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February

James Greenough
FLOUR

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THOMAS HANFORD,
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Nov 1, 1865

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SUMMERSIDE, P. By. TSLAND,
October 12, 1865, ,

PORTRY. —

. THR GOOD WIPE.

It is just as you say, neighbour Green,
A treasure indeed is my wife*
Such another for bugle und work
T never have seen in my life.
But then she keeps every one else
As busy as birds on the wing:
There is never a moment for rest,

She is such a fidgety thing,

She makes the best bread in the town,
Her pies are a pertect delight,
Her coffee a rich golden brown,
Her crullers and puddings just right.
But then while I eat them she tells .
Of the care and the worry they bring
Of the martyr-like toil she endures— |
Oh, she’s such a fidgety thing!

My house is as neat as a pin,
You should see how the door handle
shines,
And all of the Soft-cushioned chairs
_ And nicely-swept carpets are nine.
. But then sheso frets at the dust,
* Atia fly, abt a straw, at a string;
That I stay out of doors all I can,
She is such a fidgety thing,

She doctors the neighbours—oh, yes.
Ifa child bas the measles or croup,
She is there with her saffrons and squills,
Her dainty made grucls and soup.
But then she insists on her sight
‘To physic my blood in the spring; ‘
And she takes the whole charge of my bile—
Oh, she is such fidgety thing!

She knits all my stockings herself,

My shirts are bleached white as the snow ;
My old clothes look better than new,

but daily more threidbare they grow.
But then if a morsel of lint

Or dust on my trowsers should cling,
I'm sure of a sermon at least,

She is such a fidgety thing.

You haye heard ofa spirit so meek,
So meek that it never opposes,
Its own it dares never to speak—
Alas! Iam meeker than Moses.
But then I am not reconciled
The subordinate music to sing;
TI submit to get rid of a row,
She is such a fidgety thing.

It’s just as you say, neighbour Green,
‘A treusure to me has been given;
But sometimes I fain would be glad
‘To lay up my treasure in heaven.
But then every life has its cross’s
Most pleasures on earth have their sting;
She’s a treasure, I know, neighbour Green,
But she’s such a fidgety thing.

Select Hiterature.

White Mountains,

BY CLARA AUGUSTA.

A’most everybody has took a tower this
summer; and Uve-been and took one too,
Tdunno but what Ive as good a right to
as any other individoul, IT don't owe no-
body nothing, except Jim Hanson, the tin
pedlar, for a strainer; and Dve got more’n
tags enuf to settle with him—or shall
have when I cut up Caleb’s cotton flannil
shirts; and then Lowe ‘Tin Gorch's wile
three cents for gitting me a pound of sal-
eratus and not miking the change,

Tcould pay her now jest as well as not
if she’d only take a siled postage-stiamp ;
but she don’t take stamps for fear the post-
office will bustup. Miss Gorch is the most
exutionest woman that ever you se

Ive had a hard summer's work of it! no
mistake! It makes my back ache to, think
of it. Feed has been so poor on account
of the dry weather, that the eows has
worked thirselyes clean into skillitons a
keeping from starving, and haint give no
milk worth menshuning,

Butter has been so skeeree and high,
that I’ve felt as if it was sin to use it
common; and [ haint allowed o olks
none sense last July. To be shureyT allus
have butter on the table—a-plateful on it;
but if anybody goes for.to tech of it, I jest
tread on their toes, and giye ema look
that stops purseedings at once.

One platetul has lasted us all summer.
T believe it’s gitting a lectle strong now;
but itll have to do this month out, | guess,

Along, in June, sometime, Samuel
White he went up to the White Mountains;
and when he got back, be had more to tell
than anybody that had been to the North
Pole need to have had, All that he hadn't
seed wouldn't paid for looking at it.”

He sot me into a tilt to go and see for
myself. oe

IT spoke to Betsey Jane, my oldest, about
it, but she only turned up her nose, and
sed I'd better staf at home, Betsey is an
awfal hand to gad about herself, but she’s
never willing for me to stir outside the
threshold. She's afeard she shall have to
wash the dishes. I never seed anybody
quite so ateard of siling their hands as she
is. She takes a sight of pains. with ’em,
and does ’em up in tattered rags every
night of her life, to keep ’em smooth,

ut as it happens, I haint under’ Betsey
Jane's govurnment yet, so LT made all my
pepperations just aS if ‘she was tickled to
death with the idee of my going.

