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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Wednesday, December 28, 1853.

Established 1823.

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THOMAS O\V I-ZN. Postmaster General.

General Post Oflice, Dec. 5, I853.

Georgetown Mails.

THE MAILS for Gear etown until further Notice,

will be made up an forwarded every Monday and Friday morning at nine oc .

'l‘HOS' OWEN. Postmaster General. May 2. I858.

C O M M I 8 RAFTS at sight on the Cornmissariat Chest at H-ilifnx, will be given in exchange for British Coins, or Mexican Dollars, at par.

JAMES B. LUNDY, D. A. C. G. Ccmmissariat. P. E. lslund. 22d Nov., I853.

Religious Tract 8ociety’s P blications. HE public are respectfully informed, that the pub- lications of the London Religious Tract Society are now sold for cash nt the book store of Mr. G. T. Ilaszurd. 'I‘lie stock has been much enlarged by recent irnportations. and runny works of the best Eng- lish divines will be found on their she|ves—'l‘he Parent Society has also entrusted this Committee with six Libraries to be sold at half price to Sunday Schools. These librnrles numbering from 80 to I000 volumes. can thus be purchased for £25 cy As it will nintariully advance the interests of religion amongst our scattered population to have grants of books towards the foriuiition of libraries and the eatablishuient of Sunday Schools, especially in the country rts; it is earnestly hop that Christian friends will help us with their subscriptions. A few pounds subscribed now, would enable the Corrimiltee to do much towards supplying the most destitute settlements with sound, wno esome religious reading. Mr. Hubbard, the depositary, is instructed to receive any contributions, however smsll—and will keep an account of the same, By order

JOHN ORLEBAR.

BAZAAR. THE Christian Public are herulay notified. that the Ladies of the BJPTIS CHURCH and congregation worshiping in ‘the Baptist Churoll. "I Charlottetown, purpose holdings B./IZJJR in the Turn crsnce Hall on 'l‘liursday the Ziith, December, to is" in raising Funds for the erection of a Tower and Porch to tbe suid Chapel. . Coutributioris in donations or work. will be thank- fully received by either of the undersigned Cour- inittse Mus. }V. Dannswusn, " . .\lcGru:ooit. D. Wiuou. J. WIATHIIII. J. Scorr, “ J. Love. " '1‘. Dusaaisav,

“ J. Cuiutir. Charlottetown, Nov.l. 1853. (All papers.)

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Temperance Hall Company. T A MEETING of tbe Dircctorscf the above Corn ny. held in the 'l‘en_iperance Hall, this ‘ , following Resolution was unaniinoasly adopt via:-— '

" llssocvsn, That the Treasurer (Mr. John W. Morrison) be instructed to take the necessary It: al measures for the recovery of all unsettled Subscriptions to the Temperance Hal Company."

By Order, J. B. COOPER, 8ac’y.

Cburlcttetcwn. March 11. I858.

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. The AUC l‘l0N busirtess will at all times

receive their best attention.

.1. C. DEALEY, cotritissioiv MERCHANT AND Ship Broker,

M. 1, sot/rn sritisnr. New Your.

nrnagiia and vu.T._pmcms, at short notice IMO.

or the British Provinces, West Indies, Aus- tr|a.l'n and Califwnia. Bertha secured for the latter cos.

‘R BALE. a double Sauroir, fitted for one or two-Horses. with Para Ia, corn lets. It can be obtained ill a very low price on car y application at Hasuprd's, Gaautte Otties. Dceslbsr ll, LII!

A TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE! THE TRAFFIC IN MAPLETON. (From the New York Home Journal.)

The letter which poor Mrs. Durham was amus- ing herself with detailed these facts. She read it over and over again, listening to the storm as she read, trembling with fear, and tormented with sp- prehensions, which rinue can realize who have not

en in her condition : not the least of which was that her husband might have fallen into this very groggcry which had been a cause of so much trouble to young Douglass. She at length took her pen and wrote her full approval of Charles’ conduct in the matter. and then proceeded to de- tail the more recent doings of the alceho!ic traf- fie in Mnoleton. She stated the sufliiriugs of poor Ma‘am Tobey, and that her husband had gone to bring her to their house. she informed him tlist the worthy and venerable Mr. Robson, alier i - veighing against the groggery with all his migli .' had been drawn in, and added to the number of its victims. He had been an early pre to intempcr- ate habits, from which he refrained flit some years, but was now taken the more easily by the destroy- e His age and infiruiities could not withstand his late return to this vice. delirium tremcns soon ensued, and he had died in a most drfi l'uI tormcnts. " He begged his fric s to kill hr at a blow, for the devils that tormented him were more uni-ndurable than hell itsslf.'-0 ciifnn, Charles! what are we to say to these things‘! How happens it that this alone. of all our diseases, produces srich a sense of being tormented by devils! Is it real, or is it altogether imaginary ? Do tell me, in your next, what you think.”

