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White Office- U the Dark Urns Office Wimam Barrett 3111111511111: ”1011\le AT LAW, 31': L111! in (.hanceg, c., c.-â€" ‘ :‘zir: -Uwr U111 .g'xish sstore,Upper 10mm, 30mm:- EINBLAY, DURHAM, made Gla ' 1.1112 :IYSU. l) ou’e H [fled to ARRISTER, ATTURXY - AT - LAW, Solicitor in Chancery, c., «kc.â€" n‘I-2:-â€"Next door to the 'i'fékflmph Iarson’s store AND AGfi“ ",l‘ VALUER, 850., «kc. Money to Lend from one to ten .4 m1 easv terms of interest. Farms V Store. Lower '1 owr Good workmanship, punctuzflit ate charges are the rules at tbi -â€"Over Dal-51155 1111. Out. Dur FFICIA Durham Waggon 8: Carriage Shop. n I. S'Z‘UREY Iii NOW PREPARED \ ‘u .....;--‘x “""";'J"pQ, (‘ll‘téirfl- \V;‘;:- ham "v w E FURNITI‘RE OF EVERY N! HER ' ' ription can be had as cheap, oesc and as good as at any other establishment in the County. AH work warranted. Wareroom. One Door North of the sign of the big chair. 0113 a. me, p‘ Kerr, Brown a: Mcxenzie, '31 l’UH'i‘l-ZiiS 01“ DRY GOODS AND W holes-ale firm-win. and General FOR 'm E tirocm‘ws. am: \Itfuc rchams, Hamilton, Ont. Durham J 03113011.p‘1b1iShBI'S ProprietorsJ THOMAS DIXON; >ral Agvm, Convey-anew, Licensed Auctioneer for the County .of Grey, keg, Valued. Books and Accounts up and collected. (firSéOfiOO to 1 good Farm and Town PrOperty at mt. Uk‘ncszâ€"l-l Garafraxa SL, Samuel E. Legate', . Halsted, M. D.', my, ~117RGEON,C.,LOWER '_ : v“ [Surl‘ualll, JA. 4‘ o , -.- V, . ‘ Honor Judge Gowan; I BE are prepav . Dress-making. and would kindly soficit the i 18116, C. B. ; Hon. Wm. Mrs. ‘ J. B. Osborne, Esq. ; 1' Durham and vicinity. . above Larratt W. Smlth, Esq., Pet-kissâ€"is well acquainted with branches.and also Straw-work. Fluting BANKERSâ€"Bank of! Advantages to done in good style. fiRF-sidence next to R. McKenzie’s . ‘ large brick store. Lower Village. There 13 no possibini from this Company ev nnnnnnn nnto. 1t James Brown, ()1 \I \Rul: GL LICENSES, mu. (7) t. yw‘ TI NS M IT H , 0.4 12.4 FR- 1 .121 S TR HE T, D UR HAM. John Moodie, (TWO [megs xomn OF THE BRIDGE.) ‘ z I VERY description of Tinware con- stamiy on ban-'1 and made to order. . All work is manufactured under my own! supervision, and none but the very best} stock used. JOBBING done promptly and in the very best style, at the lowest living: "ates. {if}: Particular attention paid to Eave-Tronghinz. A large stock of Stove-Pipes, Hibaws, T Pipes and Ridge Plates always on hand, CHEAP FOR CASH OR TRADE. (761.) 10th June, 1 \T‘);{}‘:\ [S .\U W [’llhl‘n uuu 3 furnish Carriages, Cutters, Wag. Mei-11‘s, manufactured from the rial. at the cheapest possible rates. warranted. Shep, Opposite Mr. store. Lower Town, Durham. I. L, St mmox- Dexns'r. -â€" U Eice -()ne door North of [ pper V iliage, Durham. orter, M' D‘! _‘ Paormmoa. Having leased the 91' EU) EON, .c.. GRAD- 3 above premiies, lately occupied by Mr. J. ctoria College, Toronto. Hart, 1 am prepared to otl'er hrstoclass ac. «.r south of" the “Argyle l commodation to travellers and the public c. (133' or night promptly ‘ generally. Good Wines, Liquors and Ci- ,,,- l ORCHARDYILLE, JAMES BELL, l l gars always on hand. Superior Stabling 1 and an attentive Hostler. Stages call daily. ,A_-A--‘- attended to. eneral Blacksmith, ' \\ iley s_ Boot. 8 NTY 0F GR IF YOU HUGH Ross. r/ (9.; . Cabinetwme and Chair Factory, OPPOSITE ORANGE HALL Dunn-AMa 1m, Out. Painting, Imwing, done In the '3 l" the art. :uchanan, 41m )3! GLASGOW Stutland, Pack- 1: uder Sullivan Post Uii'ue. (‘hartvesmod- Hate. Allorclerslef: at the Cuaoxwm Of- SSIGNEE, 863 AND GREY Town, Durham.â€" tualitv and moder- ‘""' ' 'J at this Smithy. WAXT FL’RRITL’RE It) THE BIG CHAIR 16+th 71-1y. l-ly. RCHARDVILLE. This Hoase has re- cently been refitted and furnished in first class style, with a View to the comfort and acéommodation of the traveliing public. Wines, Liquors and Cigars of the. choicest hands always on hand. Good Stabhng and an attentive hostler. Stages call daily-.â€" Charges moderate. [’1' 'Durham. (:3;- The subscriber is Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Grey. DURHAM HOTEL, Durham, l J A M 1*) S 1‘: L L I O T T , Proprietor. 0 The subscriber thankful for past favors wishesto inform his old friends and the public generai‘ny, that he 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. 