THE

EXAMINER.

een SS ~ eS —S—S oT .”~—~CSah a; a an ; S RIOT AT FALMOUTH, JAMAICA — 7 are inti Joha Walsh avd I ther SERIOU on l : ed six | not get employment at Printing. ; Journal of oo ‘ é xd from the ll without ¢ 2 t seen it, and that he received s1 ge : tomar We learn from the Boston Journal of Thursday jest that panne Ape ye emer geen ips sy se ome Bg — Mr. Hensley. | edlled upon the Priest, (as we were told that it Was customary riot with the loss of life, o¢curred at Falmouth, se on ey |

rent agency, and placed at the opposite side of the =

Suddenly, as forth from the chatr, there grew a Shape—a woman's shape. It was distinct ag a shapé of Iife—ghastly as ashapo of death. The face was that of youth, witha strange ufcurtful beauty ; the throat and shoulders were bare, the fest of the form in « loose robe ef cloudy white. It began seckirig its l¢ng yelloty hait, whith fell over its shoulders; is dyes were not tartted towafds me, but to the door; it seemed listening, Watching, waiting.

the batkground grew darker ; ané again I thought [ beheld |

the eyed gleaming out frum the summit of the shadow—eyes bod upon that shape.

As if from the door, though it did not open, there grew out another shape, equally distinct, equally ghastly—a man’s shape—a yourg man’s. It was in the dréds of the last cen-

tury, or rather im a likeness of such dress ; for both the male | shape and the female, though defined, were evidently unsub-|

stantial, impalpable—siniulacta—phattaams ,; and there was something incongruous, grotesque, yet fearful, in the contrast between the elaborate fifery, the courtly precision of that old- fashioned garb, with its ruffles arid lace and buckles, and the vorpse-like axpett antl ghost‘like stillness of the ftitting wearer. Just as the male shape approached thie female, the dark Shadow started from the wall, al) three for a moment wrapped ih dafkress. When the pale light returned, the two phantonts wete as if in the grasp of the Shadow that towered Wetween them; ani there was a blood-siain on the’ breast éf the female ; and the phantom-male was leaning on | fifa phanitoni-sword, and blood seemed trickling fast from the ruffles, from the lace; and the darkness of the intermediate Shadow swallowed them up—they were gone. And again the bubbles of light shot, and sailed, and undulated, growing thicker and thicker, and more wildly confused in their move- Inents,

The closet-door to the right of the fire-place now opened, ani from the aperture there came the form of a woman, aged. In her hand she held letters—the vety letters over which I had seen the Hand close; and behind her F heard a footstep. Si.¢ turned round as if to listen, and then she opened the let- ters and seemed to read, and over her shoulder I saw a livid fied, the face as of a man long dtowned—bloated, bleaeched— seaweed tangled in its dripping hair; and at her feet luy a form as of a corpse, and beside the curpse there cowered a child, with famine in its cheeks and fear in its eyes. And as I looked in the old woman's face. the wrinkles and lines van- ished, and it became a fave of youth ; and the Shadow darted forth, and darkened over these phantoms as it had darkened over the last; :

Nothing now was left but the Shadow, and on that my eyes Were intently fixed, tll again eyes grew out of the Shadow— tiv lignent, serpent eyes. And the bubbies of light again rese

The shadow of the shade fn |

‘which I should consider beneath my notice were the writer

unds instead of eight, whiclr he returned to_ 'Phis he calls an irregularity. I call it certifying to a false- hood; others would cal! it oDtaining money under false pre- ‘tences. To Mr. Campbell's concluding remarks I shall merely add-—I do not understand the nature and language of beasts, and I shal! lenve the decision of what Mr. Campbell is pleased to call my hereditary claims to the two beasts and to himself, as they appear to understand each other so wills I made » complaint against the Commissioner of this Dis- trict and one of his Overseers, for gross partiality seme time but as His Excellency has promised “ that a full enquiry ! ’ I abstain at present from

| ago; shall be made into the case,’ further notice of it.

