skippers or hands in fishing vessels, and the Bank scented the business in their old-fashioned craft,” oftentimes pursuing their calling under the interest, anter at., Ch’

A. WEEKLY JOURNAL OF PG@STRSGS,

Villa mee.

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Ss. CARVELL,

AUCTIONEER, Commission - Merchant, | JOHN BEI Aw

General Agent, BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET, Ubarlotretown, P. EL. 12th June, 1865 isl pro tf at bet

JOHN BELL, Merehant "Lailor, QUEEN STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN.

ceed ARCH’). McNEILL, Auctioneer, Accountant, AND

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o advise the Public, may speak tree.” --- suripides.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1866.

{ NO. 10.

LITERATURE. THE NEW MOON,

When, as the gairish day is done, Heaveu burns with the descending sun,

‘Tis passing sweet to mark,

Amid that flush of crimson light,

The new moon's modest brow grow bright As eurth aud sky grow dark.

| | | } | Few are the hearts too cold to feel A thrill of gladness o'er them steal, When first the wanderiug eye Sees faintly, in the evening blaze, That glimmering curve of teuder rays | Just planted in the sky. The sight of that young crescent brings Thoughts of all fair and youthful things, The hopes of early years ; Aud childhood’s purity and grace, Aud joys that like a rainbow chase The passing shower of tears,

| ' : .

The captive yields him to the dream Of freedom, when that virgin beam Comes out upon the air; And painfully the sick man tries To fix his dim and burning eyes

On the soft promise there.

And there do thoughtful men behold

A type of errors, loved of old, Forsaken and forgiven ;

And thoughts and wishes not of earth

Just opening in their early birth, Like that new light in heaven

—_— —~4ap>e————-——

CHASED BY WILD STALLIONS.

“By heaven, they are upon us!” exclaimed Ruxton, as be suddeniy brought up his bluoded bay, almost, by the impetuosity of the movement,

throwing the noble courser on his haunches. i

* Who — what — Indians?” hastily questioned | | his companions, Baldwin, King and Cooper, of | the train, and who happened to be riding over | the grass cevered prairie at a cauter, by the side of the Texan guide, Ruxton. “Hist, do you net hear them?”

| Loud neighings and shrill cries of pain eame to the ears of the listeners, accompanied by the re- } gular and heavy thud of a cavallada, wild with passion in their rutting season.

| |

The very earth ; on which the guide and companions stood, al- (though perhaps a half dozen m‘les from where the hot-blooded, angered and fighting beasts were | destruying each other as they flew over the plain, {shook under them, as if an earthquake was

spreading and vibrating in the rock-ribbed globe, | aud was about tu open great fissures and swallow | | them on the instant.

“ They are movin» this way—for the water!” | stopped. What does it meant It is impossible he

‘cried Kuxton, while a shade of anxiety over-| to get across the arroyo in fime to save it from | cane, exclaiming in a loud, alarming tone, }attack. I fear those poor defenceless creatures - Culebra! Culebra! ’—*+ A snake !’—on

| spread his manly, sau-bronzed face.

“Ie there danger?” asked Cuvper, in a low | nervous voice.

Danger!’ echoed Ruxton, “ aye, is there ; | and we wust meet it. If these mustangs should | | continue in their present course, not only our} jown but the lives of the women and children in| | trains will be sacrificed. These animals in this |

season are more terrible than the same number of tigers hungering for human blood!"

“We must, if possible, avert all danger from | the women and children,” said King, who, except ithe guide, seemed to be the most svi possessed | jot the four horsemen. * What shall we do? | | How proceed 2” | These questions were addressed to the guide, a | noble specimen of mankind—tall,and ercet as an | —eyes that could look squarely at the sun in its meridian glory without being dazzled.

