Vol. VELL.

A Weekl

“This is trne Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”’*+--Euripides.

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uv Hournal of Politics,

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, June 29, 1863.

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tevature, and Alews,

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New Series.---No, 31. ue

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RENEFREW HOUSE.

Thomas's Old Stand, qivreat George Strect. mpPuE SUBSCRIBERS having completed

their Spring Importations, desire to call the attention of the public to their STOCK of

STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS,

Groceries, Hardware, Boots & Shoes, Hats and Caps,

Consisting of

ittens, Cotton Warp, Striped and

Denimes, Drills. Jean, j } rowelings,

direy amd White C Reuntta Shirting Prints Osnabarg ks

(Crash, Flannels Table Damask, jramask Cloths, Table Covers, Toilet Covers, Window Muslin, Watered Moreen, Farviture Cotton Hewp Carpeting Crum), Cloth,

&e. &e. KE Ladies’ Dresses & Dress Materials, in Grenadines, Bareges, Challies, Mo-

hairs, Delaines, Cashmeres, Coburga, Printed Muslins, Kc. &e

Mantles, & Mantle Cloths, Shawls,

Black Bound, Fillea Paisley, Cashmere, &c

Bonnets, Hats, Feathers, Flowers,

Canvas, Leo Sheetinegs

in Silk Tissue

Ribbons, Parasols, Bonnet Borders, Shapes, Gloves, Hosiery, Chenelle and Silk Hair Nets, Lace. Velvet Trimminys, liress Buttons, Belts, Stamped and Embroidered Muasiins, Collars, Neck lies, White and Colored Corsets, and a@ Var ety of other Fancy

Goops. SKELETON SAIRTS, CANE HOOPS,

J Boots and Shoes, Ladies’ Kid, Prunella, Cashmere. Memel, | anal ¢" Ladies’ Enameled Shoes ppers, Mies’s Prunella Boots and Shoes, Children's« Copper Toed and Lola Montes Boots, Men, W Olen,

and Children's KRabbers

Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods.

Cloths and Tweeds in great variety ; Readv-made Coats, Pants, and Vests, Under Clothing, White and Faney Shirts, Collars,

lies and Searfa, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Kabber Coats, Umbrellas, &c. Ke.

fiats and Caps.

Men’s Felt, Leghorn, Straw, and Panama Hate; Men's (new style) Oxford Hats, Drab and Biack; Mens Drab Shell Hats; Men's and Bows Black Coth and Tweed Cups

HARDWARE.

Knives ond Forks, Spoons, Cut Nails, Window Glass, Potty, Paimt, Oil. Plough and Cart Mownting. Shovels, Hoes, Horse Nails,

Shoe Thread, Toe and Heel Balls, Powder, Shet, Weavers Reeds; St Shoe, bing Brushes, Stove Polish,

Lovking Glasses, Shoe Blackiug,

Matches Leatt er, Ke * qa roceries. TEA (warranted good), Sugar, Molasses, Soap,

bol Starch, Coff

ongrese Boots, and Sit

ve,

and Serul

Candles, Pepper, Mustard, ee, Baking and Was sing Soda,

co,

Corrants, Raisins, Spices, and other family Groceries, all of the best qnality Phis Stock comprises almost every article usually foaud in a General Store, and will be sold at prices that cannot fail to give satisfaction.

os 1.,JELANY & WILSON.

EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN RAILWAY. 1863 - Running of Trains —— 1863 SUMMER ARRANGEMENTS. QDS 20 after MONDAY. the 18th

Traine will run as follows :— Leave St. John at 8 a.m., and 1 and 5.30 p. m Leave Shediac at 9 and 11.50 a.m.; Leuve Sussex for St. John at 6.50 a. m. Phe 5.30 Train from St.John will go to Sussex only

instant, the

The afternoon Trains from St. John, the 11.50 Train from Shediac, and the 6.30 Train from Sussex, will carry Freight; the ethers, Passengera, Mails and Express only

The morning Trains on Wednesdays and Satur- days from St. John, will reach Shediac in time to connect with the steamers for P. E. Island.

The stages to and from Buctouche, Richibneto, Miramichi, Batharst, and the North, connect daily at Shediac with the morning Trains to and from St. John, as do aleo the stages at Moncton to and from Dorchester, Sackville, Amberst, ‘Truro and Halifax

For further information apply to

J. 8. CARVELL,

June 15, 1863 Avent for P. E. Island

International Steamship Company.

TWO TRIPS A WEEK.

Mue splendid sea-going Steamers “ NEW BRUNSWICK,” E.B. Wixcnester, Master, and “NEW ENGLAND.” Ewos Firip, Master, will leave Reed's Point Wharf every MONDAY and THURSDAY mornings, at 8 o'clock, until further notice.

