“a AND W. EST ERN » i ON Bi be. DEVOTED TOLITERATURE,SCIENCE, COM ERCE, AGRICU LTUR E, AND NEWS Vol, 3. Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, December 26, 1867. THE Summerside Journal 18 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVENING, bY JOSEPHBERTRAM, OFFICE, CENTRAL STREET, TERMS: 1 copy for one year, inadvance, — 6s. 8d, Mh Mt halfadyance, 7s. Gd. atthe end of year 9s. ersons getting up cLuns of TEN Subscribers will be entitled to the Jounnau for one year’ ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at moderate rates and in good style. Srrcran AcrenmrNntTs may be made on reasonable terms for a whole, a half, or quar- ter column, or. by the year. JOB PRINTING of every description, performed with neatness and despatch, and at moderate rates, at the Journar Office. AT HIS “ “ ~ Summerside Markets, Summensipe, December 26,1867, Oats per bush ------------- 28 90 Barley per \ush -------- °- 3s Gda ds Potatoes per bush ------ 1s 9d Turnips per bush ------ - 10dals i - 10d a ls Butter per lb by Tub -- ard per lb ------- Tallow. yer lb. - Oda 10d Oda 10d Eggs per doz -- - - ---- + 10d a Is Boefperib -s--- 25° e = 2 = bd a 4d Mutton per lb ------- eeece 2da Bd Pork per lb by carcass’ - = - BAd a 5d x 1s Gd a 2s Geese each -- - Flour per bbl - Oatineal per ewt. Iay per Ton ~---- Straw per ewt. - - Pine Boards - - + Spruce Boards - - 56s a GOs 16s 0 18s 60s a 70s Is Gd 10s December 25, 1867. Beef (small) - - - - 4d a Gd Do. by quarter * - - 3d a Ad Mutton - - - - oda dd Lamb per lb. . - =e Sd a dd Butter . > - . lld a ts Do. by tub - - - 10d a 1s Cheese - * : : dda 7d ‘Tallow be = - - 9da 10d - 8dla dd Lard - - . Flourlb. + « 2 a 3d a 34d Oatmeal-100 lb. - - Visas Dsgs ? e 2 ? 11d als Potatoes - - - 1s Dd a 2s ‘Turnips - - =e lod Barley - - - - 3s a 4s Oats - - - - 23 9d Boards (1femlock) - : - 4s Spruce - - - - ds nbs Pine - - - - 7s a 9s Shingles - - : 12s a 15s Wool - - - - Isa Is Bal Tlay - - - - GOs a 70s Straw cwt. - - - Is Gd a 2s JLomespun - - - bs Gd abs Sheepskins - - Oda ls Calfskin 1b, 2 - - - dda od Hides lb, - - - - - 44d “Business Qards, BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Corner of Queen § Water Sls., Charlottetown President—llon. Danien Breas Cashier —WiILLiAM CUuND: Diséount Days—Mondays § Hours of Business—Fom 1 from 2 p.m to 4 p.m. UNION BANK. Grofton St., Queen's Square, Charlotietown Presitent—Cuanrt Paumer, Esquire, Cashier—Jamus Axpenson, Esquire. Viscount Days— Wednesdays & Saturdays. Tours of Business—From 10 a.m to Lp m., from 2 p.mto 4 pi, SUMMERSIDE BANK. Central Street, Summerside, DP. EB. Island, President—Llon, Jonny R. Ganrpiven, Sashier—L. L. Lypiarp, Esquire Discount Days—Tuesdays and Fridays. Notes for Discount must be in before 11 o'clock on Discount days. Hours of Business—10 a. m., tol p.m, from 2 p. m., to 4 p.m. DR. MeN ILL, Physician & Surgeon, Resipence—At Gorge. Garret’s, Esquire, Stanley Bridge, New London, - - -- P.E.I. Jan 24, 1867. - ee DR. PRICH, Physician & Surgeon, Ovrrice—At the SumMensips Drug Story, next door to Bank, Central Street SUMMERSIDE, LP. B, ISLAND. Octobor 12, 1865. KITSON CASHY, MD., PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHEUR formerly Assistant Surgeon in the U, S. Navy, offers his protessional services to tho people of Summerside and vicinity. He can e consulted athis office, over the Store of Green & Schurman, in Summerside, Juno 18, 1867. tf’ WILLIAM M. HOWE, © Attorney-at-Law and Notary Publie. Bt. Eneanon’s.............0. BE. Istann FRANCIS LONGWORTII, BARRISTER AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW pe“ Office—PAVILION HOTEL, (next door to the Hon. Joseph Iensley’s.) CHARLOTTETOWN - - - FP. E. Island, Jan. 1%, 1867. ah . Co-Partnership Notice. ILE Subscribers have this day entered into CO-PARTNERSHTP as BARRISTERS and ATTORNIES-AT-LAW, under the name, style and _firfa of ALL DAVIES OFFICK,—O’HALLORAN’S BUILDING, Great Geonor Street. GEORGE ALLEY, LOUIS H. DAVIES. Charlottetown, Oct. 18, 1867. oot 24 Rasiness Gards, Commercial Hotel. “NEW