I remain, dear Sir, | Yours very truly, J. WARBURTON. To the Kditor of the Examiner.

Since writing the above, I have seen a letter in the Islander,

not an officer of the present Government ; but as he appears to boast that His Excellency took no notice of the complaint I made against him, E shall give the whole facts when I write

next, —— ee

\corY.) Wooppnoox, Lor 11, August Sth, 1859. May it please Your Exceléency !

{ beg most respectfully to state for the information of Your Excellency aud Council, that the Postmaster at Port! Hill has been dismissed, and a Blacksmith; who has been in Mr. Yeo’s employment over 30 years, appointed im his stead } and I wnderstand the Postmaster at this place is to be dis- missed also, to make room for another Blacksmith in Mr. Yeo'’s employment, and depending on him for his own support, and that of his famity; and who is living is a log shanty covered with spruce bark (this ought to have been covered with slabs and battened, and thatened with sprece bark), and totally unfit for the safe keeping of the Mails, These re- movals have created a geveral feeling of mistrust, from the fact that the individual who bas been instrumental in causing them was disntissed us Postmaster at Port Hill by the late Government for opening letters entrusted to him.

Mr. Yeo’s friends wiil, no doubt, plead in extenuation of

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and fell, and in their disordered, irregular, turbulent maze, mingled with the wan moonlight. And now from these glo- bules themselves, as from the shell of an egg, monsterous things burst out: the air grew filled with them ; larvie so blood- less and so hed@ous tha’ | can in no way describe them except to remind the reader of the swarming life which the rolar microscope brings before his eyes in a drop of water—things transparent, supple; agile, chasing each othet, devouring each other—forms like nought ever beheld by the nuked eye. As the shapes were without symmetry, so their movements were without order: fm their very vagrancies there was no sport ; they came round me and round, thicker and faster and swifter. swarming over ary heady crawling over my right army which was outstretched in ingoluutary command agains: ail evil beings. Sometimes { felt myself touched, but not by them; invisible hands touched me. Once | felt the clutch as of cold soft fingers at my throat: [ was stil equally conscious that if | gave way to fear { should be im bodily peri; and [ concenira- ted all my factities ia the single focus of resisting, stiblorh will. Aad | turned my aight from the shadow —above a}!, from these strange serpent eyes—ryes that had now become dis- tinctly visible. for there, though in nought else around me, ! was aware that there wesa WILL, anda wili of intense, creative; working evil, which might crush: do wo my own,

The pale atmosphere in the room began uow to redden as if in the air of some near conflagration. The larve grew lurid as things thet live im fire. Again the room vibrated , agai were heard the three measured knucks ; and again all tueiyr were swallowed up in the darkness of the dark Shadow, as 1! out of that darkness all had come, imty that darkness all re- turned.

As the gloom receded, the Shadow was wholly gone. Sjow- | ly as it had been withdrawn, the flame grew again into the | candies on the tatle; again into the fuel inthe grate. The | whole room came once nrure calmly, healthfully ito sight.

The two doors were stiil closed, the dvor communicating w th the servant’s réom still locked. In the corner of the wali, into Which he had so convulsively niched hinselt, lay the doz. I called to htn—no movement; | approached—the animal! wa- | dead ; his eyes protruded; his tongue out of his mouth ; the | froth gathered round his jaws. | took hun in my arms; | brought hiat to the fire; | felt acute grief tor the loss of my favorite—acute seé!f-reproach ; | accused myself of tus death ; | imagined he had died of fright. But what was my surprise on finding that his neck was actually broken— “actually twisted out of the vertebrae. Had this been done in the dark ? must it not have been by a hand human as mine ? must there not have been a human agency all the while in that room? Good cause to aspect it. I cannot tell. {£ canuot do more than state the fact leirly ; the reader may draw his own inference.

