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A large variety of new Fancy Type and Borders, for Cards, Ci rculars,? A c. kept always on hand. Btrcctorg* Dr. JAMES LANGSTAFF, ISichmond IS ill. December, 1858. J-tf JOSEPH KELLER, BAILIFF Second and Third DIVISION Court. Office, Richmond Hill. Docembor, 1858. 1-tf J. B. DEEGIER, APPOINTED CONSTABLE at the Assizes for the Counties of York. On- tario and Simcoo. Residenceâ€"Corner of Wright and Yonge Streets, near A Wright, Esq’s. Richmond Ilill, Dec. 1858. 65-1-tf P. CROSBY, |«&Q| T^RT GOODS, GROCERIES, Richmond Ilill, Doc. 1858. 1-tf T. J. WHEELER, WATCH & CLOCK MAKER, JEWELLER, &c. Oct. 1. 1858. RICHMOND HILL, 6‘J-lv THOMAS SEDMAN, FUNERAL FURNISHER, CARRIAGE, Waggon & Sleigli Maker? Opposite the White Swan Inn. Richmond Hill, Doc. 1858. 1-tf JAMES McCLURE, I INNKEEPER. Licensed Auctioneer for the Counties of York, Ontario anti Simcoe. Corner of Yonge and Bradford streets, Holland Landing. December, 1858. • 25-1-tf JOHN HARRINGTON, Jr., DEALER ill Dry Goods, Groceri es, Wines, Liquors, Hardware, Glass, Earthenware, &c. CC» Also, Licensed Auctioneer. Richmond Hill, Dec. 1858. 1-tf WELLINGTON N HOTEL, EAR the Railroad Station, Aurora. Careful Hostlors always in attendance. C. CASE, Proprietor. December 1858. 32- 1-tf MANSION HOUSE, SHARON. Attentive Hostlers always in attendance. J. kavanagii. Proprietor. Decomber, 1858. â€" 32-1-tf CLYDE HOTEL, KING STREET EAST, TORONTO. (1 OOD Stabling and Attentive Hostlers J JOHN MILLS, Proprietor. December, 1858. 1-tf RICHMOND IIILL HOTEL. A STAGE runs from the above Hotel to Toronto every morning, starting from th» Elgin Mills at 7, a.m. and returning at 7, p.m. Fare 2s. 6d. each way. SOOD ACCOMMODATION FOR TRAVELLERS. RICHARD NICHOLLS, Proprietor. Richmond Hill, Dec. 2, 1858 55-1 VoL I. RICHMOND III Li I j, F KID AY, .JANUARY T, 1859. No, 6. JOHN COULTER, Tailor and Clothier ! Yonge St., Richmond Hill, December, 185s*. 1 -it GEORGE DODD, Veterinary Surgeon Lot 26, 4th Con., Vnughan. • HORSE & FARRIER†INN. > gl5-l-tf J. VERNEY, Hoot and Shoe Maker. 0 PPOS1TE A. LAW’S, Yonge street, Rich- mond Hill. Ladies’ and Gentleinons’ made after the latest styles. December 1858. Boots and Shoes, 1 -8 in YONGE STREET HOTEL, AURORA. A Good supply of Wines and Liquors always on hand. Excellent Accommo- dation for Travellers, Farmers, and others Cigars of all brands. D. MCLEOD, Proprietor. Aurora, July 6, 1858. 57-6m J. N. REID, pHYSICIAN & SURGEON Corner of Yonge and Centre Streets, Thornhill. December 1858. 10- 1-tf ROACH’S HOTEL, CORNELt of Front and George sreets, one block east of the Market, Toronto. JOHN ROACH, December, 1858. Proprietor. 39-1-tf ROBERT SIVER, Bool and Shoe Maker) V DJOINING the Wesleyan Methodist _£\_ Chapel, Yonge Street, Richmond Hill. A choice selection of Gentlemens’, Ladies’ and Childrens’ Boots and Shoes constantly on hand, and made to order on the Shortest No- tice. D†All kinds Shoemakers Finding for sale. Richmond Hill. Dec. 1858. 1-tf THREE MILKS NORTH OK TORONTO, ON VONGK-ST. GLOUCESTER HOTEL, THREE rPHE 1 e E above Hotel is fitted up in neat and com'ortHble style. Transient visitors and others will find the accommodations to be that o) the first class, while the charges will be ex- tremely low, O’ Good Stabling and an attentive Hostler. THOMAS COATES, Proprietor. Yongw Street, Dec, 1858. 62-ly DR. J. W. GRIFFITH, MARKHAM VILLAGE, C.W. Dec. 2, 1858. 52-ly CHRISTIAN WUllSTER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, \T7 OULD inform the inhabitants of Maple VV Village and surrounding country, that ho has opened a Shop in the above line, where he will, bv strict attention to all orders, endeavor to merit a share of their support. Repairing neatly and «xpedicious!y attended to. IT3T All Work Warranted. Maple Village, Aug. 20. 1858. 63-6m JAMES HALL, HAS always on baud a large assortment of BOOTS and SHOES, which will be sold at prices to meet the times. Richmond Hill, Dec. 1858. 