the Berg ANN, trom Liverpool, &.

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VOL. XVII. I CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1867, ¢ C NO. 1%

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LIVERPOOL HOUSE Yarmouth Cooking Stoves. IMPORTATIONS LITERATURE. | not by hasty or indiscriminate charity en-| over some juobcranother. Then people didn't a way; and when the wife hurried the

> YARMOUTH STOVES, the real ar ule, just received by CARVELL BROTHERS. Ch'tewn, Noy. 12, 1866 Sim pat isl sj Tobacco & Candles. J UST received and expected per Alhambra,

Fall Importations Complete.

WILLIAM FULL AS received, per Undsne trom LIVER- |

1866. |

POOL, Lotus, frow LONDON, and} 1 7 ariet , a U Roxes Perey Tobacco, . nor arnt from BOSTON, a large wud well b0 Soke Candice. Oe eeiect CARVELL BROTHERS.

STOCK OF k. Britisk& Foreign Merchandize, | Cheup by

suitable for the present acd coming Season, | 10 CARVELL BROTHERS.

which bas been purchased jw the Dest Markets, | nd ia now offered te the public at the LoWeEsT | :

and ia new t t | Ch'tewn, Nor. 12, 1866. 3m pat isl *j Plaister.

paices for CASH 10 Bole. CALCULED PLAISTER.

Ch'tewn, Nov. 12, 1566

As66. 3a isl pat aj Cranberries. Bble best CRANBERRIES.

. . ~! The atsorbiuent includes the «wai variety of

STAPLE DRY GOODS, in White, Grey aud Striped Shirting, W bite and} Grey Sheetings, Tickwg, Osvaburg, White, | CARVELL BROTHERS. Seariet aud bine Flavuela, Wool Blankets,| — Ch'town, Nov 12, 1306. isl patsy Sun Patches, Cotten Warp ia a = . &e — Sole Leather.

DRESS MATERIALS, 1 OO Sist,best No.1 New York SOLE in Plaia and Faacy Wweeys, Koickerbockers, LEATUER. Coburge, French Merinos, Camiicts, Baratheas, | Alexandras, &c., &e.,

CARVELL BROTHERS. | Ch'town, Nov, 12, 1566. Sua isl pat sj CLOTHS AND CLOAKINGS, Gunes da Black and Colored Astracun, Whitney, Seal Boxes Cho.ce Brands,

Cloth, Lawb Cloth, Deeskins, Plain aod Ribbed 10 ie os

Beavers, Piet Cloth, &e., &e Ch'towa, Now. 12, 1866.

CARVELL BROTHERS. SHAWLS AND SACQUES,

3m isl pat sj Shawls, Cloth, |

Wee, Dagmar, Victoria. Chenille, Plain aud A

Fancy Bord r, Paisley, Ke, &e.

FANCY DRY GOODS, of all descriptions and quantities; Manth:, Dress, | and Bowwet Trammings, 1 all tae vewest styles: Ladies’ Velvet aud Beaver Hats, Hat and Bonnet 30 Shapes, Borders, Hair Nets, (loves Seurte, | Hoods, Sentags, Clouds, Belts, Beit Buckles aud | Hubbeas, Fur Ibeas, Cuils aud Mutle, &e., &e. | Gent’s Furnishing Department, | KEADY-MAVDE CLOLTHING—the best Town | tuske—in Over-Coats, Under-Coats, Vesta and | Pants, of all qualities ot Cloth and Style; Faney Fisavel Shirts aud Shirtings, Fur Caps and Hats, | Astracan and Lambskin Caps, Linen and} Paper Collars. Neckties, Searts,.Gloves, &e., &c.

ALSO, By Wholesale and Retail.

Hogabeuds at bright SUGAR

Harness. Single set of Nice HARNESS. sale cheap.

m great variety, including m

For CARVELL BROTHERS.

Ch'town, Now, 12, 1566 _ din ist pat xj Nails & Spikes. Kegs assorted sizes. Balance of a cousigument. For sale low by CARVELL BROTHERS, Ch'tewn, Now. 12, 1866. Gs Su isl pat sj Tar & Rosin. 2 Barrels each TAR and ROSIN. CARVELL BROTHERS. Ch'tewn, Nov. 12, 1866 Bin ial pat sj Brandy & Whiskey. Consignment of bees Cognac Brandy. —ALSO—

Au invoice of Rum and Whiskey.

} i For sale low bo close it up. {

CAKVELL BROTHERS.

Puncteous MOLASSES, Ch'town, Nov. 12, 1866, Jim inl pat sj CleatsSuperior TEA, on ji ee Te We. b New York & Canada SOLE. LEATHER, vies Cordage. Lsyer and Bunch RAISINS, 20 Coils Manilla Cordage, CURRANTS, &e., ke. 20 . Hemp.

