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| : i ig | i a - B COUNTY OF PERTH HERALD. Field Marshal Lord Clyde, (Sir Colin Campbell.> A BRILLIANT SKETCH. (From the London Times.) On the 20th of October, 1792, there was born in Glasgow, or close by that city, then almost as quiet' as in the days of Bailie Nicol Jarvie, a child in whose veins the gentle blood of the Highland lady commingled with that of the Lowland mechanic. No ray of hope or fortune illuminated his humble eradle, but by his own right hand,and by the exhibition of qualities which has raised nameless lads to fortune before now, that child came to fill a place among the foremost soldiers and highest dignitaries of the day. Ata very early age he was taken from Scotland, and put to the school abroad and in England, and for many years he never revisited his native land. He came by his mother's side of a "material race, and in 1808, before he was 16 years of age, one of his mater- nal relatives sent for him to come to London from a military school at Gosport, to enter the army. Theboy's _ uncle was well known to the Duke of York, and his request for a commis- sion for his sister's son was at once cecomplied with. Colin Campbell, now Ensign in the East Norfolk regiment, was at once taken to a military outfitter's--a pigtail was attached to the back of his head, a tight-fitting, epaulette, short- waisted red) coat, covered with lace, a pair of leather knee-breeches and betasselled Hessian boots were also duly provided for him, and he was sent off the same evening to Canter- bury to join the 9th Regiment of Foot, which may be said to have com- menced its military career with the ar- rival of a young officer, as its colors, then virgin, were only about to be decorated with the names of the bat- tles in which he first saw fire. He had no time to enjoy the pleasures of his fine uniform, for the regiment 'marched the next day to embark for the Peninsula; and Lord Clyde was wont, when a war seasoned veteran. to recall the miseries of his first march to Margate in his leather tights and Hessians, and to declare that he en- dured more pain in the unaccustomed, and it may be added, unsuitable attire on that occasion, than he ever knew in his long after-life of march-making. The young soldier's apprenticeship to his trade was ready, rough, and rude --no holiday, no play time--for in three weeks from the time when he had quitted the school-boy's desk at Gosport, he saw the French infantry eresting the hill-sides of Vimiera, and took part in the opening of that series of campaigns which,after many checks and some reverses, led to the libera- tion of thankless Spain from the yoke of Bonaparte. That the fortune of war is even more capricious than the blind goddess who regulates ordinary matters of life, he might, no doubt, have feltafter our early suce: s:e3,when with unwilling jsteps, he was obliged to trudge with his regiment before the columns of Soult to Corunna, where the lion turned to bay and rent his pursuer. That she is sometimes con- stant in her animosities he must have been assured when, scarce landed from the transport which carried him from the shores of Spain, he was ordered off to pariicipate in the shame, suffer- ings, and disasters of the Walcheren expedition of 1809. The fever stuck into his body so keenly that until he went to China thirty years alterwards, ¢ Wolcheren,' as he said, ' was with me every season.' From Walcheren he returned to Spain in 1810, where, with better fortune and guidance, he shared in the battle of Barossa in March, 1811, and the defence of Tarifa in January 5, 1812; and in 1812 he was transferred to a corps, of the Spanish army, with which he was actively employed against the French in a long series of harassing skirmish- es and operations, which are known to the Spaniards, but not to us, as im- portant actions. In tlis year he also took part in the unsuccessful move- ment of the French at Tarragona. From his experience of their qualities in the field, Lord Clyde gave a higher place than was generally accorded at the time to our Spanish allies, and was particularly struck with their powers of marching, their great sobrie- ty and frugality. In 1813, he joined the Duke of Wellington's army again and plunged into the thickest of the hard fighting which took place in that memorable year. He had in his first year's service reached the grade of Lieutenant; and now at the age of 21, he had madea name of activity, cour- age, and determination, which began to be heard throughout the army. He passed unscathed through. Vittoria, the greatest of our vic'ories after Wat- erloo, in that quarter of the century ; but in the breach of St. Sebastian he was not so fortunate. He led a for- lorn hope which rushed to the aid of the neglected stormers, and he received two wounds in that desperate