a)

ot Politics,

5

Literature, and

Vol. X.

-ECIAL NOTICES si a 4 : ¢ “mS. LLL LLL LAL DODACI DS. OO lal,

s Puls, a remedy for biliows and liver complente

s | 1 Die and liver compl rte, «ehould try the : this w-bisble remedy, a few doses of which wi'l make . te elmsiic and Sigorous, remove all tmpiriies, hy action to the liver, and stren rthen the stomach. vckea allowed to ¢ nee eathont using such 4 ' re ger me castisaities mivy arse, and the s signed toa bed of sickness H illow y's iy 3} x wary ¢ dy. acting roamediiely m the renova! . : ndigestion, debiity, and nausea, arcing the fo yrougty for asernibition, rendernag each are . , et in tts function and stimulating the ‘ vs ses eisrectbataenitaattaiaataiamigialraitaia ainda cia aimee. tii i ee te cattails Found last, a remedy that not only relieves, but cures sumption and tis namerous satellites, which revolve around the shape of coughs, colds, influenza, bronchitis, &c. . This : ly is Dr. Vistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry.

7 PARKWV'S TRICOPHEROWTS is the best and cheap i D est article for dressing, beautifying, cleansing, curling serving and rest ring the hair. try it.

: eine t‘rugygiats & Perfem rs.

. 93 3 Lad ee Sold he

ACARD TO THE SUFFER "NG.

» Rev. Witrsam Cosqnove, while laboring asa missionary in Japan,

was peusumptien, when ail other means bel failed, by a receipt ea f & iearned iysiciin residing ia the great city of Jeddo ured great nuw s who were suf ring from C tia, Sore T at, Cougha and Colds, sad the debility and ession caused by these disorders. sirves i fitting others, [ wil! send this receipt, which I have ag © Wilh me, to all who need it free of cuarge. Address REV. WM. COSGROVE, 439, Fak a Are Broce klyn, N. . é ’ 3 2m

ee 8 errr en

WHEN WE SAY

That Mas. Wixstow’s Soothing Syrup acts like a charm, we

erate the language every perecn whe ever used

ldren, for all diseases incident to the period of

e¢ ssentery and Biari@a, Wind Colic and

t infa it will produce quietude and reset, relieve

eaffering, and the infant will awake invigorated and rc-

ed, and not with the dall and stupefying effects of pre-

vatations of opiem. Sold everywhere, 25 cente per bottie. = 13 Cedar-street, New-York.

GOODS AND GROSERIES.

OTTON WARP, TEA, TOBACCO, MOLAS-

SOLE LEAI gether

t the lowest prices, the following ‘ b

warrants to be of the very best

: ‘ rp LiIVGl © . { Lil eerts, Lon: t mY GOODS

ist : ‘ .

HUGH MONAGHAN.

cle ine Oe

Farm for Sale. LEASEHOLD FARM of 100 acres LAND, with

4 I se, Bara an t houses, » Lut 65, about

rom tie city. [wenty acres » the

ituated i above are 59 acres fit for

end in a grea etat ot cultivation;

' z. and the remainder is covered wit': hard and soft

: r . rere he woud lihere wa heavy stream of water run ing curve g" tus me. anda cool site for Saw or Grist Mills.

' | ' 2 r particulars, please apply to the subscriber on ’ ? .

Vises JAMES CASSADY, Dyer.

HAYING AND HARVESTING —

' rT : . NILY received from Engiand and th: United States,

¥:

a biG : ule at the ( if © town

AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE & SEED STORE, i RI

REAPER, for one and two

i

- So

i ’ cumoiln

i MOWER aa

a & Son's best SCYTIIES, in variety, Patr iges beet quaiity Steel HAY FORKS, * ana Hand HAY RAK#s, (large assurtment),

3 #178

2 r Grain, Vario SNEATHS and STONES, in variety dacay's two horse M

whines have been in use: in

t and av

luring the iasé two Summers, *given ¢* ery

4 , “ ?

iis mn j wing themeelyes to best ¢ mined Mo cers . g tn

ap} i apers éxianf Ag the np imDer of M ac hes on ha ad 18

Farmers had lication &, the

ferws liberal.

better Make eariy 2p}

W. W. IRVIDNG. arlottetown, June 26, 1860. tf. . 7 , ‘a , EDUCATION. T the Monthly Meeting of the Board of Educate on, held 4 this day, it was ordered that the following no‘ Jfication inserted in ail the newspapers :—

Ali Teachers whose terms have expired, or who har re entered w may enter into aew encagemen‘s 6ubsequel t VW the amended Education Act (2ad May, 1590,) will be ad- Rited te an examination at the Board Room, on the /as eding month. Candid: tes a .re required on the day previous, at ten o'clock, for

i hist

tursday of each hattend, as above, : he purpose ef erforming preparatory ex rcises.

ome i JOUN Me NEILL, Secretary of Board of Education. 186@.

