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eT lathe ONCE Newsies mes ae PUBLIC LANDS. Townships 33, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43.
YHE Settlers, and all persons ander contract for the open- ing of Roads on the above Townships, are liercby notified,
that the Commissioner will attend at Maurrce Kenneric’s, Lot 38, on Monday, the 2lst day of November next, at 11 o’elock, a. m., and from thence proceed to the new line of Road (commencing 17 chains North from Peak’s Road, and extending past the end of Sinnott’s Road to Jardine’s, and thence to St. Peter’s Road by the line known as John Me-
Ewen's,) to examine the work of the several Contractors there- | yn; previous to which date it is required the work be well |
ani faithfully executed, to entitle them to the credit of their respective contracts. Persons desirous of purchasing farms will find good land, weil timbered, on the above new line of Road.
On Tuesday, the 22d, and following day, at Mr. Jonn Paetan’s, Lot : at Cortts’,
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30. On Thursday, the 24th at 12 o'clock noon, Bay Fortune Road, Lot 42, where the several
‘ontraectors for the opening of the new Road, commencing |
thereat, are required to attend, when the work will be inspect-
ed, and credit siven, if well and faithfully performed. On)
Friday, the 25th, at Jomn Surwertanp, Esquire’s, Head of St. Peter's Bay. The Commissioner, desirous of avoiding currcive measures, requests all persons on the above Townships, inde bt- ed to the Government, either by Pond, Instalment, or Note of Hand, to pay their respective 4
vember next; and all sach persons having been previously notified, neglecting to make payment thereon, their Lan i will be Gazetted in accordance with the Act 16th Victoria cap. 13.
DEEDS. ymmissi ner having several Deeds of Conveyance ready persons who have not received ‘their Deeds
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are requested to make application for the same at the places |
and dates above mentioned. TRESPASSERS.
All persons Treapassing on the Government Lands, by cutt- ing Timber, or takiag possession of Lands without a Location icket, will be dealt with according to law a
JOLLN ALDOUS, Commissioner of Public Lands
Land Office, October 24, 1859.
o + 4 SETTLERS AND PERSONS DESIROUS OF PURCILASING (LAND ON TOWNSHIP 11,
RE hereby notified, that the Commissioner of Public Lands will {X%. attend at Mr. JAMES HENDERSON’S, Let 11, on THURSDAY, the 10th day of NOVEMBER next, and following day, to receive all amounts then duc,and for the disposal of Lands, a fine tract thereof situate between the Lot 11 Post Road and Western Koad being now opeaed up, and made available to settlers by a road running through the same; and ali having contracts for the making of the said road, are hereby notified, that the same tmmust be well and duly completed previous t» the above date, that the Commissioner may inspect and give credit for their several contracts.
NOTICE.—AIl persons having neglected making their previous annua! payment, are infor ned, that ia every case the Statute Victoria 16, cap 18, will be enforce i, unless payment be now made.
JOHN ALDOUS, Commissioner.
Land Office, Oct. 10, 1859.
MOUNT STEWART HOTEL. OUTHEAST SIDE MOUNT STEWART BRIDGE. Will be oper to receive Travellers after this date. _
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Pain Killer,-We are willing to vouch for the efficacy of Perry Davis’ Pain P.Ver, notices of which have appeared in tiis “paper for nearly a year past. We have bought it for our 6wn use, and haying been benefitted by it. take pleasure
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THE RELIQUES OF THE LOST.
vt A large boat; within her were two human skeletons....a small
Bible, interlined in many places, with numerous references in the mar- ’ ’ ,
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Our stout hearts brave the ice-winds bleak, Our keen eyes sean the endless snow ; All sign or trace of those we seek Hlas past and perish'd long ago.
O, flash ef hope! O, joyous thrill! Onward with throbbing hearts we haste, Por looming through the ice-fog chill A lonely boat is on the waste !
Sad recompense of all our toil,
Wrung from the iron realms of frost, A mournfal, but a precious spoil,—
A reliquary of the lost.
Here lie the arms, the sail, the oar, Dank with the storms of winters ten,
The bones that once were stalwart men.
