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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Istand, Menday, March 4, IS61.

New Series.---No, 9.

~- BALL, 1860!

UST received from Bo-ton and Halifax, at the Old Es-

tablished (Orwell, 1943,) Cheap Store, admitted to be CH RAP. ER than the CHEAPEST Country Store on the Isiand, and the greatest variety in it, from

NEEDLE TO AN ANCHOR,

s large and personally well selected Stock of all kinds of Goods, to suit the Mouse and Firm, and purchased on the most alvantageous terms, aud which are priced at the /owes! rate, in plain flgures—for the child as well as the aiust experienged—{rum which no alteration ia made. Tue motto is :

“ Quick Sales. Low Prices, and Small Profits”

The following are a portion of late Importation :—Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, in great variety; Hardware and Caviery; China, Glass and Marthenware; Stationery; Drags; Perfumery and Dye Stats; Genu- ine and Patent Medicine, the be«t and surest for man and beast; Painta, all colours; Oils, Varnishes aad lirashes of all kinds; Pitch, Tar, Ki zin, Qskom and KRepe; Cut and Wrought Nails, Brads ami Spikes; Brass, Cooper sad Biak Nails and Tacks, for pouse, ship and boat; Cart and Bled Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips and Spurs; Sled Furs; Horse aod Bed Rags; Halli and Kooi Paper, cheap as white-wash; Men’s, Weomea'’s and Children’s Boots, Shoes and Rabbers; Upper and Sole Leather; Garibaldi Fur, Cloth, Wool and Glazed Caps and Hats.

; j Metal Boilers, Pots, Bake Pans anu Kettles, with extra lids, Mount |

ing fur Wood and Iron Pioughs, extra side and sole plates; best Scotch and refined Flat, Square, Roan, Plough Plate, Hoop and Sheet Lron;

Bister, Cast, German aod Spring Steel; Smiths’ Coals; Files and | iiasps; Mill, Circular, Pit, Cross Cat, Hand and Tenon Saws; Gerwan |

ani Engtish Flour Cloth; Wire Web and Oats Screens; Powder, Shot, Caps, Fhats, and Guos; Best «nd Strong THA and COFFEE, Broma, Sugar and Molasses; Rice, Burley, Kaisins, Currants; Pili and Navy Breid and Crackers.

Domestic Manufacture: Encourago Island)

Trades The follewing Goods will be sold at Maker's prices :—Large and sinall Barn Door Hinges, with bolts and Nuts; Dog L[rons, Fire shovels, Po- kers; Horse shoes, Coulter and Murrow Pias; island, Nova Scotia and American Axes, warranted; /loughs and Harrows, Sieds, Dox Carts,

Trucks and Wheels, [rou and W vod Axles; Spiuning Wheels ani Kees; | Bedstead: and Chairs; Panel Doors ty order; Window Saslies and |

Frames, dc , &c,

Ageat for the Hon. Jas. MeLaren’s celebrated Cloth Mills, which are fast superceding the Pictou Cloth Mills, having vast increased iw- provewents added lately to bis vstablishment.

Materials imported for making Ginger Cordial and Temperance

Syrups, with direticns for Tayern Keepers and otuers, at cost prices; |

warranted the best and safest substitute for Yankee white eye ever aeiscovered; no mistake in them Lowman’s renowned Butter Powder produces extra Butter and

Cheese in winter nearly as quick as telegraph operation; seeing is be-

Vi-ving it, if you doubt its prue! (sample tree.)

Best Labrador Herring and Codtish; with countless other articles in |

stock, too troublesowe for the priater. Parties wishing to save time, trouble, money, or oats when scarce bad better call and see the stock which ia now selling of quick at reduced prices, for ready pay, for which Oats will be taken as Casi; and discount allowed for money, to e. courage ready payment trom this date,

Agent for the aimost everlasting Yarmouth Cook and other Stoves, |

the vest and cheapest «ver imported. The last stock of them all suid. WANTED—300 Vow and Ox Hides; the bighesi prices paid for them and all kinds of Island produce Ge THE FARMEK’s GUIDE, and Almanacs, gratis to customers if called for in time. PATRICK STEPLENS. Orwell Cheap Store, Januar; 21, 1861. tf

Valuable Residence and Business Stan TO LET FOR A TERM OF YEARS, In Prince Edward Esland.

"AVIIS Property consists of a handsome and commodious CUTTAGE, reeentiy erected, and well finished in every respect. Tne Farm Buildings comprise Barns, Stable, Cart livuse and Sheds, all recently built. There is a good supply of Well Water convenient!y situated on the Premises, aud a Stream of Water runs tirough the Farm suficient for miil purposes. From 40 to 200 acres of LAND part ally cleared and under cultivation, may be rente) along with the Buildings.