While King was yet speaking, Ruxton, the | guide, slid from his horse, and scanned the ground |

closely.

| Indian, with the dark piercing eyes of the eagle

For upward of a minute — an hour it |

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seemed to his companions — he looked at the ground ; and then suddenly returned tu his vluoded ' bay and sprang on his back.

* What shall we do? How proceed?" echoed the guide. * Our position is dangerous; but we | must lese no time in idle conjectures. There is an arroyo within two miles of the train — the ‘only one that can now be reached. If we can! |eross in season, before the incensed devils can | reach it, and placing the wagons around the wo- men and their young ones as a barricade, we may avert the danger. Hark! hear the thunder of their hoofs. ‘There must be a thousand of them! Yes, they are making for the mottes! You, Cooper and Baldwin, ride back to the train—re- member the lives of all that are dear to you may depend on your driving home your rowels into your horses’ flanks—and turn their heads toward the arroyo. Cross it without delay. Leave a wagon transversely in the crooked path on this side. It will interrupt the progress of the beasts. Away!”

The men indicated turned their animals’ heads to the eastward, and the next moment were flying over the prairie as if on the wings of the wind.

“ King,” cried Ruxton, “a herd of mares passed this way this morning. They have de- serted the stallions, as is their wont at this season, and must have crossed the arroyo at sunrise. The stallions are following them, so mad that they are even now fighting each other indiscriminate- ly—biting and tearing each other te pieces. Look at your rifle. You have a cool head, a steady hand, and a clear eye. We must, if possible, al- though the task is but hopeless, endeavor to check

| ! ‘

| the peopie yonder,” cried King.

| be obeyed —haad me your weapon.”

‘cent sight! See, King, see! ‘They are ina line around him ; “ but oar poor beasts will suffer tur start and arrive at ‘* no particular time ”’ came the happy possessersof 3,000 |The train that was due at Madrid at 8.35) At this «

and ready, like trained cavalry horses, to charge }upon us! No more fighting awong themselves } now! They bave an enemy iw front! Are you

ready? They are about to plunge upon us! Take | menced striking his flint and steel. The tinder | cover except the snail pace we crept along at | that great sorrel one on the left; 1 will kill this beneath this iguited. It was iustautly applied to | now and tien, and the unconscionable length What a splendid animal! There is the grass, which—the cavallada was vow within | of stoppage at stations where the guard ha

white one.

| not such another one in Texas. 1 would not take

a thousand dollars for bim. Fire?”

Siuultanevusly the explosion of the caps, ful- lowed by the report of the rifles, broke upon the stillness of the scene.

The next moment, the magnificent creature se enthusiastically spokeu of by Ruxton sprang from the ground with a wild, quick ery, and then fell forward dead before his astonished followers.

| Phe bail had struck the eye of the beast and pe- | uetrated the brain.

| King was equally fortunate. The sorrel was bit fairly in the breast and fell almost without a struggle. 4

“Now ! and Ruxton wheeled his horse tu- wards the train, ‘“ Now for the arroyo. Reload as you ride,’ be added, as his bay with great strides swept over the grass at the rate of almost a mile a minute. Mveautime he was notidle. In a few mowents his weapon was reloaded and capped.

King followed his example, but more clumsily. He had not been accustomed, although an ex pert marksman, to replenish his rifle with powder and ball while riding a steed that was urged by its very fear to outdo the tremendous pacing of the blooded bay. However, he succeeded in ac- complishing his object, and be then laid it trans-

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versely before bim on his saddle, ready fur an emergency.

For several moments the gnide and his com- | panion rede on in silence. At length Ruxton | cried ;

“Ah! do you hear them? They are fullowing They have got new leaders. Do you see onder cliff, King?) Make for it. The descent on

us. J

| the other side is easy. If we reach it in time, we |

have an opportunity of seeing what progress the train has made towards the gulch. The wagons should be ou the other side of it, and the animals, women aud children corralled by this time.”

