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Vol. 4.

Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Thursday, April 8, 1869.

No. 28,

THE

Summerside Journa',

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THURSDAY EVENING,

Business Gards.

Di Js PRIOL,
Physician & Surgeon,

A. W. ANDRES,

Marble Worker,
Point Du Chene, Shediac N. B.

POETRY.

“ROUGH AND DARK THE PERILOUS
ROAD.”

BY EMMA ALICE BROWN.

home—is about the head-waters of the
Missouri; but they are often on this side
of the mountains, and are fond of hover-
ing about the passes, or the valleys in
which trapping parties meet and rest, for
the purpose of waylaying unwary trayel-

California. Around the lake clustered a
number of Blackleet lodges, with men,
women and children scat ered about
among them, The short and stout ponies
of the warriors were grazing in the valley
below.

The two men who have been mentioned

ers, or surprising small detachments. So

BY Orrick—At the Summersipr Drue Store,

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AT HIS OFFICE, CENTRAL STREET,

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1869.

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SUMMERSIDE, ..
October 12, 1868.

R.& W. T. HUNT,

Genera AGENTS AND

AUCTIONEERS.

SALESROOM AND OFFICE

Head Queen's Wharf, Summerside, P, E, I.
(opposite the Store of W. T. Hunt & Co.)
April 2, 1868. ly

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

OFFICE at the residence ofthe Rev. W.W.
Colpitts, Margate. :
December 8, 1868.

CARVELL BROTHERS,
AUCTIONEERS,

Commission Merchants,
AND GENERAL AGENTS,
BANK BUILDING, - - QUEEN STREET,

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I,

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Summerside Markets.
April 7, 1869.
Beef perlb 4d a 5d
Mutton per lb Sd add

26 Gd.a 28 7d

Oats per bush
1s 3d a 1s Gd

Potatoes per bush

Turnips per bush 10d a Is
- Butter per lb by Tub 15d a 16d
Lard per lb 9d a 10d
Tallow per lb. 9d a 10d
Eggs per doz 8d add
Hides per Ib 44d
Mackerel per doz 28 a 3s
Codfish per qt 18s a 198
Pork per lb by carcass 4d a 6d
Flour per bbl 458 a 47s
Island Flour per cwt 208 to 21s
Oatmeal per cwt. 178 a 188
Hay per Ton 458 0 50s
Pine Boards 10s
4sa5s

Spruce Boards

Charlottetown Markets.
Ch. Town, April 7, 1869.

Beef per Ib 44d a 8d
Mutton per Ib 4d a7d
Pork per lb., by carcass, bd a bhd
Hlam per lb Gu a 7d
Geese 83a 36d
Fowels Isa ls Gd

1s 3d a 1s 6d

Ducks each
208 a 218

Flour per 100 lbs

BE. EF. PURDYS
NEW

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

All orders punctually attended to.

Cali and See!
ly

DR. J. N. FULLER,
Graduate of Bellevue Hspital,
Medical Gollege, D. 3.

ey. r .DesBrisay, on
site the Estublishinent

Office in the residence of R
Water Street—directly oppo:
of J. L. Holinan, Esq.,

*,* All calls promptly attended to,
Summerside. October 15, 1868.

FOUNTAIN HOUSE.

Sr. Joun, N. B.

JAMES W. THOMPSON, Proprietor.
FYMAE Proprietor of the above HOTEL takes
this opportunity to return thanks for the
liberal patronage hitherto received, and most
respecttully solicits a continuance of the
same,

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

In conneetion with the Hotel, is GOOD
STABLING, and a careful Hostler in attend-
ance. Parties coming from Prince Edward
[sland with horses will find this establishment
the most comfortable in the City, and a per-
son a'ways at the Cars on their arrival,

St. John, Sept. 10, 1868. ly

JAMES GREENOUGH,
FLOUR
Commission Merchant,

No 47 Commercial Street
Corner of Clinton Street -------—- BOSTON
Jany. 1, 1869. ly

DR. JARVIS

Has Removed Iis Residence to the House

a

Oatmeal per 100 188.0 198 (lately occupied by Mr McKinlay)
Fl 1b 2d a 24d H : Nees
Buckwheat oe 188 a 203 |Next to Thomas Munt’s, Esq. , St Eleanor's.
Codfish per quinta rear Peat He may be consulted every forenoon at the
Dar Be the tab 1s Sdn 1s 4d | Drug Store of W.'T. HUNT & Co. , Summer.
i . side. ”
Cheese Sd a fd) St.Eleanor’s, May 18, 1868.