The DWELLING HGi sE is beaatiful y sitaated on the |

bank of the Momtague Kiser, of which tt commands a splendid view, and is within 100 yards of the Betdvo phere there is @ ways a large amount ot wrap predXe” snipped every Full aoa opring,-a8 the depth of water admits of vessels of larze Bite fouding at the wharf.

Por further particulars apply to the proprietor, Wu. Watson, Montague Bridge, wiv is about leaving the country, or w W. W. Irvine, E-gr., Charlottetuwn.

Montague Brilge, Feb'y 1s, 1861. Isl 2m

J. W. BRADLEY & C6,

AWSON’S BLOCK, corner of Geear Groree and Kenr Steeers, Charlottetown, at very luw prices tur CASL or PRODUCE, offer fur Sale— Cognac BRANDY—direct from England—5 years ia Boud in London, Domecque & Co.'s tinest SUERRY, 5 years in Bond, CLAKETS, CUAMPAGNE, Loadon PORTER— quarts and pints, Lass’s Pale India A LE, du Boswell’s Quebee A LE—barrel and bottled, MOLASSES, RAISLNS, CURRANTS, COFFEE, SALERATUS, BLACKLEAD, KEROSENE LAMPS, PAILS, TUBs, A large assortment of STOVES of the latest American . patterns,’ 150 Kegs of arzorte] NAILS and SPIKES, Broad & Co.'s celebrated New Brunswick AXES,

A large assortment of FILES, from the celebrated |

House of Charl: s Cammel & Co, Shetlield, England CROCKERY, Mill and other SAWS of all descriptions, IRON and STEEL of all kinds, Foundry Castings, Mill Gearing, &e.,

Steam ENGINES, trom £100 apwards; BOILERS to)

maten, OlL—used for Threshing Machines and other maclii- nery, Os. per gallon, PAINTS, HARDWARE—large assoriment, GLASS, TOBACCO, GUNS3-—large assortment, CORDAGES, Always on hand articles too numerous to mention. Charlottetown, December 3, 1360. SWABEY & ROBERTS, Commission Merchants,

AND WHOLESALE and RETAIL PROVISION DEALERS, Great George Street, Charlottetown, E Isiand.

ALWAYS ON HAND, AT LOWEST MARKET RATES— FLOUR TEAS BRANDY, Pale and

Corn Meai Coffe es Dark Ship Bread W hice Sugar Rotterdam GIN Crackers Brown Sugar Cream of the Valley Rice Molasses Jamaica Pork Mustard Demerara Rum Bacon Pepper Scotch Whiskey Hams , Spies Melt Whiskey Path Chaps Pickles Port Wine Sauces Sherr Tobacee Salt Masai Manilla Rope Vinegar Claret Oe Sears Champagne Sean U1 Can tiles Bottled Ale & Porter \Ibertine Sperm Candles Maraschino conte Starch Noyau Paint Oils Sal-ratus Geneva lass lad go Blue * Old Tom”

English Soda Water, ani numerous othe ioean

Jondun Importation, and all warranted.

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fF” Liberal advances made against CONSIGNMENTS at

all times, on receipt of Goods. _ May 29, 1860. - ly ”

r smaller articles, all

| Ex “Gazollo” from Liverpool, and ‘ Carrio

M. Rich” from Boston. | VENUE Subscribers have received their FALL STOCK | GENERAL MERCHANDIZE, comprising a large a

| well selected Stock of

| DRESS MATERIALS,

‘in French Marine, plain and striped Wineeys, Gala Plaids, | }

Coburgs, Alupacaa, &e.

|'MANTLES, MANTLE CLOTHS & SHAWLS, |

jin great variety. RIBBONS, Velvet Trimmings, Searfs, Flowers, Plumes, &c. A few magnificent FIEAD DRESSES,

GLOVE®, Hosiery, Silks, Velvets, Linens Musiins, grey and

Tickings, Blue Denims, Drills, &e.

GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHS,

in Cassimere, Doeskias, Pilots, Beavers, Wiiitneys, DBroad |

Cloths, &e.

