The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-16 00:00:00

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6th. Many pieces of law rants—forks and poops—
bearing crests andinitialaf the owners. 7th. Farts of
watches. &h. Knives, andeany other thinp, aof which
you, Mr. Grinnell, anc them interested in the
fate of the Franklin Er pdition, will take a sad
interest in inspecting o their arrival in the States.

Crozier, set out afoot across the frozen straight
which separates King William's Island from
the northern line of the American oontinent, in
the hope of reaching the frontier stations of the Hud-
son's Bay Company; and that many, sad probably ell
of the party died on the way. Their relics were found
by M'Clintock all along the coast of King William's
Island, and the natives immured him that every one of
the party had perished. Still M'Clintock's discoveries
left room for • faint hope that one or two might have
escaped the fate of the rest. Anderson in 1855 had
heard of some of the missing adventurers as far south
es Montreal Island. at the mouth of the Great Fish
River; and a faint rumour reached Hall in his first
voyage of three white men who, as recently as 1854 or
1855, had been wandering among distant Esquimaux
tribes, seeking in vain for deliverance. It was to clear
up this last mystery and complete the investigations
of M'Clintock, that Hall sailed from New London in
1864.
It is ascertained, according to the following report,
that none of them reached even as far as Montreal
Island, and their bones lie scattered along the coast of
King William's Land, some in isolated graves, others
in the camgng plaices where they fell and. died in com-
panies. in the kmneceivtelg'elYthhaitstiV; Idled starvation
through through the base behaviour of the Esquimau', and
that in learning their fate Captain Hall was reduced
to the awful necessity of taking the life of one of
his own mutinous men. The following is his letter :
" Beaune Bay, June go, law
"Henry Grinnell,—Dear sir, this day I have re-
turned from a sledge journey of ninety days to and
from King William's Land. It was my purpose, and
every preparation was made, to make this journey last
season • but my attention then having been called to
Melville Peninsula, in the vicinity of Fury and Heels
Straits, where native report had it that white men had
been seen, I directed my expedition there by way of
Ami-toke, Cog-lit-isle, Ig-looelik, with the ardent
hope and expectation of rescuing alive some of Sir
John Franklin's last companions. The result of this
journey was the finding of • tenting piece of a few
white men, and a stone pillar they had erected close
by it at the bottom of Parry Bay, which is some
fifty miles south of the western outlet of Fury and
Hecla Straits, and the visiting of several places where
white men and their traces had been seen by natives
of Ig-100-lik and vicinity in or about the years 1866-7.
I also gained much information from the natives of 1
Ig-loo.lik, North Oog.lik Isle, and thereabopts, that
confirmed the report I had heard in the winter of
1867.8, which I have already stated. And still further
proofs of this report have been also obtained on my
late visit to King William's Land. My sledge journey
to the Straits of Fury and Hecla, and thence down to
Parry Bay and back to Repulse Bay by the route
already defined, consumed 96 days.
"SKELETONS OF FRANKLIN'S CREWS.
"The result of my sledge journey to King William's
land may be summed up thus None of Sir John
Franklin's companions ever reached or died on Mont-
real Island. It was late in July 1848 that Crosier and
his party, of about 40 or 45, passed down the west coast
of King William's Land in the vicinity of Cape
Herschel. The party was dragging two sledges on the
sea-ice, which was nearly in its last stage of dissolution
—one, a large sledge laden with an awning-covered
boat, and the other, a small one, laden with provisions
and camp niateriel. Just before Crosier and party
arrived at Cape Herschel, they were met by four
families of natives, and both parties went into camp
near each other. Two Esquimau' men, who were
of the native party. gave me much sad, but deeply in-
teresting information. Some of it stirred my heart
with sadness, intermingled with rage, for it was a con-
fession that they with their companions did secretly
and hastily abandon Crozier and his party to sutler
and die for need of fresh provision", when, in truth, it
was in the power of the natives to save every man
alive. The next trace of Crozier and his party is to be
found in the skeleton which M'Clintock discovered a
little below, to the southward and eastward of Cape
Herschel; this was never found by the natives. The
next trace is a camping plane on the sea-shore of King
William's Land, about three miles eastward of Pt' if
River, where two men died and received Christian
burial. At this place fish-bones were found by the
natives, which showed them that Crozier and his party
had caught while there a species of fish, excellent
for food, with which the sea there abounds. The next
trace of this party occurs some five or PIE mile, east-,
ward, on a long, low point of King William's Land,
where one man died and was buried. Then about
S.S.E., two-and-a-half miles further, the next trace
occurs, on Todd's Islet, where the remains of five men
lie. The next certain trace of this party is ou the west
ride of the inlet west of Port Richardson, on some low
land that is an island, or a part of the main land, as
the tide may be. Here the awning-covered boat and
the remmns of about thirty or thirty-five of Crozier's
party were found by the native Poo-yet-tr, of whom
Sir John Ross has given a description in tbe account
of ti's voyage in the Victory, 1829-31. In the spring
of 1849, a large tent was found by some of the native.
whom I saw, the floor of which was completely
covered with the remains of white men. Close by
were two gravee. This tent was a little way inland
from the head of Terror Bay. In the spring of 1861,
when the snow was nearly all gone, an Esquimau:
party, conducted by a native well known throughout
the northern regions, found two boats, with many
skeletons in and about them One of three boats hail
been previously found by M'Clintock, the other was
found lying from one quarter to one half mile distant,
and must have been completely entombed in Snow at
the time MC intock's parties were there, or they um.t
aesuredly would have seen it. In and about this boat,
is-sides the many skeletons alluded to, were fonigi
to,tty relics, most of them similar in character to those
SI 'Clintock has enumerated as having been found in
th ioat he discovered. The native who conducted
this native party in its search over King William's
Land in the same individual who gave lir. Rae the
first information about white men having died to the
westward of where he (Dr. Rae) then was (Pelly Bay).