3' Hon. G. W. Allan, m. . Esq. ; Hon. George E THEY} Burnbam, M. P.; C. S try and‘3Honor Judge Gowan; d C. 8.; Hon. Wu ici‘. the g Ian , - " [‘7 ‘â€" ‘“““ var- FRESH MEAT Certain Preservation ot the Sight. The LE\SES bof which are GRULND by us, from matelial manufactured especi- ally for UP'IIC purposes. It is PURE, HARD and as m produced. F. I]. Em rants. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, (if? A good Livery in connection r-_ The peculiar form and scientific accuracy attained by the aid of complicated and costly machinery, warrants us in asserting them to be HALF-WAY HOUSE, gagging: 3oz Emma E: 7.53“ Ema PEBFE‘GTEB SPEETAELES H-GTEL: GARBS. Banada* landed Biedit Company '1 Money Loaned at 8 per cent. ”CAPITAL - â€" - $1,000,000. Argyle Hotel, UGII MACKAY, I’RUPRIETOR, LAST A GREAT MANY YEARS without requiring to b are the CHEAPEST, e changed. So they as well‘as the BEST. CORNISH’S HOTEL, ALWAYS ON HAND, The undersigned is prepared to effect Loan in sums of $200 and upwards on ap roved Farm and Village security, for from two to twenty years, on the most. favorable telms. LAZARUS, MORRIS 00-, SOLE AGENT FOR. THE SALE OF A CHOICE LOT OF Secretaryâ€"‘ IMPROVEMENT OF THE EYES, Durham, July 18:11, 1870. J. V md Agent, Conveyancer, Commissioner, and Insurance A gent. off- A few good farms for sale. "V cause a. conunuous Ufl|lats "ovâ€"___ _ BA\' KERSâ€"Bank of: 'Commerce, Toronto Advantages to Borrowers. There is no possibility of the borrower from this Company ever being called on suddenly or unexpectedly to pay off his debt. as, if he desires, 23 years: The borrower h to pay of’. the loan lent; he has always the privilege of liberating his estate from the morgage by giving 6 months notice. The bJrrower is allowed 6 per cent, compouni interest, for any even sum above $100 he rays before it becomes due. l No fines to pay. No shares requ -_ . ,-_-_ Ann“: N0 Most Perfect Spectacles HARD near ACHI LLIANT UMATJC as can be 5‘0 “[155 lU I'GJO 5“; -_~ 7 - No commission charged. No be taken. expenses of renewals. I am receiving applications for Loans. 'th will be All business connected therewr promptly transacted. A- MCLELLAN, 0 UR CELEBRATED hood Mortgages Bought. 1). Jackson, Jr., V I. Durnam EIGHT PER CENT. EVER MAX l' FACTL'RED ON THE WEARER, lentâ€"LEWIS MOI-‘FATT, ESQ. hesidentâ€" J 011x MACDOXALD, ESQ. wryâ€"Jon}: SYMOXS, Esq. EMPLOY N0 PEDLERS. 4:3 .‘XCKSON, JR" AT The CHARLES LUIIN. COXFER AXI) MONTREAL. ASSES, and abiding . MCLELLAN, Agent and Valuer. “' 10“! p‘VHI'UD V” out; rurity,ff0r “(£1111 A SINGULAR Connmnxnâ€"John B. mom "or“ e Gough tells the following story, though 11‘ q Bought. the. joke be at his own expense. Once v while on a lecturing tour through Eng. n 3]], Jr” land, he was introduced to a village t ’- audience in these terms :â€"‘Ladies and n gentlemen, I have the ’oner to hintro- l duce to you the distinguished lecturer, t , Mr. John B. Gough, who will haddress gt "ENI- you on the subject of temperance. You 1 "' 33 9' know that temperance is thought to be 1 rather a dry subject; but to-night we Iii humpanyd may ’ope to have the miracle of Samp° son repeated, and to be. refreshed with 3 Per cent" water from the jaw-hone of a. bass 1’ $'!OOO!OOO' ‘First class in geography, come up,’l said a country school-master. ‘Bill‘1 ' Es . Silo-“El” ESQ- Toots, what is a cape ?’ ‘A thing that . ESQ. mother wears over her shoulders.’-â€"l 'S‘Vim. Alexander, ‘What is a. plain?’ ‘A tool “Sea by enters for smoothing off boards.’â€" vn ; Hon. Asa A. car? sowsk'. Esq- : HIS ‘What is a desert ?’ ‘It’s gooseherries 3“° W' I” How. after dinner.’ ‘That’ll do, Bill,’ said the thaster, M. P. ; , . . .. Spreull, Esq.;. pedagogue, ‘Ill give you gooseberries 0- C- L. after school.’ LOAN. Man’s mind has atmospheric laws, Which all his moods control, A king, they reign in eizery cause That agitates the soul. \Vhy is a young lady forsaken by her lover like a deadly weapon? Ans.