Vol. XV.

NEW STORES!

Dorchester Street.

Liquors, Molasses, Tea, Sugar, lour, Tobacco, Sundry Groceries, &c, rue SUBSCRIBER has now in his

New Brick Stores, Dorchester Street, Charlotte town, the following

Extensive and Valuable Stock

MERCHANDIZE,

comprising WINES, BRANDIES, and other LI- QUURS of the best quality; fresh GROCERIES of all kinds; FLOUR, TEA, SUGAR, TOBACCO, MOLASSES, equal to any articles of the kind in the market, which he offers to wholesale and retail customers

At the lowest prices for Cash,

—_——ViIZ:——

70 Puacheons choice Demerara RUM,

70 Hogsheads Hollands GIN,

# Hhda. Irish and Seotch MALT WHISKEY,

6 Hhds. Pale and Dark BRANDY,

6 Hogsheads PORT WINE,

6 hogsheads of SHERRY,

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A Weekly Hournal of Politics,

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Literature, and dlews,

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**This is true Liberty, when EP'rceeborn Men, having to xndvise the Public, may speak free.**---Euripides.

MILL PROPERTY

at NMNIONDPAGU IE.

‘Happy may the maid be thet s married to a Miller, For fair day or foul day he's a’ bringing till ber.”

mpuat EXCELLENT SET of MILLS

owned by MRS. JANE CAMERON, of MONTAGUE, close to the valuable and extensive Property of the Hon. J. ALvows, consisting of a

First Class Grist Mill,

with Three Pairs of Superior Stouts, capable of grinding all kinds of Grain, and producing Flour or Meal of any grade—together with a commo- dious and well finished KILN. A’ superior SAW MILL ond SHINGLE MILL, both new and in excellent working order. Also a COMPORTARBLE Dwelling Hlouse, properly finished. ‘The LAND on which these Properties are situated comprises TWENTY- SEVEN (27) ACRES, of good quality, mostly cleared, and in a good atate of cullivation. This Farm can easily be made larger by any person desirous to do so, as there are 100 acres of valu- able land adjoining, owned by Mr. Lewuel Phillips, | Who feels disposed to sell should a favourable op portunity offer. On the whole, this Property is considered by competent judges to be most ad- vantageously situated, fronting as it does on the Montague River, whose waters convey both Grain and Lumber to within a stone’s throw of the Mills; and the convenient and good roads leading

100 dozen Edinburgh : ALE, trom these Mills to all parts of the County, and | 100 dozen Guinness’ PORT ER, /through old and highly cultivated pte ag 300 chests and half chests of TEA, | need but be mentioned to be fully appreciated by | 10 hogsheads of SUGAR, 30 puncheons of MOLASSES, 600 barrels of FLOU R, Boxes of Honey Dew TOBACCO, 100 boxes Liverpool SOAP, 80 boxes of PIPES, 1°00 JAS, (assorted sizes,) Together with # full assortment of all a ticles in | the GROCERY LINE, to which he invites the

attention of his friends in Town and Country, whose past favours are respectfully acknowledged

OWEN CONNOLLY.

Charlottetown, May 29, 1865.

j facilities, It may not be out of place here to men- | tien that the Hon. the “ Commissioner of Lands ” —than whom no person should be a better judge— saw in close proximity to this Property a site on which to invest a large amount of capital, feeling

required to make a desirable and

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residence.

permanent

Property will be disposed of will be as follow :— | Iialf the purchase money to be paid down the day lof sale, and the balance can remain secured on

a | | re ar oe renee, ECEIVED by the Spring Ships from England, and for

Sale Cheap—

20 Tons Iron,

do so, by private contract, up to the

iSth day of October next ensuing, on which day, at 12 o'clock, noon, (if not pre- | viously seld), it will be offered at Auction.