encoun- ter. On the 9th of November, 1819, he became a captain by brevet, and in that position the hero of St. Sebas- tian,who had now added to his wounds a bullet path through the thigh, re- ceived atthe passage of the Bidassoa, remaining twelve long years. It was not his habit to speak of small scrateh- es, flesh-wounds, skin-scars, and the like; but itis believed that by the time he left France and proceeded to America to serve against the Federal Government in 1814, he bore as many marks as the body cf the saint who gave the name to the fortress where Sir Colin's wounds spoke for and re- turned themselves against his will; for an actual sabre-slice, a thorough bayonet stab, and an ingoing bullet put all modesty to shame, and insist- ed on mentioning in the despatches. He had now been transferred to the 60th Rifles, and when the brief war was over, in which we drove _ the President from Washington after the 'Races of Blendensburg,' Camp- bell was left on the same rung of the ladder of promotion, and he sturdily but not contentedly hung on till he was thirty-five years of age--a Captain still--seeing younger men with less service and longer purses shoved or pulled up over his head, Captain Campbell had no command of the means which, well employed, might then have secured him a juster reward for his services; but he had ample opportunity of testing every variety of climate and of seeing all kinds of ser- vice. In 1832 he served as a Brigade- Major of the force employed in-reduc- ing the blacks in Demerara, where he revived the dormant venom of the Walcheren fever, From that period the state of the world, so far as Great Britain was concerned, gave him no opportunity of active work against an enemy, and for many years he was employed on a duty which he often spoke of as most disgusting to a sol- dier; he was obliged to protect by military force the ejections and sales for the recovery of tithe, then so com- mon in Ireland. Although he was never an adyocate for the purchase system, he was much struck with the advantages of a judicious outlay of money, and he used to attribute the ultimate success of his career to his obtaining a sum which enabled him to purchase his Lieutenant-Colonelcy. Soured and angry, and in the prime of life aud full consciousness of power and ability, he had almost resigned himself to the career of a Major on half-pay, when the opportunity occur- red, and with doubt and hesitation he availed himself of it. A few hundred pounds made, all the difference be- tween his dying an obscure veteran, and his rise in the world was as the Field-Marshall of Great Britain whosé brest blazed with orders, whose » ame was in every one's lips in the days of trial and danger, and who sat by the descendants of Marlborough and Wel- lington the House of Peers, honored by his Sovereign and his country. When the interest of commerce and civilization made it necessary for Great 'Britain to declare war against China in 1842, Colin Campbeli, who had been gazetted as Lieutenant-Colone! ten years before, went out in command of the 98th, and for eleven months his regiment was packed aboard a man- of-war with a neglect ofall considera- tion for health and comfort, which eruelly avenged itself on officers and men. From China to India is a com- mon step, though it is not attended with benefit to the constitution. Col. Campbell had a short repose in Hin- dostan, but it was broken by the out- break of the Sikh war. In virtue of his seniority he was appointed in command of the 3rd division of the army of the Punjab,and he soon flamed out on the field with more than the old Peninsular fire, and led his men with such a skill that in all the great battles in which we s'ood foot to foot with the sternest foe we ever met or are likely to meet in India, his soldiers appeared in the very crisis of the fight. At Ramuggur, at Chilianwallah, where, in directing a most important and timely movement, he was again wounded, and at Goojerat, he earned the name of an able general in addi- tion to that of the thorough soldier which he had won and enjoyed so long; but there were not wanting critics in India then, as afterwards, who. accused him -of over-caution. Now, of all men, Colin Campbell was most fervent and passionate in battle, his impulse ever was to rush into the very focus of the fight and kindle those around him ; but his sense of duty, his care for his men's lives, his warm who followed him dominated the bent of his incli- nation, and forced even his stern will to submit to the exigencies of com- mard. His critics were not disposed to be more favorable to him because he did not conceal his ill opinion of the Indian army, and considered the Sepoys as the nere bamboo of the lance, which was valueless unless tipped, with the steel of British Infan- try. In his conduct of operations against the