Their last dark record none may learn ; Whether in feebleness and pain, Heart sick they watch’d for the return Of those who never came again. Or if amid the stillness drear They felt the drowsy death-chill creep, Then streteh’d them on their snowy bier, And slumbrr'd to their last long sheep ;
He only knows, whose Word of Hope Was with them in the closing strife,
And taught their spirits how to cope With agony that wins to life—
He only knows, whose Word of Might Wateh'd by them in their slow decay,—
Sure pledge that Death’s long polar night Should brighten into endlcss day :
And when the sun with face unveil’d Was circling through the summer sky, With silent words of promise hail’d The symbol of Eternity.
Welcome, dear relique ! witness rare ! Faithfal as if an angel wrote :
Though Death had set his signet there, The Lord of Life was in the boat.
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THE STORY OF DICK DUFF.
(From ** Lezends of the Black Watch,” by James Grant.)
Dick Duff, the lieutenant of our light company in 1812, was ons of the happiest fellows in the British service. He sang and was merry from morning till night, and was occasion- ally uproarious from night till morning ; and not even all the horrors of the retreat from Burgos could repress his flow of spirits. Moreover he was the terror of innkeepers, and made ithe lazy ud to his vartous fecommands with a celerity that astonished themselves; for | Dick Duff c.uld swear with marvellous fluency in Spanish, land tive other foreign languages; he bad served at Malta, in | Egypt, and Holland; and was wont ¢> boast that he bad ac- }quired the whole vocabulary of the oaths. This was highly necessary, Dick was wont to allege, ‘‘ lest in a casual war ol ords with any ragamuflin on whom one might ¢ to}
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1800, having been forced into the ranks by his chief or land- | lord.
He was the second son of a respectable sheep farmer on the mountains of Mull, where his forefathers resided for ages. | His elder brother Hamish, when a child, had been swept out | to sea, while playing among the fisher-boats on the beach, and {was drowned, to the grief and dismay of his parents, to whom |a wandering Scottish priest, Father John of Douay, had fore- told his birth, and predicted his future usefullness and great- iness in the church. His mother, an old Catholic of the house | of Keppoch, looked on this elder child as blessed by Heaven, land in the fulness of her heart she gladly dedicated it to the then oppressed Chureh of her forefathers, in token of which} she had tied to his neck a valuable amulet. | ‘Their landlord, like many other Scottish feudatories in the
sear 1800, became desirous of appearing a person of import- | ance in the eyes of the government ; to this end he resolved to ‘raise a kilted regiment among his tenants, and on procuring la letter of service, immediately called upon them for their } sons. : : ; | ‘These tidings caused some consternation in Argyleshire, a !connty from which every war, prior to 1800, had swept at i least four thousand of its best men, few of whom ever survived
to return. : t | The aged father of Dick appeared with others before their
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his reason for leaving it and exchanging into ours was a mis-| hap that happened to him in Glasgow.
His corps had been quartered for a year in the barracks of | the Gallowgate in the capital of the west, and Dick, who was | decidedly convivial, and scandal whispered of somewhat noc- | turnal habits, and having, moreover, a high appieciation of | the virtues of Glasgow punch, wasn the habit of going home|
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Your congregation cannot become interested in your preaching - and if you were called upon to preach unexpected|y, unless you could get hold of an old sermon, you would be completely confused.” hae
The young divine used all his eloquence, but in vain, to convince the old gentleman that the written sermon expressed his ova thoughts and feelings, and if called upon, he could.
every night in the happiest mood of mind ; and on more than | preach extemporaneously.
one occasion was assisted by the friendly arm of the watchers |
and warders of the civic guard, or of the corporal of the patrol.
The regiment marched for Edinburgh, changing quarters with the brave old Pompadours, who were @ called from tho color of their facings resembling Madame’s gown ; but Dick, having obtained a month’s leave between returns, revolved to enjoy himself a little longer among his old haunts, and remain- ed — exulting in freedom from duty and the seclusion cf mufti.
A week after the regiment marched, Dick Duff found him self propped against a lamp-post in the High-street, with very vague ideas of his own name, rank and residence, and esrious- ly weighing in his own mind whether the pavement and row of lamps extending to the right, or those that lay to the left, led to the barracks, for his faculties were so cloudy that he had become utterly oblivious as to the cireumstance of his pene on leaye, in plain clothes, and living at a west-end Otel.
