VOL. 9. Fire. Life. Marine,

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HORACE HASZARD,

nop | Th 2 General lnsurance REPRESENTING : Commercial Union Fire Assurance

Compan), of London, England, Capital,

22,500,000 stg. British-American Fire

Company, of Toronto,

(paid up in full), $500, 000° 00. Sun Mutual Life and Accident In- surance Company, of Montreal.

Assurance Ont., Capital

MARINE INSURANCE ALSO EFFECTED.

Qilice, south side Qaeen Square. Sept. 16--Iw eod

DR. 2. W. 8 GANNING.

Lae nei ite Ri yal Surieons of Kdinburgh. LICENTIATE MIDWIFERY.

RESIDENCE :

Colleges Physicians and

Upper Hillsborough St., corner Hillsborough and Eusteh Streets, Charlottetown. OFFICE HOU RS: 8:30 toll a.m ; 7 to 9p.m.

Charlottetown, June 24, 1879.—eod

UNION HOUSE,

uecn Street, Charlottetown. P, P. CILLIS, PROPRIETOR.

CHOICEST WINES & LIQUORS. VEW YORK LAGER BEER. ABLES set at all hours,-with every luxury of the season. Fresu Oysters received daily. Rooms large and comfortably furnished. Coactes froia this House meet all Trains and Steamboats. First Class bARBER SuHop. July 4, 1879—3m

QUEEN INSURANCE CO'Y. OF ENGLAND. CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build- -L ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on Vv on the stocks.

Special rates for isolated residences.

Losses settied promptly.

GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 1877-—-

BRITISH AMERICA

Assurance Company. FIRE AND MARINE.

Cash Capt & Assets . $1,176 491.46

INCORPORATED 1833.

Head Oflice, - Toronte, Ont.

tisks taken on all descriptions of Property at lowest rates.

PROMPT SETILEMENT OF LOSSES. HORACE HASZARD, Agent.

Office, South Side Queen Square. July 10, 1879.

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No. 35 Water St.,

Charilottctown.

Prince Edward Island Braneb

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NORTH BAITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE AND LIFE.

INSURANGE 0.

Sabseribe: Capital, $9,733,332.00 Paid up ¢ apital, = 1,21 3,666.00

CHIEF OF FICES—Edinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street.

Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur- a ice Business are divided every Five Years. Tue Tables of Rates are moderate.

Fire Insurances effected on nearly every description of Property, at the LowEST RATES of Premium. corresponding to the nature of the risk.

Losses settled with promptitude and liber-

ality. G. W. DEBLois,

General Agent.

Dec. 14.

To Inventors and Mechanics,

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’ | Story of a Survivor of the Cabul 4

te la 21) mr. 177" j \wuIaes, Named Laimur,

sowar | ele Deine to the corps or

who was present at

ithe attack on the British Residency at |} 'Cabul on the 3rd wit., and subsequently

escaped, having spent twelve days in the mountain passes between Cabul and the Ludikhana Kotal, arrived on Monday in the British camp in the Khyber. His naime— an uncommon one in actual Indian life— makes it probable that the escaped sowar, ov ‘‘t-ooper,”” was anjUsbeg, and he would therefore find in the city of Cabul, especial- ly among the newly-arrived regiments, many of his race. To this, perhaps, he his escape from the dreadful fate that befell the messenger sent to the Ameer by Mr: who secon l time, stating that Sir Louis Cavag

, Ee Ps oe a oe eas nari was wounded, the bearer of this lett

Owes Jenkyns, being cut to pieces by the mutineers. He was disarmed and hustled into ‘ } (where, fur a tame, was also detained one of his comrades who had escaped) and

while lying here, heard the fight proceed.