Hill Tribes in 1851-2, he di played his usual activity, but his relations with the Indian authorities were affected by an incompatibility of views and temper. Colin Campbell felt the difficulty which Sir Charles Napier could not overcome in dealings with the great civiliansin India. His spirit was principally moved by the indignities, which he thought unde- served, inflicted by them on the Indian princess. But it was not on these grounds that his command on the lrontier was terminated. He was not regarded with favor by the Indian authorities. Colin Campbell was now, however, on the upward path, and though he knew it not, his star was rising rapid- ly in the ascendant. The ship of the State drifted into the Russian war, and from her decks, in 1854, marched the Glasgow boy at the head of three kilted and plumed regiments, which, fortunate in their chief and in their place, won much honor with little loss at the Alma, and almost as much re- putation, in so far as one of them was concerned, with no loss at all, on the famous day of Balaclava, when the thin red line of the 93rd was opposed tothe Russian cavalry. Lord Raglan, to whom Sir Colin Campbell was not much known except by report, knew, however, that he was one whose eye never closed and whose hand never relaxed, and therefore he covered up the right flank of his army with the Highland Brigede, and gave their General the charge of Balaclava and all its works. There he had indeed, little of the glory of battle, but much wearying anxiety and incessant vigi- lance. On the ret'rement of Sir James attachments to those Simpson from the command of the army of the Crimea, which had 'de- volved' upon him after Lord Raglan's death, it was supposed that unlucky officer would have been succeded by Sir Colin Campbell, but to the astonish- ment of those capable of being aston- ished by anything 'down there,' a guardsman, who had never seen a shot fired by an enemy till he led up his division at the Alma after the fashion of Mr. Kinglake's British Generals, was appointed over the head of one who had earned a soldier's name more than 40 years ago, and was known as a gocd general in the field long before Codrington had got his bloodless coloneley. It is not to be wondered at that the soldier, now fairly to be described as old more in respect of services than of years, felt this ' acci- dent? to be more than he could be fairly called on to tolerate---He went to England, and it was only at the re- quest of one whose wish was his law that he returned to the Crimea to take command which would no doubt have worthily employed him had not peace abruptly prevented the campaign. He bad been gazetted a Major-General in 1854. In the October of the same year he was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 67thregiment. On the 4th of June, 1856, he was made Lieutenant Gen- eral, and in that rank he fairly settled down, almost surprised at his late honors if not quite satisfied with the part he had played in the great war wherein they were bestowed. But his ' opus magnum' had yet to be accomplished. One may count on his fingers the years of peace and rest which Colin Campbell passed in his long life, but his years of active ser- vice almost comprised the half-centu- ry in which were chronicled the great and little wars in which the British standard had been lifted, from the be- ginning of the Peninsular campaigns, until the present time. When we were startled by the Indian mutiny, it was not a favorite in high places or a dillitante soldier who was selected to save our tottering empire., There was a sigh of satisfaction and content throughout the country when we were told that Sir Colin Campbell had, at a moment's notice, and with alacrity best described, perhaps, as Napierian, started off to take command of the forces engaged to put down that which history will call the Great Mutiny. And history will tell how it was put down. From the time that Sir Colia Campbell took the field and set his columns in motion, rebellion, the off- spring of mutiny, withered and died. It is beyond our limits to describe his work. The impatient and ignorant civilisns and their creatures have best described the nature of it in the nick- name they zppiied to him of 'Kubedar,, or Take Care. He did take care-- took care so well that no surprise of a single detachment, no capture of one solitary post stationed by him, ever took place ; took care that when once his army was in motion it flowed over the land as regularly as the ebb tide covers the beach, and that there was no ebb thenceforth ; tock eare that the British army advanced with his van, and never, when he had drawn the line of its march, was described on any other tracing, till at last he stood on ihe banks of the Raptee, and, looking over the wide expanse of Hindostan, could feel that he had made safe the