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Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, December 26, 1867.

THE

Summerside Journal

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~ Summerside Markets,
Summensipe, December 26,1867,

Oats per bush ------------- 28 90
Barley per \ush -------- °- 3s Gda ds
Potatoes per bush ------ 1s 9d
Turnips per bush ------ - 10dals

i - 10d a ls

Butter per lb by Tub --
ard per lb -------
Tallow. yer lb. -

Oda 10d
Oda 10d

Eggs per doz -- - - ---- + 10d a Is
Boefperib -s--- 25° e = 2 = bd a 4d
Mutton per lb ------- eeece 2da Bd
Pork per lb by carcass’ - = - BAd a 5d

x 1s Gd a 2s

Geese each -- -
Flour per bbl -
Oatineal per ewt.
Iay per Ton ~----
Straw per ewt. - -
Pine Boards - -
+ Spruce Boards - -

56s a GOs
16s 0 18s
60s a 70s

Is Gd
10s

December 25, 1867.

Beef (small) - - - - 4d a Gd
Do. by quarter * - - 3d a Ad
Mutton - - - - oda dd
Lamb per lb. . - =e Sd a dd
Butter . > - . lld a ts
Do. by tub - - - 10d a 1s
Cheese - * : : dda 7d
‘Tallow be = - - 9da 10d

- 8dla dd

Lard - - .
Flourlb. + « 2 a 3d a 34d
Oatmeal-100 lb. - - Visas
Dsgs ? e 2 ? 11d als
Potatoes - - - 1s Dd a 2s
‘Turnips - - =e lod
Barley - - - - 3s a 4s
Oats - - - - 23 9d
Boards (1femlock) - : - 4s
Spruce - - - - ds nbs
Pine - - - - 7s a 9s
Shingles - - : 12s a 15s
Wool - - - - Isa Is Bal
Tlay - - - - GOs a 70s
Straw cwt. - - - Is Gd a 2s
JLomespun - - - bs Gd abs
Sheepskins - - Oda ls
Calfskin 1b, 2 - - - dda od
Hides lb, - - - - - 44d

“Business Qards,

BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Corner of Queen § Water Sls., Charlottetown
President—llon. Danien Breas

Cashier —WiILLiAM CUuND:

Diséount Days—Mondays §

Hours of Business—Fom 1

from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.
UNION BANK.

Grofton St., Queen's Square, Charlotietown
Presitent—Cuanrt Paumer, Esquire,
Cashier—Jamus Axpenson, Esquire.

Viscount Days— Wednesdays & Saturdays.
Tours of Business—From 10 a.m to Lp m.,
from 2 p.mto 4 pi,

SUMMERSIDE BANK.

Central Street, Summerside, DP. EB. Island,
President—Llon, Jonny R. Ganrpiven,

Sashier—L. L. Lypiarp, 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.

DR. MeN ILL,
Physician & Surgeon,
Resipence—At Gorge. Garret’s, Esquire,

Stanley Bridge,
New London, - - -- P.E.I.
Jan 24, 1867. - ee
DR. PRICH,
Physician & Surgeon,
Ovrrice—At the SumMensips Drug Story,
next door to Bank, Central Street
SUMMERSIDE, LP. B, ISLAND.
Octobor 12, 1865.

KITSON CASHY, MD.,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHEUR

formerly Assistant Surgeon in the U, S.
Navy, offers his protessional services to tho
people of Summerside and vicinity. He can
e consulted athis office, over the Store of
Green & Schurman, in Summerside,
Juno 18, 1867. tf’

WILLIAM M. HOWE, ©

Attorney-at-Law and Notary
Publie.
Bt. Eneanon’s.............0. BE. Istann

FRANCIS LONGWORTII,
BARRISTER AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

pe“ Office—PAVILION HOTEL,
(next door to the Hon. Joseph Iensley’s.)
CHARLOTTETOWN - - - FP. E. Island,

Jan. 1%, 1867. ah .
Co-Partnership Notice.

