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A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND NEWS.

“This is true Liberty, when Mreecborn Men, having to advise the Public, may

VOL. XVIII. 3

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1868,

speak free.

*e--Zuripides.

ee eeneliicaee a et ae,

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HAY AND TURNIPS! | o Flour, Wine, Spirits, Teas, POETRY. Ye VY th vusar vushels of . ] tN Ss ‘ ‘ NN enn 8 Re errr —— eee A he Mis “ae v= aint Dhedh. Wiles Groceries, &e. &e. AN AUTUMN RHYME.

FEMALE Subseriber has IN STORE. and! ollers for Sale at his Store in Waren STREET; Bbis. FLOUR, Casks PORT WINE, Causks SHERRY, Cases CLARET, Puns. Demerara

Ob golden sun-ray, paint with cunning finger The tleeey clouds that float in azure skies; And geutly, lovingly and sweetly linger On forest clad in Aututnn’s gorgeous dyes.

» best of HAY GEORGE COLES

qaanl y of the

28th October, 107

NEW HERRING!

Fes Sale, 300 barrels Newfoundland HERRING < rrht thie @ 8

Cases Confectionery, 7 tb. bodes

Bales Corks, common }

Kales Corks, wine

RUM) Bilis Washing Soda strouy bbls Baking Soda

Hhds. GIN, De Kayper’s Boxes Liverpool Soap

Candles

Whisper thou breezes lengerds quaint and olden Tales of the suiomer days that faded fast, While on the bill sides, flower-plumes bright and

just arrived

ex echooner Lily of the Vath T, and for sale

ebeap fur Cash or approved ere Cusks Scoteh Whiskey [Composition wihiat } ole ik 4 mctionee Cusks Pale Brandy iIKexes and Tins Mustard, R 4 hy Rr = McNEILL, A s ee ‘D ; Br ot d . a dee = Bend to your Kisses as ye murmur past. leading Room ' Line & 1 vo re t ‘ oleman

iBoxes Coleman's Starch

Tins Sardines

Causes Brandy

LONDON HOUSE! 28:

Jubilant reigns o'er all the sweet October,

Gin Pots Anchovy Paste Glowing with myriad hues so rieh and rare - Chests & half ehests TEA Boxes Black Le id, Nix- The colors in which Nature loves te robe ha .. <7 ak , ° . | 2 a ° : ESTABLISHED Is 20, Bays Rice, Arracon | ey'’s, &e. &c. &e. Seen through the haze of pleasua! Autumn air.

ALSO, ALWAYS ON HAND: ISLAND MADE WHISKEY, a good article. DOUGLAS M. HARINGTON,

Water street, Charlottetown, 2 December 30, 1867

SAVES J. W. PALCONER & Oo,

Alhambra

Oh, beauties everywhere that meet the vision, Ob golden light on bill and valley cast,

Ob harvest glowing with full fruition, Ot all the promise of he suger past;

FALL & WINTER GOUDS. Y Fall Ships & Steamers from England, B Buosten, Halitax. Montreal and Barbadves,

the Subscribers have com) eled There

tmportations for the Season, which, having been purchase d by one of the Firm ai seme of the First Houses in England and Scot- fand fer their large STOCK OF GOODS at the lowest prices for CASH.

Che present Importation comprises :

3m Ye bring me thoughts of beauties richer, rarer,

Of scenes of glory sweeter far and fairer Than any light of earthly Harvest Home.

; d* they are enavied Ce

Where from this earthly field to life immortal,

Have received, per from His children treed from care and woe and sin.

Chests & “a _— rime ee Wi i ng Paper, Boston, | ‘To the bright land bevond the shining portal, tx ) t : per ti “lives j ¥ . ' ° . ** ” ‘ os ae ; ’ ’ . |} Our father’s haud of love shall gather in. Cases DRI ne Ds Kavving and Grain) Mens’ and Boys Winter Caps, isin r * Shawis & JLAULICS, sucks, , > ’ “ aa y . « o = pha wee od ae In Far, Astrican & Cloth. | “FOUND DEAD IN THE STREET.” ** Haberdashery, — Bundles Sheet Iron, Sold at Small Advance on Cost. The lal i oe * Ready made Clothing Casks assorted Cutiery, 1@ labour is Over and done: and Kabber Cuuts Hoes, Shot & Traces, . The sun has gone down in the west; ws -_ es and (Cents P tts "7 ugh mates, Paper ( ollars, The birds are asleep every one, hots and Shoes ‘kus. Nwis and Spikes, - . omy . | a os “Ladies and Gente’ “ Assorted Puinte Im Shakapeare, Crescent, Linen Finish, and And the world has gone to its rest—

