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95, 1858. No. 29.

eee ne To be Sold or Let, |

HE Leasehold Interest in a STORE or DWELL- | ING HOUSE at Montague Bridge, with a Loft capable of holding 1,000 Busbels of Grain. |

Also, # good Cellar underneath the whole; and a/ St. Andrew’s night was Dr. Mackay. sang the following song:

Qoaeh-house and Stable at hand. Also, @ BUILDING LOT adjoining the Bridge, where a| Wharf or Limekiln might be erected at a small expense, or a | Yard for Shipbuilding. | Mr. Thomas Annear will shew the premises, and give | ion when required. Orwell, Nov. 30, 1857. PATRICK STEPHENS. Co-Partnership. | HE BUSINESS heretofore carried on by the subseriber | at Orwell and Montague Bridge, in his own name, will, | on and after the Ist day of January, 1858, be carried on| under the style and firm of STEPHENS & CLARK, having | made atrangements tc take my Nephew, Mr. Ricnarp G. | CLARK, in Partnership at that time.

All Notes of Hand and Book Accounts unpaid on the 20th of December next, will be sued for, without farther notice, in the Courts of Georgetown, Belfast and Charlottetown, as all Accounts must be settled before the Partnership commences. A list of Debtors will at once be placed in the hands of Wm.

Sanderson, Esq., Georgetown. PATRICK STEPHENS.

Orwell, Novy. 30, 1857.

STEAM! STEAM ! STEAM! Patrick Hickey & Co.’s CABINET, SASH, DOOR, BLIND AND GENERAL WOOD WORK MANUFACTORY,

AVE just completed their three-storey BUILDING,

east of the Wellington Hotel, Sydney-street, the only one of the kind in this Island where Steam Power and the | most approved Machinery now in use is employed for saving | manual labor. :

In the establishment is a Drying-room, in which Lumber | is thoroughly seasoned by the heat of Steam.

They having engaged the service of a competant Machinist and General Engineer from Boston, are enabled to under- take repairing all kinds of Machinery, including Lock, Gun- fitting and Screw-cutting, having imported self-acting Lathes and other Machinists’ tools for that purpose.

Atso—Planing, Straight and Sweep Sawing,—Morticing, Tennoning, Moulding, Boring and Turning Machinery.

N. B.—All kinds of Iron Turning done to order.

Ch. Town, Dee. 14, 1857. Is] 4m

Saddle, Harness, Collar and Trunk-making ESTABLISHMENT. HE subseriber respectfully intimates to the public general- ly that he has commenced business in the above line in the house on the corner of Queen and Sydmey-streets, near the store of the Hon. Daniel Brenan, where he will keep for sale a large assortment of GIG, CARRIAGE AND CART HARNESS; SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, WHIPS, TRUNKS, &c. | All orders for any article connected with the trade will be panetually attended to. He is also prepared to trim Sleighs, Gigs and Carriages in a superior style. The subscriber feels confident he cau give satisfaction to those who may favor him with their patronage, from his having had a long experience in the business both in the Old Country and in this Island. Ch. Town, Oct. 19, 1857. JOHN BOWERS. N. B.—A liberal discount will be allowed to country whole- aale dealers. 3m

Cactton.—Beware of a Counterfeit signed A. B. Moore. All gen- wine have the name of A. J. Warre & Co. on each box. Also the | signature of A. J. Warre & Co. All others are spurious. ‘ A.J. WHITE & ©O., Sole Proprietors, 50 Leonard Street, New York.

HIS philanthropist has spent the greater part of his life in travel-

ling, having visited Europe, Asia, and Africa, as we!las North America—has spent three years among the Indians of our Western couitry—It was in this way that the Indian Root Pills were first dis- covered. Dr. Morse was the first man to establish the fact that all | diseases arise from IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD—that our strength, health, and life depended upon this vita! fluid.

