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Vol 2. ~ Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, March 28,1807, (N25

THE

Summerside Journal
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Miscouche—Joseph B. Perry.
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JOB PRINTING
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and despatch, and ut moderate rates,
at the Jounsar Office.

Sumauersipr, March 28, 1867.

Oats per bush = -- - - + 2s Sdn Ba dd
Barley per bush - 3s a 3s Gd
Potutovs per bush -------+- Is 6da ts od
ADUPHipN per DuUlt = 'sia)s 8 os 5/8 Yea ted
Butter per lb by ‘Tub -- +--+ +

ls ais ia

Lard per Ib ----------+--- 9da lod
‘Tallow per 1b, ---- Oda lod
Egys per doz - ---- M1 a 10d
Tbecf perlb -------------- Sd a dd
Mutton per lb - ---- Sd ad 4d

«see Sda 44d

Pork per lb by ca
Geese each - -
Flour per bbl -

~1s 6d a ls 9d
~- 508 a GOs

Oauneul per ewt. - --++ 7°75 777 lisa f5e
Hay per ‘Ton - - - 50x a 60s
Straw por cwt. - +--+ -- Iséd
Pine Boards --------- -- 10s
--48a bs

Spruce Boards - ----+-----

a usiness Gar ds.

~ KIRKWOOD, LIVINGSTONE & 60.
Slour, Produce, Peather,

AND GENERAL

Commission Merchants,
MONTREAL, ------- C.K.

The most careful attention given to the
execution of orders for Flour, Grain, Sceds,
Provisions. Leather, Hides, Coal Oil, and
general Merchandize, Freights secured and
Insurances effected at lowest current rates.

Merchants in the Lower Provinces will find
it to their interest to forward their orders for
Flour to us for execution, as an extensive
acquaintance with Western Millers, and as
Agents for some of the most popular Brands
in Canada, we can with safety assure them
of every satisfaction,

Remittances against orders when not other-
wise provided for, may ‘be made with Stirling
Exchange, or Gold Drafts on New York.
Dratts on New York being worth usually an}
to a 4 per cent more than on Boston,

Every information us to the state of the
market, present and prospective, given when
required,

Consignments of Fish, Cod Oil, &c., care-
fully realized, and returns made with the
utmost promptitude, or applied according to
the wish of consignors.

Sharges duly made for actual disbursements
and Commissions not over those of responsible
Houses inthe line. Unquestionable refernces
given when required.

KIRKWOOD, LIVINGSTONE & CO,

508 St. Paul Street,
Montreal, C. E.
February 7, 1867.

THOMAS IANFORD,
AUCTIONEER

AND

Commission Merchant,

ST. JOIN, N. B.
Noy 1, 1865

=

C. L. RICHARDS,
Importer and Whlseale Dealei iit |
iHritish & Soreign Groceries

4, North Wharf,
ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.

Dee. 6, 1866. ly
James Greenough,

FLOUR
Commission Merchant,

No 47 Commercial Street
Corner of Clinton Street BOSTON.

Business Gards,

BANK OF PRINCB EDWARD ISLAND.
Corner of Queen § Water Sts., Ohartottetown
President—Hon. ‘Thomas H. Havitann,
Cashier—WiLitiam Cunparn, Baquire.
Discount Days—Mondays & ‘Thursdays.
Hours of Business—Foin 10 a.m. to 1 p.m,
from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.

ON BANK.

Crafton St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown
President—Cuaries Parmer, Eequire.
Cashier—Jamus Anvenson, Esquire.

Discount Days—Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Saturdays,

Hours of Business—lrom 10 a.m to 1p m.,
from 2 p.m to 4pm,

Contval Street, Summerside, P. E. Island.

President—Hon. Joun R. Garvinen.
Cashier—2E. L. Lypiann, Esquire
Discount Days—Tuesdays and Fridays.
Notes for Discount must be in before 11
o'clock on Discount days.
Hours of Business—10 a. m,, tol p.m,
from 2 p. m., to 4 p.m.