. ” a ; , ‘ 7 Sleepers on beds of dowr id Hhds Paint, Sweet and lipper, at 7d per box. a ' = . c Pk ' r , Neath cover of silk and gold,

Kubber Shoes

67 \ 2 TRON y | OF land where nought but joy and gladuess MONEY." oer

| : : : ‘ fire in his library, when the servant came in

| temples.

and presented him a letter. He took it with a vawn, opened it in the most indolent

and indifferent manner possible, but had not|

read a dozen words before he came up with a start, turried deadly pale, nnd trembled so that the paper rattied. Le finished the note —for it was rather a note than a letter—

worked one hand nervously at bis throat, and |

other clasped his forehead and For a minute or two he seemed to be choking into calmness, by his iron will, aud he so far suc-

with the

some terrible emotion,

| ceeded as to address the Waiting servant in

han ordimary

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fone,

James, he said, who gave you this letter?

A man, sir, as suid he'd wait for an ane- wer.

hen I suppose he’s waiting.

Yas, sir.

Very well; show him in. Soon there was a light tap on the door, and the banker said *‘ come in,’ in ao ordinary

tone,

The servant opened the door, ushered in the stranger, and immediately withdrew. The latter was a man verging on sixty, of rough appearance and attire. He wore an old gray overevat, buttoned to the throat, a pair of green goggles, and bis whole dress was saturated with rain.

Take a seat, vaid the banker, pointing to

}achair near the fire.

Uveraiis Seal Chi. &e a | * Townend’s Hais and Hhds. Granulated Sugar ¢ | ’s Ties Soft, as on roses new-blown, | Cc Muscevado Molasses sent emen S its, Slept the great monareh of eld!

ture & Men's Sides Sule Leather, = . ‘ ‘ » ap | Sleepers nothers’ ¥ Pure & M a varie. Crtshed | 8 Sheridan, Grecian, Henrietta, Exposition, ee pare Oe NETS Breed, Fur Caps.|/Bbis. Currants, Crushed Sleepers happy and warm,

BE aie ) eae Ul athdines Hades Jueen, Fancy and Black Knots uod ee a a Ladies =e xX F an ston Pp "4 ' Cosy as birds 1 their nest, iH its 40 ! = hets, . : = ; ts on : arepus. he _ assortinedt With never a thought of harm! yee ie es ns, Keg as ee in town. Sleepers in garrets high, o Prt . I : Bakiug < “ | | "Neath coverlet ragged and old; and White Calicoes, Boxes R Lozenges ¢ t ’ K t V t ! i And one little sleeper allunder the sky, Check and W i Sean aud Cand'es en S ni es S ' { Outin the vuieght aud the cald! Shirtinus, dc, & Bags Pep; Rice and a Alone in the wide, wide world, * Puttaloes, sot t | Christless, motherless he; ei sd tendo ton tastes! BUFFALO ROBES. pleats athens bey Re ; . a ayngy ee es For all who seek Comfort. Like waif on an angry sea. o Wi and Colored &c. &« | ? Coiton W ary} i . * . rea NSPECTION SOLICITED. Dead—for the want of a crust; | G & 3. DAVIES. INSPECTION SOLICITED

Dead—in the cold night-air:

Ch'tawn. Noe. 11. 1287 | South Side Queen Square. me ; Dead—and under the dust, a ae ae .y| _ Charlottetown, Now 25. 1867. § Without ever a word of prayer; Great Bargains ° Great Ba roains. sii Heo . i In the heart of the wealthiest city " ke or Sale In this most Christian land,

Without ever a word ot pity, Or the touch ef a kindly hand!

MISCELLANEOUS.

LOLOL LLL LLL LLL

TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION.

Great Reduction in Prices! AT THE

r orth of Goods. | ‘

eine intending to close ,is Establishment of W. W. Lord, A

poceent BL SINESS lists ce socnsing ou | BY WHOLESA LE!

Selling off the whole | MOLASSES in Paueleous, Tierces aud Barrels, | £ his valu : SUGAK in Hbds. aud Barrels, a Ba | PLOUK and INDIAN MEAL, |

oy “Wo , re << : ee half Ch a

STOCK IN TRADE, 7os me ae a Chests, In the autumn of 1817, while the woods ris rene ssurtment of en 4 oo rit ; hi

comprising a geueral ussoriuse | ones Qreand COP? EE, were bright with the variegated hues which

Dry Goods, Hardware, Canvas, Cordage, Groceries,’ lron, &c. Ne,

|tollow the light touches of trost, a mounted | traveller was quietly pursuing his way through a dark, broad, lov ‘ly forest, in the western part of the State of New York.

