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DEVOTED TOLITERATURE, SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AGRICULTU
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Summerside, Prince Fdward Island, Thursday, November 28, 1867. _
No. 8.
Vol. 3.
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SumMunsipe, Noyeuper 28, 1867.
Oats per bush ----- oe 2s 9a
Barley per bush - - - Cy Per Week, ------ 25 to $450
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Turnips per bush = -- >= >> Od als} treet in the city, and nearly opposite tue
Butter per lb by Tub --
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Spruce Boards - - - - - - - 4s 058) 1) connection with the above the subscribers
' A ae : haye opened a
Charlottetown Markets, .
Noveuner 26, 1867. First Class Grocery Store
: ‘8 a 5 e 4da6d]where they will keep constantly on band,
ae WS ahr - : - Bd add] Ulour, Corn Meal, Provisions, ‘Tea, Sugar,
Muiton 3d a dd} Molasses, and all articles usually kept ina
34d au 4d] Grocery Store.
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eiley sf ereenl qhOUNIY Aloune Aol,
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Boards (Hemlock) - - C 4s | Bourders, and trusts by attention to meet a
Sprace 2 s : . 4s n5s | share of public patronage.
Pine - - - - 7s u 9s Having also leased the eommodious Stable
Shingles - : - 12s a 15s] attached, and secured the services of a careful
Wool . - - - Isa ls 8d] llostler, who will be in attendance at all
Ilay - - - - 60s a 70s | hours, travellers will be sure to get satisfac-
Straw ewt. - * . 1s 6d a 2s | tion at lowest rates.
Homespun - ee aN JAMES W. THOMSON,
Sa Ne : y a a dt Proprictor.
ee St. John, N. B., July 4, 1867.—ly
Hie aya Sh Solo Ne duly 2 ee
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SIMON D. FRASER, PROPRIPLOR.
BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Corner of Queen § Water Sts., Charlottetown
President—Hon. Dantet Brenan.
Cashiér—Wintias Cunpant, Esquire.
Discount Days—Mondays & Thursdays.
Hours of Business—Fom 10a Be p.m. alocth American dlotel,
KENT STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN.
JOHN MURPHY, PROPRIETOR.
Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders will
Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders will
find the above House to give satistaction,
Hy y 3, 18¢
UNION BANK.
@rofion St., Queen's Square, Charlotictown
_President—Cuarces Parmer, Esquire. "i
Cashier—James Anperson, Esquire. find good accommodation.
Wiscount Days—Wednesdays & Saturdays. Food Stables in connection with the Toren,
Hours of Business—From 10 a.m to 1p m., | and a careful Hostler always in attendance.
from2pmto tpm.| Ch’town, Feb. 14, 1867. tf
‘| GARVELL BROTIIERS,
AUCTIONEERS,
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from 2p. m., tod pms | Oharlottetown, - - - - - P.M. Island.
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President—Ifon. Joun R. Garpiven.
Cashier—B. L. Lypianp, Esquire
* Discount Days—Tuesdays and Fridays.
Notes for Discount must be in before 11
DR. McNEILL,
Physician & Surgeon,
Resmwexce--At George. Garret’s, Esquire,
Stanley Bridge.
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New London, - - -- P. EI.
Jan 24, 1867." Ee Os
MEROITT AG bY PRICH WATER STREET,
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Physician & Surgeon,|"---—"- rete all
Ovrice--At the Summensine Dre Story, WILLIAM DODD,
next door to Bank, Ca ite Comission Merchant,
4 WID A) 1 yd be a) Ue aND, :
Suber And Auctioneer,
October 12, 1865. an
KITSON CASEY, MD.,, ae QUEEN —_ oe
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formerly Assistant Supgeon in the U. 8.
Navy, offers his profegional services to the
eople of Summersid vicinity. He can
tis consulted athis office, wyer the Store of
Green & Schurman, in Summerside.
June 18, 1867. tf
C AR D
WILLIAM BEAIRSTO,
Commission Merchant,
Arclioneer & General Agent,
J. H. ALLEN,
Commissica Herchant,
And Dealer in Provisions, &c,
MARKET 8G ly
St, John, N. B,
fg Gives personal attention to the Sale
and Purchase of every description of Goods,
May 9, 1867.
THOMAS HANFORD,
AUCTIONEER
“WILLIAM M. HOWE,
Attorney-at-Law and Notary
Public.
Sr. Envanor’ .P. EB. Isnanp
“——}FRANGIS LONGWORTH,
BARRISTER AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
ae Office—PAVILION HOTEL.
(next door to the Hon. Joseph Hensley’s.) AND
¥. W. Island.
CHARLOTTETOWN = - - Commission Merchant,
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NOTARY PUBLIC, &c. Importer and Wholesale Dealer in
British & KoreignGroceries.
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TRYON, nics) + ae, eT
27, 1867,
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Insurances effected at lowest current rates,
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in Canada, we can with safety assure them
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Remittances against orders when not other-
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Drafts on New York being worth usually an}
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Eyery information as to the state of the
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February 7, 1867.
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INSURANCH COMPANY,
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merside.
Charlottetown, June 20, 1867.—ly
Important to Shipbuilders
Blocks! Blocks! Blocks!