HARDWARE :

Table and Pocket Cutlery ; Edge Tools ; Saws, Files, hinges, Lucks, Serews, Saddlery, &e. GROCERIES :

TEA, Coffee, Brown and Crushed SUGAR, Molasses Raisins, Currants, Candles, Soap, Spices and Dry Saltery. ALSO-

80 bags Nails and Spikes 60 boxes best Smithwick Glass

150 kegs Paints—black, white, blue, red, yelluw & |

green 6 casks Linseed and Pine Oil 4 do Spi its Turpentice and Burning Fluid 248 coils Hemp and Manilla Cordage 6,600 yds Hemp and Cotton Canvass 26 ewt Sanderson's best cast, spring and shoeing | Steel 50 tons lron — various sizes 3,000 bushels Nalt 67 Crates and Casks

GLASS, CHINA AND EARTHENWARE

With large stock of Pitch, Tar, Rosia, Oakum, Warring | Chocks, Windlass Gear, Mawse Pipes; Bright and Nap- | tha Varnish ; Buckets, Brooms, Trunks, Buffalo Robes, |

&c. Wholesale and Betaii. W. W. LORD & Uo. Charlottetown, November 26, 1860.

Liquors and Groceries, Great George and Kent Streots,

™! ANKEN would respectfully invite the attention | N. I

of his friends, and the public generally, to his |

joe and well selected STOCK of T ~ , 12 ‘PR ‘QS — LIQUORS & GROCERIES. They are all imported from the very best markets, and for excellenee | of quality and moderate prices, he feels confident they cannvt be sur- passed by any house in the City. LIQUOKS—Brandy. Holland s Gin, High Wines, fine old Jamaica Rum, London Porter and Scotch Ale. CORDIALS— Noi au, Curacao, Marachino, Cherry Brandy, Lemon Syrup and Raspberry Vinegar.

SUGARS & TKAS—Porto Rico and Seoteh Sugars; Congo, Souchong, |

and Young Uvsou Teas. PRESERVED FISiL—Salmon, Mackerel, Lebsters, Sardines, Yarmouth Dloaters and Dutch Anchovies.

PICKLES & SAUCGES—Mixed Pickles, Chow-chow, Cauliflower, West | [ndia Pickles and Peppers, Cayenne Pepper,Currie Powder, Mulli- | Pi . PI ’ | gatewny Paste, Seyer’s, Juba Bull. Woreestershige and Harvey's

bauee, Extract Cod®5-cave Ut, Freacu Oupers, Vlavouring for ; 1d Spieg

Ca

PEP SE Fiivits—East India Ginger, Lemon and Citron Peel. f 1 Ulives, shelled Aimonds, Currants, Raisins, Calf’s-feet and and Black Currant Jellies, Gelatine, American and Auna-

[Es— Molasses, L ndon W. W. Vinegar, Tobace», Cigars, whole

aud ground Coffee, Split Peas, Beans, Kiee, Pearl Barley, Arrow- | rout, Baking Powder, Butter Powder, Brown Windsor, Fan y and No. I Family Soaps; Tallow and Sperm Candies, Table Sult, Mitches, Starzh, Blue, Durham Mustard, Copperas, Allum, Bine stune, Whiting, Glae, Patty, Cod and Seal Oi), Barniag Flui¢, Mili |

tary and Walker's Caps, Minnie Musket Bails, T. P. and F. O Powder; 10 doz. Stone Jars from quart op to 3 gsllenas; Seda, sutter and Water Liscuit; American and ilydy’s Cucese

January 7, 13861.

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REP AEL. rq. 4" rN “ i KA. = EA.

Te BEST ia the CLi Y at the price, 3s. per 1b, wagRanrep.

For Sale at “ VAUX’S”

Queen Street, February 25, 1861.

;

| TAN mn | SELLING OF! I N consequence of the DISSOLUTION of PARTNERSHIP, the Subserber will sell off his very extensive STOCK,

at an immense reduction from usual prices,

FOR CASH ONLY.

All intending purchasers will find this a golden opportunity, |

as by purchasing at this establishment they wili save a portion of their money.

The subseriber begs now to thank his numerous customers for their liberal patronage, during the continuance of the late Firm, and would assure them that, for the future, he will en-

deaveur to retain their custom, and keep up the weil known |

name of the

“British Dry Goods Store,” | by importing GUOD STOCKS and seiling them at the most

reasona! Je prices.

ig The business wiil now be conducted on the CASH system |

January7,18600, sd TURNER. ‘THE REGULAR TRADER & CLIPPER SHIP

ISA BEL,

\ ELL KNOWN FOR HER REGULARITY of passages and safe delivery of her cargoes, will sail from LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, early | in APRIL next, for this Port, direct. For | PRELGHE or CABIN PASSAGE please apply to ANprew | Duncan, Esq., 1 and 2 Trafford Chamber, South John Street,

Liverpool, or to JAMES D. MASON. Charlottetown, January 14, 1861.

1 | FEYEILE Subscriber intond OTIC ER from the Island for three weeks, requests parties h.ving business with him |to apply toC. C VAUX, Esq, Queen Street, whois duly authorized to act for him.