Another surprising circumstance ; my watch was restored to the table from whicn it had been so mysterionsly withdrawn ; but it was stopped at the very moment it was so withdrawn : nor, despite all the skill of the watchmaker, has it ever cone since: that is, it will go in @ strange erratic way fur a few hours, and then comes to a dead stop ; it is worthless.

[To be continued.}

Correspondence.

Woopsuroon, Serr. 1ath, 1859.

My pear Stra,—I perceive I am favoured with four notices in the Islander of the 2nd instant, two of them being from anovymous scribblers, I leave unanswered; the other two, from Messrs. Yeo and Campbell, I shall pass some remarks upon. Although my fercing is not yet completed, nor likely to be go long as Mr. Yeo sends up a pack of hungry horses and cattle to get a bite to eat on Lot Kleven, I ean spare time to write. My purpose now is not s0 much to answer the letters in question, as to give you a copy of a letter for publidation which I forwarded on the 8th ult. to His Excel- leney and Qouncil, the receipt of which was acknowledged by the Clerk of the Council, who stated that my letter was laid before the Board, and that it would be taken into considera- tion at the next meeting of the Council, I received no further reply, bat Mr. Yeo’s two nominees have been ap- pointed to supercede the efficient Postmasters appointed by the late Government.

With regard to the erection of the bridge at Cascumpec, I deny altogether the truth of Mr. Yeo’s statement. If Mr. Gordon was desirous of having the bridge placed at the ferry, he could have easily applied to the Government then in power who appointed him, and during whose administration the bridge was commenced. As Mr. Yeo’s memory is so defective when it suits him, I may remind him that his friend Murphy was dismissed, at his request, to make room for Gor- ‘don, but having turned his coat, has been admitted inte favor,

I shall leave Mr. Yeo's &ttack upon the late Commissioners to be met by them; but when Mr. Yeo writes: “ [ may rest assured that it will be my study to prevent a recurrence of such disgraceful transactions as were perpetrated under the late Goverument”—I presume it must be on the principle that an old smuggler makes the best Exciseman, and that there will be no more opening of Her Majesty’: Mails on the bigh road, nor of letters at the Post Offices. °

When { addressed my letter to the present Government I had little hopes they would institute any enquiry into the charges I preferred against their brother Councillor, for they dare not do it, knowing well that Mr. Yeo bas, through his

son and Mr. Ramsay, complete control over them ; however, public opinion may effect what the Council dare not attempt. My remarks on Mr. Campbell’s letter shall be very brief.

is a naivete in the style which contrasts greatly with the

his conduct that the letter he was dismissed for opening was addressed by the Master of bis Sehooner to his wife, and that he was anxious to get tidings of his vessel. If this was really all, he might have satisfied bis anxiety in ten minutes. Mrs. McLellan, the Master’s wife, did mot live more than a mile off. it was upon her affidavit, the trath of which was not denied, that Mr. Yeo was dismissed. I have no desire to in- terfere with any political appointurents Your Excellency and Council may choese to make; but when the Post Office patronage is placed at the disposal of an individual who has been guilty of violating the sacredness of that department, aud when I believe | have no security for the safety of my | own correspondence so long as Mr. Yeo controls the Post- masters in this part of the Island, [ feel that 1 am in duty bound to make the above facts known to Your Kxcellency and Council. L may further add that Mr. Yco bas been in the habit of opening the mail bags on the road, and on one oc- casion iy newspapers were picked up at St. Kleanor’s, and iorwarded to me by a friend. L bave the honor to bef Your Excellency’s obedt. servant, JAMES WARBURTON,

To His Excellency the Lieat. Governor and Council.

