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porch. and looking in. It instantly strack
tne that the body lay there, and Lrosoly od
to alight, and to look upon her beautiful

face once more. How the ban of the
Charch, in this case, against suicide

had been got over, 1 know not, and stop
ped not to inquire, In that land money
and intrigue do everything, and theretore
there was no marvel

sician followed me, wnlavited, We walk-
ed up the path; the younger girls gathered
round the door, screening the interior
from our sight till we had mounted the
ateps,
made them move away to the right and
leit, and what was it I beheld? Two
hand-biers covered with mortuary clothes,
Jay justin the entrance from the great
dear, with the bodies of the dead upon
them, and flowers. strowed upon the
corpses. Gracious Heaven! T shall never
forget it! L darted forward, I stood by
the side of the biers, and gazed down;
but not on the countenance of Beatrice.
There were the fine features, the tu,
fair brow, the raven locks of her sister
Nareissa. ‘There was the thin, worn,
anxious countenance of the Marquis de
Spezzia, But no Beatrice was there.
(Conclusion in our next.)

l —

~ Mis cellaneous,

A short time since an old lady, living in
one of the small streets le:
Albany Street, Rogent’s Park, entered the
shop of a poulterer in the neighborhood,
and purchased a chicken. ‘The tradesman
was attentive to her, and the Indy became
a customer, always coming to the shop ani
giving her own orders, She appeared to
be very old, but to have all her faculties
bout her. One Saturday evening she
when the pouttorer happened to he
Shi said she wished to s}
s asked herto walk into th
little parlor behind the shop and he would
eome to herthe moment he was disengig-
ed. In the parlor she met the daughter o!
the poulterer, and after some conversation
in the course of which she remark: d that
the young girl looked ill, and required
change of air, she produced a parcel tied
up in paper, and said, * Give this to your
father, as he is busy, and cannot come, and
1 cennot wi I wish him to take you
y for a little change, and here is some-
thing that will enable him to do so.” She
placed the parcel in the girl's hand, a.d
told her to lock it up in a cupboard to
which she pointed. ‘The girl did so, and
when some hours subsequently, the shop
was closed, and her father came into the
parlor to get his supper, she produced the
parcel, and gave the message by which it
wasaccompanied. The poulterer laughed
as he untied it; but tohis amazement, the
parcel was found to consist of bank notes
and gold of the value of £1,000. There
was also in itan antique gold watch and
chain. The next day Mr. ——— hurried
round to his customer to thank her, when
she desired him to take his daughter out
of town for a lew days, and on their return
to inform her of their arrival. This, of
course, was done. their return she called at the shop of Mr.
——, and said she wished him to come to
her house to tea, accompanied by his
daughter, As wey were about to leave.
after partaking of her hospitality, she said
to Mr, —, ‘I wish you particularly to
eall on me to-morrow morning, and bring
with you two respectable persons upon
whom you can rely.” The next morning
Mr. — attended, accompanied by the
curate of the parish anda neighbor, The
old lady then said that she was upwards
of ninety years of age, and had no relative
living but a cousin, an attorney, who, she
wleged, had not treated her well, and by
whom, she said, she had lost £20,000.
She added that she had £25,000 in Consols
still left, and that, as she felt she would
not live long, and was resolved that the
attorney should not get anything belong-
ing to her, she had asked Mr. to at-
tend, with two witnesses, in order that she
might transfer to him, for his own absolute
use, the £25,090 to which she had referred.
She added that she knew very well what
she was about, and that, by giving him the
money while she was alive, instead of be-
queathing it to him at her death, he
would be saved the paXnent of legacy
duty to theextent of £2,000, ‘This an-
nouncoment appeared properly suggested
that a solicitor should be sent for, ‘The
min of law came accordingly, and the
transfer was duly affected. ‘The old lady's
presentiment of approaching dissolution
proved to be correct, as she died a few
weeks after making this singular disposi-
tion of her property. It seems that before
her death she stated that she had intended
to give the money to a chemist with whom
she used to deal, but that he had offended
her by some inattention to her wishes.
The moral of this story (of the substantial
accuracy of which there ean be no doubt
whatever) is that civility costs nothing
and may sometimes yield a rich reward.

EartiQuakes IN ScoTLaNp.—Tho dis-
trict of Upper Strathearn and adjacent
places have been visited by a succession
of pretty smart shocks of earthquake
during the last two or three days.

a rather severe shock was telt at Comrie,
and was followed by another about ten
minu

from Comrie,
felt. Between seven and eight o'clock on
Thursday, andat an early hour on Fr
moruing, shocks pa
and though there w:

t

was heard over a large district.

continued with little

since.

very

since 1839.— Scotsman.