GEORGE ALLEY,
BARRISTER AND
Attorney-at-Law,

Norary pubic, &c.
Telegraph Buildings, Water Street,
Charlottetown,-------------="~ ---eeP, Ei. Island,

WILLIAM M. HOWL,

Attorney-at-Law
AND NOTARY PUBLIO,
Sr. Eneanor’s.. P. BE. Isnann.
~FTIOMAS KELLY,

Barrister - at - Law

AND

NOTARY PUBLIC, &o.
- P.M, ISLAND.

dy.

aug. 9,

FRANCIS LONGWORTH,
BARRISTER AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
ww Offive—PAVILION HOTEL,
‘(next door to the Hon. Joseph Hensley’s.)
CHARLOTTETOWN - P, E. Island.
Jan. 17, 1867.

ly

JOHN DREW
Importer of Dry Goods,
Hardware, Crockeryware, Groceries,
stoves, Furniture, &c. &e.
Summerside, ~-++ Pf, E, Island.
DAVID BERTRAM,
Saddle and Harness Maker,
Water Street . . . . . Summerside.
Ootober 12, LL ean dasiedioleaaltid hana tenes
Hocth American Motel,
KENT STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN.
JOUN MURPHY, PROPRIETOR.

Permanent and Transient Boarders will
find good accommadation. ™
Good Stables in connection with the Hort,

and a carefal Hostler always in attendance.
Ch'town, Fob, 14, 1867.

“J. F. HILL & CO.,

DEALERS IN

Potatoes, Apples, Onions,

Horeign & Domestic Hrnits 4
Cranberries, Beans, Green & Dried Apples
Stalls 107 and 109,
and Cellar No. 19, Faneuil Hall Market

SOUTH SIDE BOSTON,

WILLIAM BEAIRSTO,
Commission Merchant,

Auctioneer & General Agent,
WATER STREET,
Summerside, - P.E, Island

| HJ. RICHARDSON,
CoMMISSION MERCHANT
Auctioneer.

Flour, Groceries, and
Dry Goods.
Water Strect ...... Summerside.

WILLIAM DODD,
Commission Merchant,
And Auctioneer,

QUEEN SQUARE,
CHARLOTTETOWN --- 2. BE. ISLAND

~CARVELL BROTHERS,
AUCTIONEERS,
Commission Merchants,
And Generali Agents,

Dealer in

BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STRERT.

Charlottetown, ~ - « - + VB, Island,

ey ee ‘ ae nel j
Wik, MON HILL,

Physician & Surgeon,

Resipexce—At J. M. Lypranp, Esquire,
Stantey Bridge.
PR. I.

New London,
Jan 24, 1867.

> DR. PRIO
Physician & Surgeon,

Orrice—At the Summersipe Drve Stork,
next door to Bank, Central Street
SUMMERSIDR, ..... PB. ISLAND,
October 12, 1865, tule
JOHN HOMER, M.D.F.M.M.8,
MEDICAL OFFICE
OVER GREEN & SCHURMAN’S STORE,
WATER STREET, SUMMERSIDE, PRI

®. D. STAIR,
CABINET-MAKER,

AND

Undertaker.

FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS MADE
TO ORDER,

Kent Stree, -. Charlottetown,

Sept. 1866,

POETRY.
GOING TO DISTRICT SCHOOL,

Barefooted boy and little girl,

She with rosy cheek and curls,

His a forehead brown with tan,

Sturdy little farmer man,

Old straw hat, with broken rim,
Is the least that troubles him,
At the dinner-pail he swings,
Full of mother's choicest things.

Happy little pair are they,
Chatting blithely on the way,
In the morning fresh and cool,
Going to the district school.

From the shady farm-house door,
Mother watches, till no more

She can follow—out of sight

‘They are gone—her heart's delight.

Can you see them sitting there,
On the benches hard and bare,
‘Tired feet swinging to and fro,
Conning o’er the lessons low?

Sitting at the close of school,

By the gurgling streamlet cool,
*Mong the brakes and bending trees,
Eating up the bread and cheese!

Or, with merry laugh and shout,
When the boys and girls go out,
Books and pencils east away,

See them jump, and swing, and play,

Hark! the ferule on the pane,
Rap, and rap, and rap again,
Rushing in with cheeks aglow,
Half reluctantly they go.

Happy, healthy girl and boy,

‘Till the wari sun's westering ray
Slants across the opening door,
And the hours of school are o'er.

Happy, healthy, girl and boy,
Full of simple, careless joy,
Free from tyrant passion’s rule,
Going to the distviet school.

