A Weekl

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Vol. VAY.

1363.

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FALL-& WINTER GOODS!

4 LARGE SUPPLY

NEW GOODS. JUST RECEIVED

aT THE

LONDON HOUSE.

bs

FoR FA Li Is6é3.

AT THE

BRITISH WAREHOUSE,

QUEEN'S SQUARE. PANU E SUBSCRIBERS WAVE JUST RECEIVED trom LONDON, per Uranus,

GOW, via Pictou, per Cabot and other arrivals from the States and Halifax,

Their usual extensive fupply of BRITISH §& FOREIGN

j ‘ 4 ~*~ r ‘X per MERCHANDIZE, Hy comprising all the requisite articles in STAPLE i. H A SZ. A R D & AN ‘YY Gool Ya. sahond which will be found AS RECEIVED, per URANUS from. the leading styles and bo° cities of the season : H LONDON, GAZELLE, and THERESA Plain & Faney Dress Goods, and Shawls, Mantles, and Furs, Bonnet Fronts, Hats & Caps, Black & Colored Silks, Hosiery W Huberdashery, Collars, Ties and Searts, Plain and Fancy Flannels, Shirts, Skirts & Skirting Serges, Oi Cloths & Baize Boots, Shoes & Rubber Goods Clothing, and Gents’ genera! outfits, Cloths, Deoeskins, and Trimmings, Hardware, Lronmongery & Cutlery, Nails & Horse Nails, Room Paper, Blankets, Rugs, and Counterpanes, Good Ludigo and other Dye Stuffs. GROCERIES,

Consisisting of Choice TEAS and SUGARS RAISINS, CURRANTS and FIGS, &e. SPICES, &e. Ke.

SILKS, black and coloured, in| && Personally selected with care—purehased

. soil on the best terms—and will be found te compare dresses aed pieces, Knickerbocker (Toth, French Merinos, Alexandra Cloth,

taverably with other Stocks in the market, either turatheas, black and eoloured,

for sty le or value Cleth at Geld, York Repp,

W. & A. BROWN. Popinettes, Kc. &e. Ke,

Queen Square, Nov. 16, 1563. Shawls and Mantles,

im great variety and very cheap; = | : , Pi ore. (3 Cre Bonnets, Hats & Caps, New enars qxif is.

a ‘arye assoriment in the latest fa-hions; | RIBBONS, a choice selection, tibben Velvet, Cotton & Silk, Black wud |

Stand formerly Dempsey's, opposde Apothe- cary s Hall, Upper Queen Street.

from LIVERPOOL, a selected

SPOUK of

BRITISH DRY GOODS,

Fancy Goods, Jewellery. Stationery. Groceries and Hardware. !

AN) having the Manufactories, and purchased on the best terms, they will be sald at the LOWEST PRICES roR CASH, discount wade to whole- eustumers, large Stock of

large

been earefully selected direct from

a hberal saic

Sup *‘vhue and Winter Cloths & Coatings, in all the latest styles;

Ladies’ Dress Materials,

m great variety and newest fashions;

CoIpusing a

Christmas Presents

AND

Extensive Sale of CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AND

YEAR’S GIFTS,

Coleured Silk Velveta, ‘Te rry Velvets, Black German Velvets, &c. &c.

French and other FLOWERS,

Borders, Cap Fronts, Cambric Haudkerchicts,

NEW

‘iloves, Steel & Maslin Collars, Hair Nets, Sleeves, in variety. | Press Battons and Trimmings, in eat variety, Braids, Tassels and Cord, | ;

Bookstore, South Side of Queen Square.

T° commence this day, aud be continued eateh day until all are disposed of, comprising ik, purt-—

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,

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teclir ‘ + inding and styles.

~ Laces, Worked Muslin, Losertion and Eedg- ing, Gloves, Liosiery, Veils, Silk ‘Twist, I read, Kieels, &c. &e. i

FURS — Sable, Stone Martin,

Jiuk, Fiich, Chinchille, Kelenshi, Opposum, ; a. in splendid |

Mock Ermine, Musquash Riding Boas & Cutts; Stone Martin, Monkey, Goat A Magnificent Assortment of aud Seal Tail Muffs, &e., For

Gloves and Gaurtlets.

STAPLE GOODS — Brown Cot-

tens, Blaukets, Plannels, White and Srriped

‘Church Services and Prayer Books,

j ario 6 le : ‘ bim ws ix: — Moeroeco Shirtings, Séirtiags, i’viate, Fucniture In vari ns ‘ie “1 , bin _ «, vii - M on ec ‘ i Sheetings licks, Sacking { Se pete Greet urple and Seariet a a elings, i — a Z, | Velver«. Oak sides. Phin Mo “C0, = Ss 4 ifpeting, en Rest, } Gilt Kams and ( lasps, ete. Mais. Cram Clothe, OU Flo« . : > ; . - tn 7" >a 2 > 1 :e mo . loth, &e. &eo &e Ladies’ Reticeles, Gentlemen’s

Writing Desks, Gentlemen’s Walking Canes, mounted with Ivory, Silver and Croid.