#ucc

town, Jane 28,

a

~ 4.

reD a quantity of WOOL for wh<-h Cash will he paid at the CITY TANNERY. West Es d of Grafton St

stin- mif- ving skid. use

Pre-

per

2 ties in the Province of Auckland. Every information | LE- Upoa aj plicaticn ww CHARLES } ELI | ANKLES sh 49 iO Emiyr ant Agent. oe My, June 12, 1550. tf HIDE: : >. coy ee eee ce ight Notice. 4 # Wess LL Book D sbts, Notes of Hand and othee securities, due ew + “Ge sulscriber in tuis Island, having been dyl 7 assigned by me

FLOUR & TEA,

ECEIVED this day, and for sale by the eubseribers—

200 bhle. Southeru FLOUR, warranted a first-rate article.

2) eheets TEA, 1 case LOZAENGES. a tugust 7, 1860. 3a DOD) & ROGERS.

‘ rat ‘ 4'7

SALT APLOAT.

( BUSHELS SALT, ex ** Gaze//e,’’ (now on her

IDDOD passage from Liverpool, for SALE from ship le 4d per bushel. ae

Purchasers will please make arrangements to receive Lad lm-

Miately on arrival, as the ship will be despatched without

» fee Li erpoul, returning again for Fall y yage. : J +0 "7° ” W. W. LORD & Co.

lottetown, July 17, 1550.

‘Dea, Gin, Son).

TT emeaes

strecl— Chests seperior Congoa TEA, Half-cheste de Casks Holland GIN, Boxes Eagleh SUA P..

ys e Puly 24, 1860.

———_—$ — me

NEW ZEALAND.

REE GRANTS OF GOVERNMENT LAND to all eligible

bersons, who emigrate at their own cost--for the purpose

“Ore. ALex. MoLnop & Co, of Halifax, Merch ants, by Assign- “tied bite Auzust inst., the several debtors @ ;. respectfully re- 4 bly pey their several amounts to the said fig 1.

3 .UGH FRASER. the Assigament above re ferred to, all per- *hosnever ted to Mr. Huca Faasen, are requested to make tt payment of respective amounts to Cilanpes PalMee, pBarl ttetowa, our Attorney, who is authorit ed to receive the same.

ALY X. McLBOD & CO.

DUrsaance

Wtietvwn, Det August, 1260.

Miachines and Implement =.

sump- quir “d :

Vooil. Wool, Waol! |

'in the Isis nd may be sold.

. t | l ALEX. McKIN NON.

wipbout further

NB Meteicn"G Seas’ tet CORES Bee and no one left to tell what they have last,

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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Tuesday, September 4, 1860.

Order in Council relative to the Grant- ing of Tavern Licenses. Councit Cuamper, Jane 19, 1860.

FPNUE Board having had under consideration the Law re-

gulating the granting of Tavern Licenses, was pleased to order, That the Colonial Secretary of this Island shall hence- forth require from all persons who shall apply for License to keep a Tavern or Inn, within any School District now estab- lished, or hereafter to be established within this Island—the City of Chorlottetown excepted—in addition to the Certificate, according to the form marked (C) in the Schedule to the Act of the General Assembly of this Island, passed in the twenty-

meee hird year of Her Majesty's reign, and intituled ** An Act to

alter and amend the Laws ri gulating the sale by License of

Spirituous Liquors,”? whieh by such Act is required to be pro- duced to the said Colonial Secretary, an Affidavit to be made dy the person or persons who may apply for such License, and t «be sworn before any one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, which Affidavit shall be annexed to such Certificate, and shall set forth and declare that the Magistrates whose James may be subscribed to suc!: Certificate, are Magistrates esident in the neighborhe Public Accommodation, for which such Licenses may be re-

and alse, that the names of the persons, other than such Magistrates, which may be attached to such Certificate, ure the names of a majority of the Householders resident in and entitled to vote tor Trustees of Schools for the School Dis- trict witnin which the proposed Inn or House of Accommoda- tion shall be sitaate, and also that the names of such persons are of

‘ertificate ia their presence, and by their direction.