101 a 1s 1d

KE er dozen
ay 1s Gd a 1s 9d

Potatoes per bushel
‘

Barley “* \ bs
Oats 28 9d a 28 10d
Hay per ton 708 a 758
Hides per lb 4d
Sheepskins each 4s ads Gd
Spruce Boards per 100 ft. 4s a 4s 6d
Hemlock 4) i 8s Gd ads
Se
Business’ Qurds,

BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Corner of Great George § King Streets,
Charlottetown,

President—Hox, Danier BRexan.
Cashier —WiILLIAM Cunpaut, Kaquire.
Discount Days—Mondays & ‘Thursdays.
Hours of Business—Fom 10 a.m, tol p.m.
from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.

UNION BANK.
Grafton St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown
President—Crarces Pater, Esquire.

HANFORD BROTHERS,

Successors to Thomas Hanford,

And General Agents,
1L NORTH MARKET WHARF,
SAINT JOHN, N. B.

Cus. U. Hanronp, Frep. 8. Hanrorp.

J. H. ALLEN,
Commission ‘Merchant,

AND DEALER IN
PROVISIONS, Xc.,

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

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

~ THOMAS KELLY,

next door to Bank, Central Street
P. EB. ISLAND.

Gommission Merchants,

Gommission Merqhants, |

MONUMENTS, TOMBS, GRAVE-
STONES, &c., &c.
AMERICAN AND ITALIAN MARBLE con-
stantly on hand.

less price than any other establishment in
the Provinces, and pay a duty besides.

o@™= Onvers can be left at Bertnam’s Book
Store and at D. Exman’s, Esq., Summerside,

or sent to
A. W. ANDRES.
Point Du Chene, June 11th, 1868.

North British and Mercantile

Insurance Gompany,

FIRE AND LIFR.
CAPITAL: TWO MILLIONS, Sterling.

CHIEF OFFICES?

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

Risks taken daily, in Townand Conntry, at
the office of the Agent, Reading room
Building, Dorchester street,

G. W. DeBLOIS,
General Agent for P E Island.
Charlottetown, June 20, 1868.—ly*

CRAWFORD'S HOTEL.

No, 9, King Square,
ST. JOHN, N. B.
HE subscriber having thoroughly refitted
and enlarged his HOTEL and STORE, is
now prepared to accommodate Permanent and
Transient Boarders on the most reasonable
terms.

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

may be had,
J. CRAWFORD & SON.
Sept. 10, 1868. ly

Established 1845.
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COMPANY,

Assets, January Ist, 1868,

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PRESIDENT:
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Striké with au unfaltering band—
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Hedyed with many a secret snare ;
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SNOW BIRD,

TRE TRAPPER’S CHILD.

CONTINUED,

“«That’s a fact, major,” said the old
mountaineer. ** Georgie is mighty apt to
draw a bead on the truth when he shoots
his tongne off. I don't believe he would
lie, even to an Injin inimy. Le is a won-
derful clever chap; but 1 never saw a man
who was more sot in hig ways. What he
seys he will do, he is jest naterally bound
to do, and thar’s no way of cheatin’ or
chokin’ him off. Lam called Bart Swan-
nick, as he tells you; but my real name,
as I've onderstood it. is Bart-holler-mew,
It’s a Scriptur name, I've heern tell, andit
must hey been got up in some place whar
folks had plenty of time to talk, It's a

‘ood long name, and a big-soundin’ one,
fike some of the Injin handles ; but thar’s
most too much of it to tote about in the
mountings; so 1 gin’-rally drap all but
Bart.”

“Tam glad to know you,” said Major
Henning. ‘have heard of you betore
now, ith have not seen you.”

«Tam sartin that I hev scen you atore,

[ain't good at figgers. While I'm talkin’,

I mought as well say that Georgie did not

tell the hull truth about our comin’ here,

We would hey reached the fort yesterday,

ef he hadn’t been chasin’ over the hills ar-

tera gal—a sort of stray gul—the same

one, 1 reckon, that the boy met on the

creck. Ile was powerful eager on the

trail, but she allurs managed to give him

the slip.”

«Indeed! Thatcher did not tell me of

the girl. I would dike to hear all about

her.”

Honri Labardie then told his story to the

major, and George Svarle, being begged

to do so, gave some account of his pursuit

of Henri’s mountain princess, who had

vasily eluded him whenever he attempted

to approach her,

Madame Labardie, who had rejoined the

party, listened to both narrations with al
painiul interest, Major Ilenning, when

Searle had finished his deserij tion of the
ir], was silent for a few moments,and set
as if buried in thought.