‘Two or three minutes’ bard riding brought them to the brow of the hill the guide had indicat- ed. There they slackened their pace, and while King looked toward the great moving mass—the immense ariny of stallions that were still f-llow- ing them, shrieking, snorting, knashing their teeth, and driving them into each other's tora flanks,— the guide turned his eyes anxionsly eastward.

“Great Heavens!” he suddenly exclaimed, “are | Louk, King, the train has

these people mad? |

in it will never see another hour. trampled and torn to pieces !" The guide swayed to and fro on his saddle, as

They will be

if irresolute of purpose. The critis was near at hand. At length he cried, as he looked at his companion, whose pale face, usually rubieund, told the guide that he fully appreciated the dan- ger: “Hand me your rifle, King, and hasten to wards the train. Cause it to be drawn up in a square immediately, Join Letve not an opening anywhere ; and if the wild devils charge it, place the women and ehildren under their bodies between the wheels. I will remain here and check them.”

* No, Rauxton, that would not be fair. Lat me My life is not worth 48 much as yours to

wagon to wagon.

stay.

‘No time for talking,” replied the guide in a

jow, determined voice. “1 am captain, and must

j line with a spiral motion.

many a mile for that ] am about to destroy.” “ Now,” said the guide, “ it is our time.”

| Springing over one of the vehicles, he com-

'a thousand yards of the train—at once sprang by in great sheets of flames, and seemed to travel towards the wild horses even more rapidly, under pressure of the wiuds than they were moving against therm. :

The stallions suddenly stopped, looked bewil- dered, and then, with shriekings, snortings, and neighings that filled the air and stunned the ear with discordant nvises, turned uorthward tu es- cape the uew danger. :

The fire had now spread itself far and wide, and leaped frou hillock to hillock, rising and fall- ing at the same time, like the phosphorescent Waves in a tropical sea. Away to the vorthward the prairie fire rushed, following closely upon the heels of the disconcerted stallions, until both were finally lost sight of in the far-off distauce, where the earth and sky seemed to meet each other in friendly embrace.

The great peril was safely passed.

“Pad not the wind suddenly veered,” said Ruxton, as he looked upon the men, women, and | children who bad gathered around him, ‘not one of us weuld have lived to see the sun set. We should have been trampled and torn to pieces. At any other season but this those wild creatures would have avoided rather than pursued us. Now they are literally mad.”

With thankful hearts the men re arranged the train, and pursued their way west over the ground now black aud dreary, that a few hours before

; Was as lovely to the vision of the mind's eye aa is rr Pits. . ‘ | an imagined landscape of Paradise.

MISCELLANEOUS,

TUE WHIP SNAKE.

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more dangerous and lasting collisions.

| was not in yesterday motning before 10.40

| by their own clock at the station, and that| “4° to rescue tae ebild from the

for the truth of the report which has reached him , touching the action taken by the politieal agent

| for po reason in the world that we could dis-

| no apparent business beyond lighting his ci- | | garette, and engaging in a genial chat with | the station-master. On we plodded,up bill and down bill, as if drawn by short-winded and broken-kneed engines, the very dogs coming out of their kennels at some of the paltry villages along the line, running along snd barking at us in front and rear, and doubling us round and round as if we were sume old pacache with which they vould keep up races at will.

The tedious journey is not relieved by any remarkable beauty of the road. The fist steps into Spain usber you, indeed, into a comparative Paradise. You come throagh the flat monotonous extent of the Landes from Bordeanx to Bayonne ; you obtain the first glimpses of the lower spurs of the Pyrenees as you struggle through a number of short tunnels in the vicinity of the latter city ; you look up the beautiful valley of the smooth-fluwing Adour. and advance through tich green pastures, lighted up by the warm southernsun,on to Biarritz,insighto thecal n, glittering Buy of Biscay; on toS!. J an de Luz and Hendaye, at the last French outpus's, facing thefirst Spanish custom -house officers at irun, across the small Rubicon-like stream o the Bidassva; that little Rub:c n stream, with its grim, dilapidated old fortalice of Fuen- terrabia towering on the steep on the Spanish side, and the ** Isle of the Conference ”’ lying low on the water-edge, + like a dirty pocket- handkerchief,’’ as has been justly o served. a scene of undying histurical interest from the days of Francis [. to those of Soult and Wellington; the theatre no less of warlike exploits than of treaties and alliances, of pompe and pageantries, by which two nations. parted by wutualimplacable animosity, strove to hit upon schemes of amity which only led to graver complications and brought about All the way across the line and through the Basque Provinees of Gaipnzeoa, Biseay, and