ILE Subscribers have this day entered into
CO-PARTNERSHTP as BARRISTERS
and ATTORNIES-AT-LAW, under the

name, style and _firfa of
ALL DAVIES
OFFICK,—O’HALLORAN’S BUILDING,

Great Geonor Street.
GEORGE ALLEY,

LOUIS H. DAVIES.
Charlottetown, Oct. 18, 1867. oot 24

Rasiness Gards,

Commercial Hotel.
“NEW ARRANGEMENT!
GOAGH FARE PAID!

N FUTURE the Coacu Fare of all travel-
lers from the Railway Station and Steam-
boat Landings in this City to the COMMER-
CIAL HOTEL, King Street, who meke their
stay one day or upward, WILL be PArp by the
Proprietor.

FARE AT THE MOTEL:

TRANSIENT.
One Day, ---------- $1 00
One Week, -------> 5 00

PERMANENT

Per Week, - 325 to $450

The HOTEL is situated on the best business
street in the city, and nearly opposite the
WAVERLY. handsomely fitted up and
calculated to ommodate some fifty persons
very comfortably. :

D. P. HOWE, Proprietor.
St. John, N. L., Noy. 7, 1867. ly

CRAWFORD’S HOTEL,
No. 9 King Square, St.John N-B.

Permanent and transient Boarders accom-
modated on reasonable terms.

In connection with the above the subscribers
have opened a

First Class Grocery Store

where they will keep constantly on hand,
Flour, Corn Meal, Provisions, ‘Tea, Sugar,
Molasses, and all articles usually kept ina
Grocery Store.

J. CRAWFORD & SON.
May 380, 18

Sountain House Hotel.
King Square, (North Side,)
ST, JOILN, N, B.

Hotel, and refitted the same, is now prepared
to accommodate ‘Transient and Permanent
Boarders, and trusts by attention to meet a
share of public patronage.

Having also leased the commodious Stable
attached, and secured the services of a careful
Hostler, who will be in attendance »t all
hours, travellers be sure to get satisfac-
{tion at lowest rites, |

JAMES W, TILOMSON,
: Proprietor,
St. John, N. B., July 4, 1867.—ly

ROCKLIN HOUSE,
Kent Street, Charlottetown,
SIMON D, FRASER, PROPRIETOR,

Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders. will
find the above House to give satisfaction.
Ch’town, June 13, 1567.

Alocth American Hotel,
KENT STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN.
JOHN MURPILY, PROPRIETOR,
Permanent and Transient Boarders will
find good accommodation.
* Good Stables in connection with the Torzr,
and a careful Hostler always in attendance.

Cl’town, Feb. 14, 1867. tf

«J, HL ALLEN,
Commission {erchant,

And Dealer in Provisions, &e,
MARKT Ss 2) Diy
St. John, N. B.
har Gives persoiitl auenlton to the Sale

and Purchase of every description of Goorls,
May 9, 1867.

‘NIOMAS HANFORD, _
AUCTIONEER

AND

Commission Merchant,

ST, JOUN, N, B,
v 1, 1865

‘CG. L. RICHARDS,

Importer and Wholesale Dealer in
Hritish & SHorcignGroceries.

4, Head North Wharf,
ST. JOHN, - - - NEW BRUNSWICK.
Dee. 6, 1866, ly

CARVELL BROTHERS,

“AUCTIONEERS,

Commission Merchants,
And General Agents,

BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET.
Charlottetown, - - - - = PLE, Island

WILIJAM BEAIRSTO,

Commission Merchant,

Auctioneer & General Agent,

WATER STREE
Summerside, ««+

WILLIAM DODD,
Commission Merchant,
And Auctioneer,

QUEEN SQUAKE,
CHARLOTTETOWN --- PP. B. ISLAND

J. Island.

_MHOMAS KELLY,
Barrister - at - Law
AND

NOTARY PUBLIC, &c,
SUMMERSIDE, - - - - 2.2. ISLAND.
aug. 0, 1966

“The Subscriber haying leased the above

Business Gards,

KIAKWOOD, LIVINGSTONE & CO.
Slour, Produce, Feather,
' AND GENERAL

Commission Merchants,
MONTREAL, ------- C.E.