hen her pen seemed to float at random. as if to divert her own corroding thoughts. more than from any intention of transmitting the uncnpled document. “ Charles. Charles! vrlist are we to do! Dear me! dear me. husband! why don't you cnme,—come to your agcnised Amelia! The storm howls, howls! ‘od: when will he come! The clock strikes eleven. Eleven l 0,- 0 ! eleven ofthis dismal night! and l.—l and my little ones away in this howling wilderness!-— alone, so many miles front all help and all relief! I can‘t be quiet! no ! no! no ! rearn.—l can‘t help screaming! 0. my husband! where are you, dearest, that you do not come to the help of yorir terrified wife, who loves, who adores you f—My God, take care of him.—-take care of me,—take care of in little ones! Do! do! do !—yec, to heaven, to heaven take us all !—a|l, if one must go! 0,—0! there I'm screaming again! [can't helpit!0,—-0.—0! mad,—mad,—rnad I must to bed.” These broken sentences were almost illegible from the tears with which they were bedewed. and doubtless followed by covulsinns.

' he explanation of this and delay was as terrific to Mr. Douglass as to poor Durham. It seems that these two gentlemen had unfortunately met nearly opposite that bell ofthe town, the groggsry. It was cold, an snowing fiercely. The short time talking from each other's sleigha. when that emissary of the devil. the landlord. came run- ning out. his face covered with seductive smiles and his tongue dropping sweet words like honey- dew. and saying to Mr. Douglass that he had been striving many days to see h’m u n a pressing matter of business, and if that gentleman and Mr. Durham would come in and warm themselves a single moment, he uould see their horses well cared for, and it would be much to their own com- fort. “With his fair speech be caused them to yield ; with the flattery of his lips he forced them; and they went straightwsy as an or: to the slaugh- ter. or as a fool to the correction ofthe stocks ; till a dart struck through their liver: as it bird hasteth to the snare, and knew not that it was for their Iife."—'l‘he wind swept over the plain. the lake roared in the distance. with waves as sluggish from anchor ice as a boiling caldron of quicksilver, and the whole scene of wintry cold and desolation without conspired to give point and power to the serpent’s power within, and to the deadly coil in which he was er-folding their hearts.

Their horses all sweating with fatigue in wal- lowing through the snow. they reincd up under the shed, and followed their tcmpter into his hell. Durham hesitated, and hesitated ; but still he fol- lowed. The landlord ofliired them something to drink. and expatisted on the necessity of it on so cold a day. and after so ruuch exposure. They at first declined, seeming to feel their danger, and to be conscious that they stood on the brink ofa precipice. But after warming themselves a while, and being further, lied with fair words by their host. Douglass sai he was all in a tremor and chilled to his very vitals; he believed that a mug of hot ginger cider would do him good. and he ordered it. cured a glass for his friend. and also for himself, and they drank it together.

at no sooner had the poisonentered their veins than they lost sight of every motive to so- briety. and alcoholic fancies swarmed around them, like devils in the plumage of paradise. after glass of brandy was called in; Durham began to sing. and Douglass to fight; sad the inn was a hell indeed, and they its devils. Douglass staid till twelve of the night, when his two suits, George and Samuel, with a posse of men from the farm, came to hunt for him, suspecting the fact, and by main force, draw a straight-jaclrst over him, and took him home, howling to the wintry winds like a from! from the realm of darkness. That incarnation of evil, the publlcan. finding Durham peaceable, and, withal. dash of money, hustled him into another room when the young Douglasses came, so that the left without the knowledge of his presence. or did their father in the lung-continued series of drunken fits which ensued. mention the fact. The con uenee was, that Durham lay two weeks drunk in the groggsry. At the expiration of this time, he fell intoa pro- found sleep, from which he did not awake for twelve hours ; and when he did flnslly awake, the insanity of intoxication ha ' '

thought was of his wife and children. He had no idea of the time of his so ration. more than if he lied laid all of these days in a fit. He sprsn

convulsively to his last, and hastened to the ab ; but found his bones so nearly starved by the avaricioua landlord that he could not trust to their talting him borne through the snow. His next thought was to run to Mr. Holliston‘s, which he "d, and acquainted him with the stats of ltll afisirs. trusting he might prove a comfort to his wife, both as physician and minister. Mr. Hol- llstos got up his can horses, and tech poor

