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Sumumenrsipp, Deceaper 5, 1867.
"23 0d

Oats per bush
Barley per bush - -
Potatoes per bush
‘Turnips per bush
Butter per lb by Tub --
Lord per lb
‘Tallow jer lb.
Eggs per doz
Beef perlb - -
Mutton per Ib -
Pork per lb by
Geese each -
Flour per bbl -
Oatmeal per ew
Hay per Ton
Straw per ewt
Pine Boards

Spruce Boards

10d a ls
- dats
9d a 10d
Yd a lod
10d a Is
8da 4d
2d a od
-- S4dun 5d
-- Is Gd x 2s

-- dbs a GUs
16s a 18s
GOs a 708

1s Gd

Charlottetown Market:
Decemurn 5, 1867.
Beef (small) - - - - Ada 6d

Do. by quarter - - - ddadd
Mutton : -. - - 3d a dil
Lamb per Ib. : : . 34d add
Butter - - - - Ilda ls
. Dos by tub - : - 10d als
Cheese - - - - dda 7d
‘Tallow - - : - Od a 10d
Tard - - - - Sila
Flour lb, * = -
Outmenl 100 Ib. - - l7salds
Egga - - - - lld als
. Potatoes - - - 1s Uda 2s
‘Turnips - - - - 1d
Barlvy - - - - 3s a ds
Oats - - - - 2s 9d
Boards (Ifemlock) - - - ds
Spruce - : - - 4sn5s
Pine : - . - 7s a 9s
Shingles - - - 12s a lds
Wool - - - - Isa ls 3d
May - - : - 603 a 70s
Straw ewt. - : - 1s Gda 2s
Jlomespun * : - bs Gd abs
Sheeprykins - - Oda Is
Calfskin Ib. - - - - bd add
Hides |b, - : - - - 44d

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THE MIOMACS.

Ob! the children of the forest !
I can scarce suppress a sigh,
As along the crowded pavement

They pass unheeded by.

And mark the stately buildings,
Where the willow used to wave,

And the busy murt of commerce
O’er the honored chieftuin’s grave,

The golden sun is shining,
Asin olden days he shone,

Aud the river to the ocean
Still is wildly rushing on--

But the spirit of the Micmac
Ts sullen and dismayed—

For had he not dominion
Where now his steps intrude ?

What thongh the summer breezes
Blow soft o'er Lennox Isle,
Aud at the billows’ fury
Ite swarthy tenants smile ?

What thongh in fuir ¢ Abegweet,!’—
The ‘ Ilome upon the Sea,"’—

To muke his habitation,
The Indian is free 7

The noisy mill has banished
The salmon from the floods;
The noble moose has vanished,
Forever from the woods.

Prince County, Noy. 21, 1867.

Select MHiterature,

(From Blackwood's Magazine. )
A CITY OF THE PLAGUE,
[Concluded.]

“Next morning brought me the sad
tiding of the seizure of one of the little
twin boys of my friends the I—~s, anda
request from the mother that I would come
to hey, I gotup as quickly as Tcould,and
stayed there till the poor child diced, ten
hours after he was first taken ill, and then
for the first time realized what cholera
really was, After much difficulty and de-
lay we got a doctor, who pronounced the
case not hopeless, left a few simple reme-
dies, and promised to return as soon as
he could. ‘This was about ten o'clock in
the morning, and he neyer came back at
all, and at five o’clock in the afternoon the
dea little fellow was dead. ‘To watch the
sad change worked hour by hour, as the
bright rosy face turned livid and hollow-
eyed, and the round white limbs grew
colder and more rigid and purple, despite
our efforts to rub lite and warmth into
them again, was unspeakably painful, op-
pressing our hearts with a sense of the in-
evitable end. About half an hour before
death, came apparent insensibility; the
awfal gasping for water gpd conyulsive |
biting at glass or spoon, that indicated a
suffering it was agonizing to witness,
ceased, und it was almost with thankful-
ness we saw the last breath leave thoss
poor parched lips,

«That night the deaths were still on
the increase, and a new phase occurred in
the progress of things. At first, as [ told
you, the people went in crowds to the
churches and altars, beseeching God's
merey on their unhappy city. Now there
came through the hitherto empty streets
troops of men and boys (ne'er a woman
amongst them), with tambourines, trian-
gles, and castanets, howling out wild
songs, dancing and embracing each
other, and stopping at the doors of each
litle drinking-cavern to call out those
from within, to come out and drink and
shout with them, ‘These were chicily the
poorer artizans, bricklayers, carpenters,
smiths, and others of the townsfolk, who,
refusing work of any kind, pawned what-