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EMIGRAT:ON TO NEW ZEALAND,

Sir,—As some garbled extracts, gathered from letters which came to hand from some of the Emigrants who left this town about the end of last November, have appeared in some of the Island papers, I made application to my friend, Mr, Badge, who had received one frou: his son, who kindly entrusted me with it—=with permission to publish the whole, and which [ now proceed to lay before the public. There

attempt at the sublime and graphie indulged in by one of the writers in describing the voyage, but who, having arrived at the bourve of his journey, begins to repine because em- ployment was not to be got before he was four days clear of the vessel; other writers in an equally lachrymose strain complain of the great hardship of going into the interior upon a * Lumbering Pic Nic,” for which tney are paid 20s. to 25s. sterling per week with their board. Let these grumblers reflect upou the “light of other days,” when they could hardly earn the half of either sum, and gormandize at their own expense upon dried codfish, without the adjunct of either lard or butter. Another great drawback is the scarcity of the fair sex, and the gloomy anticipation of being obliged to take a ‘ Tatooed Morore” for a sleeping partner. Let such men apply themselves energetically to their trades, and such employment as they may be best suited for, and they can soon send home for the “ girls they left behind.”

“ Auckianp, New Zeavanp, May 27, 1859.

“ We arrived on the 13th inst. at the place of our destina- tion, afier a passage of vight weeks from the Cape of Good Hope, and of five calendar months and one-half from Prince Edward Island. There was not a single case of sickness on the passage, and we had not what could be called a gale of wind during the whole period. Auckland is a nice little town, it covers a great deal more ground than Charlottetown, but it is doubtful to me whether it contains more houses ; nevertheless, it is a century in advance of Charlottetown in its habits and business transactions; everything is conducted here after the English style, the bread, meat, potatoes, milk, fish and vegetables of all kinds are brought to the door, in fact everything but groceries, The fish and vegetables are all sold by the natives, called here Maores, (pronounced Maueries), who are a noble looking and intelligent race of people, they carry on a considerable trade with the merchants in the shape of hogs, vegetables, meat, gum, and other nu- merous articles, the produce of their own industry. They were all at first Methodists, but when they were civilised enough to see into the hypocrisy ™* * of the Mission- aries who extorted their lands from them at the rate of a blanket, a pot ora silk handkerchief per hundred acres, they have all become Roman Uatholics, and are, in general, strict adherents of the Catholic faith. Nearly every one here can speak their language, and [ am told it is considerably used by the Kuropeans who live near the Native Settlements. It is now Winter here, and the weather is exactly like September weather in North America; there are showers of rain, more or less, every day, which they say will last for about three months, when there will be beautiful clear warm weather. Now, winter as it is, lillies of the Nile, geraniums, and the choicest flowers grow in the gardens in the open air, and I am sure that iu the Summer season it will be a perfect paradise.

Immediately after we arrived here Mr. Millner came to me, aud would not allow me to go to a boarding house, but insisted on my going to his house to live and stop with him until { could get employment, when I could make some arrangements, [can never forget the kindness of Mr. Milluer and his family, they would not even allow me to send out my washing, but insisted upon having it doue in the house. It is a great saving to me, as board is 20s. sterli

week. Having given you an idea of New Zealand, f will now tell you something about my own prospects. When

He adwits that be certified to the completion of Gallant's

I arrived here I was much disappointed to find that I could |

| Melbourne.

car Apcstolic, a native

i, Vi to do so,) the Rev. Dr, McDonne a Pr acdsilh

of Kilkenny, studied at Maynooth, Archbishop M urray in the Metropolitan Chapel, Marlboroug! Street, Dublin. He is a very nice gentlemanlike man, resi- dent here about eight years. He informed me that there was a religious controversy going on here between the Catho- lies and Protestants, and vhowed us the prospectus of a Catholic newspaper to be started here on the first of July, to be called the “ Independent.” He is himself connected with it, and assured us if we waited till the middle of June. we being Catholics, should have permanent employment in preference to any others. ‘She printing office will be a large establishment. The presses; &c., are’ ¢omtng here from The paper will be conducted by two Catholic