Boxes Ground PEPPER, boxes SODA and WINE BISCUIT, tewether with a Barrels PLLOT BREAD, daily expected per other fall ships from Liverpool, the it one of the must vailable stocks eve whe market Ou and after the 10th October, inst, the Goods eili be sold for a few weeks at GREATLY BMEDUCED prices such as to induce ja The Stock remaining ou hand afier that Ume will wer at AUCTION. without reserve, on libera! era, vi Which dae Uolice Will be Liven,

Hl. HASZARD.

Charlottetown, Met 1867, .

larve aud well selected supply ‘Loias’ frou Loudon d | Bags RICE making | Boxes Liverpool Brown SOAP ‘plac ed in| boxes PIPES Og ’ Any quantity of SALT, by the Bushel or Bag, HEKRINGS iu Barrels and balf do 24 Tous eommon BOLT IKON, 3, 3, 7, a £15 eash, STEEL. Nails. Spikes and Rope, Second hand Rigging, Blocks, Sails. Masts, Bow- sprit. Patent Iron Work tor the Windlass, and Boat for a Schooner of about 60 tons. | 500 Tons Kocnd COAL. 20 Tous Smali COAL.

and |

ar Cait He had ridden three miles since seeing a human habitation, and he had yet two to go before he could yet sight of another. He was descending a hill into a gloomy Jooking | valley, through which flowed a shallow but! swift running stream, and on reaching the water be permitted his thirsty beast to drink

rehasers

Ch'town. Dec. 2. 1867 At that moment a man stepped out from a - . cluster of bushes into the road or horse path,

ne -— on the other side of the stream. ‘This man was dressed jike a hunter, and carried a rifle

x QAR July 10th, 1867. oe SARS on kis shoulder. In his general appearance

Cheap Goods! New Goods! |The British Warehouse! | ir sa.nohing that iodteated hostility or

He was of medium size, com HEARTZ & SON | pactly built, with intelligent feateres and a certain air of gentility—seeming rather as ’ . . . H*' E just received by Java. direct | one abroad from some settlement for a day's from ENGLAND, a further supyly ot Sport, than a professional hunter. DRY GOODS All this the mounted traveller carefully ’ , ‘ : i noticed befor @ croe tre: ; of Which, owing to the Cot \ e he crossed the stream to con be able n} than the Steck imported this Spring |

}tiuue bis journey, and when they came to-. GOGDS :—Cousisting of Grev, Whit

Faney and Piain Coal Scuttiles. Fancy avd Piain Coal Shovels. lrou Bedsteads and Stretchers. Umbrella Stands.

Fire Guards, Nursery Guards. Faney Fenders for Grates. Mahogany Po'es. Kings and Eads. Brass Poles, Rings and Knds,

decline in ton, they will

. | ths . . ’ - © sell this portation C¢leaper

gether pleasant salutations were exchanged. | Fine weather for travelling, sir, remarked

Striped, |

id Painted Cottons, Gingham Srey at i White ' i | aon Cxmneee ¢ aa Seda ee tie anal Brass Brackets and Holders, the man with the gun. oe Striped Bedding, Cotton, Union and Tae: Mints Mada ond Ween And for hunting also, I should suppose i€ tif e { Peilivs ue y ‘ J UGS 4. . : on dauenen Vicking, Towels xad Towellnus, Cheese | ass y smiled the other on the horse.

Cloth, &e, & Aad ali Furuishing Goods. DRESS GOODS :—French Merino, Cir Popline Coburgs, Lustres, and Fancies

Yes, there is game enough, returned the other, but I am not a goud hunter, and can only show one bear for my day’s work thus

auss1ans, |

W. & A. BROWN.

CLOTHS :—Fine Cloths, Twee ls, lowes, Silk, . omy :

ined. Massel Cord, & | Charlottetown, Nov. 11, 1367 far, and that is almost useless to me, for I

StU NDUls:—Bacle and Straw Trimmines and | aa r Cerca i? ~ | have no weans of taking it away. L would Ornaweuts, in Black, White & Mixed; Velvet British Hardware Store ° willingly give a dollar for the use of a horse |