F. P. NORTON, Auctioneer.

12 Bundles Sheet Iron, ; 12 Boxes Tin. Yo ptawn. 2& oui aiot i.

3 Galvanized Do | 42 Bdla oo spring. | - George town, 38th August, is he a hh 2) pieces Plough Metals,} cast, shoe & blister.) ss VI \ i L P R OFLT + 195 Bags Naiis and Spikes, |’+"*<¢ S. 1 cask Chain Traces, l cask Files, : - . ‘ | 1 “ Sad irons, lL Serews, ue subscribers have just received, per s * Soe, | * hook & eye Hinges Sehrs. Nassau and Mary §& Charles, from the

134 Kegs Paints, Best Foundries iu the UNL’ ED STATES, 1 cask Vices, 1 cask Bolts and Nata, 3 pairs Bellows, 1 case Saws, 3 Anvils, 1 Slater, 280 Gils. Paint Oil. i cask Shot, 1 Bag Curled Hair, 1 case Kithe Cartridge, 1 b- le Shvemuker's 1 * Perenssion Caps Hemp, 50 coila Cordage, 12 dozen Sevihes, J barrels Putt: 5 Casks and Cases

General Hardware Goods.

with the Stock formerly on hand, will make the f Stoves ever imported inte

P. KE. Island, comprising in part of the celebrated

) larwest and best Stock «

Waterloo, Broadside and Magician COOK STOVES, FOR WOOD, aud Black Diamond, Magician and Victoria

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, September 18, 1865.

} i . ‘lived near the cottage my father had bired gave me some breakfast.

LITERATURE, THE IRISH POTATO.

How sweet to the taste is the Irish potato,

My parents were

‘were paid, there was not a cent left. I ‘knew of no relations.

buoys were driven past them. Luke's

very poor, and after the funeral expenses strength began to fail bim, bat still be held! clothes 1’ll oil the first iron !’

the form of the insensible Judith. He be-!

New S ries,---N 0. “42.

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, bosoms of the Jong waves. Both the life- of one more tussel with the spouters before poison to her neighbors and the inmates of

I'll bet a suit of her house, from the effects of which, it is alleged, that several have died. A

_ those who have died in her house within the jlast few months was a@ woman named Gal-

we go; come, any way.

‘Ill take the bet captain,’ came the ready

I knew not that 1 gan to waver; twice his head sank beneath response trom the second mate, boat-steer- | jacher a brother of her husband. Mr. Grin- , , .

;

As memory awakens the thoughts of the plant! had one on earth, and [ was sent to the /the surface of running sea; but as he arose ers and a dozen red shirts belonging to the | der, and an infant child.

alms-house !

Its dark verdant vine-top and beautiful blossom, . years old, and during taat time I suffered

In pleasing travsition my memory haunt. Aye! thought of the root in rrofusion once growing | OTe than words can ever tell.

‘and drink, and clothes enough to wear ; but how wany we've raised|it was the suffering of the heart. I went)

ito schol part of the yezr, but I wasn’t |

mill And the homestead: there's no knowing,

Forsome were but small ones, and few onthe bill. | like the other school-boys. Iwasa‘ poor- Warren had fainted; but ber husband ‘ Bungs’ and ‘Tongs,’ the cooper and black- If caught the form of his daughter avd rushed smith, and the half dozen boys to clew up

The meualy potato, the Irish potato, The thin-skinned potato that grew on the hill.

house’ child, and they sauoned me.

|they had done no more thaa this I should |

} That delicate plant I will praise while I’m able,

: it i ig! " | For often at noon, when returned from the fleld, my misfortune, and made lig it of my oF

I found it superior to all on the table, | phanage. The best flavored edible nature could yield. With what eager appetite, sharpened by labour, : | not my feelings, and why should they ? They bad never suffered like me, and they |

that grew on | fealized nothing of the crushed spirit that |

I plied knife and fork with a hearty good will!

Alas! there is none of the cld-fashioned flavour,

None like the *‘ real Simmons” the hill.

The mealy potato, the Irish potato, | sueers.

| The thin-skinned potato that grew on the hill. |

| that she was weeping.

|

Ilow prime from the full heaped dish to receive it As, poised on my fork, it rose to my mouti.!

There [ staid till | was nine, the second time, the bout had reached him, | different boats. }

and Lcaught him by the collar of his jacket. |

It wasn't He was fairly insensible when I touched the ship's company. Ou the broad sunny hilly-slope adjoining the | bodily suffering, for [ bad enough to eat! him; but his grasp upon Judith was like a the boats, and after ’em !’

death-grip, and soon they were both safe in| the boat. We reached the ship im safety. Mrs. |

to the cabin, whither Luke was also con-

have been contented ; they taunted me with | veyed, and ere long they were both brought to, while captain, mates, boat-steeres, and

back to consciousness. Mr. Warren pressed

If they had known what pain | the boy to his bosom, aod promised to be a and to rousing out stowed-away gear, for- ‘their words gave me, I don't believe they father to him, aud even the rejoiced mother | getting all about dinner in our eagerness for | the 13th of July, Mrs. Caruthers again took would have spoken them; but they knew did not hesitate to look kindly upon the a fight with John Finback, and our ambi. |

preserver of her daughter. It was sometime before Luke recovered ; but when he did get about, he went not

