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PORTRY.

“GO IT ALONE,”

BY JONN G, SAXE.
There’s a game much in fashion, I think it's
called Euchre,
Though I’ve never played it for*pleasure or
lucre, .
In which when the cards ate fi¢eertain condi-
tions;
And one of them cries in a confident tone—
* I think I might venture to go it alone?”

While watching the game, ’tis a whim of the
bard's,

A moral to draw from the skirmish in cards,

And to fancy he strives in the trivial strife,

Some excellent hints for the batue of life,

deep in festive arrangement. An invita-
tion sent a week or two before had not
reached her, and this was her first appris-
al of this important epoch in the social
existence of her friend Josie.

“T don't see how I can,
under the sun to wear, My only dee
purty dress is “y ripped up, and if Ty
to write home fo-night, to have it sent
down by the morning express, it wouldn't
reach here in time to get it fixed, since the
pérty is to-morrow night.”

** We will improvise a tarletan for you,
Ietty. Lean’t give you up, Ah, I guess
if you knew what Mr. Farnham said about
you, you'd want to stay.”

Whether Mr. Farnham’s disburdenments
had any effect, we are unprepared to say.
Letty concluded to stey and try the im-

I've nothing
nt

Where, whether the prize be a ribbon or
throne,
The winner is he who can ‘ go it alone!”

When great Galileo proclaimed that the
world,

In a regular orbit was ceasingly whirled,

And got—not a convert for all of his pains,

“Tt moves for all that,” was his answering
tone,

For he knew like the earth he could ‘go it

alone!"

When Kepler, with intellect, piercing afar,
Discovered the laws of cach planet and star;
And doctors, who ought to have lauded his
name,
Derided his learning and blackened his fume ;
‘can wait,” he replied, ** tll the truth you
shall own,”
For he felt in his heart, he could ‘* fo it
alone !” i
Alas for the player who idly depends,
In the struggle oftite upon kindred and
friends!
Whatever the value of blessings like) these.
‘They can never atone for inglorious ease;
Nor comfort the coward who finds/with a
groan,
‘That his crutches have left him ta ‘‘go it
alone !”

There is something, no doubt, inthehand you
may hold,

Health, fuinily, culture, wit, beauty and gold,
‘Lhe fortunate owner may fairly regard,

As each in its way a most excellent card—
Yet the game may be lost, with all these for
your own,

Unless you've the courage to ‘*goit alone!”

In battle or business, whatever the game,

In law or in love it is ever the sime;

In the struggle for power or sersmble for pelf.
Let this be your motto: ** Rely/on yourself!”
Jor whether the prize be a ribjon or throne,
‘The victor is he who can * goit alone !”

~ Solert

EYES, NoT THEIR; OWNERS,

BY 8. A. B.

Hiteraiure.

Bos es Aue ene

%,
Lerry Arnspen lived in the country,
but you needn’t infer fram that fact that
she was one of those limpsey, uncorseted
simplicities authors hard put are went to
indite spasmodic yarns about, depicting
them embodied in inyocence and pink
calico, and eventually borne off by the
young man, in preference to the silken-
clad, gold-braccleted houris of the town,
any of which he might ‘of course” have
had for the asking.

Letty had spent the years of her little
girlhood ina very sjzeable village, and
when pantalets were,in the course of time,
discarded, was shippféd, per rie R. R., to
the tender mercies of Madame Fusser, not
to emerge thence until finished, complete,
incapable of being tught, in after exist-
ence, any single thing not hitherto known,

Armed with a certificate of these pertec-
tions in the shape of a bundle of abridged
sheepskin and blue ribbon, labelled ‘* Dip-
loma,” she met Madame Fusser’s ela
nose in a parting salute, and returned—
not to dim the ehts of Carbonwood
ball-vooms by this iUminated brilliance,
but to retire ten miles back from that uni-
versal hub, to dwell with the leaf and the
rock, to live a ¢are-free, active, beauless
life.

Not but Carbonwood city was e.
tainable, for tlatsame Erie Railro:
pentined” its vicious sinuosities very near
the cottage, and thence to Carbonwood
direct.

asi

surroundings, Miss Letitia was no recli
and, as the second summer ot her retire-
ment waned, buggies, with crinolined or
moustached inmates, became so frequent a
sight as to fail to awaken the amaze which
commonly regulated the aborigines who
dwelt in the neighboring habitations at any

foreign incursion, and few weeks passed
where a prolonged flourish of pocket

“ weepers” from the window of the ap-
proaching train did not herald relays in
that direction.