CHEAPSTDE HOUSE,

QUi.EN SQUARE.

\ R. BENJ AMIN DAVIES begs leave to annouunce to bis

friends und the public that he has purchased the entire ei wei " STOCK IV TRADE, as well as the premises above named, formerly belonging to the late Cures MceNurr, Esquire, and that be intends con- tinuing the business under the various branches of

BRIPIASH AND AWERICAN GOODS dealt in by his predecessor.

fhe SEOCK cunsists of almost every variety of Goods in lemand, ‘saving been selected by an experienced hand iu the Trade.

lie dee ms it necessary to notify the customers who dealt at the Chea pside House, that for the future the business will be conducté 4 on the cash principle, and that no goods will be delivered to any person until paid for. It wi’. be the care of the Manager to maintain the charac- ter this Shop bas earned and well deserves for

PREVE AND CHEAP GOODS,

by pro viding the best description of orticles which he conceives, , r cash only, will enabie him to provide future Stock. at the lowest rate, and the reby be enabled to dispose of itat jower prices than heretofore known.

C harlottetown, Aug. 7, 1860. Is] 4w.

THE SPRING STOCK

OF OVER 12009 PACH AGES, R eceived per ‘Gazelle,’ ‘Isabel,’ and ‘ William Douse,

Dy ge iing ft

AT THE vit Dry (Fo d Ctava British Dz oods Store. sy TYVULE whole has been seiccted in the best English and Scotch i Markets by cne of the Firm, and will be suid at most

reasonable raies. The newest and most elegant styles in Mantles, Dresses, Shawls, Bonnets; Flowers, Ribbons, &c., superior White Cottons and Linnens. Floor Cloths. Druggets, Damask, &c., and every description of Staple and Fancy Goods.

———— A150 IRON, Steel, Hardware, Glass, Paint, Varnish, excellent Congou, and a very splendid article of Souchong TEA, Coffee, Sugar. Sultana, Layer and Valentia Raisins, Cur- rants, Prunes, Marmalade, &e., &c. VHOLESALE AN!) RETAIL. May 29, 1860. tf J. H. VUKNER & Co.

aa weer a er ™“ * ia for the ‘Doilet. CooarneA couipound of Cocoa Nat Oil, &c., for the Hair. ie : FLORIME_— a new and delightful perfume for the "Kerchief. KALLISTON—a cosmetic for removing Freckles, Tan, Sunburn, £e. ORIENTAL TOOTH WASH—an elixir for preserving and beautily- ing the Teeth and Guws. "The Companion for the Toilet contains one bottle each of the above named preparations, in & compact and convenient form, for the Toilet

to tlie Passing table or Portmanteau. Either of the articles may be bad of

W. R. WATSON.

City Drug Store, Ang. 28, 1860. oe ee pro’ SALE by the Subscriber, Queen Street, one of Me "’s Mower and Reaper Combined. a

meri " ALEX. McKINNON.

August 28, 1869.

_ NOTICE

xi of the Inn, Tavern or House of

Phis is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.’---Euripides.

ohh ws

Gleanings from late Papers,

RP A eure SYRIA, PAST AND PRESENT.

rc

Syria, like India, is one of these regions of the earth where

| frequent tvasions and the geographical character of the coun-

hej a <P ting »<nectively rere subscribe >| 4 their hand writing, re<pectively, or were subscribed t | Jorden and Dead Sea) which are now desert.

with ther influence the whole northern half of Syria. Alex

,euterpriaing career which led them as

try have produced an extraordinary minghng of races, custome and religions, Successive waves of conquest have rolied over

the land, submerging the plains, but only breaking in caeua} |

The central isthmus of the Old World, its invaders have come from all points of the compass. Vhe Assyrian and Persian from the Eist—the Greek and Ro- man from the West-—the Arabd-from the South—he Mongo! uid Turk fron the No - And now has begun once more the influx of foreign influence and population. F During the last twenty years, Beyroot, the maritnme capital of the country, has half lost us Orientalism by the peaceful influx of European

