, in a low chair by the window, and, absorbed in his misery, he noticed uothihg of the storm that Was coming up, The low patter of rain drape driven before the wind came close to his ear on the Window p'ane, but he- heeded‘them not find it Ewan notuntil a vivid blaze of 7 lightning made the room as lightias dey,’.:followed by a terrific ‘cra'sh 'of thunder, that the old man was startled from his gloomy reverie. The storm grew epace, and the elements rioted without as though they would reze the house to its foundations. The rain (18 ecended in floods; the windhowled and rated around the eaves, and peel after peel flesh after flash, lent terrible sublirnity to the night. ‘Well, then,’ was Perry’s unspoken soliloqny, 'let the lightnings -a‘ngl the tempests do their_ worst. .I . do not care now if they burned up and tore dov’vn the house; it’s little enough to me now.’ He sat end looked from the window, trying to derive a miserable solace from the thought. He he‘d not eat thus more than helf an hour when he heard the sharp uu latching of the gate, and the quick step of feet on the gravel; and then there Wes a” knock at the door. . . - iffiain ninoment,’ he called; and after he had lighted a candle, he went to the door and opened it. - ,A ”tall man stood without, his gar- ments clingingto him in wet folds, and the Water running {rem them in streams. The old'man held, up the candle to his face, ’and saw a prominent. nose and a pairbf keen eyeaunder aride hat ; and for the rest, there was‘ a. handsome, rather benevolent mouth, and a mass of auburn heard; The man was ‘a stranger to him. I ‘Good evening, sir,‘ he said, in a ble, hearty voice. ‘May I come in and get dry. ‘? Such a ducking I have never had since I fell 03 the Freehaven Dock ,iong ago. Will you allow such a wet rat in your house ?’ - ’ your house. 9’ . ‘Yes, cOme in,’ Perry replied; and ushering the stranger into the room. he brought some kindlings and light wood, with whichhe soon made a fire in the fire place. The stranger took ofi' his coat and vest, and squeezed the water from them, hang them on n ~chair, d addressed himself to the drying of his extremities. The old man looked on in moody silence, and the stranger was compelled to make the first advancese ‘A nice yum yum have here,IahOu1d think. I saw it from the bottom of the bill, before the storm came up: ea-‘Who are you ?’ Perry ahruptly ask ‘Do you come here on any husi ness. 9_ Hue you anything to do with that rascal March who has robbed me of all my pr0perty ? I don’ t know, sir; perhaps I do you injustice; but. I have become embittered against e‘veryhody. I’ll 931: you kindly, if you came here spying for Isaac March, to leave peace- ably â€"-and now.’ ; ‘bn my honor, then, sir,’ replied the other; much; éurprised at Ihe questions, ‘I don’t know anything of March, and I’m'ebove spying for him or anybody. [feeble intollFreehaven, down below here,‘ this afternoon, in the steamboat, and I expected to walk over to West- lock befot'e the rain came on. I got caught, and I‘ made for the first shelter I saw; buthlf ,you’d rather 11‘ ’would v - ‘No, no,’ interrupted Perry , I Would not turn a 603 out into this storm‘,muoh less a' human being. Stay till you are dry and the rain is over; and that I think won ’t be before morning. I’ll give you a bed.) _ â€"- .0 u The stranger returned his cordial thanks , and as the old man ceased to give him any. attention, and lost himself in his old, sad thoughts, the stranger eyedhim with a curiosity that soon deepened to interest. His bold features softened in a look of pity as he noticed the vihite hair, the haggard, emaciated face, and the woeful look of suffering upon it ,,'aud giving a preliminarj gcough, he remarked, ‘Pardon me, sirâ€" hot you have .seen some trouble, [Should ’ . . . 88y. .. stranger had hung ms c101nes;1nenxt old man answered shortly and rather rested upon the wall, with its quaint Pee'ighly' .. ‘Family,_, ‘11 gone, and Pro pattern of paper; and then on the table. perty will follow in a few days. .1 Next he would look again at the bed; thought you were the rascally agent and. lb”â€" oome to turn me out. I have had a wife His eyes lingered m1 the table; and children to love me-él’ve none could not withdraw them. They rested now. I’ve had wealthâ€"hit l’ma beg- on a large family Bible, the gift of his gar now. I shall die In alittle while; wife in happier days; and it now lay so perhaps it’s assell. ’ open, as the hand of the stranger must The stranger attempted some little'have opened it, at the sixth chapter of consolation, but Perry was looking at Matthew. At the tap of the page he the floor, musing 'again , :and soon the saw drawn with a pencil, in bold letters stranger rose and .yawned. The old man but with irregular and wavering lines, lit another candle and placed it in his as if by the hand of a child, the begin- hand, with only the words, ‘First door ning of the thirteenth verse: -â€"- ' to the right, at the tOp of the stairs.’