â€" Because she is a cutlass. Love is the sun which clear the mist Which sometimes round it lies, And Hepe the moon which can assist To brighten midnight skies. A fellow ungallantly remarked the other day that woman, with all her beauty and worth, slould understand that man was the chief matter consider- ed at the creation. She was only a side issue. Faith is the stars which 611 the space With myriad points of light, When we no more can see Love’s face1 Amid the gloom of night. Passions are breezes soft and mild Which sway us by their breath; Or tempests 1n their ravings Wild Which scatter Woe and death. Love is a sweet. contagion, ‘Which at- tacks peeple with great severitybetweeh the ages of eighteen and twenty two. â€"â€" Its premonitory symptoms are slightly ruffled shirts, ringlets, bear 8 grease, and whiskers. It feeds on moonlight and flutes, and looks with horror on “biled Thoughts are the birds which round as V aluer. 184-tf. ‘of it.‘ range To brighten with their song, Or disccrds make with voices strange To swell the side of wrong. Then if we study nature well And learn how she controls, We soon may gain the magic spell, That magnetizes souls; Two Dutchmen lived very close to- gether, and they had been fast friends; but they fell out, and hated each other like poison. One of them got sick, and sent for his neighhor, and said, Hans, I} am going to dieâ€"will you forgive me? If you die I will, said Hans; but if you I get well the old debt will stand good. In Iowa a merchant sent a donning lletter to a. man, who replied by return mail : You say you are holding my note yet. That is all rightaâ€"perfeetly right. Just keep holding on to it, and if you. find your hands slipping, spit on them, and try it again. Yours, afi'ec- tionatel y. No clouds can then our sky obscure, No tempests shake our souls, Or CIRCLS in their footsteps lure Our friends from our control. A Doc'ron’s PRESCRIPTION. -â€" An Irishman made a sudden bolt into a druggist shop, took from his pocket a soda water bottle, and handing across: the counter, exclaimed :â€"'There, snuff that, will you?’ The doctor did as he was directed, and pronounced the liquor to be genuine whiskey. ‘Thank you, doctor,’ said the Irishman. ‘Iâ€"Iand it to me again, if you please.’ The doctor asked what he meant. ‘Och thin, said Pat, ‘if you will have it, the priest told me not to drink any of this unless I got it from the. doctor. So here’s your health and the priest’s health. fur CHARLOTTE Connie“. Our Atmosphere. Rudolpbe, the missing billiard player, arrived in New York the other day on the Abyssinia. He states that be en- sisted in the French army, was captured and paroled at Sedan, and subsequently reached England by way of Belgium. The oldest toys in the world‘monn- tain tops.â€"â€"Punch. _ An Illinois editor says : “Trying to d) business Without. advertising is like winking in the dark ; you you may know that. you are kteping up a'powerfnl winking, but nobody (13: has any idea POETRY. DURHAM, ‘thn I Was twenty years old, my} parents being dead, I enlisted in the§ 24th Regiment of India. My regiment passed the next ten years in garrison duty in England, Ireland and America, and at the expiration of that time was ordered to India. I was ambitions to riSe in the ranks, and I exerted my- self to do my duty faithfully I tried 1to give satisfaction to my superior ofli [ cers, and succeeded 1n doing so. I was naturally quick at learning, though I say it my self, and as the cus- toms and ways of the natives interested me, I studied them closely, In four years after my arrival 1n the country I was one of the best informed 1 men in the service upon these topics. I had learned enough of the language of the natii'es to converse easily with them. IThese things, together with the good [name I had always borne in the regi- ment, induced the Colonel to take notice of me, and from that time I began to rise, until finally, about ten years later, I was made orderly sergeant of my com; pany. During this period I had married as good a. woman as ever lived, and had laid her in the grave in that far oficoun- try. She left. one child, who was mar- ried a few weeks ago to a very good young man in England. In the year 1857 I was stationed with my regiment at Cawnpore, which is on the road from Calcutta to Delhi, andj about five hundred miles from the for met place. The garrison at that time consisted of the 24th Foot and about four regiments of natives, or Sepoys, making in reality more than four natives . to every Englishman, for our regiment at that time was not quite 11p to the average strength. I never believed in this arrangement, for it seemed to me like placing the whites at the mercy of the natives; but as the authorities were perfectly satis- tied with it, and had full confidence in