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GLIAIIIOI I30‘ LATI PAPIII.

THE ARCTIC REGIONS. Accordi to the despatches of Captain McCluiu,nae chances are that Sir J n Franklin did not perish by starvation in the Arctic region, for game is said to be quite abundant there. At the commencement of winter. says Captain McClure, “we had nine deer, fill -three hares, and forty-four

tariuigan, t e former having from two to three inches of fat; and on the first of April we had upwards of one thousand pounds of vension hanging at the yard arms.” Du- ring their third winter they seem to have

even ter:—“

has been ke up during the winter, which has enable a meal to be issued twice weekly, and the usual Christmas festivities have passed off with the greatest cheerful- ness. As it was to be our last, the crew were determined to make it memorable; but the grand features of the day were the enormous plum puddings, haunches of ven- sion, roaste area, hare soup, with pater- migan and sea-pies. Such dainties in such profusion never graced a ship’s lower deck; any stranger witnessing the scene could but faintly im ine that he saw acrew which had passe upwards of- two years on their own resources in these re ions, enjoying such excellent health, an so joyful and happy.” In another place Captain Mc- Clure alludes to the quantity of wild sorrel which was found on Melville Island, and which proved an excellent anti-scorbutic.”

Russian Csiisoasnir or ‘run: Paass.—It is impossible to conceive anything more ridiculous than the aspect of the censorship of the press under Prince Mentschikofl"s administration. It is true that the General Board in Russia has never been distinguish- ed by any great amount of perspicacity and luminous enlightenment, but it was reserved for Prince Mentschikoff to render it super- eminently absu . . . . e words“Liberty” and “Freedom,” with all the adjectives and adverbs derived from them, are pro- scribed, and expunged from the Russian vocabulary; and the following ludicrous anecdote will show the manner in which the censors act upon this proscription:— Some time since a professor of mathema- tics, sent in the manuscript of a work on mechanics for the inspection of the Board, soliciting permission to publish it. Now it happened that in describing the action of some mechanical apparatus, the author stated that the wheels, springs, &c., work- ed freely: and further on he wrote that a straight line could be elongated into infinite space without the slightest limit. Where- upon the censors struck out both words- the first without any comment, the second on the ground that the Russian Emperor's authority was the only thing without limit in the world.—L. L. 1: Duo.

Russis.—In Russia, one person in two hundred and twenty receives instruction at a shool of some kind; in the United States, the proportion is one in five. This morn- ing, at nine o’clok, four millions of Ame- rican boys and girls went to school; while at the same time onl a quarter of a mil- lion of Russian boys and gsrls enjoyed a similar walk.

Tun is s Bor I can TRUST.-1 once visited a large public school. At recess, alittle fellow came up and spoke to the master; as he turned to o down the lat- form, the master said, “ hat is a boy can trust. e never failed me.” I followed him with my eye, and looked at him when he took his seat after recess. He had a

ne, open, manly face. I thought a good deal about the master's remark. What a character had that little boy earned. He

is already got what woul be worth more to him than a fortune. It would be a pass- port into the best store in the city, and what is better, into the confidence and respect of the whole community.

I wonder if the boys know how soon they are rated by older people: every boy in the neighborhood is known and opinions are formed of him; he has a character, either favorable or unfavorable. A boy of whom the master can say, “I can trust him; he never failedme,” will never want em loy- ment. The fidelity, promptness, an in- dustry which he shows at school are in de- mand ever where, and are prized every- where. e who is faithful in little, will be faithful also in much. Be sure, be s, that you earn a good reputation at schoo . member, you are just where God has placed you‘, and your duties are not so much given you by your teachers or your parents, as

. by God himself. You must render an ac-

count to them, and you also will be called to render an account to him. Be trusty- be true.—CIiild’s Paper. .