gentlemen, one residing here, a Mr. Moore, the other in

Melbourne, whose name is Hickey. So we must ouly wait patiently until the apparatus arrive, which will be im about a fortnight. Printers wages are pretty good here, the price given to compositors being two shillings per thousand ems, at which rate E could make about £3 12s, to £3 15s sterling per week, and that is something better than in Charlottetown. The Priest told us to rely upon him, that we should have employment ; so I suppose there is no doubt as to the accu- racy of his stetement. I went to Chapel last Sunday and was quite pleased with it; they bave a fine toned organ, and the singing was splendid. ere is a Bishop aud four Priests stationed in Auckland, and one young native who is about being ordained, and the Priest says he is a most talented aud intelligent young man, The Rev. Mr. Me- Donnell bas invited Mr. Millner and [ to go to see the Col- lege, sever miles distant across the Bay. We are to go in his pleasure boat. ‘There are two regiments of soldiers stationed here, and generally a ship of war, which creates quite a stir in the place, There was a great many trades- men who came out in the vessel who could not get employ- merft, as things are dull just now, so they were obliged to go lumbering to the woods until things stir up. They get from 20s. to 25s. per week, and their board, which is not so bad. I would have goue myself, but did not consider L{was capable of performing the work, so I —— vere — it alone. .

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~The Examiner.

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» P.E.L, SEPTEMBER 20, 1859.

THE GREAT EASTERN.

Iy our next issue we hope and expect to have the gratifi- eation of announcing to our readers that the Great Eastern Steamship has arrived at Portland, in the State of Maine, on her trial trip across the Atlantic.

The date of her departure from the Thames had been fixed for the 18th inst., and, if all goes well, there is nothing to prevent her popping in upon Brother Jonathan in six or seven days after she shall have got fairly under weigh. What a contrast in the means and appliances of ocean navigation dves she present, not merely to the curavels of Columbus and the Mayflower of the Pilgrims, but even to the splendid steamers of the various lines of the present day! Her exact length is, we believe, 691 feet from stem to stern; and when we vonsider that the most reliable accounts give but 5444 feet as the extreme length of Noah’s Ark, we are justified in pro- nouneing the subject of our notice the largest craft that ever ruffied the waters, from the days of

‘* Captain Noah down to Captain Cook.’

With reference to the relative propelling power of the first and the last big ship the world has known, no comparison cau be instituted by any rules of approximation known to us modetms of the nineteenth century ; for although we know that the monster of our day can spread canvass enough for a small nayy, and is propelled by 5000 horse power, we read that the patriarch could only reckon on some two horse power, and we rather incline to the belief that he did not know how tu utilise even that. Speaking seriously, however, we can voly wait in wondering ignorance fur the account of her voyage, every hour and incident of which will be fraught with interest to the civilized world. When we consider that at her calm anchorage in the Thames she is held by 12 of the stoutest anchors ever wrought—that she is supposed to be capable of going at the rate of 25 knots per hour, with a weight 200 times greater than that of any ordinary English Railway train—that she can accommodate 10,000 troops in addition to her crew —that she has been fitted as a congeries of the most magnificent hotels—that she has cost about £1,000,000 sterling —we ask the nations of the earth to point to such a monu- ment of commercial enterprise, and mechanical and theoretical ekill, combined for so eminently beneficial a purpose as that to which the Great Eastern is to be devoted.

Electricity has been used to anticipate the speed of the steam engine, but the latter is about to retrieve its character, for while ‘* the deep unfathomed caves of ocean bear’’ the silent and snakelike Atlantic Cable, which refuses to listen to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely, high above, cleaving old ocean’s front, independently of wind or waves, the giant will pursue his irresistible course, using the rival power merely as a menial, subservient to his will, in lighting his lamps and bearing his messages.

The Great Eastern in war invincible by human foe, in peace subservient to the best interests of mankind—will, if now successful, revolutionize the world by one of those great triumphs which form the landmarks of civilization; and we trust that the promoters of the glorious enterprise may meet areward more in accordance with the benefits they have rendered to mankind than has fallen to the lots of other bene- factors of their race.

