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    DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE,

    COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, TEMPERANCE AND NEWS. —

    ~ Vol. 4,

    - Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, May 20, 1869.

    No- 34,

    THE

    7 .
    Summerside Journal,
    18 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY
    THURSDAY EVENING,
    BY
    JOSEPH BERTRAM,
    AT HIS OFFICE, CENTRAL STREET,

    TERMS:
    1 copy for one year, inadvance, 6s, 3d.
    ‘ Us halfadvance, 7s. 6d,

    “ “

    atthe end of year 9s.

    Persons getting up c.uns of ren Subscribers
    will be entitled to the Jourxat for one year.

    ADVERTISEMENTS.
    inserted at moderate rates and in good style.
    Srxctat AGneEMENTS may be made on
    reasonable terms for a whole, a half, or quar-
    ter column, or by the year.

    ‘Job Printing

    of every description, performed with neatness
    and despatch, and at moderate rates,
    at the Jounnar Office

    for May, 1869.
    MOON'S PILASES,

    Last Qtr., 8d day, 0h. 28m. morning, S. W.
    New Moon, 11th day, 9h. 55m., morning, S.W.
    First Qtr. 18th day, 5h. 17m., evening, 8.
    Full Moon, 25th day,11h, 11m. morning, N.

    Almanad

    cc) pay| SUN | sun ‘sun’s|moon! .
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    & | weex'!rises-sets! clock jnorth) rises|° «©
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    2 Sun 497 6). 8 1128 18 0 35/14 16
    8 /Mon | 47| 6] 3 1845 59/115) 19
    4 Tues | 46) 7/8 24| 8 25| 1 48) 22
    5 Wed 45 8| 8 8020 35) 2 18 24
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    18 |Tues | 30) 24] 8 48'87 1g] 0 47) 54
    19 |Wed | 29] 25] 3 46/50 15] 1 24) “56
    20 'Thurs] 28) 26] $ 43) 2 50) I 58 58
    21 (Frid 27| 27| 8 89/15 50) 2 3015 O
    22 [Sat 26) 28] 8 85)26 5) 3 1 2
    23 |Sun -|4 25/7 29] 3 31/88 59) 8 215 4
    24 |Mon 24) 80) 3 26/49 32) 4 7 7
    25 Tues | 28] 31] 8 29] 0 34/rises| 10
    26 |Wed 22} 8218 14|11 2) 8 34 11
    27 |Thure} 21} 33] 8 8/21 9) 9 33) 13
    28 [Frid 29] 35] 8 1/80 54/10 28 15
    29 |Sat 19} 36] 2 53/40 1611 10) 17
    BO (Mon /4 18]/7 87] 2 45}49 16/11 50/15 18
    $1 |Tues | 39] 39) 2 53/morn 20
    fuummerside Markets.

    May 19, 1869,
    Beef perlb bda 6d
    Mutton per lb 8d add
    Oats per bush 23 0d a 28 Sd
    Potatoes per bush 1s a 1s 3d
    Turnips per bush 10d a ls
    Butter per tb by Tub ld4d a ldd
    Lard per 1b 9d a 10d
    Tallow per lb. 9d a 10d
    Fggs per doz 8d add
    Tides per lb 4hd
    Mackerel per doz 28 n 3s
    Codfish per qt 188 a 19s
    Pork per lb by carcass 4d a Gd
    Flour per bbl 858 a 40s
    Island Flour per cwt 1X8 to 10s
    Oatmeal per cwt. 17s a 18s
    * Hay per Ton 458 a 50s
    Pine Boards 10s
    4s abs

    Spruce Boards
    Charlottetown Markets.
    Ch. Town, May 19, 1869.
    44d a 8d
    4d aid
    bd a 8d
    Td abd

    Beef per lb

    Mutton per lb

    Pork per 1b, by carcass,
    Ham per lb

    Geese none
    Fowels Isa ls 6d
    Ducks each 1s 3d a ls 6d
    Flour per 100 lbs 208 a 218
    Oatmeal per 100 18s a 198
    Buckwheat Flour, per Ib 2d a 24d
    Codfish per quintal 188 a 20s
    Butter per Ib 18d a 19d
    Do. by the tub, Is 8da ls 4d
    Cheese 8d a 6d
    ‘Tallow 8d add
    Eqgus per dozen 9d a 10d
    Potatoes per bushel 1s 6d als 9d
    Barley " at bs
    Oate 2a 3d a 2s Od
    Hay per ton 708 a 75s
    Hides per Ib 4d
    Sheepskins each 4s a 4s Gd
    Spruce Boards per 100 ft. 4a a 4s Gd
    Hemlock A) u 8s Gd ads

    Business Qards.

    BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
    Corner of Great George & King Streets,
    Charlottetown.

    #President—Hon. Daxret Brexan.
    Cashier—Wittiam Cunpats, Esquire.
    Discount Days—Mondays & Thursdays.
    Hours of Business—Fom 10a.m. tol p.m.

    from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.

    UNION BANK.
    Grafton St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown

    Prosident—Cnances Pavmer, Esquire.
    Cashier—James Anpenson, Esquire.
    Discount Days—Wednesdays & Saturdays.
    Mours of Business—From 10 a.m to 1 p m.,

    from 2 p.m to 4pm.

    SUMMERSIDE BANK.
    Central Street, Summerside, P. E. Island
    President—James L. Houman, Ese.
    Cashior—E, L. Lyptann, Esquire
    Discount Days—Tuesdays and Fridays.
    Notes for Discount nust bein before 11

    o'clock on Discount days.
    Houts of Bueiness—10 2. 'm., to 1 p.m.
    from 2 p. m., to 4 p.m.

    DR. JARVIS
    Has Removed His Residence to the House
    (lately occupied by Mr McKinlay)

    next to Thomas Hunt's, Esq. , St Eleanor's.
    He may be consulted ban A forenoon at the
    Drug Store of W.'T. HUNT & Co. , Summer
    side, Ă©

    St. Eleanor’s, May 18, 1868,

    The Journal is only one dollar a year.

    Busingss Gards, °
    “GARD.

    R. DOWD may again be consult-
    ed, at his old residence, in MARGATR,
    NEW - LONDON.
    April 15, 18692.— — pro 8m.

    DR. J. H, JAMIESON,
    PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHEUR

    OFFICE at the residence ofthe Rev. W.W.
    Colpitts, Margate.
    December 8, 1468.

    DR. J. PRICE,
    Physician & Surgeon,

    Orrice—At the SumMmMersinz Druc Storr,
    next door to Bank, Central Street

    SUMMERSIDE, P. BE. ISLAND.
    October 12, 1868.

    ~ 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, 1868.

    FOUNTAIN HOUSE.

    North side King Square, (nextto Park Hotel)
    Sr. Joun, N. B,

    JAMES W. THOMPSON, Proprietor.

    FPNUE Proprietor of the above HOTEL takes
    this opportunity to return thanks for the
    liberal patrouage hitherto received, and most
    respectfully solicits a continuance of the
    sme,

    This HOTEL is very pleasantly situated,
    and commands a view of King Square, and
    other parts of the City.

    In connection with the Hotel, is GOOD
    STABLING, and a careful Hostler in attend-
    ance. Vartics coming from Prince Edward
    Island with horses will find this establishment
    the most comfortable in the City, and a per-
    son always at the Cars on their arrival.

    St. John, Sept. 10, 1868, ly

    CRAWFORD'S HOTEL.

    No, 9, King Square,
    ST. JOIIN, N. B.
    TPVUE subscriber having thoroughly reiitted
    and enlarged his HOTEL anu STORE, is
    now prepared to accommodate Permanentand
    ‘Transient Boarders on the most reasonable
    terms.

    ALSO,in connection,sa GROCERY STORE,
    where every article required for house use

    may be had.
    J. CRAWFORD & SON.
    SO OT eb ats
    Kr. PURDYS
    NEW

    Marble and Freestone
    ESTABLISHMENT,
    (NEXT DOOR TO BEER AND sons’)
    KING SQUARE;
    CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND.

    All orders punctually attended to.

    Call and See!
    ly :

    A. W. ANDRES,
    Marble Worker,

    Point Du Chene, Shediae N. B.

    MONUMENTS, TOMBS, GRAVE-
    STONES, &c., &c.