ARRANGEMENT! GOAGH FARE PAID! N FUTURE the Coacu Fare of all travel- lers from the Railway Station and Steam- boat Landings in this City to the COMMER- CIAL HOTEL, King Street, who meke their stay one day or upward, WILL be PArp by the Proprietor. FARE AT THE MOTEL: TRANSIENT. One Day, ---------- $1 00 One Week, -------> 5 00 PERMANENT Per Week, - 325 to $450 The HOTEL is situated on the best business street in the city, and nearly opposite the WAVERLY. handsomely fitted up and calculated to ommodate some fifty persons very comfortably. : D. P. HOWE, Proprietor. St. John, N. L., Noy. 7, 1867. ly CRAWFORD’S HOTEL, No. 9 King Square, St.John N-B. Permanent and transient Boarders accom- modated on reasonable terms. In connection with the above the subscribers have opened a First Class Grocery Store where they will keep constantly on hand, Flour, Corn Meal, Provisions, ‘Tea, Sugar, Molasses, and all articles usually kept ina Grocery Store. J. CRAWFORD & SON. May 380, 18 Sountain House Hotel. King Square, (North Side,) ST, JOILN, N, B. Hotel, and refitted the same, is now prepared to accommodate ‘Transient and Permanent Boarders, and trusts by attention to meet a share of public patronage. Having also leased the commodious Stable attached, and secured the services of a careful Hostler, who will be in attendance »t all hours, travellers be sure to get satisfac- {tion at lowest rites, | JAMES W, TILOMSON, : Proprietor, St. John, N. B., July 4, 1867.—ly ROCKLIN HOUSE, Kent Street, Charlottetown, SIMON D, FRASER, PROPRIETOR, Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders. will find the above House to give satisfaction. Ch’town, June 13, 1567. Alocth American Hotel, KENT STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN. JOHN MURPILY, PROPRIETOR, Permanent and Transient Boarders will find good accommodation. * Good Stables in connection with the Torzr, and a careful Hostler always in attendance. Cl’town, Feb. 14, 1867. tf «J, HL ALLEN, Commission {erchant, And Dealer in Provisions, &e, MARKT Ss 2) Diy St. John, N. B. har Gives persoiitl auenlton to the Sale and Purchase of every description of Goorls, May 9, 1867. ‘NIOMAS HANFORD, _ AUCTIONEER AND Commission Merchant, ST, JOUN, N, B, v 1, 1865 ‘CG. L. RICHARDS, Importer and Wholesale Dealer in Hritish & SHorcignGroceries. 4, Head North Wharf, ST. JOHN, - - - NEW BRUNSWICK. Dee. 6, 1866, ly CARVELL BROTHERS, “AUCTIONEERS, Commission Merchants, And General Agents, BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET. Charlottetown, - - - - = PLE, Island WILIJAM BEAIRSTO, Commission Merchant, Auctioneer & General Agent, WATER STREE Summerside, ««+ WILLIAM DODD, Commission Merchant, And Auctioneer, QUEEN SQUAKE, CHARLOTTETOWN --- PP. B. ISLAND J. Island. _MHOMAS KELLY, Barrister - at - Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC, &c, SUMMERSIDE, - - - - 2.2. ISLAND. aug. 0, 1966 “The Subscriber haying leased the above Business Gards, KIAKWOOD, LIVINGSTONE & CO. Slour, Produce, Feather, ' AND GENERAL Commission Merchants, MONTREAL, ------- C.E. The most careful attention given to the execution of orders for Flour, Grain, Seeds, Provisions. Leather, Hides, Coal Oil, and general Merchandize. —-Freights secured and Insurances effected at lowest current rates. Merchants in the Lower Provinces will find it to their interest to forward their orders for Flour to us for execution, as an extensive aequaintance with Western Millers, and as Agents for some of the most populir Brands in Canada, we can with safety assure them of every satisfaction. Remittances against orders when not other- wise provided for, may be made with Stirling Exchange, or Gold Drafts on New York. Dratts on New York being worth usually ang to a 4 per cent more than on Boston. Every information as to the state of the market, present and prospective, given wien required, Consignments of Fish, Cod Oil, &e., care- fully realized, and returns made with the utinost promptitude, or applied according to the wish of consignors. Charges only made for actual disbursements and Commissions not over those of responsible Iuuses inthe line. Unquestionable refernces given when required, KIRKWOOD, LIVINGSTONE & CO. 503 St. Paul Strect, Montreal, C. BE. February 7, 1867. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE OMPANY, FIRE AND LIFE. Established 1809. TWO MILLIONS, Sterling. HBAD OFVICES: EDINBURGH & LONDON. G. W. DeBLOIsS, Agent at Charlottetown. Forms of Application can be had by apply- ing to Mr, J. Berrram, Journal Office, Sum- merside, Charlottetown, June 96, 1867.—ly Important to Shipbuilders Blocks! Blocks! Blocks! IF YOU WANT LO RAISE THE Price ‘of Vessels in England, order a set of those SPLENDID BLOCKS, which everybody is praising, from ‘7 TANS A YOUNG'S. Terms Liberal, W: st., Summerside, Sept. 26, 1867. nN Carriage Factory !! ILead of Queen Street, CHART OT DIE TO WN, 4000) Giteeribora bee leuve to acquaint the public that, having entered into a Co- Partnership, they are prepared to execute all orders in the CARRIAGE, SLEIGH, On Blacksmith Business , and having cach had considerable experience, they are able to turn out a FIRST CLASS Carriage or Sleigh. Repairing of all kinds, together with all other work appertaining to their line of busi- ness, will be attended to. Send in your orders immediately PROUD & McCOUBREY, Queen Street, Charlottetown, Jan. 10, 1867. ly: SAWS, SAWS! SAWS!! sah of the best quality, and at the follow- ing Cash prices, always on hand at the manufacture of the subscribers :— CAPITAL: CIRCULARS, Diameter, 34 in. $18 each BO in. S15 each Diverter. 36 in. $20 each 32 in. $16 cach 28 in. $12.50 each 24 in. $9 cach 20 in. 87 each 16 in. $5 each 12 in. $3 each. Mill Saws 54 feet, $5 cach; Buck’ Saws 28 in. $7 per dozen, set and sharped. All orders left at the Book Store of Mr. Joseph Bertram, Suminerside, or forwarded direct, will receive immediate attention. A RICHARDSON & Co. St. John. NB. April 11. 1s07.y "DAVID BHRERAM, Saddle and Harness Maker, Water Strect . . . . . Summerside. October 12, 1865. - JABEZ HUDSON, Authorized Auctioneer, GENERAL AGENT, &e., THYON, 8 6 6 eee ne OR, Bi dy _ dune 27,1867, 2 : nD THLOMAS FRIZZEL, Boot and Shoe Maker, WATER STREET, opposite Green & Schurman’s Store. Boots and Shoes of a superior quality con- stantly on hand, and for sale cheap. Summerside, June 6, 1867. ly James Greenough, FLOUR Commission Merchant, No 47 Commercial Street Corner of Clinton Street - - + - - BOSTON PORTRY. VERSARY, Brornen! If all the radiant thonght ‘Thy hands have traced in fifty years,’ Brom heart and mind of genius wrought, Undimmed by clouds or falling tears,— Tf all the good thy hands have told Iby type on type and line on line, Could be upon thy future rolled, Our willing hearts would wish them thine. O veteran knight of royal art! What thought and po-ver thy hands have held, What made the rolling ages start, pe And earth’s grand hymn of progress swelled} A balfa century has passed Since thon was to thy letters wed, And now in love we come to cast Our benedictions on thy head. Long inay the years bring joy to thee, yn thy closing day, 4, lurge and tree, Be strewn along thy peaceful way, Ani fifty years of glorions art, Tn toil and thought and zeal like thine; Shall write upon the loving heart McDeviit's name, a golden line, Bovunser. : Select Witerature, A LIPE WAT. (Concluded.) ~ THE CONTENTS OF THE CLASPED VOLUME. I kNow not whether lam mad or sane. I know not whether [was mad when 1 did it, ‘Phere is madness in our family. My mother die@ raving mad, The old earl, my grandfather, was methodically mad, and was kept under disguised res- taint in bis ancestral mansion, that the world might not know it. But it oozed out, as things concealed usually do, with exaggerations. If Lam mad Lam not ac- countable for it, And if Iam ssne I have expiated it by along life watch of cruel and horrible self-torture. ‘To live all my daysin a house conyerted into a mausole- um; to be condemned to sit upon a grave as upon an arm-chair; to be cnucuinbered everywhere with a tenant who should be sleeping in the