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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Wednesday, March 2, 1853.

New Series. No. 12.

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'Uric1.r -rou’s CABIN. (Chop. ix. concluded.)

Mrs. Bird and her husband re-entered _thc parlour. She sat down in her little rockmg- chair before the are, swaying thou tfully to and fro. Mr. Bird strode up and own the room, grumblin to himself. “ Plsh! plhaw ! confounded a ward business!" At snggli

striding up to his wife, he said,- “ I as , she’ have to get away from here this vs ni ht. That ibllow will be down

on the scent rig t and early to-morrow mor- ning. If ‘twee only the woman, she could lie quite till it was over; but that little chap can't be kept still by a troop of horse and foot, I'_ll warrant ins ; he’ll brin it all out, popping his head out of some win ow or door. pretty kettle of fish it would be for me, too, to be caught with them both here 'ust now ! No ; they'll have to be get of to-ni t."

“ To-ui ht! How is it possi lel Where to?_”

“ Well, know pretty well where to," said the senator, beginning to put on his boots, with a reflective air; and, etc ing when his leg was half in, he embraced his ee with both hands, and seemed to go of in deep meditation.

“ It‘s a confounded awkward, ugly busines,” said he at last, he 'nning to tug at his boot- straps again, “ so that's a fact.” boot was thirl on, the senator sat with ' nd, profoundly studyien

. “ It'll have to c, it all I" And he drew the other boot anxious y on, and looked out of the window.

Now, little Mrs. Bird was a discreet woman

omen who never in her life said, “ I told you so!" and, on the resent occasion, thou h pretty well aware of shape her husban s meditations were tekin , she very prudently forehorc to meddle wi them, only mt very quietly in her chair, and looked quite ready to hear her liege lord's intentions, when he should think ropcr to utter m. _

“ on see,” he said, “ there's I? old client, Van Trouipe, has come over from entucky,and setall his vss free;and hehas bou - place seven miles up the creek, here back in the

woods, where nobody goes, uulem they on rpose ; and it's a place that isn't foun in a hhrry. ‘T'lihereths_ho'd be fie enoln but the e o e i is, no cou no a car- riptguthere to-uinht but

“ Why not? djce is an excellent driver.”

“ y, ey, but here it is. The cree has not been crossed twice ; end the second crossing is ' rons, unless one knows itasl do. have crossed it a hundred times on horseback,

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and know exactly the turns to take. And so, you see, there's no help for it. Cufii: must put in the horses, as quiet] as may , about

twelve o'clock, end l’ll tn.ke er over; end then, to give colour to the matter, he must carry me on to the next tavern, to take the stage for Co- lum t comes by about three or four, end so it will look, as if I had the carriage only for that. I shell put into business bright end earl

in the mornin . But I'm thinkin , I shall fee

rather chcs ere, after all that's u said end done‘; but, u it! I can't help it.” ‘I

heart better then your head, in this case, John," aid the wife, laying her little white heed in his. " Could I ever have loved you, had I not known youbctter than u know

y<-i:'rself!" dsonie, with the tears sparkl' in her eyes, tint the senator thought he must, a decidedly clever fellow to get such aflppletty creature into such a m admire 0 him; and so what ainldhe do, but welk olsoberly to see about the on At the does, however, he etc a moment, and than, coming back, he sai , with some 'tetion—- " , I don't know how you'd feel ahout—- there‘s t drawer full of things—of—of—_poor 's.’' So In ii , he turned quickly , end shut e oor after .

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heart-broken end sorrowful then 1 am ; and I hope God will send Ills blessing with them!” here are in this world blessed souls whose sorrows all s u up into earthly he s, laid in the tears, are e seed from whic _ flowers and helm for the desolate an distress- Among such was the delicate women who ' slow tears, while she prepares the memoriafs of her own lost one for the outcast wanderer.