Ee Some remarks in reply to the leading article in the las

islander, will appear in our next. cE

Navat.—We are informed that Rear Admiral of the Blue Sir Alexander Milne, K. C. B., has been appointed to succeed Vice Adiniral Sir Houston Stewart, on the North American Sta- tion. The new Admiral is not by any means a stranger in Halifax. He was here in 1839, as Commander of the Sloop-of- War Snake; and in 1841, whilst still on this Blation., he was promoted t» be Captain of the Frigate Crocodile. He is a son of the late Sir David Milne, who, then a Rear Admiral, distin- guished himself in the attack upon Algiers, under Lord Exaouth on the 27th of August 1816, and who, unmediately after that achievement, was appointed to the command on this North American station, which command he continued to hold from 1817 to 1820. ‘I'he present Admiral Milne has, for several years, been a junior member of the Admiralty Board, sittin there part of that time as the colleague of Sir Houston dibwest It is quite possible that the Admiral now in command will be relieved in Halifax, and will not again proceed to the West

Indies.

HH. M. Steamship Styz, bearing the flag of Vj i i Houston Stewart, arrived at St. John, Ne B., mle ne The Admiral, Lady Stewart, and suite, were (0 go up to Fredericton, the following day, on a visit to the Lieut. Gover-

nor of New Brunewick.— Recorder,

of August. The riot arose from a case of litigation, in which @ Mr. Theodore Beril, in possession of Florence Hal} Sugar state, two miles from the towny refused to give up possession to certain parties who laid claun to the property, and whose claims had been sustained by the property tribunals. A’ serious riot took place of (he premises it consequence; Sut the leaders were arrested ané lodged in jail at Falmouth. The next dg when the rioters were arraigned, a mob escorted them from

court-house to the jail, and proceeded to demolish the windowg

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of the Superintendent’s house, which they effecced. ihe police ber

station was also attacked, aii the Court-house, witere a

of windows were broken. At the police station a large force

armed with loaded muskets, stood ready to protect it. The mod attacked this force with stones, upon whieh the riot wet was read. kt produced no effect ; the stones fell thick and fast, and one individual in the crowd fired a pistol, upon which Mr

Justice Salmon gave the order to fire. A volley was then poured in, when two black women fell dead, and several otherg were wounded. ‘he mob then gave way, with @ yell of ven. geance ; and shortly after the town was fired im three different places, and the hoases of the magistracy and of Mr. James O. Clerk, the editor of the Trelawny newsaaper, sioned: but through the activity of the police and the special constables

much damage was not dove. Word was sent to the G Tehe’ who ordered a strong police and a detachment of troops to the scene of difficulty, and quiet was restored. M any ofthe riovers afterwards gave themselves up. The whole affair created a profound sensation throughout the Island, as Falmouth 1s gene- raliy regarded as the ** model town” of the Island, for the peace. able character of the inhabitants, and the management of its municipal affairs.

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NEWFOUNDLAND.

Fish is reported as arriving pretty freely at St. John,—but Up to the latest accounts the cateh had been rather short. Six Spanish vessels were awaiting cargoes. ‘The agricultural crops are good.

The Rev. Dr. Richey is on a visit to St. John.

A female, named Louisa Fitzpatrick, was burned to death on the 21st inst., at St. John. She was trimming a fluid lamp, lighted, when the liquid ignited, and burn her so severely that she died soon after, This is another of the unfortunate ac. cident», resulting from the want of proper precaution, which are continually recorded. It should certainly be a caution to those who use the burning fluid.

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His Excellency the Lieut. Governor and Mrs. Dundas, accompanied by Lieut. Volone] Gray, visited the Southern section of the First Electoral District of Queen's County on Tuesday last. On arriving at DeSable, a very numerous assemblage of the inhabitants met His Excellency, and es- corted him to “ Ozendyke,” the residence of James Palmer, Esq., where an addre-s was read to His Excellency by Colin Holm, Esq., M. P. P., after which a large party of badies and gentlemen partook of Mrs, Pulmer’s hospitality at Luncheon.