Noumper or Jews 1n tau Worip.—The
Hebrew National, » new weekly journal

relate! in London, gives some intere
ng statistics of the Jewish race,

rope. There are 1,800.000 in Russia; in

Austria, 600,000; in Prussia, 254,000; and

in ail other parts of Germany, 192,000; in
France about 80,000; in Switzerland 3,000;

in Great Britain, about 42,000; in Syria

and Asiatic Turkey, 52,000; in Moroeco
and North Africa, 610,000; in East Asia,
000,800 ; in Amorica 220,000; in Belgium.
1,800; in Denmark, 6,500; in Italy, 4,500.

The notorious George Albert Mason who
was one of the party engaged to kidnap
President Lincoln, goes to Washington
from Toronto to give evidence against
Sorratt, at instance of Seward, and with
his safe conduct.

A man in this city has got so deep in-
to dobt that not ove of his creditora has
been able to see him for months.

+ ‘ a *

Then the sound of our toottalls) modern times:— j

ling ont ot}

Ata
little past ten o'clock on Wednesday night

fterwards at Greenloaning Rail-
way Siation—a distance of about 11 miles
Both shocks were distinctly

‘
szed over the district
a little shaking of
the earth, apparently the noise which ac-
companied the shock, which resembled
distant thunder or the discharge of cannon,
Imme-
diately alter the shocks on Wednesday, rain
poured down in perfect torrents, and has
intermission
At Comrie which seems to be the
svat ol this strange phenomena earthquakes
have not been so frequent as this se.son

Iw the Edinburgh Revvew for April, there
is a very spirited yet moderate erticle on
Ritualiem, from which we make the extract
below, The information it contains is, we

think, new to most ofour readers. Brom this |
1 made the coach: we learn that the robes about which #0 much! gas has been patented by a Mr, Muir of
anan stop, and got out, while the old phy- |, said and written on both sides of the Atlan- | Montreal.

tie are nothing more than very old-fashioned
. clothes indeed, and are really and truly no

more sacred than the gothic habiliments of)
j

| ** But, apart from the legal question, the

controversy has an interest of its own which

| deserves a few moments’ attention, ‘The use|
or disguise of these colored vestments is often |
treated by both sides as if it was the turning
| question between a true and a false Church;
the signs to one party of the only Catholic |
worelip, to the other of ‘the workshops of

Satan.” We venture to say that, with the/
exception of one aspect, on which we will]
dwell pre

vestuients, Both their supporters and their
opponents regard them as sacerdotal garments,
syimbolical of we know not what mysterious
meanings. Even Milton spoke of them as
borrowed froin the Flamen’s vestry and
Aaron’s wardrobe. What is the actual case?
‘Ticy have not the slightest tincture of Fla-
| men or priest in their whole descent. They
are the dresses of the Syrian peasant or the
| Roman genticman, retained by the clergy
) when they had been left off by the rest of so-

ciety; just as the bishops lung preserved the
| last relics of the flawing wigs ue the time of
| Charles IL, as the Blue-coat boys recall the
‘common dress of children under Edward VL,
as Quake aintiin the sober costume of the
Commonwealth, as a clergyman’s — bands,
which have been regarded as symboljcal of
the Cloven Tongues, of the two | ‘Testuuents,
of the two Tables of the Law, are byt phe re
ujains of the turn-down colliurs of the time of
James Ll. Their very names bear witness to!
the fact that there was eriginally no outwe
distinction whatever between clergy and laiety.
‘Lhey thus strike, if they have any historical
significance at all, at the root of the vas
hivrarchical system of which they are now
made the badges and ornaments. The ‘atb’
jis but the white shirt or tame, still Kept up in
, the white dress of the Pope, winch used to de
}worn by every peasant next his skin, and in
southern county wis often his only gar-
ment. A variety ofit, introduced by the Em
perors Commodus ard Heliogabalus, with long
sleeves, was, from the countiy whence they
brought it, called the Dalmat The * pall
is the pallium, the woolen cloak, generally
the mark of philosophers, wrapped round the
shirt like a plaid or shawl. ‘Vhe overcoat, in
the days of the Roman Empire as in ours, was
constintly changing its fashion and its name;
and the slang designations by wahich it was
known have been perpetuated in the ecclesi-
astical vocabulary and are now used with ba-
ted breath, as if speaking of things too sucred
to be mentioned, One such overcoat was the
| cape or cope, also called pluviale, the ‘water-
proof.’ Another was the chasuble, or casula,
*the little house,’ the Roman laborer called
the smock frock in which he shut himself up
when out at work in bad weather. Another
was the caracalla or caraca, or casaca, ‘the
cassock,’ brought by the Emperor who de-
rived his own surname from it, when he intro-
duced it from France. The ‘ surplice’ is the
barbarous garment, the ‘ over-fur’ (superpelli-
cium), only used in the North, where it was
drawn over the skins of beasts in which our
German and Celtic ancestors were clothed.
It was the common garb—‘the white coat
(cotta candens)—worn by the regular clergy
not only in church, but in ordinary life. In
the oldest Roman mos.uc, that in the church
ot Sta. Pudentiana, of the fourth century, the
Apostles are represented in the common clas-
sical costume of the age. No thought had
entered the mind of the Church, even at that
time, of investing even the most sacred per-
sonuges with any other than ordinary dress-
es.”