In the spring of 1854. His name is In-nook poo-zhe-
j oh, and he is a native of Neitchillet a very great
traveller, and very intelligent. He is, in fact, a
walking history of the fate of Sir John Franklin's
expedition. This native I met when within one day's
sledge journey of King William's Land— off Point
Dryden—and after stopping a few days among his
p.ople, he accompanied me to the places I visited on
and about King William's Land.
"THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE.
"The same year that the Erebus and Terror were
abandoned, one of them consummated the Great North
West Passage, having five men aboard. Theevidence
of the exact number is circumstantial. Everything
about thin North-West l'amsage ship of Sir John
Franklin's Expedition was in complete order; four
boats were banging high up at the ship's sides, and one
was on the quarter-deck; the vessel was in its winter
housing of sail or tent cloth. This vessel was found
by the Ook-joo-lik natives near O'Reilly Inland, lat.
68 deg. 30 min. N., long. 90 deg. 8 min. W., early in
the spring of 1849, it being frozen in, in the midst of a
smooth and unbroken floe of ice of only one winters
folmation. From certain evidence I have gained both
at Igloo-Ilk and King William's Land, there must
have been a dog of the greyhound species belong-
tic to one or other of the two ships. I only
kilo a this through native testimony. It is quite
likely that some one in England can tell whether there
was a dog on board either of the ships when Sir John
Franklin left in 1845. To complete the history of Sir
John Franklin's last expedition, sone must spend a
summer on King William's Land with a considerable
party, whose only business should be to make searches
for records which beyond doubt lie buried on that
island. I am certain, from what I have heard the
natives say, anti from what I saw myself, that little or
nothing more can be gained by making searches there
when the land is clothed in its winter garb, for the
Eoquimanx have made search after search over all the
rout of King William's Land. on either side, from its
southern extreme up to Cape Felix, the northern point,
for anything and everything that belonged to the com-
panions of Sir John Franklin, and these searches have
been made when the snow had nearly all disappeared
from the land.
"My sledge company from Repulse Bay to King
William's Land consisted of eleven souls, all Esqui-
mau:. Although they are as untamable as eal,les by
nature, yet by their aid alone I was enabled to reach
points otherwise inaccessible, and when there to gain
much important information relative to the fate of Sir
John Franklin'e expedition. I tried hard to accomplish
far more than I did, but not one of the company would.
on any account whatever, consent to remain with mom
that country and make a summer search over that
island, which, from information I had gained of the
natives, I had reason to suppose would be rewarded by
the discovery of the whole of the manuscript records,
that had accumulated in that great expedition, and;
been deposited in a vault a little way inland or east-
ward of Cape Victory. Knowing, as I now do, the
character of the Esquimau' in that part of the
country in which King William's Land is situated, I
cannot wonder at nor blame the Repub.(' Bay waives
for their refusal to remain there as I desired. It is
quite probable that. had we remained as I wished, no
one of us would ever have got out of the country alive.
How could we expect, if we had got into sitraitened cir-
cumstances, that we .h ;old receive better treatment
from the EgtHIiMSOX of that country than the 105 souls
who were under the command of the heroic Crozier,
come time after landing on King William's Land? Could
I and my party, with reasonable safety, have remained
to make a summer search on King William's Land, it is
not only probable that we should have recovered the
logo and journals of Sir John Franklin's expedition, but
have gathered up and entombed the remains of nearly
100 of his companions, for they lie about the place where
the three boats have been found, and, at the large camp-
ing place at the head of Terror Bay, and the three other
places that I have already mentioned. In the cove,
wait side of Point Richardson, however, Nature her-
self has opened her bosom and given sepulture to the
remains of the immortal heroes that died there.
Wherever the Esquimau' have found the graves of
Franklin's companions, they have dug them open and
robbed the dead, leaving them exposed to the ravages
of wild beasts. On Todd's Island the remains of five
men were not buried, tint, after the savages had robbed
them of every article that could be tinned to any account
for their use, their dogs were allowed to finish the
disgueting work. Wherever I found that Sir John
Franklin's companions had died I erected monuments,
then fired salutes, and waved the Star-spangled Banner
over them in memory and respect of the great and true
discoverers of the North-West Pomace.
"RELICS OF FRANKLIN.

• -
"itnntit.— BEAMAN SHOT.
"I must now tell loud the heart.rendiog, tragical
part of my expedition betre I conclude this rapid, and
I must add incomplete resort, for, after all, it is but a
drop in the bucket to ging you • full idea of the vast
amount of interesting ad important information I
havegained of the nataverabout Repulse Bay, Ig-loo•
lik, Polly Bay, Neitchillt Great Fish or Back River,
and King William's Lam, relative to the fate of Sir
John Franklin's Expediton. In the spring of 1865 I
started from Repulse BR, on • doggledge journey to
King William's Land. 1y company was entirely of
natives, and on our gettng about 200 miles on our
woy. we met a party of ?elly Bay natives who were
Hering from their countr3 on account of ' war ' raging
there. The effect on fly company was that on no
consideration could thy be Induced to proceed
further, and therefore, terible as was the blow to my
plans, I had to turn back, trusting that I could
succeed in getting atonal band of faithful white men,
out of some whale ships,if they should happily make
into Repulse Bay. Nit until the Fall of 1867 was
I able to get the desirednumber of white men to ac-
company ms, besides myEainimaux interpreters—Joe
and Hannah-- as an mart of defence, while making
the long delayed sledge journey to King William's
Land, and even then, it was only at the very last
moment—that is, while the whaling vessels were weigh-
ing anchors and starting or the States—that was enc.
negate'. The result of my taking seamen that neither I
nor the captains knew 'lnch about, proved an many
would expect. One of the men, Frank Lailer, ever
proved, during the year I employed the party of five
men, a most faithful, bar-working, and energetic man,
fulfilling every position in which I placed him with ability
and honour. Two of the five men would. I am quite
confident, have proved better men than they did, had
they not been ill-advised. None of the men, except noble
Frank Lailer, ever accompanied moon any of soy great
sledge journeys. In the fall of 1868, during a mutin-
ous attack made upon me, when my faithful man was
absent, about seven miles distant, on business, I was
compelled, in self-defence, to call into requisition a
revolver. Coleman, the leader, fell, and died in fifteen
days. At once the rebellion ended, and one of the
band came, and, like a man, acknowledged freely and
truly that he and his companions were altogether the
guilty ones, and hoped that I would forgive him, which
I did on the inetant. I feel that had I not taken this
last 'dread alternative 'my fate would have been quite
as sorrowful as that of Henry Hudson.