    AMERICAN AND Iranian MarBLeE con-
    stantly on hand.

    Can furnish Gravestones and Monuments ata
    less price than any other establishment in

    the Provinces, and pay a duty besides,

    p@ℱ Onpuns can be left at Bexrram’s Book
    Store and at D, Exman’s, Esq., Summerside,

    Jan 7, 69

    Business Qards.

    ‘REUBEN TUPLIN,

    Commission Merchant,

    AUCTIONEER,

    And General Agent.
    Margate... .. BP. #. Island.

    Reverences :

    Hon. D. Brennan, R. T. Holman,
    Ch. Town. Summerside.
    April 22, 1869. pat. pro. Gm

    R.& W. T. HUNT,
    Gommission Merchants,

    GENERAL AGENTS AND

    AUCTIONEERS.

    SALESROOM AND OFFICE

    Head Queen's Wharf, Summerside, P, E, I.
    (opposite the Store of W. T. Hunt & Co.)
    April 2, 1869. ly

    CARVELL BROUTILERS,
    AUCTIONEERS,
    Commission Merchants,
    AND GENERAL AGENTS.
    BANK BUILDING, - - QUEEN STREET,

    OHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I,
    HANFORD BROTHERS,

    Successors to Thomas Ianford,

    Gommission Merchants,

    And General Agents,

    lL NORTH MARKET WHARF,
    SAINT JOHN, N. B.

    Cuas. U. Hanrorp. Frep. S. Hanrorp.

    J. H. ALLEN,
    Commission iierchaiit,

    AND DEALER IN
    PROVISIONS, &c.,

    MRRKET STREET, - ST. JOHN, N. B.

    b@ Gives personal attention to the Sale
    and Purchase of every description of Goods,
    May 9, 1868.

    JAMES GREENOUGH,
    FLOUR

    Commission Merchant,
    No 47 Commercial Street

    Corner ot Clinton Street ---------BOSTON
    Jany. 1, 1869. ly

    WILLIAM BEAIRSTO,
    Commission Merchant,

    Auctioneer & General Agent,
    WATER STREET,
    Summerside, ---aennanee-nnee P. EF. Islan

    New England Self-Acting

    Just what every Farmer Requires
    \ ILL weave from 15 to 30 yards per day.
    Any style of goods required.

    A dozen different twill can be woven upon the
    same warp. Also

    Seamless Bags,
    AND CLOTH, DOUBLE-WIDTH.

    an weave a web six feet ten inches wide.
    Also, winds its own quills; and while it
    weaves one quill it winds another. Can also
    be folded together and taken through a com-
    mon door with the webb in. ‘The whole
    operation is performed by turning an eusy
    crank, and can be operatad by a BOY or
    GIRL ten or twelve years of age.
    S$. WELLS & CO.,

    General Agents, No. 113, Federal Street,
    Portland, Me. Also Agents for the Lamn
    & Bripcevort FAMILY KNITTING MA-

    Insurance Company.

    FIRE AND LIFR.
    CAPITAL: ‘TWO MILLIONS, Sterling.

    CHIEF OFFICES?

    64 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
    61 ‘Threadneedle Street, London,

    Risks taken daily, in Town and Conntry, at
    the office of the Agent, Reading room
    Building, Dorchester street.
    G. W. DeBLOIS,
    General Agent for P FB Island.
    Charlottetown, June 20, 1868.—ly*

    Mr. W. H. POPE

    EGS to inform the public that he has re-
    sumed the practice of the Law,
    Orrice—A few doors below the Bank of

    Prince Edward Island.
    Charlottetown, March 18, 1869,

    THOMAS KELLY,
    BARRISTER - AT - LAW

    AND

    NOTARY PUBLIC, &o.
    SUMMERSIDE, - - P. E, ISLAND.

    KERSHAW & EDWARD'S”

    IMPROVED PATENT
    Non-conducting and Vaporising

    Fire and Burgler Proof

    SAKES.

