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A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND NEWS.

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Yublic, man speak free.——euRtemeEs.

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1859.

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[EDITOR axp-PUBLISHER’

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No. 29.

Joctry.

THE WINTERS.

We did not fear them once—the dull gray mornings No cheerless burden on our spirits laid :

The long night watches did not bring us warnings That we were tenants of a house decayed.

The early snows like dreams to us descended ; The frost did fairy-work on pane and bough ;

Beauty, and power, and wonder have not ended ; How is it that we fear the winter now?

British Warehouse Queen’s Square.

HE subscriber, having re-commenced buiness in the pre- |

mises formerly occupied by Mr. Jarpine McLean, takes |

the earliest opportunity to inform his friends and the public |

nerally, that he has just received per ship /sade/, from | Crepes, his FALL SUPPLY of

BRITISH DRY GOODS,

suited to the season.

NEW STORE!

—aALso— 72 Chests TEA, 60 Half chests do., 100 Boxes pare ‘10 Bags RICE, Porto Rico and Crushed SUGAR, Currants, Raisins, Pickles, And superior Salad Oil,

ill be sold at the lowest prices for Cash. ae . WILLIAM BROWN.

Their house fires fall as bright on hearth and chamber ;

The Woods still keep their holly for December ; The world has weicome yet for the new year. And far away, in old remembered places The snow-drop rises and the robin sings, The sun and moon lock out with smiling faces— Why have our days forgot such goodly things? Charlottetown, October 21, 1858.

NEW AND IMPROVED NOVA SCOTIA COOKING AND OTHER STOVES.

Ust ARRIVED, an assortment of New and Improved | J strong and substantial COOKING and other STOVES, |

Is it that now the north wind finds us shaken By tempest fiercer than its bitter blast?

And fair beliefs and friendships have forsaken, Like summer’s beauty, as that tempest passed ?

And life grows leafless in its pleasant valleys, The light of promise waning from its day,

Till mists meet even in its inward palace —

Metal Boilers, to suit Farmers, and made to saye wood and |

with an English side saddle, which the Sowar had procured for her, and she rode close beside him, with her face veiled, along the line of march. When the British approached Futteghur, orders were sent to the Sowar to give Miss Wheeler up, but he escaped with her at night, and it is sup- posed he went with her to Calpee. In that case, it is not at all improbable that the unfortunaie young lady may be:still alive, moving about with Tantia Topee, and that we may rescue her from her unhappy fate. ‘There is another Chris- ‘tian half-caste atill alive, who became a Mahometan at the same time, and under the same circumstances as Fitchett, in pursuit of whom the authorities are most busily engaged. Line upon line, here a little and there a little, we shall soon

Their northern starlight shines as coldly clear ; | know nearly all that can be known about that ‘ bloodiest re-

cord in the book of time.’ ”

THE OPERATIONS IN OUDE—LORD CLYDE IN THE FIELD AGAIN ——BOMPARDMENT OF RAMPORE,

Heap-Qvarters Camp, near Pertancnur, Nov. 2.— The Commander-in-Chief took the field this morning very early indeed. While the fireworks.were lighting up the Ganges and flashing far through the troubled night of Oude on the Ist of November, Lord Clyde, escaping as soon as he could from the unreal cannonade, Roman candles, fireballs, and the devices of Oriental pyrotechnists, was preparing for his morning’s march. It was two o’clock on this morning

{ valuable at all seasons. Will be sold at the manv-| Not like the outer mists to melt away ? | when Lord Clyde, Gen, Mansfield, Col, Metcalfe, Col. Mae- a? * ? 2 § a. Sts ° ~ ‘ s mg . . eee . : . 2 ae 's rices this season, in order to establish the quality | | pherson, Major Turner, Major Crealock, Capt. Alison, and “aa seoeiniiel of these Valuable Stoves—-these being among | It was not thus when dreams of love and laurels | Capt. Dormer left their quarters and proceeded to the bridge

Gave sunshine to the Winters of our youth,

i atic is Island. Can now be seen in| ; ! the first importation to this Before its hopes nad fallen in fortune’s quarrels,

the Agent for this Isl: at Orwell. | ‘ration at the Store of the Agent for this island, at O well. | "Gee sll, Deeemer 15. © PATRICK STEPHENS. |

BTV AR0RsR7. NORTH SIDE OF QUEEN-SQUARE.

