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Tam, COMMISSIONER IN THE QUEEN’S BENCH CONVICYANCER, AND DIVISION COURT AGENT, RICHMOND HILL POST OFFICE. g G RICEM EN'I‘S, Bonds, Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, &c., &c., drawn with attention and proiiiptitude. Richmond Hill. Aug 29. C KEELE, Esq, ofthe City of Tor- FOIIIItaiEI 0 onto, has opened an ollice in the Vil- .age ofAurora for the transaction of Common Law and Chancery Business, also, Convey- V v" JT\I<VWW“WWAA ALEX. SCOTT, Preprietor. Vol. IV. N0. 40. HOTEL CARDS. RICHMOND HILL HOTEL RICHARD N ICHOLLS, Proprietor. AURORA AND RICHMOND HILL ADVOCATE AN “ Let Sound Reason weigh more with us than Popular Opinion.” RICHMOND HILL, FRIDAY, il’dfltltl]. WIFE AND I. 1 LARGE IIAIJL is connected with this , We quarrell’d this morning, my wife and I, Ilotel for Assemblies. Balls, Concerts, We were out of temper, and scarce knew why, Meetings. etc. Though the cause was trivial and common; A STAGE leaves this Hotel every morning But to look in our eyes, you’d have sworn that for Toronto, at 7 a.m.: returning, leaves Toronto at half-past 3. [13’ Good Stabling and a careful Hustler in waiting. Richmond Hill, Nov. 7, 186l. White Hart. Inn, S RICH MON 1) HILL. HE Subscriberbegs to inform the Public we both As so little a w:man was able ; be clenched her lips with a sneer and a frown, While I, being tougher, stamped up and down. Like a careless groom in a stable. that he has leased the above Hotel. You'd have thought us the bitterest (seeing us where he willkeep constantly on_hand a good then) supply of first-class Liquors. 6L0. As this Ofliitle women and little men, - r house possesses every accommodation I'ra- You’d have laughed at our spite and passion; vol ers can desire, those who wish to stay where And would never have dreamed that a storm they can find every comfort are respectfully iii- vited to give him a call. CORNELIUS VAN NOSTRAND. Richmond Hill. Dec. 28. 1860. IUS-ly YONG-E STREET HOTEL, AURORA. GOOII supply of \Viiios and Liquors LLX always on hand. Excellent Accommo- (lttlloll for Travellers, Farmers, and others. Cigars of all brands. D. McLEOD, Proprietor. Aurora. June 6. 1859. 25â€"ly CLYDE HOTEL, KING er. EAST, NEAR THE MARKET sQUAuu. TORONTO. C.W. JOIIN M ILL S, Good Stabliiig attached and attentive Hustlers always in, attendance. Toronto, November 186] . Proprietor. 157-tf James Massey, (Lalo of 1110 King's Head. London, Eng.) No. :26 \Vcst Market Place, 'i‘OitON'i'o. -.â€"â€" lively accommodation for Farmers and others attending Market Good Stabling. 35’ Dinner from 1‘2 to 2 o’clock. 167 Huntem’é - IIIâ€"2:161:61. Neutrino @astbaus, V HE Subscriber begs to inform the Public that he has leased the above Hotel, where he will keep constantly on hand a good supply of first-class Liquors, «5:0. This house ( possesses every accommodation Tiavellers can desire, those who wish to stay where they can liiid every comfort are respectfully invited to call. W. WES'I‘PHAL. Corner ofCliurch and Stanley Sts., Toronto, Sept. 6, 1861. 145-ly 'l‘l-lE WELL-KNOWN BLACK HORSE HOTEL, lt‘oriiieily kept by William Rolpli, Cor. of ’alacc & George Sts. [EAST or 'rni: iiiAnKE'r,] Touon i'o. WILLIAM cor, I’ropr etor, [Successor to Thomas Palmer]. Good Stabling attached. Trusty Hostlers always in attendance. Toronto, April 19, 1861. 125‘13‘ JOS. GREGOR’S Restaurant 5 69 KING STREET. EAST. Tononro. .â€"â€"__. like this \Von'd be rainbow’d to tears by that sunlight, a kiss. Till we two talked in the old fond fashion. Yet the storm was over in less than an hour, And was followed soon by a sunny shower, And that again by embraces; Yet so little the meaning was understood That we almost felt ashamed to be good, And wore a blush on our faces. Then she, as a woman. much braver became, And tried to bear the whole weight of the blame, By her kindness herself reproving ; When, seeing her humble; and knowing her true. I all at once became humble to, And very coutrite and loving. But seeing I acted a humble part. She laughed outright with a frolic heart.