So, between-whiles of pie and cake bak-
ing, of putting up endless lunches for
Twist-like haymakers, feeding turkeys and
chicks, and other plebeian unheroine-like
occupations, Miss Letitia enjoyed the cream
of Carbonwood * good society ;” the sweet
cream, Without the staleness constant pre-
sence and standing are apt to give.

No wonder Letty liked to live in the
country; no wonder she did not care,
though whole days of the most splendid
flirting weather should pass and find her
solus, when she had such books to study—
books alike of print and paper, of leaf, and
rock, and water. There was a lakelet
full of pickerels and water lilies just below
the house. Many a moonlight night did
she push the little shallop from the shore
and glide up the shining path the moon-
light made, or float softly into dim coves
which lay in the tender shadow of trees
above them, At these times she only lack-
ed the “ light of the firefly lamp” to.render
the poet’s allusion complete.

Still, she was in nowise one of the great
army classed under that comprehensive,
and never rightly-defined term, ‘ senti-
mental.” Not a bit of it. She never felt
any of those namby-pamby movings which
send feminine impressibles out, to catch
their deaths, sitting upon the margin of
damper streams, She was much out of
doors because she liked it, not at all be-
causyit was so romantic,

‘Letty Arnsden, you shall stay down to
my party.” Letty had run down to Car-
bon wood for a day’s shopping, and, going

provising plan, providing mother should
be willing.

A cheap boy was dispatched on Ned
Mixell’s horse to convey the note of inter-
rogution, and returning to the ** gloaming,”
brought the welcome intelligence that Mrs.
Arnsden ** did not know, but she rather
thought she might, this once.”

Josie could hardly wait for breakfast the
next morning betore she marshalled Letty
to her favorite ‘*fussery store”—as Ned
culled it—to decide on the degree of fine-
hess requisite to pygvent a tarlatan from
being absolutely slideous,

Soon the sitting-rdpm was in a perfect
foam of the breezyp voluminous fabric.
Josie solemnly ¢ sed double skirts and
pink satin puflings with Miss Meggs, who,
by a stroke of unparalleled good’ tortune,
they hud been able to secure to fit the
Waist.

Letty left most of it to Josie’s superior
experience, and sat veiled in the mist of
the skirt she was running up,

Ned Mixell, allowed to be in the pre-
sence at this incipient stage of things, but
pretending absorption in **a book,” but
looking beyond it, and thinking of bridal
veils and the like, as some vigorous flirt
of the vehemenent Josie threw the sailing
stuf over the head ot her guest.

In fact, L think Ned was airaid of getting
up a small personal crisis, had not some
freemasonary of Miss Meggs caused the
whole trio to vanish suddenly within the
penetralia of Mys. Mixell’s bedroom,

When the evening came at length, and
Letty stood before the looking-glass, look-
ing anything but hastily dressed, even the
good-natured Josie could hardly forbear a
ping of jealousy. Josie in ** silk and
sutin sheen,” a limitless jewelry box, and
every toilet applicance, was ** nowhere”
beside this flouting-robed improvised mai-
den, roses only at her breast and in her
hair.

Well, this young lady from the country,
who * did housework” all the days of her
life, was belle that night. That Apollo,
par excellance, Carlton Kingsbury, though
Miss Brewster, with the thousand dolli
diamonds, flashed diamonds and smiles
at him enough to put his eyes out, all the
evening, acknowledged it. Stanley Iard-
ing, by no means an Apollo, assented .o
the verdict in fewer words, yet, perhaps,
felt it all the more from that very fact.

Letty waited for no party calls, but don-
ning her quite grey travelling dress and
sacque, was olf bright and early for the
depot. The dress of the evening hung
high and dry in Josie’s closet, Letty telling
Josie she would either come down and bé
her bridemaid in it, or have it sent up ina
dry-goods box ; she couldn’t undertake to
get it home single-handed, She did not
escape ungreeted, however. When Ned
Mitchell showed her gallantly into the de-
pot, she found several of last night’s party
among the crowd All of them bowed
profoundly. and offe or two ventured upon
a more direct address,

Yet, after the waif with a great sigh
had gathered itself for departure, and
then, shaking off its lethargy, pushed
boldly over the high t -ware; when
the bowing group had imed their hats
and gone their several we the entire
number, strangely enough, resolved them-
selves, in Letty’s mind, into two persons,
Carlton Kingsbury and Stanley Harding.