The most careful attention given to the
execution of orders for Flour, Grain, Seeds,
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
aequaintance with Western Millers, and as
Agents for some of the most populir 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 ang
to a 4 per cent more than on Boston.

Every information as to the state of the
market, present and prospective, given wien
required,

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

Charges only made for actual disbursements
and Commissions not over those of responsible
Iuuses inthe line. Unquestionable refernces
given when required,

KIRKWOOD, LIVINGSTONE & CO.

503 St. Paul Strect,
Montreal, C. BE.

February 7, 1867.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE OMPANY,
FIRE AND LIFE.

Established 1809.

TWO MILLIONS, Sterling.
HBAD OFVICES:
EDINBURGH & LONDON.

G. W. DeBLOIsS,
Agent at Charlottetown.

Forms of Application can be had by apply-
ing to Mr, J. Berrram, Journal Office, Sum-
merside,

Charlottetown, June 96, 1867.—ly

Important to Shipbuilders
Blocks! Blocks! Blocks!

IF YOU WANT LO RAISE THE
Price ‘of Vessels
in England, order a set of those SPLENDID
BLOCKS, which everybody is praising, from

‘7 TANS A
YOUNG'S.
Terms Liberal,
W: st., Summerside, Sept. 26, 1867.
nN
Carriage Factory !!
ILead of Queen Street,
CHART OT DIE TO WN,
4000) Giteeribora bee leuve to acquaint the
public that, having entered into a Co-
Partnership, they are prepared to execute all
orders in the

CARRIAGE, SLEIGH,

On
Blacksmith Business ,
and having cach had considerable experience,
they are able to turn out a FIRST CLASS
Carriage or Sleigh.
Repairing of all kinds, together with all
other work appertaining to their line of busi-
ness, will be attended to.
Send in your orders immediately
PROUD & McCOUBREY,
Queen Street, Charlottetown,
Jan. 10, 1867. ly:

SAWS,
SAWS! SAWS!!

sah of the best quality, and at the follow-
ing Cash prices, always on hand at the
manufacture of the subscribers :—

CAPITAL:

CIRCULARS,
Diameter,
34 in. $18 each
BO in. S15 each

Diverter.

36 in. $20 each
32 in. $16 cach
28 in. $12.50 each
24 in. $9 cach

20 in. 87 each

16 in. $5 each

12 in. $3 each.

Mill Saws 54 feet, $5 cach; Buck’ Saws 28
in. $7 per dozen, set and sharped.

All orders left at the Book Store of Mr.
Joseph Bertram, Suminerside, or forwarded
direct, will receive immediate attention.

A RICHARDSON & Co.

St. John. NB. April 11. 1s07.y

"DAVID BHRERAM,
Saddle and Harness Maker,
Water Strect . . . . . Summerside.
October 12, 1865.

- JABEZ HUDSON,
Authorized Auctioneer,
GENERAL AGENT, &e.,
THYON, 8 6 6 eee ne OR, Bi dy
_ dune 27,1867, 2 : nD

THLOMAS FRIZZEL,
Boot and Shoe Maker,
WATER STREET,
opposite Green & Schurman’s Store.

Boots and Shoes of a superior quality con-
stantly on hand, and for sale cheap.
Summerside, June 6, 1867. ly

James Greenough,
FLOUR
Commission Merchant,

No 47 Commercial Street

Corner of Clinton Street - - + - - BOSTON

PORTRY.

VERSARY,

Brornen! If all the radiant thonght
‘Thy hands have traced in fifty years,’
Brom heart and mind of genius wrought,
Undimmed by clouds or falling tears,—
Tf all the good thy hands have told
Iby type on type and line on line,
Could be upon thy future rolled,
Our willing hearts would wish them thine.

O veteran knight of royal art!

What thought and po-ver thy hands have held,
What made the rolling ages start,
pe And earth’s grand hymn of progress swelled}
A balfa century has passed

Since thon was to thy letters wed,
And now in love we come to cast

Our benedictions on thy head.