: « ; Hattous nd Clasp Dewdrops CO e ¥ “ ° > Jaimusingn decir wan a a . eat os : s oe for a couple ae ane I you can Recharthdaie Mate Golkain. Shen, Mabie Reddin S New Buildin S| p ve minutes or so, I would like you to| ee te a j/see the bear; it is only just beyond these |

a. along with Stock on hand, €Queen weet. bushes, some two hundred yarde from here. will be sold, Whiviesaie and retail, tieap for | - ineiaidil aan C I will not only look at it, replied the Cash. TONE & BOVYER bey to announce | traveller, dismounting and fastening his

HEARKTZ & SON. the opening of the above Conmmodious Pre. | horse, but if not too heavy, I will take it | Inises With @ along for you, seeing | am going your way.

above,

Jaly 15, 1867

TOWNEND’S HATS AND CAPS, |“ 2"4_ Cardully Selected Stock of LARGE STOUK of the above, received | GENERAL HARDWARE, es * Lorus,” from LONDON, of the newest | BRI SHES, CUTLERY, IRON.

STYLES and SHAPES— STEEL, NAILS, PARA-

ve | ing, and so forth; and learned, inreply, that Goed Silk HATS, 7s Gd ¢ , VINE ‘ ' sh Paris ao o We Fe ey is FINE LAMPS, OIL, | the latter resided in Albany. was a merchant

Townend’ best du. de Gd j etc, ect. in good business, and was travelling, partly

Boye & Gent's. FELT HATS, in great | Every care having boon tsken to bay personals for his bealth, and partly with the view of variety. ’ ; _making an extensive land purchase.

: le } trom the best British and American makers they | A large Stock of I wee ] a id Cloth CA PS,

' oa ae coe : trust that by combining Aud alsoia Ladies’ STRAW HATS, Ke.&e. | MODERATE PRICES G&S. DAVIES, |

Charlottetown. June 7. 136 with STRICT ATTENTION, to merit a full _—_- a it. ies i jshare of Pudlic Patrovage. Insurance! Insurance! — | _Cbarlottetown, 25th Nov. 1967. aT | | FIRE & LIFE ae Subscriber would inform the Inhabi- | Royal Insurance c OL ipany, tants of P. kb. Island, that, ou the arrival ¢:

the Brig é f y, i pr vol, :, ® he | LIVERPOOL, G. B. [oe a ANN, trom Liverp G. B, he will , its } : ‘victim fell like a log, his face covered with

Capital, $10,000,000. Wholesale and Betail, | blood.

Annual Income exceeds $5,000 000, and! For Cash or good Jount Notes of Hand, This might or might not have been the first

tapidly increasing. Ayygregate losses paid in Province of Nova Scotia

The hunter thanked him in a most cordial manner, and then, as if to make himselt agreeable and keep up conversation, inquired | where the other was from, whither journey-

Well, here we are! exclaimed the hunter, | as the two emerged from the dense | thicket, through which they had slow!y forced | |we are, and I'll show you as fing and fata beast as you ever saw. Observe wiiere |

NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS! | pint my Fite

ately raised the gun to his eye. and pointed the muzzel at the head of the traveller There was a flash, a loud report, and the

Ibs. ; | But as the traveller fell the rifle slipped f . oe cen hier fe . slipped from ae . - ‘dlaw P S. in 23 cl ; during last 12 years, a yuarier on . OO OT Gite: 3 de 14 Ibe. ; his hands and he shook violently from head | Renee GHe Faw Lethon re ito foot; vet he ran to his victim, and

of a milion dollars. | Chance’s Sinethwick GLASS; Neeeiadl bhed hi f hi eee aac General Agent for Nova Scotis and Prince Edward | PUTTY, Black and White, it Bladders 28 and | DUTrieely robbed him of his pocket Dook, &

1 Nos. ¥,2.& 3 WHITE LEAD, iu 56, 25, & 14) epime committed by the man with the rifle. |

,gold watch chain, Seals, a

i laid mv | lans, and got everything sure ;

}at less fearful cost. | banker—seeing | hefore him if he refused—agreed to the terms.

iof St. Paul’s Chureh

i} their way, into the more open wood; here!

| He stepped back eight or ten feet, deliber- |

| i | 1

Island—HUGH HARTSHORNE, Keo, Halifax. 14 Ibs. ; —— oe ' enone CUT NAILS. and CUT SPIKES; diamond breast pin, and a diamond ring, PEYAE Subscriber having been authorized | Diamond Head DECK SPIKES; | which he fairly tore from his finger. Then to accept Risks for this Office I! parts of | Bars Refined and Common TRON, assorted sizes | he dragged the body into the thicket, picked | Prince E4ward Isiand, rexpectfuliv intimates that) Barrels and Kegs COAL TAR; up his rifle, plunged mad!y through the

he is prepared to receive propossls in bot branches frow parties desiring Policies |

The well-known character for promptness and liberality possessed by this Uilice is tie best guar- tutee a Insurers.