ed to know the artist-world here, and note
quaint ways and peculiarities that, in more
busy capitals, there is no time to think of
nor opportunity to remark: formeyy, 1
mean, when Rome was not considered as
a fortnight’s excursion from home—one
among # thousand places to be yisited on
a short holiday expedition, Many others
besides our old friend died in Rome with-
in twenty-four hours after their arrival.
Others who have remained actively en-
gaged, like our friend Luigi Napoleoni, in
offices of mercy and charity, have hitherto
escaped contagion. But, perhaps, it is
only natural that, in reckoning up the
names of those who fell in the cause of
humanity and Christian charity, the death
of the Cardinal Bishop of Albano, Altieri,
should have made special impression upon
us all. The news of the cholera having
burst forth with such terrible fury among
his flock reached the Cardinal by telegram
on Tuesday evening, while present at an
examination in the Clementine College in
Rome, of which his Eminence was direc-
tor. He immediately returned to his pal-
lace, near the Gesh, collected what ready
money he had, sent word to the Holy
Father of his determination to fly to the
assistance of his people, and took his de-
partuye from Rome with two doctors
whom he brought away at his own ex-
pense. On reaching Albano he did not go
on to his episcopal residence, but left his
carriage and began at once to exhort the
people to courage, and to give orders that
every means might be taken to calm down
the universal terror, He then immediately
proceeded to visit those attacked: by chol-
era, to distribute alms, administe: the sac-

vultures about the place, The sigh
those foul birds alone, the frightful hir

the imagination given by their presence,
the dreadful calm of the statement that
there were ‘* no worse there than in other
places,” makes the mind sick with horror.
Such was the scene enacted in the month
just past, in one of the fairest of earthly
landscapes, a spot associated with every-
thing that is bright and pleasant to so
many. The villeggiatura of 1867 will long
be remembered in the little city, and with
terrible reason. Since then the scourge
has abated—‘‘ ceased entirely,” say the
lust accounts—but leaving what gaps,
what terrors, what recollections behind it!
The plague in London, and the plague iu
Milan, and the plague in Florence, haye
all been described to us in the words of
genius; but a hand unpractised is capable
of setttng beside them an almost equally
impressive picture, truth in its intense
reality having a force above art.

The fate of Cardinal Altieri has, as is
natural, been received by some with ex-
aggerated plaudits and lamentations, by
others with the usual revulsion of cynicisny
and opposition to what other people say.
Our sympathetic and liberal-minded press,
after recording his heroism and martyrdom
one day, declares the next that it must be
an extraordinary thing for a bishop to do
his duty, or his act would not be regarded
as anything out of the way. But the
fact is that, except parish doctors and
parish priests now and then, who do the
deed very quietly without knowing it, but
few people nowadays dic for the sake of
their fellow-creatures; and it is still true
that greater love hath no man than this,

raments, and do all that lay in his power | that a man lay down his life for his friend+
to relieve and comfort his flock. From the| He might have done it moderately, taken
hour of his arrival till the Saturday fol-|his dinner, and put on his shoes, say our
lowing, when he was seized by the fatal} comfortable critics. But then, as it hap-
maludy, he was oceupied in charitable ef-| pened, this bishop was one of the same
forts to assuage the horrors of the pesti-|race as those who shrieked Grazia at the
lence, Calling to mind the example given | dimly-lighted shrines, and danced wildly
by the Archbishop of Milan, San Carlo | throagh the lurid streets when the bonfires
Borromeo, during the great plague there, | blazed at the strect-corners, and the carts
the Cardinal carried about the Holy Sacra-} went by with the dead. Moderation had
ment, barefooted, as an act of penance, | no existence in the region or the moment,
‘to appease the divine wrath.’ He scarce-|as indeed it has not in these quarters at
ly slept, and abandoned all idea of regular any moment. The Italian prelate per-

meals; his every thought was for thet
spiritual and corporal good of his people. |j

being entirely despaired of, he received |i

itps was not sorry, in atime so out of
vint, to prove by the sacrifice of his own

At one o’clock on Sunday morning, his life | life that the life and soul of old still existed

n the Church of Carlo Borromeo and

the last sacrament, together with the es-|Francis Xavier. In such crises, amid such
pecial apostolical benediction sent him by | calamities, it is rarely, very rarely. the
Cardinal Sacconi from the Pope; and, an} priest who fails, and most rately of all the
hour afterwards, he expired in full posses- | Catholic priest, who, according to his own
sion of his senses, and perfectly tranquil. | bolief, carries salvation to his penitent in
with the crucifix which he still held in his| his sacred pyx. A Protestant clergyman
hand so closely clasped that it was found|has a less urgent impulsion to the death-
impossible to remove it, Orders were | bed of the dying, but still Protestant cler-
given that his body should be transferred | gymen seldom fail. It is the doctors and
at dusk to the cemetery silently and with-}the priests who do it with us. It was the
out followers, as the sanitary edict de-| priests and the soldiers at Albano, Every-
manded, palace-gates, to be drawn by 2 couple of as well as the uneducated classes, yielded
horses, led by the Zouaves, who claimed}to the panic. Nobles, gentlefolks, art-
as their privelege the removal of the corpse. |isans, all rushed forth in an indiscriminate
But at dusk a crowd of people— in fact,all | crowd—last height of human cowardice
the Albanese who were in a condition so}and weakness. ‘The healer’s of men’s