After long and serious pondering, Dick instinctively dis- deviously, of course, through the delightful locality known as * the Sautmarket,’’ and along the Gallowgate, until he found himself before the dark gate of the barracks, and heard the familiar step of the great-coated sentry pacing slowly to Here he kicked with vigour, and struck up
* Who knows but our girls— (We have known stranger things !) When once they’ve got feathers,
‘As we are of the same faith,” said the young minister, “suppose you iy me next Sabbath morning On ascending the pulpit you can hend mea text from any part of the Bible, and 1 will convince you that I can preach without having looked at the text before i stood up. Likewise; I must be allowed the same privilege with you, and see who will make the best of it.” _ The idea seemed to delight the old gentleman, and it was immediately agreed upon.
The following Sabbath, on mounting the pnipit, his senior brother banded him a slip of paper, on which was written : ‘‘And the uss opened his mouth and spake ;”’ from which he preached a gicrious sermon, chaining the attention of his deé- lighted hearers, end charming his old friend with his eloquence.
In the efiernoon, the young brother, who was sitting below the pulpit, handed his elip. After rising and opening the Bible, the o!d man looked sadly around-—‘* Am I not thine ass?’? Pausing @ few minutes, he ran his fingers through his hair, straightened his coller, blew his nose like the last trum- pet, and read aloud—‘* Am I not thine ass?" Another pause, in which e deadly silence reigned. After reading the third time—** Am I not thine ees?” he looked over the pulpit at his friend, and in a doleful voice, said—‘'J think I am, brother.””
STRANGE FREAKS OF A MILLIONAIRE.
William Beckford, one of the most remarkable men of
May make themselves wings: And like swallows in winter, May soon take their fight; And for lovers of ‘ ours,’ Bid their husbands good night !’’ ‘* Tiollo! gate—gate !’’ shouted Dick, sprawling against it with outstretched bands. ‘+ Who eomes there ?”’ ‘* Friend ; particular friend of yours, my boy—very.’ The drowsy sergeant of the guard unfastened the barrier, and sulkily passed a lanterm once or twice across the face of the visitor, till it was knocked ont of his hand by Dick, who exclaimed :
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} ‘© | bog pardon, sir,”’ said the sergeant, who thought Dick jmight be one of the staff; but the lantern was extinguished,
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| feudal tyrant, who threatened to deprive every parent of his
vice ; and this can easily be done, as the Highland erofter has ‘seldom a written lease to show, believing that the old here- iditary cabin of his forefathers is his, as much as the air he ‘breathes, or the heather he treads on.
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service, and must have fellow. and here is the bounty.”’
‘have only to warn you that another person has made my factor | an advantageous offer for your farm, and your son’s enlistment | or his disobedience will materially influence me in considering |
the said offer.”’ é |
My croft, sir! Have not I and my fathers been here |
- , . under your family for four hundred years and more ; and is ; not our blood the same? «Stuff! L tell you that I mast have a thousand men, and
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cannot spare your son."”
‘¢]T had another son, sir— a poor child who was drowned in his infaney ; had he lived, one should have gone to battle, and | one remained —but God deals hardly with me.
«+ T care not,’’ was the dogged reply ; ** men i want, and men I shall have !"’—for the letter of service gave the laird an op- portunity to nominate all his officers, nearly fifty in number.
So Dick became a soldier in the laird’s regiment, and as the old man could not remain on his little farm alone, he became a soldier too, in his sixtieth year, and on the long dusty
i r Dic! te arrying the marches in Hulland poor Dick was often seen carrying brave old father, whom
apsack, firelock, and canteen of his er, \ be etide ‘with his own hands after he was killed by the French ‘at the battle of Alexandria, where he and twenty others pe- rished in a rash attempt to rescue their chief, the colonel, who was there wounded and taken prisoner. — hck's peewee was rapid, and, after passing through the intoemaneate H=s® he found himself, by his own merit, a lieutenant a ish ‘Jand regiment of this obnoxious Jaird in the year 1908 ; an
farm, if his sons delayed or declined to volunteer for the ser-| under arrest. | if you please.”’
“ Daunean Duff,’ said the laird, who had already donned | all his own luggege und property in the room, and being cer- ‘the uniform of colonel, ** lam raising a regiment for the k:ng’s tain that his brain wrs not turning, though the cool impudence | were employed both night and day, through an entire winter, your son Dick; he is a stout, active | of Duff confounded him, * Corporal of the guard,”’ said he, in| ‘ |a stifled tone of anger, ‘* handcuff this insolent fellow, andj the astonished travellers at miles distant. ‘s Please yourself, Dunean,’’ resumed the feudatory: ‘ 1| march him to the cells.”’
| you to the shop in a minute.’’
old stiirease, with wie: he was quite familiar ; and ascending |
ry were force of habit to his room, found the door-handle en the right us usual, and entered.