5-4-1 -1 y W. HODGE & Co. V\~ FIOLESALE and Retail Copper, Tin VV and iron Plate Woike/s, and Furnishing Ironmongers, Parties giving this house a call will find their orders punctually attended to, and the lowest prices charged. Richmond Ilill, Dec. 1858. 54-1-ly EDMUND GRAINGER, BU T C II E R, THORNHILL. Fresh and Pickled Meats, Poultry, &c., always on hand. Families supplied on the shortest notice. Thornhill, D%tj. 1858. 41 -1 tf _________________ WILLIAM HARRISON, Saddle and Harness Maker? Next door to G. A, Barnard’s, Richmond Hill. December, 1858. 1-tf JAMES JENKINS’, Grocery Provision Store RICHMOND HILL NO CREDIT GIVEN. Produce taken in exchange. The above is the oldest established Grocery and Provision Store on the Hill, Dec. 2, 1858. 55-ly F. W. HOLLISS, Merchant tailor, has always on hand a very superior stock of CLOTHS, READY-MADE CLOTHING. &c. Gar- ments made to measure in the first style. A good fit warranted. Thornhiil, Dec, 1858. 60-1-tf T. MACBETH, Jnr., CARRIAGE, SIGN, ANDâ€" Ornamental Painter. Richmond Ilill, Fob. 17, 1858. t37-ly BLACK HORSE HOTEL [FORMERLY KEPT BY WM. ROLPH,] CCORNER of Palace and George streets, east I of the Market Square, Toronto. Board $1 per day. Good Stabling and attentive Hostlers always in attendance. An omnibus to and from the Railroad Station. THOMAS PALMER. Proprietor. Toronto. Feb 2G, 1858. t38-ly ANGLO-AMERICAN HOUSE ! MARKHAM VILLAGE. GOOD Accommodations. Wines, Liquors , and Cigars of the choicest brands. R. MARR, Proprietor. Markham. Dec, 1858. 57-ly elections. ‘Well, no, not much; Dick [ ptuary tastes, to teach young wo Grimes ani’t very forehanded, I j men to cook, and make their own always guess; but he has a; clothes, and nurse children, and NEW STORE, Richmond Ilill? CORN Ell of Wright & Yonge stretts. Cheap Groceries and Provisions. Crockery and Glassware cheap for Cash. No Credit. D. HOPKINS. Dee. 3. 1858. 1-tf THORNHILL HOTEL. ri'IIE Subscriber begs to inform the JL Public that he lias leased the above premises, and fitted them up in a neat and comfortable style. Boarders and transient visitors will find the accomodations in every way agreeable. The best of Liquors and Cigars carefully selected. Good stabling and attentive hostlers HENRY LEMON, Thornhill, ? Propiietor. Jan 20, 1858. i t38 THE PLOUGH INN. HW, PECK begs respectfully to inform , the Inhabitants of RICHMOND HILL and surrounding country, that he has opened the Hotel formerly known as the VVnitk Swan, The Bar will bo replete with all kinds of Liquors of the best quality. Good Stabling, Hay and Oats at all times. An attentive Hostler always on call, November 5, 1858. 74 4m ON THE NEW YEAR. Another year ! another year. Is borne by time away ; Nor pauses yet his swift career, Nor tires his wing, nor makes he here E’en one short hour’s delay,â€" But hurries on, and round, and round. The whee lof life is sped ; Unnoted oft, until rebound Upon the ear, the startling sound, Another year has fled ! Whoever said ’tis Now Year’s Day, With unmixed care or glee ? For hope still paints the future gay. And memory o’er the past will stray. With sorrowing constancy. Yet blest if they but there behold The grave of well spent days ; The joy of gratitude that told The tear, in patient trust that rolledâ€" The Christian’s hallowed days. Another year ! so swift it flew. We scarce had markud it ours ; Ere, fading from vur backward view Ti» but the past our eyes pursue ; Eternity’s long hours ! ’Tis Now Year’s Day ! the coming year All blank before us lies ; Oh ! may uo blot or stain appear; To mar its history written here. When published in the skies ! ’Tis Ndw Year’s Day ! how oft have I, While yet a simp'e child. Made it the gaol from whence to try, That race to run, which to the sky Can guide through Time’s dark wild. The sky, that home of quiet rest, When life’s poor dream is o’er, Where spirits mingle with the blest, Anft sorrow, in the aching breast, Sha I reign, shall reign no more ! HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICE. EDWARD CROWN, HAS always on hand a large and well assorted stock of DRAPERY, GRO- CERIES, BOOTS and SHOES, &c. &c. which will be sold at.prices that will defy com- petition. Thoruhill, July 30, 1858. GO-ly HALF-WAY HOUSE, RICHMOND HILL. milE Subscriber begs to inform his 1 numerous Patrons anil the public, that he has removed from the White Swan Hotel to the above Premises, where there will be found excellent ac- commodation for Travellers, and good Stabling. I I orses and Buggies for Hire. JOSEPH GABY, Proprietor. Iliclirnond Hill, Oct. 22j 1858. 