PAPER MACHIE GOODS,

In writing Desks, Work Wash Stands, Companious, Card Baskets, Statione ry Cases, ete.

Gutta Percha Vases, Gutta Percha Card Trays, Fruit Baskets, Inkstands, &e.

An extensive and varied assortment of qrames and “Loys. Games of Solitaire, Annt Sally, Wm. Tell. Popin- jay, Pope Joan,-Parlor Bowls, Racing, Cal- envlatpon, Dratts, Chess, &e. &e. &e. Toys in every variety suitable for Holiday Presents. PUZZLES & DISSECTIONS, in great variety.

HUNDREDS OF DOLLS, EVERY SIZE. Drawing Room Books, Pociica! Works, Keepsakes, Anuuals, &c.:

A splendid let of New Books, suitable for Children, together with an abundance of other articles which eannot be erumerated.

PONT FORGET

SHON Pieces k ag hs Wak

» READY-MADE CLOTHING, in Civer-Coate, Coata, Pants, Vests, Shirts, Collars, Drawers, Under Shirta, Vater-proet Coats and Sheets, Ac.

HARDWARE--Iron, Steel, Glass, Jutty, Paints, Oda, Turpentine, Nails, Svikes, rads, Tacks, Sheet Lron, Wire, Gig & Cait Burhes, Chain Traces, Back Chains, Halter Chaina, ¢ rey & Wilkie’s Plough Mount mg, Hames, Lridles, Bits, Wiips, huives & Forks, Scissors, &c.

ALSO, Tea, Molasses, Coffee, Crushed &

Moist Sugar, Rice, Pearl Barley, Mustard, Vepper, Natmegs, Spices (greand and un- ground), Raisina, Currants, Citron, Starch, Biee, Dlacking, Baking and Washing

Seda, Leather, Tobacco, Pipes ; Backeta, Broome, Soan. Candles, Indigo, Manilla Rope, Piteh, Pizeh & Paratioe Oui, Cross amd Fland Saws, Chisels, Gouges, Jack, Hand and Bead Planes,

Brass Taps, &e. Xe. Nov. 16, 1263.

Paper - Hangings,

. very cheap and good

Shooting

hONeES,

Ladies

Liverpool House ! FALL & WENTER, 1803-64. . {b08-64. AVING completed per * THERESA” Laird & Harvie'’s, South Side » - + anges Queen Square. MERCHANDIZAE, | PRINCE STREDr Nowratxane whepubeat tho LOWEST BOOK AND STATIONERY STORE, : The GOODS pacing been purchased on the — est Terme, ¢ coufidectly offered to compare | 4 or ’ ” is os neon His Stock weitoied in JOHN 8. PESO LS

AS constantly for sale, ut the lowest

Charlottetown. WILLIAM FULL BRITISH § FO REIGN Charlottetown, Dee. 21, 1865. (Near the Temperance Hail.) Staple Dry Goods,

prices, a general assortment of

Cotton Warp Crey Cottons, Striped and White | , s

Shirtings, ‘Liekings, Denima, Drilis, Fleecy Cot- | B k d Stat

tons, Printed Cottous, Ginzhame, Red, White and 00 S an lone j Paney FLANNELS, Toweilings, Table Linens Including all the SCHOOL BOOKS in general use,

White and Colored Damasks, Blankets, Kuys, d&c.

Dress Materials, Inecinding Wineeys, Plain ond Piaid: Coberes, Muickerbocke ‘. Fouland Lustres, Camilets, Alex audra Cloth, Black and Coloured Lustres. &e., &e

(eed SER ornes r IV Ge * | Binding. Orne aS TRIMMINGS ‘und LININGS in| “English and American BOOKS and PERIODI

° ¢ | CALS imported to ¢ rder, and supplied on tuvourable

Ladies’ Mantles, Black and Colewred Cloth, Tweed, &c.,; Clothe & Cloakiugs. in Black and C

Alexandra Cloth, Seal Cloths, in all quantities.

Ladies’ Shawls,

together with a great variety of new and standard works. Pocket aud Pen Knives, Werk Boxes, &e.

Atso— Bibles and Testaments, Commenturies Prayer Books, Church Service, Wesley's Hyinns, Psalm Books, &c, in various sizes and styles of

A LARGE VARIETY OF NEW AND POPULAR MUSIC.

PRIZE EXurBiTion (1862)

terms.