Feb. 18, 1861. ALEX. McKINNON.

| Stee Mi AUER, MeRINNON. | Fresh Fruit, Sugar, &<, E* *«* HELENA,” from New York—

40 quarter Fresh

RAISINS, . 16 boxes very cheap, 18 barrels Crushed SUGAR, Kegs CURRANTS, 8d. per & Drums FIGS, 2s and 3s per dram. IN WAREHOUSE Hogsheads Porto Rico SUGAR Punecheons MOLASSES Chests and haltf-cheste warranted TEAS Boxes prime family SOAP Dozens Corn BROOMS asks Burning FLUID 20 English Dairy CHEESE Kegs Baking SODA Boxes Coffee and Ginger 50 dozen BUCKETS. ; : Wholesale and Rotail, at low Prices.

Glasgow House, December 31, 1860. Pictou Poundry.

} 14 halves

one Horse American PLUUGHS, Cart Boxing for Wooden

white COTTONS, Prints, striped Shirtings, WARPS, |

Port and Saerry Wine, Highland and Belmout Whiskeys,Champaigne |

| ~ GREAT |

ASTINGS for Threshing and Stumping MACHINES,

we

Jortry. |

A HUMAN SKULL.

A human skull! T bought it passing cheap— Of course ’twas dearer to its first employer ; I thought mortality did well to keep Some mute memento of the Old Destroyer.

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| It isa ghostly monitor, aad most Experienced our wasting sand in g* mming ; It is & grave domestic finger-post Of Life—an emblem of the shadows coming. | } Time was some may have "prized its blooming skin; lier Jips were wooed perhaps in transport tender ; Some may have chucked what was a dimpled ehin, Aud never liad my doubt abeut its gender ! Did she live yesterday, or ages hack? What were the eyes when bright and waking ? And were your ringlots fair, or brown or black, Poor little head that long has done with aching?

It may haye held (to shoot some random shots) Thy brains, Eliza Fry, or Baron Byron's,

The wits of Nelly Gwynn. or Doctor Watts— Two quoted bards, two philanthropic syrens!

But this I surely knew before 1 closed

The bargain on the morning that I bought it— It was not half so bad as some supposed,

Nor quite as good as many men have thought it.

Who love can need no special type of Death— He bares his awful face tu soon, too often ;— ** Imortalles’’ bloom in Beauty's bridal wreath ; Aad does not yon green elm contain a coffin?

Ob! cara mine, what lines of care are these ?

The heart still ling-rs who with the golden hours An autamn tint is on the chestnut trees,

And where is all that boasted wealth of flowers?

If Life no more ean yield us what it gave,

It still is linked with much that call for praises— A very worthless rogue may dig the graye,

But hands unseen will dress the turf with daisies.

#0 La lalla WBE d? bik gues. atliscetlaucans.

| NRO NN RMN tan Pragati wine

OLD TIMES WINTER SCENES,

| That old red sleigh with its long box that never was full, |

| for down in the straw wrapped in the rubes, or cn one or an- | other of the four seats it contained, there was always room | for one or two more, What a grouping of bright young | faces there used to be in it! Faees in hoods, in caps and in blankets; hearts that have mouldered. And, away we went over the hill, and through the vale, under the moonlight, and in under the cloud; when the stars were looking dowa; when the sun kindied the world into a great j wel; but those days have gone forever away; and the sweet old necklace of

| ves, big in the middie of the string, and growing sasaller |

by degrees, has lust its power oveg the pulses,

Iu that old sleigh brides have gore away beore now-— those that were marcied uuto manpool, those that wore “ mar- ried unto death.” Great sulps have gone over the waters with Je-s of hope and happiness than that rade erafi lias b rne over the billows of winter; swan-like shaves now giance ong the arrowy Way; but gives us for its sweet mexor ies o! yesterday, the oid red-slet

Toen the days whea we

hy ate were ‘* coasters 5" and whea down the big hil, by the maple wood, through the little pitches, tar inty the Valley We Cuiné With m rey sh uf, each the soli- tary Palinarus of his own simall craft. flew like a dock of sWalioWs we Were, dashing from the deeliy ty, in among a group of sleds, side by side with a rival, shooting | an > ~ c 6

BAC aD arrow, steering in yallautly ahead like a jockey, aud on our | Way up wilh a sied in tow, ere the party Lad reached the valiey below.

Aud then it was, when the wind had swept away the snow | | frou the pond and stream, and the ice was glair, that we put

jon the * rockers” and darted hither and thither, and cut

| sixes and eights, and curves without number, and drew the | | girls we loved, aud whirled them like leaves over the high- | . jhe fell in with the American ship “ Graee Gordon,” Capt. choking, and after an effort of trying to get something out

| way of crystal.