72 7m GREEN BUSH HOTEL, 10 MILKS NORTH OK TORONTO ON THE YONGE STREET ROAD. rpHE Proprietor bi gs to inform the , ^ 1 public that he has purchased the j above Hotel, and has recently refitted and ~r'r> furnished it throughout in a comfortable style. The Bar will be continually supplied with good Liquors and Cigars. Good Stables attached to the premises, with careful Hostlers to at- tend to travellers wants. THOMAS STEELE, Proprietor. (formerly of the Bond Lake Hotel.) Sept. 29, 1858. 69-ly One night, that celebrated indi- vidual, Mr. Brown, then holding office of sheriff, found his indolent neighbor Jones, who preferred tax- ing the energies of the community rather than his own, engaged in abstracting wood from his pre- mises. Mr. Brown had been sit- ting in his loom later than usual, engaged in writing, when the creaking of snow attracted his at- tention. Going to a darkened win- dow he looked out, and in so do- ing espied his neighbor Jones in the interesting employment before mentioned. Sheriff Brown, being somewhat of a wag, waited until the sled was well loaded, and then, care- fully capped, coated and gloved, and am ed with a carriage whip, became a very unwelcome appari- tion in the presence of Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones looked for a way of escape, but found himself hemmed between two wood-piles, crossed at one end by a third pile, and at the other by a very great obstacle, and a very frightful one indeed.â€" Mr. Jones believed in ghosts, but I doubt if the ghosts of all his de- ceased ancestors, clear back to our respected grandfather and grand- mother Adam and Eve, would have made him quail as did the sight of that embodied Sheriff ST. LAWRENCE HOTEL 142 KING STRKET, TORONTO. mHE Subscriber begs to inform his JL friends and the public generally that he has opened the above Hotel, opposite the St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto. His bar will always be found replete with all kinds of Liquors of first-rate quality. His Table will also be found rechertte. Good Stables are attached to the promises. W. M. SHORT, Vetihart Surgeon, Proprietor. Toronto Sept. 17, 1858.1 i i 67-ly J. HACKETT, M.D. Licentiate of the Board of Upper Canada LATE RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICER, KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL. RESIDENCE, MAPLE VILLAGE. Dec. 23, 1850. 59-1 -6m WILLIAM U. SKENE, MILLWRIGHT? ALTONA, BEGS to intimate that he is now pre- pared to erect MILLS of every description, by contract or otherwise, on reasonable terms. He is also agent for some of the best Foundrys in Canada. All contract jobs warranted from three to six months. From thirteen years’ experience he hopes to give general satisfaction. Altona, August 20, 1858, 63-6m Good evening, neighbor Jones ; a very fine evening, is it not?’ 4 Iâ€"Iâ€"Iâ€"ahâ€"* stammered Mr. Jones, ‘don't be hard on a poor man, Mr. Brown; you don’t know what it is to see your wife and children shiver for the want of a good tire ! You see I just thought as how the children were so cold, Mr. Brown, and your wood-pile so large, you would not miss a few sticks, Mr. Brown.’ ‘ Oh, no! oh, no!’ said Mr. Brown, good humoredly, still pre- senting the same impassible gate which neighbor Jones seemed to wish unbarred, with a slight wav- ing motion of his head, seeming to seek chances of escape. Ah, no ! But have you served all the neighbors alike now ? Do you get all your wood off my pile ?’ ‘Well, well,’ still giving little jerks to his head. ‘ O, make yourself easy, Mr. Jones, and tell me all about it,’ said Mr. Brown, a* he saw his prisoner sttll cherished hopes of escape. ‘ Well, I have got some at Widow Simpkins’ pile, and some at John Gregory’s, and a little, just a little, from Dick Grimes.’ ‘Dick Grimes did not have much, eh ?’ | lee tie more on hand than he needs right along. * Hump ! hump ! Well, put a few more sticks on your loadâ€" more yetâ€"there, now,’ mounting the load, ‘ I think it was hardly fair to take wood from Widow Simkins, so I think we will try and make a little amends for that by carrying her this load. Poor woman, she needs it more than I doâ€"pull away, my man!’ and tvith a little touch of whip to quicken his energies, Mr. Jones pulled away for the home of the widow. Arriving there, Mr. Jones was compelled lo unload, when Sherifl Brown re-mounled the empty sled and ordered him to drive to Mr. Diekerman’s. ‘ Mr. Dickerman, you know, is worth as much money as I am, Mr. Jones V ‘ Yes, sir,’ they say he is.’ ‘ His wood-pile is as large as mine ?’ ‘ Yes, sir, maybe.’ ‘ Humph ! as if you don’t know,’ muttered Mr. Brown. Well, we will go and see; I cannot, af- ford to furnish all the wood, you know.’ Arrived there, Mr. Jones again loaded his sled, and again Mr. Brown mounted the load, ordering the sled to John Gregory. ‘Justice before mercy,’ said he, touching up the personage ad- dressed with his whip. ‘ John Gregory works hard for his wood, and it is a pity for him to lose any.’ . • From John Gregory’s they pro- ceeded to Dick Grimes’ house, from Dick Grimes to other families whom he was compelled to confess robbing. From rich to poor wood was transferred. From some he took more, from others less, but al- ways carrying to each poor person a full load, and Mr. Brown al- ways riding, be the sled empty or ever so full, and always giving a little quickening to his team at well timed intervals. In this manner the most of the night was spent until Sheriff Brown concluded they had ‘ bor- rowed ’ enough wood from one neighbor to pay another with, and crowned the whole by returning to his own wood-pile for a last load destined for Mr. Jones own dwelling. ‘ We have had a pretty busy night of it Mr, Jones, pretty busy But again, neighbor, just let me know and I will go with you again. It does my heart good, Mr to relieve the wants of the indus- trious poor, and I am always will- keep a house on narrow means, and to be simple in manners, tastes, and habits; to find resources in their own minds, and to be contented without superfluities ; in short, to to be prepared to regulate with frugality a" humble household, and to teach a husband to forget that anything is wanting to happiness and comfort, where there is cheer- ful affection, wise thrift, and the endless inventiveness by which wo- man’s love can find cheap but ac- ceptable substitutes for the endless artificial wants that money can alone supply. Let our clergy teach society to bring up its young men to habits of self-denial and sim- plicity of life, to contentment with narrow means, until they themselves can earn more, to manly hopeful- ness, in entering upon the battle of life, to pure-mindedness and sincer- ity and chivalrous reverence for the other sex, to an abhorence of treachery to the affections, and an exalted sense of the institution which adds the office of a husband •md a father to the responsibilities of citizenship. Above all, let each of us in his sphere check extrava- gance, discountenance luxury, prac- tise self-denial, and cultivate plain manners and simple tastes and habits. money. The study of snowballs, piecrust, and squeezed wax has led the physical philosopher to compre- hend two of the greatest natural phenomenaâ€"the devage of rocks and the structure of glaciers. A century ago, the collecting of fos- sils was regarded as an occupation of about the same dignity as ths accumulation of old china. Now, the coal-miner risks his capital upon the strength of the evidence they afford, and the landed proprie- tors of some of our eastern coun- ties pocket many thousand pounds every year by selling the