FARES :

BO PII, oc ccc cuccceecsvesees $! 5 NE iiik'ans ide oesitbibiecle delbidn 400 Boston, .. soon ooee cocetbibes > Boston by Steam and Railway,....6 OU

te Freight and Fares payable in New Bruns wiek Carrency, at St. Jobn

Paseages and State Rooms secured at the Com- pany « Office, Fast end Warehonse, Keed's Point Ww harf J. S&S. CARVELL, Agent

Charlottetown, June 15, 1863.

‘Better than Gold to Farmers 1

Nitro Superphosphate Manure.

rpiis MANURE hos been analyzed by W. T. Ricwaans, F.C. S., for J. D. Nasa & Co, and contains:

Moisture . ° - 16,4°0 Soluble Orgenic Matter - - 10,765 Insoluble Organic do - 23,112

Alkeline Salnbate and Chloride 2,226

Soluble Phosphate Lime 19.580 Insoluble do do - 20,630 Sulphate Lime - - 6,850 Sihea - - ° 150 Loss - - - - © 242

306,000

Nitrogen 5 62 per cent. Ammonia 6 80 per cent.

in using this Magure it should be first well mixed With about ten times i.s own weight of dry soil or fand, so as to ensure a uniform distribution over the surface, from 200 to 600 Ibs per acre, according to previous state of the ground will be required for each acre. If once used, no farmer will ever be, without it, if he can procure it, asthe large increase ef crop is such that no other ean equal it.

PATRICK STEPHENS,

General Agent for P. E. I. A few Barrels of the above have just arrived as | sawple, and will be sold cheap to induce farmers to prove it for next Season, at Mr Jobn Williams? Cha rlottetown, W ih Dawson's, Esq, Charlottetown, the Royal Agricultural Society, and at the Depot.

PATRICK STEPHENS Onweit Caesar Stone, (where may be found from & needle to anchor,) General Agent for P_ EI, :

N 6 —Wanted a TON or TWO of Goop WOOL ;

the highest price paid in cash for it on delivery Orwell, Jane 22, 1863. P.s

THOMAS KELL

Attorney at Law and Solicitor,

ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK. Jane 2, yee: 2m

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| Misses’,

|}& CO..,

nee anes - THE LARGE And Varied Stock of USEFUL AND STAPLE

GOODS

TO BE FOUND AT

KING SQUARE HOUSE,

\ AKER it quite an inducement for parties i to calland examine the same before purchas Among agreat variety of others,

ing elsewhere. we would enumerate

CLOTHS, a nice assortment, DRESS GOODS. newest styles, Mantles, Hats, Bonnets, Ribbons, Feathers, &c. ce.

Gents’ and Children’s HATS and CAPS, in great variety and at all prices; White, Grey, Striped and Printed Cottons ; Denims, Ticking, Osnaburg, &e. &c. &e

Superior Cotton Warp.

IN HARDWARE,

Our STOCK is well assorted, including

Twenty-one Packages Sheffield Goods, together with 20 Tons IRON,

110 Rags NAILS, Threshing Machine Castings,

*lough Mounting,

Casks Boiled and Raw Linseed Oil, Sweet

Oi!, Putty, Glass, White and Colored Paints, &c. &c.

Particular attention is asked to our

GROCERY DEPARTMENT, including 100 Chests and Half Cheste very best CONGOU TEAS (warranted), together with

alinost every article required for general use.

BEER & SONS. Charlottetown, June 15, 1863 Im

BOOTS and SHOES,

ADILES’ Prunella, Cashmere and Last- |

4 ing, from 48 94; Ladies’ Kid, Gents’ Balinoral amd Congress, Goat, Calf and Kip BROGANS, Youths’ and Children's,a good assortment

June 15, 1863. im BEER & SONS

TURNIP SEED. |

| PARTS WISHING FRESH TUR- |

NIP SEED will do well to boy from June 15, 1863, im BEEK & SONS.

Carriage Mounting, &e.

A XLEs, Springs, Maleable Castings,Axle Z

&e BEER & SONS.

Im CIRCULAR SAWS,

ROM 12 to 36 Loch, at s smal] advance BEER & SONS.

Caps, &<« June 15, 1863

en eoat dune 15, 1863, ln

DR. SUTHERLAND

EGS to intimate that he has just opened, Ex “ Uranus’ and “ Prioress,’ Stock of 1 » Drugs and Chemicals, with additional daily expected, selected from the best London establishin Medicines carefully prepared by himself; there- tore the publie may have conidence im receiving a

uh eXtensive

Tits

genuine article and at the cheapest raics possible Toilet Articles in Variety.

