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DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE,
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~ Vol. 4,
- Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, May 20, 1869.
No- 34,
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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
âTallow 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.
#PresidentâHon. Daxret Brexan.
CashierâWittiam Cunpats, Esquire.
Discount DaysâMondays & Thursdays.
Hours of BusinessâFom 10a.m. tol p.m.
from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.
UNION BANK.
Grafton St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown
ProsidentâCnances Pavmer, Esquire.
CashierâJames Anpenson, Esquire.
Discount DaysâWednesdays & Saturdays.
Mours of BusinessâFrom 10 a.m to 1 p m.,
from 2 p.m to 4pm.
SUMMERSIDE BANK.
Central Street, Summerside, P. E. Island
PresidentâJames L. Houman, Ese.
CashiorâE, L. Lyptann, Esquire
Discount DaysâTuesdays and Fridays.
Notes for Discount nust bein before 11
o'clock on Discount days.
Houts of Bueinessâ10 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. Eleanorâs, May 18, 1868,
The Journal is only one dollar a year.
Busingss Gards, °
âGARD.
R. DOWD may again be consult-
ed, at his old residence, in MARGATR,
NEW - LONDON.
April 15, 18692.â â 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,
OrriceâAt 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 âTransient Boarders will
find the above House to give satisfaction,
Châ'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
âTransient 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 sonsâ)
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@âą Onpuns can be left at Bexrramâs Book
Store and at D, Exmanâs, Esq., Summerside,
Jan 7, 69
Business Qards.
âREUBEN 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. âThe 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: âTWO MILLIONS, Sterling.
CHIEF OFFICES?
64 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
61 âThreadneedle 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.âly*
Mr. W. H. POPE
EGS to inform the public that he has re-
sumed the practice of the Law,
OrriceâA 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'Sâ
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,
âTravelling Agent. Agents, Halifax.
Montreal. Doc 16, "68 y
â<âWILLIAM 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, â68: oe
~ North British and Mercantile MUSE}
â 1 â
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.â8m,
.
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
manufacturingâ 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. Callbeckâs,
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, âU8.
QTARLOTTETOWN --- PP. BR. ISLAND
POETRY.
THE TYPO.
BY A. A. HOPKINS
The typo!-âa 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 * tukesââ a great deal, and he * provesâ 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 :â"* click, click ' and âtis
there,â
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,
Andâtherd the bright picture unwittingly enda,
For the typo paints all kinds of scenes ina lisa
He hie you a marridgeâthe 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,â
âClick, click ''--now he's spelling a railroad dis.
nater, â
And fast âclickâ 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, â* you shudder, then laugh
With hearty good will atthe next paragraphâ
A joke of three lines, or a dozen us brief,
Done upâa rich bundleâin a sheuf!
Moen follay some âadd's,''âpatent bitters and
ills,
To ane aed one of mortalityâs iils ;
* Click, Click,'ââand just under bis fingers they
wo forthâ .
â None genuine unless signed â John Jones,â &c.!
W âtidsan ** Elixir,â and now aâ Hair Dye,â
(To color, of course, for itâs spelled with y |
* Cough Byrup,ââ perhaps, or * Wafer,â or **
tion,â
{A humbug condensed to a good Yankee notion !]
A bare inh in short, for allbuman dissasesâ
âYou 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 weepâ
Lfancy their sortow is not over-deepâ
But be their expression whatever it may,
The will ofthe typo they only obey; *
âTo all his commands they respond With a âclick,
Ile rules with a stout little * ruleâ aud a â 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 :â
It is not yet certain by what means Mr.
Benjamin tiggs, who disappeared from
âTwickenham 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. âThe 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 âmarvels of artistic
beauty,â 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. âThe 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. âThe 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
â,â death, death, and nothing but death !â
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, âThere 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; â*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.â âThere
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. âThese 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. âLhe 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.âThe 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:â** 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 ebuliitionâ
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 pinâs 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,â
Thore has been another attempted as-
sassination in Ireland, A Jand bailiff over
the Kerry estate of the Board of âlrinity
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. âTimes change and menâs fortunes
with them,
Spurgeon on Oommunion-
Mr. Spurgeonâs 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,
âThese are they who separate themsel-
ves,â the English edition contains these
strong statements. They are wholly want-
ing in the American edition. It is relresh-
ing to read the following :â
«« There is not a Christian beneath the
scope of Godâs 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, âThis 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, âThey
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
Christâs 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, ât 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.â I should think the text
would bear very hard on me: ** These are
they who separate themselves, sensual,
not having the Spirit..âZ'rom the Aforning
Slar, Iâ, 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 :â
**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. âTheir 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,â
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. Chandlexâs 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, itâ 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 noâ 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 :â
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
Ae
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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
âTallow 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.
