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‘This is twue Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”*---Euripides.

Barque “GAZELLE.” ' FENITLS well-known regular TRADER, Re Camenon, master, will sail from LIVERPOOL, G. B., om Sarernpay, the Wth March next For Freight or Passage please apply at Liverpool! to Mesers. D. Caxnsoy, Sons & Co... and at Charlottetown to WwW. W. LORD & CO. HE owners of the above Vessel beg to tender their thanks to the Merebants and tra velling public for the very liberal support received since this Nbip hus been ou the route between Charlottetown and Liverpoo!, and solicit a continu wunee of the same. They bey to remind that the * Gazelle’ makes her Uiree voyages each summer regularly. Ww. W. LORD & CO. Charlottetown, Jan. 12, 1863 Zin

LONDON HOUSE.

NEW CHEAP GOODS, JUST RECEIVED,

oe" At the Stand formerly Dempsey’s, opvosite Apothecarws’ Hall, Queen Street.

H HASZAKRD ‘begs to inform his

e frieuds and she public that he bas received

by the * Uranus,” from Loudon, the * Privress"’ and

“Piteress,' from Liverpool, a large supply of

British Dry Goods, Fauey Goods, Hardware and

Having been purchased on the best

terms and personally selewted, they will be suld a the lowest rate for Cush only, comprising :

7 cuaes Dress Goods

1 case Silke aud Kibbous i do Bleached do

i do Buttons & trimmings | de Printed Cottons

1 do Ladies’ Mantles, 12 de Cloths and Doeskine

3 do Hats and Caps (great | do Blankets and Sheets

vuriety) do Wadding

S do Reddy-madeClothing | do Carpeting & Hearth

Ido Ladies’ and Gents’ Rugs Waterproof Mantles & 7 do Paper hanging (3000 Coats pieces)

1 do Gloves and Hosiery 5 casks Hardware

1 do Haberdashery \4 cuses do

1 do Shirts, Collars, Braces 1 do Cutlery

BC. l crate Coal Scuttles and

1 do Shawls and Mafflers! Zine Buckets

e do Jewellry, Pouutum (0 chests Tea, cheap and and Soups good

2 de India Rubber Shoes (5 casks Soda

3 Bales Brown Cottons |

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Crashed and Moist Suyar, Molasses, Coffee, Rice, Mustard, Stare, Biue, Kuisins, Currants, Spices, Giluas, Putty, Nails, Leather, Buckets, broows, Seap; Candles, Mauilla Rope, Plough Mounting, Iron, all sizes, Sheet Lrou, &c., Kc. Charlottetouwu, Dee. 15, 1562.

1863.. NEW YEAR! 1863. NEW GOODS,

(2 bales Striped Shirtings

BAZAAR | FOR SAINT DUNSTAN’S COLLEGE!)

Under the patronaye of His Lordship the Bishop of Charlottetown,

A BAZAAR, having for its object the

raising of Funds to aid in liquidating the debt Dunstan's Cot

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incurred by the re-bajlding of Si

Leek, will be beld inCHARLOTTETOWN during the ensuing Winter. The ladies of the Convent of Notre Dame ure the principal organizers thereof,

and are zealously secouded in their laudable etforts by many ladies of the city The following articles will be disposed of by

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Lott rv:

Ll. A Drawing-room Chair, embroidered | on eloth and mounted, Os per ticket.

2. A pair of Fire Screens, Js. se | 3. An elegant Sofa Cushion, Jes. 4. A Fire Sereen, No. I, 2a. “

S. Deo. No. 2, 2s. ve

6. A Work Bex, embroidered on purple |

velvet, Is. 6d.“

7. A pair of Foot-stools, je: Gi. “ |

| 8. A Work Box painted on velvet, —. * Contributions in money, fancy work, materials for faney and useful works, &c., will be thankfully

| received by the following :— The Ladies of the Convent, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Mclsaac, Mrs. ©. Connelly, Mrs. 1D). Reddin, Mrs. Gaul, Mrs. Gileuson, | Mrs. Eckstadt, Mrs. J. Murphy, Miss McDonnell, Miss Mc Meds. | Mise Reddin, Miss Kelly, Miss Longurd.