In the afternoon His Excellency and suite proceeded to Crapaud, and were similarly received by the inbabitants of this flourishing locality. After resting for some time at the house of John Hall, Keq., J. P., the party returned by the Argyle Shore to Bonshaw.— Isi.

We understand that His Excelleney proposes to visit a large portion of Prince County during the present week, and will probably take the Steamer to Summerside to-morrow for that purpose,

An Island called San Juan, adjacent to Vancouver's Island, and also near the American territory, is ut present a subject of dispute between the British and American authorities in that region. It appears that the island was take possession of by a party of United States troops, whereupow the Go- vernor of British Columbia protests against ihe proceeding, and upon the assumption that San Juan belongs to the Crown, iespatched an armed force to drive off the Americans. Itiy hoped, however, that as the island is not worth makiog much ado about, that the contending authorities wiil show their good seuse by settling the affair without serious consequences,

Three persons are said to have

gone over the Niagara Falls duriig a gale ou the 1st inst. .

The Telegraph reports that a fight occurred in New York on the-6th inst., between the Protestant and Catholic Irish, tu which ove man was kille.l and many others wounded,

_On the Sth inst., a riot of serious character occurred in New York on board the ship Mayflower, resu!ting in the probable death of one man, and the stabbing of three others,

A monumentof the late Fergus O'Connor, (consisting of a colossal statue) has arrived in Nottingham, and is to be placed in the Arboretum, by permissiun of the Town Council The inauguration took place on Monday.

At Albion, late on Monday evening, a scuffle took place between a number of individuals, in which Mr. George Cor- - bet received four wounds in the leg, one severing the main artery. Although medical aid was immediately on the spot, and every means used to stop the flow of blood, he gradually sunk, and expired at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The deceased was a young married man, a blacksmith, in the

employ of the Frazer River Mining © _ me Chronicle. g Company.— Pictou

The losses by the fire in Halifax are borne as follows : — Royal Insurance, £34,000 ; Alliance, £25 008 ; Phoouiz, £15,000 ; Halifax, £7,000; Hartford, £4,000, '

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says of the items column in the newspapers, that it ‘is worth more than all the stall fry of correspondents, with an editor thrown in to boot ! Like a caravan, it strecches ulong iv columns, with packages and parcels, spices and gems, bits of fragrance or cunningly Wrought metals, gathered from the Orient and from the whole world besides. The items of the paper, like the stuff- iag of # Thanksgiving turkey, represent everything in the house, crusts of bread, crackers and all spices.”

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Tue Attantic Caste.—Vhe record book of transmitted over the Atlantic Cable jast to be as follows :—

al) messages year shows the number

FROM VALENTIA TO NEWFOUNDLAND.

97 Messages, 1,102 Words, containing 6,476 letters. FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO VALENTIA.

260 Messages, 2,810 Words, containing 13,743 letters.

Total, 366 Messages, 3,942 Words,

Among these were the President of the United Sta ing the safety of the steam

20,219 letters.

message from the Queen to the ae are ; the one announc- er ro e i

afier her collision with the Arabee | cad Wis tee’ wieenages for Her Majesty’s War Office, whieh latter effected a very large saving to the revenue of the English Government.

It is a curious fact that the last message sent over the cable was the one announcing to the American Government that the cable was in successful overation. ‘The wires brought over about half of this message, and then forever after held their peace, except in the perturbed utterances and indistinct mur- murs that from time to tine vexed the attentive ear of the mysterious “ De Sauty.” The message referred to was a gentle hint that the cable being in working order, the * subeidy” vehniate - Sar onde faithless wires faltered under the

» 8Nd the great Atlantic Cab for fishee.—Canathan Paper. Te Te ee