If YOU WANT TO RAISE ‘THE
Price of Vessels
in England, order a set of those SPLENDID
BLOCKS, which everybody is praising, from
YOUNG'S.
Terms Liberal,
Wacer-st., Summerside.
Boot and Shoe Maker,
WATER STREET,
opposite Colin MeLennavs Store.
CAPITAL:
Boots and Shoes of a superior quality con-
stantly on hand, and for sale cheap, *
Summerside, June 6,18) ly
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Head of Queen Str et,
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public that, having entered into a Co-
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CARRIAGE, SLEIGH,
OR
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Carriage or Sleigh.
ness, will be attended to.
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Queen Street, Charlottetown,
Jan. 10, 1867. ly
~ DAVID BERTRAM,
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October 12, 18
SAWS! SAWSI!
§‘ WS of the best quality, and at the follow-
manufacture of the subscribers :—
CIRCULARS,
Diameter.
84 in. $18 each
$0 in, S15 each
26 in, S11 each
22 in. $8 cach
18 in. $5.75 cach
ld in, $4 each
DIAMETER.
hin. $20 each
in. $16 each
28 in. $12.50 each
in. $9 each
20 in, $7 each
1G in. $5 each
12 in. $3 each.
in. $7 per dozen, set and sharped.
All orders left at the Book Store of Mr.
direct, will receive immediate attention.
A. RICHARDSON & Co.
St. John, N .B. April 11, 1867.
and having each had considerable experience, day
other work appertaining to their line of busi-} ment than Hadrian or Horace.
sweet strain of universal popul
PROUD & McCOUBREY, _ | gives animation anda yoice to every stretch | blue, blue 1:
of beautiful country the traveller lights | wooded m
upon; no doubt with grand exception
—————= J epie and solemn like the
and awful like the Pontine Marshes—but |
still so general in every spot especially | but so quaint, so beautiful, so full of me-
Water Street . . . . . Summerside. |soft Alban slopes at the point nearest! There the ut
5 :
. : c sky as perhaps are to be seen nowhere | think you se
ing Cash prices, always on hand at the] o)se on earth; when the wide vault of) es out in auswer to the sun onthe he
heaven gleams with almost insufferable | like the
Joseph Bertram, Summerside, or forwarded sive, never so grand, so small, 80 wonder- jyou take on the Pir
tuo clings to the littl town,
English, and still more to the Scottish
pilgrim, it has an interest apart from all
others. In the cathedral, sleeps Prince
Charlie, call him Pretender if you will, no
hame can take away from the pathos and
the pitilulness of his story; he who led
the wild Highland bands, and held state
at Holyrood, and had dreams of British
empire, and was chased through all the
northern wilds, and died, dead out, life
How the winters are drifting like flakes of snow, ; 8d fame, asa man so deeply fallen —
cursed for his father’s sake, the last of such
a hapless race, might well do, and yet
deserve more sympathy than blame. We
know no two places upon earth which a
philosophié and wandering Prince, if such
There's a musical iste on the river of Time, av pug exists, should find more full of
sal suggestions than the terrace at St.
Gerains, on which one Stuart, banished,
wore out his heart in fictitious state; and
thatat Frascati, on which Charles Rdward,
with his sun going down aniast the con-
fusion and wild storm-clou’s of a Jost life,
must have looked out May. day to sce
PORTRY.
THE RIVER OF TIME.
On, a wonderful stream is the river of Time,
As it runs through the realms of tears,
With a faultless rythm and a musical rhyme,
And a broad'ning sweep, and a surge subline,
That blends with the ocean of years.
And the summers like buds between,
And the yeur is the sheaf—so they come and go,
On the river's breast, with its ebb and flow,
Aug it glides through the shadow and sheen.
Where the softest of airs are playing;
There's a cloudless sky and tropical clime,
And i song as sweet as vesper chime,
When tho June with the roses are staying.
And the name of this isle is the ‘Long Ago,"
And we bury treasures there;
1) re brows of bewuty and bosoms of snow— the foreign World. that thought not of him,
The re heaps of dust, but we love them so ! living its homely Mic,and taking no account
of kingdoms fost or won. Ifis name is
writ there in stone oyer him, wilh the
most pit'n and touching of all pious false-
hooks, with the name and state of K ig of
Cyeat Britain and Ireland—an inscription
which will not fail to fill many a waytarer
with strange thoughts.