In the busy noon of life,

*Mid its restless tover strife,

As your pathway shall divide,
From the roof-tree wanderiag wide,

Momories of these morning hours,
Songs of birds and scent of flowers,
Bleat of lainbs and songs of rill,
AVAL co pye sweduy oer you sul,

And your thoughts go yearning buck
O’er that simple childhood track,
When the longest road you know,
Was the one that led you to

The school-house, just 1 mile away,
Where the birch and rule held sway.

Select Witerature,

FREDERICK HOMEWOOD.

**AND must it all be endured? Tlow
long am I to be the instrument of torture
for this wealthy miser and despot?”

This was said by Frederick Homewood,
as he seated himself one evening by the
fire, in his homely but neat and. cleanly
log cabin—his aflicted but affectionate
wile and two delicate children by his side.
There was a strange kind of seriousness
in his looks and words, as he took upa
stout pole from the hearth, and heaped
together, with this substitute for a poker,
the burning fragments of wood, to afford
greater light, and more cheerful warmth.

Ana must it all be endured?”

“Was anything unusual happened,
Frederick ?” was the mild inguiry of his
wile, uttered in a voice that trembled as
she spoke; showing that there was some
fearful malady to account for her attenu-
ated form and wan complexion.

** Happened !” rejoined Homewood in
an irritated tone, happened! Am J not
in the clutches of that monster Berrein—
maltreated and abused in all my dealings
with him—don’t he, every day, make
something unusual happen ?”

There was a degrve of asperity in this
reply that the wife of Frederick was not
aecustomed to; and, although she knew
the words were intended for ‘her, and the
harshness of their temper for another, she
could not avoid a tear, and a greater
quivering of speoch—notwithstanding sho
labored hard to conceal both—as she again
resuimed.—

“But [ merely wish to know, Frederick,
if it had at last come to the worst; and if
we are now to have anything taken from
us, and turned out of doors, houscless and
homeless.”

**No—no, Emily,” said the husband,
who saw with pain how deep effect his
ungarded words had taken; and he turned
to his wife with « look, although it was
not altogether happy, it had, at least, much
of tenderness mingled with it. ‘ No—no,
Emily, not that! Berrein knows too well,
that, by mischance I am rendered his de-
yendent. For me to be his slave is what
he wants. Casting us from his premises
would leave me free to act for myself—go
where, and do what I please. No, no,
that is notit. Lowish to Heaver
Hut itisa tyranny exercised oy

sathe ab ‘ Sine thal
T can hardly endure—ho is a_taskmaster
that thinks ayeryeiae Ido is done wrong.
It seoms little enough when I go so sath
work so hurd, and so late, that I should
receive at least kind words—but, instead
of that, Lam taunted, censured; yes, even
cursed; and it Lattempt to say aught in
my defence or retaliation, [ um condemned,
or referred to that slip of paper, with my
name to it, in his hands, At such times,
Emily, but for your sake, and these three
little cherubs, I would fell the villain to
the earth.”

‘Oh, no, Frederick,” said tho wife,
gently laying her hand on his shoulde
“oh, no, never do so rashly, Recollect,”
—and there was a smile on her ashy lip,
but it was evidently forced, for tears
trickled down over her cheeks—‘ Recol-
lect, ‘ Blessed are the poor in spirit; for
—'" she would have finished the quotation,
but her feelings were too much for one so
week, and she leaned her face, covered
with her hands, on the top of the old split-
bottomed chair, unable to say more,

Frederick Homewood had begun life
with the brightest hopes and best success.
For several years everything prospered
that he wodertovk, He was married to
the most affectionate ot wives, endowed
with many rare points of excellence. He
had one little bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked
boy, to make musie with his artions laugh
and brighten up their faces it anything
occurred to make the parents sad, ‘heir

1 it was!!

home was a pleasant oomeee house, built
on a gentle eminence, looking out on the
clear waters of Bulfalo Creck, in Brooke
County, Virginia, and was remarked by
all, fur its comfortable and tasty appear-
Woodbines, honey-suckles, morn-

ance,
ing glories, and a vast amount of vines
and flowers, were arranged about the

clean, white door-way, under the windows,
and along the gravelled walk of the gate,
with such imposing and beautifal felis
that everybody in the whole neighborhood
envied the happy lot of Frederick Home-
wood,