_was battling against the cold cruelty of their back to the cook's galley, but waited upon had every boat down and off inside of six

the cabin. He was allowed to associate

‘Poor Luke!’ murmured Jadith; and freely with Judith; and many an hour did hour, but the whales held on there to wind- | when the boy looked into her face, he found | | see them sit together upon the poop, lis- ward, as if quite willing to accommodate us

tening to each other’s simp'e stories. Some- |

imes Mrs, Warren looked nervous when whalers always give the finback a wide berth,

| Another victim was a youg married lady ‘Very well, my lads; I'll yo in against named Caruthers, who ate supper at the So let us rattle out | house of Mrs. Grinder on the 27th of June | — —_ after which “ took suddenly se Q. : ; cs | She had no suspicion at the time that she

Ons - < take = sat ae Mr. | been poisoned, a she was on the most friendly _ vnips, -~ the carpenter always takes Charge | terms with Mrs. Grinder. She gradually re- in the absence of the captain and mates. | covered, after which her husband took her to the country to visit some friends. On his return he called to see Mrs. Grinder, and on her invitation ate supper with her as he had no housekeeper at coms. lie was taken suddenly ill, and telegraphed to his wife to return, which she did. Ite s90n became con- valescent, and resumed work as usual. On

and clew down light sails, and heave the ship

the angular whale killers went at the boats,

tea with Mre. Grinder, and was again taken ill, Mrs. Grinder paid frequent visits tu her in her own house, carrying her Jittle deli- eacies of various kinds, which she ate. She continued to grow worse and worse, and on the first of the present month she died. As Mrs. Caruthers was a young and perfectly heaithy woman, her death caused some sur- prise, and was regarded as exceedingly strange, Lut still there were no suspicions of foul play.

tion to cut the old man out of the suit of clothes. In proper whaling time, we could have

minutes. As it was it cost us nearly a half

with all the sport we cared for. Asa rule,

jany person acquainted with the value of such |

| No appeal to the palate could tempt me to’ leave it,

Though affected by rot or a long summer's

At length, he continued, after he had :

wiped his eyes, au old farmer took me from |”

he saw them thus, but she dared not forbid | seldom meddiing with him under any cireum-

One or two other persons who visited the

sure that it furnished those numerous advantages |

Cs” The terma on which the above valuable |

| the Property for one, two or three years, ut the |

| latter part of the afternoon; and upon be-

1000 STO VES, ‘ing asked the occasion of it, he said that he | Capt. Flaiten, and he took meon board. }

, had seen something that had brought to his

| rous piece of tobacco, he commenced ; and

datas. | the alms-house, and set me to work upon his

And now, far removed from that loved sitnation, | farm. | found that I was worse than before, for I

| Where I used to partake of the root to my fill,

Fancy fain wouid revert to my father's plantation, | Was ill-treated, ani L had to work like a/|

And sigh for the kidneys that grew on the bill, dog. The farmer's wife was a hard-hearted woman, and she ofien beat me. That was | worse than all the rest, for I never deserved -cnlicthienciimaiiaiatiats . /it, nor did I opens complain. I staid with | THE OOK’S BOY. the man over four years; but matters grew ; | worse and worse, and often, when | went up to my little bed in the garret of the barn,

| The mealy potato, the Irish potato,

| The thia skinned potato that grew on the bill

AN OLD SAILOR’S YARN.

| Our ship was lying in Gibraltar harbor, |*8#i9- J3ut TI lived on, and i lived only |The day had been a remarkab!y pleasant | ‘° suffer. At Jength I resolved that | |

}would bear it nolenger. One dark, stormy inight, L secured afew crusts of bread, and after the folks had retired, I stole out from \the barn and ran away. Tor nearly a fort- | night [ travelled on, and at Jength [ reach. | neath the topgallant forecastle, which place ed the city of New York ; but even there I was their regular “foram.” Old Ben dared not remain, so I went down to the | Miller, our second boatswin's mate, had | wharves to see if I could not get a chance }on board some ship, I found this ship was jon the point of sailing. I told my story to

|one, and hundreds of people from the shore |had been on board to examine our specimen }of Unele Sam's naval architecture. After the hammocks had been “ piped down,” a | knot of old ocean’s hardy sous collected be-