Fall, 1858. Bed RECELVED per * Vicrorta’’ from Hatrrax, and

for sale by the subscriber: —

Ere yet the twilight found us strange and lonely, With shadows coming when the fire burns low, To tell of distant graves and losses only— Tae past that canvot change and will not go.

Alas! dear friends the Winter is within us ;— Hard is the ice that gathers round the heart, If petty cares and vain regrets can win us From Life's true heritage and better par’. Seasons and skies rejoice, yea, worship, rather ; But nations toil and tremble even as we ; Iioping for harvests they will never gather, And dreading Winters they may never see.

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Puns b't Molasses Superior Coffee Tobacco Jamaica Ram Biscuit in variety Cigars strong Spirits .Annapolis Cheese Digby Herrings ilhds Holland Gin Raisins Rice

best Cognac Brandy Currants Crushed Sugar a: Seotech Whiskey Dye-stuffs Sweet Oil P.E.I. Malt do Prunes Pale Seal Oil Common Whiskey Earthen Jars Salad Oil

Gleanings from late Papers.

Symond’s best Port Pickles Spices | REBELLION IN INDIA.

the og fais |THE CAWNPOIE MASSSACRE.—ANOTUER AND STILL MORE DOR- ae on Nuts Washing Powders RIBLE ACCOUNT. Champagne Shelled Almonds Baking do Mr. Russ2ll, the special correspondent of the Times in Edinburgh Ale Confectionary Patent Medicines India, gives another narrative of the massacre at Cawnpore, eS ae veh by an eye-witness and survivor, which throws a new light on

i i id cvent :—*t Some time ago a half caste Christian arie f other small and useful articles too nu-, this horr t aste Ci Seaaduiegneaben, Molepeid be eed clean Timothy Seed.| named Fitchett presented himself for admission into the © HUGH FRASER. | police levy before the local authorities at‘Meerut. His tale

Or Time had bowed them with his heavy truth— |

November 29, 1858. ly eect eee

CHEBUCTO WAREHOUSE.

HE subscriber has, in connection with his business in Halifax, opened a WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE and ' GENERAL COMMISSION AGENCY, Head of Queen’s Wharf, ard next door to J. & T. Morris.

Advanves made on consignments. warded. Insurance effected, &e.

Just received per ‘‘ Oce

Produce, Fish, &e., for-

an Bride,”

100 barrels extra-Southern FLOUR, 100 do Canada do

50 boxes RAISINS, 20 do Pipes,

50 ~=do fresh-ground CORNMEAL,

10 chests TEA,

250 gallons BRANDY, 10 boxes Havana Cigars, oxes Cavendish TOBACCO, Hhds Porto Rico SUGAR,

is as follcws :—When the mutiny broke out be was a mnsi- cian in the band of one of the native infantry regiments at Cawnpore, and in the general massacre he saved his life by proclaiming that he would become a Mahometan, which he did by an easy process almost on the spot. [He remained in | Cawnpore, and was enrolled in the Nena’s force, with which | he did duty. On the 15th of June, when it became known | that the British were advancing, a council was held by the | Nena, at which it was resolved that the women and children | at the Beebeeghur, numbering about 205, were to be murder- | ed. The news went rapidiy through the town, and the men | of the mutinous 6th Native Infantry entering the enclosure | proceeded to take from our unfortunate country-women any article of value or trinkets which they retained on their per- sons. It so happened that by some means not clearly ascer-