Mantle

loured Cloths

Including Cloth, Tweed, Cushmere, Paisley, &e SCHOOL ROOM M APS. Furs, alia A select assortment of, in Mountain Martin, at all ARTISTS’ MATERIALS. Seu sce oar, Ermine and white Ladic “

rices Pandy botisy

le Felt Huts Pivinand Faney ounetsd&e | a> All kinds of JOB PRINTING and bauties oo a a BOIS, ERRaS & Hood ; Wiuter BOOK-BINDING executed with neatness Vesta, ~~ Ree eaen, Cameeiny Seepaa Kibbous, all) ond on moderate terms ' . CS CaS Se Charlottetown, Jun’y 25, 1864 Gw

Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods,

~ DAVIES & WEEKS,

Th ready wade CLOTHING, in uvreat varix ty; Fanev Flanne! SHIRTS, Gloves, Ties, Searfs HAVING COMPLETED THEIR Collars, &e., HATS & CAPS, in Fur, Fu. Trimmed,

Cloth, Felt. &« Roots and Shoes, In Ladies’, Gent's, and Children's, of all kinds. FAMILY GROCERIES. A lurve and varied assortment of, comprising prime |

Congou TEA, Brown and White Sugars, Coflee, Ruisine, Currants, &e. &c. &e

FALL UMPORTATIONS,

ESPECTFULLY iovite attention to

their large and varied Stock of STAPLE & FANCY DRY Goovpvs, Ready-made Clothing, HARDWARE, GROCERIES.

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La The above Geeds. art offered at Whole sale and Retail, at THOMAS’S OLD STAND, GREAT GRORGE STREET.

WILLIAM FULL.

_ Charlottetown, wd a 1863 —_————— | The Store having heen recently opened, every NOTICE, department will be found filled with mur Subscriber will feel obliged to all Fresh & Seasonable Givods, mee fee ee oe 1 HEARD. which are now selling at Kxtraordinary Low Prices, at Dunean’s Brick Building, CORNER SHOP,

(neen sireet, Charlottetown, D« e. o8 18633,

Fettlement __ Cb'town, Jan. 18, 1864.

Judson’s Pills!

NEW GOODS,

from LIVERPOOL, per Theresa, from GLAS- |

LAIRD & HARVIE’S |

PPURESHING M A CHINE!

vy Hournal

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, February £5, 1864. § e e

SLR LALA LE LOLOL LOB LAA LOLA LN LOLA LOA LON LL

(From Punch.)

“ RENFREW HOUSE,”

THOMASS OLD STAND, GREAT GEORGE STREET.

| DELANY & WILSON, AVING cowpleted their FALL His heart wide open to all kindly thought,

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i H IMPORTATIONS, per Prioress fro: LIVERPOOL, Uranus from LONDON, aud vessels trom BOS VX IN and HALIFAX, beg to | He was a cynic: you might read it writ call the attention of the public to their f

He was a cynic: By his life all wronght Of generous acts, mild words and gentle ways ;

His hand so quick to give, his tongue to praise. ' In that broad brow, crowned with its silver hair ; 1

Extensive Stock of

| \ I ) : : Y ( 00 DS, Ife was a cynic: bv the love that clung

‘Groceries, Hardware, Furs,| n from fi ,

Boots & Shoes, Hats & Caps, | BY he sharp pain, Hsht pen, and gossip tongue He.

Wrought in him, chafing the soft heart within ce. a&e. { -

—- COMPRISING —— He was a cynic: let his books confess

Ladies’ Dress Materials in all the!

new styles, Coloured and Black Cobourgs, His “*‘ Newcome’s”’ chivalry and simplenees ;

W tncies, Alpacas, French Meriuos, Deluines, &e. &e. Ke. |

Shawls, Mantles, Bonnets, Hats, Plumes, Flowers, | And if his acts, affections, works and ways

Ribbons, Bonnet Borders, Gloves, Hosiery,

Woollen Hoods, Soutags, Skating Capa, olka and Garibaldi Jackets, &c.

Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, In Cloths, Tweeds, Clothing, Fur Caps in great variety of styles and quality, Mufllers, Lambs’ Wool Under Clothing, White Shirts, Collars, Ties, | Sears, Sik Handkerchiets, Fancy Tweed & Flannel Shirts, Braces, Rubber Coats, &c. Ke. SOA PLES, | Grey and White Cotton, Striped Shirting, Prints, | Ginghams, Hed Tick, Canvass, Osnaburg, | ‘Towellings, Table Cloths, White, Red, & Fancy Flannel, &e. &e. Ke. Men’s, Women’s & Children’s

In those blue eyes with child-like candour lit, In the sweet smile his lips were wout to wear.

About him from his children, friends and kin;

His ** Dobbin’s” silent love; or yet more rare,

His * Little Sister’s’’ life of loyiug care.