"C. F. HALL."

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"I could have gathered gi- at quantities—a very
great variety—of relics of Sir John Franklm's Rape- .
dition, for they are now possessed by natives all over
the Arctic regions that I visited or heard of- - from
Pond's Bay to Mackenzie River. As it was, I had to
be satisfied with taking upon our sledges about 125
pounds total weight of relics from natives about King
William's Land. Some of those I will enumerate :
s portion of one side several planks and ribs fast to-
gether) of a boat, clinker built and copper fastened.
This part of a boat is of the one found near the boat found
by M'Clintock's party. 2nd. A small oak sledge run-
ner, reduced from the sledoe on which the boat rested.
3rd. Part of the mast of the North-West Passage chip.
4 h. Chronometer box, with its number, name of maker,
and toe queen's broad arrow engraved upon it. sth. Two
long heavy sheets of copper, three and four inches
wide, withcounter sunk holes for screw nails. On these
sheets, as well as on most everything else that came
from the North-West Passage ship, are numerous
stamps of the Queen'. broad arrow. sth. Mahogany

aimed 883,509 dola currency, being at the . rate of two Hersiord to Glaciate; ,an
Glooester branch of the areateWestern Railway. In
past year WM, ibV,MAJ,O4I) words, for which it re. defendant sent 240 sheet in six
Hereford. Boss,
(mind
This immense
and three-tenths mills per word.
packed and some were trampled under foot by the
separately, but, through • combination of Taira: y - 'Au • exhausted stair; one was dead,
possible to a vast system like this was matt
amount of matter was not transmitted to each PaPog
large others. were in an az
one truck, lift, by 7ft., there were noises than 74 sheep
mission. : iti mass of bruise*, and died from suffocation. The owner
number of places simultaneously with only one trans- anhadvingsevwerfnenaptredwn
otonbenhednLingT, bhuetdweaderenhrezpivwedasbya
Wome.e's RIGHTS.-MPIL Hr. Major Mary
Walker has recently been walking the streets of wfisased_ fiuned6d.2s and £9 expenses, and the drover was
Cincinnati in what is described al " wimi-moblielemadattiream"
d Ireland, in which be observes, with regard to the
.vest, an
This did so excite, stimulate, and arouse the ambition Menai GAVAZZI AND THE (ECUMENICAL 0017g-
of a young woman named Ida Price that mt.-Father Gavazzi has written a letter to a friend in
appearance in complete trowels, unmitigated
highly inconsistent policeman, who "Seeing bow differently churches and nations notice the
brio phenomenon between the two
had permitted Mrs. 'Walker to walk without inter.approaching
anstonaybrelartuteedeeaneta hiWhereupee we
gm"
to
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feethewming
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her to the station-house, in which, at the bat accounts,
mysell for all emergencies. Be sure that if the council taks•
she was howling at the despotism of man. We have place (which is still doubtful, because of the many hostile
behaopsepmw.ehlToendsiesvepizolutt, anit,d.tbdostehewirehloorree
wverepreit-parel
ference, seized the unfortunate Mies Price and carried edixt
always told the ladies emulous of our raiment, that opinions already In the Popish field against
altag aoiriganfe.el
their great danger would be from the policeman ; and o (oho adds the
d will rest with civil society, but it shall be
ing. -New York Tribune. at a fatal cost. I aro also certain that the dogmatism of such
here is proof of the propriety of our gocei-natured warn. dot
A Meolc CONCERT.- -A magic concert (says the doctrines as the corporeal assumption of Mary leteeheauvreen,
victory in
er social calamities. Irian. Of anni
Musieat Standard) has been recently given in Paris. the personal intalimoility
o 4,thwfilnipiseirustlie nriogthtaoffetwh 'i.i.emahn
The audience assembled in a drawing-room ; and on a over
_eaiolics 4hoanwdellseitinertrhconstitute • Catholic Church with-
platform was placed • piano, violin, violoncello, and
out Pope and Popery, or will embrace the tenets of some
harp, but no performers. At a given signal the over. Evaogelical denomination.'
titre to " William Tell' was heard burning from the
AN ILLUSTRIOUS DESCENT. - A Paris paper
orchestra. Unlike the emcalled spiritual mansfesta-
os gentlemen, les plus 'riders' ") had among his an-
effect was produced by artists in another room playing n tions, the affair took place in broad daylight The
on identical instruments connected by means of bars knot. re a tradesman whose net cravat was the Newgate
says-One of our principal gentlemen jockies (" un de
" u that he is
t the club, some one said, insure you
vibrations were carried through these rods (which were e
descended from one of the highest families in England."
of wood with the instruments in the orchestra. The While_ they were talking of him the other day
enclosed by nonconductors), sympathy cunning the in' aYes,"
strumming to sound together. We
curious effect was tint shewn at the Royal Institution not touch the ground."
was the reply, " so high that their feet did
of
London,
by
sir
W.