tained four English gentlemen were at this time with the |

of boats across the Ganges, about five miles from Allahabad, at a place called Papamow. Here an escort of the Carabi- neers was waiting to receive His Excellency. The bridge is very wide and well built, and must be several hundred yards in length. It was lighted up by rude lamps, which cast a yellow light over the turbid flow of the Ganges, “ rolling rapidly.” Nota sound broke the silence, except the gurgling ot the waters as they struggled against the floating barrier, and rushed away in angry swirls from the contest, except the challenges of the native sentries, and the tramp of the Cavalry. Soon the party were in the hostile province, and at a smart gallop, through clouds of dust, not visible, but palpable, rode across the sandy plains, by deep ruts which served as substi- tutes fur road>, towards Sobraon. With no greater annoyance |than the occasional loss. of the right path by some of the |party, they arrived at Sobraon just as the sun was rising, | Again the challenges of our sentries showed that the village | was held as one of our posts, but the main body of the column | which had occupied it were off, under Colonel Wetherall, cn ‘our left flank. -The fort, a stout.mud-walled enclosure with | ditch and bastions, was taken by poor.Betkeley during the | rainy season, end was the first of our posts pushed out from | Allababad, Here our Carabincers halted, und the duty of

leseort devolved upon a party of the Lahore Light Horse,

| who seemed very much improved and much more soldierly | than when [ jast saw them on duty. Fresh horses were ready at this place, and the little cortege continued their march at a rapid rate towards the camp. Several bodies of Oude police and. Punjabecs were passed cn the road. In the fields all the labour of husbandry were being carried on as usual. The villages were inhabited, and nothing but the presence of armed men on their march would lead one to imagine that we were carrying on war with the kinsmen and near relations of those peaceful-looking agriculturists. At a vil- lage some 23 or 24 miles from Allahabad the. Lahore Horse were relieved by a strong squadron of Carabineers, under Captain Betty—fresh horses were mounted—a_ hasty halt and a rapid breakfast under a . tree—gallop—trot—walk — and gallop over and over again—till at last about 9 o'clock our, vedettes made owt the agreeable outlines of a camp in the distance, and at 10 o'clock we pulled up at our tents at Beylah, three miles beyond Pertabghur, and about 39 miles from Allahabad. General Mansfield arrived first, and the rest dropped in at intervals, Lord Clyde remaining on his

LLL EL TS followers, seated on his right and left on the grouud at a slight distanee foom his highness. His dress was plain—of | white material, in the manner of Hindoos, with a red Cash- ‘mere shawl thrown loosely over the shoulders. Some of his | followers, six or seven in number, appeared in the uniform of British Sepoys of no high rauk. A guard was in attendance near this council, as it appeared to be. His eyes are large, bold, fery, piercing; brows black, ovally shaped; forehead -bigh and expansive ; nose, Roman; mouth, middle-sized and well-shaped ; lips compressed, not allowing the teeth to be perceptible ; large black whiskers tied up with a cloth round his head ; complexion rather lighter than usual—the colour of wheat. Having been ushered into the high and mighty presence of Tantia, the poor man of course made his salaame, and then entreated his highness might be pleased to order the return of the camels and stores which had been seized,

as they did not belong to Feringhees, but to a Mahomedan,

and the articles were of no use to Hindoos. His highness

declined to make any order in the matter, saying that every-

thing plundered was the property of the plunderer. In this respect he adopted the custom in war of the grea* general

and Emperor Napoleon the First, at the same time observing

that though his great.model was rather temperate, he had a

keen relish for Madeira, it being a Jong time since he had

imbibed any, and that he should try to make himself jovial

under difficulties.

DESTRUCTION OF AMETHIE.

Nov. 13 and 14.—The fort of Amethie, thus for the time in our possession, will be made the head-quarters of the Sultan- pore force, under Brigadier Pinckney, the garrison being com- rom of two guns of Gordon’s Battery, three companies of

fer Majesty's 54th Regiment, a wing of the 9th Punjaub Native Infantry, and the Pathan Worse. When the premises are returned to the Rajah he will find them very much altered. His ramparts will fill up his ditch, his bastions will form agreeable mounds from which to survey the place where tho jungle one offered an impenetrable barrier to man and beast. But at present the Rajah has no desire to reiurn. He is humiliated, or pretends to be so. He prays to be perinitted to live in some city far away from his estates, and that we will manage them for him, and he has got a month to consider whether he wishes to make a formal application to this effect or not. The Commander-in-Chief and head-quarters of the army will leave the plains of Amethie on the morning of the 13th, escorted by the Carabineers and the 5th Fusileers, and makeva double march to Atayah to overtake Wetherall’s coldimp.. The destruction of Amethie will be directed by Lieut. Beaumont, Royal Engineers. Kampore Russea is in course of decomposition under the direction of Lieut. Scratchley.