    MANUFACTURERS OF

    BANK VAULTS, BURGLAR PROOF
    VAULT DOORS, IRON VAULT DOORS,
    PATENT COMBINATION BANK
    LOCKS, DEED BOXES, PATENT JAIL
    LOCKS & CELL DOORS, &e. &e. .
    Tos, Funtcen, | Davin Starr & Sons,
    ‘Travelling Agent. Agents, Halifax.
    Montreal. Doc 16, "68 y

    —<“WILLIAM DODD,
    Commission Merchant,
    And Auctioneer,

    QUPREN BQUARR,

    or sent to [
    A.W. ANDRES. |CHINE. (Send for a circular).
    Point Du , June Lith, 1868. October 22, ’68: oe
    ~ North British and Mercantile MUSE}

    ‘ 1 ‘
    MUSIC, MUSIC.
    HE Subscriber having made arrange-
    ments with the different manufactors of
    PIANOS, CABINET ORGANS, and ME-
    LODEONS, in Massachusetts and New
    Hampshire, is prepared to forward via St.
    John, N. B., to Summerside or Charlotte-
    town, any of the above named articles at as
    low prices as can be obtained elsewhere in the
    United States.
    Persons desiring to purchase can obtain all
    desired information as regards quality and
    price by addressing
    WM. A. MUTTART,
    aw Bideford, Me.
    ORDERS BOLICITED.
    Consignments made to Mr, Joseph Bertram,
    Summerside, or Menry G. Wadman, Esq.,
    Charlottetown, |
    March 18, 1869.—8m,
    .
    Wool! Wool! |
    fP\HE STANFIELD WOOLEN MILLS at
    TRYON, having been thorougifly recon-
    structed and enlarged by additional machin-
    ery and Steam Power, will continue to manu-
    facture Cloth from custom wool as hereto-
    fore, and at the usual rates. Having doubled
    their facilities for manufacturing, and procu-
    red skillful operatives tor every department,
    the Company feel confident of giving their
    customers greater satisfaction generally, by
    manufacturing’ a better quality of Cloth, and
    making quicker returns for wool left with
    them. In addition to the various kinds of
    CLOTH previously made, they are manufac-
    turing SEVERAL NEW STYLES FOR
    MEN'S WEAR, and full width Blanketing.
    Wool, which must be clean washed,
    free of mats and coarse locks, and of good
    quality, may be left at Hon. H.d. Callbeck’s,
    Charlottetown, or at the mill.
    STANFIELD WOOLEN CO.
    Tryon, May 14, 1868. [mel

    FURTHER SUPPLY of SINGERS now
    X. style Manufacturing and Family SEW-
    ING MACHLNES, just received. They are
    positively THE BEST Sewing Machines in
    the world for all purposes, Every tailor,
    every shoemaker, every family should have

    one,
    JOUN HIGGINS Agent.
    Ch'town, Nov. 19, ‘U8.

    QTARLOTTETOWN --- PP. BR. ISLAND

    POETRY.
    THE TYPO.

    BY A. A. HOPKINS

    The typo!-—a singular creature is he,

    A bit ofa wizard I tuke him to be,

    A paradox ever, I stontly assert,

    And funcy the statement you can't controvert :
    He * tukes’’ a great deal, and he * proves’ all he

    gets,
    And he sets while he stands, aud he stands while
    he sets!

    A magical power there is in his hand,

    As swiltly the types marshal in at command ;

    The-art ofa painter he has to portray

    The ipeidouts many that make up to-day,

    A ube ding be pictures :—"* click, click ' and ‘tis
    there,—

    The glad, merry party, the just-wedded pair ;

    You see the young wife in her garments of white,

    [You have gone to the wedding without an invite,]

    And fancy you hear the yood wishes of friends,

    And—therd the bright picture unwittingly enda,

    For the typo paints all kinds of scenes ina lisa

    He hie you a marridge—the next is a death ;

    And low in the coflin you see a dear face

    All silent and cold, that was full of rare grace,

    A sorrowiiy circle that tenderly kiss

    The lips whose sweet pressure they ever will miss;

    Aud softly the teardrops creeps down o'er your
    ashes,

    As sadly yon echo the © ashes to ashes,’

    ‘Click, click ''--now he's spelling a railroad dis.
    nater, ‘

    And fast ‘click’ the types, and still faster and
    faster,

    And horror is seen on each one of their faces,

    As quickly he ranges them into their places;

    "A terrible slaughter, ’* you shudder, then laugh

    With hearty good will atthe next paragraph—

    A joke of three lines, or a dozen us brief,

    Done up—a rich bundle—in a sheuf!