When the various passages become clogge |, and do not act in perfect harmony with the different functions of the body, the blood loses its action, becomes thick, corrupted and diseased; thus causing all pains, sickness and distress of every name; our strength is exhausted, our health we are deprived of, and if nature is not assisted in throwing off the stagnant humors, the blood will become choked and cease to act, and thus our light of life will forever be blown out. How important | then that we should keep the various passages of the body free and | open. And how pleasant to us that we have it in our power to put dl medicine in your reach, namely, Morse’s Indian Root Pills, manufactured | from plants and roots which grow around the mountainous cliffs in Natuce’s garden, for the healii and recovery of diseased man. One of | the roots from which these Pills are made is a Sudorific which opens the | pores of the skin, and assists Nature in throwing out the finer parts of | the corruption within. The second is a plant which is an Expectorant, , that opens and unclogs the passage to the lungs, and thus, in a soothing | manner, performs its duty by throwing off phlegm, and other humors | ‘from the lungs by copious spitting. The third is a Diuretic, which gives ease and double strength to the kidneys; thus encouraged, they draw | large amounts of impurity from the blood, which is then thrown out | bountifully by the urinary or water passage, and which could not have | been discharged in any other way. The fourth is a Cathartic, and ac- | companies the other properties of the Pills while engaged in purifying | the blood; the coarser particles of impurity which cannot pass by the other outlets, are thus taken up and conveyed off in great quantities by the bowels.

From tae above, it is shown that Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills no only enter the stomach, but become united with the blood, for they find way to every part, and completely rout out and cleanse the system from | all impurity, and the life of the body, which is the blood, becomes per- | fectly healthy; conseqnently all sickness and pain is driven from the system, for they eannot remain when the body becomes so pure and clear.

The reason why people are so distressed when s.ck, and why so many die, is because they do not get a medicine which w.1l pass to the afflicted parts, and which will openthe natural passages for the disease t» be cast | out; hence, a large quantity of food and othet matter is lodged, and the stomach and intestines are literally overflowing with the corrupted mass; thus undergoing disagreeable fermentation, constantly mixing | with the blood, which throws the corrupted matter through every vein | and artery, until life is taken from the body by disease. Dr. Morse’s PILLS have added to themselves victory upon victory, by restoring millions of the sick to blooming health and happiness. «Yes, thousands who have beea racked or tormented with sickness, pain and anguish, and whose feeble frames have been scorched by the burning elements of raging fever, and who have been brought, as it were, within a step of the silent grave, now stand ready to testify that they would have been

numbered with the dead, had it not been for this great and wonderful medicine, Morse’s Indian Root Pills. After one or two doses had been taken, they were astonished, and absolutely surprised, in Witnessing their charming effects. Not only do they give immediate ease and Strength, and take away all sickness, pain and Mhguish, but they at! once gv to work-at the foundation of the disease, which is the blood. Therefore, t will be shown, especially by those who use these Pills, | that they will so cleanse and purify, that disease—that deadly enemy— wilk take its flight, and the flush of youth and beauty will again return, and the prospect of along and happy life will cherish and brighten your days.

For sale’at the Apothecaries’ Hall, and at the Drag Stores of W. R. Wotmn and M. W. Skinner. and sold at all the stores throughout the a Persovs wishing supplies of the above Medicines, can be

“yee at Proprietors’ prices at the Drug Store of

uly ®, 1857, W. R. WATSON, General Agent.

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right to abhor. Among the guests at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, on | He made a speech and | gs jt all was in this dim old stately Lyndon Hail! stormy world, surging and boiling up round little Norah as | the centre figure; she, the only calm one of them all, though the saddest of them all; but still and motionless, as philoso- phers say is the characteristic of storm centres.

What could Colonel Lyndon do to please his beautiful | guest ? that was something, for Lucy adored jewellery. But what more could he do for her? The Colonel was a cautious man, and went by easy marches. He did not know Lucy’s family : and, infatuated though he was, his pride was greater than his love; and he would sacrifice even Lucy, rather than make a mesalliance. He was anxious to win her heart—to thoroughly gain her mental consent—and then, on further knowledge, he would decide on what was best for himself. He did not wish to commit himself; but he wanted to be secure. This was his programme. Lucy ? what was here ?