«There is danger abroad,” he said at
last. ‘* ‘The Blackfect are on the watch,
and they want to surprise and capture this
post. What you have told me about the
girl, and about that bald-headed and

free

here when the tussle comes.

extensive have been their depredations,
and so formidable have they become un-
der the leadership of these white men, that
they are known and dreaded far and near,
and are shunned even by large and well-
organized parties.”

** But the girl,” interrupted Searle, ra-
ther impatiently.

an angel or demon?”

‘Concerning the girl, I have nothing
but hearsay to give you, and accounts dil-
fer widely. It is said that she is related to
one of the white wen, and she is generally
8 1pposed to be the duughter of the oldest
of them, who is a French Canadian or
half-breed. According to some accounts,
she is used as a decoy, for the purpose ol
luring travelers into plices where they can
be easily destroyed by the Blackfeet; but
others represent her us more angel than
demon,,and say that she has been the
means of saving many lives. The state-
ments are quite contradictory, and you
may believe whichever you choose.”

I shall certainly believe her to be an an-
gel. until I am convinced to the contrary,”
said Searle.

**T would advise you, however, not to
seek too intimate an acquaintimece with
her, as your beliel might be unpleasantly
changed, The two white men are known
among the Blackfeet by Lndian vanes,
which signify Grey-head and Bald-head,
By the trappers they are usually called Old
Frenchy and Old Dison. I have good
reason to believe that the bald-headed man
is a person who was once knowp at St
Louis as a gambler and adventurer, under
the name of James Musson.”

‘The major’s statement was suddenly in-
torrupted by a shriek of terror from Mad-
ame Labardie, who fainted and fell from
her chair. She was carried to her own
room by Major Henning and his wife, and
the latter remained with her, while the
former, with a troubled countenance, soon
returned to the room in which he had lett
Searle and Swannick.

** She is better,” he said, in answer to
Searle's inquiries, ‘It was but a slight
fainting fit, from which she was easily re-
eoyered, ‘I am afraid that she has rea-
son to know the name that I mentioned,
and that it must be some old grudge, as
triend Swannick said, that induced Musson
to carry off her son.”

‘There is some mystery about it, cer-
tainly,” said Searle. ‘ We may have a
chance to learn more about it, if, as you
suppose, there is a probability that we will
be visited by that band of Blackfeet.”
‘The probability is a strong one, as |
think. This post is situated just in the
route which they must take, on this side
of the mountains, when they wish to pounce
upon passing trains or to reach the tavorite
hunting and trapping-grounds to the north
ofus, ‘They have not passcd here since 1
came; but | know that my establishment
is a great eyesore to them, and that they
would like to destroy it, as well as to get
what it is supposed to contain. I have no
doubt that they will attack me, if they
think themselves strong enough to gain
the victory.”

** What will be your chances in a fight,
major? Do you consider yourself strong
enough to repulse such a band?”

*| hope they may not discover how
woak we areat present. I have only about

a dozen fighting men with me, the others

being absent on business expeditions, My

post is generally called afort; bit, as you

may have noticed, itis only laid off as a
fort, and not constructed as such. A great

deal of labor is needed, before it can be
¢

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in strengthening the defenses, and no
8
ter.”

alled a defensible position, To-morrow
shall set at work all the men I can spare,

uspicious persons must be allowed to en-

«You may count on two additional men
for fighting, as Swannick and I will be
Por my part
Lam anxioys to get a eloser view of that
girl ot whom I caught a glimpse in the

major, though it was « long time ago—/nountains. I mean to do 89, it it is a pos-
some eighty or forty year, 1 reckon; but} sible thing, and it ought to be possible, as

she is in the neighborhood. Perhaps Bart
and I may bring you some information of
the enemy.”

**Tam afraid that you would fall into
their hands. Permit me to advise you
against such an attempt.”

** It would probably be useless, as I am
foolishly obstinate, As that man Musson
wished to carry off Madame Labardie’s
boy, it would be but fair to turn the tables
on him by bringing him into the tort.”

‘IT wish you could do so; but the at

empt is to hazardous.”

** It would be too good a joke to be lost,
If I don't bring him in, 1 will bring his
party, or something that belongs to him.”
“That's a fact!” broke in Bart Swan-
nick, *' Georgie will do what he says he
will, and it ain’t worth wile to hold out
aginst him.”

Mrs, Henning and Jeannette Labardie
now came in, und led the way to another
room, where supper was ready.