the Sepoys, I had to hold my tongue. ‘ Still I resolved to be on my guard. I had no faith in the rascals, and I Was determined that if they meant mischief they shouldn’t find me unprepared for them. I tried to induce my comrades to be equally vigilant, but to no purpose, and only got myself into trouble by it. The Colonel sent for me one day,and reprimanded me stoutly for it. The Sepoys were perfectly trustworthy, he said, and my conduct was only calculat- ed to produce dissatisfaction in the ranks of the whites, and must be stop- ped. He was surprised, he said, that 3so good a soldier as myself should be guilty of such iudiscretion. I. I justified myself as best I could, and told him that I regarded the composi- tion of the garrison as a direct invita- tion to the natives to massacre the whites. But he laughed at me, and told me to go back to my quarters and be- have myself better in future. Of course after this I kept quiet; but my fears were by no means removed.â€" Indeed, they grew stronger every day. I I became almost a mouomaniac on the ‘ subject, and in place of being the cheer- ful, light hearted fellow I had always been, I grew silent,nervous and irritable. i I accounted for the change by telling those who questioned me that I was afraid that. I was becoming a dyspeptic. 151.1? Bflflfiziflfi As the time passed on I kept a close and constant watch over the natives.â€" Scarcely a. movement of theirs escaped me. The garrison was so arranged that the white troops had possession of the magazine and the entrance to a citadel; but the excellence of this arrangement was marred by the fact that two of the native regiments were quartered within the citadel, while the others were but a ifew hundred yards without. All of us used a common parade ground, and the natives were in constant possession of their arms and a supply of ammunition. The whites were thus, as it were,sur-‘ rounded by the natives; and though we had the means of defending the entrance of the citadel, and keeping out those already beyond its walls, we would at the same time have to contend with the two rc fences. You remember, reader, that the news of the mutiny took the rest of' the world by surprise. In India some persons were prepared for it; but the majority were lulled by the false sense of security. Towards the beginning the of summer I began to notice a change in the native troops. Previous to' this they had been cheerful, quiet and good natured. Quiet they still remained, but the expression of checrfulness and contentment hegani to leave them, and they became sullen ‘ ,and gloomy. They performed their ; duties with a scrupulous fidelity, but ‘ with an air that was very different from their old briskness and smartness. More than this, there seemed to be about them ' an air of expectancy that I had never lnoticed before. rcgiments already within the dc- COUNTY OF GREY, ONTARIO, OCT. 13, 1870. MAINTlEN LE DROIT- .It was evident that some great change had come over them, and that. it Was not for good I ivas siire; Being on the watch, I rims the first to notice these things, and niy first im- pulse was to go to the Colonel and call his attention to the Sepoys, I hesitat- ed a long time, but finally decided to wait. The Colonel had laughed at me once for my fears, and being naturally a sensitive man, I had no desire to incur his ridicule again. I 'was very sure he would not believe me, for I knew by his careleSs laughing manner when he spoke to me of my fears, as he frequently did; that he suspected nothing. i He was, as the senior oflicer present, the commandant of the post. He was a good soldier in some respects, biit he was too careless, too thoughtless for so responsible a post. Poor man ! he paid dear for this fault. Well, I kept, as I have said, a close watch Upon the Sepoys, and every day my suspicions grew stronger. I took the first opportunity to send my daugh- ter to a brother of her mother, who was hiring in Calcutta, and to this pre- Caution I owe her life. I found that the Sepoys were holding secret meetings in the city at night, and from this I was sure that the people in the town were in league with them.