As the wind was veering about rather ca- priciously, | was casting wy eye anxiously along the warp, to ree how 16 bore the strain, | when, to my surprise, itappeared to my eye to thicken at the end next the tree, and pre- sently something like a screw, about a foot | long, that occasivnally shone like glass in the muonlight, began to move along the taut All this time one of the boys was fast asleep, resting on his fold- ed arms on the gunwale, his bead having dropped down on the stem of the boat. But one of the Spanish boatsmen in the canoe that was anchored close tu us, seeing me gazing at. something. had cast his eyes in the same di-} rection. The instant he caught the objet. thumped with his palms on theside of the

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which the reptile made a sudden and rapid slide down the line towards the bow of the buat, where the pour lad was resting his head, and immediately afterwards dropped into the sea. The sailor rose and walked aft, as if nothing had happened, amongst his mess- ma‘es, who had been alarmed by the cries of the Spanish canoe-man; and [ was thinking little of the affuir when [ heard some anxious | whispering among them. ‘+ Fred,’’ said one of the men, ** what is weong that you breathe so bard?" ** Why, boy, what ails you?” said another. ‘+ Something has stung me,” at length said the poor little fellow speaking thick, as if he had labuured under sore throat. Tbe truth flashed on me. A candle was lit, and on looking at him he appeared stunned, complained of cold, and suddenly assumed a wild, started look, Ie evinced great ansi sty and restlessness, accompanied by a sudden and severe prostration of strength, still con- -tinuing to complain of great and increasing cold and chillness, but he did not shiver. As yet no part ol his body was swollen, except

His companion, sorely against his will, placed

his rifle in the hands of Ruxton, whe carefully ex- |

amined the nipple, and satisfied himself that the percussion cap would not fail him on any emer- gency.

“ Now for the train! time to parley.”

We have no

Quick!

The next minute King was on bis way to the train, which, when he had reached it, without stopping to ascertain the cause of delay, instantly organized it for defence, as directed by the guide. Meantime, Ruxton looked far out on the plain towards the west. Nutwithstanding the critical position in whieh he found himself placed—the lives of 80 many helpless oves depending upon. his vigilance and courage—be could net repress an exclamation of admiration, as hie elear, dark, penetrating eyes rested ou the spectacle be- neath.

“It is worth a life to look upon such a scene!” he exclaimed. Ah, yonder notle courser would be mine if I had to follow him over the bill and valley to the Gauda- loupe. How splendidly he carries himself. He seems to know, too, that with his erect ears,

“7] would I were here alone!

| curved tail and flowing mane, he is the undisputed

leader of the thousands that are fighting and fol- lowing whatever way be turns his head. I would that he took the whim to gallop any way but the route he is eu; he seems to scent the trail of the mares, and death only can stop his eareer. He must die.”’

As the guide spoke he drew bis own trusty rifle to his shoulder; ere he drew it therefrom the noble steed he so much aduired lay breathless, lifeless at the frout of his thousands of equine fol- lowers,

PINHE Subscriber offers, as snitable for he will be happy to receive the commands of! their progress. These beasts are led by captains, | “A respite" he cried. “Ha! will they nof

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so to speak, whow they instinctively obey. They are the largest, strongest, and noblest looking of | the herd. ‘They take the lead. When the herd appears in sight shoot that one down that I shall indicate, while I de like service to the other, Do not step to see him fall, but turn your animal's | head towards the train, and make bin fly. Ts this I will follow your example. Do not forget to load your weapon as you go. It we succeed in shooting down the leaders we shall gain a minutes’s time; and when they resume their

stop? Another leading already. He too must go—and thus everything depends en chance.

| wish the wind blew to the westward.”