Long inay the years bring joy to thee,
yn thy closing day,

4, lurge and tree,

Be strewn along thy peaceful way,
Ani fifty years of glorions art,

Tn toil and thought and zeal like thine;
Shall write upon the loving heart

McDeviit's name, a golden line,

Bovunser.
: Select Witerature,
A LIPE WAT.

(Concluded.) ~
THE CONTENTS OF THE CLASPED VOLUME.

I kNow not whether lam mad or sane.
I know not whether [was mad when 1
did it, ‘Phere is madness in our family.
My mother die@ raving mad, The old
earl, my grandfather, was methodically
mad, and was kept under disguised res-
taint in bis ancestral mansion, that the
world might not know it. But it oozed
out, as things concealed usually do, with
exaggerations. If Lam mad Lam not ac-
countable for it, And if Iam ssne I have
expiated it by along life watch of cruel
and horrible self-torture. ‘To live all my
daysin a house conyerted into a mausole-
um; to be condemned to sit upon a grave
as upon an arm-chair; to be cnucuinbered
everywhere with a tenant who should be
sleeping in the tomb; toeatisile by side
sit alone with Coaih; to eat Side by side
with a skeleton; to taste food out of a red
hand, and have a red sky ever before me
—uare parts of my punishment. I never
see a blue sky or a gray distance, Every
thing has a sanguinary haze over it, as if
I looked through spectacles of tlame-color.
And yet I did not shed blood—ah no, I
did not do that.

T have formed a friendship for this wo-
man, and [ should like to talk to her; yet
[cannot divulge my secret. She seems to
love her hnsband; yet not as I loved mine.
As IL loved him? As I do love him—pas-
sionately, wildly, fearfully, madly, so that
Lean never take my gaze of his collin; so
that I rise in the darkness and silence of
the night to kiss and embrace the cold
wood; and I feel my passion and my re
morse eating out my heart. I cannot
weep. I never shed a tear now, as 1
never shed a tear then. My grief is cold
and tewrless, as my rage cold: and
tearless, and my happiness eold and tear-
less, when he lived, Outwardly, only
outwardly. Within Twas and ania hum-
ble volcano, and the fire is consuming my
heart and brain, sense and being, slowly,
slowly— Ieaven how slowly! It is retri-
bution.

In my girlhood IT was beautiful, and
gilted with extraordinary talents. What-
ever Lundertook L mas » I studied
astrology, and cast my fnativity. 1 saw
the doom then, but did not comprehend it.
Could we literally know the future, of
what use could it be? Should we be warn-
ed, advised, or guided? No! Doom is
doom, and we should rush on blindly to-
ward it. nee

In every accomplishment T excelled.
And yet Lwas but filteen years of age,
living in retirement at a country seat with
my governess, when [ met my beloved
Carlo, Twas sketching the stump of a
tree in a grove, he out with doy and eun.
Our cyes met with a flash of light, and we
loved cach other, He was so handsome a
heathen might have thought him a deity
descended from the clouds, His hair was
fair, rich and waving, oyer eyes blue as
skies, set in a complexion more delicate,
it possible, than my own. ILis voice was
solt, rich, and manly. Ile had traveled,
and was as well-read as myself. I did
not discover all thisattirst. But we loved
as our ¢yes met. ‘Then we were impelled
to speak. We walked home and saw my
chaperon—an interview which resulted in
his seeking my father, whose parliament-
wry duties yet held him in London, No
parent could object to such an unobjection-
able match as Carlo; but an obstacle ex-
isted on his side, whose father, Lord ——
(1 will betray no names, not even to her
fancy my friend; but for the credit of those
so unwillingly related suppress all no-
menclature, and Y shame and crime
alone to the grave)—Lord —— refused to
sanction his son’s union with the daughter
of a lunatic, the grandchild of an idiot.