| to do—assembled in front of the bishop's | bodie’s fled too, carrying with them all

palace with lighted torches in their hands, }hope of human help, and the strongest
all ready and anxious to accompany their/incentive to courage and exertion, ‘But
beloved pastor to the grave. It was in|/the poor priests stood fast, and even the
vain to quote sanitary luvs or attempt to} poor monks, the barly Franciscans, who
dissuade the populace at such a time of |lonnge in the sua about the convent walls,
extreme peril. Directly the doors were |and the proud scarlet cardinal, who never
opened, the young men crowded in, and, | moves without lackeys behind him. ‘The
detaching the horses, drew the car along | bishop's bare feet, we think ourselves,
bareheaded, and with a silence and de-| would do little to ‘appease the wrath of
corum remarkable in this exciteable peo-|God;” but that is done according to a °
ple. The remainder of the crowd follow-|man’s light and character and nation.
ed, likewise all bareheaded, and, chanting | especially when sealed by the sacrifice of
hymns and y rs, accompanied the body | his life, is not an offering to be sneered at.
tothe grave. ‘Thus died Luigi Altieri,the | And the soldiers did not bear a high cha-

princes of whose noble house may hence-| racter about. ‘here are men among them
forward pride themselves on the cardinal] who wear our Crimean medal, and a finer

of their name as the Borromeos boast of|brogue was never heard than might be
their San Carlo, He was the intimate | heard about the slopes of Tusculum, when
friend of Pius IX., as was likewise another} the reckless, picturesque band of Free
illustrious victim, the late Queen-Dowager | Lances were quartered thereabouts. But
of Naples, Maria-Teresa, who took the] when trouble came the lawless rose to the
malady while in close attendance on herjoceasion. If the Pope's cause is sinking
youngest-born, Don Gennaro, a boy of ten] (which we doubt) it was an unhoped-for

ever they found eligible for that purpose,
and proposed to ‘keep their hearts up’
and drink themselves into a state of indil- |
ference to cholera and death. In. their|
excitement they uttered all kinds of blas-
phemy, and their cries of scornfnl def
rang fitfully down the street. ‘This Satur- |
nalia was by far the most shocking and
painful feature of the whole, ‘To see, as
we did, among these ghastly revellers one
man whose mother had died that morning,
—ianother whose family were one or more
at that moment in the death-pang, and to
know that the sounds of their tearful mer-
riment were resounding in the ears of}
many a heart-broken mourner for dear |
ones snatched from them in their prime by |
2 cruel and sudden death, was too horrible, |
Tn contrast to these demons, came now |
and again the dead-carts with their solemn |
burden, led by some half-dozen of the
young Zouayes, whose heroic conduct in |
this emergency must claim respect from |
all, putting party-spirit aside forthe nonce. |
M. de Charette, their colonel, left Rome |
at once to join that portion of his troop,
which was garrisoned in Albano, to en-|
comage them to continue in their noble |
acts Of self-sacrifice; for, unfortunately, |
more than one fell victim to the conse- |
quences ot their self-elected office of bury- |
ing the dead, |
“By the following morning, Friday,our |
courage had reached its lowest ebb, and |
we concluded to return at once to Rome. |
The great difficulty was about a coffin for |
the child who had died the previous after. |
noon, A lead coffin was ordered and}
promised, but no workman was forthcom- |
ing, and that had to be givenup. We then |
tried to find a carpenter to make a strong |
wooden one, to be pitched all over, _the
body having to be brought severetly into |
Rome for burial in the Protestant ceme- |
tery; but after much search, we only |
found one man left to undertake the work, |
and he asked and obtained a fabulous price. |

nce |

family and brother of our Scottish seulp-
tor, Lawrence McDonald, tollowed the
next day; but, as yon may perhaps have
heard, John MeDonald, the brother, was
taken ill and died the next day but one of
cholera, and was buried on the Wednesday
morning at the English cemetery, So well

| signalised themselves in watching to the

The other carpenter had fled into the Cam- | yeader beyond all words,
pagna, and had left one unfinished coffin |,
in his workshop. ‘Lhe l——s aad ourselves |
returned to Rome that afternoon, The | J
| crowds at the dim shrines with those eries
| for merey, which all who know that people
| will be able to realise to themselves, have
jstill a pathos of helpless terrorin them
| which is human.