wboadono. believe that this
THE New TOT.-" THE SIAMESE LINK.”-This
FAMINE Favvt.-Attention is drawn in the toy, which has recently been popularieed by the
American
London of a diseme which, fortunately, has of late Cale made for many years by thelndians,
Lancet by Dr. Murchison to the renewed prevalence in London Stereoscopic Company, is an adaptation of
years been rarely seen in this country. Relapsing and sold at the Indian toy shops at Niagara Falls and
fever may be broadly said to be the product of destitm elsewhere under the name of the "Indian pulite_
tion pure and simple ; but once established, it becomes (says the Lanett). Hamilton, as long ago as 84‘.,
connection with the fever, which has DOW been amongst might be useful for the purpose of making
.ex-
communicable by contagion. An important point in called attention to the puzzle, and suggested that it
us for the lain fifteen months, and is evidently growing tension upon dislocated fingers; and in his
icilassi
cal
in dimensions, is whether or not it was imported, in work on " Fractures and Dislocations" e thus
the summer of 1868, from Germany, where the disease describes it :-" The 'puzzle' in an elongated cone
had unquestionably been prevalent for some time. As of about sixteen or eighteen inches in length,
regards the spread of the disease in London, the made of ash-splittings, and braided; the open end
Dr. Murchiaon observes, to the fact that the disease is in diameter, and the opposite end terminating in a
statistics of the Fever Hospital undoubtedly point, RI of the CODA being about three-fourths of an
inch
becoming distinctly epidemic-the numbers of admits- braided cord. When applied to the finger, it is slipped
SAOI3O for the months of May, June, July, August, and on lightly, forming a cap to the extremity, and to half
September being 4,3, 7,15, and 34 respectively. and 7 the length of the finger; but, on traction being made
admissions having taken place on the lot of October. from the opposite end, it hastens itself to the limb with
One can scarcely doubt that so important a phenomenon the most uncompromising grasp. When we wish to
has attracted the notice of the medical officer of the remove it, we have only to cease pulling, and it drops
Privy Council, and that some of his staff will be off spontaneously." This toy. hes been modified by its
employed to investigate it thoroughly. The poorer English producers, so that it is open at both ends, and
classes of London are threatened with • terrible scourge those rash enough to insert their fingers find themselves
during the approaching winter; for not merely is there effectually handcuffed, or attached to a fellow in rais-
great danger of relapsing fever taking formidable fortune.
dimensions, but, as Dr. Murchison reminds us, such an
Etntoeseag KILLED IN NEW ZEALAND.- The
event is nearly always accompanied by an increased Colonial Office has issued the casualty roll of the
dffusion of typhus. Europeans killed and wounded by the rebel Maories
SERVED Hite RIGHT !-Judge Dowling of New between June 1,186 E, and August 1, 1869. It is to be
York loves, it seems, • practical joke. In a case of understood, however, that it is the beet account of the
is not quite complete or correct in all the particulars.
wife-beating which recently came before him, the fol- casualties that can be obtained, but it is feared that it
lowing dialogues are reported :-
where we live there is a dance-house. I was told my bus- 18 children ; killed inaction, &c., 96; and wounded, 98.
" How came your husband to beat you?" "Underneath The total is a very serious one,- viz., murdered, 47 and
baud was there, and I took a woman with me, and we went
and looked in. My husband saw me, and soon came up to
THE DALEEITH " FAGGOT" VOTERS.-At the
our own room, whee he brat me and smashed the furniture.' Midlothian Registration Court, held last week, the
"It was not a proper place for her to go," spoke up the Liberals objected to the mime of Mr. John Radian-
husband. tyne, Dalkeith, being on ihe roll, on the ground that
'lt was a proper place for you, I suppose?" suggested the he was • faggot voter, and that his right to certain
fudge. "Any place is proper for men." property who
th gave the qualification seas "nominal
•• Do you ?cagy think sot" "yes, sir." and fictitious." It was stated that this case would
"Well, then, I'll send you to the penitentiary for three
rule about 50 others of the same clam. After hearing
months."
POIRONED BY HAIR DYE. On the 15th of parties, Sheriff Davidson, the presiding judge, took
the case to avizandum. On Saturday he gave his de-
June, Dr. Witherwax, of lowa, died with peculiar and Melon, which was to the effect that Me Ballantyne
obscure symptoms. The Scott County Medical Society was entitled to be on the roll. In the course of some
appointed a committee to investigate the causes which observations the Sheriff said that whether the law
led to hie death, it having been the opinion of several should permit property to be bought and sold and
medical gentlemen that he died from the effects of lead drat with in certain circumstances and in a particular
poison. The committee have prepared their report, way, for the purpose of multiplying votes, was not
in which they unanimously concur in the opinion that a matter for his consideration. All he had to con-
the cause of Die Witherwax's death was rightly sue- eider was whin WAS the law, and it had never been
mised, and that tbe poison was introducedinto the system held to be illegal for • person to purchase an estate
through the use of hair.dreesing or dye. For four years for the purpose of having a vote. The result of this
previous to his demise Dr. Witherwax had lined the year's Registration Court for Midlothian shows • gain
dressing almost daily on his hair and whiskers, and of one vote to the Liberals.