Brown, White and Fanev Winds«

rs

Ups, Ede q

Rimmel's Pert mer, J y ¢ . Rond Verbena. Kise Me Qui Milleiieur, Queen's Qwn, Hicbland Per Pomades, Hair

ils, Hair Washes. sual Col rune, &e; Hair, Tooth, Nail, Sharing, Hat and

Ay Clothes Drushes.

Nursery Articles in Variety.

Feeding Bottles, Nursery Syphon Shields ; |

Gum Rings, Ivory sutta Percha; Combe, all sizes, shapes and prices.

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Salpetre. Baking Soda, Washing Soda, Baking Powder, Alnin, BKlne, Vitrol, Cadbear, Cream of Tartar, Camwphor, Castor Oj!, (best English cold drawn); Turpentine, best L purified Cod Liver Uil, Mustard, Root and Powdered Ginger, Cinnamon Bark, Powdered Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, Olive Oil, Florence Oil, Almend Oil, Holloway's Pills and Gintment, (Eaglish,) Belmon- tine Candles, Pruno Candler, &e« Ke.

{# Dr.Sntherland ean be consulted daily at his establishment for Town and Country.

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te Advice given to the Poor gratis. Queen Street, June 22, 1863.

UNION BANK OF PV. EL

fSXHE SHAREHOLDERS are hereby |

informed that, in pursnance of a Resolution to that effect, the Provisional Committee of the Bank have made A CALL OF FIVE PER CENT. on the Capital Stock subscribed for, to meet preliminary expenses, which call will be due at the expiration of Thirty days from this notice, and will be payable at the office of the Chairman, CHARLEs Parmer, hequire, at Charlottetown

ALFRED PHILLIPS, Secretary Charlottetown, June 16, 1863 2in

LIVERY STABLES,

(LATE GATES’S.)

‘PSHE SUBSCRIBER. having rented the EXTENSIVE LIVERY STABLES,

known as “GATES'S LIVERY STABLES,’ North side of Queen Square, is now prepared to hire HORSES and CARRIAGES, at all hours, and on reasonable terms. By keeping good Horses and Carriages. and paving strict attention to the wants of the public, he hopes to merit a share of Public Patronage

Has good stabling, and will take the charge of liorses, by the month or otherwise

JAMES BARR, Jr.

Charlottetown, IP. FE. Island,

Jnne 23, 1863. Im

Barley ! Barley!

Vy ANTED, 3000 Bushels BARLEY. J. 8. CARVELL. Charlottetown, Jan. 12, 1863. tf

DENTIFRICE SOAPS, Xe.

Rimmell’s White Rose Dentifice Seap.

Robinsons’ Indexicat Dentalsoap.

Pelletier’s Antisepticand Aromat_c Tooth Soap.

John Gosnell and Co’s Cherry Tooth Paste.

FPXULESE DENTAL SOAPS, which are of- |

ered as substitutes for all the Powders and Washes heretofore used, are prepared expressly for the TEETH, of

The purest Materials of which Soap can be Made.

They are tasteless, save an agreeable aro- matic flavour, imparted to them by the Anti- septic and Astringent properties with which they are combined.

They effectually rid the mouth of the fcetid matter and tartar, which render the breath so impure and disagreeable. They give tone and strength to the gums, and a clear pesrly

| whiteness to the Teeth, preventing the pre-

mature decay of those priceless organs, the fall value of which is never realized until they are lost to us forever.

THE STEREODESMIC,

oR DENTISTS’ TOOTH BRUSHTES.

These TOOTH BRUSHES have heen exten- sively introduced, are highly recommended by the most eminent Dentists, and are war- ranted to purchasers by JOHN GOSNELL Inventors and Patentees of the TRICHOSARON HAIR BRUSH.

Only sold in this City by WM. R. WATSON.

A supply of SILVER SOAP recom-

S mende

for cleaning Plated and Silver Ware. Jannary 6, 1862.

We.

d asthe BESTARTICLEEVERSEEN P%

REMOVAL. | LITERATURE, R W. BRECKEN has removed his : “ay e place of Business from Pownal-street to the AN ANGEL'S W HISPER.

premises recently oceupied by Parker MERRILL, next door to the Bank of P. E. Island, where he | has on hand—JUST RECEIVED—

Per Schr. “Orion,” from New York, | 150 Barrels Flour,

superfine Extra and Pastry, for Sale low for Cash, or approved credit. }

DAIL Y EX PECTED, Weep no more then for thy lost one, BY BRIG “URANUS,’”? FROM LONDON, | Now an angel, standing near,

‘30 Chests Superior Congo TEA, | Loving father why this sadness?