Kates moderate, and every information furnished ™ application, The Company's blanks w ill be Sranswmitted on request ; and proposals vay be sent, post paid, lo

JOS. F. ELLIS, | General Com. Merchant aud Insurance Agent, Pietou, N. 8.

Bepramber 16. 1807

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A Tonie and Unfailing Remedy tor

Rheumatism of all hinds, Neuralgia,

Lumbago, Sciaticu,

As aiso for FACK-ACHE, TOOTIL ACHE, EAK-ACHE, COUGHS, and all affections from Colds Ci See Lancet, under Mevicat Parronxace.

WM. k. WATSON. Cit Drug Store, Victoria Building, —eteen Street, Sept. 16, 1867 ‘ge ’ NOLICE HE Subseriber having closed his business estab! shiment at Suwmerside, heresy notifies all persons indebted to Lim, for Kents, Book Scousts, Promissary notes or otherwire, that the wast be puid to him at his Ulfice in Charlotte: | a . | JAMES C, POPE. Charlottetown, Sep. 2, 1367, j

| whataoever, Which parties may desire to submit to |

Barrels Black ami Bright VARNISHES;

Colla HEMP and WIRE CORDAGE;

Bolts Extra and Navy Boiled CANVAS;

Bars YELLOW METAL, } te 9;

YELLOW METAL BUTT BOLTS,7 « §;

CLINCiL RINGS, [rou and Yellow Metal;

Crates and Casks GLASS, CHINA. and EARTH- city of New York, a banker and millionaire, ENWARE,—Crates assurted for country) whom we shall call Stephen Edwards, He

i i : vvcrree.,, owned a palatial mansion, splendidly furnish-

ANEW MIXTI RE for Bottoms of FISHING 064, in the very heart of the town, and he and BOATS, wuch approved of by English : fishermen.

bushes into the road, mounted the traveller's horse and dashed away from the awlul scene. We mast now suppose a lapse of twenty

| years.

able world. ‘They had a beautiful daughter,

Parties wauting any of the above articles will jage turned out of eweet sixteen, who was | do wellby calling and inspecting them, at the shout to be married to a foreign nobleman, | /and great preparations were making for the)

OLD STAND, formeriy ocenpied by W. ; Loxrp & Co., HEAD of LORD’S WHARF, ae Water Street. | happy event. hi ‘od , ARTEMAS LORD. |. One day. about this period, as the great | banker stood conversing with a gentleman me —————-———_-————— from another city, who had called to see him } Lore 'on business, he observed that the latter sud- Meeting of the Legislature. denly turned pale and began to tremble. My dear sir, he said, im his usual tone of

Oct. 29. 1866

CoLontaL Secrerary’s Oerice, November 7th, 1867. THEREAS by a Kesolution of the you Wl? : ;

\ House of nemaie: passed on the idth day A little faint, sir, but nothing to canse any of April, 1863, it was resolved that the initiation of alarm, replied the other hurriedly. I am all money votes should be with the Executive: subject to such spells. {f you will be kind Notice is hereby given that all applications for enough to excuse me for ten minutes or so,

Money Grasits tor Kouds, Bridges, Wharfs, &e, I will take a short walk, and return better. and all petitigns for grants in aid of any object | ed ieeeeie then Gch sotuen. ond he ens

the Leyislature at the next aunual Session, are qUlte well, calmly proceeded to finish his required to p _ Firet day of February, 1808. fully took his leavo. Ly Command,

i

GEOKGE COLLS, Col. See'y.

In the spring of 1837. there lived im the} ‘ jstart in the world, and an easy conscience, among even the old-fashioned adherents of

‘the still enterprising Stephen Edwards ac-) tye

his wife were amony the leaders of the fashion. |

off-hand sympathy, what is the matter? Are,

be seut into this office ou or before the business with the barker, und then respect. |

It was perbaps a week after this that one extended, but as far as the eye could reach play a different and night the great bauker was sitting by the | ranges of mouutuins were seen.

No, thank you, I'll stand, was the groff reply. You got my letter, and of course you know my busines, he added,

You allude to this, | suppose, replied the

banker, producing the letter which had caused |

so much perturbation.

Yes

I do not understand it. You must have |} made a mistake.