tomb; toeatisile by side sit alone with Coaih; to eat Side by side with a skeleton; to taste food out of a red hand, and have a red sky ever before me —uare parts of my punishment. I never see a blue sky or a gray distance, Every thing has a sanguinary haze over it, as if I looked through spectacles of tlame-color. And yet I did not shed blood—ah no, I did not do that. T have formed a friendship for this wo- man, and [ should like to talk to her; yet [cannot divulge my secret. She seems to love her hnsband; yet not as I loved mine. As IL loved him? As I do love him—pas- sionately, wildly, fearfully, madly, so that Lean never take my gaze of his collin; so that I rise in the darkness and silence of the night to kiss and embrace the cold wood; and I feel my passion and my re morse eating out my heart. I cannot weep. I never shed a tear now, as 1 never shed a tear then. My grief is cold and tewrless, as my rage cold: and tearless, and my happiness eold and tear- less, when he lived, Outwardly, only outwardly. Within Twas and ania hum- ble volcano, and the fire is consuming my heart and brain, sense and being, slowly, slowly— Ieaven how slowly! It is retri- bution. In my girlhood IT was beautiful, and gilted with extraordinary talents. What- ever Lundertook L mas » I studied astrology, and cast my fnativity. 1 saw the doom then, but did not comprehend it. Could we literally know the future, of what use could it be? Should we be warn- ed, advised, or guided? No! Doom is doom, and we should rush on blindly to- ward it. nee In every accomplishment T excelled. And yet Lwas but filteen years of age, living in retirement at a country seat with my governess, when [ met my beloved Carlo, Twas sketching the stump of a tree in a grove, he out with doy and eun. Our cyes met with a flash of light, and we loved cach other, He was so handsome a heathen might have thought him a deity descended from the clouds, His hair was fair, rich and waving, oyer eyes blue as skies, set in a complexion more delicate, it possible, than my own. ILis voice was solt, rich, and manly. Ile had traveled, and was as well-read as myself. I did not discover all thisattirst. But we loved as our ¢yes met. ‘Then we were impelled to speak. We walked home and saw my chaperon—an interview which resulted in his seeking my father, whose parliament- wry duties yet held him in London, No parent could object to such an unobjection- able match as Carlo; but an obstacle ex- isted on his side, whose father, Lord —— (1 will betray no names, not even to her fancy my friend; but for the credit of those so unwillingly related suppress all no- menclature, and Y shame and crime alone to the grave)—Lord —— refused to sanction his son’s union with the daughter of a lunatic, the grandchild of an idiot. But Carlo and £ were mad torloye. We met; we eloped; we married, and fled to the Continent to avoid the reproaches and interference of angry pareuts, After [had consented to elope T looked round our place for a receptacle wherein Limight pack the few clothes LT intended to take with me. In the couch-house I saw the old box or chest destined to play so awtul a part in my wretched story, 1 contriv@tt to deposit what TL needed unob- served; and in the silence of night, when all slept, L aroused the young groom,who slept over the stable, and offered him a handsome gift of gold, yellow and shiving in the Ifght of the lamp I held, ithe would harness the horses and take me and that dingy box to where Carlo awaited us, The coachman, an old faqily servant, might have refused to drive so young a mistress on so doubtful a journey. But Sam was at an age when such deeds raise sympathy in the breast; so he took his reward, and I, with my box, was hurried from my hewte. Weary of trav@ing, we returned to where, as we thought, we ran little risk of being seen by any one who knew us. My husband, being tond of bathing, sought the shore every morning, and I sat in the gar- den until he returned, We had not been at Broadstairs very long when T fancied that there was a