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ut to the channel withow! being charged for the privilepe’ while others had been called upow to pay fora similar right: tn cases of towns, the Gov erament should be empowered to offord every faciliy for the pfosetution of morcantile busi- ness; but 1a country distri (s, they should cauiiously guard the public sateresis—sheu! guard against the obstruction of the highways, of which, & Cavendish, some of the petitions complamed. He fied in the papers he referred to, but if it were as he surinised, a serious inconventence mist have been eceastoned, oe

Hon. Mr. COLES—How. Mr. Wightman made application for the erght to the channe!.

Hoo. Mr. POPE was glad the subject was before the House. Fle was interested in il, 38 Owning water lots at Summerside. In the preseat positivn of the question, he Knew not how to barld on them. [rt had been satd last year that individuals defied the late Government. He for one considered that altheagh the right was ie the Crown, the lots were for the gtwera! use of the public, and it stould not be left in the power of any Governmen! \o benefit or injure any particular individual, by asking wis! amount they chose. As he was the party referred to by the leader of the opposition, as having apphed tor lots at Summerside—te denied having done so, any more than the Hoo. Mr. Wightman. He received a notice to pay 2s. a foot, and that amount was subsequently redaced to ls. 6d., which was demanded ander a threat of

tion; the notice and threat he equally disregarded.

e had been selected individually, as opposed to the tate Goverament, while How. Me. Wightman, a member of it, was allowed to go free. He would have paid Is. 6d. per foot, but considered that it was an unjust demand, preferred against himself personally. Me. Murrbead got a grant at Is. per foot. With relerence to the resolution the Louse might adopt, he hoped it would define the duty of Government so as to prevent favoritism of perseculion, and, in country districts, put it out of the power of any man to wratily his bed feelings towards another, by taking the front of his farm, which should be at the disposal of the owner so long as he did not obstruct the freedom of navigation.

Hen. Mr. COLES—The hon. member had impated dis- honest motives to the late Government, but had admitted that he had taken possession ef public property, which it was their duty to protect. ‘The harbor master had, doubtless, called the attention of the Government to the fact, and had been referred to the Act pointing out his duty. The sum of Q+. was not very high; but the main abject of the Government was to obiain an acknowledgement of their title. The hon. Mr. Wightman had been told that he would have to make terms for his occupancy, as the late Government were deter- mined to act on a genera! consistent plau for the protection of the public property, and no! on personal grounds, He agreed that all reasonable privileges should be conceded, but it wou!d not do to allow individua's to take pablic property for their ewn benefit, whenever they chose, a3 the hon. member had done.

Hoa. Mr. LONGWORTUH~While private individuals own- edto high water mark, the fee in the ser! below that was in the Crown, aad tae right of use in the general public. This double right rendered it a matter of some difficulty so to ad- just the question, as to give the Crown the power to author- ize the ereetion without encroaching on public mghts ht was a well established princip'e, that public interest superseded private. A distinction should, he thought, be made between shipping ports and the ordinary shores of the Island. Ii the Government were ewpowered to grant the water fronts, and wharves erected on theo obstructed the navigation, such erections cruld be indicted by the grand juries as nuisances.

Hon. Mr. POPE—If the late Government were so zealous to preserve the rights of the pudlic in the water lots at Sum- merside, it was strange that they should be willing to barter them away for 1s. 64. per foot. He had never asserted any claim of right to those Jots; byt was aware that on complaint made he would have to leave them. According to the hon, leader of the apposition, every man who laid down a slip or & boom in front of his property, was guilty of a dishonest ap- prepriation of public properiy.

Hoo. Mr. LAIRD—I: was but fair that parties ata place like Summerside should have the privilege of laying down launch ways of booms, which Were nul permanent obstructions te navigation, and Guoverament should be empowered to graut the right w de so. The case complained of at Rustico was hewever, quite different. There the farmers depended grex'- ly on obtaining sea manure. The laie Government had ap- poiated Commissioners, of whom he had been cone, to open a read; and oo complaint had been made unt)! some two years ago, when an American merchant built houses and stages on the publie road, and filled up the spaces between the piles wut stones, thus effectual’y prevegting the people from ob- ta ning the sea-weed. This av one had a right to do.