And the schools where we spelt each other down, and the | schools where we sung Windham and Mear, and the schools | where we cyphered and wrote, and ‘* weut up ;” gone, all | goue, teacher and taught, like the melting suows under thie | rainbows of April.

| And when, sometimes after the great snow, the winds ‘came out of the North for a fiolic, what wreathings aud carving of the cold alabas'er there were; what Coriuthian jadoruings surmounted the fence posts; what mouldings were | fashioned beside the way ; what tairy-like caves ia the drifts . | what flowers of rare finish and pendants of pearl on the | | trees, Have you quite forgotten the footprints we used to find | jin the damp suow, as delicate, some of them, us a love-letter ; the mysterious paths down to the brook or by the old hollow tiee, that we used to wonder over aud set * figure fours” by,

| orgotten how sorry you were for the snow birds that flatter-

jed among the flakes, and seemed tossing and lost in the |

| storm ? And there in the midst of that winter, Christmas was set,

that made the Thanksgiving last all through the night of the |

|year, and what wonder the siars and fires burned more | brightly therefor !—Christmas, with its gifts and its cheer ;

|i's carol and charm ; its evergreen braucues and its bright |

| morning dreams—Christmas, when there were prints upou the chimney tops if we were only there to see them, where Sine Claus set his foot as the clock struck twelye—hrist- mas, when stockings were suspended all over the land; stockings silkeu and white ; stockings homely and blue, and even the little red sock witha holein the toe, Blessed {or- ever be Bethlehem’s star !

} > i\WAR IN NEW ZEALAND —A SOLDIER'S AC. | COUNT OF THE BATTLE OF MAHOE?IAHL

ing incidents connected with the battle of Muhoetahi:—“ We Were aroused on the night of the Sih inst. by bearing the

iders at about half-past ten o'clock. When they came to be

| all the carts had to be loaded and our dinners.to be cooked after that hour. Everything was done with as little noise ‘as possible. ‘The bugle sounded next morning (the 6h) at three o’clock, to give us time to get our breakfast before we started, All being ready, we were under arms by half-past, when, all preparations being completed, we were on the march ‘to the Waitara soon after four, thus depriving the friendly | Maories of giving the enemy notice of our intentions, as, no doubt they have done on former occasions. When we got to within about two miles from the Waitara, we came across the euemy’s position, which was a very strongone. I forgot to state that we were about 70 strony, of all corps, 12:h, , 40th, G6th, and the rifle voluateers and the 40th, stationed ‘at the Waitara, to advance and meet us. The 66th sent a skirmishing party round e.ch end of the pah, the main body in front ; Major Nelson proceeded along the beach with his

. » Kkalos were fount dmongst the Térn.’’

A private soldier of the Goch gives the following interest- |

| bugler sounding for the orderly sergeants to assemble for or-

read to us, they were to the effect that we were to proceed | to the Waitara at four o’clock on the following morning, and |

Some of the men there, who had been in the Crimea, belong- | silence with which the spectators witnessed the example of ing to the 40th, eay they never witnessed such continuous | royal discipline was suddenly broken by a tremendous roar a ‘Taen the Tigers got the word ‘ Charge,’ and they obey- of laughter, which could not be suppressed by any thought ed it to the letter; and then the work of slaughter commenc-| of deco i

ied. It wasa is sight to behold the bayoncting share aban ha bk Seem ae oe sympathy ae oy ie ae wor rats ae. ispleasure. he explosion called the royal got—you might see them in all the agonies of death. The’ mother to a sense of her position, and having turned toward | Moariee a escaped were pursued by the 12th, 40th, and ‘the crowd for a moment a face suffused with crimson, she

| Goth, and the volunteers, all under one impu'se—that of de- | hastily deseended into the i stroying them. When we returned from posed the enemy, | the pnt ittins reat Pn Aen a? Sy we went to look for our own killed and wounded. We found sneha Miia ss | four killed, viz: Martin Francis Brown, volunteer, son of the| A Geraan’s Description or tun Ace or Exizapeta.—

| Rew, Mr. Brown—the family that we went to escort from | Paul Hentzer, a tourist from Germany in Elizabeth's **~- | Omats on the 27th March Jast, when the battle of Waireka minutely describes the characteristics of the Eo lishment

| Was fought ; the others are Mr. Edgecombe, volunteer; Pri-| that period. * jvate William M’Girven, and Private Francis Rooney, both} “The English,” says the whimsical Paul, “ are serious, of the 66th ; also, fifteen wounded, all the 66th, with one/like the Germans, lovers of show, liking to be followed (exception, and he was one of the 40th, slightly in the hand. | wherever they go, by tréops of servauts, who wear their | To see the stark-naked Maories lying dead ard dying would | master’s arms, in silver, fastened to their left sleeves, and jmmake your hair stand on end. Some of our men had very are justly ridiculed for wearing tails hanging down ‘their |Harrew escapes. Ove man especially,named Edward Jones, |backs. They excel in dancing and music, for they are active fap pred : paras. a8 + oe oe * ot slipped, and jaed toy. although they are of thicker build than the Ger-

