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BREADSTUFF>

Backw at Flour per lb 0.05 to 0.3

F | rb] 5.50 to 7.00 |

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S1 WATER STREET,

ay ‘ ss a Charlottetown. - - - P. E. Island,

E. G. NELSON,

IMPORLCER &

SEWING

ADDRESS:

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MACHINES.

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AND GENERAL AGENTS, 77 North Side Queen Square, - «- P, E. Island.

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October 138, 18

WILLIAM DODD. Commission YWerchamt AUCBVIONE ES

QUEEN SQUARE,

and

CARVELL BROS., AUCTIONEERS. Commission Merchants,

AND GENERAL AGENTS.

Lower Queen St. Charlottetown, P. E. 1.

ISLAND

©. Box 3503, Charlottetown. |

POETRY, OH ’TIS SWEEL? TO THINK.

On ‘tis sweet to think that where’er we

roy We are sure to find something blissfu! and dear; And that when we are far from the lips |

that we love,

We have but to make love to the lips we Wwe are near! |

rhe heart like the tendril accustom’d to

| cling, | Let it grow where it will, cannot flourish

alone, | But will lean to the thing

It can twine with it

nearest and loveliest et a self and make closely | Its own. | Then oh what a pleasure where’er we may | rove. |

To be dQ yomed t

find »f Onna some

hing still that | is dear,

d to know. when far from the lips we | love, |

We have but to make love to the lips we are near

|’Twere a shame, when flowers around us

rise, | To make light of the rest if the not there. | And the world’s so rich in resplendent eyes, ‘Twere a pity to limit one’s love toa pair. ; Love's wing aud the peacock’s are neariy | alike, | They are both of them brigit, but they’re | changeable too, : And wherever a new beam of strike, It will tincture love's plume with a| different hue! | | Then oh what pleasure, where’er we rove, | | To be doomed to find something still | that is dear, And to know, when fur from the lips that we love, We have but to make love to the lips that | are near.—Thoimas Moore.

LITERATURE.

NNN INN NIN ANA NAN NON RR ER EI EOIN INI DIINO

MARCUS WARLAND ;

. | } rose 18

beauty can i

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OR, THE LONG MOSS SPRING. Fr. Mi. CAMPBELL, Oe j | CHAPTER Xil. fienmeranal tLlerehant |!

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AND

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Gi WATER STREET, Opposite Merchants Ba Charlottetown, - - - - P. E- 1.

Horace ELASZARD.

J. E. HasZarp,

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OF

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No hero returned froma glorious cam- paign was ever welcome with more enthu- siasm than Marcus, Exalted by courage and endeared by danger, the feelings he inspired partook more of idolatry than coms mon affection. He did not feel that he had in any way cencelled the debt of gratitude ; but he rejoiced be had been enabled to be of use to his benefactor.

Nor was it alone at Hickory Hill he receiv- ed the honours due to a hero. The fame ot his attainments spread far and wide. It was biazoned in the newspapers, discussed | in the streets, talked about in the private | circle. His youth, talents, and dauntless resolution, his extraordinary personal en- |

| dowments, were the exhaustless topics of

Never did a young man com- | mence a public career under more splendid He did not select a large city as the theatre of bis professional labours. [He | remembered the adyice of Judge Cleveland on that subject : ‘ Young men,’ said that

wise and excellent man, ‘are apt to seek destinction in the very places where their separate existence is unrecognised, In a large and populous city, where the profes< sions are crowded, they have to wait for those occasions, which so rarely occur, to elicit distinguised talent or brilliant genius. Let them rather choose a small town, with wealthy surroundings; let them make the place celebrated by their own renown, and then they may take the wings of the morn- | ing and fly tothe uttermost parts of the sea, if they will; the light of their reputa- tion will follow them.’

It was just such a spot as this, in his na. tive State, that Marcus selected to make himselfa name and fame, that should go abroad into the world; to cultivate the vineyard, to build the bower, that, covered with the rosy bloom of love, might woo to | its sweet retreat the bright and beloved L’- Eclair.