frequently during the whole period suffered from pains
which were eimilar to those produced by lead colic. A VENOMOUS Saurzsv.-Mr. Moon is very
Drs. Hazen and Cantwell each made four separate much in the habit of "drawing the long bow." One
analysis of the liver of Dr. W. and one of the kidneys, of his stories is as follows :-" Did you ever see one of
and found lead in the tissues of those organs each time. those here hoop snakee?" "No," says his listener;
Their report accompanies that of the committee. "I didn't think there was any such thing." "Oh,
says Mr. Moon, "I've seen one. Me and my
(beaten) prophets what he thinks now of his prediction
THE SEERS AT SEA.-Ask one of the weather Yhegcre:i
man was down there in the home lot by the side
for the sixth of this month, and you will probably find of the road, and we see something rolling down the hill,
and says I, 'I guess that ere mint be one of them hoops
him anxious to waive the question. -Funds, snakes coming along.. My hired man he was afeared,
A LITTLE MISTAKE.-In Venice, the other even- and climbed up a tree, but I took my hoe in my hand,
ing, a lady walking in St. Mark's-square , suddenly and went out and stood by the side of a tree in the
found herself in the centre of a large crowd of ladies road, and when he came along I struck out. the hoe
and gentlemen. The ladies bowed- the gentlemen handle, and be hit slap, and he made a noise Jen like a
raised their hats. A flower-girl, darting forward, pistol • and, sir, it warn% morn a minute afore that are
offered her a bouquet, calling her " Eccellenza " and hoe handle was swelled up as big as my leg I "
" Maeeta Sum" The lady ran into a shop. It was FATAL OCCURRENCE.-A fatal accident occurred
Mrs. Smith, of London. and she had been mistaken
evening North-Eastern Railway,
for the Empress of the French !-Another story is told on Monday on the
of two priests who waylaid the Empress as ehe was near Scarborough. The driver of the train from Hull
reported on his arrival that when about a mile f corn
coming out of the cathedral. One of the reverend
this station the engine passed over an obstruction
gentlemen had • letter in his hand-the other a cruel-
which would require to be cleared. Accordingly a
fix. Both flopped down on their knees in front of her
Pilot engine was mut down the line, and very shortly
Majesty, clasping their hands and turning up the
the body of a man was discovered lying doge to the
whites of their eyes. They were at once arrested ; and
metal The head was cut off by the mouth, and, to-
the crowd hooted and jeered them as they were carried
gether with the face, was completely destroyed. The
away, body was removed to the Scarborough station, but was
A Dirrusion or RAcES.-Notwithstanding the not identified or claimed. The upper part of the body
opposition raisedby a powerful party in California to presents • very ghastly spectacle. It appears the dc.
theintroduction of Chinese labourers, there now seems ceased came from Filey on Monday evening, an hotel
to be little room for doubt that a large and continuous bill being found in one of his pockets. Mr. Clarkson,
influx will set in, not only to that and the adjoining schoolmeater, of Filey, stated that on Sunday after-
States, but also to the cotton-growing sections of the noon he met deceased, who told him that he had walked
Union, and that in this respect the world is likely to along the Rands from Scarborough to Filey, and had
see during the next ten or twenty years some of the been caught by the tide, thus accounting for the dirti-
most important changes ever witnessed from the dim- new of his attire, which was otherwise that of a gen-
tribution of races. It is understood that the Pacific tleman. lie asked for a respectable house or hotel.
Mail Company of New York intend to put on weekly and was referred to Foord's, where he remained till
steamers to China to import lalvour at • low price, Monday afternoon. It is conjectured that, wishing to
rendering it entirely feasible for Southern planters to walk to Scarborough, he had proceeded along the rail-
procure hands directly from China, vid the Pacific way, and had been overtaken and struck down by the
Railroad, which will co-operate with the company in tram when nearly at the end of his journey. The shirt
the project of the deceased has been found to bear the name of
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.-Mr. Fitch, one of the "Porter," but nothing further is known respecting
School Ex-Inspectors, says in his last report :- him.
There can be no doubt that the holidays now given in CRUELTY TO A CAT.-At Wakefield two game-
.A.-....1. are longer than in past times, and that there is a keepers have been summoned for cruelty to a cat. The
tendency to lengthen them.... 00 The higher the Te. prosecutor was Mr. Ward, a yeoman who lives near a
tensions of a school the longer are its holidays. ... he .
held occupied by s man named Won% ersley. A few
number of weeks in the year devoted to Instruction is as h
nearly as possible in inverse proportion to the sum paid for days ago the defendants caught • favourite cat of
it ... There ill a tendency to increase the number of half. Ward's in the field, and, after stoning it from one tree
holidays and days of leisure... . The longer periods of to another, they united it by the tail and threw it to
their dogs, one of whom snapped it up and killed it in-
leieure are not compensated by severer work during school their
In the course of the case it transpired that
time." Another inspector, Mr. Bryce, says:-" More wore
better work] would be got out of boys under twelve if
they were never required to be In school more than five the defendants had been warned off Womenley's land.
hours daily. Whatever parents might complain of as lost The bench told the gamekeepers that they had to sum-
here might be made up by abridging the holidays. No one mon so many other people for trespass, that their own
would willingly interfere with the summer vacation.... But hands ought to be clean ; and that they had no busi-
the month or six w lowness to kill domestic cat a within a moderate distance
weeks at Christmas is, so far as the
are concerned, mere waste of time." of the owner's house, and in the present case they must
REGULAR Wong.-Regular work is the veritable have known to whom the cat belonged. They were
elixir of life, if you only take it without too much wear fined 405., including costs.
and tear. Existing in an atmosphere of other people's THE RAM/M.-At the Baptist Union Congress,
troubles seems to ease you of your own. As our great held a Leicester,
two years' probation be required of candidates for
lawyers who climb to the woolsack through endless law. t
suits generally die nonagenarians, so wealthy bankers
who see and bear • good deal of money pressure, missionary work before marriage is sanctioned by the
of overdrawn accounts, dishonoured bills, and insolvent committee, exceptions being dealt with as they arise;
court procedure, fill their poets not less intelligently end, that a new class of agents be employed for the
long after they have passed the allotted space of man, work of evangelizing by itinerancy, "free from those
. ties which • family life and a perm anent habitation
RATHER STARTLING !-It We are to credit the involve." A new class of agents will be employed who
Philadelphia North American, no citizen of the United must devote themselves exclusively to itinerancy. A
States need languish in extreme incurable pain. He
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probation of two years will also be insisted upon before
may get himself killed out of hand. The Philadel-
phia journal say' :- historii health,nogorder
this
A little girl, twelve years of age, living in the Nineteenth
probationary period. of taro years he is also to remain
ward, was nipped In the finger by a dog on the afternoon of
July It her mune was Georgians McCready. Three days mAlea.lingThewcoithmemxicettrtioresenarcaveirs
..thethm4d
ago she was seined by the premonitions of hydrophobia. The
most distinguished of the profession of medicine were canal el niveasyththeirkwflete.
to her rescue. By their sanction, with that of friends, rein- The union has approved of the Endowed Schools Bill;
tives, and all to whom the 91. 01 the child was dear, her suf. claim the opening of university honoura and privileges
terings were stayed by the merciful Interposition of poison.