No, no mistake at all. I was present [twenty years ago the tenth day of Oe-

tober, and saw you, Stephen Edwards, shoot

'the man—and if you go for to deny it, I'll

I have and if you go to playing innocent, and refuse my terms, Tdi take care to see you die stretching hemp.

The banker, in spite of himself, turned pale, shuddered, and stroggled to a seat.

I can’t give it—it would ruin me.

Just as you say, rejoined the other, mov-

have you in prison betore morning.

jing towards the door; you know what will

follow if | go this way.

He argued, urged and implored for mercy In vain. At last the ruin, disgrace and death

He also agreed to meet the stranger, with the required sum, on the following night, io front Both were punctual to the fixed time, and bills and checks to the amount of one handred thousand dollars changed hands. A month later there was a

tremendous run on the bank Of which Stephen |

Edwards was the principal owner. It was soon broken and closed. Then the sheriff was set to work by eager creditors, and all the real estate and personal property of the late

{millionaire was seized and sold, leaving him

a beggar and just claims unsatisfied. Fash- ionable friends deserted the family, and the proud nobleman refused the hand of a ruin- ed banker’s accomplished daughter.

In the very midst of his disgrace and tri- bulation, Stephen Edwards encountered the

;}man who had turned pale and became so

agitated in bis presence a short time before.

I rather think you do not know me, sir, said the gentleman, with a formal bow

Your face seems somewhat familiar, but I cannotname you, returned Stephen Edwards.

Permit me to bring myself to your recol- lection, then, as I wish you to know me A little more then six weeks ago | was talk- ing to you on business, and you observed that [ turned deadly pale and became agitat- ed.

Ah, yes—I remember you now.

Let me tell you why [ was thus affected My eye had just chanced on a curious seal which had once belonged to a merchant named Philip Sydney, who was shot in the western part of this state some twenty years ago; and on jooking at your features closely, L know you to be the villian who committed the foul deed

Merciful God! exclaimed the cidevant banker with a blanched face and a quaking form

Yes, I know yoa, pursued the other, and a week after I disguised myself and had an interyiew with you in your own mansion. You remember that of course.

But gasped the trembling wretch, did I

/not pay you your own price to keep my

fatal secret?

Yes, and with that very money, and what other I could command, | was enabled te bay up enough of your own bills to make that ran upon your bank which broke it and forced rain upon you.

And what would you do now, that Iam ruined? inquired the other, with the deadly calmness of desperation.

Now that I have had my revenge, IT want you to kuow that [ myse!f am the man you attempted to murder and did rob. J am Philip Sydney! Behold where the ball struck and glauced, and he took off his hat and showed it.

God be praised! ejaculated the other— God be praised that you are still living, and unable to restrain his emotion he burst into tears. Oh, sir, he continued, you have taken a load trom my soul. Though poverty,

beggary, disyrace, are staring me in the face, |

L am not guilty of marder, and am more happy than L have been in twenty years, with all the luxurious surroundings of wealth. It was my first and last crime, and [ have never been able to tell how | was tempted to so outrage my nature as on that fearful oceasion. Now, sir, do with me what you will—only, I pray you, be merciful to my innocent family.

[ forgive you, returned the other extend-| anything more than an occasional annoyance | You have been |

ing his hand—lI forgive you,

“THE IRISH IN AMERICA.”

BY JOHN

i

F. MAGUIRE, ESQR., M. P. FOR CORK.

|From the Loudon Star.] “ ; ; " | Tle went through Nova Scotia, Prince Ed- ‘ward Island, New Brunswick, Upper and Lower Canada, and most of the States of the Union, Northand South. Hesaw and studied | the condition of his countrymen as settlers lin the forest even yet uncleared, as labourers on the wharves of Beston and the levees of New Orleans, as miners, as farmers as artisans, a8 merchants, as capitalists. He has produced an elaborate and exhaustive study of his subject ; let us add that in doing so he has made a very entertaining as well as | instructive book. There is not an uninterest- ing chapter from beginning to end of this volunne. Mr. Maguire has enlivened his subject by & copious variety of humorous anecdotes, illustrative of the drollery, the |whimsicality, the vivacity wich, under the genuine Lrishman. Some of the odd traits of Lrish drollery, or pluck, or whimsy, in the late war are peculiarly amusing. We jown to being particularly taken with the story of the young Irishman who, having re- ceived a shot during one of the battles, fell! | helpless on the body of a wounded comrade just a moment before laid low, and was greet- ed by the latter with the stuttering demand— | ** Isn’t the whole field large enough for you | to fall in without tumbling on me?” Mr. Maguire's report of the condition of { his countrymen in America is, on the whole, | highly fayourable. ‘The Irish emigrant whom he describes is very different indeed from the sort of being whom Times’ corres pondents and Times’ leading articles delight to picture and to moralize over. Mr Maguire finds the Irishman in America, a man of indomitable energy and patient labor ; aman who has fought his way up from posi- tive destitution to comfort and prosperity, and often even to opulence; who has lands and beeves, and money in the bank. Of course, there are other specimens too; there are the drankard, and the rowdy, and the ne’er-do- well; and these, too, Mr. Maguire describes | vigorously and justly, but describes them as |the exceptions, which they are, not the average specimens which so many delight to |make them out. These, the failures, owe | their failures, as Mr. Maguire shows, mainly