i

ForeiGN EMiGkatTion to tHe Uxitep
Srares.—During the first three months of
the present year nearly 28,000 persons—
17,000 of them males yed at the port
of New York from Europe. From Great
Britain and Ireland we received a re-en-
forcement of 8805 males and 2586 female:
The larger number of these emigrants v
from Ircland, But frou Germany, also.a
great stream of lile is flowing to the United
States ; 8042 males and $i44 females came
from Continental Europe. There were
some from France, atew tom Switzerland
asmall number trom Italy, bat the
proportion came trom the German State
It is estimated that before the close of the
year an industrial army, 200.000. strong.
trom Europe alone, will disemb: and
settle in our country. What figure the
oriental emigration which finds its home
in the Pacific States will veach. we have
not the mens of determining; but, trom
that source and the British Provinces, it is
not unlikely that we shall receive, befo'
Christinas, about 5 Wmore, Exclusive,
therefore, of the Esquimaux and our other
fellow citizens of the trozen zone, a quar-
ter of a million of souls in all brobability
will be added to our population, from the
exterior alone, during 1867.—American
Exchange.

Tut NeGRors and TH INrERSTS IN
Amenica.—The Negroes, it seems, have
adopted sides in the south, and have taken
to the stump kindly. ‘This is not remark-
able for even in their sivage state they are
fluent orators. In Afviea their ** pali
are conducted with dignity and de
But the negro is an imitative creature,
anil has already learned to wield the wea-
pons of the American politician. Mr.Nash
a Conservative gentleman ot colour, has
denouuced the Republicans in no mea:
sured terms, A rival negro orator (Re-

publican) aecuses him of having once
passed three months in a penitentiary

Those who imagine that the negro's votes
will be devoted to the North from mo-
tives of gratitude will, we suspect, be
mistaken, and the planters who are al-
ready taking their hats off to them and
patting them on‘the backs saying, ** We
have always been your friends,” will find
that they have to deal with one of the
most shrewd wid suspicious races in the
world. We are inclined to think that the
negroes will vote in favour of their own
interests ; and they are clever enough to
find out for themselves what those interests
really are. They have already shown that

t-|they have a ready appreciation of high
It says j
that there are now living about 6,000,000
Ssraclites, about half of whom live in Eu-

wages by their emigration from Virginia
aud the Carolinas to the south-west ; and
they are driving bargains with the land-
owners us merciless as those which the
Africans drive with English tradors in the
oil river of the West Coasts.

‘* Tat CONFEDERATION " js the title of a
new weekly journal just started in Boston,
Mass. It is intended to be devoted to the
affairs and interests of British North Am-
eriea, The editor, in his salutatory, says:

‘This paper will uphold the principle
of Confederation, exhibit its workings,
and do all in its power to conduct the ex-
periment to a successful issue. It will
endeavor to promote, to the utmost of its
ability, a en ar ddl a unity of senti-
ment among the people of every tion
of the Confederation” oh dace

1

SUMMERSIDE

sntly, there is not in the whole)”
course of ccclesiastical usage a ceremonial | :
practice more absolutely void of all theologic= |
al significance, Look at the origin of these |S they

y} of outraged humanity in the Kast, the Empe-

| Mr. Jefferson Davis had quire an enthu-

‘siastic reception at Toronto, fully seven

[thousand persons being on the wharf to
rovlve him, Cheering and handshaking
were the order of the day, He

made no

speech, but was driven off at once to the

residence of Mr, Mason.