Iwarranted.) Cold I sleep not in the earth,

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Weep not father, here beside thee

In the dull of twilight grey,

Stands once more the loved, the lost one— Stands thy little Annie gay,

Feel you not my fairy finger

Pressing back yon starting tear ?

Bat ‘midst scenes of angel gladness Flows my little heart with mirth. Not im pain nor yet in sorrow

BRECKEN.

May 4th, 1803. 3m

CHARLES BELL, MERCHANT TAILOR, |

|QUEEN STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN, | EGS to intimate that be has JUST) RECEIVED, via Halifax, his SPRING AND /SUMMER SUPPLY, and is now showing a large | jand carefully selected STOCK OF NEW GOODS, | ' suitable for the season, in CLOTHS, TWEEDS. DOESKINS, TALLORS’ TRIMMINGS,

HATS AND CAPS,

I your infant daughter died,

Grim death came not armed with anger, Nor in rage his mission plied ;

Bat as I in pain was dozing

When the dreary twilight fell, Came there strains of angel music With the sound of tolliifg bell; Distantly at first it sounded,

But as though approaching near, Till it swelled a heavenly chorus Round about my little bier.

Then appeared a solemn stranger-— Sad his face, yet sad and kind, —

SHIRTS, SHIRT COLLARS, TIES, Come have I, sweet pet, to take thee, SCARFS, GLOVES. BRACES, Grieve not but for those behind. UNDER CL OTHING, | God of heaven wants thee, sweet one— ge. Ge. Fe. Wants to save thee, child, from ill, FOR MENS Waar. | So to heaven must I bear thee— luspection respectfully solicited. Servant to his sovereign will.

te Remember the New Stand, QUREN-STREET. |

Thus the sad and selemn stranger Charlottetown, June Ist, 1863.

Spake in words of heavenly grace, Nestling in his bosom softly, Then he bore me from the place

Hiardware.

HE Undersigned is landing, per EDA | MARIA, from Boston and from Encrayp,— | EAGLE PLOUGHS,

| EAGLE 0. PLOUGH MOUNTINGS,

HORSE NAILS, POWDER AND SHOT ALFRED PHILLIPS. Charlettetown, Oct. 13, 1862.

NOTICE.

Weep no more then, father dearest, Over thy little daughter's grave, Happier far to float in gladness Than to drift on life's dear wave. THE SHERIFF’S STORY.

In the autumn of '42, on my way home

| dies | | put up for the night at the inn of a small settlement on the Wabash.

been dark and lowery, and the evening set jin with a driving storm. After supper a

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jy 1; ANTED IMMEDIATELY, ar tue! CITY TANNERY,

10 Tons GOOD WOOL,

for which the subseriber will pay CASH, at his | goodly company assembled in the bar-room ei

Ottice W. B. DAWSON

Mav 25. 1863. i jand story-telling became the order of the

N. B.—For the convenience of thoge at a distance | OCCasl0n. Among our number was a gray:

from the City, the ** Hide & a yry® — | headed mao, whege pame I learned was - ¢ ho several ae a ro ic is a,j y re ie ‘he Wool at ieee of “0 | W arren Alton, He was past three secre, but during the months of June and July. jbis gestures and movements betokened all Ce ee eee a ithe vigor of middle-age. A number of Carriages at Auction. stories had been told, aud finally all eyes fTENHE 8S U BSCRIBEB _ intends, | ¥ere directed towards Alton. Some one had on Tuvespay, the 2d day of JCLY ensuing, | called bis name, aud hinted that his turn had at 12 o'clock, noon, to SELL, at his establishment, | come. se ea OW EGCONS, aud OFLY CAR.| ‘Gentlemen,’ he said, * if you choose to KIAGES. ‘vey will be trimmed complete, (one is | listen, I ean give you a short story touching altovether eqnal, jf not superior, to very inany ofi, certain prisoner that [ once had the Ofcourse we shculd

; : F oan yr the Carriages built on the Island), and will be sold

Without reserve—of this purchasers may rest pleasure of urresting.’ ‘listen,

ussared.