change in bismanner, Iwas certain some secret rested upon his mind, and I beeame aware, also, that though he sought the shore, he ceased to bathe, Silting alone with busy thoughts I grew jealous, and determined to watch him; so instead of remaining at home, one day T hurried along a by-road to a part of the esplanade that overlooked the sands, I cast my eyes downward, and saw him walking with a young lady about my own age, Alter a time they left the sands and walked toward our home, They were too preocenpied to detect that they were followed, but sat down to talk by a quiet bank near a corn- field, where I hid myselfamong the wheat. 1 was not near cnough to hear his words, to which she listened so earnestly, or hers, on which he seemed to hang with tender interest. I noticed him holding her hands fondly, twining her curls in his fingers; and IT observed him print a kiss upon her cheek ere they parted. I watched this day a.ter day, and yet Isaidnothing. She only passed a few moments each tine i? his company, as if fearful ot Leing missed by her friends, But was not that enough ? Was it not too much for a young loving wife to witness? One morning T noticed a boquet of flowers, just gathered, lying on the eserit- oire where he had been writing, Fall of suspicion diverted his glance to another purt of the room, and with a hasty glance read the words scribbled upon a slip of paper: **I will meet you at sunset on the sands, and, if your plans are ripe enough, we willlenve Broadstairs to-morrow.” He returned to his desk, folded the note, and went ont with it ane the flowers. Could { not guess how the one would be conceal- ed in the other, and for whom? Did I not know the golden-haired siren with the sweet baby: lace that had bewitched him ? ‘That morning I spent at home, a wreteh- ed prey to love, jealousy, and wrath, At all hazards the sunset meeting must be prevented. Should I charge him with perfidy, upbraid, entreat? Should I pre- yiul? Should [risk failure? No; a thou- sand times no, As our dinner-hour drew near, a foolish, an evil, a vile idea entered my miserable mind, Twas mad thons 3 snow now that 1 was mad, I laughed when I remembered the Taudanum that stood with the hair-oil on the mantle-shelf of my dressing-room. I emptied it into the wine-decanter, Carlo drank wine,but I did not, After dinner he slept, Coffee came up, but still his slumber Insted. It was as I wished. 1 sat still and smiled. The hours went on slowly, I sent the servants to bed, and the house was very quiet. It grew late, the wax lights—there was no gias—burned down low; he was still sleeping very heavily. One, two sounded—then three, It was broad day- light; and I drew up the blinds, for Twas getting restless and alarmed. Daylight was let in, and it fell upon the armchair and upon the face of adeadiman. I drop- ped at his feet; I tried to pray, but knelt there wordless and thoughtless. ‘Then surely I was mad—carelully, cunningly, strangely mad, As Heaven is my witness, Lhad only meant to cause a sleep to stop that meeting and put off an explanation so bitterly humiliating, so stormy in the aspect of its gathering clouds, LTknelt before my dead husband and laughed, I hadno part in the lwughter; it was as if the voice of some strange spirit eame up through my throat and sounded curiously in my eur. T was aroused sud- denly by hearing the servants come down stairs. I was alone with him; and. they would say I had murdered hiv, and this fair girl with the golden hair and the baby's face would stand by and see me strangled out of life on a fuld, Tlow 1 found strength for the terrible task I cannot tell, but Ttook Carlo in my arms and carried him into our slecping-chamber, which ad- joined, threw open the windows that led from the dining-room into the garden, and locked myself and my erime away together, I put him on the floor by the great box, and knelt down, Suddenly an idea came into my head. T opened the box, and taking out my clothing made it into a bundle. ‘There was a closet in the room which I had once opened, ¢ id had seen among other do- mestic enriosities the old ticking of a bed, I took it out aud covered it over Carlo, and with the same strange strength litted him into the box, He ts barely dead then, for his limbs were not stiff and 1 folded them into the space. Then [ locked up the box and dressed, and went in to breakfast. A note lay on the table. It was contiined ina litle pink envelope, directed ina girlish hand. As my eyes rested upon it my aay and anger rushed to lifeagain, Lfelt glad Calo was dead, T took up the note which she with the yellow hair and pink face must have sent, and tearing it open read, ** Dear Carlo"—dear Carlo! Wow the letters ran before my eyes! Did she dare to call him her dear Carlo; Ay, it was there, written upon the pink paper with perfumed ink ; “Dear Cante,—I have pleaded your cause with papa and mamma, but cannot move them; and because they think I must have seen you here, our governess is ordered to bring us all home by the first train to-morrow, But do not despair, for if L cin do nothing at present I will yet reconcile them to you some day. I fear Ishall not be allowed to write, but in silence and absence do not doubt that I am, and ever shall remain, © Your affectionate and loving Sister.” Hlis sister! Ah! was ever climax so terrible? ‘This, then, must be his favorite sister, Edith, of whom he had so often talked, but who was unknown to me, Alas! why had he kept their meeting secret? ‘That, too, was obvious: could he expose me to the mortification of knowing that she was pleading for my recognition by his family, or that he was foreed to meet a dearly-loved sister by stealth be- eause he had taken me to be his wife ? And Carlo was dead! I hardly recog- nized that. Fear was upon me. I must fly, and [must conceal the decd. Twenty miles from my own home a lonely house stood in the midst of a wood.” Report called it haunted, and no one of the simple country folk dareapproach, far less inhabit England, and vented a small house—a mere cottage—not far from Broadstairs it, Ina feigned name I wrote to the land- lord, and requested he would let it to me, with permission to enter immediately, saying that Iwas anxious to sceure a good house at the low rent I did not donht he would be happy to accept. I would have given any price for the house, but I wished to vive a likely reason, not the true one, My offer was accepted by return of post. Meanwhile I had told my two servants that their master had left early in’ the morning for town, whither he wished me to follow him, #s we found it necessary to take a Jong and unexpected journey. I had paid all debts when the landlord's letter came. Hurrying to London I there disposed of our valuable plate and what- ever I possessed, except a litde linen, a tew jewels, and the horrible sarcophagus hereatter my life watch. I was anxious to gain my new abode, as_I knew the de- lays of a day or two would cause detection, But my route was purposely circuitous and broken to bafile any efforts that might be made to trace me, though under the family ban it was likely. The chest was placed in a large roon— a sort of loft—at the top ef the house, and after a few preparations had been made by three women who had been induced ta come together while it was day, «nd for a large reward, I was leftalone. The fact of my having a large box put in the loft excited no suspicion, The conjecture was that it contained books There, without servants, without the companionship of a living soul, F dwelt alone for many years, until upon the death of the old landlord a new master of the soil desired to pull the house down, Then with my chest I traveled from place to place, a haunted, restless woman, asking of myself eternally, *t Am I sane or mad?” Thad written so much of my history, in this poor cottage at Hamstead, to give it some day to one who has been kind to me; but going over the details of my lilo has raised in my mind a horrible suspicion, more exquisitely agonizing than all that has gone before—a suspicion, the bare? form of which, as it