A Weekly Hournal of Politics, Literature,

Edward Island, Monday, February 29, 18

Vol. XEV.

orn ’ » Dray IF. P. NORTON,

Auctioneer & Commission Merchant. ik 2 «3 iY’ y eee > . . NY

The sale of the Plantation Bitters is w thout pre GEORGETOWN FR. k. ISLAND

eedent in the history of the world. There is ne

secret in the matter. They are at once the most

rengtbening health restorer ever discov: |

Marine Insurance Company pag et but a single trial to understand PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

this. Their purity can always be relied upon. They | Incorporated Lath April, are composed of the celebrated Culisaya Bark, Cas-| sarilla Bark, Dandelion, Chamomile, Flowers, La- | vender Flowers, Wintergreen, Anise, Clover Buds, |

PRESIDENT: WILLIAM HEARD, Esquire.

DIRECTORS:

Orange-peel, Snake rvot, Caraway, Coriander, How paNL. DAVIES, | HON. JAS. C. POPE, Bardock. HON. W. W. LORD, | HON GEO, BEER, s.—T.—1860—X. &c. JAMES DUNCAN, Ese. | HENRY HASZAKD,Ese

They are expecially recommenled to clergymen, SECRETARY: public speakers, and persons of literary habits and | DANIEL J. ROBERTS.

f ° 3 f i | oa >; Dein tle - cen i y » ag sedeotary tit, who require free digestion, a relish | g “ee udaily at the Oftice ein Water-street

fer food, ard clear mental faculties. ed Liverpool and London

Delicate females aad weak persons are certain to | The FIRE AND LIFE

1863.

Charlottetown, Prince

‘Valuable Lots in Georgetown FOR SALE. To be sold, by PUBLIC AUCTION

on TUESDAY, the 8th day of March next 10 o'clock, a. M:

Water Lot No. 10, in Georgetown.

|The above Lot is the second to the westward

Cuptain Westuway's Whart, and is one of the most |

convenient Lots in Georgetown, either for Ship. building or erecting a Wharf. }

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| LITERATURE,

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CaN

THE SNOW DRIFT.

"Tis a fearful night in the Winter time,

As cold as it ever can be; The roar of the blast is heard like the chime Of the waves ou the augry sea. The moon is full; but her silver light | "The storm dashes out with its wings to-night; | And over the sky from South to North

| At the same time and place, TOWN LOT NO. WU, | Not a star is seen as the wind comes forth

} 4th Range, Letter G, in Georgetown.

| [@" Time will be given for part of the price.

| further particulars apply at the office of Messrs Patmen & Macteop, Attorneys, Charlottetown.

| Dated 13th February, 1864.

| ALEX. MACLEOD & CO.

| Cuas. Pater, Solicitor. i

| Valuable

SALE OF |

eye be Sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, i at the Colonial Building, in Charlottetown, jon the Fourth day of MARCH next (1564), at the

Freehold Property,

In the strength of a mighty glee.

For |

| All day had the syow come down—all day— As it never came down before;

| Aud over the bills, at suuset, lay

Some two or three feet or more ;

| The fence was lost, and the wall of stone ;

| The windows blocked, and the well-curbs goue ; | The hay-stack Lad grown to « mountain lift ; And the wood-pile looked like a monster drift,

As it lay by the farmer's door.

| these desolate borders.

lowked for. They purify, strengthen and invigorate. ' . “ay ‘ : : ;

They create a healtl y appetite. } me Agent 4 the above vr class | Power of Sale contained in a certain Indeuture of While the air grows sharp and chill

bey are an antidote to ch jet. “SBeNSh Pire susurance Company begs to Mortgage, dated the Tenth day ef December, 1860, : . ? oy ome & : ~~ of water and diet eall the attention of the public to the advantages | and made between the Honorable William Forgan And the warning roar of the fexrfal blow They overcome effects of dissipation aad late hours. otfeved by this Cowpany, in respect to the security | of the Royalty of Charlottetown, and Susan Kemys, Is heard on the distant hill; They strengthen the system and euliven the mind. | & the assured, and preuptnerss to pay losses,which, | his wife, of the one part, and Daniel Hodgsyn, ef

Without disparaging other Companies, may be safely | Charlottetown, aforesaid, of the other part, and by | }