Anew material for the production of

it is promised to give 1200

tect of gas, with Hlaminating power of at)

least 30 sperm candies at a much less cost
than present gas,

An Ottawa telegram of the first inst.,
savs:—** An order in Council has been
passed prohiliting the export into New
Brunswick or Nova Scotia from this date
until the first of July next, of all distilled
liquors and other goods liable to excise
duty, The necessary instruments were
sent to the several custom houses to-day.”

A paper bonnet is mentioned as the
latest novelty in milinerdom, — This preci-
ous head ornament costs but $1, and the

rea advantage it has is said to be that it
will keep fair wearers trom catching cold
will probably stay at home in
damp weather,

Eggs with iron shells will be a faet
in the Paris Exposition, A Berlin chemist
exused his hens to produce them by feed-
ing them on a preparation in which iron
Was made to take the place of lime.

We notice that some of the American
papers: are urging the establishment of a
system of copyright between the United
States and the Dominion of Canada, Why
not between England and the United
States?

A Montreal despatch says that the Hon.
Jolin Rose has been requested to come
forward for the representation of Montreal
Centre in the House of Commons, and has
accepted the requisition,

On the 10th inst., eleven factory build-

ines anda dozen dwelling houses were
dk by fire in the city of Hartford,

State of Connecticut. The loss is estsma-
tedat halfa million dollars. The insur
ance amounts to 8420,000

LATEST from EUROPE,

Arrival of tue ‘‘ China.”

R. M.S. China from Liverpool 8th, and
Queenstown 9th, arrived at Halifax at 9a.m.,
on Monday last, the 17th inst. The China
was detained off the harbor owing to the ex-
istence of thick weather. The papers contain
but little news in addition to what has been
anticipated by Atlantie telegraph. With re-
gard to domestic intelligence, we see it stated
in the papers that the concomitants attending
the late race for the Derby have given rise to
a great deal of discussion in the press, and it
seems to be agreed on all hands that the
sports on the turf, as now conducted, are a
gygantic system of swindling and fraud,
A case which is puzzling the ‘ sea-lawyers”
of the navy has just occurred on board Her
Majesty's ship Phebe, at Plymouth. It ap-
pears that some youths had joined that ship
as cadets or midshipmen; and, according to a
* time honored custom” in the navy. they were
seized by their older messmates, and subject-
ed to the process of having a mark of a broad
arrow cut with a knife on the top of the nose.
The subject has been pretty fully discussed
in Parliament and the press; and, singular to
say, a wide discrep icy of opinion ex
among the naval authorities on the sul
some of them denouncing it as a piece ot
atrocious cruelty, and others maintaining that,
as “a regular and time-honoured custom in
Her Majesty’s navy,” it ought to be cherished
and perpetuated. Mr. Corry stated in the
House of Commons on the 6th that orders had
been issued to prevent the recurrence of such
‘practical jokes.”
‘The Paris correspondent of the Pall Mail
Gazette telegraphs that the man who shot at
the Empero rriage on the 6th inst., was
prevented firing a second shot by fl,
gent Laverey, cmployed on the British staff
at Uie Paris Exhivition.
AN AFFRONT TO THE EMPEROR OF
THE FRENCIL.
While thus laudably engaged in the cause

ror has received intelligence of an affrout: to
the French arms in the south, which more
nearly touches his honor, and calls tor more
stern and summary redress. We learn by
the last West African mail that a warlike tribe
of savages, culled the Maraboos, have made
an incursion into the French settlement of
Goree; and although a French detachment of
150 nen killed the whole of the 800 negroes
opposed to them, as well as 250 more who
came to their assistance, yet an overwhelming
force of 1000 natives made a second attack;
and as the French had lost 100 of their num-
ber in the first contest, the enteeble remnant
of 50 men were ruthlessly slaughtered, with
the exception of nine fugitives, who succeeded
in making their escape. As ** King Mabeh,”
the leader of this host of marauders, was seen
tu shoot two French officers with his own hand,
we suspect that his royal dignity will scarcely
save him from the avengers of blood when he
fills into their hands.

THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.

The bloody struggle between the Turks
and Greeks in Candia has now lasted long
enough to fill all Europe with disgust. It is
true that the sickening conflicts in the Le-
vant is not, as in South America, between
nominal Christians, but between the adlier-
ents of opposing creeds. In the eye of the
philanthropist, however, there is merely a
distinction without a difference between the
one Guse and the otler. We are glad to learn,
therefore, by the latest intelligence, that
there is at length a speedy prospect of a ter-
inination of these harrowing scenes, through
the pacific intervention of the Great Powers.
There seems to Le now little doubt that the
island will be seperated from Turkey, and an-
nexed to Greete.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE
CZAR.