Stamp not upon the man the cynic’s sueer, | From life to death, oh public, turn your gazo— The last scene of a cynical career !

These uninvited crowds, this hush that lies, | Unbroken, till the solemn words of prayer From many huudred reverent voices rise

lute the sunny stillness of the air.

‘These tears, in eyes but little used to tears, These sobs, from manly Jips, hard set und grim,

Of friends, to whow his life lay bare for years, Of straugers, whe but knew bis books, net him.

Acynic? Yes—if ‘tis theseynie’s part To track the serpenut’s trail, with saddened eye, | To mark how good and ill divide the beart,

How lives in chequered shade and suushine lie:

Boots, Shoes & Rubbers, | How e’en the best unto the worst is knit

in endless variety. By brotherhood of Weakness, sin and care,

‘Skeleton Skirts & Cane Hoops,

Very Cheap.

~« . ~ ent GROCERIES, Tea (warranted superior quality), Sugar (very = lh git . j bright) aidnaere Pubscer, Crashed Sagat " | Saw Virtue tripping, honest effort baulked, Soap, Candles, Starch, Pepper, Mus. i tard, Baking & Washing Soda; Raisins, Currants, Spices, C.., Gt. me

EL AFR IW AF? EB | Bat more of love than either. Undetiled,

Gentle, alike by accident of birth,

How, even in the worst, sparks may be lit, To show all is not utter darkuess there.

Through Vanity’s bright-flaunting fair he walked, Marking the puppets dance, the jugglers play ;

sind skurpened wit on roguery’s downward way ;

| And told us what he saw: and if he smiled,

His smile bad more of sadness than of mirth—

Cut and Wrought Nails, all sizes, Plough Mount- | ing, Chain Traces, Rope, Weaver's Reeds. Paint, Oil, Putty, Glass, Gunpowder,

ont aes coy ee | For them, aud for lis children, God above Homespum taken in exchange for Goods, | The highest price paid in Cash for Fur.

And gift of courtesy, and graee of love, When shall his friends tind such another friend !

Has comfort. i anole iy A BIRD AT SUNSET.

%

Customers will please take particular | | notice of the Sign |

ve I z en fre Ww 3 fiouse.” Wild bird, that wingest wide the glimmering moors, | }

* | "hither, by belts of yvellowi , away? Great George Street, a sithe ry by belts of yellowing words iway ! Charlottetowa, Dee. 7, 1863. v rwisl p | Yet! patetag sunset thy wild heart allures

Deep into dying day ?

CASTINGS, at , | Would that my bexrt, on wings like thine, conld pass

BEER & SONS. | Where stars their light in rosy regions jose—

February 8, 1864. Gin

Sell your Leasehold and buy a Freehold with part of the money.

A happy shadow o'er the warm Lrown grass, Falling with falling dews ! '

wae ee | Hast thon, like imitans true-love of thine ewn

’

' In fairy mes beyond the ntmost seas : e Freehold F emo Valuable ree 0 arm | Who there, unsolaced, yearns for thee ulone,

EF Oo R > A 7. E Aud sings to silent trees ? ' r pen Subscriber off'rs FOR SALE, by | Private Contract, tiat very yelaableand plea- | santly situated Property, known as ‘Prrbhgwoko’ | And, tell her love will fade with fading leaves, finn,” formerly the Property of the late L. C q WORTHY, Esq , 18 miles from the City, on the St. Peter's Road. The farm coutains

336 Acres of LAND,

© tell that woodbird that the summer grieves Aud the sun darkens and the days grow cold;

Awd cease ki common mould. ~

| Fly from the wintencf the world to her! {| Fly, happy bird! I follow Titi tight,

Seventy of which are cleared and ia a high state of | Till thou art lost o’er yonder fringe of fir -"™""~ cultivation; 30 acres cun be got ready for the aed A. s | plongh ata sumall expense ; the remainder is covered Tu baths of crimson light.

with good Pine and Sprace Timber, Scantling and

Fencing Stull. There ix also a good MARSH from | My love is dying far awny from me,

which can be ent about 30 tons of Hay, annnally,| Sue s ts and saddens in the fading west,

an inexhaustible quantity of Black Mud can be yot Dee her f mn .

on the farm. Also two never failing springs of ex- v ty mourn all day, and pine to be

cellent water on tbe Farm. here isa large and} At aight upon ber breast.

commadions DW BELLING HOUSE and other out : . Hate

mildings, and a good well of water at the Kitchen |

Door, A large quantity of Stable Manure sutficient | TH ry - J T . a

to enable 2 purchaser to commence in the spring, | E REAL MURDERER, will be giveu with the properiy. If notapid before *.

TUESDAY, the first day of MARCH nexi, it will | be then sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, without the | | least reserve, at Ll o'clock, at the Colonial Build-

ing, Charlottetown. ipply at the office of WILLIAM DODD, Queen Square.