supremacy of the Queen he served. He fully entered into the spirit of Lord Canning's just and generous senti- ments; and he did justice to the in- spirations which accorded so fully with the dictates of his own heart and the counsels of his head. The soubri- quet of 'Ciemenco,' attached with alliterative propriety to the name of 'Canning,' and meant to be a_ sharp insult, is not disgraced by that of ' Kuberdar,' associated with the name of Campbell. When his labors in the field were over, and he had returned home to receive the acknowledgments of the whole country, the thanks of Parlia- ment, the approbation of his sovereign, and the honors he so valued as a sol- dier, he was not permitted to rest quietly on the laurels he had gathered. The amalgamation of the great armies -of the East and of the West was going on--the reconstructive process was commenced, and the old soldier was harassed with reports, references, sug- gestions, interviews, counsils, and memoranda on all the intricate busi- ness relating to the judicious mixture of the silver and quicksilver of the two bodies. He had no rest, and his frame showed that he needed rest. He sought it at Vichy with his old brother in arms of the days of Balaclava, Gener- al Vinoy. In one of his hot gallops in India his horse had fallen with him and at times he complained unwil- lingly of a pain which must have come from some mischief in the chest. At the review of the volunteers at Brighton he took the command at the request of the higher powers ; but after it was over he said it was his last day in the field, and he shaved off his moustache as a sign that he had _re- tired from active service. . A: few months ago he had a severe illness, in which the lungs and heart were im- plicated, but the old shot-and-steel-rent body resisted the attack of the great enemy, and to the delight of his friends he seemed to become nearly as well as ever he had been of latter years, and no one was more firm 'and vigor- ous for his years. Still he had cause of annoyance, which were, perhaps, unduly aggravated by failings of na- ture. Appointed Colonel of the Cold- stream Guards in 1860, Field-Marshal in 1862, Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, had attained heights far beyond the flights of his. highest ambition. But he had the impossible ambition of be- ing 'left alone in his glory.' It was with pain he did not attempt to con- ceal that he found himself made the hero of a great episode in the history of the Crimean campaign. '] wish with all my heart that book had never been written--it has caused me great anxiety.' There were other sources of irritation, too, which somewhat embittered the days of his old age, but to his friends he was ever the same shrewed yet genial, abrupt, yet cour- tier like friend they had known so long. At last the illness of which he died, not perhaps, as in his young days as be would have desired, but as his old 'age he would have surely, sought to pass away--amid the tender cares and subdued sorrow of those who loved him well, and not the less that he had been the comrade of the soldier whose family stood by his pillow. We have thus endeavored to trace in very feeble outlines the incidents in the life of a man whose career affords a remaskable il- lustration of the value of high character in the profession of arms, and of strength of mind and physical constitution to enable him to wait till opportunity and its golden moment arrives. If such a man live long enough it must arrives for there isa time in the existence of every nation when she throws aside the frivolous courtiers who have amused her leisure, and seizes instinctively the strong arm which can avert the threat- ened danger. Lord Clyde's early fortune led to the West, when the Waterloo campaign was about to ennoble its heroes, and to con- sign the Peninsula soldiers who were not present with them to a long oblivion and obscurity. But he was known even to those who stood in his way as a master of his profession, and he loved it so well that slight and the sense of wrong could not force him to neglect his duty.--Duty was to him a sentient, warm-blooded principle, not a cold, passionless, brutish idol, and her first rule was in his mind " obedience.' The strug- gle to obey left some traces of its influence on his spirit--He could not help at times long ago comparing his position and his services with men above him, though he rarely spoke of himself, and there was a loftier independence in his words when he thought of these things, which might have been mistaken for anger. The more he 'vas neglected the greater became his attachment to the soldier. No man ever studied so thoroughly and knew so intimately the character, the virtues, and the feelings of that strange human aggregate which is to termination. mia li a xiii it Sa -- ns Se acai a att a nn COUNTY OF PERTH HERALD. 