years of age, who was among the earliest | piece of good fortune on his part to be
victims in Albano, Upwards of 000 per-} thus enriched by the sacrifice of Cardinal
sons of all ranks and conditions of life have] Altieri, and the devotion of the Zouave
been snatched away in these few days,the | troop.
cholera still continuing its ravages. Alter) {tis hard to believe that such a sceno
declining (ill the cases were not more than | oun daye ha ppened in our own day—that
seve eight a-day, the last reports], Saahatl : SUA porate tht
seven ot eight a lay, the vast reports | only yesterday, so to speak, little more
showed between forty and fitty. Many} ¢j, He
\ NY * |than a ionth ago, those bonfires were
houses are tenautless, and the keys depo- ini! 1
i b s oe eee flaming about the streets, those tapers
sited at tke police by the Zouaves or gen-| juypine i
: ne | . yurning in she death-chambers, those wild
darmes till some one be found to substan-| ice wae $ 1)
' h ; rahi cries rending the air, those yultures hoyer-
tiate a claim to the property of the dead. |e e oven et BEEK
No shops are open, no business transast- ing over the plague sttioken town. Other
' places, many in our own country, have
l
1
c

ed; an omnibus silence reigns over the SS ra * pape ies :
ouce cheerful town. It used to seem like aval ” AE nu oa calamity 5 but
entering into new life when the traveller's NG RISE aye THe sala is aly ag
carriage rattled in at the Porta Romana, }eaiy into the eo bilgi reett and terror
and he came upon the busy existence and] i odern life oy lignoe plucid tenor of
active cheerful doings of the season of | MPCen ile. nor, meanwhile, to thoso
7 ; aes iid A ian .| Who have kept their post—to the humble
villegiatnra in Albano It seems now attests, nnd the wild Zouave
but a dreary continuation of the long road Bindi ae al sik X eal vehls td and such a
over thy desolate Campagna which leads | oo. ‘ ae 1 a Avoca‘ oO) with nm im-
tip to it from Rome, . . . perial name and warm Italian heart, who
“GM is named in the letter we have just quoted,
nts The vultures have flown away, and tho
“P.S.—I lave not alluded to one or|cloud dispersed from over the white villas
two points which seem inevitable to such jand the olive gardens; but it isin a tragic
visitations; that, for instance, of the vul-|association which has thus been thrown
tures which hover about the place, lying |suddenly, without any warning, to over-
in wait for prey, for they were not worse |shadow many a tender and pleasant recol-
in Albano than in other places under the |lection of the little towns and scattered
ban of Providence. Many medical men | villages among the Alban Hills. :
of intelligence have been there engaged (
in the care of patients, but few, indeed,
who have taken up the cause con amore.
On the contrary, they do harm by the

Bontep Abive.—French law enacts that
corps toed be buried within twenty-four
rours after death, Hl residi
cowardice, Looking at the patient as ifjin the SOMES of enpanen: eit
through a telescope, they stretch out their | took sick, and in a short time was su OS x
fingers, having already stretched out their |g be dead. The preparations iE her
bodies tothe utmost, barely venturing to} fimeral began almost tnnrirotlatal y Pat
touch Me pulse of na bas Bol al Ah i) about twenty hours after hor Wen ais
to truth to mention that the priests have | was laid in her grave; but when the sex-
ton’s helper began to throw in the earth he
was startled by hearing noises proceeding
from the coffin. With terror stamped up-
on his countenance he ran jn pete of the
rector, who ordered him to procure wit-
nesses and a medieal man, More than
five hours elapsed bofore the practitioner
arrived at the grave. ‘lhe coffin was then
brought to the surface of the earth ant
opened, Tt was night and the lanterns
threw an uncertain gleam over the graves :
but no sooner was the coffin opened when
the terrible truth became appavent—sh:
had been buried alive in a trance. Even
then the poor girl was warm and alive
but, alas! beyond all hope of resuscitation.

last by many a bedsice.”

Nothing can add to the effect of sucha
simple and he ending tale. Some of
the details, especially one of those just
touched on in the postlseript, appal the
The wild pro-
ions with their flickering torches and
barefooted penitents winding along the
sharp and painful causeway—the kneeling

But the horror of the
| wilder bands that followed, most dreadful
jof all the vicissitades of insane panic—the

The feet contracted, with signs of violent.<*

known an old Roman will be remembered | revellers who, like the drunken sailors in
and regretted by most of our Rom in yisit- \a lost ship, would at least drown their own
ors, especially those of the old times, when | consciousness ot misery~is scarcely less

St. John, N .B. April 11, 1867.y

people canie to winter in Rome, and learn- jawful than the dread ‘suggestion of the

movement, the disorduted grave clother”
and the distorted features were #7’
remuined to tell of the fierce st”

death,

wt OTRO, to
Jiwris aes *

Ps