As announced by telegraph on the 6th inst.,
an attempt was made in Paris by a pole, to
assassinate the Kinperor of Russia. After the
review on that day, Napoleon, the Czar, and
his two sons, got into one carriage, and pro-
ceeded towards Paris.

On reaching the cascade, not far from Baron
Rotschild’s house, a shot was fired, according
to one account, froma tree, which, like all
the others in the neighborhood, was filled with
occupants; according to most other state-
ments, from amid the crowd standing to view
the cortege, a young man was seen to raise
his hand. point a pistol, and fire, first one
shot and then a second, at the carriage in
which the Emperor Napoleon was seated be-
side his guest. The Emperor's groom fortu-
nately perceived the uplifted hand in time,
and made his horse springforward. ‘The bul-
let passed through the animal’s nostrils, and
then right across the carriage between its
distinguished occupanta, wounding a lady on
the other side. The second shot, hurriedly
fired, burst the pistol, and the would-be as-
saasin fell to the ground, with a cry of pain,
his head shattered by the explosion, The

ple surrounding the spot at once seized

im, and were apparently with difficulty res-

trained from administering Lynoh law then
and the.e. ®

our aches and pains and bodily prostra-

dowed at vur creation.

as a great invigorator,
ample and coarse, will be found,if properly
applicd at the proper time, to be an ex-

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HEALTH.
Every one admits that health is the
sreatest of carthly blessings. Without
it we cannot enjoy the comforts and de-
lights of life—we cannot adequately per-
form its duties—our existence itself be-
comes a burden. The man who wishes
either to work well or to play well must
take every care to keep his body in good
working order. Sickness is generally a
very expensive luxury, and one which
most of us can do very well without.
The husband whose wife is always ailing,
is a man to be pitied, and the woman who |
his for a husband a man with a diseased
liver or a disordered stomach should
possess the patience of Job and the tem-
per of an angel. A housefull of delicate,
sickly children, is one of those posses-
sions which no one in his right senses
would pine toown., ‘Though every one
is ready to admit that health ig a very
good thing and disease a very bad one,
yet nearly every one acts as if he believed
the very opposite. The trouble that
some people take to ruin their constitu-
tions by improper habits, by eating too
much of the wrong kind of tood and too
little of the right, by taking too much
exercise and by taking too little, by
drinking liquids that were never intended
for human consumption, by drinking bad
water and by breathing impure air, and
by a hundred other modes and ways not
expedient to mention in this place, would
lead one to believe that the majority of
mankind considered suffering a very great
good, and an untimely death something
worth making great exertions to obtain.
Most persons look upon pain and disease
as necessary evils not preyentible in any
appreciable degree by human means.
The blame of every disease whether en-
demic or epidemic is laid at the door of
Providence. If a child puts his hand
into the fire, is it Teasonable for him to
blame Providence because he feels the
smart, and if he eats too much rich food
whose fault is it that he spends a night of
torture. Well, we should not wonder if
nine tenths of us in thus attributing

tions to an unavoidable ordinance of the
Ruler ofthe World are just as wise and not
a whit more logical than the ill tempered
urchin who beats the table-leg that has
made a big black lump on his forehead,
Modern science has proved beyond ques-
tion that much of the ill health with
which mankind is afflicted is preventible.
Though no great progress has been made
in the art of curing diseases which have
once taken root in the system—simply
because as we believe they are ineradi-
cable—yet immense strides have been
made in the science of the prevention of
disease; and as an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure, progress has
here at any rate been made in the right
direction. We arog very firm believers
in the virtues of hydropathy, homapathy,
alopathy, or any other pathy, ancient or
modern, that professes to restore shatter-
ced constitutions to their pristine vigor an’
strength. Nor do we put much faith in
any of those medicines which are said to
cure all discascs that were ever heard or
thought of; but we do not put great faith
in those wise precautions which science
and common sense tell us that every man,
woman, ind child should take in order
to preserve unimpaired that store of
vitality with which we have been en-
For divers
reasons we are great believers in’ the
irtues of water, both evld and warm,
tresh and salt. Soap, too, we look upon
Towels, also,

