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' ~ well that in that corner foremost you, there was, aim-e is now, a heap of skulls. Yer honour, wasn't y,“ and fellow morthal brav’e’l Well, he grapes an s for a scull; and he has just got a grip of one. lad is fumbling in his pocket for the handkerchief to ma up in, when he hears all at once a slow sickly ‘ "be, half groan, half growl, as a body may Say—JP“ 'bgt you’d hear from a dying crathur that was saying “slut. words with the rattles in his three and this "what was said—“ Och, Peter Cumming. you bad boy, What's this you’re about 1 bad luck to ye! what are ,3 doing with my Skull 1" With that, up rises Peter, his hands off the ground, but still standing on his two ’:_ km“; and sure enough he was all ofa trimble, and well he might, for, looking towards that very corner now before us, he saw'what he had reason to remimber to his ‘dying day; for there stood his .own grandfather, Phnuig Cumming, surrounded by a liaht that came, of a blueish colour, from out of the earth, like what comes iii September out of the reeds along the river; and there ould Phaarig stood, just as he was before his last sick— ness, in his .frieze coteen and his sheepskin breaches, all smooth and greasy, and his bay-wig, and the very gobsecy running down from the two corners of his mouth, md staining all his rough chin. Heaven's rest be with , Phaarigl but there ye wor, the picthur of what ye looked the Week before the death sickness came on ye. “Och, then, Pethereen,” says the ghost, for it was nothing else, “ye unlucky boy, what brings ye here, and what are ye doing with my skull? What for would ye have your grandfather stand up at the day of judgment without a head, ye divil-may-care, drunken, irreligious blackguard ’I" Now all this while the grand- father was scolding, Peter was getting up off his knees; and, as the cold fellow kept on abusing without killing him. he takes courage, and he ups and says to the ghost, "Ah, then, grand-daddy dear, is that yourself! and why me ye walking, and what makes ye unquiet’l Maybe it's masses ye want for yer poor soul; and sure I’m a d warrant to get them said for ye, for I'm the chapel- clerk, and it would go hard with me in don’t coax his riverance to say a dozen or two for ye, besides always keeping you in his intintion. And‘now, daddy dear, don’t be angry,” says Peter, in a voice niigbty'sweet and coaxing; “ don’t, alanna, grudge me thense ofyer skull just for one bit of 811.1101", while I make a guinea out ofit; sure it’s not every night a poor fellow the likes of me can turn a penny this way. Stay, then, where you are till I come back ; I’ll be here in no time, and I’ll late the skull, God bless it, just where I found it : and, daddy dear, I’ll tell ye what’s more, I’ll do if it be planing to you, now that I know for sartin it is part of yourself, and. that you can’t do without it at the day of judgment; I’ll come here to-morrow and put it under the clay, in the very spot where my father and mother are buried, and where I myself will be put when I‘m buried, glory be to God; and won’t that plase you? Do, Hea- ven’s rest attend ye, and don’t say against my having an hour's loan. of your skull." With that, Pethereen cast a fund but fearful look towards his grandfather; but now he saw nothing, the light was gone ; nothing was to be seen but darkness : no sound but the wind sighing through the ivy-leaves. “ Silence gives consent," says Peter; so tying up with two good knots the skull in his handkerchief, home he comes by the way he went, finds his company still a drinking, lays down his soul] before them, and gets his guinea; for I’d be glad to know who dare refuse or say he had not won his wager,

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in compensation ofits comparative insalubrity, settlers are liable to be attacked by hi ions and intermittent fevers ; but after receding some distance from the coast, no part ofthe globe is more friendly to the regular action of the human frame. on the coast, within the direct range' of the trade winds, d are healthy, althoughlraiber tryingto temporary sojourners from cold climes, during the month ol June, July and August. England and the northern states of the American Union is. almost unknown in Texas. , ntc diseases are not prevalent, and nine-tentlisof the

parts of the United States. Western Texas is best adapt- ed to a northern constitution; and above the falls of' the Brazos, or in the region lying about seventy miles

as Champaigne, and far more invigorating.

progress of humanity has been constantly promoted by the

at): Cohort

The towns immediately

Pulmonary consumption, so destructive in Rheumatisms and ch’ro-

Republic are considered healthier than the most healthy

above the mouths of the rivers westward of the Erazos, natives of Great Britain may. settle with at least as fair a prospect of longevity as they had at home. The dis- trict comprehended in the Mexican “department” of Bexar, is of remarkably salubrity. It rarely freezes in winter,and in summer, the beat by the thermometer seldom exceeds 85 degrees. The water is delicious, the sky rarely clouded, and the breezes as exhilarating . Many Mexicans, residing in the vicinity of San Antonio, have attained the patriarchal term ofone hundred years, in the full possession of health. When the commissioners appointed to select the seat of the government of the Republic, visited Bastrop, on the Colorado, they were, in proof ofits salubrity, shown the grave-yard of the town, which had no more than eleven tenants, although the place had been'settled above seven years, and com-

prised a population of seven hundred souls—Account of Texas, by W. Kennedy, Esq.