They prevent miasmatic aud intermittent fevers. | asseried to be superior to those afforded by any | said Duniel Hodgson assigned to me —All those | 1m his breath how the old trees writhe and shriek ! They purify the breath and acidity of the stomach.

other ¢ ompuny in the Island. The Liverpool and Tracts, Pieces or Parcels of Land, being Pasture He drives from his nostrils the blinding suow ; | They cure D yspepsie and Constipation. Londou F. & L. Insurance Company has been in| Lots Numbers Ninteen (14), 'fwenty-six (26), Phirty- - ‘ successful operation since 1836, with agencies all) four (34), and Forty-two (42), in the Royalty of They cure Diarrha, Cholera and Cholera Morbus. ; sline: They cure LiverCom) laint and Nervous Headache.

find in these Bitters what they have so long’ | INSURANCE COMPANY, hour of Twelve o'clock, noon, by virtue cf a | The night sets iu on a world of snow, | |

He shouts on the plains, Ho-ho! ho-ho!

over the world, aud bas paid in losses about two | Charlottetown, aforesaid, as the same are delineated | And growls with a savage thrill. millions and a quarter sors: Its subscribed ea- | and laid down on a certain Map or Plan of the said j ‘i = pital is £2,000,000 sterling, and its invested funds | Rovalty made und now kept in the Office of the Such a night as this to be found abroad, They are the best Ditters in the world. They | glone amount to £1,302,000 sig.; and the fire pre-| Reoistrar of Deeds and Keeper of Plans for the | j ° espe ‘ . | = ™ | make the weak man strong, and are exhausted na- erg Qo ee ope mg and inad-| said Island, reference being thereunto had will | , j dition to this very large capital, the Company, | more fully and at large appear. qaae'e Grens sesterer. | having beeu established before the recent Limited | Por further particulars and terms of Sale, &c., | ° |

In the drifts and the freezing air! | Sits a shivering dog, in the fiell by the road, With the snow in his sbagyy hair.

His uose is pressed on his quivering feet,— Pray what does the dog do there ?

A path for his horse and sleigh.

| But colder still the cold winds blew,

Aud deeper still the deep drifts grew,

And his mare, a beantiful Morgan brown,

At last in her strnggles floandered down, Where u log in a hollow lay.

cases, and ani free to say, for hospital or private purposes, I knuw of avthing like them. Rev. E. FP. Caane, Chaplain.

Letter from the Rev. N. E. Gicps, St. Clairs- | ville, Pa. :

, His hands were namb and had lost their might; — | | 30 he wallowed back to his half filled sleigh,

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ean be seen at our office. werchants in Liverpool and London, are liable for A. D. L863. | He lifts his head and moans and hows; any other Company established here. =i nicl Near Acquis Creek, March 4th, 1863. i reeholtd and, draw Bills the moweut a loss ocenrs, and without prostrated and very sick. My stomach would not) yi) +). use superior advantages, the Company is | And for bours he trod with might and main | Compantes, which do not present the same &dvan- | py private contract) on TUESDAY, the First day Directors of this Company and the ** Queen's,” and 4 3 Two bottles aimost allowed me to join my regiment | ae nical ¢ 30 ACRES OF LAND, Agent of the Liverpool and London ;mencing on the North bank of Rollo Bay, at the ae ere Were. Oo j ; at : : ; Queen Insurance Company ebains and 17 links, thence North 69 degrees, East While her waster arged, till his breath grew short, Farin, thenee North wardly along said rear 4 chains | But the snow was deep and the tuys were tight; GewtLewen :—You were kiad enough, if t 8 avi i Fo" 9 Renee | Hk Subscriber, having been appointed of Fidele Deagle’s Farm, and thence South 69 de vroperty dete CARY Bale Thee ett bees > Waihi: 2avle. senior a much benefit from tae use of these Bitters, I desire | : en ee oe ee Doo | [Extracts Fuom Newsrarers.] lication to the Subscriber or to the Hou. Josern | |