/been quite sober and thoughtful daring the

am well treated here, but yet I cannot help jat times thinking of the scenes through which | have passed. I can sce the sweet face of my mother as she breathed ber dying | the | Diessing; and I can see the pallid cheek | and suuken eyes of my father as he took | me by the hand, and made me promise that | L ever would be honest and virtuous. God ‘knows | have most faishfully kept that pro- |

mind a thrilling cireumstance of bygone days. We knew there was a yarn on the tapis, and collecting about the old mate, awaited its delivery. He knocked ashes from his pipe, pvt it in his pocket, ind then charging bis mouth with a gene-

this is the yarn he spun :—

ALSO . : + ' mise, and I always will

: . ‘ > _ . ’ Fr rg’ r t is now filtee furs ago th: as . ay ate

Rarrele Washing Soda. Keus Rakin, Soda. Boxes COOK S i oO } ES . It is now fifteen years ago at I was a Siete Sadist ue thitieh jake bad

a * > ’ T me 9 foremast h: ] n board the id hi H “te7 afttie Judith wept as though 8u2 ba

Soap, Boxea Pipes, Bage Waluuts aud rilberts : oe foremast hand on boa! he old soip fiuater | | a : t

Cases Confectionery, and FOR COAL, She was from New York, and bound to| herself suffe ed all she had heard; but she |

. . i e » ' > ; , 2 } 'e ) 2 ohe ¢ ear( |, »o

General Groceries. Franklin, for Wood and Coal, [ndia. A man by the name of Adam War- | ¥28 00 the only one who had heard Luke’s

W. E. DAWSON

Bedroom Cannon STOVES, ” | Sbip’s Cock and Cabia STOVES.

June Sth, 1865. g PRINTTy, 9 cee Up s “ep GEO. BREMNER, ° snitable for Churches ,Sehoolhouses, Worksh oj s,etc,

Printer, Book-binder,

STEREOTYPER, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I.,

ALSO

All of which will be sold At the Lewest Possib. for cash or approy ed credit, by DODD & ROGERS,

Dodd's Brick Store, Pownal Street. |

Ch'town, Aug. 7, 1865

pore sii ni cians 1 as bliths LA G°? Sapa uypen + , ouly about twelve years old, and as bli ast Fe a Oe ae ba obowa SPD SBS a lark, They calied ber Judith. O, it from the cabin, in a terrible flurry, iv

jseen her skipping about the deck !—now | Prics, | hiding in a coil of rigging; now pulling at} | some rope, and thea clapping her little

| the ship like the notes of our own tative | — ia |robin, and the sun seemed to be envying |

story, for, as he closed it, Mr. Adam War- | ren wioved carefully away from the other | side of the galley, where te had been stand- jing all the while,

At this moment Mrs, Warren came up |

ren, who was one of the owners, had taker passage, and with him were his wife and jJanghier. The la‘ter was one of the sweet- rst, prettiest little creatures [ ever saw

would have done your souls good to have | Search of her ebitd. : ‘Where is Judith ?’ | * Here l am, mamma.’ Mrs. Warren sarted forward, and saw | her daughter just rising {rom the side of | Luke. | ‘ What on earth are you doing here? | ‘Luke has been telling me a story,’ re- |

dimpled hands as she repeated the orders of | the cuptain. Her merry langh rang through |

iturned the little gir, as her mother Jed her

Having engaged an experienced Just on the Square, | her brightness, Her father was one of f |your business men—a right down dollar | * me

BOOK-BINDER

is prepared to execute all orders with PROMPTITUDE and NEATNESS.

Entrance to Printing Office and Bindery at Mrs. Bremner’s Book and Stationery Store, Prince Street, where all orders may be left.

Prince Street, June 5, 1865.

NEW GOODS

BY THE : |

AT

SYWWSUSI93. fINHE SUBSCRIBER having OPENED a FACTORY at SUMMERSIDE

is prepared to supply Wholesale Customers with

|

| good article, at the very lowest prices, and ou the | most reasonable terms —and hopes his Factory,

County, will meet with liberal patronage from the lraders and Merchants of Summerside, and Prince | County generally.

PATRICK REILLY.

Summerside, July 31. 1865.