‘The terma will be approve int notes, pavable in five Cree TSS CEPT aD ron st Gas bein | ‘Twenty years ago, or thereabouts,’ com- money, if required, by paying moderate interest. |menced Mr. Alton, ‘I was sheriff of Adams

PETER GREGOR. | county. Close by 8 sharp bend ar Bottom + | Branch Creek was located quite a scttle-

FLOUR! FLOUR! iment, called Jackson ; and atue miles dis-

Idaho from New York and Carrie Rich ‘®t, i 2 southerly direction, was the town from Boston. jof Huntsville. The creck, after bending

| JUST RECEIVED 400 Barrels FLOUR,

For Sale at DODD'S BRICK

New Glasgow, June 8th, 1863.

ithe west, aud then turned back and crossed

poe grades. jand Huntsville. Of the nine miles between DODD & ROGERS. | these two places seven of them were through ne : _ |a low, dismal swamp, where the road, for | . ! Turpenzine! ithe whole distauce, was a corduroy of oak Turpenzine pe ~ "logs. On this dark and sunken road trave'-

7. best substitute yet discovered for | ters had been murdered and robbed. Two

Turrestine. This is its character by the fe ‘

firm who manufactured it. For Painters, Color years before I came into office as maby as Mixers and Printers, Turpenzine will be found | six dead men had been found by ihe Wway- superior to ordinary Turpentine. It is adapted to | sige jy nor ‘ i : all purposes for which Turpentine is used, and is | side in that swamp. After [ became sheriff less than one third the cost. For sale at the Cash | Drug Store of M. W. SKINNER.

Charlottetown, June 15, 1863. Lin

May 8, 1863

(to Huntsville to look after the matter. 1 — |fouad one of my deputies there--a fair,

STEAMER “HEATHER BELL.” ‘honorable man, named Watson. He toid eux, OEVIUE Steamer * HEATHER @e that every exertion had been made to BELL, W.C. Bourke, Master, | apprebend the perpetrators of the murders, will, until farther notice, leave Char- byt without effect. lottetewn every TUESDAY morning, at half-past seven o'clock, for SUMMERSIDE and SHEDIAC ; and will return to Charlottetown the following day, any person. calling at Summerside on her way down. ‘| reached Huntsville te the evening

| For Freight or Passage, apply on board at Reddin’s . 4 Wharf, or at Summerside to Mr. Meuvycry, Tele- and on the following morning I rode down

graph Office. dune 15, 1863.

BAZAAR

FOR

ST. DUNSTAN’S COLLEGE.

mon __— | place was truly diswal and dark enough.

The track had been cut through a thick, |tangled, matted growth of cypress, cotton: | wood, and running vines; and in many nee" ‘place the logs had sunk so far that the Under the Patronage of His Lordship the Bishop | mud and water flowed over them. And

of Charlottetorn. | this piece of swamp, by the road, was seven A BAZAAR, having for its object the miles in extent. About half-way through we l valde of Santee tien enintians Ne ,came to the bridge which crossed the creek will be held at the said College on WEDNESDAY ,—not a bridge such as we usually see, but a and THURSDAY, the Sth aud %h of JULY next. sunken mass of heavy timber, pinned down

j |

The ladies of the Convent of Notre Dame are the | ; ; : principal organizers thereof, and are zealously by piles and ties, so that the stream could | seconded in their laudable eflorts by many ludies of | be forded. It Was near this spot, I was Nig” a he following articles will be disposed | told, that most of the murders had been Se ae oy, , | committed. 1, A Drawing room Chair, embroidercred , are O he follow; 5 on cloth and mounted............ tis per ticket. | nD the fo owing moruing word was 2 A pair of Fire Screens Sac de debe see's de - | brought to Huntsville that another man 3. An elegant Sofa Cushion.-.-.-----38 Thad been found dead and robbed in the 5. Tc cat callie -s--28 jswamp. Watson and I posted off with! 6. A meen Box, embroidered on es : |many others, and found it to be as had been VOIVEE ccccccccsccerecsesssesce } 7. A pair of Poot-stools.......-..- Iséd | related. The dead man lay upon the road- & A Work Bex painted on velvet....94 ‘side, about three rods from the bridge,

Contributions in money, fancy werk, materials for faney and useful works, &c., will be thankfully received by the following :—

The Ladies of the Convent, Mrs. P. Walker,

Mrs. O. Connelly,

Mre. Eckstadt,

Miss McDonnell,

Mies Reddin, Miss Kelly,

Mies Longurd, Mise MeDade.

The ladies and gentlemen belonging to the coun try, as well as those belonging to the city, are respectfally solicited to send in their contribations as soon 23 possible to either of the above ladies.

Persons desirons of obtaining tickets for the Lot teries will also please send in their bames to any of the sume parties.