But Carlo and £ were mad torloye. We
met; we eloped; we married, and fled to
the Continent to avoid the reproaches and
interference of angry pareuts,

After [had consented to elope T looked
round our place for a receptacle wherein
Limight pack the few clothes LT intended to
take with me. In the couch-house I saw
the old box or chest destined to play so
awtul a part in my wretched story, 1
contriv@tt to deposit what TL needed unob-
served; and in the silence of night, when
all slept, L aroused the young groom,who
slept over the stable, and offered him a
handsome gift of gold, yellow and shiving
in the Ifght of the lamp I held, ithe would
harness the horses and take me and that
dingy box to where Carlo awaited us,

The coachman, an old faqily servant,
might have refused to drive so young a
mistress on so doubtful a journey. But
Sam was at an age when such deeds raise
sympathy in the breast; so he took his
reward, and I, with my box, was hurried
from my hewte.

Weary of trav@ing, we returned to

where, as we thought, we ran little risk of
being seen by any one who knew us. My
husband, being tond of bathing, sought the
shore every morning, and I sat in the gar-
den until he returned,

We had not been at Broadstairs very
long when T fancied that there was a
change in bismanner, Iwas certain some
secret rested upon his mind, and I beeame
aware, also, that though he sought the
shore, he ceased to bathe, Silting alone
with busy thoughts I grew jealous, and
determined to watch him; so instead of
remaining at home, one day T hurried along
a by-road to a part of the esplanade that
overlooked the sands, I cast my eyes
downward, and saw him walking with a
young lady about my own age, Alter a
time they left the sands and walked toward
our home, They were too preocenpied to
detect that they were followed, but sat
down to talk by a quiet bank near a corn-
field, where I hid myselfamong the wheat.
1 was not near cnough to hear his words,
to which she listened so earnestly, or hers,
on which he seemed to hang with tender
interest. I noticed him holding her hands
fondly, twining her curls in his fingers;
and IT observed him print a kiss upon her
cheek ere they parted. I watched this
day a.ter day, and yet Isaidnothing. She
only passed a few moments each tine i?
his company, as if fearful ot Leing missed
by her friends, But was not that enough ?
Was it not too much for a young loving
wife to witness?

One morning T noticed a boquet of
flowers, just gathered, lying on the eserit-
oire where he had been writing, Fall of
suspicion diverted his glance to another
purt of the room, and with a hasty glance
read the words scribbled upon a slip of
paper: **I will meet you at sunset on the
sands, and, if your plans are ripe enough,
we willlenve Broadstairs to-morrow.” He
returned to his desk, folded the note, and
went ont with it ane the flowers. Could
{ not guess how the one would be conceal-
ed in the other, and for whom? Did I not
know the golden-haired siren with the
sweet baby: lace that had bewitched him ?

‘That morning I spent at home, a wreteh-
ed prey to love, jealousy, and wrath, At
all hazards the sunset meeting must be
prevented. Should I charge him with
perfidy, upbraid, entreat? Should I pre-
yiul? Should [risk failure? No; a thou-
sand times no, As our dinner-hour drew
near, a foolish, an evil, a vile idea entered
my miserable mind, Twas mad thons 3
snow now that 1 was mad, I laughed
when I remembered the Taudanum that
stood with the hair-oil on the mantle-shelf
of my dressing-room. I emptied it into
the wine-decanter, Carlo drank wine,but
I did not, After dinner he slept, Coffee
came up, but still his slumber Insted. It
was as I wished. 1 sat still and smiled.
The hours went on slowly, I sent the
servants to bed, and the house was very
quiet. It grew late, the wax lights—there
was no gias—burned down low; he was
still sleeping very heavily. One, two
sounded—then three, It was broad day-
light; and I drew up the blinds, for Twas
getting restless and alarmed. Daylight
was let in, and it fell upon the armchair
and upon the face of adeadiman. I drop-
ped at his feet; I tried to pray, but knelt
there wordless and thoughtless. ‘Then
surely I was mad—carelully, cunningly,
strangely mad, As Heaven is my witness,
Lhad only meant to cause a sleep to stop
that meeting and put off an explanation
so bitterly humiliating, so stormy in the
aspect of its gathering clouds,