All the afternoon and night the tumult raged, but the prisoner saw nothing of it, and, we sure, he asked no questions. tie was probably forgdtten; aud, just as day was breaking, managed, to pass out unremarked through the mobs now mustering afresh. It would not take him long to get clear of the precints of the Bala Hissar, and once out on the plain, and among the close-gtowing groves and orchards, walled gardens and scattered forts and huts, that cover the level spaces to the east of the city, he could thread his way inand out the various cover without fear of molestation. In the swarm of people moving about the suburbs, leaving the city in fear, or making towards it in the hope of plunder, the trooper, beyond exchange of salutations, had probably not a.word said to him, and did not care to invite conversa- ttion. Thus it comes about that he can tell us very little. But, putting his details to- gether with those previeusly furnished, we are able to shape with some certainty the events of the disastrous 3rd of September. We know that the attack commenced abeut eight a. m., and that the mutineers, burst- ing through:+the city gate of the Bala Hissar, made at once for the arsenal buildings. Having gatted these, the mob turned their attention to tle Residency, where, besides the Englishmen, there were many stands of arms and a considerable store of ammuni- tion totempt them. They at once swarmed into the Reyal gardens, and while some turned aside to insult and

MENACE THE AMEER,

the rest attacked the gateway of the Resi- dency. But the defence was so stout that the mob recoiled before the handful of gallant men. Meanwhile it had been dis- covered that from the arsenal buildings and their adjuncts the flat roof and the upper story of the Residency were commanded— the upper story being probably only an or- dinary hot-weather sleeping-place, open all round, and consisting merely of a wattled and plastered roof supported upon light wooden pilasters. The mutineers were not slow to avail themselves of the advantage thus offered,, and at once commenced so fatal a fusilade that the gallant defenders had to descend to the ground floor. Here for four hours a most heroic-stand was made, the mob, however, now surging into the court-yard of the Residency and crowd- ing so close to the walls that the young ofiicers of Cavagnari’s suite were using their revolvers among them with deadly effect. It was then that from the palace came _rid- ing -the old Afghan general, Daud Shah, and called upon the troops to desist from their infamous crime. But the answer of the mutineers was given with bullet and sword-cut, and the old soldier was carried back dying. to’ his master. But the Ameer made yet another appeal to his frantic subjects, and sent out Yahya Khan, his father-in-law, and his own son; but both had to return before the fury of the mob. With them was Mr. Jenkyns, who, it would

contune.

inenks

may -be

attack been with the Ameer,and to his preg ence in the Palace were due the efforts made to save the Embassy. Somehow or another he joined his friends with the Residency, and, though the telegrams at first sight seem to leave his death uncertain there can be no doubt that he fell with Cavagnari. Still the numbers of mutineers kept increasing, and’ then the guns were brought up from their places by the gate, and the Residency, too large for the small garrison to defend on all four sides at once, -was surrounded. Lighted brands were thrown upon the roof, and very soon the upper story was in flames. Eastern houses require but little to destroy them, and be- fore long the roof feil in, and the crackling of the laths overhead warned the brave few that their only chance in life lay in help from the Ameer. Twice me§gsengers were sent to him, and twice what are said to have been his replies were brought back, ‘Inshahat Allah.1),: making arrangements.’ Now, the phrase traislated in our telegram “Gop WILL,” is really only the formal commencement of a Mohammedan speech heard a hundred times in an hour at the corner of any baz- aar in Afghanistan, and means Virtually— nothing. ‘‘As it will be, so it will be,” is perhaps the best English rendering. De- spairing of help from without, the surviving heroes of the Embassy charged out ina body, and from the trench that had been, dug before the Residency defied the Mos- lem dogs to the last. Soon after this, about 1 p. m., a glancing bullet struek Cavagnari

wrote a}

appear, had at the commencement of the at’

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in the forehead, and the gallant Envoy, it ; g y+

- would appear, was then carried back, or

;crept, into the Residency. The fire was | still crackling overhead, and very soon the roof fell in npon him, preserving the En- | voy’s body from the last insult of a savage itoe. Dr, Kelly had already been wounded, jand helped into the building by a trooper of the Guards (who afterwards escaped), and the: Mr, Jenkyns scribbled off the second appeal to the Ameer, telling him that Cavagnari was wounded, and the po- sition of the survivors desperate indeed. The messenger was at onee cut to pieces, and then ‘‘Taimur” started on the same. errand, ‘That he did not reach the Ameer needs no saying; but his escape was wonder- ful enough, for in hot blood fanatics care little for kin or creed. The last that he saw (of that inecmorable defence was the charred

i walls of the Residancy, as if the very build- ling were in conspiracy with the murderers, | fallimg upon the heroes as they stood at bay.