*P. S.—Poesession can be given immediately.

! the shop-window, while my heart still shrank For price and terus please back from the course I had marked out. It

the bookseller had been a stern, even a busi- | ness-like looking man, [ should have given it

Ta A adding By ar oy (op; but he was inild and melancholy, aud had Valuable Freehold Property | lately received a severe

alitics, Yiterature, and Dlews.

|a single line of lurid red just visible through

‘the durmer-window; and then | returned to my white-faced and nervous master.

‘You tell me you know all the circum-

|‘ tremulous tone. | *] read them in the papers, sir,”’ answered, *‘ and I happened to have a rela- | tion who once worked here—betore your time | —and we were interested about it. Yonder | closet is the very place where old Mr, Saxon /wis found dead—murdered, lL suppose. Do | you really think the young man, the appren- | uce, was reaily guilty of the crime?”

**T cannot tell,’’ he replied hastily, ‘* the | jury acquitted him ; and by this time he bas iieft the country,[ hear. But this is no place to talk about it. Are you willing to live in

the house alone?” | **Sir,lam very poor,’’ I said, ‘* and it will | suit my means to live where I shall have no

—- 2. —— Ss eS —=

I formed my plans while Willie sle

a child, worn out with the deathly agitation of the day; his full pouting lips relaxing | into smiles of content as he lay along the old

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, | stances, young woman?” he said in a low and settle, and the firelight playing upon his

| bleached face, which but a few weeks since

1 had borne sucb a brave look of coming man-

‘hood. My hoard, which I had been eaving

come eee eer

SSS. SS

New Series.---No. 11.

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tlike of panic; that isall [ know. You are sacri-

| ficing yourself and me for nothing; but if you ‘eave me, you must ; I cannot help it. i did net think you could speak and jook like this; when I am ill, toc. I should like

you to go away now, and write to me when you are calmer. You excite me too much.’’

| He spoke in the petulant mannor of a sick

|against my wedding, had been spent upon man, and I tried to soothe him; but he his defence, and I had net enongh money to seemed impatient for me to be gone, and 1 tuke us both together to America; he could | left him, looking back as I stepped out of the not stay behind, so he should go on before! shadow of the porch, to catch a farewell me, and [ would covtinue my embroidering | glance of mingled agony and relief upon bis until L could earn sufficient to join bim, 1| wasted face. I went home to my native know now tbat there was in my inmost town, and settled my few affairs there, with | thoughts a secret subtle hope that when he | the determination to return, and put myself was fairly gone George would seek me again, | into some position where [ could watch him and that there might still be something of the | constantly, or regain my influence over him. happiness we had so long looked forward to | [ had heard of a woman being wanted in Mr. in the futare. Willie agreed to my plan Saxon’s binding-room, and I applied im-

Let us bow: God knows the end. |

|rent to pay. You see for yourself I am not nervous. | have not even a place to go to to- inight, and I dislike the lodging houses. Jf | you will take me in at once, [ will fetch my i things from the station, and be back before | the shop is clcsed for the night.”