-Character. point delegates to the National Educational League
to all classes, irrespective of religious views' and tap.
ANECDOTE OF SHERIDAN KNOWLES.
ietic stories are told of the mental obliquities of frith- meeting, without, however, pledging the union to sum
-humouredly put them down to "blarney." Sheri-
men. Some people call them by a harsh name, others P°rt the Programme.
ANOTHER " LAST MAN,"-The St. Louis R b-
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suddenly detaches himself from his friend's arm, and
pours forth a volume of hearty salutations on a gentle- September 20, 1869. He served throughout the vex
man passing by, whom he button-holes on the spot
The gentleman, instead of reciprocating, looks some.
see me, Mr. Knowing," says he, "but I hardly think
what stiff and aggrieved. "No doubt you are glad to
his sight, hearing, andintellect up to his last hour. He
40 years he was a Baptist Minister. He had been
you have treated me with very great courtesy. When
I met you last I asked you to dinner. You fixed your over 70 years of age.
own day and your own hour. We waited for hours.
You never put in an appearance, and sent no apology IRISH WIT.-It is in our perorations we shine
whatever." "Why, blew my emit," answers the Irish in Ireland. "May the blessing of the Almighty
dramatist, "ye don't say so ! but rye such a memory! Father follow your 'honour all the days of your life,"
A thousand pardons, a thousand pardons ! Come, now whined the old hag, as she trotted after the gentle-
my friend, when do you dine at home again?" " Wednese man; and then, 'seeing at last that her entreaty had not
day, and we shall be delighted to see you." "At whin moved him, she added, "and never overtake you!"-
hour?" "Six o'clock." "Six o'clock, done-I'll be Cornelia: O'Dowd, in Blackwood.
with ye, my boy. God bless y.ou!" The gentleman BA POETRY.-The San Francisco News Letter
walked off. Sheridan Knowles joined his friend. Says BE
Sheridan Knowles to his friend a minute afterwards, gives the following in reply to • correspondent
"I'd give ye a thousand pounds,' me boy, if ye'd tell me Young Mother -Your little poem upon " Baby "Is a gem,
who that man is !" and we regret we have not space for so exquisite a tlfrbit.
If you have a fault it Is the trifling one, nonillion to all young
Tim Faxus APPEAL FOR " Jusircr."-The writer., of sacrificing melody to hard sense. The third Stelae
act of the Fenian., maintains the Morning Herald, was is a striking instance-
• crime, and none the less a crime because ignorance Doxery doodle-um, dinkle-um dum,
and passion may have blinded them to its guilt It Turn to Its morzery memory mum.
might not be necessary to repeat these things were it r!tf Leery boozery boo,
not that the speakers at recent meetings appear to .letrty so sweet and so pitth 55 00.
labour under great confusion of mind on this point, SLIGHTLY SENSATIONAL !-A manufacturer of
and fancy that they can affirm the Fenians to be Alsace has received an order from a Paris commercial
innocent of all moral 'guilt on grounds which it is house for one hundred dozen cotton handkerchiefs, on
possible for English statesmen to admit and to act which are to be stamped the various episodes of the
upon. Thim, if anything, must be their meaning when Pantin tragedy. Portraits of the murdered victims
they appeal ' not to our mercy, but to our justice." will adorn some of these handkerchiefs as they appeared
Or, they tell us, the prisoners have been punished lying in the zinc coffins at the Morgue whilst on
enough. This is, perhaps, the strongest proof of ethers will be depicted Tramp:mann in the act of leading
mental confusion they could have given. We do not Madame Knock and the two youngest children from the
pretend in any case, least of all in political cases, to cab to the place of their murder. He is represented
mete out punishment in proportion to the moral as obligingly carrying the little girl. Traupmann as
gravity of the offence. So far as that is concerned, we he appeared in presence of the corpses was to decorate
might be content to let most political offenders escape others. These 'lively sketches on cotton will be sold
with simple exile. The object of punishment is to for sixpence. The hero of the murders, it appears, has
deter; in such cases as the present, to teach political a fancy for hatching eggs, with which he is liberally
malcontenta that they cannot, without peril to them- eoPPlied. He has been photographed on condition of
selves, take up arms against the Queen, shoot her his likeness not being sold in public. Re merely
soldiers, disturb the country, impair the security of wishes for a few copies to distribute amongst his pri-
property, and injure trade and industry. According vita friends. being lately asked how he met with
to the universal practice of nations rebellion is punish. the wound on his left cheek, he quietly replied, "It
able with death. It cannot be pretended that the was whilst I was defending Madame Kinck from her
Fenians have suffered any punishment which they husband, which statement he made gravely, and
would not infinitely prefer to being hanged. It is evidently expected it would be credited. In truth, the
absurd, therefore, to accuse us of cruelty. non-discovery of the body of }Uncle *re allowed him
CRUELTY TO CATTLE BY RAILWAY.-At Glo- to continue this line of defence.
coder, John Jones, a Welsh drover, has been charged EOTHUBIASTIC PARTISANS !-A foreign mer-
before the mayor and magistrates with cruelty to • chant, writing from Havana to the New York Herald,
flock of sheep. The prosecution was instructed by the states that recently
Society two ladies, both natives of Spain
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; and -the one from Madrid, the other • 1 time a resi-
ft appeared that on the 27th of Angara last the dent of Cuba-wars together In a bag by the

chore not far from the city when they begau to t.lk
polities. The lady from Madrid remarked ' I hoi e
to see the Government make a stable of Aldan s
house." The ether retorted : I hope to see is.
pedal in the poise, occupied by Do R nibs." bairn. -
distal, the int seised her fair antagonist, tirot Ir
head under the water, and would have drownsd lor
had not others interfered. Hurrying on her garmen• s
the Spanish sympathizer went in hot haste to the
palace, and when the other returned to her house alio
found an official there with orders diiecting herself, her
husband, and entire family to proceed to Spain by v.e
next mad steamer; meanwhile to remain under cur.
veillance.