5 so many officers a mere locomotive creature, to be wheeled, and reviewed, to be paraded, and. black-celled,-and tobe ~stripped,~to be "kept in his 'proper place'""--to be eursed on: cecasions' too--as Lord Clyde. His ragged brow knitted. fiercely and his eye flashed no' doubtful fire if he heard a word spoken to the disparagement, or detected any detriment. Though he did not call them his children they were dear to the childless old chief, and if he addressed them, his 'words flowed with an eloquence and sympathetic charm which deserted his lips when he had to speek to less congenial audience. When in India the authorities determined on transferring the European soldiers of the Company to the army of the Grown, without seeking their consent, he pointed out to them the injustice and con- sequence of such a.step, and resisted it by every means 'in his power; but when the Government had: resolved to adhere to its policy he suppressed the insubordinate out- breaks he had prophesied with vigor and de- A. nature like his must. be determined in love and in hate, and he dwelt little on the neutral ground which lies he- tween them. But his affections were in- eradicable by anything but ingratitude, and that stung him like a serpent's tooth. Ifhe was gratified with the honors he had earned, he felt their value was for him well nigh buried in 'the graves of those for whose gakes he 'would have exulted to have won them. They had come too late for full fru- ition. In person, Lord Clyde was well built, symmetrical sand graceful, but of late years his shoulders became somewhat. bowed, though he lost little of the activity which was remarkable in so old a man., To the last his teeth remained full and firm in the great square jaws and his eye pierced the distance with all the force of his youthful vision. His crisp, gray locks still stood close and thick, curling over the head and above the wrinkled brow, and there were few external signs of the decay of nature which was, no doubt, going on within, ac- celerated by so many wounds, such fevers, such relentless exacting service. When he so willed it, he could throw into his manner and conversation such a wondrous charm of simplicity and vivacity as facinated those over whom it was exerted, and women ad- mired and were delighted with the corteous, polished, gallant soldier. In the other mood he could be quite as effective. The nation will, doubtless, accord to his remains the mark of respect and gratitude due to their most faithfnl servants. No better soldier has ever been borne within the sacred walls of our Christian Pantheon When England needs one to defend her flag, to vindicate her honor, and to uphold the renown of her arms, may she ever find a champion as trusty and true as Collin Camp- bell, Lord Clyde. Anglo-Saxon Weddings. Not till the ninth or tenth century did women obtain the privilege of choosing or refusing their husbands. Often they were bethrothed as children, the bridegroom's pledge of marriage being accompanied by a "security ;" or " wed," whence comes the word. Part of the wed always consisted of a ring, placed upon the maiden's right hand, and there religiously kept until transferred to the other hand at the latter nuptials, Then, also, were repeated the marriage vows and other cerimonies, out of which those now prevailing have grown. The bride was taken " for fairer for fouler, for better for worse, for richer for poorer," and prom- ised to be " buxom and bonny"' to her future husband. As the final ceremony the bride- groom put the ring on each of the bride's left hand fingers in turn, saying at the first, "Tn the name of the Father ;" and at the second, "in the name of the Son ;" and at the third, "in the name of the Holy Ghost ; ' and at the fourth, " Amen." Then also the father gave to his new son one of his daughter's shoes, in token of the transfer of authority which he affected, and the bride wag at once made to feel the change by a tap or a blow on the head given with the shoe. The husband on his part took an oath to use his wife well. Ifhe failed to do so she might leave him, but by the law he was allowed considerable license. He was bound in honor to bestow on his wife and his apprentices " moderate castigation." We have nothing to show the exact amount of castigation held moderate by the Anglo- Saxons, but one Welsh law decides that three blows with a broomstick on any " part of the person except the head" is a fair allowance, and another provides that the stick be no longer than the husband's arm, nor thicker than his middle finger. Prior to the seventh century a wife might at any time be repudiated on proof of her being either barren, deformed, silly, passionate, luxurious, rude, habitually drunk, glutton- ouf, very garrulous, quarrelsome, or 'abusive.