    Moen follay some ‘add's,''—patent bitters and

    ills,

    To ane aed one of mortality’s iils ;

    * Click, Click,'’—and just under bis fingers they
    wo forth— .

    “ None genuine unless signed ‘ John Jones,’ &c.!

    W “tidsan ** Elixir,’ and now a“ Hair Dye,”

    (To color, of course, for it’s spelled with y |

    * Cough Byrup,’’ perhaps, or * Wafer,” or **

    tion,”

    {A humbug condensed to a good Yankee notion !]

    A bare inh in short, for allbuman dissases—

    ‘You pays in your money aud takes what you
    pleases!

    Lo

    Variety truly gives living its apice,

    And typos can present it to you in a trice,

    Krom gravest to gay, every mood of the mind

    Ts by them euch fait completely defined ;

    One moment they laugh, and another they weep—
    Lfancy their sortow is not over-deep—

    But be their expression whatever it may,

    The will ofthe typo they only obey; *

    ‘To all his commands they respond With a ‘click,
    Ile rules with a stout little * rule’ aud a ‘ stick.~

    Select Witerature.

    THE LAST GREAT FRAUD,

    Tn our,London letter published on Thurs-
    yy Gur correspondent referred to some
    excitement being felt by the sudden de-
    parture for America of the Secretary of a
    Gas Company, who on a salary of ÂŁ400
    had manuged to live as though he was in
    receipt of ÂŁ40,000 per annum, Our En-
    glish exchanges contain lively descriptions
    of his style and mode of living. but all fail
    to explain from whence he obtained the
    means to live at so fast a rate, as the
    while capital of the Gas Company would
    have been insufficient to keep it up as long
    ashe did. The Morning Advertiser of the
    Gth of April, contains the following :—

    It is not yet certain by what means Mr.
    Benjamin tiggs, who disappeared from
    ‘Twickenham on the 5th of last month, de-
    rived the sums of money which he lavish-
    ed on # splendid establishment and in
    unstinted acts of munilicence; but unless
    it is true, as he stated, thata relative had
    lett him a legacy of ÂŁ90,000, his only ap-
    parent meuns of subsistence was a salary
    under ÂŁ400 per annum which he received
    from the Central Gas Company, in whose
    service he has been for several years.
    Kiven a legacy of ÂŁ90,000, handsome as it
    is, would not have sufficed for his scale of
    living. ‘The mansion which he mbhabited,
    and which contained thirty roonis, was
    fitted up in the most sumptuous stye, In
    his stables were two pair of carriages,
    nine horses, and several ponies. Eight
    female servants, five gardiners, a groom,
    coachman, and under coachman obeyed
    his orders, So costly was the fitting up
    of his establishment that when the turni-
    ture was sold last week a pianoforte went
    tor 155 guineas, (it originally cost 800),
    Ilis gold watch and diamond rings were
    the envy of the connoisseurs. Ilis weekly
    musical parties were graced by the most
    celebrated artistes; and the flow of his
    charity was at least equal to the refinement
    of his tastes. At his sole expense he gave
    three concerts, the programmes of which
    are described as “marvels of artistic
    beauty,” and devoted the proceeds to the
    building of new schools, If any one was
    in difficulties Mr. Higgs came to his rescue
    Toone man he gave ÂŁ180; to another,
    who had received an injury in his kitchen,
    he gave ÂŁ300; he presented the Free
    Church of England at Teddington with a
    new organ, at acost of ÂŁ300; and pro-
    mised the congregation a subscription of
    ÂŁ2000 towards a new church,

    All this was good enough, but Mr.
    Higgs was contemplating greater things
    when he took his sudden departure. On
    the morning of his disappearance there
    were eighty men employed upon anew
    mansion he was erecting, upon land for
    which he was to pay ÂŁ600 per acre; and
    the mansion alone was to cost ÂŁ50,000
    sterling. Suddenly the bubble burst,
    ee
    A Romance of True Love.