phosphite tic fossils whose nature was first pointed out to them by a country clergyman who happened to be "a man of science. And not only does the gradual widening and per- fecting of our view of nature bring with it a respect for the influence of the study of minute facts on the advancement of knowledge and the bettering of man’s estate, but it tells us that, apart from all consid- eration of man and his wants, mi- nute and seemingly most insigni- ficant agents have played a mighty part in the history of our globe. Saturday Review, WHO IS INFALLIBLE? There has always been an open question in the Churchâ€"and I great- ly fear that it will not be adjudica- ted in our dayâ€"about which Chris- tian men are prone lo differ, namely â€"What shall be done with the man who docs not follow after us 1 ,‘ A.nd John answeredâ€"even the be- loved Johnâ€"( Mark ix. 38) saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us.†A very bad piece of busi- ness this I and so their master taught them. But Jesus said, ‘For- bid him not. . . . For he that is not against us is on our part.’ Now, if you are in search of the source and fountain of all the dis- sensions and divisions in the Protes- tant Church at this day, you have it in these few wordsâ€"‘ We forbid him because he followeth not us.’ Our brethren may be casting out devils in the name of Jesusâ€"may be saving souls in his name--but all this avails nothing if he follows not after us. This spirit of intolerance is contemporary with the existance of the Church of God. Thus when when you want to borrow * Edad and Medad prophesied in the camp and went up with the rest to the door of the tabernacle,’ we hear Jones, Joshua crying, ‘ My Lord Moses, forbid them.’ But Moses was a wise man, and rebuked him, saying, ing to remunerate any co-operator â- ‘ Enviest thou for my sake ] Would in my wotks of beuevolencc. You I God that all the Lord’s people were have worked bravely to-night, Mr, I Prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them.’ So in the primitive Church. â€" Paul and Barnabas so differed upon a memo- rable occasion, and * the contention became so sharp,5 that they would no longer labor together in ihe same field, but * they departed asunder the one from the other.’ There must have been, to say the least, an error of judgment even in these se of the changed appearance i aPos^es- And if sueh men might heir wood-piles. en’« what a lesson of humility should it teach us, when disposed to sit in judgment upon our brethren and become their teachers ! If John might errâ€"if Joshua might errâ€"if Paul and Barnabas might errâ€"then who may claim infallibility ? But who does not claim it?â€"Episcopal Recorder. Jones, and I consider this load of wood no more than a just recom- pense for such a night’s toil. Take the wood, Mr. Jones, and while you sit by it with your wife and children, reflect upon this old ad- age, ‘ Honesty is the best policy.’ ‘ Good night.’ And Sheriff Brown retired, the next day, amusing his neighbors with his account of the cause of their w^ood-pile Mr. Jones wTas thoroughly asham- ed and punished, but laziness had bound him with fetters not so easi- ly broken, and he never became anything better than a lazy man and a thief THE GREAT SOCIAL EVIL. Our misfortune is that luxury and pride have taken such hold of us that we all insist on beginning life at the point where our fathers left off. Our young men think they cannot afford to marry because they cannot keep up the style to which they have been aecustomed. Our girls have no idea of love in a cot- tage ; of that devotedness to a husband and contentedness with the tenderest and holiest of all human bonds which can count the world well lost foi its sake; of abdicating for husband and for child the com- forts of their father’s house. The young men become calculating; the girls become imprudent or discon- tented ; the world goes further wrong with both than if they had had made up their minds that ‘ Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. What is required