ccllent medicine. Cleanliness our grand-
mothers used to say was next to godli-
ness, but we think they ought always
go together. The man who has a clean
skin and an unspotted constience—if he
do not begin washing well and acting
well too late in life—will be better able
to do his work in this world, and better
prepared for existence in the next than
either the man who is clean and not good,
or the man who is good and not clean.
It is very rade, indeed, exceedingly im-
polite, to tell a grown up man that he is
dirty, and perfectly barbarous to hint
that a woman is in her person not so
clean as she might be. We would not
for the world be guilty of such a breach
of decorum; but we appeal to you most
respected sir, and to you most honored
madam, if your conscience does not tell
you at this moment that if you had made
a more plentiful use of water, soap,
towels, sponges, baths, brushes, and the
other paraphernalia of cleanliness, you
would have been both healthier, and con-
sequently a happier man or woman. If
you feel no guilty twinges about this
matter, all we can say is that you are
either a very hardened sinner indeed, that
you have not paid sufficient attention
to the subject, or that you are one who
have been induced to adopt the habit of
indulging in frequent and thorough wash-
ing. So much for the external applica-
tion of water as a preventitive of disease.
We would wish to say a word or two
about its internal application. People
may say what they please about wines
and beers, syrups and essences, and the
whole catalogue of manufactured bevera-
ges, whether concocted or distilled, but
there is no drink so grateful to a. thirsty
man of undepraved tastes, or so well
suited to the unvitiated system as pure
cold water. This is the beverage of na-
ture, exactly adapted by a wise Provi-
dence to the natural needs of man and
other living creatures, But it must be
pure. Impure water is the veichle in
which a thousand diseases are insidiously
smuggled into the system. Owing to its
powers of absorption of noxious gas and
of holding in solution matter, foreign to
its own nature, it may and often does
contain the most pernicious substances

every one from the weaned child to the
hoary headed grandfather, drinks daily a

| lange quantity of water, how necessary it

is that that water should be freed from
everything calculated to impart discase
to the human organism, Yet very little
attention is paid to this matter in some
places. People go on from year to year
drinking water impregnated with the
foulest substances, aud yet wonder at the
frequent recurrence of certain discases
in their midst. Others again froma very
natural dislike to imbibing impure and
unpalatable water, acquire a taste for
more stimulating, though really less
wholesome drinks, and thus in time waste
their money and ruin their constitutions.
Pure air is another substance essentially
necessary to health. ‘Those who live in
the country can have plenty of this with-
out money and without price. How de-
lightful are the long draughts of fragrant
air that one inhales in riding or walking
through the country, at this scason of
the year. Itisalmostintoxicating, We
feel while breathing it that we are drink-
in in life and health, Tow different is
it irom the heavy atmosphere of the town,
laden as it too frequently is, with foul
gases and noxious exhalations. Air like
water frequently contains the most deadly
poisons, Substances—filthy disgusting
substances—=which we would blush to
name, are momentarily inhaled by every
one who lives in an ill ventilated apart-
ment and in an undrained town. ‘The
proper abode of the skeleton supposed to
take up its residence in an innocent
closet in the interior of the house, should
be looked for in the back yard outside of
it, and in the saturated soil upon which
it stands. From such places the pesti-
lence which stalks at noon day commen-
ces its desolating march.prematurely stop-
ping the breath of many a lovely, promis-
ing child, and paling the cheek of many
a maiden just budding into womanhood.
Bad air kills people in other places
than in the coal mines, The air which
we breathe into our lungs comes into
immediate contact with the blood which
has not been inappropriately called the
fountain of life. If it be impure, part of
the impurity mixing with the blood pois-
sons life at its very source. Is it any
wonder then that the check soon becomes
pale, and that the whole mechanism of
life performs its work languidly and in-
efficiently, Life loses its charm for those
who are compelled long to breathe a
vitiated atmosphere, and existence be-
comes a burthen scarcely tolerable. The
last preservative of health that we will
mention is the blessed sunlight. Plants
reared in the shade grow up puny, slen-
der, sickly, colorless, barren things, as
different as possible from others of their
kind which are fully exposed to the san’s
invigorating and fructifying rays. Hu-
man beings who pass the greater part of
their lives in ill lighted apartments, grow
up pale and puny, and spiritless. ‘The
action of sunlight on the human organ-
ism is one about which we believe little is
known, but it is certain that plenty of light
is necessary to the proper development of
the system, and to the tree exercise of the
mental faculties. But it is nearly time for
us to end our long sermon upon matters
sanitary, We do not set ourselves up for a
doctor. We have no such ambition.
Our materia medica is exceedingly sim-
ple, andexceedingly cheap. Pure water,
pure air, and plenty of light are medi-
cines very pleasant to take, and medicines
that ought to be within the reach of every
man, woman, and child in the community
—alas that they are not.