| to one cause—a fatal habit of remaining in) play a sort of Ratazzi part, and give tacit en-| Richmond Bay {the Atlantic cities instead of going onward vouragement to the movement. The United Charlottetown.

somewhere and taking tothe soil. Against lingering in the great cities Mr. Maguire warns his countrymen with all the terrible irrefutable eloquence of facts and figures. He 1s an energetic opponent of the theory that without capital the Irish immigrant can make nothing of the land. He showsin how many cases a thriving and prosperous settle- | ment has grown in a very few years outof the sturdy labor of men who came to the land with no capital whatever but that which their strong arms and resolute energy represented. | Get land; at all events, go to work at once at something, and keep sober. This is the sum lof Mr. Maguire's advice to his countrymen |who seek a home in the New World. Do | this, and it almost seems to follow, as the | night the day, that prosperity and comfort must be the speedy result.

Two great theories, pet and favourite theo- ries, of which the Times newspaper might be called the chosen organ, have utterly broken down with regard to the emigration |of the Iris: to America. One was, that the | greater the stream of emigration the more

quickly would Ireland herself become pros- |

perous and contented. We take it that no- hody any longer holds to this one comfort- able and plausible doctrine. The other was that the Irish in America would become literally swallowed up in American society }and politics, as the Huguenot fugitives soon | were in the society and politics of England; and that thus we should be rid of them alto- gether, and in every sense. too has exploded. The Irish in America have become passionate lovers of the country and the Union; but they have never ceased |to be Irish, and their national animosities ‘and prejudices seem only to gain new fibre and expansion by the process of transplanta- ,tion., * TheTrish are gone with a vengeance,”’ said the Times, exultingly, when the census |a few years back told of the astounding de- ‘crease in the population of the country. | ** Yes,” replied an Irish popular orator, ‘* but they will come back with a vengeance;"" | and the menace which seemed mere hyper- |bole then, begins to look intelligible and iyractical now. It isonly a few years since ‘of the great majority of the House of Com- ‘mons by declaring that wherever an Irish-

man was found on a foreign soil there stood |

an enemy of England. We suppose most | persons would accept this now as an incon- trovertible axiom in polities. This is the |condition of things which forms the subject lof one or two grave and pregnant chapters in |Mr. Maguire's book. They are chapters ‘utterly devoid of sensationalism—-calm, precise, and practical. very English states man or politician, every journalist, every ‘observer of passing history—indeed, every

one who has an intelligent interest in the |

| ; ; : peace and prosperity of thesa countries, ought

/to read the remarkable passages in this wrok which tell hew the Irish in America are affected towards Gingland. Regarding the Fenian organization, properly so called, the author of ** The Irish in America,’’ frankly avows that he has little or nothing to tell. He sought for no relationship with any of its exponents, and avoided any acquaintance- ship with irs secrets, if it has any. Indeed,

Mr. Maguire thinks—and we quite agree |

him—that the strength and the purposes of ithe organized and enrolled body of Fenians |may be treated as of comparatively little importance. Fenianism, let it do its best or its worst, can never achieve of its own strength

to Great Britain. Mr. Maguire took some

Mr. Maguire began his tour at Halifax. |

whatever circumstances, seem to characterise |

Now this theory |

Mr. Bright awakened the indigaant dissent |

Fenians to talk of raising a successful insur-

rection im Ireland; and their policy is to) strike England through the United States.