Votditoreell Noshes AT Routh—lt is said th .t
• corps of Volunteers is to be formed at H. ',meet-
ing entirely of nobles. At present only 500 have en-
rolled themselves, and, as the corps is to be 800 stront,
3110 more are reqnired. The members are not limit, 3
to the Ronan nobility, but may be of any nation.
Among the officers already appointed are an Aldola am
dint a Borghew, and a Lancellotti, and the minima', I
ill be given to a Lientenant-Colonel taken from fin'
army. The uniform is described as handsome. Toe
members of the corps will not receive any pay, nut
their duty will consist in guarding Rome. There (bee
already exist • Palatine Guard, whose dutis s are tlo•
Sollle., but this guard is composed of shoi k-epeea,
though they, too, give their 8 -rvices griguitonaly.
Tile same correspondent who makes the ale re sta...
I meat says that the opinion prevalent at the Vaticar
1 is that Father Hyacinthe was carropted by the Prr.•
teatanta, and that they had offered him a IllaMilitlee 1
position at Geneva or London, and he adds: -•• I. h.
letter of the Pope to Dr. Manning on the inin-iniii C.
sion of heretics to the Council will not have aim.' i.ed
you. You will remember that the Pope invited selus
mstics to be present at the meeting, but, with rev-' it
to heretics, he confined himself to recommi tiding theta
to profit by the meeting to examine their own heart
THE CoBT OF THE WAR IN PARAGLIAT.—The
Buenos Ayres Siatula,d thus sums uo the resolts of me
Paraguayan war : " This war, which was hr i dieted to
a three months' campaign, has lasted considerably
more than four years. The first hostilities between
Paraguay and Brazil were in December 1861, and the
rupture with Buenos Ayres occurred in April 186:c
The invasion of Paraguay by the ailleS N., in April,
1866, and the disastrous battle of Curupaity was tong i, t
in September of the same year. The fleet forced the
of Humaita in Feb., 1868; the redoubtable
1= was taken in the following august • and w ili
1 the first days of 1869 the flags of the Triple Allis ce
were unfurled from the turrets of Asuncion. Finally,
after hostilities of fifty.aix months since the inv....a
of Matto Grosso, and fifty-two mouths since the de-
scent on Corrientes, Lopez has been driven a [Logi' iv i
into the mountains apparently without follo o wers r
resources of any kind. The war has cost Brazil at
the rate of £35,000 sterlintand 100 men per diem. I
has coat the Argentine Republic about £6,015l on 1
twelve men per diem ; and Monte Video alsint Ili 0
and two men daily, which sum up as follow: Bear I.
month", £56,280 000 sterling, and 188,000 men ; Argen-
tine Repnblic 82 months, £9,360,000, and 18 720 most;
Monte Video, £1,248,000 and 3 120 men ; making is
total of 06,888,000 sterling and 189,840 men as lia3
cost of the war to the allies. This is not a mere speol-
lative ealculation, but a return hoed on most
authentic source's."
THE IM.ORDERERB OF MDLLE. TINNE.—k Malta
correspondent writes nnder date of Valetta, October 4 :
—" Accounts from Tripoli to the 30th of September
have been received, announcing that the Turkish
Government have succeeded in capturing the assassins
of the late Mdlle. Thine, and recovering the yoneg
negrese Jaemine and some of the stolen property.
The Tonareg Chief Ikenoukhen disclaims any con-
flexion with the eecort which betrayeel the unfortneate
lady, and has assisted in brineing the murderers ti pis-
tioe. He has placed the young negreas and the re-
covered effects under the protection of the chief who
was to have escorted Millie. Thine, and they will he
shortly sent on from Ghat to Mourzuuk and Trip ili,
where the caravan and 'servants are expected to nrrive
in the first week of November."
FEARFUL POACHING AFFRAY.—A desp rate
affray with poachers took place at Longwarthanie is Bel-
mont, near Bolton, between twelve and one octetson
Monday morning. Four keepers, named Gabriel,
Edmund, Henry, and James Berry, brothers ( ii the
service of Mr. Hick, M.P., and Mr. Ashworth), with
four assistants, were on the moor when they SW, •
gang of fourteen or fifteen poachers approacoinz.
They concealed themselves and allowed the whole
gang to pass except two. Henry Berry then smalls
up, when the two men made a stand, and a dreadful
encounter ensued. The poachers were armed with
bludgeons and axes, whilst the keepers had only their
staves, and after an hand to baud fight for half an
hour, the former gained the victory. Henry Berry
sustained a broken arm and nose, besides several entire
scalp wounds; James Berry had his skull fractured,
the brain protruding, and in not expected to recover ;
and Edmund Berry received three large scalp wounds.
An assistant named John Kay has his nose out
through, and others were more or less injured. The
poachers left behind them a number of nets, & ;., but
none of them have yet been captured.