And then the road goes winding along
There are hunds that are waved when the fairy |the hillside through the belt of villas,
shore through the sweet glimmer of the olive
By the mirage ts lifted in air; groves, through the vineyards and fields
Aud we go! 428 hour through the (urbulent roar, | Of rustling: corn, 2 mile or so on to Grot-
Sweet voices we heard in days gone betore, ta Perrata, where you all, you remember,
When the wind down the river is fuir, went to the great fair, and wore PiDSy
roses in your hats, and bought peuny
trnmpets, and the bright kerchiefs of the
ialine, and saw the great pigs roasted
at every comer; d, perhaps, on
sole quieter excursion, visited the Domin-
ichinos in the fortified monastery which
Pope Julius built, and which of itself is
= |well worthy of note, Then is it San
Mirtino that comes next, with nothing
curious at all about ivexcept itself, a little
ancient, wild, rugged, strong, dilapidated,
lovely village, the sort of place where, in
/ defiance of all comfort and sanitary regu-
jlations, and eyen of x smell or two caught
in passing, one’s heart somehow takes up
its abode at, seizing some Gothie window
Tx these much-travelling days the formal | or cloistered nook to | ilda nest in, in
descriptions of which ouece held | defiance of all region,
so Brent a p ature, have cither | scape widens, and ag
ceased entirely or died away into those | the eye; of such a blue as never wa
suggestions which recall a lindseape to | before, as never perhaps will be seen
eyes Which have seen it. but convey little | again— bluer than the sky, bluer than the
idea to the stranger.“ You remember 2? | Mediterrancan, blucr than any lhunian
is often move eloquent than pages of what | eyes that ever shone; the Alban Luke,
is called word-painting, though it affords | metallic, voleanie, shimmering under the
all information to the mind of the home- | sunshine in its round profound basin, and
ying, if such there still be. But yet | with the towers of Castel Gandolfo shining
most people who have roamed about the | in the sun above. It gleams blue in the
loycliest scenes on earth take a pleasure, | air, and it is water, aud ought to. velresh
which it is difficult to account for, in every | the eyes; and when we ride along the
tyro’s new-recorded opinion of them, and | galle as they are called, under the
like to see wherein his experience differed | trees, with glimpses now and then of the
from their own, whether he noted their | lake, and the towers above, and the Cam-
favorite points of view, and appreciated | pagna below, the prospect is magical;
their favorite phases of native character or} but from the road, as you pass hy, the
atmospherie influence. his fecling per-| sight of the Lake of Albana is not retresh-
haps exists nowhere so strongly as among | ing. There is something weird and mys-
the crowd of Italisn travellers, and es- | tic and out of nature about it—voleanic, a
pecially among those who haye spent some | freak of fire, some rude ‘Titan's sudden
part of their lives about Rome and its| work, and not the slow sweet toil of na-
charmed neighborhood, Even people who} ture. Vo Castel Gandolfo the Pope comes
have gone there fora few weeks, as people | tor his holidays when the work of the
begin to do in these fast. dauys—even pro-| sacred year is over in the Vatican, and it
bably Cook’s Tourists, whom that remark- | throws up a dome and sundry towers into
able individual carries through Italy as he | the sky, which is nearly as blue as the
might take them to Margate or to the| lake. And then comes Albano, the chief
Great Exhibtion—eyen they possibly will} town of all, with its miles of Roman cause-
Se ull their lives henceforward, upon | way, making for ita se ate way out of
every serap of print which treats of the} imperial Rome, and its wooded slopes,
scenes of theiv travels, and fondly Jand its narrow clamorous streets, and
and compare and critic the record from | those stately gardens ef the Doria villa,
that in their own memory. Not to such |and the bishop's palace, which has now
rapid visitors, however, uined a ssacred fine. Tho read winds
ourselves when we leave the great Cit through it and comes upon one of the
Sorrow and Decay, and turn our steps | grandest viaduets ever made, the magni-
over the wide Campagna towards the | ficent bridge which crosses the narrow,
Alban Tlills. Who does not remember) tugged, wooded ravine which once divided
them, with the white towns on their lopes | Albino tind LA The two towns
like w perpetual simile, with their villas/ Ave now Huked together by this noble link
and their shadowy olive-gardens, their) of stone, and through them both and over
blue Jakes and their mouldering palaces, | the bridge you go ou to Nemi and Gen-
and the gun tictt burns on Monte Cayo, | 200, and the wild: solitary way where
blazes on the classig¢ heigh{s of Tusculum, jonco, soldiers kept guard and brigands
and makes such poems among the | flourished before the railway mide the
clouds, over the Campagna, as the dullest | road to Naplas swilt and sate,
eye ean searecly failto mark? Itis to Such is the line which marks the undu-
the leisurely visitors of times when there | kitions of the Alban range, now mounting
were no organised excursions — to the; seat the clouds, now stooping down to-
Forestiere, who have spent many aheaven-| wards the plain. ‘Phe English community
ly day of spring upon those sweet hillsides, } which hyesin Rome, and the visitors whom
and learnt their charms by heart—that we | good or evil foruune detains th
say. Do you remember ?—thinking less, | dangerous momen, when wise
however, at this moment, of the familiar) fly, take reluge all alony’ the
pleasant places than of the sudden wild! the scorching tropical heats uv!
blast of calamity and awful visitation | summ
which has of late disturbed their peace. | While we write there ri
We will not pretend to remind thei with many memo
student of all the classic memories that) need rooms, full of windoy
linger about these hills, for, after all, to- aud bits of iresco, and the gr
y is to-day, and a Frascati woman, ma- | of the Campagna, in the upper
jestic in her white veil, or an Albanese, | Casa Peotini at Praseati; and farther on,
with her red vibbons, and her dark little |at the gates of the little town of Nemi on
Theve are trinkets and tresses of hair.
There are fragments of songs that nobody sings,
And a part of an infant's prayer}
There's a lute unswept, and a harp without stripes,
There yre broken vows and pieces of rings,
And the girment that sue used to weur,
Ol! remember'd for aye be that Llessed isle,
All the daysfot our life till night—
When the evening comes with its beautiful smile,
And our eyes are closed to slmuber awhile,
May our * greenwoud' of soul be in sight.