    Tho death of a Miss Jackson, of St. John,
    Quebee, on Thyrsday, 8th ult., was fol-
    lowed by thatof Mr. W. L. Hudgens the
    Saturday following. ‘The former peace-
    fully breathed her last after a long and
    painful illness; the latter ina paroxysm of
    grivt burst a blood vessel, and died almost
    instantly. ‘The deceased were bethrothed
    and the consumation of their dreams ot
    love had been deterred from time to time,
    until finally, Miss Jackson was prostrated
    by sickness, Unwilling, even then to be
    debarred her presence, Mr. H. was admit-
    ted to the sick room, Where none were
    more attentive to the every want of the
    sufferer than himsell, so larus the delicacy
    of his position would permit. A sister ot
    Miss Jackson was, for days and nights,
    the shaver of his watchtuluess, Ller more
    teeble nature, however, sunk under the
    burden of fatigue and sleepleas apprehen-
    sion, Which she vaiuly struggled to sustain,
    and at last Mr, Hudgens was left alone,

    with barely the assistance of a servant.
    The object of his solicitude and devotion,
    day by day, became more feeble, Le
    searcely left her bed side. Sleep became
    a stranger to his eyes and even food was
    put away by him. But even such devotion
    could not turn the penetrating barb of
    death, and finally the eyes of the sufferer
    closed forever upon the tearful face ever
    above her. and her hand grew cold and
    rigid in death, while yet in the warm clasp
    of his to whom it was so shortly to be
    given in lile and love, This was on Thurs-

    ay. On Friday the remains of Miss
    Jackson was followed to the grave. He
    who had been ever present at her bed was
    at-her bier. His heart went down into
    the grave with the sleeper, The day fol-
    lowing the burial, the fatigue to which
    Mr. Hudgens had subjected himselt began
    to overcome him, He sank prostrated
    upon his bed, and, giving way to the poi-
    gnancy of his feelings, burst a blood yes-
    sel, and in less than five minutes his heart
    had seized to suffer, for it was cold torever.
    The next day, he too, was followed to the
    tomb, and pliced by the side of his be-
    throthed.

    Famine in the Baltic,

    Very sad news comes from Russia,
    Ever since last summer there haye been
    tears of famine in the Baltic provinces,
    and these fears have been proven to be
    only too well founded, From Finland,
    Livonia, Esthonia and Courland, and from
    the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia and Lake
    Peipus, from the low Jands of Poland, and
    from the densely peopled towns among
    the Baltic coast, the sume sad story comes
    —,‘ death, death, and nothing but death !”
    For anumber of years belore 1867, the
    harvest had been bad. In 1867 they were
    in many places a complete failure; last
    year they were little better; and now the
    worst has come, ‘There is no seed corn
    to be had for the crop of this year; bread
    having long been obtainable only attamine
    princes, and has now become unattainable
    at any price; pestilence has made its ap-
    pearance, and is adding its horrors to the
    already overflowing cup of misery pressed
    to the lips of the stricken people of those
    unhappy lands. Tere is a picture of the
    seene, as deseribed by a writer at St.
    Petersburg; ‘*lields lying waste. villages
    depopulated, private houses turned into
    hospitals, feyer-parched skeletons totter-
    ing trom the doors of overcrowded places
    of refuge, children wandering over the
    country in gaunt and squallid nakedness ;
    crowds of men driven to desperation by
    long misery and ripe for any outrage,
    roaming the streets night and day.” ‘There
    is no exaggeration in this tearful descrip
    tion ; itis only too well supported by ot-
    ficial vccounts transmitted tu St. Peters-
    burg fiom the afilicted regions, In Etho-
    nia, Livonia, and Courland three provinces
    ot vast extent, there is a populotion of 1,-
    804,435 souls; in Finland, where the
    are immense tracts of barren and irreclaim-
    able soil, and there is a population of
    1,766,000. ‘These countries ave reached
    but by asingle line of railroad, and the
    greater portions of them are almost as in-
    accessible as are the mountains of Abys-
    sinia. ‘Lhe svilis thin and rocky and

    never secure from the terrible evils {hat
    are now exterminating them, A letter
    trom one of the central districts of Ethonia
    says that the distress this yearin soret
    than ever. The harvest of 1867 was a bad
    one; but there was a little corn stored up,
    and there was hope of relief in 1868. Bat
    no relief came. On the contrary, from the
    23rd May to the 18th August last year, no
    rain fell, and the summer crops were
    scorched up. Bread can now be scarcely
    got, even at the most exorbitant price, and
    as the roads are impassible by reason ot
    the extraoardinary wet winter, no help
    from abroad can reach the people, The
    debilitated condition of the people, and] s
    their herding together in the larger vill- | si

    feartul ravages.