WILLIAM FULL. | CARVELL BROTHERS.

| Ch’tewn, Nov. 12, 1806.

~ Sacks. 3

Dozen Grain SACKS. Ch'town, Nov. 12, 1866.

pat isl «j 3un

Nov. 5, ares wee ees ne Lehn 2, ot ish ej Sun NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS! | NHE Subseriber would inform the Inbabi- | tants of P. EB. island, that, ov the arrival of | B, he will; ver, [aa ae Wholesale and Retail, | UST eS Molasses. For Cush or good Joint Notes of Hund, |B 2 Casks Bright Cuba Sugar,

CARVELL BROTHERS. 3m isl pat sj

Nes. 1,2 & 3 WHITE LEAD, in 56, 23, & 14} 1S Puncheous choice Molasses. live: | — ALSO—

Biark. Red « Yellow PAINTS, in 23 & 14 Iba. ; i To arrive :—

Kuided and raw LINSEED OILS } JU Puueheons Molasses,

Chaner's Swethwick GLASS; | 20 Hhda Sugar.

PUTTY. Blact and White, ic Biadders 28 aud For sale by

14 the; i CUT NAILS, and CUT SPIKES; Diawoud Head DECK SPIKES; | Bare Refined and Common IRE IN isaorted sizes; | Barrels and Kege COAL TAR; Barrels Wack and Bright VARNISHES; 1 Coils HEVP and WIRE CORDAGE;

|

CARVELL BROTHERS.

|; Chitown, Nov 12, 1866 3m is! pat sj

Fire Engines! — : 0: Champion Force Pumps, known to be

ot fire, and useful in watering gardens, washing earriages and windows. For sale by CARVELL BROTHERS

Ch'tewn, Now. 12. 13866 3m isi pat sj

Bolts Extra and Navy Yeiled CANVAS;

Hara YELLOW METAL. § to f:

YELLOW METAL BUT BOLTS,7 «3; Metal: {

CLINCH RINGS, bret and Yellow Crates and Casks GLASS. CUINA, and EARTH- ENWARE,—Crates asserted for country

Sheepskin Coats. Sheepskin Coats (an excellent article) will tura the ram and keep out the mud.

Cheap CARVELL BROTHERS. Chitown, Nov. 12, 1866 J U 10 Cushs Bert Vinegar. CARVELL BROTHERS. Ch'town, Nov. 12, 1866.

HOup. - - 100 Boxes best Common, Domestic and Kglish Soap. For sale cheap CARVELL BROTHERS.

Ch'teown, Now 12.7866. Sun isl pat *}

Use ; am ] Q ANEW MIXTURE for Bottoms of FISHING |

BOATS. ewuch approved of by Eugheh| fishermen, ,

Parties wauting avy of the above articles will du well by calling aud iuspecting them, at thie | OLD STAND, formerly cen pied by W. W.} Louw & Co., HEAD of LORD'S WHARF, Water Street. :

ARTEMAS LORD.

pT Fil it

West India House,

Upper Great George Streot. CHRISTMAS, 1°66.

} HE Subsenber offers for Sale, at =| Store, the following, viz: | | | | }

ST landed : —

| |

Chain, Auchors, Hardware, Xc.

N consignment—

Two amall Anchors,

A quantity of ecbain various sizer, 10 dozen assorted Brase Hinges, ee. Screwa

i Carpenters’ Coipasses, 1 set Inks and Dies,

2 Dog Chalklines.

it Hibds. Strong Demrara SP)RITS, “ « Ihde Holland GIN, Canks Port afd Sherry WINE,

' Causks Hennessev's Dark & Pale Rraudy,

Cuske Seotch Whiakev (Pr me),

Caske trix!) WHISKEY = 50 Doz. Ediubargh ALE. 6 Cases CHAMPAGNE 1 Bb! Black Paint, 4) Bloods xxx POKTER, | 1 * Rosin

Cases CLARET, 3 ble CURRANTS,

CARVELL BROTHERS. 40 Boxes RAISINS, 25 jdu RAIAINS, Bays RICE

@ Boxes Fltis, Baus PLPPER, Chest«a Superior TEA,

hla Ceushed SUGAR,

Hhbds and Bbis, Vv. R MOLASSES, SUGAR,

6 Bhld. Kerosene OIL, 6 Bbls. Red ONIONS,

% Dez. Aw. BROOMS, 20 Doz. Am. BUCKETS,

Cakes Washing Sopa,

Ch'tewn, Nov. 12, 15366. Siu isl pat sj Hids an! Bois. PR. | Various sizes. Kept conatantly on hand by

Fairbank’s Patent Scales. Ex LER, Beam and Platform Scales of CARVELL BROTHERS, Agents. Ch'town, Nev. £2, 1866 Bus isl pat sj Raisins.