The ladies and gentlemen belonging to the country, | as well us those belonging to the city, are respect fully solicited to send in their contributions as soon us possible to either of the above ladies.

Persons desirous of obtaining tickets for the Lot teries will aleo please send in their names to any | of the same parties.

Charlottetown, December 1, 1862.

Flour, Tea, Leather.

| I ECELVED per late arrivals, and for sale by the Subscriber, low fer Cash, | | 800 bbis Extra and Superfine FLOUR oo ” Pastry do 35 half chests Superior TEA (warranted) | QW sides heavy New York Sole Leather. MORIN LOWDEN. Peake’s Buildings, Dee. 22, 1862. 2m |

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FOR IMMEDIATE SALE,

HAT DESIRABLE WATER LOT, in

GEORGETOWN, containing half an

acre of LAND, with usual privileges, known

as No. 1, or Pornr Lor. ‘Terms Cash or short

time on security. Apply to the Ion. Joseru

Hensey. Gkoclameae. | December 2, 1862. tf

JUST RECEIVED Valuable Freehold Property

AT THE

RENFREW HOUSE.

+ HE SUBSCRIBER offers for sale A

FOR SALE.

VALUABLE FREEHOLD FARM,

| A holy fragranee like the breath of prayer;

Like Summer Evening, down the golden tide

‘apartment in the ducal palace, where the

ed is contained in a French romance of the

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, Feb

LITERATURE.

AT THE LAST.

(This beatiful poem is written on the passage,

‘ia her heart. Her own lot, moreover, was full of discomfort and chagrin, her father ‘being one of those stern and cruel men

“Man voeth forth unto his work and to his labour she had wished to bury her sorrowe in & con- wntil the evenimng.’’]

daughter as simply an instrament of family aggrandizement, had peremptorily and harsh- ly refused his consent. Life, with the hon- ‘orable, gentle and true-hearted Antonio, /seemed to her crushed spirit a blessed escape ‘from this bondage; and thus it happened ‘that she not ouly assented without objection

The stream is calmest when it nears the tide, And tlowers are sweetest in the eventide, And birds most musical at close of day,

Aud saints divinest when they puss away.

Morning is lovely, but a holier charm Lies folded close in Evening’s robe of balm; Aud weary mau must ever love her best,

For Morning calls to toil, but Night to rest. : : . : ‘to win the affections of her bridegroom.

Knowing too well his morbid prejudice against blonde hair, and the fatal cause of it,

She comes from Hieaven, and on her wings doth bear

Footsteps of angels follow in her trace,

; 2 Wei ay if Davi 2uCe, } _ « « Yo shut the weary eye of Day in peace | of her history, and accordingly stipulated

that he should not see her face till the day ‘of their marriage. Autonio, utterly indiffer- jent to the whole affair, had nothing to say

All things are hushed before her as she throws er earth and sky her mantle of repose ; There is a calm, a beauty, and a power,

That Morning kuows not in the Evening hour.

* Until the Evening ”’ Plough life's stern furrow, dig the weedy soil, Tread with sad feet our rough and thorny way, And dear the heat and burden of the day,

have an unexpected interest for him. Her icharacter, softened and exalted by sorrow, ' harmonized with the tone of his own heart ;

Oh! whe ni ing ay w i : ; Sel dooce ei ‘her sweet anxiety for his regard, the grace

And feave behind us, as we pase away, . . . : ‘sensibly a tender spell which he wished not

‘to break. As hope re-awoke in her bosom, a ° ‘

she grew more charming, aad more conscious

A STORY OF ART. of her power ; the morning of a new life o

happiness brightened before her, and she

In one of the art-galleries of Vienna! jooked forward with increasing confidence

hangs a picture of Venetian life, by the to the approaching revelation,

painter Francesco Mayes, which excites! ‘Phys the wedding-day arrived under the

wonder in the visitor. It isan interior, an | happiest auspices. A magoificent assembly

| was gathered in the Gradenigo palace, and

, the handsome and joyous bridegroom awaited

Sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping clay.

three aged senstors, evidently the famous Council of Three, are holding one of their

ruary 23, Is63.

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New Series.---No. 7.

for his picture.