, paratidns we had to make ; so thatin another ., week I went with him to Liverpool, and engaged a berth in an immigrant ship for him with no fear of his being arrested and brought | back now. Butof that one awful subject we é : ,, | never spoke to one another ; tough the boy's There was little risk in taking me in, for all | panhood seemed crushed into the helplessness ithe chambers and work-shops could be 8¢-/ 4nd indecision of a child; appealing and cured ; and after my master had scanned my clinging to metuntil the last moment, as if | face fora moment with his sidelong gaze, he} },. eyuld not part with me. I stood upon | gave his consent for me to take possession at | the landing stage watehing the vessel ay it once, glad to meet with a decent-looking Wo-| was wowed down the river, till the fog into (man who weuld live in the house. In an) which it was sailing covered it from my eyes ; hour's time I had «emoved my new goods! and then I opened a scrap of paper which ‘into the empty dwelling, aod Mr. Saxon, | y ilie had preseed into my hand at parting. after locking up his own room and the shop,) «+ What can I do?”’ was written upon it ; |had taken his departure, bidding me good « sister, [ am heart-broken for you: but I night kindly, but with an air of mingled | oid die thankfully if [ knew you would be 'wonder and satisfaction. 1 lighted a fire in | happy. George Denning knows 1 am as | the kitehen grate, perhaps for the first time | innocent of this crime as an unborn babe. |since the murdered man bad perished in the | tf he would only tell you I am not guilty I attic two stories ovefhead ; and drawing up| would be satisfied, Sister. you do not (the only chair in the place to the warm and | believe it yet, but only hear what he can say. ‘tightsome bearth, I sat down with my face fie knows that L am innocent.” resting upon my spread bands, and with my | read these sentences over until the one | hearing unnaturally keen for every sound, 1 | \dea tiey expressed took full possession of began to think, and consider, and ponder my wind. Ceorge could prove at least to me (over mony things in my heart. that my Willie was inuocent, and I must ob- | Until six weeks before [ hud been earning | tain this proof from aim by any means. All | my own living comfortably by theewtvider, | the time re travelling down to the town | | of religious vestments, im my native town, | was pondering over this secret. Lt was in jabout ten railes from this; being also be-| George Denning’s heart; but was not I there | trothed, and on the eve of marriage to George | tg9 ? and had he not a thousand times de-’ | Denning, the foreman and ornamental book-| ¢lared he eould not, if be would, conceal a binder for the murdered man. Through his thought from me? Trae, it must be full of linfluence, my only brother, a lad about anguish and shame, or even, maybe, some | six years younger than f, had been received partnership in guiity knowledge, or George into the same establishment, and worked an-! would bave come forward at once to free my der him at the bookbinding. Our marriage | brother. Yet both of them had kept silence ; had been put off from time to time, until} and Willie had risked his life upor the secret George could furnish the cottage he had) But whatever this mystery was between wy taken, which wassomewhat larger and better | young brother and my betrothed husband, | | than befitted ovr position, so as to satisfy | had a right to know it, and decide upon it for our fastidious tastes, which had been culti- | wyself—IL, no longer a child, but a woman, j vated and fostered by the beauty of our em-| who bad battled with the world. Endless |ploymenis. Besides, George was not With- | speculations crossed my mind, always | out some restless ambition, and, though the | strengthening my resolution tu spend my lite, mardered man was always considered very if that were pecessary, in clearing Wille

enough to pay well for the first-rate workman | forth a stranger among strangers.

ship by which Ge re brought repute and 1 knew the way to the pretty cottage in the

couerly. and pressed forward the few pre- mediately to him for the

I stood for severa! minutes locking throug) |

money to his es’adlighment. ‘Lue last embroidery L ever traced was an

altar-cloth of crimson velvet, upon which 1) see the preparations they were both making |

had just finished working the letters +1. U 5.”’ with rays of golden glory around them, when George Denning rushed in, ghastly and almost breathless, and followed closely by a policeman. He said, though his white lips almost refused to speak the words, that /vld Mr Saxon had been found dead in the pg- | per-room, and that Willie was missing | Phough bis voice shook, he spoke hurriedly. before the policeman could check him, as il | to give me a hint to conceal anything I knew. | But L knew nothing. All the sunny worning /Lhad been tranquilly embroidering the sa- ‘ered ** 1. H. S.”’’ upon the crimson altar- |eloth, thinking only of the bome that was | preparing for me, while the murdered man

“Thy dead, and Willie was fleeing or hiding

‘for his ti. And wherefore should he tly or | hide. | I would not write |Leould. Willie was discovertiin the dark- | est corner of the steerage of an emigra ship | bound to America, just as he had fled, with- out luggage, almost without a shilling after his passage was paid. He refused resolutely to gtve an explanation of his conduct. But there was nothing save his mysterious flight, to fix the crime upon him, though the whole /attic was ransacked for some clue to the | murderers under the vigilant superintendence of George Denning. The fechle, infirm old ;inan had been found dead just outside the | closed door,with traces ofa yetement struggle

ream of agony if

\ TILL be sold at PUBLIC AUCTION | told tim L was in immediate want of work,| could be brought against Willie, though sus- | on the premises, on the [7th dav of MARCH | aud that I had heard he was maxing inquiries | picioa, even my own, was strong against him: | NENT, at 1 elock, FIVE PASEURE LOVS, Nos. for a woman to undertake the stitching in| and be pleaded with tears at his trial—for (2-21, 2s) and 64, all of which ure in a’ high | the binding room of his establishment, Hs | he was committed to take his trial ut the ryote good DWELLING HOUSE on hie pus replied, with a scared and sideling glance at | assizes—that he was not guilty.