but to rebuke luxury and pride, and sum- GREATNESS OF LITTLE THINGS. Scientific research iterates and reiterates one moralâ€"the greatness of little things, and the importance not only of the minute study of facts, but of the study of minute facts. One can imagine the con- tempt with which the “practical men †of the last century listened to the news that a bitter contro- versy was raging between two Ita- lian philosophers as to the reason why a frog’s leg twitches under certain circumstances ; and yet therein lay the bud of the electric telegraph and Elkington’s plate, and numerous other undertakings in which the practical man of ti e present day, though as averse ns his ancestors to every investigation whose fruits are not immediately visible, is very happy to invest his SELECTIONS FOR A NEWS- PAPER. Most people think the selections of suitable maiter for a newspaper the easiest part of the business. How great an error. It is by all means the most difficult. Tolook over and over hundreds of ex- change papers every week, for which to select enough for one, es- pecially when the question is, not what shall, but shall not be selected, is no easy task. If every person who reads a newspaper could have edited it, we would hear less com- plaints. Not unfrequentlv it is the case that an editor looks over all his exchange papers for something interesting and can absolutely find nothing. Every paper is dryer than a contribution boxâ€"and yet some- thing must be hadâ€"his paper mi st come out with something in it, an i he does the? best he can. To an editor who has the least care about what he selects, the writing that he has to do is the easiest part of the labor. Everv subscriber thinks the paper printed for his own benefit, and if there is nothing in it that suits him, it must be stoppedâ€"it is good for nothing. Just so many subscribers as an editor may have, so many tastes ho has to consult. One likes annec- dotes, fun and frolic, and another wonders that a man of sense will put such in his paper. Something argumentative, and the editor is « dull fool. And so between them all, you see the poor fellow gets roughly handled. And yet to ninety-nine out of a hundred, those things do ns>t occuâ€. They never reflect that what does not please them may please ’.he next man, but they insist that if the paper docs not suit him it is good for nothing. â€" Canada Weekly Sentinel, FRETFUL FARMERS. The New York 'Tribune well says : ‘ Men make themselves un- comfortable, destroy the peace of their families, and actually make themselves hated by fretfullless.* Beecher say.s: ‘ It. is not work that kills men ; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the re- volution that destroys the machin- ery, but the friction. Fear secretes acid, but love and trust are sweet juices.’ We know a man with a patient, good, Christian wife, and we never heard him speak a kind, pleasant word to her, and doubt if he ever did in the half century they have lived together. He is always in a fret* Every- thing goes wrong. You would think he was made of cross-grained timber, and had always been try- ing to digest a cross-cut saw. He is elernally cross, and always thinks that his wife and children, hired hands, and all the domestic animals have entered into a com' bination to worry him to death. He is not only rusty, but fairly crusted over with it. He is incas- ed in a shell of acid secretions, through which no sweet juices ever distill. Friction has literally worn him out, and he will soon worry himself to death. Of coursc he has never worked to any advantage to himself or anybody else.-â€"With him everything always goes wrong He superstitiously believes ‘ it is because the devil has a spite against him,’ when in truth it is nothing but his own fretfulness. Change.â€"Such are the vicissi- tudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement endear each other ; such are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satisfied ; we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit.â€" Johnson,