â€" A laugh as careless as Cupid; And the laughter wrangled along my brain Till I almost felt in a passion again, And became quite stubborn and stupid. And this was the time for her arms to twine Around this stubbornest neck of mine, Like the arms of a maid round a lover; And. feeling them llioie, with their warmth, you know. I laughed quite a different laugh,â€"- and so The storm (as I called it) was over. So then we could talk with the power to please, And though the passing of storms like these Leaves a certain fond facility Of getting easily angry again, Yet they free the heart and rebuke the brain, And teach us a rough humility. You see. we love one another so well, That we find more comfort than you can tell, Iii jingling our bells and corals; In the fiercer fights of a world so droar, We keep our spirits so close and clear. That We need such trivial quarrels. In the great fierce fights of the world we try To shield one another. my wife and I, Like brave strong man and woman; But the trivial quarrels 0’ days and nights Unshackle our souls for the great fierce fights, And keep us lowly and human, Were a couple of enemies spiteful and wrath.â€" Not a wedded man and woman. 1454]“ Wife, like a tragedy queen in a play. _.1 Tossed her sweet little head in as lofty a way Clouds would grow in the quietest mind, And make it unmeet to mix with its kind. Wore nature less wise as a mother : And with storms like ours there must flutter out From the bosom the hoarded~up darkness and doubt- The excess of our love for each other. R. WILLuMs BUCHANAN. 1 illitnutuu. THE 01110 01L WELL. THE mare swerved, dashing the anciiig executed with correctness and despatcb Lunch every day from 11 till 2, high lightly built gig against a Division Courts attended . Wellington St. Aurora, 6:, Queen St. Toronto November 20. 1863. 104on 7 Charles C. KelIer, ATTORNEY-AT l LAW, SOLICITOB iii Chancery, Conveyancer. «SLO. Office, 11 Victoria Buildings, over the Chronicle office, Brock Street, Whitby. Also a Branch Ullice in the village of Bea- verton, Township of 'I‘liorali, and County of Ontario. The Division Courts in Ontario, Richmond Hill, and Markham Village regularly attended. Whitby, Nov. 2‘2. 1860. 104-1y IL? Soups, Games, oysters, Lobsters, &c a'ways on hand: Dinners and Suppers for Private Parties got up in the best style. Toronto, April 19, 1861. NEWBIGGING HOUSE, ATE Clarendon Hotel, No. 28.31) and 3‘2 Front Street, Toronto. Board 381, per day. Porters always in attendance at the Cars and Boats. 125-1v W. NEWBIGGING, Proprtetor. Toronto, April 8. 1861. 124-ly JAMES 355LTON, Esq. QQRK MILLS HOTEL, Barrister, Law Officeâ€"Corner of Church and King Sts. TH Toronto, March 8. 1861. 119-tf Mason’s Arms Hotel ! WEST MARKET SQUARE, TORONTO. OBERT COX begs to inform his friends, and the travelling public. that he has taken the above Hotel. lately occupied by Mr. W. S'ricsus, where he hopes, by strict attention to the comforts and convenience of his tweets, to merit an equal share oftlie patronage given to his predecessor. Toronto, July 17, 1862. 190 M a p 1 e H o t e 1 ' r ‘HE Subscriber begs to inform his friends and the public generally. that he has opened an HOTEL in the Village of Maple. 4th Con. Vaughan, where he hopes, by atten- tion to the comforts of (be travelling commu- nity. to merit a share of their patronage and support. Good Stabliiig, &c. JAMES WATSON, 190 Maple, July 17. 1862. George ‘W’ilson, (LATE ruoiri ENGLAND) masonic sauce motel, RICHMOND HILL, YONGE STREET, E Subscriber begs to intimate that he has leased the above hotel, and having fitted it upin the latest style travellers may rely upon having every comfort and attention at this first class house. Good Stabling and an attentive Hostler al- ways iii attendance. WILLIAM LENNOX, Proprietor, York Mills, June 7. 1861. 