7 the above property being near the Schoo} @0 Inner room, that he was indeed in urgent; That was the verdict returned by the jury, | Honse, Church, and Pablie Wharf, wonld make a| want of a stitching woman, but he also re-| after a fearfully prolonged deliberation tiet rate stand fora wercbant or mechanic. quired one who would live in the house, as | Even I.did not faliy delieve in his innocence,

Trims owle known on day of sale; any farther | jg family were not coming to dwell there ;/ so deadly was the mystery of his flight ; but

| informution can be obtained of the Subscriver on the . | premises. and that no person who had ap) lied for the! guilty, or not guilty, he belonged to me

in ses

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WILLIAM Il, McKAY

Princetown Royalty, Fe. Sth, 1864, To me, on the contrary, it contained a pro-| him when the law released him. mise of success whieh Lt seized instantly. | him up to me, tlus pale. slight, boyts! sivip- * Sir,’’ Lsaid, 1 koow all the cireum-) ling of twenty, with fair curis and soft blue stances; but [ am without a home, and I! eyes and tremulous voice like our mother’s — shall be willing to agree to your terms. Lam this boy branded with the foul accusation of not easily frightened ; and I have been used! murder. We had to be attended by police- to living in w house alone fur many yeurs.’') wen as we trod our sorrowful way through Iie seemed relieved by my words and steady tone; but he regarded me with a slight air of surprise and Curiosity, seeing in me only a very quiet, ordinary person, dressed in the plainest garb of a workwoman. The

ROYALTY LOTS. BO LET, for -uch term of years as may i be agreed on, and-either in whole or in part, Mat BEAUTIFULLY SITUATED FARM, be- longing to the Subseriber, fronting on the Mount Edward Road, and lying about a mile from Char- | lottetown. It contains about 7U acres, 40 of which are improved and in a high state of culti- vation, On the premises are two large barns. | For terms, &c., apply to JOHN LONGWORTH. Charlottetown, Oct. 26, 1863.

, the furthest corner of the railway-carriage, screening bimself behind me, strange faces came to stare in upon us; but no man took bis seat beside us. A dail drizzling rain, the

terms he proposed were liberal enough, andI rain that comes with an east wind, was

. rrr --— agreed to them on the spot; only desiring falling when we reached our native town ;

FE O R S A L E, ae res a8 “ over aha mernnonen andj yet behind us, and on each side, but at a

sails | dwelling place. Mr. Saxon called an assistant marked distance, as if some ban was upon us er = ea to take charge of the shop. and then led the | there went with us through the old fa nillar MISES, new in the veeupation ot Dr. INGLIS, in ae ees — wae ee of fur-' streets band of _pomeing, whispering

Lae Tiaceeste alt Paackebeneeen. ab tenenteenen at | Tom few articles in the kitchen) witnesses, while Willie leaned heavily upon the Staint Peter’s Road, and opposite to the which 1 was fo inhabit, and in @ kind of | my orm and drooped his head, unatle to bear residence of Lemvet ©. Owen, Esqttire,—the office for Mr. Saxon’s use directly behind the | the dim light of the cloudedsky. Every step property of the late John Egan—particulars on Shop. Passing through the empty chambers | was a beart-pang. But we reached home at application to we ascended tu the second floor, and entered | last, and, while he slunk in hastily, I turned

DANILiL BRENAN, 2 Executors& | the binding-room, « large,!ow, unceiled work- and faced our townspeople, until most of RICHARD REDDIN,§ Trustees | shop, containing an old unused printing-press,| them moved silently and quickly away. Charlottetown, August 3, ISG. isl & vin and the binding-press, upon which lay the, He had sunk down, faint and quivering in e tools just left by the binder, whose feet we | every lim, upon the settle by the firepluce, Leasehold Farm for Sale. beard descending the outer stair as we went oa’ ote a Soham cdteinalee: I iad aboot ‘EXO be sold, on TUESDAY, the 23rd day in from the house. In one corner uf the room | getting tea ready, as 1 had done many a of FEBRUARY next, at the Colonia! Building, there was a@ steep staircase. Taking up the Sunday evening when George and he had in Charlottetown, ha vaeegne $l on ot ae candle from the table where Mr. Saxon put! come over to see me. There was a dreary

“contained ina Tidevwure of Moraage, dived the jg down, J stepped quickly and decisively to- resemblance to Sunday in that evening. Ait Shannon of Township 35, farmer, andJohn Shannon | Wards it, Without waiting for any remark or) my work, my embroidery-frames and rect: of of the same place, mail carrier, of the one part, aud | objection, and he followed me, though in si-| coloured silks, were cleared away out o+

John Knight, of Sours, merchant, of the o ‘erpart: Jence and with hesitation. ‘The stairs opened, sight, and we were wearing our Sunday