But what could he do to please her? Ah! he had it!— the very thing! and good policy too. He would ask her brothers to Norah’s wedding, as an attention to herself, and for his own private inspection. That would do—a fitting clasp to the diamond bracelet—perhaps a clasp never to be unloosed, Lucy wascharmed. She caught at the idea with eagerness; fur-it flashed a thought, a means, a way, into her mind which hitherto she had not been able to seize. Yes; Launce and Edmund must come. Edmund was pining to find his ideal; Norah was dying under Gregory’s love. If they | found what each was seeking for in the other—then, Gre- gory’s first anger over; then—Lucy buried her face in her hands; but the very rocts of her hair were crimson, and her heart beat so loud, that she might have counted the strokes.

When she came to herself, the second divner-bell had rung, and her hair was hanging loose over her shoulders.

THE MEN OF THE NORTH.

Fierce as its sunlight the Easi may be proud Of its gay gaudy hues, and its skies without cloud ; Mild as its breezes, the beautiful West May smile like its valleys that dimple its breast. The South may rejoice in the vine and the palm, In its groves where the midnight is sleepy with balm. Fair tho’ they be, There’s an iske in the sea, The home of the brave and the boast of the free ; Hear it ye lands, let our shouts echo forth, The lords of the world are the men of the North.

Cold though our seasons and dull though our skies, There’s might ia our arm, and a fire in our eyes, Dauntless and patient to dare and to do, Our watchword is duty, our maxim is ** through ;”’ Winter and storm only nerve us the more, And chill not the heart if they creep from the door. Strong shall we be In our isle of the sea, The home of the brave and the boast of the free ; » Firm as the rock where the storm flashes forth, We stand in our courage, the’men of the North.

Sunbeams that ripen the olive and vine, In the face of the slave and the coward may shine, tuses may blossom when freedom decays, And crown’d be a growth of the sun’s brightest rays ; Seant be the harvest we reap from the soil, Yet virtue and health are the children of toil. Proud let us be Of our isle of the sea, The home of the brave and the boast of the free, Men with true hearts let our fame echo forth,

Uh, these are the fruit that we grow in the North. CHAPTER THE FOURTH.

Launcelot and Edmund Thorold came to Lyndon Hall. They were both exceedingly handsome, though very unlike ae each other, and quite unlike Lucy, excepting indeed a certain

(Continued. ) genial expression in Launce’s face, which was like Lucy’s IN SEVEN CHAPTERS. CHAPTER THE THIRD. when she was at her best—when she was not acting a part

Lucy threw the light of a new life into Lyndon Hall: and not thinking of herself, But of the two, Launce was Before she had been there four days, the Colonel was in Jove | the more manly, as Lucy had said, and Edmund the better- with her. Seldom has there been so swift a fall, so sudden | looking. Both were very gentle: Launce from that good And now, with the insolence of youth, she | Pature and mental indolence which belongs to a certain type showed his fetters to all the world. There was not a petty of large-built, stout, strong-limbed young Saxons; Edmund, | girlish act of tyranny and self-will of which she was not| from a refined nature, and from the absence of combativeness, guilty. She deranged all his habits and overthrew his au-| launce was the more affectionate ; Edmund, the more loving. thority. She made him wait for dinner, contradicted him | aunce would make the kind husband, the good master, and before the whole household, beat him at chess, scolded down | the indulgent father. caer’ : his assertions respecting woman's inféfiority and the good The Colonel liked them, Their qniet manners pleased him, of absolute submission, shook all the starch out of his mili-|®%~ did their manly deference to himself, tary demeanour, and made him a pliant nobody, whom she | Watned them of his character, and had besought them to be twisted round her fingers at her pleasure. But all was done | extraordinarily respectful. And they always did what Lucy so graciously, her insolence was accomplished by means of| ‘ld them. Gregory stood aloof, watching his rivals. He such beaming eyes and sunny smiles, it was such a lovely surrounded Norah with more jealous cares than ever, hardly comedian, that the Colonel was forced to submit, despot and| letting her out of his sight for a moment; sitting by her: autocrat ashe was. But he apologised to himself for his| ‘lking to her exclusively, or rather suffering no one clse to loss of dignity on the same plea that a grave man would use| Speak with her; breathing defiance and distrust in every

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doubt that Lucy was casting a spell round him now, which | the smile faded from her lips, her eyelids dropped, her hand he did not feel quite sure of resisting, and which he had full | trembled, her breath was checked, and she turned pale.