Boxes and half Box-s Branch Raisins, 20 HMait and qr Boxes Layer Raisins

Sine isl pat sj

Tea. 100 Cheets best Black Tea. Cheap hb CARVELL BROTHERS. Ch'tewn, New. 12,1866. Bua tal pout «j

. Palings. | ‘ ordered in mistake, will be sold 3000, cheap on early application te ’ CARVELL BROIHERS, Ch'toan, New. 12, lei. - tan tel pat ej

Canada Fiour.

treal, vin Boston—

500 Bbis choice Extra Canada Flour. Also. in Store,

650 Bbla American Extras,

Every Barrel warranted superio CARVELL

December 10, 1866 . sty

Extra and No. 1 Buffalo Robes.

G, & S.-DAVIES. Charlottetown, Dee 3, 1866.

¥. RROTILERS.

— Aho— | A larve stock of Spices. Pickles, Froit, &e., &e.,| & auituble for the sensou. i 50 The above articles are of the very best deserip- CARVELL BROTHERS. tieu, wud will be suld cheap forCash Ch’tewn, New. 12. 1866. Se asl pat sj LEMUEL McKAY. —_ ' C k ' ee rn Mharlatternwn. Dee 17, 1866 -UOrks,. Ce ea . : ’ yp Bale (50 Gross) Corks. For Sale, { ( CARVELL BROTHERS, SBAIFTY ACRES of Land. on Lot 50, Ch'town, Now, 12. JAti6. ci advautaxeously situated at the Cross Ronda) — Trey aed ‘ > ; leading to Georgetown and Cherry Valley, and me Kerosene Oil. now in the vecupation of Mr. Konald MeDonaid UST received per Alhambra — {Second Creek Also Sixty-five Acres of Land ou} 5 U Casks best Oil. Lat 50, partiy fronting on Pownnl Bay, near Mr ‘ . CARVELL BROTHERS. Beore’s. aud vow m the occupation of Mr. Augus “h'te 2. 1866. San tal pat <j Meleusald (widew'saou). Possession of the above ae h town, Nov. I I wi 1 property can be viven on or about the Ist MAY Flour. wext Four further purticulars apply to ‘ CHARLES WRIGHT. 100 Bble various Brands, Charlottetown, Jan. 14th, 1867, at Sin ; CARVELL BROTHERS. TO THE TRADE, CORN BROOMS! CORN BROOMS! fh kh; Subseriber begs W inform the Trad- ing Publie that he has commenced the Marufacturing of Corn Brooms, wud trusts, that we thieia the firet of the kind at tempted in the Island. he will receive such ew cotragement as to enable him to continue aud enlarge the Busiuese ' BROOMS ean be had from Mr. DODD, Auc- tieneer, Queen Square, (who will wet for the Sule of thent,) as Cheap and better quality than im- ported. JOHN MeLEAN, Manutau@tory, Sydney Street. Ch'tewn, Oet. 28, sh6 CUAL! UUAL! | A LAKGE quantity of Kound and) Slack, Cape Breton COAL, « goo! article, for | sale by the Subseriver, at the following Kates, | Vib Round Coal per Ton, De bd Slack Coal do 1 Ge Days of delivery, Wednesday in euch week. W. W. LORD.

v¥

Charlottetown. Dec. 10 1886

XMAS, REQUISITES.

UNUH aed Layer KRALSINS, CUR-

RANTS, Jordan Almonds, Filbe: ts, Waleats, (#ronnd Spices. Mixed Spice, Essences, Baking Powder, Geround Rice, Corn Starch, Purina, Can- diee Citron, Lemon and Orange Peels, Marmalade, Muecaroni, Verwecilli, Pickles, Nuwen Olives, Ca pers, Carrie Powder, Anchovies, Sardines, Confec-- tionary, Rose Water Crackers, Treacle, Gelutine, leiuglaw, Notmeys, Mace, Dried Her #, Prepared Cuchineal, Bueket Sait, &e. &c. &e.

Wa. RK. WATSON. Pownal “vreet, Dec. 24, 1886.

HUM! KUM! ROM:

Dm eta

250 Pairs Boys’ & Men's Skates For sale cheap by G. & 8. DAVIES. Charlettetown, Dee 3, Is66

MONEY! MONEY! ALL ACCOUNTS not psid hy the first *% of JANUAKY, —! will be placed in the bands of my Asterney for recovery. ae TU GEORGE COLES. 17th Dec., 1866.

SPEUIAL NOTICE.