CHAPTER VIL.
SOMETINING BROUGHT IN,

Tn one of the deep and narrow valleys
of the Wind river mountains, on tho west-
ern side of that lofty rang: , two men were

ti

kled-face man, has convinced me that| seated, one alternoon in July, a few days
the suspicions which I lately entertained | subsequent to the events recorded in the

r ** What has she to do
with all this? Is that beautiful creature

were seated near the spring under the
cliff, one reclining on a_bearskin, and the
euler sitting up, straight and stiff, on a
rock,

Th2 latter was the bald-headed and
freckle-faced person who has already been
described. His companion was an older
man, with long, white hair, red face, and
form inclined to be portly. His counte-
nance was brutalized, showing the traces
of violent passions, and a free use of ardent
spirits, and a malevolent disposition peep-
ed out of his small black eyes,

** Well, Bearteau, | don’t see that Fhave
any thing more to say or do about it,”
said the freckle-faced individual, rather
Bala, “The matter isin your hands
now, and you may tuke what measures
you please.”

‘In coorse I may, and I've a notion
that I will take the measure of Henning’s
fort afore long. You are sure the boy
called himself Henri Labardie, and that he
was Jeannette’s child?”

* Thave told you so. There can be no
doubt about the boy, for Annette pumped

all his history out of him. He and_his
mother are Tiviase with Major Henning,

and have been since—”

“Since we found Annette, down at
Vother end of the mountings. ‘That wasa
lucky hit, Jeems Musson, Hope I may be

rubbed out, if | don’t believe that good

luck follers one up tol’able sharp. Arter
chasin’ Jeannette and that scump about

fur so long, without ever gittin’ a chance

to light on ’em. I say it was the best of

good-luck to find the gal thar in the snow.

We war cussin’ purty hard, you know,

*ouuse we had to take up with such a meau

campin’-place in the storm; but, if we

hadu’t happened to be right thar when

Labardie came tumblin’ down the mount-

ings, we would hey missed a heap. We
didn’t need even to stick a knife into him,
as the hoss had finished him; and the gal
was wrapped up so nice and warm, that
we had nothin’ to do but to kerry her along
and tramp out of the way.” -

“That is true enough,” said Musson,
with growing impatience; ‘* but it has
nothing to do with the present time and
business.”

“Yes it has; aheap. Jest see how

good-luck follers me. We lost the trail of
Jeannette, and only heard of her once in
ten years; and now, jest when we are well
fixed, with men under us and power in
our hands, she turns up right afore us. I
was tol’able well satisfied, mysell, ‘cause
Tnew what Annette would grow up tobe,
and I was sure that I could marry her off
to some rich man, by the time I got too
old fur work.”
“Tam afraid that your marriage scheme
will prove a failure, like your attempt with
Jeannette, But all this is nothing to the
purpose: What do you mean to do with
your good-luck, as you call it?”

“] mean to marry off Annette, as I said;
and that will be a good thing of itself It
will be a good thing, too, to wind up my
revenge on that cussed Major Henning,
with one big blow that will finish him.”
«That is what I want to get at. Ilis
fort is full of goods that he brought on this
season, and it would be a valuable prize.”
* Don't I know it? The Blackfeet are
all ready fur the work, too. The dumed
fort is sot right in thar way, and will be a
heap of trouble to ’em if it stays whar it 1s.
They are keen to wipe it out, and to git
the spoils and the scalps that belong to it.
But we must make a sure thing of it, as
you know, Jeems Musson. If we should
git whipped, the red-skins would turn
ug’inst us xt once, and our scalps would
come up missin’ !”

« There need be no failure, if we show
ny skill, and if the Blackteet fightas they
ught to, Phere are but few men in the
tort—not more then a dozen, I believe,
and the fortifications that Ilenning has
janned are not halt finished.”

* Are you sartin? If that p’int is sure,

os

the thing ort to be casy enough, Butt
hear the major has set his men at work
throwin’ up dirt ”

* That is true, and it proves that we
have no time to lose, as Lhaye been tell-
ing you. We must strike svon, il we are
o strike at all”

** You are right about that, Jeems Muz-
son. We must speak to Ah-na-mish-co
about it right away. [reckon thatis him,
omin’ up trom the lake, with a crowd of
red-skins around him, Suthin’ has hap-

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ry

r
pened, sartin. Ah! here is Annette, ridin,
us if she wanted to break her neck.”

To be Continued.

DEPLoraABLE state OF Mexico.—The
clegraph news we have lately received
rom Mexico show the deplorable state of
ffairs in that unfortunate country: Re-
bellion, anarchy, murder, in nearly all the
different States; and the government—
Lpowerless to maintain order or execute the
laws—if there be any laws to execute,
Since the murder ot Maximillian, there
has hardly been a day of quiet; scarcely
a telegram which did not record the break~
ing out of some rebellion, or the commis-
sion of some actol crime, ‘ Patriots” are
constantly raising the standard of revolt,
and secking by un appeal to arms to rem-
edy existing evils which are only increns-
od by such a course. In various parts of
the county, rival chieftain and presidens
tial plotters. have seized strongholds, and
assert independence of central authority.