Non. SPEAKER—The stages were erected in front of the property, and we hav beea informed that the proprietor had expended $10,000 in the erection of breakwaters, &c. It would be a serious hardship to deprive him of sach an amount. The breakwaters were au accommodation to all in the neighberhood why owned boats. The owner had done a great deal of guod to the country; he had instituted a must extensive fishery, the benefits of which were widely exper- jenced in the extended watlay of money it occasioned. Tie petitioners comp.ained of the obstruction io their getting sea manure. He had been informed by the proprietor that the people had never been prevented trom getting as much as they chose, and in fact that they were in the habit of going on the premises and removing t. He was inclined to sus- pect the existence of persousl ill feelings.

Hon. Me. LAIRD—1 ie land was in the public, and no amount of expenduure by an individual in the prosecution of his private business would deprive the public of is rights.

Hoo. Mr. PERR ¥—The question affected the whole Island. If private individuals were a!lowed to monopolize the shores, the people would lose the benefit of the sea manure, which, in his district, was worth hundreds It one person be aliow- ed the exclus:ve posssession to low water mark, he would not be able to take more than a small portion of it, and storms would sweep the rest tu sea, and thus a general loss would be experienced. He would cheerfully do all in bis power to encourage the fisheries, and if breakwaters were constructed #0 as Kot to iniertere with tle right of way, he had no uljcc- tion to them.

Mr. DAVIES—There was no doubt that the establishment at Risticv had been god was productive of great benefis tuo the people, but that circumstance afforded no justification for encroachment on the rights of othere. Private breakwatera aud wharves, however necessary, should not be suffered to intertere with a general right of way, and thus debar the public from their privileges. They should, at all events, be constructed with sufficient archways.

Hon. Mr. TUORNTON—They bad been debating whether they would prevent a business in which it was adimitied a jarge amount of capital was invested, for the sake of a few loads of manure. It was their duty to encourage trade, any wawise interference with which would anly injure the Colony. The case instenced of the hou. Me Wightman had wo bearing vn this part of the discussivn, as his wharves were an accommo- dation to the public, and presented nv obstacle to the cullec- tion of sea manure, which parties did not seek in the cove on the Suuth side of St. Andrew's Point.

Mr DOYLE had no objection to erections below high water mark for the proseertion of the fisheries, if people could conveniently pass under them. No obstruction stivuid te offered to the prosecution of the farming.

Hon. Mr. Longworth submited she fyllowing resolution, which was adopted: —

Resopyep, That it is expedient to vest in the Government

wer to appropriate the ungranted portions of the

Syaste and Shores of this Island, by enabling it to

grant to private individuals, or Corporate bodjes,small

rtions or sections thereof, to be used as the sites of

Vharla. Slips, Breakwaters, or other such purposes,

for such price or consideration as may be uniformly

fized upon in such cases, but under such conditions

and limitations as muy be deemed necessary for the protection of public rights as affected thereby.

The following geatlemen were appointed a Committee to prepare the Bull; —

Hon. Messra Longworth, Haviland, Coles, Thornton and

Pope. M. W. Howe, Reporter. Gleanings from late Papers, THE LATE STORM ON THE ENGLISH COAST — HUNDRED VESSELS WRECKED,

ONE iaes ag ae AND LAMENTALLE

The terrific gale from the N. W. on Monday last, a most unusual occurrence at this season of the year, told with most disastrous eff ct upon the shipping off the coasi, and the des- truction of life and propery has been truly appalling. As far as the present accounts furnish, no fewer than 150 wrecks pod casualties occurred during its ravages; several steamers are missing, and one oo an excursion trp foundered with 80 pe-ple on board. The steamers from the North Sea, which arrived in the river yesterlay, report that the gale almost

ualjed the burrivane whiel: swept the coast ia the latter part ot last Qetuber, The gattle boaig from Haasburg, Rotierdam Flushing, snd oher Durch ports, hud mst of their live stock wasigi overboard, aoun ivy to some hondreds, the decks were swept, by warks stove, swils split, ayd boats carried away snd in some instances it is a miracle how the ship outlived

did not koow the particular lucality spect- = wribla o06 | raised for the lifeboat, and severl beachmen rushed to go off) and her room was a terrible see

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| The spectacle created the yreatest sensation along ‘Le beach, and clang to |and an inquiry is to be instituted into the conduct of those who | !ng to save them.

| ing, still in the eandour of his hart, he strong!y recommend-

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the storm. It wat ypon the eastern and north-eastern range

O1 cuant that the gale produecd such dreadful resuits. During the heig t of the hurricane on Soadiy, abvut mid-day, eight Giips, having above 49 or 50 souls ou board, wear down is sight of thousands of spectators on Yasw_uth Lech, aud aut

| multiplied, they may lose the attribute of independent p wer.