FLOUR

Recent Arrivals from Bri tally ANDING ex Schr. Seren Brothers— 200 Barrels Superfine FLOUR,

7 Importations for SPRING 1865 | 200 do xtra DO.” being now COMPLETED at the d. 5. CARY ELL.

%h Jone, 1865 isl pro

BRITISH WURMOUSE, rsa,” ea,

BRITISH & FOREIGN 5 CHESTS Choice Congou TEA, just

; received, and for sale low. we eolicit the attention of the public to our Stock of

J. S. CARVELL. MERCHANDIZE,

Now Open for Inspection,

comprising all the

2th June, ‘63. isl pro es PORTS KISSD ZUSAR.

yp STORE, and for sale low,

on e . 5 Hhds Porto Rico SUGAR ia

Requisite Articles for family use, J. 8. CARVELL.

isl pro

in | 32th Jnne, '65. —— a te oo Gin, Dried Apples, &c.

rg wy. | JN STORE, W.& A. BROWN I 15 Hhds De Kuyper’sa GIN, 6 Barrels Dried APPLES, 20 Boxes RAISINS J.8. CARVELL.

isl pro

Jane 5, 1565. a 4 ARRIVAL OF _ Enewy Bowws

2th Jnne, "65.

| Safe!

Safe!

AT Bell's Clothing Store, Oye large SALAMANDER SAFE,

with powder procf Lock, made by Williams | clapping her hands together with mucl, ito the lee shrouds.

QUEEN STREET.

| of Boston. PPUE subscriber his the honor toannounce| jou, June. “C5.

te hia numerous enstomers in town and conn- Pion

For sale by

J. S. CARVELL.

isl pro

try, that he has just received, per ‘ UNDLNE,’ a Cooking Range & Register Grates.

NEW and SELECT | (PXE Whilson COOKING RANGE, Stock of Goods, | 4 Register Grates. For sale by suited for the PRESENT and COMING) J. 8. CARVELL. SEASON, and which he is confident isl pro- will give satisfaction in

12th June, "65. a SN Ty ie shot Buckets and Brooms. Style, tu all who may favor him with their orders.

JOHN BELL, Merenant Tailor.

20 dozen Brooms, 25 dozen Buckets. J. S. CAR¥ELL.

isl pro

| %Xth Jane, 65. hier

Boots and Shoes. HE subseriber has received from London a very large Stock of the above GOODS,

\in Men’a Elastic Side Memel, Calf and Kid Pa- \tent; Women’s, in Kid, Cashmere, Memel and

Muy 22, 1265. tf

Sugar, Molasses, Flour. T TOW LANDING, the Cargo of the sebr.

* Alice,”’ consisting of 5 bhds very bright MUSCOVADO SUGAR,

22 “ Prime Porto Kico MOLASSES, | Lasting, from 6s. Gd. per pa'r and upwards. : 68 tierces 2 yruscovado DO W. E. DAWSON. 40 barrels | May 29. 1865.

100 Sides SOLE LEATHER,

Best Island Tobacco! !

For Sale low from the wharf, by J.8. CARVELL | Charlottetown, July 10, 1865. ra i

a rigs their friends and cnstomers for the patronage ’ . Lime. Lime.

lextended to them since their commencement in ‘business, would intimate that they have

UST RECELVED, on consignment —

200 Barrels No 1 LIME.

GREATLY REDUCED “Salty 24, 1865, 5. 8. CARVELL. The Price of their Tobacco, Fishing Tackle.

pena which is pronounced by judges to be the ‘Best Manufactured on the Island, Y Barque Undine | have RECEIVED. Samples can be had by calling at their Store in FISHING RODS, CASTING LINES. FLIES, Queen-street, next door to the Bank of P. E Island. ped seen oe ne ee OeSRR ISAT.” LOWDEN & RICHARDSON.

very low. T. DESBRISAY. May 8, Tass, | Charlottetown, April 3, 1865.

isl tf

NEW TOBACCO FACTORY | hunter, who didn’t seem to care for much

JUST | though, 1 must say, the Island Manufactured TOBACCO, warranted a | Mother was one of your city aristocracy—a |

| being the first of the kind established in Prinee |

~ | hadn’t then exactly found it out.

| dj » aie’ " ; else than the purchase and sale of his cargo ; | lirty — oe. Li's ee a “as ‘and as long as his child was well and happy, | Y°4 '® be contamivated with such low, filthy . {company !