'The first of August I sold tei cheeses,
that come to lectle rising seventy-five
dollars. '

I went to Dover rite off and bought me
a starlet mering gownd—a_ yaller, sattin
bonnit, trimed with blue and lalock-eolored

shawl that ever You s it eyes.qn to.

I got me some new false hair—tor, jost
between you and me, mine is: so thin I
ean’t do much of anything with it; and
then FE. got a ‘*vat” to roll it over, so's to
make me look like a girl, tl if

After I'd got detarmined on going, T
Went over and asked aunt Peggy Miles to
go with me. She sed she'd like to only
she dassent go in: the railroad, for’ she

it!—And as for a steamboat, it would be
sinful to tempt Providence by gitting into
one of them contrivances Of Satan, “Aunt
Peggy is a lectle pecooliar in her idees,
but a nice woman for all that,

Sol told her to fix herself to start in
two days, and we'd go with the old mare,
She's nigh onto seventeen years old—the
mare is—and haint had nothing but oat-
straw to eat this summer; but she’s spunky
asa colt, if you jest tech her with the
whip. /

1 got some new shafts put into the wag-
gon—the old ones has been tied wy with
Shoe-strings this two years, and we dassent
step onfoum; and I took my green flannil
quilted peticoat and cushioned the seat,
and put a braided rug into the bottom for
our feet to seton, and my) redand blue
calico comfortable to take up in front of
us cold mornings. i

We had considerable baggage ; but then
it takes a good deal for females that pur-
tends to be ladies. I had a trunk, three

bandboxes, a capbox, a carpet-bag full of
ginger-bread, an ambriller, a parasol, a

peck-measure to feed the hoss with, a
spare shawl, a bottle of lineament, in case
T should tn: took with the newrollogy, and
a clothes-line, to tie the old mare with,

Auut ey, she had two bandboxes,
a vallees, av satchel of turnovers, a sugar-
hox of doughnuts, a six quirs pail full of
pickles, two baskets tull of apples, and
Bounce, her dog,

T objected to Tet kerrying the dog; but
she séd she wvouldvt be sepirated from
him for no money! She couldn't go to
sleep onights without Bounce on her feet.

The first day we travelled six miles, and
hauled up by the road for repairs. One
cend of the waggon-seat broke down, but
[ pat the pailot piekles on top of the
sugir-box, and stuck them under the seat,
and made it alright,

The next day we did better. We went
eenamost twenty miles. [held the reins
ard Aunt Pegey she did the walloping
with the whip—and the old mare went
like ahoss, Lots of folks banterd) me to
swop hos But Ltold’em Lbadu’t no
time to tlk with ’em Twas wound for the
White Mountains,

Aunt Peggy had the worst of if. Her
arm was so lame after a day or two, that
she couldn't skeercely git it to her head,

At the cend of five days we got in sight
of the mountains, and stopped at a small
house rite in under a mountain, and close
to quite a smart lithe pond of water, —The
grandest place to raise geese ana ducks
up there that ever was!

[was pretty muely tuckered out, and
asked to be showed to my room rite off, —
Four tow-headed children, fighting for
the one taller-dip that lit the way, led olf
—Aunt Pegey she couldn't get into the
room ull atter J was a-bed, it was so small
—so she staid outside aud let me go in fust.
The door to it was of from the hinges, and
[told the young: ones to set it up close,
and pat a cheer against il. , Naterly, L ex-
peeted they'd obey me—so, I went to tak-
ing off my hair and pulling out my + rat.”
when Theerd a giggling jest outside, and
on looking at the door, L seed that it didn't
shet by as muchas two inches, and that
tee wis full of eyes peeping in at me.

** Mother! mother!” ealled one of the
boys; ‘this woman is @ pecling her hoad!
Quick! quick! oniy see her!”

Twas mad, and afore I thought of any-
thing about the condition of the door, I
grabbed hold of it to open it, and down it
went bang into the floor, knocking: over
live children, two cheers, a eat, a table
full of crockery, a pole of chickens. that
Was aroosting in the kiteken, and nigh
about stunding all ereation,

Tapollergised as wellas T could, and
explained to the folks that T warn't used
to ondressings before so many spectators
and they sent the children off to bed.

I was real mortified. For a widder
woman that may think of marrying agin
some time, to be ketched a taking off her
false hair that everybody thinks is her own
natral locks, is too bad.

Howsomever, [I comforted myself up
with the idve that there arint no onmarried
men about the hou When [ finished
ondr g, 1 hing my clothes ont of the
window to make room fovaunt Peggy to
come ing anda halfhourafterward we were
within the arms of Morphus.