enable people to read their speeches,unqualified by any com-

Che Graminer,

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a hand was spared of the crews. The fearful character of | comprehending the danger, and “= i io the gale became unmistakably apparent before noon, and the and heroic courage, fled to the schoo! roo ’

sea rose and lashed with terrible fury. About 12 a fine brig placed her back against it to keep th was seen to drive upon the Svorby sands, abreast of Yarmouth. in headlong confusion down stairs. wd She was almost instantly submersed; the crew (eight men) | sprang to her duty, she was strack upon the he were seen to take to the rigging, aud to waive their caps to, by falling bricks, but she stood at he hen Me attract attention of those on shore. Calls were immediately | streamed from her wounds uvtil the roof ha taken its ne of devastation. withit. Unhappily, however, a wrangle took place as to who | impossible to calm the frenzies should have charge, which detained the boat on shore, and | fled down stairs, presenting herse ee ee while this quarrel was going on, the poor fellows who were Sands, the Principal, who cll vw pred ee abandon clinging to the wreck were observed to be washed one by one truction above, and demanding lis = : a seg out of the rigging, and thus they all perished. [ad the boat | her-charge. Mr. Sands mannan . — a been put off when the brig first took the sand there is little down stairs, but hastened up; an a I he le 8 aod

doubt that the crew or some of them would have been saved | in the room, the little ones clasped iniin by (he legs and boy, him with the energy of despairing terror, shriek- Such a scene could not be portrayed by

: * " . ._ 7 4 J ' , inli it > . caused the delay in sending off the boat. Shortly after this | human langange. A cloud of dust was whirling in the room ;

: » ¢ re iemall¢ rhe: iek he debris catastrophe a timber barge beat over the sand and went down | the tornado howled dis mally overhe id, bricks and the debris r/of the devastated building were flying about like tiny balls,

and the poor children kept up an agoniz ng chorus of shrieks,

If a piteous spectacle to Mr, des-

iwith ell on board. In the course of an hour or soanothe brig and schooner were observed to be driven upon the Scorby, | Y iden deka f thei | and jn a few minutes the brig disappe ired, her crew numbering so that it was im possible to ee the ee 0 . their | prabably about eight. The schooner withstood the fury of| misery. By per-uasion a Sede ae o yi ority, the sea fora quarter of an bour and then went to pieces. | Mr. Sands and Miss Medkirk dise a t eir trust carefully, |Three or four seamen were noticed clinging to the masts. | and were soon enabled to restore @ degree of confidence to | Three other brigs were seen to go down the Cockle Gate, | the ter ror-stricken children, All the teachers in the house ‘with the whole of their crews, those on shore being unable/are said to have deported themselves courageously and with |to render the least aid. By the interference of the coastguard | rare prudence. the Yarmouth lifeboat was eventually got off, but it returned |

| without doingany good. Onthe Hersey beach in the vicinity | we | of Yarmouth, the brig bound to the Thames from the Tyne. | ‘coal laden, was dashed to pieces in a few minutes, and the | | whole of the erew were drowned, with the exceptoin of the /master and onemsn. Higher up the coast, to the northward

—_—_——_—_———- + =mee oe — —---— Norway supplies us with short ends of the firtree, cut off eir trees, sawn by ther-water-mills, [t is called fathom. wood, being sold by the fathom, and pays little or no dury, and, supplying all Loudon with penny bund es and lucifer- ‘matches, makes a very good market, taking British goods ia aC Flaborngh od, mt rus han orn" tut shows Norma ine i ating eae he The gale suddenly burst forth on Monday morning with |, nae an ; ; | the ha ofa et Be and on the south 1» of Filey Bay | es a eae = ae sete oo | 13 fine yawls were driven on the rock at Speeton, entailing a soeleee ated alin eiek ae ri al a ‘loss of upwards of £10,000 to the fishermen of the place. b he : ; ’ J . | Between 7 and 8 o'clock, on Monday morniog, while the gale | wT —— ee far Fence he & was at its height, the barque Zane Green, Captain Taylor, | aeons —— : ees acdc. oer ws }was driven ashore near the Black, Hall Rock, and speedily | a: a ei vn. akin mae e iid aia intreseesd, .: Sue | went to pieces, the unfortunate master and six of her crew) a “ray 7 aad 4 igetcraniye mae here | perishing with her. A tug steamer belonging to Sunderland |“ a ag hie ee a a ar the wes a re !is supposed 10 have foundered with all hands on board. Every | aah + ee : .. a aaa st ee st ae before | port along this district of coast furnishes sad tidings of the se- | “ oa te J : aaa mein ae ne can a plot which | verity of the gale, and it is feared that the full ex‘ent of the re ae er eee. | mischief is yet to be learned. ‘The Belgian steamer which oi |arrived in the river yesterday reports a dreadful catastrophe on the coast near Flushing, where a Dutch steamer bound on | ic : le ene » > an xourin rom Rovtrdam to Zl eugnteel the Buta. Oa o he met itees ng thee cae Ocuted | Paris in 1776. | perished is stated to be about 80. Another steamer was lost | ing appearance, from one of the interior provinces of France at the same time, but no mention is made of her crew. It} was placed at Paris, in the service of a man depraved by all ‘is feared that from the severity of the weather, other Kuglish | the vices of that corrupt metropolis. Smitten with her charms, ‘vessels were wrecked on that (Dutch) coast. he attempted her ruin, but was unsuccessful. Incensed at his defeat, he determined on revenge, and in furtherance of his | design, secretly placed in her trank articles belonging to him /marked with bis name. He then denounced her to « magis- ‘trate, who caused her to be arrested. and the missing articles being found in her possession, she was brought to trial. In her defence she could only assert her ignorance of the manner

