of the French cellars and earth works, was at one time rented to Captain Stukely ;, a friend or relative of the Captain Burers , who was the first resident at St. Andrews . After his departure fcr England , the farm was rented "by Mr. Donald Beaton , who with his family had come from Lochaher in Scotland to settle in He St. Jean, Mr. Beaton had several sons who assisted him on his farm, he also had hired the services of an English lahourer, who was a resident in his house, One night this servant was out about the farm until a late hour and returned in a state of nervous excitement, telling how he had seen an old man in the "blue uniform of a French Military Officer, who had asked him to meet hin at a given spot on the following night. The Englishman appaared anxious to escape the proffered interview, hut Mr. Beatons sons persuaded him to keep his appointment, and provided him with a blessed candle and holy water, in case of emergencies. The military ghost, true to his word appeared, and after a long conversation with the Englishman, told him, that when H On every stream should stand a mill And a house he "built on every hill". The French would again come and take possession of He St. Jean. He also mentioned casually that he was buried under the end of one of Mr. Beaton 's hams, and adduced as a proof of the verocity of all that he had said that a certain cow would be turned out to graze with the herd the following day and would never more be seen. This fell out as was foretold hut modern- incredibility suggests that this story was simply a clever plan laid for the stealing of the aforesaid cow. Another legend which is in all proh- ahility the story of a fnct, is that hefore the poor Acadians were shipr>ed off in Captain Nicholls leaky transport, they took their church plate, the missal and vestments and rut them in a cannon, which they hurled as they