After a while Mrs. Bird opened a wardrobe, end, taking from thencea plain, serviceable dress or two, she sat down busily to her work- table, and, with needle, scissors, end thimble at

process which her husband had recommended, end continued busily at it, till the old clock in the corner struck twelve, end she heard the low rattling of wheels at the door. . _

“ Mary," said her husband, coming in, with his overcoat in his hand, “you must wake her up now : we must be of.” I _

Mrs. Bird hastily deposited the various arti- cles she had collected in a small plain trunk,and looking it, desired her husband to see it in the carriage, and then cesded to ithe woman. Soon arrayed in e c oak, bonnet, and shawl that had belonged to her boncfactress, she appeared at the door with her child in her arms. Mr. Bird hurried her into the carriage, and Mrs. Bird pressed on after her to the carriage steps. Elisa loaned out of the carriage, and put out her hand, a hand as soil: and beautiful as was

'ven in return. She fixed hor large dark eyes,

ll of earnest meaniri , on Mrs. Bird's face ,and seemed going to speak. Her lips moved, she tried once or twice, but there was no sound, an pointing upward, with a look never to be for- mten, she fell back in the seat, and covered

face. The door was shut, and the carriage rovs on.

What a situation now, for a triotic sena- tor, that had been all the week fore spurring up the legislature of his native State to pass more stringent resolutions agiinst escaping fu- gitives, their harbourers and abettors!

r senator in his native State had not been exceeded by an of his brethren at Wash- ington in the sort 0 eloquence which has won for them immortal renown! How sublimely he had set with his hands in his pockets, and soon all sentimental weakness of those who would put the. welfare of a few miserable fugi- tives before tstete interests!

He wasas d as a lion about it, and “might- ily convinced " not on] himself, but everybody tht heard him ; but on his idea of a fu itive was orgy an idea of the letters that spe the word ; Or, at the most, the ime of a little newsdpaperflpicture of a man wit a stick and bun e, wi “ Ran away from the subscriber ” under it. 'I.'he magic of the real presence of distress, the implorin human eye, the frail, trembling human hen , the despairing a peal of helpless agony, these he had never tried? He had never thought, that a fugitive mi ht be a hapless mother, a defenceless child, l e that one which was now wearing his lost boy's littb well-known cap : and so, as our poor senator was not stone or steel, as he was a men, and a down- right noble-hearted one, too, he was, as every- body must see, in a sad case for his triotism. An you need not sxult over him, brother of the Southern States, for we have some inklings that many of you, under similar circumshnoes, wou not do much better. We have reason to know, in Kentucky, as in Mississippi, are noble and generous hearts, to whom never was tale of sulering told in vain. , rother! is it fair for you to expectof us services, which ur own brave, honourable heart would not a low you to render were you in our place?

Be that as it may, if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair wa to explore it by his night's penance. There (I been a long continuous rlod of rainy weather, and the soft, rich ea of Ohio, as every one knows, is admirably suited to the menuihcture of mud, and the road was an Ohio railroad of the good old times.

“ And prey what sort ofa road may thatbe?” says some eastern traveller, who has been so- customed to connect no ideas with a railroad, but those of smoothness or s .

Know, then, innocent eastern friend, that in be ' hted ' the west, where the mod is e unfathomable and sublime depth, roads are made of round rough logs, arranged trans- versely side by side, and coated over in their pristine freshness with earth, turf, and what- soever me come to hand, and then the rejoicing native cal th it a road, and straightway essa - _eth to ride thsreu n. In process of time, tge reins wash of all e turf and pass aforesaid, move the logs hither and thither, in picturesque positions, up, down, and crosswise, with divers shame and ruts of black mud intervening.

Over such a road as this our senator went stumbling along, making moral redections as continuously as under the circumstances could be ex , the carriage proceeding along much esfo ws: bum lbumplbuinpl slush. down in the mud i-- e snator, woman, and child, reversing Iieir positions co suddenly as to couie,

without any secure stmueut, against the windows of the down-hll side. Carriage sticks lhst, while (ladies on the on tside is heard making a gt muster among the horses. Aflar various ine tual pullin and twitching. just as the senator is al tisncs, the in

suddenly rightsi wit a bounce, two front

Ina horses, who are kickin

Ind floll sail straining under repeated cracks of the- , . Qrrla s u with suotlier ‘ b—‘