Both the. ntlemen, now met for the
first time, imp!
her reverie, the former siood where we
have placed his name—foremost. It was
quite natural it should be so, for toa new
acquaintance, especially were he or she
young, Carlton Bingsbury was the more

So, notwithstanding their countryfied#attractive, ‘There was something attract-

ive in his‘tall, ferfectly arranged figure,
his pale, handsome face, and with that
choicest weapon a man can haye—fine
dark eyes.

It would take a long while to count the
tremors those same eyes had shot through
muslin-covered hearts, as they met the
eyes which belonged to them in that glance
so taking to a woman's fancy—the slightly
melancholy.

It was not possible to think such a large
and noble soul could do otherwise than
dwell in such a fitting temple or look out
of such eyes, and least young folks could
not think so, and young folks, you remem-
ber, know what is what, considerably in
adyance of their parents,

Stanley Harding had few of these graces
to recommend him; he was tall enough,
and well knit, yet he lacked that airy, in-
deseribable grace nature gives to some few
of her sons, Kingsbury among them. His
eyes, too, were not brown, like that gen-
tleman’s, but gray, large enough, yet hay-
ing little ot that style of expression which
rendored the hazel ones so taking, But
there was one thing he had which Kings-
bury quite lacked, A noble helpfulness
for himself and others you might see in his
face, that look of brain power so many of
our American men wear so visibly and so
well.

So it was the little country girl, going
back to her making and baking, carried
thse two images with her,

Oarbonwood generally*had had a vague
idea of the existengeet a certain Miss Le-
titia Arnsilen. It seemed, since the ocea-
sion of Josie’s party, to have awakened
fully to that fact. Mrs. Arnsden would
have been—to use a favorite expression of
hers—raving distracted at the terrible ac-
cession of visitors; but Letty was more
active than ever. Good bread at the
Arnsden cotfage was perennial; berries

ays to be had, and light, fine cake
lacking in Letty’s vicinage, and the
little lady never cared to present tea visit-
ore with anything more elabprate,

2

to dine with Josephine Mixeil, fount her

. (Conclusion in our next.)

“dher; yet I think, in],

Miscellaneous,

AN INGENIOUS SWINDLE,

A Boston paper supplies an account of
an ingenious swindle attempted in that
city a few He ago. The particulars,
which it would spoil the description to
abridge, are thus given :—

‘From the few particulars gathered, it
appears that a few days since a man named
Wright, 2 liquor dealer, applied to the
Custom House to export two hundred and
five barrels of alcohol. It is generally
known that there isa government tax of
two dollars per gallon on al! spirits manu-
factured and consumed in this country,
but when it is exported, the party export-
ing has the two dollars duty per gallon
refunded by the government as ‘draw-
back money.’ This Mr. Wright, it is al-
leged, having applied to the Custom House
to export the two hundred and five barrels
of alcohol, was required, before reciving
the drawback money of two dollars per
gallon, to give bonds to the amount of
$80,000 to export the quantity named,
The two hundred and five barrels were
then filled with pure alcohol, a govern-
ment official examined and gauged them,
pronounced them all right, and aflixcd the
proper government seal or stamp. It
would seem that immediately after the
government official left the storehouse the
alcohol was exchanged end casks of water
substituted, and when the 205 barrels were
placed on board the schooner ‘ Lousie’
of Salem, water was the only fluid they
contained. ‘The vessel was properly
cleared from the Custom House for L-
port, Maine, but before she sailed informa-
tion was furnished at ths Custom House
that it would be well to watch her, and
this was accordingly done. A week ago
Saturday, watch was commenced and con-
tinued until the ‘* Lousie’ was preparing
to sail Wednesday evening. During this
interval the casks were conveyed to her
while lying at the wharf, surreptitiously,
as was supposed, the parties engaged in
the enterprise fearing, notwithstanding the
barrels were properly sealed and stamped,
that some straggling officer of the Custom
House might come upon them and gauge
some of the casks, and thus discover the
fraud. The only fear of detection, it
seems, Was from partiés on shore, no one
conneeted with the alleged swindle ex-
pecting for a moment that the Custom
House tug was lying close by them in the
stream and watching every movement.
The officers who were on watch were also
disappointed in the manner of the fraud,
believing, as they did, that the casks being
conveyed aboard the schooner in secret,
under the cover of night, contained spirits
illegally distilled. On Wednesday even-
ing it Was apparent to the officers on board
the tug that the ‘Lousie’ was preparing
to sail, and just as she was about to set
out on her voyage the tug came up along-
side and ordered her to anchor, The com-
mander of the * Lousie’ y wiscly saw
that it was useless to resist, and immedi-
ately complied; with the orde An officer
went aboard, aed; while pyrsuing his duty
of gauging and gesting the’coptents of the
casks, remarked, very properly, to an as-
soeiate offi¢er that it would take a con-
siderable quantity of such stuffas that to
get a man drunk. Then, for the first time,
kthe-eharacter of the fraud was discovered,
and, upon further examination, it was
ascertained that every one of the two hundred
aud five barrels was filled with water! On
Friday afternoon the schooner was brought
up to India wharf, and, together with her
not very valuable cargo, placed in charge
of keepers. Assuming that every barrel
contained forty-two gallons, there would
be 8610 gallons in all, and the amount of
‘drawback? fraudulently received ($2 per
gailon) would be $17%220. If the fraud
had succeeded the parties would baye had
the alcohol left besides. Such in substance
were the statements our reporters were
able to collecs from reluctant informants,