COMBINATION or. CHARACTER—History shows that the

reciprocal action and re-action of two natures, or two races, sometimes friends, often enemies, or rivals. The most ge— neral iiict in the history of our civilization is, the struggle between the East and the West, from the‘expedition of the Argonauts and the war of Troy, to the battle of Lepanto, and, the siege of Vienna by the Turks. In this great drama, it was not merely to shed rivers of blood, that Providence has dashed against each other Europeans and Asiatics, Greeks and Persians, Romans, Carthageniuns and Partbians, Saracens and Franks, Venetians, Turks, and Poles; blons have not been the only thing exchanged between Europe and the Orient. If you wish to know what the West has gained from contact with the East, even when they met sword in hand, look around you; most of the fruit trees which enrich your fields, the vine which gladdens the heart, the silk and cotton that adorn your houses and your per- sons, these are the spoils of your eastern wars. Sugar and coffee, the cultivation of which has changed the political balance of the world, were brought into Europe from the East, the one by yourselves, the other by the Arabs, when they made themselves masters of Spain. The mariner’s compass, which has given a new continent to civilization, and established the dominion of man over the before uncon— quered deep, was the gift of the East. Your arts and your sciences are of oriental kind; the secrets of Algebra were stolen from the Moors of Spain by a monk; your system of numeration, the basis of/all your financial improvements, bears the name of the Arabs; your chivalry was brought from Asia by the Crusaders. Christianity, the mother of Mo- dern Europe, would not have existed in the West, had not the Roman legion conquered J udea, which contained its germ; had not the Roman empire containe Alexandria, in which that germ could put forth, and had not the Rome of the Cursors been raised as a pedestaH‘or the successors of St. Peter, from which they might rule over the East and the West. Behold the Roman people. Its noble career was a continual succession of wars, followed by as many incorporations of the conquered, alliances and real marriages, which always give it new vigour. It begins with the double figure of Romulus and Remus; then fol-

d the school of

at inseam.

Wolfred .Nelson and Des Marois, who had obtained no- toriety during the Canadian Rebellion, had returned to Montreal. , HALirAX, 8., July 6.—The Royal Mail Steamship Columbia, arrived early on Snturda morning, in 39 hours lrom Boston, wrth 10 passengers iiir Hilifax and 67 for Liverpool , and sailed again at 7, p. m. for Liverpool, with 43 additional passengers from Halifax, making in all 110.

‘ SMALL Pox.—'I‘be Elizabeth Gremrner, 171 passengers, from Cork, for St. Andrew’s, put into Halifax Harbour on Thursday last. Seven cases of small pox were on board ; a ' pman and two children died on the passage, and the Cap- inmvwn Sunday last. The vessel is at strict quarantine. wit”. , opasootwn, July 7. ‘

CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. At a Meeting held at the Commercial Inn, Charlottetown, on Friday, the 18th J uric, 1841—the Hon. J. S. Macdonald, President of the Society, in the Chair—it was Resolved, That an Annual Fair be held at Charlottetown on Wednesday the Sixth day of October next—subject to the same regulations as upon former occasions. Resolved. That a Cattle Show be held open the same day. and that the Prizes be confined to Cattle and Sheep according to the following scale :

in the steora-ge. ’

BEDEQUE.

ENTERED.

July 3.—Mary Ann, Linkletter, Shediac, Goods.

6.—Dolphin Simpson ShediaC' 5 assen ers. 7--—Venus, Price, Halifax; Goods. p g CLEARED.

June 30.-—Nir'ble, Carruthers, Miramichi; produce. July1.-—Dnlphin, Simpson, Shediac; produce.

-—Pl0ughbn , Walsh, Miramichi; do.

5 7.—Margaret c Clair, do., do.

Arrived, this morning. H. M. S. Crocodile, Capt. Milne; and

H. M. Brig Ringdove, Hon.Capl. Stewart, from a. cruise.

_ DIED, 0n the 27th June, at his father's residence, in the 27th year of

his age, after a long and severe illness, which he bore with chris- . tian fortitude, Mr. John Campbell, son of Mr. Duncan Campbell.

At Halifax, on Monday last, at 11 o'clock,‘Mrs HALLisuurott,

Consort of the Honble. Chief Justice Halliburton.