Peanrut Tyruoon ar Swatow.—A fearful typhoon pase- ed over Swatow on the 2ist Sept. On the fuilowing morning, when the gale was ut its height, a storm wave, 23 ‘eet perpendicular, came in from seawards, sweeping every- thing befure it, and driving the ships from their anchorace over a long mud-flat, two miles across, with not more than 2 to 3 feet water on it. The tide rose from 18 to 20 feet. It is said that upwards of two hundred junks are wrecked, | and the loss of life amongst them is very great. The houscs on Double [-land are in ruins, and the strength of the wind may be gathered from the fuct that godowns on the water frout withfwalls, two feet and a half thiek, were actually car- ried awzy. The bungallows have disappeared. The scene is utterly beyoud description. The great storm wave, ad- | vancing in its might, swept the fleet before it, and scattered the ships like chaff before the wind, stranding them in the most extraordinary and unlikely spots. The destruction was complete. Of a fine fleet of twenty-one vessels, only one, the most useless of the lot, held to her anchors, the rest being driven ashore. Nor did the hurricane confine its ravages to the water ; it was equally felt on shore. What the tempest driven waters could not accomplish was completed by the fury of the gale, and the strongest houses were levelled with the ground. The loss of life among foreigners is miraculously small, the chief officer and greater portion of the crew of the

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women and children in the enclosure. Three have been | Puncheons MULASSES, Tierces Treacle, | jdentified beyond doubt, namely, Mr. Thornhill, Magistrate |

10 pieces SATINETTE (consignment), and collector of Futteghur; Colonel Smith, 10th Native atent and common Windlass Gear, infantry; and Brigadier Goldie. The identity of the foutrh

= Tai eieemeeae HEREINGS, has not been established, but it is probable he was one of the 0 é °

y "NDMAN. }Greenways. At half-past four a message was brought to

ji Dae eee 1858. By: DEPRAS these gentlemen that Brigadier Jeekin, a native is of “a paid oe ~ the mutivesrs, desired to see them, and they left the house to repair to bis quarters. They walked quietly along the | road, suspecting nothing, and when they had got as far as the Assembly Rooms they were suddenly attacked from be-

4.

Guava Jelly, Fruit preserved in Syrup Fresh Turkey FIGS _ Do. Bloom RAISINS

se ss do. i : : 4 a Se Od. per Ib. parations were being made for the execution of the orders

Do. Tamarinds, Prime Annapolis CHEESE | of the Nena and his council. There was some difficulty TREACLE, soid in any small quantity ‘about getting instruments for this horrible butchery, The A large eee so |Sowars wished to save themselves from the defilement of ll kinds of Easences for Flayouring bluod—the infantry were equally averse to the task—but at Ramee Lamson, Orange snd Citron Fvtls last some soldiers of the 6th Native Infantry were compelled

. an 3 ite sus g 8 sua pe e ies hn sani as well as all the etcetras suitable 16" 96 fakide; with wederd' so rede the pose stipledn-srdent een : They fired in the air, or did so little harm that it was evident ‘ f Fn eS UREARG, aes For sale at| the views of the assassins could not be accomplished in that dcaaD ' Store of =e manner. They sent into the tosrn, therefore, and the Sowars a are M. W. SKINNER, Queen-street. | brought out two of the common butchers of the bazaar—two intitee a of a wild, oars gipsy Ke conte, and -