A Kemarkasie Exprerrence —A few well-authenticated in- stances are recorded of criminals who have been restored to consciousness after having suffered at the hands of the hang-

| <=2cee e -———— | FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. | | Mr. Bright, in epeaking the other day of the privileges of |the House of Commons as affested by the recent decision of ithe House of Lords, yave expression incidentally to a very! in which the property came into her trunk, and protest her _eurious prophecy. He predicted a * revolution’—a revolu-| innocence. She vas found guilty, and the sentence of death | tion which he declared * inevitably approaching.” Mr. Bright | was pronounced upon her. The hangman's office was inefii- and his friends are all, of course, for the * freedom"’ of the | ciently performed, it being the first attempt of the execution- | Press, for the removal of the “ taxeson knowledge,” and for €T'8 800. The body wasdelivered into the hands of a surgeon, | the encouragement ostensibly of newspap:rs and journalism. | een a been Loe a apg ne eenetianey pervene’ | But, considering that the British Press does undoubtedly en- * or a ee ee eee , : aslight warmth about the Leart. By the prompt use of |joy more freedom and possess greater power already than | proper remedies, he restored the suspended animation. In |that of any country in the world, in what respect is a ** revo-| the meantime he had sent fura trustworthy priest, and when | tution” in this department to be either anticipated or desired ?| the unfortunate girl opened ber eyes she supposed herself in Then what did Mr. Bright, when he prophesied # revolution. | another world, and, a dressing the priest, (who was a man of ‘desire to see done? That question we can answer in a half- | marked and majestic cwuntenance , ) exclaimed: * Eternal a-dozen words. He desired to see nothing dove, but-a good | Father! you know my arenes 1 Stes pity on me!’’ In deal undone. He desired to see the influence of the Press, | '°™ Simplicity nolleving we ec NNey ial oe ; >| to sue for mercy, and it was some time before she realized she not confirmed, but destroyed. In the language of his school, | was ctill in the land of the living. ‘The surgeon and priest | a * free” Press means a Press without power—a Press which being fully convinced of her innocence, she retired to a vil'age | should have no independent action, and, above al!, no concen- | fur distant from the scene of her unjust punishment. The trated strength,—a Press which should confine itself to the | community ee ee eee with her story, | functions of reporting the opinions of others, instead of exer- | and the author of her a | cising any power in the inculcation of its own. Tais notable and ape thoogn, i Gute was appent that cay attempt bees was made tu bring hin to justice. |theory was broached some years ago. Mr. Cobden used to - oe ‘object to leading articles, and suggest that we shou'd do bet- | ter by co:.fining ourselves to “ facts”—meaning by that term | the opinions of men like himself and Mr. Bright, as delivered at gatherings of thetr own adheren’s. At last one fine morn-

InFANTICIDE IN CuinA.—Much has been said of infanticide in China, bat it appearg to be exaggerated.