Tt is said that the swindling operation
was managed through the connivance of
two revenue oflicers. ‘The * Lousic’ was
chartered for Eastport, Me.”

Tria or tHe Fentans.—The Dub-
pondent of the London Times has
ing regarding the trial of the
n Ireland :—

atement in the
ill be a separate

the follo
Fenian prisoner:

“Tt appeurs from a st
Cork Examiner that there w
special commission for th y and county
of Cork, which will necessitate the impan-
neling of a distinct grand and petty jury
for each. This course, which has been
decided only within the last two or three
days, is supposed to have been adopted in
consequence of the revelations made by
the informer Godfrey y. This per-
son belongs toa Limerick family of that
name, which, according to the Cork Me-
porter, have always been distinguished for
the possession of just as much common
sense as kept them out of Bedlam, and

hardly so much, ‘They have long since
disappeared from the roll of the local aris-

tocracy. Godfrey Massey, it appe ul
been elevated to the rank of ‘General’
in the army of the Irish Republic. It is
more easy to understand how he attained
that distinction than why he aspired to it,
for of all the Fenian prisoners he displayed
the most despicable cowardice. He od
come to Munster to head an insurrection,
and establish a revoltition, on the ruins of
British power, in Ireland, but the moment
Colonel Brownrigg of the constabulary
arrested him in the Queen’s name oun the
platform of the Limerick Junction, the
valiant General fainted away, and con-
tinued in a swoon for several tainutes,
Ilis terror has led to the fullest and most
unreserved disclosures of the Fenian plans
and proceedings, and it is stated that his
information implicates many persons of
high social position in unsuspected quar-
ters.

« Insurrections conducted in the Massey
spirit are not unmixed evils. They verity
the proverb about an ill wind. They
bring about Special Commissions, and
these bring a rich harvest of fees to all
concerned, from the humblest, detective
hanging about the police court to much
higher functionaries. The Attorney Gen-
eval has the Jion’s share. We may judge
of the value of these windfalls from the
Treasury tree by the fact that the Lord
Chancellor's secretary has fot more than
£1000 in fees for swearing in the military
magistrates, The business of these ex-

y | Lor

temporized functionaries is to examine the
Fontan prisoners, It might be supposed
that the resident or stipendiary magistrates,
if not one of the metropolitan police magis-
trates, could very well perform this duty
—assisted, if necessary, by some of the
unpaid, who would be delighted to get
something to do, if only to satisfy their
minds that the letters tJ. P.” are nota
mere empty appendage to their names,
If economy were the order of the day,
their willing services might be turned te
accuunt; but the creation of a batch of
hew magistrates tor the occasion is cer-
tainly a much better arrangement for the
Chancenor’s secivun ys

“ Kirwan is still at large, notwithstanc-
ing the most diligent and eager searches
on the part of the detectives. ‘There are
two more Fenian prisoners, Moran and
Roche, lying in the Meath Hospital, suf
fering from wounds received at Tallaght.
Roche has had his leg amputated, above
the knee, and Moran is suffering from a
compound fracture of the leg bone.”