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Durhsrn to his family with all deepsteh, being also ignorant of the length cftiine that he had been absent from tbern. They used Ma’am

ham’s mind. They then harried as fast as the unbrolrcn road vrnuld admit, struggling on till sundown. when they succeeded in reaching the house; but found it also buried in the snow, and no sign of life near, except a few half-starved sad half-frozen cattle. Durham jumped out of the sleigh, and. rushing ahead, pushed his way by force through the closed door, when he found the interior a complete drift, that had cciiie down the chimney. and sifted through every unguarded crevice. By this time Mr.Holliston was upon his heels, anxious to find how matters stood within

But 0, horrcrlhorror! God have mercy on the druukard’s family! There lay Mrs. ur- harn on her own bed, cold and stifi‘,_. with a new- born infant, naked, lher side, also dead and frozen! Behind the her, and pressed close against her person. was 1 little Charles. with his icy arms enfulding , and every drop of blood congealed in his veins. Thev then hastened to the little girls‘ ran, and found them in their bed. emaciated to m skeletons, but not so long dead as to be tely frozen. They, too. were locked in e ctlier’s little arms. The fears of poor, Mrs; am had evidently brotig ht on a premature birth, ending in convulsions, the very night of her husband's departure. and she and the infant had frozen together. I..'Iilex¢has- . lcs, with a child's instinct, had clung -to.'ltis'deatl mother. and his arms were soon frnuosi by‘ the icy contact. from which point the frosts of death gradually spread over his wlinlebody. The little girls had kept up as long as they could, without wood or food, and then had crept together into their bed, to find an icy grave. Poor little Ame|ia‘s prophetic dream was more than fulfilled-

o words, no description, can resell the reality, It was a charnel-liouse of the horri,l)lo»t.tIufHa in‘ intoxicating drinks.-—-'I‘he rang.‘ sictiuinof tliit_ yyortic than Moloch. in {bis-.lllirst' for inrytlicsnt

oo , with the lines o cspr ' ‘ya’ 1 at their indurated features. §e:‘il’f.'§I‘ll9“‘lItllI|'.E' accents of death. eucli' a'ra'Iiipn'straijcr_i- ‘against o ' logi_sla,tion'on this subject, as. to_"peal and con- fuund.th'ose who have given their voice and vote in its favor. 0, detestable legislation ! Wlin can number lhy dead! Who can estimate thy crimes! Who can tell the extent ofthy paupersge, the poverty and wrctcliedness, which owe their being to thee!

Mn Holliston was silent. And so was Dur- ham. It was sense to battle feeling. and beggar language. They dug some wood. from under the photo. and lighted a fire. Durham was helpful in all this. Mr. Hilliston then proposed to go and bring in the neighbors.

“MI. Durham." said be. “perhaps you will feel better to go with me."

“No,” said Durham, quietly, “ You go, and l’ll stay and watch the tire and keep the house.”

“ Very well; H! be back won.” said Mr. Hil- lirton. not a little surprised at the self pmaegnion of the miserable man. ut had he looked cauti- ously, he would have seen in it the suicide’e calmness. His eyes were glassy and fixed. It was the repose of despair: it was the self-pos- session of one to whom living is death, and death is only life. Not a tear did be. shed, not a groan did he utter, not a complaintdid he make. As soon as Mr. Holliston was~gone,« he-took thapen that had dropped from the fingers of his dying wife, thawed out the inkstand. and wrote on the paper, under the last. toss besmesred ‘lines other agitated hand, thefollovgiug note :-.— . .

“This world isirny hell. 'l-‘l_icre.csn-be, no worse. l,hnve a _duty todo to my departed wife and children,twh‘ich I_go lo, diss_hpr,ge. I must confess at their feet In)‘ crime. and ibesi-tech them to forgive me. Dear, dear ones, lxfollow you to the spiritlarid ! _ nstttus ,DURHsIt.”

When Mr. _.l-Iolliston returned, with the neigh- bours, they forind him hung witlt_s rope to one of the beams ofgkis lipase, snd'quit_e.dead_ 2.

t the l'unersl, which was stranded by an whole l'.own—‘yea by ncigltbouring towns; d-lso, Mr. Holliston delivered Am adtlresg on-tlte cvilnfinf the liquor-trslfic. in which be detailed its and ravages in their once peaceful and pump.-5.; - town. They then buried the vvholc.funjly,s'u; pug grave. laying the deer .litte infsut onvthe bi-egu,_ur‘ its sorrow-stricken Mother, and the othon sidg by side, according to their agss., Afger tliegburial '. Thomas Blutigeon harangued the assentbledtliul tituds. _