-any rate could take them to the foundling hospital, of which

‘alluded t), there were doubtless many mothers who were un- able to supply the natural nourishment to their offspring, and the infants died, or perhaps were put an end to. = I[t struck | me at the time that many infants must be destroyed, and I went to the small tower, not far from Shanghai, into which | the bodies of children are cast. The tower covers a well, and stands about 20 feet high, at the upper part are two small | arched windows, through which the children are thrown out. |

On climbing up to look down.through the windows, | was)

ed the American stamp of journalism, observing that news- papers were more numerous in Amerigz than in this country, | but “had less political influence.” There was the new

There is an idea of a “ free” Press! There, if the

reader wishes for a little secret, is the true history of all the

anti-paper tax agitation. The real object was not to strength-

en or emancipate the j’ress —it was free enough already, and | only tuo strong—but so to divide, divert, and dilute the |

stream of opinion that there snould be no currest powerful horrified t» find, that not only was the well full, but the | enough to interfere with the influence of # popular agitator | wer piled to the top with bodies! The keen frosty weather |

These champions of liberty want not that papers may be cheap, | pronrenes patrerectinn Cres cartier nearer : the dead pile | but that they may be infinitely multiplied, and that, being so | pode hae, Peril Gin eee ca Pees old) | clothes ; but there was nothing to lead to the belief that they wre thrown there alive, or that they had been killed: and _ _ without better evidence than exists, the Chinese at Shanghai | should have the benefit of the dowbt, and we may believe that | most of the children died a natural death, and were deposited | | in this recognized receptaéle for their corpses, to save the ex- | pense of a regular burial. At the foot of the tower remains | SprRITUALIsM AND AMALGaMatIon Compinep.—The Hart-| of small fires were visible, showing that offerings had been ford Times of the 13th. gives the following account of an/| — ides: care ene of Sees, POR | abaiaes iginadtiiie wile les sycee. The strongest evidence against the tower is its imme- - | diate proximity to a Budhist female school; these are often most A case of a somewhat remarkable character was to-day | disreputable places. ‘There was one at Fuochow, in which the the subject of comment among the guests and boarders at inmates behaved so grossly that they were put to death, and the United States Hotel in this city. It was no Jess than | the fundsof the establi-hwent confiscated te the government.— that of a beautiful white woman—a lady, accustomed to [Twelve Years in China. move ip high social circles in one of the cities of this State | ; San a ae —married to a coal tlack negro. Out of regard for the) Imrortant.—Nearly a hundred years ago, Dr. Lind sug- family of the bride, we suppress names. | gested to Kennedy that thirst might be quenched by dipping The parties lived in Bridgeport, where Mrs. some | Scheieretly a oni eg Ginter thet Seay, tad om one three years ago became a widow. She had two or.three|) ir ‘endiud o wr: aed , 4 catia grown up. Some property, it is said, | poate: oe = en ne ee ed in persuading a part of the men to follow his ex-

Their idea of a Press is of such a system of journals as woi'd

ments of the journalist.— Tzmes.

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Tue Britisa Crown.—The crown worn by Queen Victoria at the opening of Parliament is composed of hoops of silver whick are ce mpletely covered and concealed by precious stones, having a Maltese cross of diamonds on the top of it, In the centre of this cross isa magnificent sapphire. In the front of the erown, aboye the rim, is another Vialtese cross, in the middle of which is the large unpolished raby which ed the coronet of the chivalrous Black Prince, and

reverted to her on the death of her husband, and she had ample, and they all survived, while the four who refused, and

also the benefit of $5000 insured on her husband's lite. | drank salt water, became delirious and died. In addition to

Some months ago she was fuund to be intimate with a cer-| putting on the clothes while wet night and morning, they may

tain very black negro of Bridgeport, and it was soon kn wa. D? wetted while on two or three times during the day. Capt. |

that this negro was getting possession of her money and) -~ B'°% on to'may : *: After these operations we uniformly |

property. Finally the negro found it prudent to leave, and | 1°24 that the violent drought went off, and the parched tongue | , ! 7 /was cured ina few mingtes after bathing and washing our

went to New York, and opened a restaurant. Eve many | ojy:hes, while we found ourselves as much refreshed as if we

weeks Mrs. manifested what was believed to be an | had received some actual nourishment.’’ The bare possibility

intention to follow him; and one day last week, being all of the truth of the statement makes it a hamanity for any

prepared, she started to the railroad depot, but was prevenie]| paper to give it a wide publicity, since there are not many

by her friends. readers in any hundred who may not go to sea and be ship-

At this, Mra. ‘old thom she was already married | ¥tecked.