Soloct Miterature,
A CITY OF THE PLAGUE,
(From Dlackwood’s Magazine.)
house and her bambini, appeals more | lie higher side of the luke, tho pretty
Repairing of all kinds, together with all] closely to one’s heart at the present fine | pane chambers of another old palace,
|
Nothing | full of wall-pictures, not great in point ot
is so remarkable in Italian scenery as that /art, bat sweet in colour, with glimpses
ion that from every window sheer down into the
and abroad upon its rich
1, and the big palace on the
other sidle—places lo spend a summer in
as different as can be conceived from an
‘nglish country house or seaside residence
pana, Os
ige, yet so hone-like,
stomed Northern lives,
© stately rooms, with
and closed shutters, keep-
favored by nature. As you mount the |mories, so sti
cus
Rome, itis Frascati (you remember?) that; shut up in his b:
you come upon with all that girdle of} closed windo
S A W S noble villas, with that terrace on the wall | ing out the insupportable glare and heat
b
from which (if you are English enough ;ot day, until the sun sinks and a breeze
you can watch such | springs up which bears you a whisper of
Xt potentate of the the distint sea—the sex which you ean
, tnd which sometimes {
not to fear the sunset)
goings-cown of the ¢
fizon
‘ Then the
glories, with vast belts and zones of every | windows are Hung open, the balmy air
Iver string of a bow,
gorgeous colour: and the wide plain lies | comes in, the prisoner shakes himself tree
silent under the slant illumination; and | ol his fetters, and goes forth to wateh the
vandid Soracte rises lonely out of the dis- nightly pageants of sunset and moonrise,
tance; and away to the left hand, injand to hear the Ave Matia sound from the
purple glooms and wistful light, Jie the | churches, and the village girls sing their
Sabine and the Latin Hills; and St, Peter's evening hymn. and the good people. sit
in the golden mists stands out insignificant jaround the cafe door babbling and smok-
but mighty, as if it stood alone amid the jing and fanning themselves CQtecording: to
Mill Saws 54 feet, $5 cach; Buck Saws 28/ stillness of the Campagna, and there was | theit respective sexes), and doing all shat
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no such thing among its skirts as Rome. | has to be done by mutual calls and mutual
'
The great basilica never looks ¢o impres- | weariness in other 1 Atevery step
‘ ) 0 ce ni re isn new pio-
fulan enblem of the might yet insignifie-|ture. The women go past in their pretty
ance ofanan, Many a human association | costumes, with the white drapery about
To tho thelr heads which make them Madennas
up to middle-age, and weird Sybils after.
‘The peasants from the plains or the moun-
tains in their many-laced buskins and con-
ical hats, who have been hanging about
the steps of the church all day to be hired
like the labourers in the parable, lie down
there on the same liberal portal for their
night's rest. And the big mellow moon
mounts up with genial eye; and tinkles
of music are about, and voices, not solten-
ed so much by the fact that it is Italian
they speak, as by the magical Italian air
which takes the jars and discords out of
them. And the coolness, and the shade,
and sense of refreshment steals into the
parched traveller's soul; and the sight
docs not pass away, but remains with him
forever, a picture on his wall, te which he
can turn when he pleases, years or conti-
nents away, when the snow is beating on
his island windows and the east wind cut-
ting to his bones,
.
Thus it used to be on the Alban IIills,in
the old days that are dead and gone. But
it has not been thus in thissad year. Itis
because we feel sure that the late catas-
trophe at Albano must have moved witha
speci:l thrill of emotion the many people
who haye lingered upon those hills in the
best moments of their lives, and received
the image ot them into one of the most
cherished places of reco}lection, as well as
for the tragic and striking character of the
incident itself, that we call the attention
of our readers to those soft Italian moun-
tains and the tragedy which has been re-
cently enacting there. All had gone on
as usual in the little Alban capital in this
present summer, ‘The time of the villeg-
giatura had come, and the usual lively
crowd had swarmed out to the hills. Ro-
mans of al classes—nobles and artists and
tradesfolk, English residents and American
visitors—they hid all come out and estab-
lished themselves, glad to escape from the
town, where the air burned like a furnace,
Where the great centenary festival was just
oyer and all the ceremonies past; and the
authorities, haying now no particular rea-
son fox denying it, had reluctantly admit-
ted that cholera had appeared in Rome.
The Albano villeggiatura is never uncheer-
ful, The cirele is limited, yet people mect
each other there in greater intimacy who
have been mecting each other there all the
Wiuter, and the Dorin gardens in the cool
evenings wre better than Hyde Park, or
even Vincio, Whispers there might be
among them of malady in Rome, but no-
body feared it on the cool hillside where
the sea-breezes came full of health and
healing. Thus matters went on till the
beginning of August. ‘Vraditions already
have grown around the day, which it is
diflicult to trace to distinet eyidenee, but
which, like so many other traditions, have
reccived the seal of popular belief. Upon
the fatal morning itis said a sudden thun-
derstorm burst over the hills, ‘The air
grew dark, a wild wind rose and chilled
the thinly-clad inhabitants to the Lone.
ft came upon them without warning, like
x sudden doom, and droye the village
folks indoors, to hug their winter cloaks
to them, and seck warmer clothing. It is
said that, with this storm, there came a
sudden pestilential smell, which made it-
self felt over all the neighborhood; and it
is also said that the wind and the ill edour
sane from the islind of Sardina—a curious
notion, in which something symbolical
seems to be conveyed, That day there
were seyenty deaths from cholera in Al-
bano, and all the wild incidents ofa plague
stricken city were brought into immediate:
lite in the little town whieh, but a day be-
fore, had’ been so pleasant and cheerful.