“he seemed to take but little notice of her ; he was a kind-hearted| . Luke heard those words, and I could sce Judith’s ithe heaving of his bosom and the quivering

of his lip, as they fell upon his ear. He

‘ \ @ ; = > MW, | proud, over-bearing woman, who seemed to | “T°S* and Went into the galley, and puiled : | the door to after him.

ithink there was noholy of any consequence | | but berself—and the smell of tar made her We doubled the Cape of Good Tope, and ‘sick. When she was on deck she always| were standing up into the Indian Ocean. | kept a smelling bottle at her nose, and Lte| it was the afternoon. ‘The old ship was ‘you the truth when T[ tell you that her|under double-reefed topsails and reefed ‘nose was fairly cockbilled by her eternal | courses, with the wind blowing bard on the | enuffing at that same bottle. ‘larbord quarter. Little Judith was on the | We had a boy on board named Luke | poop, holding on upon the weather mizzen | Winship, only fourteen years old, who had | topmast backstay. Her father was there ‘been put into the galley to help the cook | too, and he was gazing upon his child with | He was a noble hittle fellow, though we | sort of calculating pride. The mate was jthrowing the log, and Luke Winship hac | One evening after we had entered the|been called up to hold the reel. Just as ;southern tropics, Luke was sitting upon a\the glass was turned and the log-line i spar that was lashed against the galley, and ichecked, one, of the men, who was looking Judith Warren came along and sit down | off to ihe windward, uttered an exclamation | by his siae. ‘of surprise, and in turning in the same di- * What makes you look so sober, Luke ?’| rection, we saw one of those solitary moun- ‘she asked, in a silvery tone of real kind- }tains of water, that seem as though they | ness. had been months in collecting, rolling down | «[ was thinking, Miss Judith,’ returned |upon us. Instinetively those upon the poop ithe cook's boy ; and as he spoke he gozed | grasped the rigging for support, dropping | into the face of the girl as though she was the reel and log-line to take care of itself. (one whom he could almost worship. Judith, I said, was at the weather backs'ay, ‘Don’t call me Miss. I don’t like it.| >but as she saw the giant sea towering above |Luke. But tell me what you are thinking | her, she invo'untarily let go her ho!d and jabout. If [ ever have troubles it always | started towards her father; but she was too does me good to teil them to somebody.\!ate. The ship was struck upon the quar-

} ' . ° |man when you could bring it out.

|

| did L pray that I might die before [ awoke |

Parties desirous of treating for the above, can |

yarn, he turned slowly, thoughtfully away,

|to the veteran fireman, just so, only a great

jlong practised whale killer.

jof hard tack and * salt hoss,’ or brings him

}

‘Don't let me se> you talking with that |

it; public opinion was too strong against |

At first L felt thankful, bat [ soon | ‘B¢ prejudices which she still cherished, | old ones fight like mad tigers.

though in a modified form. |

We anchored in the Hoog!y, and Mr. | Warren went to Caleutta. He took Luke! Winship with him; and from that morn-| ing till to-day 1 saw him not again. Ship- ‘mate, you noticed that man who was talking on the quarter deck, this afiernoon, didu’t you? | * Yes,’ we all returned. ‘And you noticed that splendid-looking | , woman by his side 2’

‘Yes, yes.’ | Well, resumed old Ben, as he brushed away a tear from his bronzed cheek, that| was Luke Winship. That woman was {| Judith, and she is now his wife. Tifteen years have passed away since we parted at the gangway of the old ship Hunter, but /he knew me the moment he saw me, and so idid Judith. He is now a rich merchant, doing a heavy shipping business. Tle made the captain promise that I should go on shore and visit him to-morrow. Ben, said he, as be shook me by the hand, 1 am rich, but I have never forgotten nor broken that sacred promise | made to my father on his death-bed. And, shipmates, I don’t believe he ever has,

As the old boatswain’s mate closed his

and went below, and soon afierwards we all followed bis example. No remarks were made by those who had heard the story, but | could see that the sentiment it ineuleated had reached their hearts, and excited their noble sympathies,

THERE SHE BLOWS.