13‘2-1y Welliigtoii otel, Aurora. ! OPPOSITE THE TORONTO HOUSE. GEO. L. GRAHAM, PROPRIETOR. LARGE and Commodious Halland other‘ improvements have, at great expense, been made so as to make this House thelargest and best north of Toronto. .Travellers at this House find every convenience both for them- selves aiid horses. N.B.-â€"A careful ostler always in attendance stump by the side of the narrow road ; off flew the spiderv wheel ; down came the last trotting chos- nut ; and out like a brace of rock- ets were flung the driver and my~ self. There was a moment of scuffling, floundering, and general entanglement, while a thousand Sparks of fire danced before my eyes, and then I was creeping away from the broken wreck, when I heard Ben, the driver, cry suddenly: 'J’bosbapbat, mister, mind her heels, or you’re it gone coon I’ And I have an indistinct remembrance of receiving two or three stunning blows from what seemed to be a blacksmith’s sledge-hummer, and of bearing a loud shout of human voices as I fainted. When I again opened my eyes I found myself lying 0!: a bank, a few yards from the spot where the acci- dent had occurred. The smashed gig lay in the roadway,but the more had long since klcked herself free, and was gone. Ben, my careless or unlucky charitor, stood dolefully whistling, with the whip in his hand. His face was scratched, and his garments were muddy, but he seemed uninjured, though dismayed. 126â€"137 Aurora Station. April 1861. AN, OOD Accommodations and every attention shown to Travellers. Good Yards for Drove Cattle and Loose Boxes for Race Horses and Studs. The best of Liquors and Cigars kept con- stautly 011 hand. &0. &c. 85°- 'l‘ho Monthly Fair hold on the Premises first Residenceâ€"Nearly opposite tire Post Office, iVednesday in each month. Richmond Hill Itichitioud llill, April 8. 186:)- 167 March 14, 1862. Carriage and Waggon MAKER. Six or seven men in working clothes Were lounging about, and apparently conversing on the subâ€" ject of the recent upset, but only one seemed to concern himselfabout my persUnal condition. He was a tall muscular young fellow, with a fine handsome face, and a rich brouzed complexion.-â€"-â€" He was better dressed as well as better looking, than the others, though he wore homespun ‘cloth, UNDERTAKER while the rest of the party were in patched and discolored suits ofblack. Kneeling beside me on the bank, this young farmerâ€"for it was easy with a dollar, which, after some he, of 0mm l l l'l‘he men were going at once, after ,takiug a dram of whiskey, but I in- SEPT EMBER 5, 1862. trill, D ADVERTISER. W\ vex/v TERMS $1 50 In Advance. ~â€" Whole N o. 197. to guess his rank in lifeâ€"was sup- Sitalion, they consented to receive a long time, and didn’t lialflike it, porting my head with a gentleness for ‘loss of time.’ Very odd fel~ and had seen great changes, and that seemed wonderful for one of IOWS they wereâ€"~honest,1 am sure; didn’t half like them, and thought proud, in their way, as Hoosiers alâ€" New Jersey the true Elen upon his tiicws and sinews. ‘Labor lost, Joe,’ observed one shabby smoker from his seat; which, by the way, was on the very stump that had occasioned the acci- dent ‘Thc Britisher, or Dutch- man. or whatever he be, air as dead as Julep Caesar. Weak and “lbs I was, there was something in this conversation of the Dictator’s name into a Yankee idiom which tickled my risible nerves, and I gave a feeble chuckle. ‘ He’s alive, I tell you,’ answered Joe ; ‘though it does siaken a chap, a few, to git such a pounding as that. I‘d like to see you, Zack Brown. after such a dose of cold iron. You’d sing a trifle less posi- live, or I ain’t Joe Mallory.’ There was a laugh, which Joe cut short by asking which of the bystanders had some ‘ whiskey medicine ’ about him? A bottle of this potent cordial having been produced, the farmer put it to my lips, and with arbitrary kindness forced me to swallow as much of the fiery liquor as I could imbibe Without actual suffocation. ‘l know’d,’ said Joe, in a dog’ matic way, ‘wbat puts new life into a man in such a case as this, though I ain’t overfond of the mo- uongaliela in gin‘ral. Do ye feel to be stronger, sir, now '1’ This was addressed to me, and I contrived to answer by some feeble . acknowledgement of his Samaritan kindness. ... ‘No bones bruk?’ inquired Joe, adding, asI shook my liea.d, ‘ then mcbbe you could make'a shift to Walk, lcanin’ on me? Sparta ain’t above a big mile off.’ I tried to rise, and with the help ofthe young farmer I did contrive to‘ them. One ankle was ‘ smartly sprained, the foot having been awk- wardly twisted undr me asI fell; and l sank down with a groan, as helpless as a rag effigy of a man It became incumbent to carry me; and the byst inders, now they were quite satisfied that l was alive, vo- lunteered with a pretty good grace to assist in my removal. A light iron gate that gave admission into a field hard by, and which contrast- ed oddly with the rough worm fence of unbarked wood, was taken off its hinges to form a litter, and I was borne away on this ‘impiomptu Lowell make. palanquin.’ reach my feet, but I could not keep, most always are; and not wilfmly earth. unkind, but blunt of feelings them- selves and coarsely indifl'ereutvzto; the feelings of others. Befdre they departed. I heard one of them ask Joe, in a smothered tone, ‘wh‘at whim made him have the stranger up there '1’ to which Joe made answer, in a more subdued tone, that ‘ Dan’s tavern was no place for a delicate town raised critter to be ill in, and that it was plain I felt the banging more than I said.’ When the men were gone, the master of the house called aloud the respective names of ‘Aumy !’ ‘ Phillis 1’ and ‘Terence !’ but no answer was returned. Muttering that he would soon return, my new friend strode out into the yard, whence issued the familar sounds produced by gobbling turkeys, low- ing calves, and grumbling pigsâ€"â€" The house was a long low struc- ture, mainlv composed of timber, with chimneys of brick; but it was very substantial and roomy. The chamber in which] had been placed, was one of a nest of similar rooms, opening into a passage. at the end of which was the great kitchen. decorated with dangling hams, smoked venison, corn cobs, barrels of pickled pork, huge yellow pump- kins arid sundry shelves of pewter and New England creckery. At, the other end was a door, seldom opened, leading into the best parlor; where stood the smart furniture, thechina, fine linen, and so forth, never used but at a wedding, fune- ral, or christening. The quilt on which I lay Was of a coarse quality, but scrupulously clean; the brown rough sheets of the bed were very clean too , the pine planks of the floor, thanks to soap and water; were as white as the glaring walls on which hung a few cheap colored prints of Bon’aparte’s battles, and" the Queen of Sheba’s visit to Solo- mon. The house was that of a tolerablv well-to-do Western far- mer; rather neuter than the majo- rity, but with no luxury or ostenta- tion. While I was musing on the strange quarters in which I found myself, my host returned, accom- panied by a negro girl and an old white woman, dressed pretty much a like in common cotton prints of There was a great difl'ercnce in their behaviour, how- I Ben, the driver, had by this time ever, for while the negrcss, whom I set off in plodding pursuit of tbelslircwdly guessed to be the Phillis truant more; but, before starting, lie halloeo out a stentorian request to know ‘wheer they were takin’ his stranger tew, because Major Strains might like to action him in county court for the gig.’ I could hardly so often called in vain, merely grin- ned a salutation, the old woman biistled up to my bedside in a moment. - ‘You’re welcome, stranger,’ said she, ‘but we can talk ’nother help laugliingqime’ I guess. VA nasty tumble Iâ€" again, though my bones 3‘3th cru-l What a bruise that is on your temple elly, at the suggestion of suing alâ€"-â€"l’ll man for the damage done in half killing him, but I felt a thrill oflau- guid pleasure when my protector rejoined. ‘Darn the major and his ac- tions! He won’t cl’ar many dol- lars that way, for ’taic’t fust time that tearin’ cliesnut brute have made asmasb of wood and iron, let alone humans. That mare's unpopular in the country, and no jury would give a red cent if her neck was bruk. Anyhow, if the l l jest fix thatâ€"Phillis, the bot- tle off the shelf in my room, third from the endâ€"jump and get it. and be spiy, do. That gal moves as if shed’ lead in her shoes. All them darkies do. Sprained your foot, eh, mister? Let me turn it aboutâ€" so. does that hurt you'l then run, Joe, and git the black box. I’ve got somethiii’ there, woundy good, for sprains.’ Joe good-humorcdlv hurried ofl'i to fetch the rude medicine-chest, saying with apleasant laugh that ”13.1"" wants a dose 0f law, 13“ ‘bc knowcd auiity be glad of the him the stranger‘s under Joe Mal- job. She was a nurse, if ever any lory’s root.’ The other men ave a rowl of . g surprise. (Why, Joe,’ said he who was well as a born gossip. called .Zack Brown, ‘1 reckoned do anything and everything that wed just dr0p the chap at Dan was required in a sick-room, except Hunt’s, the taverner’s. You ough- ter hev more wrinkles by this than to lumber up your house with a critter that wants a deal of waitin" on, and incbbe hasn’t shinplaster enough to pay for his board.’ Imade some answer to this, or rather I began to assure my hearers that 1 was better provi led with money than they perhaps guessed from my scanty luggage and plain dress ; but Joe Mallory pressed his broad band on my mouth to silence me, and angrily told Zach that ‘ when he sent in a bill for food and shelter to a hurt traveller, he hoped niggers would trample on him.’ woman was.’ Certainly Miss Esther Mallory, Joe’s aunt, was a borne nurse as She could hold her tongue. Talk she must, and while with real kindness and untiring skill she applied bandages and lotions to my bruised head and arm and my sprained ankle ; while she brewed me tea and barley-wa- ter; while she adjusted the pillows under my head, and superintendcd Phillis in the boiling of a chicken for my supper; she never seemed to intermit the rapid flow of her discourse. From this notable female, in the course-of the evening,l heard all the family history. How the Mal- lorys had migrated West from their original abode in New Jersey, where they had been, my hostess lHere Zach said no more, and before longl was carried into the young farmer’s house, and laid on a bed. rather boastfully said, since Wil- liam and Mary. How she, Esther Mallory, had been induced, sorely against her will, to accompany her two brothers, Joe’s uncle and fa- ther, to the then hall-known wilds How she had been there sisted on remuneratiiig each of them , Further, the good old maid re~ lated liow Joe's uncle had died of fever. and how Joe had succeeded his father in the property, two years before, while she had stayed to keep house for him till he got a wife, being fully determined to go ‘back as soon as his nephew’s mar- riage should take place, and live on her savings, or as .she called them, ‘money-scrapes,’ in her na- tive village. Miss Esther was about sixty; angular, rawâ€"boned. with a hardâ€" featured face puckered into as many wrinkles as a withered apple, with keen blue eyes, and brisk ac- tive movements. 1 had seen many women in New England who might have been her twin-sisters, and I knew the race well, thrifty clean bustling busy-bodies, with a supreme contempt for the dawdlers and slot- terus down South. A good cock was Miss Esther, a good manager. a skilled seamstress, but a better nurse. If she could do any one thing better than other, it was tending the sick,.and1 believe she felt personally grateful to me for giving her an occasion of exhibiting her knowledge and adroituess. At. any rate she Was very affable and chatty, and took the opportunity of Joe’s absence to sing her nephew’s praises, adding : ‘ Poor lad! poor lad ! He’s a beauty heart, for all he tries to keep up a smilin’ face. Drab love and sentiment, scz I.’ I started. Sure enough, my kind young host bad a melancholy look, unaccountable in one in robust health, tolerably well off, and evi- dently respected by his neighbors. I had noticed it before, but my bruised limbs and throbbing tem- pl'és had put. the matter out offlcourt, until Miss Esther’s remark aroused my curiostty and sympathy. Little pressing was needed to elicit from the garrulous aunt what, after all, was no secret. Joe Mallory had been for some time the accepted lover of Susan Boone, only daugh- ter of Deacon Gabriel Boone one of the most comfortable farmers in the district. and who, as Miss Esther said, was ‘rather uppish ’ about family, being own cousin to the renowned General Daniel Boone, the explorer of Kentucky. The marriage had been uiiluckilv postponed; a circumstance due, I fancy, to Miss Esther’s own ob- structivcness, since it was her de- sire that ‘ a grand cliist full of linen web ’ should be spun at home pre- vious to the establishment of the young bride as mistress of the house. In the interval, anew discovery had subverted the old order of things. This was no other than the discovery of petroleum, or. as Miss Esther called it, the ‘ile.’ It had been found, its value had been greedily appreciated by a population not very apt to let any source of profit slip through their fingers, and the favored tract of country, Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania, as well as Canada West, had ever since been in fever of speculation. were diggings, not indeed aurifci‘ous, but ofa substance ca- capable of transmutation into five dollar notes, brought home to the very doors of the people. Of course property maintained its rights; there was no scramble; but some grew rich by finding wealth bub- bling up at their very thresholds, and among this number was Deacon Boone. One of the two ‘flowing wells’ of rock 'oil which had come to light in the parish of Sparta, was on Deacon Boone’s land. Luckicr than most of his neighbors, almost all of whom had oil beneath their fields, but oil only to be raised by expensive pumping, after the spade and mattock had done their work, the old deacon was pioprietor of an absolute spring of the odoriferous fluid, which seemed inexhaustible. Thousands of gallons, every drop of which had its market value, daily spouted and splashed into the air, and an immense percentage oftbe produce was lost for lack of barrels and labor. Under these circumstances, it is not wonderful that Deacon Boone, always a weak, vain man, lost his head, and grew, as Miss Esther quaintty saidâ€""most too proud to dirty his shoes walkin’.’ This elaâ€" tion was accompanied by coldness of demeanor towards his old friends, ,c ». â€". l g l iwh-om he was loth any longer to re- gard in the light of equals, and by an omnious coldness- to- his intended son-in-law. Besides this, he had dropped hints of the brilliant pros- pects in store for his family : hints that struck poor .Ioe with dismay, since his position was altered now. A little while before Joe, with a tidy farm and a little sum in bank, had been a" reasonably good match for the daughter of a com and cattle factor ; but be has become relative- ly poor when compared with" the fortunate owner of a flowing well of wealth. ‘Aud the young lady liersclf'l’ asked I, with some interest ; ‘is she as mercenary as her father! As ready to give up a poor suitor, in hopes of a better match. afterwards, I mean ?" Miss Esther answered rather slowly, as she plied her knitting needles over the fast growing stockâ€" ing of unbleached wool. "Wall! 1 hairdly know, sir! Young gals are that flighty and film, they don’t know the differ atweeu yes and he sometimes. Susan likes our Joe well well enough, but her father and mother are nouther of them overstocked with sense, and they go clack! clack! about how she’s to be a fine lady and that, and visit Europe, and keep cumpny with grand folks and wear sat’n and ace, and meb be the gal’s liitle head’s getting turned. But I b’lieve, I do bellevc, her heart air a good and tendei one, as it ougliter, secin’ Joe desarves a good wifc.’ Joe, I must observe, was out just then, looking after a ‘ looping deer,’ which Terence the old Irish hired man who helped on the farm, had caught a glimpse of in the corn; and therefore] had time to hear a great deal about the Boone family. Among other things was a story, the moral of which was, that Dea- con Boone owed Joe a debt of grati~ 'tude, which rendered his present conduct in giving him the cold shoul- der peculiarly mean and contempti- ble. Years before, when the State of Ohio was more thinly settled, the deacon had joined a party of hunters, who had brought a bear to bay. Old Boone was he experienced woodsman, but was vain and fond of applause, an perhaps had a notion that sylvan prowess ran in his blood, as a-kinsmau of the great Nimrod, Daniel Boone; and he rashly ap- proached the desperate animal and was caught in its dangerous em- brace. ‘ I’ve heard tell,’ said Miss Estliei, ‘that the sight wur horrid. - There wur the b'ar, with red eyes glitrin’ Willi rage, and a mouth full ofblood and foam, and the deacon fuintiu’ with fright and the bug he, got. and never a man durst fire, for fear they’d miss the beast and bit the man. But our Joeâ€"«a mere boy thenâ€"«what does he do but run in with his hutlllllg-lil’llfe, and soon med the b’ar drop the deaCOu and tackle to him. That war a tussle, mister. for a b’ar takes a deal ofki‘ling, and when they brought back our Joe here, be war tore to bits and all blood. Youmay see the great scar on his forehead yet, wliar the b‘ar’s claws scratched him,jcst as he drove the knife to its heart. T’ain’tevery big man in the settlements, let alone a lad, cares to face a b’ar with en’y a knife ; and no wonder the deacon allays pelted Joe artcrwards, and used to take a pleasure in seein' him and Susan together,mtdsayiu’ they’d make a handsome couple, and so they might, if t’waru’t for this weary ile.’ (To be concluded in our next.) A FEW MAXIMS ABOUT MANURES. -â€"â€"-Without manure no good farming is possible. The right way to pur- chase manures is only by aiinalysis. For practical ignorance cannot be blessed ; unless it be pleasant to buy things at double their value, and lose good crops into the bargain.â€" In manureiug grass lands “it is the safest and soundest economy to ob- tain the effect at once, and not by niggardly or piecemeal applications.” Maiiui'c is the farmers’ capital. OATH FOR CONTRABANDS,--Tlle Fredâ€" ericksburg correspondent of the Ne N York Post says: ‘Tbe oath usually administer- ed by our quartermastcr is as follows: ‘ You, Cicero, do solemnly swear that you will bear true allegience to the United States; That you will take good care of the horses and mules, and if any of them get away, you will go after them, no mat- ter how dark it is; and will also black boots to the best of your advantage and belief. So help you General McDowell. THE DONKEY AND THE 'I‘nisrLs.â€"â€"- Donkeys are very fond of tliisiles, and we recollect seeing a picture portraying a don- key race, in which the animals appeared to be doing their utmost in the way of gal- loping to reach a thistle held a few inches before their noses by their respective riders. the idea was good; but the artist had made one grand mistake-~he had painth the thistles green and blooming, a state in which they never look at them. They only eat them in the full when the lie-adv ings or kernels are ripe, or nearly so ; and when the tliistles are in this state it is dif- ficult to get a donkey past tlicm.â€"â€"Scot- Li's/i. F armor. Many poor fellows seem to have a less horror of water upon the brain than upon the stomach.