*As if by magic, things suddenly became
reversed, Like many other strange things
in the world that cannot be accounted for,
there could be ne ostensible reason as-
signed tor his grievons calamities. One
by one, his cattle dicd—one_ by one, his
horses were lost or stolen—one by one,
everything on his hitherto nice and well-
tilled homestead sunk into decay; and
this, too, whilst he toiled. harder to keep
and preserve them than he had ever done
before. Finally his wile grew sickly and
feeble; and, asif by infuction, all of his
little family, now three in number, were
brought into the doctor's hands. Still he
did not give up in despair. — With increased
eiaeaytis plied every norve, tenderly ad-
ministered to the necessities ot the sick
household, looked after his farm, all the
time he could spare from their bedsides,
wad hoped for better times.

But all would not do, He had not quite
paid the fourth instalment for his land—
debts accumulated faster than he could
liquidate them; and they were compelled
to leave their once happy home, now gone
into much decay, with an appearance of
desolation, and seek an humbler one, as
the recipients of the charity of proprietors,
Thus did he moye from one place to an-
other, in the vain hope of bettering his
condition, till destitution stared him in the
taco; and he east himself, unnerved and
dependent, as a dernier resort, into: the
hands of a notorious speculator, by the
name of Berrein, whose fatal love of lucre
had blunted the goadings of remorse, and
dried up the warm springs of sympathy.
This man, deluding the dejected Home-
wood, slowly, but surely, wove around
him an insiduous net of villainy, from
which he found, too late, that he could not

NUTS ras tasscCn eae The
Va erery

extricate himseu, Lyi ae
entered into wily stipulations with Fred-
evick, which rivetted the fetters, and made
him, unawares, the despicable menial of
Berrein, the tool ot his bethests. At first
he submitted to this without the least com-
plaint—he would do anything to seeure
comlorts and convenience for his family —
but the fastenings entered deep into his
flesh — continuous opression made his
heart callous—callous to his brutal treat-
ment callous to all but Emily and her
three children. Latterly he had been less
lively—more taciturn than formerly, ‘This
day he ‘seemed unusually gloomy. And
as he continued, conversing with his wile
till a late hour, on his prospects growing
weyery day, she was pained to see
what a moody aspect his noble brow now
wore; and frightened at the mysterious
glince—a sort of fatuity—that occasionally
shot from his eye.

The next Saturday evening, Homewood
was returning home from his daily toil
much oarlier than usual, All day he had
worked with unwonted vigor, to get
through with his task and spend one more
sunset inthe bosom of his family. For,
although he was a man of but meagre ed+
ucation, and earned a scanty subsistence
by incessant toil—although his rade eabin
lacked most of the ordinary comforts of
life—it was all the world to him—his
earthly Eden. And, although disease had
severely prayed on the health of his wife
and three little ones, the former always
weleomed him with a bland smile, even if
it was constrained; and there were Mary,
and John, and Susan, that always jumped
with joy at his entrance, and serambled
up his knee, as rivals for the first kiss.
‘The prospect of this scone was revolving
in his mind, as he walked along a path
through some thiek wood, and entered a

Va aces

which stood his cabin, Its sight, as it had
a thousand times before, caused him to
forget all his troubles, and feel, tor the
time being, a happy man,

Ho pulled the lntch-string softly, intend-
ing to give the children a surprise, for they
generally knew about the time of his
arrival, and at the first footfall sprang to
the door, laughi nud fluttering like
young birds in cestaey, But this tine he
heard no pattering of tiny fect on the hard
floor—no innocent contention for the first
embrace, as he swung open the door and
stood in their midst. None noticed him.
Ilis wile was lying across the bed ap-
parently in great pain, In one corner
were huddled in a group, Mary and Susan,
and John with his head in Susan’s lap as
if asleep. Homewood gently approached
the bed, alarmed, for his wife was seldom
in bed through the day, although greatly
onervated, and searcely able to be about.
He took her hand in his—sho started and
I Tap, avd siiled, but such a smile!
It spoke plainer than words to his heart,
of some dire distress,

«Emily! what in tho name of Heaven
is the matter?”