A Tursisn Necro.—A letter from Con-
stantinople says that while his empire is
crumbling about his ears the Sultan takes
things remarkably easy. He rises in the
morning about 10 o'clock, and sends for
two of his favorites in the Palace, who en-
tertain him a while and go with him to
visit his horses in his private theatre, which
he has transformed into a stable. After
this he goes to his new menagerie, where
he is having a sort of Crystal Palace built
for an aviary, at a cost of a quarter of a
million of dollars. Thence he generally
goes to akiosk near by where he amuses
himself by shooting at a mark with a rifle,
pistol, or bow. He comes back in the
afternoon, dines, smokes, and soon after
dark retires tothe harem. It is seldom
he hears anything about political af-
, and when he does he usually gets
into a towering passion— so says a gentle-
man who is constantly at the Palace.—
Exchange.

House of Assembly,

Monpay, May 6.
Mr. Kickham presented a petition from
Alex. Leslie, Esq., of Souris, setting forth
certain grievances touching letters mailed
by him at the Post Ollice in that place,
containing money and an endorsed note,
addressed to Wm, Cundall, Esq., Cashier
of the Bank of P. E. Island, Charlottetown,
which letters were never received. That
petitioner addressed His Excellency in
Council on the subject, to which he re-
ceived a reply to the effect, that the Post-
master General at Charlottetown was
questioned on the subject, and that that
officer stated the letters in question were
neyer seen by him. That your petitioner
was not aware of the rule relative to the
Registry of Letters, and praying that the
hon. House would institute a strict investi-
gation of the matter, with the view, if pos-
sible to discover the fraud and prevent a
repetition of the same; and also asking
the House to grant him the sum of £11
17s. @d., being the amount in cash con-
tained in said letters, for the loss of which
petitioner is the sufferer.
Said petittion was received and read,
and en motion of Mr, Kickham, to the
effect that the ILouse go into Committee
on the subject,
Hlis honor the Speaker declined to re-
eeiye the motion, on the ground that the
prayer of the petition conflicted with the
iding rule of the House touching the
principle of initiation of money votes.

Dr. Jenkins voted that the House go
into Commiittae to take into consideration
the propriety of establishing a Hospital for
Seamen, and other destitute persens,
Motion carried.

Mr. P. Sinclair in the chair.

Dr. Jenkins having spoken on the nec-
cessity of a Hospital for destitute Seamen,
and pvinting out the hardships endured
by the disabled poor when thrown penni-
less among strangers, and the danger to
which the community was exposed rela-
tive to the spread of contageous diseases
trom the arrival of vessels, submitted a
resolution, to the effect, that provision be
made for the establishment of a Iospital
for Seamen, snd other destitute persons,
suffering from accidents and ordinary dis-
eases, not of a malignant or infectious
character; and that a scale of Hospital
dues be levied upon all vessels entering
the Port of Charlottetown, said dues to
be applied towards the support of said
instution.

The subject was then @ebated in com-
mittee,

Hons. Haviland, Ienderson, Hensle
McAulay, Messrs. Rielly and MeNeill fa-
vored the establishment of a Ilospital on
the principle of the above resolution,
Ilons. Coles, Howlan and Mr. G. Sine-
lair were of opinion that such an institu-
tiod should be under the supervision of the
City Corporation. In Boston, and other
cities of the United States, Hospitals of
that character were under the manage-
ment of such Cities, and not provided for
by the State at large.

Hon, Mr. Davies and Mr, Howatt alluds
ed to the} Hospital once erected on the
Government farm, and which had been
removed by the authority of the late Gov-
ernment.

Dr, Jenkins said that the site on which
that Hospital ‘vas too near Government
House, as well as in other respects a very
yapropee position for an institution of that

ind,

The Chairman rnported the Resolution
agreed to, =

Ordered, that the Saal, mmittee
be appointed to bring in a rit n confor-
mity therewith, viz:—Dr. Jenkins, Messrs,
Bell, MeNeill, Owen and Brecken.

On motion of hon, Mr. Haviland, the
Bill relating to practice and pleading in
the Supreme Court was read a second
time and committed to a Committee of the
whole House. Mr. G. Sinclair in the
chair.

The first clause of said Bill was read
again from the Clerk’s table, and is to the
effect that gold and silver coin may be
taken in Execution and paid to-oreditor as
money collected; and also that Govern.
ment Debentures, Treasury Warrants,
Bank Notes, &., may be taken in Execu- |
tion and paid at par value if he accepts
such, otherwise the said Debenturg:
Warrants, &c., may be sold the ge”
any other goods or chattels.

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