We started early the next morning and
by driving the old mare hard, we managed
to get to the Glen House about. dark,
That is a nice tavern at the fect of Mount
Washington,

Ther was a black bear chained in front
of it to. prevent people trom robbing the
elotheslines and hen-houses. Bounce he
flow vite at the bears; but arter he'd lost
wanouthful of hair and skin, he was) glad
to come back and behave himself.

1 asked the landlord it he put us up
He sed he was sorry, but he was fall, 1
asked him if he couldn't give us a bed on
the floor, Ife ged it was out of the ques:
tion. Then y a him if L eouldn’t roost
somewheres. @ lle scratched his head a
minnit, and sed we might have the diniug-
room table.

Te led off the old mare, and we went
into the house, ‘The floors everywhere
was kivered with peopla, wrapped) up in
shawls, blankets, and) comfortables, antl
snoring like wl possessed. i

We eat our supper, nid then T got. the
comlortable and. the braided: rug out of
the waggon, and by the help of a cheer
we hoisted ourselves on to thé table and
turned in, I soon got to sleep, and
dreamed that Capt. Chamberlain was try-
ing to kiss me, aud inthe skirmmage I
thrashed over, and off T rolled vite onto a
fat man who was a laying glose by the
table, snoring loud enuff to. split the uni-
vase. ,

I kno¢ked the snore clean out ol him,
and smashed his watch-erystal, and. his
patunt double-barvelled squizzing. glass

all to flinders and seraped all the skin off

trom ny left elbow.

The fat man. yelled dreadfully, and
skypred some of the people nigh about out
of their wits. Most of ‘em thought the

house was alire, and the way they gathered

up their baggage was lively. »

As soon #8:morning came, Imade my
toilight as well.as I eonld, though T hada
pretty tough time to make my ‘“ rat” look

‘| decent with so many folks a staring at me,

As for 4 looking-giags, ‘I hadd't seen ‘tiny
face sense T left home.” '

Tasked the landlord what about, goin
tip onto the topof Washington, for] hadn't

should sartingly expect it to’ blow tp and

a grate while to #

ridges that belonged to the hotel—though
some folks purturred to go with their own
teams, '
ae told him [ should go with my own
steam, then; To was acquainted with the
old mare, and she was acquainted with
me, He advised me to leave my baggage
with him, but I told him no, Ld rather
have it under my own eye.

We started real airly, ‘Phe sun wasn't
more’n up afore we was on that: kerridge
road. Ever seen it? If you haint, you've
jest missed sceing one of the slickest roads
in the country. It's about niue miles long,
and jest as smooth and even as yer perlor
floor, But it’s awfully uphill! i

‘They made us pay some money for go>
ing onto the roud uf a. little house, by; a
bridge, down at the bottom of the moutain,
[told ‘em T thought that Was mean when]
we'd come so fur—but law! you can’t ix-
pect © mean man to be born over agin itito
a ginerous one.

The sun Come ont pretty lottish, and
afore we'd gone more’n amile that hoss
was as wet as if she’d been dipped in the
river. Aunt Peggy and I got out and
travelled-afoota piece. And attera spell,
I took out a couple of my bandboxes and
lugged them to lighten the load; aunt
Peggy she did the same by her vallees,
and the pailof pickles. Bounce he trudged
on behind, anc a’ sorvier-looking dog you
never seed, Every might of the wag had
vone out of his tail, and his ears hung dowa
like two wilted cabbage lenves,

It was e’enamost sunset when we fot to
the top, and the old mare was clean tuck-
ered out. For she last half-mile [had to
hawlherhy the bridles and aunt Peggy
she pushed behind.

We couldn't see nothing but a couple
of houses bit out of rocks; and lots and
lots move of rocks laying all around, jest ts
somebody had carted ‘em there for stone
wall. !

I slept tip-top that night in the Tip-Top
flouse, or the Summit, Pre forget which
There was two of vem there, and I dis-
rimember tother from which. The morn-
ing Was clear, We seed a sight of thing

lt w lto being up in Squire ILorvick’s
garrut winders, only move so.
We pieked up some rocks and some

picees of moss to show when we got home,
and started to go back down the mountain
agin. Tid, andaunt Pegay walked.