PUNCHEONS of Olid Demerara plati to muke a change in his business th

RUM for Hale at Subscriber's Establich- begin ring of 1367, sseeesen those in

ment, in or otit of Boud. : to him to 8 ET UNT. GEORGE COLES. | prior to let FEBRUARY, 1867. Ch'town Dec. 3 1866- | Charlottetown, Dec. 10, 1866.

For Fall Season, 1866.

|< Dritish Warehouse, COMPLETED.

‘TEXMIE Public in geoeral will find in our Katablisihment a Large and Varied Stock of

‘Dry Goods and Groceries,

that will compare favourably with any in the market, |

' and will prove to purchasers second to none,

jcvarage vice and low cunning, under the idea that really distressed the industrious poor. The truly afflicted sought her doors,

A SUNSET IDYL.

i was gaziug on the sunset : : ; > : : ' | inquiry would precede retief. .Yet with all

aning on a rustic stile, ; aga vihy lebie, Lady G did not carry caution to

r . ' With a young and dainty maiden | her suspicious where there appeared marks |} of want and sorrow, that carried with them | thetr-own evidence of sincerity. This was | such a@ case.

** That child,”’ said Lady G ing her daughter's account of the meeting on

We were under apple-blossomMs,

| Standing near me all the while; | Peacled with gleaming drops of rain,

And we heard the dreaming music

Of a brooklet in the laue.

}

. ; | And the dying sunset linger'd | Round this maiden queen of girls—

Won a brightness from her glances,

jrest. Lcansee itin her looks. [ can see * | that her distress is real in every line of her | fave, which 18 a very pleasing one; and ip } the few words she has spoken there is such a

Gave a sparkle to her curls ;

Then | spoke of summer evenings,

the idle and vagabond passed on, certain that |

that cold and extreme extent which rendered |

after hear- |

| the common, ** is indeed in need of food and |

pay up and he'd have to wait, and then there wus the iron-mongerand the timber merchant wouldn't give sim credit, being only a simall beginner ; and one way and another he led

such a life of it for the first three years as,

made him wish again and again as he'd been content to be journeyman and stopped on the reg'lar. But there ; be warn’t meant for a | journeyman, he was too good a seholar, and had too much in his head, and, be-:des, had ' got such a stock of that **will do it’’ in his head as made him get on. . . e .

Guv'nor and me gets on very well together, for | was with him in his worst times, when

children up the staircase out of jechap! he sat down; | hand, and groaned,

‘s Cheer up,” 1 says; ** it'll be all right soon.

** Right! yes.’’ he says, jumping up, * But it ain't that,” he says; ** It’s meet- ing a friend where I'didn’t expect one ;" and then he was pone. .

I was sitting at breakfast next morfling (Sunday) when the garden gate rattles, and there was the gdv nor coming in sueh a

hurry. Never stops to knvck, but in he ‘comes and shakes hands hearty; and t withoat speaking he stuffs a letter into ory

sight, laid his head ie

he used to work in his shirt-sleeves aside me; | band. * Read it,” he says, * last post, last and many's the time [’ve gone into little | night.’ and I did; bat what 1 took most no- contract jobs with him, to calculate the ex- | tice of was a long strip of paper with .* 179],

a tecessary article to have at hand in case |

a ES

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for style, value, and price. Juspection solicited, W. & A. BROWN.

| Dee. 3, 1866.

REMOW AL. /FENEUE Subscriber begs respeettuliy to an- | nounee to bis customers and trieuds that he lnas REMOVED to the New Brick Building, in Queen Street, erected on the site of tue former Store, where be has opened his | NEW GooDs!

teceived per Undine, L. C. Owen and Lotus, from | Great Britain; aud per Oriental, trom the United States, comprising, 10 part,

| Cottons:

} Grey and White Cottons, Grey Sheetings. Regatta and Faney Shirtings, Faney Priuts, Drillings, Jeans, Glazed linings, Caabana, Tickings, ‘Towel- ings, Battings. White, Red and Blue Cotton

| Warps, &e., &e.

Cloths:

| Black and Blue Pilots, Whitneys, Devons, Astri-

leans, Scotch Tweeds, Fancy Doeskiue, Black

Broad Cloths, Black Doeskins aud Casimere aud

| Union Cloakings.

Dress Stuffs:

>| French Merinoes, Coloured Coburgs Alpacas,

| Black Coburgs and Lustrea, Fancy Chechs, Gala

| Plaids, Plain and Fancy Winevys, Serges, Cash- |

| eres, Plaids, &c.

Fancy Goods:

| Ribbous, Feathers, Flowers, Brooches, Dress

| Buttons, Belt Buckles, Bead Trinunings, Laces, | — | Edgings. Frillings,

Stamped Mustlins, Berlin Wools, Scotch Yarns, Patent and Silk Velvets, Velvet Ribbous, Dresa Caps, Borders, Cops,Cauls, Veils, Hoods, Clouda, &e., &e.