Lhe account we add of this most amazing
and deplorable visitation has been sent by
an eyewitness, ‘Lhe writer is a lady fronu
whom the correspondent of the Times”
received, as he says, some of the details he
published—a woman of a high courage,
not easily to be daunted, and one whom
no alum nor danger could prevent from
helping her neighbors in trouble. We
subjoin, without further explanation, her:
secount of the dreadful scene, from the
aiidst of Which she has lately come. It
reads like a chapter from Detoe's llistory
of the Plague, and it has the adyantace
over that wondertul romance of being
literally trae :— a
Rome, August,
Dear M ,—I suppose you remember Al-
Dano, our tayorite town among the Alban
Hills for the summer yilleggiatura, with
its long and uneven Corso, or lligh Street,
and its yenerally lively and dirty appear-
anee; how the women inva why snt out-
ijside their doors with their knitting or
whatever work they had in hand, servings
aus an ex » for an external interchange of
tse gossip, while innumerable children
yj oovambled and quarelled round the ma-
ternal chair, eyery moment sceming in
;}the most imminent peril of their lives from
,{some one dx other of the carriages, wine-
carts, and donkeys perpetually passing ?
What with these open-air nurscries, fruit-
stalls, itinerant haberdashers, and the
stands of the trigitori and limonari, eob--
vs, coopers, and saddlers, all of whom
pursue in summer time their various ocen-
pations out of doors, the chief streets of
Albano was a busy phiee enough, and a
progress through it ia any sort of vehicle
a matter of dificulty and a souree of mucls
Violent language between drivers and
foot-folk., Our present abode looks out
upon this Corso, and the idler members of
our fiunily found a constant. distraction
irom the occupation of the hour in roshing,
to the windows to witness some disturb-
ance at the osteria over the way, or anar-
rival at the *Locando del Chiavarino,
likewise opposite, or some one of our
heishbors engaged in a struggle with re-
nactory oxen, donkeys, or children, or
screaming alter strayed towls ot migra
tory tendene tis wonderful how: lit-
tle would excite one's ious interest
through the slow summer in Albano.
Buta change has come over the plico
now, overtaken ithas been by sudden
and unexpeeted calamity, 1 ue been in
Rome fora couple of days, and oa Wed-
nesday, 7th August, was returning to our
country quarters, as usta hy the Tailway
when, to my suprise, at the station | met
about filty or more ofthe Villeggiatura, ail
well-known Roman frees, hurrying away
some towards Vellotri (the next sttion ou
the Naples line), others back into ine
anywhere away from the cholera-stricken
town, dey tny horror on learning that
this dreaded pestilence had burst Tike a
thunderstorm over Albano the previous
afternoon, and that already in twenty four
AND WESTE
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PEONEER.
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sweet strain of universal popul
PROUD & McCOUBREY, _ | gives animation anda yoice to every stretch | blue, blue 1:
of beautiful country the traveller lights | wooded m
upon; no doubt with grand exception
—————= J epie and solemn like the
and awful like the Pontine Marshes—but |
still so general in every spot especially | but so quaint, so beautiful, so full of me-
Water Street . . . . . Summerside. |soft Alban slopes at the point nearest! There the ut
5 :
. : c sky as perhaps are to be seen nowhere | think you se
ing Cash prices, always on hand at the] o)se on earth; when the wide vault of) es out in auswer to the sun onthe he
heaven gleams with almost insufferable | like the
Joseph Bertram, Summerside, or forwarded sive, never so grand, so small, 80 wonder- jyou take on the Pir
tuo clings to the littl town,
English, and still more to the Scottish
pilgrim, it has an interest apart from all
others. In the cathedral, sleeps Prince
Charlie, call him Pretender if you will, no
hame can take away from the pathos and
the pitilulness of his story; he who led
the wild Highland bands, and held state
at Holyrood, and had dreams of British
empire, and was chased through all the
northern wilds, and died, dead out, life
How the winters are drifting like flakes of snow, ; 8d fame, asa man so deeply fallen —
cursed for his father’s sake, the last of such
a hapless race, might well do, and yet
deserve more sympathy than blame. We
know no two places upon earth which a
philosophié and wandering Prince, if such
There's a musical iste on the river of Time, av pug exists, should find more full of
sal suggestions than the terrace at St.
Gerains, on which one Stuart, banished,
wore out his heart in fictitious state; and
thatat Frascati, on which Charles Rdward,
with his sun going down aniast the con-
fusion and wild storm-clou’s of a Jost life,
must have looked out May. day to sce
PORTRY.
THE RIVER OF TIME.