Delaval, the friend of his youth, was the betrothed of his sister, so that he had a prospect of being united to him by a twos fold cord. The young master of Wood | Lawn had not commenced his career as a | lawyer. He had taken possession of his

estate; and though Mr. Alston still resided | with him, he had no longer the authority to dictate as his aristocracy prompted. The uncle considered it his especial duty to choose a wife for Delayal—an irreproachable connection; but he found the nephew, as wellas niece, had a strong will, and prefers red choosing for himself,

‘ In one year from this time,’ said Delaval, ‘the sweetest violet that ever sought the shade shall beautify with its modest charms my Wood Lawn home.’

‘In one year!’ cried Marcus, ‘I can transplant my wild Passion-flower, where it shall bloom gloriously in the sunshine of my heart.’

One year! Marcus believed in perenuial sunshine. He felt it warming, shining within. He saw it sparkling, shining withs out. He thought of no cloud. Why should he, wh n the firmament was one clear, blue, boundless arch; when no cloud, as big as a man’s hand, floated on the ether. But who would believe that the dew that spark~ les on the grass and the flowers contained the elements of the storm that may destroy | their bloom ?

CHAPTER XIE.

Florence sat at her favourite window, reading. She did not seem deeply engaged in the contents of her book, for she would | look up, occasionally, with a soft, dreamy, | abstracted air, and suffer it to fallin her lap. ‘Then, leaning her head on her hand, 'she would twist her fingers in a golden chain that encircled her neck, and play with the locket that nestled in her bosom. That she had a subject of reflection more pleasing than her book, was evident from the sweet subdued expression of her love- lighted face. She had told Marcus in that very room, on that very seat, that she dread- ed the thought of love; that she knew, if she once yielded to its influence, she would become a vassal to its will. Evea when she was a captive to its power; but she was a Zenobia bound in golden chains, a queen even in her captivity, disdaining to acknow- ledge her subjection, or pay homage to her victor. Now the pride that had resisted was the strong auxilary of her love. She gioried in having felt, even at the first glance, the superioriority, the genius to which the world was beginning to bow. She exulted in the thought, that if she had obeyed the great law of woman’s be- ing—that centripetal attraction which draws her irresistibly toward some central and con- trolling farce—she was a primary orb, re~ volving round no lesser luminary, but trac~

| All the softness, the tenderness

| giadiater, the bold vindicator of outraged

wa — ee ee

tined to be the effulgent sun of the social system to which she belonged. jut there was no pride mingled in the

reflections which she was now indulging.

of woman’s

| nature wes floating in her eyes of eastern splendour, and stealing overtha rubies o¢

her lips. She was thinking of Marcus, not as the eloquent pleader, the intellectual

} be-

tand fore the world; but as she hadlast seen him

justice, such as he had taken his

pelid and gentle, dependent on her cares,

passive and grateful asa child. She drew

| forth the locket, the pledge of his gratitude

to his humble attendant, and gazed on the |

beautiful amber lock, now braided with | Katy’s dark.~brown hair. ‘Ah! little does he think,’ said she, |

| smiling at the little romance of which she

‘ whose hand ada | Little does |

was the unknown heroine, ministered to his helplessness.

he think, when he so gently encircled the | | : é . . sas. f | bending neck of the mulatto girl with this

heart

golden chain, he was adding new and strong- er links to the heartsfetters that bind us to! each other. Oh! how well I remember | that mement—that holy, moonlight hour !

Down in the unfathomable depths of a spirit I felt his regal power. I was clothed ian the humility of the disguise I wore. I | could have knelt at his feet, borne down by | the mighty burden of my love. How 1 | longed to throw myself into his arms, to | weep upon his bosom, to breathe out the | fullness of my gratitude that God had given him back to life! But I resisted the temp- tation, and I rejoice that my secret is safe. He never shall know, that in the delirium of my despair, the madness of my love at) the tidings of his danger, 1 was guilty of an act of imprudence, for which even George had scarcely forgiven me, good Mrs. Lewis preached ma a thousand sermons,and which, if my proud uncle knew, would end his perpendicularity and his life. Bless. ings on the journgy that took him from home at that very time, What if Marcus should condemn me for it? Ah! I should wish myself the Lightening indeed, that I might scare him for his ingratitude.

‘What is that Lettie ?’ she asked, asa negro girl came in with a packet in her hand!