Trough what fortune the hapless pair, whose iron rule turns the palace into a de-| with fates so strangely severed and yet more | tested prison. After the death of her lover strangely united, passed to the repose Of | there was a sudden knocking at the batch- | ‘death, we are not informed. Only so much vent, but the old senator, who regarded. his is known, that from this time the noble and awake with the ery ; ‘all hands, make sail !" | she should remain unmolested. |brave Antonio, the flower of the patrician | I tell you I never heard before or since such youth of Venice, and Valenzia, the fairest)/® call as that was. Men who had not! ‘of ber daughters, were seen and heard of no | ‘red out for days were on the yard-arms | hy the aid of the Count Alexey

‘more among the living, ><

FROZEN IN.

to her father’s plan, but became most anxious | NARRATIVE OF A SHETLAND SEAMAN, FROM

HIS OWN RECITAL,

T have been almost all my time whale an seal hunting at Davis’ Straits, Greenland, o

she dared not reveal to him at once the seeret the West Ice; but the voyage which was nearest being my last was my second one, in | the year 1836, when | wasstill buta boy. | | shipped at Lerwick on board the Harmony of all, in the errly spring of that year, and ¢ ae , . The whale | in Neen ee etiquette me nee season was a bad one, and towards the end of | . ere : | he should pay assiduous court to his veiled August or the beginning of September we | ‘ ; we must weep and toil, | bride, aot oo satervionp. poll ‘Nadia: ta wid Tae oe ut tape Penden ke sae of | Staggering under double-reefed topsails, and | one of actual indigence, he paid her the same Baiin’s Bay, and so, by coming down along | the Danish settlements, to get home again. | ‘The ice was very bad to get through—loose |and thick all around, so that we had toshove J Btace | her through every yard of the way. On the of her shrouded figure, wove around him in-/| 11th of September there were three ships of )us in re : the William Torr, the Swan We were keeping together,

we sailed for Davis’ Straits.

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| and ourselves. as we wereall working in the same direction,

g| and we didn’t well know what wight happen |any minute to some one or other—so it was

| keep within hailing distance if possible.

getting more and more troublesome — we thought of making fast till daybreak, and ‘seeing how things looked. then.

| just alongside the William Torr—both ships |

| shoving through among the loose ice—when |her captain hailed ours, and recommended

| with impatience the moment which should | him to bring up alonside a great curving |

4 breeze sending us right out, and there were , | pools and canals of open water all round.

Well, as night was coming down—the ice

We were!

This-is the moment chosen by the artist and felt her grinding along the ice-edge. | What could he do? Shorn of his estates and

| But the most had grown so desperate that | dignities, and in a foreign land, how was he they paid little heed to it. to protect her from a powerful empress and In the middle of the night—and there was | most unserupulous woman? Unhap ily, he only one man with the chief mate on deck | yielded to these covert menaces, and took a nal leave of the princess, having first exacted

soul was started broad a pledge from the Russian government that

|ways, and every This separation effected, the most difficult part of Catherine’s work was completed, and t rloff, and in a moment, and, | dare say, the Harmony | one of his infamous asseciates, the rest be- was never got under canvass in such @ space jeame easy. Though the murderer of her of time before. The men were on the top- | husband, Count Alexey retained the favor of gallant-yards in their stockings, and bare- pis imperial mistress; doubtless, she found headed, and in little time we had every stitch | },im @ most useful tool in accumplishing other on her. dark deeds, though a fouler crime than the one The ice had broken up, there was a gentle ‘commitied on this hapless princess could hardly diagrace human nature. When first

resident at Kome, the granddaughter of Peter ; a the Great was am supplied with every- _was made fast outside the quarter; 80, 88 thing befitting ber Pon ree at the ane | we could not afford the precious time needful Orloff came thither, she was almost in want, to ship it again, we kept her running, | and occupying a poor lodging in a humble Steering with the yards as well as might be. | quarter of the city. Judge of her surprise