We have not room to-day fora long
application to our discourse. We miuot
content ourselves ty asking are pure
water, pure air, and plenty of sunlight
within the reach of every man, woman,
and child in Summerside? If these in-
dispensables to health and happiness are
not obtainable in this Town, at whose
door docs the blame lie. Will not some
exertion be made to secure these cheap
but invaluable blessings.

Biackwoop’s MaGazine for May has
been lying on our ‘Table for two or three
weeks. It is a eapital number, The
article on Social Ambitions is very cleverly
written, That entitled “A Modern Ma-
in” is evidently the production of an
ginal mind, fresh from the study of the
Greek and’ Latin Classies,

We would really like those of our read-
ers who are desirous of improving their
literary taste to take this Magazine and
one or more of the Reviews. They
all written in the best style, and their
articles are the best that can be found
in all the range of modern literature.
Every subject of interest, whether reli-
gious, social or political, is discussed in
these periodicals, from evory point of
view. uly contain information on sub-

jects of modern enquiry, not to be obtain-
edin this country trom any other source.
The writers are the best men of the day,
in their peculiar departinevt of literature,
and they have access to those stores of
literature which are only to be found in
the great centres of civilization, If any
one wants to know what really good writ-
ing is, and the kind ot literature which is
suited to the tastes of the most refined and
best educated men in the world, let him
read Blackwood and the Reviews. He
nay find them a little high-toned at first,
but if he continue reading them he cannot
tuil of obtaining a very large amount of
valuable information, and ot acquiring a
correct literary taste, Blackwood and
the Reviews can be had at the Bookstores
of Messrs. rd and Harvie, Charlotte-
town; and we would be very happy to pro-
cure them for any of our Prince County
friends, who feel inclined to purchase the
cheapest and most elevating means of en-
joyment that we can think of.

Cascumrec Packet.—The Schr. ‘' Jose-
phine,” has been engaged for the route
between Charlottetown and Cascumpec
She will run once a fortnight between the
above mentioned Ports, tor the conveyance
of freight and passengers, and has good
accommodations. Isaac C. Hall, Esq., is
agent in Charlottetown, and Herbert Bell,
Esq., in Cascumpec. We hope the day is
not far distant when the Western part of
the Island will be in direct communication
with Shediac, Summerside, and Charlotte-
town by steam, bnt for the present the
sniling Packet will be of good service, and
supply a want inuch felt by the merchants
and others of Alberton,

ty” We had quitea enh A hid on Tues-

without showing to the eye of the unin-

day night last, accompanied with heavy
vain,

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ne RR erence wane

|itiated, the least sign of impurity, As| PERIGRINATIONS EASTWARD.

Tae privilege of taking an ocensional
excursion to the country is over, to those
who are accustomed to the bustle and con+
taminated atmosphere of a city, an accept
able recreation, Tt is especially so at the
present time, when Nature appears in her
most beantifal garb—when she has ex-
changed the dreary aspect of winter for
one of exquisite beauty—when the eye is
once more delighted with the rich hues of
the foliage of the forest, and the tender
green of the grass,

It was my privilege, on Friday, the 6th
inst., to leave Summerside on such an
excursion, in the interest of the JouRNAL ;
and alter a very pleasant drive, through
Kensington, soon reached

MARGATE,

This is a village of some pretensions,
It contains a number of business estab-
lishments, and the taste and order
displayed in the dwelling-houses and their
adornments, bear abundant evidence to
the good judgment and wealth of their
occupiers, There is a new and very
pretty Wesleyan Chapel, The Rey.
Mr, Colpitts is at present stationed here,
and is, Twas happy to hear, very much
liked by his congregation, — Reuben
Tuplin, Esq.,has a Store stocked with the
usual variety of goods suited to the country
trade. Ife has hitherto carried on Ship-
building, but owing to the depressed state
of the English market, he has none under-
way at present. The Waggon Factory
ot Mr. Wim. Pound is an extensive estab-
lishment, through which we were kindly
shown by the proprietor, who has always
borne the reputation of a good workman,
Further up the road is another owned by
Mr. James Howard. Also the Harness
Shop of Mr. George Wilson and the Tan-
neries of Messrs. Mayhew and John Frizzel.
Dr. Dodd has recently located here, and
is ready to attend to tho ills of all needing
medical aid. We wish him success,