spray over the mountains,

commerce and trading settlers. Ii is a land whose history pre- |

sents a most striking series of wesssitudes—one violent change of dominion and of religion following hard upon another. It is the advent of a wanderer from the uplands of the Tigris and Euphrates that first dispels from the Syrian land the darkness of pre-historic time, We see an Aramagin suddenly, on divine unpulse, striking histent by the HKuphrates, near Ur of the Chaldees, and journeying with his family and flocks westward, round the northern edges of the Syrian desert, till he comes upon another region of fertuiliy and a new eivilization—if such it may be called—and beholds the Syrinn bills and towns, Da- mascus and the ciiesof the Plain. Fail five centuries after- wards, the descendantsof that Patriarch, now become a nation, re-issuing from Egyp!, accomplish the first invasion and partial conquest of Syria of which we hove record, At that time Syria had nota few walled towns, the vine was cultivated. and s'1! mnore, if not the art at jeast the usages of war. The whale luierior uf the country Was occupied by tribes which warred with one another, but Which, nevertheless, spread dopulation and cultivation over many districts (especia 'y those east of the

And on the coast the Phoearcian race—skilled in manufactures, trading i ships, and warring in chariots aad mail—had commenced that traders or settlers to Greece, Uarihage, Marseiiles, and ihe distant shores of Britain. Ai the same time Syria began to Wituess the inroads of ihe rival

armies of Egypt and Assyria; unul at length, about seven cen- |

turies before our era, the Assyrian monarchs rose to the height of their power, and dominated ruthlessly over ihe whole of

Syria. Conquest made radical changes in those days. ‘The

yreater portion of the Jewish mation was carried away into!

servitude, never to return, other settlers being unported in their room-—and the population of Syria underwent us second great change, although the new seiilers probably 8prany from the saiue old stem trom whence Adbreham had branched off. Nex: came the nuble Persians, ruling Syria asa satrapy, but making little change im the custoins or religions of the cuuntry. Alex- ander and ius Greeks followed, giving rise to the zreat dynasty of the Seleucia, who had their capital at Antioch,and leavened } x- ander had dealt a mortal blow to p iud lyre, but a hundred Other towns started mio exisience, or at least into new aud itvher life, under the Grecian rule; and Green art and civii.zation do:nimated im the county even during all the subse quent rule of the Couquering Romanus. For aves betore Pompey

led the Roman legious luto Syria, great igiways of commerce,

liravers.ng the country, connecied Tyre und Sidon and the

sheres ol

ast.

the Levant with Babytea and the countries of the Upon one of these, running through the Syrian desert,

arose queenly Palmyra, gracetul wid beauuful as the palm-trees |

from which M look ifs name, aud Whose extensive ruins, stend- ing New g:midst periect 60) )UGey "Sim cachant the traveller who is Bulficiently daring lo Joursey through the Sindy wasies and lawlesa ~GBedouins to visit them. Baalbek, tov, the halfway

| stage between Dainascus and the coast, arcse with its maguiG-

ent Temple of the Sus, whose superd columns and archiiraves are deemed to hyve been the work of gent by the starving tribes who now drive their il rks Over the waste dui surpassingly prolitie plain of the Bekaa. Judaism, ever an isolated religion, nad passed away from the huls of Palesune, asd Christianity

had not only supplanted i, but bad triamphed also over the |

worship of Bel aud Asitarte and the o hee forms of pavyanism which of old existed alung the coasi and ove ra l the northern galf of Syna—Antioch, afterwards the © Eye of the Caristia

' ’ r

Churches,’ certatuly notexcepred. Buta new religion and a

vew Power sudden!y @rose in the Barren peninsulatothe south; and the Arabs, under the successors of Mahomet, rushing as fierce conquerors into Syria, began the greatest and most de- structive series of changes which that coun ry has undergone Tne stern Kaied inaugtrated the supremacy ot Islamism amidst torrents of bldod. Jerusalem became a Mahometan ciy—a mosque arose on the sive of the Temple. By-and-by the rule of tue fanatic Moslem proved so intolerable that the tales of suffering brought howe by pilgrims aroused all Europe to rescue the Hoiy Land from the grasp ot the Saracen. Peter the Her- ait, Godfrey, Tancred, Richard the Lion-Heart, headed the fiery onsets, and for a tine the chivairy of the West proved more than a match for the walled cities and swarming hosts vpposed tothem. Four severel generations the sea-coast and the mountains were held by the Crusaders ; the Counts of Tri- polt and Vhoulouse ruled their districts with settled sway, aud not a few ruined castles in the mou: tains date their origin from that perind. But vader the peerless Saladin—a prince as chivalrous, accomplished, wise, and humane ag any that fought on the side of the Cross—the Arabians renewed the canest with dashing valour; and long before the royal shroud raised aloft on hie lance proclaimed at Damascus that the proud Saladin

was no more, Syria had re-failen under the dominion of the

Crescent. ‘ihe religton of Christ finally gave way before that

of Mahomet. Only in parts of the Lebanos range, which off red |

ja retuge from the intolerant Moslem, did any Christian popula

W EATHERBE, formeriy of this Island has directed |

i i 3 Ss si d elsewhere

@F @ that the remainder of his property at Sammerside an ;