â€"-\ ‘And lead us not into temptation? The stranger bade him good night, but 'the other paid no heed to the saluta- v‘hiothing else for a score of years,4he Randolph Perry. “tired his gloomy timothy. tering, “bed has g1ven me of H13 Donn. ty when I deserved His curse. May my Father in Heaven, and my son on earth, forgive me P Not until 'fifteen years had passed was Randolph Perry gathered to his fathers. He lived long enough to see Woodhampton made happy by Simeon’ s chi‘dren, and to renew in his children; and grandchildren the domestic felicity of his former years. He died at last leaving to his posterity his estate, and a memory which they will delight to honor. It was not until his last hour on earth that he revealed to his son the secret of his temptation and deliverance on the A change upon the instant came over night of Simeon’ a return. His face turned tion; and as the guest withdrew, he re- l deathly pale, his limbs shooksoevidento i: that the light 1n his hand was extin- ~maid under the shin M An eccentric chuckâ€"Chafing an old -'- It Was then about ten o’clock. The, ;storm was at its height, and it continu- lurdfor an hour longer, when it abruptly iceased. The suddenness' of ilscessation aroused the occupant of the room; and weaned with his stress of emotion, he took-his candle and ascended the stairs. He had no heart for anything but his own dreadful misery {and he would pro- bahly have forgotten the presence of a ’strauger in the house, but‘for a ray of 'light issuing from the keyhole of the Member which he had bade him take. Randolph. Perry paused, and merely obeying a sudden impulse, stepped and placed his eye at the hole. He had not the least curiosity about this man, and his act was certainly without motive; but his eye had singled out ' his guest from the otherohjects in the room,when be concentrated his attention upon :him with the greatest eagerness. He saw himsitting by the table, his back to the door, and the'candle before him. Four or five piles. of bank notes, new and- crackling,. were before him ; and he counted them over rapidly, replacing them all in an. oiled-skin wallet beneath his pillow. In a few moments more the llght was - eXtinguished, and the heavy breathing of the sleeper was heard. Silently did the listener gain his own room; and as he stood there he was‘a man transformed ! Could he haveseen his own face at that moment, he must have been‘terrified at the fiendishtpas- sions that peered out from it. He straightened up his bowed shoulders; his eyes lost their listless, hopeless ex- pression,‘ and .burned with a haleful light; and even his shrivelled, wrinkled cheeks flushed with the shame of the} dreadful sin with which he was strug- gling. Randolph Perry meditated murder. ‘ He forgot that his intended victim was a guest beneath his roof; he forgot the horrible wickedness of the crime; he remembered nothing in that-moment, save that there was moneyâ€"thousands perhapsâ€"under the sleeper’s head,which one blow would give to him, That mo- ney might save \Voodhampton to him ; ior failing in this, it would certainly give him], peace and rest while he lived; and l'yflt'h the dread hint came thickening suggestions which the devil always pours into the ear of Jim victim at such times. The deed. might be secretly done, and all traces of it concealed â€"â€" The body could be thrown over the did a furlong away, and the ebb tide would take it out to sea before daylight. No ,one but himself knew the presence of the stranger here; it could never be sus- pected that he had ever been here. He eculd do it; he wou‘d do it. 1 With this horrible resolution formed, the old man rapidly proceeded to its sc- complishment. I In his human drawer lay a sheath knife, eight inches in the blade, which he had never carried since boyhood; and opening the drawer he (001: it from its sheath, and holding'it up to the light, saw that it was sharp. The demon must have had full posses-‘ sion of him in that hour, for he smiled as he observed the glitter of the bright blade. Placing it in the breast of his waistcoat, he softly left the room and traversed the passage. Listening at the door of his victim, he heard his steady, regular breathing; and noiselessly un. closing it, he entered, and advanced to the bedside. . It is stated that before crirneslike ithis, there isalivays an instant of_ 'ir- resolution while the guilty soul _is 'gatheringeourage for the blow. So it was'with Randolph Perry. He placed his hand before his eyes, and withdraw.