Charlottetown, June Ist, 18602.

with his skull broken, and his pockets empty. A score of people from Jacksoa _ were already there, and I soon learned that the murdered man had stopped at the latter |place on the evening befure. I whispered to Watson that I must not be known, and bade him not recoguise me any more in public. After this 1 mingled with the peo-

Mrs. MelIsanc, Mrs. D. Reddia, Mrs. Gleason, Mrs. Gaul,

Mrs. J. Murphy,

‘Mation I could ; at lengta the following facts

known in that section. | Jackson, on the evening before, on horseback, jand had put up at the inn at that place. | He had started on his way again very early |in the morning, and he was next found dead

NOTICE! \

Desxatn, of SUMMERSIDE, in Prince Country,

Prince Edward Island, Merchant, has THIS DAY

sold, made over, and delivered to us all his Book

ce ge sag oa = — NOTICE i¢ was present, and had been helping to iden-

eby fen to ~ersous jndebted to th ahiK . :

| Ronald MeDonald that we have appointed W1- tify the dead body. His name was Laman

tiam Beainsto, of ee ens oar | Stoker, and the moment I[ restcd my eyes Attorney, to collect said Debts and Notes, and who : + yey °

alone is authorized to grant diacharges fer the same. | upon him I disliked him. He was a short,

WEPMORE & McCULLOCH, | en man, with tremendous breadth

as eae, Nova Scotia. 0 shoulders, a small , bullet-shaped head ;

a with prominent cheek-bones, and small, thin

/ears, buttoned back flat upon bis skull. I

(JHE highest price given for BARLEY ™** close by him, engaged in studying his

and GATS, st _physiognomy, when an eld gentleman who

Coles’s Brewery and Distillery, ' had come down on horseback, spproached and

Constantly on hand, ai prices cheaper than cap be spoke to him. rchased in the Market, the best of Ram, Brandy Gin, Whiskey, and a snperiorarticle of Mal Whie kev. Also—X, XX, and XXX Ale. Charlottctown, November 14, 1862,

the previous day. ‘The man who kept the inn at Jackson

dane 8, 1863.

Grain, Grain.

leave your ina this morning ‘’ the gentleman _ asked,

TO WOOL GROWERS! ftom the West. I found myself obliged to)

The day had:

around Jackson settlement, took a sweep to

the track about midway between Jackson |

‘the trouble was renewed, and | went down |

In fact, the «flicers had | /not as yet been able to fix suspicion upon |

.|with Watson upon the corduroy road. This |

ple from Jackson, and gathered what infor-

‘appeared :—Tbe murdered man was not | He had arrived at |

THEREAS, by Bill of Sale, dated this| by 2 boy who bad come down to the creek | Sth day of JUNE, 1863, Mr. Roxacp Mc- to look at some traps which he hed set on

—— ——— EE

| © *As soon as it was daylight,’ replied The host eyed me sharply,but I kept my coun- ‘Stoker. *I told him he'd better wait for tenance. It did me good to have him eye |company, but he was in a hurry.’ me in that fashion ; for 1 saw that he feared | ‘**I wonder if he had much money with me. And why should he fear me? Did I | him.’ | *At this query Stoker betrayed to me a from that time forth gave weight to the suspicious sign, for | was watching him very testimony I had already collected. iclosely. He tried to look surprised that | ¢ 1 ‘such a question should be put to him. ‘ How [intended to stop with him. I had intended do you suppose I know? was his reply. to stop over night, and mcet Watson there '* He may have had a thousand dollars, and in the morning; but my plan was changed, | he mayn’t have had a dollar. I can’t tell.’;) The wretch showed more plainly than before | «But where is his horse ? asked the old that he mistrusted me, and I feared that | man, something might turn up to injure my cause | ‘*His horse was found in my yard by ; my hostler, just after breakfast.’ | ** Was there any blood on him.’ | ‘*T guess not,’

_[ was not going to stop at all. I had a long road to travel, and [ wasin a hurry.

ther he was pleased with this, or whether he

| ‘Atthis point Stoker went away, and [ was not, 1 could not determine. 1 paid for’

‘went to look at the dead man. The corpse dinner, for self and horse, and got away as |had been moved up from the wayside upon | quickly as possible, and rode post-haste to | the corduroy ; and as L looked down where | Huntsville.