Woollens :

| Blankets, Rugs, White, Searlet and Coloured | Flannela, Seariet and Black Shirling, Saxony Shirtiugs, Biue Serges, Scarts aud Cravats, &c.

Linens:

| White Frontings, Grass Clothe, Hollands, ‘Table |

| Damasks, Vickings, Osnaburgs, Hessians aud Drilhings.

| Gents’ Furnishing Goods :° | Coates, Vesta, Pants, Shirts, Socks, Drawers, | Gloves, Hats & Caps, Mulflers and Scars, Neck | Ties, Collara, braces, and Kubber Coats, —Also— | Ladies’ Felt, Velvet, and Silk HATS; Ladies’ iFur Boas and, Muffs, Woolleu Suawla, Hoop | Skirts and Skirtings; Rubber Boots aud Shoes; Felt Snow Boots, &e., &e. lailors’ Trimmings. Groceries and Dye Stutis; a fuil Assortment of Swall Wares, &e., &e . &e : : FREDERICK LEPAGE.

Glasgow Heuse Nev 22. 1806 CANADA FLOUR. j OQUKLY EXPECTED, per Schooner t Kai, from QUEBEC—

520 BARRELS Canada Sup. No. 1 PLOTR.

For Cash only.

R. W. BRECKEN. Nov oF. 18665 3m

PRINCE EDWAKD ISLAND

, weuching tune, very different from hypocrisy. | She shall have suuiething to relieve her hunger

}and then we will question her.”’

And of rambles in the deils; And the sound of marriage bells. i

But I ouly thought of wooing,

| ‘The little creature's tears were seen to start in her eyes at the sight of food, for she was famishing for want. _once more she was conducted to the presence jof the ladies. Lady G . with much gen- tleness, commenced her interrogatories, after ; having kindly, but in a way suited to the } capacity of a poor untaught girl, endeavored ; to impress oa her mind the duty as well as |the importance tuo herself of speaking the truth. ™ The following particulars were artlessly narrated : | Have our whispers oft been mingled The child began by saying that she was With the flutuering of the leuves. | born in Bath. Wer father was in business in Bi eet, ncteetee loterand bene that city, she told his trade. Ler mother- s | in-law treated ber so harshly and uokindly | thaton some gipsies coming into the neighbor-

And I dreamed of all the gladness That « wedding morn would bring— i Of a round and rosy finger Cireled with a golden ring! In the warm and purple distance,

} Ivy-clasped, the church was seen ; With the waideu there I'd wander'd, Often there—in dreams—had been!

Midst the lilies and the lilaee,

In the summer's lustrous eyes,

| |

Fill the beart—there linger long ; Like the charm for ever present

in the poet's sweetest song. about, and glad to be out of sight of her

| severe step mother, she got scquainted with | them, and was finally induced by their per-

suasions to run away and join them. . With | these gipsies she had lived two or three years, | going about the country with them. She | did not know if her father had made any in- | Quiry concerning Ler or not,

When no longer glow'd the sunset, Sull I leaut upon the stile. Aud the maiden gave her promise— Yes, her promise—with a sinile. Memory still tarns to that snuset, Of that evening fondly tells, And the morning when we listen'd Yo the sound of uurriage bells. whom she had fallen, she determined to leave o=_— /them on the first opportunity. She had " » hein » ke | stulen away from them, taking nothing with MARY OF 1 ILE HEATH, | her but a of their old one meal the view | to couk tor herself a turnip, oreanything she | could get to support ber, so that she might | not die tor want of food. She had wandered It is by no means an uncommon observation, | ubout the roads aod waysides, begging ever that djd any ove note down the rewarkable since she quitted the gipsy camp, and with occurrences of his own life, those of his | the very few balf-pence she had picked up in friends with whom he is well acquiinted, or this manner, had bought a penny loaf at a | such as become known to him on good autho- | village she might pass in her rambles. She irity, in the course of a few years how curious did not at all know where she hed been | collection it would form.” The tulluwing is| wandering, but at last she bad reached the /an example :— benepremy where the young ladies had found | It must now be nearly half a century ago, | her that morning: | when one fine summer's day, about the hour, Lady G had little or no doubt that the of noon, @ little girl, who could not have been child’s tale wastrue; and thinking that to nore than ten or eleven years old, was seen | Cast out 80 young and sv unfriended a crea- ou a particalaur part of Common or Heath | ture again on the wide world would be to give in Kent (not very far from the house of a/ her up to destruction, she resolved to affurd wealthy baronet) suspending a pot on three | ber present shelter, at least until she could sticks set upright im che ground, alter the) ascertain by inquiry that all she had stated wanner of gipsies, over a fire which she had/ was correct. Haviug obtained from the child kindled beneath it. Sté was dressed in rags, the name and address of her father, she de- and seemed miserably poor and forlorn. ‘Tire | ter@ined at once tu write to Bath, begging an chiid was alone. The singularity of the cir-| immediate reply. cumstance excited the surprise of two ladies,| In the interval, the poor little wanderer who were taking their morning walk on that/ Was attired in betcer clothes, and placed airy and agreeable common. They look | under the especial care of a steady female around, expecting to eee a party of the yvip-/ servant, with a charge to keep a strict eye sies, to whom they conjectured the child mest| upon ber. Ina few days an answer came belong; but, though wide aod open, not a} frow Bath confirming the girl's story, and living creature, save the little girl boiling ber eXpressing an earnest wish for her return pot, was to be seen faror near. Their curio- | home to live with her father, Bat little sity was raised und much increased, when, | Mary evinced so much terror at the thoughts vn & nearer approach, as she turned her head | of going back to her mother-in-law that toward them, though burnt and browned | Lady G—— forbore to urge her to retarn with the wiad, they saw at a glance that the | home. face which looked out trom beveatha bonnet| She had been greatly interested by the wora vat of all colour and shape, and the | simplicity of her young charge, and the ser- arms which were but partially covered by an| vant to whose more especial care she had old tattered cloak, was neither of the gipsy , been committed, spoke very favorably of her. character orcomplexion. The features were Lady G—-— proposed, therefore, to keep ber