Oar rudder bad been unshipped long ago, and

| The wind kept freshening, by-and-by we had | y) } t : * _to take in the top-gallant eail ; next to haul ite ee Trowgh | ee up her courses. In a short time she was ‘all appearance wealthy, and Aer situation foretopmast staysail, among the floating ice. t as th Still we could not ship the radder, and we mad tana ne xe | trimmed her as weil as possible with the presence he respectfully declined. ‘+ Misfor- | yards and by hauling out or in the trtysail. tune,” said he, ** cannot alter your claims | Every now and then she would strike the ¢ our respect. Can I, when you are before floating ice full with the lee-bow, sending mo, forget that the crank donghieg of her up to the wind, when a piece would the illustrious Czar Peter the Great is entitled catch her on the weather-bow, and knock | to all the homage [ can offer? Is it for me, her off again to leeward. Every instant we | pecause you are in a foreign land, to forget looked to be stove in. But we pushed and | ¢)2¢ to you, and uot to the tyranpicai foreign- tore through the ice for two days and nights er who occupies it, belongs the imperial without getting any particular damage ; 4nd, throne of Russia? [ have not the honor to on the 14th, we came to the end of the ice, phe your countryman, but believe me, princess, bee got the open sea before us. Then the i! am not the less devoted to your service, in | biscuit-a-day allowance ceased, but not till! which I would freely lay down my life.” we were fairly out of the ice—and every man aaah . li . ‘got leave to cat what he liked ; but the li a ~ a MA re rng istened with de- | mont of them had picked up wonderfully om tong sides bade aaeeaee. aaees a t “ee akj il. ? . every hour after that ** making sail We greeted her ears, and the departure of Radzi- vill had almost reduced her to despair. She

| hada tough job getting the rudder shipped |

secret sessions, One of them, a tall, proud 'disclose to him the features of his bride.) mass of ice which lay quite close to both Aon dhe $y cleared the ice; it took us nine answered this flattering speech in terms

— rn. raga ayaa | But that moment changed all. The instant ark face, familiar to us in old Veuetian | 14+ Valenzia, throwing off her veil, revealed eames wn risen es and, ad ‘that glory of golden hair floating and glit- u stern gesture, is addressing a young and; ,,.; oy he Bee oe Saitama who deka fsiotieg ~ the aka Jorgen i weeny returned stone flor. She is supported by an official | pt he fee Anton ‘mati uelel te me cone teaceenie ihe ban empennes wild burst of anger, and breaking his way . y ‘“ madly through the astonished company,

ia the rear of the group, is making a re- pushed forth without a word of explanation | to Gradenigo, or casting so much as a look:

cord of the proceedings.

The story on which this picture is found- |), the deserted bride.

seventeenth century, and though no authen-

That from this hour a deadly feud, like |

fronting on the west side of Morell River, coutain ing eighty-aeres, of which about sixty-eight vecres are under caltivation, and the remainder is covered with Longers. There are on the Premises A GOOD SUBSTANTIAL DWELLING LLOUSE, and good Out-Ifouses for farming and mercantile purposes

For further information application to be made to the proprietor ou the pretuises

RICHARD HAYES.

( Thomas's Old Stani', Great George Street.) rk subscribers Lave lately received the

following Goods, in addition to their Fall Tw portations :—

Iihds SUGAR, very bright Chests TEA, warranted good Doxes SOAL Boxes and Half Boxes RAISINS Currants, Spices, Pepper Mustard, ludigo, Starch

| Morell, Nov. Ith, 1862.

Rare Chance to obtain a EATON! |

Weavers Reeds, all Nos.

Tubber Goods: |

tication of it has been discovered in the Venetian archives it probably rests on a tradition then current. If not, it is no less, a true reflection of the character of the time in Venice, when, amidst the pageant of its, flourishing and gorgeous life, rose that dark, , mysterious tribunal —irrespousible, remorse- | less, irresistible as Fate, which held in its! unseen hand the whole power of the repub- | lic. “The story runs thus:

that of the Montagues and Capulets, divided |

the houses of Foscarini and Gradenigo, was a matter of course. Valenzia alone could not share this feeling. She blamed her own fraud, so innocently meant, as the sole cause of the calamity, and mourned ber second lover with « sortow far more deep and lasting than she had given to the first.

er father gave himself no rest in his efforts to avenge the dishonor of his house. But