** All right,’ muttered Dick, * all right. post—ard the candlestick should be here.”’
But he could neither find candles nor matches, and resolving to ‘ row’ his man in the morntng, he threw off his clothes and tumbl ng beadlong into bed, was Soon sound asleep.
Now it happened that the proprietor of the aforesaid quar- ters was the officer of the main-guard, who, as the next day proved Sunday, was to come off duty at eight o'clock, a. m., and daly at the hour of seven his servant entered to prepare a fire and lay breakfast. fearing a yehement snore proceed from his master’s bed, the servant drew back the curtains, and, to his no small surprise, discovered the dark, sun-barnt, and well-whiskered visage of a stranger whom he immediate- ly awoke; bat not without considerable difficulty and after reiterated efforts.
‘‘Who are you?’ grumbled Dick ; ‘‘and what the devil do you want?”
‘* What do you want here ?’’
‘* Where, old fellow ?”’
‘« In my master’s bed.”’
“ Master’s bed, you scoundrel!’ stuttered Dick ; ‘* how dare you intrade into an officer’s room? be off, or I shall send
Here's the bed-
And so, Diek Duff, believing that he had settled the little mistake satisfactorily, again composed himself to sleep, while the seryant hurried to the main-guard to acquaint his master
hat ‘*a thief was in possession of his bed and quarters.’’ These tidiags promptly brought up the officer with his sword in his hand, and a file of the guard at his heels.
Dick was once more aroused, end wrathfully, too, from his siumbers, to find by his bedside two soldiers and an officer cap-a pie in a strange uniform.
‘+ What do you mean, fellow, by this unwarrantable in-in- in-trusion ?’’ asked Dick, with great dignity.
‘Who are you, sir ?’’ asked the officer in a louder key.
‘+ You'll soon find that out—off with you, sir, or by heavens ll parade you where you won't like it. I have a pair of saw-handled pacifiers that are the deuco for hitting at fifteen paces.””
‘¢ What the devil are you about in my quarters ?”’
‘+ Your quarters?”’
‘- Yes, sir, my quarters,’’ thundered the Captain of Pompa- dours.
‘¢ Come, now—l like that.”’
“D n it, sir !”’
‘* Don’t get excited, old fellow ; is not this number three stair, four room?” .
‘¢ Yes, of course it is.”’
‘Then allow me to insinuate, sir, that you are drunk— very drunk, in uniform too—disgraceful ; consider yourself Sir, these quarters are mine—you will retire,
‘And Diek, who was still very groggy, again addressed bim- sclf to sleep. ‘Trembling with anger, the Pompadour for a moment doubted the evidence of his own senses; but secing
modern times, was the only son of A'derman Beckford, of London, who died when his son was only ten years of age, hequeathing him West Indian and other property which yielded an income equal to half a million dollars a year. Young Beckford’s meutal powers were good, and no pains were spared in cultivating them by a refined education. Sir William Chambers instructed him in architecture, while the great Mozart taught him music. At twenty-one, with the income of 2 prince, and accumulations in ready money to the amount of abouts million sterling, he jaunched upon the world. The great talent of promoting happiness was placed withia his reach ; but he threw the golden opportunity away. Proud and haughty, the youthful Beckford withdrew from the active besiness of life, and retiring te Portugal there | devoted himself to 2 hfe of luxerious ease. The first outlay of his wealth there was in the erecting of a gorgeous palace.
During bis residence in Portugal be visited, under the royal sanction, some ef the wealthy and luxuriant monasteries of that country. It is difficult to convey an idea of the pomp and splendour of this journey, which resembled more the cavaleade of an easteru prince than the tour of a private individual.
« Kverytuing,” be himself says, “that could be though or dreamed of, for our convenience or relaxation was carried in our traia—nothing was to be left behind but care suc
orrow.”