' Liability Act, the individual fortunes of each of the | anply to the Subscriber or his Solicitor | j : ‘ ‘ ‘ . roa : . } ’ : = ) ‘ © : } t. ve , eles The following startl “Ss aud emphatie Statements | shareholders, comnprising some of the wealthiest we Dated at Charlottetown this 3lst August, He shuts bis oe to the wind and grow Is; the losses, should the whole of the capital be swept | WILLIAM H. HOBKIRK. | Then crouching low, f he cutti -e rreC ; be lowne : sLIA} j tK. | Then cronching low, from the cutting sleet Letter of Rev. E. F Crane, Chaplain of the 167th away. In this respect it diflers, it is believed, from | Joserm Hensiry, Solicitor. \ a. S ' New-York Regiment : ¢ _ And lastly, the Agent being uppointed by Power | : }of Attorney directly from England, is authorised to | j Owing to the great exposure and te:rible decow- On Lot Forty-four (44), Rello Bay, | A farmer came from the village plain, ition after the battle of Antietam, I was utterly | referring to the Meme Company, to the extent of | ~ But. he lost the travelled way: wr = i 7} one thousand pounds sterling. } FOR SALE. © Saree yy ” Ort retain medicine. An artiele called Plantation Bit- | not disposed (though it might be weil justitied) to | To be sold by Pustic Averton, on the | ters, prepared by Dr. Drake, of New York was | #8 a higher rate of premium than other English | Premies, at Rollo Buy, (antess previously sold . ‘ - , | ne prescribed to give me strength and an appetite. To | tayeous features, and the Agent bas been advised | of MARCH NEXT, 1864, at the hour of ‘Twelve my great surprise they gave me immediate relief that an uniform rate bas been agreed upon by the! o'¢lock, noon, that the Agents here should, in this respect, “* act | * ® © ® [have siuee seeu them used in many | in concert.” W. A. JOHNSTONE, }on Township Fourty-fonr, in King’s County, com- Nov. if, 1862 Fire Insurance Company | southwest angle of Simon Barke'’s Farm, thence | In vain, with a neigh and a frénzied snort, iT southwest along said bank for the distance of 4 She plunged into the drifting snow, 6 chains and 60 links, thence North 80 devrees, East . OF LIVERPOOL. | 63 chaius and 30 links, to the rear of Jdohu Russiter's With a word and a gentle blow. » * y ‘ng FIRE AND Lik E! and 30 links, thence South 80 degrees, West 63 chains and 50 links, or until it meets the south line occasion, to send me a half dozen bottles of Planta- agent for tlie above first class Insurance Com- W ; SE Se ee NE sat ‘ at . i al sane] ¢| Khecs est, alony said Pidele Deagle’s south ling And strove to shelter himself till day tion Bitters for $250. My wife having derived pany, is prepared to take risks on all descriptions of ' (the said Bank or place of commencement, having at 7 me F Y > 1 With his coat and the butfulo. Charlottetown, Feb. 10. u subscriber by Deed dated the 22nd Jannary, 1858. | d ee : her to continge them, aad you will please send us } ‘Texoms and other particulars made known on ap- | He has given the last faint jerk of the rein, | | Menxstey, at bis Ollice in Charlottetown. J. WIGHTMAN.

siz bottles more for the money inclosed. To rouse up his dying steed ;

On reference to a return made to Parliament. and |

| | } , And the poor dog bowls to the blast in yai Tan, very truly, yours, ; ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 7th | P er r ast In vain ' i

N. E. Gitps, Pastor Ger. Ref. Churea. | June, 13861, i¢ will be seenthatthe increase of Duty | Georgetown, 8th Oct., 1863. For kelp in his master’s need.

| tur the ai » “QUEEN,” £Ie ET 7s how a Prechala | Fora whi ives, wi 7 : | tor the year, paid by the “ QUEL was £2506 | Sell your Leasehold and buy a Freehold | For a while he strives, with a wistfal ery, |

: | being upwards of £1000 more than paid by any onth part of the money. \‘To catch a glance from his drowsy eye,

Sortpters’ Home, Superintendent’s Gfice, } ee . ee other office ever yet established in this City.

Crnctsnatt, Ghiv, Jan. 15th, 1863.

i : si And wags his tail if the rade wind fla ated OF DF tae given your Plantation [From Gore's General Advertiser, Oct. 24, 1861.] ’ P

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| ‘Che skirt of the butfulo over his lap,

Valuable Freehold Farm Aud whines when he takes uo heed. FOR SALE.