suddenly came belore me, cast me into that frenzied fit which has closed the weary life of one who neither wants nor wislies to die—one who only desires to live her vague life on and on, gazing eternally at the sarcophangus. The idea, the certainty so terrible in its. nature, is, that Carlo was not dead when I placed him in the chest. Carlo was under the influence of the narcotic, but living—Carlo, my love, my husband, the young and perfect Carlo, put living into the tomb and stifled by his beutiful wife's mad hands; and his young wife of sixteen summers locked up his life and the secret of her crime, and sat down heartlessly bee side it to perform her crucl life wateh, Let her die. CHRISTMAS REFLECTION. “YT wish youn merry Christmas And a happy New Year, With your stomach full of money, And your pocket full of beer,’ yelled Ike, as he skipped into Mrs. Part- ington’s kitchen, where the old dame was busily engaged in cooking breakfast on Christmas morning. * Don't make such a noise, dear,” said ‘you give mea scrutinizing pain in my head, and your young voice goes through my brains like a s-alped knife. But what did the good Santa Cruz put in your stuck- ing, Isauc 2” As she looked at him with an arch and pleased expression, as he took out of his pocket a jack-knile,and a hum-top painted with gaudy colors. Ike held them up joyously, and it was a sight to sce the tivo standing there, she siniling serenely upon the boy's happiness. and he grateful in the possession of his treasures. **Ah!” said she, with a sigh, ‘there's many a home to-day, Isaxe, that Santa Cruz weu't visit, and many a poor child will find nothing in his stocking but his own little foot!” Tt might have been a grain of the snuff she took, it might have been a floating tote of the atmosphere,but Mrs. Parting: ton’s eyes looked hnmid, though she smiled upon the boy before her, who stood trying ty pull the cord out of her reticule to ‘Spin his new top with, CUBAN TRAGEDY, AWFUL CRIME BY A SLAVE. Writing on the 3ist ult., the Havana cor- respondent of the New York Zimes gives the following account of a frightful tragedy which had occurred on the Island. A'terrible. tra gedy was enacted on Sunday evening in the (welling of Mr. Chinchilla, the post master general of the Islind. One of’ his sisters-in- law, who with her mother, had been residing with Mr, Chinchilla, fer some time, was pos- sessed of a mulatto slave, aged about 17 years, with whom she wished to dispose of. ‘The lady had placed the slave in charge of a broker, who was intrusted with the sale. ‘Phe mulatto soon wearied of the tyranny of the broker, ran away, returned to” his hiistress, before whom he presented himself on Sunday evening whileat Mr. Chinchilla’shouse. The lady immediately ordered the slave from her presence, when he, drawing a poinard, sprang upon her and stabbed her over the right shoulder blade, severing the main artery. ‘The fiend thea ran to the apartment of the mistress’s mother, found her, and stabbed her three tines, and then passed into Mrs, Clin- chilla’s room, where he assaulted the liuy. Her husband was with her atthe time, and throwing himself between his wife and the assassin, received the wound intended for the lady. ‘The slave then fled from the hous’ wounding in his exit a domestic who souglt to check him, He was subsequently pursue and secured by the police. He confessed hit guilt, and appeared quite prepared to sufler the extreme penalty of the law. It is doubly ful, however, that he will be executed. criminal lawyers ace skilful enough o & him from tle punishment he well deser How little effect is produced by the threat of the death penalty may be imagined, when, on the very inorrow or the day on which the above narr ted crime was committed, another slave murdered a lady in the Calle Concor- dia. on ce ace = A foolish chap of the male Ne ’ gets off the following poeties’” ~ “When Sally's armé he always wish my neck w? would [ stop and sg whand like heii ‘Towser’s ne 1 ee i those. ey . ae the kind old lady, holding up her hands- ~~ oe