- ing his gaze from the face of his victim, turned, and looked wildly around the room, There was apparently nothing there to swerve him from his fell pur- pose. His glance fell upon the old- fashioned bureau; thenee‘ it turned to the high-backed chair,’ on which the stranger had'hung his clOthes; then it rested upon ”the vrall,~ with its quaint pattern of paper; and then on. the table. Next he would look again at ‘ the'hed; and thenâ€"â€"-l The man lay upon his right side',with his right arm under. his head, ' and his ieft thrown up oier it. The night Was witty, and he had thr’oWn the e'o'verlet from his breast, and his heart was fair- ly exposed to the blow of *he' assassin, Hisisieep'ya's calm and sound ; he hard- ly stirred'es he ley, except as the move- ment of his broad chest. agitated his body. ' 7 guished; and, with all purpose (if érime banished from his heart, he feebly totter- ed flow the chamber that had witnessed this‘strange scene back. to‘ his own room, where he sank on his knees by the bed- side, and penitently poured forth his sun! in secret thankSgiving to Heaven for his deliverance. The night passedlaway, and the first hours of morning still found the old man upon hrs knees;for even after he had| prayed ‘for hours seeking for peace and forgiveness with tears and sobs, his memory wandered back to the day, long past, when he held his little son upon his knee and read to him the beautiful lessons of Christ’s sermon from the great Bible; and he remembered how he had encouraged the boy to print the wOrds upon the margin that he had that night seen for the first time in years. 'It was this that had conquered the demon within him, as he stood by the stranger’s hedside‘with the naked knife in his hand. Thoughts of the slnless happiness of those hours, passed in the instruction of his children in the way of truth, mingled with the dreadful reflec tion that his own bov, if alive, might at that moment, somewhere on the earth, be threatened with destruction by ruffl- ans not more wicked than himselfâ€"and at once his evil purpose fell away; and praying there upon his knees in the still hours of that night,- he asked that the judgment of Heaven upon him for his wicked design might not he stayed, but that he might at once be driven out into the world, pennil‘ess and friendless, to be chastened to his death. It seemed to him as if his prayer were to be speedily answered; for as Randolph sat at breakfast with his guest, both silent and full of unspoken emotion,‘ a chaise drove up to the door, and from it alighted Mr. Mural», the harsh and- hateful agent. He entered without knocking, and unceremoniously address ed the old man, paying no heed to the stranger. ‘Your time is up today, old fellow,’ he rudely said ; ‘and if my' client still owned the mortgage, my business here would be to turn. you out; but he don’t ;~ he’s sold it to somebody, whom. you'll probably see here soon enougli. I was going by,‘and I thought I’d call in'and congratulate you.’ ‘Heaveu’a will be done," ejaculated Perry, covering his face.‘ ‘It’s just obOut '-ti’me it was} March rejoined, with heartless insolence." "You have given trouble enoflgh about that mortgage, my old c06ge’r,ian‘d it’s quite time you were set adrift on your traveis.’ ‘Leave the house, you acoundr'el,’ roared the guest, jumping up angrily, and menacing Murch with his fist. ‘Who 'might- you be ?’ the'_ l'attei' sneering'ly'asked. ' ' ‘I am the owner of the mortgage, and I am ableaud willing' to punish'yOu for your cruelty to'tbis old man.’ '. Then seizing the agent by the coat; collar with a grip of ‘ irOn,'the strong man spun him about like -a topâ€"alarm ming him with no gentle force against the-wall till the breath Was-knoeked out of'his body; and then opening the door, be cast himrforth into the wet grass. A minute later, the crest-fallen agent rose. and'limped out to his chaise,‘sore and bruised, and humbled 'in feelings. ’It Was his first and last visit to 'Wood- hampton. ’ ' The stranger reclosed the door, and knelt beside the astonished old man,and took his hands. ‘Don’t you knowâ€"mogfather ?’ he ask- ed in a trembliégivoioe. ‘Will you take back your prodigal son, who deserted you" so oruelly ? I never was bad’at heart, father-,4? it Was Robinson. Crusoe, more than anything'else that made me run away. I’ve come back now, after years of wandering, with m'Oney enough for both of us; I’ve paid the mortgage, and I want to live withyou here at Woodhampton. My heart has ‘ been yearning to you ever since I set foot in the house; I’ve been ready to reveal my. self a dozen times, but it faltered on my lips. Forgive me now, father; forgive me, and let us dwell in peace, and for- ; get the past.’ His voice faiied him, and his head sank on his father’s knee ; 'and' the glad old man bent over him, with streaming eyes, fondly smoothing his hair, and fa]. tering, “God has given me of His houn- ty when I deserved His'cnrse. May my Father in Heaven, and my son on earth, forgive me I’ It was not until his last hour on earth that he revealed to his son the secret of his gemptation and deliverance on the night of Simeon’a return. Not until'fifteen years had passed was Randolph Perry gathered to his fathers. He lived long enough to see Woodhampton made happy by Simeon’ s chi‘dren, and to renew in his children and grandchildren the domestic felicity of his former years. He died at last leaving to his posterity his estate, and a memory which they will delight to honor. COUNTY ADVERTISER. The Paris journals reiterate the re port that the Prussian authorities ap- plied for leave} to send home their wounded through Belgian territory, and that the request was refused. The ground upon which the refusal was put was that the Prussians, by sending back their wounded through a neutral state, desired to clear the way for reinforce- ments going to the army. This is a sufiicient justification for any apparent Want of humanity on the part of the Belgians. The proposition made by the Paris FIIqaro for placing electric lights on the Paris fortifications seems to meet with favor. The military authorities think the idea is a good one, as the dazzle of the lights Will perplex the besiegers and aid the besieged. Prussia has sent Bavaria ten millions of gold as a subsidy; Napoleon’s missioh to‘ Italy is ridi- culed as untimely and profitless. A new regulation of the French ar- my is not likely to be immediately pOpnlar, especially among the raw re- cruits who compose the Gardc Mobile. The Journal Oficz'el says, it having been ascertained by science that horse-flesh is palatable and wholesome food, all horses killed on the field of battle, in- stead of being left to rot, are, so far as practicable, to be brought to the regi- mental bntohers, and sewed out to the troops as rations. The Army and Navy Journal states, “positively and from personal know- ledge,” that, early in our war, ' when prices were depressed, an agent of Na- poleon came to New York and made large purchases of real estate in Third Avenue and other parts of the city, and that the imperial speculation has re- sulted fortunately. 7 ~ A Paris letter says: “ The Empress (with all her extravagant pretensions as a religious and charitable Woman,) not only consenting, but, as is said, urging, that her son should accompany the ar- The-interpretation in English of the names of the Germaa commanders is sufliciently curious. For instance, Stein- metz means a stoneocutter ;-.Falkenstein, the Feleqn'rockj and hence Vogel von Falkensteinâ€"the bird of . the falcon rock; Manteufel, man-dea‘il', and Eulen- burg, theeistle of the owls. my, has proted that she is utterly with- out the first ‘natural instinct of a. moth- er, and thus ghen color to the belief pretty general, that she really has no claim to the maternal title.” A piece entitled “Marching on Paris’ is now performed at a leading theatre in Berlin. The first act represents “Peace and quiet; ” the 'second, “The peeple rise and the struggle begins;” the third, “The passage of the Rhine;” and the fourth;if“0n to Paris,” with songs and ballet dancing. General Douay, who wasI killed at: Woerth, was one of the most popular of the superior officers in the French ser- vice. He rose from the ranks, and was. appointed to a Captaincy' for his daring courage during the siege of Rome, in 1849. He; was gradually promoted to his late/high rank for distinguished ser- vices in Italy, in the” Crimea, and lastly in Mexico, where he' was promoted to his present grade of General of Division by Marshal Bazaine. In harmony with a most powerful physical organization General Douay was endowed with a voice so loud and sonorous as to become legendary in the regiments he has led into the field. His word of command could be heard above all the tumults of battle. _ It has been pretty clear for a month past that the war has practically united the whole of Germany in 0pp0sition to French policy. If’further proof were wanting it would be 'l‘o'und in the fact that the Austria‘u Germans of all classes have, after mature deliberation and an abandOnment of local political differen- ces, agreed to and issued a proclama. tion, in which they call warmly and in the most energetic terms on “ all patri- otic Germans” everywhere to support the cause of Prussia against France, at least inasmuch as France is represented by Bonaparte. The truth is-sand Na. poleon has