Velenzia was the daughter of the Sena- rc : : the expatriation of young Antonio, and this

for the present he was able only to obtain,

| Ships: but our old man, not liking the looks ‘of it, and not thinking it fas¢, determined to | push on a bit farther. The William Torr, | however, brought up to the ice, and brought to or the night. So, leaving her behind us, 'we ran on for about an hour, and by that time came up with a very solid looking flaw | of ice, which, having a good height in it, | off-red a surt of harbour protected from the flouting masses around, we made all snag for the night, and brought up there. By mid- _ night, the ice was closing all around, and at | two o’clock in the morning we were hard and fust. From the mast-bead at daybreak no-

of the Swan in the distance, and stili farther off, as far as could be made out with a good

glass, we saw the mast-heads of the William

Torr. But that was the last sight of her by

Then, hich MW h pl ; , with a gale of W. wind and the Atlantic be- | ih Spe tow much pleasure it had givea fore us, we felt we were all right. Well, | Pree esired to know to whom she was | we ran before it as hard as we could, ever a if: ted = this solicitude cenpesting her man getting stronger and heartier with | ¥° aaP — her visitor replied : ++ That every mile of easting we made. For ten! a eae ake little moment, since he was ‘days we never started tack or sheet, carrying | °" _ a — yee 9 sent by some of her (on with every stitch we could crowd upon) ed Saad Uh rey — hearts her ; littie grass grew under the Harmony’s| 7°) think that she, the desce ont of one heels for that time ; and, at tho close of the | °° dou nd illustrious as the Czar Peter the ‘tenth day we sighted the Old Rock (as we | 4e#t net prone himself to be, should bo ‘Shetlanders call owr land) one: more. It eta? ow ect and indigence in a foreign perhaps isn’t quite a Paradise of a country. | ae he a being naturally curious | L have seen more splendid looking places here | ” ge t 2 nesses of — whose interest and there over the globe ; but you take my _was so deeply excited in her behalf, again

_ hours to ship it, but we managed it.

thing but ice could be seen, with the masts “word for it, that it looked pratty good in |

our éyes, when we'had the luck to sight it | on, the 24th December, 1836.

; On Christmas morning we dropped anchor

pressed her visitor for information on this | point, but he still refused to gratify her cu- | Tiosity. Ile, however, begged permission to |present one who would explain all; and |having obtained it, withdrew as from the

mortal man, for next day she was gone ; and | in Lerwick Harbour, and many a one was) presence of a sovereign prince, haying first

we knew then that our master was right. and that she had been made fast to a loose flaw, and that the under current had taken her off.

So when we saw that we were beset with ‘little or no chance of eseape—at least. till next spring or summer—we took stock of every eatable thing, and reckoned up our chance of life. We found that on an al- lowance of a biscuit a man a day, we had what would last us to the 14th of March ; we had also a few peas, sume coffee, and a little pork but as our coals were done, we could not count much on this last. -However,

| looking at us, and many a boat was alongside |to hear the news. But we could tell them |nothing of the William Torr, or of the Swan, jand fur many a day there were heavy hearts in Shetland looking and fearing for the news

.| of husbands and fathers, brothers and sweet- | hearts lying in that ice prison. Alter Christ- | |mas, w suip with rovisions was sent out to |

‘try and relieve them; but she never got | within hundreds of miles of them,

The William Torr and all ber erew, with a portion of another shipwrecked crew which ‘she had on board, perished. Nothing was

4 © ay 7 ae = | FOR SALE, at ROSE BANK, that tor Gradenigo, by birth therefore one of | oe th bl P b ni le « . tn . -—) Ara? . . ‘ > . Ags ’ Ladies’ Rubber Buskins pecan eettlly situated FREEHOLD FARM, the first ladies of Venice. She had all the} Be mae rs , ere of an embassy to “i , . . renting on bilo iver, Lot to, Nor cdsy le, . ; : a, rance. e@ Dide is time. — ™ — oy } containing seventy acres, fifty of which are cleared rich beauty of her couutrywomen, with this Aft fi . é » abs Antoni . onde varicty of ether Goods and in a high state of cultivation, the remainder remarkable distinction, aduiired in pro- er —nee years a ence, ntomo re- : “eq | being covered with Hardwood. There are ou the portion to its rareness, that her hair was of | turned to Venice His welcome home was jpremises a GOOD BARN, with shed and straw . ates a , | a ites) Boy? “pi +: Alse om hand: | howe attached; a good Draw-Well within a few the loveliest blonde color, changing in the & semmens, the fruit of Gradenigo s labours,

sun to gold, and wasso abundant that it fell

Boiled and Raw OLL, PAINT | yards for the convenience of watering the stock. in heavy shiwing waves below her knees.