| dow ras ta a swamp), aud the Maori was in the mans, They cut their hair close§on the forehead, letting it

act of tomahawking him—had his knee on his back, and his | hang down on either side, They are good sailors, and better tonialiawk raised—when a man named Walter Smith levell-| pirates, cunning, treacherous, thievish. Three hundred and ed his r'fle and put bim out of mess. Another had a ball | upwards are hanged annually in London. Hawking is the | through his coat, under his arm; another had a sling of his | favorite sport of the nobility. The English are more polite | rifle shot through. There was one Maori lying down, pre-|in eating than the French, devouring less bread but more tending to be dead, and some of our men caught hold of him | meat, which they roast in perfection. They put a great deal |and dragged him a distance of twenty yards without his mak-|of sugar in their drink. Their beds are covered with ta- | ing a move, until they were about to throw him in the pit |pestry, even those of farmers, They are powerful in the

/amongst the dead, when he showed signs of life by jumping | field, suecessful against their enemies, impatient of anything jon bis feet, to the surprise of all around. He then commene- | lik slavery,e vastly fond of great ear-filling noises, such as ed telling us all ho knew respecting the movements of the | cannon-firing, drum-beating, and bell-ringing ; so that it is enemy. After the engagement was over, our men went to | very common for a number of them, when they have got a

look for their fallen comrades; having attended to them, {cup teo much in their heads, to go up to some belfry, and

[ines wast bet to hunt for and bury the dead Maories. We | ring the bells for an hour together, for the sake of the

jfcund thirty-seven altogether; thirty-three dead, and four ‘amusement. If they sce a foreigner very well made or par-

|wounded. The wounded were brought into towa with us, |ticularly handsome, they will say ‘tis a pity he is not an hand three of them since died. Amongst the weunded there Englishman,’ ” [Motley's Netherlands.

| was one of note, a fighting chief, belonging to the Waikatoa, | _—

| When the friendly natives saw who it was, they danced the Wuat I Beerw to Beteve.—** Bubbles,” of the Cali-

| war dunce, and it was with the greatest difficulty we cou'd fornia Golden Era, furnishes that paper, under the head of

/restrain them from tearing bim to pieecs. The man we ‘Notes and Cogitations,” with the following :

jcaught napping we tied to a gun until the battle was over,| I begin to believe that, now-a-days, movey makes the man,

jand then he was handed over to the friendly Maories, who and dress the gentleman.

jescorted him into town, and well they guarded him. We) I begia to belicve that the purse is more potent than the

_don’t know how many of the enemy bave fallen, bat their! sword and the pen together,

|!oss must have been great, for they in general take their} I begin to believe that those who sin the most during the wounded and dead along with them, and there is no doubt | week are the most devout upon Sundays.

jihat they did take numbers away. Oue Maori was seen) I begin to believe that honesty is the best policy—to specu-

carrying another along with him, THe was shot dows, and | late with until you gain everybody's confidence ; then line aaother took his place, and he was served the same: and so_ your pockets. ’

ou, until there were tive of them shot by one man, who lay| I begin to believe in humbuggiag peop'e out of their do'- inambush. This is ouly one case of their perseverance to gain lars. 1t is neither stealing nor begging, and those who are possession of their dead ; beuce the difficulty of arriving at humbugging have themselves to blame. any correct account of their casua'tics. We found tracesof| I begin to believe that man was not made to enjoy life, (hem being conveyed into the bush. Tarn which way we but keep himself miserable in the pursuit and possession of wou'd we coud fiod them Jy ng dead and wounded. Que riehes. man Of the Goth, named Join Gillighan, was attacked by| I begin to beiieve that the surest remedy for hard times ties Maories, and so hemmed in that he could not present anda tight money market is an extravagant expenditure on ais vifls at them. He fived from his hip and shot one dead, | the part of individuals—to keep the money moving.