The muzzle of King’s weapon covered the new leader. The trigger was pulled, and the beast fell ere he had faken his place as leader. The sta! lions now stepped, as ifirresolute how te proceed : but Ruxton saw leaving the ranks far in the rear, a self-appointed captain, who, with movements we might in some degree of truth say, were analagous to lightuing, pushed to the froat.

“Tt will be full a minute before he reaches

course, if they gain upon us before we reach the arreyo, your horse mast take the gulch on the fly. }It is not more than fifteen or sixteen feet in | width. Onee on the other side, we may ealeulate

CHESTS and Half Chests Prue on safety, if not, God alone can Leip us, as the |

| wind is now against our firing the grass. “Twill obey implicitly,” replied King, in quiet tones. | Hardly bad these words been uttered, when | there appeared on a rise in the prairie a great black, moving mass,the vanguard of the infuriated _ beasts—snorting and shrieking, their teeth mean- time snapping with rage. They were galloping at a tremendous pace, and as Ruxton had pre- dicted in a direct line for them. “ Had we none but ourselves to take care of,” said the guide with forced calmness, as he put a ‘ freet. cap on the nipple of his rifle, “we could

riding to the northward or southward, and so by an oblique course get to the rear. Ha! they see

as!” he suddenly exclaimed. “What a magnifi-| “We are prepared,” he said, as he looked for the benefit of lagging travellers; they ' purchaser, and the delicate minded parents be-' on @ race

| the van,”’ mused the guide. I will have time to Ha! the wiudis changing! We | are saved—saved.

As he spoke, he rede down the hill, and in a little while was within the lines of the wagons.

“Pull, all of you, the grass from around here. Leave the ground bare. The prairie must be fired. It is our only chance,” be cried, as he alighted from his panting bay.

reach the train.

bad previeusly been inade fully acquainted with

and sickles, shearing the earth of its herbage. A few minutes sufficed for this, but it was not

hill which the guide had just left,

, wagons,” was the next command. | Without a word his directions were obeyed.

Tj

In an imatant the women and children, who

the impending danger, were at work with ku.ves

“ Make your animals fast to the wheels of the )

very slightly about the wound. [oweyer, there was a rap‘dly increasing rigidity of the | muscles of the neck and throat, and within | balf-an-hour after he was bit, he was unable | to swallow even liquids: The small whip |snake, the most deadly asp in the whole lot | of noxious reptiles p+culiar to South America, | was not above fourteen inches long, Lt had |}made four small ponctauregs with its fangs | right over the left jugular vein, about an ineh | below the chin. ‘There was no blood oozing from them ; but a circle about the size of.a crown peice, of dark red, surrounded them. which gradaally melted into blue at the outer rim, which again became fainter, until it disappeared in the natural color of the skin By the advice of the Spanish boatman, we applied an ewbrocation of the leaves of the Palmo Christi, or castor oil nut, as hot as the lad could bear it ; but we had neither oil nor hot wilk to give internally, both of which they informed us, often proved specific. Ra- ther than leat anchor until morning, under these melancholy circumstences, | sheved out into the rough water, but we made iittle of it, and when the day broke, | saw that the poor fellow’s fate was sealed ; his voice bad become inarticulate, the coldness had in- creased, all motion in the extremeties had

|mountain pass and entered Old Castile at

hon our ruute, jof snow as we crossed the barren, stony

Alava, by St Sebastian, Tuluza, and Viitoria, our way lay through the gorges of verdant mountains, along the depression of the ground between the Pyrenees and the Aus- trian chain—a way wrought throagh Alpine d ficulties by the most consummate engineer- ing skill, the achievement of art contrasting