Launce and Edmund both stopped speaking, and Edmund

Sach a mute world of passion and fierce forbidden thought half drew away, looking a shade guilty and caught. Lucy Such a flushed crimson, a welcome springing like a w

to her eyes ; Colonel Lyndon locked surprised and bored by the interruption.

Not a shade, nota change, in the countenances of that unsuspecting breakfast-party, but had been marked by Gregory. He thought he detected a look of intelligence between Norah and Edmund. He was mistaken, as the

Ile had presented her with a bridesmaid’s bracelet ; | jealous always are. Norah could not have established a good

intelligence with any man. But for a moment this suspicion made him waver. Should he go and leave her to the designing people about her? Was he not mad and suicidal to think of such a thing? Then, again, if Colonel Lyndon heard a breath of this difficulty, adieu to Norah for ever, unless he could overcome it. Perhaps, already he had received intimation of the matter from that miserable cousin of his, whose life would not be worth much if ever he fell within the grasp of those hands. No! Gregory crushed back his transient hope and set himself to his task. To say the least of it, a difficult and a painful one to any man,

The Colonel—when he and Gregory were closeted in his study——took the news quietly.

* Of course,” he said, “ unless you can perfectly substanti- ate your claim and clear your position, you need not expect to ”

Gregory anticipated the end of the unfinished sentence.

* But love—love ” he urged passionately.

“ Bah! Acres, not love, my dear boy, when you talk to = father !” said the Colonel. ‘Do you think it possible for me to give my child to a penniless ? Well! we will not discuss the question. Now, silence! not another word !” For Gregory was raging about the room on the point of committing some excess. ‘ Leave us now,” he continued, ia \that cold haughty, iron-bound way of bis, which always stilled the poor passionate savage like a spell, “Go to London, investigate this matter; go to Egypt, if need be,— probe the affair to the end, and substantiate your claim to the estates, or leave this country for ever. I will take care that Norah remains free and unsought till your return—but, on that return, unless indeed you are wise enough never to come back if unsuccessful—however, as I was saying, on that return, your good or ill-fortune will determine your relations with her, Go, Lose no time, e longer you stay you delay your possible marriage.” And theColonel waived him from the room,

Gregory went to find Norah. She and Lucy were in the drawing-room, sitting in the bay window working ; Norah in a low prie-dieu cunningly isolated, Lucy on the ottoman, with plenty of space on the cushions beside her. He clanked into the room with even more than his usual indifference to forms, looking dark and agitated, not quite unlike the po- pular notions of demon lovers, when those gentlemen first

Por Lucy had | threw off their faseinations and plunged into revelation.

“ [ must speak with you, Norah,” he said, abruptly, sitting down by J ucy.

“And I am de trop?” said Lucy in her sweetest voice, bending forward, and letting her hand rest lightly on his.

Gregory turned and looked into her face, and their eyes met. When she withdrew hers, Lucy felt that she had told too much, Single-hearted and absorbed as Gregory was,