LTknelt before my dead husband and
laughed, I hadno part in the lwughter;
it was as if the voice of some strange spirit
eame up through my throat and sounded
curiously in my eur. T was aroused sud-
denly by hearing the servants come down
stairs. I was alone with him; and. they
would say I had murdered hiv, and this
fair girl with the golden hair and the baby's
face would stand by and see me strangled
out of life on a fuld, Tlow 1 found
strength for the terrible task I cannot tell,
but Ttook Carlo in my arms and carried
him into our slecping-chamber, which ad-
joined, threw open the windows that led
from the dining-room into the garden,
and locked myself and my erime away
together, I put him on the floor by the
great box, and knelt down,

Suddenly an idea came into my head.
T opened the box, and taking out my
clothing made it into a bundle. ‘There
was a closet in the room which I had once
opened, ¢ id had seen among other do-
mestic enriosities the old ticking of a bed,
I took it out aud covered it over Carlo,
and with the same strange strength litted
him into the box, He ts barely dead
then, for his limbs were not stiff and 1
folded them into the space. Then [ locked
up the box and dressed, and went in to
breakfast. A note lay on the table. It
was contiined ina litle pink envelope,
directed ina girlish hand. As my eyes
rested upon it my aay and anger
rushed to lifeagain, Lfelt glad Calo was
dead, T took up the note which she with
the yellow hair and pink face must have
sent, and tearing it open read, ** Dear
Carlo"—dear Carlo! Wow the letters ran
before my eyes! Did she dare to call him
her dear Carlo; Ay, it was there, written
upon the pink paper with perfumed ink ;

“Dear Cante,—I have pleaded your cause
with papa and mamma, but cannot move
them; and because they think I must have
seen you here, our governess is ordered to
bring us all home by the first train to-morrow,
But do not despair, for if L cin do nothing at
present I will yet reconcile them to you some
day. I fear Ishall not be allowed to write,
but in silence and absence do not doubt that I
am, and ever shall remain,

© Your affectionate and loving
Sister.”

Hlis sister! Ah! was ever climax so
terrible? ‘This, then, must be his favorite
sister, Edith, of whom he had so often
talked, but who was unknown to me,
Alas! why had he kept their meeting
secret? ‘That, too, was obvious: could he
expose me to the mortification of knowing
that she was pleading for my recognition
by his family, or that he was foreed to
meet a dearly-loved sister by stealth be-
eause he had taken me to be his wife ?

And Carlo was dead! I hardly recog-
nized that. Fear was upon me. I must
fly, and [must conceal the decd. Twenty
miles from my own home a lonely house
stood in the midst of a wood.” Report
called it haunted, and no one of the simple
country folk dareapproach, far less inhabit

England, and vented a small house—a
mere cottage—not far from Broadstairs

it, Ina feigned name I wrote to the land-

lord, and requested he would let it to me,
with permission to enter immediately,
saying that Iwas anxious to sceure a good
house at the low rent I did not donht he
would be happy to accept. I would have
given any price for the house, but I wished
to vive a likely reason, not the true one,
My offer was accepted by return of post.

Meanwhile I had told my two servants
that their master had left early in’ the
morning for town, whither he wished me
to follow him, #s we found it necessary to
take a Jong and unexpected journey. I
had paid all debts when the landlord's
letter came. Hurrying to London I there
disposed of our valuable plate and what-
ever I possessed, except a litde linen, a
tew jewels, and the horrible sarcophagus
hereatter my life watch. I was anxious
to gain my new abode, as_I knew the de-
lays of a day or two would cause detection,
But my route was purposely circuitous
and broken to bafile any efforts that might
be made to trace me, though under the
family ban it was likely.

The chest was placed in a large roon—
a sort of loft—at the top ef the house, and
after a few preparations had been made
by three women who had been induced ta
come together while it was day, «nd for
a large reward, I was leftalone. The fact
of my having a large box put in the loft
excited no suspicion, The conjecture was
that it contained books

There, without servants, without the
companionship of a living soul, F dwelt
alone for many years, until upon the death
of the old landlord a new master of the
soil desired to pull the house down, Then
with my chest I traveled from place to
place, a haunted, restless woman, asking
of myself eternally, *t Am I sane or mad?”