--Thrubb's Anglo-Saxon House. Business Directory. John Whitley, TTORNEY AT LAW, Solicitor in Chan- cery, &c. Office--Jarvis' Block, Strat- ford, CU. W. 1-tf W. D. Harrison, UCTIONEER.. APPRAISER, GENERAL Commission, Agent, &c., Weights and Measures, County of Perth.- All orders left at this office promptly attended to. 10-tf Robert Smith, L. L. B., ARRISTER, ATTORNEY, SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, &c. OrrFice :--Opposite John A. Scott's Store, Stratford. 5-tf R. Williams, LERK of the First Division Court for the County of Perth, Ontario Street, Stratford. Agent for British and. American Fire and Life Insurance Companies. Notes and Accounts collectedy without delay, and on reasonable terms. 1-tf Reid & Humphry, ARRIAGE AND WAGGON MAKERS, Gerteral Blacksmiths, Horse Shoers, &c.-- Job Work and Repairing done at the shortest uotice and on the most reasonable terms. Shop opposite Moore's Hotel, Huron Street, Stratford. Joseph Doupe, IVIL ENGINEER ..AND_, PROVINCIAL Land Surveyor, Appraiser, Conveyancer, &e., Queen Street, St Mary's, 0. W. Land Surveying of every description prompt- ly executed, and Disputed Lines carefully ad- justed. Rererences .--T. M. Daly, Esq., Stratford ; T B Guest, Esq, St. Mary's; D Cathcart, Esq, Blanchard; Edward Long, Esq, St Mary's; E T Dartnell, Esq, St Mary's ; Jno Robinson, Esq, C0. E. St Mary's, August 17, 1863. Reoares D. Waugh, King's Hotel. AY BE CONSULTED at his Residence, On- N ARKET STREET, Stratford. First Class 8-6m tario St., Stratford, asformerly. 14-ly accommodation for Travellers at reason- able rates. The Stabling is the best in Town. Well Equipped Livery Stables Attached. l-y H, Kine. Edward A. Paget, HYSICIAN, Surgeon and Accoucheur.-- Coroner for the County of Perth. Espe- cial attention paid to diseases of women and children, Every description of Surgical opera- tions performed when required. l-y Dr. Wm. Stimson, HYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHEUR, ~, "Tavistock, ©. W. Inspector . of Support Home Manufacture. W. D. BUCKLE, SOAP AND CANDLE MANUFACTURER, DEALER IN PALM OIL, SODA ASH, BLACK SALTS, &c, Orders respectfully solicited, and punctually supplied. 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Cartwright, URGEON DENTIST, Ontario Street, oppo- site the Post Office, Stratford, C. W. PHOTOGRAPHS Taken in the adjoining Car in every variety and at all Prices. 1-tf British North American Hotel, ERIE ST., STRATFORD, BY RICHARD A. FORREST. HE SUBSCRIBER HAS LATELY FITTED up the above Hotel in the most comfort- able manner to accommodate the travelling public, The bar is furnished with the choicest Liquors. Good Stavling and an attentive hostler always in attendance. Stratford, Sept. 22, 1863. 13-ly Ww. R. Emery, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, HREE Doors West of Forbes' Hotel. The best ready-made work in town, Cheap for Cash... Repairing in the best style. Stratford, June 4, 1863. -1-tf John Parker, IN, COPPER, AND SHEET-IRON WORK- ER, Ontario Street, Stratford, C. W., begs to inform the inhabitants of the County of Perth that he is manufacturing a Stock of Tinware for the market, and will open out inthe first week in September, in the premises now occupied by Mr Morris, Grocer, adjoining the Post Office. J. P.is prepared to attend to all orders with which he may be favored. Stratford, July 10, 1863. 8-tf THE LARGEST, Best, and most Complete PRINTING OFFICE n the County of Perth, at which all kinds of PRINTING Is executed Second to none in Style, PRICE, AND EXPEDITION. {VIVIAN & CO. x3 Corner Store leading to the Market, Cultivators, Road Scrapers, Reaping & Mowing Machines, Threshing Machines, Separators and Cleaners, Horse Powers, &c., &c., STRATE ORD, . Cet Whe The Retail Trade supplied with Ploughs, &c. Steam Engines built and repaired. Iron and Brass Castings of every description made to order. Orders taken for Thrashing Machines and Se- parators [with Pitts' Improved Horse Powers]. Only a limited number is to be made this season, J. SHARMAN. Stratford, June 1, 1863. 1-tf JUST NOW IS THE TIME TO DECORATE YOUR HOUSES If you want the newest styles in WALL PAPERS, BORDERS AND WINDOW BLINDS, Examine our Large Stock, you will find it the most select, and CHEAPEST IN THE COUNTY Vivian & Co. <= Corner Store leading to the Market. BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE IN THE TOWN OF STRATFORD, On easy Terms, Apply to JOHN WHITLEY, Solicitor. Stratford, August 10, 1863, 7-tf JOSEPH WATSON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in WINES & LIQUORS. | rae SUBSCRIBER is just receiving a large assortment of fresh Liquors to suit the Fall Trade. Country Merchants and Hotel Keepers would do well to call before purchas- ing elsewhere. All orders promptly attended to JOSEPH WATSON. Erie St., Stratford, 29th September, 1863. 