Tberefore, on Thursday the 4th day of

October ne xt, will be offered at Summerside a large number of Town

Lots, one ‘welling and Warehouse, one Store aud Warehouse, and some

five acre Lots, all situated at Summerside. Also some Lands at Fifteen Point aud the West part of this Island oe

Term, unde known on day of gale which will commence at 10 o'clock,

a. ml.

Refe rence may be made to Mr. George R. Beer, Charlottétown, or to WILLIAM DODD, Auctioneer.

Cl :rlottetown, August 14, 1860. Te Isl

New Shape . SPRING SHIRTS. 4. large lot just received, by J. H. TURNER & Co., to be sold at about HALF THE USUAL PRICES; British Dry Goods Store. July 3, 1860

| TEA! TEA!

| G{UPERIOR CONGOU. .

s THE CHOLCEST SOUCHONG.

This Spring’s importation from England — Wholesale and

N SALE by the subscriber, at his Sate Room, We .ter-| Retail at

J.H. TURNER & Co's. | July 3, 1860.

EEN SOUARE HOUSE

13 NOW SUPPLIED WITH An Excellent Assortment of % ? ¢ " . en La-aeeentipedien WM. HEARD.

so lung enjoyed, intimates that in future the business will be conducted, so as to merit a still greater share of the support of Cash customers. Jane 12, 1860.

7X OULINES. ae C CARPENTERS’ CHALK LINES, SALMON, MACKEREL, HERRING and SAIL TWINES, WHITE, BROWN and YELLOW SHOE THREAD. arge ly of the above for sale hy Ae Gere CHARLES DEMPSEY,

FOR SALE,

Jaly 3, 1860.

Apply to G. COLES.

Jaly 4, 1859. 1si,

tion exist; and there and then arose the sect of the Maronites, whe have preserved their religion (such as it is) to the present day. Once inore, and ip still more dreadful form, the waves of war and conquest sulled over the country: Mongo! and Tuck in repeated invasions desolated the land, destroying cities, mas- sacring inhabitants, and sweeping away first the rule of the Saracen Calipis and latterly the domision of the Egyptian Mamelukes. For upwards of three centuries the Turks have ruled in Syria—and they will not rule much longer. ‘The present aspect of Syria only too filly accords with ns past his- tory. Itisa land in runs. ‘The population is not a tenth of

wih.t it once was, and cultivation has proportionably decreased. | Many towns have wholly disappeared,—imounds uf ruins still |

attest the site of others. The slopes of Lebanon end the bar- rei. Sullsides of Judea show marks of the ancieat terraces, and vas: regions of now desert platn on the eastern side of the mountains were of old the seat of populoustowns, The present po; ulation of Syria, from Antioch and Aleppo to the deserts of

| Arabia, does not exceed two and a-half mtilions,—whereas

Judea alone, inthe time of Titus, contained four millions! At whatever point the traveller enters the country, he steps upon ruins. Even at thriving Beyroot he is reninced that there of old wag the greatest school o law ta the Roman empire; and

ithe ruins disinterred in every part of the environs show that

ithe 520,000 intiaditants of Antioch—of the ten e:ies

| wies and wealth of Europe wiil be drawn into the country.

(the Australian world will yet stream ia part across Syria frow |

|

i

ew” W. 1. thankfal for the large share of patronage he has

|

the city 18 buta shadow of what i was. Of Seleucia, once containing 60),000 inhabiants, nothing remains bat half-a- d zen houses and the crunbling piers and jetties of its noble harbour, Tyre bas lelt only ite stte—Sidon is 2 village— vere ig a miserable substivuie for Piolemais—only 27.000 remain of which gave iheir name to the district of Decapolis not ene remains— and that Jerusalem is miserebly failea no one who has trod its streets will deny. Everywhere it is the same tale of decay. But Syria has stil a future, and it will not be an ignoble one. As surely as the world. moves and civilization spreads, the ener- The Syrian peninsula, which was the highway of commerce between the East and the West, will beso again. ‘Phe railway will yet run in the track of the caravan, Whe commerce witn India and

the Persiin Guifto the Levant. Aleppo, Antioch, Suediah, Beyroot will start into new life ; and ere the present genera- non baa passed away, Syria will again be rebutiding her rained

walls,and restoring her waste places to cultivation and her |

peopie Lo prosperi'y. _—_-———_——- + re @--o—

TERRIBLE FLOOD IN AUSTRALIA.