A TRUK TALE,

The meal ended ; |

| hood, as she was allowed to run negiected |

AC length, not) | liking the way of life of the people among |

| penses, when from being over anxious to get work he'd take the jobs a deal too low, and | so | used to tell him | together, and I'll tell you how it was I got |along with tim,

| Lalways could carpenter a bit, but most | of my time’s been spent as a painter’— pren- | ticed to it, you know, and spent seven years | with # draken master to learn ‘wost nothing, ‘cept what |. picked up myself. Weil, I couldn't get a jub in town, sv I was on the look-out round the outside, when I came {to our guv'nor’s place, when he was at work with two men, and hit doing about as much as both of ’em. No use to try on for carpentering, | thinks, so I seis wp the paint- ing sign and goes in

* Well,’ says the guv‘aor, ‘I can give you a job if you can grata.’

Now that was a ram'un, for was only a plain painter and no grainer; but alter three weeks’ hard lines: wife and family at home; and work uwlul ; it did seem tantalising to a willing man to have a week's wages shown him ifhe could only do one particular thing. Of course | had dodged it a dit before, but | wasn’t a grainer, and I“knowed it well enough ; but I thinks to myself, * Well, this is outside of London, where people ain't so very artislike in their ideas, and perhaps | /can manage it—so here goes. I can but try, and if | misses, why, it ain’t a banging mat- ter.’ Sol says, ‘ Well: I wouldo’t under- take none of your superfine walnuts, and bird's-eye maples and marbles; but if it’s a bit of plain oak I’m your man.’

* Well,’ he says, ‘that'll do ; it’s only plain | Conk in get a anclanal eee a

oak ; and, if you like, you ean begin priming and going on at once. There's paints and brushes, but you must find your own graining tools.’

But we always got on |

10s. 6d.’ writren on it, just under the name of one of the "London bankers.

Yes, we bad a pleasant dinner, a conifort- able cup of tea, and a cosy supper with the \guv'nor that day; and uncommon good ‘triends we've been eversinee. 1 do all ‘sorts

at the shop, so” there's always a jod, und though people say, * Jack of all trades—mias- ter of none,’ I think @ man might follow French suit and know two trades aod master them both, sv as when work fails one way he has a chance the other. Poor folks often get ‘hunted by the wolf Poverty, and it would not be amiss to take a lesson irom the bur- rowing avimals, and have two holes, to ,out of one when t'other happened to be | stopped.

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| - MISCELLANEOUS.

NNN re rer

| COAL, ITS ORIGIN AND NATURE.