HE Subseriber offers FOR SALE, by

Private Contract, that very valuableand plea- | The old trees writhe aud bend no more santhy situated Property, known as “* HILiusBoro ln thw whirl ‘of the ‘uahing blast L,” formerly the Property of the late L. ©

Flas ty iI a SE WORTHY, Esq , 18 miles from the City,on the | ‘He Sent moon, with her peaceful light,

St. Peter’s Road. The farm contains | Looks down on the hills with snow all white, Dr. W. A. Carts, Surgeon of the Tenth Vermon | sent for its solidity, as well us for its success, “the B56 Acres of LAND | And the giant shadow of Camel's Hump,

Regiment, writes :—* I wish every soldier had a Queen Losuranee Company,’’ which last week held | ?

‘ quand er ha

its annual meeting of proprietors in Liverpool. A | Seventy of which are cleared and in a high state of | bottle of Plantation Jitters. They are the most | reference io the ample report ” pncinet, page will | cultivation ; eed can he yot eee for the : fully sutiefv every reader of the sivnal progress | ploseyh ata small expense ; the remainder is covered

eilective, perfect, aud harmless tonic I ever used." made by this association since its iéendetion. Such | with good Pine and Gynt Timber, Seauthing and

—_ | sneeess is, indeed, rarely attuned ; aud it attests at | Fenciug Stauth. There is also a vood MARSH frow |

Witrarn’s Horer, | once the excellence of its management, andthe pub. | which cau be eut about 0 tous of Hay, annually,

Wasntnetos, D. C., May 22d, 1863. } i jan inexhaustible quantity of iilack Mud can be got |

on the farm. Also two never failing springs of ex- |

cellent Water on the Faruw There isa large and

conmmodions DWIELLING HOUSE and other out. | -~ , ’ ’

vuildings, and a good well of waien at the Kitchen | With his cap on his head and his reins in his hand, Door. A large quantity of Siuble Manure sutticient | yp i : ia aaatee'e Sn

to enable a Varchhet to commence in the spring, | Che dog with hip wage on hig, master’s fons,

willbe given with the property. If not sold before |

“Indeed, we believe that we are perfectly justi ied iu saving that no other Company, within the sume period, ever attained so large an ineome in | either the Fire or Life Departments as the Queen | Ineurance Cowpany. Lo making thin stateinent,we | ¢ wake no exception even in favor of our older local ' every family, in every huspital, and at hand on | companies, namely, the Liverpool and London, the every battle ficld. Royal, und the Laweashire Insurance Companies.

G. W. D. Axpaews, Superintendent, | |!From the Civil Service Gazette, Nov. 2. 1861]

’ * Among these important institutions stands emi- 1

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Bitters to hundreds of our noble soldiers who stop bere, more or leas diss Lied from various causes, and the effect is marvellous and gratifying.

Such a preparation as this is I heartily wish in

Che wind goes down and the storm is o’er— "Tis the hourgye midnight, past,

| The blasted pine and the ghostly stump, Afar on the plain are cast.

But cold and dead, by the hidden log,

Are they who eame from the town— he mau in his sleigh and his faithfal dog, | And his beautiful Morgan brown ; | In the white snow desert, far and grand,

| lic contidence in its constitution.” Gaytiewes :—We require another supply of your | Plavtation Bitters, the popularity of which daily increases with the guests of our house. Kespectfully, Sykes, Caapwick & Co. &e. de. &eo. &e.

{From the Liverpool Mercury, Nov. 2, 1S61.] “It must be gratifying to the public generally, j and argodelly to the proprietors, to find that its in- | come during the past three years hus increased at the rate of £20,000 per annum. We believe that | no other Company, within the same short period, | ever attained se large an increase either in the Fire | pUESDAY, the first day of MARCH uext, it will | itil or Life Department. oo speaks bighly Gx o be then sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, without the : one tivity ad ze fF the management, while the | ;,. iaiieeis. & ‘olock ‘at the C i: i Be sure that every Lottie bears the fac-simile of | “““Y"Y 9 —_ *. Rah the intone oe tile the | teust reserve, at LL o'clock, at the Colouial Build e ‘ . j prom] tness wilh Ww Me i iu the ¢ mUumMs, APrisilig ou ing, Charlottetown. our signature on astee! plate label, with our private | of the late disastrous fire in London were met, tes- | apply at the oflice of stamp over the cork. | tifies to their financial ability and the care and pru ‘ WILLIAM DODD, Queen Square.