to Francis, the negro—adding, that the ceremony was

lega.ly performed, in New York, last fall! Upon learning

this, the lady's friends knowing that she claimed to have re-

ceiyed a spirit communication from her husband in the spirit

world, sauctioning the vile arrangement, at once resolved to

prevent it by establishing the fact that she was * insane ;”|

and she was brought to this city last week, to be placed |

under Dr. Butler's care at Retreat,

once grac

No sufficient authority Far ; ; i her imr i : th this, in thé circular rim, is another immense being shown the doctor fur her detention, they had to take sede The arches enclose a cap of deep purple, or rather | her back. und the rim of the crown, at its base, is clustered

blue velvet : v with brilliants, and ornamented with fleurs-de-lis, and the

Maltese crosses equally rich. There are many other precious gems—emeralds and rubies, sapphires and small clusters of | drop pearls of great price. The crown is altogether valued at. over half a million of dollars. Indeed, were it possible to re- collect and again bring together such precious stones, this estimate would fall much below their intrinsic value. The old crown of England, made for Georg2III., weighed upwards of seven pounds; but notwithstanding this gorgeous display of jewellery, independent of the gold cap, the present crown only weighs nineteen ounce 6 and ten pennyweights. It measures seven inches in height from the gold circle to the upper cross, and its diameter at the rim is five inches.

Last evening, however, she was brought back here, with the certificates of thrce Bridgeport pbysiciaus that she was insane,

This morning the negro, her husband, appeared at the Retreat to clainf her, and Dr. Butler aecided that he could not detain her at the Retreat fur want of authority, and the negro sailed off with ber in triumph, s

Her insanity appears to be extremely doubtful. She is quite handsome, if not beautiful, while her husband is of ebony blaeness. The two took a room at the United States Hotel, took dinner, aud went off by the 2 o'clock steame: fut New York.”

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A FEARFUL SCENE AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL HOUSE.

The most terrifying incident of the tempest at Cincinnati last Monday was the unroofing of the Fvurteenth District Shoo! House, and the consequent scenes among frenzied children. The Commercial describes it as foliows :—The teachers saw the storm gathering and c'osed the windows. The tornado swept madly up from the valley, and struck the west gable of the deyoted house, which quivered like a leaf. At the next instant, no apprehensions were entertained, But the tempest, as if maddened by opposition, came back with a fearful rebourd, and the bricks began to rattle, the shingles flew like hail stones, and in an instant the whole roof was litted aud swept from the walls and dashed to the opposite side of the sireet. Miss Rachel Medkirk, who taught the infant class iu the west room of the upper story, meantime

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Seasonante Hryt.—From an exchange we oopy the ac- companying advice, which we recommend to the atiention of our readers!

“ Clean Cellars.—Que of the first duties of every house- holder, at this season of the year, is to clean his Cellar. Deeayed apples, cabbages and roots of various sor:s, old beef and pork barrels, rotteu boards, and whatever else is subject to decomposition, should be gathered up aud carried into the open air, or be put in a condition to produce no unpleasant efHuvia. ‘lo sweep, dust, and bedeck the parlours above, is not enouch. If there is corruption in the cellar, it will find its way among the carpets and rose-wood of gilded mirrors in all the upper rooms,making the air unwholesome and offen- sive. The occupants of a house are not so likely to notice these smells ay their visitors.

nee of mind| “Now, to avoid all this, begin the month of May by a losed it, and | thorough purification. Turow open the doors and windows e children from plunging | of the cellar, But while the brave girl | floor and walls | vad and face | this will extirpate vermin, sweeten the air, and give the cel-) r post while the blood lar a neat and tidy look, making it rival the parlour in Its : flight way. Lf provisions, vr other substances liable to decay, have | through the columas of the Examiner, the cause of the unplea. Lt being | i children, Miss Medkirk now | , windows open for a free circulation of air, guarding

In that year, a young girl of very prepossess- |

ame an object of reproach |

Children are} generally worth sumething; parents might sell them, or at | Lincoln, the Republican Candidate for President of the there is generally one in every city; but during the famine | United States, from a late American paper :—

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Correspondence,

CuarcoTretTowns, June 2h, 1860.