As the bugle’s blast to the ears of the long trained war-horse, or the alarm of fire

deal more than that, is the ringiug, long- drawn outery on board a ¢ blubber hunter ’ at sea of— There s-h-e b-l-ows!’ to the Toaat magic cull starts the idle lounger from his ‘ eautk- ing’ snooze under the lea of the weather

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bulwarks, rouses Jack in end from his mea!

out of his berth, rattling on deck, crazy with excitement, and wild for the chase and capture of Joun Whale. Let us illustrate | the influence— mesmeric, magnetic, magical, or what you will, by the relation of an actual | occurrence.

| We were homeward bound froma suc- cessful PacSic cruise, every nook and corner jin the jolly old Junior, Nantucket whaler, ‘stowed and chocked off with oil and bone. | Not an inch of stowage room in the ship. try works down, boats laid away, and lusbed down on the ‘ gallows,’ harpoons, lances, and | blubber spades polished, oiled aud put by |for the next cruise, and all hands at paint ‘brushes and tar buckets, dandifying and putt- ting the home touches on the ship.

With royals set, a fine leading breeze, andsmooth water, we were driving along | merrily over the Abrolhos Banks, off the ‘coast of Brazil, bowling it off towards the | Equator.

‘Twelve o'clock !' echoed Mr. Marline and captain and chief mate fell to figuring 'up the ship’s latitude on the bit of elephants

tooth io the leg of their instruments.

D.ng—ding—dirg- -ding, went the ship's

| }

bell, tolling off eight—‘Ho—s t-a-r-b-o- '|-i-n-e-s—there below! Light ellis. * Turo

cut,’ piped a quilted shirt of the larboard 'watch down the fore scuttle. * Dinna red- | jdin’ sa!’ twanged Kin Yang, our John | | Chinaman steward, and down we dived, the | | captain leading, to dinner, | Just at the moment that Captain Wilmer |

| wae four steps down the companion ladder, |

and Mr. Merline, tap, in his rear, some in-|@Way our water-soaked shipmates, we pulled

house of Mrs. Grinder, and took meals there, were also taken violently ill, and finally sus- picions were aroused that they had been poisoned. This led to the arrest of Mrs. Grinder, and since then many of her neigh- ‘bors have come forward to testify to her attempts upon their lives.

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A PROVIDENTIAL MAN, There is no aspiration so glorious as the

stances. He isa worthless fellow, and the

We got our boats out and off at last, the captain leading bravely, aud a quarter of a mile or so to windward of the ship he came up with a cow finback having a sucking cali by her side. The old cow was shy, but the foolish youngster finned it right up along- side of the boat, perhaps mistaking it for his mother. Now a dart into that calf wouldu’t | desire to do good. Howard, bending over count anything on the suit of clothes wager, | the couch of sickness and smoothing the pil- : : : : low of death, was greater than Napoleon at and the captain knew that. But he knew! A li Pure Holl also that if he bled the calf be would have|jrostamatle meficines ace cablare dinenecs ” —— Would have | inestimable medicines are subduing diseases the old cow nosing around directly, and of every type, in every part of the habitable should get a chance to drive an iron iato| globe, is more worthy of respect and honor her and win his wager. than any warrior that ever drew the sword.

Just as my boat flashed past the captain’s| When Kossuth visited the United States be he darted at the calf, putting his harpoon | ¥48 designated by one of the clergy as the well ia aft, and drawing the blood freely. * poe san.” _Sencly Fasmeear over. The old cow was lying on the surface a eewey, woe es Meer ae Oe

es » the world, better deserves that title. His coupie of hundred yards or so off to wind- | general establishment in London has been ward; end Jim Denny, my grizzly old | the fountal source of health to millions of the stroke oarsman, remarked, as we drove in| afflicted. His agencies, established in every end by the captain’s boat: city and town of the universe, are the PRo-

‘If the old man don’t get Juhn Sarouka | P“* ss a age! a eS re eee a ioe re » | popula of hi 8 > for striking thet ma calf, I'm a blubber. eas hominid the world; for wherever _ And he did, for just as we got our iron | civilization has penetrated, by land or sea, into a rampant old ball, who turned and | they are known and appreciated. From came at the boat with jaws wide erough | Greenland to Terra del Fuega—from the open for a locomotive to drive in, the old| Mississippi to the Ganges—-they are advertised cow seeing her calf eztting queer antics|'" every printed language, and resorted to about the captain's boat, and perhaps scent-| PY Taces of every name and color, as the ing its blood, went rolling down to investi- | °Y patients ne gate See ee Sie , 5 phases of diseases. The leading medical get. : ; periodicals of London and Edinburgh not