“ Gentlemen," said he, " what's to be done! Here is a den in our town which the sober. res- pectable and industrious, enter, to come out drun. kurds, paupsrs and beggars. Here is a den into which our children are deooycd. and ‘come out a blight to parental hopes. are is a den which the ha pv wedded con la visit. only to violrite their pighted vows, a become-‘a curse to-their children. Hero is a den to sinlnforeveu-the -hard earnings of labor; yea, worse, to‘-nsalte*th'ern a blight and curse to those by wlrode -sweat they were acqui This den is inhabited by“-s sur- csrcr. the touch of whose wand-converts ministers and churches into hypoerites,ib'abbaths inteeseenes of haccbaaslian riot and revelry. school-houses into kennels,-and earth into ‘hell. are is- a monster before whom law is I rppe of sand. and the bonds efseciety a gossamer web, to tieblown tn the winds.-Here is a school which graduates moderate drinkers eonfinned drunkar , honest people luisves. out-throats assassins. Will our sufl'sr this den longer to exist among you! ill you allow this ssrcer longer to exercise his damn- able sisgict Wilt you allow this monster to seize more victims, and this school to multiply among us its detestable pupils!

‘- No, no, rial" cried many thousands, all bathed in tears at the spectacle they had witnessed. and mad with indignation against its guilty cause. Law or no law,—rto, no, no! Down with t groggery !"

" Yea. law or no law," replied Bludgson : sad, raising his hands to heaven, shaking his iron frame in defiance, and casting his flaming eyes in the direction of the inn. be added, " I swear, by the eternal God, that hell shall not pollute this town another day. Who dares stand by right against law! Let him speak."

"I dare!" " ll” "Il" “ l !" cried insince-

, with the grcggery! down with the groggety l" Tcbsy’s, but found the house stink in s sncwdrift, and not a soul in it. This excited alarm in Dsr- ,‘

rsble voices. “ Down with the groggery ! clown

“ Come on, then !" said Blodgeen; “ come on, come on, ye men of Mspleton, who are for casting out the devil in spite of priests and lawyers ! fol- low me to the sssau '

" To the assault! to the assault! lead on, and we'll follow! Down with the groggery! down with the groggery !" repeated a thousand stonin- rian voices. in tones that made the welkin ring. Off rushed the infuriated multitude, headed by Bludgeon, and began their work, by emptying the detestable sink of all its valuables. pouring its al- cohol inio the gutter, and ending by linking a bonfire of the building.

" Where's the landlord !--this hell-hound.— where is lie? when is e‘! cried innumerable

voices.

“ Here he is! here he is. hid in the stable !” replied some.

“ firing him out ! bring him out !" was the irri-

ricus demand on all sides. The trembling pub- ican was brought out, and, after a mock trial, was condemned to a coat of tar and feathers. and to be rode out of town upon a rail. The decree was no sooner passed than executed, and the miserable wretch was dipped into is cask of tar, and then rolled him in the feathers of one ofhis own beds. and, in this plight, was mounted on arail, which which was carried, in solemn procession. adie- tsnce of seven miles, where he was placed out sf town, with a threat of being worse dealt by if he ever entered it again.

THE PROPFESSIGNS.

In every community there are a few -young men who can deliberately choose their profession. There ureorily a few; for accident, not choice, determine the career of most of us.—Btit, here and there -is it youth who owing to the circumstances of his parents or the strength of his own de- ‘termination, is able to make up his mind

}wlia't'be'tvill do in life; and does it.

'_ __ In former times, young men ofthis fortu- Mtcte class einhruced as a matter of course, the prpfeission of arms; and in some ofthe less progressive countries of Continental Europe, the majority of " well-born” youth do so to this day. he girls of Copenha- gen still prefer that the arms ofa soldier should encircle them, when they waltz, and the highest honours of the court and cabinet are still worn with the epaulette In those countries, not to be a soldier, is not to be- long to the elite of society. Happily, our own army is so small,that arms, as a profes- sion for educated gentlemen, can scarcely be said to exist among us. Millions of our citizens live and die without ever seeing a man entitled to paint. on his trunk the letters

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In this republic, the Law has been, till within afew years, the favourite profession of the fortunate few. The Law was the ‘beaten path to the highest honours. Every President but two has been chosen from the legal rofession and one would not have been c iosen, if he had not been of that pro- fession. Evcry Vice President whose name we can now call to mind, was a law- yer. Every man in our time who has been is prominent, but unsuccessful candidate for those oilices. w law er. Every Secretary of State. we believe, has been a lawyer. Almost every Governor of a State has been a lnwyer.—Ncar-l every man that has been distinguished in Congress was a lawyer. The leading persons in counties, towns and villages, have generally been lawyers; and down even to the present time the profession retains something of its for- mer preslige. It is only within the last few years that great met-chants, great manufacturers, great writers, great en-