)ran his bayonet through the second, and knocked the brains! 1 begin to believe that none bat knaves are qualified to hold out of the third with the butt end of his piece. The affair | office under government—with the exceptiva of a few natural Was wit uessed by many of our mea, also y one of the officers born fuols and lunatics, beonging to the 4U:h Regiment, who gave him a‘andsome! [ begin to believe that a piano forte is more necessary in present for his pluck. Our men were uastening to his assist-|a family than meat and potatoes, ance, bat before they could get up io him, his assailants were| I begin to believe that a boy who doesn’t swear, smoke and all lying weitbing iu ihe azgonies of death, at his feet. A! chew tobacco, may be a very good boy, but is naturally min of the Goth, named Taomas Evans, was in the act of | stupid. cuarging ata Maori, whea the native eauzht hold of his rifle, fie begin to believe that if the devil should die, one-half of and succeeded is uafixing the bayonet, at the time raising ,the world would be thrown out of employment. his tomahawk; he was in the act of striking, whea a friendly | I begin to believe that he has the most merit, who makes native stepped up from behind, and cleave the Maori through |the most noise in his own behalf; and that when Gabriel tue head, tle had a fine doub!e-barrelled fowling-piece, | cemes—not to be behiad the times—he, too, will blow his which Evans lifted and gave to his courageous heiper. Tue|own horn pretty hard,

‘tomahawk of the fallen foe idtyvans spt to himself as a trophy. | nna lieatenemnanas iwarly this morning (sie 7th). - 5% bodies of nive more Wai-| A Cauryese Wizarvo—Extraordinary Juggling Feats. | A correspondent of the London Times gives the following

i jaccount of the feats of a juggler ia the streets of Pekin:

Extract of a letter received by the Eaglish Mail ow Tues- | He first of all-spoke ebout tive minutes with all the yolu-

day last from Capt. R. HL. Crocker, of barqae Kashatine; of | bility of Charles Mathews, evidently saying something witty

Yarmouth, dated Dublin, Jan, 13:—~ for the people round laughed heartily. In the middie of his

“ We were getting along well until the 18th Dee., when | harangue, however, he was seized with a violent fit of

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Charles Babson, of Boston, from Baltimore for Liverpool, (a! his throat,drew forth a little slip of bamboo, jike a Lisbon ‘laden with grain and flour, totally dismasted, and in a sivk- | toothpick, then another and another, then he sneezed, and ing state. Alter lying by her two days ina strong gale out they came from his nostrils, then from bis eyes, until he under two close-reefed topsails, we succeeded in taking off Completed the number of thirty-seven, by making one appear the crew, twenty in number. The next day the wind haul- half-way out of each orifice at the same time, and then threw ed in Kast, and jasted fourteen days, blowing a perfect gale, | the lot on the ground for any one to examine, Le next and for seven days we were under close reefed main-topsails. took three giass balls, about an inch in diameter, and On the 3d Jan. we fell in with the barque Pingalton, of Hart- placing them singly between his lips, sucked them into his lepcol, waterlogged and abandoned. Same nght, while | uth, and swallowed first a red one, then a blue, and last of

'scudding under close-reefed waintopsail and reefed fore-sail, all a white one; here was a little interlude of toothpic’s

: . - ‘ IL-3 « . be a . our ship brouched to; we got the canvas in with some 20d talking, after which he walked gravely round the ring,

‘danger, and laid to under bare poles, expecting every mo- stopping four times; each time he gave himself a sbake and

ment to have to cut away, as we afterwards found many had @ jump, when the balls were distinctly heard to jingle inside

‘to do in the same gale. From that time uutil we arrives | him.

we saw many more ships partially dismasted and with loss | ‘ On completing his round, after several fforts he spat the of sails. We had the wrecked crew on board 26 days, which alls out on the ground in the same order he had swallowed

(if perchance we might catch the makers thereof? Have you | made us very short of water and grub. The “ Grace Gor- them—the red first, the wLit: Jast. He then took two more 'den” belonged to Mr. William /’arsous, of Bostou,”