[asennad me ne ys = without a doorway, into an attic occupying dress; even the church bells were chiming the said Bernard Shannon, and made the 24th day the whole length of the premises, with the ‘for the week-day service, and the old alme- of November, I841), of and to that Tract of Land | black beams and rafters of the peaked roof} woman, who bad been in to light our fire, situate in Bedford Parish, in Queen's County, com- | rising high overhead. A narrow dormer-/ had placed the Bible and a bhymu-book upon mencing on the north side of St. Peter's Road, and | window, set into a little gable in the slope of the table. We were very quiet, tuo: quiewor running from thence North one degrec; Fast, | é ’ ' ceventy-one ehaina; thence. West, one. degree ;| the roof, cast a scanty streak of the red even- _than we ever were when Geurge was about North. five chains and five links; theuce North, | ing light acruss one end of the attic, leaving the house; bat I was expecting him every one degree; East, seven elaine and thirty links; the space beyond in deeper gloom. The minute, and so was Willie. Ali the evening, thenre East, ove degree; South, six ebains and) blackened fluor was crowded with piles of through the splash of rain and the moan ot fifty liuks; thence South, one degree; West, | listened for the clicking of the

seventy-one chains and eighty-six links to the road | reams of paper reucoing up to the blackened | the wind, we . : | aforesaid; and thence along said road to the place | roof, with here and there a narrow passage latch under his hand. But I beyan to under- | of beginning ; boneded on the North by land inthe | between them, the widest of which led to a, stand bis absence, as the clock ticked out the occupation of dames E. Wood and Alexander Me- | closet at the furthest end, divided by a slight creeping hours moment by moment; and Donald; on fhe apt be pee — —s — partition of lath and plaster, and forming a! still George never came, I called myself ee telennoen ee ek eins ae ‘seperate room completely dark and secret. |down in tue depths of my heart, and even estimation, fifty-twe acres, a litle more or less, jt wade my way to it with soe difficulty, and. there I tried to root out the thought, lest it with the appurtences thereunto belonging. jfound it so filled with paper that there wae should ever betray itself in words; | called ior Terms and further pyrticaiare apply to the | not space for a single person to enter it. 1 myself the sister of a murderer, and re- Shhawiberas SSW; ak R. BOURKE. | ®tood still fora minute, gazing down the close nounced all claim to be George Denning’s ' "| walls of paper to the fading ligh* in the sky, | wife.

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place would consent to that arrangement. | alone, and there was no one else to receive |

\the streets, and while Willie cowered into |

| suburbs of the town, for t had been there once }not long since, with George and Willie, to

is and miserly, still he had business sense | from the false accusation which had sent him

|for me alter their work-hours, Something jof the old hope and confidence awoke, ar ‘from a long and miserable trance, when I swung back the garden wicket, and walked slowly duwn the path to the porch, where he and t bad sat together, galking in in- terrapted whispers, that one and only time i ever crossed his threshold. I needed only a few words frow his lips, and though Willie and | might have something to forgive, how easy it would be to forgive hiw! I was not thinking of the murdered man at all, and searcely of crime in connexion with George ; only that there was a painful secret between us, and he must disclose it to me. As l lingered in the poreh, before the door which was to have opened to me as @ cherished wife, the latch was lifted from within, and | George Denning stood face tu face with me. It was only a few weeks since we had met, but they had wrought the changes ef a life- ‘time in him. When [ had known bim in ardistant past he was a strong, power- energy of @ warm spirit in every feature of bis e face ; now he ' stood before me gaunt and pale an red. 'with a drooping bead and languid eyes that ‘hardiy kindied into life as they rested sud- den!y upon me. Ie stretched out his trembling hand io the door-post for support, | but it seemed to me like a barrier to prevent ‘wy entrance. ‘1 am not coming in,’’ I seid; but the

tit | ful man, with

had the nervous aspect of a man who had | for life about him, and with reams of paper | strong man reeled giddily, and would have

mental shock | fallen upon him in such a manner as to prove | stumbled over his own threshold if 1 had not

FOR SALE | Narang — nee well, I walled in| that the murderer bad thrown him down iN extended my arms to his help. . /quietiy, and ina subdued, but steady manner, | making hisescape. Butno scrap of evidence | gow

He sank n upon the porch seat, and, leaning his head upon my sLoulder, he groaned bitterly. | Oh, Rachel!’’ be cried, in a weak. querulous voice, like an ailing ebild, ‘* how |i have suffered. 1 have been ill almost to | death, and longing all the time for one sight

‘of you. But you have come back to me.)

| God bless you, my Rachel! You have

| sought me out, and not east me off. You are

a true Christian, Rachel.”

| * Willie is gone,’’ I answered, with a keen thrill of joy at his words of weleome : ** it was

They gave! he who thought you bad forsaken us, never }

coming to see us; and [ counting myself a |murderer's sister. But Wilie eaye you _know he isinnocent. Tell me, George ; trust /me with the secret. Whatisit? What can it be that could hinder you coming forward ; to clear Willie ?”’

| My voice fell into @ whisper as I uttered | the Just words; and in the silence that rol- 'jowed we could hear the far-away modrofal under tone from the life in the city, that always sounds to me like a ceaseless wailing }over the sorrow and crime of the crowds |homesteads. But in the gardens round us | the birds were singing their last and gayest songs in the spring twilight ; and the children ‘in their new freedom from the pinching cold winter, were filling the quiet places with | noisy laughter,