We was going downa pretty steep place,
when the old mare pricked her cars at a
stick in the road, jumped, and, law me!
that wagon parted, T bounced ont—the
hoss kervied off the forrad wheels, and the
rest of the consarn, baggage and all, went
tumbling to destruction down a. shantin-
dikuhur precipice more’n a hundred feet
igher than the steeple of our ineeting
house,

Tsereeched and clamered down arter my
vallerables as fast as I could—but dk
me! They was all ruined — everything

except these bandboxes, two carpet-brgs.
andan ambirill! The waggon was all

stove to kindlings! I picked up the rem-
nants and clambered back with them.
Aunt Peggy and I strung tem onto a pole
and Judged ’em down to the Glen honse.
‘Duere we found the old mare, with the
fragments of them forrad wheels tied to
her—but sh¢ looked as sober as a judge—
if not more so.

We stayed there all night, and the next
morning sot sail forhome, Vd seen enuf.

Lled the hogs, and Aunt Peggy kerried
one eend of the pole on which the band-
boxes and bags were strung, and [ kervied
the other once he skulked behind.

Folks laffed at us on the way, but they
laffed at their betters. Nobody keered for
‘era,

Thank goodness! we got home at last,
though I haint been able to go a step since,
my newrollogy is so bad; and Aunt Peggy
haint been able to wear a shoe for amouth ;
partly because her feet is sore, and partly
because she haint got none to wear.
Well, anyhow, we made the tower.

~ House ef Assembly,

Depatr on THE Darr Appress ww AN-
swer 'to [ts EXCELLENCYs SPEECH.

f 22

Monpay, April 22.

On motion of hor. Mr. Krtry, the
House resolved itselt into a Committee of
the whole, to take into considerition the
Drait Address in answer to Ilis Exeellen-
ey's Speceh tit the opening of the Session,
—Mr, Buty in the Chair.

The first paragraph was agreed to with-
out remark,

Ou the 2d paragraph being read—

Iflon, Mr. Hensity rose to move its
adoption, and said: —Mr. Chairman: This
chuuse nay not mect with the approval 6!
all hon, aanbers, though Lam unable to
see that any one can see against it a valid
It does not eeusure any party;
it simply states afact. While it says that
“the late time which it was deemed ail-
visable to dissolye the last Assembly, and
the Ministerial arrangements resulting
from the General Agection,” prevented His
xcellency trom summoning the House at
an carlier period, it does wot east the least
reilection upon the late Government. We
charitably suppose that they had good rea-
son tor delaying the Elec¢tion. But, as
soine eight or ten months of the most suit-
able season of the year for holding it,
elapsed before the Louse was dissolved, a
satislactory explanation of the matter, trom
some of His Excellency’ te advisers,
would, no doubt, be gratifying to hon.
members, as wellas to the people gener-
ally. As you are aware, Sir, the ‘* minis-
terial avrangements” referred to in the
clause, ave those rendered necessary by the
resignation of the late Government and its
principal oflicers, whose places had to be
filled up to carry on the public business oi
the Colony. Those hou. members who
aecepted offices of emolument, of course,
had to tacate their seats; and, though the
writs for the Elections, in such cases, were
made returnable as soon as possible, delay
in calling the Legislature together was
impossible. We, do not wish to attach
blame to the lite party in power; we
metely express our pa ae ey notwith-
standing the Inteness of the Session, to
devote a suffigicnt time, to mature such
measures as the exigencies. of the. Colony
ind the pubilé service may require, It,
however, would afford me plensare to hear
trom two hon, members tk wear Cilessrs.

Dunesn and Henderson),

of the reason why the General Election
was so long delayed, | It is surmised that
the Jate Gavernnicnt deferred the dissolu-
tion of Whe, Agssoi BY until Confederation
might be matured; but as these two hon.
members are understood to be decidedly
opposed to that measure, they could not
have constuted to the delay on any such
ground, i

IIon. Mr. McAvutay.—Mr,. Chairman, |
cannot but admire the moderation of the
hon. gentleman who has just resumed his
seat! At first he was not going to cast any
reflection upon the late Government, but
he concluded his speech by calling apon
them to give an aceount of thei actions,
Conduct” Jike this is ,upparliumentary.
Never before, 1 believe, has such thing
occurred in any conntry, #3 an iucoming

'Goverument attempiing, to call their pre-

Cecessoni to account on the floors of the
Legislature, A new light hag dawned up-
on the w since the advent of the pre-
sent Government to power, and I hope. it
will benelit from the faint illumination