| dence which marked tieinvestment of these furds.” : —re : : a »

P. WH. DRAKE & Co, Fo issremabedl oe ee P. S.—Possession can be given immediately.

202 Broadway, N. Y. FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! a ts ot ve a = |and scattered stones of granite common

Sold by all respectable Druggists, Physicians, | eae a. ¥ senenninton ROYALTY LOTS. enough in Cornwall. The gorse was covered 6 ondon an

Grocers, Hotels, Salooas, and country dealers. Te LET, for such term of years as may with snow, and the huge granite rocks that Sept. 14, 1863. Fire Insurance Company be agreed on, and cither in whole or in part, | TUS? here and there. pushing their way out of AVE. by Power of Attorney, duly | tat BEAUTLFULLY SITUATED FARM, be- | the earth from the stratum below, looked E. P. U. C. R. nell tates dind vo -ndan al chale | longing to the Subseriber, fronting on the Mount | dazaling in their white covering. I was on Hannewell’s Great Remedies, | Agext a thie Solent : | Xdward Road, and lying about a mile from Char-|foot. 1 had come a long way and was >, | ‘The Company is — in England; has a wane _ At ar aun o er oe . srr | Cupits rs L.OU000, 8’ ing: and embraces in irs | Which are impreved and ih a high sty c =

pdeerasre. Es Rbtte:-” By ie apetiention ent ae Its ood ollie aan vation. On the premises are two large barns.

| held in Loudon and in Liverpool, and it has nume-} Fer terms, &e., apply to ee ee ae ae re a — |rous Agencies throughout Great Britain and her | ‘JOHN LONGWORTH. | 5 - .

co extensive Colonies. ‘harlottetown. Oct. 26, 1863. vent putt ng into the stomach such quantities of | ‘yhe subscriber ix now prepared so accept risks | . horie fetal bias atch dso LED judigestible and injurious drugs usually contained | against lows by FIRE upon every description of | FE O BR 8 A a. E in Puls that require from four to six to get a decent) property, at tle rates of premium formerly charged | : } cathartic, and to prevent the Griping Pams 80 | hy bie as the Agent of the * Alliance.” \fFNHAT pleasantly situated and well erroneously judged to be evidence of character, was) “He cannot aveid congratulating the assured of | finished DWELLING HOUSE and PRE- the stady in this developwent. The dose seldom | the “ Alliance” that since the withdrawal of its] MISES, now in the vecupation of DR. INGLIS, in exceeding one and never more than two Pills, settles Agency, in 1860, they have not seriously suffered | } . Charl Ni eget lg al of man or beast. the question of econciay, aad confidence is asked to | from loss or damage by fire. And he now notifies | the ( ‘ouunon of C yar otis town, at the entrance © , test their trae ebaracter in Dyspepsia, Costivencss, | the assured that during the next twelve months he | the Staiut Peter's Road, and opposite to the) In vain I turned to the right and left, Billecenase, Liver Complainte, Pilss,@: bdesongements | will make ne charge for Poliey npon insuring any residence of LEMurL C. OWEN, Exquire,—the seeking tv recover the lost path, or at least of the Stomach and liowels, and ass true Family | a _ had om — by the “ Alliance ™ | Oe eticasi of the late John Egan—particulars on | bo find some blessed footprint that should

: r, . when the Avency was withdrawn. application to 6 . ) a Pill. For Worms Gey oe See eee The subscriber has much pleasure in being able | “PE DANIEL BRENAN, Executors& speak to me in accents clear as human yoice Hunnewell’s Universal Cough Remedy. | to recommend this Company to the community as a RICHARD REDDIN, ¢ ‘Trustees | of help and shelter. None such met my —The basis of this traly wonderful preparation, substuntix! and first class office. He is authorised | Chastottatown ‘et 1863 a cemacte iview. If any wayiarer had lately passed | now of such petenenne, sani At a wneten e settle ae with ane and meee |. ne Seer eT eee cS solitary waste, the faust falling snow | from every compunen! calculated to debilitate, an | Losses arising rom eXplosion of gus, and from | | had effaced his steps with the white covering | ) hige img. wile wid. Bonuses are given to | P Pi , I : . 5) Tanasdinadst aa ae aan neliere a Polickes at sated intervals ee were Valuable Fr eehold Pr operty ! that hid my own track aliaost as quickly ae |

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Lung Complaints can be effectually cured. Any information, with refereuce tothe Conmpany, | FOR SALE. |my weary leet marked their way. I stood still in degpuir and gazed around.