‘Something one of Master Patterson’s men left as he go by.’ answered Letty, the favourite attendant of Florence—one of the ugliest and shrewdest creatures that can possibly be imagined, Itis impossible to describe her face, but it gave one the im- pression of being wrong-side outward, and her extraorninary grimaces seemed ef- forts to turn it right. Delaval said Flor- ence kept the girl about her asa foil for her beauty, but it was for a better motive. When Florence was a very little girl, Letty, not a great deal older than herself, had saved her from drowning, and in several instances had shown such a remarkable at- tachment, that Florence rewarded it by giv- ing her the position she most desired—a place in the household and near her own persoa Mr. Patterson was a gentleman who re sided not very far from Wood Lawn. Uis gon was in college at the same time with Marcus and Delaval, and when he renewed | his acquaintance with the latter at his own home, he, like many others, paid his ad- dresses to the young heiress, receiving a refusal. Though

courteous but decided discarded as a lover, he still claimed the privileges of a friend, and Florence often received books and papers and tokens of remembrance from him.

She opened the packet, it contained seve~ ral newspapers and pamphlets. She thought the papers might have some cons | nection with Marcus, and she eagerly ran She was right. There

over the columns, were extracts from aspeech he made at a very interresting trial, which had attracted great attention and won him signai honour. It was thrilling eloquent, but as the editor remarked, it wanted the voice of deep,me- lodious persuasion, the magnetic eye, the graceful gesture, the personal fascination that distinguished the youthful orator. Florence read, while the generous pride one feels in the triumph of a beloved friend swelled her heart.

‘And this gifted being is mine,’ thought she. ‘The voice of hundreds will one day justify my choice : and yet, he would be as dear to me, unknown, unprized by the world, he existed alone for love and me.’

‘ But what is this?’ she said, opening the pamphlet. ‘some political document fresh from Congress. For George, 1 suppose. when somebody makes the dry bones shake there with his prophet voice, I will conde~ scend to read al’ their pamphlets.’

‘You dropped something, Miss Florence,’ said Letty, picking up 4 letter from the car- pet. ‘It must bea love letter. Florence took it and read the superscrip~ tion—‘ Mr. Alfred Patterson.’ He must have sent it for me to read, said she unfold.

ing it. But I cannot imagine what interest I can have in his letters. Ah! a understand.’

With a blush of pleasure she began its perusal. The blush faded. Calmness, and even indifference succeeded. Then sud- denly her brow cuntracted ; her face red- dened, crimsoned; her eyes flashed like burning gas. She started up, dashed the letter on the carpet, and pressed her foot crushingly upon it. ‘ What the matter ? —what the matter, Miss Florence ?’ cried Letty, in alarm, something sting you?) Wasp, yellowsjacket ? Let me find him, |

‘Stung? Yes? stung—stung through | through the heart! Don't speak to me— don’t,’ cried she, wildly, sta mping her foot | passionately on the paper.

‘ Hornet in this letter,” said Letty, grins | ning, and stooping to pick it up. I kill bim | you see if I don't.

‘How dare you laugh?’ exclaimed Flors | ence, snatching the paper from her hands, and walking the room with the step and | look of a Delphic priestess, so intense was_ her passion, so utterable its expression, | Open the window! she cried, I cannot | breathe—I suffocate !

Terrified at the frantic emotions, Letty | leaped towards the window, at the risk ¢*! plunging her ugly head through the panes, and opening it, pushed back the curtains, |

with great vehemence.

Florence made an impatient gesture with her hand, voice. alone.

‘I sosorry. I mighty sorry, Miss Flor- ence,’ said the sympathislng negro. ‘ What can have happened to make you feel so bad?

ing her dazzling path near one who was dese

Marcus.’

| the carpet as

theri seizing a large feather fan, began to | fan tke scarlet cheeks of her young mistresr | take measures for placing the Government

Leave me, she said, in a husky |‘ ta , hen went a alone—I must be | "8 the position of the Company while it

ibaa

Florence who was leaning against the window, with both hands pressed against

her temples, turned round with such a look

| of indignation that Letty was frightened,

and drew back two or three steps towards

the door. ‘Ifever you

again, Letty,’ said Florence, her lips curling

‘you never enter |

nention that name to me | with jveffible disdain, my presence again. Remember. I coms mand everlasting silence.’