“Nothing with myselfof any impor-
"gnid she; ‘felt somewhat more

look

tance,
weak and faint this evening, and threw

myself on the bed, thinking it would soon
pass off.”
But Mary, who was attracted by the

father, and artlessly related what her
mother could not have done for worlds,

“Oh, papa, Mr. Berrein has been here
to-day, and he scolded poor mother dread-
tully and ealled her bad names, and said
she was a wicked, lazy wench, and ought
to be whipped, and all that, And because
little Johnny jamped up and said his
mother should not be whipped, Mr.
Berrein strtck him on the head with his
cane, and poor litte fellow, he hasn't
spoke a word since, Mother got sick,
too, and we had to help her into bed; and
there is poor brother, with his head in
Susan's lap—he hasn't spoke a word since
Mr, Berrein left, and ho sleeps all the
time; we cannot wake him. Mr. Berrein
is such a bad man.”

Homewood's brain reeled as he heard
from Mary's lips the recital of the villainy
of his employer. Ilis temples throbbed
tumultuously; a violent pain and burning
were in his brow; there was a trembling

curse, or some dire imprecation half told

spot of cleared ground, in the midst of |,

conversation, hurried to the side of her},

then, cool and collected, walked to his

looked ghastly; his hand pressed convual-/
sively ou his forehead, as if he would keep
some frightful agent at bay, It was soon
over, Calmly he went about his duties
tenderly and consolingly talked to his
wife, bathed John’s head with cold water, |
and his feet with warm, till the concussion
of the brain subsided, It was all done
quietly, calmly, alas! with too much com- |
posure. With the performance of the last
duty to the sick went out the last flick
ing vay of his reason, Ile was a mania
nthe fall ot 18—, a low days subse-

quent to the occurrence ot the last incident |
at Llomewood’s, and about four miles from |
whore he lived, on one of the pleasantest
afternoons of the early part of the season,
four individuals were seated in the parlor!
ot Theodore Bingham, a very wealthy and |
respectable farmer. His residence was |
situated about eight miles distant from
the Shiretown of ,the county, formerly
called Charlestowd, but now Wellsburg.
He had the most splendid mansion of any
in the whole couutry, and was reputated
to be immensely wealthy. More than
this he hada y handsome daughter,
Isabel. Suave he i, she was the only
surviving member of a large family; con-
sumption haying made fearful hayoe of all |
the rest.
The four

‘3

Pees who occupied this
parlor were Mr, Bingham, Berrein, Frank
Edgington, and Isabel, Of Borrien we
need say no more than that he is the same
introduced to our readers before. Myr,
Bingham is a fine, courtly old gentleman
of the “Old Dominion,” extensively en-
gaged in business, most of which is trans-
acted within doors, as the gout prevented
him from being much abroad, Frank
Edgington, is a distant ative of Mr.)
Bingham, and is m&king preparations to
spend his third winter at tho Bingham |
Mansion. Le is a noble youth, about
twenty-four years of age, stately built,
open, commanding countenanee, and en-
dowed with many sterling qualities of
mind, There ave strong reasons for his
making a third winter's stay at Mr, Bing-
ham’s. He has possession of considerable
money, Which is mostly invested in this
region, in stock, Jand, and merchandize.
Besides this, last but not least, he is
Isabel's accepted suitor, and proposes, as}
svon us he Visits the east, and arrar |

some unsettled business tere, CoM eis
name on the family register ‘as heir ap-
parent to that desirable estate, with the
advice and consent of the present pro-
privtor.

“Mr, Borrien,” said Mr, Bingham, ris-|
ing and taking hold of his cruteh, that in-|
dispensable assistant of gouty folks, ** if}
you will plonse step this way into my pri-
yate rooin, We will finish the remainder
of those papers —you can receive the
money, and our business will ba closed,
Frank and Isabel will content themselves,
as best they can during out absence.”

Before the others return, and whilst

Frank und [sabel are in close and earnest |

tele-a-lete, we will attempt to describe the |
latter, |
(Conclusion next tocek.)

THE

DUBLLO.