â€" Still I delayed mentioning the matter to my ofiicers. I set to work to find out what I could ahout these meetings; but I suppose I made a botch of the joh, for the blacks found out that I was watching them, and once Or twice I had been fired at by some person or persons unknown. This made me more cautious; but now that they had taken the alarm, I found it useless to attempt to penetrate their Secret. I had never heen Very pepulai' With them ; and now I received 1 from them, whenever I met them, many ia. look that made my blood run cold. Still noWdrd or. deed'gave me any positive evidence which I could submit to the Colonel; so long as I could tell him only of my suspicions, I resolved to keep quiet. Some time after this I had a. letter from my daughter, announcing her safe arrival in Calcutta. Her uncle, she said, had just returned from a. business tour in the interior of the country. He was much troubled. The natives were bent upon some mischief, he was sure, but he could not tell what it was. The Governor General, he said, was trying to solve the mystery, and it was not un- likely that some decisive steps would soon be taken. yc she had told me, as she could not tell ca me how she came by the intelligence. cl This letter troubled me very much, st nothing of it, I should have spoken to t, ithe Colonel at once. But I thought, as g the Governor General’s attention had t been called to the matter, I might very l5 properly keep quiet, for he would surely ‘ do whatever was necessary. 1 That night I had a strange dream. I thought I was sitting in my quarters 1 reading my daughter’s letter, when I was suddenly surprised by the entrance 1 of Col. Somerset, who told me he had received orders to disarm the natives at once, as the Government feared trouble from them. He wanted to have my _ company thoroughly prepared, and en- , joined on me the necessity of cautioning them to keep silence on the subject. A 1 parade would be ordered this afternoon, t he said, and the whites were to come e with their guns loaded with buck and ball. The natives were to stack arms, ,1; and be marched off, on some pretext, to e the end of the parade ground, when the 24th was to surround the stacked arms, a and prevent the Sepoys from taking them again. In this way the Colonel hoped to prevent mischief. .A.‘ ‘ 1 n ‘The whole plan was revealed to me in my dream just. as minuteiy as I de scribe it. to you. After this I thought the parade came a off as had been ordered. The blacks i1 were drawn up in line, and the 24th, s with a battery of two guns, were placed on their right flank, and a little in front 6 of them, Colonel Somerset, pale but , calm, sat on his horse in front of the , line of natives, and in order to lull their , suspicions, if they had any, put them through the manual exercise. In the loading, I thought I did not hear the ramrods ring clear in the barrels, and this struck me as strange, as they were not using cartridges. Then came the loud commandâ€" ‘Ready ! Present 1’ _ I saw the sunlight flash along the bar. . rels of the guns, and the next moment I the Sepoy line was shrouded in smoke, land the crash of four thousand musketsl 1 r rang out in the air. Isaw Colonel t. 7 Somerset totter and fall from his horse, a and saw also a dozen or more men fall e dead in my regiment. Then with a a hideous yell the Sepoys rushed at us with the bayonet, and before we had re- covered from our surprise they began :l‘ the massacre. I could see we wuuw thing in my dream as plainly {is I see you now, and my tei‘ror was so great that. I avéoke trembling like a child. You can imagine my relief when I found I had only been dreaming; but the horrible vision haunted me through- out the day, and the next nightI dream- ed it over again, and. the dream even came back to me upon the third night. I now made up my mind to speak to‘ Col. Somerset; and I was leaving my quarters to seek an interview with him the next morning, when I received a visit from Lieutenant YViié'o’n; our ordi- nance officer, and the person in whose Immediate charge the magazine was then placed. ‘Sergeant,’ said he, 1n :1 low tone, after he had shut the door, and made sure that no one was listening, ‘you told me some time ago that you had no confi- dence in the natiVe troops. Have your suspicions increased or died away since ?’ The question, and especially the anxious tone, startled me; ‘Thcy have increased,’ I answered, ‘and I am going now to lay the matter again before the Colonel. But why do you ask, sir ‘3’ ‘Because,’ he replied, ‘sOmething lwrong is going on. Just now I made an inspection of the magazine, andâ€"1 would you believe it, Sergeant ?