rupees ( £300.) 4 tage of the proceedings ths Si of Rajkote called upun the poiilical agent ef Katty- destructien to which, body and suul, she was doomed by ber guard ans Our correspondent does net souch

in the matter; but what he eaye that afier she bad become the Nowaub'e ey was solemuly made to abjure the errors of the — Christian Church, and tormally received inte communion with the followers of the true phet. The next step takeu in regard to the child was to marry her, after the Mahometan fashion, te her purchaser, but before thia cere- mony was performed the political officer ie re- ported to have caused the bridegroom, just turned 70, to draw up the marriage settlement, by which the new light of the harem iz secured in the pos- session of an income of two thousand apd vdd rupees per annum, ineluding an item of thirly rupees for pan and sooparee, which may be loak- ed upon as an equivalent for pin money. The political agent, however, was not satisfied with this provision for the present wantsof Anue. Le caused anyther deed to be drawa up, by which at is stipulated that, in the event of ber being at any Ume bauished from the harem, she is to re- ceive, for the term ef her natural life, the allew- ont 7 ae ripen per annuum.” This affair

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SIZE OF THE AKK —Jutidels have objected to the size of the ark—have asserted that it is guile absurd to suppuse that ever there could be a ves- sel constructed large enough to hold all the crea- tures which must have been placed in it, with sufficient food, it may be for six or twelve montha —water for the fish, corn for the four-feoted ani- mals, seeds for the birds, andsoon. Now we will take the dimensions of the ark from the record of Moses, and calculate them on the lowest possible scale. There are two definitions given to a eubit; one that is eighteen inches, or a foot and a half, the other that is twenty inches. We will take it only at the lowest. Moses states that the auk was three hundred cubits long, or about four bun dred and fifty feet long, or about the length of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. The breadth, hestates to be fifty cubits: we then have it Seventy-tive feet in breadth. He states it io be thirty cubits igh, so that it was forty-five feet in height. Ia other words, it was as long as St. Paul's Cathe- dral, nearly as broad, and balf as high. The tonuage of the ark, according to the computation of modern carpenters, must have beeu thirty-twe thousand tons. The largest English ship, of a size altogether unimaginable to these who have uever sven it, is two thousand five bundred tone burden: so that the ark must have been equal to seveutecn first-rate ships of war, and df armed ae such slips are, it would have contained beyond eigiteen thousand men, and provision for eighteen

with at every step and enhancing the sub- limity of natural beauty It was Sunday in the afternoon, and the population oi the towns, in their Sunday best mustered in no very dense crowds at the different statins ; a mixture of costume in which the European chimney-pot, the meagre French pualetot, greatly, alas? outnumbered the more pie- turesque Basque red cap, the ample cloak, and the black mantilla of old Spain These happy Basques, a finely-built, well-fayoured race, returned our gaze in all earnestness an! with serene composure, happy in their Sab- hath rest, quite at homes in that idleness which best suits aud becomes them. Ours | was a short train, and by no means a crowd- ed one. We had left thousands of fugitives from Madrid stili logering at Biarritz, at St Jean, and the other places on the coast, loth vet to go back to their cholera-haunted streets. For ne less than 80 009 inhabitants, as we are given to uaderstand, have fled from Madrid, and most of the remaining ones have barricaded themselves in their houses. Of these passengera that came along with us the greatest part were left at the various stativns on the road, and when the train reached Madrid my only fellow-travellers in the baggage-room were a lady and gentle- man, both English; so great is the dread) which the Asiatie seonrge still strikes into the hearts of this brave yet life loving Southern race.