Thad written so much of my history, in
this poor cottage at Hamstead, to give it
some day to one who has been kind to
me; but going over the details of my lilo
has raised in my mind a horrible suspicion,
more exquisitely agonizing than all that
has gone before—a suspicion, the bare?
form of which, as it suddenly came belore
me, cast me into that frenzied fit which
has closed the weary life of one who
neither wants nor wislies to die—one who
only desires to live her vague life on and
on, gazing eternally at the sarcophangus.
The idea, the certainty so terrible in its.
nature, is, that Carlo was not dead when
I placed him in the chest. Carlo was
under the influence of the narcotic, but
living—Carlo, my love, my husband, the
young and perfect Carlo, put living into
the tomb and stifled by his beutiful wife's
mad hands; and his young wife of sixteen
summers locked up his life and the secret
of her crime, and sat down heartlessly bee
side it to perform her crucl life wateh,
Let her die.

CHRISTMAS REFLECTION.

“YT wish youn merry Christmas

And a happy New Year,
With your stomach full of money,

And your pocket full of beer,’
yelled Ike, as he skipped into Mrs. Part-
ington’s kitchen, where the old dame was
busily engaged in cooking breakfast on
Christmas morning.

* Don't make such a noise, dear,” said

‘you give mea scrutinizing pain in my
head, and your young voice goes through
my brains like a s-alped knife. But what
did the good Santa Cruz put in your stuck-
ing, Isauc 2”

As she looked at him with an arch and
pleased expression, as he took out of his
pocket a jack-knile,and a hum-top painted
with gaudy colors. Ike held them up
joyously, and it was a sight to sce the tivo
standing there, she siniling serenely upon
the boy's happiness. and he grateful in the
possession of his treasures.

**Ah!” said she, with a sigh, ‘there's
many a home to-day, Isaxe, that Santa
Cruz weu't visit, and many a poor child
will find nothing in his stocking but his
own little foot!”

Tt might have been a grain of the snuff
she took, it might have been a floating
tote of the atmosphere,but Mrs. Parting:
ton’s eyes looked hnmid, though she smiled
upon the boy before her, who stood trying
ty pull the cord out of her reticule to ‘Spin
his new top with,

CUBAN TRAGEDY,

AWFUL CRIME BY A SLAVE.

Writing on the 3ist ult., the Havana cor-
respondent of the New York Zimes gives the
following account of a frightful tragedy which
had occurred on the Island. A'terrible. tra
gedy was enacted on Sunday evening in the
(welling of Mr. Chinchilla, the post master
general of the Islind. One of’ his sisters-in-
law, who with her mother, had been residing
with Mr, Chinchilla, fer some time, was pos-
sessed of a mulatto slave, aged about 17 years,
with whom she wished to dispose of. ‘The
lady had placed the slave in charge of a
broker, who was intrusted with the sale. ‘Phe
mulatto soon wearied of the tyranny of the
broker, ran away, returned to” his hiistress,
before whom he presented himself on Sunday
evening whileat Mr. Chinchilla’shouse. The
lady immediately ordered the slave from her
presence, when he, drawing a poinard, sprang
upon her and stabbed her over the right
shoulder blade, severing the main artery.

‘The fiend thea ran to the apartment of the
mistress’s mother, found her, and stabbed her
three tines, and then passed into Mrs, Clin-
chilla’s room, where he assaulted the liuy.
Her husband was with her atthe time, and
throwing himself between his wife and the
assassin, received the wound intended for the
lady. ‘The slave then fled from the hous’
wounding in his exit a domestic who souglt
to check him, He was subsequently pursue
and secured by the police. He confessed hit
guilt, and appeared quite prepared to sufler
the extreme penalty of the law. It is doubly
ful, however, that he will be executed.
criminal lawyers ace skilful enough o &
him from tle punishment he well deser
How little effect is produced by the threat of
the death penalty may be imagined, when,
on the very inorrow or the day on which the
above narr ted crime was committed, another
slave murdered a lady in the Calle Concor-
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