Illawara District, New South Wales, Mare 81, 1°60.— |

We have had tropical torrents of rain that were fearful. Bat in February the floodgates of heavep seemed to be open,

and all the fountain-heads of the rivers seemed to have burst |

their bonds to overflow us. ‘These districts have been devas- tated by one of the most fearful floods over known in Aus-

+ lad ores 2 . » an , ‘ Lf | . hot meet at the place appointed for the rendesvous, and the gives the following im ite report of the proceedings ot the

— =

: ' | were whirled away clear over a fall of a thousand feet deep, |

+ . : . | at the bottom of which the remains of many were found. No}

> £ @ divesinos Caner > { t } one at the diggings escaped to tell how suddenly the big 8 | Gred by the King’s troope.

came down upon them, or of the gold that was lost. | little girl was found alive in the region of Bell’s Creek, who} | had iost father, mother, five brothers and sisters, and home. | All that she possessed and loved in the world were swept away. In one night this poor unfortunate was dashed down | to poverty and orphanage. The face of the country is so, changed that she cannot point out the place where their house stood. Near the source of the Shoal Haven River, at

one point, the water was seen to come rushing down upon

the plains, like a vast pyramid. The river rose in a few! hours one hundred feet. The upland flats were like great | lakes. On and on swept the avalanche of waters in its des- | jOlating path. An immense belt of richly-cultivated lands, | smiling with plenty, has been left like a ruined desert, filled

or covered with sand and rocks. Houses, gardens, crops,

cattle, horses, fences, trees, soil, men, women, and children, | were swept over precipices, down through valleys, and on. into the surgingjsea, and thrown back upon the coast in inde- iscribable confusion, For many miles the shore was covered | with the awful wreck. Boats were rowed and steamed over | where a town had stood, jn endeavours to save some of the, drowning people, who had gone up to the tops of the highest | buildings. In this way some were rescued just before the r | |houses were swept away. Some of these boats now stand | high and dry in the midst of where the town once stood, The | Sioa! Haven river-eed has been filled up. The waters have

‘ound another chanvel. An island at the mouth of the Shoal | Haven was inhabited by about 90 families, probably near 400 | persons. The people, seeing the waters rising up suddenly | all around them, fled to the highest bills. Soon all they had | was gone, and the waters kept creeping up after them. The | people were wonderfully preserved. A vessel at sea saw

them, and sailed to their relief. They were saved just before | |the island was submerged. A great many individual cases of | thrilling interest are related. Many a poor mother sacrificed | her life in wild efforts to save her poor children. One young | man, in bis efforts to save his mother, swam with her through | jthe flood, and carried her across an overflowed field. He | struggled hard to reach a place of safety ; be succeeded, and | laid his treasure—his feeble mother--down, but only to see | her die. Ten minutes afier he had brought her to a eafe. place she c’osed her eyes in death. A haystack floated down | insight with men hanging to it. They were indeed drowning men catching at straws. Iluge trees with drowning families | hanging to the branches, swept on before us. It would fill

a volume to record the detaiis of suffering which have des-

olated this wrecked district. The destruction has been com-

ple‘e. All this time the house in which we dwell seemed | to be exposed. We expected it would be carried away. But! ithe stream which we saw rise and rush towards us, diverged | before they reached our home, and dashed away past us, | iuding elsewhere enough of ruin to do for other poor unfor-

Tue Government has been prompt to send relief to

the sufferers, All the uninjured parts of the colony have

been raising a “ rlood Relief Fuad.” This wiil serve to

aineliorate somewhat the calamity ; but the rain of families, | the loss of children, parents and kindred, and the violent | deaths of loved ones to save the bereaved among the living | —tiacse are desolations that no relief fund can ever assuage.

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tunates.

iosliedtiaieapins TERRIBLE INDIAN FIGHT.