. — villaiytee, who were armed with hatchets and tulwars, an Carpotting & Rugs. ordered to go in and kill every soul in the house and en- t aad charges at the Subscriber’s Room, | Closure, while all egress was strictly watched by the Sowars Se ae — "\outsid.e It wasa long and dreadful butchery. Fitchett, A saree assortment of Carpetting in WOOL and HEMP. | who was near the place, declares that the assassins entered —A.tso— the enclosure about 5.20 p.m., and that it was 10 p.m. be- A quantity of Handsome HEARTH RUGS, fore they came out to announce that their work was accom- Persons in want will find it to their advantage to call and) ji Wog. Once, ke says, a butcher appeared with his sword

R ucti ip Say Pr

ae WILLIAM DODD, Auctioneer. | broken in two, received a sabre from one of the Sowars, and oecieaetenny Demebes SS. |returned to continue his hellish labour. The Nena was in

The Wonder of the World! the hotel close at hand, and when he heard that all were

‘ dead, he gave orders that the doors should be closed for the

Devine’s Compound Pitch Lozenges. night and guards put over the place. That night the Nena os great remedy is at last discovered for Coughs, Colds, gave a nautech—a kind of dance and ball—to his friends, Whooping Cough, Croup, Asthma and Consumption. Early in the morning of the 16th the Nena gave orders that

T Lo es are perfectly harmless in their nature and po ars a ara secnaiie. y the infant and by the invalid, the doors should be opened, and that all the bodies inside

: i ithi d; but as it ty felt in a few hours after | Should be flung into the well within the compound ; scabdseactng Cheer eis. "400 SiN bh ™ was far too smal] to contain so many bodies, it is probable

Dec. 20, 1858. —_Isi M. W. SKINNER. _| that some were dragged away to other places or were thrown ; into the Ganges. On the 16th Fitchett fled with his new

Albertine Oil. friends to Futteghur, and bere occurs a most interesting part

OR SALE at the Wharehouse of A. H. YATES, QUEEN of his story. He declares that he frequently saw Miss

December 20, 1858.

STREET, Wheeler, the daughter of the General, at Futteghur, and S80 Galice:s Alertias 02. 'that she travelled with a Sowar, who bad taken her fom:

S. SWABEY.

Chebucto Warehouse. aos RECEIVED, per schr. ‘* ROMP”’"— e 2 hbhds. strictly prime Porto Rico SUGAR, 3 puns. Porto Rico MOLASSES. For sale Nov. 22, 1858.

December 6. | Cawnpore—nay more, that le was shown into the room

where she was, and ordered to read extracts from English newspapers which the rebls received from Calcutta, he being ‘employed by them for the purpose of translating the news, in which, particularly that relating to the pregress of the

b E : Ww. HYNDMAN. | War in China, they took great interest, She had a horse

i 1d murdered on the spot. i -| 3 . ; os ; > hind, cut down, an p Meantime pre | wounded. Several of our casualties were caused by the | official communications received at Constantinople,gthe Can-

way for a short time at Brigadier Pinckney’scamp. Onhis| Gazelle and one European seacunny of the Anonyma being arrival bis lordship issued the proclamation which we pub- the only fatal accidents, although three men of the Hiepscott lished last week. were severely injured by the falling of the mast. Among Nov. 3.—To-day the instructions were sent out for the | the Chinese the number of killed and drowned is not over- guidance of the columns on their march towards Amethie/cstimated at 5,000. The 1.wa of Swatow has pot suffered and Rampore, and for the due observance of the amnesty. {so much as was expected, bui all the junks—upwards of 206 Col. Wetherall did not-receive his directions in time, and/—wwcere completely smashed aud piled on the top of each attacked the fort of Rampore, in which were 5000 men, | other. bombarded it, and then the Belooch Battalion, the 79th, and ur. wares wee the Sikhs carried it with the lossof 70 or 80 men. Colonel TURKEY. Farquhar, of the Belooch Battalion, and Dr. Smith, were} Caxrrrcan Srate ov Canpis.—According to the latest