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and clean out all decayed matters, Sweep the a Give the walls a good coat of whitewash ; |

Hon. E. Witttan, Sirx.—Permit me, in justice to my own feelings, to explain

to be kept in the cellar dur'ng the Summer, chloride of lime | sant misunderstanding whieh hae lately taken ploce in the should occasionally be sprinkled over the floor. Keep the Prince of Wales Rifle Company. You are aware that | have them, if for the Inst s:x years devoted a cofsiderable portion of ny time, jand what pecunary means | could afford, towards the advance.

ment of the Velnnteer movemert—baving served as Captain of

= the Ist Volunteer Guards durin heir terin of service ; also ny

UNITED STATES. commission ax Captain ip the Ist Queea’s County Regunent of

Miliia, dated 1849, naturally led me to suppose shouid ang - " | promotion take place in the Volunteer Force, [ hod an equitable Terriste Accipent—MeE.LancnoLy Dearu OF A NEWLY claim ty euch ; but instead of Uns, we find Mr. Havilend—who | Sanetep CoupLe.—About 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, as the! aver held evea a commission in the Militia Force—one werk ‘steamer Jacob Trader was ploughing her way up the river to | g»zetied a Captain in Ist Queen’s County Regiment of Militia, | thfe city, when near Westport, Ky., a short pe below and a short time afierwards to Major, opmamnding te Vous Madison, Ind., the pilot observed a man and woman iN @ toe, Rifle Corps of Queen's County. ow, S:r, if this sudden | skiff, crossing the Ohio from the Indiana shore. When first | promotion was necessary forthe merest of we Volunteer Force, ‘seen, the man was leisurely resting upon his oars, and the’ why not—as was done in the Province of Nova Scotia, and alse (pilot presumed he was waiting till the boat vould pass, 10 4 Great Britain—have called a meeting of the Officers of alt order to ride the waves. ‘To his surprise, however, as the | the Corps in the County, to nominate thew Major and other ‘crafts neared each other, the man in the skiff vigorously @p-) gy erior Officers, subj-et to the approval of the Commander-in- plied his ours to the water, and endeavoured to cross the line | Cy ief, and if their ehuice fell on Mr. Haviland, 1, for one, would of the steamer. ‘The engines were instantly reversed, but the nave waived my claim. On considering the matter maturely, _ velocity of the boat could not be checked in time to prevent a ‘and making the reasons known to my own Company, 1 conciu- collision. The -teamer struck the skiff, which was at once | deq that tere was no al ernative left me but to vender my capsized, and with its occupants swept under the larboard | resignation te the Commander-in Chief, which I acco: ding!> wheel. A yawl was roe wy | sng a ren the ae did on Friday morning, the 12h an y the ee of that nate couple had disappeared, and were lost to view forever. | gay Col, Siewart called on me, as he said, in the capacity of & | A bundle of clothing and an umbrella were picked up and) ilaias gentlenan—not as Adjutant General—and asked did t conveyed to the shore, where an cld man, who had wine still persist in tendering my res gnation, stating that Captain the catastrophe, was mens _ . oe of horses. ®) Pollard had withdrawn hie. a ee that | had given infurmed the men in the yawl that the woman was his the gubject due consideration, and that | did not see any reason ‘daughter, and in company with her busband, to whom she | \¢ an conclusion | had comet tv. On the Tuesday futlow. | was married but a short time, ra returning a ae visi! tO | ing { received a communication informing = that His Excel. ‘some friends in Indiana. The lamentations of the sorrow-| je,cy the Commander-in-Chief was p'eased to receive my ‘stricken old man, who refused to be comforted, were painful) resiguation. \in the extreme, and as long as the steamer remained in sight, | Yo por question the right of His Excellency to exercise hie be cont.nued wringing his hands and rendi g the air with ne prerogative iu @opoiming any gentlewin he may consider gual | eries.—Cincinnati Enquirer. | fied to command the Voluntee:s of Queen’s t-ounty, bur | do a | protest against the claims of semor officers beimg over looked , - jand neglected, | cannot but express my regret that anything ly ELoPEMEnt a New a ne a eee /should transpire to mar the progress of the Volunteers of thie pom “i ST eae ; ede : psined ini thie city | @Y Native country, and my only motive in appearing in pubhe be sen a Seonna a ic , ope e a : oe ae sa print, is to disabuse the mind of any one who may have formed ore ft : - “Th i‘ a t tg ty = canis off aan: erroneous inpress.on of the cause of my resignation, er. hy. eagle ag ows : iogizing f P so much of your valuable space | our detectives, who has succeeded in finding the guilty parties,| APelog!eing Tor occupying ; ce caeauad pace, ‘and yesterday the minister was arrested and placed in con- y 7% RANKIN 'finement. We learn that the husband who was so cruelly de- - Aa 'serted is 4 lawyer, employed in the District Attorney’s Office, | | New York, and a gentleman occupying a prominent position in | society. The minister, who is a a of “yatta The members of the “ Mutual Improvement Association,” of graduate of a theological seminary of New York, where he\ g, peers Read, heving adapted the tee-ef Mestaranan is made the acquaintance of the lady. their debates and lectures of late, in direet opposition to their own bye-laws as well as the wishes of lovers of pesce and