â€" twenty thousand ball cartridges are missing ! Heaven knows how they were taken, but they have certainly been taken. I am afraid the native troops have taken them, and if my suspicions are correct, these" men will give us great trouble.’ ‘Havc you said anything to the Colonel?’ I asked ,hurriedly and anxious 'J ' . . . . ‘No,’ he said; ‘I have just made the discovery, and as I chanced to remem- ber your suspicious, I thought 1 would question you before reporting the rob- bery. Let us proceed to headquarters Without further delay.’ Wc set 011' at once, and in a short time were admitted to the presence of Colonel Somerset. We stated our busi- ness, the Lieutenant reported the loss of the cartridges and I told him of my suspicions, of my daughter’s letter, and of the horrible dream that had haunted me for the last three nights. The 001. listened with an anxious, troubled air, and once or twice I saw his face flush, , and then grow pale. ‘All this is very singular,’ he said, f: calmly, as 1 concluded ; ‘very singular, especially your dream, Sergeant. I was t just going to send for your Captain and i yourself, to give you your orders, as l 6 cannot trust them through. the ordinary 1 channels. This morning I received in- natives at once. The Governor General apprehends trouble. I have ordered a ‘ parade for this afternoon, and was about ' to summon the Captain and first Ser- 7 pared for an emergency, and to come V with their guns loaded with buck and ball. So far, Sergeant, your dream has come true. God grant that it may not gency is very great, and we must meeti it at once. My instructions inform me‘ that there is a very general discontent it among the native tr00ps, and that they le will be disarmed at all the posts as soon '5’ as possible. Say nothing of your dream, 9' Sergeant, and both of you keep quiet as D--L Bergcuuu, uuu wvvcu v. JV" _- '1' 1 to the loss of the ammunition. But above all things, do nothing to arouse the suspicions of the natives. Now you can go back to your quarters, for I have a great deal to do,’ I cannot describe to you my feelings 1 when I left the Colonel’s presence.â€" The fact that a part of my dream had proved true made me wretched, for I was certain that the rest would also be realized. I set to work to prepare my company, M for the odds against us were so great W that it was necessary to be prepared for w any emergency that might be offered ; ' h‘ and this might be done only by inform- ‘4‘ ing the men of the exact nature of the a service required of them. b ‘ h I was nervous and restless the whole day, for I was confident that my dream 5 was to be carried out in fail. I could ‘3 not account for the dream; nobody can 6 account for such things in all cases; i but I was quite satisfied that I had not i received a false warning. 1 At four o’clock that afternoon the ‘ regiment assembled on the parade 7 ' ground. There was a settled look of ‘ ’ determination on the faces of the Eng~| lish, but the 01d sullenness and gloom. were still to be seen in the countenanccsl ' of the natives. I trembled like a child‘ t when I found that the Colonel had- 5 adopted the formation 1 had seen in my ‘5 dream. The Sepoys were drawn up in >1 line, and my own regiment and two 3, pieces of artillery were posted on the l1 ’right flank, and little in advance of 3 them. The Colonel himself sat on his IS horse in front of the natives, and though 3- his expression was calm ‘and composed, m I could see his face was as pale as death. l i . 1 could see the Whole The 24th was standing zit ‘shoulder arms,’ when the colonel commenced to put the natlt'efi through the manual exer- cise. I listened eagerly, and when the commend ivas ‘given, ‘Ready ! Present !’ I cried involuntarilyâ€" éSteady, 24th ! Reedy ! Present !’ The Colonel turned round to me in: surprise, for the regiment had obeyed my command. As he did so, and be- fore he could speak, a sheet of flame burst from the Sepoy ranks, and the Colonel fell heavily from his horse, and I heard the bells whistle round me.