|to which even gtatesmen who profess to de- |spise it, are sometimes not ashamed to pay homage: and they insist that sooner or later the opportunity they count on must come, and the Irish vote thrown into the scale will weigh down all other considerations, and bring on a war with England. This Irish party, Mr. Maguire shows by official statis- tics. 1s steadily increasing. The relative in- crease of the foreigan population, if we may thus term it, over the pure American, in most of the States, is very remarkable From various causes, some of which we can /hardly allude to bere, there is a marked and | steady decrease in the fecundity of marriage ‘among the purely American population There is on the other hand an increase among the foreign populations, and among the Irish most of ali. In 1860, according to the offcia! document, the foreign element in the | population of Massachusetts, for exawple, - although composing only about one third of the population of the State, produce more children than the American.”’ The same} document further says ‘‘that since 1860) they have gained every year uyon the Ame- ricans, till in 1865, their births numbered almost 1000 more than the Americans.”’ This fact illustrates very effectively some of the chances of the policy on which a large | class of the Irish in America rely. They see | that their strength is growing, one might/ almost say in a geometrical proportion; they find that theirs is by far the strongest of all | foreign elements; and they wait tor the day | | which they think certain, when they can use their power effectually. The men who specu- | late, watch, and wait in this way, are the men Mr. Maguire dreads. Many of them are devoted soldiers of the Union, who have fought and suffered in the service of the States, who owe their first allegiance to Ame- rica, and would only move, even against Eng- land, when she bade them. They wait for the word of command, and they hope merely to he able to hasten what they consider the in- | evitable hour when that word shall be given. The Canada raid, Mr. Maguire shows, seemed at one period likely to be a most formidable business. Thousands, literally thousands, of [rish-Americans, most of whom had faced death on many battle fields, were under arms, and ready to cross the border. They were finally convinced that Mr. Seward meant to,

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States Government was honorably and loyal- | lyin earnest. It was determined to do its | |duty and maintain the principles of inter- | \national law. The word was passed round. that the Government would stand no non- sense, and these really formidable soldiers of the projected invasion, true to their alle- | giance, quietly disbanded. Theattempt was left to uadisciplined and straggling raiders, land ended accordingly. But what if the | United States Government had then played 'the Ratazzi part?

The sum of Mr. Maguire's report, then, is that the Irish population of Amercia, counting as Irish even those whose grand- | fathers left the old country, are, without any considerable exception steadily hostile to Eng- ‘land, and have set their bearts and hopes on a |} war some day against her. We cannot even |attempt to summarize the number of illus-| | trations and evidences of this state of things 'which he gives in bis very interesting volume. | /No statesman—nay, no man of sense, will) ‘say for a moment that this is a condition of | ithings which England can afford to despise, | or ought to treat with absolute indifference. It is not pleasant to bear that our kindred | ‘thus hate us, and it seems especially hard to 'a generation of Englishmen, who really can-| ‘not, let them search their consciences ever 80 | earefully, find much with which to reproach | | themselves so far as Ireland is concerned. | But if we are thus hated, it is better to know | it, and we are convinced that the real state of affairs has never been so comprehensively | ‘and fairly disclosed as in Mr. Maguire's book. Does the author, himself an experienc: | ed politician and a member of the House of | Commons, offer no suggestion in the way of |

remedy? Axsuredly he does. LHe insists | that even yet Ireland can be made a loyal and | ‘contented member of the family of Great} Britain, and he sets forth calmly and frankly | | his own ideas of how this transformation is) |to be accomplished. Here, however, we |trench on the domain of pure politics, with which this column has properly nothing to ido. We are here reviewing a book of travels, | not criticising a debate in Parliament. o ~~ —

Mr. Wa. Digby Seymour, Q. C., who de- fended Allen, Larkin and Gould, writes to) the Times, in the character of a logal Irish- man, to suggest that Irishmen in London and the Provinces should declare by public meet- ings or formal addresses their devotion to the throne and constitution, and their abhorrence of the crimes perpetrated under the insulted name of Irish patriotism. Hesays:—**There | are obvious reasons, I think, of a large and national character, in favour 9f euch a move- |ment; but there are also consideration of a more practical and personal kind, which are worthy of grave and immediate attention. panic is rapidly spreading, which, uantess checked in its earlier stave, must tend to produce calamitons results among the indus- trial orders of Jrishmen resident in the various centres of trade and commerce in England Let the notion once possess the public mind that among the humbler elasses of my coun- trymen *‘ Irish’ and * Fenian’ are convertible terms, and who can say how long the English artisan or labourer will consent to work side | by side with men committed on the above as- sumption to a diabolical policy of secret 'treason and distardly erime? If ships are j}menaced with Fenian fire, how Jong will Irishmen be employed in our public docks? If warehouses are in danger from explosive compounds, how long will Irishmen be al- lowed to labour in their precincts? What, in