The moment Letty was gone, florence | untwisted the golden chain from her neck, |

‘I thought it would choke me,’ she cried. And this locket— how it burned against nay | heart! Tossing it into the corner of the | room, the proud heiress threw herself on | if crusbed by some mighty woe, her face buried in her arms, her hair sweeping round her, forming a night~shade | for her griefand shame. Her frame shook | and quivered with the imprisoned fires of | passion. Never, perhaps, had a more sud- den, ierrible storm sw over a human | it was like the hurricane of the | tropic regions blasting the rich bloom their burning sun called forth

It was thus her brother found her. A little while before he had passed the win- | dow where she was seated, and she had | looked up with such a sweet happy emile. And now she was laying on the floor, like one stricken down, crushed; she whose bright, glad nature seemed impassable to suffering, Shocked, alarmed, he bent over her, and tried to raise her, but she resisted the effort. He called her name but she made no answer,

‘Good heavens!’ he cried, Tis terrible.

|

‘ what can be the matter. ‘Tis convule sions--’tis catalepsy.’

He was about to rush out and call for as- sistance, when he caught a glimpse of the paper she still clenched in her hand, Fear- ing he might tear it, he unclosed her fingers expecting to meet with strong resistance, but to his astonishment, she appeared uns conscious of his touch, though not insenss ible. He read the letter in the attitude in in which he had taken it, kneeling on one knee, while she lay prostrate and passive beside him. te read it through,and through again, before he moved one muscle. His very breathing seemed suspended. Then he started on his feet with an exclamation so sartling, it caused & responsive move ment in the seemingly paralyzed limbs of Florence. She raised her head, and lean- ing on one elbow, looked him in the face, Put such a look! it made him shudder. The despair of an Ariadne and the anger of a Medea were there.

}

‘Florence,’ said he, holding out the let~ ter, and grinding his teeth as he spoke,

how come you by this? Who sent it?

‘Whosentit?’ repeated she, sitting up, and pushing back her thick, disordered ringlets, while she passed her hand hurri- edly over her brow. ‘Qh, indeed ; who did send it ?’

‘The wretch, he’s driven her mad ;’ ex-

‘the whole She shall be

claimed Delaval,’ ‘and me too. earth shall not hold us both. avenged !’

With a piercing shriek Florence sprung

{ the floor, and threw her arms round

irom her brother.

‘No, no, no!’ she cried, you shall not kill I will not What right This was all a mistake.

him; you shal! not meet him

have any blood shed. No, no have you to do it? It came to me by mistake; he never meant I should see it, Oh,that you had never seen it, Oh George how dared you snatch it from my hand? I would not have you see it for a thousand worlds.’

‘ Sister,’ said her brother sternly, ‘ if you re willing to brook an insult like this, I tell you, it is well there is some one who knows how to maintain the honour of the family. Is it possible that it is you, Flor- ence Delaval, my sister, can look me in the face, and tell me that I shall not avenge your wrongs !’

She did look him in the face, with her dark, powerful eyes. ‘ Brother, there are wrongs that cannot be avenged, and this fs one. Iam calmer now; you must listen, Iamnot mad; I knowwhat I am saying. This is a private letter, fallen by accident into my hands. His private sentiments— that every man has a right to express. Yes, she added, a bitter smile wreathing her pale and quivering lips, ‘ he has a right thus to think and thus to write, and no power on earth can wrest it from him; and I have the right to despise myself in dust, and ashes, and sackcloth, for having loved this ingrate so wildly, blindly, foolishly loved

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Tae CLiInton Mutua. Fire Insvrance Company,—It will be remembered that, last year when the Telegraph called atten- tion to the illegal operations of this ‘‘Mu- tual’ Company in the Maritime Provinces, it was roundly abused and threatened by Mr.C.C. Carlyle, its ‘‘General Agent "’ for New Frunswick; and if we are not mistaken the Company’s Solicitor was sent to the Telegraph office to obtain a retraction and apology, which, howeve-, he did not secure. In view of these facts it is rather interest~ ing to find the Solicitors of the Company at head quarters informing one of the insured in Westmorland County who had suffered loss and was claiming on his policy “ that the Directors are now advised by the Hon. John Hillyard Cameron, Q. C., of Toronto, that the company is not liable upon policies on property situate out of Ontvrio and Ques bec,’ therefore they will not pay any claims in the Maritime Provinces until compelled to do so by the Courts! They offer an ad- ditional reason for their course, namely, that ‘‘some parties’? in New Brunswick

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Tur following are the papers respecting our road system to which we last week promised publicity. Richard Weeks, Eq Superintendent of Public Works fo: Queen’s County, writes :—