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Oashier—James Anpverson, Esquire. which is rapidly snperseding the old system of life] a6 eorreet. We may expect a visit from | last chapter.

Discount Days—Wednesdays & Saturdays.
Hours of Business—From 10 a.m to lp m.,
from 2 p.mto 4pm,

SUMMERSIDE BANK.
Central Street, Summerside, DP, B. Leland

Prosident—James L. Horman, Esq
Cashior—E. L. Lyrvranp, Esquire
Discount Days—Tuesdays and ee
Notes for Discount must be in before 11
o'clock on Discount days.
aMoure of Businese—10 a. m., to 1 p.m.
from 2 p. m., to 4 p.m.

~ ROCKLIN HOUSE, —
KENT STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN,
SIMON D. FRASER, PROPRIETOR,

Pormanent and Transient Boarders will
find the above House to give satisfaction,
Ch’town, Jane 13, 1868.

BARRISTER - AT - LAW

AND

NOTARY PUBLIC, &o.
SUMMERSIDE, + > = - PE ISLAND.

—" IWELLTAM DODD,

Commission Merchant,
And Auctioneer,

QUEEN 8QUARE,

JHARLOTTETOWN.«-- P. EF. ISLAND

long payments, and has revolutionized the system
of Life Inaurance in the United States, and which
has been adopted (generally in a loss fuvoruble
form) by all Vite Companies, A_ party, by this
table, ufter the second year, cannot Jorfeit any
part of what has been paid ins

[er Tables of Rates, Cireulars, Examples of
Divdiends, Forms, &o., can be had by applying to
the Agent, at Charlottetown,

MEDICAL EXAMIMERS:
Dr. MACKIESON, Dr. R. JOHNSON,
Agent for P. E, Island:
HENRY A, HARVIE.

WILLIAM BEAIRSTO,
Commission Merchant,

Auotioneer & General Agent,
WATER STREKT,

Summerside,

P. EH, Island

Ch'town Nov 19, 1868.

a

. MORE LIGHT !
50
J. L. HOLMAN,

Wholesale Warehouse,

For sale low.

OASKS superior KEROSENE OIL,

Head Holiman’s Wharf,Sam’side,Nov 19,'68

the Blackfeet, and we should lose no time
in preparing to meet them,”

“Tam well puzzled now, major,” said
George Searle. ** What, in the name of
wonder, can that beautilul girl have to do
with the Blackteet ?”

«*Much; but it is a long story, and I
can only give you an outline of it at pre-
sent. ‘There isa air band of Blackfeet,
mostly composed of Blood Indians, among
whom that bald-headed man and another
old man have lived during several years,
They have acquired such an influence am-
ong the Blackfeet, that the bald headed
fellow has become thelr principal medicine
man, and his friend, a French Canadian,
is a powertul chief,

than the savages themacives,

Like most other ren-
egades, these two men are more violent
and cruel in their hostility to the whites
The home
of the band—il they can be suid to have a

Far above them, toward the east, tow-
ered the snow-covered peaks of the moun-
tuins, their tops seeming to reach to the
skies and to conncet the lower world with
that above. On cach side were rugged
and broke precipices, impossible of access
to man or horse. The entrance to the
valley was by a narrow defile, through
which two horsemen could hardly pass
abrest. The valley widened above the
entrance, about halfa mile from which it
terminated, at the foot ofa stupendous
cliff, At this season it was covered with
arich growth of good grass. Nearly in
the middle was a beautitul lake, deep and
clear. rock-bound and cold, At the upper

end a limped spring gushed out from the
rocks at the foot of the cliff, mingling its
waters with those of the lake, aud torm-
ing one of the sarees of the great Color-

Robbers and guerillas infest mountain
passes; and safe travelling is out of the
question. Coriuption is gloried in’ by
government officials, Juarez remains in
the capital, evidently unable to take any
measures to put down rebellion. Several
chieftains have declared tor Santa Anna,
others are working in their own interests,
rhere seems to be no hope tor this coan-
try, so blessed by nature, but cursed by
man,

The Montreal papers claim that Whe.
lan’s hanging was trom their city, The
coincidence then would occur that Mr
MeGee, the vietin, was trom Montreal;
that Whelan, his marderer, was trom Mon-
treal; and that Whelan’s executioner was
a'so from Montreal. ‘Thus the victim, the
assassin, and the assiasin’s executioner,

ado river which empties into the Gull of

wore citizens of the aume city,