if caught romping with his child. It was his pleasure, his glance and gesture; chained to her side like a fierce gaoler will. He suffered these petty pretty liberties because he| Standing between the very sun and her. It was a hard time | liked them: they were not taken by force, they were granted. for Norah: it very nearly killed her. He submitted, like Hercules to Omphale, to a tyranny he} The marriage-day was drawing near, Norah was growing could crush between his fingers and thumb to-morrow, if he| thin and pale ; Gregory more restless and more violent. It chose. He was Samson bound by Dalilah ; but not asleep,| was no secret now, that he was eating his heart out for despair nor with his locks shorn.. The threads round him were but} at Norah’s want of love for him, or that Norah was literally the fragile threads of a woman's caprice, which he could! dying of terror and oppression. But no one spoke ; not even break at a moment, if he put forth his strength in never so| Lucy. She did not feel the ground beneath her firm enough minute a degree. This disguised lord was still the lord, though | yet for such a hazardous chance. he might masquerade in the slave's attire for his own good| The young men had been a week at the hall, and the mar- pleasure : atd he—his will was none the less iron nor his} riage was to take place now in ten days, when Gregory purpose adamant, because he made himself the supple toy of received a letter from his lawyer which threatened to destroy a pretty woman ; let her go an inch too far, and then she | all existing engagements whatsoever. A cousin of his, the would find how much of this eruelty was based on her intrinsie| son of his father’s younger brother, suddenly claimed the power, and how much on his complaisance. So he comforted | estate, on the plea that Gregory’s Nubian mother had never his damaged dignity with such soliloquies as those; and sat / been Jegally married. A doubt had always existed in that at the feet of his Omphale while she rated him, or followed | branch of the family; for, if true, the estates would be while she led him hither and thither, and took his lion’s skin | theirs, and self-interest marvellously sharpens suspicion. for ber footstool, and laughed at his demi-godship to his face.| | Colonel Lyndon was only half-brother to Gregory’s father, and knew nothing of the rest of the family. In no ease, then, could the estates devolve on him ; consequently he had never questioned the validity of his hal{-nephew’s title. Had ‘he received only a hiut of such a possibility as the want of SOE Ye eer : a | those important marriage lines, which change so man It was so strange that her father, | BF would levi tiadebsy investigated the ae before he had suffered him to stand suitor to his daughter.

Norah looked on in silent wonder. To see her father, of | whom she stood in almost superstitious awe, cajoled and trifled | with by a girl only a year older than herself, seemed a mir- acle. She felt almost afraid as if some new mysterious power had risen up before her. who had so crushed her, who laid his own will so heavily on the household, should now be paraded before them all like a Dat‘he tinted eile tis ck tatatde od id tame monster, and pushed to the very verge of ridicule by| *.°* Noch om: nance ae nas 8 RE + hie i his facility. She did not recognize him. Lucy could do| 8!¥° orah quite as willingty to the new owner as he ha¢

anything she pleased with him. After keeping dinner waiting | +4 her to. G a . oe i oe e _ > . ° \«¢ awoOr r 2 9 a full half-hour—a slight which Colenel Lyndon had once;® °° a ae ee ee ee re a oe resented froma peer—Lucy would come down into the| foresaw all that would happen if he could not overcome Gis . | “7. 1 er “~ ‘ ‘ ont “17 drawing-room all smiles and camposure, conscious power, all | eee " ee nos ey. 2 en a exquisite attire and fabulous per/umes, sailing in as tranquilly | "© 2a@ Deen Drougat up and considered as the ‘awlu pus ; he had no legal or documentary evidence of his father’s

as if she were no delinquent; then saying, if the Colonel | ; i eee t ; Jims, marriage, and could not prove his title, if disputed ; at least,

o ce tv: sulky: ; rm tusy yard a eae ad yet 2” not with the proofs in his hands. He would have to search Px for more.

What her motive was for her conduct, Norah never asked 3}: “Atlee thinkine ower his position for full five minutes— and even if she had, Lucy would have been puzzled for uO) which was a long time for Gregory to reflect—he determined answer; for she had no plans as yit—no actual motive. | on going at once to London, and seeing the matter to the | And as Norah was too quiet and indifferent to trouble herself end. Nothing but the certainty of losmg Norah altogether much about what any one did, Lucey found no very officious | __<hould his opponent’s claim be made good—could have

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censor or inquirer in her. ‘spurred him to this extreme step. But he felt that it was The person most perplexed of all was Gregory. He, as) petter to risk a few weeks’ absence than a life’s loss ;— better all the world, saw Lucy’s evident flirtation with the Colonel, | to suffer anxiety for a term than anguish for ever. and he, like Norah, let it pass without comment. He was) fe rode over to Lyndon Hall, taking the letter with him. | too much absorbed in his own real love to care about the) ]_ was early morning, and be fouud the family assembled mock-play of others, Why did those strapge fixed looks! xt breakfast. Lucy, in the most wonderful elaboration of meet bis when no one was by ?—looks that left a very sound Jace and muslin that the genins of Parisian artist could of words behind them. Why did she surround him with ber } invent, was sitting by the Colonel, whom she was draggin influence, so that he could not escape from her, and was | with her pleasant poison. Norah was between Launce and forced, as if by mesmeric will, to turn to her, and at least to Jagmund, and assiduously attended to by both. It was the. watch her? Why, in the midst of all this possession—for | oy]y hour they bad with her unmolested, and as they both | it was a real possession—did he hate her fiercely, and wish) wished to become really acquai.ted with her, it is not that she had never entered Lyndon Hall ? | surprising that they made the most of it. In the midst of | Gregory was restless and distracted at his unusual state of this delightful ease and dangerous pleasure, Gregory’s step fecling. fe chafed and raged under it as under a concealed was heard in the hall. Not suffering the servant to announce wound ; for if Gregory had the faults, he had also the virtues him, he opened the door of the breakfast-room and strode | of asavage. If he believed in the right of might, he be-| rapidly forward. Norab was just bandinga cup of tea to)