“Having frequently traveled over the the County since I came into office, and closely scutiniszed the working of the pre- sent road system in its several features, I cannot come to any other conclusion thar that the whole thing in its various branch:

has not one redeeming wonder that our representatives come year after year to Charlottetown to Legis- late for the good of the country, and at the same time are as silent as death concerning

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ands of dollars every year, and t!e country has little or nothing in return for the money expended. They must know that the pre- road service is anything

but sacisfactory in its workings, lt any person should say it is giving satisfaction, | should ask him the fol- lowing questions: How is it that the

roads in many places has to have the pub- lic money from the Government expended | on them after the Commissioners and Over- | seers’ work is done? Are there good roads |} the year round? Why is it the wat-r is | not turned off the roads, where it is cutting | deep trenches in them? Statute labour may do in a new country when people are

but no man of common sense, who values his time, would attempt to spend #2 hours on the road in the month of July. He would rather pay three times as much as he now pays and not work on the roads,

There are several causes why the present Act should be altered. First, in its work- ings it does not deal fairly in each precinct. Some pay according to law, some work, and some neither pay or work. You may say this is an abuse of the law. I know it. But then the working of that law has a tendency towards abuse, inasmuch as it appoints one neighbor to rule over another, and as most neighbours do not like to be at variance with one another, the overseer fails todo his duty, and many persons do not fulfil their olligations to the Govern- ment. ‘Then farmers after working hard all spring, come out on the roads to have a rest and a good social chat; and so put in ten hours out of thirty-two, and thus finish up for that year,—while some go fice. But the man who pays, pays in full, and, probably, his money is the only bene(it to the public that is obtained from the whole thing.

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to marke id for Mau conveyance We,the farm ire coming every year better it iin tl cier 1 practice of our profes ion, and as Our averages increase and the bulk of produce has to be taken to market is high time that we Were begin? 7 to Gdevise some bette: me thod of repairing our roads and b dges than by the miserable humbug, dignified by thé name of ‘Statute Labor.’ Doubtless, most people know full weil bow this ‘Statute La. bor’ isputia. Itis generally about the first week in J \ Il e are called upon to do our road work, That is about the time we are pretty tired after our spring’s work,and ire In ne few aay rest ihe over- eer is nwa tu and we gener lly get off with or iny's work f you like to call It work, The roads are not repaired ; only tched. tjur workiug horses show them- selves but seldom. My ‘commutation’ money, HW paid in « would amount to

two dollars and forty cents, which | get clear of by Phere may be some part of the district where more work is performed, but [ think on an average there isnot more than one day’s work done for each inhabitant in the way of Statute Labor, and not more than one horse in twenty taken on the roads to work. Now, it is very plain that under the present system, we shall not have any better roads, and it is time that Statute Laborshould be numbered with the things of the past. | also contend that July is the worst month in the year to work on the roads, The weather is generally dry, and the surface earth when thrown in the centre of the road, is worked up into dust by the wheels and blown «way, 01 mortar the first rain. |! would recommend all bad pieces of roads to be repaired in May, or ae soon as the frost is out, and, in every case oil in titling up ruts and places that have been cut out by the water. Stone

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Every change of Government puts in| filled up. The money that is appropriated office anew batch of commissioners : by the povernment for repai:ing poruons of very often displaces good practical men, | the roads is very badly laid out. For exe —men who understand bow many cents | examp ti isa bridge near where I there are in a dollar,and how best to expend t i the Commissioner to the money to good purpose. Such men are | be 1 the sum of ten dollars, displaced by those who are (unfortunately | the ™ it the job, came there for the country) void of the one thing ni } at al cin the morning, and at

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ful, i. ¢.: fitness. And doubt if there ever will be a change fiom as long as the friends of the suecessful Government are appvinted to office. I be lieve that as long as we have commissioners, they should be nominated independently of politics, —and that by the people. the people send in three names to the Minister or Chairman who will appoint, in a way similar to that | adopted by «a Judge in appointing sheriff. This system would be more satis~ factory. Then pay those men for the time | spent on the roads. A Government think it is economy to stint and their officers as the hunter fits his hounds for the chase. But, gentlemen, it is a mis- take. A man must live; and it is not every man who is fit to take the situation; and | no man, who has brains enough to fill the | ' |