| Ail the native oflicers of the Guides, the gallant ‘‘ Sikh Jemadar,” and his two supericr non-commissioned officers, were thus overwhelmed, and donbt- less others too; so that, after all, for their own loss of 400 killed and wounded, the brutal Afghans,after eight hours of fighting, triumphed only because the fire had con- sumed the defence of the garrison. The sowar was told that Lieutenant Hamilton shot three of the mutineers with his re- volver, and killed two with his sword. In the grey of the early morning of the 4th Taimur, creeping out of his place of con- finement, revisited the Residency to snatch a glance at the wreck and the corpses of his . comrades. In the court yard, across a‘ mounted gun, lay young Hamilton’s body, 2 stripped of jacket, but not dishonored, and# beyond it, where the trench that the Afghans could net storm had been, were heaped thick together and charred witk fire, the corpses of the heroic Guides; whe died where they had stood, in defenge of the Enyoy entrusted to their keeping. ‘Piled up behind them, the smouldering ruins of the Residency hid from sight the body of the gallant and gifted Cavagnari.

Then the trooper turned his face India wards. All about the city there were Afghans enough—the whole hive seemed restless with a multitudinous motion ; but, when the solitary traveller cleared the pre- cincts, the old desolation of the dreary hill country lay before him, and along the rugged way hardly a man was moving. The high road had danger for the escaped ‘“‘sowar,” and it was probably the detours and halts he had to inake that kept him 12 days and nights upon the road between the Afghan capital and the British camp. He saw nothing of the army, which was said to be entrenching itself where the passes deLbuuch upon the plain to obstruct the advance on the city—nor, so far as he knew, was any advance in projeet.

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Washington Letter.

POLITICAL MEASURES OF THE NEXT SESSION,

What will be done at the next session of Congress / begins to be the question among the politicians. It is safe’to say that it will be a session rather of omission, to do than of doing, for it will precede a remark- ably exciting political canvass for the Presi- dency and another Congress, and timidity will in a great measure rule the proceed- ings. ‘* Cross purposes” may therefore be predicted as the ruling policy, The leading members of Congress are either candidates for the Presidency, or hoping to be ‘“ dark horses,” or desirous of re-election, or ani- mated by some other object, and will not be in a good hurry to commit acts which will be heralded as crimes and atrocieties by the opposite party.

Some political measures will be attempt- ed, as, for example, the passage of hills similar to those which provoked the exeen- tive vetoes last spring and summer. Shuuld the late elections show Democratic gains, these ieasures will be revived in their original shape, and pushed with the old Spirit, or even more earnestly by the Democrats. But should the Republicans make gains, the measures are likely to be modified, except that with reference to the election officers, which the Democratic party pwill stick to through all weathers and dis- astev8. The Republicans will resst these with spirit, and a good deal of the session will be taken up with the discussions to arrise from these and similar political questions. One of the first objectsthe Democrats have in view is to get control of a majority of State delegations in the House, so that they can elect a President,or at any rate prevent an election, should there be a failure to elect by the popular vote. As the House now stands, the Republicans have 19 State dele- }gations, and the Democrats 18, with De La Matyr, Greenbacker, holding the bal- ance of power in the Indiana delegation. In order to get a majority of delegations, the delegates must, therefore, either unseat a Republican in Indiana, or capture De La Matyr, which rumor says would not be very difficult, and also unseat two Republicans pin Wisconsin. I am not ‘‘inside,” and can- not divine just how this is to be done, but itis talked. The Greenbackers will be the most aggressive legislators. They will probably take no notice of defeat, but go right ahead, demanding their peculiar measures just as if they were the most popular in the world. They will bring a great pressure to bear for the Wainer silver bill, which hangs over in the Senate. They will also try to get the trade dollar convert- ed into standard curfency. Other measures for inflation and for giving everybody every- thing they will bring in, ¢hiefly as part of

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