Which that Hight affords. It is contrary to
parliamentary rule for one Mouse to refer

to the proce of another. But the
hon, member's allusion to the acts of the
late Government seems merely, intended
to cover the misdeeds of his own: party.
Ife complains of the Iiteness of the Session,
and’ throws all the blame ou Lis Excellen-
oy’s former advisers. His excuse will not
id the test of investigation, ‘The Gun-
Election was held on the 26th of Keb-

and the House Was not summoned
until the 18th of April, Why the delay ?
The pleading about aministerial arrange-
ments Will not satisfy the public, Were
the Officers ol the lute goyermment asked
to reluiu theie places lor. a few months,
until the business of the Session could. be
gotover? The real fact ol the case appears
to be that the leaders of the party now in
power were s0 anxious to obtain aflice,
that, rather than forego the sweets of
eimolument for a week, they were prepared
to pat the people to expense, and the coun-
try members to great inconyenicnee, I
will not move any amendment to the
paragraph under consideration ; but Lhope
that the hon, Attorney General willadhere
to parliamentary rule more strictly in fu-
ture, (

Mr, Breoxen.—I regret that the hon.
Leader of the Opposition is not in his
place: ifhe were, L daresay he would satis-
iy the hon. Attorney General respecting
the delay in holding the General Election,
which seems to cause that hou, member so
much uneasiness. 1 believe, however,
that his surmise was pretty neatly correct ;
that the late Government deemed it advis-
whle to delay the Elections until the time
the Imperial Government, with respeet to
the position this Islaud would oceupy in
gard to Confederation should be made

Though Lam opposed. to Con-
eration, L believe the policy of the late
Adininstration, in waiting to ascertain the
decision of the [Lome Government on that
question, Wasa sound one, It was but
right Uhat the people of this Island should
be made aware of What the Imperial Goy-
ernment were going to do with them, be-
tore they were required to go to the polls,
This isa simall Colony; and, though we
objected to enter the proposed Contedera-
tion, it was possible that the authorities at
Home might resolve to include us in. the
Bill then about to be brought before Par-
lianent. ‘The people, L think, will not
blame the late Government for delaying
the Election until the public mind was re-
lieved upon that point. It would have
been unwise to pat the county to the ex-
pense of a General Election, without
knowing what would be our future fitte
But, Mr. Chairman, it I recollect right]
the late Govermment placed their rey
tious in His Excellency’s hands so
or twelve days before their succe
appointed, therefore the very late period
at which the Session was called, could
not be altogether attributable to the time
at which the Election was held. And, af-
ter the Government was formed, and they
had placed their friends in office, there was
apparently no-oecasion for delaying the
opening of the Session until Just week,
‘They were strong—at least numicarily so,
whether really strong or not. ‘They had
nineteen to eleven of the Opposition—or
eighteen t6 twelve—a question, which I
suppose the hon, member fo ‘Yon alone
can solve ; Gonseqnently the absence ol two
or three members from theip seats shonld
not have delayed the public business, But,
I suppose we must accept the explanation
in the pat raph under consideration, that
*“ninis autvangenients,” or perhaps
more properly, ministerial digitculiies—pre-
vented an eariier eall of the House. Woe
know, Sir, from the deelaration of the hon,
Leader of the Government bimsel!, at the
lute nomination, that his present sipporters
in'the Legislature ave composed ot all po-
litical partigs; therefore itis eusy to under
stand how difficulties may arise, ‘The
paragraph before the Comittee is moder.
ate; and, indeed, the whole. Address is
moderate; and, liad it not been for the
allusion mude by the hon. Attorney Gen-
eral to the course pursued by the late
Government in retereuce to the General
Election, I would not have troubled. this
hon, Committee so early in the dubate,

Ifon. Mr. Davivs.—The hon. member
for Cliaviottetown has stated that the rea-
sou the late Adminisiratols delayed the
Klection, was in order to ascertaia’ what
action the Home Government intended to
take on Contederation. This is a yery
extraordinary exeuse to offer, Did they
suppose or desire that the dinperial Goy-
erument world force us into Contedcration ?
The British Parliament would not be so
uujust as to sandtion such aniet. Weare
in as independent a position as atiy of the
States in the neighboring Republic; and
our independent rights cannot properly be
tuken fromus. But the British Govern.’ ,
iment never wished to cooree usinto Con-
iederation. ‘Those who held up this tlea, |
were the men who wished that this Island
might be Legislated into the Union without
the people's consents The Hime Govern?
ment wonld not rightfully deprive us of
ounseparate Government, utiless’ Wwe had
violated the constitution of ‘the ‘Colény,

en
were

And E believe this ig what'the late Géveru-'
ment attempteGto impress upon the Héme ©
authorities; Wh to

they kent HA og

quell, what they represented to be a "dis
turbance among the ‘tutiantry,: thereby
bringing the Island, inte ‘diseredit.: ‘Vou
wtrthe Jate Administivfion delayed

Dh n2tid thw