; H . | will be cheerfully furnished, on application, at the : sank t PUBLIC AUCTION Te prevent asking attention to long stories of CHARLES YOUNG, Agent. Vy +L be sold at PUBJ J S| ap Gabiaedi teal enncemnaiiiadceneaelde|

| ollice of reat cures, when local causes make alwost all such | ‘town, Nov. % a. ‘ ' mm the premises, on the 17th dav of MARCH : : & eure e Ch’town, Nov. 23, 1365 jm NEXT. A : ebieks: FIVE PASTURE LOS, Nos. | waste of snow dotted here and there by the

complaints different in effect, I would ask confidence

obih will be sacred, in Colds, Coughs, Heaarseness, | ROSE & M INTYRE | 20, 21, 22, 63 and 64, all of which are ina high Sore Throat, Bronchicl and Asthmatic Complaints, | C ; | sent of elhivatinn .clenind in cipemera Haraky Whooping Cough, end to all Throat and Lung | ° oa ae ‘ ba here is & good SLLING SE on the pre- Guackinnsaatah ont! ddalened, end: tothe | General Commission Merchants, | inicex sumption, Testimonials from Physicians of the) SS Cedar-street - - - New York. highest respectability, and trom invalids, can be

And the mare half seen through the crusted sleet,

én Where she lay when she tloundered down.

THE SHADOW.

I was travelling toward evening on one of | those great moors, covered with low gorse

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weary. It was, then, a matter of great anxiety to me when, after an hour's walking. [ discovered that 1 had lost the track. It had vever been more than a bridle road, and it was quite choked up with snow; it was —jeasy to lose it. The inclement weather, 80 rare in Cornwall, had evidently deterred any traveller from choosing tiis shorter route. und the great bleak ridge lay now before my eyes in unbroken whiteness, unmarked by

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from the earth.

The above property being near the School | blinding me as I looked; bat I fancied 10

House, Chureh, iol Public Wharf, would make a | the dim distance I could define the form of a! first rate stand fora merchant or mechanic. | solitary tree.

Terms wade known on day of sale; any further! — | gtuod patiently waiting till some momen-

[shadow stood out distinct and clear.

‘showed that cultivation was encroaching on

snow, had an ae ‘making me feel the solitude

labor.

loneliness, weariness and cold weighed heavily upon me, added to an undefinable feeling, more painful still, that made my flesh creep and shiver. Suddenly I found myself obliged to halt before a steep embankment rising like a snowy ridge on the plain. As it wound | its length to some extent on either side ot | me, [ scrambled up its side in order to see if | | might not, by crossing the enclosure, avoid | the detour of skirting it. On reaching the | top, I perceived it enclosed the workings of | an abandoned mine. The yawning shaft was | still there—a black spot in the white snuw telling of depth and darkness. ‘The ruins ot | buildings lay in dreary snow-covered heaps ; | fragments of walls, piles of rubbish scattered | here and there, glittered in the moonlight |

| with dazzling whiteness; while through it

all ran a dark stream, not bound up in tront, but brawling over stones and rocks in a pre- cipitous descent till it reached a cliff, where

And the Norther, see! on the mountain peak, j}ina shower of foam mingled with driving

snow, i¢ descended into an unknown valley lost to me in the darkness.

{ stcod jor some moments contemplating this scene. Drear it would iiave been at all times; but now, in the silence of this winter night, clad in its snow garment, with that culd,still moon lighting up its chill desolation, it had to me something appalling in its ruin. The fear of some hidden shaft, or open adit, deterred me from crossing this place, and de- termined me to skirt the embankment which indeed scarcely deserved this name, as it was in fact but heaps of stone and rabbish flung {rom the mine.

The great shaft lay almost at my feet. By the light of the moon I could see some way into its depths, and mark where the snow speckled its dark sides. At the edge of the yawning pit lay a pile of heavy stones covered with snow. Ayuinst this the moon- light sone brilliantly. 1 was about to turn and descend, when I was struck by the strange appearance of my shadow on the pile.