it had been first foand, it struek me that * Wa'son opened his eyas with astonish- 'very little blood had been left there. ment when I told him what I had dis. | ‘You may call it chance, or you may coverei; but he did not oppose my belief. admit that my perception was keener than The whole thing, as 1 opened it to him in | that of most men; but, at ali events, my regular sequence, struck directly to his mind began to take a turn ina direction not understanding ; and he only wondered that /yet explained by the officers who had pre- he had not thought of something of the kind |eeded me in the search. At first I only | before. He was ready to act with me, and suspected that the man, or men, who bad our plans were soon laid. fe went out and committed these crimes, resided either in| engaged three stout men to accompany us, ‘Jackson or Huntsville. I had drawn two of whom were constables; and after enough out of the two old hunters to con- tea we set forth on our way to Jackson. ‘vince me of that. Next I suspected that; ‘* We reached the inn a little after dark. Laman Stoker had some hand in the bloody | Watson and one of the constables went to ‘business. He looked fit for the work ; and | the stable and secured John Boone, while | within the past few minutes, he had exhi- | went into the house and arrested Laman bited signs of guilt which were to me appar- | Stoker. The latter, as I have already in- ent enough. ‘timated, was a powerful fellow, and he | ‘Loose straws indicate the way of the came very near giving us trouble; but a |wind ; and the man who seeks to ferret out | blow from the butt of one of my heavy pis- great things must not pass carelessly over | tols reduced his strength somewhat, and | little things. Why was there no more blood | after that he was easily secured. Then we spilled where the dead man had been found ? | commenced to search the house. We hunted Surely, not because the gates had not been | bigh and low, and we had plenty of inter- opened, for his skull was broken to pumice, | ested people to help us. Partition walls and it was evident enough to one at all| were torn down, and floors were ripped up. versed in such matters that nearly all the) We found the property of the murdered blood in his body had run out. But where|man in a secret locker; and in a tans of was it? There had not been a pint spilled | ‘vater, away in one corner of the cellar, we where the body had lain. I looked to see found a lot ot bloody bed-cluthes, We had if I could find blood anywhere else ; and by | evidence enough; and the prisoners were and by I found a little clot nearer to the carried to jail that very night. creek. I continued to move on, and at the, ‘ On the next day John Doone was dying. _ very edge of the stream I found a few more; He bad been sick with consumption for a drops of blood, and foot priats deeply sunken long time, and during his struggle with inthe mud, At this point the idea which Watson on the night before hisstrength had bad before been dimly floating in my mind completely failed him, When be knew that asa possibility became very near a reality. ‘he could not live he declarad that he would These prints were at some little distance ™ake a clean breast of it. I am inclined from the sunken bridge, and the man who! to think, however, that he hoped that his had mode them had crossed a point of turf; confession might benefit him in ease he iu reaching the road. I selected a spot should, by any possible means, recover, where the mud was quite hard, and here I) ‘This confession was just what I ex- stepped along by the side of the other track. pected. He and Laman Stoker had com- [ was a heavy man; and yet the prints of mitted all these murders—had done the my feet were not more than half as deep as _ki'ling in the house, and had then conveyed those other prints. What did this signify? tac bodies, by way of the creek, to the road [t signified very plainly to me that the man in the swamp; and where the murdered who bad made these deeper tracks had borne | men had had horses, the horses had been led a heavy Jozd on his shoulders ! |out from the stable by a back way, saddled

‘ And thus [ arrived at a conclusion which | and bridied, and turned loose iu the road,

explained why the search and investigations | The whole plan had ‘seen adroitly contrived, of the officers for two years, or more, had| and, far too long, had been successfully proved futile. They had searched in the | executed.

wrong place. They had taken it for granted) ‘John Boone died within three hours that the murders had been committed upon after his confession had been made; but that dark road in the deep swamp. I was Laman Stoker lived until his breath was new convinced that the dead body I had stopped by the rope of the hangman.’ just le‘t had been borne to its present place) 777

of rest from the shore of the creck 2? And. MISCELLANEOUS,

what was there beyond that? Howcameit| ___ mt upon the shore of theereck ? We shall see. | AN ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.

* I left the proper officers to take charge | of the corpse, and having told Mr. Wateoe | A few days ago ap elopement was “ per- to meet me in Jackson on the following | petrated” in Toronto, Canada. We learn morning, I started for the latter place and | from the papers of that city, that the case pat up my horse at the stable of the inn—| has created a good deal of interest, and oc- the inn kept by Laman Stoker. I found the | casioned considerable excitement. In order hostler ; and I shuddered when I looked at |to furnish an idea of the particulars of the him—not because he was a very ugly-look- | affair, we condense an account which ap-

ing man; but because ke looked to me peared in the Toronto Globe of the 10th exactly fit to help his master do bloody work. | instant.