Putty, Window Glass, SKATES Plough and Cart Mounting | A comfortable DWELLING HOUSE, with a fruit

——ALSO

to appear befure the Council of Three to answer the charge of disobedience in certain

from that very diay, we went on this allow- ever heard of her. Some years afterwards, ance. Seven biscuits were served out toeach some of her casks were found on the west

|} man on Monday morning— these had to jast | coast of Shetland and about the Hebrides.

Cat Nails, all sizes, &e. Ke. Ke. cote s ] ck and vevetable garden attached, and a never failing te” We bex to call the attention of City and) spring of the best water within a few yards of the Couutry bayers to our Stock. which is now com-) Powelling House. There are on the premises abun- plete in every department. With regard to price, dance of the best quality of Marsh mud whieh can we are determined that no fault shall be found in| he easily obtained. This desirable property is dis- | this respect. Our goods are bought in the cheapest | tant only three miles from the flourishing town tuarkets, wud will be sold as low. to say the least, | of Summerside, and situated in one ef the most us any in the city. flourishing settlements on the Island. Teeus—One half of the purchase nouey down ; | the balance can rewain on interest for a time agree | to by the purties. |

DELANY & WILSON. Febraary 2nd, 1863.

n | points to the orders of the Council. “His

A beautiful Ltali oman of ninetee : eouba ai a ae ee | bold defence, and the conclusive proofs he

him for the week: on three days a week there was a little pork served out—about as

/[t was supposed that after she had broken ‘up, the currents had curried the fragments

had already yielded the first bloom of ber heart to the young patrician Leonardo. Whether from uevessity or the mere caprice of youthful fancy, the attachment was kept a secret frow their respective families, and | the young pair met only in the palace of | Leonardo's bosom friend, Autonio Fosca-

adduced of the skilful manner in which he had performed his mission, procured his honorable acquittal. But plots thickened

around his path, enemies lurkedfor him on

every hand, and time after time he barely escaped through the warnings of an uuknowa | friend. That friénd was no other than the

much to each man as he could put into his | nto the Atlantic, and that the gulf stream mouth at once—(['ve seen a Dutchman with | had taken them down to our shores. [ re- a bigger quid of tubaeco)—and we got a little jeollect, some time afterwards, when | was coffee at times. ‘The fresh-water ice gave us | Out there again, that the Esquimaux wanted good water, and for fuel we took what wood | 4s to come into the interior, and they would we could safely cut away in the hold. Kach Show us the graves of white men, which we man had a few splinters allotted him, and ‘supposed to be those of the William Torr.

two or three would club together and buil A whale-ship, next summer, found a boat

knelt to kiss her hand,

The yisitor who thug imposed on the ere- dulity of the Princess Tarranakoff was,indeed , employed by one of her countrymen, ho being the spy and associate of Count Alexey Orloff. The uniform in which he appeared was of course assumed for the occasion, as he was in reality a man of most infamous cha- racter, a Neapolitan by birth, and chosen as his tool by the count, because he had already committed crimes sufficient to prove that he would enter unscrupulously into the designs of that nobleman, Ribas, for that was his name, did not at once introduce Orloff to the presence of lis intended victim ; he repeated his visit, and finding that she was in actual need, induced her to make use of his purse, and by the respect he paid her, completely won her confidence.

Now was Urloff's time. When informed that the schemes of his emissary had proved _ successful and the princess was daly prepared ‘to listen to and believe whatever he might advance, the principal tragedian, as we may call him, appeared on the stage.

Better skilled in the ways of a court than

"PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND |

Application to be made to the subscriber on the

CHARLES DONAHUE.

preusises, January 12, 1863.