    Srontangous Combustion.—The New
    Orleans Crescent publishes an account of
    the death of a young man in that city by
    spontaneous combustion, He had been a
    hard drinker for many years. He died on
    Tuesday night, and the appearance of the
    body is described thus:—** Luylay was
    stretched upon the bare floor, in a perfect
    state of nakedness, his eyes almost out of
    their orbits, his whole frame distorted, and
    the body in # curious state of ebuliition—
    we might state, the flesh much swollen,
    and pertectly translucent, and the blood
    coursing in the veins seemed to go rushing
    through them at a fearful rate, as vas
    easily exhibited by its abnormal appear-
    ance, svemingly tilled with foreign glo-
    bular bodies. The cpidermis in spots
    varying trom the size of a pin’s head to
    that of a small apple, would become in-
    flated, and suddenly the blisters would
    collapse, very like as the bubbles on the
    surlacve on of a boiling pot of starch or
    other thickened liquid, As the blisters
    subsided, they lelt on the surface a hot
    liquid of yellowish red color, which trick-
    led down the sides of his body and stained
    the floor, the idea ot wiping it off having
    been abandoned, owing to the copiousness
    of the flow, Jo remain in a room with
    such a sight in view was more than we
    could do, and we retifed once more, to
    return, however, about three o'clock, upon
    being informed that life was extinet in
    poor Laylay. During our abseuce the
    body apparently exuded all that it con-
    tained ot blood or liquid matter, become
    perfectly dried up aud shrunken, and as
    black as a charcoal,”

    Thore has been another attempted as-
    sassination in Ireland, A Jand bailiff over
    the Kerry estate of the Board of ‘lrinity
    College was fired at from riding home
    from the town of Cahirciveen. Ile, how-
    ever, escaped the shot, At the inquest on
    the body of Topsham, who was shot or
    his farm, about twelve miles trom Clon-
    mel, no evidence was given affording a

    the murder,
    rested on-suspicion.
    The Chicago Republican rejoices that the
    litle town of Galena, til, has given to
    the world the President of the United
    States, the Seeretary of War, the Minister
    to France, the Assistant Seeretary ot Le-

    wretchedly cultivated, and the people are |

    clue to the assassin, or assigning a clue to
    Three men have been ar-

    and a number of United States Marshals
    and other public officers all the way to
    California, There was a time when tho
    highest aspiration of the ehief in the above
    list was to be mayor of that little town of
    Galena. ‘Times change and men’s fortunes
    with them,

    Spurgeon on Oommunion-

    Mr. Spurgeon’s views ol the Lord's Sup-
    per and the privileges which all christians
    should find at the sacred feast are known
    to be very decided, He expresses them
    frequently, and trequéntly in his sermons,
    When these sermons are republished in
    this country these passages are very gener-
    ally omitted. In a sermon from the text,
    “These are they who separate themsel-
    ves,” the English edition contains these
    strong statements. They are wholly want-
    ing in the American edition. It is relresh-
    ing to read the following :—

    «« There is not a Christian beneath the
    scope of God’s heaven from whom I am
    separated, At the Lord's Table, I always
    invite all Christians to communion with
    us. If any man were to tell me that I am
    separate from the Episcopalian, the Pres-
    byterian, or the Methodists, I would tell
    him he did not know me, tor I love them
    them with a pure heart fervently, and lam
    not separate from them, ‘This bears rather
    hard on our strict communion Baptists. I
    should not like to say anything hard
    against them. for they are about the best
    people in the world; but they really do
    separate themselves from the great body
    of Christ's people. They separate them-
    selves from the universal Church, ‘They
    say they will nol commune with it; and if
    any one comes to their table who has not
    been baptised, they twn them away. The
    pulse of Christ is communion ; and woe to
    the Church that seeks to cure the ills of
    Christ’s Church by stopping its pulse,

    I think it a sin to refuse to commune
    with any one who is a member of the
    Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. I should
    think myself grossly in fault, if at tho
    foot of these stairs I should meet a truly
    converted child of God, who called him-
    selt a Primitive Methodist, or a Wesleyan,
    or a Churchman, or an Independent, and
    [ should say, ‘t No sir, you do not agree
    with me on certain points; I believe you
    are a child of God, but [ will have nothing
    to do with you.” I should think the text
    would bear very hard on me: ** These are
    they who separate themselves, sensual,
    not having the Spirit..—Z'rom the Aforning
    Slar, I’, W. Baptist.