He wasa thin, pale, coldblooded fellow, with | On the 11th day of July, 1861, the 30th See renaerte brow ; nee me, et » Regiment landed in Toronto. There was a ; in. EF he "had be , 7 » DOVY | Auttering among the young ladies belonging eat eae 20 bad Decn & larger 10 | to the « upper twenty,” and visions of “offi- | these characteristic features would have been este bold aed brave * danced toteew thee a he prominent, and people might have fcar- eyes. Papas ealled and left their cards, the S : Vy , pe oa was, he z J i 3 ladies got new dresses of the latest fashion, ee ee ed at ie eee = | end Gemtemene Wane liberally sent out to all | thought of his doing any barm. | oT; J |_,* Toe landlord bad not yet returned, and | gown to the newly-fledged Ensign, and were while the hostler—his name was John Boone | as readily accepted. Among the officers | —Was removing the saddle from my beast,» 1. gallant Captain—Nathaniel William [ spoke of the murder in the swamp. The Massey—who got his company in the regi- fellow had heard al! about it, but he had not ment on the 18th of May, 1860 He is more = ma “0 body. His ae the son of a large landed proprietor in Lre- jhad g ms and he had to remain “land, and cousin to tke celebrated “ Redan ” | He spoke freely and unconcernedly—in | Massey. It was given out that he was | fact, too much so. It would have been worth three thousand sterling a year, and ‘natural for him to have exhibited some little

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oe ‘ being of the gay and festive class, he was feeling ; and the fact that he did not do 80 s59y well known to the Torontonians. Bat led me to conclude that be had schooled there was a bar-sinister, so to speak, on his character, as he had brought with him to ‘ After [ had seen my horse taken care of, Canada a lady, leaving behind him bis own { walked out behind the inn, upon the brow legally wedded wife. He defied public (of a point of table-land, and at a short dis- opinion in regard to this lady, who was tanee below [ saw the bend of the ereek. young, good looking, and said to be daugh- Towards the creek I made my way, and ter of an English Rector, and he was to be wheo within a few rods of the water I stop- seen openly walking and driving with ber. ped. Isaw something upon the grass—a This, as might easily be expected, soon dark, red clot, hangiag upon a stout blade, came to the cars of many of the mamas who aud bending it down. I stooped, and took had given ‘‘carte blanche”’ to their daugh- it upon my fiogers, and found it to be ters to invite the officers to tes, anc Captain blood! I pushed on to the shore of the Nathaniel William Masscy’s mame was stream, but there were no fresh foot-prints struck off the invitation list. there. I went back a little way, andfound The Uaptain subsequently went to Eng- that the trail turned to the left, and it led land, where he stayed a few months. There me to a point of the swamp which made were rumors aflost that his mission to Eu. up bebind the bluff upon which the village rope was for the purpose of procuring a di- stood. I made my way into the thicket of vorce from his legally wedded wife.

himself well.

Cross- | vines and cottonwood, and presently I found’ ing the Atlantic again to New York, he a boat drawn up upon the shore of the creek. made the acquaintance of a “ Scotch heiress,” [t was of the kind called a *dug-out,’ and niece of a well known banker in Canada, was wet, outside and in, as though it bad and he came on to Toronto with her and her been washed down. aunt. He followed up the acquaintance so | * Perhaps you can imagine that I war be- begun, and was to be seen daily driving /ginning to be a little excited io my search. about with Miss McTavish, and the genera! | Toe boat had been washed down and rinsed ; opinion appeared to be that when the divorce but the fatal marks bad not been eotirely was procured, there would be another obliterated. The water that had gathered ‘‘marriage in high life’ in Toronto. in the bottom, standing in little pools, hada! It is reported, but with what truth is not crimson tinge, and there were one or two known, that while in London he attracted dark spote which bad not been washed off. the attention of a lady of title, married to ‘So far as my own mind was concerned I an Karl, many years her senior. She is had not a doubt left. Since I had first said to have followed the gallant esptain to entertained the idea of the criminality of New York, bringing with her a large sum of Laman Stoker, everything had turned out money, and posted a ietter to him in Toronto | just as I had looked for it; and when I left requesting him to come down This, how- | the boat, I had about come to the conclusion ever, he appears to have declined, and the

capacity. When I reached the inn, Stoker |chagrined. Meanwhile he was frequently, ‘had returned, and dinner was almost ready. liw the company of the Highland jazsic, who’

if 1 deisyed too long. So, [ told him that. Whe-

and sundry, from the Colonel Commanding |

is tall and fair, and reported to be worth in her own right about £15,000 sterling, which she will get when she comes of age, but in the meantime is a ward in Chaneery.

_not know very well? In short, every event She is the daughter of an old nor'-wester,

Mr. McTavish, who built the celebrated | Haunted House,” on the mountain, above

‘ After dinner Stoker asked me how long Sherbrooke-street, Montreal,

_ A few nights ago a large ball was given to celebrate the marriage of an officer of the 30th to a fair daughter of Toronto, and Miss