We learn from Mr. Davidson of Indianola, that a painful | rumour was brought to that place on Saturday last, by a returned Pike’s Peaker, of a severe Indian fight some three weeks since, on the Solomon, about one hundred Potawat- tomies and Delwares were killed. The informant says he passed direct!y through the scene of the fight—that the dead were all sca!ped, and supposed the other party to have been Cheyennes, Arrapboes, &:., who were known to have been in that vicinity at that time.

Mr Davidson himself had a very narrow esezpe from the, hostile Indians, being with another party huming buffalo, | and on the day of the rumored fight were only fifteen miles distant on the identical spot, on Salt Creek, a tributary of | the Republican Fork, where a battle had been fought ouly four days previous, between the Cheyennes, Arrapahoes, &c., and the Pawnees. His party had advanced_bat a few miles beyond the spot, in quest of buffalo, when they came suddculy | upon a large camp of Indians, numbering, he thought, over a thousand. The Indians called themselves Pawnees, but he | and his party believed them to be Cheyennes, as they had} been victorious in the fight of a few days before, and had | driven the Pawnees from that vicinity. The savages imme- | diately surrounded the little caravan, numbering only six-| teen men, making hostile demonstrations, and would douhtless have murdered them all but froma fear that other and larger | parties of Pottawattomies and whites were in the rear, a de- lusion which the hunters encouraged until they got clear of |

| their troublesome visitors.

The Gzht between he Cheyennes and Pawnees was wit-| nessed by a couple of poincers, at the time hunting buffalo, and was described by them as being a fearful scene. The com- | batants numbered some thousands, were all mounted, and | kept constantly cireling, liying down in their saddles, and | firing over thier horses’ necks as they approached the enemy. | The fight lasted two hours; quite a number were killed—| their informants did not know how many—and atthe end of | that time the Pawuees broke and ran with the Cheyennes | after therm.

It was the original intention of Mr Davidson’s party to have accompained the band of Pottawattomies and Delawares spoken ef, but by sume defect in thearrangment, they did

two parties took different routes, In addition to the above information, Mr. D. informs us|

that great excitement preyai!s throughout the frontier settle- g I 2

ments, on account of Lodian depredations—that many whites had been killed; also, that he met many families on their way tothe larger settlements, carrying with them their en- tie household goods, having ubandoved their homes, their | crops, and every thing that they could not carry away. | Companies were being made up at Manhattan, Janction City, &s., for pursuing and chastising these wild Indians, who have never before pressed the settlements so close as now. | It is hoped the commandants of the forts will take this in hand immediately. The settlement of the company on the Republican and Solomon's Furks bad been rapidiy progress- ing this season, and these disturbances, unless speedily checked, will prove serious ia their effects upon that country. |

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Dumas Descripes a Fieur.-—lhe Paris Presse publishes | a letter from M. Alexandre Damas, dese ibing the engagement | at Meinzzo, of which he was an eye-witness. The following are ex triets :—

**At dawn on the 20:h all the treops were in movement to, attack the Neapolitans, who had come out of the fort and village | of Melezz>, which they occupied. Malenchini commanded the

leit; General Medici and Cosenz the centre; while the right | was compored of a few companies only, intended to cover the | ‘centre and left wing from a surprise. Garibaldi was in the | centre, where the acuion was expected to be the sharpest. The fring began on the 'e't from the Neapolitan ou' posts, concealed | ina reed bed half way between Meri and Melazzo. A quarter | of au hour laer the centre attacked the Neapolitan line, and | |drove it from its firat position. The right meanwhile dislodged | |:he Neapolitans from some houses which they occupied. As | | the difficulties of the ground prevented reinforcements from |

harriving, Bosco, with G00 men, turned upon the 506 or G00 who tad driven tim back, The later were at first obliged to | reure before the superior numbers of the enemy ; but when other troops came up to their aid, they again attacked the | jenemy, many of whom were still concealed among reeds and | | protected by fig trees, so that a charge with the bayonet was)

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came on @ gun placed in the centre on the road, and which he determined to attack,