Saaasmgers. In the Pocahontas, on Monday—Messrs. Stewart, \Vestlake,

Cummings; Mrs. Holland, Miss .I‘Neill, and 9 in the steerage.

In do. from do. yesterday—Rev. Mr. Williamson; Mr. and

Mrs. Robertson; Messrs. J. D‘. Haszard, G. Paw, Lydinrd, Potts, Narrowav; Mrs. M‘Lauclilan, Mrs. Ross, Mrs.

Maclcod, and B

, f. s. d.

For the Best 3 year old Bull, 1 15 0 2 do. 1 l5 0

Do. 3 do. Heifer, 1 15 0

2 do do. 1 15 0

For the best 3 years old Ram, 1 15 0 2 do. (10., 1 15 0

.Do. 3 do. Ewe, 1 15 0

2 do. do. 1 15 O

For the best Long Wooled Ram, 1 5 O ' g . Second best, 0 15 0 . :best Long Wooled Ewe, 1 5 0 {Second best, 0 15 0

Best Short Wooled Earn, 1 5 0

_ Second best, 0 15 0

Best Short “'ooled Ewe, 1 5 0

Second best, 0 l5 0

The following letter was read by the Secretary :— Cavendish, April 5th, 1841. Dean SIR, I The improvement of Agriculture demands the attention of every person that wishes well to his country and desires the wel- fare of society. No person that has travelled through the Island but must be convinced (if he is an observing man,) that the progress of Agriculture is very much retarded by the farmers engaging in lumbering and ship-building during the winter, while they neglect their stock, or at least give them very bad attendance, the consequence of which is that Milch Cows are almost useless during the Summer. A great many of our for- mers complain of the length of the Winter; ut on viewing their fences ‘we would be inclined to‘think it as not long enough to enable them to provide themselves with fencing stud; and often for want, of a supply of firewood the fence poles are burnt in the Fall, leaving the fields exposed to be ruined by pigs and cattle in the Spring. But it is gratifying to observe that the pro- gress of Agriculture in many parts of the country is rapidly im- proving; still mucb remains to be done. I am inclined to think that if practical Agriculturists would lecture on the mos; appro- ved way of the management of a farm and the best mode of ploughing and raising hay, grain and vegetables, it would have a. good tendency; and I think the Committee ofthe Central Agri- cultural Society should endeavour to encourage the raising of Turnips, as I am persuaded no other crop will (if pains were taken to hoe them) be found so productive and useful to the farmer. I might mention that last year we raised 80 Busliels on one eighth of an acre, and in another field which Was manu- red from the hog-pen, the result was almost double; the ground was prepared by Fall ploughing, laying on the manure in the Spring, ploughing it down, letting it stand in this state for a few days, then harrowing it well, sowing the seed, covering it slightly with the barrow, then passing over it with a roller to give a smooth surface for hoeing. which should be otten attended to, to insure a. good crop, and it leaves the ground in good con- dition for a crop ofiwheat the ensuing year ; and was this sys- tem adopted I make no doubt but the Agriculture of the Colony would advance at a more rapid rate than it has hitherto done.

i I remain, Sir, Your most ob’t Servant,

JOHN M‘NEILL, Junior. Peter Macgowan, Esq.

The Secretary requested and obtained the permission of the

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seeing as how Peter proved his courage, and would stand up before any ofthem, when he had just been after facing a ghost. It is said, Peter was as good ,as his word, and kept his promise to his grandfather’s ghost, for he did bring back the skull, and did put it decently under the clay; where it's resting, for aught I know, to this very day. Some people, to be sure, were

low the Romans and Sabines, then Rome and Alba, next Rome and the Latins, and next Rome and Carthage. It might be called a young Sultan, who carries offa captive at the point of the sword, and makes her his favourite until he grows tired ofhcr, or until he finds another more wor- thy or his love. It goes on in t

with Greece, which becomes, caprice, but a favourite sultana.

blow. of believing that Peter saw his grandfather’s ghost at all, and that it was only a drunkard’s boast; for it’s button thrue that Peter, though chapel-clerk, was a great drunkard and a great liar, to his dying day. But this is sartaiu, that a man for a wager brought away by night a skull from this abbey, and brought it back again ;

in Conn‘aught.—-Slr.-'tchcs in Erri's and Tyrawly.