On, a wonderful stream is the river of Time,
As it runs through the realms of tears,
With a faultless rythm and a musical rhyme,
And a broad'ning sweep, and a surge subline,
That blends with the ocean of years.
And the summers like buds between,
And the yeur is the sheaf—so they come and go,
On the river's breast, with its ebb and flow,
Aug it glides through the shadow and sheen.
Where the softest of airs are playing;
There's a cloudless sky and tropical clime,
And i song as sweet as vesper chime,
When tho June with the roses are staying.
And the name of this isle is the ‘Long Ago,"
And we bury treasures there;
1) re brows of bewuty and bosoms of snow— the foreign World. that thought not of him,
The re heaps of dust, but we love them so ! living its homely Mic,and taking no account
of kingdoms fost or won. Ifis name is
writ there in stone oyer him, wilh the
most pit'n and touching of all pious false-
hooks, with the name and state of K ig of
Cyeat Britain and Ireland—an inscription
which will not fail to fill many a waytarer
with strange thoughts.
And then the road goes winding along
There are hunds that are waved when the fairy |the hillside through the belt of villas,
shore through the sweet glimmer of the olive
By the mirage ts lifted in air; groves, through the vineyards and fields
Aud we go! 428 hour through the (urbulent roar, | Of rustling: corn, 2 mile or so on to Grot-
Sweet voices we heard in days gone betore, ta Perrata, where you all, you remember,
When the wind down the river is fuir, went to the great fair, and wore PiDSy
roses in your hats, and bought peuny
trnmpets, and the bright kerchiefs of the
ialine, and saw the great pigs roasted
at every comer; d, perhaps, on
sole quieter excursion, visited the Domin-
ichinos in the fortified monastery which
Pope Julius built, and which of itself is
= |well worthy of note, Then is it San
Mirtino that comes next, with nothing
curious at all about ivexcept itself, a little
ancient, wild, rugged, strong, dilapidated,
lovely village, the sort of place where, in
/ defiance of all comfort and sanitary regu-
jlations, and eyen of x smell or two caught
in passing, one’s heart somehow takes up
its abode at, seizing some Gothie window
Tx these much-travelling days the formal | or cloistered nook to | ilda nest in, in
descriptions of which ouece held | defiance of all region,
so Brent a p ature, have cither | scape widens, and ag
ceased entirely or died away into those | the eye; of such a blue as never wa
suggestions which recall a lindseape to | before, as never perhaps will be seen
eyes Which have seen it. but convey little | again— bluer than the sky, bluer than the
idea to the stranger.“ You remember 2? | Mediterrancan, blucr than any lhunian
is often move eloquent than pages of what | eyes that ever shone; the Alban Luke,
is called word-painting, though it affords | metallic, voleanie, shimmering under the
all information to the mind of the home- | sunshine in its round profound basin, and
ying, if such there still be. But yet | with the towers of Castel Gandolfo shining
most people who have roamed about the | in the sun above. It gleams blue in the
loycliest scenes on earth take a pleasure, | air, and it is water, aud ought to. velresh
which it is difficult to account for, in every | the eyes; and when we ride along the
tyro’s new-recorded opinion of them, and | galle as they are called, under the
like to see wherein his experience differed | trees, with glimpses now and then of the
from their own, whether he noted their | lake, and the towers above, and the Cam-
favorite points of view, and appreciated | pagna below, the prospect is magical;
their favorite phases of native character or} but from the road, as you pass hy, the
atmospherie influence. his fecling per-| sight of the Lake of Albana is not retresh-
haps exists nowhere so strongly as among | ing. There is something weird and mys-
the crowd of Italisn travellers, and es- | tic and out of nature about it—voleanic, a
pecially among those who haye spent some | freak of fire, some rude ‘Titan's sudden
part of their lives about Rome and its| work, and not the slow sweet toil of na-
charmed neighborhood, Even people who} ture. Vo Castel Gandolfo the Pope comes
have gone there fora few weeks, as people | tor his holidays when the work of the
begin to do in these fast. dauys—even pro-| sacred year is over in the Vatican, and it
bably Cook’s Tourists, whom that remark- | throws up a dome and sundry towers into
able individual carries through Italy as he | the sky, which is nearly as blue as the
might take them to Margate or to the| lake. And then comes Albano, the chief
Great Exhibtion—eyen they possibly will} town of all, with its miles of Roman cause-
Se ull their lives henceforward, upon | way, making for ita se ate way out of
every serap of print which treats of the} imperial Rome, and its wooded slopes,
scenes of theiv travels, and fondly Jand its narrow clamorous streets, and
and compare and critic the record from | those stately gardens ef the Doria villa,
that in their own memory. Not to such |and the bishop's palace, which has now
rapid visitors, however, uined a ssacred fine. Tho read winds
ourselves when we leave the great Cit through it and comes upon one of the
Sorrow and Decay, and turn our steps | grandest viaduets ever made, the magni-
over the wide Campagna towards the | ficent bridge which crosses the narrow,
Alban Tlills. Who does not remember) tugged, wooded ravine which once divided
them, with the white towns on their lopes | Albino tind LA The two towns
like w perpetual simile, with their villas/ Ave now Huked together by this noble link
and their shadowy olive-gardens, their) of stone, and through them both and over
blue Jakes and their mouldering palaces, | the bridge you go ou to Nemi and Gen-
and the gun tictt burns on Monte Cayo, | 200, and the wild: solitary way where
blazes on the classig¢ heigh{s of Tusculum, jonco, soldiers kept guard and brigands
and makes such poems among the | flourished before the railway mide the
clouds, over the Campagna, as the dullest | road to Naplas swilt and sate,
eye ean searecly failto mark? Itis to Such is the line which marks the undu-
the leisurely visitors of times when there | kitions of the Alban range, now mounting
were no organised excursions — to the; seat the clouds, now stooping down to-
Forestiere, who have spent many aheaven-| wards the plain. ‘Phe English community
ly day of spring upon those sweet hillsides, } which hyesin Rome, and the visitors whom
and learnt their charms by heart—that we | good or evil foruune detains th
say. Do you remember ?—thinking less, | dangerous momen, when wise
however, at this moment, of the familiar) fly, take reluge all alony’ the
pleasant places than of the sudden wild! the scorching tropical heats uv!