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her child, and they brace themselves firmly for what is t to coiue. For a while only the continuous bum ! bump! intermingled, jus by way of variety, w th divers side-plun s and compoun shakes; and they be ' to fitter themselves that they are not so I after all. At last, witha square plunge, whic puts all on to.their feet on down into their seats with incredible quickness, the carria stops, and, after much outside commo- tion, udjoe appears at the door. _ “ Please, sir, it's powerful bad spot this yer. I don't know how we’s to get clar out. I'm a thiukiu’ we'll have to be a gettin’ rails." _ _ The senator despairingly steps out, picking 'ngerly for some firm foothold. Down goes one got an immeasurable do th, he tries to pull it up, loses his balance, and) tumbles over into the mud, and is fished out in a very despairing con- dition by Cudjoe. But we forbear, out of s pathy to our road- er’s bones. Western trnve re, who have beguil- ed the midnight hour in the interesting process of pulling down rail fences to pry their carriages out of mud holes, will have a respectful and mournful sympathy with our unfortunate hero. We beg them to drop a silent tear and pess_cu. It was full late in the night when the carria emerged, dri ping and bespattered, out of e creek, and s at the door of a large farm- house. It took no inconsiderable erserversnce to arouse the inmates ; but at last t e respectable proprietor appeared, and undid the door. He was a great, tell, bristlin 0rsou.of a fellow, full six feet and some inc es in his stockings, and arrayed in a red ilanncl hun_ting-shii_-t. A ' very heavy mat of sandy hair, in a decidedly tousled condition, and a beard of some days’ growth, vs the worthy men an appearance, to say the goat, not particularl prepossessin . He stood for a few minutes he ding the can 0 aloft, and blinkin on our travellers with a dis- ‘ expression that was ludicrous. It cost some edort of our senator to induce him to comprehend the case full ;and while he is c oing his best at that, we give him a little nntroduction to our readers. _ Honest Old John Van mpe was once quite a considerable landholder and slave-ow_ner in the State 0 ' Kentucky. Having “ nothing_ of the hear about him but the skin," pod being gifted by nature with a great, honest, yust heart, uite equal to his gigantic frame, he had been or some years witnessing with repressed uneasi- ness the workings of a s stem equally bad for o ressor and opp . At last, one day Jg ’s greet heart had swelled altogether too big to wear his bonds any longer; so he just took his ket-book out of his desk, and went over into mo, and bought a quarterof a town- ship of , rich land, made out free papers ibr all is people. men, women, and chi dren, packed them up in wagons, and sent them off to settle down; and then honest John turned his ?|l‘ll0kly down on a ‘s conscience and

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face up thecreek, and sat snug, retired farm, to enjoy his reflections.

“Are you the man that will shelter a‘poor woman and child from slave-catchers l” sai the senstorex icitly.

“ I rather think I am,” said honest John, with some considerable emphasis.

“ I thought so," sa d the senator.

“ If there's anyboc comes," said the good nian,stretchin his tal , muscular form u ward, “why, here m reaty for liim;snd Ive Q: seven sons, each six loot high, and they'll ready for ‘em. Give our respectsto ’em,” said John; “ tell ‘em it’s no matter how soon the call, make no kinder difierence to us," sai John, running his lingers throu h the shock of hair that thatched his head, an bursting out into a great laugh.

Weary, jaded, and spiritless, Elise dragged herself up to the door, with her child lying, in a heavy sleep, on her arm. be h men held the candle to her face, nnd, uttering a kind of corn iohets grunt, opened the door of a small bedroom adjoining to the large kitchen where they were standing, and motioned her to go in. He took down a candle, and, lighting it, set it u _n the table, and then addressed himself to

its.

“ Now, I say, gal. you needn’t be a bit nfeerd, is: who is‘ come be I’m up in all that sort o‘ thing.” said he. pointing to two or three goodly rifles over the mentelpisee : " and most people that know me know that ’iweu|dn’t be. healthy to try to get anybody out o’ my house when I'm sgin ' . So now you jist go to sleep now, as quiet as if yer mother was a rookie’ ye, ' said he, as he shot the door.

" Why, this is an uncommon handsome on,” he said to the senator.’ " Ah well; handsome uns hes the greatest cause to run sometimes, if they has so kind 0’ feeling, suchas decent women shoul . Iknow all about that.”

The senator, is a few words, briefly explained Eliss’s history.