When within 20 paces the cannon, loaded with grape, was The effect was terrible; only five ‘ors xX men remained standing. Garribaldi had part of tie boot and his stirrup carried away ; his horse was also wounded, and he was compelled to alight. Major Breda and his trumpeter

were killed by his side; Misora’s horse fell dead under him; State!la was left standing mnhurt in the midst of the iron sort 5 all the others were killed of wounded. The gun which had done all the mischief was taken soon afier. Then the Neapoli- tan infantry opened and gave passage to a charge of 50 cavalry for the purpose of retaking the piece. Colonel Donon’s men, who had been but littie under fire, threw themselves tothe sides of the road instead of receiving the charge on their bayonets. The cavalry came like ay whirlwind, the Sicilians firing from both sides, Thus assailed both right and left, the commander of the Neapolitan cavalry stopped and wanted to turn back, but found the passage barred by Genera! Garibaldi, Migori, Stutella, and five or six men. She General seized the officer’s bridle and cried out ‘Surrender!’ The officer replied with a blow of his sabre, which Garibaldi parried, and by @ back stroke cut the officer’s cheek open. ‘The latter fell Meanwhile three or four sabres were raised against the Gereral, who wounded one of iis assailania with a thrust of his sabre, while Missori killed two others and the horse of a third with his revolver. Statella brought down one antagonist, while another, who sprung at Missori’s throat, was kilied by a fourth shot of his revulver. While this struggie wis drawing to a close, Garibaldi rallied his scattered men, charged with them, and either took or killed the rest of the fifty horsemen, Seconded by his centre, he next charged the Neapolitans, Bavarians and Swiss with the bayonet. The Neapolitans fled at once, but the Bavarians aud Swiss made a

short stand before wey gave way. This decided the fate of ihe day.”

Genxealocy er tax Prince or WaLes.—The following ie going the rounds of our contemporaries :—* The Prince of Wales is the eldest son of Queen Victoria, who is the daughter of the Duke of Kent, who was the son of George the Third, who was grandson of George the Second, who wes the eon of Princess Sophia, who was the cousin of Anne, who was the sister of William and Mary. Then William and Mary were vrother and sister, were they? Mary was the daughter, and William the son-in-law, of James the Second, who was the son of Charles the First, who was the son of James the First, who was the son of Mary, who was the grand-daughter of Margaret, who was the sister of Henry the Eighth, who was the son of Henry the Seventh, who was the son of the Earl of Richmond, who was the eon of Catharine, the widow of Henry

the Fourth, who was the cousin of Richard the Second, who

was the grandson of Edward the Third, who was the son of Edward the Second, who was the son of Henry the Third, who was the son of John, who was the son of Henry the Second, who was the son of Maida, who was the daughter of Henry the Furst, who was the brother of Wilham Rufus, who was the son of William the Congveror, who was the son of the Duke of Normandy, by a tanuer’s daughter of Falaise,”’ ~~ eee

The Boston Traveller in commenting upon the speech of Lord Palmerston made on the 23d of July last, in which hid Lordship admitted that London might possibly be eeized and held for a certain time by an invading force, says :—

*: England hag never been invaded in force, and from the nea, for 794 years, the Norman invasion occurring a.p. 1067. From the Scotch down to the early part of the lth century, she frequently suffered inroads ; and there were Scotch invasions in both the 17th and 18:h centuries. But from the continent of Surope she has never been invaded, since 1095, save when the invader has been connected with some domestic party. All

other countries worth attacking have known something of the | horrors of war by actual experience, but England has known

them only when they have grown out of her domestie troubles, or when her sons have carried them abroad. In the brief period of G7 years Germany, Hungary, ltaly, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, United States, Mexico, Canada, India, China, Algiers, Morocco, Ireland, Persia, Arabia, and many lesser countries have all been invaded—all suffering more or less from the hands of foreigners, and some of them conquered. England alone, of al! leadiag countries, and including Scotland, has been exempt from this terrible evil. Her women, like those of Sparta, have never Seen the suuke from aa enemy’s camp.”

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Canapa.—A Cinadian paper seya it cannot remember when the province has been bleseed with eo bountiful a harvest se during the present year. The weather has been seasonable for harvesting, and the great bulk of wheat and barley is now safelyhoused. No compialat ia made, but all descriptions of grain yield abundantly.

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Gor Him Taers.—While a number of lawyers and genilemen were dining together at Wiscasset, a few years ago, a jolly son of the E nerald Isle appeared and called fur dinner. Lhe landlord iold him he should dine when the gentie.nen were dune eating.

* Let him dine with us,"* whispered a limb of the law, “ and we shal] have some fun with him.”’

The Irishman took his seat at the table.

* You were not born in this country,”’ said one,

* No eir, [ was born in Ireland.”

‘Ie your father living 7”

*- No sir, he is dead.”

‘* What is your occupation ?”’

“ Trading horses.’’

“ Oid your father ever cheat any one while here?”

“I suppose he did cheat many, sir.”’