14-tf Buggy for Sale. rere E will sell cheap on time, or trade for a Horse, a good, substantial, new Buggy. VIVIAN & CO. Stratford,June, 1863) 1-tf FASHIONABLE TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT. HE SUBCRIBER, in returning thanks. for the liberal patronage bestowed upon him since he commenced business, would respect- fully announce to his customers and the public generally, that he has received a select supply of Fashionable and Seasonable Goods, and is prepared to execute all orders entrusted to him in his line with neatness and despatch. i37La- test Fashions always on hand. DAVID CASSELS. Stratford, 6th Oct., 1863. 15-tf TO VOLUNTEERS AND SPORTSMEN. UST RECEIVED A LARGE CONSIGNMENT of Curtis and Harvey's Celebrated Powder, |. In} and 1 lb. Cannisters. Also C, & H. En- field Rifle Powder. FULLER BROS. TO HOUSE-KEEPERS, UST RECEIVED THE CELEBRATED Turn Table Apple Parer. Alsova iarge lot of COAL OIL LAMPS. for sale cheap, FULLER BROS. Stratford, September 2, 1863, 10-tf BERKSHIRE BOAR. PHDIGRE E F PURE BERKSHIRE BOAR sold this day to Mr. Hugh Dempsey, Lot 8, Con, 8, Gore of Downie. Bred by David Buchan, of Paris, dropped 26th April, 1863. Sire: the second Prize Boar at the Provincial, Exhibition held at Toronto in 1862. Dam: Bred from Messrs. R. and W. Gordon's Importations, and took the first prize at both the East and West Brant Union Show and the South Waterloo Show in 1862. WACCONS AND : se i CARRIAGES ti, re 2 MAXNHE UNDERSIGNED HAS ON HAND A large assortment of seasonable material for manufacturing CARRIAGES "WAGGONS, CUTTERS, SLEIGHS, &c., &c. HORSE SHOEING And repairing done with neatness and despatch, Farmers' Shoeing done at $% per span yearly. Axes and Edge Tools repaired and tempered. Newly opened with first-class Workmen in Crippen's old stand, ROBERT E. WALKER. Stratford, August 10, 1863. 7-tf JUST RECEIVED PORT WINE, Medicinl Purposes IN OTHERWISE. PETER WATSON. Stratford, August 7, 1863. 7-tf ESTRAY. OME TIME IN MAY LAST, a Steer and Heifer, two years old, rising three, left the premises of the undersigned, Lot No. 1, 1st Con. of Downie, and has not since been heard of. The Steer is red and white. The Heifer is red, with a few white spots, and the letters "J. V." branied on her horns, Any person returning the same to the Subscriber, or giving such infor- mation as will lead to their recovery will be suitably rewarded. JOHN VANSTONE, Senn. Stratford, 29th Sept., 1863. 14-St NOTICE. SILVER TAKEN AT PAR FOUR PER CENT ALLOWED ON BIiL.1.sS FOUR PER CENT TAKEN OFF SILVER . WHEN PAID ON ALL BOOK ACCOUNTS. FULLER BROS, Stratford, August 11, 1863. q-tf REMEMBER BEATTY & LAWSON'S FALL & WINTER STOCK OF BOOTS AND SHOES CHEAP AS USUAL 7 FOR CASH, ONTARIO STREET, STRATFORD Dated Sept. 11, 1863. _ 12-¢ BOTTLES OR HARDWARE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. HE Subscriber has received, and,is receiv- ing the most EXTENSIVE STOCK ; OF English aud American HARDWARE, Ever brought into the Huron District. Owing to the great scarcity of money this year he hag resolved trom this time to Reduce his Profits BARE COMMISSION CASH TRANSACTIONS, So those wishing to build or make improvee ments on their farms, may take advantage of this reduction. The followingisa few of the leading articles : 120 Tons Glasgow Bar and Rod Iron, 30 Pig Iron,» 100." Blacksmith and Foundry Coal, 20°" Scrap Iron Nails, 600: Boxes Glass, 400 Spades and Shovels, 1000 Corn and Grass Scythes. A complete Stock of Rakes, Forks, Crdles, &c. All kinds of HOUSE FURNISHING, SIGN OF THE CIRCULAR "SAW W. H. MITCHELL, Stratford, June 8, 1863, -tf THE OLD ESTABLISHED 'liN SETOpP ISTRY WE Tr psi rere ay Erie Street, STRATFORD LC. G. W. BYERS, PRACTICAL TINSMITH Has always on hand a large stock of -- STOVES, PLOWS, AND TY SS. Waa W. Eave-troughs, Roofing, &c. Put up by Experienced Workmen, and guaran teed to stand, Job Work on the Shortest Notice. Remember--Opposite the Commercial Bank. Stratford, June 1, 1863. MONTREAL ASSURANGH OOMPANY, ESTABLISHED 1840. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL, $200,000. HIS COMPANY continues, to effect insur- H ances against Fire and Inland Navigation Risks on as tavorable terms as offered by any responsible Office. Head Office :--No. 9, Great St. James St. For further information, rates, &c., apply to G. HORNE & Oo., ° Merchants, Agents. Ontario St., Stratford, 1863. 14-ly Ghe County of Perth Bevald is PUBLISHED Every Wednesday Morning, BY NV LViAlLALSiv& GG, AT THEIR OFFICE Corner of Ontario and Market Sts., At $2.00 per Annum, or $2.50 at the end of the year. Parties desiring to advertise must hand in their Advertisements by 2 o'clock on Tuesday after- noon in order to secure ins«rtion. This rule will be strictly adhered to. TERMS OF ADVERTISING: First insertion per line......... ea £0.08 Each subsequent insertion...... 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