Minsies Youns.~ti Wielce. Wis: at week) ee | order, a few of the young men of the place joined ina request

, i ito Mr. A. McNe , retown, | . died Mes. Case, aged sixteen years six months and ten days. | ° ir. A. McNeill, of Charlotetown, to favor them with a

, : lecture, which he very kindly consented to deliver. Arrange- } 2 vi : arried about , : , 4a ¢ Mrs. C., so early called from life to death, was married (wents having been previously made, on the evening of Monday

three years ago, and bas left three children to mourn * | last he came out and delivered a highly Interesting and insiruc- _ mother 8 loss. —s | tive lecture to a very atiennive and preity large audience in the | Marshfield School-reom. His su'ject, * The Federal Union of Eastern Ohio. It was accompanied with a rattling, crashing | — a ae Colomes,” is one fraught with much real St Whe Untchs One his cated Glaus the Seana Goll | a ; - indeed the mane in which he handled it showed }and while it was yet warm dug it out of the earth ; it was eo ee ih eee

S ’ his lovalty as a British subject is unquestionable. Afier the

pounds in weight. | delivery of the Jectu-e, which occupied about an hour, a diseyse ia " : | sion ensued on soma points touched ty the lecturer, after which | STEAMER Wreckep. — Port Sarnia, Jane 6. ~The steamer | ihe thartks of the meeting Were unanimously accorded to Mr,

Arctic was wrecked on Lake Superior to-day. The steamer was a total loss. ‘The crew and passengers were saved.

‘necessary, by a wire netting.

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| McNeill for tis able, imteresiing and instructive jecture, to which he made a brief and suitable reply.

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; ’ | June 20, 1860. A young lady of Uniontown, Ky., having read many novels | —

and written a few ‘* novelletes’’—so the local papers say— |

| formed an attachment for a young gentleman, which was not; Wp Wuetay,

appreciated or reciprocated. She procued a gun, placed the) : ‘ : : oe IR.—Ii hav s ’ , ‘muzzle against ber head, and pulled the trigger with her toe, | I have for some considerable time taken notice of

blowing out her brains sad: billing beresif sastantiy. the very sloveuly manuer ia which the water Gasks and car- riages belonging to the Fire Depariment of this City have beeu kept. Formerly it used to be the practice soon as the Two or three weeks ago we gave an account of the ravages | heavy frosts in the spring were done to huve the eusks filled of a peculiar disease which was committing most fearful with water to keep them tizht aud bave them ri ady for an ‘havoc among the Cattle in the State of Mussachu-etts emergency; but on Tharsday or Friday last & truckman | Later intelligeace states that it was spreading rapidly, and | drove one of them past my door with water spouting out of vit was expected that an extra session of the Legislature | every seam. If, therefore, onc of these casks was in such a | would be culled, for the purpose of devising means to eradi- | State it is reasonable to expect the others are similarly sitaa- /cate it. ted, consequently they are certainly * in good order and well ie | Conditioved” to convey witer to a fire, and who can tell the /hour we may have such? Had we not one on Saturday afternoon last, and from the dilapidated state of the fire-bell ‘ | ; | Tope it wust needs break just at the commencement of the ** Not a man of us who saw Mr. Lincoln bat was impressed | interesting ceremony of jetting the public know there was by his ability and character. In illustration of the last, let} a fire, and numbers +ho would have attended ould not me mention one or two things, which your readers, I think, | divine the reason why tae alarm vell should riug and stop will be pleased to bear. Mr. Liacoln’s early life, as you! ring and stop. I have also noticed three or four of shese know, was passed in the roughest kind of experience on the | water casks on one of the wharfs, completely out of the frontier, and among the roughest sort of people. Yet have) vision of the Police, or any other city official, and quite been told that, in the face of all these influences, he is a| handy for any farmer to take home in his boat to make taa strictly temperate man, never using wine or strong drink ; pits of. Why should this be? they have cost the City enough and stranger still, he does not ‘twist the filthy weed,’ nor to have them better attended and kept off the wharfs. If, smoke, nor use profane language of any kind. When we as I am informed, it is the Chief Koginecr’s duty to see to consider how corimon these vices are all over the country. the proper condition of all the fire apparatus, and if his time particularly in the West, it must be admitted that it exhibits is too much occupied with other duties, let him give it up uo little strength of character to have refrained from them. | before all our fire apparatus is completely destroyed. Yours, FIREMAN, Charlottetown, June 25, 1860.