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(From the Scientific American.)

| There can be no reasonable doubt that all , coals, bituminous and anthracite, are of vegetable

origin. ly a powertul mieroscope the vegetable | texture of the mass can de distinguished, not only in sofier qualities but evelgin the hardest anthra- Leite, We have seen speci of idubitable jot yield to the power of the microscope and reveal | the original grain of the wood or vegetable fibre. | Peat is the first combustible form of eval, and it | our beds, now sought after with so much awidity, j and judged to be such mines of wealth, weve suf- lered to remain undisturbed, they would, at some future period, become beds of cual for warming and lighting the winters of future generations.

pist gedogival peciods, but ism of fur-

mation How, as may be proved by anexamination

of the“ browa coal,” well known in Europe and itrequeptly met with herve. The slices, whieb

At it I goes like a savage, and then I found | allow the light to pass through them, show fo the

as there was a weck’s work for me before [| naked eye the original vegetable stractase, Ut

need touch the graining ; for there was prim-| i Universally achuowledged that this” browu ing and first and second coats: and so! went | ¢#!,” or ligvite, is an undeveloped eoal, not yet on, but thisking precious hard about the bit ene ae ooh eae of graining I should have to do. ‘ Nothing | = ee ; venture acthite win,’ | says; and that night Fhe the ee & oem ee 1 was bard at it after work—ah! and rights | ,. re © eae a a roots and tendrils, leaves and lignum, to bard. up to two o'clock in the morning—trying to | brilliant, laminated, or erystalized coal. But put a bit of oak grain on a piece of smooth nature works slowly. We find it difficult to un- deal. 1’d got a brush or two, and some co- | derstand her.process, or to comprehend her iafinite lour, and a couple of them comb-like things | patience which watches through unnumbered we uses; and then 1 was with the missus | years and countless ages for the slow and gradual trying to keep her eyes open and pretending | Prgression of ber agencies. But it is certain to sew, while [ painted and streaked, and that ber transforming processes bave noteutfered

: : ; . ‘au abatement of their original power by the dis- then smudged it wbout with a bit of rag; and | They -atill go en, and. will eo

’ . . (ce . ’ 6 Um blest if L didn't put some grain’ on that: a aa and the univeree enduger piece of woud as would have made Mother : Nature stare—knots, and twists, and coarse t i erga Peete: bey about peat grain, and shadings as | could have laughed pe emit be setunal feaall al a re at, if | hadn't been so anxious. You see, the | terial may be made to ae out? Ge aneels coat nuisance of it was it iooked so easy when power as the concentrated coal, but we muck another man did it ; touches over with colour, doubt it. The principal fault with our coal is streake it duwe with his comb, and then with that it combines with it elements deleterious te a rag gives a touch here and there, and all iron, wheter in a state of fusion or merely sub- so lightly and there it isdone. But I couldn't, jected temporarily to its heat. Stoves, for in- \though [ tried till the missus nudded, so | staua, which are constructed to bura coal _galy, was obliged to send her to bed tor fear she'd wil ae litetinne longer; but burn anthTacie: |set her cap a fire; and then I goes to the | coal, and the parts warp, and erack,

, and oxidize, | until the stave, or that portion exposed tothe di- | rect action of the heat, must be renewed yeasly,

jpump and has a reg'lar good sloosh, and | touches my face over with cold water, when lif not oftener.. With the. bituminous coal % ie alter & govd rub L goce at it again Gaile | worse still. ‘The grate, with a hot fire, yieldeand

fresh. falls in pellicles, melted from the mass, until, ina

aenietd [Boot and Shoe Factory,

| |

South Side Queen Square. FENUEK Subseriber would respectfully int mate to hia COUNTRY CUSTOMERS and WHOLESALE BUYERS, that he bas en- gaged Mr. CHARLES Wetvon to travel for inn,

smell and round, and the eyes and hair of

in the family, and try to make @ servant of |

ber, beginning with some humble duties in|

| 1 can't think now how wany times! rubbed |

the paint off with the dirty rag, but a good)

short time, the most muportant portions of the coutrivanee are useless. ‘To withstand the con-

true Saxon origin—blue aud light brown. a There was also an expression of artlessness in the household. Tbe child’s gratitade was of the countenance, which, it must be contessed, | the liveliest kind; there was notbing bad in is not very generally the distinguishing wark | ber; indeed ber natural disposion seemed uf the daughters of Egypt. There was sowe- docile and amiable. But she had received no thing sv singular in the solitariness of the | instructions; all her good qualiues must, employment and the personal peculiarities of | therelore, beinherent. She was very promis-

‘many I know, and the clock had gone three | centrated’beat they mast be made of ektraurdi- | when | was still ot it, with every try seem- | "ary thickness. ae a

ing to be worse than the last ; butstill L kept | Tu reducing area, alee, and especially in fyaing on till L seemed to hear it strike four in a | iran, these componeuts of coal are the cause of | muffled surt of a way, and then the next wuch trouble. They are foreign bodies, which | thing | heard was the ‘wife calling me, for it | ave become incerperated with’ the sriginal ve.