It was deep night as we emerged from the

Miranda, where our supper awaited us at the station; rather indifferent fare and worse wine, although the refreshment rooms here, as well as along the line, are in French hands. From that honor, 9 o’elock, P. M., till daybreak we toiled ‘across that dreary land of Castile, the most bleak and inhospit- able of all inhabited regons, hardly obtain- ing by the moonlight glimpses of Burgos, Palencia, Valladolid, and other famous towns | We bad rain and « eprinkling | |

ridges between Avila and Escorial, on the skirts of the Gaudarama ridge. We were at | Escorial after nine, and only, as 1 siid, ars rived at Madrid two hours later. Long and | sorrowful were the trial of our patience at) the Custom-house at Madrid. ‘he only fel-. low passengers who alighted from the train | into that room, as I said, were a lady and gentleman, beth English. The contents of a box belonging t» the former were overhauled, and a poor solitary silk gown objected to as heing ** new.’ The lady pleaded guilty to the newness of her dress, but contended that it had been put on and worn once. She gave her word of honor to that effect, and her word was readily believed ; but the douanier, laying the written law before her eyes, and insisting upon his duty as to its strict literal application, urged that the dress in question

ceased, the legs and arms became quite stiff, the respiration slow and difficult, as if the blood had coagulated and could no longer | circulate through the heart, or as if, from | some unaccountable effect of the poison on | the nerves, the action of the former had been impeded ; still the poor fellow ies perfectly sensible and his eye bright and restless. His breathing became still more interrupted. He could be no longer said to breathe, but gasped ; and in half an hour, like the steam engine when the fire is withdrawn, the \ strokes, or contractions and expansions of his j heart. came slower and slower, until they (ceased altogether.

From the very moment of his death, the body began rapidly to swell and become dis- torted ; the face and neck especially. were nearly as black as ink within half av hour olf

and other symptoms of rapid decomposition succeeded each other 80 fast, that by nine in the morning, we had to sow him up in a doat-

the sea.— Wilson. obit Lebiimeaiiianiskutees

FROM PARIS TO MADRID BY RAILWAY.

A correspondent of the Times gives the fol- lowing description of a railway journey from Paris to \tadrid :—You leave Paris for Mad-

train, and reach Bordeaux at7.5 in the morn- ing—a very creditabie first stage of 57

hourly. You leave Burdeaux at 8 a. m., and reach the frontier of the Bidassoa at Irun at 1.45 in the afternoon, accomplishing 236 kilometres in 5h. 45m. ; so that the hourly rate, even in France, has fallen from 52 to 39 kilometres, or from 35 to 26 miies. from the frontier at Irun, leaving at 2 50 p. m., you travel to Madrid in 18 hours, over a dis- tance of 635 kilometers, or 394 miles—that | 18, at the rate of a little more tban 21 miles | an hour, allowing for a Spanish, or, you may } as well eay, a German, Swiss, or [calian ex-

ta | press, about half the speed that a similar

which existed between the several. countries in the Imy days ofetage eoaches. The Spaniards, owever, true to their old traditions, scorn to

| be tied up as to hoars. Their trains, liketheir coaches of old, always allow ** jots of time ’’

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it, when blood began to flow from the mouth, |

sule a large stone and launch the body ito |

rid at 8.15 in the evening, the only ‘through’

bore no visible mark of having been at all used. It looked as good as new, and must needs be considered and paid forasuew. The discussion about the subject was long and wearisome, though it was carried on with perlect temper and with the utmost politeness on both sides. Old experienced gaugers were called up in consultation. My male fellow-; ‘traveller and myself, as in knightly duty | | bownd, took up the cadgels for the sox. It was | all in vain ; the lady had either to give up) her dress or redeem it by a 150 reals’ (about | |a guinea and a half) duty. The money was forthcoming, the dress was delivered up, an , we were allowed to depart in peace after the | ‘loss of about an hour's time; a precious | hour's time, let me tell you, that was like | a year to poor creatures who had been tossed | about in railway carriages fur the space of hat was to be 36, but stretched out into) The moral |