The ceiling of my apartment in the monastery,” he dds,
pets of the finest textures; the tables decked with superb | ewers and basins of chased silver.”
| fhe kitchen in which the dinner was prepared is thus | described :
| A stream of water flowed through it, from which were formed reservoirs containing every kind of river fish. On one side were heaped up loads of game and venison, on the other side were vegetables and fruits in endless variety. Beyond a long line of stores exiended a row of ovens, aud close to them hillocks of wheaten flour, finer than snow, blocks of sugar, jars of the purest oil, and pastry in various abundance.”
The dinner which followed these preparations was served ia a magnificent salogn, covered with pictures, and lighted up with a profusion of wex tapers in sconces of silver, “ The banquet,” he adds, * consisted of rarities and ¢elicacies of every season, and from d’stant countries.” Confectionary and fruits awaited the perty ia a room still more sumptuous, where vessels of Gos filigree, containing the rarest and most fragraut spices, were handed round. Sach was Beckford’s mode of life during this journey.
Returning, at the commencement of the present century, to his native country, Beckford again abandoned himself to the selfish enjoyment of his wealth. Taking a capricious dislike to a splendid mansion on his estate, which bad been. erected by his father at a cost of $1,409,000, he ordered it to be pulled down. He resolved that, Phooaix like, thera should arise from its ruins a building which should surpass in magnificence all thet bad hitherto been known in English art. Konthill Abbey, once one of the wonders of the West of England, was the result of this determination. Whole galleries of that vast pile were erected, solely for the purposs of enabling Beckford to emblazon on their windows the crest of the families from which he boasted his descent. The ‘wonder of the fabric, however, was a tower of colossal di- mensions and great height, erected somewhat in the manner and spirit of those who once reared a similar structure on the plainsof Shiner. ‘ Go to, let us build a tower whose top may reach unto Heaven; and let us make us a name.”
fo complete the erection of Beckford’s tower, 460 men
the torches used by the noeturnal workmen being visible to Beckford’s prin- cipal enjoymeut was watching the erection of this structure,
‘- Handeuff—the devil,’’ shouted Dick. [ This imperative order mado him spring up, and at that | moment the recollection of the change of barracks, his month’s |
‘leave, and the last night’s potations, flashed upon lum. Un-|
happy Dick was sobered in a moment. und his countenance | fell, and he turned to explain—to apologise ; but the Pompa- | dour would listen to nothing. Our friend was ignominiously | hauled from bed, hastily dressed, roughly handcuffed, and)
| despite ail his assertions that he was ‘‘ an officer—an officer
and a gentleman,”’ ete., ete., he was marched to the guard- | house, into which he would have been thrust had not a staff- |
| officer, the friend with whom he had supped overnight, passed
in at that moment and recognized him. |
The officer explained, Dick expostulated, the Pompadour | was sulky ; but after fiery threats, mutual apologies and ex- pressions of friendship for life were exchanged, Dick dined | that evening at the mess, of which he was made an honorary |
member ; bat the story ‘* found vent,” with a hundred absurd |
additions, and Diek was so much quizzed about it by the | concuct Wi ; r iw : ‘miles in circumference, surrounded his mansion, and withia
‘this circle scarcely any visitors were allowed to pass. In ‘sullen grandeur he dwelt alone, shunuing converse wita the ‘whole world, ‘wonderful domain, but was refused admittance. ‘would disguise themselves as servapts, as peasants, Or as
small wits of his own corps, that he exchanged into Ours, and joined us about the time Corunna was fought.
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Cavour is His Own Trap.—Once two ministers of the gospel were conversing on exiemporaneous preaching.
* Woll,”? said the oid divine, waxing warm, ** you are ruin-— ing yourself by wriling your sermous and reading them off.
At nigutfall be would repair to some elevated part of his
‘grounds, and there in solitude would feast his senses for
hours with the singular spectacle presented by the dancing of the lights, and the reflection of their glare on the surround- ing wood. he building was indeed Beckford’s idol—the object for which he lived. He devoted the whole of his energies to make it realise the most fascinating visions of a vain imagination, The tower was finally erected, but, as might have been expected, the mortar and cement used had no time to set properly, ere a violent gale of wind brought the vast structure to the ground. Merely remarking that he chould have been glad to witness the sublime fall of such a mass of materials, he gave orders for the erection of an- other tower of 276 feet in height; this also fell to the ground in 1835. After the completion of the abbey, Beckford’s conduct was still more extraordinary. A wall, nearly two
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