Tau Asciioa.-—This simple and common instrument is not only very useful, but quite necessary to every vessel, from the liittle sail-boat that appears no larger than the sea fowl on the bosom of the deep, to the mighty man-of-war, which rides the mountain-bil- low carries the thundering cannon upon its deck. It is vo interesting to see the sailors hoist the anchor, hauling with mea- sured pull to the time of their rough ‘song, as they are setting forth upon a long cruise; and still more to hear the “ Yo, heave O,” as after a long and tedious voyage they once more cast anchor on their native shore. But there is a better anchor, and it is the anchor of hope. It is of use on the land as well as on the sea. It sustains the sailor in the tempest, and the youth in all the toils and anxieties of his upward course. It holds usstesdily through all the prosperous aodsdverse saunas this chequered life. It visits the chamber of the sick, and con- soles both the patient and the nurse. And if it is ‘used on the rock up: chem 0 to _ 1505- l ._ _ _ __. ,. _

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A FAI'I'llLl.ss Gsiiaiu-rioii.—To obtain the service ofa person who will prove faith- ful to your interest, in your absence, is ex- ceedingly difficult. We have had some ex- perience in this line ; and in some instan- ces, we have been fortunate in securin the services of faithful men; in others we ave been disappointed. For the man or boy who will neglect his duties during an cin- ployer’s absence, we ave a most thorough

voontempt. We view him as little superior

o a common robber: and in one sense. he is more despicable; because he not only robs you, but proves himself unworthy the continence you have reposed in him. he faithful, honest, trust-worthy boy or man, we highly esteem. His sefvices cannot well be estimated in dollars an cents. Such a one will always find employment, and when he on e becomes known, and has established himself in the confidence of the parties wiih whom he is connected, he will be “a made man.” In serving his employer faithfully, he does the best possi- ble thing to advance his own interests. When will the negli ent and ‘faithlcss ap- preciate this?—.MercEonl’s Ledger

Isrsassrixo Discovi:iiiss.—A letter from Naples of the 14th inst., announces the discoveries of the remains of an antique villa etween Acerno and Scafati, on the banks ofthe Sarno, at a depth of only three or four feet under the level ofthe earth The architecture, with the exception of the arcades, bears’ no resemblance to the buil- dings of Herculaneum and Pompeii,—'l‘lie house, of which the front wall is partly rotted by the oozing ofthe waters of the Sarno, contains ten large rooms. There were found in it a male and female skeleton, that ofa bird, and agricultural implements of bronze. During the last excavations made at Pompeii several human skeletons. and one ofa dog, were dicovered, pressed one npon the other. Two gold rings, or- namented with cameos, were found on the fingers of the left hand of one of the skele- tons.—They have been deposited in the Bourbon Museum at Naples.

Cons roii. CoaNs.—The ./Ingusbury Zei- tung announces that Dr. Landolfi,physician to the King of Naples and director ofthe principal hospital in that city,has discovered a cure for cancer even in its last stage- that he has effected an entire cure of a lady of rank and several other persons in Munich suffering from the disease, in presence of the most distinguished physician ofthe cit and has left Munich for North Germany to attend a princess who is affected with the same dreadful malady. He will shortly, it s said, publish an account of his discovery-

TlMPERANCE.—-Tllcrc is no better or more forcible description of intemperance, than that given to St. Augustine, who calls it, ‘ A distemper of the head; it subversion of the senses; atempest in the tongue; ii storm in the body; a shipwreck of virtue; a loss oftime; a wilful madness; a pleasant devil; a sugared poison; ii sweet sin; which he that has it has not himself: and he that commits it, doth not only commit sin, but he himselfis altogether sin.’

‘ Intemperance has been aptly called,’ saith Flavel, ‘ the devil’s bridle, by which he tumeth sinners which way he pleases; he that is overcome by it can overcome no other sin.’

Among the heathen he was considered the best man who spent more oil in the lamp than wine in the bottle.

Tertullian says of the Primitive Chris- tians: ‘ They sat not down before they

royed: the eat not more than might suf- fice their unger: the ran no more than was sufficient for temperate men: they did so eat and drink, as those that re- membred that they must pray iifterwards.’

Tris Two Aitiviir:s.—A striking contrast contained in the following statement, which we find in the “ Economist” of this city :—

‘The United States’ army numbers about l0,0(ll men, and they cost the coun- try last year $8,295,246 for pay, subsis- tence, clothing, &c. That is to say, per man, or if we deduct the militia ex- penses,$800 r man. It would puzzle any one to to l of what service were those man, living useless in barracks and old forts, eating three meals per day, an turning out occasionally to touch their caps to their officers.

“The Illinois Central Railroad army numbers ten thousan men aso, an t receive from the company $3,7000,000 per annum, in return for which they labour twelve hours r day upon a work which

radually stretches itself through the most ertile plains, connecting the great lakes with the io and Mississi pi rivers, an ultimately with the Gulf of exico.”