â€" Fortunately the fire did little‘egeeution among us, and my commands to some extent prepared my regiment. ‘Twenty fourth. ". I shrieked, in agony, ‘the Sepoya have mut’mied F xre w The regiment replied by a. volley ? which made the natives, who were rush- I ing at us with bayonets, recoil; and just then the artillerymen, who had recover- ed from their temporary dismay, Opened on them with their pieces. , We had a hard fight, but we beat them 06 and gained.the citadel with the loss of half our number. We held out there until assistance reached us, and the Sepoys, on finding that they could not dislodge us, retreated towards Lucknow, which was soon after made memorable by the gallant defence of Outram and Havelock. I do not know, reader, whether $101: will believe this story, for it was a Strange dieam that warned me of the danger that hung over us. Yet I think it was not thrown away, for it enabled me at least to‘ give the commands which I did, and which I shall always believe were, under God, the salvation of our regi- ment. I get a sabre cut in the fight Irom the leader of the Sepoys. He was after- wards captured, and I had the pleasure of blowing him from the cannon’s mouth. He was a cruel man, and had his pians Succeeded, would halve massacred'the entire regiment. » After the fight I have described, I served through the whole war, and was with Lord Clyde when he took Delhi. I was once (says Sir XValter Scott) ' proceeding-from the Old to the New Town of Edinburgh, by the Earthen Mound, at. the head of which I was led for a few minutes to look at a bull that had got into an enclosure there, after the unmerciiul butcher lads had driven it fairly mad. The Crowd that gather- ‘ ed on the outside of the fence increased the brute’s fierceness. At last they be- gan to cast r0pes over its horns, and around its neck, thereby to pull it to a stronghold, that it might be slain where it was, which drove it to its most deso perate fury. Its eyes now glared mad- ness; there were handsful of foam from its mouth; with its fore-feet it pawed the ground, throwing lumps of earth as high as the adjoining houses; and it . bellowed so as to make one quake. It s was anything but an agreeable sight, so a I moved away homewards. But before - I got to the foot of the mound an alarm- 1 1 _1_ _1___‘ - 5-- _- ing shout caused me to look back, when “m I perceived the animal at no great dis- 0f ‘ tanee behind me, coming on with all er. rage. I had just time to spring to the . , top of the wall that lined the foot path l Th and to behold its further progress. I shudder to this hour when I think of what I immediately saw. Among the pet pcOple near me, and in jeopardy was a the young lady, and she worea red mantle, no: which is a very ofi‘ensive color to many sti of the brute creation. As I did she al- be so made for the wall; but had neither 3 ye time nor strength to gain its top erc the si( infuriated animal drove towards her.â€"-â€" to She turned her back, however, to the ra , inaccessible eminence, as if to see the 111 full extent of her fate, and then stood m , as nailed to it, save only her arms, re t, which she threw aloft in despair; which ‘1 r would, indeed, have been as fragile in a, - her defence as a broken reed. Her it : tender body would have been nothing n e againstafoe that could have broken a bars of brass, and had horns that might 1; e have transfixed an animal of its own 0 n size. As I have said, directly toward d the unprotected young lady the bull .n drove forward; with steadfast eye he came on; he mistook his mark not an t at inch; for as the multitude behind him 1 yelled their horror, he dashed with pro- 1 he digious strength and madness against . fie her. Was it not a miracle that the l of - dear young woman escaped unhurt and .g- l; untouched ? Yet it is true; for the ter- >m rific animal struck so accurately that a we horn smote the dead wall on either ild,hand, thus embracing, but from their ad 'great length, shielding her person from my even the slightest damage. But the .in staunch wall stood the tremendous ;wo‘thrust, and sent back with rebounding' the force to a great distance the huge and : of‘ horrible brute, throwing him prostrate, his never to rise again ; for numberless des- ugh truetive weapons were plunged into him sed, ghefore he had time to recover from his t i Sir Walter Scott‘s Story of a. Mad Bull. recoil. cut in the fight from The chesshoard is the world, the pie2 ces are phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws cf nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also, we