RATHER DOrI3TFI3L.—A most audacioes rob-
bery has just been committed at the religions Rota.
blishment for Deaconesses, Rue de Reuilly, St. Antone,
l'aris. A thief entered the house at ni;ht, broke open
a safe, and carried off 1,700 f. In the m riling, while
the whole house was in commotion, a letter atrived by
post, addressed to the cirectress, in which the wr ter,
after deseribing the means by which he had o talned
an entraece to the premises, recommende i that the
walls should be raised, broken glass placed on the top,
and two house-dogs kept. He c iuclud-s by stating
that he considers the theft as a lien, and that he our-
Roses returning in with interest, before Easter. The
signature is illegible, but hopes are entertained that
the lett.r may lead to the detection of this self-poe-
sewed adept in the art of burglary.
A MONIST-LENDER'S EXPERIENCE.—Art emus
Ward once lent money. He thus recounts the trite.
action —"A: gentleman friend of mine came uo to
me one day with tears in his eyes. I said, ' Why
these weeps?' He said he hide mortgage on his farm
and he wanted to borrow £2OO. I lent him the money
and he went away. Some time after be returned with
more tears. He raid he must leave me for ever. I
ventured to remind him of the 11200 he borrowed. He
was much cut up: I thought I would not be hard on
him—so told him I would throw if £lOO. He bright-
ened—shook my hand—and said, t Old friend, I won't
allow you to eutdo me in liberality—l'll throw off the
other hundred l' "
PALL OF AN ADCTION PARTY.—The sale Of
stock at • farm called Methlem, twenty miles beyond
Pwllheli, brought a large gathering of the leading
farmers of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire together on
Thursday and Friday last. Everything proceeded
very smoothly until Friday afternoon. Whilst the
auctioneer was selling off some articles of furni:iire in
a room above the dairy, the bidders, to the nu über 'if
about 150 persons, proved too great a weight for the
floor, which gave way just as Mr. Owen was giving his
final "Going, going, gone!" to a piece of furniture,
and the whole party was precipitated to the dairy
below. The cries of the men, women, and children
were distracting. An ex-mayor of the borough of
Pwllheli was thrown into a pail of cream, and was
slightly injured, whilst a solicitor found himself sunk
in a ten-gallon cask of buttermilk. A. corpulent
farmer, weighing a little over 16 stone, was precipi.
toted on a pot of butter, which broke and besnoiared
him sadly. The whole contents of the dairy were ren-
dered all but valueless. The place presented a singular
appearance. Milk and butter had coloured and added
grease to everybody and everything, and yet every-
body seemed to feel grateful that the accident had not
proved fatal. Such was the consternation of the re-
maining bidders' after the accident, that none of them
would follow_lbe auctioneer to other rooms upstairs,
and the articTril of furniture that remained LIDOOI-1 la
other parts of the house had to be taken downstairs.
NOT A NOise-110e.—At the Clerkenwell Police-
court, in London, Mr. Pavitt, the manager of the
"Home for Lost and Starving Dogs," at Holloway.
has been aumnioned for allowing a nuisance to exist vi
his premises. It was alleged by the complainant, an
inhabitant of the neighbourhood, that the noise from
200 or 300 dogs, which were often on the premises, the
stench from the offal on which they were fed, and the
open removal of the carcases of those that were shingle
tered, were offensive to persons living in the locality,
and Injurious to health. The magusteste did not thine
the evidence was snob as would call for his interference
with the "Home." The defendant, its manairer, was
a family man, and would not continue to reside on the
premises if the nuisance were so great as was COW-
plainEd of. The summons was dismissed.
A Pititthet's RIDE.—On the arrival of the
Liverpool express at Crewe Station, soon after her
o'clock on Friday night, the man whose duty it is to
tap the wheels of the coaches saw under one of the
vehicles an object rather foreign to the situation. It
turned ont to be a little boy, who, on being told to
" Come out 1" said, "Don't say anything ; I have lost
my friends and want to go to Bristol." He was
interrogated by the railway official', and he told them
he had hung on, by his arms and legs to a slender iron
stay only three-quarters of an inch in diameter, the
whole distance from Liverpool (34 miles). lie said his
mother had gone to Bristol, and left him behind, and
that he intended to follow her. His age was twelve
years and he certainly did not appear a day older than
that for he was very small indeed, and had a simple
childlike face. Some passengers hearing his tale, raised
a subscription on the spot, and paid his fare to Bristol.
He was taken charge of by • gentlemen proceeding to
Stafford, who promised to see the little fellow right for
his train on to BrietoL When we consider the speed
the express train travels at, the constant draught, dust,
and vibration the lad must have had to put up with, to
say nothing of the Lime-street tunnel (not over agreeable
to pass through under the best of circumstances), we
cannot but admire the remarkable spirit exhibited.
If the train had gone much further without stopping,
the poor boy could not possibly have held on, as his
limbs were quite numb when he was discovered.
ANERICAN YOll3O LADIFB.—A correspondent
of the Daily /Vi describes the life of young American
ladies whose Laziness, selfishness, extravagance, non-
' intellectual culture, flirtations, and cor.sumption of
indigestible food, exceed anything known in this
country, and gives a singular instance in point.
" Oscasionally, but rarely, she marries for love, but,
ass general rule, she knows to a dollar what every
admirer has and aspires to a house in Fifth-avenue, a
carriage, and to be arrayed in silks and fine linen. '1
had ant ffer from a man with 20,000 dollars a-year and
a growing business,' said an ethereal being of sixteen
to me, ' but I shall till out more in a year or two, when
I think I can do better.'"
NOT FORGOTTEN.—When Talleyrand was in
New York in 1794 he had occasion to paw the house of
Alexander Hamilton late at night and early in the
morning, and always observed a light in that states-
man's study. "1 have," said Tolleyrand to a friend,
"beheld one of the wonders of the world—a man who
has made the fortune of • nation toiling all night to
support hie family." Were the famous diplomatist
alive he might find additional reason for astonishment
in hearing that a member of the United States Cabinet,
and one who had borne a prominent part in restoring
the Union, had in dying said, "My chief regret ie
that I leave my family paupers." It is satisfactort, to
learn that the family of the late Secretary of War
General Rawlins, UN been amply provided for,