#PresidentâHon. Daxret Brexan.
CashierâWittiam Cunpats, Esquire.
Discount DaysâMondays & Thursdays.
Hours of BusinessâFom 10a.m. tol p.m.
from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.
UNION BANK.
Grafton St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown
ProsidentâCnances Pavmer, Esquire.
CashierâJames Anpenson, Esquire.
Discount DaysâWednesdays & Saturdays.
Mours of BusinessâFrom 10 a.m to 1 p m.,
from 2 p.m to 4pm.
SUMMERSIDE BANK.
Central Street, Summerside, P. E. Island
PresidentâJames L. Houman, Ese.
CashiorâE, L. Lyptann, Esquire
Discount DaysâTuesdays and Fridays.
Notes for Discount nust bein before 11
o'clock on Discount days.
Houts of Bueinessâ10 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. Eleanorâs, May 18, 1868,
The Journal is only one dollar a year.
Busingss Gards, °
âGARD.
R. DOWD may again be consult-
ed, at his old residence, in MARGATR,
NEW - LONDON.
April 15, 18692.â â 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,
OrriceâAt 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 âTransient Boarders will
find the above House to give satisfaction,
Châ'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
âTransient 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 sonsâ)
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@âą Onpuns can be left at Bexrramâs Book
Store and at D, Exmanâs, Esq., Summerside,
Jan 7, 69
Business Qards.
âREUBEN 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. âThe 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: âTWO MILLIONS, Sterling.
CHIEF OFFICES?
64 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
61 âThreadneedle 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.âly*
Mr. W. H. POPE
EGS to inform the public that he has re-
sumed the practice of the Law,
OrriceâA 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'Sâ
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,
âTravelling Agent. Agents, Halifax.
Montreal. Doc 16, "68 y
â<âWILLIAM DODD,
Commission Merchant,
And Auctioneer,
QUPREN BQUARR,
or sent to [
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Point Du , June Lith, 1868. October 22, â68: oe
~ North British and Mercantile MUSE}
â 1 â
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.â8m,
.
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
manufacturingâ 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. Callbeckâs,
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, âU8.
QTARLOTTETOWN --- PP. BR. ISLAND
POETRY.
THE TYPO.
BY A. A. HOPKINS
The typo!-âa 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 * tukesââ a great deal, and he * provesâ 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 :â"* click, click ' and âtis
there,â
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,
Andâtherd the bright picture unwittingly enda,
For the typo paints all kinds of scenes ina lisa
He hie you a marridgeâthe 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,â
âClick, click ''--now he's spelling a railroad dis.
nater, â
And fast âclickâ 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, â* you shudder, then laugh
With hearty good will atthe next paragraphâ
A joke of three lines, or a dozen us brief,
Done upâa rich bundleâin a sheuf!
Moen follay some âadd's,''âpatent bitters and
ills,
To ane aed one of mortalityâs iils ;
* Click, Click,'ââand just under bis fingers they
wo forthâ .
â None genuine unless signed â John Jones,â &c.!
W âtidsan ** Elixir,â and now aâ Hair Dye,â
(To color, of course, for itâs spelled with y |
* Cough Byrup,ââ perhaps, or * Wafer,â or **
tion,â
{A humbug condensed to a good Yankee notion !]
A bare inh in short, for allbuman dissasesâ
âYou 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 weepâ
Lfancy their sortow is not over-deepâ
But be their expression whatever it may,
The will ofthe typo they only obey; *
âTo all his commands they respond With a âclick,
Ile rules with a stout little * ruleâ aud a â 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 :â
It is not yet certain by what means Mr.
Benjamin tiggs, who disappeared from
âTwickenham 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. âThe 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 âmarvels of artistic
beauty,â 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. âThe 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. âThe 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
â,â death, death, and nothing but death !â
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, âThere 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; â*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.â âThere
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. âThese 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. âLhe 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.âThe 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:â** 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 ebuliitionâ
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 pinâs 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,â
Thore has been another attempted as-
sassination in Ireland, A Jand bailiff over
the Kerry estate of the Board of âlrinity
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. âTimes change and menâs fortunes
with them,
Spurgeon on Oommunion-
Mr. Spurgeonâs 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,
âThese are they who separate themsel-
ves,â the English edition contains these
strong statements. They are wholly want-
ing in the American edition. It is relresh-
ing to read the following :â
«« There is not a Christian beneath the
scope of Godâs 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, âThis 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, âThey
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
Christâs 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, ât 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.â I should think the text
would bear very hard on me: ** These are
they who separate themselves, sensual,
not having the Spirit..âZ'rom the Aforning
Slar, Iâ, 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 :â
**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. âTheir 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,â
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. Chandlexâs 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, itâ 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 noâ 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 :â
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