The perspective building of the g Central Rail, road of Illinois alone, has added to the wealth of that state, in the ap ropriation of wild lands, the sum of 40 mi lions within a strip of but twelve miles in width, and the actual construction of the road will bring to a ready market millions of acres of land now owned by the general government, which, weie the road not con- structed, would lay waste for years to come .

The federal government em loyes ten thousand men at an expense 0 eight mil- lions of dollars, to can about muskets.

eCentra| Railroad ompsny, employ- ing ten thousand at less than four millions, confers a vast porperty upon the state,

is the federal government, and upon thousands of farmers. Year after [year the government spends its millions o dol- lars, electing nothing, producing nothing, and resulting in nothing but the turning loose of su rannuated soldiers, made pau- pers, by a lfe of idleness to ‘pro upon the industrious during the rem r of their esistense.

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by three years rs, ssvoa bandied

‘miles in iron rail. through prolific farms, ,7 many oftbem owned b tue persons whom ‘ they employed to bui the road—inen of ,industry, vigor, wealth, and intelligence. The United States, in thirt years, have spent $3000,000,(Il0 enoug to build a double track to the Pacific, and they have nothing to show for the money but some old forts, guns, tattered uniforms. and illpmoralized veterans.—N¢io York Evening osl.

ARCTIC Tiuvai.i.mn.--In his speech at Lynn, Lieut. Cresswell remai-ked—“ Y must be aware that in Arctic traveling you must entirely depend on your own resources. You save not a slngle thing to depend on -no produce of the country, or firewood, or coals, or anything of the sort; and what- ever you have to take to sustain you for the journey you must carry or drag. It is found by experience more easy to drag it on sledges than to carry it. he plan we adopt is this;—We have a sledge, generally manned by about six or ten men e load this with provisions, with tents, and all requisites for travelling; simple cooking utensils, spirits of wine for cookin , &c., and start off‘. The quantity peop e can generally drag is about fort days"proVl- sions; and gives about ‘£00 bs. weight to ouch. After starting from the ship, and travelling on for a certain number ofhours —-generally about ten or eleven—-we then encamp for the night, or rather for the day, because it is considered best to travel by night and sleep in the day, on account of the glare of the sun on the snow. We usedjto travel all night, about ten hours, and then encamp, light our spirits of wine, putt our sigall flttettle onl itdto thaw the snot: we or, an a er we in our supper——jus ii piece of pemmican and a glass of water --we were very glad to get in after smoking our pipes. The first thing we did afler pitching the tent was to lay on of inackiiitosh cloth over the s Each man and officer had a blanket seihd up in the form of a bag, and this was used to jump into, much the same as you may see a boy in a sack. We lay down. head and feet, the next person having his feet to my head, and his head to my feet, just the same as lierrings in a barrel. After this we covered ourselves with skins over the whole of us, and the closer we got the better, as there was more warmth, We lay till the evening and then the process was the same rgain."

In Aarsu, a town of 6000 to 8000in- habitanis, in Switzerland, the Protestants

share it peaceably together. more, considering man’s prejudices, they have but one grave yard, and there their dust niingles.

‘ CALIFORNIA.

The recent election in California brought to light such delectable localities as Whiskey Crock, Jackass Gulch, Ilumbu City, One Ilorse

own, One ule Town, Drun ard’s Bar, Mur- derer‘s Bar, Shirt Tail Canon, Lower Humbug, Negro-hill, Fiddlctown, Coon Hollow, Jay lluwk, Condemned Bar, Grizzly Flat, Mosquito Cunon, Povort r, ule Canon, Greenhorn, Mugginsvillo, Ind Muletown, Sucker Flat, Rut- tlcsnakc Bar, 'ankee Jim’s, Pep rmint Bar, Mad Canon, Humbug Canon, Roug and Ready, French Coral, &c.

n, the seat of Colonel M‘Dowall, there is a pond cut out of the natural rock, which is accessible by steps ; and in this pond, to which the tide has re ulnr entrance, various fishes, ninon others co s and lin , are kept. They are su mitted to the care 0 an old wo- man. whose voice seems to be familiar to the fishes. “ No sooner," so s Mr. Pettigrew, in the Literary Gazdtc, “ is or voice heard than the head of numerous fish ma be seen pro’ ted from the surface of the water, and t ey eagerly roceed to the side of the nd, there to receive from the hands of their ce r suste- nance in the form of limpets, whic are most eagerly seize and rapid swallowed. This docility in the obtaining 0 food is however, not the most remarkable circumstance connected with their habitation hero, for so thoron hly domesticated are they b this attention to t eir wants, that they rondi permit themselves to be taken out of the water, fbndled and shook about apparently to the great satisfaction of the animal.