know, to out cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes 'the slightest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well the highest stakes are paid, with that Sort of overflowing generosity with with which the Strong shows delight in strenth. And one who plays ill is check- matedâ€"withont haste, but without rel morse. My metaphor will remind some of you cf the famous picture in which Reizeh has depicted Satan playing at ' chess with a man for his soul. Substi- '. tute for the mocking fiend in that pic; - tnre, a calm, strong angel, who is play-’- l ing for love, as we say, and would rathi er lose than winâ€"and I shculd accept t it as an image of human lifeâ€"Professo? Ifiwlcy; It is known that in large towns, teii thousand feet above the level of the 8635 the deaths by consumption are ted times less than in places nearly level with the sea. Twenty-five persons die in the city of New York, where only tWo die in the City of Mexico. All show that consumption does not prevail in hilly countries and in high situationsâ€"4 One reason of this is because there is more ascending exercise, increasing deep' breathing; besides the air being more rarified, larger quantities are instinct; ively taken into the lungs to answer the requirements of the system, thus at eve; ry breath, keeping a high developement. Hence the hills should be sought by consumptives, and not low, flat Sims; tions. A neat, clean, fresh aired, sweet, cheerful, well arranged house, exerts 9: moral influence over its inmates, and makes the members of a family peacea- ble and considerate of each other’s feel? ings and happiness. The connection is obvious between the state of mind thus produced and respect for others, and for these higher duties and obligations Ewhich no laws ean enforce. On the contrary, a filthy, squalid, noxious dwell: ing, in which none of the dcccneies of life are observed, contributes to make its inhabitants selfish, sensual, and re- gardless of the feelings of others, and the constant indulgence of such passions renders them reckless and brutal. The Chessboard of Life; Solitude, though it may be Silent as light, is, like the light, the mightiest of agencies, for solitude is essentiel to mans All men come into the world alone; all leave it alone. King and priest, war- rior and maiden, who appal or fascinate us; is but. the echo Of a far deeper 801i?- tude, through whxch already we have passed, on another solitude, deeper ,stil', through which we have to passâ€"reflex of one solitude, prefigurative of anothé [VOLUME 4, NO; 37. The Widow and the Census Taker A census-taker, going his round, stop- ped at an elegant brick dwelling house; the exact locality of which is no busi- ness of ours. He was received by a stiff, well-dressed lady, who could well be recognized as a young widow of some years standing. On learning the mis- sion of her visitor, the lady invited him to take a seat in the hall. Having ar‘ ranged himself into a working position, he inquired for the number of persons in the family of the lady. “Eight, sir,’ replied the lady, ‘including myseué... ‘Very wellâ€"your age, madam ‘8’ ‘My age, sir,’ replied the lady, with a pierc- ing, dignified look. ‘I conclude it’s 7 none of your business what my age might be; you are inquisitive, sir.’ ‘The law compels me, madam, to take the age I of every person in the ward; it’s my l=duty to make the inquiry.’ ‘Wcll, if I the law compels you to ask, I presume a it compels me to answer. I am between 1 thirty and forty.’ ‘I presume that a means thirty-five.’ ‘No, sir, it means t- no such thingâ€"I am only thirty-three it years of age,’ ‘Have you any family, 6 and what are their respective names d and ages?’ ‘ They areâ€"Josephine. r- aged ten; Minerva was twelve last a week; CleOpatra Elvira has just turn- er ed fifteen; Angelina is eighteen; and il‘ my eldest and only married daughter, l I [$1.50 per Annum. sir, Anna Sophia, is a little over twenty five.’ Twentyvfive, did you say ?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ Is there anything remarkable in her being of that age?’ ‘Well, no, I can’t say there is; but is it not remark- able that you should be her mother % when you were only ozght years qf age ?’ iAbout this time the census-taker was iaeen running out of the houseâ€"why, we cannot say. Consumption. Cleanliness. Solitude.