blast of calamity and awful visitation | summ
which has of late disturbed their peace. | While we write there ri
We will not pretend to remind thei with many memo
student of all the classic memories that) need rooms, full of windoy
linger about these hills, for, after all, to- aud bits of iresco, and the gr
y is to-day, and a Frascati woman, ma- | of the Campagna, in the upper
jestic in her white veil, or an Albanese, | Casa Peotini at Praseati; and farther on,
with her red vibbons, and her dark little |at the gates of the little town of Nemi on
Theve are trinkets and tresses of hair.
There are fragments of songs that nobody sings,
And a part of an infant's prayer}
There's a lute unswept, and a harp without stripes,
There yre broken vows and pieces of rings,
And the girment that sue used to weur,
Ol! remember'd for aye be that Llessed isle,
All the daysfot our life till night—
When the evening comes with its beautiful smile,
And our eyes are closed to slmuber awhile,
May our * greenwoud' of soul be in sight.
Soloct Miterature,
A CITY OF THE PLAGUE,
(From Dlackwood’s Magazine.)
house and her bambini, appeals more | lie higher side of the luke, tho pretty
Repairing of all kinds, together with all] closely to one’s heart at the present fine | pane chambers of another old palace,
|
Nothing | full of wall-pictures, not great in point ot
is so remarkable in Italian scenery as that /art, bat sweet in colour, with glimpses
ion that from every window sheer down into the
and abroad upon its rich
1, and the big palace on the
other sidle—places lo spend a summer in
as different as can be conceived from an
‘nglish country house or seaside residence
pana, Os
ige, yet so hone-like,
stomed Northern lives,
© stately rooms, with
and closed shutters, keep-
favored by nature. As you mount the |mories, so sti
cus
Rome, itis Frascati (you remember?) that; shut up in his b:
you come upon with all that girdle of} closed windo
S A W S noble villas, with that terrace on the wall | ing out the insupportable glare and heat
b
from which (if you are English enough ;ot day, until the sun sinks and a breeze
you can watch such | springs up which bears you a whisper of
Xt potentate of the the distint sea—the sex which you ean
, tnd which sometimes {
not to fear the sunset)
goings-cown of the ¢
fizon
‘ Then the
glories, with vast belts and zones of every | windows are Hung open, the balmy air
Iver string of a bow,
gorgeous colour: and the wide plain lies | comes in, the prisoner shakes himself tree
silent under the slant illumination; and | ol his fetters, and goes forth to wateh the
vandid Soracte rises lonely out of the dis- nightly pageants of sunset and moonrise,
tance; and away to the left hand, injand to hear the Ave Matia sound from the
purple glooms and wistful light, Jie the | churches, and the village girls sing their
Sabine and the Latin Hills; and St, Peter's evening hymn. and the good people. sit
in the golden mists stands out insignificant jaround the cafe door babbling and smok-
but mighty, as if it stood alone amid the jing and fanning themselves CQtecording: to
Mill Saws 54 feet, $5 cach; Buck Saws 28/ stillness of the Campagna, and there was | theit respective sexes), and doing all shat
5
no such thing among its skirts as Rome. | has to be done by mutual calls and mutual
'
The great basilica never looks ¢o impres- | weariness in other 1 Atevery step
‘ ) 0 ce ni re isn new pio-
fulan enblem of the might yet insignifie-|ture. The women go past in their pretty
ance ofanan, Many a human association | costumes, with the white drapery about
To tho thelr heads which make them Madennas
up to middle-age, and weird Sybils after.
‘The peasants from the plains or the moun-
tains in their many-laced buskins and con-
ical hats, who have been hanging about
the steps of the church all day to be hired
like the labourers in the parable, lie down
there on the same liberal portal for their
night's rest. And the big mellow moon
mounts up with genial eye; and tinkles
of music are about, and voices, not solten-
ed so much by the fact that it is Italian
they speak, as by the magical Italian air
which takes the jars and discords out of
them. And the coolness, and the shade,
and sense of refreshment steals into the
parched traveller's soul; and the sight
docs not pass away, but remains with him
forever, a picture on his wall, te which he
can turn when he pleases, years or conti-
nents away, when the snow is beating on
his island windows and the east wind cut-
ting to his bones,
.