Riv. Mr. Coorss.—0ur friends of the Epis- co at Church, meet wit many discouragemenis. A ter the depsrtuis ol the Rev. Mr. Beatty, in the Spring of this year. they secured the services of s most efficient successor, in the person of the Rev. Mr. Cooper. The latter was called by the Gene- ral Missionary Society iif his Church to proceed to Rio Jsneiro, in South America, to lay the foun- dation of what will doubtless become, under the energetic superintendenoe of Mr. Cooper. a future diocese. is very suddeiiness of his departure is an earnest of what‘ he will likely accomplish in that distant land. He left Tsmsqua on Monday, went to New York, and determined to accept the mission ; wont thence to Boston, and made arrange- monls for the education of his children; returned to Tsmsqus on I"i-iday evening; won up his affairs here; look leave of his congregation on Sunday, and left with his family in the earl train on Monday, and no doubt reached New ork in time to sail in the steamer on Wed The vosiiy of the Church are already making arrange- ments to supply his place, and we earnestly hope ihey may find one worthy to tread in his steps. Toniaquo Gsz., .

[The Rev. Mr. r was for msnygosrs stationed at Port Hill, in this Island.—Ei>.]

Twenty-Six Vessels are frozen up in Quebec, two above Quebec, and twenty-four below, many of the latter being ashore and in the ice, and abandoned by their crews. In all, fifty two vessels, measuring 94, tons.

GREAT FIRE I; 81‘. JOHN.

(B Is ops. Sr. Jens, Dec.y2I,¢2fp. m).—Grsat Fire in St. John, N. B., commenced at 10 a. m. Man- hester House, l"rost’s Shoe Store, and a Dwel-

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ling House burned, the shells only left stand- ing. loarned if insured. Origeu not known. The buildings were of wood, very old a

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EASZARJDW GAZETTE. Saturday. December I4. 1858.

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Ur. Wholau hving. as we diewed in our last. kid ‘on the table of House the deed of‘ eonveyunes in fees‘ pls of'l8‘-bras {land on Lot 87. on which he reied is quslihtiolp the same was produced in evidence before the Committee of Privileges. It sp- posred by ID lestimoo of the late Mr. John Dawson