In our rough and tumble fight with the old| only except Hotuoway'’s Pris axp Onnt- bull we had little leisure to Jouk after the|menr from their general denunciation of captain and his affairs; but we did get a/| patent medicines, bat unreservedly commend glimpse of the old cow’s flukes in the air as | 44€-. lo short, if we are to believe the con- she went plump down head foremost before |Current testimony of all nations, Professor

: : ; liolloway has done more to ameliorate hu- > t % . ~ . . the old man bad en opportunity of touching! yan suffering and rob the grave of victims her with an iron; and then, just as we seut

, my than any other medical discoverer of this or old bull into his death flurry, we saw the any former age. We have unquestionable crew of the captaio’s boat popping over-| authority for saying that his central office in board on each side carrying with them oars | London sends out aunually more than three and tubs, and in five seconds more, up in hundred thousand pounds’ worth of his the air shot the boat, dashed into splinters

medicines! The statistics of the cures ef- by the old cow’s nose, and shooting rigat up fected by their means cannot, of course, be perpendicular the entire length out of the|

ascertained; but, jadging trom the facts

ea a ; within our own limited sphere of observation, water, falling back on her side witha mighty | we should say that no ordinary quarto splash as of a frigate’s maiamast going bodi-| volume coald contain the record. Sarely ly over the side. the discoverer and philanthropist who has

Captain Wilmer spilt out of the stern; accomplished such results may, without ar- sheets of the shattered boat at an elevation of | Tzance, be styled a PROVIDENTIAL MAN.

twenty feet, coming down head foremost | ~C*ieage Tames.

: ; sional iis with a chack that must have sent him two Waar Ameaica owss To Exctaxp.—- The

fathoms under water. But ia five seconds | fact which we especially desire to call to he popped up like a pearly diver, and struck mind, and which justifies us in having stated out lustily for the fragments of the boat. ‘at the outset that the A nericaas may besaid In a second I was off before the wind | to owe to English policy, English principle, with my boat, my five stout fellows buck- | — ee i i i : | O eir wors on, 1 ad a nee wore in ohass of | ons period during the struggle when it rested My i ti ‘ek bh es | only with this country, by a single word, to “ly intention was to pick up the captain | array against the United States such a com- and his scattered crew, and pal! for the ship. | bination of forces as would have ended the { had an idea that there bad been whale| war at once, by rendering it hopeless for hunting of that sort quite enough for one | them to contend against such overwhelming day, and [ gnessed the old mau would be | 0dds- It is no secret that once at least—we glad enough to be helped out of the great have seontnJe —- - than a South Atlantic salt water bath. I made a ee sae ok tel eae slight mista ke that time, for as soon as the atives, anxioug to secure Mexico, anxiousa 86, captain discovered my intentions he began sincerely we incline to think, to etop further ranting and plunging, shaking his fist at me, | bloodshed, proposed to our government to and roariog away with all his might: mediate between the combatanta, and to ‘ Clear out, sir, I say, Mr. Mariine, don't | “fer mediation in a shape which would have come here! Clear out. Be off with your- involved, first, the recognition of the South, self after the whales! By the everlasting, ond then, 20 an SaneSuNe Spraan L'il shoot ye if you come down here!”

the offer had been (as it would have been, re- : sented and refused, a rupture and a war with ‘Ob! Captain, for God's sake !’ sung out| the North. France was eagerly desirous of one poor devil who couldo’t swim an inch, | this intervention and recognition; and in the and was buoying his nose out of water on a/then state of feeling in the North, such a boat oar, ‘O, Captain, please let Mr, Mar- | proceeding would have Leen considered equi- line save me! I'll drown; O, I'll drown!’ | ¥#lent to an open declaration of hostilities. No vee woe't drown. vou Yecesl!? ff) A conflict in whieh France, England and the 5 : “ J ; | Confederate States were ranged on one side you do (il thrash you like bloz:s, you lub-| ould have had but one resalt ; and that re- ber!” sult would have given Enghand the cotton I paid little heed to the Captain’s threats | she needed, and would have weakened and and curses, tut picked bim up in spite of | humbled a rival never very courteous and for- himself, fished up his floundering crew and | wee Bh psage gy = a . : +e; | the tem i ’ ‘ petted far: She. | Shen Oe geen great. ‘Bat our Government id Dot hesitate