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springing of amine. The loss of the enemy is not stated, | diotes are busily furnishing themselves with arms and am- but there were many Sepoys in the furt who fought in their jmunition of all kinds. Two small vessels, ove under the red jackeis, and made a stout resistance. The Commander- | Turkish flag and the other under the Ionian, serve them as in-Chief has sent in a summons to the Rajah of Amethie to|transports. The latter was purchased and freighted in give up his forts, dismantle them, surrender his guns, and | shares, Ionians of Cerigo residing in Candia being the share- present himself to make submission in camp. He has left! holders, In ihe course of the past month sixty-six barrels Amethie, and is out in the open, but his batteries are all of powder and several hundred muskets were landed at the \manped, and he gives opt that he will resist. {But he sub- | little port of Cockino-Korio. The Mussulimans are begin: - mitted at last. jing once more to take refuge in the fortresses, as they did Autecen Impenpinc Famine 1x Benoat.—Another ru-| ae oe ee aoe pete rs —- mour has been circulated of an impending {amine in Bengal. |" : i tt it WP eg ee ee tee Rae ae tis |fetches five or six times its original value. The leaders ot The harvest, it is.said, is very deficient ; che rains bave been | “ eg aiote Linen dunk GI Gist fas di . less than the average by 19 inches, aud the winter crops will |'¥® {98¢ lusurrection have scout off their families to Greece, be more scanty than has been known for years. The last | ae 1s cousidered asa rae Pe that aeeee events are two statements are correct. The former, and more dangerous |" Prp#raticn. The so e question 1s, whether they are to . ' ocean as occur at once or are put cil to the spring. Swmi Pacha, the one, is based on the usual mistake, generalization from local | soi tad teeneeienh te sheaheadied a data. The truth is, I believe, as far as it can be accurately ae ae 8 - auame ia ; a not, however, known, that in the Delta, Burrissul excepted, the harvest | £°°CP" me repute: om - seuding him further sein- was only a “tenamra harvest ;” that is, was only 10-16ths , arqaenents. t aa ‘2 ane that sayroyeni, who of the average. in the eastern districts it was up to the| Ts "ars Oe we A pe eee 7 the next day for average, and Behar had a bumper crop. There may, there- | Baldi Nv: aac, aucaaétie’, Ceti? eee oe of a fore, be a rise in price, but there need be no apprehension of | Sasi ald ie Un A TreasiOline Uabdla inte uu incepei Ce 1a dangerous scarcity. A rumour of the kind is the more ©" PMPcIpanty. readily credited from the extreme distress into which natives | sak eaten Mecca ae of fixed incomes have of late been plunged by the price of} “ Wiar a Nose !”—In the village of Eatonton, Georgia, food. It has doubled in two years. All ever Benga! wages & nan made bis appearance aud siopped at the tavern, Le of every kind have risen, those of the lowest class by 100 bad a most remarkable nose, one which alinost anonopolised per cent., and those of the artizans by 50. Labourers once | his entire face—red, Roman, enormous. The glances cast ut contented with two annas a-day now receive four, and aj] it and the rewarks made about it had rendered its owner others in like proportion. ‘The rise, however, has not affect-| somewhat sensitive upon the subject. A half-grown negro ed the higher employes, and they are bitter to a degree. | boy was summoned by the proprietor to carry bis baggage to They want, as I think I mentioned once before, a prohibi-| his room. Cuffve was much taken with the nose. As le tion on exports, which they cannot get, and consider them-| came out of the room, unable to contain himnsci? ionger, le selves ill-treated by the refusal. The trnth ix, Renws! hes: exclaimed, “ Golly, waar tose!” Our traveller overheard ii 1S years added sixty millions to her currency, and the bim, and _Went to his master with a demand for his punish- rise follows as a matter of necessity. ment. Cuffee was called up, and at the suggestion of some ee * bystanders, was let off on condition that be would apologise Taytia Toree.—A correspondent who had occasion to seek to the offended gentleman. This he readily agreed to. an interview with this important personage thus describes, Walking to the room where our traveller was, and touching him in a Bombay paper :—“ Tantia was seated on a charpoy | bis hat and hambly bowing, he said, “ Massa, you ain’t got in the open air, surrounded by about 25 or 30 immediate! no nose at all!’

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