A TRAGIC RENCONTRE IN NEW ORLEANS—

|
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FATAL RESULT, i

(From the New Orleans Times, Feb. 24.)
Already has been given, in the columns |
al this paper, a short account of the dread. ;
ful duel fought between Messrs, Edmund
Lefebyre and Charles Janin, — Both parties
were respectably conn d, snd were
highly esteemed by those who knew them |
personally, ‘Lhe following account of the}
cquses and progression of the dificulty, it
is believed, will be found correct, Not
very long ago a well-known society gave
a ball, and Mr. Letebyre brought his wife
there. [tia stated that Mv. Janin, whilst
waltzing with Madame Lefebvre, thrust
his hand into that lady's bosom, and that
the lady, tearing herself away, rushed to
hor husband and complained of the outra-
geous act. Mr, Lefebvre, a few moments
terwards, accosted Mr. Junin, saying,
“Sir, you have insulted my wife, and you
must folie me,” Janin then, being, com-

paratively speaking. the taller and heavier
man, seized Lefebvre and knocked him
down, Lefebvre mentioned the matter

mterwards to some of his!
friends, and they indignantly replied, that |
the man who would conduct himself in
that way was not within the pale of the
code of honor, and should only be beaten. |
Mr, Lefebvre thought,however, otherwise, |
and the very next day, by a friend, sent a}
challenge to Mr, Janin. The latter ac-
cepted it at once. The gentlemen who
were unfortunately engaged as the res-
pective seconds, did everything in their
power to prevent a meeting. Both of the
principals being determined and brave
men, tal termination ofthe quarrel was
to be easily expected. ‘The efforts of the
seconds were, however, vain. There}
seemed to be on both sides a vindictive |
desire for blood; they would noteven fight |
with pistols, but insisted on double-barrel- |
led guns at thirly paces, No entreaties
could make them swerve one inch from}
their settled resolye, and their friends, with |
ory hearts, made the necessary prepara- |
tions; yet the whole affair was so quietly |
conducted that not the t inkling of it)
was given, none of the parties being * lit- |
erary gentlemen.” |
On ‘Thursday morning last, the princi- |
pals with their seconds aud two well known |
sicians, droye out of the limits of the
toa place about a mile above the for-|
tifieations. Many of tho readers of this}
articfe will remember the spot, a beautilul

immediately

iS
col

spot indued, Wide spreading oaks, old |
almost as the ‘teverlasting hills,” give a

grateful shade to the tender verdure be- |
neath, Many picnics have there been}
held, and it was selected more recently |
by some Federal admirer of nature, a5 a}
good camping place for his regiment. The |
seconds again, cach unxious to prevant

bloodshed, interposed, but the principals |
were sternly inexorable, Mr, Falauves, |
however, appeared to have a presentiment |
of his approaching fate; for, grasping his

second’s hand, he said: ‘* Farewell, this}
is the last goodbye I will ever make,” and |

post. After all persuasion had failed, as
is said, the weapons, double barrelled
guns, each one loaded in the left barrel,
were handed to the antagonists, There |
was a breathless pause, Tien, in clear;
ringing accents werg heard the words:—;

on the muttering lip; his eyes dilated and! | ‘Gentlemen, are you ready!

one, two,
three!”

‘The two reports appeared as one, 80 fa-
tally and aceurately bad the weapons
een discharged. Lefebvre received the
shota litte above the navel, it passing
through, erushiug the spine and thrusting
a piece of the backbone out of his very
flesh. With a ghastly look, he stared for
anoinent, and,groping with his arms fora
second, fell dead on his face. Mr, Janina
was shot through the neck. ‘The ball
glanced down, however, and inflicted what
had been preyed to be a deadly wound.
The tive of Mr, Lefebyre took charge,
of his inanimate remains, and after a little
while they procured a skiff and crossed the
Mississippi; all that was left of what was
once a man, was carried and deposited in
the house of a relative. In that frail bark,
looking at the blank, dead face beneath
them, and remembering their awful mis-
sion, the feelings of those men who had
charge of the corpse must have been fear-
ful, No pon could transcribe them into
living words, Words after all are only
words, and such a scene is beyond the art
of the most tragic painter, In the mean-
time Mr, Janin was carried to his residence
Every effort was used to preserve his life,
but twelve hours after the duci he expired.
Mr. Lefebvre was a Canadian by birth,
born in Montreal, and leaves bebind him
a wife and two children, Mr, Janin, who

Vit appears, was born in France, had de-

pending on him for support a mother and
sister, So two fumilies are plunged piti-
lessly into distvess. ‘The seconds, both
gentlemen of the highest standing,{ used
every effort to arrange the matter umicab-
ly, but as had been before remarked, with-
out success, for no apology would be given.
The fecling appeared to be so bitter, so
utterly blood-thirsty, that nothing short of
lite could appease it. ‘Thus euded a most
tragic affair. The mania for duelling ap-
pears to rage again atter a long interval.
Duelling is a relic ofa barbarous age, a
custom, the practice of which generally
results disastrously to the most injured
party, and this lust example proves no
conception to the general role, And let
another thing be said, newspapers should
never become the heralds’ of such*contem-
plated affairs. Once published, the parties
feel themselves compromised, aud the fight

3 takes place certainly.