There is a very great fault somewhere
that there is not a Post Office established
in this extensive and flourishing locality.
It it were not for the kindness of Reuben
‘Tuplin, Esq., who sends np to Kensington
twice a week, for the papers and letters,
and distributes them at his own expense,
the good folks would be put to great in-
convenience, I soon found myself in the
hospitable residence of a venerable gen-
tleman, who wasone of the earliest settlers
in the neighborhood, After he had exams
ined the JourNAL to his satisfaction, he
gave his name and 81 in adyance for it,
accompanied by a significant glance
which told plainly that he thought it was
the best investment which he had ever
made of that amount,

Alter taking the names of about twenty
new subscribers, I moved on, by way of
Harding's Creek, past the new Grist Mill
of Mr, Alex. Smith, to another snug little
village, known as

CLIFTON, NEW LONDON:

which is situated in the very centre of a
large number of industrious and well-to-do
ners. It has the advantage of its rival
neighbor, in being situated in’ close
proxunity to one of the prettiest harbors
in the Ishiud.from which a large amount of
grain and other produce is annually
shipped, Clifton is destined at no distant
day to extend its present circumscribed
boundarie The first sound whielr greets
the traveller's ear is the merry ring of the
anvil from fricnd Rielly’s forge.

Business is now here pretty much at a
ud-still,--the farmers being too busy
h their spring's work to attcud to any=
thing el and we all know that business
of any kind, without the farmer's assist-
wnee, cainot make much progress, ‘The
extensive Store, formerly of Messrs. Pid-
veon & awart, but now of William
Stewart, Esq.,one of the late firm, is being
replenished with a new supply of goods
suited to the requirements of the place;
and as Mr. Stewart is a good business
man, and always ready to supply the
wants of his customers, aud withal very
moderate in his prices, there is no reason
to doubt he will do well, Here is also the
Carriage Factory of Mr. Jolin W. Large,
the Boot and Shoe Store of Mr. William
O'Brien, and the Harness shop of Mr.
Seneabaugh. As an evidence of the en-
ightened tastes of the New Londoners,
may be mentioned the fact that there is
scarcely a family where the JouRNAL is not
read, and paid tor too,

Hearing that a Volunteer Company was
to meet for drill that evening in Clifton
Hall, I thought it an excellent opportunity
to forward my object, and accordingly
repaired thither, and found the members
ot the Company in solemn conclave over
a document which was received from the
military authorities in Charlottetown,
cooly informing them that their services,
were not likely to be aecepted by His
Excellency. Many of those present lelt
the room in Gisgust, and wisely resolved
to subscribe for the JournaL; und betore
leaving the room I had the pleasure of
taking the names and the dollars of a large.
number of the defunct Volunteers, who,
alter having performed this patriotic act,
wended their way homewards, with the
approbation of their conscience, while
your humble servant consoled himselt
with the thought that it is ‘an ill wind
which blows nobody goo,” and went on,
his way rejoicing, until we came in sight
of the enormous Sand Mills, which are to,
be seen as you approach

CAMPBRLLTON.

They are seen over the smooth waters of
Grenville Bay, stretching out to the extent
of five miles, and give to the place quite
a romantic aspect, This taken in con-
nection with the splendid farms and the
glistening heaps of a superior article of
mussel mud, which the farmers here know.
how to appreciate, makes this a very
desirablo place for a country residence.
‘Lhe only thing they lacked was a newer,
paper, but the WEsTPRN Pronrgn has since
tound its way to every house there,—for
no one in this age of enlightenment would,
even think of living without it, when it
costs only $1 a year—and now their hap-
piness is complete.

Thad also the pleasure of calling at the
valuable Mills of Mr. Richard Found, on
the Fountain Road, and succeeded in re-
lieving him of a dollar, agreeing to send,
as its equivalent, the Journat for one
year, The next move was on towards

STANLEY BRIDGE,
situated on Mill River, about three miles
from Clifton, at the West end of which
there is a Mat gr sized vessel on the
stocks, owned by Mr. George McKay.
G. R. Garrett, cay at the one end of the
Bridge, and 8. H. Brown, Esq., at the
other, carry on a very gopd business in
Dry Goods, Groceries, &e. Dr. MeNeill
practices in this locality the Healing Art,in
all its branches, and 1 was happy to learn,
with very good success, As I had not
much time at my disposal, I made a hur
ried circuit of the neighborhood, and
found that that paid quite as wellas sight-
seeing. The JOuRNaL was hero,as betore,

well regelyed and matron teed nm

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