balls, one of polished stec] about the size of a ben's egg, and mviiesiaitigninadlone another of glass the same sizs. These he first let fall on | Forry Mex Ssowep 1x on rus Yorksurme Moors.—| the ground to show that they were solid; then placing them Perhaps ne more severe weather was experienced on the | 2¢tWeen his lips, swallowing them like the smaller ones, but Yorkshire moors than that which prevailed during the past with difficulty, the ball swelling the throat as it went down ; week, The snowstorms were continuous and beavy, oceasion- ete more toothpicks and talking, while he prepared two ly attended with thunder, and in some of the valleys the | Swords, about au iach wide aud twenty long, very like drilis of snow are still 2U feet deep. All traflic was stopped, | polished hoop-iron, clashed thei together to show that they and the partridges aud grouse were driven off the moors by | V°re real, and passed both down his throat at once, until scores, aud were picked up ia the streets of Malton halfdead ‘¢y struck the balls with an audible click ; withdrawing with cold aud hunger. Vast numbers of crows aud other these he placed his hands behind him, and, after several ap- birds are found dead. The works on the Rosedale Railway, parently painful trials, each ball rose in the throat, and feil now in course of formation, have been entirely suspended, | from his mouth to the ground with a heavy thump.” and the laborers reduced to great distress. Forty of these | ee NE emeneertin men were driven from the works to seek shelter at the Esklet| Demourtion or a Grnmay Newspaper Orrice ix Tex- Huts, on the bleak moors, where it seems they were snowed ee F.E lake, ee of a German paper, Die Union, at er and could not escape. ‘Their continued absence caused | 22¥8%0% Texas, has come to grief because he made fua of over an -, , South Carolina. A huge mob includiug merchants and mem- /a search-party to set olf uver the moors, and by dint of great pers of a}! the other respectable classes of the city, went to the labor a passage wus made to the huts, where, on the door | office of Die Union, broke in and destroyed the printing press being opened, the poor fellows were found in a very exhaust- and forms, scattered the types, and in fact thoroughly gu:ted ed condition. They had been prisoners for two days and | the building. At last a:counts the people were st:ll much ex- nights, and had eaten their last provisions and used their an ee on pt qn one) = hes . the i 5 a atr last fuel.— Manchester Guardian. i“ sail-splitting’’ ordeal, and the euies of tar and eat as y S - _——d30o—————— Seankine tHe Paryce or Wates.—Some 15 or 14 years | A Scotchman visiting a churchyard, with a friend, point- ago, her Majesty, accompauied by the prince consort and ing to a shady, quiet uook, said: “This is the spot where I ithe royal childrea, visited Scotland in the royal yacht, and ‘iatend being laid, if I'm spared,” jealled at Aberdeen, and of course the loyal inhabitants of ; = ithat city turned out in large numbers. A guard of honor | i ‘ : ieietly wid in all the glory of black broadcloth and white THE LETTER H’'S COMPLAINT OF ABUSE, AND | kids, paraded on the edge of the dock, while thousands weze | PETiTLON FOR UNIFORMITY.

ee a little a back to my on ee . an | AS PRESENTED TO THE INHABITANTS OF LONDON. a queen, er Jiajesty good maturediy remained on ’ . an & Jes'y & I Whereas, I have by you been driven

| deck to gratify the curiosity oi the bonny Scotts, accompanied | t .

by the | ey of Wales, i a child of five or six pee old. | oo. a from pine aaeeet oe Heaven, Tne Priace, like other boys of his age,being of a destructive | I " z - ae a ew

‘turn, began to pull the tasstl of a splendid sofa on the deck, } a o2 ee and anxicty,

in a mauoer that threatened to detach it. _ His mother ob-! Wi chs winoat aI aes _servod the act, aud ordered the boy to desist. eae ee

He did so, | , oe but as soon as her back was turned, seized the tassel again, I bere demand just restitution. REPLY,

END To CARPENTERS. Axles, &c. &c., to he had at the Charlottetown Agricultural 7 = ae will be received by the Subscriber until | Warehouse and Seed Store, Queen Square. ; . to Cont a DaY, 7th of MARCH next, from persous willing} N. B. Parties requiring Castings for the Spring will be en for the finishing the inside of a STORE, according | pleased to leave orders with the subscriber as early as possible, Setedne aud specification tobe seen atthe Uffice of the | that they may be executed immediately on the opening of the ber. The Contractor to furnish all materials, and | navigation. +00, UO#ZS Levey (yrmance thereof. The highest price given for old Copper, Brass and Compo- ~ saw observe, jw? eveWTTEIAM DODD. _ | iositn. WM. W. IRVING. ,-

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‘and gave it another jerk. In an instant the queen furned

party from the Waitara, thus surounding tle Waikatos on aud seizing the luckless heir apparent of England by the) Whereas, we've rescued you, ingrate, all sides. When our men got within about three hundred ‘scruff of the neck,’ eievated one of her feet upon the sofa, | yards from the pab, they met us right in the face with such hoisted the youngster over her knee, adjusted him in a posi- ; a volley that, if their aim had been good, they would have tion mutually familiar to parents and children generally, , made sad havoe ia our ranks ; as it was, five were wounded when such ceremonies are to be performed, and gave him a —oue datgerous!y and the others slightly. Then our guns sound spanking. It is an interesting fact that tbe illustrious came up, and commenced firing into the pah with tremendous sufferer kicked and bellowed under the afilicted dispensation | effect. The enemy kept bicssal anette. anees rapidity. | quite as lustily as children of a lowlier birth, ‘The amazed}

From Handeuff, Horror, and from Hate,

From Huutsman, Horsepond, aud from Halter, And concentrated you in sitar,

And placed you where you ne'er should he,

In Honor and in Honesty.

We deem prayer a rude intrusion, Ad will wot meud our elocution, ee

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