Mantrite Tyrerusts.—Lho interests of
navigation reach, not merely * below
Quebec,” but also aboye Toronto, Though
the term ‘+ Maritime applies strictiy ory:
to salt or tidal waters, these interests. ex-
tend to fresh water as well; and next to
the United States, there is no Country in
the world which possesses such a oxtent
of navigable fresh water frontase, In.
cluding Newfoundland, Prince Edward
Island and Labrador, as far north as the
fishing stations reach, the entire extent ot
water front owned by these Provinces,
j counting no river but the St. Lawrence, is
upwards of 6,00) miles, which is more
than the United States can obtain on both
sides of the continent. This is placing our
western boundary at the head of Luke
Superior, and includes a stretch of coast
that is all more or less settled or resorted
to for industrial purposes. The amount of
shipping we own is the fourth largest in
the world, and with the rapid deeadence
of that interest in the States, itis in a fair
way of becoming the second, Nature af-
fords us every facility for becoming a great
shipping and nayal power, and it cannot
be tuo strongly recognized that’ our chief
reliance, both for offence and defence,
must be on the deep. The development
of our shipping industry, and the encour-
agement of whatever tends to promote it,
are objects to which we cannot give too
much prominence, Ilitherto they have
been most shamefully neglected. We re-
fer not merely to Canada but to the other
Provitices as well.—Quebee Chronicle.

Distiyauisiep Brrrisn Visrrons.—An
Exchange states that a deputation from the
Free Church of Seotland will shortly ¢ross
the Atlantic as delegates to the Old School
Presbyterian Assembly of the United States
and the Canada Presbyterian Synods. The
deputation is to cor of two clergymen
and a layman, ind the former are to be
the celebrated Dr, Guthrie, of Edinburgh,
and Dr. Lairbairn, successor of Dr, Cun-
ningham, in the new college Edinburgh,
Perhaps no living Scotsman enlists the af-
fections for enthusiasm of his countrymen
at home and abroad so thoroughly as Dr. ,
Guthrie. A New York paper says that
some Baptist clergymen in New York have
a design iu yiew of bringing the Rey, Mr.
Spurgeon there during the anniversar
week, Itis also said the High Chureh
party among the Episcopalians, have a

jsitilar design with no less a notability
| than the Rey, Dr, Pusoy.

This is decidedly the age ot paper. Pa-
per postal currency and greenbacks flood
the country, thereby giving a. ficticious
value to merchandise, real estate and
other articles of traffic. ‘The lerds of ere-
ation wear paper collars, bosoms and
wristbands, while the ladies, not to be be-
hindhand in the matter, wear various ar-
ticles of papor manufacture, the last but
by no means the least of which, are paper
pantalettes, the litest invention and de-
servedly popular among the fair sex, It
is now reported that shirts and chemise
will be made of the same material, and af-
forded at such tow prices as to be within
the reach of all parties. If this is true,
then the occupation of the washer-women

| will be greatly encroached upon, as these

garments form a considerable item in the
weekly family washings. What next will
paper be used for we are ata loss to de-
termine; but in such a paper age as this,
we should not be surprised at anything
that ganius may invent.

Tur Fextaxs.—General Gleeson, who
is now Military Director of the Fenian
Brotherhood, has given a contract for two
thousand unilorms to a large clothing firm
in this city, ‘The uniforms will be made
entirely of bright emerald green cloth, af-
ter the pattern of those worn by the Im-
perial Guard of the Austrian army. The
General is going to work with a vengeo-

lance to equip two regiments immediately,
‘and go where glory waits him—to Ireland,

A sesian of the Board of Directors was
held last evening for the purpose of per-
tecting the programme af action adop'

recently by the conyention.-, ¥, [lera yf
sade