    : THE OTHER SIDE,

    The following very sensible remarks on
    the cry for the forcible annexation ot Can-
    ada, which we copy from a late issue of
    the Chicago Tribune, are in favorable con-
    trast with the wild rant indulged in by
    most of the New York papers, and by a
    large number of others aie ought to
    have had more sense and more correct
    ideas of fair play und their own professed
    principles,

    Remarking on the proposal of Chandler,
    it is said :—

    **Ife seems to overlook the chief point
    in the problem, viz., that the population
    of Canada are entitled, like ourselves, and
    like the people of England, to exereise self
    government. They are not mere chattels,
    to be sold like quadroon slaves to pay the
    debts of their parent. At present, and tor
    many years, they have exercised this right
    as fully as, perhaps, any people on earth,
    and as fully, at all events, as they wish.
    The authority of England is nominal, bare-
    ly suflicient to extend over the Canadas
    the protection of the British name, They
    have no debt except that incurred for their
    own internal improvement, and their taxes
    are exceedingly light. ‘Their six per cent.
    ecurities, instead of selling, like eurs, at
    uch a discount as to make their rate of

    ages in the hope ol getting (ood aud shelter, |juterest over eight per cent. Nor many
    has engendered disease, Which is making | y

    ears they have manifested a devotion tr
    the substantial independence they enjoy
    under the cover of nominal dependence
    on England, as unanimous and hearty as
    even the Northern and loyal portion of our
    own people have shown towards our Re-
    public. If it were treely put to vote to-
    morrow, whether they should remain with
    Great Britain or be annexed to the United
    States, Mr. Chandler must know that only
    a small proportion of the population would
    now vote for annexation,”

    This is as sensible as it is true,

    Still further the Zribune says:
    Assuming, as we safely may, that tho
    consent of Canada is at present wanting,
    Mr. Chandlex’s proposition becomes one
    of the most undemocratic propositions ever
    uttered in arepublican Senate. It embod-
    ies a denial of popular rights as blind and
    arbitary as have characterized the ages,
    now supposed to be past, when brute force
    was the stlo law for the nation.

    Wo récognize the fact that about six.
    tenths of the trade of Canada is with the
    United States ; tha! her real industrial wel
    fare is now almost as vitally affected by
    the laws we pass at Washington, us by
    those they pass at Ottawa, But if, despite
    these facts, the Canadian people are not
    prepared for annexation, it’ would be an
    act of national ravishment to barter and
    sell the right of her people to govern them-
    selves aller their own preference, in pay-
    ment tor injuries which she had no’ share
    in committing, whatever might have been
    her sympathies. Ilence every proposal
    having in view the consummation of such
    a wrong, is an insult, which hinders in-
    stead of promoting, the growth of a senti-
    ment in Canada in favor of union with this,
    country,

    Then coming to the question of damagos
    and all the et ceteras brought up in air,
    Summer's 8,.eech we have the tollowing
    plain, wholesomely sensible remarks :—

    Light as are the taxes on the Canadian,
    people, their amount tor two years is equal
    to the entire value of the vessels destroy ed
    by the Alabama, Itis only by going ve-
    hind the more value of the vessels destroyed
    and making a claim for the general injurs
    ies to our commerce, and tor supposed
    prolongation of the war, that we can ar-
    rive at a sum of sufficient magnitady to
    cession of territory, were the peuple of the
    acquired territory in favor of the act of
    cession, We do not believe that any data
    exist whereby such damages can be esti-
    mated with a precision that would, it be-

    gution to Matis, the Consul to Lahaina,

    tween private partios, justifies @ recovery

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