FASHIONABLE oeaty 13, 3 Tailoring Establishment! Valuable Real Estate for Sale.

c A LEs ELL, | being half of ‘T Lot No. 63, in the first bundred, | "hee . > . wr oer Ing hail © own Lot Wo. 65, in the ire ’ ay, QUEEN SQUARE....... CHARLOTTETOWN, | Gtuated on the corner of Weymouth and King

NNOUNCES the arriva! of his FALL | Street, opposice the property of Mr. Willian Wright, |

aad WINTER GOODS. which are all of the ™¢@2@ring 80 feet on Weymouth -street by 54 feet ne west desigus at preseut fe the Mashed. Every | 0" Kiug-street. The situation is one of the very | Departweut of the Woollen Drapery Trade is amply best in the city fora private gentleman's dwelling. represented im his Exstublisifment. Hia GOODS For terms, &¢., apply to the subscriber, on the ure decidedly of the Newent and Best Class mang PTmines: 1863 M. FOGERTY. factured; they have been carefully selected from February 9, 1863. the best Wholesale Houses in Britain for bis trade,| [-@* Lf not disposed of by private sale, the property | ana have beeu purchased for CASH, which isa very | will be put up at Auction on SATURDAY, the Mth iw portant attitle in the warket at present. day of MARCH, 1863. M.F

CHAKLES BELL is, therefore, in a positionto| “T a a a : give his customers the very best value, aad can, at Leasehold Farm for Sale. tbe same time, coutidently recominend the article OR SALE, the Leasehold Interest in be sells. He enamerutes a few leading articles as on es an an eenn a Le oe:

uate \tuate about eleven miles from Charlottetown, on West of England and Yorkshire CLOTHS ; Heavy | the St. Peter's Road. Sixty-five acres are cleared, Beuvers, Whitneys and Pilot COATINGS; | and in a high state of cultivation ; the remainder is Doesiins ; Cassimercs; Engtish and Seotch well covered with hard and soft WOOD. There PWEEDS; Velvet, Silk, Valentia, and | are eight acres prepared for a crop of Wheat and’ Marseilles Vesstiscs; Prince | Potatoes next year. Edward Island Hoxrsrons ; |” On the Premises area GOOD BARN, 60 by 35 Twilled and Shirting FLANNELS; Gentleman's fect 4 frame fora DWELLING HOUSE, prepar- Shirts and Collars ; Shetland and Lamb's Wool | ed, 35 by 25 feet; and a GRANARY, 30 by 25 feet. UNDER CLOTHING ; Scarfs, Ties, and | Also, for sale, a MARSH, about one mile from Mutiers; Far, Cloth, Wool & Bid | the said Farm, which cuts from seven to eight tons Gloves; Braces, Socks, Unibrellas, }of Hay annually. Rent 30s per year. The Lease

and most eligibly situated LOT OF LAND, |

and Trunks ; Fur, Cloth, Glazed,

"EO be sold by private sale, that valuable -

of both places is for 999 years. Rent of Farm one

rino. Even be was not entrusted with the vame of the lady who stole closely veiled into his house, nor had he ever been favored with a glimpse of her face. But the glow- ing eulogies of her charms, to whicy he was obliged to listen—especially the description

him like a protecting angel, nor even relin-

Spanish lady. long watched for by her futker, accused him before the Council of a secret

who nu‘v|

of ber wonderful hair, excited his imagina- /on the same allowance with the rest. , | 80, because he was so ready, the men would $!X Valenzia had warned | not be exact with him, and he bad some little ship whom she had taken on board the pre- |

alliance with a foreign power, and procured

tion all the more, and the idea fastened | ®ace W his imprisonment.

itself in bie mind that in those golden threads lay some magic power which had enthralled his friend, for heretofore Leooardo had beea insensible to female attractions.