that look disturbed him, and for a moment he could not speak.

“ Do you wish to say anything to me ?” then asked Norah submissively.

‘Yes, Norah, yes!” he answered harriedly; “I must speak with you.”

* Shali I go, then ?” said Lucy, with the same smile and the same caressing accent.

Novah looked at her imploringly.

‘‘My cousin has no secrets from you,” she said, in her timid voice, asking herto remain. But she went out of the room.

When the door was closed, Gregory exclaimed : “ Swear that you will be faithful, whatever may happen!”

‘1 do, cousin,” said Norah. She might as well have said, [ am cold, or I am hot, for any emphasis or soul that lay in her words,

“More fervently—more passionately!” cried Gregory.

*] am not fervent, or passionate, cousin,” said Norah quietly, “ were [ to pretend to be so, I should be untrue.”

“Say it to me again, then—let me hear those blessed sounds once more! You vow on your eternal salvation that nothing shall tempt you from me—that no oue shall steal you awdy.”

** No one, cousin,

* But me?”

‘** Cousin, I am bound to love you.”

“And if you were aot bound ?—if you were freo? Would you love me then, Norah ?”

« Yes,” she gasped, faintly.

“O!T can go now!” cried Gregory. “I will go while that word still vibrates on my ear? No colder sound shall disturb the echo of that word,” and he rushed through the rooms, and departed without any leave-taking whatever.

Norah clasped her hands togetner, “Is it true! can it be true—has he really gone!” she exclaimed. Then hiding her face she too burst into tears. Were they tears of grief or joy ?

She waited until she had quite recovered herself, and until the last echo of the horse’s hoofs had died away in the distance, before she sought Lucy. Finding her, she kissed her and clung to her, hike a happy child, and though they both were silent, Lucy had scarcely seen her smile since she came to the Hall.

“What is to be done?” said Lucy to herself. ‘‘ People would call me very dishonorable if they knew ; but what can I do? There is no forcing these things—and no preventing them.”

I love no one else.”

CHAPTER THE FIFTH.

What had passed into Lyndon Hal! ? or rather, what had passed fromit? The very birds seemed to sing more cheerily in that hoary beech-row, and the Colonel himself forgot his dril] manners. Lucy’s fascination over him was more potent than ever, and smoothed him to such pleasant serenity that

-evea Norah was included in the general amnesty, and her

chain lengthened by a couple of links at the very least. The

young men, of course, proposed to leave; but the Colorel, prompted by Lucy, would not accept their dismissal, and in- sisted on their remaining some wecks longer.

The walks and drives about Lyndon were very loveiy.

lieved also in the beauty of truth, and be practised the virtue Edmund, at whom she was looking earnestly, smiling at an’ Norah bad always taken great delight ia them, in her little, of sincerity. It was only sincere then in him to hate Lucy, | anecdote he was relating; Launce, on-her other side, was quiet, silent way; but she thought them more beautiful than while dreaming of her beauty and her love, which he did so bending forward, listening, but putting in a laughing com- | ever now. But the hedgerows looked greener, the dew lay

often now, he should also dream of hatred. For, true tohis mentary. Both the young

men were animated; Norah more brightly on the glittering grass, the flowers were more ‘origin, he believed in spells and witchoraft, and be had no unembarrassed and pleased. The instant Gregory appeared numerous, the birds sang more sweetly this year than on

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