discovered it to his sorrowâ€" that all former differences have been forgotten by the German people, who unite as one mania support of Prussia and defence of “Fatherland.” The armies of both Prussia and France must have suffered terribly from disease, considering the _ heavy strain which has been placed upon the physi- cal energies of the men. In all wars disease kills a greater number than the bullet. A foreign journal recalls the fact that during the siege of Sebastopol the French lost 20 ,040 men by the “chances of war,” while no fewer than 75,500 fell victim of disease. In the Italian campaign the French 1038 is killed amounted/to 3,664, while 5,000 died of disease. If this proportion is maintained during the present campaign the total 10‘! will indeed be frightful. ITEMS . Count Bismarck’s two sons have been The African tr00ps employed by Na- poleon 1n the present campaign are a savage and vindictive horde. The cele- brated Turcos are composed of about t-hree fourths Arabs and one-fourth Frenchmen. Many of the former are pure negroes, and all of them are of such a character as to make their em-' ployment in civilized warfare a disgrace to the Empire. They are said to be addicted to crimes of nameless enormity, and seventy of them have already been punished for offences committed against ‘ French residents. What they would be guilty of if they once get across the frontier into German territory one shud‘ ders to think of. NapoleOn has added another to the many grave responsibili- ties he has assumed by giving such uti- ter babarians a chance of making deso- late the homes of Christian men and women. The latest thing in fashion to take the place made vacant by the retiree ment of the Grecian bend is the “ Bos- ton dip.” It is simply a limp with the north foot. A woman with the “Boston dip” acts as though she was fonndered. The Emperor Napoleon has declined the services of 8,500 Irish auxiliaries tendered by James Stephens. The grain mills in the valleys of the Seine and Marne and all their Contents which could not be removed,- have been purposely burned. The country people are destroying the roads and doing all they can to impede the march of the Prussian armies. All the animals in the Zoological Gardens in the Bois de Boulogne have been removed. Part of them have been retained in the city, and part sent to Belgium. Some of the animals are of great value. More Prussian spies have been ar- rested taking plans of the works along the river Serre. Some were detected in General McMahon’s army. If We can believe the reports the war in Europe is in some respects degenerat- ing into a war of savages. One report is to the effect. that the French peasants are poisoning the wells in Alsaceâ€"a tact which, if true; proves them guilty of a crime against humanity and worthy of death. RAILWAY AROUND Maraâ€"The idea of putting a railway around a besieged fortress as the Prussians are ‘about to do at Metz is certainly a novel one in warfare; though the turning the course of a river, as they are doing at Stras- bourg, is as old as the seige of Babylon. A remittance has been received from Dublin for the aid of the wounded. The Empress acknowledges the contribution in a note in which she says: “This offer“ ing‘to the wounded French is received with gratitude. The generous senti- ments Which have inspired this act and your wishes for the success of our arms and the happiness of the Imperial fami- ly have profoundly touched his Majes‘ ty.” A good deal of the false hair worn by the ladies in cut from the heads of com victs. M. Lesseps has received the order of the Star of India. Henry Ward Beecher fears that If Wealth and fashion get their foot on camp-meeting grounds they will become the second-rate spiritual Saratogasâ€" where men resort not for healing wat- ers, but. for frivolty and ostentation. It is stated that there is a dangerous $20 counterfeit in circulation. The celebration in Brussels of the five hundredth anniversary of . the burn‘ ing of the Sews has been forbidden by orders from Rome. The laying of the West India and Panama cable is progressing favorably. On a gate‘post in front of a farm house out West is a sign reading : No life insurance or sewing machines want. ed here. A San Francisco jannal character: izea the death of a living skeleton a a swindle on’ the worms. Barrie presented addresses to “their Excellencies” on the return trip of the gubernational party; It is rumored that Sir John A. Mark donald’a visit to Prince Edward’s Isa land has won that Province over to Confederation. Joseph Wilson, of Inuisél, has: got into trouble arising from mistaking an: other man's horse for his own. ‘ ' All. SURTS 0F PARAGRAPHS. [VOLUME 4, NO. 31. [$1.50 per Annum.