ANDING. ex Alhambra. trom Mon-,

R. W. G. SUTHERLAND, contem |

land that he will be at all times ready to fill up I their Stock aud take their Orders, as they may | require. Kor the PALL TRADE, be bas the largest and ehoicest Stock of all Goods in his line, ewer exhibited in this Island, and at prices that dety competition. Having the sole agency ‘forthe Canadian Rubber Co., bis assortinent of | Felt and Rubber Boots add Overshoes, of every

class, will be found catiplete, ot the best material, |

hand lower than ever. ‘The Retail Trade wail, in | future, be conducted on atrictly Cash Principles, jut at such prices as will prove moat advau- i tageous te all parties purchasing. All persons in jdebted to the subscriber are requested to wake jimuediate payuieut of their Accounts. GEORGE NICOLL.

Charlottetown, Angust 27th, 1866.

_ FRANCIS S, LONGWORTH,

Barrister and Attorney-at-Law, Orrice — PAVILLION HOTEL,

Hensley's)

| (next door to Hou. Joseph

Charlottetown, - - - P. EE. Island.

duu. 14, 1867. a Sie bs criti Te. RACDDYDIN, Attoruen and Barrister - at- Law, CONVEYANCER, Se.

- Office: -- Great George Street,

Charlottetown. ( Near, the Catholic Cathedral.) September 3, 1R66. ‘Ci ft CARD. : THOMAS KELLY,

— Barrister-at-Law, Notary Public, | with gipsies?”

4aND CONVEYANCER, Summerside, - - - - - P. ELE. Tee, 10,1856. ly pd

, A. MeNEtLL, -Auctionser and Commission Merchant, MASQN’S THREESTOREY BUILDING,

Dorchester Strect. Charlottetown,..2......- P. EB. Island. Jily 23. ae tf > eg ail _.. F, P. NORTON, Commission Merchant,

. ae ae , Auctioneer. GEORGETOWN es oF. Me ISLAND.

Octobér 24, I8G4, ly

CARVELL BROTHERS, | AUCTIONEERs, GENERAL AGENTS,

AND - Commission Merchants, ‘Charlottetown, - - Princé Edward Leland,

AGENTS FOR:

‘ New York Board of Underwriters, .. Beston Board of Underwriters, Eastern Express Company, | -Fairbank’s Patent Standard Scales, | Gowrie Coal Mines, Cow Bay, C. B. | Fishwick's Express. ANCE ONSIGN.- ga AR ANC ae penn

April 30, 1866.

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| story!

could other than fee} tion her, beginning with the kiadly and eo-

they asked her what she was doing there. * Boiling my pot for my breakiust,’’ was her reply. ** And what have you got in it?’ «Two turnips that | took out of a field.” ‘+ Is that all you have got fur your break- | fast ?”’ ++ All, except some bits of bread.’’

+ ‘That's a very puor breakfast. To whom do you belong?” + To nobody.” | «To nobody! and you eo young! How did you eome here, and where are you | oun? : ’ : ; ‘1 don't know.’ |} “You neither Know how you came here nor whee you are-going? What a etrange What is your name, and where did !yon come frow?) You wust bave come from sume place."? +My nome is Mary, and T came a long way off; but | can’s tell where.”’ * How did you get bere !"’ | « f walked; | have been many days walk- ing.’’ *+ | have never heard go strange an uecount us you give of yoursell, Where did yuu get | tiast pot?’ “T brought it away with me.’ Then you ust have come from some persons with Whom you have been living. / Tell us now the truth. Have you not been

’

A blush rose to her cheeks, as she replied : «Yes, f have been with gipsies.”" ** Where ure they, and where did yuu leave | them ?’’

She paused a moment, looked down. and. ~| then said, ** L got away from them, for I did

not like their way of lite.’’ .

** And when was it, and how have you ‘lived singe-you Jeft them ?”’

«Very, bard,” said the child, «© 1 heg sed my way slong the rouds, and with the tew butt pence’ Igot T boughe w litte bread to save me trom etatving. -l have wowhere to go. | have no bowe.”’

She burst into tears, and there was some- thing 60 jorlora, both in her voice and coun- tenance, a8 she Spuke these words, it was im- poggible.to duubt their truth, There was ; nothing: in itof the whine ofa made up tale to excite Compassymn, und she rather svbgzht tO wipe away her tears “undhderved, as she turned aside ber head, theu tu wake a parade ot them. ; tig

** Lam sure,’’ said Miss G——, the duugh- tet ot a neighburing baronet, ** there's sume-

-|thing very vocommon in the child's story.

Poor creature, she is really in very great dis- tress. Letus take her home, and wamina will knuw-better than we can what would be the bert to du with her.’’

Her friend assented, and Mies G —— turned to the Ghild and told her. that if she would come along. with ber she would give her some good advices, The little gurl followed gladly enough, dut,she would not leave the pot be- hind her, for that wad the miserable atere on her back was ull the property she pomessed in the world.