“ Oi osi swl new. Iwent to know i” said the good men, piiifhlly; " she! now, she! 'l‘list's netsr' now, poor crittur! hunted down, now. like

deer-—hu own jesi for hevin' nstursl fes|ln’e, and doin‘ what so kind o’ mother could hel e doin’! 1 tell ye what, these yer things me e meooine the uighesi to sweeriu‘, now,o' most snythis ," said honest .lulin,ss be wiped his e U wit the back of s great, freokled, yel- low and. ‘'1 tell ye wbsi, stranger, it was years and years before l’d jlus the cherub. ’esuse the niiifnters round in our parts used to preach that the Bible west in for these ‘are cuttings up: and I souldn’t be up to ‘em with their Greek and Ileepw, and as I leek up egin ‘sin Bible and all. I never jised the church iill I losnd e minister

at was u to ‘sin sll in Greek and an that, and be said rig the contrary; and than I took right held, and lead the chureli—l did now,fect," said John. w lied been all this time iiuesrking some ' very frisky bottled cider, which stihie juncture presented.

e “ Ys'd better jest ut up here, now, till de - light," said he. hmnily, " and I'll call up the o w_ems’e, and have a bed got ready for you in no ime. ’ " Thank yeu,ny good friend,” said the senator, "c.I|nisst I: along, to take the night stage for

sites. hashes , "Ab,esI.ttss,lfyes nsst,l'll gesplses

with you, and show you across road that will take you there better than the read you came on. Thet rced‘s mighty had." _ John equipped himself, and, with s lantern in band, was soon seen guiding the senator’: oer- risge towards a road that ran down in s hollow. back of his dwelling. When they psrted, the senator put into his hand a ten-dollar bill. “ it's for her," he said briefly. _ ' “ Ay, ey," said John, with equal ceusiseuses. They shook hands and parted.

House of Assembly, Feb. 16, 1858. HIS Excellency the Lieutenant Governor having, by Message, transmitted to th

House a Copy ofe Memorial of certain landed Proprietors and [and Agents in Prince Edward Island to Her Majesty's Princi al Secretary of State for the Colonies, y raying t t Her Majesty may be advised to disa low the Act for the en- couragement of Education, and the Act relating to the recovery of Small Debts, both passed by the Legislature of this Colony, last Session, and the same having been read, it was

Ordered, That the said Memorial be published once in each of the Newspapers printed in

Charlottetown. JOHN M‘NEILL, C.H.A.

To -run Rrcirr Hon. Jcux PAKINGTON.

The Humble Memorial of the undersigned re- sident Proprietors and Agents of absent Pro- prietors of Iand, in Prince Edward Island, Sheweth,

That the Local Ls slature, during the last Session, passed a Bi for the purpose of esta- blishin a system of Free Fducation throughout the Co ony, whereby it is intended to im an additional tax of four shillings and two pence per hundred acres annually on all Town- ship lands in this Island, whether the same be “ wilderness or cultivated, improved or unim- proved," and the Bill provides, that payment thereof shall be enforced under the provisions of the Colonial Statute, of the 11th Vic. cap. 7, by which Statute Wilderness land is already essc at the annual rate of live shillin per hundred acres, and cultivated or improve land at half that amount; so that, if e Education Bill goes into 0 ration, the tax on wilderness and un roductive property will be increased to 9s. 2d. or every hundred acres, and on impro- ved land to 6s. and 8d. for every like quantity.

That the first Innd Asse out which came into operation in 1832 was equal on all lands, bein two shillings on every hundred acres; but in 1 7 a Bill was carried, which was limited to ten years duration, whereby the tax on wilder- ness land was doubled, and that on improved land sufiired to continue as fixed by the - vious Bill; and they so remained until 1&8, when the existing Land Asseument Act came into operation, which is stated in the title to have been ssed “ for the encouragement of Education.’

That by a reference to the several Acts re- ferred to, as well as by the correspondence of diflerent Secretaries of State on the subject, it ap rs that these taxes were imposed “ in lieu 0 wit Rents,” the claim to which the Crown was pleased to forego, during the continuace of ts, each of which contains a clause to that shot; but the tax has been of late years so gradually augmented, as now to form a very dis roportionate substitute for the claim relin- quished by the Crown, to give place to what seemed a milder measure than that of enforcing payment of the Quit Rents—for b the Procla- mation of Lieutenant Governor ith, dated 28th Jul , 1818, it is announced that His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been bountifull and graciously pleased to alter the rate of uit Rent heretofore payable by the Landed Proprietors of this Island, to two shil- lin per hundred acres, as relates to Townships an parts of Townshi .”