For a time the course of true love ran smooth. ‘Then, suddenly, as if the earth

hesitated till it was too late. He was

according to the ancient usages of Venice,

had opened to swallow him, [Leonardo dis-|* speedy trial, to be followed by a peculiar |

appeared, and a few days after his dead | death, awaited him,

body was found in owe of the canals| Valenzia did not dispair even yet. B which vein this city to the sea. A deep | gold and tears she gained an evtrance to wound in the breast showed that he bad the Doge’s palace, and having won the been the victim of assassivation. Valen- | overseer to her interests, she descended with

a first great sorrow. fouod was the afliiction of the friend, who only the last day will fully reveal.

true-hearted Valenzia, who watched over |

brought in chains to the ducal palace. where, |

their pannikins at once, sv we did get a mouthful of hot coffee, and 1 ean tell you

quished her chosen office when he entered | that coflee tasted well.

into a marriage engagement with a noble| Our captain was a good fellow and well

But it was tke opportunity | liked by the men, and when the provisions

were reckoned up, he brought his keys and

And

him in season, and had arranged his flight; | things to himself, such as cheese and otLer but, too proud to succumb to injustice, be | stores which were in the cabin; and I got

| the benefit of that by-and-by, for he would often call me aft in the mght watch, and give me a bit of bread or cheese out of his own allowance.

I was but a youngster, and did not take well to the single biscuit aday, And as | ‘eould not depend on myself to keep the whole _week’s allowance without taking more than ‘each day’s share, I got one of the mates, who | was very kind to me all the voyage, to take charge of my rations. I gave bim my seven

sia’s grief had all the stormy violence of him, at midnight, into those damp and/| biscuits on Mondoy morning, and he gave me But far more pro- gloomy depths beneath, whose dread secrets | half of one each morning and evening till the At any week came round again. Sometimes when |

fully believed that the fatal stab had been other time the scene would have frozen her | 48 very hangry, | would beg and pray him

given by a jealous rival. ‘blood with horror. The black passages into “ Leonardo! Leonardo!’ he exclaimed,! which the cheerful light of upper day had as he gazed on the bloody corpse, ** the ac- never shined, and slimy with the moisture

for a bit more— but it was no use; he stuck

to the agreement, and I had to wait till next feeding time.

I sup 1 was too young and foolish to

‘with seven corpses in her, on the ice. No

| doubt these were some of them also. | ‘The Swan was beset all winter. And next spring the whale-ships fell in with her. They gave ber fresh provisions and put ten hands on board to navigate her home, and

| gave up all his own cabin stores, and went) when the ice broke up, she got uway. Bat

of her whole complement of between fifty and sixty men—including some men of a wrecked

‘vious summer — only seventeen men were alive when she reached Lerwick in May. Some of them held out till they sighted land, ‘and died then. 1 knew two men of her ‘erew, very well — smart fellows they were ‘and good seamen, and they both died just | within sight of home. I[ have sometimes wondered at, and I never could well make ‘out, why, alter holding out so long, they gave in then. Perhaps hope kept them up, and then, when their desire was like to be fulfilled, it was too much for them—and they so weak.

That's how I was frozen in, and came home again.

lll iach A DARK PAGE FROM RUSSIAN HISTORY.

Few readers of Russian history will fail to

was his emissary, the deference of the latter sank into insignificance when compared with that of his more polished employer ; and so well did the latter play his part, that the princess became devotedly attached to tho /man whom she believed to be a model of all | that was noble, good, and disinterested. In /a short time, Orloff had cause for exultation in the success of his plan, for the princess readily consented to be his wife. A sham- /marriage completed the deception, and was ‘followed on the part of the princess by a brief period of unclouded happiness. Never | for a moment did she suspect the imposition _ that had been practised upon her, but built | with the most perfect faith on the affection and sincerity of him she believed to be ier | husband.

| One day he entered her presence with an |air of the greatest concern, and on her in- | quiring the reason of his sadness, Orloff re- plied: ** Ah, dearest, I may well look sor- 'rowtul, since | must leaye you — you whom all here call the good and the beautiful. But who can tell how good or how beautiful you are in my eyes? You, the grand-daugh- ter of one who made himself as illustrious by his deeds as by his high station, yet deigned to bestow on me the treasure of 7 love."” | “ Why speak of this, Alexey?" said the

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cursed blonde locks are answerablo for this of centuries, the heavy doors, bolted and think of the danger of our state, and of the deed !” barred, which the lamp of the guide dimly | smal! chance we had of seeing Europe again ;