u and Wiflihm Cuudall. sq. that on the 24th of July,

1845, Mr. Dswsen purchased. at s Sliorifl"s sale for anesrs of land assessment. 18 acres ofland, for £6; for whtelttlis usual 9lierifi"s deed was given. This land Ir. Dawson says he sold to Mr. Whelan, for £50, in 1845, by s wiitten agreement, and at the same time Mr. Dawson banded ever to Mr. Whelan the 8herifl's deed above alluded io,—but without any conveyance or legal transfer, either by a separate instrument or by indorsstion on the dad itself; and Mr. Dawson, on being asked, why it was that no transfer was executed at the time the agreement was given to Mr. Whelan, replied. "I did not get psy- mont at the time." Nor did Mr. Whelan, says he, " secure me in the payment of the £50 at that time, otherwise than by his bare word. The agreement did not secure me." And thus matters remained until the Milt of Jpril, I850, when for the fiist time a legal transfer was made by Dawson and wife, by indorsement on the back of the deed. in the presence of the I-lonorablos George Colss and James Wsrbur- tou; but even then no part of the purchase money was paid, — it was secured to be paid by note of hand, at two different periods— but what these were is uncer- isin; and what is still more strange, £30 was paid before it was due, and the last instalment paid within a month previous to the time of Dawson's giving his evidence. It is extremely singular, and makes very much against Mr. Whelan, that the agreement about which so much was said, and on which his wliols title depended, was not produced in evidence. Had the question been before a competent tribunal. the case would liavo ended here. and Mr. Whelan would have been told so by the Court. 'I‘he production of this deed—it would have siiid—goes to show, that on the 89th day of January. I850, the title to the land was in Dawson;—-Dawson's own evidence goes to that efl'ect, for he says that he refused to transfer the title until the money was paid or secured. Unless you can clearly show, by the agreement referred to in the deed of indorsement, that Dawson divested him- self of all legal claim to the property, and vested it in you, we must decide that until the day of the date of the transfer the title was in Dawson. and not in you. Every presumption of law is against you; the very recital of the agreement in the deed serves to shew, that it was— in the words of Mr. Coles [see his evi- dence]-—"au agreement to purchase.” Had it been an absolute deed, there would have been no necessity for the subsequent trsiisfer, and both might have been put upon record together. In fact, the transferring of land in this way is a most irregular one, and liable to many exceptions; and it may be doubtful whether you have either the seizin or possession.—for the She- rifl"s deed, though it might have given to Dawson the right of possession. did not give the possession itself. Now unless you produce the agreement, you have shown no title to possession or soizin; but on_ the contrary , have proved -— and that very clearly — that you were out of possession, both actual and legal, on the 29th day of January, 1850. Mr. Wlielsn‘s answer to this is,that it certainly had not appeared necessary to him (Mr. W.) to rummage his drawers in search of a document which had been fulfilled to the very letter, as shown by a valid instrument of a subsequent date [see Mr. Whelsn’s speech, as pub- lished in all the newspapers. his own included]. This, however. is begging the quostion,—for the valid instrument shows nothing more than that the trans- for was made in pursuance of the agreement, not what the agreement contained. Mr. Whelsn _indi- rocily admits, that it was in his power to produce the agreement; and he ought to have rummoged his droioers,—aud he ought to have produced it, if it was in his power to do so. His not having done se,stfords the best presumptive evidence tlist there was some- thing ia it that would not bear inspootion.—thst it would have borne neither Dawson nor himself out in the assertion, that he could lisve sold it or done what be pleased with it. We might hero rest; but there are many other circumstances connected with the case which we think will all go to elucidate the truth of the opinion we long since formed, that Mr. Wlielsn hsd—as r. Palmer most justly observsd—-taken his seat in that House without a legal qualification. One part of the Candidate's oath is, that the property is worth £50 " over and above all incuinbrsnoes that may affect the same." Mr. Palmer has with legal closruess shown, from indisputable authority. that the fact of the purchase money remaining unpaid gave to the vendor an equitable lien on the land,- and this too with reference iotho time when the truis- fer was made, in April, 1850. We will, however, go a little further back. On the 20th of January, the day the oath was taken, was not the withholding of the deed of transfer an incumbrance? Could a pro- perty be said to be worth £50 to the person who, be- fore he could get a legal title, is order to enable him to put it upon the book, of registry. must pay £50? And yet this is precisely the predicament in which Mr. Whelsn stood when he took the oath. How a property for which the holdsr—evon supposing him in possession. which he was uot—had not paid a sin- gle fsiihing, of which the vendor still held the legal title in his own hands and refused to deliver or part with until he was paid the consideration mouey,£50; —bow a property upon which the holder was notable until the 24th July. I850, at the seousst. if he ever: could then, to raise one single pound, might by any possibility be termed a property worth £50 to the holdsr—Mr. Wholsn-—aiid still more. be with truth called frse from all iscusibrsncss, lsoae of those mysteries that will tax the utmost strength of Hi. Whslan‘s, or any other man's ingenuity, to persuade any person in his sound senses. It is no uncommon thisg for a man, siiuatisdss Mr. Whelan than was, to purchase ii property for which he is at the moment unable to pay; and it is a perfectly legal and honest practice to have a conveyance to him in fee simple drawn out and duly executed, as far as signing and sealing goes. sad thee to pat the deed. ihas complete is all its parts, into the hash of a third party. to be by him held uiitilthe consideration messy is paid, -upou which it is handed over to the buyer, and vests is him a clear _asd aaiuouinbered estate Item that moment. Now this is a much stronger case than ‘tbstof Mr. Whe|aa's. who had barely ibeorlgissl title deed of Dawson placed in his huuds—for what purpose. we shll afterwards ssqairs;-bat we will sissetliaeasasbove ssppsasdstrsegsr. and add to ii th||hIll|bdI&'CI 5 -his tbhi K the