Lt bad its arms folded as L bad, it gazed into |

the pit as I did, 1t was no larger or colder, or grayer than other shadows, and yet it

filled me with an incéescribable sensation of |

strangeness. I do not know what possessed me to doit, bat | flung my arms into the air, and as the figure did the same, there was such an expression of measureless despair in the action that, unable to bear the sight, | turned and fled.

In this flight, which had a fear in it that words cannot express, [ lost my footing in the treacherous snow, and fell heavily. as t rose from the ground | fancied I heard a ery, like the sound of a human voice, arise from within the embankment, mingle with the rush of the stream, and die away ia the roar of its fall. 1 stood still and listened, but all was silent save the dash of waters: and then reassuring myself, I essayed to con- tinue my journey. The moon lay at my right hand, the wall of stones on my left, und on its glittering surface of snow my For a moment my shaduw only ; but in an instant { saw, with a sensation that lifted every flutteriag hair on my head, the shadow that had stood on the brink of the shaft, creeping stealthily behind my shadow, mocking every motion of mine, and of it, even to the terror that my own feelings impressed on this gray image of myself,

I had been a spectre-haunted man all my life loug; but the shadow that had ever fol lowed me had come in the shape of a murdered womun, sometimes accompanied by a pale sweet face I knew too well. But this was strange, unlooked for; 80, with be- wildered, fascinated gaze, L turned and faced my tormentor. :

This shadow, I thought, was none of my raising. In the eharp outline of that haggard profile there was no likeness to my spectress. Che pointed beard, the oid fashioned dress, the waving curls, spoke of a by-gone period. [ marked it well, as fora moment the shadow and [ stood face to face; then, setting my

_ steps towards the dim tree, I strode revulutely

forward.

The thing followed. In vain I turned and faced it, or in despair dashed rapidly to the right or the left. It was alweys behind me? always mocking my movements. I gatnered up snow and flung at it; in horrid mocker it repeated my action. Then nerving myself for the effort, I sprang on it, and tried to grapple with its impalpable form. I only grasped the cold snow, while it stood by with its unchanged face, ever expressing that one look of dire, boundless despair.

In face of this thing [ was powerless, and, feeling this, L resolved on flight; but when, on turning my head, L saw it gliding on with out apoarent movement, and yet close to me, [ lost my self-possession, and ran hither and thither on the moor, till s nse failed me, and [ fell headlong on the snow. When [ recov- ered myself, the shadow still stood over me like a sentinel ; the same despair in the sharp lineaments, the same strange appearance of life in its grey form.

[ arose sick and numbed with cold. T be- gan to feel that if [ could not svon reach aome human habitation [shoald die. In this new fear [ almost ceased to regard the spec- tre; was I not used to strange sights hidden to others?

All my energies wera concentrated on

I had a small putting it to

gleamed distinctly before me, flask of brandy in my pocket ;

with a surer step.

Often 1 turned to look at my companion. Some new demon surely possessed it ; a thou- sund wicked lives were in it. On that hag-

on

at the point where

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Charlottetown. {Jan. 11, 1803. ‘ 4 GOLD : GOLD : Forsyth’s, north side of Queen Square.

sia J mpue Subseriber offers for sele, at his Charlottetown, October 2), 1863. shop, Great George-street, a aplendid jot o ae 7

of OATS and other PRODUCE, and purchase

PAktICULAR “ATTENTION to Sales |

American markets. |

| Ce Orrice — Mrs McDonald's, next door to Mrs

| infornmution can ve obtained of the Subscriber on the

| premises. i WILLIAM H. McKAY | Princetown Royalty, Feb. 8th, 1864.

| TIMBER FOR SALE. iA QUANTITY of

| the opening of the naviy.ition.

i awn 4 1.30-———

| 5-2 10 inches square.

| Any further information can be had from Mr.! were the limits. of the moor. y W. Wilson, Charlottetown, or the Subseriber.

hee JAMES HH. MOORE. West Cape, Lot 8, Feb. 22, 1864. wkly Gi

FOR SALE

} j

| for payment, if purchased soon. Enquire of . THEOPHILUS DESBRISAY. Ch'town, Feb. 8, 154.