Thus it used to be on the Alban IIills,in
the old days that are dead and gone. But
it has not been thus in thissad year. Itis
because we feel sure that the late catas-
trophe at Albano must have moved witha
speci:l thrill of emotion the many people
who haye lingered upon those hills in the
best moments of their lives, and received
the image ot them into one of the most
cherished places of reco}lection, as well as
for the tragic and striking character of the
incident itself, that we call the attention
of our readers to those soft Italian moun-
tains and the tragedy which has been re-
cently enacting there. All had gone on
as usual in the little Alban capital in this
present summer, ‘The time of the villeg-
giatura had come, and the usual lively
crowd had swarmed out to the hills. Ro-
mans of al classes—nobles and artists and
tradesfolk, English residents and American
visitors—they hid all come out and estab-
lished themselves, glad to escape from the
town, where the air burned like a furnace,
Where the great centenary festival was just
oyer and all the ceremonies past; and the
authorities, haying now no particular rea-
son fox denying it, had reluctantly admit-
ted that cholera had appeared in Rome.
The Albano villeggiatura is never uncheer-
ful, The cirele is limited, yet people mect
each other there in greater intimacy who
have been mecting each other there all the
Wiuter, and the Dorin gardens in the cool
evenings wre better than Hyde Park, or
even Vincio, Whispers there might be
among them of malady in Rome, but no-
body feared it on the cool hillside where
the sea-breezes came full of health and
healing. Thus matters went on till the
beginning of August. ‘Vraditions already
have grown around the day, which it is
diflicult to trace to distinet eyidenee, but
which, like so many other traditions, have
reccived the seal of popular belief. Upon
the fatal morning itis said a sudden thun-
derstorm burst over the hills, ‘The air
grew dark, a wild wind rose and chilled
the thinly-clad inhabitants to the Lone.
ft came upon them without warning, like
x sudden doom, and droye the village
folks indoors, to hug their winter cloaks
to them, and seck warmer clothing. It is
said that, with this storm, there came a
sudden pestilential smell, which made it-
self felt over all the neighborhood; and it
is also said that the wind and the ill edour
sane from the islind of Sardina—a curious
notion, in which something symbolical
seems to be conveyed, That day there
were seyenty deaths from cholera in Al-
bano, and all the wild incidents ofa plague
stricken city were brought into immediate:
lite in the little town whieh, but a day be-
fore, had’ been so pleasant and cheerful.
Lhe account we add of this most amazing
and deplorable visitation has been sent by
an eyewitness, ‘Lhe writer is a lady fronu
whom the correspondent of the Times”
received, as he says, some of the details he
published—a woman of a high courage,
not easily to be daunted, and one whom
no alum nor danger could prevent from
helping her neighbors in trouble. We
subjoin, without further explanation, her:
secount of the dreadful scene, from the
aiidst of Which she has lately come. It
reads like a chapter from Detoe's llistory
of the Plague, and it has the adyantace
over that wondertul romance of being
literally trae :— a
Rome, August,
Dear M ,—I suppose you remember Al-
Dano, our tayorite town among the Alban
Hills for the summer yilleggiatura, with
its long and uneven Corso, or lligh Street,
and its yenerally lively and dirty appear-
anee; how the women inva why snt out-
ijside their doors with their knitting or
whatever work they had in hand, servings
aus an ex » for an external interchange of
tse gossip, while innumerable children
yj oovambled and quarelled round the ma-
ternal chair, eyery moment sceming in
;}the most imminent peril of their lives from
,{some one dx other of the carriages, wine-
carts, and donkeys perpetually passing ?
What with these open-air nurscries, fruit-
stalls, itinerant haberdashers, and the
stands of the trigitori and limonari, eob--
vs, coopers, and saddlers, all of whom
pursue in summer time their various ocen-
pations out of doors, the chief streets of
Albano was a busy phiee enough, and a
progress through it ia any sort of vehicle
a matter of dificulty and a souree of mucls
Violent language between drivers and
foot-folk., Our present abode looks out
upon this Corso, and the idler members of
our fiunily found a constant. distraction
irom the occupation of the hour in roshing,
to the windows to witness some disturb-
ance at the osteria over the way, or anar-
rival at the *Locando del Chiavarino,
likewise opposite, or some one of our
heishbors engaged in a struggle with re-
nactory oxen, donkeys, or children, or
screaming alter strayed towls ot migra
tory tendene tis wonderful how: lit-
tle would excite one's ious interest
through the slow summer in Albano.
Buta change has come over the plico
now, overtaken ithas been by sudden
and unexpeeted calamity, 1 ue been in
Rome fora couple of days, and oa Wed-
nesday, 7th August, was returning to our
country quarters, as usta hy the Tailway
when, to my suprise, at the station | met
about filty or more ofthe Villeggiatura, ail
well-known Roman frees, hurrying away
some towards Vellotri (the next sttion ou
the Naples line), others back into ine
anywhere away from the cholera-stricken
town, dey tny horror on learning that
this dreaded pestilence had burst Tike a
thunderstorm over Albano the previous
afternoon, and that already in twenty four