CLIMATE or Texas—By thermometer calculations made throughout the season, from April to September, fora period of three years. the country, the mercury has been found to range front 63 degrees to 100 degrees; average beat, nine o’clock in the morning, 73 degrees; twelve o’clock, noon, 83 degrees; three o’clock, afternoon, 77 degrees.—Bot the

raduation of the thermometer can convey no accurate idea of the climate of Texas to those who have never experienced its effects—From the same degree of heat which in New Orleans was overpowering and relaxing, Isulfered comparatively little-inconvenience, even in

Houston, a town situated in a low-lying and rather ins’a—

So steady, bracing and cooling was the breeze, that it not only mitigated the heat, but en- abled me' to take pedestrian exercise with safety in the open prairie at mid-day in the fervid month ofJune: and so potent was this affectionate and welcome wind, that I was obliged, when writing, to close the southern

lubrious prairie.

- window of my apartment, to prevent my books and pa-

pers from being whirled 05' the table where they lay.

At, such times it would not haVe been an easy task to have carried an expanded umbrella across the prairie. From the first of April to the close of September, these benig- nant breezes commence soon after sunrise and cuntinue

until three or foure‘in the afternoon, when they gradually die away, and as they decline,

straight breeze ag Molar until midnight, and party morn, when the cover season is by no means unacceptable to t

.ofrepose. Th

(lie-cont. my film“ Irnoug the cool Springs: “ “Rpm.” " islands” of timber, prunes of the rolling do of this bettutiful, region, the name of the " Italy

life, and to most of the reeable.

u. If any oil: 1;“: can be termed sickly, it is the arrow s 0 inn ry runnin arallel to the air where m the low, llmbet‘ed bottotlgts lfire rivers deposifthé

. . . 1 th' e - tine, to which proudence has granted cube“; {Sui-,5,

sec umulations of their annual overflow5_

which is what I would not do for all the guineas

and in different sections of

the elasticity of the spirits asustains a coriesponding depression. After sunset, a ain springs up, the atmosphere grows increases in coolness until ing of. an English bed at the he wooer e sweet south-western breeze, which is ill) accessory to health and comfort on the level region of be termed‘an unmingled luxury translucent streams wooded and flower-Spangled untry. The greater proportion which has obtained for Texas . of America,” is blessed with a ‘ WWW!“ delightful to the senses, and favourable to products which render life

and Roman natures gave its sple and rest to the world. Its destiny one of Greece, the Roman people paused to enjoy; purpose substituted the rule of the Caesar for can constitution, emperors, voluptuous like the disciples of Epicurus,

of earlier days. tinuol oscillation

nidas, and that of Solon, United, they acquired tin undomitable en ed the shock of all Asia. Unfortunately, they had too feeling of common nationality, lousy; almost perpetually divi extended their sway over Greece itself Greek race was about to reach its zenith, neither was de

the North, before whom the earth was silent—C ,avilier.

Board to leave the Island for E for the next four or five months.

ngland on his own private affairs

Charlottetown Auxiliary Tem-

, his way, changing, and daily rising in the successive subjects of its choice, until it meets not an object of a passing This union of the Greek odour to imperial Rome, e entwined with that and with this the Republi- tbe Greek rhetoricians and players, and or phi- losophers, like Pericles, for the stern and severe aristocracy What is the history of Greece, but a con-

between the austere Lacediemon and the brilliantAthens, between the country of Lycurgus and Leo- Aspasia, and the Alcibiades.— ergy, and support- little and too much of local jea- ded, they never completely ; and when the

tined to lead it thither, but Providence raised up a man in

At a Public Meeting of the peran'ce Society, which was held in the Central Academy on the 30th nib—after an appropriate address from tbe'Pre- sident (the Rev. James Weddell), congratulating the friends of Temperance on the high position which they now occu- pied, and the great and extending influence which they ex- erted Over the public mind, followed by the Rev. IR. Dou- glasTa champion in the cause—who addressed the meeting in his usual forcible manner—the followmg Resolutions, which were supported by several able speeches, were unpni- mously adopted by the Meeting:

Moved by the Rev. John Knox, pber Cross—

Tliat the thanks of this Society be given assumed the management of the Soiree, an so strenuously in its execution, and for the amounto by their efforts has been presented to the Society. Moved by Peter Macgowan, Esq., seconded by Mr. Geo. Beer, jun. ‘ . _

That the 1,: Hks of this Society anonymouslyjprescnted the sum 0 Society.

Moved by the Rev.

seconded by Mr. Christo-

to the Ladies who (1 exerted themselves ffunds which

be given to the person who f£2“105. to the funds of this - B. Scott, seconded by Mr. J. Pidivell—

That the thanks of this Society be given to the 'Rev. John Km“. for the vigorous exertions which he has made in the cause

— one colonial servant.

of Temperance, since he came to this Island; and that he be re- quested to act as ii deputation from this Society, and to correspond with kindred, intitutions in the United States, whither he is

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1841.

the pure ginal Grantees,