Forty Cedar Sills, length 30 feet, 8 % 10 inches square, and 1000 Cedar Posts from 7 to 8 feet long,

| tary lull should quiet the sharp wind, which | was now whirling the blinding snow into my ‘fave, and thus enable me to judge whether this indistinet object was # tree or not. Ina ‘short time such a lull occurred ; the snow

which cau be deliv -red in Charlottetown on | there was a tree, being also equally certain | der,

| is could not be growing on the common itself. | his inhospitable soil, scarcely an ineh on resting on the primeval granite, could not shelter the rocts of a tree. Llere, then, By the tree L ‘should at least find a more hospitable country | —meadows, roads, perbaps a village. | termined to steer straight for this point, \abandoning all hope of reaching the place for which [ had set out. By this means

which, perbaps, stretched ‘miles on either side of me. Shading my ‘eyes with my hand, I looked at my land- mark, and judged it to be about three miles

I de- | . : : ‘of relief stealing over m: as U neared the among the Yankees. I speak of Major- and when

| gard profile, with its deep lines of despair, a ‘new malignity sat triumphant. It mocked | jno motion of mine now; it had a handred of | its owa. It seized my shadow, and seemed |

to shake it, as it laid its thin long hand, of |

PINE TIMBER | ceased euddenly to fall, and [felt convinced | which | marked the bony fingers on its shoul- and horror of the Irish.

making my flesh ereep at the touch, | ‘chough it was not on me that gray hand | ‘rested, but only ou the dim eimilitade of my- ‘self on the snow. Sometimes it flung its arms upward with that same gesture of measure- lese despair that | had marked whea I first | saw it standing by the old shaft.

I went steadily ou, an inexpressible feeling |

giunt tree. For hours its ragged branches: {had loomed before me, as an object to be

,had sprang up round its figaze — hopes of | rest and refreshment, visions of raddy fires, ‘of kind, helping bands, cheery voices, and ‘merry faces—all, in my loneliness and pain,

\ tg This Machine would be found a great adyan- | of ; and with cheerful courage, counting the | appearing to ne with a beauty and ee

| wanted,

SCHOONER FOR SALE.

tage to a Club of three or four Farmers, for | distance bus little in my new hopes, i started | private use, and to have straw fresh whenever | at a brisk walk in spite of wy weatiness.

Night fell suddenly around me as I sped on, bat the moon bad risen early in the

that merely homely life bad never before

| worn for me.

I reached the borders of the moor, The ‘ns stood against the sky; so distinct

and Stews,

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irom their very association with life aud) phantom like that gray shadow on the moor.

[ plodded straight on, ever keeping the |

tree in front, while an pee sense of | reached the tree to see it lying beneath the counéry and adopted this one, have thrown

Quick though 1 had been, this creature of my spectre-haunted brain was quicker. I

branches, stretched on the sncw—the shadow of a dead man!

It was impossible to mistake the sharp outline of death in the cold profile, the rigid position of the limbs, the stony look, and namoveable calm of the prostrate figure. A moment before it hed stood erect, and a thousand evil lives had been in it, as it tor- mented me on the dreary heath ; now it 'ay beneath the leafless tree — stiff, rigid, mo- tionless, dead, und yet only like the shadow of death.

four roads met. t babhian ecaet —and that i f ween These Jittle patches rather than ran towards it, 80 eager was I to | ies Teskony ee

_in the great waste, covered as they were with clasp the goaried trunk, and feel that this pr dreary look, | thing, that for so many hours had seemed to oppose the influence of France on this more «acutely |mock my endeavours to reach it, was no, continent.

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land and the Yankees, there is more ability of an alliance between them, to

For my own part, | am thoroughly eatis- ' fied of the absolute justice of this Confederata cause. My three .ons having lost their owa themselves into the struggle to defend their new homes. Une of them is at Charleston, serving under Beauregard ; one is in Lee's army ; and the third, and you , fell oa the field at Gettysburg, in the terrible charge of Pickett’s divisien. He fell in a good cause, and in gallant company. scilitlieeceteans _ A MODERN WILD HIGHLANDER,. | The Ediaburgh Scotsman writes thus of the | lately deceased Duke of Athole. | ‘Some men have character, more or less,